Northern Dynasties

Chapter 490
The two sides withdrew their troops for a truce, and Li Tai entered Heyang South City surrounded by the crowd.

This city that haunted the monarchs and ministers of the Western Wei Dynasty is not known for its majesty and steepness, but a city built by the water.Because of its special location, it is not the foundation of rammed earth, but built with rocks and wooden piles.

Linhuai King Yuan Xiaoyou had already led other officials in the city to wait at the city gate, but he didn't come up to him immediately. He stood there and observed carefully for a while, until he was sure that he was surrounded by He Ruodun and other handsome young men who were a bit too much Talented people are the core of the team, so he strode up and clasped his fists in a salute from a distance: "This one must be Li Kaifu, Lord Xihe. Li Kaifu has been famous for a long time, and I am finally lucky to see him today. He is unparalleled in the world. !"

"Your Majesty praised you."

Li Tai had heard He Ruodun and others talk about Yuan Xiaoyou, and now he also smiled and bowed: "The last general was ordered to go east to seek the thief Kuang Yi, and it is really fortunate to be able to work with the king's righteousness! All the subordinates told me, All things in the city defense rely on the strength of the king, I am really grateful."

A group of people greeted each other and entered the city, and after entering the military mansion, Yuan Xiaoyou said with a smile on his face: "May I ask Li Kaifu if he knows Lu Rou and Lu Zigang? Is his family all right in Kansai today?" ?”

"Lu Zigang is my cousin, how can I not know it? When I entered Kansai at the beginning of the year, I relied on my cousin and other relatives and friends for help, so that I could gain a foothold in that hometown and have the opportunity to make contributions. My cousin's family now lives in Chang'an. We are all envious, could it be that Your Majesty has something to do with my cousin?"

After Li Tai heard the words, he said with a smile, and he was also a little curious about the relationship between Yuan Xiaoyou and his cousin Lu Rou.

"There is more than just a reason, it has a deep origin!"

When Yuan Xiaoyou heard this, the smile on his face became more warm and friendly, and he immediately talked about his relationship with Lu Rou's family.It turned out that he was the uncle of Lu Rou's wife, Yuanshi, and he, the title of Linhuai King, was also the title of his elder brother because Lu Rou's father-in-law was childless.

Hearing that they are so close to each other, Li Tai respects Yuan Xiaoyou even more, after all, he still has to give his cousin face.

However, a personal relationship is a personal relationship, and public affairs belong to public affairs, especially at the forefront of the war between the two countries.After establishing a relationship, Li Tai quickly brought the topic back to business. The first thing he needed to know was the current personnel situation in Heyang South City.

Yuan Xiaoyou is also a person who knows how to look at people's faces, he didn't take advantage of the relationship he had just established to be negligent, and he also took a correct attitude and introduced and explained everything in the city one by one.

Originally, there were more than [-] soldiers and civilians in Heyang South City and its nearby Huiluo City and other cities. The core of this was the thousands of elite Jinyang soldiers under Xue Guyan's army, but now they are all scattered in the Jingu City due to the defeat of Jingu City. outside.

After He Ruodun and others entered the city, they repatriated thousands of Fan soldiers from Hebei in order to delay the attack of the city defenders north of Heqiao. At the same time, many soldiers and civilians in the city were scattered.Up to now, relying on Yuan Xiaoyoujiu's appeal to the officials of this realm, there are still nearly [-] Fan soldiers left in the city.

Most of these Fanbing are locals in Henan. Although they are called soldiers, they are actually just rural soldiers recruited in Heluo Township. They have not experienced systematic military training. Even if they are organized and armed, they can only use Some simple short-bladed weapons basically have no combat effectiveness.

The imperial court of the Eastern Wei Dynasty was more wary of the development of local armed forces in Henan. The defense of many cities, including the three cities of Heyang, was basically based on Jinyang soldiers, Hebei state soldiers and powerful tribes.

But these people have no local feelings for the Heluo area. Whether it is Hou Jing and other Beizhen military leaders, or the previous Hebei tycoons such as Gao Aocao, they often destroy more and build less in Henan.

Therefore, when Xue Guyan's main force was disabled and the Hebei Fanbing were all expelled, the remaining soldiers and civilians here did not have any resistance to the Western Wei troops occupying Heyang South City, but there was no Tan Shihu The reason why he welcomed Master Wang was probably because he knew that the Western Wei Dynasty was poor and weak, and he thought that people like them would have to leave soon, so he didn't bother to express his opinion.

In addition to these Fanbing manpower, there is another important content in the war against the Eastern Wei Dynasty, that is, the captured materials, and the seizures in the southern city of Heyang will certainly not disappoint Li Tai.

When Li Tai saw Yuan Xiaoyou take out the rolls of storage materials accounting books, Li Tai seemed to see a team of Gao Aocao standing in front of him waiting for inspection.Although Gao Aocao did not enter this city until his death, he still existed here in another form, and there were still many of them.

Long before the arrival of Li Tai's men and horses, Hu Lujin, who was in charge of guarding Heyang, had proposed a plan to join forces with the men and horses of the Korean Rail Division who went to Yingchuan to suppress the Henan rebels. This plan also included intercepting and blocking Wang Sizheng's Jingzhou Army and Conception of the Kansai troops in the Western Wei Dynasty.

Although this plan has not been fully implemented, the relevant material preparations have actually begun.

The reason why Xue Guyan reacted so fiercely to Li Taijin's knock on Heluo, and sent all his troops to attack and stop it, was because if the Heyang troops wanted to go to the battlefield in Henan, they had to ensure that the situation in the Heluo area was relatively stable, otherwise People here dare not leave the three cities of Heyang.

Since there is such a plan, Heyang South City, as the most important Guancheng fortress on the south bank of the Yellow River, naturally becomes the best choice for supplies to be transported to the south.

Therefore, there are nearly 30 shi of food and grain accumulated in the southern city of Heyang, and there are countless weapons of all kinds.There are hundreds of big bed crossbows used for defending the city alone, because Hu Lujin plans to wait until the end of the Henan turmoil, and then adjust the overall defense of Heluo according to the performance of various places during the turmoil, and add some Garrison stronghold.

But now these materials are all cheap for Li Tai, which makes him feel more and more that fighting the Eastern Wei Dynasty is really a promising thing. Of course, the premise is that he can win. People vomit blood and autistic.

Although the material reserves here are very rich, Li Tai also saw a hidden crisis from the middle, that is, will the Eastern Wei troops stationed here allow him to swallow and digest these materials smoothly?
It is certain that the Eastern Wei Dynasty is richer than the Western Wei Dynasty, but its material reserves are definitely not inexhaustible.Last year in the Battle of Yubi, Gao Huan sent a big wave, and Wei Xiaokuan and other troops in Hedong have been belching so far.Now Henan is in chaos, and I don't know how much material input is needed to fill this big hole.

The large amount of ordnance and materials accumulated here in Heyang South City cannot be quickly replenished by expropriating ordinary households. This represents the war potential of the Eastern Wei Dynasty in the next period of time.Whether it is Heyang Nancheng or these supplies, the enemy troops here will definitely do their best to snatch them back.

Of course, Li Tai would not take out the things that fell into his pockets again. After realizing that the enemy's counterattack would inevitably become more violent, this time he really had to give up his illusions and prepare for battle.

Compared with the river bridge fixed on the river, the enemy's boat and boat crossing needs to be more carefully defended.

However, it is too difficult to set up a line of defense without any loopholes along the long river bank, so Li Tai selected a few places on the left that are convenient for boats to land on the shore, and used fences and ditches to pull up the defense line. A relatively simple fortification, and those large bed crossbows were moved out of the warehouse and placed on the river bank defense to attack the enemy's boats.

As for the city itself, no more fortifications were needed.After all, when the enemy coming from the south can pose a real threat to the city defense, what he can consider is no longer whether the city can be defended, but whether he can swim all the way to Bohai Bay along the Yellow River with his own swimming skills.

As for sticking here and waiting for reinforcements, he really didn't count on it, he would be secretly glad that the old boy Zhao Gui didn't make trouble and block his retreat.

And waiting for Kansai Yuwentai to organize troops to send reinforcements, there is little hope.Director Yuwen's going to Longyou to replace Duguxin seems to be calm, but there is also an undercurrent swimming inside.At the beginning of the year, Rouran invaded Gaoping, and Duguxin took advantage of the opportunity of the frontier guard Hu to control part of the Longyou army.

This time Li Tai was selected as the forward of the army, although it was proposed by Zhao Gui, but it may not be because Yu Wentai didn't want him, the son-in-law of Dugu Xin, to stay in the center of the Bafu at this moment, so he had to find a reason to dismiss it.

So even if Li Tai wins the southern city of Heyang, Yu Wentai may have to think about whether this is the cooperation between the Weng and his son-in-law to induce the Tyrant Mansion to continue to invest more troops in the Kanto. Xinti slipped together, and there was not a month or two between the back and forth.At that time, Li Tai might really want to dig out of Bohai Bay.

In the chaotic times of the Three Kingdoms, the comparison is really not about whose national power is stronger, but whose mess is more unbearable.Many contradictions are irreconcilable, whoever fails first will collapse first.

Of course, it is not that Li Tai does not have friendly forces that can be used as references. For example, Han Xiong and other powerful forces in Henan are not part of the core force of the Bafu, and they are more concerned about the changes and development of forces in the Heluo area.

However, these forces are too fragmented and scattered, and there is no leader task that can hold them together with a prestige force. It is a bit unrealistic to expect them to be reliable reinforcements, but it is better than nothing.

So after a little weighing, Li Tai sent three envoys to different places to spread the news that he had captured the southern city of Heyang. In addition to Bafu and Li Bizhong's army, there were also Henan armies that would attack Yiyang.

In addition to informing the battle situation in the letter to Bafu, he also stated that he was going to continue to attack north and try to implement the previous battle plan.The report to the commander-in-chief of the Chinese army naturally shows that the task assigned by the commander-in-chief has been successfully completed. I have come to Heyang. The coach instructed.

For the armies in Henan, it is much simpler. I accidentally created a large arsenal. If you want to buy your own parts for zero yuan, then hurry up and come here!

(End of this chapter)