In Xiapi City, Xuzhou, Tao Qian, the governor, received an order from the Han court. The Han court, supported by Yuan Shao, requested all troops to go to King Qin of Luoyang to prevent Dong Zhuo from entering the capital.

Tao Qian, the governor of Xuzhou, was one of the most powerful princes. Xuzhou suffered relatively small losses in the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and Tao Qian's strength did not suffer much. However, not long ago, 50,000 Xuzhou elite soldiers led by Cao Bao and Mi Fang attacked Beihai Kingdom.

He was ambushed and defeated by Dorgon, and only brought back more than 10,000 people, which made Tao Qian worried.

He invited Wang Lang, who was in charge of governing the country, along with Zhao Yu, general Cao Bao and others to discuss how to deal with the dispute between Dong Zhuo and Yuan Shao and the threat from Chutian of Langya Kingdom.

Langya Kingdom is located in the north of Xuzhou. After the threat of the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou was lifted, Chutian, who guarded the northern gate of Xuzhou, became Tao Qian's biggest concern again.

"Prime Minister Langya plundered 800,000 Yellow Turban thieves from Qingzhou and placed them in Kaiyang and Juxian areas. If he is allowed to continue, he may take 800,000 Yellow Turbans southward in the future and covet the entire Xuzhou. Your Excellency, you must be on guard."

Cao Bao told Tao Qian in detail about the suppression of the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou, especially the close relationship between Mi Fang and Chu Tian, ​​which made Tao Qian frown.

"Now that there is a great chaos in the world, and the generals under the command of Prime Minister Langya are so brave that even the Yellow Turban Army sweeping across Qingzhou was defeated by him, how should I guard against him?"

Tao Qian thought that his generals were only used by Mi Fang and Cao Bao. Compared with Chutian's generals, they were not at the same level.

Chutian could plunder 800,000 Yellow Turbans with less than 50,000 men, but Mi Fang and Cao Bao were defeated by Dorgon with 50,000 men. No matter how mediocre Tao Qian was, he was aware of the gap.

There is also the ambiguous Mi family.

Cao Bao saw the worried look on Tao Qian's eyebrows, and probably knew that Tao Qian was wary of Chu Tian, ​​so he said, "When I return from Beihai Kingdom, I will be thinking of ways to curb the development momentum of Langya Kingdom. Our Cao family has many guests.

One of the strangers believes that Chu Tian, ​​the prime minister of Langya Kingdom, will definitely lead an elite army to attack Dong Zhuo. As long as your Excellency does not join the Kwantung Allied Forces, concentrate your elite forces, and the last general leads the troops to attack Langya Kingdom, you can take advantage of the opportunity and enter.

Go straight to Xia City."

Tao Qian listened to Cao Bao's opinion and found out that it was an unethical conspiracy, so he couldn't help but hesitate.

Chu Tian led his elite troops to attack Dong Zhuo and save the Han Dynasty from fire and water. It would not be too unkind to take advantage of this opportunity to make a surprise attack on Langya Kingdom from Xiapi Kingdom and Donghai Kingdom.

The official Wang Lang said: "My lord, it is absolutely forbidden. The various governors and governors should work together to support the Han Dynasty. The Prime Minister of Langya is your subordinate, how can he fight among himself for the sake of his own interests?"

Don't drive Zhao Yu to shake his head in the same way.

Tao Qian dismissed his two men and left Cao Bao alone: ​​"Wang Lang, Zhao Yu is a famous scholar, but he is not familiar with the art of war, so it is useless to discuss with him. Please submit in detail the plan for the surprise attack on Langya Kingdom."

Cao Bao said: "Your Majesty, you can gradually add troops and horses to Tan County, so that the number of troops in Tan County will be 50,000. If there is heavy snowfall, the general will lead 50,000 troops out of Tan County and march 200 miles. We can reach Xia within three days."

Below the city, we can break the city in five days!"

Tao Qian had no confidence in Cao Bao: "How can you alone be the opponent of everyone in Langya Kingdom? Mi Fang has a close relationship with Chu Tian and cannot be re-employed."

"Your Excellency, you can secretly contact the lords of Donghai Kingdom, Pengcheng Kingdom, and Xiapi Kingdom to carve up Langya Kingdom together. I will eventually think that they will definitely participate in the action."

"Let me think about it..."

Tao Qian closed his eyes to rest, while Chu Tian secretly contacted the aristocratic families in Xuzhou, which seriously affected his status in Xuzhou.

Chu Tian was considering candidates to attack Dong Zhuo and candidates to stay in Langya Kingdom.

There were hundreds of counties in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Chutian controlled a county and was qualified to be called a prince. After his family became great, he could not leave only a small number of people to look after the family as before.

This time during the crusade against Dong Zhuo, the system will no longer provide protection to the lord's territory.

There are three defense areas in the Langya Kingdom: Kaiyang County in the south, Ju County in the middle, and counties in the north. In other words, Chutian must leave at least three defenders.

Xihai County, located on the Yellow Sea, is remote and difficult to control, so it also needs a garrison.

"Xu Sheng and Liu Sandao are in charge of the defense of Xiacheng, Langya City, Liangshan Town and other southern areas. Xueyue, Sun Kang and Wu Dun are in charge of the defense of Ju County, Xueyue City, Yangdu County and other central areas. Zang Ba, Sun Guan

Coordinate the defense of the counties, Dongwu County and other northern areas. Yin Li guards Xihai County."

After Chutian has the characteristic "Great Master", the Taishan bandits will be more loyal to Chutian, and Chutian can safely use the Taishan bandits as his generals.

The most important Xia City was left to Xu Sheng for defense.

Although the military generals used by Chutian to defend the city were second-line generals from the Langya Kingdom, as long as they held on, they were enough to block the offensive of the first-rate generals.

The threat in the south comes from Tao Qian of Xiapi and Tan County.

Chutian was not very afraid of Tao Qian. Tao Qian lacked famous generals and was actually a powerful prince. He gave Xu Sheng more than 10,000 men, enough to defend the southern part of Langya Kingdom.

The threat in the north comes from Zhao Gongzi and Kong Rong from Beihai Kingdom. They have two powerful generals, Taishi Ci and Xue Wanche. In the eyes of Chu Tian, ​​they are a greater threat than Tao Qian.

However, Prince Zhao's main force is besieging Dorgon, Guan Hai, and Wu Sangui. It is estimated that he will not even be able to participate in the crusade against Dong Zhuo, otherwise once Dorgon counterattacks, Beihai Kingdom will fall again.

From this point of view, Mr. Zhao is not a big threat.

Another threat is the great lords in Taishan County, Donghai County, Xiapi Kingdom, and Pengcheng Kingdom.

"Only bring 20,000 people to attack Dong Zhuo, and another 30,000 people to defend the city. At the same time, we will recruit 10,000 Qingzhou troops. When the crusade against Dong Zhuo is over, we will disband the Qingzhou army. The financial burden will not be too great."

Chu Tian was cautious and still saved a hand, temporarily selecting elites from the 800,000 Yellow Turban refugees and recruiting 10,000 Qingzhou troops to help defend the city.

"My lord, four hundred light cavalry horses from Youzhou have arrived. A total of 29,121 taels of silver have been spent."

"knew."

Chutian purchased excellent war horses to supplement the losses of high-level cavalry, and at the same time expanded the scale of high-level cavalry.

The suppression of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army resulted in dozens of high-ranking cavalry casualties.

If the high-level cavalry is killed in battle but the war horses are still alive, then you need to re-select suitable sources of troops and spend two months recruiting a new Iron Eagle Scout or Tang Dynasty Archer Cavalry.

If the war horse dies in battle and the high-level cavalry survives, then you only need to replace it with a new war horse, and the level will not be affected in any way.

It’s hard to say whether war horses or cavalry are more important...

When the cavalry is gone, you can still recruit it, but the ones you recruit are new soldiers, not the original veterans of many battles.

Chu Tian expanded the high-level cavalry of Hua Mulan, Xue Rengui, and Li Guang to 300 cavalry each to perform special tasks, such as making detours, attacking the opponent's flanks, cutting off the opponent's food routes, and damaging the opponent's morale.

"There are also 150 heavy cavalry horses from Liangzhou to form a heavy cavalry squad. Together with the existing heavy cavalry, you will have a heavy cavalry squad of 300 people. The armor and horse armor of the heavy cavalry are being uploaded.

Produced in Bi Town. The armor used by heavy cavalry includes armor skirts, armor sleeves, etc. They still use pierced armor, but the price is several times that of ordinary light cavalry and infantry's two-ton armor. The weapons are horse-shaped, and the current stock of horse-shaped armor is 210.

There are still 190 horses in production, and it is expected that they will all be put into storage before December. 300 of them will be equipped with heavy cavalry squads, and 100 will remain in the warehouse as supplies or to expand the heavy cavalry in the future.

scale used."

"So far, 5,000 silver-level ordinary Tang knives have been produced, with priority given to equipping light cavalry, followed by Xiliu Camp, and then ordinary soldiers."

"The grade of the mulberry composite bow is gold grade. It requires additional materials and is expensive to build. It is only equipped with the Shengsheng Camp. Xuzhou archers and Qingzhou archers are equipped with silver-grade ordinary compound bows, and city defense archers are equipped with bronze-grade single wooden bows.

…”.

Each piece of equipment costs at least a thousand taels of silver.

War horses, horseshoes, Tang knives, mulberry composite bows, heavy cavalry armor... and stirrups, reins, shields, military boots, spears, ring-headed knives, arrows, cotton-padded clothes, quilts, tents, iron pots...

Xia Liang reported to Chu Tian the preparation status of hundreds of strategic materials.

Chu Tian was already familiar with all kinds of supplies, so it sounded effortless. The only thing he felt distressed about was the wasted money.

More than half of the Langya Kingdom's fiscal revenue is used to expand the army and reorganize its armaments. These are troubled times, and everything is prioritized to supply the army and ensure sufficient martial virtue. Farming and doing business are just to obtain money and food for the army.

After the world is at peace, military spending will gradually decrease.

"Has Zhao Yun shown any intention of being loyal to me recently?"

"Sorry, I don't see such a tendency."

"This time I plan to use favors and ask Zhao Yun to go to Hulao Pass with me. Only by letting him return to the battlefield will I have the idea of ​​​​returning to the mountain."

Chu Tian knew that Zhao Yun would not be lonely.

A strong general at the level of the Five Tiger Generals would not believe it even if he wanted to disband his armor and return to the field, even if he killed Chu Tian. Zhao Yun had served the Shu Han until he was old and worked hard without complaint. Like Xue Rengui, he was a general who could be used for decades.

"Aren't you afraid that Zhao Yun will leave after repaying his favor? Or maybe he met Liu Bei because he got along with Liu Bei, and was kidnapped by Liu Bei? At first, Zhao Yun served under Gongsun Zan, but later he defected to Liu Bei."

"That's because Gongsun Zan was destroyed by Yuan Shao, and Zhao Yun had friendship with Liu Bei. But until now, Zhao Yun and Liu Bei have no intersection at all. If Zhao Yun leaves with Liu Bei as soon as they meet, then I have nothing to say... and I

There is also Xue Rengui here."

"Do you think Xue Rengui can keep Zhao Yun?"

"Don't underestimate the life-and-death relationship between generals. A soldier will die for his confidant, not just for words. Although most people put interests first, there will still be some who value loyalty. I ordered Xue Rengui to invite Zhao Yun to participate in the battle against Dong Zhuo.

"

In order to conquer Zhao Yun, Chu Tian decided to take an adventure and used his kindness to Zhao Yun to invite him to come out and participate in the battle of Hulao Pass.

Xue Rengui was called over by Chu Tian. Chu Tian's order was very simple. He gave Xue Rengui 5 taels of silver and ordered him to get Zhao Yun drunk and make Zhao Yun agree to follow Chu Tian to join the Kwantung Allied Forces.

Xue Rengui wanted to join forces with Zhao Yun to command the cavalry to fight the enemy, so he agreed.

So Xue Rengui came to Zhao Yun with several bottles of wine...

"Why are the soldiers and horses in the city mobilized so frequently?"

The female military general who finally bought an ordinary house in Xia City, where land prices remained high, saw soldiers and horses coming and going from time to time in the city, and asked someone to inquire about it.

"Polu General Dong Zhuo and Sili Colonel Yuan Shao were fighting in the Hangu Pass area. Sili Colonel called on all the soldiers and horses to enter Luoyang King Qin. Our lords are expected to send troops soon."

"Prime Minister Langya plans to go to Luoyang?"

"Most likely. Our Langya State Prime Minister is a man of integrity. He subdued the Taishan bandits, suppressed the Yellow Turban bandits, killed Zhang Kai, the commander of the Yellow Turban army, and Zhang Liang, the leader of the Yellow Turban bandits. He sacrificed his head and shed blood for the imperial court. Now that the emperor is in trouble, how can he not

go!"

"The Prime Minister of Langya is truly a strange man."

The female general heard only positive comments about Chu Tian in Xiacheng, and she couldn't help but be secretly surprised.
To be continued...