After all, Runan County is adjacent to Nanyang County, so Chen Sheng sent troops, he didn't need to prepare in advance, he gave an order at night, and he could enter the army the next day.

Therefore, after Chen Sheng led the army out of Wancheng, he also quickly arrived at the border of Runan. and headed towards the city where Li Tong was.

Li Tong occupies eight cities, so he naturally divides the priorities. His place of governance was a place called the Mausoleum.

After entering Runan, Chen Sheng ordered to speed up, crossed many cities, and quickly arrived at Lingcheng.

"It's so big, it's so high."

At the forefront of the nine thousand elite soldiers, Chen Sheng led Liao Hua, Zhou Cang, Fang Gu and others to stand on horseback, Chen Sheng looked up at the mausoleum, and suddenly let out an exclamation.

It was not the first time that Chen Sheng had attacked such a small force. Jiang Guang was one time at the beginning. However, compared with Jiang Guang, Li Tong is really the difference between the underground and the heavenly.

Jiang Guang is a yellow turban thief, and his subordinates are a rabble, and the city is very dilapidated. And Li Tong is a famous general on the same level as Wenpin, and his subordinates are all brave and good at fighting.

Go up to the city in front of you.

The extraordinary city walls, coupled with the extremely majestic city gate tower, give people a sense of grandeur. In terms of scale, I am afraid it is second only to Wancheng.

And the whole body of the city is yellow, brand new and abnormal.

It can be seen that this city, Li Tong takes care of the abnormality and repairs it from time to time. It was a tall and strong city.

On the tower of the city gate, a banner embroidered with the word "Li" and fluttering in the wind shows that the owner of this city is Li Tong.

In history, he was the same general as Wen Ping.

"The general is right, this city is really high, so big. Just defeat Li Tong and occupy this city. Not only did it live all of Runan County, but it also greatly expanded its power. At the same time, Cao Ying's power was reduced, and the defense power was greatly increased by occupying this city. ”

In the face of such a city, Liao Hua showed a strong attack**, looking at Lingcheng with glowing eyes, eager to try.

"Li Tong is not to be underestimated, if he attacks the city, he will definitely suffer heavy losses, and the gains outweigh the losses." Chen Sheng solemnly warned when he heard this, and then said: "On the contrary, as long as we are stationed outside the city and contain Li Tong, we can easily obtain most of the cities in Runan, why not?" ”

The reason is this truth, but the last general is really uncomfortable looking at the "Li" character general flag planted on the city gate tower, and it is much more pleasing to the eye when it is replaced by "Chen". Liao Hua said unhappily when he heard this.

Liao Hua's surname is quite straightforward, he has been following Chen Sheng for a long time, and the relationship has increased, so he has more surnames, not as careful as when he first defected to Chen Sheng.

"There will be a day." Chen Sheng listened to Liao Hua's speech and felt a little funny, but he also respected Liao Hua's ambition, so he said with a smile.

"Hmm." Liao Hua nodded and said.

"He ordered the encampment and sent spies to keep an eye on the city's movements, day and night. If Li Tong dares to act rashly, we will annihilate him. ”

After continuing to observe Lingcheng for a while, Chen Sheng ordered.

"No."

Liao Hua and Fang Gu agreed to each other and went down to set up camp. Soon after, a large camp was built, covering an area of about a mile.

Small is a little smaller, but the camp is full of organs, camp tents, and there is a small but capable atmosphere.

Anyway, in this battle, Chen Sheng was not careless, and he was not nervous. That is, it is not careless because Li Tong is strong and strong, and he should not be underestimated, and he is afraid of capsizing in the gutter.

That is, it is not nervous, but because Chen Sheng knows that as long as Li Tong is contained, the twenty or thirty cities will be in the bag.

However, there is one thing that Chen Sheng underestimated himself, and that is influence.

"Is that Chen Sheng's army? Looking at its military camp, it is really extraordinary. Just on the opposite side of Lingcheng City, there was a Jinjia general who was raising his eyes to look at Chen Sheng's camp, revealing a solemn expression.

This golden-armored general is about thirty years old, his appearance is not good, the top is long and the bottom is short, and the upper and lower proportions are strange, but he is burly, and his eyes are bright, and he seems to have a fine light.

It can be seen that this person is dull on the outside, but there is a shining point like gold on the inside.

This person is the general Zhenwei Zhonglang under Cao Ying, and the general Li Tong, who led 6,000 troops to settle in the northwest of Runan.

And there are some people beside Li Tong, all of whom are important generals under Li Tong, or civil officials. After these people saw Chen Sheng's military camp, most of them were dignified, and a few even showed fear.

After listening to Li Tong's words, everyone nodded heavily and expressed their agreement.

Seeing this scene, Li Tong secretly sighed.

"Wancheng Chen Sheng, civil and military courage, defeated Cao Gong in a row, and became famous all over the world. The prestige of this has shocked many of my commanders. It's amazing. ”

This is the influence that Chen Sheng does not know. That's right, Chen Sheng knew that Li Tong was a general, a general on the same level as Wenpin. But he didn't count it enough, and he was also a prince who dominated one side.

The prestige of Cao Ying's consecutive defeats is enough to make many people frightened.

In fact, Chen Sheng no longer needed to send spies all over the city to prevent Li Tong from sending troops. Li Tong was more than enough to defend the city, but there was no possibility of sending troops at all.

Except for the generals under Li Tong, they were all more or less afraid of Chen Sheng. Another point is that Li Tong's troops are only 6,000. Hard Chen Sheng, at least 10,000.

If you want to compete for the twenty or thirty cities in Runan, you have to face Liu Pi and Gong Du in Runan, and you need at least five or six thousand elite soldiers.

Anyway, Li Tong didn't have that idea at all about this competition for Runan.

"The twenty or thirty cities in Runan, under Yuan Shao's command, have always been rich. After Chen Sheng occupied these cities, he could get rid of Liu Biao's control and further grow and grow. The threat has increased exponentially, which is extremely bad news for Cao Gong. But we can't fight for it, so we can only convey the news to Cao Gong and let Cao Gong find a way to solve it. ”

In the end, Li Tong sighed and said.

"No."

One of the people beside Li Tong immediately answered and went down to deliver the news.

"If I am given fifteen thousand troops, I can still fight with you. But now. After conveying the order, Li Tong's mood was not good, he looked at Chen Sheng's military camp very unwillingly, and his heart was eager to fight, but unfortunately, it was a lack of strength, and he was helpless.

In the end, I could only watch Chen Sheng grow in vain.

In this way, the two sides confronted each other for half a month under the mausoleum.

This day, the sun is shining. It was a very comfortable day.

In Chen Sheng's barracks, although there was no war for half a month, the soldiers still performed their duties and meticulously carried out the tasks sent from above, patrolled, or stationed in the barracks.

The entire Chen Shengjun camp did not slacken, or slacken.

The guards outside the large tent of the Chinese army are still the most dense in the army. From time to time, there are patrolling soldiers, walking through it.

Just like now, there are two teams of ten soldiers, crossing the front of the Chinese army's tent. Their steps are steady, imposing, and majestic.

"Hahaha."

However, soon the soldiers in these two teams turned their heads in unison, but it was because there was a burst of laughter in the big tent of the Chinese army.

The soldiers could easily tell that this was the laughter of their loyal general.

"What happened? Could it be that the war in the South-East is over? The soldiers thought to themselves, and they were all very happy.

And the soldiers' guesses were not wrong. In the southeast, the war for the twenty or thirty cities in Runan ended, and under the leadership of Li Yan, after three major battles, in half a month, the twenty or thirty cities were completely occupied.

During this period, because of Li Yan's excellent ability, his own losses were not large. Even, in the process, Li Yan also collected a lot of surrendered troops.

At this moment, inside the big tent of the Chinese army. Chen Sheng was laughing, holding a roll of bamboo slips in his hand.

The bamboo slip is the battle report. It contains a detailed account of the course of the war and the prisoners that Li Yan received. In addition, there was also a roster on the desk in front of Chen Sheng.

This is the list of the twenty or thirty cities, which contains a detailed record of the men and women, the officials, and all kinds of baggage and grain.

After laughing, Chen Sheng looked at the ranking again. Sure enough, as expected before the war, there were more than 100,000 people in the twenty or thirty cities in Runan.

Combined with the city they occupied, there were more than 400,000 people.

According to the ratio of population to strength, it is no problem to raise 40,000 troops. Not to mention, the grain and all kinds of baggage obtained from the twenty or thirty cities in Runan.

This battle is really fruitful.

"Hahaha." Chen Sheng couldn't help but laugh again, Liu Biao, Cao Ying, don't try to curb my development. After laughing for a while, Chen Sheng raised his head and glanced inside the big tent.

At this time, Chen Sheng was not laughing alone, there were still three people in the big tent: Fang Gu, Zhou Cang, and Liao Hua.

"Draw up a table book, add Li Yan as a lieutenant general, and order him to draw 3,000 strong men from the surrendered troops to replenish the troops." Chen Sheng shouted at Fang Gu.

This is the consequence of Chen Sheng's calculation, the current Wancheng forces have 37,000 troops, and Li Yanduo expands his troops by 3,000 troops, so he has 4,000 elite soldiers. Just enough to make the entire Wancheng force, there are 40,000 elite soldiers.

With more than 400,000 people, a ratio of ten to one has been formed.

Then the battle was perfect, that is, the city, the population, and a lot of money, food, and baggage, and an increase in troops.

"No." Fang Gu promised, and then smiled with Liao Hua and Zhou Cang, sincerely rejoicing at the increase in power.

"Draw up a form and recommend yourself to the Emperor of the Han Dynasty as the county guard of Runan." Immediately, Chen Sheng ordered towards Fang Gu again.

Chen Sheng is also very persistent in guarding the official position of the lord of a piece of land.

"No." Fang Gu promised again.

"Now that Runan is in hand, then don't worry about Li Tong or anything, retire." Eventually, Chen Sheng gave the order.

"No." All the generals agreed in unison.

Soon after, Chen Sheng's camp began to pull out.

"Most of the cities in Runan were finally taken by Chen Sheng." Chen Sheng was dignified and treated solemnly, and Li Tong, the general of Cao Wei who was as famous as Wen Ping, led the crowd to the city again when he heard that Chen Sheng was pulling out the camp.

Looking at the scene of Chen Shengba's camp, Li Tong showed a wry smile and said.

In this battle, he really didn't come in handy.

Although Chen Sheng was on the table of the emperor of the Han Dynasty, he asked for the position of the county guard of Runan. But that was just a formality, and after Chen Sheng returned to Wancheng, he immediately claimed to be the county guard of Runan.

Since then, Chen Sheng has been the county guard of Runan, and the general of Jianzhong. Sitting on more than 40 cities, it is a great prince who is powerful and cannot be underestimated by people in the world.

In this battle, although Chen Sheng personally conquered Runan, he contained Li Tong. But the appointed general Li Yan was too good, and it didn't take much effort to capture the city.

Li Tong, who thought in advance that it might be a serious threat, did not make any moves. It was a breeze.

But for the princes of the world, especially Cao Ying, who wanted to curb Chen Sheng's development, and Liu Biao, who wanted to control Chen Sheng, it was a heavy blow and made them very uncomfortable.

(To be continued)