Chapter 1401 Yanzhou and Beihai


    Chapter 1399: Yanzhou and Beihai


    The Qin army''s apparently open disarmament and reorganization were actually to attract the attention of the princes in the world and to hide other actions in the secret.


    While the Qin army was disarmament and reorganization, an army of 20,000 was divided into several groups and quietly gathered towards Hulao Pass. It was Qin Hao''s army that was preparing to support Liu Bei.


    This army was all composed of Yuan Meng slaves in the prisoner-of-war camp, so even if all of them were exhausted on the way to support Xuzhou this time, it would not have much impact on the Qin army.


    Although the army has been assembled, since it needs to go to Yanzhou and the negotiations with Cao Cao are still in progress, the army is only training in Hulao Pass, and the specific departure time has not been determined.


    This time, Qin Hao sent Kan Ze as an envoy to Yanzhou and negotiated with Cao Cao.


    Although all states in the world are fighting, the situation in Yanzhou is definitely the most chaotic.


    Qiao Mao and other four princes were still defeated by Cao Cao when they joined forces, so they led Li Zicheng into Yanzhou, hoping to use Li Zicheng''s power to deal with Cao Cao, so that Cao Cao and Li Zicheng could fight against each other.


    What a hero Li Zicheng is, how could he be used by others? The princes of Yanzhou wanted to use him to get rid of Cao Cao, but why didn’t he use them to enter Yanzhou?


    Under this mutual use, the Yanzhou War broke out completely.


    Cao Cao first used his own strength to fight against the four princes of Yanzhou, and then fought against Li Zicheng''s Ming army. Under the pressure of these five forces, Cao Cao''s situation was extremely difficult.


    At the most dangerous time, Cao Cao even acted as bait himself;


    In the most difficult time, Cao Cao even adopted Cheng Yu''s strategy and used human flesh as military rations.


    most…


    No matter how difficult it was, Cao Cao finally survived, and the situation in Yanzhou also changed drastically again.


    The four princes of Qiao Mao, Zhang Miao, Bao Xin and Yuan Yi all turned into cannon fodder in the dispute between Cao Cao and Li Zicheng.


    The forces under the command of the four of them were Bao Xin, the prefect of Jibei, Qiao Mao, the prefect of Dongjun, Zhang Miao, the prefect of Dongping, and Yuan Yi, the prefect of Shanyang. They were divided up by Cao Cao and Li Zicheng respectively.


    Bao Xin himself died in battle.


    Yuan Yi went south to surrender to Yuan Shu.


    Qiao Mao and Zhang Miao both defected to Qin Hao and became the fourth and fifth princes who defected to Qin Hao after Zhang Yang, Wang Kuang and Wang Lang, while Kong Rong was the sixth prince.


    Since then, four princes have been missing in the world.


    When Zhang Yang and Wang Kuang just surrendered, Qin Hao did not completely seize his military power in order to calm down and stabilize the southern region, and still ordered them to guard the original counties and counties.


    After winning the Battle of Hetao, Qin Hao naturally lost so much encouragement and directly transferred them to Luoyang to grant higher official positions, but also deprived them of military power in disguise, but in general, they were treated well.


    After Qiao Mao, Zhang Miao and Wang Lang defected, Qin Hao did not treat them poorly and still gave them high officials and generous salaries. Although they certainly did not have the power to be a prince, it was already quite difficult to be a loser.


    After Qiao Mao and other three princes left the stage, Yanzhou became the stage for Cao Cao and Li Zicheng. Now Cao Cao occupies the southern and central parts of Yanzhou, while Li Zicheng occupies the northern and eastern parts.


    Generally speaking, Li Zicheng''s elite troops were fighting less and less, while Cao Cao faced difficulties and continued to expand his power. If this trend continues, Cao Cao would definitely be the one who unified Yanzhou. Although Cao Cao gained an advantage in the war with Li Zicheng, his life was still difficult.


    The long-term war has caused a large number of people to become refugees. Of course, Cao Cao also wanted to provide disaster relief, but his full financial and material resources were used to fight against Li Zicheng, and he was unable to help the victims, so he could only allow the victims to leave Yanzhou, which also made Yanzhou''s foundation weaker and weaker.


    Most of the refugees who escaped from Yanzhou fled to Qin Hao''s territory. After all, except for Qin Hao''s rule, wars broke out in the other three directions of Yanzhou, so there was no other place to go except to join Qin Hao.


    If this continues, even if Cao Cao defeats Li Zicheng and unifies Yanzhou, he will only get a mess and will not be able to participate in the subsequent battle for hegemony by the princes.


    Therefore, Cao Cao naturally wanted to obtain external assistance to speed up the unification of Yanzhou. At this time, Qin Hao''s envoy came to discuss cooperation, which was exactly what Cao Cao wanted.


    Luoyang


    After Kan Ze returned from his mission, he immediately reported to Qin Hao, saying, "Reporting to the lord, although Cao Cao did not refuse to borrow the lord, his subordinates were crying with his subordinates for the lord''s mission to Yanzhou this time, and said that he hoped that the lord would not favor one or the other. The people who were patronizing Xuzhou ignored Yanzhou and hoped that the court would also give Yanzhou some support. Obviously, he wanted to borrow the lord''s issue this time and extort some benefits from the lord''s court."


    Qin Hao pondered for a while and asked, "How much does Cao Cao want?"


    "Uh... he wants five thousand war horses."


    “Five thousand horses?”


    Qin Hao was stunned at first, then snorted coldly, "Just borrowing a word, I dare to ask me for five thousand war horses. Cao Cao really dared to speak out."


    Supporting Liu Bei and delaying Zhu Yuanzhang''s unification of Xuzhou was related to Qin Hao''s plan to unify Hebei, so Qin Hao had to suffer this loss.


    In addition, before the Hetao War began, Cao Cao was in the most difficult situation. However, in order to support Qin Hao, Cao Cao saved money and collected 20,000 stones of food and grass to support the Qin army, so Qin Hao also owed Cao Cao a favor.


    "Forget it, just treat it as a favor from Cao Cao, but five thousand horses are too many."


    At this point, Qin Hao looked at Kan Ze and continued, "Mr. Kan Ze, please tell Cao Cao that there are up to 3,000 horses. If he still wants it, he can buy it with money, food or supplies, but only 10,000 horses."


    The Qin army now has no shortage of horses. Even if there are 200,000 cavalrymen, one man and three cavalry, only 600,000 war horses can be used at most, and the total number of war horses the Qin army has exceeded one million.


    Take out war horses that are not available for the time being in exchange for valuable development resources, which is also a win-win situation for the Qin army.


    "No."


    The matter of supporting Xuzhou is still under preparation, and Li Jing, who went to Beihai to replace Kong Rong, has arrived in Qingzhou with three thousand elite cavalry.


    The Qin army''s Yellow River naval army, among these three thousand elite cavalry, five thousand infantry equipment, and five thousand powerful crossbows, went downstream from Mengjin Ferry, crossed all the way through Jizhou and Yanzhou, and finally stopped when they arrived in central Qingzhou.


    Qingzhou originally had two counties and 65 counties in four countries. Now the newly established Liangshan County is added, with a total of three counties and 74 counties in four countries.


    The entire Qingzhou was directly divided into two by the Yellow River. The south and part of the central part were occupied by Huang Chao, the north was Yuan Shao''s territory, while Song Jiang and Kong Rong were sandwiched between the two.


    The location where Li Jing chose to go down the shore was only a few dozen miles away from Beihai County. So after he went down the shore, he immediately ordered three thousand elite cavalry to take all the supplies and head straight to Beihai County.


    At the same time, the major princes of Qingzhou also knew that a cavalry appeared on the land of Qingzhou.


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