Northern Dynasties

Chapter 400
In what seemed to be an unremarkable and not very wide valley among the mountains, Liu Aqi led his team to gallop into it for inspection. Sure enough, they found traces of Hu people living in the valley, and after a search and persuasion, Lu One after another, Hu Zhong came out of the valley and stood on the flat ground outside the valley waiting for reorganization.

"General Han really sees everything carefully, why did he find out that there are people from the Hu tribe hiding here?"

Li Tai saw the Jihu men and women coming out of the valley, and couldn't help but looked at Han Guo and asked in surprise.

With the arrival of reinforcements and no worries about the future, Li Tai's first plan was to muddy the water first, so that the left-behind members of the Eastern Wei Dynasty could not accurately control the exact forces and specific goals of their party.

To achieve this, it is obviously not enough to rely on his troops, and if tens of thousands of horses really come out to sway in the territory of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, it is not to confuse the opponent, but to dance on the grave.

The Lishi Hu people who are scattered in this area are a very good choice. Since the army invaded and suppressed the year before last, the Zhu Hu tribe suffered heavy losses. Except for the Zuo Xianwang tribe who fled, the rest of them are hiding in Tibet and living. of darkness.

If we can gather and recruit all these Lishi barbarians, it will definitely be a considerable force, not to mention how much destructive power it can unleash, at least it can cover up the forces and goals of Li Tai's men and horses in it , making it impossible for Jinyang left-behinds to make accurate judgments.

When they started this plan, Han Guo, a veteran of Wuchuan, gave Li Tai another big surprise.

The terrain here is complex and changeable, and the remaining Jihu tribes are hiding in Tibet and living in no fixed place, so they can survive under the encirclement and suppression of the Eastern Wei army. Li Tai wants to search out these people, but there is no certainty The target, can only conduct a blanket search, the efficiency is inevitably low.

However, Han Guo volunteered to join the team to carry out this mission. He could find the area where Hu Zhong was hiding only by observing from a distance from the heights. Liu Aqi, the former confidant of Zuo Xianwang, came forward to persuade and persuade, which greatly increased the efficiency.

Seeing that two to three thousand members of the Jihu tribe had been interviewed and recruited in just over a day, Li Tai was in a good mood and couldn't help being very curious about what signs Han Guo used to judge.

It should be noted that he was still thinking about whether to bring the big eagles domesticated by the Diaoyin Liu family to use as scouts, but now it seems that those big eagles that can soar in the sky and look down are not as efficient as Han Guo.

After Han Guo heard the words, he smiled reservedly, and immediately said: "Sometimes it is indeed discovered by some slight signs, but sometimes there are no traces to follow, but there is a feeling in my heart. It is not intentional to hide it from Kaifu. I just can't tell myself."

After Li Tai heard the words, he couldn't help sighing secretly. He didn't think that Han Guo had any secrets that he didn't want to disclose. Some talents were so unreasonable, incomprehensible but real.

Now he understands why Yu Wentai chose Han Guo to be his partner. This super memory combined with his penetrating investigative skills is simply a human flesh map and human flesh radar, which is really suitable for this kind of enemy's rear environment. something happened!

"Then entrust the matter here to General Han first. If there is any latest situation, let the staff quickly report it."

Seeing that Han Guo is so qualified for this task, it doesn't make much sense for Li Tai to continue with him, so he entrusts Han Guo with full responsibility for this matter, and he goes straight to the next goal.

Since the Southern Huns migrated inland at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Lishi area has become one of the areas where these Hu tribes settled.Han Zhao Liuyuan, who started the era of the Five Chaos and China, proclaimed himself emperor here, marking the beginning of hundreds of years of chaos.

Liu Yuan's base camp is the Lishi area. The Southern Huns under his tribe have undergone changes over the years and merged with the Zahu tribes to form the current Jihu tribes. Therefore, many Jihu people still regard Liu Yuan as a As one of the spiritual totems of their tribe.

Li Tai's next target to attack is Zuoguo City, the capital city established by Liu Yuan at the beginning of the uprising.

Zuoguo City is located in the north-central part of the Lishi area, on the banks of the Lishi River.Lishishui is the Sanchuan River of later generations. The Sanchuan River runs through the entire Luliang Mountains. It is the most important river in the Luliang Mountains. It is so called because it has three main tributaries. To the north, it flows through the Luliang Mountains, linking this area with the Xiurong area.

The first reason why Li Tai chose Zuoguo City as his next goal was naturally because of Han Zhao Liuyuan. This city has extraordinary significance among the Jihu group. will greatly increase.

The second reason is to use Zuoguo City to control the Lishi water valley, so that the Eastern Wei army cannot enter the Lishi area from the north road. Only in this way can we grasp a greater initiative and start tossing with confidence.

Zuoguo City is not very far from the Lingshui River Basin. Even if there is a part of the journey that needs to be detoured south, the whole journey is only more than 150 miles.

On the way, you can see many Wubi and villages distributed between Gulingpiyuan, and there are many farmers who are busy harvesting crops in the fields. Seeing Li Tai's men and horses passing by, they are panicked and fled in a hurry. Back in Wubi, he didn't dare to take the initiative to offend, so Li Tai enjoyed the feeling of running wild in the countryside.

When the people and horses entered the Lishishui River Valley, the rolling mountains on both sides compressed the field of vision between a river valley, which made people feel a little depressing.And along the river, there are also many fortresses and docks, crowded with people inside, looking like they are facing an enemy, and there is no happy scene of welcoming the master at all.

The existence of these dock walls is also a hidden danger, so that Li Tai has to leave a combat team of about 20 people every once in a while, so as not to be blocked in the valley by these Eastern Wei people out of righteous indignation.

Fortunately, he arrived near Zuoguo City shortly after turning into Chuangu, so that Li Tai would not divide his troops too much.

Zuoguo City is located on the east bank of Lishishui, with mountains behind it. The layout of the city is somewhat similar to that of the previous Wutu City, but it is larger in scale. Its outer city circle occupies most of the valley, so that Lishishui is near here. They all circled a big arc to the west, which shows that Liu Yuan also used his heart when building the city, and may have used mountains to move water.

But compared with the Xiongda pattern, Zuoguo City as a whole is a dilapidated scene. Most of the outer city walls have been damaged, and there are many traces of earth and stone repairs and then weathering and collapse.

Looking in from the gap in the wall, the inner city is divided into several buildings, and a building with pavilions and eaves on the hillside has also been dilapidated. It is probably the former Han and Zhao palace buildings. The mountain wind blows.

The city pool under the slope is a long and narrow strip according to local conditions. A wooden watchtower stands on the south side, which looks a little old, as if some ancient cities in later generations were poorly managed, with few tourists and lack of maintenance.

At this time, the sound of blowing trumpets sounded in the city, and many soldiers could be seen walking around in the city. The number seemed to be quite a lot, but because the city frame was too large, it could not be effectively defended.

There are ruins and ruins everywhere, which is not suitable for cavalry to gallop at high speed. After Li Tai waited and watched for a while, he followed Zhu Meng to lead hundreds of soldiers to dismount and put on armor, and marched into the city along the gaps in the outer wall.And he himself led the remaining soldiers through the valley to the west of the city, attacking with bows and arrows to suppress and expel the defenders.

As the distance got closer, Li Tai also saw the situation in the city clearly. There were about 2000 defenders, but they were chaotic and lacked effective command and control.

According to what Pi Jinghe said, Zuoguo City did not officially send troops to garrison, because according to this, Xiurong City, hundreds of miles away, is where the heavy garrison is located.

But after autumn, there will still be a lot of people gathered here, most of them are some powerful tribes around Jinyang.For these town soldiers and army leaders, households that are not under their control are nutrients.

"You thieves, which family's slaves are you? When you see the old men entering here, why don't you quickly open the city gate and enter to serve wine and food!"

Seeing those disciples in the city who were like headless chickens without any law to guard the city, Li Tai couldn't help feeling bad, and shouted loudly into the city.

When he shouted, someone actually had the courage to ask them their identities loudly, which shows that there is still a fluke mentality.Li Tai was too lazy to respond. Seeing that Zhu Meng and others had approached the gate of the inner city, he ordered the knights to shoot arrows into the city. Although the casualties were not large, the chaos they brought was not small. The head guards fell down directly under the push and avoidance. It seems that not all the soldiers of the Eastern Wei Dynasty were like wolves and tigers.

"Turn to the north of the city to encircle and kill all these thieves and slaves!"

Li Tai ordered his men to yell threats loudly in the valley outside the city, and at the same time pretended to ride his horse north to surround the city.

Before they bypassed the long and narrow city from north to south, there were already soldiers in the city who couldn't help rushing out in a hurry and fled to the north.The soldiers here didn't have the heart to stick to it. Since some people fled outwards, others followed suit, lest they fall behind and the city would soon be empty.

It was another dull victory. Li Tai led his troops to chase for more than ten miles, killed some of the fleeing people on the way, and captured another hundred people, so he stopped pursuing. With Xiurong City as an important town, I don't know if the elite of the Eastern Wei Dynasty are already on their way to this place.

By the time Li Tai and others returned, Zhu Meng had already begun to lead people to clean up the city.

After going inside for a while, Li Tai also understood why those soldiers were unwilling to stick here, not only because of timidity, but also because this former capital of Han and Zhao, and the city of glory in Jihu's mind, is really a place where both inside and outside It was severely damaged, and only the city wall in the inner city is still intact, and almost no other functional buildings remain, and even those who live here have to set up camps.

However, there are still a lot of materials such as cloth, silk, grain and millet in these leftover camps, which shows that these slaves who beat the autumn wind also gained a lot.

Although the number is not impressive, it is Li Tai's first harvest since he entered the country, and it is a good start.Although there were some material reserves in Wutu City before, they were already divided up by the Lishi Hus who entered the city first, and even Liu Ahqi couldn't restrain them.

As for the three melons and two dates, Li Tai didn't bother to pursue them. Zuoguo City, the old capital of Han and Zhao, had already been occupied. Is Jinyang City, the overlord of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, still far away?At that time, what treasures and treasures will not be found!

(End of this chapter)