With the Lord captured, the battle was soon over.

A group of about 100 knights of the Eastern Army saw that the opportunity was not good, so they fled north along the Lingshui, while the rest of the infantry cavalry did not have such good luck, and after being intercepted and killed, the rest had to abandon their weapons and surrender.

The captives were driven to one place, and Liu Aqi, who had escaped and lured the enemy before, finally returned in its entirety, but the size of the team was more than half compared to before, in addition to heavy casualties, some escaped directly in the wilderness.

However, the rest of the people are enough to take care of these prisoners of the Eastern Army, saying that they are the Eastern Army, but in fact, most of them are also Jihu apprentices, at least Li Tai can't see any difference between them by observing them with the naked eye.

The captured Xianbei soldiers, regardless of their temperament, dress, words and deeds, are all obviously different from those ridiculous and miscellaneous soldiers. Even if he has disarmed and surrendered, he still subconsciously maintains the array, which shows that as a professional soldier, some military rules have already become instinctive.

Of course, these high-quality pawns have also received Li Tai's key attention, and the other pawns can only be driven to one place after disarming, while those Xianbei pawns still need to be tied up with ropes, and those who dare to resist will wave their hands with a knife.

The battlefield outside the city was cleaned up, and more than 1,000 enemy infantry and cavalry were captured, except for the hundreds killed during the battle and those who escaped, the enemy troops who came out of the city to fight were all wiped out.

Li Tai sent the guard Pi Jinghe to the city gate and shouted for the defenders of the city to surrender obediently, but a soldier who stayed behind ordered the guards at the head of the city to shoot with bows, and they still had the will to resist, and did not care about the lives of Pi Jinghe and other prisoners.

Seeing this scene, Li Taixin said that this skin Jinghe is not good, but he did not let him continue to persuade Fei Yu to surrender in front of him. This guy is not a nobody, and in the late Northern Qi Dynasty, he was even named the king, and he almost hit himself with an arrow just now, and he was finally captured and killed by his comrades with an arrow, which would be a big loss.

He beckoned Liu Aqi to summon him again, and led more than a dozen captured Xianbei soldiers to the city gate to slash and kill, and then Liu Aqi shouted and called on those Jihu pawns in the city to revolt and surrender, so as to protect them from death.

The reason why the discord meter is commonly used is because it is really easy to use, especially between two groups with unequal status and conflicting interests, there is a deep estrangement without provoking, and once it is stimulated, it will inevitably explode more violently.

Thousands of guards of the city were driven out of the city to die, it can be seen that they are also oppressed, seeing that the situation has been so bad, the past authority and deterrence are naturally gone, so soon the city resounded with the sound of riots and killings, after about half an hour, the head of the commander who was still stubbornly resisting in the city was thrown out of the city.

After the people and horses outside verified that they were correct, the riotous guards in the city slowly opened the city gates, threw their weapons on the ground, and then rushed out and bowed down in front of the city gate to surrender.

At this point, the first small target after the eastward crossing was taken, and Li Tai did not rush into the city, but let Liu Aqi lead his troops into the city to receive the city defense.

A victory or defeat is not enough to judge success or failure, just now there is still a group of enemy knights fleeing north, if you really summon the successor army of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, you can live outside the city is also flexible whether you are fighting or running.

After the city was conquered, there were still more than 700 miscellaneous soldiers, who were captured during the Qing Dynasty and Jihu the year before last, and were assigned to use them as sergeant slaves. Now that he rebelled and surrendered, he saw that Liu Aqi, who was quite famous in the Lishi area, was taken into custody without any obstacles, and even excited, and only said that Zuo Xian Wang's troops were killed, and Lishi would soon become their paradise again.

According to the surrender of Pi Jinghe, the defenders of this city originally had 800 Jinyang soldiers and nearly 3,000 soldiers led by him to enslave them.

The five hundred cavalry who went out of the city with him were naturally Jinyang soldiers, and there were more than 100 people left in the city, if it weren't for these soldiers making noise, he wouldn't even plan to come out. After all, the task he received was to defend Utu City, and report any situation immediately.

He is not stubborn and does not know how to be flexible, but he can't completely control these arrogant soldiers, once he goes out of the city to fight, it is bound to increase many variables and accidents, it is better to stay in the city.

Li Tai also deeply sympathized with this, the xenophobia of the town soldiers was very serious, taking He Batsheng's old department as an example, like his righteous son, he committed suicide directly, and later some of the old Wuchuan troops returned to He Bat's Jingwei brothers, Zhu Meng and others still follow him, it was He Batsheng who brought back from Jiangdong, and they did not belong to the town soldiers.

Therefore, the exclusion of the town soldiers is actually a special moral core and spiritual culture within them, and the more the town soldiers at the bottom, the more they agree with this.

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Although Pi Jinghe was young and brave and won Gao Huan's appreciation and became a cronie, because he was not from a town soldier, he couldn't control the men and horses assigned to him, and even after surrendering, his original subordinates had to shoot him, which shows that in addition to the official position itself, no other identity was built.

Although these town soldiers are not obedient, but the combat effectiveness is really considerable, the 500 cavalry led by Pi Jinghe before did not wear excellent armor because they were pursuing Liu Aqi's department, Li Tai's department was outnumbered and well-armed, and they still did not wipe them out after a lot of hands and feet, which shows the degree of difficulty.

As for the riots in the city, these Jihu are even more pitiful, there are only more than 100 Jinyang soldiers left in the city, while there are more than 1,300 Hu soldiers in the rebellion, and the result is that these town soldiers were killed at the cost of nearly half of the casualties.

In this regard, Li Tai couldn't help but sigh in his heart, that is, as long as these veterans of the Six Towns Mutiny did not die cleanly, the world would not be unified.

Because these town soldiers are strong in combat and the nature of private songs is too strong, even if the prestige is as strong as Gao Huan, rescued them from the hands of the Erzhu clan, and led them to defeat the Erzhu clan to establish the Jinyang overlord, but when it comes to loyalty, these town soldiers are still loyal to their respective generals, and Gao Huan has to be ranked behind.

With high loyalty and high combat effectiveness, at first glance, this kind of people are too greedy, but the strong nature of private music makes them have a split gene in their bones.

Although the Gaoqi regime replaced the Eastern Wei Dynasty and the system construction looked very good, in fact, it failed to complete the transformation from the hegemon to the central power from the beginning to the end. The Jinyang soldiers are a rich legacy left by Gao Huan to future generations, and they are also a burden throughout the beginning and end of the Northern Qi Dynasty.

Of course, these situations are not issues that Li Tai needs to consider, what is more of a headache for him is that the combat effectiveness of the Eastern Wei soldiers is indeed strong, if there is no strategy at all, and he is reckless all the way to Jinyang, it is very likely that he will fail halfway. Fighting these town soldiers and parallel goods like Jihu is indeed not a feeling.

After conquering Wutu City, Li Tai immediately sent a message back, ordering Han Guo to lead 3,000 men and horses to quickly cross the river and settle in Wutu City. This city is the largest garrison of the Eastern Wei Dynasty at the western foot of Luliang Mountain, and it is also related to the retreat of their group, so they naturally do not worry about letting the Jihu people defend it.

In addition to the 3,000 Longyou athletes, there are also more than 3,000 old songs stationed in Weiping since last year, and if necessary, Heishui Fangcheng can mobilize more than 2,000 people and horses to go north for reinforcements in the short term. In addition, Han Guo also gathered more than 2,000 state soldiers in Dongxia Prefecture, which meant that he could invest more than 10,000 troops here.

If you don't want to break through Jinyang and occupy it for a long time and just do things, these forces are sufficient, but if you want to get the maximum results at the lowest cost, then the route and plan still need to be carefully considered.

Pi Jinghe almost shot Li Tai to death on the battlefield before, and now he has been captured and surrendered to Chengcheng, and he is also very happy, in order to make up for his mistakes, he also knows everything about the Eastern Wei Dynasty information he knows.

Seeing that this guy was so sincere, Li Tai couldn't help but secretly laugh at Big Brother's eyes, so he chose this kind of person to be his cronies? But when he thought that Gao Huan had also been a confidant governor for Er Zhurong, he was also relieved, which Lu was not the boss's sweetheart?

According to Pi Jinghe's confession, in addition to Wutu City, although the Eastern Wei Dynasty also set up other garrison strongholds here, most of them did not have direct garrisons, but were stationed by the local Haoqiang Xiangqu and accepted the control of the Wutu City Lord.

Strictly speaking, Wutu City is just a place to monitor the dynamics of Jihu on this side, and the place where the Eastern Dynasty really used it to prevent Jihu riots is Xiurong City in Lanzhou, the former residence of the Zhu family, and Hengzhou in Xianbei in the six states is also located here, and tens of thousands of Jinyang soldiers are stationed all year round.

The other is the south side of the eastern foot of Luliang Mountain, located in the territory of Xihe County, Fenzhou, Liubi City, which has been an important town for the prevention and control of Lishi Zhuhu for many years, and has successively placed Ulzhou and Lingzhou in the territory, and there are more people stationed in Xiurong City.

Of course, this so-called garrison of people and horses is in ordinary times, and now that the Jinyang army is moving south, there are still many people and horses in these positions, Pi Jinghe is not clear, and he does not dare to estimate casually, so as not to cause interference and miscalculation.

In addition, Pi Jinghe also explained that now in the Lishi area, there are still many remnants of the Jihu tribe. Jihu has a long history of living and reproducing in this realm, making full use of the complex and changeable regional terrain to avoid the encirclement and suppression of the army, and then began to carry out activities after the army withdrew.

On the third day of the capture of Wutu City, Han Guo led his successors to rush to reinforcements and took over the city's defense. In this process, the Eastern Wei Brigade never came, which also confirmed the accuracy of the information provided by Pi Jinghe to a certain extent, as well as the fact that the remaining troops around Jinyang were empty.

However, the situation of the loss of Wutu City must have been leaked out, and Li Tai knew that the longer it dragged on, the more time it would give Jinyang to prepare for the situation, and the effect of the surprise army would be lost, so when he had no worries, he immediately started the next plan.