It is not that easy to send troops.
It is because Wuling County is close to barbarians, and in the deep mountains and valleys all over the world, the Jingman seeds are as dense as ants gather. If three or five days ago, Huang Gai completely ignored it. But now, there are already a large number of Jingmans in chaos. Who knows if they will be in a mess and cooperate with the inside and outside?
When Huang Gai first arrived in Wuling last spring, he could only rely on 500 sects to ramp up everywhere and frequently defeat the rebellion, but now it is not possible. The more effective the management, the larger the controllable territory, and the more jars and jars there can be broken. Although the troops have expanded a lot, they are still short of them.
Now that I was thinking about sending troops, I thought I would have more places to be prepared for. Linyuan is the county seat, so there should be more mistakes; Simacuo City is the barrier of Linyuan, so there should be no mistakes; Hanshou is the big city second only to Linyuan, and once governed by Jingzhou Prefecture, so there should be no mistakes; several cities upstream and downstream of the Yuan River cannot be lost, if there is any mistake, the entire Wuling will be isolated; go west and there are camps in Hutou Mountain that need to be carefully defended, which is the path for Ma Yuan to conquer the barbarians, and it is known as the throat, so the garrison must be left to defend carefully.
As a result, I was busy for several hours and finally confirmed that I could mobilize that night and set off to the north to resist the Jing barbarians tomorrow, a total of 2,000 troops, including Huang Gai's own troops, county soldiers and private soldiers who depended on the clan.
It is because the Jingman came too suddenly. If the war is delayed, Zhucheng in the rear will draw strong men to fill the army and organize more troops; but the first batch is only these.
Originally, he could have joined more than a thousand Jingman soldiers, but Huang Gai was worried about them and finally used the Han army to face the enemy.
The next morning, the troops set out and marched for more than 30 miles along the road that ran through the north and south.
In order to prevent the sneak attack by Jingman, Huang Gai divided more than 50 cavalrymen under his command into two teams, each team divided into eight groups, and took turns to strike out, and the farthest sentry was fifty miles away. Every half an hour, a group of reports came back, and it was said that there was no trace of the enemy and the cavalrymen were not damaged.
This made Huang Gai a little confused.
In Huang Gai's opinion, the choices that the Jingman rebels can make are nothing more than three strategies: top, middle and lower.
The best strategy is to go south as soon as possible after conquering Cenping, and at the same time contact the Wuling Barbarians to create a prairie fire. This is the most troublesome situation for Huang Gai. At that time, fires will start from all directions and it will be difficult for his family to deal with it. Even if he deals with it, it will be difficult for Wu Hou to explain in the future.
Zhongce was to set up an ambush on the way to the north, trying to reuse their old tricks against Zhou Youping with Zhou Tai's troops to encounter the Jingman. Unless they were ambushed, they would never be defeated. Huang Gai firmly believed in this. Compared with the best strategy, this would be much easier to deal with. Just carefully investigate along the way and don't be plotted against. In the end, it would be nothing more than a battle to defeat it.
The worst strategy is to defend Cenping. This is to seek death. Unless the leader of Jing Man is a fool, otherwise this should not be done. Huang Gai himself wished they would gather in Cenping, the more numerous they would be better. At that time, the more they would be cut off, and if they were killed, the world would be peaceful.
However, when his own army came all the way, he neither found any signs of the surrounding barbarian tribes nor any ambush. Could it be that the barbarians were really stupid? They were preparing to fight to occupy the city?
That night, the army stayed in the camp of the garrison. The guards of this camp reported the movements of Jing Man to Huang Gai. Huang Gai ordered him to call the people who escaped from Cenping for a detailed questioning, and then summoned the generals to discuss the situation in the camp.
All the generals had their own opinions, and some believed that they should be carried out in an expedited manner, and the rebellion should be eliminated as soon as possible to avenge Zhou Youping; another group of people advocated that since the rebels can defeat Zhou Tai's troops, they may have a very small force, or have any special reliance, so they must not be impatient, be sure to stabilize their position and move slowly.
Both sides made sense. Huang Gai thought about it and took a compromise solution. The next day, the marching speed was slightly accelerated, but he also put more than 20 of his personal guard cavalry team into the scout queue, expanding the scope of the sentry detectives.
But after this day, no discovery was found. The marching days passed by were all remote places, and no civil servant could come to investigate.
Calculate the schedule and you will be able to arrive in Cenping in the morning tomorrow afternoon and in the morning the next day.
Even if the leader of Jingman is really a fool, he should send guards to Wuling. How could he not make any preparations like now? Is it because he has no response or has he already responded, and I haven't noticed it?
There must be something strange about this!
Huang Gai was restless.
It was really because Zhou Youping was defeated and died, which was too unexpected. This was a famous hero from Jiangzu. He once defeated Liu Xun in Wancheng and attacked Huang Zu of Jiangxia. He made great achievements. He was a reputation accumulated by human heads, but he died inexplicably at the hands of barbarians. The fierce battles of this army were like a dangerous situation of licking blood on the head of a knife, and no one knew what would happen tomorrow.
Seeing that the sky was getting darker outside the tent, Huang Gai raised his hand to call on the guardian officer: "Let the battalions be careful and guard against night attacks. Who dares to neglect and slack off? I want his head."
Just as he was talking about this, a personal guard came in outside the hall: "Report to the general, the scout returned to the camp. In addition, a Jingzhou envoy came with our scout."
"Envoy from Jingzhou?" Huang Gai stood up and asked suddenly.
"yes."
"Come and see me quickly, let him wait at the gate, I'll arrive later!"
Huang Gai turned around and sat down, thinking in his heart.
I am not a subordinate of Liu Bei, so I don’t have to be too attentive to the envoy of Jingzhou and let him wait at the gate. However, what is the subordinate of Xuande Duke who ran to Wuling to do? Could it be that he came to inform the news of Jingman’s rebels going south? Oh, Jingman has come, Zhou Youping has been dead in battle, so what else should the people of Jingzhou inform? Or, they are planning to propose to Wuling County to attack Jingman? This is possible. After all, they have the reputation of subduing Jingman. If Xuande Duke does not want Jingman to have trouble in Nanjun for a long time, he should indeed instigate the two families to eliminate future troubles.
As for the other Huang Gai, he thought about it carefully. If there were any military and political affairs on Duke Xuande, if there were any major military and political affairs, he would either send envoys to Nanjun or Jiangdong, and it would have nothing to do with me, the prefect of Wuling. Apart from this, I don’t know if the news of Zhou Youping’s death in battle had been discovered by them. This was a rare defeat and had lost the prestige of Dongwu. After a while, his words could not be taken advantage of by the people of Jingzhou.
After a while, Huang Gai stopped in full and stepped out.
Not long after leaving, I saw the Jingzhou envoy standing beside the gate.
His own troops had already lined up ceremonial guards on both sides of the gate. Hundreds of warriors with exquisite armor and equipment were arranged solemnly, showing the majesty of the General of Wufeng and the Prefect of Wuling. In comparison, the envoy was too inconspicuous.
This man is extremely young, only fifteen or sixteen years old, and is just a half-dozen child. He is not short, only about an inch lower than himself, but he is very thin. Although he is dressed as a warrior, he has a little bit of scholarly aura in his appearance.
"I am Huang Gongfu." Huang Gai stepped out of the gate and said in a deep voice: "Who are you? What's the matter here?"
Chapter completed!