"Sinners wait to meet the General! A few days ago, he was threatened by the thief, and failed to meet the general in time, but fortunately, the general's deterrence made the thief's momentum disappear, and the criminals began to kill the thief in the city and sacrifice the city to righteousness, and implored the general to tolerate the previous sins and give the people of this city life! ”

In front of the north gate of Hefei City, the officials and heroes in the city are all disarmed and discarded, and they surrender, and the one who walks in front is an old man with crane hair, staggering and trembling.

Followed behind were two young men in white, one holding the head of the former assassin Shi Hu Sizhao, and the other holding a series of seal tokens such as the official seal of the state capital, including the map of the territory previously demarcated by the Northern Qi Dynasty.

Li Tai stood in the middle of the ring of the soldiers in military uniform, and when he saw the old man leading everyone to bow down slowly, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart that this era is really a bit of a tradition of respecting the elderly.

He has also experienced a lot of similar surrender scenes, and basically in addition to the military and political commanders, one or several elderly people must be followed by those who line up to surrender.

He hadn't done much of this kind of thing, according to his own guess, the reason for this arrangement was that in addition to the fact that the average elderly person has a certain level of seniority and prestige in society, the deliberate reason is to let the hostile forces that accept and surrender see, this old man is so old, if you don't kill him, you won't have a few years to live, and killing him will only add a few more killing karma to yourself.

But no matter what these people think, as long as they are willing to surrender the city, it will be fine.

So Li Tai stepped forward, and ordered his soldiers to invite the old man to come forward, and he took the old man's wrist and said with a smile: "Today, my royal division marched into this place, just to recruit the stubborn thieves, as long as the soldiers in the city keep themselves clean and do not join the thieves, then from now on they will be rescued, and they don't have to worry about being harmed." The old townsman was elected by the people of the city to see, and he must also be a righteous man on the side of Deqia, forgive me for being clumsy, may I ask the old man of the village? ”

"Don't dare, don't dare, how dare you praise virtue and grace when you treat the sinful people! The sinner's surname is Xiahou, and he is a distant relative of the late Fengcheng Xianggong clan, and he does not dare to pretend to be in Deqia Township, but he knows a little bit of the etiquette of respecting the superior, so he is begging for favor from the general by the sergeants and people in the city! ”

When the old man heard this, he hurriedly bowed to the side and said in a humble tone.

Li Tai bowed his head slightly after hearing this, and the old man said that Fengcheng Gong was Xiahou of Southern Liang, and his younger brother Xiahou Kui sat in Shouyang for more than ten years, so the Xiahou clan of Qiaojun also became a Huainan clan. During the rebellion of Hou Jing, the sons of Xiahou Kui followed Hou Jing to make a rebellion and finally did not fall into the rebellion, while the sons of Xiahou Kui resisted the rebellion and died.

Li Tai also signaled to the other people who surrendered to be exempt, and met them one by one to appease them a little. Many of these people are not natives of Hefei, but have taken refuge and migrated here, or have been gathered by the Northern Qi, but they are all famous and powerful people in the township without exception.

Li Tai was not surprised by this, because the last time Li Bomu took the initiative to retreat, he entered Hefei City to loot and took away many Hefei locals.

In times of war, cities with great strategic value are often hit with priority. In the eyes of many people in later generations, it seems that it is better to escape into the mountains and open up a paradise to live safely than to gather in those majestic cities.

But this is often an illusion, and the history books will record how many times a city like Hefei was attacked, but they will not record how many times a certain mountain village was looted by bandits. Moreover, the more mountainous and desolate the place, the less social order there is, and the less there is the safety of life.

In a city like Hefei, even if Li Taidu has already fought for the second time, it is only to deal with those forces that resist, and the people in the city have no reason or need to harm them at all. The so-called massacre of the city is nothing more than an extreme phenomenon in a few cases. Therefore, it is safer to expect to be in the city in times of war than to wander in the wilderness.

This is also one of the reasons why Hefei City has been captured by Li Tai before, and now it is full of people.

Li Tai did not rush into the city, but talked with these village sages and elders outside the city, while appeasing everyone, while learning about the current personnel situation in Hefei, and officially introduced Quan Jingxuan, who was going to sit in Hefei next, to them.

When they heard that Li Tai planned to send men and horses to garrison Hefei City for a long time, the expressions of these powerful villagers couldn't help but froze slightly.

Of course, they didn't want such a strong dragon to lie on their heads, and the ideal way for them was to control Li Tai only in name, while they ruled the city under the tiger's skin. Li Tai went back and forth to Huainan several times before, but he basically evacuated quickly, and even if he captured the city, he did not stay there for a long time, which was one of the reasons why they were willing to surrender the city.

Now it seems that the situation is a little different from what they imagined, could it be that the Western Wei also intends to officially join the partition of Huainan?

No matter what they think, they don't have much say in this matter. Not to mention that he has now surrendered out of the city, even if he is still defending the city, in the absence of strong external assistance, it will only take Li Tai an extra period of time.

When Li Tai communicated with these villagers, the rest of the armies had already settled in Hefei and completely controlled the city.

During the exchange, Li Tai also noticed that the old man, Xiahou Wanlong, and another middle-aged man named Zhou Zhengfang were quite respected by these powerful people, and seemed to be faintly the leader of everyone.

So when the army sent a message that the city had been controlled, Li Tai asked these two people to enter the city with Quan Jingxuan to restore the order of the people in the city as soon as possible, and he left the other heroes in the military camp tent to set up a banquet in the name of rewarding everyone for killing thieves and dedicating the city.

After Quan Jingxuan entered the city, he patrolled the city accompanied by two powerful representatives, and at the same time, the accompanying soldiers posted posters along the road and publicized the Jingzhou army's regulations on the management of the city after entering the city, and the main content of the regulations was nothing more than to ensure the personal and property safety of the city soldiers and people.

However, in addition to the relatively simple three chapters of the law, there is another content indicated in the list, that is, during the occupation of the city by the Northern Qi Dynasty, if the residents of the city have any property disputes or murder lawsuits that disagree with the previous judgment, they can directly sue the state government from now on, and the state government will change the judgment according to the actual situation and the laws of the Western Wei Dynasty.

The two Haoqiang, who accompanied Quan Jingxuan to patrol the city, didn't feel anything about this, but just to sweep away the residual influence of the Northern Qi Dynasty and sort out the majesty of the Western Wei Dynasty's punishment order.

But if they understand the style of the Jingzhou Governor's Office, it is estimated that they can see that this is a foreshadowing to mobilize public opinion and prepare to launch a public trial, and the biggest target that should have been tried by them has been cut by them, so they will naturally be the next public trial.

However, Li Tai didn't want to be impatient to unload the mill and kill the donkey, he just didn't want these powerful people to continue to exist in Hefei City with the help of the prestige established by the fox and the fake tiger under the governance of the Northern Qi Dynasty, Hefei City already had no stable social relations in the township, as long as these newly established authorities were demolished, a new set of management order could be established in accordance with the laws of the Jingzhou Governor's Office.

As for these heroes, they can be regarded as meritorious contributions to the city, so at the banquet to entertain them, Li Tai also seriously described the development situation of the current north of the city.

If these people are willing, they can even take advantage of the current time to use troops in Huainan, along the military passage of the Jingzhou Military Mansion, and lead the clan members to move to the north more safely to settle down and start a new life.

But if these people are stubborn and still have some dreams of swaying from side to side and cutting off their dominance, then they don't have to go, stay and show their eyes for the old and young masters of Hefei to enjoy. As for whether he will kill the virtuous by mistake, Li Tai is not worried about this, the moral bottom line in the troubled times is not high, the only truth is to become bigger and stronger, if he can't be the biggest one, he himself is innocent!

In addition to these heroes in Hefei City, Li Tai also focused on communicating with the Lu brothers.

Lu Sidda also returned to Jingzhou for a while, but before that, he only sent his brother Lu Guangda back and forth to the north to ask for contact, and as for his person, Li Tai was still the first time he saw him.

Originally, in his imagination, Lu Sidda should also be a troubled man who took advantage of the situation and was cunning and short-sighted, and he had taken refuge in the north before because he was forced by the gradual expansion of the Northern Qi in Huainan.

But after communicating with Lu Sida this time, he found out that he was a person with a cool head, quick thinking, and a great sense of the overall situation, which made Li Tai quite happy in addition to surprise.

Although there are many generals under his command, there are still not many who are familiar with the personnel of the Southern Dynasties.

After the situation in Hefei initially stabilized, Li Tai planned to send a group of men to Liyang to assist Wang Seng in the debate. Although the future is inevitably hostile to each other, but at the moment the threat of the Northern Qi is greater, if Liyang is still in the hands of the Northern Qi, Hefei will not be stable here.

However, his reinforcements here have not yet been sent, and the latest news came from Liyang, Wang Sengbi, who originally took advantage of Li Tai's attack on Hefei, to send troops to Liyang, actually withdrew his troops and returned to the south bank of the river, and directly gave up the attack on Liyang.

Along with this news, that is, the news that Duan Shao of the Northern Qi Dynasty defeated Hou Yao and Zhang Biaojun of the Southern Liang in one fell swoop outside Xuyi City. In addition, Wang Seng also sent a message to Jiangling, telling him that Jiangling urgently sent an envoy to order Wang Seng to not attack the Northern Qi city without permission, so he had no choice but to withdraw the army.

After learning of this situation, Li Tai couldn't help but sigh secretly, Wang Seng Biao was indeed one of the few generals who could fight well and was one of the few generals in the late Southern Dynasty, but the weakness in his character could not be concealed, which was also one of the reasons why Li Tai was unwilling to deepen cooperation with him.

Now I only hope that Chen Baxian on the Guangling side can resist the pressure of Duan Shao of the Northern Qi Dynasty, if Chen Baxian can't bear it and withdraws, then he will have to meet Duan Shao's army here in Hefei.

He is not afraid of fighting with Duan Shao, not to mention that now that Hefei has been won, he already has the advantage of the home field. However, Duan Shao's identity in Northern Qi was unusual after all, and if he attracted more main forces of Northern Qi because of this, and did not attract Qi firepower in Guangling without Chen Baxian first, it would be a bit deviating from Li Tai's idea.

Therefore, he also hurriedly sent people east to pay close attention to the situation in Guangling. If Chen Baxian also retreated, then he would have to prepare to continue to lead the elite cavalry to ambush on the way, and he could not let the Northern Qi army approach Hefei to besiege and fight.