Out of Huazhou, cross Weishui, go south to Shangluo, and then pass through Danshui and go down to Wuguan, then go out of the Qinling Mountains, and are about to enter the range of Nanyang Basin.

Danshui flows down the western edge of the Nanyang Basin, and when the procession enters here, it needs to go eastward and cross the uniform water of the Danshui Stream, and then enter the hinterland of the Nanyang Basin.

There is no fixed bridge on the river to walk with, and the only way to cross the river is to rely on the boat. Li Tai's troops, horse armor soldiers, craftsmen, soldiers, soldiers, etc., reached more than 15,000 people, plus a huge baggage logistics team, it was obviously not enough to cross the river with three or five ferries.

As early as when he was about to arrive at Wuguan, Li Tai took a step ahead and informed the local governor of the prefecture and county to prepare to meet the army. The first place that the team entered when they walked out of the Wuguan Ancient Road was Xizhou, and Cui Xuanyou, who was the assassin of Xizhou at the time, had already led the Fuzuo to greet Li Tai and his party in the state.

"The lower official Cui You had to send a message to the king, and now the Gongzhou capital is in the left to welcome the envoy. The state government has also done its best to provide the boats and vehicles required for the march of the army, and there may be any deficiencies, so please forgive me!"

Seeing that Li Tai rode out of the horse surrounded by all the relatives and soldiers, Cui You hurriedly led everyone to meet him, and stood in front of the Daozuo horse to salute.

When Li Tai saw this, he also hurriedly turned over and dismounted, and hurriedly raised his hands to support Cui You's arms and bent his arms and did not dare to accept the salute, and said with a smile in his mouth: "Cui Che is the first to ride in things, and he is virtuous in private.

In his early years, when he first entered Kansai, when he was harassed by Li Hu and inadvertently offended the eldest grandson's family, Cui You had come forward to help, and now that they are here, Li Tai will naturally not be arrogant because of his higher official position.

Cui You was also very relieved to see Li Tai's attitude like this, but he still adhered to the etiquette of his subordinates, and introduced the people of his state capital to Li Tai one by one, and then said with a smile: "Knowing that the envoy is about to have an accident in Jingzhen, the lower officials are really excited, so that the monarch is proud of his family, bravely crowns the army, and can negotiate with the masses and inspire people to make progress. Now all the people have to look up to the gentleman's outstanding demeanor, and they should know that the preface is true!"

Today's Li Tai can be said to be a big group of pets loved by everyone among the westward migrating clans, and it can be said that he has single-handedly broken through and elevated the treatment and power of the Kwantung clan in the Western Dynasty. Relatives such as Cui Qian and other party members have made real progress because of it.

In recent years, Li Tai has shown people with a strong and brave image, and every time his reputation is related to his military exploits, and when people face themselves, they are also more cautious and awe-inspiring, and they have not heard similar praise for a long time, and they are also very happy after hearing the words, so they go to the state with Cui Youyou talking and laughing.

Xizhou is also one of the thirteen states of Li Taidu, but its state territory is not large, located in the transition zone between the Qinling Mountains and the Nanyang Basin, and its basic function is to guard the entrance and exit of Wuguan Road.

Li Tai only supervised the military affairs, but it was not good to inquire too deeply about the people's livelihood and government affairs here, but when he asked Cui You about the military equipment of this state, the answer he received also made him a little dumbfounded.

Although Xizhou is an administrative level at the state level, the only thing that can be called an armed force is the more than 2,000 barbarians who are allocated to the state capital, and if there is a military need, they can barely muster four or five hundred barbarians.

Although Xizhou's armed forces are weak, it is because of the state's positioning, and it is not without merit. This is an important transit place between Nanyang and Guanzhong, so the reserves of vehicles, horses, boats and other means of transportation are very considerable, and the guards of Wuguan often rest here when they are on duty.

Hearing Cui You's introduction here, Li Tai immediately became interested, and asked Cui You how to prepare for the warship attack tools used in water warfare here.

Cui You shook his head and smiled bitterly after hearing this: "Water warfare is certainly not what we and other northerners are good at, even if warships and the like are prepared, it will inevitably be idle for a long time, and the annual maintenance cost is not small, so there is not much preparation in the state. Even in the town of Jingzhou, there are not many reserves, and the boats are only ferrying. But if the war is necessary, you can attack the enemy's waterfront docks, and if you can't attack it, it is useless to think about it."

Li Tai also heard the meaning of Cui You's words, that is, we are really not good at water warfare, if you really want to do it, it is not impossible, there will be warships to defeat the enemy's dock, but if you can't even attack the dock of the southerners, then just wash and sleep.

So being poor is not useless,

At least when people are hot-headed, they can also have a safety bar, if the wide one wants something, then the head can be sent extremely silky.

Li Tai stayed in the Xizhou Prefecture for another night, and asked Cui You about the specific situation around Jingzhou by the way, and Cui You's answer made him dare not be optimistic.

All in all, Wang Sizheng abandoned the town and went to Henan before, which caused a very bad impact on Jingzhou, and even almost had a power vacuum.

Changsun Jian has been in the town for many years, and although he has not made much achievements in military and political affairs, he has finally been able to maintain a basic stability of the situation. Under the eldest grandson Jian, the most important military and political figure in Jingzhou was Quan Jingxuan, who came from the Heluo battlefield. The men and horses of Quan Jingxuan's department were also the army with the most considerable combat effectiveness in Jingzhou before, and they relied on this to defend the territory and subdue the inside and outside.

Although some of the more than 10,000 men and horses that Wang Sizheng took away from Jingzhou before were the headquarters he brought from Hengnong, most of them were local people in Jingzhou.

Although there are tens of thousands of people, the vast majority of them are local powerful troops and barbarian soldiers, and there are only a few thousand people under the jurisdiction of the state government.

Wang Sizheng went to Henan and took most of the state soldiers, especially the men and horses of Quan Jingxuan's subordinates, so that Jingzhou had no military power representing the Western Wei hegemony for a while, and only a few county officials could not suppress the powerful and barbarian chiefs.

These local powerful and barbarian chieftains live in the border land where the north and the south meet, and they are themselves cunning and troubled, and seeing that Jingzhou's defenses are so empty, it is naturally inevitable that they are ready to move. Even some people who were already close to the Southern Dynasties took advantage of this to pass on the news and intend to lure the southerners into the Kou, and the Liang State led the troops to attack with his clan Xiao Fan, so it was not unrelated.

Fortunately, Shangluo Haoqiang Quan Zhongzun arrived in time, set up defenses and called on the state people to resist, so he successfully held the state territory without losing it. And the main way Quan Zhongzun ordered the people of the state was to give a large number of state and county official positions to those powerful and barbarian chiefs who attracted public attention.

So now although Jingzhou has been preserved, the personnel and government are in a mess, which can be said to be an out-and-out mess.

Cui You only knows a rough idea of the military and political chaos in Jingzhou, after all, he is still at the lower level of Jingzhou in terms of authority, and telling Li Tai about these is just a preventive shot for him.

But after listening to it, Li Tai couldn't help but feel that even if it was just a preventive shot, the strength of this medicine seemed to be a bit big.

Feeling that the situation in Jingzhou was not good, Li Tai did not continue to stay on the way, and the next morning, he led his 3,000 elites to go straight to the city.

The Nanyang Basin used to be prosperous in the Han Dynasty, but it quickly fell lonely after the Wei and Jin dynasties, and when Li Tai arrived here, it was already late autumn, the grass and trees in the fields withered, extremely lonely, and there were few people in the field of vision.

When Li Tai saw this scene, he couldn't help frowning. In his opinion, the three kingdoms have rarely fought here in Nanyang for several years, and his cousin Cui Qian heard about the latest situation from the eldest grandson Jian, and also said that the people of Nanyang live a stable life, and there is no way to adapt to chaos. But based on what he saw on the spot, the people had a kind of frightened bird, which was far from what it should be like in the peaceful years.

As they marched, the ranger scouts scattered around them also reported that there would be some groups of apprentices around them, presumably afraid of the size of their team and did not dare to bully them, and chased them away, looking like they were not of any kind of good.

The cavalry brigade of more than 3,000 people was still very intimidating in this wilderness, and Li Tai and his party arrived outside the city without any danger or danger.

This city is nearly 20 miles around, the scale is not small, there is a river in the south of the city, the east and west of the river are horizontal, go around the city, the east of the city is piled up into a mound, the mound is equipped with the fort watchtower and other facilities, the northwest two city gates have been closed, look at it is a well-guarded appearance.

Li Tai went around the city to admire it for a week, and there were constantly defenders shouting nervously at the head of the city, and several open city gates were also hurriedly closed.

Li Tai was waiting to see how the soldiers defending the city behaved in terms of stress reaction, but he was not in a hurry to announce the names of the soldiers, and the men and horses in his department were only in the west of the city. Looking at the soldiers who are constantly running around in the city, it is not unorganized

However, Li Tai also noticed that a considerable number of these soldiers were not wearing ordinary hakama uniforms, but mostly with colorful clothing, and most of the voices were in obscure and difficult to hear local dialects.

At this moment, there was a cloud of smoke and dust coming from far and near in the rear, and several horsemen rushed forward, waving their hands to signal that there were no swords and soldiers on their bodies, and only after approaching did they shout loudly: "May I ask if your general is the envoy of Li Zhijun, the Duke of Xihe, who has entered the town?" A certain subordinate of the Yizhou government was waiting for the envoy on the post road, and heard that a large group of people had entered the country on the side road......

Li Tai then waved his hand to signal the soldiers to enter the front to show the talisman and identify themselves, and the other party turned his horse to report after seeing that it was correct, and soon the line of knights came to this line, and the first one was the predecessor of Jingzhou Thorn Shi Quan Zhongzun.

Quan Zhong and Li Tai had seen each other, and they had only been separated for a few months, but they were still as enthusiastic as they had met before, so they dismounted from afar, and said with a smile: "Since the order, the last general has been waiting for the king to enter the town, and it is really rude to welcome the wrong person at this time!"

However, the crowd behind him was not as enthusiastic about Li Tai's arrival as Quan Zhongzun, and a middle-aged man with a short body, also dressed in colorful clothes, who seemed to be a barbarian chieftain, said in a deep voice: "The situation in Jingzhen is evil, it is different from Kansai, so if you indulge in wandering, I am afraid that you will be disturbed in the wilderness."