Chapter 1239

"Alas," Gong sun fan sighed after a moment's silence. "I also want to thank the general for sending troops last time. If the general had not sent troops with us, the elder brother would not have been so easy to withdraw from Hebei."

"You don't have to be polite, my Lord. You and I are allies, so we should keep watch and help each other. This time, Huang Xu came at the command of the king to ask the governor, what can we do to help him? "

Although Huang Xu didn't directly point out the reason, Gongsun fan understood that this war had made the state of Yan lose Zhuo county. Now there are only two cities, Zhuo county and Liangxiang. Fortunately, in the past few years, Guangyang, Zhuo county and Yuyang counties had moved a lot of people to youbeiping, Liaoxi and Lulong counties, making Zhuo County almost the same population It has dropped by half, from nearly 500000 at the beginning to more than 300000 now. Today, the total population of Zhuoxian and Liangxiang is less than 100000.

Gongsun Zan, who returned to Jicheng, recruited elite soldiers from different counties to join the guards, and formed 90000 elite soldiers under his direct control. His goal was to control the most elite fighting power of Yan in his own hands. But he did so with one consequence, that is, the soldiers and horses in local counties were almost all weak.

Like Gongsun fan, although he was a national captain of the state of Yan, he could only command the troops in the right Peking. After the transfer, there were only 15000 troops in youbeiping, but they had to defend four cities and a great wall pass. There were only two thousand soldiers in each of the four cities and one pass. In addition to Gongsun fan's five thousand soldiers, there were only one thousand white horses in the cavalry.

It's a great irony that a national captain can only command 15000 soldiers, and all the elite soldiers are selected to go to Jicheng. What worries Gongsun fan even more is that among his 15000 troops, there are not many weapons and equipment above intermediate level, let alone advanced equipment.

Even Gongsun fan is like this, not to mention the western Liaoning Taishou Danjing and Lulong Taishou wangmen. Only Yuyang Taishou Gongsun is slightly better, because Yuyang has more than 400000 people in nine cities, so he has nearly 40000 people in his hands. The reason is that Gongsun Yue is longer than Gongsun fan and shorter than military strategy Sun Zan was more relieved of him.

Even so, compared with Gongsun fan, Gongsun Yue's military strength and equipment were almost the same.

Looking at Gongsun fan's hesitation, Huang Xu said: "the king knows that there are some deficiencies in the weapons, especially the medium and high-level weapons and equipment, so he sent me to ask you what kind of weapons and equipment you need. We can provide some of them first. Of course, these equipment can only be considered as credit to adults, but the money can be paid later. "

Huang Xu said this because Gongsun Zan, while dispatching elite soldiers, also transported all the high-end weapons and equipment and most of the money and grain of each county to Jicheng. Now even Gongsun fan can't buy them from outside.

After hearing Huang Xu's words, Gongsun fan was overjoyed: "that's great. I'm still having a headache about what to do with high-end weapons and equipment. The last time my elder brother went to Hebei, 50000 soldiers were almost killed in the first World War, and almost all the middle and high-end weapons and equipment were left in Hebei. This time, I almost took all the middle and high-end weapons and equipment in my hands to form a close guard army. "

"How much do you need for your majesty?" Huang Xu asked;

"not much. Let's start with 3000 sets." Gongsun fan originally wanted five to six thousand units, but suddenly he thought that he had only fifteen thousand troops in his hand. Now he has about two thousand soldiers, and there is no need to buy so many advanced equipment.

"Is three thousand enough? Not even a school of soldiers could be formed. Well, I'll give you 5000 sets first. As for the types, let's follow the ratio of our Tang army's troops: long spearmen, sword shield soldiers, and bowmen Huang Xu thought about it;

"it's so good!" Gongsun Fanben wanted to refuse. On second thought, the two or three thousand soldiers really didn't have much effect, so he agreed.

When Huang Xuzheng was about to leave, he suddenly found that Gongsun fan wanted to stop talking, so he said, "what's the matter with the governor? Let's make it clear that the governor and the king of my family have known each other for many years. If there are any difficulties, they will help each other."

"Well..." Gongsun fan hesitated for a moment and said his words: "I don't know if the king of Tang can lend a batch of advanced weapons and equipment to other counties first?"

Huang Xu's face was embarrassed, but his heart was full of joy. After a little meditation, he began to say, "the king once told me that if the prefect asked, he would do his best to help. The prefect should also know that the reason why the king is willing to give a batch of weapons and equipment first is that he seems to have known each other for many years. Now the king of Yan seems to be estranged from us. If too much equipment is given to the other prefects, if the king of Yan knows it, it seems that... "

Gongsun fan thought it was true, so he said: "so..."

"However, the king was originally prepared to support 10000 sets of equipment in the prefect. Now that the prefect is not prepared to use so much, why don't we send someone to send the 10000 sets of equipment to the prefect, and then the prefect will transfer them to other counties, so that the king of Yan won't have any other ideas." Gongsun fan's words haven't come out yet, Huang Xu says again;In fact, the reason why Gongsun fan is so eager for advanced equipment is also a matter of public interest. He thinks that although his eldest brother has tens of thousands of guards in his hands, if the rest of the prefects don't have a certain number of elite soldiers in their hands, and if Jicheng has something to do, they simply can't support Jicheng with thousands of ordinary guards.

Just like this, he didn't expect that Gongsun Zan had transferred all the elite to Jicheng. In addition to really enhancing the fighting power of Jicheng soldiers, another reason was that he had a little doubt and fear of Gongsun fan and other Taishou.

Gongsun fan didn't see it, but Guo Jia and Pang Tong, who are known as "born devils", both saw a clue. The reason why Huang Xu appeared in youbeiping was a strategy discussed by Guo Jia and his colleagues. Now all the people in the Tang army have seen that Gongsun Zan can no longer be helped. In this case, they decided to take a drastic cut. This is the beginning of Huang Xu's trip to youpeiping.