As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere that had relaxed slightly suddenly became tense again. Everyone held their breath and concentrated, lowering their heads and squinting at the change in Li Tai's expression.
Li Tai was stunned when he heard this question. After entering the city, he also met many Nanliang civil and military officials. However, after seeing him, these people not only flattered him, but also raced against time to ask them questions.
The fate of each of them and the family behind them. As for the question about Liang Emperor Xiao Yi's fate, this was the first time he heard it.
It seems that Nanliang is not full of people who are full of selfish ideas and have no moral integrity. There are still a few ministers with integrity.
After thinking about it, he lowered his eyes and looked at Zhou Hongzheng and said: "It is indeed a pity that the Lord of Liang could not kill his country. But since God has not killed him yet, I will not rush to harm him. But he has abandoned his people first.
Then we and other Wei soldiers entered and occupied the city. It is human nature for Zhou Shangshu to miss his old master, and it is unkind to blame him. However, if you blindly dwell on the past and resist the general trend, it is not a pity to die!"
"Hongzheng also heard about General Li's benevolent and righteous actions outside the city. Jiangling was in danger and difficult to defend. It was not unexpected that both the city and the city were lost. The people who came to occupy it were the benevolent and righteous troops commanded by General Li. This is also the heaven's mercy on Jiangling.
If the soldiers and the people are still stubborn and resist, they are going against the will of heaven and annihilating themselves from the world! Although Hongzheng is unruly and ugly, he also deeply appreciates General Li's kindness and justice. It is an honor for a certain class of people who have survived the disaster to receive this kindness!"
After Zhou Hongzheng heard Li Tai's answer, he bowed to him again and then stepped aside. After seeing this, everyone around him breathed a sigh of relief.
The capture of Jiangling was not the end of an event for Li Tai, but a new beginning. After entering the city, he comforted the soldiers and people in the city, telling the soldiers and people to stay at home and not to go out of the streets easily. The city implemented a curfew policy, except for
Other than that, daily life should be the same as before.
Although Jiangling itself was under control, there were still some nearby cities and strongholds occupied by the Liang people, and they were still well armed.
Among them, the one closest to Jiangling is Matoudu, which is only across the river from Jiangling. Matoudu is located on the south bank of the Yangtze River, opposite Jiangjin, and is stationed by Liang generals Xu Shipu and Ren Yue.
As early as when Li Mu led his elite cavalry to the south to occupy Jiangjin, Liang Jun of Ma Toudu tried to march north to recapture Jiangjin and restore the connection with Jiangling City. However, most of these two troops were from the previous army when King Wuling Xiao Jidong came out.
The Shu army that was defeated at the gorge was reorganized. Although they were able to maneuver and control ships and were proficient in water warfare, their combat effectiveness in land attacks was mediocre. Several attempts to seize the beach and land on it were repelled by Li Mu, and Jiangling
The gates of the city were closed before, making it difficult to achieve effective cooperation with the troops seizing the beach. Therefore, this detachment could only be stationed at Ma Tou Du on the south bank and was unable to move north to support Jiangling.
There is another Nanliang army at the mouth of the gorge to the west. The commander is Xiao Shao, the king of Changsha in Nanliang. He is the same army that was driven out of Badong by He Ruodun and Li Qianzhe.
As the city of Jiangling fell, Li Tai sent Li Mu to lead his troops to the west to join forces with Li Qianzhe and others who had entered Badong to attack this army to disarm Nanliang in the upper reaches of Jiangling.
As the waters of Yunmengze receded and dried up, many large and small tidal flats and islands appeared around Gangneung. There are hundreds of so-called Zhijiang Islands. Some of these river islands also have certain military value, so some fortifications and fortifications were set up.
The garrison can be said to be part of Jiangling's city defense. When Jiangling is attacked, these Hezhou garrison can also play a certain defensive and containment effect.
But Li Tai led too many men and horses, which could not be restrained by just a few hundred soldiers in Hezhou. Jiangling City was captured so quickly that these Hezhou defenses had no effect at all.
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After Jiangling City was under control, Li Tai sent his generals to lead his troops to capture the Hezhou City garrison. It only took a few days to capture Jiangling, but it took ten days to remove the city garrison.
This is because some river islands are the family properties passed down from generation to generation by the garrison generals in the city. Their lives and property are all here. If they lose, it means losing everything, so of course they have to fight to the death.
When these Hezhou city garrison were captured and demolished one after another, there were no longer any strongholds garrisoned by the Nanliang army on the entire north bank of the river. And Xiao Shao, the king of Changsha who was stationed at the mouth of the Xiakou, also showed the usual level of the Xiao family. When Li Mu
As soon as the troops he led arrived at the mouth of the xiakou, they immediately abandoned the camp at the mouth of the xiakou, went boating on the river and sent envoys to ask for surrender. After getting Li Mu's promise to guarantee their personal safety, they went ashore to surrender, and all the garrison at the mouth of the xiakou also surrendered.
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At the same time, Li Qianzhe, who had already stationed in Badong, also sailed eastward, made contact with the troops attacking Jiangling, and completely opened the river channel from Sichuan to Jiangling.
After Li Tai commended Li Qianzhe, he sent him back to the gorge to guard. The opening of the gorge passage was also of great significance to him. He Ruodun, who had previously been sent into the Bashu region and now controlled the Sanba area,
Li Qianzhe and other armies no longer fought alone, and finally became connected with Jing Xiang.
If it was said that a good relationship with Yu Wengui was needed before to ensure control in Badi, then Yu Wengui, who is now guarding the Chengdu Plain, will look at Li Tai in turn. Once they become enemies, the city of Chengdu will be destroyed in a matter of minutes.
Surrounded by Jingzhou legions from all directions!
Although everything is progressing smoothly, there is still a long way to go before the real overall situation is decided. Although the surrounding areas of Jiangling are under control, the Nanliang troops who have returned to King Qin are also arriving one after another.
Among them, the biggest threat is Wang Lin who returned from Guangzhou. Wang Lin's headquarters has tens of thousands of elite troops, and he has captured a lot of local armed forces along the way south. This time when he returned to Jiangling, he was attacked by Xiangzhou and others.
The troops of King Zhu Luqin were elected as the leader of the alliance, with a total strength of more than 30,000 soldiers.
After hearing that Jiangling City had fallen, Wang Lin entered Changsha City and continued to accumulate strength in the name of King Qin's rescue. She also sent troops to occupy the surrounding prefectures, counties and cities one after another, and set up her navy camp in Dongting.
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Fortunately, Li Tai sent Xu Wensheng to move from Xiakou to Baling first, and Xu Wensheng lived up to expectations and repelled Wang Lin's invading army in Baling. In this way, Wang Lin's army was trapped on the south bank and could not reach the river directly. But Wang Lin's army
Its existence is also a huge threat for the Western Wei Dynasty to continue to expand its power to Xiangzhou and other places on the south coast.
In the original history, the strategy adopted by the Western Wei Dynasty after capturing Jiangling was to plunder all the people and goods in the city, and then leave Liang Wang Xiao Qi in Jiangling as a puppet, and cooperate with some garrison troops to return with a full load of troops.
Therefore, Wang Lin and other remaining forces basically turned a blind eye and ignored them, and did not continue to carry out in-depth suppression.
But Li Tai naturally could not adopt such a strategy. He seized military power and captured Jiangling. In addition to hoping to avoid the tragedy in Jiangling's history, he also wanted to build Jiangling into a bridgehead to continue to conquer the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and Jiangnan. Therefore, for Jiangling
He cannot let the threats around him go unchecked. Even if they cannot be completely eliminated, they must be weakened to a level that will not easily shake Jiangling.
Therefore, the next period of time is also critical for Li Tai. In addition to continuing to quell the counterattack of the remaining forces in Nanliang, he also has to deal with the internal threats from behind.
Li Tai knew very well what kind of person Yuwentai was. Although his reverse operations made him very angry, he was still far from complete collapse. Even if his father and brother died, Yuwentai still took up the family business.
, in the face of Gao Huan's extreme pressure, he was able to persist in fighting and reversing the situation. These challenges made by Li Tai would only provoke more fierce revenge from him.
Of course, Li Tai is not a vegetarian, and he has also considered various possible coping strategies that Yu Wentai may have in the future.
The worst-case scenario is that Yuwentai personally leads an army to the south to attack this rebellious boy of his. But in this case, it will really be a life-or-death battle, and the fists are afraid of young people. It is difficult to predict who will win. Even if Yuwentai acts on impulse.
You may have such an idea, but you will quickly give up the idea.
The old guys have been struggling for so many years just to have a grudge with the young guys? With the wealth and power accumulated over the past many years, they use various means to bully and intimidate. This is the normal way of thinking. And once you take
With such a roundabout strategy, Li Tai can't say that he has more tricks than Yuwentai. At least he can make a come and go. And he has one biggest advantage that Yuwentai does not have, and that is time.
Therefore, Li Tai is not in a hurry to make any progress at the moment. The first thing is to stabilize the current situation and avoid making mistakes while busy. If you can stabilize it, you will have won more than half of it.
The most likely problem at the moment is actually the 60,000 troops coming from the south of Wuguan. Although Li Tai gained control of the army and led them to create a brilliant victory, these people were based in Guanzhong after all, and Yuwen Tai
If we don't go south directly to conquer, then the most likely way to start is from this aspect.
Therefore, Li Tai had to guard against this, and his way of guarding against it was also very simple, that is, giving money! The basic reward for the soldiers who participated in the Battle of Jiangling was one hundred bolts of silk each, and as for other contributions,
Another award will be given, and it will be more generous than the basic award.
The total number of people participating in the Battle of Jiangling was tens of thousands, and even if it was just a basic reward, it would be tens of millions of pieces of silk, plus some notable military achievements and soldiers such as being the first to capture the battle.
For the more generous rewards of the governors and generals, this number will be increased several times. If you really want to calculate it carefully, it is simply a terrifying astronomical number, thousands of Gao Aocao!
Such a huge amount of wealth, Li Tai had accumulated over many years, plus the materials he had just acquired from Jiangling's public and private treasury, it was not impossible to get it.
But the problem is that even if it can be obtained, the human cost of transporting, managing or distributing such a huge property is huge, and it is obviously impossible to actually distribute it.