"The last general and others greet the general!"

Outside Yiyang City, Zhao Gang led a group of Han barbarian generals to greet each other, and when he saw Li Taigong's cronies riding their horses to the front, they hurriedly strode forward to meet them.

"Everyone, please excuse me, the former is out on the march, and you have to wait to guard the border city, so that my territory will not be disturbed!"

Li Tai smiled and responded to the generals one by one, but he did not enter the city at the first time, first let the generals return to their guards, and then let Zhao Gang lead him around the city.

"There were no fortresses here in the old days, but now they have been added, which can greatly facilitate the resistance of the enemy from the north......"

Since the capture of Yiyang City by the Xiahou clan the year before last, Zhao Gang has been sitting here, and now nearly two years have passed, and the city defense has also been greatly strengthened under its management and operation. Zhao Gang rode his horse and accompanied Li Tai, pointing to the various places in the city defense while patrolling and explaining in detail.

Li Tai also saw Zhao Gang's efforts, this city was much taller and stronger than when he came before, and it had more and more momentum to control Huainan. However, in addition to the city itself, the military and political management of the city is also very important.

"Now there are more than 30,000 soldiers and civilians in Yiyang, and most of the people who have moved from all over Huainan have come and gone. Since then, as far east as Rukou, there is no shortage of people from the county and county, and many people have entrusted each other......"

Zhao Gang was originally very good at making trouble in the turbulent terrain, and he could make waves in the enemy territory of Henan occupied by the Eastern Wei Dynasty, and now he is backed by the entire Jingzhou Governor's Mansion and sits in the fortress of Yiyang, and his operation is also very good, and at the same time, he can't help but sigh with some regret: "Although the general is heroic and young, the power of a government is limited after all." If the Chinese and foreign governments are willing to inject a large number of characters into the military government, they can be used by the generals, and Huainan will be annexed! ”

Li Tai only smiled when he heard this, and understood Zhao Gang's unwillingness. At present, the Huainan region has not yet recovered from the war, and is still in a state of disorder, whether it is the Northern Qi or the Southern Liang Hou Jing rebellion, including their own side, although they have territorial divisions, but they are not very reliable. In such a situation, if one side increases the stakes, it is not impossible to fully support Huainan.

Historically, this scratch was swept away by the Northern Qi Dynasty, which had stronger national strength, but now the situation has changed because of Li Taihuai's victory in the south.

Historically, with the defeat of Wang Sizheng in the war, the entire Henan and Huainan were successively obtained by the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi, and now the Huaixi region west of Shouyang is under the control of Li Tai's Jingzhou Governor's Office, and Yiyang has carved up a considerable territory with Yiyang as the center.

This is still under the condition that Li Tai intends to shrink the front, because if he wants to grasp more territory, he will inevitably invest more manpower and material resources, which is obviously not in line with Li Tai's strategic concept and layout.

After patrolling the city and sitting down in the city, Li Taicai asked again how the enemy situation was in the hands of the rebel Yang.

"In the winter of last year, Qi Zhidongdao Xingtai Xinshu unified the army, crossed the Huainan to come, intercepted and burned Hou Jing's army grain millions of stones, and then the captives returned, Jianghuai was shaken, and there were many strong people vying for it, and the voice of Qi made Huainan stronger."

Hearing Zhao Gang say this, Li Tai couldn't help but sigh secretly. It's really crazy, Hou Jing has traveled to the Three Kingdoms since the rebellion, and it can be said that the scenery is infinite, but because of this, there are many enemies, and the million-stone military food in Huainan is probably the result of the desperate looting of the subordinates in Jiangbei since the incident, and now it has been burned by a torch, and the blow to it can be described as huge.

In the past, his people were eager to help him, and even did not hesitate to make heavy profits, which must have something to do with this. After all, the land of Sanwu in the essence of Jiangnan has also been ruined by his calamity, but there is no place that can provide him with millions of stone military rations. Yes, Chen Baxian still has 500,000 stones there, but I don't know if he can get it.

There is no doubt that Xin Shu's action can be described as a great prestige. It is also reasonable for the Huainan heroes, who are already in turmoil and don't know where to go, to join each other again.

Although the Western Wei Dynasty's Eastern Expedition ended with an anticlimactic and sinister end, although the crisis of the Northern Qi Dynasty was lifted, and the control of the situation by the Qi lord Gao Yang was further strengthened, it was obvious that this did not make him feel satisfied. For Huainan, the breakthrough is naturally a good opportunity for a breakthrough in foreign affairs and a good opportunity to establish the prestige of the monarch.

Therefore, in Jinyang, Gao Yang had just returned to Yecheng, so he took advantage of the opportunity of Xiao Lun, the king of Shaoling, to ask for help and the power of Xinshu's pre-battle, and sent the clan Gao Yue to lead the army south to strengthen the intervention in the Huainan region.

If that's all there is to it, Gao Yuenanlai doesn't have much to do with Li Tai. After all, his demand for Huainan is limited, as long as he keeps the bridgehead of Yiyang and does not lose it, so that he can easily cut in when he has the strength to interfere with Huainan in the coming year, and there is no big conflict with the strategy of Northern Qi to run Huainan at present.

But the key is that it also involves the-stirring stick of Xiao Laoliu, the king of Shaoling, which makes Li Tai unable to calm down.

Appeal is a really wonderful thing, just like later generations know that some anchors with goods are shit, but they still have many fans to build momentum for them.

Xiao Lao Liu is in such a situation at the moment, as the head of the Nanliang clan, although his talent and morality are very inferior, there is still no shortage of followers and loyalists. Although he was driven away from Yingzhou by Lao Qi, he soon gathered tens of thousands of horses, even if these people were rabble, and he was reluctant to get seventy-nine yuan, but at least this posture was set up.

Now that Xiao Lun has been named the king of Liang by the Northern Qi Dynasty, he has gained the support of the title, if he receives substantial military assistance from the Northern Qi side, then this dog skin plaster will be even more difficult to clean up, and maybe it can really bring substantial disruption to the Suilu area.

Therefore, Li Tai came to Yiyang this time to prevent Gao Yue from going south, at least at the moment, the Northern Qi people could not be allowed to enter the Huainan region in a big way and have any wonderful interaction with Xiao Lao Liu.

"Now the Qi thief Qinghe King Gao Yue has arrived in Wuyang with an army of 50,000, the King of Ping Qin Gao Guiyan has entered Zhongli, and the Hezhou Assassin Shi has also gathered more than 10,000 troops, and all the people and horses will meet Shouyang......"

After listening to Zhao Gang's report on the military situation, Li Tai ordered the city of Yiyang to immediately gather 3,000 elite cavalry, and together with the 2,000 men and horses he brought, they formed 5,000 elite cavalry, and went straight to the horse head near Shouyang.

Because of the advance base of Yiyang, the relevant personnel and materials were quickly raised, and in the afternoon of the next day, Li Tai led the assembled 5,000 elite horsemen to go straight east along the Huaishui.

Although Gao Yue's army was one step ahead and had already arrived at Wuyang, its mixed infantry and cavalry combined with a lot of baggage made the marching speed inevitably slow. Li Tai's department arrived first, and it only took a few days to reach the vicinity of Shouyang.

Compared with the year before last, today's Shouyang City is more dilapidated, after Murong Shaozong died here, the Northern Qi Dynasty did not send generals to settle here, and only Hezhou Thorn Shi Li Bomu guarded Hefei near the left, and there was little management for Shouyang.

However, when Li Tai led his troops to arrive, the ruined walls of Shouyang City had already been stationed with a large number of men and horses, all of whom were Huainan Haoqiang and bandits who had entered here after hearing about the movements of the Qi army and were waiting to join. They didn't expect that it was the people of Jingzhou in the Western Wei Dynasty who rushed here first, and after being ordered by Li Taile to rush and expel them, they immediately scattered.

After driving away these miscellaneous fish, Li Tai led his troops and took the head of the horse, and divided his troops to defend Kip Stone City.

At this time, on the north bank of Huaishui, in fact, the forward scouts of the Northern Qi army could already be seen, and they were originally gathering manpower ferries to wait for the rear army, but after seeing the Western Wei elite cavalry appear here, these Northern Qi scouts were also quite panicked, and hurriedly dispatched their companions to report to the rear road.

On the one hand, he ordered the cavalry brigade to take the first step, and at the same time sent an envoy to cross the water from Huaixia to inform Gao Guiyan, the king of Pingqin, and then stopped in the downstream area, waiting for his army to advance to the north bank of Huaishui, and then the two sides joined forces to defeat this Western Wei blocking division.

"Qinghe was attacked by thieves in Jinyang in front of the Qing River, and he was bold, and now he led the army to the south, and he did not dare to enter. It's ridiculous that he's just cowardly himself, and that he should order me to stay back and hide his timidity! ”

However, Gao Guiyan, the king of Pingqin, who led his troops westward from Zhongli, scoffed at this order, and instead of standing still, he ordered his troops to speed up.

For such an enemy, Li Tai naturally would not get used to him, and learned that the enemy army on the eastern road was speeding up, so he took advantage of the fact that the northern road had not arrived and abandoned the various places, and gathered the main force to ambush the enemy at the eastern foot of Bagong Mountain.

"The dog thief is trying to kill me by borrowing the enemy! Preface: The enemy is based on Shouyang, why did he appear here again? ”

Gao Guiyan was originally because of the use of the clan, and lacked experience in battle, as soon as he saw the Western Wei Iron Cavalry rushing straight to its formation from the side of Bagong Mountain, he was already shocked, and just made some instructions to resist the enemy before it was passed to the formation, he saw a fine cavalry coming straight into his Chinese army, seeing that the front was difficult to resist, he was busy leading the troops to retreat, and the division was immediately defeated.

With Gao Guiyan's defeat and flight, Gao Yue's army also lost Huainan to respond, and in the face of Li Tai's troops who controlled the Huaishui River, they naturally did not dare to cross south, so they could only lead their troops to retreat and wait for their fate.

Li Tai fought a time gap, and when he saw Gao Yue leading his troops to retreat, he himself also withdrew to Yiyang, and ordered Zhao Gang to continue to pay close attention to the situation in Huainan before returning to Jingzhou.

The Northern Qi reinforcements who had high hopes were defeated before they arrived, and Xiao Lun, the king of Shaoling, who was guarding Qichang, was suddenly panicked and the fighting spirit disappeared, and Li Yunxin led his troops to attack day and night, and the city was broken in a few days, and the king of Shaoling and his subordinates were captured in the city, and then the people were escorted back to Jingzhou.

After Li Yunxin broke through the Shaoling Wangbu, he temporarily stationed here to observe the battle in Yingzhou.