Runan ruled Pingyu, and Li Tong had been trapped in Pingyu for more than ten days. At the beginning, in the face of Lu Guang's attack, Li Tong could still deal with it. But with the arrival of Su Lie, Li Tong couldn't stand it. A few days ago, he was already unable to resist the attack, but he didn't dare to abandon the city and flee, there were a lot of cavalry in Su Lie's army, these cavalry were brought out by Xue Rengui at the beginning, and they were the cavalry that Zhang Yi had formed for the longest time, and it was also the most elite and the best equipped.

Li Tong also knew about this cavalry for a long time, as early as when he was fighting against Xue Rengui, this cavalry had dealt him a big blow, and he had seen the most elite cavalry outside of the tiger and leopard cavalry. It's just that Zhang Yi has always treasured these cavalry, and he won't let him lose easily.

When Li Tong was sent back to Runan again, he had a very bad premonition, because there were too few soldiers left for him, only 10,000. Under normal circumstances, 10,000 soldiers is indeed a lot, but in the face of Su Lie's tens of thousands of troops, Li Tong's 10,000 horses are of no use at all.

The Runan area has also fallen into decay due to the wars of these years. The Yellow Turbans, Yuan Shu, Liu Bei, Cao Cao, and Zhang Yi basically never stopped fighting over the years, resulting in a serious loss of population in Runan. Historically, Cao Cao had to move people from Nanyang to fill Runan, and Deng Ai was among these migrants. Now Runan has lost more people than in the same period in history, Zhang Yi plundered, Cao Cao moved away, and people fled the war, leaving Runan ten rooms empty.

Pingyu is a big county, the city is high and the pond is deep, and the grain and grass reserves in the city are very sufficient, so he can hold on to it until now.

Outside the city, Su Lie has seen several sieges in the past few days to break through Pingyu, but it is always a little bit worse. Su Lie was also very angry, but he didn't lose his temper with the people below, Yang Ang was already injured during the siege of the city, and was pushed down by the defenders of the city. If he hadn't been rescued, he might have been killed by the rolling wood that fell from his head.

Su Lie's casualties these days are not small, there are already thousands of people. The casualties were even greater, more than 3,000 people.

Su Lie saw that Pingyu was about to kick the door, so he asked his subordinates to discuss how to break Pingyu.

Lü Guang proposed: "It is only a matter of time before we capture Pingyu, and the enemy is desperate to die because we feel that we can escape." ”

Su Lie thought of a possibility after Lu Guangyi said, "We have already surrounded three and missing one, and the enemy still feels that they can't escape, it must be because our cavalry is on the side." The enemy general Li Tong is a man who has fought many battles with us. Lv Guang. Tomorrow, you will return to the direction of Xincai with the cavalry, and after going out for twenty miles, you will make a detour to ambush in the Dingying area. ”

Lu Guang immediately took the order.

Early the next morning, Lü Guang left the camp outside the city with a huge cavalry.

Li Tong in the city saw the enemy cavalry retreating, and immediately rushed to the bad. The enemy surrounded three and lacked one, and he used the enemy's cavalry to keep the soldiers from abandoning the city and fleeing. Now that the enemy cavalry is up, he has no reason to convince his soldiers.

The enemy army began to attack the city, and at first the soldiers in the city could hold on, but as the enemy attack outside the city became urgent, the morale of the soldiers in the city was insufficient.

At first, some soldiers tried to escape, and Li Tong slashed and killed some of the escapees, although he stopped the deserters. However, the enemy army outside the city had already ascended to the top of the city and occupied a large part of the city wall.

Li Tong led the people to recapture the city wall, and met a big man in the shape of a biao, this big man stared at Li Tong at a glance, and the ring head knife slashed head-on.

Li Tong immediately swung his knife to block, but he didn't want to be kicked in the stomach by the big man, so he fell to the ground at that time. This big man is Su Lie, Su Lie kicked Li Tong to the ground, and slashed at Li Tong's chest with a knife in his hand. Li Tong's armor also failed to block the attack of the ring-headed knife, and was directly cut out of a hole by the ring-headed knife.

Su Lie pulled the knife back, and with another knife down, he cut off Li Tong's head. Su Lie lifted Li Tong's head and raised it, and shouted at the soldiers in the city: "Li Tong is dead, why don't you come down early?" ”

When the guards of the city saw Li Tong's head, they couldn't help but lose their morale. Some soldiers simply surrendered, while others fled.

Outside the city, Yang Bai led his troops to block and catch all the deserters who could be captured. The deserters who could not be caught were expelled in the direction of Dingying, and within twenty miles, Lü Guang led the cavalry out and stopped most of the deserters.

After taking Pingyu, Su Lie repaired in Pingyu for a few days, leaving the injured Yang Ang to garrison Pingyu. Su Lie sent someone to inform Shouchun and asked the imperial court to send Taishou and county officials. After Shouchun received Su Lie's report, while giving credit to the generals, he discussed filming the herd guard Runan.

Runan is the largest county in Yuzhou, with more than 30 counties, and its territory exceeds one-third of Yuzhou. So this candidate must be chosen, and after Lu Su and they discussed for a long time, they finally found a more suitable candidate, Xi Zhen.

Xi Zhen is a native of Nanyang, and previously served as the Sheyang Commander, and his political achievements were the first in Guangling County for three consecutive years.

The appointment and military merit news were sent to Zhang Yi through the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and Zhang Yi still had an impression of Xi Zhen, so he granted permission.

"Congratulations to the host's subordinates for killing the historical celebrity Li Tong and summoning the historical celebrity Ma Renyu."

"Ma Renyu, Force: 92, Strategy: 90, Strategy: 85, Internal Affairs: 75, Education: 86, Diplomacy: 70. Trait: General. ”

Zhang Yi doesn't want to care about the talents summoned now, and his current military generals are about to run out of senses. Generally speaking, there are more than a dozen peerless generals who are extravagant, and he can now be called peerless famous generals Li Jing, Fu Youde, Xue Rengui, Su Lie, Wei Rui, Lu Xun, Zhuge Liang, Gao Changgong, Wang Meng, Yue Fei and more than ten people, and there are countless high-grade ones.

The document approved by Zhang Yi was sent back to Shouchun by fast horse, and after Shouchun passed the procedure, he was immediately sent to Runan.

Su Lie received a notice in Runan and immediately divided his troops into two routes, and he went to Xuchang with 20,000 troops to reinforce Lü Meng. Lü Guang led his troops north to join Ma Chao and attack Chen.

Xuchang has now gathered more than 100,000 troops from both countries, and the two sides are very happy to fight back and forth. Cao Ren, Cao Chun's brothers, plus several of Cao's back generals, Cao Xiu, Cao Zhen and others, and Lu Meng, Lu Xun and others come and go, and they win and lose each other. Cao Wei had many soldiers, Zhang Yi was elite in the army, and although Lü Meng and others always had small victories, they could not win overwhelmingly. And since Cao Chun led a large number of cavalry over, Lü Meng's grain route has also begun to be threatened.

It wasn't until Su Lie's reinforcements came that Cao Jun relented a lot.