The King of Liang also deeply agreed with Li Tai’s proposal. Without actually controlling Jiangling, this can be said to be the best result for him.
“The former is angry and improper, and he is so wise that he makes a wrong decision. Fortunately, he still refuses to abandon me in Boshan, and is willing to patiently advise me, which makes me awaken and return to the lost path. From then on, I will ask Boshan for advice if there is anything that requires wisdom and decision-making!”
King Liang said to Li Tai again with a shame and sincere tone.
Li Tai just listened to this. No matter whether King Liang can make this statement in the future, he must gradually limit his freedom and reduce the harm caused by his out of control and act in a monster.
Since a consensus was reached, Li Tai ordered Li Quji to go to Jiangling again, and the territory still maintained the previous conditions, and brought a handwritten letter from King Liang, indicating that they had abandoned past grudges and reconciled as before, and could not allow others to make any more provocations and disagreements. Just when the King of Xiangdong sent personnel to come north to attend the funeral of King Shaoling, King Liang immediately withdrew his troops.
At this time, Hou Jing’s army had already surrounded Baling City and launched a strong attack day and night. Although the King of Xiangdong was quite confident about Wang Sengbian and believed that he would be able to defend Baling, under the threat from Xiangyang and worried that Hou Jing’s unrest, the King of Xiangdong did not dare to send troops stationed in Jiangling to reinforce Wang Sengbian.
This passive beating situation is obviously difficult to maintain for a long time. Especially once Li Tai’s request is rejected, Jiangling may still be attacked by the Western Wei army. The King of Xiangdong could only nod and accept all Li Tai’s requests. In addition to the cemetery of Xiakou and other Jiangbei Ferry, he also sent Yu Xin and several others to accompany his son Xiao Fangzhi to Xiangyang to attend the funeral of King Shaoling.
In view of the fact that the person of Xiangdong King has always had a sloppy credit, in order to prevent him from remorse afterwards, Li Tai asked him to formally determine the right to grant the right of the ferry crossings to the Jingzhou General Administration in the name of submitting a letter of state to the Western Wei Dynasty and requesting the Jingzhou General Administration to send troops to the Jiang Fang.
After receiving the letter of nationality submitted by Jiangling, Li Tai, on the one hand, sent it to the Guanzhong court with great force, and reported the situation here and his plan. On the other hand, he also urged King Liang to retreat to Xiangyang to hold a seat for his sixth uncle.
As for Li Tai, he still stayed in the south of the town. While observing the progress of the war, he also had to prepare to take over Zhujindu as soon as possible when Hou Jing’s army was defeated and fled. Although the King of Xiangdong agreed to cede the lands, he had to show his strength to take it for himself.
The navy force of the Jingzhou General Administration is indeed not strong. The only naval general who can be called is Liu Fanggui, who surrendered from Fancheng before. Now Liu Fanggui is stationed in Yiyang as Zhao Gang’s deputy general, and has trained a patrol water army upstream of the Huai River. It is not advisable to be transferred here at this moment.
To confirmBaoneng established a considerable river defense force as soon as possible. Li Tai proposed to ask King Liang to hand over the navy in Xiangyang and the navy in Jingzhou General Administration to reorganize it, so as to go south to control the Han River inlet.
King Liang was also very enthusiastic about this. Although he did not take over Jiangling this time, if he could use this to expand his power to an important Yangtze River port, he would be able to master more checks and balances during the confrontation with Jiangling.
As for the integrated naval army general, since Li Tai did not have a suitable candidate, he was handed over to the King of Liang to choose the general, but in terms of military dispatch, it was under the jurisdiction of the Jingzhou General Administration Office.
In this way, Li Tai can’t hide any military dispatch on the Dajiang front line. He can have sufficient communication with each other so that the previous situation will not happen again.
In fact, it is not entirely true that Li Tai has no suitable candidate at all. In his mind, Xu Wensheng is naturally a candidate who is competent for the Jiangfang Governor. However, he had just experienced the pain of bereavement and was denounced as a rebel by the former king of Xiangdong. Li Tai didn’t know if he could stand it and survive. Even if he wanted to take the initiative, he would have to talk about it later.
Now he also wants to take the opportunity to disperse the military power of Xiangyang. Even if he gives these ferries completely to King Liang to control, he is not a loss. If you want to master the ferry, of course you have to station troops. If the Xiangyang army is transferred away, then the city defense must rely more on the Jingzhou General Administration for cooperation.
Take this for example. In order to prevent King Liang from worrying about being retaliated by Jiangling in the future, Li Tai took the initiative to take over Wu Ning’s defense. Even if the King of Xiangdong survived this barrier and had to attack Xiangyang for revenge after he recovered, he would first cross the defense zone of the Western Wei Dynasty. Of course, Li Tai would not turn a blind eye to this.
Of course, if King Liang wanted to lead his army south to make trouble, he would not be able to get through without Li Tai’s nod!
“We still have to continue expanding our army!”