734. Cao Cao and Yuan Shao's response
Now that Yizhou is completely under Zhu Wei's direct control, Zhang Lu, who still supports the army and is in Hanzhong, has naturally become the object that Zhu Wei needs to deal with.
It was impossible for Zhu Wei to let Zhang Lu maintain the current situation, so Zhu Wei had already sent a letter to Zhang Lu's side, asking Zhang Lu's subordinate Zhang Weijun to take the route of Guanzhong from Hanzhong and go to Luoyang through Hangu Pass to support Zhu Wei against Cao Cao and Yuan Shao's combined forces.
This is tantamount to transferring the main army under Zhang Lu's command, and it may not be returned to Zhang Lu in the future.
Of course, Zhu Wei doesn't have to worry about any deception with the help of the Three Kingdoms game system, as long as the pale green luster is displayed in the map of the Three Kingdoms game system, he is his own person who can be trusted.
Anyway, if Zhang Lu is willing to obey Zhu Wei and obediently hand over Zhang Wei's control of the army to Luoyang, it will naturally be good for everyone, otherwise Zhu Wei may have to use troops against Zhang Lu in Hanzhong, and he will not let Zhang Lu safely support troops in Hanzhong.
At that time, it is completely possible to transfer Zulang's Yueshan battalion or the Ma Teng army headquarters in Guanzhong, or the garrison left behind in Xiangyang, to launch an encirclement and suppression of Zhang Lu in Hanzhong, and this Zhang Lu will not be able to resist it.
Just in case, Zhu Wei still needs to leave Wu Yi to be temporarily stationed in Zitong County, lest Zhang Lu have evil thoughts in his heart, thinking that Yizhou is empty, and make something else.
Of course, it will take some time for the arrangements for Yizhou and Hanzhong to be implemented, except for the first time to be transported to Luoyang Zhang Ren, Huang Quan, Wu Lan, Lei Tong and 30,000 Dongzhou troops, it will take at least a while for other personnel transfers to be implemented.
However, Zhu Wei is not worried that they will not obey orders or anything, with the help of the Three Kingdoms game system, Zhu Wei also inspected the loyalty of these new subordinates and military vassals in Yizhou, most of them also have the loyalty of sixty to seventy years, which can be regarded as a little submissive to Zhu Wei.
In the face of Zhu Wei's personnel arrangement in this way, unless they want to rebel, they will definitely accept the arrangement obediently.
And the loyalty of Zhang Ren, Huang Quan, Wu Lan, and Lei Tong, who were first transferred to Luoyang, by Zhu Wei are also 67, 73, 78, and 74 respectively.
Therefore, Zhu Wei believes that after they arrive in Luoyang, they will definitely be able to improve their loyalty, as long as Zhang Ren's loyalty increases, Zhu Wei also has the idea of letting Zhang Ren, Huang Quan, Wu Lan, and Lei Tong form an independent battalion based on the 30,000 Dongzhou army, which is to set up another Dongzhou battalion.
At that time, Zhang Ren can be the main general, Huang Quan can be the commander of the generals, and Wu Lan and Lei Tong are naturally subordinate generals.
It can be said that Zhu Wei also has expectations for these soldiers and horses in Yizhou, in fact, in addition to Zhang Ren and Huang Quan, these civil and military generals and military advisors, Zhu Wei is also relatively optimistic about the 30,000 Dongzhou troops.
These 30,000 Dongzhou troops were originally composed of selected young and strong people from Nanyang and Guanzhong who were exiled to Yizhou, and they can also be regarded as the most elite army under the name of Liu Zhang in Yizhou.
Now that they are transferred out of Guanzhong to Luoyang, they can be regarded as their hometown, and there will be no problems with water and soil.
As long as Zhu Wei trains them a little, he can basically become the elite main force of Zhu Wei's next battalion.
Well, in general, Zhu Wei's overall form is also very good now, with the end of the wars in Yizhou and Guanzhong, Zhu Wei no longer needs to fight everywhere at the same time.
In this way, according to Zhu Wei's military mobilization, most of the troops under Zhu Wei can already enter the next stage of the Central Plains War.
Although Zhu Wei is not yet able to be like Cao Cao, who originally unified the Central Plains in history, and put on the momentum of sweeping the south of the Yangtze River with an army of 100 or 800,000, Zhu Wei really has no worries, and he can concentrate the main forces under his command and start his battle for hegemony in the Central Plains.
If calculated from the current military strength, Zhu Wei has concentrated about 100,000 troops in the Zhongjun Battalion and Xionglu Battalion in Luoyang, and then nearly 30,000 troops in Guanzhong Wei Yan, Zhang Xiu, and Zhang Liao.
In addition, the Shenjian Battalion of Taishici in Xuzhou and the Huainan Battalion of Shouchun Huangzhong also have a total of 70,000 or 80,000 troops, which are naturally the troops that will inevitably be called in the Central Plains War in the future.
Now, if you count the 30,000 Dongzhou troops that have been sent by Yizhou, as well as the young and strong soldiers selected from Ganning's Jiangjiao Battalion and Chengdu in the future, there will be nearly 30,000, then another 60,000 troops can join Zhu Wei's total strength of the Northern Expeditionary Army.
In this way, in the army of Zhu Wei's Northern Expedition to the Central Plains, the regular main force alone reached at least 260,000 or more, and with the logistical auxiliaries equipped by the various armies, the total strength of the army reached 400,000 to 500,000.
Therefore, if the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains really started, Zhu Wei could also claim to be an army of 800,000 or a million troops to the outside world.
It's just that it still takes time for all this to slowly assemble, but during this time, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao can't really have no reaction at all.
Although on the frontal battlefield on the side of Tiger Prison Pass, Cao Cao was unwilling to confront Zhu Weijun alone to consume his strength, so that Yuan Shao became a fisherman in vain to take advantage, and so far he has not really launched a strong attack on Zhu Weijun's camp outside Tiger Prison Pass, so that the war here seems to have dragged on.
But Cao Cao still paid attention to the changes in the situation in the world, and also made some means to deal with Zhu Wei.
Although Cao Cao had no way to know the development of Zhu Weijun's war in Guanzhong and Yizhou at the first time, he and his military advisors and strategists were able to deduce some inferences that were comparable to the facts.
In this way, Cao Cao naturally understood that the longer the time dragged on, the better the form of Zhu Wei's side would be, and it was impossible for his side to continue to waste time like this.
In addition, Zhu Weijun Huang Zhong and Tai Shi Ci's subordinates did not ignore the threat to Cao Cao's rear, so after considering the development of the general trend of the world, Cao Cao really moved Emperor Han Xian from Xudu and began to move to Juancheng.
Although Cao Cao did not directly send Emperor Han Xian to Yecheng as he promised Yuan Shao, this Juancheng is also a target for Yuan Shao to move the capital, and it is not very far from Yecheng, the old nest where Yuan Shao is now.
This is tantamount to Cao Cao compromising with Yuan Shao, at least he gave up the advantage of controlling the Son of Heaven alone, so that Yuan Shao could also have an impact on the Son of Heaven.
Although it still took some time for Emperor Han Xian to travel from Xudu to Juancheng, and he walked very slowly along the way, Cao Cao's move was naturally an expression of sincerity to Yuan Shao.
Of course, Cao Cao is really helpless.
Cao Cao's occupation of Yuzhou and Gunzhou is really embarrassing, originally the Central Plains four battles with little defensive advantage, and now almost facing the threat of Zhu Wei's army from the east, south, and west, he really can't divide his troops to meet the invasion of Zhu Wei's army in a few places.
Therefore, Cao Cao must get the real support of Yuan Shaojun, otherwise even if Cao Cao can resist the offensive of Zhu Weijun on the frontal battlefield, the rear may still be broken through to the hinterland by Zhu Weijun after all.
Just like when Cao Cao went out to Xuzhou, he was copied by Lu Bu and had to withdraw his troops from Xuzhou and go back to meet Lu Bu.
Cao Cao's situation on the frontal battlefield, after all, needs the rear nest to continue to provide grain, grass and materials to support, so once the nest is lost, then without the follow-up food, grass and materials to replenish, the army in front will soon be unable to sustain.
Cao Cao knew very well that it would be difficult to stop Zhu Weijun on his own, so he had no foundation for cheating and cheating, and could only rely on compromise in exchange for Yuan Shao's support for sending troops.
And Yuan Shao actually has his military advisors and strategists on his side to take stock of the changes in the situation in the world, he also recognizes the threat of Zhu Wei, and now Cao Cao's compromise, Yuan Shao finally decided to really send troops......