Runan County, Pingyu City.

Li Siye congratulated Pingyucheng on his trip to lead a total of 10,000 troops, including 7,000 infantry armor and 3,000 iron cavalry.

After 1,000 foot armor escorted the fleet, 6,000 foot armor escorted the Yellow Turban soldiers and baggage vehicles back, Li Siye only had 3,000 iron cavalry left around him, Li Siye ordered 1,000 iron cavalry to rush to 50 miles north of Pingyu City to guard against the main force of the Yellow Turban Army in Nantun City, 1,000 iron cavalry garrisoned Pingyu City in case of accidents in the city, and 1,000 iron cavalry stationed at the wharf to guard the money and grain on the wharf and patrol around the city.

After the army withdrew, Li Siye personally sat on the top of the city to prevent any accidents, and when Li Siye closed his eyes and recuperated, a scout suddenly came to report, "General, there is a team of iron horsemen who are coming straight to Pingyu City, coming to the army."

There are 500 horsemen, and they are playing the word 'Guan' and the word 'Zhao'! ”

With Yuan Yao's personal advice, Jinyiwei naturally would not miss the news of Liu Bei, Jinyiwei had already ambushed several spies in the ancient city, and every move of Liu Bei and his subordinates was under the control of Jinyiwei. After learning of Li Siye's battle plan, Yuan Yao had already ordered Jinyiwei to send a copy of the information near Runan and Liu Bei's side to Li Siye, and Li Siye had already known the news that Liu Bei was leading his army to Runan County.

However, Liu Bei's famous generals were very strict when they marched, and after Liu Bei's army left the ancient city, Jinyiwei's spies did not continue to follow, although Li Siye knew that Liu Bei led the army to Runan County, but he did not know the news that Liu Bei divided his troops to Pingyu City.

After Li Siye learned the news of this iron horse, he was also very surprised in his heart, Guan Zi and Zhao Zhao Zi will be the banner, it seems that the person who came should be Liu Bei's second brother Guan Yu and Zhao Yun who the lord said should be very important!

According to the Jinyi guard sentry detective, Liu Bei's army is just these iron horses, since Liu Bei specially sent the light cavalry in the army to Pingyu, it seems that he already knows the news that he led the army to Pingyu City, Liu Bei is only a few thousand rabble, knowing that he led an army of 10,000 to attack Pingyu City, he even dared to send troops and horses to provoke himself, it seems that this Liu Bei really does not put himself in his eyes!

Hum! It is really arrogant that the general of the defeated army, who can't even hold the huge Xuzhou, dares to ignore himself like this!!

"Come, send five hundred iron horsemen from the city, and follow me to meet Guan Yu and Zhao Yun, I want to see if the two of them are as brave and good !!at fighting as the lord said."

At this moment, at the wharf, a few people riding fast horses went straight to the city gate tower, Li Siye looked fixedly, and saw that one of them was none other than Yuan Yao's lord Bo Lusu!

It turned out that Yuan Yao was worried that Runan County would be uncertain after learning the news that Liu Bei led the army to Runan County, so he hurriedly flew a pigeon and ordered Lu Su to come to assist Li Siye in seeking money and food from Pingyu City.

After Lu Su arrived at Yangquan, he learned that Li Siye had already led the army to leave, and hurriedly took a fast boat to continue to come to Pingyu City, Lu Su arrived at the dock and learned that Li Siye was in Pingyu City, and hurriedly found a few fast horses, and came to Pingyu City with several entourage, just in time for Li Siye to lead the army to meet Guan Yu and Zhao Yun.

Lu Su is now Yuan Yao's account, even if he is Yuan Yao's personal officer, a leading general like Li Siye does not dare to underestimate Lu Su, plus Lu Su has made great contributions to Yuan Yao several times, when he was in Guangling County before, he also worked with Li Siye on the matter of relocating the people of Guangling, Li Siye knew that Lu Su was a person with great talent in governing the country, and he also admired him very much, Yuan Yao also knew this, and knew that Lu Su could persuade Li Siye, which made Lu Su come to assist Li Siye.

Li Siye saw Lu Su leading several horsemen to come, and hurriedly went down to the city to greet him, laughed a few times, and said, "Hahahaha, I haven't seen you for a long time, Mr. has always been good?" Didn't Mr. help Zhang Xutuo and Huang Hansheng in the Linhu camp to serve the military, why did they come to Pingyu City? ”

When Lu Su saw Li Siye coming to greet him, he hurriedly dismounted, and replied with a smile: "Hahahaha, thanks to the general's blessing, Su is fine in the near future." When I came to Pingyu City, I had already seen that the countless money and grain captured by the general were being transported to Jiujiang County, I thought that it was all the money and grain in Pingyu City, but I didn't expect that there was so much money and grain on the dock outside the city. ”

This battle effortlessly captured countless money, food and materials, which is Li Siye's pride, hearing Lu Su so upright, Li Siye was immediately overjoyed, "Hahahaha, thank you for your praise!" We are leading the army, how can you have the pleasure of listening to the teachings of the lord from time to time. Mr. laughed at this, I don't know why Mr. is here? ”

Lu Su saw that Li Siye was talking about business, so he stopped laughing anymore and said: "Now that there is no war in the Linhu area, the lord specially ordered me to come to Pingyu City to assist the general in carrying the money and grain here, but the general can rest assured that I am only assisting the general in carrying the money and grain to register and make a book, and I will not rob the general of the credit." ”

Li Siye has cooperated with Lu Su, and naturally knows that he is upright, benevolent and generous by nature, and is not a person who robs others of credit. I would like to share some of the credit of Mr. Run, so that Mr. can take care of it by the side of the lord, but I am afraid that Mr. will not look down on my little work! ”

As the saying goes, there is no party or imperial ideology outside the party, and there are no factions and strange things in the party.

Under Yuan Yao's deliberate connivance, the people under Yuan Yao's command have been faintly divided into several parties: such as Li Siye, Zhang Xutuo, Huo Jun and others are all cadres raised by Yuan Yao himself, they joined Yuan Yao's command relatively early, and they are all garrisoned in Lujiang County and Jiujiang County have a deep friendship, everyone has faintly formed a small group with Li Siye as the leader, Huang Zhong after surrendering to Yuan Yao, the garrison Chaohu often deals with Li Siye, Zhang Xutuo and others, and has also joined this small group, For the time being, it can be called the Patriarchal;

Such as Zhang Xun, Yang Hong, Yuan Yin, and Yuan's generals and other former ministers of Yuan Shu, their power has been greatly reduced after Yuan Yao led the army, in order to protect themselves, they have also been secretly united together, there were no strong people among them before, but Yue Fei's implanted identity is Yuan Shu's old general, after Yue Fei returned to join Yuan Yao's command, they were led by Yue Fei and Yuan Yin, and they have also formed a small group, Gan Ning after surrendering to Yuan Yao, he and Yue Fei garrisoned, almost became half of Yue Fei's apprentice, It has also joined this small group, and for the time being, it can be called the old vassal faction.

Such as Wei Yan, Zhang Dingbian, Su Fei, Chen Qi, Zhang Shuo and others, they either surrendered or surrendered, and the time to join Yuan Yao's command was neither early nor late, and their status was relatively embarrassing, plus they had been stationed in Jiangxia, and they could stay by Yuan Yao's side for very little time, in order not to be marginalized by Yuan Yao, they had also faintly united to form a small group, which could be called the Jiangxia faction for the time being.

However, such as Pang Tong, Liu Ye, Lu Su and other Yuan Yao's main strategists and officials, talented people like Di Renjie, and hidden fronts like Mao Xiang, they are extremely respected by Yuan Yao and have great self-ambitions, in order to be able to get Yuan Yao's greater trust, they have to ensure their purity, plus these small groups have only been faintly formed for a long time, they are still in internal integration, and they have not actively expanded their power, and for various reasons, they have not yet joined these small groups.

Yuan Yao had the information of Jinyiwei, so he naturally knew about these small groups, but he also knew that the formation of these small groups was something that would inevitably happen as the power under his command grew.

The existence of these small groups not only allows him to conveniently control the people under his command, but also allows him to calmly balance the integration of resources of all forces, plus everyone under his command is loyal to him, and does not delay the big things because of this, Yuan Yao also acquiesced to the existence of these small groups, but only reached out and mixed in some sand, and did not hinder the formation of these small groups.

Lu Su is not only resourceful and talented in governing the country, but also loyal and gentlemanly, and in time, he will definitely become an indispensable minister under Yuan Yao!

For such a person, Li Siye naturally admires it very much, plus he also had some intersection with Lu Su before, and there is some friendship between them, Li Siye naturally wants to draw such potential stocks into his small group, but Lu Su is a talent recommended by Liu Ye, Lu Su is naturally Liu Ye's protégé, if Lu Su expresses his stance to join Li Siye's small group, it will be a pit for Liu Ye!

Lu Su was loyal, so naturally he would not do such an inauthentic thing, and after listening to Li Siye's words, he did not speak.

Li Siye also figured out Lu Su's mind in an instant, but Li Siye was not in a hurry, he was the first general under Yuan Yao, and there were several important generals in the small group, such a small group was already top-notch among Yuan Yao's forces, if Lu Su and Liu Ye were added, they might be a little indigestion, after all, there was Yuan Yao on it, and it was not a good thing that his small group was too powerful.

Li Siye saw that Lu Su didn't speak, and he just made a joke, and didn't mention the matter again, just at this time, a sergeant came to report that five hundred iron horsemen were ready and on standby, which could be regarded as giving Li Siye a step down.

"Well, I see, tell them to wait a moment, I'll be there in a minute!" When Li Siye heard this, he waved his hand to let the sergeant retreat first, looked at Lu Su and said: "Please also ask Mr. to enter the city for a while, and after I kill the enemy army, I will come and talk to Mr. again!" ”

Although Lu Su said that he came to assist Li Siye in carrying money and grain to register and make a book, but his real mission was to serve Li Siye in the military. The general is going to face the battle? But there is an enemy attack, and I don't know where the soldiers and horses are coming? And how does the general plan to send troops? ”

Li Siye trusted Lu Su's ability very much, and when he heard Lu Su's words, he also replied: "Liu Bei's generals Guan Yu and Zhao Yun are leading five hundred light cavalry straight to our Pingyu City, in order to prevent them from attacking the city, I plan to lead five hundred iron cavalry to meet the battle!" Sir, rest assured, Liu Bei's iron cavalry is just some rabble, and I will lead five hundred iron cavalry to meet the battle, and I will definitely defeat his army! ”

As the saying goes, there is no joke in the army, and it is a taboo in the army to change the order every day, since Li Siye has ordered to lead five hundred iron cavalry to meet the enemy, Lu Su did not force Li Siye to change his military order, but said like a side ball: "Liu Bei's general Guan Yu beheaded Yan Liang and Xuwen ugly five passes and six generals, and the reputation of Megatron is widely spread in the world, although Zhao Yun is unknown, but the lord has also mentioned it, the lord has always had the ability to know people, and it should not be easy to come to this Zhao Yun." ”

Lu Suxian tactfully reminded Li Siye not to underestimate the enemy, and then mentioned his ultimate goal: "The general led the army to meet these two, this will definitely be a grand battle like a dragon fighting a tiger!" Su has nothing to do, and wants to go with him to see such a grand event, I don't know what the general wants? The general can rest assured, I know that my martial arts are shallow, if I follow the general, it will be inevitable that there will be some mistakes, I can take 300 iron horsemen to accompany me, and I will not drag the general down, as long as I can see the general's heroic posture! ”

Lu Su complimented Li Siye so much, what else could Li Siye say, he could only respond to Lu Su's request, and transferred three hundred iron horsemen from the dock, and let Lu Su lead these three hundred iron horsemen to accompany him.

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Guan Yu and Zhao Yun came all the way, and transferred more than 100 iron horsemen from the Yellow Turban Army everywhere, the number of iron horsemen under his command has come to the number of 500, Li Siye led 500 iron horsemen to take the first step, and soon met Guan Yu and Zhao Yun led by the iron horse, Guan Yu and the two saw that the army was only 500 iron horses, so they stopped on a high slope to occupy the terrain, waiting for the arrival of Li Siye's iron horse.

Li Siye led the army to gallop all the way, and soon came to the front of Guan Yu's iron cavalry, and shouted loudly: "I am the tiger general Li Siye under the command of the queen general, but Guan Yu Guan Yun is long?" ”

Guan Yu heard Li Siye's shout, and responded in a loud voice: "Since you have heard of Guan's prestige, why don't you quickly lead the army to retreat, for the sake of the general's face, as long as you lead the army to retreat, I will not pursue you!! ”。

However, the rabble of only 500 wants to force me back with 3,000 tiger horses, who gave you such a big breath!!

After Li Siye heard Guan Yu's shout, he immediately became angry, smiled playfully, and replied coldly: "Your Guan Yunchang's prestige? Could it be that you were defeated in Huaishui and redeemed the prestige of yourself and your soldiers with thousands of war horses? It's just that the defeated generals under my lord still dare to speak bravely??? ”