Chapter 144
Rangers are a promising profession in both Han dynasties.
I worship my elder brother, occupy the village and kill people to preside over the order. This kind of thing is the daily life of the Ranger. Liu Bei and Cao Cao and Cao Ren were all used as Rangers when they were young. Who doesn’t like this kind of years of being the eldest brother?
Li Tong is no exception.
Back then, he was Langling's top brother. If he started his career and killed Zhou Zhi, he would be no different from the gangsters in later generations.
His power is getting bigger and bigger, and he gradually pointed out his military talent through continuous killing of people, so he naturally began to gradually move closer to learn from the top talents in the industry.
This time, he received an order from Xiahou Dun to leave the Runan territory he had occupied for many years and headed south with great momentum, and had to fight with Guan Yu and others. If the Cao army was strong and strong, he would definitely not call up such a powerful soldier in the countryside for an expedition. However, the Cao army's strength is now too short. Li Tong suddenly changed from an auxiliary army to a main force, and also obtained good knives, hard bows and armor that the main force of the Cao army could have equipped. Naturally, he was full of confidence and believed that his opportunity had come.
war.
bring it on.
I, Li Tong, are a good man, and this battle is the time to show my ability.
Xiahou Dun also intentionally cultivated Li Tong.
He had received a letter from Cao Pi yesterday, saying that Xu Huang and Zhang Fei fought bloody battle outside Dangyang City, and both sides suffered heavy losses, but Xu Huang did not allow Zhang Fei to take advantage of it. Now the Sun and Liu coalition forces outside Dangyang have completely rescued the siege, and Zhou Yu's encirclement has been further narrowed on the Jiangling line.
Cao Ren from Jiangling City also sent a message proudly, saying that Zhou Yu was extremely anxious after hearing that Zhang Fei was broken through. He fought desperately to attack the city these days, but he was shot by an arrow, and he might be dead.
The situation in Jingzhou improved at this moment, and Cao Ren even stayed in Jiangling and didn't want to leave.
But Xiahou Dun knew about his affairs. He told Li Tong that Cao Ren must be rescued in this battle. Even if Cao Ren did not want to leave, he had to drag him away.
Cao Ren is in a good situation now, and he will definitely send his commander-in-chief to the nearby school to do something. At that time, he will secretly tell Cao Ren about Lejin, and Cao Ren will naturally understand.
Compared with the important towns in Xiangyang, Jiangling is not so meaningful.
Instead of constantly expending troops there, it is better to retreat directly to Xiangyang. With Cao Ren in charge of Xiangyang and Xiahou Dun in charge of Nanyang, Cao's army united, and Sun and Liu could not break through the defense of this area.
This is for the overall consideration of Cao's army.
Li Tong also felt a great responsibility and thanked Xiahou Dun for his cultivation. He led his two sons to Xiangyang with the help of Yunshan, which really intimidated the Xiangyang clans. Xiahou Dun took advantage of the situation to ask Ma Liang for 5,000 stones of food, and forced the Jingxiang clans to go out to labor service to open the road. Li Tong's army quickly moved south along the road opened by Lejin and Xu Huang and moved closer to Jiangling.
There were only Ma Liang in Jingzhou's aristocratic clans, and Xiang Lang and others were completely interested in Liu Bei. Now they saw Xiahou Dun force them to pay the food, and they were all angry.
Didn’t it just kill a few of them and rob their food by fire? As for the ugly things on the surface, it’s just for us?
The land in Jingzhou is already barren, so what if we just grab some? Why doesn’t the Central Plains dynasty even have this kind of demeanor? Isn’t this obviously going to rebel?
Ma Liang, who had a lot of bleeding, was very calm and did not show much anger.
Hold it, hold it, don't be polite to me.
It won’t take long to eat mine and I let you spit it out.
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Li Tong's journey to the south was originally very smooth.
Now Dangyang has been opened and the flow of military information is also very smooth.
Le Jin and Xu Huang's military newspapers may be fake, but if he puts Cao Pi, Cao Ren and Le Jin and Xu Huang's military newspapers together, he can still infer the trends on the battlefield.
At present, the Wu army under Zhou Yu has already risen, and it is already very difficult to attack Jiangling, and there is no time to divide the troops to intercept Li Tong.
Xu Huang encountered Zhang Fei in Dangyang. The two sides had a big battle. Cai Mao took the opportunity to break out. Zhang Fei was forced to retreat and he would definitely not be able to continue to intercept him.
Guan Yu and Le Jin fought fiercely. The Cao army led by Sima Fu also attacked from Jiangxia and burned many Guan Yu's warships. I heard that even Guan Ping was injured. Guan Yu's army relied on the supply of warships. Otherwise, how could their ten thousand people last for more than five months?
That is to say...
Li Tong was surprised to find that now was a god-given opportunity to make meritorious contributions.
Le Jin and Xu Huang fought fiercely with Liu Bei's two generals, and they both stopped a step away from Jiangling. Through simple addition and subtraction calculations, Li Tong immediately realized that a good opportunity to become famous was waving to him.
Just move forward, just move forward desperately!
As long as I kill to Jiangling City, my Li Tong's name will shock everyone!
"Everyone, be quick and quick, be sure to hurry to Jiangling!"
The soldiers under Li Tong cheered loudly, and they also felt that the big thing was approaching.
Two days later, they gradually met Le Jin's defeated army.
According to the soldiers' instructions, Le Jin and Guan Yu fought several fierce battles, and there were many casualties on both sides. Le Jin fought his life to repel Guan Yu, but he was also injured and forced to start resting.
After walking for another day, they met the soldiers who fled under Xu Huang's command.
They told Li Tong that Le Jin and Xu Huang had been angry with Zhang Fei. They now joined forces and chased towards the mountains west of Dangyang, trying to kill Zhang Fei first.
Li Tong was ecstatic, and thought that Le Jin and Xu Huang were both old generals, but they didn't know the reason why the last arrow could not penetrate Lu silk.
Just beat Zhang Fei away, but he even joined forces 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 Jiangling had only last day's journey, Le Jin and Xu Huang went to chase Zhang Fei again. Li Tong simply left only 500 people to guard the baggage. The remaining soldiers had a full meal, and brought dry food for the day and ran towards Jiangling with all their strength.
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Li Tong, who had not encountered any enemy troops along the way, was finally intercepted where he could reach Jiangling in one day.
A large area of dense deer fortresses suddenly appeared on the narrow road.
These deer forts unfolded along the grasslands and woods in the mountains. Many of the bases were buried in the soil and exposed only half of the ground. Li Tong directed his soldiers to come over to clear the deer fort, but as soon as the soldiers approached, their feet suddenly became empty and fell into the pit with a scream.
The deep pit was buried with sharp wooden thorns, and the soldiers who fell first were pierced on the spot. They were immortal for a moment, and their heart-wrenching screams of despair immediately resounded in the forest, making the generals under Li Tong change their qualities!
"This, who is this trick!"
So shameless!
When Li Tong was suppressing the thieves in the mountains, those thieves could not defeat them, so they used this method of digging pits. They had never seen such insidious means when fighting against a slightly more formal enemy like Zhang Xiu.
Li Tong looked around and saw weeds everywhere on the roadside around him. He knew how many traps were still ambushing, and he couldn't help but feel very angry.
That was the last tremor.
Who is this? I clearly don’t want me to make contributions to Li Tong!
In a rage, Li Tong came forward in person and directed his soldiers to demolish Luzhai one by one.
But there are many Luzhai along the way, and most of them have been fixed. The more anxious and irritable the people are, the more people are. From time to time, some people fall into traps and fall into blood and blood.
"Damn it!"
Li Tong cursed:
"Where did the thief come from? He used such despicable and dirty methods! I know you are in the forest and come out quickly, otherwise I will set fire!"
Li Tong is also a self-taught and talented military strategist. He quickly guessed that there must be enemies lurking along the way in the mountains. The best way is to set fire to force them out.
But if you set fire...
The grass and trees here are so dense that the fire cannot be controlled. Maybe it will take several days to burn them, which will delay their journey!
So he could only speak out to intimidate, hoping to scare the thieves hiding in the mountains as soon as possible.
Li Tong's subordinates also cursed while cleaning up Luzhai, and even raised the torch in their hands and asked people to get out quickly.
They have been cursing at dusk since morning and noon, but no one has appeared.
The good news is that the cleaning site of Luzhai is almost the same, and the bad news is that the dry food they carry with them is almost the same.
In desperation, Li Tong could only ask someone to go back and report the news, and let the more than 500 people guarding the baggage behind him quickly support him.
That night, the soldiers under Li Tong were afraid of encountering their direct descendants, so they barely roasted dry food with fire and went to the stream next to them to get water.
But this generation of wild animals was very enthusiastic. The soldiers of Li Tongjun who went to fetch water first encountered poisonous snakes and followed by a large number of mosquitoes, which made everyone complain. The next morning, Li Tong ordered them to remove Luzhai quickly and try to open the road to Jiangling as soon as possible.
"You guys cheer up, secondly, it's not far from Jiangling!"
Li Tong has been calling this from last night until now, and he even felt a bad premonition in his heart.
Could it be that I will only be a few steps away from Jiangling City, right?
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Until the evening, the soldiers who Li Tong went to pick up did not come back.
The military rations of Li Tong's army had already been eaten with him. Even though Li Tong was anxious to make contributions, he could only temporarily retreat to welcome the soldiers who were apprehended.
Logically speaking, when the soldiers escorted the baggage received the news, they should have already started rushing to travel now, and Li Tongyong would be able to meet with them soon.
However, Li Tong's soldiers ran wildly with torches on their feet all night. At dawn the next day, when they returned to their previous positions, they still did not see any trace of friendly troops.
"Where are people? Where have they all gone?"
Li Tong was so angry that his confidant soldiers quickly investigated around and saw large patches of blood and traces of dragging and dragging in the surrounding ground under the dim light of dawn.
They quickly searched around, but as soon as they entered the surrounding grass, their feet were empty and they fell into the pit in pain.
This time the pit was only knee-deep, but there were still a large number of wooden thorns in the pit. The soles of the soldiers who fell into the pit were pierced by the wooden thorns, and they kept rolling in pain. Li Tong quickly asked someone to take his soldiers away, and then he realized that he had been deeply trapped in the ambush of the enemy.
The enemy obviously made a lot of preparations against him.
At first they dug deep pits that can directly take human life, but later they dug shallow pits that will only cause painful trauma to the soldiers and make them lose their combat power.
This pit is even more unethical, and Li Tong has to be distracted to take care of the wounded. In this wilderness, they have no medicine or even food. They can only watch the seriously injured soldiers screaming and keep losing blood, and soon fainted from pain.
"Who is it? Come out!" Li Tong drew his sword in his hand, shouting loudly, and cursing those invisible enemies desperately.
He now regrets underestimating the enemy.
If you follow Le Jin and Xu Huang, move step by step...
Wouldn't you encounter such a terrifying scene?
Chapter completed!