At this point, the battle of Cao Pinan's conquest of the lost territory had lasted for nearly a month, and when Cao Pi set out on this expedition, he decided not to make the same mistakes as he had done in Hanzhong.

In addition, Nanyang, Runan, Yiyang and other places were originally Cao Cao's territory, and it was not difficult to understand, Cao Pi spent several days to understand Zhang Fei's troops and combat power very thoroughly, and then he led the 60,000 troops brought back from Hanzhong to set off.

Sure enough, Zhang Fei was a little careless, and did not expect that Cao Cao could send troops to attack Nanyang where he was located, coupled with Cao Pi's full preparation, there were many generals under his command, and by surprise, Zhang Fei did not defend Nanyang in order to save the defenders under his command to the greatest extent, but led the army to withdraw from Nanyang after a little resistance, and then went to the land of Runan and began to carefully deploy defenses.

Cao Pi saw that this careful preparation in Nanyang really received a miraculous effect, and his confidence increased greatly, after Nanyang rectified, he sent people back to Yecheng to send defenders to protect Nanyang, while continuing to wave the army to the south, and went straight to Runan, and finally, after only five days, he attacked outside the Pingyu City where the county of Runan County was located.

Zhang Fei arrived three days earlier than Cao Pi, and in the Battle of Nanyang, although Zhang Fei was defeated, he only lost less than 2,000 men and horses due to the timely withdrawal of the army, and he was not injured. Therefore, although Cao Pi was in full swing this time, when the soldiers approached the city, they saw that the flags in the city were waving and the guards were quite sufficient, so they did not storm it, so as not to make such a mistake as Hanzhong again.

Under the confrontation between the two armies, Cao Pi had already learned that Zhang Fei's temper was quite hot, so he did the strategy he had done when he was in Hanzhong before, and sent a man with sharp teeth to humiliate almost all of Zhang Fei's family in the city, Zhang Fei did not know at first, and although the defenders heard this unbearable words, no one dared to tell Zhang Fei, but just a day later, Zhang Fei heard these words when he was inspecting the city, and he was furious at the moment, and he gathered 10,000 horses, and lifted the snake spear and killed him out of the city.

Cao Pi saw that Zhang Fei really went out of the city, and set up an ambush on both sides, sent Xiahou Yuan to fight, and was defeated with the intention of introducing Zhang Fei and the 10,000 army into his ambush.

But what Cao Pi didn't expect was that although Zhang Fei defeated Xiahou Yuan in more than ten rounds, when he was really about to reach the ambush place, he stopped chasing and led the army back to the city.

The next day, when Cao Pi sent people to scold under the city, a burst of arrows shot down on the city, and the scolding person was killed by ten thousand arrows through the heart, and it was far away, and the sound of scolding could not be heard in the city.

So, a hard offensive and defensive battle began, with the familiarity of the surrounding areas of Runan, the Cao army frequently invaded, and although Zhang Fei was brave, but he was not a person who blindly cowered in the city, once he thought that there was an opportunity, Zhang Fei would also lead the army out of the city and Cao Jun to kill head-on.

In this way, the 20th in the confrontation between the two armies is finally going to pass, under this stalemate, it is obvious that Cao Pi has the advantage, the north is all the territory of the Cao army, and the grain and grass are readily available, and on the other hand, Zhang Fei, there are no reinforcements around, although the grain and grass in the city can support more than a month, but at this time it is already consumed most of it, Zhang Fei's face that was full of care before, there is finally a lot of sadness in the past few days, in this case, this place without danger is not easy to defend.

At this time, Cao Pi is sitting firmly in the tent, not eager, Runan is already in the spring, when everything is recovering, Cao Pi's heart is also imagining that Zhang Fei will be trapped to death in this Pingyu City, and it can be regarded as taking back the land of the two counties, that Yiyang has been a part of Runan since ancient times, if Runan is broken, it is just a matter of incident.

Zhang Fei was at a loss in Pingyu City, so he prepared to lead the elite army out of the city to attack Cao Pi's camp at night five days later, even if Zhang Fei knew that Cao Pi was camped twenty miles outside the city, most of them would strengthen their vigilance, and if they really went to the night attack, it would be difficult to get benefits from Cao Pi's hands.

But Zhang Fei also knows that Guan Yu guards Jiangxia, if he sends troops to rescue, once Jiangxia is obtained by Jiangdong, the consequences are unimaginable, and Zhuge Liang and Zhang Fei are far from the top, although Zhang Fei has sent someone to inform Zhuge Liang of the news here a few days ago, but there is still no news, and the people guarding Xiangyang are just Mi Fang and his ilk who lead an army of 20,000 or 30,000, and Nanyang is recaptured by Cao Pi, so he will not dare to go out of Xiangyang, and even if he goes out of Xiangyang, it will be difficult to defeat Cao Pi's 60,000 elite soldiers.

This time, Zhang Fei had already decided that even if he couldn't hold this land in Runan, he would have to hit Cao Jun hard to relieve the hatred in his heart.

On the fifth day, it was slowly spent in Cao Pi's siege but not attack, and at night, Zhang Fei ordered more than 10,000 elite soldiers and strong generals, and was about to lead the crowd from the south gate of Pingyu City to secretly go out of the city, and then quietly went around to Cao Pi's flank from the west side, and when he struck with all his strength, he suddenly came to report to his own soldiers, and a tired person walked to Pingyu City, and bluntly said that he wanted to see Zhang Fei.

When Zhang Fei heard this, his heart moved, and he hurried to the city gate, and when he saw someone coming, a hanging heart fell to the ground......

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Let's say that Liu Feng is in Chengdu, in just ten days, he actually identified four Cao Cao spies among the officials in Yizhou, as well as a Zhuge Liang spies, these people are all depressed under Liu Zhang's command, and Cao Cao and Zhuge Liang bought people with heavy money, Liu Feng knew that this was not the time to be soft-hearted, and immediately executed these people secretly, and this screening, only Liu Feng, Xu Shu, Fa Zheng, Wei Yan, Ma Chao these five people only.

On top of this matter, Liu Feng had a lot of complaints about Liu Zhang's governance in Yizhou, but another thing made Liu Feng feel more grateful to Liu Zhang, that is, when Liu Feng recruited troops in Yizhou, the effect greatly surprised Liu Feng.

Originally, when he was in Jingzhou, because there were many people from other counties and counties in the Central Plains who went to escape the disaster of war, the effect of conscription was very significant, and Liu Feng did not have much hope for Yizhou, but under this wide publicity, 50,000 young and strong people came to join the army in more than ten days.

Under careful inquiry, Liu Feng learned that although Yizhou is known as one million households, it is already the number of decades before the end of the Han Dynasty, and in the past few decades, Yizhou has no war, and the people of the Central Plains and Nanzhong are very happy to migrate here.