"I beg the general to spare his life, spare his life...... I am the grandson of Emperor Gaozu Wu of the Great Liang, my father, my father is the king of Wuling in Yizhou, I, my lord is the Marquis of Jiang An, not an ordinary battalion pawn slave, please raise your noble hand, don't do harm! ”

The large-scale battle on the battlefield outside Runan City has ended, and the knights of the Jingzhou army, who are the victorious side, began to clean up the battlefield, and Xiao Yuanzheng, the commander of the Southern Liang army, was also escorted to the city gate.

When Li Tai heard this kid's plea for mercy, he suddenly recalled the first time he saw some Huishi, and he hated to tell all the eighteen generations of his ancestors, just to get the attention of the other party and save his life.

However, at that time, Li Tai had just come to this world, and he was completely involuntary, purely helpless and passive. And the son of Xiao Laoba in front of him is just looking for trouble, and he is to blame.

While the soldiers were still cleaning up the battlefield, Li Tai first had a brief conversation with Li Yunxin, who was out of the city to greet him, to understand the basic situation, and by the way, he also interrogated Xiao Yuanzheng slightly.

"You said Xu Wensheng is also in your army?"

Hearing Xiao Yuanzheng's explanation, Li Tai's spirit was suddenly shocked. Xu Wensheng is the chief general arranged by Xiao Yi, the king of Xiangdong, to fight and confront Hou Jing's chaotic army in Yingzhou, of course, he is very familiar with this name, but he doesn't want his people to return to Jiangling after the defeat, but was detained by this Xiao Yuanzheng in his own army.

It can also be seen that the personnel atmosphere in Nanliang is really not very good, although Xu Wensheng was defeated, but after all, he was the main general of one party, but when he met a sect disciple like Xiao Yuanzheng, he was directly captured, which can be described as completely undignified.

If the Southern Liang order still exists, this kind of suppression of blood identity is still a part of the order, but if the order collapses and everything needs force as a battle, such a practice will undoubtedly be strongly counterattacked. And the reason why Hou Jing's rebellion broke out so violently is also a manifestation of this backlash.

IQ is never directly proportional to status, especially the hereditary position of power, because it lacks a process of struggle from low to high, the more arrogant it is, the more ignorant it is. Emperor Jin Hui is one of the best among these fools, because he at least knows the common sense that people need to eat when they are hungry.

Thinking of this, Li Tai raised his leg and kicked this Xiao Yuanzheng to a, which can be regarded as a gesture of gratitude to the martial artists who were contemptuously suppressed in Nanliang.

He is really not very interested in the Xiao family's nest of rice worms, if it weren't for the fact that the officials and people of Nanliang still recognize the legal status of these guys, so that they still have a certain united front value, relying on their own words, catching one and cutting one and keeping it for an extra meal is a waste of food.

This Xiao Yuanzheng himself came to pick up cheap from the large army and the main battlefield, and as a result, stealing chickens could not be used to lose a handful of rice, and now the evidence is conclusive and cannot be quibbled. Li Tai was not worried about any diplomatic disputes that would arise from this, so he ordered them to be detained in the city first, and then to reorganize all his troops into prisoners of war.

Soon, another soldier searched for Xu Wensheng and his own soldiers on the battlefield, and led them to the front of the city.

Xu Wensheng was in his early sixties, and his beard was gray, and when he appeared in front of the city, the defeated troops of Jiangling who were still under the city of Gui Shrunk came in front of him to cry and shout, which showed that he was very popular among these soldiers.

Xu Wensheng was also quite excited to see these familiar faces, but now that he has also been reduced to a prisoner, he has no time to talk to the subordinates now, and after being led to Li Tai, he also bowed his head and said: "The last general of the Xiangdong King's Mansion under Qinzhou Assassin Shi Xu Wensheng, meet General Li." The former is at war, and it is not the intention ......"

Facing Xu Wensheng, Li Tai was not as cold as Xiao Yuanzheng, and took the first two steps to help Xu Wensheng up and said with a smile: "Old General Xu doesn't have to be polite, although I have been in the north for a long time, I have heard more about the general's prestige, if it weren't for the general to lead troops here to resist the Hou rebellion, I am afraid that there will be peace between Jiang and Han." ”

Xu Wensheng's face became even more ashamed when he heard this, and he lowered his head and choked up: "The general of the defeated army really has no face to boast of his exploits. The division broke away, but fortunately it was saved by General Li's blessing, but it was coerced, and he failed to thank him in harmony, and even attacked each other with swords......"

"The army is impermanent and wins, and a temporary loss of momentum is not enough to determine success or failure, as long as the fighting spirit is not lost, there will always be a chance to be ashamed."

Li Tai first comforted him slightly, and then said: "As for the battle in front of the city, I also know that it was not provoked by General Xu, and the mediocrity was rude and humiliated. The general was also victimized, and now that the matter is over, there is no point in blaming himself. ”

"Thank you, thank you General Li for your understanding and tolerance!"

After Xu Wensheng heard this, he hurriedly took a small step back and then bowed deeply and thanked him.

Li Tai first asked Xu Wensheng to talk to his subordinates in the city to appease the crowd, and then invited him to enter the city to rest for a while, and by the way, asked about the beginning and end of the battle in Yingzhou.

Speaking of this topic, Xu Wensheng's face was heavy again, and he directly drank a few glasses of wine, and then said astringently: "In the past, I went to Ningzhou to seek national difficulties, but people are of the same mind, and it is not difficult to break the thief." But when you are really in the battle array, you know that the thief in your heart is better than the thief in the river! Xu traveled thousands of miles and went to this realm, how could he be a thief......"

Li Tai heard that Xu Wensheng's tone was full of sadness, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart. The so-called dying of the country and the demons are numerous, and Nanliang is lucky that he did not fall immediately in the Hou Jing Rebellion, but the misfortune is that the last thing left is Xiao Laoqi, so that the final death is doubly ugly.

"Book of Liang" said that Xu Wensheng was deeply respected by Hou Jing because of Hou Jing's return of his wife, and then secretly communicated with the envoys, but they had no fighting spirit, and the people were resentful, such a record was really a bit of a punishment, and directly denied Xu Wensheng. But in fact, it was precisely Du You'an, Wang Xun and other so-called Jiangling generals who fought with Hou Jing and broke down when they surrendered to Hou Jing in the final defeat.

Hou Jingyan set out from Jiankang in March, and the army arrived in Xiyang at the end of the month, and even though Song Zixian and others were ordered to bypass Xu Wensheng's station and attack Yingzhou City in the rear because of the unfavorable battle, it took only a few days before and after.

The root cause of the defeat of Yingzhou was the capture of Yingzhou City, not Xu Wensheng's command problem, but probably because Wang Xun and other generals made their own ideas and did not accept the dispatch, which exacerbated the collapse of the army.

In history, Xu Wensheng retreated to Jiangling after defeat, and was still awarded the post of governor of the north of the city, which shows that in the eyes of the king of Xiangdong, Xu Wensheng's personal morality is still no problem.

Because at this time, Xiao Jing, the king of Liang, sent 10,000 horses to Wuning, north of Jiangling, if Xu Wensheng's morality is problematic, the king of Xiangdong is still entrusted with this responsibility, not afraid that he will turn around and sell the entire Jiangling?

It was precisely because Xu Wensheng's character and ability were still reliable, and because Wang Shengbi and other Jiangling people were trapped in Baling by Hou Jing's army, that Xu Wensheng was appointed as the governor of the north of the city to guard against the army of Xiangyang.

As for Xu Wensheng's seizure of office because of the accumulation of stolen goods, he was convicted because of resentment, and finally died in prison, to be honest, it was just a scene of snatching people, unloading the mill and killing the donkey. Another unloading and killing the donkey failed, but was kicked by the donkey and was very ugly, that was Wang Lin.

Not to mention that Xiao Laoqi's eyes are not so dirty, this Xiao Yuanzheng, who was captured just now, was because he ate a meal at his Seventh Master's house, and as a result, he was planted in it with all his parts. This one-eyed dragon has a black hand, that is, if you don't pay attention to it, you can't pay attention to it!

Of course, it is also because Li Tai is more interested in Xu Wensheng, so he tends to look at him more positively.

Xu Wensheng, no matter what his personal morality is, at least he doesn't have many eyes to play political tricks, like Chen Baxian, another Lingnan fierce man who went north from the border states and went to the national disaster, he didn't give Xiao Laoqi any chance to attack his basic plate, and he also completed a wonderful counterattack.

For real talents, Li Tai has always had the modest posture of a corporal and the patience to woo and show goodwill, not to mention that Xu Wensheng is still a talent who is good at water warfare that is relatively scarce in the entire Western Wei Dynasty.

He placed Li Yunxin here before, and there was no lack of desire to fish in troubled waters, but he didn't expect to catch Xu Wensheng, a big fish. Hearing that Xu Wensheng's tone was full of disappointment with the atmosphere of King Qin's teacher in Jiangling, he was also quite happy in his heart, so he warmly retained Xu Wensheng here to recuperate for two days, ready to persuade him to abandon the darkness and turn to the light.

However, Xu Wensheng has been avoiding talking about similar topics, and he still resigned to Li Tai two days later: "General Li has received and appreciated it, and Wensheng has a sense of guilt." However, Liang Lu has been eating for a long time, and he often thinks about repaying it, but it is a national disaster and abandons it unjustly. The disloyal and unrighteous people have even tarnished General Li's discernment. Today, the thieves gather in Baling, Wensheng begs to rescue, if he does not die, he will definitely repay General Li for this kindness in the future! ”

Hearing that Xu Wensheng was still stubbornly begging to go, Li Tai couldn't help but feel a little unhappy in his heart. However, as Xu Wensheng himself said, if he changed his court so easily, to be honest, he was not very relieved, and he might not dare to be commissioned by the military.

After a little muttering, he still agreed to Xu Wensheng's request, in addition to returning all the thousands of his old troops gathered in front of Runan City, even the Xiao Yuanzheng troops captured in the previous battle were also intended to be handed over to Xu Wensheng, and more than 15,000 people were brought back by him.

It's not that Li Tai is extraordinarily open-minded and bold, but he switches his thinking slightly, since you don't want to stay as my little baby, then simply return to Jiangling as your-stirring stick, add these personnel to it, and increase Xu Wensheng's voice in the Jiangling Group accordingly.

However, Li Tai still underestimated the speed of Xiao Laoqi's eradication of dissidents, and just as Xu Wensheng was still reorganizing his troops outside Runan City and preparing to set off to support Wang Seng Biao, who was trapped in Baling, there was a series of surprising news from the west.

After Xiao Shao, the king of Changsha who had previously defended Wuchang with Xu Wensheng, returned to Jiangling, he blamed Xu Wensheng for the defeat of Yingzhou and returned halfway, and said that Xu Wensheng had defected to the Western Wei Dynasty because he was afraid of defeat and was punished.

At the same time, Xiao Jing, the king of Liang in Xiangyang, also issued a letter against thieves, counting the crimes of Xiao Yi, the king of Xiangdong, for killing his clan relatives up and down the river, and called on Xiao Ji, the king of Wuling, who was sitting in Shuzhong, to also send troops to crusade, and he himself led the Xiangyang people and horses into Wuning, and the troops pointed directly at Jiangling.

Suddenly suffering from this internal and external troubles, the king of Xiangdong was furious, and the first thing he did was to show all the relatives and subordinates left by Xu Wensheng in Jiangling, and deprive him of all the official titles he had previously conferred to punish the thieves!