Chapter 192: Decisive battle against Hulao Pass
Chapter 191: Decisive battle against Hulao Pass
"The area of ??the three counties in the north and north is more than twice that of Yanmen, but the total population of Han people here is less than 100,000. A large amount of idle fertile land here is unplanted, and many precious resources have not been developed. This is a treasure land!"
"If the three counties can be developed, it will be no problem to immigrate to one million. If the three counties are used as a springboard, it will be much easier to recover Hetao in the future."
Although Qin Hao''s tone was light, the strange colors flashing in his double pupils showed his excitement.
Everyone present was already stunned by Qin Hao''s shocking plan, and even Wang Meng was surprised.
This plan seems time-consuming and labor-intensive, but if implemented successfully, the possibility of recapturing Hetao will indeed increase a lot, which is a good way to increase the power of the Yanmen Army as soon as possible.
"So this time I returned to Guangwu, not only to accept rewards from the court, but the most important thing is to discuss immigration matters with the envoys in the three counties. During my absence, I hope Mr. Wang Meng and everyone can guard the three counties for Qin Hao. Everyone..." Qin Hao bowed to everyone and said sincerely: "Please."
"I wish to die for the young master!" everyone said in unison.
Qin Hao was not prepared to bring more people when he returned to Guangwu this time. The three counties are still unstable and need a large army to take charge, so Qin Hao only brought Mu Guiying and nearly a hundred personal guards.
Yanmen, Guangwu.
After resolving the matter between Dai County, Qin Wen led the main force of Yanmen to Guangwu and did not support Huangfu Song.
Qin Wen originally planned to join Huangfu Song after completely suppressing the Yellow Turbans of Dai County. However, Huangfu Song is facing only 250,000 Yellow Turban Army, while Luoyang court has to face millions of Yellow Turbans in Yanzhou, and the pressure is much greater than Huangfu Song.
The Han army was in the army of Lu Zhi in Yanzhou. Seeing that the Yellow Turban tribes from all directions were rushing to Yanzhou, they dared not stop for more places, so they led all the troops to retreat to Hulao Pass to defend the death.
Huang Chao had long expected Lu Zhi to run away, because when the millions of Yellow Turban troops arrived, Lu Zhi couldn''t even escape.
Huang Chao set up layers of ambushing, preparing to wipe out Lu Zhi''s troops to vent his hatred, but the original perfect plan was discovered by one person in advance, and he was Cao Cao.
I don’t know if Cao Cao had speculated or had some rumor, but since he had already known the ambush plan of the Yellow Turban Army, Cao Cao, who was still loyal to the Han Dynasty, naturally would not sit by and watch Lu Zhi fall into the trap.
Cao Cao told Lu Zhi about the plan of the Yellow Turban ambush. After the two decided to come and fight the ambush for Huang Chao. In the end, the Han army led by Lu Zhi cooperated with the Yanzhou family coalition led by Cao Cao to defeat Huang Chao, and then successfully led the army back to Hulao Pass.
This counter-ambush was Huangfu Song and Qin Wen''s third victory after the Yellow Turban Rebellion. Although the results were not as great as the previous two, it also caused 100,000 casualties to Huang Chao''s troops.
In this battle, even Huang Chao was almost killed by the heroes of the Cao family and the Xiahou family. If Zhu Wen had not sacrificed his life to save him, Huang Chao might have been shot to death by Xiahou Yuan.
Meng Kai, a subordinate of Huang Chao, challenged Xiahou Dun, but was defeated by Xiahou Dun for ten rounds, becoming another unlucky guy who did not even show his attributes after Temujin''s two sons and Sun Kewang.
The ambush failed and was ambushed instead. After the strength was greatly damaged, Huang Chao did not dare to move lightly and waited for the arrival of other troops. However, after Zhang Jiao Xiang Yan and others arrived one by one, Yanzhou calmed down.
But everyone knows that Yanzhou has become a powder keg, and there is a possibility of explosion at any time. Now it is just the tranquility before the storm.
The reason why the Yellow Turban did not start a war immediately was that they were dispatching people to transport all the food and grass taken from the aristocratic families to Yanzhou to ensure the safety of the food route. After all, the attack on Sili and transporting grain from Yanzhou was the closest.
However, the transportation of tens of millions of stones of grain and grass cannot be completed in one or two days. The Yellow Turban has tens of millions of people as the basis, so it will take one or two months to move.
And this or two months is the last preparation time for the Han Dynasty and the Yellow Turbans.
Lu Zhi of Hulao Pass had 80,000 soldiers, while Cao Cao''s Yanzhou family coalition was only 30,000. Even if there were only 110,000 soldiers and horses, he would definitely not be able to stop the Yellow Turban Army, which had sufficient supplies and no worries. The gap in strength was too big.
So the Luoyang court decided to let Qin Wen stabilize Yanmen and lead the troops directly to Luoyang, and then go to Hulao Pass to meet and Lu Zhi. Of course, Qin Wen was naturally not the only one recruited by the imperial court this time. Ding Yuan, who had entered the battle in Jizhou, was also recruited.
Others include Dong Zhuo from Hedong, Liu Yan from Zhuo County, Liu Yu from Beiping, Liu Yao from Qingzhou, Tao Qian from Xuzhou, Gongsun Zan from Liaodong, etc.
In addition, there are teams of powerful people from all over the country, including Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Sun Jian.
The Luoyang court was already in a state of being willing to fight to the death with the Yellow Turban at Hulao Pass.
So this time Liu Hong sent Zhang Rang to Guangwu, and rewards were only one of the purposes. The most important thing was to urge Qin Wen and Qin Hao to lead the army to Luoyang quickly to defend Hulao Pass.
In Liu Hong''s mind, although Qin Wen''s Yanmen Army was not large in number, it was a truly elite army, the most elite army of the Han Dynasty.
He fought two consecutive victories, killing more than 300,000 enemies in total, and his own casualties were less than half (Qin Wen exaggerated the casualties). This is a proof of his strength.
How could Liu Hong abandon such a powerful combat power? Hulao Pass is the most suitable stage for Yanmen to perform.
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"What did you say?" Qin Wen suddenly stood up and looked at the county magistrate Hao Tong, and said seriously: "Is the envoy who came to announce the imperial edict this time by the imperial court?"
"Yeah!" Hao Tong was also confused and said, "Lord, why did Your Majesty send Zhang Rang to announce the imperial edict this time?"
"It seems that Your Majesty is really anxious. Even Zhang Rang has sent out!" Qin Wen''s eyes flashed with a strange look, and he said lightly: "Although I, Qin Wen, can''t stand what the Ten Changshou did, these eunuchs cannot offend. Get ready!"
Hao Tong sighed in his heart as soon as he heard this. Just as the lord still wanted to surrender to the tyranny of the Ten Changshou, he knew how much his lord hated Ten Changshou.
"Lord, give it to..." Hao Tong hesitated and said, "How many?"
"Ten thousand gold!" Qin Wen said lightly, as if he was not giving away his own money.
"Ten thousand gold?" Hao Tong exclaimed.
Qin Wen nodded, and then felt something was wrong. He gritted his teeth with some distress and said, "It seems that it is less, 50,000 gold!"
"Fifty thousand?" Hao Tong showed a crying expression and said, "Lord, the expenses for rebuilding Yanmen Pass are very high, and our finances are not sufficient!"
"If these dead eunuchs stabbed in the back, delaying the repair of the pass and transporting prisoners of war, the loss would be more than 50,000 gold." Qin Wen said helplessly: "I''ll order Hao''er, have the three counties recovered? Let him come back and accept the reward!"
“No!”
Qin Wen seemed to remember something again, and said to the Qin Prosecutor below: "Second, you can go to Yanmen Pass in person!"
"Ah?" Qin Jian was stunned and asked, "Why?"
Qin Wen hesitated for a moment and said, "I''m not relieved to leave Yanmen Pass to others!"
"I understand, brother!" Qin Jian did not doubt it and said with a smile: "Don''t worry if you leave Yanmen Pass to me!"
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(This chapter ends)