Chapter 287: Cao Cao's Plan
The Huns slowly retreated, facing the setting sun and retreating to the west of the Yellow River.
"We won, we won, we all did well"
"The Huns ran away, we won"
There were bursts of cheers from the Han army camp, Cheng Lian slowly turned around, glanced at the county town of Hequ in the distance, and fell heavily, and the cheers of the entire Han army stopped abruptly.
Lu Bu hurriedly picked up the reins of the horse and rushed out, leaning down to check Cheng Lian's snort. found that although Cheng Lian was highly valued, he was only in a coma, and he was a little relieved. Instructed the soldiers to carry Cheng Lian into the city and arrange for the doctor to diagnose and treat him.
Cheng Lian has a very good appetite for Lu Bu, although his martial arts are a little worse, but his temperament is definitely not bad, and none of his soldiers are bad, this is a good son of Bingzhou.
The envoy of the Huns came to Wang Gang again, saluted respectfully, and spoke.
"The soldiers of the state are brave, and King Zuo Xian admits defeat. Willing to give up Wudu County. The Hun cavalry would also retreat to fifty miles west of Wudu County. It's to compete with the warriors of the Han army again."
Hearing that Liu Bao, the king of the Xiongnu Zuoxian, withdrew from Wudu County as promised, Wang Gang's heart was also relieved. Originally, Wang Gang thought that there would be a few more fights tomorrow before the Huns would admit defeat, but he didn't expect this Liu Bao to be very smart and admit defeat so quickly.
"Fengxian, you take a thousand cavalry, cross the river first to receive Wudu County," Wang Gang commanded when he retrieved Lu Bu.
"Yes" Lu Bu was suddenly excited, and hurriedly shouted loudly. After that, he will go to the great river. Wang Gang hurriedly stopped him.
"Pay attention to safety, tomorrow I will send some foot soldiers to assist you in defending the city, the cavalry is not conducive to defending the city, Feng Xian or use his energy to harass the rear of the Huns, dragging down the Huns is the best policy"
Lu Bu thought about it and understood what Wang Gang meant.
Hequ County is more than 200 miles away from Wudu County, and Li Ao led 3,000 soldiers to walk for five days before coming to Wudu City. This road did not encounter the attack of the Hun cavalry, and the Huns were indeed stationed in the valley fifty miles west of Wudu County, as the envoy said.
Although the morale of the Hun cavalry was low, the damage was not very large, and it was possible to attack Wudu County again at any time.
In the past few days when the Huns retreated, Wang Gang stayed in Hequ County, and he faintly felt that something was wrong, it seemed that the Huns had retreated too smoothly, until the information that Li Ao had successfully entered Wudu County came, and Wang Gang's inner uneasiness became even stronger. But he couldn't figure out what the problem was. Then he found Tian Feng and Chen Gong.
The two have been in Taiyuan for a few days, and now that the war has come to an end for the time being, Wang Gang has no reason to keep dragging the two of them to the next thing.
After the two finished saluting Wang Gang, Wang Gang said with a smile.
"Today, we can force the Huns back, thanks to the great help of the two gentlemen."
The two smiled bitterly, although what Wang Gang said was true, but the two knew that this time it didn't help at all, but let them watch a big drama and have a deeper understanding of the soldiers in Bingzhou. At first, Tian Feng thought that Liu Bei brought to Hebei was the elite of Bingzhou, but now it seems that they are just some ordinary soldiers.
"General Zhenbei is ashamed of me, the general is wise, the palace is not as good as it" Chen Gong finished speaking, and gave a deep salute. It wasn't until now that he understood that it wasn't Wang Gang who felt sorry for Hequ County. At all, Wang Gang disdains to use conspiracy, and there is no need for conspiracy at all. The elite of the state soldiers was completely beyond his imagination.
"The two gentlemen came from afar, there must be something important, you might as well say it directly, I will naturally not stand by and watch if I can help"
The two glanced at each other again, but this time there was no eye contact, but there was a hint of hostility, Tian Feng saw that Wang Gang did not have the slightest intention of talking separately, and he didn't care about it at the moment, and said.
"The war in Hebei has been decided, and General Zhenbei will see if he can transfer the soldiers and horses from Jizhou back to the state. Yuan Yuanjun is willing to take out 200 million money and 20,000 loads of grain to work for the army, I don't know what General Zhenbei thinks"
"I understand Yuan Zhoumu's intentions, and now that the war between the states is about to start, it is indeed necessary to transfer some soldiers back. As for the 200 million copper coins, to be honest, the state really needs it. However, in return, Mr. Tian brought a thousand war horses. It is also a congratulatory gift to the original brother who led Jizhou Mu. As for food, even if you Hebei also need food, I won't be strong."
Tian Feng was overjoyed when he heard this, but he didn't expect Wang Gang to speak so well. In the battle outside the city gate a few days ago, all the best Hun war horses were captured, but Wang Gang didn't expect Wang Gang to transfer them to himself. And easily agreed to Yuan Shao's request to withdraw troops. But I heard Wang Gang speak again.
"As for Zhongshan Kingdom, for the time being, Liu Pi is still in charge of the garrison, and I am ready to use troops against Daijun after the autumn, and I hope that Brother Benchu can understand this. In addition, most of the Yellow Turban Army are ordinary people, and I also ask Mr. Tian to persuade him with a lot of good words after he goes back, and not to kill more."
After Wang Gang finished speaking, he bowed to Tian Fengshen.
Tian Feng hurriedly got up, not daring to accept Wang Gang's big gift, Tian Feng also understood Wang Gang's thoughts, he still wanted Zhongshan Kingdom, which was within the scope of Yuan Shao's acceptance, and even if Wang Gang didn't give him a war horse. Yuan Shao didn't dare to go back to Zhongshan.
And Chen Gong next to him was also stunned for a while, originally thought that Wang Gang would open his mouth and ask Yuan Shao for some money and food, but he didn't expect Wang Gang not only didn't ask for it. On the contrary, he refused to accept Hebei's grain, as for the 200 million copper coins, it was equivalent to selling a thousand war horses to Yuan Shao, which was the same as treating Yuan Shu and Cao Cao.
Chen Gong saw that the eyes of the two of them were looking at him, so he had to bite the bullet and say.
"This trip is on the order of Captain Cao, I want to ask General Zhenbei to send troops to Hebei, after all, Captain Cao is Captain Xiyuan, and there are some constraints in Yanzhou, Captain Cao is willing to join General Zhenbei to be a military candidate, and also ask General Zhenbei to take care of it" Chen Gong said extremely piously, but Wang Gang and Tian Feng didn't believe a word.
Cao Cao, as Chen Gong said, was the captain of the West Garden, and he was the captain of the West Garden who was abandoned by the emperor. He is now stationed in Yanzhou, and his name is not right, so he can only find a force to rely on. In addition to the generals, only the family and Wang Gang remained. Cao Cao didn't want to be a henchman of the family, so he sent Chen Gong to find out Wang Gang's tone.
Wang Gang pondered for a while and said.
"The Yellow Turban is a disaster for Yanzhou, Meng De exterminated the Yellow Turban, and it was a righteous move to protect the Li people, and when the Yanzhou Yellow Turban was pacified, I would write to Your Majesty to express Meng De's merits. Yanzhou Yellow Turban is powerful, and Brother Meng De is short of soldiers and horses, so he asked Liu Chang Envoy of Hebei to lead 3,000 soldiers to Yanzhou to aid Meng De.
Although Chen Gong didn't like Liu Bei to go to Yanzhou, there was no way now, after all, Cao Cao's name was not to provoke the girder of Yanzhou, as long as he pulled the banner of General Zhenbei. Naturally, there must be soldiers from the Zhenbei General's Mansion in order not to be gossiped about by outsiders. At that moment, he didn't say anything more, and bowed to Wang Gang.
In front of the two, Wang Gang wrote a letter to Liu Bei and handed it to Tian Feng, asking Liu Bei to transfer 2,000 spearmen back to Yique Pass and lead the rest of the soldiers to Yanzhou to pacify the Yellow Turbans.
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