Now that the proposed finishing plan has been approved by the Chinese and Foreign Affairs Office, Li Tai no longer stays in Jiuqu City. Dangjie begins to command the troops to pack their bags and prepare to leave Heluo and return to Mianbei.
After Wei Xuan and other generals learned about this situation, although they felt very sorry, seeing the situation like this, they could only come to say goodbye.
Li Taibian also temporarily borrowed the palace of the Lord of Jiuqu City to host a banquet in honor of these local chiefs and generals in Heluo.
"Since returning to Yi, there has been almost no month without fighting, and the whole family has been reduced to one hundred. Now only the last general and a few young children are left. Since the battle with the East bandits, there have been more defeats than wins. Only those who followed the general fought twice, and the results were brilliant.
! The general has abandoned the crowd and left now. If the bandits from the east attack again, I don’t know how many people here will be killed by the enemy..."
At this farewell banquet, after a few glasses of wine, a wealthy man from Heluo village couldn't help but shed tears and said sadly.
When other people present heard this, they couldn't help but feel emotional. People like Li Renjie, who also had several relatives killed in the war, couldn't help but cover their faces and choked with sobs.
Li Tai knew that the disadvantages and difficulties in Heluo existed objectively and could not be solved by a few sensational slogans. Moreover, these Heluo volunteers still insisted on fighting against the Northern Qi under extremely difficult circumstances, and they did not need other people's words.
In terms of motivation, what we really need is tangible support.
Although Li Tai was too busy to take charge of Heluo himself, he still left them with support from many aspects.
Among the several battles in Heluo, the most abundant material harvest was in the Battle of Baiting City. However, because the barbarians participated in the war, these barbarians took away a considerable amount of materials. Other Jinyong City, Heyang South City, including Jiuqu City here,
The sum total of various seizures is considerable, and it is more than enough to sustain tens of thousands of horses for a year.
Li Tai only deducted part of the food and grass needed for his troops and prisoners to return to Mianbei, as well as some of the battle armor, bows and other fine military equipment. The rest was all distributed by Han Xiong, Wei Fabao and other righteous leaders.
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However, these supplies cannot last too long. Their combined strength is more than ten thousand. Of course, the old, weak and disabled are also inevitable. In addition, these volunteers themselves have their families and relatives, and the total number is tens of thousands.
Since they cannot occupy the Heluo Plain for farming and production, and there are a large number of barbarian tribes scattered in the mountains and fields, these volunteers have very limited ways and quantities of supplies, and they are often in famine, and they do not have as complete and adequate logistics as the Northern Qi garrison.
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People like Han Xiong, Chen Xin and others were able to obtain some salt and other supplies from Hedong by relying on their personal connections, and obtained some supplies through trade exchanges with the barbarians or other parties.
However, this method has become more and more restricted in recent years. The reason is that Li Tai had previously established Cebafu to implement the salt diversion method, which made Bafu's control of the salt pond resources in Hedong more and more systematic, and the outflow became less and less. Even Pei Kuan
This native of Hedong did not work in his hometown, so his access to salt was very limited.
Li Tai was also a little embarrassed about this, but this situation was unexpected before, so this time he specially requested 50,000 stones of salt for the Heluo volunteers as an investment to support the Heluo battlefield.
Although the Chinese and Foreign Affairs Office approved this request, it also followed the consistent principle of "deducting, deducting and distributing" and stated that it needed to be paid in installments year by year. As for the first year, eight thousand stone salts were given, probably because of Li Tai's
In the face of the general speaking in person, as for the rest, I don’t know if the rest can be given before the end of the Northern Zhou Dynasty.
Although Li Tai is also good at internal production, he must have such a foundation. Now that Heluo is the front line, what the Western Wei Dynasty can control is all the corners. In this regard, he can only say that it is difficult for a clever woman to make a meal without straw.
He would also like to give these volunteers a certain amount of material assistance every year, but firstly, this is not his obligation, and secondly, it is to help the urgent rather than the poor.
These Heluo Volunteers have almost no hematopoietic ability. If they are accustomed to the material assistance from the Mianbei side and make consumption plans, if there is any unexpected situation in the Mianbei side that delays the funding, it may lead to serious consequences.
Based on the demographic structure and living environment of these volunteers, Li Tai helped them develop some production methods for mountain planting and collection.
Years of war have sharply reduced their strength. Han Qinhu hunted tigers at the age of thirteen. Although this reflects his bravery, it also shows that even such an old boy already needs to participate in hunting, production and fighting.
It is not realistic to plant grains and grains in large areas in the mountains, but it is still possible to plant some cash crops in a small area, such as tea and medicinal materials. Although the workload is also not small, it is more difficult than hunting or venturing to the plains.
Reclaiming wasteland for planting is much safer.
What Li Tai proposed is actually done by the family members of these volunteers, but the scale and output are relatively limited. After all, these outputs are not suitable for food and clothing, and there is no market for trading and cashing out.
But now Li Tai is willing to conduct relevant transactions with them. Not to mention that he has a huge market and many channels. The Jingzhou General Administration alone has a large demand for these materials. Therefore, these Heluo volunteers can not only expand their own
For large-scale production, they can also purchase from barbarian tribes and organize their production. Even if the output increases by ten times, Li Tai can still afford it.
All the powerful generals were very enthusiastic about the plan proposed by Li Tai. They all put aside their sadness and disappointment and raised their hands to respond. Compared with some free funding, they were naturally more willing to accept this kind of plan.
Mutually beneficial cooperation, because only in this way can we maintain long-term cooperation and ensure dignity.
Li Tai reached a preliminary agreement with them, agreeing to send members of the General Manager's Office here to discuss the details after the year, and next year the Jingzhou General Manager's Office can provide a transaction volume of 50,000 shi of grain and 20,000 bolts of silk. Even if they cannot raise sufficient amounts,
The goods are fine and can be paid year after year.
When everyone heard Li Tai's promise, most of their regrets and worries dissipated. Everyone was filled with gratitude to General Li and thanked him again and again.
After saying goodbye, Li Tai led his troops from Jiuqu City to the east, crossing the southern part of the Heluo Plain and arriving at Yique.
In addition to the 5,000 cavalry soldiers who were brought northward, they were accompanied by many barbarians.
People's yearning for the pursuit of beauty is irresistible. When these barbarians followed General Li to fight and heard about the superior production and living environment in Mianbei, they even wanted to follow him to Mianbei. Their hometown
Naturally, my feelings are not profound. If this troubled world were not so terrible, I would not want to squat in the mountains to make a living.
In addition to these barbarians, there were also a large number of Northern Qi prisoners. Li Taiqian captured more than 2,000 prisoners of war in the battle of Baima Temple, and Baiting City, Heyang City and Jiuqu City made gains one after another.
Especially for Jiuqu City, because the defender Yuan Jing'an strengthened the walls and cleared the fields, focusing on defending Jiuqu City, almost all the nearly 20,000 defenders in Yiyang were concentrated in Jiuqu City, and he could not withstand Li Tai's teasing.
The rash battle outside the city resulted in the capture of almost all the more than 10,000 soldiers in Jiuqu City.
Therefore, in the series of battles in Heluo, Li Tai killed more than 20,000 Northern Qi troops by killing prisoners alone. Some of these prisoners stayed in Heluo to serve as volunteers, and some followed Yuan Jing'an and other captured generals.
After being escorted back to Bafu in Huazhou by Cai You, Li Tai took all the remaining ones as ordered and returned to Mianbei with Lin Sheng, Lin Jia and his son.
Li Tai did not interfere too much with the personnel arrangements in Luoshui, but the Yishui aspect concerned his advance and retreat in the Heluo Plain, so he proposed that Pei Kuan guard Kongcheng, and Li Renjie go south to guard Luyang, plus
When Guo Xian was guarding Xiangcheng, this area became an additional area under the jurisdiction of the General Administration of Jingzhou.
When Li Tai led his troops to Fuliu City, he met many barbarian chiefs who came to pay their respects. The two Heluo Wars, especially Li Tai's words of dispersing the spoils to help the barbarians in the war, made him in Yi.
The reputation among the barbarians in Luo County skyrocketed, and the barbarian chiefs outside Fuliu City heard the news and came to pay their respects.
They did not come empty-handed. The two elderly barbarian chiefs at the head also presented several bloody heads. After their introduction, Li Tai learned that the owners of these heads were Mei Jichang, the former governor of Northern Jingzhou in the Eastern Wei Dynasty, and others.
Several people.
Li Tai had some impressions of the barbarian king Mei Jichang. He had previously led his barbarian troops to harass Luyang Pass on the orders of Murong Shaozong. Later, after Li Tai defeated Murong Shaozong in Huainan, these disturbing barbarians disappeared.
Li Tai didn't have time to take care of both things at the same time. He didn't expect that he would receive such a gift when he led everyone back to the town.
So Li Tai stayed in Fuliu City for another day, comforted these barbarian chiefs, and gave them some official titles of the General Manager's Office. Senior local officials such as governors and county governors could not be directly appointed by the General Manager's Office.
, but there is no restriction on the appointment of officials to control the barbarians, and they can do it according to expediency, as long as a supplementary report is submitted to the Chinese and Foreign Affairs Office afterwards.
It was already the end of the twelfth lunar month after passing through Fuliu City. There were nearly 20,000 strong troops, and their progress was naturally slow. Looking at this situation, they might not be able to reach Jingzhou even after the New Year. The New Year is approaching, and the General Manager's Office must have a lot of personnel to deal with. Li Tai
He simply broke away from the large army and led several hundred of his trusted cavalry back to Rangcheng.
Not long after Li Tai led his troops to leave Heluo, news came from the north bank of the Yellow River that He Baren, the king of Anding in the Northern Qi Dynasty, was leading a mighty army southward to recover Heluo.
After learning the news, Han Xiong, who had just led his troops to retreat to Hanguan City, could not help but secretly rejoice. At the same time, he actively repaired the city and strengthened its defense in preparation for the upcoming Northern Qi army.
However, it was not until the spring of the following year that the organized Northern Qi cavalry activities appeared again in Heluo. Because He Baren fell seriously ill shortly after leaving Jinyang, and stayed in Jianzhou for more than a month before leading his troops southward.
What prompted He Baren to go south was not the recovery from a serious illness, but the knowledge that Li Boshan, who was supposed to be his opponent, actually appeared in Yiyang and drove away Qinghe King Gao Yue who had just arrived in Huainan.