The World of Yellow Sky

Chapter 768
With the strategy established, everyone followed orders and left Yongning Pavilion one after another.

Among the thirteen people, He Man and Xu You did not receive any military orders, so they stayed in Yongning Pavilion.

Lu Bu, Xu Huang, Zhang Liao, Guo Tai and others were all sent out, and Yan Liang, Wen Chou and other generals were also taken away from Chang'an.

Xu An originally thought that there were many soldiers and generals, but in fact, he realized the importance of generals only when they really needed to use them.

Although Yan Zhong seems to be in good spirits now, Xu An will not let Yan Zhong go out with the army again, Hua Tuo has reminded him in advance.

Yan Zhong's health is not optimistic, which is why Xu An entrusted Yan Zhong with a relatively leisurely job.

Regarding the matter of persuading Qu Yi, Yan Zhong was sure that Bu would go in person, all he had to do was sit in Chang'an City and order the Ministry of Rites to do things, he thought about the strategy and the words of persuasion.

Jia Xu is still in Liangzhou now, it must be too late to return to Zhongzhou, and the situation in the Western Regions is not optimistic, Liangzhou also needs Jia Xu to sit in charge.

So this time, Xu An is going to take Xu You as a counselor and let He Man lead the military camp.

In addition to the North Route Army and the South Route Army, the last Route Army, the Central Route Army, Xu An, is going to lead in person, and will go out from Zhiguanxing to enter Hanoi County. This road is the closest route to Wei County in Jizhou.

The reason why I want to visit the army in person is because the battle in Jizhou is too important.

In the midst of strategizing, winning thousands of miles away, this sentence is actually a bit exaggerated.

There are so many things to consider and places to worry about.

The battle situation is changing rapidly, just sitting in Chang'an City, but there is no way to determine the world.

Xu An sat on a chair and rubbed his temples with his hands.

Fortunately, the holidays of various departments and songs in the army were over early, and now the generals in the army are all in the camp, and there are no people who are still on vacation, so they are not too busy.

"There are no other military orders for the time being. Who are the generals and schools who can go out with the army?"

Too many things piled up, and Xu An's thoughts were a little confused, so he asked Xu You who was beside him.

"Currently in Chang'an City, the nine generals Hao Zhao, Guan Hai, Xu He, Sima Ju, Ma Chao, Pang De, Bai Rao, Bai Que, and Kushai have not received other orders. They can be recruited. Ji Ang and Bian Xi are in charge. Farming affairs, but if Duke Ming wants to be recruited, he can also be transferred, and his work can be temporarily replaced by the Department of Agricultural Affairs."

Xu An pondered for a moment, then rejected Xu You's proposal.

"Ji Ang and Bian Xi will continue to be in charge of farming and do not need to be recruited. The cabinet will draw up an order for the remaining nine people and issue them through the Central Military Office to let them all go out with the army."

There are too few people available under his command, and sometimes it is really helpless.

Now the strength of the Ming army is too scattered, and they are distributed in the three places of Beimo, Western Regions, and Southern Xinjiang.

"How's the situation in Mobei?"

Xu An's eyes moved away from Xu You's body, and moved to the direction of Mobei above the sand table.

It is where the two Xianbei tribes in the east and the middle are located. The two sides use the county boundary of Dai County and Yanmen County as the dividing line, and their territories are intertwined and extremely complicated.

"Qianman secretly summoned the leaders of the other tribes in the royal court in early April, but he didn't inform us. The news was a secret letter from the leader of a tribe close to the area under our control."

"In late April, Qianman informed our army that the scouts had discovered that the eastern Xianbei was gathering a large army to attack their control area in the north, and asked our army to harass the southern part to contain the eastern Xianbei."

"But in fact, it was Qianman who assembled a large army in the northern and central areas of the border, preparing to invade the eastern Xianbei on a large scale."

"The specific number of people has not been found out. According to the estimation of Zuo Tan, Qianman has summoned about [-] cavalry this time, which is far more than the troops used in the past few years. This time, Qianman seems to want to complete his work. One battle."

Xu An narrowed his eyes slightly, looking at the densely packed black and white flags on the sand table.

The black flag represents the eastern Xianbei, while the white flag represents the central Xianbei.

The white flag obviously outnumbered the black flag, and it was encircling, already surrounding the black flag.

In the original time and space, the result of the struggle between the eastern Xianbei and the central Xianbei was that the eastern Xianbei was defeated, and the leader even died in battle. The eastern Xianbei was beaten to pieces and split into three parts again.

However, after Jianman won, there is no historical record of Qianman's ending.

There are a lot of variables in this itself, and because of the butterfly effect, the variables in Xianbei are even greater.

"Send an order to Lu Bu to keep an eye on the situation in Mobei and gather the cavalry in Bingzhou in advance."

"The situation in Mobei, everything is decided by him."

Xu An's voice was low and his eyes were cold.

"Since Qianman wants to be Xianbei's Shanyu, instead of honestly being his Marquis of Guiyi, let him go underground and be his Marquis of Guiyi..."

"Tell me that as long as the situation in Mobei can be stabilized and Xianbei can be suppressed, no matter what he does in Mobei, I can turn a blind eye."

"If he can pacify Mobei, I will not hesitate to reward you as a marquis."

"promise."

Xu You's eyes moved slightly, and he obeyed.

The affairs in Mobei are complicated, Lu Bu has under his command the elite of the Five Thousand Xiaoqi Battalion, and Du Liao Battalion to help.

In the former part of the Southern Huns, it was more than enough to recruit more than [-] combat-capable cavalry.

At the beginning of the Yellow Turban Army's attack on Shuofang, the Southern Huns suffered heavy losses. However, after so many years of development, the old Southern Huns regained some combat power. The Southern Huns were greatly restored.

Xu An leaned forward slightly, looking at the deployment diagram on the desktop.

"Xiaoqi camp, Wuxiang camp, Xiliang camp..."

The Xiaoqi battalion is in Mobei, the Wuxiang battalion is in the Western Regions, and the Xiliang battalion is under Xu Huang's command. They will soon follow Xu Huang to go south to Wuguan to attack Nanyang County.

Nanyang County is a basin, and cavalry combat has certain advantages in Nanyang County.

There are few horses in Jingzhou, especially few war horses. The Xiliang camp going to Jingzhou here is simply a dimensionality reduction attack.

The Xiliang Battalion was not only an elite group selected from more than [-] Liangzhou troops, but also a cavalry army fully equipped with new-style horse gear, and its combat power was far superior to that of ordinary cavalry.

In the Battle of Shenyuan Pass, the cavalry of the Han army raided the barracks of the Xiliang camp. After a short period of panic, the Xiliang camp quickly recovered and defeated it in one fell swoop.

Xu An's gaze rested on the other cavalry battalions.

There are still four cavalry that can be mobilized now.

Bingzhouying, Shangguying, Tengxiangwei.

And Taipingwei...

Taipingwei's youth training is not the same training as ordinary soldiers, they receive cavalry training.

At the beginning, Jia Xu advised Xu An to follow the example of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to set up a Jianzhang battalion and set up a battalion to recruit orphans of fallen soldiers.

Xu An adopted Jia Xu's suggestion, set up the Taiping Guard to recruit orphans of fallen soldiers, and handed it over to Jia Xu for supervision.

Jianzhang Yingqi was later known as Yubayashiqi.

The duty of Yubayashiqi is to protect the emperor and guard the capital, which is actually the forbidden army.

The soldiers guarding the inner city of Chang'an are actually young soldiers of the Taiping Guard.

"Order Tengxiangwei, Taipingwei, Bingzhouying, Shangguying, and the two guards and the second battalion to go out with the army."

After thinking for a long time, Xu An finally put Taipingwei into the expedition team.

The strength of the cavalry troops under the command of the Han and Wei courts was not weak, and they only brought the Bingzhou camp, Shanggu camp and Tengxiang guard, Xu An was still a little uncertain.

After all, there are more than [-] Taipingwei young soldiers, who have been trained as cavalry since childhood. In fact, they are not inferior to the veteran cavalry of the six battalions.

It's just that their special situation made Xu An hesitate a bit, after all, their fathers had already died on the battlefield...

But when the young eagle finally spreads its wings, the teenager finally has the day of adulthood.

The lion and the elephant fight the rabbit with all their strength.

In the struggle of the world, how can one be merciful?

Tengxiangwei has now expanded to a thousand people.

The two battalions of Bingzhouying and Shangguying still have an establishment of [-], and each battalion is divided into two divisions.

There were more than [-] Taipingwei young soldiers. This time Xu An led a total of [-] cavalry.

"The fourth battalion of military soldiers, the first battalion of sharp warriors, the second battalion, and another [-] people from the yellow angels will accompany the army."

The third and fourth battalions of Ruishi were transferred to Xu Huang's command by Xu An, just like the Xiliang battalion.

There are many generals under Liu Biao's command, and the combat power of Jingzhou soldiers is not weak.

The four battalions of military soldiers were full, with a total of more than [-] people, and the two battalions of sharp soldiers were also full, but there were also more than [-] people in total, and the two armies combined had a total of [-] people.

A total of [-] people on foot and cavalry.

But of course this is not the entire force participating in the battle of Jizhou this time, but only the force of Xu An's headquarters.

In addition, Xu An also planned to send troops from Hangu Pass, Taihangxing, and Jingxing at the same time, so that he could surround Wei County from east, west, north, and east.

The guards of Hangu Pass are General Zhaode Li Heng and General Zhaowu Wang Ren. They are the heads of the original Lutai three families. They followed Xu An all the way to fight. graduate.

None of the children of the Li family, Wang family, Zhao family, and Lutai family died in the Taihang Mountains, and now they are at least military officers at the level of a village chief or officials of one township and one pavilion. How could it be possible that they have not grown up along the way.

Zhao Le had always served as the Chief History Officer in the army before, and later entered the Department of Internal Affairs to handle affairs. After Xu You was promoted from the Internal Affairs Order to the Zhongshu Fuling, he also took over the position of the Internal Affairs Order logically. Now he is in charge of a The company is no worse than Li Heng and Wang Ren.

There are [-] troops at Hangu Pass, including [-] cavalry.

Xu An has issued a military order to change the defense, and the garrison of Hongnong County will take over the defense of the original Hangu Pass garrison.

There are a total of more than [-] Wei troops in the Luoyang area.

Although it looks like a lot, in fact, if you spread it out, there are not many.

In Taigu Pass, Yique Pass, Mengjin Pass, Xiaopingjin Pass, Yuyuan Pass, and Luoyang City, if more than [-] people were divided into six places on average, there would be no more than [-] people in one place.

Of course, Mengjin Pass and Xiaopingjin Pass are less, and the two passes add up to only a thousand people. After all, the two passes are located in the middle of Hanoi County and Luoyang, and belong to the hinterland.

Border gates such as Taigu Pass, Yique Pass, and Zhiyuan Pass have more guards.

However, Luoyang City does not have many defenders, only more than [-] people, as a mobile force, they can rush to help all parties at any time in times of crisis.

There are more than [-] Wei troops in the Luoyang area, but not long ago, the sudden advance of the Han army put Yecheng in danger.

Yuan Shao still transferred all the troops that could be mobilized to Wei County. Among them, [-] people were recruited from the Luoyang area. All the cavalry troops that were stationed in Luoyang were all transferred away from Luoyang. Hundreds of people are on duty, and there is not much combat power at all.

Although Qi Mei wanted to cover it up, in the eyes of Yinglangwei, all these actions were nothing more than deception.

The situation in the Luoyang area was thoroughly investigated by the Eagle Wolf Guard, so Xu An did not send any more troops to Li Heng.

In the entire Luoyang area, there are not many soldiers who can fight in the field.

The task of the Hangu Pass Army's attack was to occupy Luoyang, then go north to attack Mengjin Pass and Xiaopingjin Pass, and open up the connection between Hanoi County and Luoyang area.

Then we will see if we can collect Taigu Pass, Yique Pass, and Zhiyuan Pass.

The revolving door was too far away from Luoyang, so Xu An didn't think about it first, and it would not be difficult to remove the revolving door later.

Although the terrain of the Revolving Gate Pass is dangerous, it is not as twisty as the Shuyuan Pass.

Dozens of counterweight catapults are supported, and within a few days, the revolving door will fall apart.

Taihangxing, Jingxing two routes army, Xu An handed over the full power to Yu Du.

Both of these places are in the Taihang Military Region, and Yu Du has [-] regular troops under his command.

Moreover, Yu Du, as the military arm of the Taihang Military Region, also has the power to mobilize the garrison in the entire county of Shangdang County and the eastern part of Taiyuan County. This part of the army has about [-] people. The quantity can be calculated in tens of thousands.

This time, Xu An also handed over the logistics tasks of the Battle of Jizhou to Yu Du.

Bingzhou and Jizhou are connected through Taihang Eight Xings, through the Taihang Military Region, and the Taihang Eight Xings currently occupied by the Ming army, Xu An can continuously obtain food and grass from Bingzhou, and the supply pressure is actually not great.

In addition to Taihangxing and Jingxing, Xu An also ordered Yudu to release the two passes of Baixing and Fukouxing to Yuan Shao before the attack.

After Baixing and Fukouxing are under control, Bingzhou and Jizhou can be regarded as completely connected.

Even at that time, Sun Jian had killed Yuan Shao, completely occupied Yecheng and controlled Wei County, but Yecheng was exposed to the Taipingdao soldiers without hindrance.

Although Yu Du and Li Heng did not have many troops, their duties were only as partisans, as wings to cover Xu An's flanks and ensure the safety of the flanks.

If they can't even do a good job in partial division, then Yu Du and Li Heng can retire and return to their hometowns as soon as possible, so as not to waste food in the army.

What really decided the outcome was the main force of the Ming army led by Xu An.

It seems that the soldiers directly under Xu An's command are no more than [-] soldiers, which is far inferior to the strength of either Yuan Shao or Sun Jian, and the cavalry does not have much advantage.

But that's just about numbers.

In fact, among the two courts of the Han and Wei Dynasties, which army can rival the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army?

Even the Yuzhou Army directly under Sun Jian's command is only comparable to the elite soldiers in the Yellow Turban Army. Only elite soldiers such as Danyang soldiers can be comparable to military soldiers.

As for the current Yellow Angels, among the two courts of the Han and Wei Dynasties, I am afraid that only the "Tiger and Leopard Cavalry" can rank in the same rank as the Yellow Angels.

And now the tigers and leopards are riding far away in Qingzhou Plain County and the northern part of Le'an Country, under Qu Yi's men, how could they appear in Wei County in Jizhou?

And now that two weeks have passed, there is a high probability that Sun Jian has already confronted Yuan Shao.

When the snipe and the clam compete, both lose.

It is the time when the fisherman reaps the benefits.

(End of this chapter)