On the third day after Zhao Gang and others conquered Yiyang City, Li Tai finally led the rear men and horses to arrive in Yiyang.

Zhao Gang, Hou Zhi and other generals led the crowd to welcome Li Tai into the city, while Quan Jingxuan led his headquarters to the south to pursue the Xiahou clan's rout, taking advantage of this victory to fight Yang Zhong in the north and south, and recapture the three passes of Yiyang that were supported by the Xiahou rebels in one fell swoop.

Since Yiyang City was not a city captured after a tragic siege battle, the city defense facilities could basically remain intact, and Li Tai did not need to camp outside the city, and could directly enter the city for a short rest.

However, after entering the city, he did not have time to sit idly, but quickly understood the current situation.

Although the original city lord Xiahou Qiang fled in the wilderness, it did not mean that the situation in Yiyang had stabilized.

Because this guy really sent people to collude with Murong Shaozong as Li Tai expected, and just yesterday, Murong Shaozong sent his generals to lead a thousand elite soldiers and Xiahou Qiang's envoy to Yiyang for reinforcements.

Zhao Gang deceived in response, so that the people and horses intended to be killed by the river, but they were still suspicious by the enemy cavalry who found the traces left by the men and horses of Dongjingzhou when they stayed on the north bank of Huaishui, and the two sides did not agree and handed over the troops in a short manner, and the reinforcements sent by Murong Shaozong saw that the enemy was outnumbered, and even if he gave up the rescue and turned back, as for the envoy sent by Xiahou Qiang to the Hanging Gourd to contact the surrender, he was thrown on the north bank of Huaishui and captured by Zhao Gang.

When Li Tai heard this, he was interested, and when he ordered the messenger to be brought into the hall, he personally interrogated it.

The reason why he continued to march eastward and capture Yiyang was essentially because he was afraid of Murong Shaozong, and now he happened to catch a person who had just returned from the garrison of Murong Shaozong's army, and of course he wanted to inquire about the latest situation of his army.

This nominal yang envoy's name is Xiahou Ping, in his early thirties, he is a member of Xiahou Qiang's clan, and when he was brought to the hall, he was still trembling with fear, and he was also stumbling when he spoke.

It wasn't until Li Tai said that if the content he explained would help the military, he would not die, that Xiahou Ping's speech became fluent. But even so, Li Tai listened to a bunch of uninformative Luo Quan words, and as for the situation of Murong Shaozong's forces that he cared about, there was almost nothing.

It's normal to think about it, even if a person who has not been trained in systematic reconnaissance goes into an enemy city, he can see that there are so many fucking people and the city is really fucking big, and it is difficult to observe and summarize what is really valuable.

What's more, this Xiahou Ping is only an envoy sent by external forces, although he has lived in Hanging Gu City for a while, it is estimated that he will not have any contact with any important personnel.

After some interrogation and conversation, Li Tai only summed up two more valuable information.

The first is that Murong Shaozong's reinforcements were late, because after Xiahou Ping went to Xuangu to submit the surrender letter, Murong Shaozong sent the soldiers to Yedu for instructions, until Yedu approved it and gave Xiahou Qiang a letter of entitlement, Murong Shaozong arranged for Xiahouping to return to Yiyang with the reinforcements, and as a result, the fighter plane was delayed in vain and the city was captured by Zhao Gang and others.

The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, so as the commander of a large army, you often need to have a certain amount of autonomy to adapt to the situation.

However, after Murong Shaozong received the surrender letter, he needed to send someone to Yedu for instructions and get permission before he could carry out the surrender operation, which shows that although his person was left in Henan, his own power was greatly reduced.

It can also be extended from this that in Gao Cheng's view, the war in Henan has ended, and there is no need to continue to retain some of Murong Shaozong's wartime powers, and keeping him in Henan is just to use his prestige to deter Xiaoxiao, rather than appointing him to take advantage of the Southern Liang Chaos to continue to expand the territory to the south.

Li Tai didn't know what Murong Shaozong's position was in Henan before, but after learning about this matter, he also figured it out, although Murong Shaozong was fierce, he was now wearing a halter on his head.

Although calculating the time, this hanger is almost about to be smashed, but it still takes a certain amount of time for such a secret to be transmitted to Murong Shaozong.

The second point is that according to Xiahou Ping's confession, although Murong Shaozong's men and horses are stationed in the Hanging Gourd, they do not repair and maintain the city itself. The city was somewhat disorganized, and some of the powerful men of Huaibei in Henan Province led their troops to take refuge, but because the city was already full of soldiers and civilians, they had to temporarily set up camps outside the city.

Murong Shaozong is a famous general in the world, and it is obvious that there will be no such situation of loose military discipline and lax management of the army. However, there is only one possibility, that is, its people do not plan to stay in the hanging gourd for a long time, and there is no need to spend manpower and material resources in this city.

Henan has been withered for a long time, and it is not enough to support the army in the short term, and the north is well-armed, which makes Murong Shaozong a rat and a weapon. Now that the army has entered the Hanging Gourd, but there is still no plan to stay for a long time, then the place where Murong Shaozong really wants to go is naturally about to come out.

Hou Jing was defeated in Nanben before, and after arriving in Shouyang, he recuperated for several months, and then brazenly raised troops and crossed the river directly into Jiankang. Although his people raised troops in Huainan, but Huainan really suffered from the military disaster for a short time, Hou Jing quickly crossed the Yangtze River, and Huainan people and horses were also attracted to the vicinity of Jiankang.

During the period of Hou Jingbing's siege of Taicheng, many prefectures and counties in Huainan submitted surrenders to the Eastern Wei Dynasty, even if Hou Jing broke through Taicheng, took power, and regained control over all parties in Huainan, but even the governors and county governors he appointed to surrender to the Eastern Wei Dynasty were in an endless stream.

Zhongli, Hou Jing's old nest Shouyang, and not long ago Hefei, etc., almost all surrendered to the Eastern Wei Dynasty. Li Tai's strategy of Handong also needed Yang Zhong, a tiger general, but the Eastern Wei Dynasty almost didn't send any men, and most of Huainan was almost in the bag.

Of course, this kind of rule is like the Handong conquered by Li Taiqian, which is not reliable in itself, and many prefectures and counties only surrender to the Eastern Wei, but their pastoral towns will still be seated, and the Eastern Wei only accept this nominal effect, and only a few special people and places will send people to receive it.

But in any case, the Huainan region is now completely undefended against the Eastern Wei, but there is no strong general to consolidate the rule of the Eastern Wei. Looking at Murong Shaozong's performance, he was undoubtedly very interested in this, but he was still a little hesitant because he had not received Gao Cheng's formal authorization.

Now Yiyang, which is the western gate of Huainan, has also been seized by Li Tai, which has reduced the options Murong Shaozong can make, and Huainan is almost the only choice for Murong Shaozong to maintain the size of the current army and continue to expand his power.

Thinking of this, Li Tai couldn't help but rejoice that compared to Murong Shaozong, his autonomy was stronger. Although the Taiwan government did not provide him with much assistance, at this stage, it entrusted all the military and political affairs of the southeast to the Jingzhou Governor's Office, allowing him to formulate and implement plans more flexibly, and seize Yiyang before Murong Shaozong.

This also made him gradually feel that in the process of confronting Murong Shaozong, an old famous general, the initiative had begun to favor him. The choices that Murong Shaozong can make in the future are gradually limited, which means that his people will move forward passively like fate.

After understanding the opponent's situation, Li Tai did not continue to make the next decision, but took stock of the manpower and material resources he could mobilize at the moment.

He entered Yiyang this time and led 3,000 cavalry, and before that, Zhao Gang led 1,000 elite soldiers over the mountain, Hou Zhi and Quan Jingxuan added up to nearly 5,000 people, and Yang Zhong had 2,000 elite cavalry to attack the three passes of Yiyang.

This time the attack on Yiyang and its three passes to the south mobilized a total of more than 10,000 men and horses, but after Yang Zhong and others conquered the three passes, Li Tai was able to mobilize more than that, and there were nearly 3,000 people who were collected and captured in Yiyang.

Although these horses are not very numerous, in today's Huainan, they are enough to have another large-scale battle.

In addition to the capture of personnel, Zhao Gang also reported to Li Taizuo about the gains in other aspects after the capture of Yiyang City.

Xiahou Qiang was appointed by Liu Zhongli as the assassin of Sizhou to sit in Yiyang for more than two months, during which many expropriations and collections also collected a considerable amount of goods and materials, most of which were stored in Jincheng.

Zhao Gang and others rushed to Jincheng to defend at the beginning of the seizure of the city, except for the two warehouses in Luocheng where the materials were looted by the rebels, the materials stored in the Jincheng were all seized and preserved. Among them, there are more than 50,000 stone of grain alone, and the other goods are also considerable.

Li Tai couldn't help but be overjoyed when he learned of this situation, what really made him happy was not the value of this batch of goods itself, but because with this batch of goods, he no longer needed to transfer materials from the north of the country, and he could directly start the next plan in Yiyang.

"Zhao Che rode to take Yiyang City, which can be described as brave! It is even more rare for me to collect such considerable people and things for use, if Huainan can build things this time, the car riding should be the first achievement! ”

For Zhao Gang to create such a good situation for himself, Li Tai also praised him, and was deeply glad that Zhao Gang was asked to come to him from Wang Sizheng at that time, otherwise how could he be so powerful now!

Zhao Gang did not respond much to this compliment, but asked in a deep voice: "May I ask what the chief manager is going to build here?" Now the new attachment of Handong is undecided, and the situation is still perverse......"

"The situation in Handong is shaking, of course I will not ignore it. But the enemy of Handong is not in the field, but in the heart, now the Southern Liang self-mutilation of its unity, although there are many clans, all of them are unbearable, the number of qi is suddenly reduced, and it is difficult to resist the public. In the two northern countries, the east is strong and the west is weak for a long time, and the swaying crowd will inevitably flatter the strong and do great things. If I am strictly disciplined, I will go against the enemy, but if I indulge a little, I will breed arrogance. ”

Li Tai also thought about this very clearly, and after hearing Zhao Gang's reminder, he said: "Murong Shaozong is famous among thieves, and now he is still in Runan, and he has already seduced people to flattery. If you make it into Huainan again, it will be more beneficial to the thieves of the Quartet. The only way to do this is to kill it once and for all while it is about to come! ”