After half a year, Li Tai returned to Jingzhou City again. As soon as he entered the town, news of various changes flooded into him.
The first and most important point is that the Yingchuan garrison was finally exhausted a few months ago. The Eastern Wei Dynasty envoys sent 200,000 troops to besiege and attack the city. The Eastern Wei Dynasty Gaocheng personally came to Yingchuan City to supervise the battle, and the envoys recruited Wang Sizheng to surrender, which ended
The Battle of Yingchuan lasted for a year.
After Yingchuan City was destroyed and the news of Wang Sizheng's surrender reached Guanzhong, Daxingtai Yu Wentai immediately ordered Li Tai, the general manager of Jingzhou, to control the former Henan Dao Xingtai troops nearby. It was up to Li Tai to decide whether to abandon or defend the remaining Henan provinces.
So after Li Tai returned to town, his burden increased again. On the one hand, he had to be 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 defeat of Yingchuan City, the Western Wei Dynasty Hegemony simply ordered the armies in Henan to withdraw and abandon the lands they had previously occupied. They honestly admitted the failure of this military campaign into Henan. The conflict between the two Wei Dynasties in the Henan region
The offensive and defensive operations came to an end for the time being.
But now the situation that Li Tai faces is different. The most important point is that during the period when Yingchuan City was besieged, the Eastern Wei Dynasty general Murong Shaozong did not die outside Yingchuan City.
Probably because Liu Feng was killed by Li Tai in advance, no one went on a boat patrol 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 army that besieged Yingchuan followed Gao Cheng back to Hebei after the city of Yingchuan was defeated, Murong Shaozong and several other generals led their troops to stay in Henan.
Murong Shaozong had never served as the commander-in-chief of an important war zone in the Eastern Wei Dynasty before, so his achievements were not obvious. However, after taking charge of the army this time, he first defeated the Southern Liang Northern Expedition army in Huaibei, and then defeated Hou Jing's rebels in Woyang.
In the battle to seize Yingchuan, he also supervised the battle from the beginning. It can be said that his military achievements are outstanding and unmatched by others.
Therefore, when the dust gradually settled in Henan, Murong Shaozong, who stayed here, was likely to take over the military and political power in Henan and further plot against Huainan.
Of course, it is not ruled out that Murong Shaozong will turn his attention to the Hanmiang area, hoping to further attack and expel the forces of the Western Wei Dynasty and eliminate the possibility of potential competitors.
Historically, the Western Wei Dynasty did not send troops to Jianghan as soon as the Nanliang Rebellion began. This is probably related to the fall of Yingchuan. Now this risk has to be faced by Li Tai.
Compared with the more troublesome situation in Henan, the situation in Jianghan is also not peaceful.
After Hou Jing captured Jiankangtaicheng and took control of the imperial center, people from various towns in Jianghan and Han Dynasties also returned to their own towns, and a dog-eat-dog fight officially began.
The first to break out of conflicts were Xiao Yi from Jiangling and Xiao Qi from Xiangyang, an uncle and nephew who were old enemies.
Previously, the imperial court appointed Zhang Zan as the governor of Yongzhou to replace Xiao Jin. As a result, Zhang Zan was detained in Xiangzhou for several months by Xiao Yu, Xiao Yu's brother. Finally, when Xiao Yu led his army south along the Yangtze River to attack King Qin, Zhang Zan finally got the chance to escape.
to Xiangzhou.
Zhang Zuan did not dare to go directly to Yongzhou, fearing that he would fall into the tiger's mouth as soon as he left the wolf's den, so he had no choice but to go to Jiangling. When Xiao Yi was annoyed that Xiao Jin was losing more and more respect for him, he thought that King Xiao Jinqin was not active.
For this reason, they sent troops to escort Zhang Zuan to Xiangyang to take office, ordered Xiao Jin to be dismissed immediately and left the country, and led his troops to King Qin of Jiankang.
Xiao Jin usually disliked the one-eyed dragon, and he had Li Tai 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 sneak attack the troops escorting Zhang Zuan in Jiangling halfway, and killed Zhang Zuan.
They directly robbed Xiangyang, and also tonsured the uncle and enshrined him in the temple in Xiangyang city.
If there was an undercurrent between them before, but now Xiao Jin dared to directly send troops to attack Jiangling's army, it was undoubtedly a complete rift.
Xiao Yi of Jiangling was furious after hearing the news, but he had already sent Wang Sengbian, the prefect of Jingling, and others to lead an army to Jiankang, so he did not dare to attack Xiangyang directly with a large army.
The next step was the complete fall of Taicheng. Wang Sengbian and others surrendered to Hou Jing, and were later released by Hou Jing. Next was the death of Liang Emperor Xiao Yan, and the news that Prince Xiao Gang ascended the throne as emperor with the support of Hou Jing came to
Jiangling.
Xiao Yu, the governor of Xiangzhou, also showed a lot of disrespect to Jiangling after returning to town, which made Xiao Yi, who was caught between their brothers, even more aware of the crisis. So on the one hand, he appointed his son Xiao Fangju as the governor of Xiangzhou, and made his son Xiao Fang and others lead the
Twenty thousand elite soldiers were sent to Xiangzhou.
On the other hand, Xiao Yi appointed Liu Zhongli, who was also released from Jiankang by Hou Jing and came to Jiangling, as the governor of Yongzhou, hoping to use this strategy to drive away tigers and swallow wolves to get rid of Xiao Qi who was entrenched in Xiangyang.
It's just that when Liu Zhongli was building Kangcheng, he could bear to see his father in danger and not save him. How could he be driven by the King of Xiangdong lightly? Although he accepted the appointment given by Jiangling Military Mansion, he only led his troops to settle down.
Lu, other than that, did not take any other action, presumably just waiting to see the situation.
Despite this, Liu Zhongli's return also had a considerable impact on Li Tai's strategy of Handong.
When Jiankang City was first captured at the beginning of the year, many local tycoons were frightened and expressed their willingness to surrender to Jingzhou. However, during that time, Li Tai was still stranded in Guanzhong, and only ordered Cui Qian and others to respond to such requests.
Just respond with some comfort, and there is no need to rush into any military action.
However, when Liu Zhongli returned to Anlu to take charge, such voices suddenly disappeared. On the one hand, this was because Liu Zhongli was indeed very prestigious, and on the other hand, the Western Wei Dynasty was still not attractive enough to these wealthy people who followed the mainland.
However, it is not worth regretting the demise of these wallflowers. Their previous declaration of affiliation did not necessarily mean that they wanted to accept the rule of the Western Wei Dynasty. They were simply using the support of the Western Wei Dynasty to break away from the rule of Nanliang and gain a certain degree of regional autonomy.
Therefore, if you want to truly seize Handong, you still need to fight in a battle, whether it is Liu Zhongli or these local tycoons, or all of them combined.
At the same time, changes also occurred in Hanzhong. Due to the civil unrest in Nanliang, it affected the operation of the Hanshui trade route, which had just been opened and started operation. Therefore, some unstable situations also appeared in some stakeholders. Ankang powerful Li Qianzhe
He then ordered his younger brother Li Xian to enter the country to complain about difficulties. It had been a long time since he arrived.
Li Tai had just returned to Jingzhou and was faced with such a complicated situation, not counting the backlog of military and political affairs decisions that the state government itself had made due to his departure.
No matter how complicated the situation is, there must be a priority. After understanding all the situations, Li Tai first sent Commander Shi Cuiqian and Yang Zhong to receive the 10,000 troops that Zhao Gui had brought to Jingzhou and prepare to rescue Yingchuan.
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Bafu has always been short of troops and supplies. Although the Han River strategy was extremely ambitious, the troops and supplies it could invest were also very limited.
When Li Tai first took office in Jingzhou, he led about 10,000 soldiers and more than 3,000 men and horses affiliated with the Bafu. The rest were made up of himself and other generals.
For this strategy of Han River, Bafu provided 20,000 troops, including 10,000 troops that Zhao Gui had brought to Jingzhou before, and handed them over to Li Tai to receive them on the spot, and Zhao Gui could return to Guanzhong himself.
In addition, Li Tai brought 7,000 people directly from Guanzhong, plus the 3,000 people who entered the town before, this was enough for the 20,000 horses assigned to him by the Bafu.
In addition, Daxingtai also had the rare generosity to provide Li Tai with ten thousand shi of military rations. In addition, the revenue collected from the rent transfer of the prefectures and counties under the jurisdiction of Jingzhou General Administration this year was used for military purposes on the spot.
Support given to all characters.
Compared with the 200,000 troops invested by the Eastern Wei Dynasty and the year-long consumption of the army in order to conquer Yingchuan City, these investments are extremely shabby. However, the national conditions are like this. Since you are messing around in the Western Wei Dynasty, you have to learn to spend small money to do big things.
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Putting aside the personal support provided by the Tai government, the power Li Tai can mobilize is his own troops plus the Jingzhou state army and the barbarian soldiers of the barbarian chiefs. If he sweeps the land into troops and the mobilization intensity is stretched to the extreme, he can mobilize nearly three soldiers.
Thousands of troops. But if such extreme mobilization is carried out, Jingzhou's people's livelihood and other aspects of development will basically come to a halt.
Therefore, any power in hand must be used with caution and must not be wasted in unnecessary places. Although Wang Sizheng has been captured by the Eastern Wei Dynasty and headed to Hebei, the rest of the people must also make good use of it.
So Li Tai sent envoys to Quan Jingxuan, Guo Xian and other generals of Wang's Political Department, and ordered them to retreat and re-defense around Mianbei. Guo Xian and other troops returned to garrison Sanya Road, while Quan Jingxuan retreated to the east.
Jingzhou Biyang, for the time being, sit there with Hou Zhi.
Although the Eastern Wei army had just experienced the long siege of Yingchuan and might not launch any large-scale fierce war in the future, Li Tai was more or less secretly in awe of Murong Shaozong, a famous Eastern Wei general, and was worried about this guy
They might take advantage of the gap between Jingzhou troops and horses to steal his home, so we guarded several key points from Henan to Mianbei.
Then Li Tai did not directly summon his old friend Cai Dabao, but first introduced Li Xian, Li Qianzhe's younger brother, into the mansion. The overly complicated situation meant that he had to open a small trap first, and then calmly take care of other things after settling one aspect.
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