As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere that had been slightly relaxed suddenly became tense again, and everyone was all contemplating, lowering their heads and squinting their eyes to secretly peek at the change in Li Tai's expression.

Li Tai was also stunned when he heard this question, and he also met many civil and military officials of Southern Liang after entering the city. However, after seeing him, in addition to being extremely sycophant, these people were racing against time to ask about their respective fortunes and fortunes with the families behind them, as for the question of caring about the fate of Emperor Liang Xiao Yi, it was the first time they had heard it.

It seems that Nanliang is not full of selfish scheming and disciplined guys, but there are still a few courtiers with a temperate backbone.

After thinking about it, he lowered his eyes and looked at Zhou Hongzheng and said, "Lord Liang failed to die in his country, which is indeed a pity. But since Providence has not yet killed him, I will not rashly inflict harm. Only he abandoned himself first, and then we and other Wei soldiers entered his city. Zhou Shangshu felt that it was human nature to cherish the old master, and it was unkind to blame, but if you blindly indulge in the past and resist the general trend, it is not a pity to die!"

"General Li's benevolent and righteous actions outside the city, Hongzheng also heard about it. It is not surprising that Jiangling is in danger of defending and losing both the city and land, and the person who came is the teacher of benevolence and righteousness supervised by General Li, and the heavens also pity the people of Jiangling, if they still resist obediently, it is against the will of heaven and self-exclusive! Although Hongzheng is out of moderation and ugly, he is also grateful to General Li for pushing benevolence and righteousness, and it is an honor for the remnants of the calamity to receive this grace!"

When Zhou Hongzheng heard Li Tai's answer, he bowed to him again and bowed to him before retreating to the side. After everyone next to them saw this scene, they were also relieved.

The capture of Gangneung was not the end of an event for Li Tai, but a new beginning. After entering the city, he told the soldiers and people in the city to comfort them, and told them to stay at home, not to go out of the street and enter the market easily, and to enforce a curfew policy in the city, and other than that, daily life should be the same.

Although Gangneung itself was controlled, there were still some strongholds in the surrounding areas that were occupied by the Liang people, and they were not weakly armed.

Among them, the closest to Gangneung is Matoudu, which is only separated by a river from Gangneung. Matoudu is located on the south bank of the Yangtze River, facing Jiangjin, and is stationed with two troops such as Liang General Xu Shipu and Ren Yue.

As early as when Li Mu led the elite cavalry south to occupy Jiangjin, the Liang army of Matoudu tried to advance north to recapture Jiangjin and restore the connection with Jiangling City. However, most of these two armies were reorganized from the Shu army that was defeated at the mouth of the gorge when Xiao Jidong, the king of Wuling, went out, although they could also control boats and ships, and were proficient in water warfare, but their combat effectiveness in land attack was so-so. Several attempts to land on the beach were repelled by Li Mu, and the city gate was closed before Jiangling City, so it was difficult to reach any effective cooperation with the beach-grabbing army, so this army could only be trapped in Matoudu on the south bank, and failed to advance north to support Jiangling.

There is also an army of Southern Liang at the mouth of the gorge to the west, and the commander is Xiao Shao, the king of Changsha of Southern Liang, who is also the one who was driven out of Badong by the army led by He Ruodun and Li Qianzhe.

With the fall of Gangneung, Li Tai sent Li Mu to lead his troops to the west, and attacked this army with Li Qianzhe and others who had entered Badong, so as to disarm the Southern Liang in the upper reaches of Gangneung.

Due to the retreat and drying up of the waters of Yunmengze, there are also many large and small tidal flats and rivers around Jiangling, the so-called Zhijiangzhou is full of hundreds, and some of these rivers also have certain military value, so some cities are set up and garrisoned, which can be said to be a part of Jiangling's city defense. When Gangneung is attacked, these Hezhou garrisons can also play a certain role in guarding and containing.

However, there were too many men and horses led by Li Tai, and it was not at all possible that those hundreds of soldiers in the Hezhou District could contain it, and Jiangling City was breached too quickly, so that these Hezhou defenses did not have the slightest effect at all.

After Jiangling City was controlled, Li Tai sent his generals to lead his men and horses to capture these Hezhou cities. It took only a few days to capture Gangneung, but it took a full ten days to uproot these fortifications.

This is because some of the river islands are the family business of those guards in the city for generations, and their lives and property are here, if they lose, it means that there is nothing, so of course they have to fight to the death.

When these Hezhou cities were captured and uprooted one after another, there was no longer a stronghold of the Southern Liang army on the north bank of the entire river. And Xiao Shao, the king of Changsha who was stationed at the mouth of the gorge, also played the consistent level of the Xiao family, and when the army led by Li Mu had just arrived at the mouth of the gorge, his people were direct

After obtaining Li Mu's promise to ensure his personal safety, he went ashore and surrendered, and the defenders at the mouth of the gorge were all disarmed.

At the same time, Li Qianzhe, who had already been stationed in Badong, also sailed eastward and made contact with the men and horses attacking Jiangling, completely opening up the river channel from Shuzhong to Jiangling.

After Li Tai communicated with Li Qianzhe, he sent him back to the gorge to guard it. The opening of the passage of the gorge is also of great significance to him, and the armies of He Ruodun, Li Qianzhe, and other armies who were sent into the Bashu region and now control the land of Sanba are no longer fighting alone, and finally connect with Jingxiang.

If it was said that he had to have a good relationship with Yu Wengui before to ensure control in Badi, then now Yu Wengui, who is guarding the Chengdu Plain, has to look at Li Tai in turn. Once there is a bad relationship between each other, then Chengdu City will be surrounded by the Jingzhou legions that are pouring in from all directions!

Although everything is going well, there is still a long way to go before the real big picture is decided. Although the surrounding area of Jiangling was controlled, the Southern Liang people who returned to Shiqin Wang also arrived one after another.

Among them, the greater threat is Wang Lin, who returned from Guangzhou, Wang Lin's headquarters has enough tens of thousands of elite troops, and he has collected a lot of local armed forces all the way to the south, and this time he returned to Jiangling to be promoted as the leader of the alliance by the division of Xiangzhou and other road Qin Wang, with more than 30,000 troops.

After hearing that Jiangling City had fallen, Wang Lin entered Changsha City, continued to accumulate strength in the name of King Qin's rescue, and successively sent troops to occupy the surrounding prefectures and counties, and set up his naval camp in Dongting Lake.

Fortunately, Li Tai sent Xu Wensheng from Xiakou to Baling, and Xu Wensheng lived up to expectations and repelled the invading Wang Lin's army in Baling, so that Wang Lin's army was trapped on the south bank and could not reach the river. However, the existence of Wang Lin's department was also a huge threat to the continued expansion of Western Wei forces to Xiangzhou and other places on the south bank.

In the original history, the strategy adopted by the Western Wei Dynasty after the capture of Jiangling was to capture all the people and things in the city, and then leave Xiao Jing, the king of Liang, in Jiangling as a puppet, and then cooperate with some garrisons, and the brigade returned with a full load. Therefore, the remnants of Wang Lin and other forces basically maintained an attitude of turning a blind eye and ignoring them, and did not continue to carry out in-depth suppression.

However, Li Tai naturally could not adopt such a strategy, and he seized military power to capture Gangneung, not only in the hope of avoiding the tragedy in Gangneung's history, but also to build Gangneung into a bridgehead to continue to conquer the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the Jiangnan region. Therefore, he can't let the threats around Gangneung go, even if he can't completely eradicate them, he must weaken them to a level that won't easily shake Gangneung.

Therefore, the next period of time is also more critical for Li Tai, in addition to continuing to pacify the counterattack of the remnants of Nanliang, he also has to deal with internal threats from behind.

What kind of person Yu Wentai is, Li Tai knows very well in his heart. Although his own wave of rebellious operations annoyed others, it was still far from a complete collapse. Even if his father and brother are all dead, Yu Wentai still takes on the family business, and in the face of Gao Huan's extreme pressure, he can persist in fighting and reversing the situation.

Of course, Li Tai is not a vegetarian, and he has also considered various coping strategies that Yuwentai may have in the future.

The worst case is that Yu Wentai directly and personally led the army south to crusade against his own anti-bone boy, but in this way, it is really life and death, and the fist is afraid of being less strong, and it is difficult to predict who will win or lose. Even if Yu Wentai had such an idea on impulse, he would inevitably dispel this idea soon afterward.

The old guys have been struggling for so many years, in order to compete with the boys happily? Relying on the wealth, power and other means accumulated over the past years to oppress and coerce, this is the normal way of thinking. And once such a roundabout strategy is adopted, Li Tai's moves cannot be said to be more than Yuwentai, at least he can also have a back and forth, and he has one of the biggest advantages that Yuwentai does not have, that is, time.

So Li Tai is not in a hurry to make any progress at the moment, the first is to stabilize the current situation and avoid making mistakes in the busy, and if he can stabilize it, he has already won more than half of it.

At present, the most likely to have problems is actually the six who came from the south of Wuguan

Ten Thousand Army. Although Li Tai gained control of the army and led them to create a brilliant victory, these people are based in Guanzhong after all, and if Yuwentai does not come south directly to attack, then it is most likely to start from this aspect.

So Li Tai also has to guard against this, and his way of guarding against it is also very simple, that is, to send money! The basic reward for all the soldiers who participated in the Battle of Gangneung was 100 horses of silk per person, and for other merits, they were awarded separately, and they were more generous than the basic reward.

The total number of men and horses who participated in the Battle of Gangneung was hundreds of thousands, even if it was just a basic reward, that is, tens of millions of silks, but with some notable military exploits such as the first entry into battle and more generous rewards from the commanders and generals, this number would be multiplied several times. If you really want to calculate carefully, it is simply a terrifying astronomical number, which is thousands of Gao Aocao!

With such a huge amount of wealth, Li Tai's accumulation over the years and the materials accumulated by the Gangneung public and private treasury that he had just obtained are not impossible to take.

But the problem is that even if you can get it, whether it is transportation, management or distribution, the labor cost of such a huge amount of property is huge, and it is obviously impossible to actually distribute it.

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