Going all the way along the Yellow River from Tong Guandong is also a nostalgic trip full of memories for Li Tai.

When he first came to this world, he was a defeated soldier in Bishan, who was escaping from Hengnong, and fled all the way west to Tongguan along this road.

This is really not a good memory, even if Li Tai still recalls, the deepest impression is still the strangeness of entering this realm, the chaotic roar of the defeated soldiers, and the back of the donkey that hurts people's buttocks.

This time I revisited the old place, both the identity and the future and the purpose are completely different, and I feel very excited. Thousands of infantry and cavalry soldiers before and after, plus nearly 10,000 soldiers and soldiers, are no longer the defeated army squad that was full of grass and trees.

At that time, he only cared about fleeing for his life, and he was not in the mood to look at the scenery along the way.

From the south bank of the Yellow River between Tongguan and Hengnong, is a large area of open and flat terrain, much higher than the river plateau, there is a large area of jungle on the plateau, the grass and trees that have not been rested grow wantonly, only the pedestrians continue to step on the left side of the road near the grass and trees are slightly sparse.

It's the height of summer in May, and the vegetation on the hill is getting denser and denser, and there is a finished wild peach forest, the peach blossoms have already been blown into mud by the wind and rain, and there are many equally green peaches hanging among the green leaves on the branches. These peaches are far from ripe, and the surface is densely fluffy, and when you rub them and throw them in your mouth and chew them, the taste is also sour, bitter and astringent.

The name of this piece of Taiwan is called Peach Forest, the so-called "Yanwu Xiuwen, attributed to the horse in the sun of Huashan, and the cattle in the field of the peach forest", but in today's troubled times of the Three Kingdoms, this can only be a fantasy.

There were no cattle grazing on the hills, but wild beasts such as foxes and wolves were not uncommon, and some of them were bold enough to roam on both sides of the road before they were shot through by the soldiers with an arrow, and many more were frightened into the depths of the dense forest.

Hengnong City is located on the south bank of the Yellow River, after the end of the battle of Pishan in the ninth year of the Great Unification, Wang Sizheng returned to the town of Hengnong from Yubi, and guarded the back road for the defeated army in the retreat of the pass.

Due to the defeat in the Battle of Pishan, the Eastern Wei troops advanced to the west of Henan, and even Hengnong was exposed to the blade of the Eastern Wei army.

After Wang Sizheng returned to the town, he began to overhaul the city defense, after more than two years of operation, Hengnong City was well defended, and the scale of the city was expanded several times, becoming a male city in the west of Luoyang that was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and firmly isolated the people and horses of the Eastern Wei Dynasty.

Although Wang Sizheng has outstanding military talents, he does not belong to the core members of the hegemony after all. Therefore, when his people were guarding Hengnong, Daxing Taiyu Wentai also arranged for a henchman to stay here, that is, Li Yuan, who was in charge of the 21st military defense of Yizhou and Hengnong in western Henan.

In the twelfth year of the Great Unification, Wang Sizheng was transferred out of Hengnong, but Li Yuan still stayed in the town. When Li Tai led his troops to Hengnong, Li Yuan had already led the crowd to wait here for a long time.

Li Tai rode to the front of the team, then turned over and dismounted and strode towards Li Yuan, clasping his fists and laughing: "Yang Pinggong, it's been a long time." A few days ago, I was separated from Huazhou, I often missed, and now I will fight side by side, which is really an honor! ”

Li Yuan also laughed when he heard this, stepped forward and took Li Tai's arm and said: "The former envoy from the Fuzhong sent a message, telling that Xihe Gong was the vanguard of the army, and I will laugh at the people here and say that the East Thief is unlucky, and Xihe Gong is young and strong, and his former prestige has not faded out of his ears and eyes. ”

The two exchanged brief greetings, and Li Yuan introduced several generals behind him to Li Tai. Several generals also had their own official positions such as assassination history and county guard, but because western Henan was at the forefront of the war with the Eastern Wei Dynasty, many prefectures and counties were often only one city and one place, so these official positions were often more symbolic than practical.

Under Li Yuan's introduction, Li Tai also greeted these generals one by one, and the names of the generals were Li Yisun, Wei Fabao, Chen Xin, Han Xiong and so on. They are basically not Beizhen warriors, but local Haoqiang around Heluo who joined the Western Wei regime after Xiaowu moved west, or people from Guanxi.

Among them, Li Yisun is a native of Luonan Yichuan, his clan has been a local tycoon for generations, and his father Li Changshou colluded with the barbarians to invade the southern area of Hangu when he was a teenager, and later was appointed as a governor by the Northern Wei court.

Later, Xiaowu moved westward, and many of the clan magnates who were stranded in Luoyang had to take refuge in Li Changshou and be escorted to Chang'an by his sponsorship, and even Li Tai's aunt and grandmother, Li Zhihua, the princess of Feng Yi, were able to enter Guanzhong because of this.

Li Changshou and his eldest son Li Yansun died in the war, and the imperial court led his troops with his youngest son Li Yisun, and continued to be active in the fight against the Eastern Wei people between Yiluo. This point is somewhat similar to the Quan Zhongzun that Li Tai had seen before.

Wei Fabao is Li Changshou's son-in-law and Wei Xiaokuan's nephew, and now serves as the head of the same track defense in the upper reaches of Luoshui, and is a very important town general in western Henan. However, it was able to command its men and horses to sit in important places, relying more on its own heroic battles.

In a battle with the Eastern Wei army in Guannan, Wei Fabao was shot in the neck by a stray arrow, and the arrow was pierced through the mouth, and he was rescued back to the camp by the troops and fell into a coma for a long time before he was able to wake up. To this day, there is a huge arrow wound scar on the side of his neck, which shows his bravery.

As for Chen Xin and Han Xiong, they are also local heroes in Henan. Chen Xin also followed Li Yuan to the Tiger Prison to pick up Gao Zhongmi and his party in the old years, but Li Tai had not come to this world at that time, so he was not deeply impressed by this, and if Li Yuan hadn't specifically mentioned it, he couldn't remember it at all.

Han Xiong is not very surprising when he hears his name alone, but his words are very memorable, and the word Mulan is the table. But what is even more memorable is his son, the famous general Han Baohu of the Sui Dynasty, of course, the more famous is Han Baohu's nephew Li Jing.

Although Li Tai's official position is much higher than the generals here, but he is not arrogant in front of them, and there is no shortage of Beizhen veterans lying on the old merit book in Guanxi, but these generals of Western Henan are at the forefront of the war with the Eastern Wei Dynasty, especially in the past few years after the Battle of Pishan, the strategy of the country has shrunk, and it is all because these generals have fought hard here to block the various tentative attacks of the Eastern Wei Dynasty outside the border.

It is no exaggeration to say that the Western Wei Dynasty has been able to fully recuperate in recent years, and it shows that the new army of the Western Wei Dynasty, including Li Tai, who has risen rapidly by taking advantage of the establishment of the government soldiers, is relying on the development space that these generals in western Henan have struggled for.

In fact, not only western Henan, but also other areas of the Western Wei Dynasty were mainly responsible for the defense work of the locals, such as the Battle of Yubi last year. Some offensive operations are often dominated by the Beizhen warriors.

This point is not enough to extend the argument of which is stronger or weaker in combat effectiveness, it is nothing more than that compared with these Beizhen warriors who are sent to Kansai, the local people's local feelings and sense of responsibility are stronger. The warriors of Beizhen are professional soldiers, accustomed to obtaining resources through war, and they must be more motivated to expand their operations abroad.

The group entered the city and sat down, exchanging and discussing military aircraft while eating.

Although the Hengnong City built by Wang Sizheng is grand and strong, it has never had a sufficient material base because it is on the front line of the local war. Therefore, even for the generals, the diet is only to eat and drink enough, and there are no other requirements. In order to entertain Li Tai, who came from afar, he specially slaughtered an old cow today, which is already an extremely rich meal.

Although Li Tai has often led the army in recent years, he has not eaten coarse and choking grain rice for a long time, and he can't help but feel a little embarrassed when he looks at the clay bowl full of grain rice. It's not that he is squeamish and hypocritical, but that this sudden change in diet directly affects the recovery of physical strength.

So he took the excuse that the masses were eating, and went into the camp to get more than a dozen grain cakes. And when this grain cake was carried to the hall, the governor Li Yisun couldn't help but say: "This is not the refined grain cake in the Eastern Thief Army? I didn't expect that the Xihe Gong Army was also prepared. ”

This grain cake naturally does not have too high technical content, as long as the material is solid and the process is guaranteed, it is not difficult to make. But after hearing Li Yisun say this, Li Tai couldn't help but be curious: "The Eastern Thief Army also has this thing for food?" ”

After hearing this, Li Yisun shook his head and said, "Although the Eastern Thief has more money than me, such refined food is not something that ordinary pawns can enjoy. There are many thieves here, but none of them are carried.

According to the people of Yubi City, Hedong, this grain cake is harder than iron and stone, and it will not rot when stored in the dry place for several years, and it can be scraped a little hot water to soak in food all day without hunger. Last year, Yubi City was able to hold on, and it was a lot of material resources, which is said to be the legacy of the defeat of He Liuhun's army in the eighth year of Datong, presumably just for his elite army to eat.

We and other people in western Henan also only know its shape and do not know its taste, I think that such a treasure, must be the secret of the thief, if it is eaten ordinarily, it is inevitably a little extravagant! ”

"It's a luxury for us, but it's not for Xihegong. It must be known that last year, Xihe Gong directly attacked the thief's Jinyang Palace, what kind of precious materials could not be collected? Today, I am fortunate to be generous to the Duke of Xihe, but I can taste the taste of this wonderful thing of the East Thief! ”

Another general spoke, patting Li Tai's ass while looking at the dozen or so grain cakes with anticipation, and some couldn't help but swallow.

When Li Tai heard their feelings, he couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded, and these guys didn't know what was going on at all, and they completely relied on guessing. Maybe hearsay said that there is such a refined grain cake but I don't understand its meaning, and subconsciously feel that this kind of high-end food must be a wealthy thief to get it, so this misunderstanding occurred.

This naturally made Li Tai a little crying and laughing, but I also have to say that the inertia of human thinking is really great, not to mention the medieval era when information spread very slowly, and it is very difficult to reverse some concepts in later generations after they are formed.

Especially when people's understanding is shallow but they want to interpret and discuss some profound issues, a simple brain can't handle the ever-changing new information, so they can only cling to the incomplete, the more ignorant they are, the more stubborn they are, and they can use bluffs to cover up their lack of knowledge.

Of course, these generals in western Henan are different from those ignorant and brainless, they guard against foreign enemies, struggle on the edge of life and death every day, and have no time to look back at them, so they don't know the emergence of new things in the country.

In order to avoid the embarrassment of these generals in the court, Li Tai simply did not elaborate on the origin of these grain cakes, but just ordered his own soldiers to scrape and concoct them and distribute them to everyone.

The generals each carefully held the pottery bowl in their hands, sipping it while blowing, smacking the taste in their mouths, only to feel that the aftertaste was endless, and even the residues on the inner wall of the pottery bowl were eaten clean with bamboo chopsticks and fingers, and the eyebrows and eyes were full of pleasant exclamations: "I wonder when the sons and daughters in the city will be able to enjoy such delicious military rations every day?" If you have such a delicious stomach, and don't cut off a few more heads of thieves in each battle, what face do you have to boast of bravery? ”

When Li Tai heard these discussions, he couldn't help but look at Li Yuanfa and asked, "Is it so difficult to supply the army here?" ”

After hearing this, Li Yuan sighed and said, "In previous years, Heluo was in power, and the situation was not so bad. Although there is no lack of thieves and harassment, the men of Ilo are ploughing and fighting, and the women are diligent weavers, although they are not abundant, but there are always supplies.

But now that Yiluo is lost, the defenses can only survive when the mountains and rivers are dangerous, the mountains and fields are rugged, and the road is still difficult, how much harvest can be obtained only by the wood mining between the ditches and streams? Therefore, this time Hou Jing was in turmoil, and the people here were also eager to fight back and recapture the Iro River Valley and the Plain. ”

After hearing this, the generals also nodded their heads, although the country will also give them some funding in recent years, most of the material needs still need to be self-funded. But now the advantage between Heluo is not mine, they are all suppressed between the mountains and hills in western Henan, and the poverty of life can be imagined.

"Now that the eastern thieves are in chaos, and the army in the country has come out one after another, I am now a pioneer, and I must fight bravely, recover Heluo, and live up to the expectations of the masses!"

Li Tai saw that although the generals were full of sorrow, they were still full of determination, so he couldn't help but speak.

There were not enough supplies here, and there was no wine to cheer up, and after the generals had eaten and drunk enough, they began to discuss the military situation again.

Long before Li Tai's arrival, Li Yuan had already formulated a counteroffensive plan with the generals, and listed all the more important Eastern Wei strongholds between Yiluo as combat targets.

Different from Wang Sizheng's army, which sent troops without authorization and entered alone, Li Tai's arrival meant that the Western Wei Bafu officially intervened in the Henan war.

Li Tai was not Li Yuan's subordinate, as the vanguard of the overlord army, he had the right to fight independently, and when he understood the battle plan of Li Yuan's army, he quickly also selected his next march route and combat objectives.

There are maps involved in this plot in the book review area.,The defensive locations that appear in the follow-up plot.,I try to use the signs on these maps to mark it.,I hope you can understand it.,Easy to understand the development of the plot.。。。

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