After half a year, Li Tai returned to Jingzhou City again, and as soon as he entered the town, all kinds of news of accidents poured in to him.

First of all, the most important point is that the Yingchuan defenders finally lost their support a month ago, and the city was broken under the siege of 200,000 troops sent by the Eastern Wei Dynasty and the water attack. Gao Cheng of the Eastern Wei Dynasty personally came to Yingchuan City to supervise the battle, and the envoy recruited Wang Sizheng to surrender, ending the battle of Yingchuan that lasted for a year.

After the news of the destruction of Yingchuan City and the surrender of Wang Sizheng was transmitted back to Guanzhong, Daxing Taiyu Wentai immediately ordered Li Tai, the governor of Jingzhou, to control the troops of the original Henan Province and Taiwan nearby, and Li Tai decided whether to abandon or defend the remaining Henan lands.

So after Li Tai returned to the town, the burden on his body increased again, on the one hand, he was responsible for presiding over the implementation of his Hanshui strategy, and on the other hand, he was also responsible for the mess left behind after the defeat and surrender of Wang Sizheng's army.

After the destruction of Yingchuan City in history, the Western Wei Tyrant only ordered the Henan armies to withdraw and give up the various lands they had occupied before, and honestly admitted the failure of this military operation into Henan, and the offensive and defensive operations in Henan between the two Wei Dynasty came to an end temporarily.

However, the situation faced by Li Tai now is different, the most important point is that during the period when Yingchuan City was besieged, Murong Shaozong, the general of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, did not die outside Yingchuan City.

Probably because Liu Feng was solved by Li Tai in advance, no one went on a boat patrol with Murong Shaozong, so that Murong Shaozong also saved his life.

As a result of this change, the personnel arrangements of the Eastern Wei Dynasty in Henan have also undergone great changes.

Although the main army besieging Yingchuan followed Gao Cheng back to Hebei after the city of Yingchuan was broken, Murong Shaozong and several generals each led their men and horses to stay in Henan.

Murong Shaozong had not served as the commander of an important theater of operations in the Eastern Wei Dynasty before, so his deeds were not obvious, but after taking charge of the army this time, he first broke through the Southern Liang Northern Expedition army in Huaibei, and defeated the Hou Jing rebels in Wuyang.

Therefore, when the dust gradually settled in Henan, Murong Shaozong, who stayed here, had the posture of taking over the military and political power of Henan and further plotting against Huainan.

Of course, it cannot be ruled out that Murong Shaozong's eyes will turn to the Han region, wanting to further crack down on the possibility of expelling the Western Wei forces and eliminating potential competitors.

Historically, the Western Wei Dynasty did not send troops to Jianghan at the first time of the Southern Liang Rebellion, which is estimated to be related to the loss of Yingchuan. Now this risk is to be faced by Li Tai.

Compared with the more troublesome situation in Henan, the situation between Jiang and Han is also not quiet.

After Hou Jing broke through Jiankangtai City and controlled the center of the imperial court, the people and horses of all the towns between Jiang and Han also returned to their own towns, and officially launched a dog-eat-dog fight.

The first to break out the conflict was Xiao Yi of Jiangling and Xiao Jing of Xiangyang, a pair of uncles and nephews.

Previously, the imperial court replaced Xiao Jing with Zhang Zhang as the assassin of Yongzhou, but Zhang Zhang was detained in Xiangzhou by Xiao Jing's brother Xiao Yu for several months. Finally, when Xiao Yu led his army to Qinwang along the south of the Yangtze River, Zhang Zhang finally got the opportunity to escape from Xiangzhou.

Zhang Zhang didn't dare to go straight to Yongzhou, worried that he would enter the tiger's mouth again as soon as he left the wolf's den, so he had no choice but to go to Jiangling. Just when Xiao Yi was annoyed that Xiao Jing was becoming more and more in awe of him, he used Xiao Jingqin's inactivity as a reason, so he sent people to escort Zhang Zhang to Xiangyang to take office, and ordered Xiao Jing to immediately dismiss and leave the country, and lead the people of the headquarters to Jiankang Qinwang.

Xiao Jing didn't like the one-eyed dragon on weekdays, and Li Tai behind him provided him with military support, plus the life and death of the second palace of Jiankang were still unknown, so he simply sent people to attack Jiangling to escort Zhang Zhang's men and horses halfway, and robbed Zhang Zhang directly to Xiangyang, and also shaved this uncle and enshrined it in the temple in Xiangyang City.

If there was still a dark tide between each other before, but now Xiao Jing dared to directly send troops to attack and kill the Jiangling army, it was undoubtedly a complete tear in the face.

Xiao Yi of Jiangling was furious after hearing the news, but he had already sent Jingling Taishou Wang Seng Bi and others to lead the army to Jiankang, so he did not dare to attack Xiangyang directly.

The next thing was the complete fall of Taicheng, Wang Seng and others surrendered to Hou Jing, and then was put back by Hou Jing. Next up is the beam

The news of Emperor Xiao Yan's death and the crown prince Xiao Gang's ascension to the throne as emperor under the support of Hou Jing reached Jiangling.

Xiao Yu, the assassin of Xiangzhou, also lost respect for Jiangling after returning to the town, which made Xiao Yi, who was sandwiched between their brothers, feel more and more in crisis, so on the one hand, he appointed his son Xiao Fangju as the assassin of Xiangzhou, and made the son Xiao Fang and others lead 20,000 elite soldiers to Xiangzhou.

On the other hand, Xiao Yi appointed Liu Zhongli, who was also released from Jiankang by Hou Jing and came to Jiangling, as the assassin of Yongzhou, hoping to solve Xiao Jing, who was entrenched in Xiangyang, with this strategy of driving the tiger and devouring the wolf.

It's just that when Liu Zhongli was in Jiankang City, he could endure and not save his father when he saw that his father was in danger, and how could he be driven by the king of Xiangdong, although he accepted the appointment given by the Jiangling Military Government, but he only led his troops out of Anlu, and did not take any other actions other than that, thinking that he was waiting to see the situation.

Despite this, Liu Zhongli's return to the town also had a great impact on Li Tai's Handong strategy.

At the beginning of the year, when Jiankang City was just breached, there was no shortage of people who expressed their willingness to surrender to Jingzhou in the panic of the local tyrants of the land. However, during that time, Li Tai was still stranded in Guanzhong, and only ordered Cui Qian and others to respond to such requests with a little comfort, and there was no need to rush into any military action.

However, when Liu Zhongli returned to Anlu, this kind of voice suddenly disappeared. On the one hand, it is true that Liu Zhongli is prestigious, and on the other hand, the Western Wei Dynasty is still not attractive enough to these local tyrants.

However, it is not worth regretting the death of these wall grasses. They expressed their attachment before, and they did not necessarily want to accept the rule of the Western Wei Dynasty, but they were nothing more than to break away from the rule of the Southern Liang and obtain a certain area from the Western Wei Dynasty.

So if you want to really capture Handong, you still need to do a battle after all, whether it is Liu Zhongli or these local tyrants who follow the land, or they all add up.

At the same time, there were also changes in Hanzhong, due to the domestic turmoil in Nanliang, which affected the operation of the Hanshui trade route that had just been opened and operated, so some stakeholders also had some instability. Ankang Haoqiang Li Qianzhe ordered his brother Li Xian to enter the country to be trapped, and he has been here for a long time.

Li Tai had just returned to Jingzhou, and he was faced with such a complicated situation, not counting some of the military and political affairs decisions that had been backlogged in the state capital itself due to his departure.

No matter how complicated the situation is, there must always be a priority. After understanding all the situation a little, Li Tai first ordered the chief Shi Cui Qian and Yang Zhong to receive the 10,000 horses that Zhao Gui had brought to Jingzhou and prepared to rescue Yingchuan.

The overlord's troops and materials have never been very abundant, and although the Han Shui strategy is extremely ambitious, the troops and materials that can be invested are also very limited.

When Li Tai first took office in Jingzhou, he led about 10,000 soldiers, and there were more than 3,000 people who belonged to the overlord, and the rest were all private songs by himself and the generals.

In this strategy of Hanshui, the men and horses provided by the overlord were 20,000 troops, including the 10,000 horses that Zhao Gui had brought to Jingzhou before, and handed them over to Li Tai to receive on the spot, and Zhao Gui himself could return to Guanzhong.

In addition, Li Tai directly brought 7,000 people from Guanzhong, plus the 3,000 people who entered the town before, which was enough for the 20,000 horses allocated to him by the overlord.

In addition, Daxingtai is also rare and generous to grit his teeth and supply Li Tai with 10,000 stone of military rations, plus the prefectures and counties under the jurisdiction of the Jingzhou Governor's Office this year have collected the rent and transfer of the land for military use, which is the support of all the characters given by the Taiwan government.

These investments, compared with the 200,000 troops invested by the Eastern Wei Dynasty in order to conquer Yingchuan City and the consumption of the army for a year, can be described as extremely shabby. But the national situation is like this, since you are mixed in the Western Wei Dynasty, you have to learn to do big things with little money.

Aside from the support provided by the Taiwan government, Li Tai's own force that can be mobilized is the people of his own headquarters plus the Jingzhou Prefecture Army and the barbarian soldiers of the barbarian chieftains. But if such a maximum mobilization is carried out, Jingzhou's people's livelihood and other aspects of development will basically come to a halt.

Therefore, we must use any part of the power in our hands carefully, and we must not waste it in unnecessary places. Although Wang Sizheng has been captured by the Eastern Wei Dynasty and left for Hebei, the rest of the people must also make good use of it.

So Li Tai sent an envoy to Quanjing

Xuan, Guo Xian and other Wang Sizheng generals ordered them to retreat and re-fortify around the north. Guo Xian and other armies returned to Sanya Road, while Quan Jingxuan withdrew to Biyang, East Jingzhou, and temporarily sat on the other side with Hou Zhi.

Although it is said that the Eastern Wei army has just experienced a long siege of Yingchuan, and there may not be any large-scale fierce war in the future, but for Murong Shaozong, a famous general of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, Li Tai is more or less secretly in awe, worried that this guy may take advantage of the gap between Jingzhou's people and horses to steal his home, so he defended several key points in Henan into the north.

Then Li Tai did not directly summon his old friend Cai Dabao, but first introduced Li Xian, the brother of Li Qianzhe, into the mansion. The situation is too complicated, so he has to open a small hang-up first, and then take care of the other calmly.