Fertilizer water originates in Guangyang Township, flows into Shaobi in the north, and enters Huai from Shouyang in the north. The water also originates in Guangyang Township, flows south into Chaohu Lake, and joins the Yangtze River at the mouth of the river.

Every summer when the water rises, the source of water will converge in the fertilizer water, so this place is named Hefei. In other words, during this period, the Huaishui River could be directly connected to the Yangtze River through the Feishui and Shishui channels, and Hefei was an important hub of the Jianghuai waterway.

The reason why Sun Quan stumbled Hefei in history was also because of Hefei's important geographical location on the Jianghuai waterway. Taking Hefei is equivalent to controlling the Jianghuai waterway.

However, Sun 100,000 had fought in Hefei City has already been destroyed in the war, on the occasion of Qi Liang in the Southern Dynasty, Pei Shuye of the Southern Dynasty surrendered to the Northern Wei Dynasty with Shouyang and others, Hefei was also owned by the Northern Wei Dynasty, the famous general Wei Rui barrage was weired, flooded Hefei, and the original old city of Hefei was destroyed.

Today's Hefei City is the Southern Liang regained a series of Huainan towns and then in the south bank of Shishui to choose another highland, on the eve of the outbreak of the Hou Jing Rebellion, also belongs to one of the important towns in Huainan. However, after Hou Jing's rebellion, Jianghuai shipping was cut off, and Hefei's importance was reduced.

Although the Northern Qi Dynasty successively received many Huainan cities, the use of the Jianghuai waterway was also very limited. Last year, he was preparing to plan a southern invasion with Hefei as the center of the north-south economy, but due to the uncoordinated dispatch of the troops in the north and south, the former passer-by Guo Yuanjian's troops were directly in Dongguan in the south of Hefei and were defeated by the army led by the monk of the Southern Liang Dynasty.

Li Tai is no stranger to Hefei City, and even led troops to occupy Hefei City before. It's just that that time the Hefei garrison general Li Bomu had no stubborn heart to resist, Li Taigang defeated Murong Shaozong in Shouyang and sent Gao Le to the south to say, and was able to enter Hefei City without blood.

But this time it was not so lucky, when he led a large group of men and horses to arrive outside the city of Hefei, the defenders in the city had already been aware, outside the city was full of horse rejection ditches, and the armor soldiers at the head of the city were lined up, as if facing the scene of the enemy.

Li Tai was not surprised by this, his 5,000 elite horsemen came from the east, plus the preparation of horses, pack horses, and the necessary servant and baggage, such a large army was difficult to completely conceal people's eyes. Moreover, Huainan is still the home of the Northern Qi Dynasty, just like the powerful people in those cities along the way who sent people to report to Hefei while providing food for their troops, which is also an ordinary operation.

Long before the arrival of the brigade, Li Tai sent Gao Le to lead the forward troops to investigate here and choose a suitable camping site. At this time, after the arrival of the large group, they began to camp directly.

Generally speaking, although the cavalry is mobile, but the attack is weak, especially in the face of a fortified city, except for some particularly extreme situations, such as the opponent's city is not defended at all, or there should be an internal defense to let go of the city defense, etc., generally speaking, the cavalry basically has no chance to perform in siege warfare.

Li Tai didn't expect to be able to take Hefei City easily, not to mention that his men and horses were already lightly armed and didn't carry any heavy ordnance, even if they carried a siege weapon like the Heyang Cannon, it needed to match the application scene to play a miraculous effect.

Nowadays, there is no special skill in attacking the city, and whether it is a famous general or a mediocre general in the north and south, there are few excellent achievements to boast of in the siege battle.

Li Tai was able to visit Heyang City twice, which is already the most powerful record in this era, although there are also a lot of tricks in it. However, war itself is to magnify the beneficial side of oneself and avoid the unfavorable aspects, and the trickery of the soldiers, if they do not know how to take advantage of it, is a sign of disqualification.

Methods such as barrage and weirs, digging tunnels and mounds of earth require too much work and are not suitable for use. Li Tai's hope for this use of troops is to encircle the point to send reinforcements, completely besiege Hefei City, exert pressure step by step, and break the fighting spirit of the defenders in the city through psychological warfare, so as to take the city.

Of course, if the Hefei guards are also full of defensive skills like Wang Sizheng and Wei Xiaokuan, and the offensive battle will not be effective at all, then they can only choose another method, and wait until the troops in the direction of Jinxi arrive, and use the tactics of the sea of people to attack and take it hard.

Now it has reached the height of summer, the agricultural work is busy, due to the sudden arrival of the Western Wei army, most of the people scattered between the four fields have entered the city to avoid the military disaster, and all the crops in the fields are uncared for.

Hefei is located in the hinterland of Huainan, although there have been wars in recent years, but it is still a densely populated place. Li Tai did not launch cavalry to attack Hefei directly, but still gave the defenders enough time to react, and presumably had gathered enough people into the city.

When the city is besieged, it is true that one more person will have more defensive strength, but each additional person will also increase the consumption of food and drink, and increase the burden of the united front.

Last year, Guo Yuanjian was defeated in Dongguan, and then he did not hear that the Northern Qi Dynasty had increased his men and supplies to Hefei, and now in midsummer, it was not the time to get a large harvest, so the supplies would also be one of the decisive points of this siege.

"General Yu, the last general led the forward troops to inspect the surrounding areas of Hefei after this, and saw that the surrounding Qi garrison included Beiqiao City, Xiaoxian Shu and other cities, especially the number of Xiaoxian soldiers is more......"

While the sergeants were busy setting up their camps, Gao Lekuo stepped forward and explained to Li Tai the enemy situation that they had detected in front of them.

When the upper reaches of Chushui in the north of Qiaocheng, you can reach Qin County to the east along Chushui, and you can reach Guabu Ferry Port to the south through Qin County, so you can cross the river to Jiankang City.

Xiaoxian is the mountain of Chuzhou, Anhui Province, is the key point of the Huainan land route, through which you can reach the important town of Liyang, the north of the Yangtze River, is the northern army can not occupy the advantage of the waterway and waterway, through the land to reach the important pass of the Jiangbei. When Hou Jing raised troops in Shouyang before, he chose to bypass Hefei because he did not have enough boat divisions and arrived in Liyang through this land route.

The situation that Gao Le had found was similar to what Li Tai had predicted, and now that Qin County was still in the hands of Southern Liang, it didn't make much sense for Northern Qi to occupy Chushui. One is that they do not have enough boat division strength, and the other is that even if they do, they cannot directly enter the Yangtze River through this.

As for the key fortification in Xiaoxian, in addition to the defeat of Dongguan and the loss of control of the waterway, it is estimated that it is also to keep Liyang, an important town in Jiangbei.

It can also be seen that the previous Qi envoy went to Jiangling to propose the return of several towns in Jiangbei in exchange for military cooperation, which is complete nonsense, and the heavy troops of Qi people are arranged around several important towns in Jiangbei, how can there be the slightest appearance of giving up to each other!

In addition to the general direction of the Qi army's garrison, Gao Le and others also investigated the key points of the surrounding water and land passages, so that they could station their men and horses in these places to warn them, and provide a stronghold for scouts to patrol and investigate, so as to grasp all the enemy dynamics around Hefei and ensure that they could respond and meet the enemy at the first time after discovering the enemy's traces anywhere.

When the people of Jingzhou arranged various combat tasks in an orderly manner, the defenders at the head of the city were also looking down worriedly.

For the Northern Qi soldiers, the name Li Boshan is definitely one of the targets that need to be vigilant and guarded, so when they learned that they were personally leading their men and horses to come here, the soldiers defending the city quickly gathered the soldiers and people and rectified the defense under the order of Shi Hu Sizhao.

As a large town in Huainan, Hefei originally had more than 30,000 garrisons, including 10,000 men and horses from the Northern Qi Dynasty, and more than 20,000 powerful troops from the Northern Qi Dynasty who had defected to the Northern Qi in Huainan.

After the former assassin Shi Li Bomu was transferred back to the central court, soon after the arrival of his successor assassin Shi Hu Sizhao, he took advantage of the fact that the Southern Liang army was busy recovering Jiankang and had no time to go north, leading troops to attack Liyang, and stationed thousands of men and horses in Liyang.

However, due to the succession of Guangling and other places, Hefei made little progress here, so it received less attention, and not long ago thousands of people were transferred from Hefei to Jingzhou.

At present, there are still more than 10,000 soldiers in the defenders of the city, and there are more than 30,000 soldiers, and they are also obtained by wantonly collecting the surrounding wandering and dead people and powerful troops.

But Li Boshan is obviously not an ordinary person, and his miraculous record in the battle against the Eastern Dynasty cannot be overvalued.

At this time, the soldiers in the city saw that the enemy army was only in their early thousands, and most of them were light horses, and there were inevitably some people who were willing to take risks and fights secretly despised, and couldn't help but ask the assassin to fight, wanting to take advantage of the enemy's hard work and unstable foothold from afar, and go out of the city to fight him by surprise.

However, these requests were all rejected by Hu Sizhao, and he said with a straight face: "How can the battle be judged by the number of soldiers? If it were that simple, the thief would have been destroyed many years ago. Li Boshan used many deceitful soldiers, it was by no means as simple as it seemed on the surface, in the old years, he was in trouble in Jinyang, and it was difficult for many ministers and generals in the city to deal with it. Liu Fengsheng bravely dominated the mansion, and was defeated and died by accident.

Today, you can't be greedy for great achievements, but you can stick to the city defense without losing, so that the armies can enter here to suppress the thief division, if you can force it to retreat far away, then all the soldiers who participated in the war can already return to the country and boast! ”

Hu Sizhao made up his mind to nest in the city, not seeking merit but seeking no fault, anyway, as long as he held Hefei without loss, there was no fault. And the surrounding armies have also sent people to inform them, even if the enemy troops come and go freely, it is because their rescue is not timely enough.

So the first day of Jingzhou's arrival in Hefei passed so calmly, although Li Tai also arranged for the vigilance and response of the people and horses at night, but the city did not even do the basic drum and horn nuisance, which was a little surprising.

But in the afternoon of the next day, scouts from the southeast reported a cavalry force of more than 1,000 men. After Li Tai received the news, he personally led a cavalry team to meet the battle, but after wading across the river in the lower reaches of Shishui, he saw the enemy smoke and dust sweeping away to the south.

This situation is a little embarrassing, Li Tai originally thought that with the importance of Hefei City, he personally led his men and horses into this attack, and the garrisons of Northern Qi on the Huainan sides were bound to be impossible to see death without help, and then they could defeat the people who came to the aid through field battles one by one.

But now it seems that not to mention that the defenders in Hefei City are honestly doing turtles with shrunken heads in the city, and the surrounding parties have also reacted coldly to this matter. This inevitably made Li Tai suspicious, could it be that his deterrent power was still insufficient in the eyes of the Qi people, and they decided that they couldn't capture Hefei, so they didn't come to the rescue?

In any case, it has come and come, and it can't just be a stalemate. So Li Tai rested outside Hefei City, while continuing to guard and clear the surrounding areas, of course, he inevitably sent people to the city to persuade him to surrender, but he did not get any response.

After a few more days, there were no considerable reinforcements around, but there were quite a few scout rangers, and thousands of rangers could be found scattered around each day.

The scouts of the Jingzhou army also arrested some of them, and after some interrogation, in addition to the garrisons sent by the Northern Qi garrisons, there were also many local heroes from Huainan who were sent to investigate the battle situation. It can also be seen that everyone is still very concerned about the situation here, and it is not as cold as it appears on the surface.

Finally, under this depressing wait, Dugutun, who was a man of the South Road, finally arrived here with two thousand light horsemen. With reinforcements, Li Tai does not have to be trapped here, and can expand the scope of his activities even more.

Although his arrival is no longer a secret now, and it is difficult to achieve any miracle results even if he moves elsewhere, the garrisons of all sides of the Northern Qi Dynasty have maintained a silent attitude, which also makes Li Tai decide to increase the intensity of provocation.

Although it is too arrogant and annoying, if these Huainan heroes are allowed to see that all the Northern Qi people and horses are honestly not presumptuous in front of them, it will also help offset the domination and influence of some Northern Qi on the Huainan region.

So Li Tai selected another 3,000 men and horses, and planned to go east along Chushui all the way, if the road was unimpeded, he would go to Guangling City to see how the battle situation was going for Chen Baxian, and he was idle anyway.

Li Tai felt depressed and bored here, but in fact, looking at the entire Huainan battlefield, it was also very lively.

First of all, the military dispute that began at the beginning of the year, the rebellion in the Northern Qi and Huaibei regions was still continuing, and the people of Qingxu had no way to take this Dongfang Bai who was in rebellion in the city, and Chen Baxian also sent his subordinate Du Shengming to help in the war.

In fact, at the beginning of the year, Jinyang had already ordered Duan Shao, the assassin of Jizhou, to lead the army south to settle the chaos, but because of the rebellion and attack of Rouran, the main force of Jinyang was pulled by Gao Yang to Monan to fight with Rouran, so Duan Shao could only re-recruit soldiers in Hebei, and when he came south, it was not too early.

Last year, the Northern Qi Dynasty also sent Bu Da Khansa and other generals to lead the army south to join Guo Yuanjian to attack the Southern Liang, but Guo Yuanjian was defeated by Wang Shengbi first, and the offensive naturally ended. Bu Da Khansa temporarily stayed in Zhongli, and after Duan Shao arrived in Supre, he led 40,000 horses south to Jingzhou to relieve the siege of Jingzhou.

On the Southern Liang side, Chen Baxian's siege of Guangling had also lasted for several months, and at the same time, Yan Chaoda, the assassin of Qinzhou, led his army to attack Jingzhou. And with Li Tai's troops sent to Hefei, Wang Shengbi also took advantage of the situation to gather people and horses in Gu, preparing to cross the river to seize Liyang. The defenders of Liyang were threatened by this, and naturally did not dare to divide their troops to the north to relieve the siege of Hefei.

Therefore, the current Huainan presents a situation of chaos between the three kingdoms, especially the Southern Liang and Northern Qi fighting most fiercely in Guangling, Jingzhou and other places. As for Li Tai, a late entrant, he still did not integrate into this brawl because of his own deterrent power and the fact that he had not yet shown his destructiveness.

However, this situation will not last long, because the Qi general Bu Dahansa, who currently has the most mobile force in Huainan, has not been away from Zhongli for a long time to travel south, and immediately receives the news that Hefei is under siege by the Jingzhou army of the Western Wei Dynasty.

Bu Da Khansa couldn't help but be surprised when he learned about this, and now the country was already overstretched because of the frequent use of troops in Mo Nan and Huainan, where the Liang people were pressing step by step, but as a result, such a strong enemy was added, which naturally made those of them in Huainan feel a headache.

In the face of this situation, Bu Da Hansa did not dare to make his own decision, he first sent people to Supre to ask Duan Shao which side he should rescue, and then while maintaining a slow speed to march towards the previously established target Jingzhou, the detachment will lead two thousand light horsemen to the direction of Hefei to investigate the specific situation.

Originally, this kind of response was relatively stable, but he met Li Tai, who was complacent and scurrying around Huainan to find an opponent. On the third day after Li Tai left Hefei to the east, he encountered this light cavalry army in Nanqiaozhou.

The men and horses galloped all the way to the south, and they didn't know the details of the army on the opposite side, first they only saw a few hundred rangers, and then they rode their horses to chase and reprimand, and then they rushed directly into the vicinity of the Jingzhou military camp under the lure of the hundreds of horsemen who pretended to retreat, and then naturally they were defeated without suspense.

After interrogating the captives, Li Tai learned that there was such an enemy army in the northern part of Nanqiaozhou, and after a little thought, he decided to lead his army to catch up.

No matter where this group of men and horses will go, it is always the living force of the Northern Qi in Huainan, and if he wants to take Hefei and garrison it for a long time, sooner or later he will have to fight against this force of men and horses.

Listening to the meaning of these captives, it seemed that he did not know much about the situation in the direction of Hefei, so Li Taidang even ordered these captives to be dressed up as the defenders captured after the breakthrough of Hefei, and then chased all the way in the direction of the defeat of the defeated soldiers.

At this time, Bu Da Khansa was unaware that danger was approaching him, and while he continued to march, he was also thinking about Li Boshan's intervention in the Huainan war, whether he would retreat as victorious as he had done the previous times, or whether he had a deeper plan? Does choosing such a moment mean that some profound alliance has been formed between the Western Wei and the Southern Liang?

"My lord, it's not good, it's not good! The Wei army marched north, and Li Boshan led his troops to kill! ”

In the evening, when the soldiers were setting up tents in the camp to rest and recuperate, the generals who had been sent before rushed back with a dozen or so soldiers, and when they saw the great Khansa, they reported to him the astonishing news.

Bu Da Khansa's face also changed sharply after hearing this: "How many Wei troops are there?" Is it Li Boshan himself? Could it be that Hefei has been lost? ”