Chapter 187: The Beginning of the Storm
In May of the first year of the early peace of the Han Dynasty, the battle between the Kwantung princes and Dong Zhuo had already settled, but the Kwantung princes had risen again. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
In the northern part of Jingzhou, on the issue of the ownership of Nanyang, Yuan Shu and Yuan Yi's army once again fought with Liu Biao's army in the area of Xinye and Yexian.
The two sides have been fighting back and forth for almost a month, and they have won and lost each other.
The current result is that Liu Biao failed to successfully recover Nanyang, while Yuan Shu and Yuan Yi were dragged between Xinye and Yexian. Yuan Shu wanted to go to Runan County, and Yuan Yi wanted to go back to Shanyang County, but he couldn't make the trip for a while.
In the south of Jingzhou, Sun Jianbu, who passed through Jiangxia, faked his way to destroy Yu, and wanted to take advantage of the situation to seize Jiangxia County without telling him, but he was beaten by Liu Biao, who had been prepared.
After all, Sun Jian's troops are all recruits, and no matter how fierce Sun Ce is, he can't stop thousands of troops. Although Liu Biao fought on two fronts, the soldiers were all veterans who had learned from Yuan Shu and Sun Jian for many years, and the number was not a few.
As a result, Sun Jian retreated to Changsha to lick his wounds after losing his troops, and took advantage of the naval army to hold on to the Yangtze River with Jingzhou soldiers and horses. A battle would break out in three or five days, and it had become commonplace for Jingzhou and Changsha.
The only good news is probably that although Sun Jian was injured during the sneak attack on Jiangxia, he did not die.
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Compared with Jingzhou, Yuan Shao of Jizhou can be regarded as exterminating the false path to the extreme.
Yuan Shao, who crossed Jizhou all the way from Hanoi County, took advantage of the situation to take Qinghe County and Hejian County along the way, so that Han Fu, who returned to Jizhou, dared not speak out.
Then, Yuan Shao did not persecute Han Fu too much, but instead waved his troops into Youzhou and captured Zhuo County.
This made Gongsun Zhan, who had just returned to Beiping County, waive his troops to seize Shanggu County, and had to hold Yuan Shao and Guangyang County.
As for the original Youzhou assassin Liu Yu, after being captured by Yuan Shao, he sent someone to escort him to Chang'an.
Jizhou and Youzhou are fighting, and Yanzhou south of the Yellow River is not idle to watch.
Even, the situation in Yanzhou is the most complicated in the whole world!
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When Dongjun Taishou returned to Dongjun, he was assassinated on the territory of Chenliu County, which is already old news.
Hao Meng united with Tao Qian and Liu Bei to "blackmail" Cao Mengde with a total of 60,000 grains and grass, which is not a big deal.
Even Liu Dai, the assassin of Yanzhou, who originally confronted Cao Mengde in Dong'e, was defeated and retreated because he was defeated by Cao Cao, which is also outdated news.
There are three news stories that are currently gaining the most momentum in Yanzhou.
One is that after Liu Dai's defeat and retreat, Cao Mengde took advantage of the situation to sweep the entire Dongjun, expanding his territory from one county to two counties, and also incorporated more than 10,000 soldiers and horses stationed in Dongjun.
The second news is that if he can't beat Cao Mengde and Liu Dai, he doesn't know how to show his might, and the defeated army actually swept Rencheng, Lu Guo and Dongping. Now, while Yuan Yu was stranded on the front line of Jingxiang, Liu Dai was still marching into Shanyang County.
The third news is the most rebellious in Yanzhou.
The Dongjun soldiers, who originally occupied Changyuan County, actually defeated Zhang Miao's army of nearly 30,000 when Chen Liutai guarded Zhang Miao to exterminate him.
Then, this Dongjun soldier also took advantage of the situation to sweep most of Chen Liu, and beat Chen Liutai to retreat to Gangxian and Jiwu and other places.
Now, this Dongjun soldier has a very strong momentum, and it has the appearance of sweeping the entire Chenliu County.
In addition to these big news, there is also Zhang Xiu's garrison of the Tiger Prison Pass, and the troops stationed in Hongnong County, officially locking the passage of the Central Plains to the west.
There is also news that is not news, that is, Wang Kuang, the assassin of Qingzhou who took office in Qingzhou, was unable to exterminate the remnants of the Yellow Turban in Qingzhou, so he could only retreat in Jinan and wait for help.
It's just that the princes near Qingzhou are busy grabbing the territory and cities, and none of them have the spare strength to support Wang Kuang.
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When Hao Meng heard these news, he was really dumbfounded.
What surprised Hao Meng the most was that Chen Liutaishou Zhang Miao couldn't kill a remnant of Dongjun, or a remnant of the army after internal strife and splitting!
Because of this, Hao Meng can already predict that the next step will definitely be Cao Cao, who has greatly increased in strength, and when the Dongjun soldiers who swept Chen Liu fought with Zhang Miao, he would make a profit.
It's a pity that Hao Meng is now in Langya County, even if he wants to get a piece of the pie, he can't reach it.
In other words, Hao Meng has been in Langya County for more than half a month, and there is no major move except for recruiting 5,000 soldiers from the people.
If you insist on saying that Hao Meng has any moves, it is probably that in addition to training, he led the army to march around Yangdu, Linyi and Kaiyang counties, and declared his sovereignty to the people of Langya County.
Of course, killing a few monsters along the way, or destroying three or five groups of bandits, can be regarded as Hao Meng's elimination of harm for the people.
Yes, after Hao Meng and the others arrived in Langya County, their main job was to recruit and train soldiers.
As for the government affairs, they were all thrown by Hao Meng to the future father-in-law, and the future father-in-law took Wang Peng and Jiang Feng to deal with it.
Cai Yong may not be able to handle the government affairs of a state well, and it is impossible to give advice to Hao Meng like those dog-headed military advisors, but how much can the government affairs of three or two counties have?
In addition, the summer harvest of wheat is still early, the spring planting of cereals has been completed long ago, and the autumn harvest is several months apart, and there is nothing to do in agriculture for the time being.
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On this day, in Kaiyang County, Hao Meng convened a meeting of the generals in the army, and the topic was the upcoming military operation.
Hao Meng now has an army of 10,000, although half of them are recruits, but in the course of more than half a month of training, Hao Meng has also completed the reorganization of the army by the way.
Hao Meng's current army is divided into two parts, Yu Poison is a 5,000-person group, and Li Chou's is a 5,000-person group.
Moreover, Hao Meng also stipulated that no matter how the army is expanded in the future, a lieutenant can only be in charge of a maximum of 5,000 people, which is equivalent to ten battalions, or 100 teams.
As for battles that require more troops, it is enough to gather several captains to form a corps when the time comes.
At present, a school captain department of 5,000 people is enough to garrison one place.
Yu Poison's more than 5,000 veterans, after eliminating the real old and weak, were transferred to 1,000 people under the command of Li Chou.
However, the strength of Yu Poison's troops did not decrease, and Hao Meng still made up the number of his army by 5,000.
In doing so, although the combat effectiveness of the Yu Poison Department has decreased, there is no problem with Hao Meng's next target to attack.
Li Chou has been learning to lead soldiers with Yu Poison during this period of time, and now there are 1,000 veterans under his command as the backbone, and there is no problem in commanding a school captain department with a mixture of 5,000 new and old soldiers.
Of course, Li Choubu's current combat effectiveness is definitely not good.
But the goal of Hao Meng's attack this time only needs Li Choubu to beat soy sauce and exercise.
Hao Meng couldn't fully trust them in poison, so he let Li Chou also take charge of a soldier.
At the same time, Chen Feng was also sent to the army.
Only these old brothers who started with him Hao Meng have no problem with his loyalty to Hao Meng, and Hao Meng also trusts them completely.
It's Dian Wei, who was supposed to be the head of Cao Mengde's personal guard, after being pried into the corner by Hao Meng earlier, and now he is also serving as the commander of Hao Meng's personal guard.
And Dian Wei's current personal guard battalion has only more than a dozen carefully selected people, all of whom are just ordinary soldiers.
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"Lord, where are we going to fight?"
After everyone sat down, Yu Poison couldn't wait to ask.
Regarding the treatment after submitting to Hao Meng, Yu Poison is still quite satisfied.
Although, due to the limitation on the number of troops led by a captain, Yu Poison can no longer command tens of thousands of horses, but Hao Meng really has nothing to say about their treatment.
Except for the old and weak who were eliminated, the original team brought by Yu Poison almost didn't move much.
Moreover, each soldier could receive two coins a month, ten coins a month for the team, and fifty coins a month for the battalion, but he was a whopping five hundred a month.
That's it, it's still the treatment on weekdays, according to Hao Meng's regulations, the wartime salary will be doubled!
Even those old and weak who have been eliminated, as well as the soldiers who may be discharged from the army due to injuries in the future, have been arranged to work after receiving a discharge compensation.
Either as a teacher in the new barracks, or as an errand officer in the government, or as a patrol in the city.
It is also according to Hao Meng's regulations that each county has a patrol battalion, and in addition to serving as a garrison, it also patrols the whole county on weekdays to pick up lawbreakers.
Naturally, after such a reorganization, Hao Meng has to spend a lot of money every month in addition to the consumption of grain and grass.
However, for Hao Meng, who has nearly 200 million in his hands, how much is this expenditure?
What's more, the treatment of the soldiers has improved, not only is it easier for Hao Meng to recruit soldiers, but the loyalty of the soldiers is somewhat guaranteed, isn't it?
It is said that there are so many princes in the world, who has given such a high salary to the soldiers under his command?
It seems that many princes' armies still don't have anything to say!
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"The target of our action this time is Ju County and Dong'an County, which are closest to Yangduguan."
"These two counties, currently occupied by a group of rogue bandits, are both losers in the infighting in Qingzhou."
"However, we can't underestimate these rogues, they can be in Qingzhou for so many years, even if they are defeated in internal strife, their core soldiers and horses still have combat effectiveness."
"Moreover, these two gangs of rogues have swept the local people, and now they both claim to have tens of thousands of soldiers."
"And our main combat power is Yu Poison's Captain's Department!"
"General Yu, do you have the confidence to fight with them?"
After Hao Meng introduced the situation in Ju County and Andong County, he asked Yu Poison, who was the next head.
The reason why Hao Meng hurriedly wanted to subdue the entire territory of Langya County before the recruits formed combat effectiveness was that the competition among the princes of the world was becoming increasingly fierce?
If Hao Meng is indifferent to watching these princes fight now, when he Hao Meng fights, it will be difficult for Cao Cao to unify Yanzhou, and Yuan Shao may also occupy Youzhou and Jizhou.
At that time, how could Hao Meng, with the strength of half a county, be able to beat those princes who owned one state or even several states?
Besides, the remnants of the Yellow Turban in Langya County are not very strong. Hao Meng happened to regain the territory, and by the way, he practiced military training.
After all, only the battlefield can make a new recruit elevate into a veteran!
"Don't worry, my lord, we are confident that we will win Ju County and Andong County!"
Yu Poison slashed back categorically. (To be continued.) )