In the inner hall of the state capital, Xiao Xun, the Marquis of Yifeng, was still asleep, and was suddenly woken up by a violent sound outside.

"What's going on?"

Xiao Xun sat up from the couch in shock, and the slave and maid standing outside replied tremblingly, "It seems that a thief has rushed into the state capital......

When Xiao Xun heard this, he was shocked and angry, and he put on his clothes and shouted angrily: "Who is the thief, who dares to invade the state capital!"

"No, I don't know ......."

"How many thieves are there?"

Xiao Xun had already grabbed the robe on the hanger and put it on, and took his sword from the maid.

"I don't know."

The maidservants were already shocked when they heard the sound of fighting outside, so they naturally didn't dare to go out to inquire more. At this moment, a sturdy eunuch of the Hou Mansion rushed into the room with a knife and shouted, "Where is the lord? There are strong thieves outside who have entered the state capital, and the front hall can no longer resist it, please evacuate from the back quickly!"

Xiao Xun was even more panicked when he heard this, and finally got dressed, but asked in disbelief, "There are thousands of elite guards in the house, but they can't stop the thieves? These thieves, how did they enter the city?"

Suddenly encountering such a drastic change, Xiao Xunzi was full of suspicion, but it was difficult for his servants to answer many questions at this time, and when he heard the sound of the fight getting closer and closer, he could only arch from the lord to the back of the mansion, hoping to escape from the mansion and join the city defense people and then fight back.

At this time, in the front hall of the state capital, Li Tai had already led his troops to defeat a battle formation of hundreds of people coiled in the front hall, and all the defeated soldiers scattered and fled. And they didn't have time to continue to chase and suppress the crowd, but continued to kill the state capital Zhitang under the leadership of the guide, and if they controlled the Zhitang, they controlled the military and political center in the city, at least in this night city, it will be difficult to carry out any large-scale personnel scheduling.

There were also more than 300 men armed with bows and crossbows and short blades gathered here, and when Li Tai and the others rushed into this room, they were immediately hit by the rain of bows and crossbows and arrows of the other party, and it was difficult to bully the past for a while.

Originally, the situation was still in a stalemate, and suddenly there was a rush of drums from the inner house, and Li Tai and the others who attacked here did not know what the meaning of this drum order represented, and they were already tired from killing here, seeing that although the other party was a little panicked, he still did not lose his will to resist, Li Tai planned to temporarily retreat to the front hall to wait for backup.

However, at this time, the armor soldiers who were originally stationed in front of the Naodo heard the drum order, and they actually gave up the formation here and retreated to the rear.

"The enemy general will abandon the state capital and plan to flee!"

Seeing this scene, Li Tai suddenly understood, and even though he gave up the idea of retiring temporarily, he clenched the horse lance in his hand again and continued to move forward.

Without a solid formation, the soldiers here withdrew separately, and even if there were still some people left, in the face of the fierce rushing enemy, they were either directly killed on the spot, or they also retreated.

Li Tai naturally couldn't allow Xiao Xun to successfully escape from the mansion and then gather men and horses to counterattack, leaving more than 20 people to leave behind to collect the seal of the Zhitang documents, and then he led his men and horses to continue to rush to the inner mansion.

However, after all, they were not familiar with the layout of the inner mansion, and they quickly got lost in it when they rushed left and right, and there were many running slaves and maids between the courtyards, but they could not find the trace of Xiao Xun, the assassin of Liangzhou, and relied on the guidance of several slaves in the mansion captured on the way, and finally found the right path to rush to the back door of the state capital.

Li Tai felt great regret after hearing this, the number of his attachés at this time was not large, and the people were tired, and it was not suitable for searching all over the city, so he could only temporarily retreat to the state capital Zhitang.

When they returned to the straight hall, Li Qianzhe had already arrived with his rear division, and introduced a middle-aged man in a brocade robe who looked slightly messy and embarrassed into the hall, pointed to him and said to Li Tai, "Tell the envoy, this one is the Marquis of Liang Guoyi Feng, the lord of the Xiao Mansion here."

Li Tai was still a little lost and worried because of Xiao Xun's escape, but at this time, seeing that Li Qianzhe actually led people back, he was suddenly pleasantly surprised in his heart, first nodded to Li Qianzhe, and then looked at Xiao Xun, who was panicked, and hugged his fists slightly and said with a smile: "I have heard Xiao Hou Xian's reputation for a long time, this time I came uninvited, please forgive me for the rudeness."

A certain Li Boshan, who was the governor of Jingzhou in my country, was ordered by the prime minister of my country's Anding Gongyu Wen to recover the land in Hanzhong in Shannan, which had been stolen before, not to kill people for entry, and please rest assured that Xiao Hou was relieved. Entering the state capital and disturbing Xiao Hou's dream was also forced by the situation, and now that the matter is a foregone conclusion, I also ask Xiao Hou to help and comfort the people in the city, so that there will be no more killings in this city, and it is also to protect Xiao Hou in the name of benevolence."

He thought that these words were both soft and hard, dignified and decent, Xiao Xun should have no reason to refuse himself, but after saying that, he saw that the other party just looked at him, did not dare to look at him, and his body was faintly leaning back, looking disgusted with him and unwilling to approach, his heart suddenly became unhappy, and he snorted coldly.

"The general spares his life, the general spares ......"

This cold snort sounded in Xiao Xun's ears, but it was like thunder, and he was about to collapse to the ground as soon as his knees were weak.

Not to mention the fright of being attacked and held on this night, after entering the hall, he saw Li Tai's tall body covered in blood, some thick plasma and even the whole piece was attached to the armor, and the whole person was filled with a strong and pungent bloody breath, and his heart was already extremely afraid, and he didn't hear what Li Tai said at all.

Li Tai couldn't afford to humiliate the other party to boast of his prestige, seeing Xiao Xun panicked and depressed like this, and then bowed his head and did a little self-examination to understand what kind of image he was now, so he temporarily stopped paying attention to Xiao Xun, who was frightened by him, and quickly ordered the blockade of Jincheng, and no one was allowed to enter or leave this night, and shouted to Luo Cheng that the defenders of all battalions were on standby in their respective camps, and that they were not allowed to act without authorization, etc.

After explaining this, Li Tai temporarily borrowed the inner mansion to take a bath and tidy up his appearance, he is not a psychopath, he had no time to take care of the fierce battle before, but now that the battle is over, he naturally can't stand the slippery and bloody body around him.

By the time he returned to Zhitang, the Li brothers had already basically grasped the military and political situation in the city.

After Li Tai sat down, he listened to Li Qianzhe's lecture for a while, and then he knew that there were nearly 20,000 defenders inside and outside Nanzheng City, and there were more than 300,000 stone of grain reserves. Naturally, the huge city will not have the fatal negligence of storing rice but not salt in Jiankang Taicheng, and all kinds of materials for defending the city are also fully prepared.

Hearing this, Li Tai couldn't help but secretly rejoice that this sneak attack was successful, if the army was drawn out step by step and the troops surrounded Hanzhong, even if he could capture Nanzheng City, he didn't know how much time it would take. And Handong and Liu Zhongli are eyeing Xiangyang, and there is Murong Shaozong in Henan who doesn't know where to go, he absolutely can't send most of his men and horses out for a long time.

Li Tai was also quite surprised that Nan Zhengcheng had gathered so much war energy, and when he asked again, he realized that this was the initiative of Xiao Xun's aide Liu Fan. At Liu Fan's suggestion, Xiao Xun began to gather manpower and material resources in the realm to Nanzheng from a very early stage.

Liu Fan, a celebrity in Hanzhong, Li Tai has naturally heard of it, and he can't help but be happy when he hears that Li Qianzhe has been attached to it here.

However, in his opinion, Liu Fan's suggestion to Xiao Xun is not very wise, there are many unruly Fang Yuhao chieftains in Shannan, and Xiao Xun's power and prestige may not be able to control it calmly, it seems that he has a lot of personnel resources, but in fact, he is putting himself on an unstable powder keg.

For example, if it weren't for Xiao Xun's overly tough command, the Li family might not have turned to himself directly.

However, before they arrived, Nanzheng had gathered so many Hao chieftains, and there had been no major riots, and the state affairs had been handled in an orderly manner, which also showed that this Liu Fan did have the talent to handle general affairs.

Li Tai naturally doesn't need anyone to give him any macro strategic guidelines, what he needs is a talent who can fully understand his intentions and carry out his orders.

Anyway, before he left Huazhou, Yuwentai didn't specifically explain who he had to pay attention to after conquering Hanzhong, and even if he did, he could simply not hear it.

When he learned that Liu Fan and Xiao Xun were arranged in the side room of the straight hall, Li Tai got up again and went to meet him.

When he walked into the room, Xiao Xun, who was still talking to Liu Fan in a low voice, suddenly stopped, looked directly at Li Tai with his eyes, and his eyes became a little incredulous.

Probably the first impression was too terrifying, which made him secretly afraid when he saw Li Tai.

Li Tai saw that Xiao Xun still didn't dare to look at him, and couldn't help but feel a little helpless, Lao Tzu was all over the Three Kingdoms, and it was the first time he met a guy who was not impressed by my appearance!

He turned his gaze to Liu Fan again, and said with a smile in his mouth: "I heard that most of the affairs of the state capital are in charge of Liu Ji's room, and those who can work hard. Now that the situation in the palace is settled, but the people in the outer city are still uneasy, in order to avoid panic and nuisance among the masses, I intend to dismiss the troops and order them to return to their hometowns.

Liu Fan naturally learned of Li Tai's identity from the Li brothers, so he naturally didn't dare to hold it up in front of him, and after listening to Li Tai's words in front of the side seat, he said deeply: "A certain kind of sinner is already ashamed of himself for not being able to keep the land to the fullest. Since the Metropolitan Governor has entered this realm, he can uphold the virtue of benevolence, righteousness and good life, which is the blessing of the officials and the people of this side. But I want to ask Governor Li, what do you want to do with my lord Xiao Mansion Master?"

"When we met before, I told Marquis Xiao that this entry was only to recover the lost land, not to kill people. What's more, Marquis Xiao has ruled this township for a long time, and he has always been pleasing to the people. As long as Xiao Hou does not make a withdrawn and disgusting posture and is willing to help me pacify the state border, I will definitely treat Xiao Hou with courtesy."

When Li Tai said this, he looked at Xiao Xun, who was silent.

Xiao Xun's body trembled after feeling this gaze, and after a moment of silence, he whispered, "Thank you Governor Li for preserving this body, I, I will definitely help Governor Li control the state situation."