During Li Tai's absence from Jingzhou, the interactions between the Northern Qi and the Southern Liang were frequent and intense.

First of all, the remnants of Hou Jing's chaotic army and Guo Yuanjian, the former Xingtai of the North Road, led their troops to surrender to the Northern Qi Dynasty, which made the Northern Qi forces advance to Guangling in one fell swoop, facing Jingkou in the south of the Yangtze River across the river.

Li Tai didn't know that before Guo Yuanjian and others decided to surrender to the Northern Qi, there was also Hou Zijian and others who proposed to take refuge in the Northern Qi Dynasty, so he didn't have much feeling about this matter, but sighed that after all, the Northern Qi was stronger and stronger, and the attraction to these Jiangbei rebels was also greater.

As for the ownership of the jade seal of the country, he didn't care even more. Even if it falls into his hands, it will only add an impetus to the Yuwen family to usurp the country, and it will not help him cut the queue to seize power.

After accepting the surrender of Guo Yuanjian and others, when the Northern Qi sent the general Pan Le to lead the army south, and united with Guo Yuanjian and other surrendered troops to conquer Yangping, which was still occupied by Hou Jingyu's troops, they then went south and forced Qin County, which was also an important town in Jiangbei.

Qinjun is located in the Liuhe of later generations, not far from the south is the important Guabu ferry, and Jiankang City across the river to look. Because of its important geographical location, Wang Shengbi sent his subordinate Yan Chaoda to settle in the city soon after recovering Jiankang.

When the Northern Qi army invaded Qin County, it coincided with the rainy season, and the continuous rainy weather made it much more difficult to siege the city. In addition, Wang Shengbi and Chen Baxian worked together to send men and horses to reinforcements, and Chen Baxian personally led his troops to break Guo Yuanjian's department near Qin County, making the defeated army of Northern Qi retreat in embarrassment, which can be regarded as keeping Qin County, a key fortress in the north of the Yangtze River, so that Jiankang will not be directly exposed to the enemy's troops.

But Liyang, another important town in Jiangbei, did not have such good luck, because Wang Seng argued that many people and horses were placed downstream, and there were still Yu Kou in the land of Sanwu, so it was inevitable that there was some inability to review.

The Northern Qi took advantage of this opportunity to replace Li Bomu, who was a little lacking in military strategy, with Hu General Hu Sizhao as the assassin of Hezhou, and led the Hefei men and horses to attack Liyang, conquering this important town on the west bank of the Hengjiang River in one fell swoop, so that the Northern Qi had the strategic initiative to cross the river south at any time.

The results achieved by the Northern Qi Dynasty in this series of robberies can be described as very amazing, and the threat to the Jiangnan region is far greater than that of Li Tai's Jingzhou Governor's Office.

However, this is also because Li Tai deliberately maintains restraint, and soon the protagonist of the entire Jiangnan region will become the big macho Chen Baxian. Li Tai has not even achieved much in the construction of the naval army at the moment, so naturally he doesn't want to go to Chen Baxian now, and there is no direct conflict with the geographical location of each other's forces, so it is mainly better to watch the show.

Although he did not intervene in the division of interests in the Huainan region, he still firmly grasped the means to check and balance the struggle between this side, as long as Yiyang was in his hands, then he had a certain right to speak on the changes in the situation in Huainan.

At present, the people and horses of the Northern Qi and Southern Liang in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River can be described as needle-to-needle, and there are many open and secret battles between each other.

Northern Qi was like a bloodthirsty jackal, constantly surrounding the bleeding Nanliang to test it, and he was bound to bite off a bite of fat before he would give up. After all, Gao Yang of Northern Qi himself is a monarch with a strong personality and full of aggression, and in the face of this Southern Liang regime that has been turned upside down by Hou Jingjie's traitors, he has an absolute advantage psychologically, and of course he is not willing to let it go easily.

As for the Southern Liang, the current Wang Shengbi and Chen Baxian are also close comrades-in-arms, and in the case of successfully quelling the Hou Jing Rebellion and the prospect of Zhongxing, they are absolutely unwilling to sit in the north of Qi to come to plunder, especially Chen Baxian has been actively trying to recover Guangling and other important towns in Jiangbei.

Although the two sides are fighting vigorously, some of the local forces affected by them are complaining bitterly, on the one hand, they are based on the territory to protect themselves, and on the other hand, they are actively seeking refuge.

After Li Tai returned to the governor's office, Cui Qian sorted out a number of similar requests and submitted them to Li Tai for approval.

"Where is Jinxi?"

Li Tai frowned and asked after seeing the top copy of the request, and soon Zhao Jingzhi, the official of the government, presented a detailed map, and the map also marked the location of Jin Xi in detail.

Li Tai looked at it slightly, only to see that Jinxi was located at the southern foot of Dabie Mountain in Jiangbei, between Qichang and Lujiang County, and further east from Huangcheng in Jiangzhou.

The person who submitted this letter was named Lu Sida, who was himself a powerful man entrenched in his hometown, and was once a general of Xiao Ke, the assassin of Yingzhou in Southern Liang. Later, Xiao Lun, the king of Shaoling, wandered into Yingzhou, and soon after became hostile to all parties, Lu Sida retired to the township and developed to all sides with Xincai, his native Qiao County, as the center.

Its manpower cultivated the valley, recruited the dead, and its power soon grew stronger, and several counties such as Jinxi in Jiangbei were under its control, with nearly 10,000 troops, and now it is also a big man in the forefront of Jiangbei forces.

Previously, when Wang Seng Biao led the armies of all parties to counterattack Jiankang, this Lu Sidda also sent a soldier to help in the battle, and was therefore appointed by the king of Xiangdong as the assassin of Beijiang Prefecture, and the fact that he had divided the counties of Jiangbei was recognized by the Jiangling Military Government.

But now, as the Northern Qi troops continue to advance southward, the certification of the Jiangling Military Government is useless, and Lu Sida's sphere of influence is still inevitably attacked by the Northern Qi army. For example, Xincai, Yue'an and other counties that were relatively close to Hezhou occupied by the Northern Qi were all invaded by the Northern Qi.

Although Lu Sidda was appointed by the Jiangling Military Government, he was only a strong party that took advantage of the chaos, and he did not belong to the core force of the Jiangling Military Government at all, and now that he was attacked by the Northern Qi Dynasty, he naturally could not get support from the Jiangling side. However, Wang Shengbi and other Jiankang people are still facing off against the Northern Qi army from the south in the lower reaches, and they also can't take care of these local forces.

In desperation, Lu Sidda made a sincere gesture to the Jingzhou Governor's Office, hoping to obtain asylum.

Li Tai did not rush to make a decision, but first carefully understood the current situation in Huainan, and then summoned Cui Qian in the palace to discuss with Pei Hong, Lu Yan and other subordinates, before deciding to accept this Lu Sidda subordination, and decided to send troops to help him defend, and continue to push the actual control of the Jingzhou Governor's Mansion one step further.

Although Li Tai does not plan to invest a lot of personnel in the situation in Huainan at the moment, there is no reason not to even shirk the fat sent to the door.

This Lusida's sphere of influence does not belong to the elite area of Huainan, and is roughly located in the Huaixi region between the west of Hefei and the Dabie Mountains. If it is included in the rule of the Jingzhou Governor's Office, then it is roughly separated from the Northern Qi Dynasty with Hefei as the boundary, and the entire Huainan region is equally divided.

Where Jin Xi is located, there is no too strong regional interaction factor with Jiangnan, but it can form a complete river defense system with Handong, Xiashou, Xiakou and a series of Jiangbei Jindu, which has been obtained by the Jingzhou Governor's Office before, and can have a land offensive and defensive system in the confrontation with Yingzhou and Jiangzhou in the Southern Liang.

At the same time, this place can echo with the north and south of Yiyang, an important town in the north, once the Jingzhou Governor's Office decides to attack Huainan, it can push directly to the east along the two lines of Jianghuai and form a joint encirclement of Hefei and other places that have been in the hands of the Northern Qi.

After making this decision, Li Taidang even invited Rusida's envoy into the governor's palace.

Soon a young man in his early twenties, younger than Li Tai, was introduced into the Fuzhong Straight Hall, and when he heard the subordinates of the hall introduce that he was General Li in the hall, the young man's eyes couldn't help but flash a trace of surprise, and he hurriedly bowed to the ground, and at the same time said in a respectful voice: "Xiaomin Jin Xilu Guangda knocked to see General Li!" The general's prestige resounded throughout the river, and the small people also admired it for a long time, and now he came to worship his disciple in the name of his brother, and the general he saw was really outstanding, like a god! ”

"General Lu shouldn't be the head of Qian, right? I heard that you once followed Wang Seng to fight against the rebels, presumably you have meritorious service, didn't the king of Xiangdong be awarded? ”

When Li Tai heard this, he said with a smile, when he decided to accept this powerful force, his own government officials introduced the details of the situation to him, knowing that the young man in front of him was Lu Sida's younger brother, and sent troops to chase Wang Seng Bi to Jiankang, so he asked this question.

When Lu Guangda heard this, his face changed slightly, and he became angry, and he lowered his head and said, "Don't dare to hide it from General Li, Xiaomin has indeed experienced this." led Xiangqu as the vanguard of the division, led the battle with the thieves, and did not dare to resign, but the Jiangling armies were domineering, and they were not allowed to allow a certain guest division to approach the city and the warehouse lightly, and even the grain was not allocated after Jiankang was established. The small people's army returned with all their food, but they were reprimanded......"

Hearing the many injustices that Lu Guangda had encountered, Li Tai couldn't help but sigh in his heart, not to mention you Jiangbei head snakes who took advantage of the chaos, even Chen Baxian was excluded when the rebellion was pacified and the results of the war were divided.

Lu Guangda didn't continue to complain on this topic, after all, the unfair treatment suffered in Jiankang had nothing to do with the Western Wei Dynasty, so it was important to hurry up and get down to business.

"Now that the army of thieves is coming south, the people of Jinxi, Xincai and other counties, and tens of thousands of Li people, are afraid that they will have nothing to attach to, and they are about to be abused by thieves, so I implore General Li to have mercy on them and live a righteous ......life."