After hearing Li Tai’s words, Zhao Gang lowered his head and pondered, but after a while, he shook his head and sighed helplessly. It is really difficult to solve Murong Shaozong in Huainan area.
No matter how big or small the power and ability of Murong Shaozong are, Huainan is just too unfriendly to the Western Wei Dynasty.
Most of the border prefectures and counties here belong to the Eastern Wei Dynasty. Even if it is just nominal restraint, the direction and ownership of people’s hearts can already explain the problem. The Western Wei Dynasty had no deterrence or attraction on this land.
Now that the troops entered Yiyang, it is already a limit for the forces of the Jingzhou General Administration. If they want to extend outward, the front line will be further extended and various hidden dangers will be exposed. Moreover, once you encounter setbacks, it will not be as simple as defeat and withdrawing troops. It will cause the collapse of the regional chain controlled by the Jingzhou General Administration, and the ending will probably be even more tragic than Wang Sizheng.
Zhao Gang dared to take risks with himself and sneak into Yiyang to invade the barbarians to attack the city by surprise. He was definitely not a timid person, but when he heard that Li Tai planned to enter Huainan and fought with Murong Shaozong to the death, he was also very dissatisfied.
If a battle between the two sides is really inevitable, it would be better to fight with all your might when Murong Shaozong was invading Mianbei, at least he still had a good position at that time.
Now the new land of the Western Wei and Han East has not been established, and there is no foundation in Huainan. Its own strength has not increased significantly. Instead, Murong Shaozong joined the army in Xuanhu, and then recruited many places to rely on the past, and his power was even more powerful than when he invaded Mianbei.
Before, Li Tai was able to retreat to Murong Shaozong without losing his calmness and high-profile attitude. Now, Chad, Yiyang, actually wants to fight Murong Shaozong in Huainan. In Zhao Gang’s opinion, this is really unwise!
Seeing Zhao Gang sighing and pondering, Li Tai naturally knew what he was thinking, so he smiled and said, “The decisive victory of the teacher lies in the use of momentum. Although Murong Shaozong is a famous general of the thief, if the matter is not on himself, he must also be restrained. The people who have been on the road for a long time and do not know how to go, and their spirits are lost, it will inevitably be difficult to fight fiercely. The reason why I did not fight with force before, sharpening his sharpness and releasing his energy, so that his enemy will be useless, and the army will be tired and lazy.”
No matter how wise the general is, it is difficult for him to instill his tactical ideas into every soldier. The vast majority of generals and soldiers use direct external manifestations such as advance, retreat, gains and losses to judge whether the action is successful or failure.
Since the Battle of Hanshanyan, Murong Shaozong has conquered powerful enemies and has a halo of repeated victory. His soldiers must be full of morale. Fighting with such an army is the most dangerous, because it is not clear when they will be on the battlefield.
In Mianbei, due to Li Tai’s high-level battle, Murong Shaozong was unwilling to pay too much and took the initiative to lead the army to retreat. There was no question of who would win or lose, but for his soldiers, they always had a chance to lead the army to retreat.After working hard but doing nothing, they slightly interrupted their winning streak.
When Zhao Gang heard this, his expression was slightly slower, and he reluctantly accepted this explanation, but he couldn’t help but say, “Now, many Huainan are under the orders of the Eastern Dynasty. Once I know that I have entered the country and fight with the thieves, I’m afraid…”
When talking about this issue, Li Tai was even more worried and laughed directly: “Nanliang surrendered people. Seeing Hou Jing’s huge bandits chasing the country, they dared not resist. Seeing that the king and father suffered a lot, they stood sideways. I was fighting for power with the Eastern thieves, and they were just like leading the troops to watch the battle. Seeing that both of them were both injured, how could they enter the battle formation and die for the Eastern thieves?”
This reason was even more powerful so that Zhao Gang had no way to refute, but he still had some worries and always felt that he was too rash.
Li Tai also understood that Zhao Gang did not agree with this plan to offend his majesty, but did not want to blindly subvert the good situation. He also had enough patience for such subordinates who helped a lot, so he told his plan more specifically.
“Although Huainan prefectures and counties surrender to the east, they only respond less to each other and each one is private. It is difficult to form a force. I only need to hold this thing to move freely in the environment, without any prohibition, and even go directly to Shouyang!”
As he spoke, Li Tai put out a few things, namely the edicts and tokens of the Eastern Wei court appointed Xiahou Qiang as the governor of Nansizhou, and they were all obtained from the captive Xiahou Ping.
Because Zhao Gang had no further enterprising ideas, he had now captured Yiyang City, and Xiahou Qiang had already fled to the three passes. Therefore, although he seized the tokens such as the seal and orders sent to him by the Eastern Wei Dynasty, he only regarded it as a normal seizure and did not take it seriously.
But this was a big surprise for Li Tai. His ability to pretend to be a tiger’s power has always been his specialty. Now that he has a token personally given by the Eastern Wei court, he must make good use of it.
Although most of the prefectures and counties in Huainan surrendered to the Eastern Wei, they had no jurisdiction on each other. Li Tai followed this token and walked through the road, so they would definitely not dare to refuse. This gave him the opportunity to go straight in without bloodshed.
Today, Murong Shaozong probably has not received the formal order from the Eastern Wei court, so he still lingers in Xuanhu and dares not march towards Huainan. But Li Tai naturally would not be polite. He could use this to disguise and move quickly, and rush to occupy Shouyang City before Murong Shaozong.