Chapter 117: Return to the carbine
Just when the Qingzhou army left Jinan and moved towards Qi, the two armies of the Han army finally met with Guangzong, and in order to make up for the time spent, the Han army was struggling to catch up at the speed of a rapid march behind.
finally caught up with the Qingzhou army at the junction of Jinan and Qi, which was still because the Qingzhou army practiced every day and stopped.
The Han army was still divided into two chasing troops, north and south, with Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun each leading an army.
Among them, Zhu Jun's department was slightly prominent, and he chased a little more urgently, but he was ambushed by the Qingzhou army in Banyang, but fortunately, Sun Jian was more cautious and dragged behind, and after the ambush, he quickly rescued, fought hard into the encirclement, and rescued Zhu Jun.
However, after this battle, the Han army on the southern route suffered nearly 20,000 casualties, lost the ability to fight independently, and could only move closer to the Han army on the northern route, and once again merged into a single force.
Huangfu Song used soldiers more steadily than Zhu Jun, he fought steadily all the way, just behind the Qingzhou army, unhurriedly chasing, at this time, most of the Yellow Turban Army across the country has been wiped out, only Zhang Mancheng's Qingzhou Army, the largest Yellow Turban remnant.
The command of the Tiger Mask Army Division is also different, he doesn't care about the pursuers behind him, but just blindly marches eastward, conquering Gaomi, Jiaodong, and Jimo counties along the way.
The Han army was different from the Qingzhou army, and every time the Han army regained a city, it had to divide troops to garrison it to restore the local order of production and life.
Therefore, when the Han army pursued to Donglai County, Huangfu Song, Zhu Jun, and Lu Zhi's subordinates were left with only the directly subordinate central officials and Cao Cao, Dong Zhuo, Sun Jian, Liu Bei, these cavalry or volunteers, and a large number of county soldiers were left in the counties recovered along the way.
And what they didn't notice was that they were chasing along the way, and the Qingzhou army in front was actually getting fewer and fewer, but because of the huge base, it was not easy to detect.
In the end, when the Han army of Huangfu Song and others surrounded the Qingzhou army in Huangxian, the Qingzhou army only had 200,000 people, and the Humian army division was not in the army.
Zhang Mancheng and Tang Zhou defended Huangxian County according to the plan formulated by the military division, anyway, they plundered a large amount of grain along the way, even if the 200,000 army was enough to eat for a year and a half.
The Han army chased to the end, and although the rest were elites like the central official army, there were only 60,000 people, and they couldn't eat the city held by 200,000 people at all, so they could only camp outside the city and fall into a stalemate stage.
Just when the two armies were at a stalemate, an urgent report was sent from the rear, saying that more than 20,000 Qingzhou troops suddenly appeared outside Jimo City, and with the help of Neiying, they stole the city and succeeded.
A large number of grain and grass materials hoarded in Jimo fell into the hands of the enemy and their whereabouts are unknown. Immediately after Jiaodong, an urgent report was also sent, which was also captured by the Qingzhou army, and in the next few days, the urgent report continued, Gaomi, Chang'an, Anqiu, and the counties recovered by the Han army along the way were successively breached.
Moreover, the number of Qingzhou troops in the report is increasing, and when Linqu is also conquered, the ranks of the Qingzhou army have reached 70,000 or 80,000 people.
Huangfu Song and others are battle-hardened generals, and they can't figure out where these Qingzhou troops came from?
It turned out that this was all arranged by the tiger-faced military division, and along the way, whenever he abandoned a county seat, he would quietly lurk the elite of the next part of the Qingzhou army.
The Qingzhou army fought all the way from Nanyang to Guangzong, and a large number of elites were tempered through actual combat, so he dared to use this division of troops with confidence and boldness.
In the end, among the 200,000 troops that Zhang Mancheng held on to Huang County, there were not many elites left, and 80,000 elites of the Qingzhou Army were scattered near the counties along the way.
When the main force of the Han army wholeheartedly pursued the brigade of the Qingzhou Army and surrounded Huangxian, the Humian Army Division had already taken Liao Hua and Zhou Cang to secretly go back to Jiaodong and Jimo.
While capturing these county towns again, he recalled the men and horses scattered along the road, and when he recovered Anqiu, he basically gathered the elite of the 80,000 Qingzhou army.
When the Qingzhou Army led by the Tiger Mask Army pretended to be the Han Army and deceived Linzi City, it reaped an unexpected surprise, and it turned out that Linzi City was the largest logistics supply camp of the central official army.
The food and equipment in the city are piled up, especially the Han army-standard weapons and equipment built by the Luoyang government-run workshop, from armor to spears, ring-headed knives, longbows, hard crossbows, arrows, and shields.
After receiving such a big gift, the original idea of the tiger-faced military division has changed somewhat.
On the one hand, he sent people to send letters to Zhang Mancheng and Tang Zhou, asking them to stick to Huangxian and not to fight, he would attract the central officials and troops outside the city, and let him wait for his good news.
On the other hand, he sent a secret letter to Lu Bu, explaining his thoughts, hoping that Lu Bu could accompany him to perform a good show.
The elite of the 80,000 Qingzhou army set out from Linzi, marched all the way to the west, entered the territory of Taishan County from Laiwu, and returned to Yanzhou openly.
The counties and counties of the Han army along the way were empty in defense, and the main force of the Han army followed Huangfu Song's side, and many counties and counties had just been recovered from the Yellow Turban Army, and they had not had time to re-recruit the county soldiers.
The Qingzhou army never fell in love with war along the way, and all the cities did not stop, but just rushed to the west.
Everywhere the Qingzhou Army passed, there were many Yellow Turban remnants who took the opportunity to make a comeback and responded one after another, but unexpectedly, the Qingzhou Army didn't pay attention to them at all, just to the west, to the west!
In the middle of October, he passed through Jibei Kingdom, Dongping Kingdom, along the Yellow River, and once again hit Puyang in Dongjun, and perfectly killed a horse pistol!
At this moment, the government and the opposition in Luoyang were shaken, and the general He Jin urgently asked where the central officials and troops of Huangfu Song had gone? Ask Huangfu Song, Zhu Jun, and Lu Zhi to return to Luoyang as soon as possible!
Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty also personally issued an edict to Ding Yuan and Lu Bu in Bingzhou, asking them to quickly send troops to rescue and block the damn Qingzhou army.
Sima Fang, the commander of Sili, also transferred 20,000 infantry and cavalry from the Sanfu area to garrison Gongxian, but this transfer also laid the groundwork for the later turmoil.
In fact, there is no need to rush eight hundred miles, Huang Fu Song's army is already on the way back to Luoyang, the siege of Huangxian has long been lifted, and Huang Fu Song and they already know that the elite of the Qingzhou army is not in the city.
Continuing to stay here will only consume time and food, and it is impossible for them to eat the 200,000 Qingzhou troops in the city in one bite.
Huangfu Song had already guessed part of the thoughts of the tiger-faced military division, and he couldn't care about Zhang Mancheng and the others in the city, Luoyang could not afford to lose, once Luoyang suffered from the disaster of swords, it would be a capital crime to lose his head.
However, no matter how fast they were, they were not as fast as the tiger-faced military division, and they chased all the way, and this time they didn't have time to recover the county seat, and they all passed through the city.
The Humian Army Division did not stay in Puyang for long, but continued to advance westward with great fanfare, and did not stop to rest until it occupied the sour date.
In fact, he was waiting for the arrival of the Bingzhou army, he had already contacted Xu Huang, and Lu Bu ordered Xu Huang to fully cooperate and put on a good show in the sour date.
朐 (qu), two more today, the second watch will be sent at noon, there is something in the afternoon, it will not be changed, thank you for your support! It's officially a new volume!
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