Xiaoguangong

Chapter 144

Ranger is a promising profession in both Han and Han Dynasties.

Paying homage to the eldest brother, occupying the village, hacking people back and forth to preside over order, this kind of thing is the daily life of the ranger. The three brothers Liu Bei, Cao Cao and Cao Ren all worked as rangers when they were young. Who doesn't like this kind of years as the eldest brother.

Li Tong is no exception.

Back then, he was the top brother in Langling, and the method of killing Zhou Zhi would be no different from the gangsters of later generations if he was covered with his name.

His influence grew bigger and bigger, and he gradually pointed out his military talent in the constant killing of people. Naturally, he began to gradually move up and learn from the top talents in the industry.

This time he received Xiahou Dun's order to leave the Runan lands that he had occupied for many years, and headed south aggressively. He had to fight Guan Yu and others. But now Cao Jun's strength is stretched, Li Tong has changed from an auxiliary unit to a main force, and he has obtained good knives, hard bows and armor that can only be equipped by Cao Jun's main force. Naturally, he is full of confidence and thinks that his chance has come.

war.

come on.

I, Li Tong, am a good man, this battle is the time to show my abilities.

Xiahou Dun also intended to cultivate Li Tong.

He had already received a letter from Cao Pi yesterday, saying that Xu Huang and Zhang Fei fought bloody outside Dangyang City, and both sides suffered heavy losses, but Xu Huang did not let Zhang Fei take advantage of it after all. The encirclement was further narrowed on the Jiangling line.

Cao Ren of Jiangling City also triumphantly sent a message, saying that Zhou Yu was very anxious after hearing that Zhang Fei had been breached. He had been trying his best to attack the city for the past few days, and he was shot by an arrow. Maybe he was dying.

The situation in Jingzhou improved now, and Cao Ren even stayed in Jiangling and didn't want to leave.

But Xiahoudun knew his own affairs, and he told Li Tong that Cao Ren must be rescued in this battle, and even if Cao Ren didn't want to leave, he had to drag him away.

Now that Cao Ren's situation is very good, he will definitely send his commander-in-chief's school affairs nearby. When the time comes to secretly tell Cao Ren about Le Jin, Cao Ren will naturally understand.

Compared with the important town of Xiangyang, Jiangling is not so significant.

Rather than expending troops there, it is better to retreat directly to Xiangyang. With Cao Ren in Xiangyang and Xiahou Dun in Nanyang, Cao's army is united as one, and it is impossible for Sun Liu to break through the defense in this area.

This is for Cao Jun's overall consideration.

Li Tong also felt the great responsibility, and thanked Xiahou Dun for his cultivation. He led his two sons to Xiangyang with the help of Yunshan, and he really deterred the Xiangyang family.Xiahoudun took advantage of the situation and asked Ma Liang for five thousand shi of grain, and forced the Jingxiang family to leave the corvee to open the way. Li Tong's army quickly moved south along the road opened by Le Jin and Xu Huang, and approached Jiangling.

Originally, only Ma Liang, Xiang Lang and others in Jingzhou's aristocratic family were completely devoted to Liu Bei. Seeing that Xiahou Dun forced them to pay food, everyone felt very upset.

Didn't he just kill a few of his people and rob them of their food by fire?As for embarrassing us on the bright side?
The land in Jingzhou is already barren, what if we just grab some?Why doesn't the Central Plains Dynasty even have this kind of tolerance? Isn't this clearly asking us to rebel?
Ma Liang, who was bleeding a lot, was very calm and did not show much anger.

Take it, take it, don't be polite to me.

It won't be long before you eat mine and I'll make you spit it out.

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Li Tong's journey to the south was very smooth.

Now Dangyang has been opened up, and the flow of military information is also very smooth.

The military reports of Le Jin and Xu Huang may be fake, but by putting together the military reports of Cao Pi, Cao Ren and Le Jin and Xu Huang, he can still guess the movement on the battlefield.

At present, Zhou Yu's Wu army has already advanced, and it is very difficult to attack Jiangling. There is no time to divide the troops to intercept Li Tong.

Xu Huang met Zhang Fei in Dangyang, and the two sides fought a battle. Cai Mao took the opportunity to break out, and Zhang Fei was forced to retreat, so he certainly couldn't continue to intercept.

Guan Yu and Le Jin fought fiercely. The Cao army led by Sima Fu also attacked from Jiangxia and burned many of Guan Yu's warships. I heard that even Guan Ping was injured. Guan Yu's army relied on supplies from the warships. Persist for more than five months?

That is to say...

Li Tong was surprised to find that now is really a god-sent opportunity to make meritorious deeds.

Le Jin and Xu Huang fought fiercely with Liu Bei's two generals respectively, and they both stopped one step away from Jiangling. Through simple addition and subtraction calculations, Li Tong also immediately realized that a good opportunity to become famous was beckoning to him.

Just move forward, just move forward desperately!
As long as I reach the city of Jiangling, my name, Li Tong, will shock everyone!

"Everyone, pack lightly and hurry, and hurry to Jiangling!"

The soldiers under Li Tong cheered loudly, and they all felt that the big event was approaching.

In the next two days, they also gradually encountered Le Jin's defeated army.

According to the accounts of those soldiers, Le Jin and Guan Yu fought fiercely several times. Both sides suffered a lot of casualties. Le Jin fought off Guan Yu with his life, but he was also injured and was forced to rest.

After walking for another day, they encountered the fleeing soldiers under Xu Huang's command.

They told Li Tong that Le Jin and Xu Huang had already been angered by Zhang Fei, and now they joined forces and chased towards the mountains west of Dangyang, trying to kill Zhang Fei there first.

Li Tong was ecstatic, Xindao Lejin and Xu Huang were both veteran generals, they didn't know the reason why the last arrow of a crossbow could not pierce Lu Jin.

It's enough to beat Zhang Fei away, but they even joined together to chase him. Isn't this just giving me the credit?It's not in vain that I came all the way from Runan.

Seeing that Lijiangling was only the last day's journey, Le Jin and Xu Huang went to chase Zhang Fei again. Li Tong simply left 500 men to guard the luggage, and the rest of the soldiers had a full meal, and brought a day's dry food, and tried their best to fight back. Jiangling ran.

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Li Tong, who did not encounter any enemy troops along the way, was finally intercepted at a place that was only a day away from Jiangling.

A large dense deer village suddenly appeared on the narrow road.

These deer villages are spread out along the grasslands and forest roads in the mountains. Many bases are buried in the soil and only half of the ground is exposed. Li Tong commanded his soldiers to clean up the deer villages. He fell into a deep pit with a cry.

There are sharp wooden spikes buried in this deep pit, and the first few soldiers who fell were pierced on the spot. Discoloration all together!
"This, whose trick is this!"

So shameless!
When Li Tong was suppressing thieves in the mountains, those thieves couldn't beat them so they used this method of digging traps. He had never seen this kind of insidious method when fighting against a more formal enemy like Zhang Xiu before.

Li Tong looked around and saw that the surrounding roadsides were full of weeds, who knew how many traps were lurking, and couldn't help but feel very annoyed.

All that was left was the last shiver.

Who is this? I can see that he doesn't want Li Tong to make meritorious service!
In a rage, Li Tong stepped forward and ordered his soldiers to demolish the deer village one by one.

But there are so many deer villages on this road, and most of them have been fixed. The more impatient the people became, the more irritable they became. From time to time, some people fell into the pit and fell into a bloody mess.

"Bastard!"

Li Tong cursed:
"Where did the thief come to use such despicable means! I know you are in the forest, come out quickly, or I will set fire to you!"

Li Tong is also a self-taught and talented military strategist. He quickly guessed that there must be enemies lurking along the mountain, and the best way is to set fire to force them out.

But if you set fire to...

The vegetation here is so dense that the fire cannot be controlled, and it might burn for several days. Wouldn't it delay their journey!

So he could only make threats, hoping to quickly scare out the thieves hiding in the mountains.

Li Tong's subordinates also yelled curses while cleaning up the deer village, and even raised the torches in their hands, telling people to get out quickly.

They cursed at dusk from morning to noon, but still no one showed up.

The good news is that the land in Luzhai was cleaned up almost the same, and the bad news is that the dry food they brought with them was also about the same.

In desperation, Li Tong had no choice but to call someone back to report the news, so that more than 500 people who were guarding the baggage behind could rush forward to support.

That night, Li Tong's soldiers were afraid of encountering his direct descendants, so they barely roasted dry food with fire, and went to the nearby stream to fetch water casually.

But the wild animals of this generation are very enthusiastic. The soldiers of Li Tongjun who went to fetch water first encountered a poisonous snake, and then encountered a large number of mosquitoes following them, causing everyone to complain. Open the road to Jiangling.

"Cheer up, gentlemen, the next step is not far from Jiangling!"

Li Tong has been yelling this since last night, and he even has a bad premonition in his heart.

Could it be that he was short of these few steps, and he would never see Jiangling City?
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Until the evening, the soldiers that Li Tong went to meet him still did not come back.

Li Tong's troops had already eaten their rations, even if Li Tong was anxious to make contributions, he could only retreat temporarily to meet the adjourned soldiers.

It stands to reason that the soldiers escorting the luggage should have already started their journey after receiving the news, and Li Tong would be able to join them in a short time.

However, Li Tong's soldiers ran wildly all night holding torches, and at dawn the next day, when they returned to their previous positions, there was still no sign of the friendly army.

"Where are the people? Where have they all gone?"

Li Tong was furious, and his trusted soldiers hurriedly searched around, only to see that in the twilight of dawn, there were large patches of blood and traces of dragging on the surrounding ground.

They quickly searched around, but as soon as they entered the surrounding grass, they immediately lost their feet and fell painfully into the pit.

This time the pit was only knee-deep, but there were still a lot of wooden thorns in the pit. The soles of the soldiers who fell into the pit were pierced by the wooden thorns and rolled over in pain. Li Tong hurriedly ordered his soldiers to be taken away. Only then did he realize that he had fallen deeply into the enemy's ambush.

The enemy obviously made a lot of preparations for themselves.

At the beginning, they dug deep pits that could directly kill people, but later they dug shallow pits that would only cause painful trauma to the soldiers and make them lose their combat effectiveness.

This kind of pit is even more immoral, and Li Tong has to take care of the wounded. In this wilderness, they don't have any wound medicine, not even food. passed out.

"Who the hell! Come out!" Li Tong drew his sword in his hand and shouted wildly, cursing those invisible enemies desperately.

He now regrets taking the enemy lightly.

If you follow Le Jin Xu Huang and proceed step by step...

Wouldn't you encounter such a horrible scene?

(End of this chapter)