Northern Dynasties

Chapter 504 Yingchuan Woye
The prefecture of North Jingzhou is located in Fuliu City in the Yishui River Basin. After Li Tai received the transfer order, he led the troops from all the roads in western Henan that had been withdrawn from Heqiao in Luoyang Huitong, and then continued southward via Luonan Yique. It took only a few days to reach Fuliu City.

At this time, Li Bi's men and horses also withdrew from Yangzhai and passed through Fuliu City.With the cooperation of Li Bi, Li Tai took over the city defense here, and sent Li Bili out of the country, so he had time to summon the generals here and make some specific arrangements for his military affairs.

"The last general will wait to see Duke Xihe."

In front of the gate of the big camp outside Fuliu City, two generals in military uniform stepped forward to salute Li Tai.

Li Bi's trip to Heluo this time only took away the soldiers and horses of the Bafu from Kansai, and two other troops stayed in Fuliu City and returned to Li Tai's control. And the local volunteers in Henan led by General Zhao Gang.

Li Tai and Zheng Wei knew each other, and his son Zheng Quan was also the best man at his wedding, and seeing each other here again this time, both of them were in a very happy mood.

As for the chariot general Zhao Gang, he is not a stranger. He has met him a few times at his father-in-law's Dugu Xinfu.Zhao Gang has been active in Henan all year round, even though the provinces in Henan have fallen to the Eastern Wei Dynasty.Back then when He Basheng and Dugu Xin lived in Nanliang, it was thanks to Zhao Gang who acted as an envoy to inform Nanliang that they were able to return.

"The two generals don't need to be too polite. Although there are masters and subordinates in the job, I still have to rely on you to ensure that I will perform my duties in the job."

Since they were all acquaintances, there was no need for Li Tai to put on airs to emphasize his authority, and waved his hands to invite the generals to enter the camp and discuss matters together.

When he left Kansai before, Li Tai’s troops had more than [-] troops. After several battles, they were captured and incorporated. Now the troops of Li Tai’s troops have nearly [-] people, including Lieutenant Tian Hong, who also came with him. Fuliu City.

Among the troops in western Henan, apart from Han Xiong, who has been cooperating, Wei Fabao, Li Yisun, Chen Xin, Wei Xuan and other generals have a total of more than 1 troops in their respective divisions.These troops were fully armed in Heyang Nancheng before, and now they are under the command of Li Tai.

Zheng Wei and Zhao Gang have a total of more than [-] troops, but their military appearance is a bit inferior to that of the volunteers in Western Henan, and even worse than that of Li Tai's headquarters.

The total number of these troops is more than [-], which is the force that Li Tai has now, and it can be said that he has commanded the most troops since he joined the army.

There are three tasks assigned to Li Tai by the Overlord Mansion. The first is to defend Fuliu City in North Jingzhou, the second is to cooperate with Wang Sizheng, and the third is to rescue Hou Jing.

The importance of the three tasks decreased in order, and defending Fuliu City was naturally the most important.With the success of the two cities of Heyang, Daxingtai Yuwentai obviously wants to fight again between Heluo, and it is of course very important to ensure the safety around the battlefield.

Li Tai was assigned to the south gate of the Heluo area, and his main task was to ensure that the chaos in Henan would not spread to Heluo.So not only Fuliu City, but also a series of passages from Henan to and from Heluo, including Shenyuan Pass, he needs to guard carefully.

Under the condition of ensuring this premise, Li Tai has to cooperate with Wang Sizheng to take over as much of Hou Jing's personnel forces in Henan as possible.

When Wang Sizheng entered Henan, there were only more than [-] Jingzhou troops under his command, and the deployment of troops was inevitably stretched. Some places that were difficult to directly control naturally required Li Tai to send troops to provide a certain degree of assistance.

As for rescuing Hou Jing, that's just talking.As long as Li Tai led his army to appear in the area around Henan, it would be a rare support for Hou Jing.If he really takes this matter seriously, the boss Yu Wentai will have to deal with him instead.

After analyzing the severity of the matter, Li Tai began to arrange the troops under his command.

Fuliu City was the core of this mission. Li Tai arranged for 1 people to be stationed there. The 3000 main force of the headquarters plus the main forces of the righteous divisions in western Henan stayed in Fuliu City, and they would not be transferred easily.

As for the other gates, according to local conditions, different numbers of defenders are arranged to garrison them according to their geographical location.

In this regard, the abilities of Li Yisun and other local snakes are highlighted. Not only are they well aware of the geographical situation, but they are also very familiar with the various forces and situations in the region. They can make full use of the local powerful and barbarian armed forces to coordinate Be vigilant and defensive to avoid too scattered arrangements of the main force in the area. It is only necessary to concentrate on guarding a few key core locations and be ready to respond to surrounding strongholds at any time.

After such an arrangement, Li Tai still has more than [-] mobile forces in his hands, which can be deployed at any time, and can be arranged all the way eastward along the Rushui River, all the way to the Henan Plain.

When the defense arrangements around Fuliu City were almost ready, Li Tai also received a message from Yang Di, Wang Sizheng invited him to meet him.

For Wang Sizheng, Li Tai did not have any direct experience with him, but he did have indirect memories.

When he first came to this world, he was on the way to evacuate from Hengnong to Tongguan. At that time, the guard of Hengnong was Wang Sizheng.Because of his birth, Wang Sizheng even gave him a skinny donkey for transportation, but kept his weapon in Hengnong.

After reminiscing in this way, the impression of Wang Sizheng is not very vivid, and Li Tai only feels a little pain in the buttocks again.Putting aside his own curiosity about Wang Sizheng and his affairs, he really needs to go to Yangzhai to fully communicate with Wang Sizheng before he can cooperate flexibly in the future.

So Li Tai led more than a thousand Qingqi himself, led by Zhao Gang and others who had just withdrawn from there, and then headed eastward along Rushui.

From Fuliu City to the east, nearly a hundred miles still belonged to the mountains of the Outer Mountains. The road was winding and rugged, but the river valleys along the way gradually became wider.After passing through Rubei, we officially entered the Henan Plain. As far as the eye can see, there are almost no obvious geographical obstacles except for some natural and artificial rivers and canals.

In the plains, Li Tai and his party galloped on horses. They waited until they traveled several tens of miles to the northeast, and the ups and downs of the mountains could be seen in the distance. However, compared with the stretching and tall Qinling Mountains, these low-slope hills Like a normal slope.

This piece of Heze Plain is the world-famous Yingchuan, which can nourish a series of famous families in the late Han Dynasty. Yingchuan's natural environment and farming conditions are naturally very good.

Just between Ruying where Li Tai passed by, large and small villages are scattered in the wilderness. Even in some sparsely populated wilderness areas, you can see many traces of artificially built river embankments and ditches, as well as tens of thousands of villages. hectares of wild mulberry forest.

With such a superior natural environment, the folk customs must be quite simple.Because even committing crimes requires brains and energy, and if you have that time, it is better to circle a field to plow and weave.

Anyway, Li Tai was really a little bit greedy for what he saw all the way. If he can set aside a piece of land here to develop with peace of mind, the income from farming alone will be much better than Guanzhong, not to mention the ravines and ravines in northern Shaanxi.

Of course, it is not easy to sit on such a piece of land.Even Hou Jing, the most vicious and vicious of the town soldiers, couldn't sit still and endure all this, and would soon be running around like a wild dog being chased away.

However, after walking around the field, Li Tai somewhat understood why Wang Sizheng set up his platform in Yingchuan, where both offensive and defensive advances and retreats were somewhat inconvenient.As long as such a rich land is occupied, a considerable amount of money, food and materials can be accumulated in no time. These are precious war potentials!

Of course, Wang Sizheng himself may not have such an idea, but it has nothing to do with Li Tai.

He came here as an assistant. Although he will give some opinions on how Wang Sizheng will operate next, if Wang Sizheng just doesn't listen, he can only let go of the complex of helping others and respect the fate of others.

Yangdi City is located on the west bank of Yingshui River, facing Jishan Mountain far away. The scale of the city is not too large, and there is a large camp outside the city.

"The last general, Guo Xian, was ordered by the Prince of Taiyuan to welcome Lord Xihe. My lord has already set up a simple banquet in the camp, so you can just go straight in."

As soon as Li Tai and his party came to the west bank of Yingshui, a group of soldiers rode up to welcome them from the opposite gate, and the leading general clasped his fists at Li Tai from a distance and said.

"There is General Lao Guo."

Li Tai nodded to the other party in response, before and after arriving at the gate of the camp, he ordered his accompanying Gao Le and others to release the war horses along the river to drink, and he only brought a dozen of followers into the camp under the leadership of Guo Xian.

A group of people soon came to the big tent of the Chinese army. Outside the big tent, a tall, middle-aged man in old robes and a neat beard stood in front of the door surrounded by the crowd, and saw Li Taixing coming , he raised his hand to greet him and said with a smile, "Li Boshan, do you remember me?"

"At the end of the day, I met Taiyuan Gong. I saw Hengnong in a hurry in the old year. Unexpectedly, it took several years to meet again. Taiyuan Gong's demeanor is like yesterday, and the memory of the end is still fresh. How dare I forget it!"

Facing this world-famous general, Li Tai didn't dare to treat him arrogantly. He clasped his fists in salute after hearing this, and responded with a smile.

Wang Sizheng also looked very happy to see Li Tai, raised his arm to pat Li Tai's shoulder, and said with a smile: "Li Jiaerlang, with a beautiful voice and appearance, makes people happy at first sight, and I'm too lazy to care about your greed The bad deeds of advancing rashly and hindering my plan. It's just that I have to drink a few more glasses at the table later, and it will always relieve my pent-up anger."

After Li Tai heard this, the smile on his face suddenly faded, and he turned his shoulder slightly to avoid Wang Sizheng's palm patting his shoulder, and then said: "Taiyuan's public opinion is very unfair, which is puzzling. The general will be ordered to join this assistant." Ji, that's what you're doing, if you have something to do, you can speak up, even if the general is weak, there are still talents in the country that can be used!"

(End of this chapter)