Three Kingdoms Strong Army System

At this time, Li Dian had just emerged under Cao Cao's command, and his status was far inferior to that of Yu Jin, but because Li Dian happened to be appointed as the prefect of Chen Guo, he was used by Cao Cao.

After Li Dian got the order, he immediately rectified the army of Chen Guo, selected [-] elites, and went south to Runan County.

He started from Chen County where Chen Guozhi was located, went south along the west bank of Tangqu, and went straight to Xiang County on the border of Runan.

There were only [-] soldiers and horses under the entire Runan prefect, most of whom were transferred to the front line by Runan prefect Yuan Kang to resist Cao Cao.

There are not many soldiers and horses in Xiang County, only 1000 people.

Although the 1000 troops led by Li Dian were elite, it would take a certain amount of time to capture Xiang County, which was guarded by [-] men.

Li Dian knew that what Cao Cao lacked the most was time, and he couldn't delay it.

He then ordered the soldiers to carry ten days of grain and grass, and then bypassed Xiangxian County, and continued to go south, deep into the hinterland of Runan.

In the counties in the hinterland of Runan, the defenders have long been mobilized by the Runan prefect Yuan Kang. It is not bad if there are three to five hundred defenders in each county in the hinterland. Some counties have only 500 defenders.

Li Dian hurried all the way to Xiyang.

There are only 300 people in the Xiyang defenders, how can they resist.

Regardless of the difficulty of the urgent march, Li Dian ordered a forcible attack on the city when he arrived at Xiyang, and within half a day he broke through the north gate and took the city.

Xi Yang was directly behind Pingyu, and could directly threaten Ji Ling's rear.

After capturing Xiyang, Li Dian's army was at the end of its strength and could not fight any more. He could only order the army to rest for a day.

On the second day, Li Dian ordered his two horses, Sima, each to lead 800 people to march near the north and south of Xiyang.

In Pingyu City, Ji Ling was discussing with Yuan Kang, the prefect of Runan, how to retreat from the enemy, but soldiers outside the gate came in.

"Report, the defenders of Xiyang City are asking to see you!"

Ji Ling looked at Yuan Kang. He didn't know the deployment of troops in Runan, so he could only ask Yuan Kang.

Yuan Kang immediately ordered: "What about others?"

"Waiting outside the door!"

"Let him in!"

Soon, the soldiers brought one person in.

Yuan Kang saw that the man's armor was torn, his shawl was loose, his face was pale, and there were bloodstains on his body, so he secretly thought it was bad.

"You are the defender of Xiyang, what happened to Xiyang?"

The man wanted to kneel on the ground to salute, but unexpectedly he bent forward and fell to the ground.

He said in a hoarse voice: "Master Taishou, Xiyang has fallen!"

"What, Xiyang has fallen!" Ji Ling was shocked, but he knew that Xiyang was in the hinterland of Runan, his rear.

Such an important position has been lost.

"Who attacked Xi Yang?"

"Small, I don't know, just look at the flag, it says 'Cao' and 'Li'!"

"Thieves Cao are really treacherous. They openly confronted our army in the front, but secretly dispatched partial divisions to sneak attack our army's rear."

After Ji Ling asked a few more words, he ordered someone to take the Xiyang defender down to eat and rest.

"Prefect Yuan, the loss of Xiyang will be disadvantageous to our army, not to mention cutting off our army's contact with the rear, our army's supply road is also in danger!"

Yuan Kang thought for a while, but said, "General Ji, the situation is not that dangerous."

Puzzled, Ji Ling looked at Yuan Kang!
Yuan Kang said with a smile: "Pingyu is the governor of Runan County, and the hoarded grain, grass and ordnance are enough to support an army of [-] for three months."

This is the advantage of local combat, food and grass will not be consumed on the road!
Thinking about it carefully, Ji Ling also felt that Pingyu was not in danger for the time being, but it was not good to let an army of Cao Cao do things in the rear.

So Ji Ling decided to wait and see for a while before talking.

So Ji Ling continued to stick to the city. Although Cao Cao was anxious, there was nothing he could do.

Although in the previous two battles, only thousands of soldiers and horses were lost, and no bones were injured, but the forced attack on the city caused too much damage.

But it's not an option to waste time.

Cao Cao ordered his generals to call for battle outside Pingyu City every day, but Yuan Jun just didn't go out to fight.

However, after Li Dian sent troops to the north and south of Xiyang, he did not meet Yuan Jun's grain transportation team for five days, which made him realize that something was wrong.

Soon, he figured it out, Yuan Jun's front line was not short of food.

Cao Cao sent him south to Runan in order to cause trouble for Ji Ling and obtain fighter opportunities for the front line.

But if he couldn't intercept Yuan Jun's grain transport team, it would be of no use at all.

Finally, he was able to get the opportunity to lead the army alone, but he had no achievements, so Cao Cao would not reuse him in the future.

After much deliberation, Li Dian decided to take the risk.He called back the two Sima he had sent out.

Then he personally led two thousand troops to attack Gushi.

This Gushi County is located in the east of Xiyang, only forty miles away, and with a day's dry food and a small amount of ordnance, they can arrive in two hours.

Although Gushi County had known for a long time that the neighboring Xiyang had been captured by the enemy, the county magistrate had ordered the gates on all sides to be closed and mobilized the young and strong in the city to help defend the city.

Gushi County is the county seat. There were originally 200 defenders, but now 500 young men have been mobilized.

These young men have been collecting thunderstones, rolling logs and other defensive tools in and outside the city for the past few days, but unexpectedly the enemy army came.

Li Dian attacked Gushi County with 2000 men. Although the county had 500 young men to help, it was still captured by him before dark the next day.

Of the 200 defenders, more than 120 were killed, and 500% of the [-] young men were lost. The magistrate of Gushi County died in battle.

However, he also caused a lot of casualties to Li Dian. Of Li Dian's 2000 people, more than 200 died in battle and more than 400 were injured.

After Li Dian occupied Gushi County, he looted the treasury in the city, and the big households in the city who helped the Gushi County magistrate to guard the city were also ransacked and wiped out.

After staying in Gushi County for three days, Li Dian led his army back to Xiyang. He transported the food, grass, military equipment and property he had looted back to Xiyang.

Obviously, they want to use Xiyang as the base camp in Runan County.

In order to motivate the soldiers, he rewarded some of the property to the meritorious soldiers, and then he set his sights on the surrounding small cities.

Pingyu is only 60 miles away from Xiyang, and it can be reached in one day without carrying luggage.

Li Dian was worried that Ji Ling would send troops to attack him at any time, and every time he left the city to plunder, he would leave a thousand troops in the city.

In Pingyu City, news from the rear will always come. As the prefect of Runan, Yuan Kang is responsible for guarding the soil. He is very worried about what happened in the rear city.

He also didn't expect that things would happen like this, that Cao Jun's partiality was so bold.

He came to discuss with Ji Ling, and Ji Ling decided to send [-] troops, led by Han Xian, to destroy Li Dian.

Although Xiyang is small, Li Dian is by no means a mediocre person, and has been sticking to the city.

However, the Yuan family was deeply rooted in Runan, Li Dian insisted on guarding Xiyang for three days, but on the night of the fourth day, the big family in the city suddenly sent private soldiers to kill Ximen.

In the city, Li Dian's army defended the city for three days. They were very tired during the day, and only a small number of soldiers were left to defend the city at night.

Yuan Jun, who was outside the city, immediately entered through the west gate.

Li Dian wanted to recapture the west gate, but seeing that Yuan Jun had too many people, he could only give up the city and leave for the east gate.

Before leaving, a fire burned all the food, grass and weapons hoarded in the city.