Dragon of the Three Kingdoms

Regarding Li Yan, needless to say, Li Yi naturally needs to focus on training, but although the other person is not as famous as Li Yan, Li Yi cares more.

That was Li Tong from Jiangxia, who brought three thousand diners from his family to Xiangyang and asked to work for Li Yi.

Originally, Li Tong was Cao Cao's general in history. Although he didn't seem to have any dazzling achievements, he was still a celebrity.

But Li Tong's impression on Li Yi is much deeper than that of Li Yan, because Li Tong has entered Li Yi's sight very early, but he has never had a chance to get in touch.

As early as when Yuan Shu attacked Jingzhou, Ji Ling passed by Pingchun County where Li Tong lived. There were not many defenders in the city, and the county magistrate was ready to surrender, but Li Tong stood up and joined forces with several local big families. , Gathered thousands of people to take over the city defense, Ji Ling ordered someone to attack for a while, and felt that Li Tong and the others had good combat power, and it was not easy to attack by force. In addition, Li Tong and the others were big locals, not the Jingzhou government army, for the sake of To protect himself, he would basically not take the initiative to attack Yuan Shu's people, so Ji Ling gave up Pingchun.

After that, Li Tong became famous, and because of the war in Jingzhou, he didn't take care of the affairs of Pingchun County. They, they had nothing to do, so they started to fight among themselves. In the end, Li Tong won, killed all the opponents, and recruited their troops. They seemed to be small princes in the local area, and they were in the limelight for a while.

Later, when Li Yi defeated Yuan Shao and took over Jingzhou, he would naturally not allow the existence of local tyrants like Li Tong, so Kuai Liang wrote to him to inform him of his interests. All the people recruited by various means dispersed, but when Li Yi recruited him, Li Tong was probably worried about the Hongmen Banquet, so he refused on the pretext of keeping filial piety.

Until now, Li Tong should have been overwhelmed by Li Yi's demeanor, and finally couldn't help it, and came to ask to play for Li Yi.

Li Yi was very happy about Li Tong's arrival, and he recruited Li Tong's people, and at the same time gave Li Tong a real-time captain. Yes, and he is very motivated. With a little training, he can be sent out to be a warring border prefect.

After Li Tong and Li Yan defected, Li Yi's staffing for this expedition was basically finalized.

As for the military officers, Xu Huang was still the chief general, Huang Zhong was the deputy, Dian Wei was the commander of the personal guards, and then there was Zhang Xiu who was unexpectedly appointed as the vanguard by Li Yi.

In addition to these four, other generals who participated in the battle included Xu Sheng, Huo Jun, Zhou Cang, Pei Yuanshao, Ling Cao, Su Fei, Li Tong, He Qi, Xu Kun, Sun Ben, Zhang Hu, Chen Sheng and so on.

In fact, although Li Yi's main opponent this time is Cao Cao, and Cao Cao has many talents under him, but under the premise that Cao Cao has not yet developed, Li Yi's lineup already seems a bit rich, which seems a bit unnecessary.

But Li Yi didn't think so. Although there are many warlords all over the world, only Cao Cao and Yuan Shao are the only ones Li Yi cares about. After defeating Cao Cao, Li Yi and Yuan Shao are in a state where they may go to war at any time Therefore, Li Yi not only needs to train soldiers, but also trains his generals, so that they can accumulate as much experience as possible before meeting Yuan Shao. Therefore, Li Yi would rather bring more people to let them experience on the battlefield than let them They hang around and get moldy at home.

As for the official side, Li Yi still used the pair of Kuai Yue and Xun You as the masterminds in the army, followed by Zhou Yu, Lu Su, Yu Fan, Mi Fang, Jiang Gan, and the newly appointed Zhang Hong, Bu Zhi, etc.

Some of these people can also lead troops, especially Zhou Yu. Although Zhou Yu didn't say it clearly, he has vaguely revealed that he wants to be a general, but Li Yi feels that although Zhou Yu has recruited some people locally , is also proficient in the art of war, and has played some things like arranging troops, but compared with a real war, that kind of thing is better than playing a house, and it doesn't even count as an exercise. To be on the safe side, Li Yi would rather Zhou Yu To "debut" later, I don't want him to become a tragedy like Ma Di.

After the personnel for the expedition were decided, the candidates to stay behind became obvious. It was still Guo Jia, supplemented by Cai Zhong, Huo Du and others.

There is no way, Guo Jia already has experience, and besides Guo Jia, Li Yi is not at ease.

In this way, after Li Yi prepared everything, he began to wait for the movement in the north, but Yingchuan hadn't moved yet, but Yanzhou had already started fighting.

At the end of January, Cao Cao's army besieged Jinxiang County. The defenders Gao Shun and Cao Xing stood firm for ten days. Finally, the city was broken, Gao Shun fled, Cao Xing died in battle, and Lu Bu suffered another defeat.

After receiving this news, Li Yi was very calm. For him, as long as Lu Bu and Cao Cao are fighting, it doesn't matter who wins or loses. Anyway, they won't be able to recover their combat power in a short time. Every time they fight now, Li Yi's future opponents will be weaker.

In this way, Li Yi waited for another five days, and finally news came from Yingchuan that Wei Xu and Song Xianjun's army sneaked into Yingchuan, bought the city gate officials with a lot of money, opened the city gate at night, and enlarged the army to enter the city. After learning about Li Yi's dispatch of troops, he has been focusing on the south of Yingchuan. In addition, a few days ago, Lu Bu was defeated by Cao Cao again. Sima Jun didn't want to live at all. There was no place, and Wei Xu killed him in the mansion without even issuing an order in the end.

As for the rest of the Sima family, except for Sima Fang who served as Jing Zhaoyin, none were spared.

After getting the news, Li Yi directly looked up to the sky and laughed, and then ordered that the army go north, and he would drive away the rebels for the people of Yingchuan and maintain the stability of Yuzhou!

When Li Yi's army started, Kong Rong in Qiao County also got the news, but unlike Li Yi's excitement, Kong Rong was surprised, angry, unbelievable, dazed, and at a loss

When Kong Rong first arrived in Yuzhou, except for one Taishi Ci, he just wanted nothing. In addition, there were many clans in Yuzhou, and Kong Rong's work was extremely difficult. Later, he was humiliated by Li Yi because of his participation One pass made his prestige drop even more, and Kong Rong even had doubts about himself for a while, and almost didn't want to do it.

But Kong Rong persisted in the end, and after all, after being a saint, Kong Rong still had some face. Slowly, he also wooed and supported some of his own people, such as Sima Jun, the prefect of Yingchuan, Xu Wei, the prefect of Runan, and the prefect of Lu County. Liu Fu, these people are all of one mind with Kong Rong.

But in terms of generals, Kong Rong has never met anyone who is particularly pleasing to the eye. Tai Shici recommended talents for him twice, but they were not reused by Kong Rong.

The first time was Chen Dao from Runan. Tai Shici thought that Chen Dao was loyal, brave, skilled in martial arts, knew the art of war, and had a clean fortune. He was a good general. General bearing, not very interested, just gave Tai Shici face, sent Chen Dao to be a county magistrate.

The other recommended by Tai Shici was Wu Ba, the leader of the Yellow Turban.

After the Yellow Turbans in Yuzhou were divided by Li Yi and Yuan Shu, there were still some scattered Yellow Turbans left in the local area. They were slowly united by a Yellow Turban leader named Wu Ba, and became a force again, but Wu Ba It's not that he wants to rely on these people to cause chaos and rebellion, but he has seen Liu Pi, Gong Du and others flourish after being recruited by Li Yi, and he also wants to follow suit and take off his identity as a thief.

It's just that Li Yi's rise is too fast. Now Li Yi has a lot of talents under his command, which is completely different from the situation when Liu Pi joined him. After thinking about it, Wu Ba decided to join Kong Rong first.

Wu Ba's judgment was not wrong. After all, Kong Rong was a famous person in the world, and he would not easily turn his face after recruiting security. Moreover, Kong Rong's men happened to be short of major generals. Wu Ba felt that if he voted for Kong Rong, he should be better than following him. Li Yi was more valued, so Wu Ba asked someone to find out about Tai Shici's relationship, but in the end, his nose was ashamed, Kong Rong refused, and he didn't even see him, and even Tai Shici was reprimanded.

This is the case of Kong Rong. Although there are some people who support him, those are basically people. The only one who can fight under him is Tai Shici. But even so, Kong Rong received a letter from Cao Cao inviting him to send troops to deal with Li Yi. At that time, Kong Rong was still eager to try, and felt that it was time to teach Li Yi a lesson.

Chapter 632 Liu Yao Can Fight Li Yi

Kong Rong decided to fight Li Yi after careful consideration.

First of all, axiomatically speaking, Li Yi's dominance of Yangzhou is very obvious, and Kong Rong, as a Han minister, was very angry at Li Yi's behavior of eating Han's salary and receiving the state's favor, but he did not want to repay the court , naturally want to express.

Secondly, it was Kong Rong's selfishness. Li Yi killed his envoy, humiliated him several times, and even led a large army to swagger through the city in Yuzhou, and regarded him as the governor of Yuzhou as nothing. This was a blow to Kong Rong's authority. He is so big that even many officials in Yuzhou look down on him, so Kong Rong must find this place back, otherwise he may be ridiculed for the rest of his life.

It's just that Kong Rong also knew that Li Yi was not so easy to deal with. Otherwise, when Li Yi passed through Yuzhou, Kong Rong would not have closed his eyes and let Li Yi pass by as if he didn't know anything.

Until receiving a letter from Cao Cao, Kong Rong finally gave Kong Rong the confidence to do it.

Cao Cao's requirements are very low. He doesn't need Kong Rong and Li Yi's face-to-face confrontation. As long as he properly deploys some troops in Nanyang and Jiangxia's generation, he doesn't even need to feint. Just go north.

Then when Cao Cao killed Lu Bu in Yanzhou, Cao Cao could take the momentum of a big victory and send troops south. At that time, Kong Rong also sent troops at the same time to attack Li Yi from both sides.

Kong Rong felt that this method was feasible, so he consulted his friend Wang Xiu. Wang Xiu believed that Li Yi was powerful and popular, and it was not appropriate to be hostile to him for the time being. However, under Kong Rong's insistence, Wang Xiu finally decided to Agreed, but he also persuaded Kong Rong that Cao Cao is not a kind person, and he must not really confront Li Yi before Cao Cao goes south.

Kong Rong was very satisfied, and felt that what Wang Xiu said was reasonable, and his original plan was indeed to wait for Cao Cao to attack him before moving.

So, Kong Rong called Tai Shici, ready to arrange things, but when Tai Shici heard that Kong Rong was going to do something to Li Yi, his whole face felt bad.

Every time Li Yi passed through Yuzhou, Kong Rong avoided Li Yi, so although Kong Rong knew that Li Yi was powerful, such as having a large number of soldiers, a strict military appearance, etc., he didn't know how powerful Li Yi was.

But Tai Shici had been in close contact with Li Yi, not to mention anything else, just the chill and murderous spirit he had when he was marching, could crush the soldiers and horses in Yuzhou to death. With such a gap, it was No matter how brave the general is, it is futile.

In Tai Shici's heart, it was a blessing that Li Yi didn't come to trouble Yuzhou. Who would have thought that Kong Rong would take the initiative to tease Li Yi, which would be like jumping into the fire pit by himself!

Although Li Yi is a bit ambitious and even suspected of rebellion, Tai Shici does not dislike Li Yi, because there are so many heroes in the world, it is just that Li Yi is stronger than them, and Li Yi is also very concerned about the suffering of the people, whether it is Jingzhou was still Yangzhou, and after it came under Li Yi's rule, the people's lives were much more stable than before, which Tai Shici admired quite a bit.

On the contrary, like Cao Cao, although this man is a loyal minister of the great Han, Cao Cao actually slaughtered the people in Xuzhou, and tens of thousands of people died or were displaced. Guys, Tai Shi Ci is a hundred objections.

Tai Shici talked about the strong relationship between the two sides with Kong Rong in terms of military affairs, and bluntly said that Yuzhou is not Li Yi's opponent, and Tai Shici also believes that it is unrealistic to use military force to contain Li Yi. , At that time, the war will be brought to Yuzhou, and it will be too late to regret.

Kong Rong has a good temper. Although Tai Shici sang against him, he was not annoyed, but he thought Tai Shici's views were a bit too one-sided, because his side was righteous. When the two armies confront each other, they only need to state Li Yi's crimes one by one. , It is bound to make the loyal people under Li Yi turn to Li Yi. Therefore, if there is a real fight, Yuzhou should not be worse than Li Yi.

The two couldn't agree, and Kong Rong had no choice but to think of a compromise. He decided to invite Sima Jun, the prefect of Yingchuan, Xu Que, the prefect of Runan, and Liu Fu, the prefect of Lu County, to discuss the matter together. Make up your mind together.

However, what Kong Rong didn't know was that he was so tangled up and down, and all kinds of discussions had invisibly delayed a lot of time, and he had lost the initiative. Just when he decided to call Sima Jun for advice, Wei Xu and Song Xian's soldiers and horses had already entered Yingchuan, so in the end Kong Rong failed to wait for Sima Jun to come to serve as his adviser, but instead received the sad news that Yingchuan was taken by Lu Bu and Sima Jun died.

In the Governor's Mansion of Qiao County, Kong Rong, Wang Xiu, Tai Shici, and Xu Miu and Liu Fu who had just arrived were sitting opposite each other, looking at the map laid flat in the center, each of them had solemn expressions, and their solemn expressions were revealing. Feeling a little dazed.

No way, Yingchuan's sudden change really caught them by surprise. No one thought that Lu Bu would attack Yingchuan.

After a long time, seeing that no one spoke, Kong Rong sighed and asked hoarsely, "Everyone, how should we deal with the Yingchuan incident?"

The rest of the people looked at each other, and Wang Xiu said first, "I think that there are only three ways to deal with it. First, go to the court to explain Lu Bu's evil deeds. Second, send someone to question Lu Bu, ask him why, and persuade him to quit quickly. Yingchuan, the third is to be careful that Lu Bu's move is because he is unfavorable in fighting Cao Cao, and he is going to rely on Li Yi, so he occupies Yingchuan so that Li Yi can be his backing. We can rely on force, and we must start preparing soldiers and horses now, because even if Lu Bu did not go to Yingchuan because of Li Yi, since he succeeded, I am afraid he would not retreat easily."

Kong Rong nodded sullenly, then looked at Tai Shici, and asked, "Ziyi, if you want to recover Yingchuan, how many people do you need?"

Tai Shici cupped his hands, and said with a troubled face: "I want to report to you, now I only know that Lu Bu's troops will enter Yingchuan, but I don't know the number of soldiers and horses, and who is leading them. The matter is related to Li Yi, and Li Yi also sent troops to Yingchuan later, which is even more troublesome, so now there is too little news about Yingchuan, there may be too many variables, and the last general and the last general really don't know how to use the troops."