Chapter 1237

Xihe County of Bingzhou governs nine counties and ten cities, with 12698 households and 78038 households. There are nine counties, namely Zhongyang, Pingzhou, Linxian and gaolang, located in the east of the river, and Yuanyang, Huanyin, Pingding, Guangyan and Meiji, located in the west of the river.

Chen Gong has long known about these situations. However, Lu Bu's attention has always been on the plains of Bingzhou. He doesn't pay much attention to the poor places like Lishi. Another reason is that the population of Xihe county has not been large before, and the total population is only 20000 or 30000, less than that of an ordinary county in Taiyuan county.

Only through these years, driven by different people, has the population increased to nearly 80000. The remaining 50000 people are located in the five cities in Hedong, while the other 30000 people are distributed in the cities in Hexi.

Without thinking, Lu Bu ordered: "well, Li Feng will listen to the order!"

"The end will be here!"

"Gu Lingru led 20000 soldiers to fight Xihe. Within two months, he captured all the five cities located in Hedong of Xihe county. Later, he left 5000 soldiers to defend the five cities and moved all the captured people back to Taiyuan for resettlement."

"I'll take orders!" Li Feng is very happy. Although it's only a few small cities with 50000 or 60000 people, there are still some small cities in it.

"King!" Chen Gong then said, "I have one more thing to ask the king!"

"Please speak, Prime Minister!"

"Apart from the cities of Xihe, there are numerous mountains in our country. There are many mountain strongholds in these places. I ask the king to order all the counties to wipe out the mountain strongholds and make arrangements for the resettlement of the basic population. In this way, the population will increase a lot."

"Sure!"

"One more thing..." With that, Chen Gong looked at the eunuchs, bodyguards and maids around him and stopped talking.

Seeing this, Lv Bu waved back all the people around him, and then said, "what else can I do for you, Prime Minister

"Weichen heard that Gongsun Zan, the king of Yan, went to Wei again last month and was defeated. If it wasn't for the Minister of Yan and Guowei to unite several prefectures, and invited the cavalry of Yanbei county and Liaodong, the allies of Huangfu Chaobo, to come to Jicheng. Maybe Gongsun Zan would be able to withdraw smoothly. However, because Guan Jing and Gongsun fan's transgression made Gongsun Zan unhappy, and Gongsun Zan's three courtier brothers' instigation, now the contradiction between Yan County and city is getting deeper and deeper. Then Gongsun Zan ordered to dispatch elite soldiers from each county to Jicheng to remove all the elite soldiers from each county... "

Later, Chen Gong introduced the current situation of Yan state to the public in detail, and they were all stunned. When Chen Gong finished, Zhang Yang, who had the quickest reaction, said: "the meaning of the prime minister is to ask the king to prepare to send troops to the valley and bring it under his control?"

Chen Gong said with a smile: "more than that..."

With that, Chen Gong explained his strategy to several people carefully.

After Chen Gong explained his strategy in detail, everyone could not help clapping. However, Qin Yi said another thing: "king, prime minister, in fact, I always have a doubt in my heart, why the prime minister has never mentioned to fight against the black mountain army, if we can bring the black mountain army under control, isn't it better?"

Hearing Qin Yi's question, Lu Bu and Wei Xu also looked at Chen Gong and waited for Chen Gong's answer.

Chen Gong said, "I don't know that there is a large population in Heishan, but there are several problems. I don't know whether Qin Zhongcheng has considered them."

"Please give me advice!" Qin Yi bowed his hand to Chen palace;

"first, the army of Heishan was in Taihang Mountain, and its conditions were more dangerous than those of Shangdang county and Xihe county. Second, the fighting power of the black mountain army is not weak. Otherwise, the strong state of Wei would not be able to help them. Another point is that if we try our best to defeat the Heishan army and bring all its population into the state of Zhao, but the cities and passes they belong to are nominally within the state of Wei. If the king of Wei asks us for these cities, will he give them or not? "

"Definitely not." Qin Yi does not pretend to think about the cableway;

"if we do not give it, we will certainly offend the king of Wei. At the time of the war, we will face the enemy on all sides, and the day of our fall will not be far away. If it's true, will the king and generals like it? "

All the people were dumb.

People simply stopped discussing this issue and began to discuss the general plan put forward by Chen Gong. Although the general plan has been made, there are still many details to be improved.

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In Jiuyuan City, Wuyuan County, Zhao Zilong is talking with Xiake and Lao Du. From the time he got Lv Bu's army to retreat, everyone here was very nervous and did not dare to relax. Now, Lu Bu lost a handful of rice instead of stealing chicken, but he didn't get into Wuyuan. As a result, even Shangdang was attacked by Huangfu Chaobo, which made everyone very happy.

So, there was Zhao Zilong's idea of gathering people together. Today, among Lv Bu's troops, Bingzhou Langqi has returned to Taiyuan, and only 10000 of Zhang Liao's 50000 soldiers have been stationed in Xianyang. The rest of the soldiers have all returned to the cloud. In terms of cavalry, only 5000 of Cao Xing's 20000 ordinary cavalry have been left in the cloud, and the rest have returned to Yanmen. It can be said that Lv Bu's troops in the east of Wuyuan are not many for the time being Threats.However, even so, several of them didn't take it lightly. The 50000 Zhao troops under Zhang Liao's command lost nearly 10000 people in Fuyang City, but the Allied forces of several of them also lost 4000 or 5000 people. It can be said that the loss is not small. You should know that the total population of these two counties is only 3560000, but they recruit 50000 or 60000 soldiers, which is more than the normal ratio of 10 to 1. How can we not make a few people heartache when we lose 5000 after such a war.

"Everyone, shake your family background. Although Lv Bu had to withdraw because of Chaobo boss's sudden dispatch to the party, Lv Bu has suffered losses twice in Fuyang City and will not give up." After several people said something unimportant, Zhao Zilong said;

"let's talk about my own first. I have about 150000 soldiers in five cities. Originally, there were 25000 soldiers, including 17000 guards, 5000 soldiers and 3000 cavalry. The soldiers and horses lost this time were more than 1200 guards and nearly 800 soldiers, almost 2000 people. "

The knight heard the words: "I have lost almost the same troops, but my guards are a little less, only 15000, 5000 soldiers and 5000 cavalry. This time, the loss is also like 2000 people."

Lao Du and Xiao Jie looked at each other and said, "our losses are about 1200."

"It seems that we have lost more than 5000 soldiers and horses this time. You know, we all have less than 60000 soldiers and horses. If we go on like this and fight another two or three battles, we won't be able to defend." Zhao Zilong held his head in his hands and scratched the road;

he scratched the road