Northern Dynasties

A round of bright moon hangs high in the sky, and Jinyang City under the moonlight is quite quiet. The bright moonlight and the fireworks in the city complement each other, giving people a sense of peace and prosperity.

Jinyang City is composed of different urban areas. Each urban area has different functions, and the level of anti-prohibition after nightfall is also different.

For example, the Grand Prime Minister's Mansion in the core of the city and the Jinyang Palace, which had been looted by Western thieves, after nightfall, unless they have a warrant specially approved by the Prime Minister's Mansion, no one is allowed to enter or leave, and anyone who dares to resist the order will be killed!

Bingzhou City, located in the northeast corner of the city, in addition to the state capital, is also home to the family members of officials who are in charge of the Jinyang Bafu, and the security level is also high.At night, patrols are arranged in the back streets to check against bandits, and there are guards at the city gates to strictly check the entry and exit of people. Even if the family members of officials leave the city for some reason, they need to file a report.

Because it was the Mid-Autumn Festival tonight, the houses of the families in the state city were also very lively.The current Mid-Autumn Festival has not been endowed with the beautiful meaning of reunion between people and the moon, but the custom of admiring the moon has gradually become popular from south to north.

In troubled times, fortune and misfortune are unpredictable, and it is inevitable that there will be the pain of life and death between day and night. It is comforting for relatives to meet each other in peace and health, and it is worth celebrating.If you take the moon to express your feelings and sing a song, it will naturally make people more gratified and joyful.

But in good times, there is always a moment when the music ends.In a house located on the west side of the state capital, the inside and outside of the hall were still brightly lit before, and there was endless singing, singing and dancing.

There is a state soldier team stationed beside the gate of this house. At the beginning, they checked the horses and horses entering and leaving the house, but as more people left, they didn't bother to make further inquiries.

"Why are there so many guests in this family?"

A state soldier looked at the visitors leaving the house in an endless stream and couldn't help but murmured in a low voice.

After hearing the words, the team leader smiled and said: "This family belongs to the Li clan in Longxi. Many well-known families have made friends with his family, so naturally there will be more guests."

"Longxi Li family? The name sounds familiar, but I don't know any high-ranking officials in the two prefectures!"

After hearing this, the state soldier was silent for a while, and then couldn't help but speak again.

"Ha, even if such a famous family declines, there will always be some legacy for the descendants to enjoy. What's more, if you don't hear about it, it may be because you are short-sighted."

When the leader of the team said this, he pretended to be mysterious and motioned for everyone to come closer to him, and then said: "Do you still remember Li Boshan, the Western thief who led the troops to invade Jinyang? This is the Changxi family! The other Xing family members have not been here for a long time. We are official slaves, but this family not only lives in peace, but also entertains guests in the hall. Even the state government sent us on duty here. Although we are under surveillance, it is also to prevent the slaves of other people from coming to cause trouble..."

After hearing this, everyone couldn't help sighing secretly, and they were quite shocked in their hearts.

As the guests dispersed, the lights in the halls of the house were also extinguished, and after seeing off the last guest carriage, the house slaves closed the gate of the house.After the state soldiers saw this, they left two night duty officers behind, and the rest returned to the state capital to report.

In the dark alley, a carriage that had just left Li's mansion stopped, and a middle-aged man got out of the carriage and whispered into the carriage: "Man Rong, you really don't go to Kansai with me? If Gao Da If the general still pursues us for fleeing privately, I'm afraid you will also be held accountable."

Li Qianzhi leaned out from the car, and sighed: "A Pan created a great situation in Kansai, and he brought his uncle back to Rongyang Guan. Brother should rush to help. If we all go together, we will It will add a lot of personnel burden to Ah Pan, and the second is that there are too many personnel and it may be inconvenient to submerge, so I can only wish my brother and other escorts a smooth journey westward from their aunt.

General Gao is passionate about revolution, there are so many guests coming in and out today, it is difficult to identify them one by one, if he asks too much, it will definitely hinder his revolutionary plan, brother, don't worry too much about relatives and friends here, we will definitely meet again next year! "

The middle-aged man is Li Tai's grandfather and cousin Li Po. Hearing what Li Qianzhi said, he stopped trying to persuade him. After clasping his fists and waving his hands vigorously, he went to the other side of the dark alley with a follower, and went to the agreed place in the city to meet other people. The family members who left in batches converged.

Near the east gate of Zhoucheng, a group of slaves in Hu suits and full of alcohol came from several carriages. They were still playing wine and singing loudly while walking. The soldiers at the city gate stopped them.

"Blind thief Qiu Ba, we are the members of the Lord Xu of Weizhou, how dare we stop him!"

Li Yunxin, who was at the front of the team, was wearing a riding cap askew. While lashing the city gate guards who came in for questioning with his whip, he threw a talisman over and cursed angrily in Xianbei language.

The guard was already shocked when he heard the words, and became even more flustered after checking the amulet order to be correct.

Jinyang City was originally a paradise for the town soldiers, and Weizhou Sima Xu Xianxiu was also the most arrogant and domineering wave among the arrogant soldiers. He has a close friendship with Gao Wang's nephew Lou Rui and other top honorable second generations, and his subordinates are naturally arrogant and arrogant.

Knowing that the other party was Xu Xianxiu's subordinate, the guards naturally did not dare to interrogate them in detail. After learning that they were about to leave the city and return to Yuzhou, they quickly opened the small gate on the side of the city gate and released the group of people out of the city.

After leaving Zhoucheng, the group of people secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and did not dare to stay. After bypassing Fenggu River in the north of the city, Li Yunxin walked to the side of the car in the team and whispered: "Old lady, Mr. Xishan Yinlang The old things are still heavily guarded today, we have to detour to Beishan. The Lord once said that there will be drastic changes in the bandit court in mid-August, and the frontier must be relaxed, and then it will be a good time to sneak out."

After hearing the words, Che Nei Lu nodded and said: "Since your lord entrusts the life of your family to the general, it's up to the general to go all the way, so thank you general."

As the moon sinks and the sun rises, a new day arrives. Dozens of light boats and speedboats are scattered on the Huai River in this section of the Gulf Stream, constantly looking for salvage.

The defenders of the Eastern Wei Dynasty in Dongxia Stone City finally decided to abandon their weapons and surrender in the early morning after learning that the main general Murong Shaozong had drowned and persuaded Li Tai to surrender. Line up in Kip Rock City.

Since then, the battle in Shouyang has come to an end. Murong Shaozong led the soldiers, armored horses and staffs from the south, except for the dead and damaged, the rest were all captured by Li Tai.And after a day of salvage, even Murong Shaozong himself fell into Li Tai's hands.

Although it is already the Mid-Autumn Festival, the climate is still hot.After Murong Shaozong's body was soaked in the river overnight, even if it was specially processed, it would be difficult to preserve it for a long time.

So Li Tai decided to leave a whole body for Murong Shaozong, and buried it at the southern foot of Bagong Mountain after a thin body. He only kept his clothes, armor, weapons, amulets, honor guards and other tokens as a token of victory. use.

After attending Murong Shaozong's funeral, the resistance and hatred towards Li Tai in the hearts of the surrendered prisoners were greatly reduced.A person's life is nothing more than life and death. Murong Shaozong had great military exploits and fame, but now he was defeated by Li Tai and drowned to death. Li Tai was still willing to salvage his body and bury him in full body. He really did not treat Murong Shao badly. Zong.

If Li Tai was replaced by Murong Shaozong... Bah, there is no need to make an analogy.Anyway, if Li Tai was unfavorable in the battle with the Eastern Wei Dynasty and fell into the enemy's hands, there would be absolutely no good end for Li Tai.

After the Battle of Shouyang, the results naturally spread quickly to all directions. The first person to learn of the results was naturally Hefei, not far to the south.

Li Bomu, Inspector of Western Yanzhou, changed his position as Inspector of Hezhou after entering Hefei without bloodshed. When he received the message from Murong Shaozong's envoy, he was shocked and worried.

He had already learned about the Western Wei army's invasion of Huainan from other channels, and he still hoped that the opponent might not attack Hefei because of Hefei's location is still far away and the city is tall and strong, but was actively repairing the city defense and intending to hold on to the city.

However, Murong Shaozong is famous, and now he is sending people to invite him to help in the battle, and he dare not refuse, but his troops are not strong, so he can only recruit Ding Zhuang from Hefei City, and with the state soldiers under his command, he can gather [-] boat divisions Prepare to go north to join the war.

But before the boat division sailed out of the gate of the water camp, another boat division from the north came down the river, first announcing to them the news that Murong Shaozong had been defeated and died, and then another general of the Western Wei Dynasty named Gao Le Tell Li Bomu to meet at the gate of the camp.

Naturally, Li Bomu knew that Gao Zhongmi, a member of the clan, was being sent outside the camp by soldiers, and he was shocked to hear the news that Murong Shaozong had died in the battle. Although he was extremely reluctant in his heart, he still bit the bullet and came to meet him.

"This is an old acquaintance in Hebei, and I didn't intend to meet here, so that you will be safe and sound?"

Standing on the bow of the boat, Gao Le greeted Li Bomu, who was fully armored with only his face exposed, but the next sentence became less polite: "May I ask you, do you want to live or die today? My family The lord Li Dadu has already attacked and killed Murong Shaozong, and it is easy to capture Hefei from the south, but because I am grateful that the Lord is also a virtuous leader of the relatives, I can't bear to let the Lord end up with a city broken and dead, so let me say, I want to May I ask Shijun if you have any intentions of Zhige repairing?"

When Li Bomu heard this, he was taken aback for a moment, and after pondering for a while, he nodded again and said: "Soldiers are fierce, and no matter whether they win or lose, they hurt peace. I have heard of Li Dadu's reputation and prestige for a long time. In the old days, he often joined his clan My elders appreciating human affairs, although we are all on one side, it is not my wish to fight with each other. I just don’t know how Li Dadu will stop fighting and retreat?”

"Governor Li Dadu asked me to tell the envoy that I abandoned the country and voted for him in the old year. I just hated seeing the tough people in the middle of the country jumping up to the top. We and the old Hebei clan were humiliated. Back then, the young people believed in He Liuhun and drove away the tigers and wolves. So much so that the people of the town gathered to scream at the court hall, all this was caused by the missteps of the old masters such as the king!
Although Governor General Li is now in Kansai to create a new situation, he is deeply unhappy when he considers that his relatives and friends in Hebei are being oppressed by the townspeople. Now that he has Shouyang, it is not convenient to stay for a long time. You can live up to this sentiment, and quote my relatives and friends from famous clans in Hebei to guard Huainan and enclose the land. "

According to Li Tai's instructions before leaving, Gao Le looked at Li Bomu and shouted loudly: "Many of the famous families in Hebei have people who advocate purity and emptiness, and are unwilling to succumb to the power of ordinary affairs and business operations. Once disaster strikes, it is only conceivable to want to be a slave. Today If it wasn't for the arrival of Li Dadu's troops in this situation, it would be difficult for you to live. This statement is not a humiliation, so you should judge yourself.

You may see that the town soldiers are tough and hard to control, but my lord breaks them like slaughtering chickens and dogs. Huainan is here to benefit my relatives and friends in Hebei. My lord will definitely attract the crowd to attack and chase away his disciples!There is no other intention in this intention, but I can't bear to see my relatives and friends humiliating the military family. "

At first Li Bomu thought that this time might be a catastrophe, but he didn't expect it to be a good thing. Although these words sound embarrassing, but if the other party is really willing to stop fighting and withdraw their troops, and give up Shouyang, No matter how ugly it sounds, he can bear it!

"Is what Liang Bi said true? Li Dadu is supervising him. Is he really willing to stop the army and evacuate Shouyang?"

Li Bomu is not a stunned young man ignorant of human affairs. He naturally knows the truth that what you have to pay is what you get. Within my power, I will try my best to be satisfied.”

Seeing that the other party was so upbeat, Gao Le said with a smile again: "The request of Li Dadu is also very simple. I hope that you can temporarily lead the troops to move to Dongguan and allow our army to station in Hefei for a short time. Within ten days, Hefei, Hefei, The cities of Shouyang will surrender!"

"This, this is impossible, absolutely impossible!"

Hearing such an absurd condition, Li Bomu quickly shook his head and refused.He didn't want Xiao Fan to be so stupid, how could he agree to such a condition!
"I told my lord good words before, but it seems that you didn't listen to me at all. My lord has recently attacked Hanzhong in the west, faced the great river in the south, and broken Huainan in the east. You are invincible and unstoppable, making you think that you are stronger than Liu Zhongli in Nanliang. , or Murong Shaozong? These are all my lord's defeated opponents.

If you really want to enter and occupy Hefei, why do you have to cheat for this!They just took some people and supplies from the city to supplement the military, and by the way formed a former alliance with the envoy.But if you don't want to believe it, it will not be Hebei's old age when it comes back one day, but a murderous knife! "

After Gao Le finished speaking, he turned and walked into the cabin.

"Gao, Liangbi wait a minute, this matter is important, please allow me to think about it."

After Li Bomu saw this, he struggled in his heart before shouting to Gao Le again.

Gao Le nodded after hearing the words: "Our army will be here in two days, and before that, you can send envoys to report at any time."

Two days later, Shouyang's boat division came south along the Feishui River, and Li Bomu finally decided to withdraw his troops from Dongguan temporarily instead of staying in the city to defend and fight.

After entering the city, Li Tai ordered people to check and reorganize the households in the city. He collected more than [-] scholars and people, and promised them money, silk, food and grain. Nearly [-] people were willing to follow westward. It's hard to abandon his homeland, so Li Tai also let it go.

Hefei is worthy of being an important town in Huainan. No wonder the Poyang king Xiao Fan who guarded here before had the intention of rebelling when Hou Jing didn't rebel. The money and food gathered in the city are very rich.In addition to distributing to the migration of the scholars and people in the city, there are still tens of thousands of shi of grain, nearly [-] million yuan in money, and tens of thousands of silk fabrics. Going north, after entering the Huaihe River, they retreated all the way west.

Li Tai did not intend to deceive Li Bomu. On the one hand, it was unrealistic to occupy the important town of Huainan for a long time with his current strength. Once the Eastern Wei Dynasty drew out its power, its long defense line was likely to suffer fatal blows.Moreover, for a long period of time in the future, Huainan is not suitable for stable development, and the investment and return are completely out of proportion.

The reason why Li Bomu had to be forced to make this deal was, of course, to keep the thief from getting lost.The capture of thousands of troops under Murong Shaozong's command was not enough to satisfy Li Tai's appetite. Shouyang was just a dilapidated empty city, and his income was also limited. Naturally, he didn't want to let go of Hefei.

Through this transaction, he also conveyed a belief to Li Bomu and the Hebei family behind him and reached a tacit understanding that we are our own people, and if you have no soldiers, I will have them.When the eyeballs are knocked out by people, you can also ask me to help, and we will take off the cover of Jinyang's nest!
This large group of troops returned slowly along the Huai River, Li Tai asked Yang Zhong to lead his troops to withdraw, while he led two thousand elite cavalry to go ahead.Although something has happened here in Huainan, the situation in Eastern Han has yet to be calmed down, and Jiangling's reaction should be guarded against.

When Li Tai led his troops through the three passes of Yiyang and arrived in Handong, many local tyrants flocked to the south of the three passes to worship and welcome them.

The news of Shouyang's great victory has already spread throughout the Jianghan area. Murong Shaozong, as the famous general of the Eastern Wei Dynasty who beat Hou Jingdu into a panic and fled, after Hou Jing's disaster in the south of the Yangtze River, the reputation of the original Nanliang area became worse than that of the Eastern Wei Dynasty. To be several times more majestic.Hou Jing now looks like a demon king in Jiangnan, how brave is he who can subdue him?
Under this kind of thinking of fighting beast chess, Li Tai is now a battle god, and the local tyrants who were still ready to move have become extremely obedient.And when they heard that Li Tai was going to inspect Jingling, these local tyrants reduced their troops and formed an army of nearly ten thousand people to follow behind Li Tai's fine cavalry, and headed for Jingling in mighty strength. .

Jingling is adjacent to Jiangling, and it was originally an important town on the outskirts of the Jingfu. As the confidant of the King of Eastern Hunan, Wang Sengbian served as the prefect of Jingling for a long time.Although Jingling is now occupied by the Western Wei Dynasty through the hands of Liu Zhongli, the rule is also very unstable.

When Xiao Yi, the king of Eastern Hunan, was shocked when he learned that Liu Zhongli had been captured and that the entire Handong region had been captured by the Western Wei Dynasty, he quickly released Wang Seng to argue for his aggressiveness in Jingling, and set about recovering Handong. area.

Wang Sengben has been here for a long time. After entering the town, he naturally regained control of Jingling quickly and gathered thousands of people from his old tribe.However, before he had time to march to Anlu, the news of the great victory of Shouyang in the Western Wei Dynasty came from Huainan, and then the king of Xiangdong sent him back to defend Jiangling. The military order came soon.

Although he was very unwilling, but before Wang Sengbian surrendered Hou Jing in Jiankang, the king of Xiangdong was very dissatisfied, and even severely questioned and tortured him. Now Wang Sengbian dare not disobey his will. We can only lead our troops back to Jingling.

When Li Tai led his troops to Jingling, the whole Jiangling was shocked. The King of Eastern Hunan hurriedly sent envoys to seek peace, willing to send protons to Guanzhong, and hoped to redeem Jingling with a lot of money.

Li Tai also knew that it was unrealistic to swallow Jiangling in one gulp, so he just took advantage of his reputation and intimidated him to ask for a lot of money.Although matters such as sending protons to sue for peace are beyond the scope of the Jingzhou General Manager's Mansion, returning Jingling is a matter that Li Tai can decide.

He did not intend to settle the deal at once, but took the opportunity to propose border trade. Jiangling must conduct millions of silk trades with Mianbei every year, and must give away [-] craftsmen from Mianbei, and also lend them to Mianbei has a collection of [-] volumes of various books and so on.

For these conditions, Li Tai was of course a lion's mouth, leaving a lot of room for bargaining.After all, Jiangling, as the largest town between Jianghan and Southern Liang, is still very powerful, and it really drove Xiao Lao Qi into a hurry, and the little one-eyed stare was also very scary.

But he didn't expect that the Jiangling side basically agreed to all kinds of conditions he put forward, but the borrowing and collection of books was arranged from [-] volumes to [-] volumes, and the Jiangling side would send personnel to manage it. These collections.

With such a result, Li Tai was quite satisfied, so he led his troops out of Jingling, and immediately arranged for escort of Jiangling's envoy and proton Xiao Fanglue to Guanzhong, while he went straight back to Rangcheng.

Yecheng received the news that Murong Shaozong died in Shouyang earlier than Guanzhong. After Wang Sizheng, who was already under house arrest in Yedu, learned of the news, he immediately ordered his slaves to go out to sell wine and drink heavily from morning to night. I laughed first and then cried, and by the end I couldn't tell whether I was crying or laughing.

Gong Gaoyang of Taiyuan, who was in power because his brother was assassinated and died, and rushed to Jinyang under the support of all the nobles, was shocked when he heard the news. Could it be that the enemy general, Li Boshan, was the one who invaded Jinyang back then?"

Seeing that the left and right nods should be yes, Gao Yang couldn't help sighing again: "It's a pity that such a talented person should have been in my family, but found out and fell into another family's family!"

Compared with Gao Yang's sigh and regret after hearing the news, Yu Wentai was more pleasantly surprised.

Due to the recent expansion of the Taifu, Yuwentai has been staying at the Linhe Military Mansion recently. When the news of Hanzhong and Handong’s succession came back to Huazhou, he was already amazed.

The news of the great victory in Huainan came at night, when he heard the waiter playing outside the tent, Yu Wentai got up from the couch, grabbed the book and newspaper and read it carefully, the smile on his face was suddenly full Ying: "Li Boxan is really a good boy, he is not even an enemy of Murong Shaozong! This is really, really... Hurry up and prepare your car and go back to the city!"

While speaking, he strode towards the outside of the living room. He didn't even notice the waiter whispering to remind him. When he walked to the door and the cool wind blew in front of him, he realized that he was still shirtless, so he couldn't help but groan. laugh it out.

Hou Jing, the Prime Minister of Nanliang, also heard the news, and couldn't help but sighed, "Oh, I missed a good talent! If we met in Henan that day and could rob this disciple to work together, I am afraid that we will have more than just a corner of the south of the Yangtze River. It's not like Xianbei children who are narrow-minded, and they are not stingy to rule with him!"

A big chapter, the sixth volume is over.This volume is the key volume for the protagonist to gradually become self-reliant, so the narrative rhythm in the second half is relatively fast.After the end of this volume, the follow-up steps and rhythm will be clarified. I will write slowly, and I hope everyone will read it patiently.The main content of the next volume is naturally the Battle of Jiangling. Before that, there will be some more soothing and daily content in the middle, so that everyone can better understand the current situation of the protagonist in the current situation and the changes in the overall background of the situation compared to the original.Next, I just want to ask for a vacation to go out for a walk and relax. It will be updated every day for about a week. I hope my good brothers and sisters can tolerate it.Thank you all and wish you all a happy life! ! !