Northern Dynasties

After half a year, Li Tai returned to Jingzhou City again, and just after he entered the town, news of all kinds of changes flooded him.

First of all, the most important point is that the Yingchuan defenders finally failed a month ago. Around the Eastern Wei Dynasty, 20 troops were sent to besiege and the city was broken under the water attack.Gao Cheng of the Eastern Wei Dynasty came to Yingchuan City to supervise the battle in person, and envoys recruited Wang Sizheng to surrender, ending the one-year Battle of Yingchuan.

After the news of Yingchuan City's destruction and Wang Sizheng's surrender came back to Guanzhong, Daxingtai Yuwentai immediately ordered Li Tai, the general manager of Jingzhou, to restrain the Xingtai army in the original Henan Province, and Li Tai decided whether to abandon or defend the remaining Henan provinces.

So after Li Tai returned to the town, the burden on his body became heavier. On the one hand, he was responsible for presiding over the implementation of his Hanshui strategy, and on the other hand, he was also responsible for the mess left after Wang Sizheng's army was defeated and surrendered.

Historically, after the city of Yingchuan was broken, the Overlord of the Western Wei Dynasty only ordered the armies in Henan to withdraw and give up the various lands they occupied before. They honestly admitted that this time the military operation to enter Henan failed. Offensive and defensive operations will temporarily come to an end.

But now the situation Li Tai is facing is different. The most important point is that during the period when Yingchuan City was besieged, Murong Shaozong, the general of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, did not die outside Yingchuan City.

Probably because Liu Feng was dealt with by Li Tai ahead of time, no one went on a boat tour with Murong Shaozong, so Murong Shaozong also saved his life.

Due to this change, the personnel arrangements of the Eastern Wei Dynasty in Henan have also undergone great changes.

Although the main force besieging Yingchuan followed Gao Cheng back to Hebei after the city of Yingchuan was broken, Murong Shaozong and several generals stayed in Henan with their troops.

Previously, Murong Shaozong had never served as the commander of an important theater in the Eastern Wei Dynasty, so his deeds were not obvious. However, after taking charge of the army this time, he first defeated the Southern Liang and Northern Expeditionary Army in Huaibei, and defeated Hou Jing's rebel army in Guoyang. In the battle of capturing Yingchuan, he also supervised the battle from the beginning.

So when the dust settled here in Henan, Murong Shaozong, who stayed here, had the potential to take over the military and political power in Henan and further plot Huainan.

Of course, it is not ruled out that Murong Shaozong will turn his attention to the Hanmian area, wanting to further attack and expel the forces of the Western Wei Dynasty and eliminate the possibility of potential competitors.

In history, the Western Wei Dynasty did not send troops to Jianghan at the first time of the Nanliang chaos, which is probably related to the fall of Yingchuan.Now this risk has to be faced by Li Tailai.

Compared with the more troublesome situation in Henan, the situation between Jianghan and Han is also not quiet.

After Hou Jing broke through Jiankangtai City and took control of the center of the imperial court, the people and horses of the various towns between Jianghan and Han also returned to their towns, and a dog-eat-dog fight officially started.

It was Xiao Yi from Jiangling and Xiao Xie from Xiangyang who were the first to break out the conflict.

Previously, the imperial court replaced Xiao Xie with Zhang Zan as governor of Yongzhou. As a result, Zhang Zan was detained in Xiangzhou by Xiao Yu's brother Xiao Yu for several months.It was not easy for Zhang Yan to escape from Xiangzhou until Xiao Yu led his army down the south of the Yangtze River to King Qin.

Zhang Yan didn't dare to go straight to Yongzhou. He was worried that he would enter the tiger's mouth as soon as he left the wolf's den, so he went to Jiangling in desperation.Just when Xiao Yi was annoyed that Xiao Xi was becoming less and less in awe of him, he used Xiao Xi's lack of activeness as an excuse, so he sent troops to escort Zhang Yan to Xiangyang to take office, and ordered Xiao Xi to leave the country immediately and lead his troops to Jian King Kang Qin.

Xiao Xie always thought that the one-eyed dragon was not very pleasing to the eye, and Li Tai was behind him to provide him with military support. In addition, the life and death of the Second Palace of Jiankang was still unknown, so he simply sent people to attack Jiangling escorting Zhang Zan's troops halfway, and sent Zhang Zan He was robbed directly to Xiangyang, and the uncle was shaved and enshrined in the temple in Xiangyang city.

If there were still undercurrents surging between each other before, but now Xiao Xi dared to directly send troops to attack and kill Jiangling's army, it would undoubtedly be a complete tear.

Xiao Yi of Jiangling was furious after hearing the news, but he had already dispatched Jingling prefect Wang Sengbian and others to lead the army to Jiankang, so he did not dare to directly attack Xiangyang with his army.

The next step was the complete fall of Taicheng. Wang Sengbian and others disarmed and surrendered to Hou Jing, who was then released by Hou Jing.Next came the news of Liang Emperor Xiao Yan's death and Prince Xiao Gang's ascension to the throne under Hou Jing's support, reaching Jiangling.

Xiangzhou Inspector Xiao Yu also showed less respect for Jiangling after returning to the town, which made Xiao Yi, who was caught between their brothers, feel more and more in danger. On the one hand, he appointed his son Xiao Fangju as Xiangzhou Inspector, and made his eldest son Xiao Fang and others lead the army. Twenty thousand elite soldiers were sent to Xiangzhou.

On the other hand, Xiao Yi appointed Liu Zhongli, who was also released by Hou Jingfang from Jiankang and came to Jiangling, as the governor of Yongzhou.

However, when Liu Zhongli saw the danger of his father when he was building Kangcheng, he could not help him, so how could he be easily driven by the King of Xiangdong? Lu, other than that, didn't do anything else, presumably he was watching the situation.

Even so, Liu Zhongli's return to the town also had a considerable impact on Li Tai's strategy of Handong.

When Jiankang City was breached at the beginning of the year, there were many local tyrants who expressed their willingness to surrender to Jingzhou in panic.However, Li Tai was still stranded in Guanzhong during that time, just to order Cui Qian and others to respond to such requests with a little comfort, and not to rush to carry out any military operations.

However, when Liu Zhongli returned to Anlu to sit in town, such voices disappeared immediately.On the one hand, this is because Liu Zhongli's prestige is indeed good, on the other hand, the Western Wei Dynasty is still not attractive enough for these land tyrants.

However, it is not worth regretting that these grasshoppers have died down.They did not necessarily want to accept the rule of the Western Wei Dynasty when they expressed their stance before, but it was nothing more than using the support of the Western Wei Dynasty to break away from the rule of Nanliang and obtain a certain degree of regional autonomy.

So if you want to really capture Handong, you still need to fight a battle, whether it is Liu Zhongli or these local tyrants, or they all add up.

At the same time, there were also changes in Hanzhong. Due to the domestic turmoil in Nanliang, which affected the operation of the Hanshui Commercial Road, which had just opened and started operation, some stakeholders also experienced some instability.Ankang tycoon Li Qianzhe ordered his younger brother Li Xian to enter the country to sue for trouble, and it has been a long time.

Li Tai had just returned to Jingzhou, and he was facing such a complicated situation, not counting the backlog of military and political affairs decisions made by the state government itself due to his departure.

No matter how complicated the situation is, there must be a priority.After a little understanding of all the situation, Li Tai first ordered Commander Shi Cuiqian and Yang Zhong to receive the 1 horses that Zhao Gui had brought to Jingzhou to rescue Yingchuan.

The Tyrant Mansion has never had enough troops and supplies. Although the Hanshui Raiders are extremely ambitious, the troops and supplies that can be invested are also very limited.

When Li Tai first took office in Jingzhou, he led about [-] soldiers, and there were more than [-] troops belonging to the Bafu, and the rest were private songs from himself and other generals.

For this strategy in Hanshui, Bafu provided 1 troops, including the [-] troops that Zhao Gui brought to Jingzhou before, and Li Tai received them on the spot, and Zhao Gui returned to Guanzhong by himself.

In addition, Li Tai directly brought 7000 people from Guanzhong, plus the 3000 people who had entered the town before, this was enough to make up the 2 people assigned to him by the Bafu.

In addition, Daxingtai also gritted its teeth generously and provided Li Tai with [-] shi of military rations. In addition, the rent transfers collected by the prefectures and counties under the jurisdiction of the Jingzhou General Manager's Mansion this year were used to make up for military use on the spot. All character support given.

These investments are extremely shabby compared to the 20 troops invested by the Eastern Wei Dynasty for a year in order to conquer Yingchuan City.But the national conditions are such that since you are in the Western Wei Dynasty, you have to learn to spend a small amount of money to do big things.

Leaving aside the character support provided by the Taiwan government, Li Tai himself can mobilize the troops from his headquarters plus the Jingzhou army and the barbarians from the barbarian chiefs. Thousands of horses.However, if such an extreme mobilization is carried out, Jingzhou's people's livelihood and other aspects of development will basically come to a standstill.

Therefore, any power in your hand must be used with caution, and it must not be wasted in unnecessary places.Although Wang Sizheng had been captured by the Eastern Wei Dynasty and went to Hebei, the rest of the people should make good use of it.

So Li Tai sent envoys to Quan Jingxuan, Guo Xian and other Wang Sizheng generals, ordering them to retreat and re-fortify around Mianbei.Guo Xian and other troops returned to Sanya Road, while Quan Jingxuan withdrew to Biyang, East Jingzhou, and temporarily sat in the other side with Hou Zhi.

Although it is said that the army of the Eastern Wei Dynasty has just experienced the long siege of Yingchuan, and there may not be any large-scale and fierce wars in the future, Li Tai is more or less secretly in awe of Murong Shaozong, a famous general of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, and worried about this guy Maybe they will take advantage of the gap between Jingzhou people and horses to come to steal his home, so they will defend several key points from Henan to Mianbei.

Then Li Tai did not directly summon his old friend Cai Dabao, but first sent Li Qianzhe's younger brother Li Xian into the mansion.The overly complicated situation made him have to make a small hook first, and then take care of the others calmly after he settled one aspect.

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