After Li Tai received the order, he led his men and horses to join the people and horses of the western Henan road that had been withdrawn from the river bridge in Luoyang, and continued to the south through Luonan Yique, and arrived at the Fuliu City in only a few days.

At this time, Li Bi's troops also withdrew from Yangzhai and passed through Fuliu City. Li Tai, with the cooperation of Li Bi, took over the defense of the city here, and sent Li Bi out of the country, so that he had time to summon the generals here and make specific arrangements for the military affairs in his post.

"The last general has seen Xihe Gong."

In front of the gate of the camp outside Fuliu City, two generals in military uniforms entered the front fork and saluted Li Tai.

Li Bi went to Heluo this time only to take away the soldiers and horses of the Bafu Zhongjun brought from Guanxi, and two troops remained in Fuliu City and returned to Li Tai's control, namely the Qu Township soldiers led by Zheng Wei of Xingyang and the local volunteers in Henan led by Zhao Gang, the general of the chariot cavalry.

Li Tai and Zheng Wei knew each other, and his son Zheng Quan also served as a greeting minister at his wedding.

As for Zhao Gang, the general of the chariot and cavalry, he is not a stranger, he has met a few times before in his father-in-law's Dugu Xin Mansion. Zhao Gang was active in the Henan region all year round, even though the Henan prefectures had fallen to the Eastern Wei Dynasty. When He Batsheng and Dugu Xin lived in Nanliang that year, it was thanks to Zhao Gang as a messenger to ask Nanliang that they were able to return.

"The two generals don't have to be polite, although there is a division of master and slave in the office, I also have to rely on you to ensure that I fulfill my responsibilities in my office."

Since they are all acquaintances, Li Tai uselessly used a shelf to emphasize authority, waving his hand and beckoning the generals to enter the camp to discuss things together.

When he left Kansai before, Li Tai's troops had more than 5,000 people, and after a few battles, they were captured and recruited, and now there are nearly 7,000 troops in his department, including the deputy general Tian Hong, who also came to Fuliu City with him.

Among the people and horses in western Henan, in addition to Han Xiong, who has been cooperating, Wei Fabao, Li Yisun, Chen Xin, Wei Xuan and other generals and their respective subordinates have a total of more than 12,000 people. These horses were fully armed in the southern city of Heyang before, and now they are under the command of Li Tai.

Zheng Wei and Zhao Gang add up to more than 6,000 people, but the military appearance and atmosphere are a little inferior to those of the Yuxi Yishi, and they are even worse than the people of Li Tai's headquarters.

These groups of men and horses add up, totaling more than 25,000 people, which is the number of troops that Li Tai has in his hands now, and it can also be said that he has commanded the most men and horses since he joined Rong.

There are three tasks assigned to Li Tai by the overlord, the first is to defend the Fuliu City in Northern Jingzhou, the second is to cooperate with Wang Sizheng, and the third is to rescue Hou Jing.

The importance of the three missions decreases in turn, and defending Fuliucheng is naturally the most important. With the success of the two cities of Heyang, Daxingtai Yuwentai obviously wants to do another big job between Heluo, and it is naturally very important to ensure the safety around the battlefield.

Li Tai was placed at the south gate of the Heluo area, and his main task was to ensure that the chaos on the Henan side would not spread and affect the Heluo side. Therefore, not only Fuliu City, but also a series of passages from Henan to Heluo, including Yuyuan Pass, he needs to be careful to guard.

In the case of ensuring this premise, Li Tai also had to cooperate with Wang Sizheng to take over as much of Hou Jing's personnel forces in Henan as possible.

Wang Sizheng only had more than 10,000 Jingzhou troops under his command when he entered Henan, and it was inevitable that the deployment of troops would be overstretched, and some places that were difficult to control directly naturally required Li Tai to send men and horses to give a certain degree of assistance.

As for rescuing Hou Jing, it is naturally just talking. As long as Li Tai led the army to appear in the surrounding areas of Henan, it was equivalent to giving Hou Jing a rare solidarity. If he really wants to take this matter seriously, the boss Yuwentai will have to clean him up.

After analyzing and sorting out the severity of the matter, Li Tai began to arrange the troops under his command.

As the core of this mission, Li Tai arranged for 10,000 horses to be garrisoned, and the main force of 3,000 people in the headquarters plus the main forces of the Zhulu Righteous Division in western Henan stayed in Fuliu City, and it was easy not to be transferred.

As for the other passes, a different number of garrisons were arranged according to the geographical significance of their respective geographical positions.

In this regard, Li Yisun and other local head snakes have the ability to stand out, they are not only familiar with the geographical situation, but also very familiar with the various forces in the region, they can fully dispatch and use the local powerful and barbarian forces to coordinate the vigilance and defense, to avoid the main force in the area of the arrangement is too scattered, only need to concentrate on guarding a few key core locations, ready to respond to the surrounding strongholds at any time.

After such an arrangement, Li Tai still has more than 10,000 mobile forces in his hands that can be mobilized at any time, and can be arranged all the way east along the Rushui River until it reaches the Henan Plain.

When the defense around Fuliu City was almost arranged, Li Tai also received a message from Yang Zhai, and Wang Sizheng invited him to meet him.

For Wang Sizheng and his person, Li Tai does not have any direct experience of dealing with him, but he has indirect memories.

When he first came to this world, he was on the road to evacuate from Hengnong to Tongguan, and the Hengnong guard at that time was Wang Sizheng. Because of his background, Wang Sizheng also gave him a thin donkey to walk, but his weapon was detained in Hengnong.

After recalling it like this, the impression of Wang Sizheng was not much more vivid, and Li Tai only felt that his butt hurt a little again. Aside from his curiosity about Wang Sizheng and his affairs, he really needs to go to Yangzhai to fully communicate with Wang Sizheng in order to cooperate flexibly in the future.

So Li Tai led more than 1,000 light horsemen, and under the leadership of Zhao Gang and others, who had just withdrawn from there, they marched east along Rushui.

To the east, there are nearly 100 miles of road that still belong to the mountains of the outer mountains, and the road is winding and rugged, but the river valleys along the way are gradually becoming more open. Wait until you pass through Rubei, and you will officially enter the Henan Plain, and as far as you can see, there are almost no obvious geographical obstacles except for some natural and artificial canals.

In the plains, Li Tai and his entourage galloped on horseback, and waited until they traveled dozens of miles to the northeast, and the undulating changes of the mountain terrain could be seen in the distance as far as the eye could see, but compared with the tall Qinling Mountains, these hills with low slopes were like ordinary soil slopes.

This piece of Heze Plain is the world-famous Yingchuan, which can nourish a series of famous families in the late Han Dynasty, and the natural environment and cultivation conditions of Yingchuan are naturally very good.

Just between the Ruying where Li Tai passed, large and small villages were scattered in the wilderness, even in some sparsely populated wilderness areas, you can see many traces of artificially built river embankments and ditches, as well as wild mulberry forests that stretch for dozens of hectares at every turn.

With such a superior natural environment, the folk customs must be quite simple. Because even if you are a traitor, you have to use your brain and effort, and if you have that time, it is better to circle a field and cultivate and weave.

Anyway, Li Tai is really a little hungry and crying when he sees everything along the way, if he can carve out a piece of land here and develop with peace of mind, the income from farming alone will be much stronger than that of Guanzhong, not to mention the ravines and ravines in northern Shaanxi.

Of course, it is not easy to sit on such a piece of land. Even Hou Jing, the most vicious of the townsmen, could not sit back and withstand all this, and would soon be chased by wild dogs fleeing everywhere.

However, after walking on the field, Li Tai somewhat understood why Wang Sizheng set up his platform in Yingchuan, where it was inconvenient to attack and defend. As long as such a fertile land is occupied, it will soon be able to accumulate a considerable amount of money, food and materials, which are precious war potentials!

Of course, Wang Sizheng himself may not think like this, but this has nothing to do with Li Tai.

He originally came here as an assistant, and how Wang Sizheng will operate next, although he will also put forward certain opinions, but if Wang Sizheng just doesn't listen, then he can only let go of the helping complex and respect the fate of others.

Yangzhai City is located on the west bank of Yingshui, far away from Jishan, the scale of the city is not too large, and there is a large area of camp outside the city.

"The last general, Guo Xian, was ordered by the Duke of Taiyuan to welcome the Duke of Xihe. The lord has set up a simple banquet in the camp, and the Daoxi River can go straight in. ”

As soon as Li Tai and his entourage came to the west bank of Yingshui, a team of soldiers rode horses at the opposite gate to meet them, and the first general said to Li Tai with a fist from afar.

"There's General Lao Guo."

Li Tai bowed his head to the other party, and before and after coming to the camp gate, he ordered Gao Le and others to let the war horses drink along the river, and he only brought a dozen followers into the camp under the leadership of Guo Xian.

The group soon came to the big tent of the Chinese army, outside the big tent, a tall middle-aged man dressed in old robes, with a neat beard and beard, stood in front of the door surrounded by everyone, and when he saw Li Taixing coming, he raised his hand from afar and said with a smile: "Li Boshan, remember me?" ”

"The last general has seen Taiyuan Gong, Hengnong in the old year hurriedly saw it, and he didn't intend to turn around and it was a few years before there was a reunion. The demeanor of Taiyuan is as good as yesterday, and the memory of the last general is still fresh, how dare you forget! ”

In the face of this world-famous general, Li Tai did not dare to be arrogant, and when he heard this, he hugged his fists and responded with a smile.

Wang Sizheng also looked very happy to see Li Tai, raised his arm to pat Li Tai on the shoulder, and said with a smile in his mouth: "Li Jiaerlang, the voice and appearance are beautiful, which makes people happy at first sight, and I don't bother to care about your bad deeds of being greedy for merit and hindering my plan." It's just that I have to drink a few more glasses when I enter the table later, so that my children's depression can be relieved. ”

After Li Tai heard this, the smile on his face narrowed sharply, and he slightly sideways his shoulder to avoid Wang Sizheng's palm that patted him on the shoulder, and then said: "Taiyuan's public words are very uneven, which is incomprehensible. The last general was ordered to help here, and what he did was here, if the public has something to say, even if the last general is not caught, there are other talents available in the country! ”

(End of chapter)