A bright moon hangs high in the sky, Jinyang City under the moonlight is quite quiet, the bright moonlight and the fireworks in the city are intertwined, giving people a sense of peace and prosperity.

Jinyang City is composed of different urban districts, each with different functions and different levels of prevention and prohibition after dark.

For example, the Prime Minister's Mansion at the core of the city and the Jinyang Palace, which had been sacked by Western thieves, after nightfall, unless there is a special passage warrant from the Prime Minister's Mansion, it is forbidden for anyone to enter and exit, and those who dare to resist the ban will be killed!

Located in the northeast corner of the city, in addition to the state capital, there are also many officials and families who are in charge of the Jinyang Tyrant's Mansion, and the level of prevention and prohibition is also high. At night, patrols are arranged between the streets to check and ban bandits, and there are also guards at the city gate to strictly check the entry and exit of personnel, even if the family members of officials go out of the city for some reason, they need to report the case.

Because this night is the Mid-Autumn Festival, the courtyards of all the houses in the state city are also very lively. Nowadays, the Mid-Autumn Festival has not yet been endowed with the beautiful meaning of reunion of people and the moon, but the custom of moon viewing has gradually become popular from south to north.

In the troubled times, it is inevitable that there will be the pain of life and death, and it is comforting for relatives to see each other in peace and health, which is worth celebrating. If you sing a song about the moon lyrically, it will naturally make people more pleased and happy.

But in a happy time, there is always a moment when the song ends. Located in a mansion on the west side of the state capital, the hall was still brightly lit inside and outside, and the sheng singing and dancing music was endless, but as the night deepened, the singing and dancing gradually stopped, the lights were reduced, and there were constantly cars and horses leaving the house.

On the side of the gate of this house, there was a squad of state soldiers stationed, and at first there was a slight check on the chariots and horses entering and leaving the house, but as more people left, they were too lazy to inquire again.

"Why is there so many guests in this family?"

A state official couldn't help but mutter, looking at the steady stream of visitors leaving the house.

When the leader of the team heard this, he smiled and said: "This family belongs to the Li clan in Longxi, and many famous families in the world have relatives and friends with his family, so there are naturally more guests." ”

"Longxi Li? The name sounds familiar, but I don't know that there are any high-ranking officials in the two governments! ”

When the state guard heard this, he was silent for a moment, and then he couldn't help but speak.

"Ha, even if such a famous family declines, there will always be some legacy for future generations to suffer. What's more, if you don't hear about it, maybe it's just that you're short-sighted. ”

When the leader of the team said this, he pretended to mysteriously signal everyone to come close to him, and then said: "Li Boshan, the western thief who led the troops to Kou Jinyang before, do you remember?" It's the long-term rest of this household! Other criminals have not been official slaves for a long time, but this family not only lives in peace, but can also be a banquet, and even the state government has sent us to be on duty here, although it is surveillance, but it is also to prevent those town slaves from coming to disturb ......"

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but sigh secretly, and they were quite shocked in their hearts.

As the guests dispersed, the lights in the halls of the house were extinguished, and after sending off the last of the guests' carriages, the house slaves closed the door to the house. When the state soldiers saw this, they left two people on duty at night, and the rest returned to the state capital to resume their lives.

In the dark alley, a carriage that had just left the Li family's mansion stopped, and a middle-aged man got out of the car and whispered to the car: "Manrong, you really don't go to Kansai with me?" If General Gao still pursues our escape, I'm afraid you will not be able to escape the prosecution. ”

Li Qianzhi leaned out in the car and sighed in his mouth: "Ah Pan has created a great situation in Guanxi, and he has brought his uncle back to Rongyang Guanzhong, and my brother should go to help him." If we wait together, one will add a lot of personnel burden to Ah Pan, and the other will be too many people to sneak along, so I can only wish my brother and other escorts a smooth journey west from my uncle and aunt.

The tall general's revolutionary heart is blazing, there are many guests in and out today, it is difficult to distinguish one by one, if it is a big question, it will inevitably hinder his revolutionary plan, and the brothers and others do not need to worry too much about relatives and friends here, and there will be a time to meet in the coming year! ”

The middle-aged man was Li Tai's half-grandfather and cousin, Li Qi, and when he heard Li Qianzhi say this, he didn't persuade him anymore, and after clenching his fists and waving his hands, he and an entourage went to the other side of the dark alley, and went to the agreed place in the city to meet up with other family members who left in batches.

Near the east gate of the state city, a group of wealthy slaves dressed in Hu clothes and full of alcohol came from several carriages, and they were still playing drunk and singing loudly while walking, of course, they were not unexpectedly stopped by the soldiers guarding the city gate.

"The blind dog-eyed thief Qiu Ba, we are the main subordinates of Xucheng in Ulzhou, and we dare to stop it!"

Li Yunxin, who was at the front of the team, was wearing a spur hat, and while waving his horsewhip and whipping into the city gate guards who were interrogating in front of him, he casually threw a talisman over, and scolded angrily in Xianbei language.

The guard was already shocked when he heard this, and he was even more panicked when he checked the talisman to see that it was correct.

Jinyang City is the paradise of the town soldiers, and Ulzhou Sima Xu Xianxiu is also the most flamboyant and domineering among the proud soldiers, his people have no special merits, but they have a broad face and strong financial resources, and the second generation of top nobles such as Lou Rui, the nephew of King Gao, have a lot of friendship, and their subordinates are naturally very arrogant.

After learning that the other party was Xu Xianxiu's subordinate, the guards naturally did not dare to make detailed interrogations, and after learning that they were about to leave the city and return to Ulzhou, they hurriedly opened the small gate on the side of the city gate and released the group out of the city.

After leaving the state city, the group secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and did not dare to stay, after bypassing the wind valley in the north of the city, Li Yunxin walked to the side of the car in the team and whispered: "Old lady, Xishan is still heavily guarded because of Lord Lang's old affairs, we have to make a detour to Beishan." Lord Lang once said that there will be drastic changes in the thief court in mid-August, and the border preparations will inevitably be relaxed, and then it will be a good time to sneak out. ”

After hearing this, the Che Neilu clan nodded and said: "Since your lord has entrusted his family's life to the general, all the way will be decided by the general, and there is General Lao." ”

The moon sinks and the sun rises, and a new day arrives, and dozens of light boats and speedboats are distributed on the surface of the Gulfstream River in this section of Huaishui River, constantly looking for and salvage.

After learning that the main general Murong Shaozong had thrown himself into the water and died, and after Li Tai personally came to the city to persuade him to surrender, the defenders of the Eastern Wei Dynasty in the East Kip Stone City finally decided to abandon their weapons and surrender in the early morning, and the soldiers lined up from the Kip Stone City with their empty hands in despair.

Since then, the battle in Shouyang has ended, and Murong Shaozong led these soldiers, armor horses, and canes from the south, except for the battle deaths and battle losses, the rest were all captured by Li Tai. And after a day of salvage, even Murong Shaozong himself fell into the hands of Li Tai.

Although it is now the Mid-Autumn Festival, the climate is still hot. After Murong Shaozong's body was soaked and washed by the river overnight, it was difficult to preserve it for a long time even if it was specially processed.

So Li Tai decided to leave a whole corpse for Murong Shaozong, and buried it at the southern foot of Bagong Mountain after a thin burial, only keeping his clothes, armor, weapons, talismans and honor guards and other tokens for the purpose of rewarding his merits.

After attending Murong Shaozong's funeral, the resistance and hatred of those captives towards Li Tai were greatly reduced. This life is nothing more than before and after death, Murong Shaozong was famous and famous during his lifetime, and now he was defeated by Li Tai and died by throwing himself into the water, Li Tai is still willing to salvage the body and bury it all over his body, and he really did not treat Murong Shaozong badly.

If it was replaced by Li Tai, Murong Shaozong ...... Phew, there's no analogy. Anyway, if Li Tai was in an unfavorable battle with the Eastern Wei Dynasty and fell into the hands of the enemy, there would be absolutely no good end.

After the battle of Shouyang, the results were naturally spread to all directions, and the first to learn of this result was naturally Hefei not far from the south.

Li Bomu, the assassin of Western Yanzhou, was reappointed as the assassin of Hezhou after the bloodless entry into Hefei, and when he received the information from Murong Shaozong's envoy, he was both shocked and worried.

He had already learned from other channels about the Western Wei army's march into Huainan, and he still hoped that the other party might not attack Hefei because Hefei was still far away and the city was tall and strong, but actively repaired the city defenses and planned to stick to the city.

However, Murong Shaozong has an outstanding reputation, and now he sent someone to invite him to help in the war, and he did not dare to refuse, but his troops were not strong, so he could only recruit Ding Zhuang in Hefei City, and with the state soldiers under his command, he made up 3,000 boat divisions to prepare to go north to participate in the war.

However, before the boat division team sailed out of the water camp gate, another boat division from the north came south, first announcing to them the news that Murong Shaozong had been defeated and died, and then another Western Wei general named Gao Le shouted to Li Bomu to meet at the camp gate.

Li Bomu naturally knew that Gao Zhongmi's clan was now outside the camp, and he was shocked to hear the news that Murong Shaozong had not been warned, although he was extremely reluctant in his heart, he still came to meet him.

"It's an old acquaintance from Hebei, and I don't want to meet here, so that you don't come to harm?"

Gao Le stood on the bow of the boat, looking at Li Bomu, who was wearing armor and only showing his head and face, and said hello, but the next sentence became no longer polite: "May I ask the envoy, do you want to live or die today?" My lord Li Dadu has attacked and killed Murong Shaozong, and it is easy to attack Hefei in the south, but because he is grateful that the envoy is also the virtuous chief of the late door, he can't bear to let the envoy end up in a city broken and killed, so I want to ask the envoy whether he has the intention of repairing the city? ”

Li Bomu was stunned when he heard this, and after a little silence, he nodded again: "The soldiers are fierce, and they are all hurt and angry regardless of victory or defeat." I have heard of the prestige of Li Dadu's reputation for a long time, and in the old years, he often shared his clan elders to appreciate personnel, although now they are all on one side, but it is not what I want. It's just that I don't know how Governor Li is willing to stop and retreat? ”

"Governor Li Dadu asked me to tell the envoy that he abandoned the country and voted for him in the old years, but he was tired of seeing the people of Diao Gang Town in the country leap to the top, and I and other old Hebei people were humiliated. When the young letter He Liuhun drove the tiger and devoured the wolf, so that the townspeople gathered in the court, this was all caused by the mistakes of the old clan leaders such as Jun!

Although Li Dadu Governor has created a situation in Guanxi, he is also deeply unhappy when he thinks that his relatives and friends in Hebei are oppressed by the townspeople, and now although he has Shouyang, it is inconvenient to stay for a long time. ”

Gao Le followed Li Tai's instructions before leaving, looked at Li Bomu and shouted loudly: "There are many famous people in Hebei who advocate pure emptiness, and they refuse to submit to the secular management forces. Now, if it weren't for Li Dadu's military presence here, it would be difficult for you to live, and this statement would not be humiliating, so that you should judge yourself.

You wait or see that the town soldiers are difficult to control, but my lord is like slaughtering chickens and dogs, Huainan this realm is beneficial to my relatives and friends in Hebei, if there are town soldiers because of greed, so that you can repair the book to report to Yiyang, my lord will inevitably lead the crowd to attack his disciples again! There is no other intention for this, but I can't bear to see my relatives and friends insult the soldiers. ”

Li Bomu thought that this time or inevitable disaster was coming, but he didn't expect that it was a good thing, although this word sounded embarrassing, but if the other party was really willing to stop withdrawing troops and give Shouyang away, he could stand it if it was a little more ugly!

"Is what Liangbi said true? Li Dadu supervised him, is he really willing to stop the army and evacuate Shouyang? ”

Li Bomu is not a stunned young man who does not know what to do, he naturally knows the truth that only by paying can he reap something, and after a little silence, he said: "If such a harmonious ending can really be achieved, if Governor Li has any requirements, as long as it is within my authority, I will try my best to meet them." ”

Seeing that the other party was so upright, Gao Le said with a smile: "Governor Li's request is also very simple, I hope that the king can temporarily lead the troops to move to Dongguan, and allow our army to enter Hefei for a short time, and within ten days, Hefei and Shouyang Zhucheng will be handed over!" ”

"This, this can't, it's impossible!"

Hearing such an absurd condition, Li Bomu hurriedly shook his head and refused. He didn't want Xiao Fan to be so stupid, how could he agree to such conditions!

"I told the lord the good words before, and it seems that the envoy did not listen to him at all. Recently, my lord has attacked Hanzhong in the west, bordering the river in the south and Huainan in the east, invincible and unstoppable, so that the king thinks that his talent is stronger than that of Liu Zhongli of Nanliang, or Murong Shaozong? These are all defeated generals in front of our main public front.

If you really want to enter Hefei, why bother to cheat for this! Just take the personnel and materials in the city to supplement the army, and by the way, form a former alliance with the envoy. But if you don't want to believe it, it will not be the old days of Hebei, but the knife of killing! ”

When he had said this, he turned and walked into the cabin.

"High, good and slow, this matter is important, please allow me to think deeply."

When Li Bomu saw this, he struggled in his heart before shouting to Gao Le again.

After hearing this, Gao Le nodded: "Our army will be here in two days, and before that, the envoy can send an envoy to report at any time." ”

Two days later, Shouyang's boat division came south along the river, and Li Bomu finally decided to lead his troops to retreat to Dongguan temporarily, and did not stay in the city to defend the battle.

After entering the city, Li Tai ordered people to inspect and organize the households in the city, collected more than 50,000 people, and promised to use money and grain to pay grain, and nearly 40,000 people were willing to chase them to the west, and the rest were either inconvenient or difficult to abandon their homeland, and Li Tai also took it.

Hefei is worthy of Huainan Town, no wonder Xiao Fan, the king of Poyang who guarded here before, had the intention of rebelling when Hou Jing did not rebel, and the money and grain in the city were very rich. In addition to the migration distribution to the city soldiers, there were still tens of thousands of stones of grain, nearly 100 million yuan, and tens of thousands of silk fabrics, which filled the boats from the south, and then went north, and after entering the Huai River, they withdrew all the way west.

Li Tai did not intend to deceive Li Bomu, it was unrealistic to occupy the important town of Huainan for a long time with his current strength, and once the Eastern Wei Dynasty drew its strength, its long defense line could suffer a fatal blow everywhere. Moreover, for a long time in the future, Huainan is not suitable for stable development, and the investment and return are completely disproportionate.

The reason why Li Bomu was forced to make this deal was, of course, to keep the thief from going short. The capture of the thousands of men and horses under Murong Shaozong's command alone was not enough to satisfy Li Tai's appetite, Shouyang was just a dilapidated and empty city, and the income was also limited, so he naturally didn't want to let go of Hefei's fat meat.

Through this transaction, he also conveyed a belief and reached a tacit understanding to Li Bomu and the Hebei clan behind him, we are our own people, you don't have soldiers, I have them. When the eyeballs are beaten out, you can also shake people and let me help, let's lift the Tianling cover of that nest of things in Jinyang!

The group slowly returned along the Huaishui, and Li Tai asked Yang Zhong to lead his troops to withdraw, while he himself led two thousand elite cavalry to take the lead. Although something is going on here in Huainan, the situation in Handong has yet to be calmed down, and the reaction of Jiangling should also be guarded.

When Li Tai led his troops to Handong through the three passes of Yiyang, many local tyrants flocked to the south of the three passes to worship and welcome.

The news of Shouyang's victory has already spread throughout the Jianghan region, and Murong Shaozong, as a famous general of the Eastern Wei Dynasty who defeated Hou Jingdu and fled, became several times more majestic than the reputation of the original Southern Liang region after Hou Jing's troubles in the south of the Yangtze River. Hou Jing is now in Jiangnan with the posture of a demon king of the mixed world, how brave can he be to subdue him?

Under this idea of fighting beast chess, Li Tai is now a god in the first war, and the local tyrants who were originally ready to move have all become extremely deferential. And when they heard that Li Tai was going to inspect Jingling, these local tyrants streamlined their troops and formed an army of nearly 10,000 people to follow the rear of Li Tai's elite cavalry, and marched towards Jingling.

Jingling is adjacent to Jiangling, which was originally a key town on the periphery of Jingfu, and Wang Shengbian, who was the confidant of the king of Xiangdong, served as the Taishou of Jingling for a long time. Although Jingling was now occupied by the Western Wei Dynasty through the hands of Liu Zhongli, its rule is also very unstable.

When Xiao Yi, the king of Xiangdong, learned that Liu Zhongli was captured and the entire Handong region was also captured by the Western Wei, he was shocked in his heart, so he hurriedly released Wang Seng to argue his enterprising tomb, and began to prepare for the recovery of the Handong region.

Wang Seng argued for a long time on this side of the town, and after entering the town, he naturally quickly regained control of Jingling, and gathered thousands of people from the old department. However, before he could march to Anlu, the news of the victory of Shouyang in the Western Wei Dynasty came from Huainan, and then the military order of the king of Xiangdong to transfer him back to Jiangling also came soon.

Although he was very unwilling in his heart, Wang Sengbi's surrender to Hou Jing in Jiankang had already made the King of Xiangdong very dissatisfied, and even severely questioned him and tortured him.

When Li Tai led his troops to Jingling, the whole Jiangling was shocked, and the king of Xiangdong hurriedly sent an envoy to sue for peace, willing to send a proton to Guanzhong, and hoped to redeem Jingling with a large amount of money.

Li Tai also knew that it was unrealistic to swallow Gangneung in one bite at the moment, so he just took advantage of its fame to ask for a sky-high price. Although it was beyond the purview of the Jingzhou Governor's Office to send protons to sue for peace, the return of Jingling was a matter that Li Tai could decide.

He did not intend to settle this deal at one time, but took the opportunity to propose a border trade market, and Gangneung had to trade millions of horses of silk with Chubei every year, and to give away 10,000 craftsmen and soldiers to Qibei, and to lend 20,000 volumes of various books to Cangbei, and so on.

Of course, Li Tai opened his mouth for these conditions, leaving a lot of room for counteroffer. After all, Jiangling, as the largest square town between the Southern Liang and Jianghan, is still very considerable, and it really forced Xiao Laoqi to be anxious, and the little one-eyed stare is also very scary.

However, he did not expect that the Gangneung side basically agreed to all the conditions he put forward, and only made a hard effort to borrow and collect books from 20,000 volumes to 13,000 volumes, and that the Gangneung side would send personnel to manage these collections.

Li Tai was also quite satisfied with such a result, so he led his troops to withdraw from Jingling, and then arranged for personnel to escort Jiangling's envoy and proton Xiao Fangluo to Guanzhong, and he went straight back to Yucheng.

Yecheng received the news that Murong Shaozong had died in Shouyang earlier than Guanzhong, and Wang Sizheng, who had been placed under house arrest in Yedu, learned of the news, even if he ordered the slaves to go out to drink, he drank heavily from morning to night, laughing first and then crying, and in the end he couldn't tell whether he was crying or laughing.

Taiyuan Gonggaoyang, who was in power because of his brother's assassination, learned the news on the way to Jinyang under the bow of all the nobles, and he was also shocked in his heart, and couldn't help but ask left and right: "Defeated Murong Shaozong's enemy general Li Boshan, could it be the person who entered Kou Jinyang back then?" ”

Seeing that the left and right nods should be, Gao Yang couldn't help but sigh again: "Such a talent should have been something in my court, but it is a pity to lean out and fall into another family's court!" ”

Compared with Gao Yang's regret after hearing the news, Yuwentai was pleasantly surprised.

Due to the recent expansion of the Taiwan Mansion and the noisy, Yuwentai has been staying in the Linhe Military Mansion recently, and when the news of Hanzhong and Handong came back to Huazhou one after another, he was already amazed.

It was already night when the news of Huainan's victory came, and when he heard the waiter's tent playing, Yuwentai got up from the couch and snatched the book and newspaper with his hand to read it carefully, and the smile on his face was suddenly full: "Li Boshan is really a good boy, even Murong Shaozong is not his enemy!" It's, it's really...... Hurry up and get back to town! ”

As he spoke, he strode out of the room, not even noticing the waiter's low reminder, until he walked to the door, when the cool breeze blew in front of him, only to find that he was still shirtless, so he couldn't help laughing again.

Hou Jing, the prime minister of Southern Liang, also heard the news, and couldn't help but sigh and said: "Alas, I missed a good talent!" If we can rob this apprentice to work with each other in Henan that day, I am afraid that there is more than a corner of Jiangnan now, and I am not as small as a Xianbei child, and I will never be stingy to break the ground with him! ”