Ten days after Li Tong settled in Wuyang, Cao Cao's reply came, and its content conveyed three meanings. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

First, worship Li Tong as the general of Zhenwei Zhonglang, continue to lead the troops and horses of the headquarters, and give another reward after occupying Runan.

Second, let Cao Chang treat Li Tong and his subordinates well, and properly settle the families of his clansmen and sergeants.

Third, the most important point is to let Cao Zhang and Xun You learn more about the situation in Runan from Li Tong, and if there is a chance, take a county town as a stronghold first.

After receiving the letter, Cao Zhang discussed with Xun You Li Tong and Yang County Order, and Cao Zhang first announced the arrangements for Li Tong, and Li Tong was naturally very grateful.

After that, Cao Zhang asked Yang County Commander if he could settle Li Tong's deployment and clansmen.

Yang County Ling said: "There is a lot of idle land in the townships under the jurisdiction of Wuyang County, and it is not a problem to resettle the families of the sergeants. ”

Li Tong replied: "Our people only want to have a place to live, and this arrangement is very appropriate. ”

Yang County Ling said: "Later, I will discuss with a few squires in the county town to see if I can vacate a mansion for General Li's family to settle in the county seat." ”

Cao Zhang said: "No need, General Li's family can live in our courtyard first, anyway, there are a lot of wings there." ”

Li Tong was a little embarrassed when he heard this, and said, "Third son. . . This.. ”

Cao Zhang smiled and said: "General Li, my father's letter clearly states that after occupying Runan, he will reward the general separately, and he is just staying here temporarily, so there is no need to be so polite." ”

After Li Tong thanked him, Cao Zhang asked him about the situation in Runan, only to hear Li Tong say: "The situation in Runan is similar to the previous time when there was no owner, the strong and powerful in various places defended themselves, and there were small groups of bandits and grass and grass between the grass and mountains, often plundering the township, Yuan Shu only sent a general Liu Shen with 10,000 people to guard the peace of the Runan Zhizhi, and the strong and powerful in various places only paid a little tax, in fact, they went their own way. ”

Xun You said with a smile: "Yuan Shu must have been afraid of the lord's power, so he gave up Runan, and only sent people to stick to one county and get some taxes, and he himself stationed heavy troops in Huainan." ”

Cao Chang then asked, "General Li, if we want to seize a stronghold in Runan, I don't know if it is feasible?" ”

Li Tong replied: "Back to the third son, Xiping County, 90 miles away from Wuyang, the city wall is no more than five zhang high, there is no moat, the city defense is extremely weak, although there are local strong and strong guards in the city, but with my headquarters sergeant, taking Xiping is only between the backhand." ”

Cao Zhang asked: "Then can I take Xiping with this thousand halberds under my command?" ”

Li Tong thought about it and said: "There is a river called Minshui ten miles outside Wuyang, this Minshui just passes through Xiping, a thousand halberd soldiers make bamboo rafts, take the night to carry the flying ladder down the river, after arriving at Xiping City, set up a ladder to raid from behind, the other party is just a local militia, the military law is not strict, and the sergeant will inevitably be defeated after entering the city. ”

Cao Zhang listened and asked Xun Youdao: "What do you think, sir?" ”

Xun You replied: "General Li's plan is very clever, Xiping is just a small county, the county is just a local township, and it is naturally not a problem to take it, because Xiping is close to Yingchuan, and Liu Shen, who is stationed in Pingyu, does not dare to attack, and we can appease the people in the name of the Son of Heaven after we capture this city, and we must not disturb the people." ”

Cao Zhang nodded and said: "What Mr. said is very true, okay, General Li, we are now ready, after the capture of Xiping, the general can put his sergeants here, and the sergeants' families will be placed in Wuyang." ”

"No." Li Tong agreed.

Cao Zhang said to Xun You: "General Li has just joined our army, and the matter of commanding the army still needs the help of Mr., the supervisor. ”

"No." Xun You replied.

Cao Zhang then said to Yang County: "The flying ladder and the bamboo raft have the Lao County Order. ”

Yang County Ling replied: "Mobilize the people of the whole county, and the flying ladder bamboo raft can be completed within five days." ”

Cao Zhang smiled: "Wonderful. ”

On the evening of the sixth day after this meeting, Li Tong took 1,000 halberders and two military rations on a bamboo raft to cross the people's water, while Cao Chang and Xun You took Li Tong's 200 light cavalry to prepare two days' dry rations the next day and traveled overland to Xiping.

It was noon when he arrived in Xiping, and the city wall of Xiping was full of flags with the word 'Cao' written on them, because Li Tong had just been appointed as a general, and he didn't have time to make his special flag, so he could only use Cao Zhang's.

The halberd on the city wall recognized Cao Zhang and Xun You, and immediately opened the city gate, Li Tong was already in the city to greet him, Cao Zhang saw that the people in the county were still walking on the street, and there was no panic, so he knew that Li Tong had done a good job of reassuring the people, and said with a smile: "General Li is fortunate." ”

Li Tong said humbly: "Third prince, I want to send a cavalry scout to lure my soldiers to Xiping to station, there is a lot of grain stored here, enough for our army to survive the winter." ”

Cao Zhang nodded and said, "This is very good, after the generals and soldiers arrive here, I will bring a thousand halberders back to Wuyang to garrison the army rations." ”

On the fifth day of Li Tong's scouts, his 5,000 soldiers and 10,000 people had arrived in Xiping, and the other nearly 20,000 family members were heading towards Wuyang, Cao Zhang saw that Li Tong sergeant was coming, so he and Xun You returned to Wuyang with the halberd, waiting for Cao Cao to arrive, Cao Zhang and Xun You lived in the courtyard at this time still lived in Li Tong's family, Li Tong had two sons, one was called Li Xu, the other was called Li Ji, Li Xu was nine years old, Li Ji was seven years old, and Cao Zhang was about the same age, Cao Zhang was naturally very friendly to the two, and Cao Zhang would still be able to win people's hearts.

At the beginning of November of the same year, Cao Cao's good news came, Li Lehu shouted in front of the battle, the Baibo army defected, Yang Feng Han Xian was defeated, Han Xian died on the spot, most of Yang Feng's army surrendered, only with more than 10,000 remnants to Runan to flee, of course, this is Cao Cao's intention.

In addition, in November of this year, there was also a major event, the hussar general Zhang Ji because of lack of food, led troops into Jingzhou to attack the bandits, lost and died, Zhang Xiu took over the army of his father Zhang Ji, still captured the city, stationed troops in Wancheng, and formed an alliance with Liu Biao, the assassin of Jingzhou.

After Cao Zhang heard the news, he knew that Zhang Xiu had stepped onto the stage of history, which meant that Cao Ang's death was near, so save his life or let it go? That's a problem.

One day in mid-November, Cao Zhangzheng was doing nothing in the courtyard to practice the knife technique taught by Xiahoudun, Li Ji and Li Xu walked into the courtyard and saw Cao Zhang practicing the first knife of the ring, Li Ji shouted: "Third son, you are really good, you have already practiced with a real guy, hey!" My father even let me practice wooden guns. ”

Although Li Xu is one year older than Cao Zhang, he is slightly shorter than Cao Zhang, and that is because Cao Zhang's stature is too tall. Bibi punches? Because he wanted to try whether his body was a little stronger than others, although he could easily overturn Cao Pi, but in his opinion, Cao Pi was a little weaker, Li Tong was dominating Langling, and when he was young, he was famous for his name as a ranger, and he thought that martial arts must not be weak, so Cao Zhang said this.

Li Xu was taken aback and shook his hand and said, "Third son, noble status, how dare we... ”