Chapter 742: Eldest Son Huangfu Zhao
Although Anyi City had been captured by the Sizhou Army, the subsequent events tied Huangfu Chaobo firmly to Hedong. Throughout June, Huangfu Chaobo and Pang Tong led people to appease and stabilize the situation in Hedong County.
Fortunately, Zhao Yun's three armies all received frequent victories. Within a month, they successively captured the remaining cities in Hedong County. And Yang Feng was not willing to be lonely, and volunteered to ask Huangfu Chaobo to go to Puzi and Hushe in the north to persuade the remaining Baibo bandits to surrender.
At the end of June, Yang Feng finally lived up to his trust and successfully persuaded Guo Da and Li Le, the remaining Baibo army, to surrender. The two led more than 50,000 bandits to Anyi to surrender. Huangfu Chaobo generously appointed the two as school lieutenants. As for the troops, the elite were left behind, and the rest were placed in various places in Hedong.
At this point, Hedong County was finally pacified.
At this time, Huangfu Chaobo had the time and energy to pay attention to the situation of the princes of the world.
That is, in mid-May this year, Youzhou Mu Liu Yu sent troops to attack Gongsun Zan. In June, the two armies fought near Wuzhong, Youbeiping. As a result, Liu Youzhou's 100,000 troops were defeated by Gongsun Zan's 20,000 white horse volunteers, and were killed by the white horse volunteers. Liu Yu's army returned in defeat.
Liu Yu led tens of thousands of remnants to flee in a panic, and even lost Yuyang and Guangyang counties. He retreated directly to Juyongguan and was trapped in Shanggu County. Even Zhuo County in the south was lost to Gongsun Zan.
For a time, the world was shocked. Gongsun Zan, like Yuan Shao, was inferior to the superior. Although he gained the five counties of Youzhou at once, he was full of infamy.
When the two families fought, Liu Huangshu was sitting in Dai County, not knowing who to help. As a result, it became a dilemma.
Almost at the same time, stimulated by the night-blooming jasmine, the domineering royal family, who had been preparing for several months, ordered Taishi Ci to send troops from Zhanchan and Suicheng. This time he was not prepared to fight a small battle, because with the support of the Yellow Turban Army's 100,000 population, he had already exploded nearly 20,000 troops, including 5,000 cavalrymen who bought war horses from Huangfu Chaobo.
With the support of these 20,000 troops, this time he directly attacked the Korean City of Lelang County. After spending nearly half a month, he occupied the largest city in Lelang County in one fell swoop. Just like this, he finally attracted the counterattack of Liaodong Governor Gongsun Du.
In early June, Gongsun Du, with his eldest son Gongsun Kang as the general, led 30,000 troops into Lelang County and approached Suicheng, the domineering royal family. The two armies were once again caught in the war.
There were also many places in the Han Dynasty that rekindled the flames. As time approached the middle of the year, the drought situation in various places became more and more serious. The princes and lord players from all walks of life have realized that this year's grain production reduction has become a foregone conclusion, so the grain prices everywhere have risen all the way again.
Fortunately, Sizhou has purchased a large amount of grain through various channels in the first half of the year. At least if there is no war this year, there will be basically no problem with grain, and there will be a slight surplus.
The rest of the people are different, and the same is true for Duoqingjian of Wudang in Jingzhou. Although Duoqingjian got a county town and upgraded a large town to a city level by taking advantage of Huangfu Chaobo's Nanyang war, the demand for money and grain is increasing sharply as the territory expands.
Jingxiang is originally a grain-producing area, but whether it is Wudang County or the later upgraded Wudu City, there are more mountains and forests than fields, so Duoqingjian is also worried about the problem of grain.
At this time, Wuqingjian, who was responsible for gathering intelligence in the territory, hurried to the county government and reported a message to Duoqingjian that Zhang Lujun in Shangyong, Hanzhong seemed to have unusual movements. Not only Zhang Lujun, but also the Hanzhong barbarians in Shangyong seemed to be preparing something.
After receiving this news, Duoqingjian's adviser Yi Ji quickly came up with a strategy. He asked Xiangyang for help with the matter of Shangyong, and by the way, he asked Liu Biao for the military order to send troops to Hanzhong.
As Yi Ji expected, after receiving the news of the unusual movement in Shangyong, Liu Biao immediately sent someone to confirm it. After confirmation, he sent someone to send Duoqingjian 100,000 stones of food and a military order to stop Zhang Lu's army from advancing eastward. At the same time, Liu Biao also said that
If possible, Duoqingjian could consider counterattacking at the right time, but there was one thing, Xiangyang did not have any troops to support it.
Duoqingjian, who got this Shangfang sword, was ecstatic. He finally had a reason to send troops to Hanzhong. You know, going west to Hanzhong was the strategy that Yi Ji set for him at the beginning. Even if he could not control the Hanzhong Basin, even if he owned Fangling, Shangyong and Xicheng, he could make Duoqingjian one of the princes.
In June, just as Huangfu Chaobo's army was marching into Hedong again, Cao Cao's army suddenly launched an attack on Chenliu prefect Zhang Miao, intending to recapture the two cities of Yan County and Baima that were captured by Zhang Miao last year. Zhang Miao, who received the news, immediately asked for help from Luoyang. After discussing with Xu Shu and Huang Zhong, who stayed in Luoyang, they decided to send Guo Daxian's combat battalion to support first. Huang Zhong then led the 20,000 troops of the Huben Battalion to support by land and water.
Unfortunately, when the army arrived, the two cities had been captured by Cao Cao's army one after another, and Zhang Miao's army could not even hold out for two days. In desperation, Huang Zhong had to lead the army back to Sizhou.
In early July 194, Huangfu Chaobo pacified Hedong County and the army returned to Luoyang in the south. As for the arrangement of officials and troops in Hedong, Huangfu Chaobo had to discuss carefully with everyone in Luoyang before he could make a decision. Now Hedong is basically under military control.
On July 26, Mi Huan gave birth to a son for Huangfu Chaobo, who was Huangfu Chaobo's eldest son. After Huangfu Song, Zhu Jun and Lu Zhi, three old men, discussed it and named him Huangfu Zhao.
According to several old men, this is taken from <<Chu Ci. Big Move>>: "Youth is thanked, the sun is bright." It means that spring is coming and everything is revived. Although it is the end of summer, it is entrusted to several old men, hoping that the chaos in the world will end soon and the spring of the world will return soon. Moreover, the word Zhao originally has the meanings of being clear, obvious, bright and beautiful.
After listening to the explanations of Huangfu Song and several old men, Huangfu Chaobo was stunned. There are so many meanings in one word. It seems that the name of his son (referring to the son that Jia Jing has given birth to in reality) really needs to be carefully considered. You know, his son has been born for almost two months, and Huangfu Chaobo has always called him by the nickname "Maomao".
Sizhou finally got everything under control, and with the birth of Huangfu Chaobo's eldest son, the civil and military officials, soldiers and people in the territory under his rule were very happy. It was indeed a double happiness for Sizhou.
On the tenth day of August, Han Xue gave birth to another daughter for Huangfu Chaobo, who named her Huangfu Jue.