Dragon of the Three Kingdoms

Afterwards, Li Yi asked Kuai Yue to talk to the head of the Yuan family about Runan on his behalf. Although there were some minor disputes, they all met Li Yi's requirements on the main issues.

The Yuan family will live an honest life in Ruyang and will not participate in official affairs. Li Yi also promised that as long as the Yuan family does not commit crimes, he will not do anything to the Yuan family, but because the Yuan family's roots are too deep, he will not Don't worry, so the Yuan family also needs to show some sincerity, that is, give Li Yi three thousand young men, and support Su Fei when necessary, which can be regarded as a disguised "disarmament" to show that they are harmless.

Because of the particularity of Ruyang, Li Yi stayed here for a day before rushing to his next destination, Nanton.

Although Li Yi entered Runan under the pretext of Liu Yao, and even issued a letter to catch the sea, but now if anyone takes this seriously, he would be a fool.

Among so many county magistrates in Yuzhou, there must be diehard loyalists of the big man, who think that Li Yi is plotting rebellion and will not be willing to submit to him. However, Kong Rong is not strong enough to rely on only one county magistrate, unless there is a situation like Chen Cang Hao Zhao , It is basically impossible to stop Li Yi.

When Li Yi's army arrived in Nanton, the county magistrate of Nanton closed the city gates, scolded Li Yi for being a national traitor, and organized young men to resist Li Yi. Li Yi directly ordered the army to attack the city. Although it was a quick march and there were not many heavy equipment, but Nanton has fewer troops, and it is not a strong city itself. Moreover, those young and strong men did not have much fighting spirit. Easy to catch.

Li Yi admired this county magistrate who dared to resist him, but Li Yi still ordered his three clans to be punished.

Li Yi is unwilling to do so, but there is no way, there are so many cities in Yuzhou, he doesn't want another person to resist him, so he can only use this to let him appreciate the county magistrate's operation, as long as it can deter The role of some county magistrates who originally planned to resist him to give up their plans is a good thing for both his strategy and the people.

As for the soldiers and young men who participated in the defense of the city in Nanton, although Li Yi did not directly convict them, he also incorporated them into a temporary vanguard battalion, which was actually a death squad during the siege.

Li Yi's approach was a bit cruel, but fighting a war is not a joke, and good intentions cannot be tolerated.

Probably because of the effect of Nanton's incident, when Li Yi's soldiers and horses came to Xiang County, the magistrate of Xiang County opened the door to offer the city, and went out for several miles. Not only that, he also sent Li Yi a gift from Yi The letters from the county magistrates of Lu and Faith said that the local people were uneasy, and hoped that Li Yi would send troops to help them stabilize the people's hearts for the sake of the people.

To put it bluntly, it is a letter of surrender.

Li Yi was very happy about this. Among other things, let someone reply to the letter first, to ensure that the positions under the buttocks of the county magistrates will not move, so that they can feel at ease. As for sending troops, Li Yi is not in a hurry.

When Li Yi made good progress, good news came from Dian Wei.

Compared with Li Yi who received a little resistance in Nanton, Dian Wei's journey was extremely smooth. It was really like taking credit for it. Not only was there no resistance along the way, but people kept defecting.

At the beginning Dian Wei swaggered through the market in Yuzhou under the banner of being number one in the world. Many rangers and children from aristocratic families wanted to teach him a lesson, and then he was persuaded by Dian Wei. At that time, many people offered to follow, but Dian Wei declined , Many of the people who took refuge this time were from that time.

These are nothing, what is even more powerful is that Dian Wei recruited the leader of the Yellow Turban, Wu Ba, and his men, plus the young and strong recruits along the way, Dian Wei's army quickly expanded to more than 1 people.

It's just that although there are too many people, it seems bloated for Dian Wei's mission. Therefore, Dian Wei changed the original plan under Jiang Gan's suggestion and decided to divide the troops in advance.

According to Kuai Yue's calculations, if there are no accidents on the way, Li Yi and Dian Wei should meet in the county town of Song State, and then join forces to go north, and take two or three county towns along the way, and then you can meet Kong Rong, a great Confucian. It's elegant.

Chapter 641 The murderer, Xu Chu!

In addition to Dian Wei, a lot of news came from other directions.

First of all, of course, Yuzhou.

Liu Yao finally met Kong Rong, but they didn't have the joy of being together at all, because Li Yi's actions were too big and too fast, which blinded them all.

Originally, Kong Rong regarded Liu Yao as a life-saving straw, but as soon as Liu Yao entered Yuzhou, his reputation was smeared by Li Yi, and it was even an excuse for Li Yi to attack Yuzhou. The family clan became the most unpopular existence in Yuzhou, which directly and fundamentally disrupted Kong Rong's plan.

And Liu Yao himself was hit harder. Although he knew that this trip would not be easy, and even his life would be in danger, but even so, he came with aspirations. A basin of ice water was poured to cool my heart.

Now there are mainly two voices in Qiao County, one is headed by the original Yuzhou local officials, they think that peace should be the most important thing, and they have a good talk with Li Yi. It doesn't matter, anyway, as long as there is no war, everything else is easy to talk about.

In terms of practical effect, this position can be understood as a capitulation faction.

People who hold this point of view account for the vast majority of Yuzhou officials, but the few prefects in Yuzhou have all been replaced by Kong Rong. Although those voices occupying the middle level of Yuzhou can affect the results, they cannot play a decisive role. .

Then there are Kong Rong and the people he promoted. Now that Li Yi has smashed the door and barged in, no matter how good they are, they still have to resist. disagreement.

Kong Rong believed that Li Yi was powerful, with elite soldiers and horses, and could not be challenged. The best strategy should be to concentrate the existing troops, hold on to Qiao County, recharge their energy, and wait for work with leisure. When Li Yi arrived in Qiao County, he should have learned from veterans Tired, and then as long as they continue to hold on for a while, Li Yi's soldiers and horses will be exhausted, and then they can boost morale, launch a counterattack, and annihilate Li Yi's army outside the gate of Qiao County in one fell swoop.

But Liu Yao thinks this method is not feasible, because the county towns along the road can hardly hinder Li Yi, and Li Yi simply drives straight into Qiao County, so that Li Yi's soldiers and horses will not be exhausted at all, and on the contrary, their morale will become stronger. Qiao County is sticking to its defenses, and it is simply waiting to die!

Liu Yao suggested that the troops should be stationed in various counties immediately. There are not many soldiers, nor are they good. The key is to block Li Yi layer by layer. At the same time, it can prevent those counties from surrendering without a fight, so as not to continue to increase Li Yi's arrogance.

Liu Yao's policy is to make Li Yi fight in every city, and there must be casualties in every battle. Only in this way can Li Yi's troops be truly dragged down.

Moreover, once Li Yi's pace slows down, whether they are temporarily recruiting troops, seeking outside help, or buying time for Yanzhou Cao Cao, or even temporarily retreating to Lu County, anyway, in terms of the current situation , if you want to win, you must first hold back Li Yi and prolong the battle as much as possible, only then will there be a turning point.

Under normal circumstances, Kong Rong might have adopted Liu Yao's suggestion, but Li Yi used Liu Yao as an excuse to send troops to Yuzhou. Although Kong Rong understood that this was just an excuse for Li Yi, it actually lowered his Liu Yao's evaluation in Kong Rong's heart.

Kong Rong has begun to doubt Liu Yao's ability, and even thinks that Liu Yao's character is questionable.

In Kong Rong's view, Liu Yao shouldn't have run away at that time. The man acted upright. Even if Li Yi wanted to commit a crime, there must be a reason for it. If Liu Yao was more stubborn and stayed there, could Li Yi really Can't kill him?

As a result, Liu Yao himself was afraid and ran away, which gave Li Yi an excuse to send troops. Although Li Yi was despicable, Liu Yao also lost a role.

This is how Kong Rong saw people. He judged character by personal likes and dislikes, and then determined talent by character. Even Tai Shici and Liu Fu agreed with Liu Yao's plan to send troops, but Kong Rong still felt that it was inappropriate, thinking that Liu Yao was an outlaw. Faint move, instead of sending Yuzhou soldiers and horses to Li Yi in batches to eat, and finally leaving Qiao County with no soldiers to use, it is better to pull them out and fight Li Yi directly.

In short, there were all kinds of disputes in Kong Rong's place, sometimes with outsiders, and sometimes with his own people, until the news that Nandun County Magistrate was killed by Li Yi and the surrender of Xiang County came, Liu Yao With a long sigh, he gave up his opinion, and everything started to be based on Kong Rong's meaning.

Li Yi was very happy after knowing the situation in Qiao County through careful work, because if Kong Rong adopted Liu Yao's suggestion, although he could still win in the end, it would indeed take a lot of effort. For his next match against Cao Cao Very unfavorable.

Even Li Yi believed that the fundamental purpose of Liu Yao's strategy was not to win, but to bite off a piece of meat from him even if he would rather die.

However, Kong Rong didn't use it, and stubbornly chose the most beneficial plan for him.

This made Li Yi couldn't help but want to send him a good person card.

Then there is Lu Bu.

Lu Bu was very angry. He never expected that Li Yi agreed to support him. For this reason, he also defeated Yingchuan and gave it to Li Yi. As a result, Li Yi turned around and pulled the main force to Yuzhou.

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Lu Bu felt that he was being used by Li Yi again.

Very angry, but also very helpless.

After Cao Cao learned of the actual movements of Li Yi's army, he was silent for a day, and then began to move again. Although he did not directly launch an offensive, it still put a lot of pressure on Lu Bu. Fortunately, although Li Yi's reinforcements did not arrive, this However, the news had spread, which made Lu Bu's military spirit much more stable than before.

Lu Bu sent someone to ask Xu Huang to send troops to Shanyang to attack Cao Cao together, but Xu Huang politely refused, saying that he could not send troops unless Li Yi agreed, unless the situation was really critical.

Lv Bu's people tried to persuade him again, but Xu Huang started to make suggestions instead, suggesting that Lv Bu persist and drag Cao Cao to Shanyang, wait for Li Yi to penetrate Yuzhou, and then take a detour to attack Cao Cao back and forth. Beautiful?

After reading the letter sent by Xu Huang, Li Yi himself felt a little hot, feeling that if Lu Bu and Cao Cao had not had too much conflict to resolve, the two might be able to unite to deal with him.

But Li Yi soon felt relieved. After all, Lu Bu was probably used to it, and this should be the last time he cheated on Lu Bu. At most, he would use a little more force when he beat Cao Cao in the future, just to vent his anger for Lu Bu.

In the end, to Li Yi's surprise, Xuzhou actually sent him a message saying that Kong Rong's secret letter to Tao Qian asked Xuzhou for help and asked Tao Qian to send troops to help him.

However, Tao Qian didn't express anything, but after that, Tao Qian began to become sad, even to the point where he didn't think about eating and drinking, but his body was still fine, and he didn't look like he was going to die.

Li Yi felt that Tao Qian should have seen the situation in the south clearly by now, including his layout in places like Xiapi Guangling. Tao Qian didn't know it before because his character design was really good. Tao Qian didn't think about the bad at all, but He has shown his ambition now, if Tao Qian still can't react, then Tao Qian won't be able to reach his current position.

Regarding Tao Qian's matter, Li Yi only knew a little about it and put it aside, not paying much attention to it.

Because he saved Xuzhou's life. At the beginning Xuzhou was killed so badly by Cao Cao, the court didn't care about it, but Li Yi made a move. Although Kong Rong was willing to help, it's a pity that he didn't even walk out of the house, so he was slapped in the face by Cao Cao It was knocked back, and Tao Qian recognized this favor, but the people in Xuzhou did not recognize it.

Therefore, Kong Rong's pursuit of Xuzhou was in the wrong direction.