Just when the Jiangling armies were vying to sell their prisoners of war to Xiakou, Yingcheng on the south bank of the river was finally breached, and the generals Song Zixian and Ding Hequan under Hou Jing were captured, and tens of thousands of prisoners of war were also added.

At this time, it had become an open secret that the prisoners of war were sold to Xiakou, so shortly after the end of the Battle of Yingcheng, except for a few important prisoners such as the head of the enemy generals, the other prisoners of war passed through the Xiakou camp.

At this time, Wang Shengbi already felt that the overly frequent exchanges between the two sides had lost a sense of boundary, and if he continued to let it continue, even if the king of Xiangdong did not reprimand, I am afraid that other unexpected things would happen.

So Wang Shengbi reported the military intelligence personnel here to Jiangling, and asked the king of Xiangdong to make personnel arrangements for the newly recovered Yingzhou as soon as possible. When the king of Xiangdong had just appointed Xiao Shao, the king of Changsha, as the assassin of Yingzhou, and had not even entered the country, Wang Shengbi led his headquarters to continue eastward, taking advantage of Yingzhou's victory to go straight to Jiangzhou, and conquered Huangcheng in one fell swoop.

With the departure of the main battlefield from Yingzhou, the trade between Xiakou and the armies of Jiangling also came to an end. The final result of the transaction is also very gratifying, the number of prisoners of war exchanged from the Jiangling army reached more than 13,000 people, and including the 15,000 stone of grain that Li Tai gave to Wang Shengbi before, only paid more than 50,000 stone of grain.

Even without taking into account the skills of these prisoners of war, this transaction is an absolute profit.

The Gangneung armies were running out of food and grass, and faced with the temptation of the great achievement of the Eastern Expedition to settle the chaos, they sold the captured personnel at a dumping price of half selling and half giving away, so as to exchange for precious food and the ability of their troops to continue fighting. In their opinion, as long as they can counterattack Jiankang, both meritorious and prisoner are everywhere, and they can't worry about it at the moment.

If you change the time and place, I am afraid that such a deal will be difficult to achieve.

Because he only needs to go one more way to Jiangzhou, Chen Baxian will take his 500,000 stones, grains and grass to share with the Jiangling army, so as to gain the acceptance and recognition of the Jiangling generals, and have the same status as Wang Shengbi in the coalition army, and even after the future attack and killing of Wang Shengbi, Zhou Tiehu and some other generals of the Western Army will lead their troops to join Chen Baxian, so that Chen Baxian can receive part of the Jiangling personnel legacy.

After these prisoners of rebellion were exchanged, they played an extraordinary value before they had time to carry out a detailed reorganization.

Before, Wang Sheng's envoy sent Wang Lin's boat, Li Tai was still too young and inexperienced, so he only cared about having fun at that time, but when he used the big ship for exercises and drills afterwards, he found that the big ship could only go straight forward and retreat, but he couldn't turn the rudder and turn around.

After some investigation, Wang Cao, Xu Wensheng and others determined that there was a problem with the rudder in the rear compartment of the big ship, which should have been deliberately destroyed by the Jiangling people before delivery, so the maneuverability of the big ship was greatly reduced, and the actual combat performance was also greatly reduced.

Although Xiangyang also has experience and technology in maintaining large ships, its largest ship is still a few feet shorter than the Gangneung large ship, and the rudder is a relatively sophisticated ship accessory, and different ship types have different scales and structures, and many shipwrights are helpless about it.

But among the prisoners of the rebel army, there was a group of soldiers stationed in Beijing. Jingkou is not only an important town of Jiangfang, but also a large dock, where many Liang military boats were built and repaired.

Therefore, there was no shortage of people who were very familiar with various types of warships, and one of the commanders and more than a dozen shipwrights solved this problem from inspection to maintenance in only a few days, and repaired the rudder of this large ship as before, so that this large ship could flexibly turn around and advance and retreat in the channel.

Li Tai was overjoyed when he learned of this, and directly took out a Gao Ao Cao to reward this ship repair team. Such an astonishing reward immediately stunned everyone, especially those who had a talent and skill among these prisoners of war, all of them enthusiastically showed it, hoping to be rewarded with favor and directly improve their own situation.

The talents of these prisoners of war are also diverse, some are good at boats and vehicles, some are good at smelting and casting, and all kinds of industries are displayed, so it can be said that all kinds of manual production techniques in Jiangnan are included.

Li Tai was both pleased and sighed at this. The Hou Jing rebels only knew about destruction but did not manage or build, and the craftsmanship of these craftsmen could be said to be the essence of the technological development of the Southern Dynasties for hundreds of years, but they were also driven to the battlefield as cannon fodder without screening.

I don't know how many times these people have traveled and how many dangers and tortures they have encountered to come here, and the number is still quite considerable, so how much they have sacrificed in the process of tossing and turning, it makes people feel heart-wrenching when they think about it. The Hou Jing Rebellion was not only aimed at the destruction of production technology and the environment, but also the destruction of the entire social structure and people's livelihood in Jiangnan.

At first, Li Tai only exchanged these people as human resources for the development of the water army, but after taking a deeper view, he found that the value and connotation of these people far exceeded the original assumption.

In order to absorb all these people, properly resettle them and give full play to their value, there is undoubtedly a need for a more systematic approach. So he sent a letter to the governor's office, ordering Silu Pei Xia to come south to carry out more detailed reorganization and arrangement of these personnel.

Of course, in this troubled era, the military industry needs to be developed as the top priority.

Before Pei Xia arrived, Li Tai ordered Li Quji to select 2,000 shipwrights with shipbuilding experience among them, first add food and drink, and then lead these boatmen north to build boats in Xingzhou, which is the Danjiang Estuary in the upper reaches of the Han River.

Whether it is military or civilian, it is necessary to have enough ships to make full use of water resources. Take the present as an example, because there is not enough naval force, although Li Tai's power has developed to the Yangtze River, he does not dare to set up water conservancy facilities such as water conservancy spinning wheels on the riverside, and his voice in the river is still not as loud as the Jiangling Military Government.

As the main battlefield of the Southern Liang Rebellion continued to advance to the lower reaches of the Yangtze River in the east, coupled with the establishment of the foundation and development framework of the naval army and river defense here, Li Tai did not continue to stay here for comparison.

Not to mention the personnel changes in other aspects, in Nanliang alone, since Hou Jing raised troops from Shouyang in 548 A.D. and set off a rebellion, to the middle of 551, the Hou Jing Rebellion, which lasted for nearly three years, finally ushered in a new turning point after Hou Jing's defeat of Baling.

Although Hou Jing still fled all the way east to Jiankang City, the various arrangements he set up along the river were broken and disintegrated one after another, especially the generals under his command Ren Yue and Song Zixian were captured one after another, which made his power sharply reduced.

In the first half of the Hou Jing Rebellion, the Gangneung Military Government, which had been busy cutting off the clan and killing each other, finally entered the right track of counterinsurgency, and after successfully defending Gangneung through a series of wars such as Baling, the Jiangling generals led by Wang Shengbi finally kicked off the prelude to a counterattack.

The Jiangling army first recovered Yingzhou, which had been captured by the rebel army, and then Wang Shengbi led the advance of his headquarters to recapture the important town of Jiangzhou in one fell swoop.

At the same time, Chen Baxian, who became famous in Lingnan, also led 30,000 troops of the Lingnan Zhulu Alliance Army to the north into Luling County, and temporarily stationed troops in Baqiu in the Ganshui Valley.

Between Wang Shengbi and Chen Baxian is Yuzhang County, Jiangzhou, and now entrenched in Yuzhang is Hou Yao, the general of Poyang Wang Xiaofan, who took the initiative to give up Hefei to Northern Qi.

Poyang Wang father and son died successively, Hou Yao turned to Hou Jing, was Hou Jing treated as the same clan, now seeing that the counterinsurgency situation is very good, Hou Yao also raised troops in the county, refused Hou Jing's subordinates to enter the city in Qing, according to which the county town expressed its submission to the Jiangling military government.

Although all the people and horses are nominally under the dispatch of the Jiangling Military Government, there is also no lack of dark tides surging inside. Among the people in the Jiangling headquarters, Wang Shengbi is naturally the leader, but Wang Shengbi can be called in addition to the battles of Baling and Yingcheng, and he has been a military general for a long time and has no experience in taking charge of himself. Therefore, when it comes to prestige and prestige, it is far inferior to Chen Baxian, who quelled the rebellion in Jiaozhou and shocked Lingnan.

The Gangneung armies already regarded themselves as descendants, and they had just completed the most difficult reversal of the war, so they were arrogant. In the face of the Lingnan armies led by Chen Baxian, they couldn't help but be vigilant and suspicious, thinking that Chen Baxian saw that the war had taken a turn before leading his troops north to compete for military achievements.

Chen Baxian originally wanted to lead his troops north to argue with Wang Seng in August, but he never received a positive response to the letter to the north to inquire about the military period, and he could vaguely guess what the Jiangling army thought.

"These Westerners are really small, is it just because they support the king's side, they don't allow other divisions and brigades to go to the difficult division!"

After one after another, Chen Baxian's subordinate generals Zhou Wenyu and others couldn't help but complain.

Chen Ba was nearly fifty years old, tall, with a long forehead and long arms, and after hearing the complaints of his generals, he said with a smile: "At the moment of national disaster, the brave and righteous should go bravely, why bother with the size of the merit?" What's more, Wang Zhengdong and others fought hard for many battles, and finally stopped the arrogant thief, and since the disaster was completed, he finally saw a turning point, Jingfu is worthy of the first military government in Zhenjiang, and can have the achievements in front of him, and all my people should congratulate him. If people doubt me, they should use their hearts to explain their doubts, this is the attitude of complementing each other, how can they be angry and hurtful! ”

Due to the resistance of the Jiangling army, Chen Baxian did not rush to lead the army north, but ordered his subordinates to transport the grain and grass they carried to the north to help the Jiangling army.

After receiving the grain and grass sent by Chen Baxian, Wang Seng couldn't help but sigh: "Chen Xingguo is really a righteous person, and I am ashamed!" ”

But after a little emotion, Wang Shengbi thought of the previous incident in Xiakou, so he sighed with regret: "I only hate to be late......"