After Bai Tu's "willful" invasion of Runan, he found that the KPI of grain transportation in the rear had declined, and the state of the army had also declined somewhat.

If it was a 20% discount before, then now it has recovered at least half of it, which seems to be not much, but in fact, the biggest effect is to stop the continued deterioration!

Otherwise, under Guo Jia's "general trend", once a rout from evil is formed, the effect will continue to expand, and the "luck" lost by Bai Tu will be passed on to Cao Jun.

For example, Cao Chun recently felt that the tiger and leopard riding was a little more comfortable......

But now Bai Tu and Cao Cao are not facing each other head-on, but attacking Yuan Shu together!

Compared with Cao Cao, Bai Tu's biggest "weakness" is that he clearly stated that he would not forgive the participants of the Shouchun tragedy, so he ...... As soon as the war began, Yuan Shu became embarrassed.

In the face of Bai Tu from the south, the subordinates who usually have the courage to fight for merit are very afraid, and in the face of Cao Cao from the north, everyone is very positive, but ...... Surrender more positively!

In the end, Yuan Shu decided to send Ji Ling to lead 30,000 elites, and Qiao Rui as the supervisor of other troops, to meet Bai Tu in Ruyin, and personally sit in Pingyu, that is, the governance office of Runan, to guard against Cao Cao.

Ji Ling was not directly involved in Shouchun's affairs, but Yuan Shu believed that he should not surrender and ...... Just in case, Yuan Shu also sent Qiao Rui to supervise the army - Qiao Rui took the lead in rushing into the inner city at that time, and he himself knew that losing to Bai Tu was the only way to die.

Ruyin County is close to Yingshui, but for the time being, Baitu has not crossed Yingshui, stimulating Cao Cao's meaning, but it is located on Yingshui south of Yingshui, and has been taken by Baitu and garrisoned.

On the other hand, Sun Ce had already taken it at this time, although it was within the scope of Yuzhou, but geographically it belonged to Yiyang County in Huainan, and then crossed the Huai River, headed northeast, and captured Qisi, Yuanlu, Fubo and other counties along the way.

However, for Yuan Shu, this is all a minor problem, anyway, Runan County is very fat......

Although it is called a county, there are two counties in the world that are very special, one is Nanyang and the other is Runan, both of which had a population of 2.4 million and a population of 2.1 million before the Yellow Turban Rebellion, which together is more than the population of most states!

Therefore, Yuan Shu, who was born in the Yuan clan of Runan and served as the Taishou of Nanyang in the early stage of development, will be so "strong".

In just a few counties, as long as Yuan Shu held Ruyin and Xincai, he could block Baitu's army in the southeast of Runan.

And Ji Ling is in Ruyin, not blindly defending, but fighting back and forth with Bai Tu......

Baitu's army has undergone perfect training and has neat equipment, which is not available in the armies of most of the princes now, but it ...... It is undeniable that the Jiangdong Army saw too little blood and lacked actual combat experience.

On the other hand, the elite of the Nanyang army led by Ji Ling Ji Ling laid the foundation when Yuan Shu was still the punctual of Nanyang, and he followed Yuan Shu to conquer the south and the north, which can be described as a division of a hundred battles.

Coupled with the founding Buff, he is fully qualified to fight head-on with Bai Tu, and Ji Ling is indeed fighting fiercely, in more than a month, he has fought with Bai Tu several times, and there are victories and defeats against each other, but they are not the kind of victory or defeat that crush the other party, at most it just depends on whose losses are greater.

Mainly because Lu Bu was active in the Funan area at this time-that is, to respond to Sun Ce's department.

As long as Sun Ce penetrates the north bank of the Huai River between the "Honghe" and the "Yingshui", he will be able to join Baitu, and then attack Ruyin.

In this way, the only people under Bai Tu who have names and surnames are Jiang Qin and Lu Xun.

Bai Tu can pat his chest and say that the reason why he can command an army of 30,000 now is because his prestige as a lord is high enough!

Otherwise, Jiang Qin's personal force to his commanding ability would be inferior to Gan Ning and Zhou Tai, who were as famous as him in the Yangtze River.

And Lu Xun ...... After all, he is only a fifteen-year-old child, and it is okay to come up with some ghost ideas when he has an idea, but it is a bit too much to ask him to command the army alone!

After a small victory, Bai Tu took advantage of the victory to pursue and pull out the opponent's camp.

This is a relatively large "victory" in more than a month, although there is no defeat on one side, and the results are not destined to be great, but at least it forced Ji Ling to retreat a little.

"The strength of the Nanyang Army is a lot weaker, could it be that Cao Cao took the lead?" Bai Tu wondered.

"Probably not, although Pingyu is closer to Cao Cao, Cao Cao didn't even arrive in Ruyang before, not to mention that Pingyu is not so easy to fight." Lu Xun expressed his opinion.

As the seat of Runan, Pingyu City can also be called "Runan City", and the Runan City that was laid in a month?

Even if Cao Cao wants to send troops to Pingyu in the north of Runan, it is much closer than Baitu, but ...... Yuan Shu still has at least 50,000 soldiers and horses in Pingyu, and Cao Cao is not going to sign in, but not to arrive!

However, Jiang Qin soon came to report that there was a problem with Ji Ling's camp - some stove pits had not been used for two days.

At this time, it is not a surprise attack outside, to hide the tracks, in the camp, the army will also bury pots to cook, so there will be a stove pit, and the stove pit is used to estimate the number of opponents' troops, which should be regarded as the basic skill of the general.

Of course, whether it is to increase the number of troops or reduce the number of troops, it can be used as a means to confuse the enemy.

"Tricks? Or is it really for some reason that Ji Ling is dividing his troops? Bai Tu wondered.

"My lord, give the order to pursue! The front is suitable for ambushes, and there are only these two places, as long as you are careful not to approach. Lu Xun said.

If every time you find out about an enemy's conspiracy, you suspect that it's fishing, then you don't have to do anything!

In fact, Bai Tu really wants to do nothing, silently develop science and technology, and then crush everything......

However, now Bai Tu still accepted Lu Xun's opinion, and sent the front army to continue the pursuit, driving Ji Ling all the way.

As a result, Jiang Qin found that the number of stove pits was more than expected......

If there was a part of the stove pit in the previous camp that seemed to have been abandoned for two days, then now...... It is an obvious "reduction of troops and increase of stoves", deliberately digging more stove pits!

It's just that I don't know if it's Ji Ling's mistake, or if someone under him is coping with an errand, and in these fake pits, the burn marks are obviously much lighter......

"Reducing troops and increasing the focus? Ji Ling is indeed dividing his troops? But what does he want to do...... Scare us off? But he has no reinforcements, how can he scare us? Bai Tu wondered.

"I didn't want it to intimidate, but now Ji Ling seems to be leading us to continue chasing. Wait a minute! Lord, has Ji Ling not appeared for a long time? Lu Xun suddenly reacted.

"Didn't you just meet yesterday?" Bai Tu looked at Lu Xun in surprise.

"No, what we saw yesterday was just a guy in armor and a purple mask, standing in front of the handsome flag!" Lu Xun said.

As soon as Lu Xun said this, Bai Tu also reacted a little, although Ji Ling liked to wear silver-gray armor every day when he didn't have armor, but ...... Masks are only worn when wearing armor, right?

It's just that Ji Ling's armor image is wearing a purple mask, so no one suspected that that guy was not Ji Ling before.

And...... Since the first encounter, Jiang Qin was under Ji Ling, and after more than 20 rounds of defeat, no one specifically called a fighting general!

But now that I think about it, with Ji Ling's reckless character, it is indeed a strange thing that he did not take advantage of his "highest force" in the neighborhood to take the lead in the battle to boost morale.

"Could it be...... Those soldiers who were separated were still led by Ji Ling? Bai Tu's face was a little bad.

Originally, he thought ...... The one who fought with him recently was Ji Ling, so thinking about it, Bai Tu was also a military wizard who could fight (with the assistance of Lu Xun and Jiang Qin) and Ji Ling, who was barely a famous general in the world.

"Is it trying to ambush us? Lord, let's ...... first Hold your ground! Jiang Qin said.

Although Jiang Qin is usually steady, he is not timid, after all, he is a water thief, but now that Bai Tu is here, Jiang Qin feels that it is better not to take risks.

"No, Ji Ling's goal should not be to ambush us, otherwise he wouldn't have divided his troops when the previous camp was stationed." Lu Xun said.

"On the cheeks?" Bai Tu also reacted under Lu Xun's reminder at this time.

"That's right, my lord, let's go back!" Lu Xun pleaded.

Jiang Qin didn't suggest betting on whether Lu Xun's judgment was correct, if he was the only one, he would be willing to fight with the kid of the Lu family, but now Bai Tu is still there.

It's just that if you ...... "return aid", it is similar to "retreat", so Jiang Qin did not raise any objections, even if Lu Xun guessed wrong, he could withdraw along the way.

If Ji Ling really went around the back and attacked the Ying, Bai Tu would really have a little trouble.

After all, that was Bai Tu's retreat - of course, because Sun Ce had also invaded Runan, it was impossible to make Bai Tu unable to go back, even if Ji Ling could hold Yingchuan, at most it would only make Bai Tu detour Shucheng back to Huainan.

However, Yingchuan is Baitu's bridgehead in Runan, which is not only related to the grain route, but also ...... There is also a lot of relief food stockpiled, and if it is knocked out, there will still be some minor troubles.

So Bai Tu, in addition to leaving a small number of scouts and the army behind the palace, quickly led people to retreat...... No, it's a return to Yingshang!

As it turned out, Lu Xun's guess completely hit the heart.

The day after Bai Tuxiang rushed back, he received a report from the scouts, and they had discovered Ji Ling's move to rush to Yingshang a day earlier.

Originally, Bai Tu had even been prepared, and Yingshang had already prepared for the "Transformation of the Great King Banner at the Head of the City", even if it was less than a day, it should be enough for Ji Ling to capture Yingshang.

However, when Bai Tu returned to Yingshang, he found that Ji Ling was attacking the city, and Ji Ling, who was very majestic in front of Jiang Qin before, was being blocked by a silver-armored general who was very unfamiliar to Bai Tu at this time......

Bai Tu was sure he didn't know this person, but ...... is obviously a gold and jade-level battle armor, which shows that the person who came is by no means unknown!

This also made Bai Tu even more puzzled - no matter how confused he was, he wouldn't even know his Jinyu generals, but if it wasn't for his subordinates, why would he be here now?

Even if it is Cao Cao's reinforcements, the county order left behind in Yingshang will not allow the other party to command the Jiangdong Army!