Li Tong's name in the Three Kingdoms is not well-known, and many people are not familiar with him. But Sun Ce knew that this person was a ruthless character, and his only regret was that he died too early, and he died of illness in the fourteenth year of Jian'an, at the age of forty-two. And his last mission before his death was to defeat Guan Yu, who wanted to copy Cao Ren's back path, and rescue Cao Ren. If it weren't for this, when Jiangxia and Nanjun became the front line of the battlefield, his deeds would not be weaker than Wenpin.

In the history books, Li Tong is in the same volume as Wen Ping, Xu Chu and others, most of them are not famous, Xu Yu is famous because of the romance, which is an exception, but in fact these people are extremely heavy generals, otherwise the historian would not list them after the five good generals. Li Tong's merit lies in stabilizing the rear, when Cao Cao and Yuan Shao confronted Guandu, Li Tong firmly controlled Runan and ensured the safety of Cao Cao's rear, and the person who was in his hand at that time was Zhao Yan.

Li Tong is a native of Pingchun, Jiangxia, but geographically speaking, Pingchun is in the north of Sanguan and connects with Runan. This is a special zoning principle set by the imperial court, not allowing any county to monopolize the geographical demarcation ridge, so as not to allow anyone to rely on geographical advantages to divide one side. There is a corner of Nanyang County that stretches into the hinterland of Jiangxia, which is also based on this principle.

Li Tong started in Langling, and he and Chen Gong, a county man, raised troops together. There was also a Zhou Zhi who raised troops at the same time as them, Li Tong wanted to kill Zhou Zhi and annex his subordinates, Chen Gong disagreed, so Li Tong did it himself, invited Zhou Zhi to drink, and then killed Zhou Zhi. Zhou Zhi's subordinates were in chaos and wanted to counterattack, but Chen Gong had no choice but to send troops with Li Tong to subdue Zhou Zhi's subordinates. Later, Chen Gong's brother-in-law Chen He rebelled, killed Chen Gong, and wanted to take over his subordinates, Li Tong sent troops to kill Chen He, and used Chen He's head to sacrifice Chen Gong.

At this point, Li Tong became the strongest armed force in the Langling area, with five or six thousand households, and the entire Langling, Pingchun and other counties were within the control of his influence. Fourteen cities in Jiangxia County, more than 50,000 households, about one-tenth of the power controlled by Li Tong, Liu Xun wanted to occupy Jiangxia and Nanjun to confront Sun Ce, so he naturally wanted to win over Li Tong, so he appointed Li Tong as the governor of Anyang.

Li Tong was originally a private armed man like Wu Ba and others, but now with the official appointment of Jiangxia Taishou, he has become an officer and soldier, and he wants to attack Wu Ba and others to expand his strength. Wu Ba and the others originally belonged to the Yellow Turban, and their strength was not small, Li Tong did not dare to provoke lightly, but after Liu Pi and Gong were successively recruited by Sun Ce's father and son, the strength of the remaining troops in the mountains was greatly reduced.

After listening to Wu Ba's complaint, Sun Ce was not worried. Li Tong has a strong sense of merit, and he has chosen the time of several annexations very well, such a person will not be a reckless man, he knows who to choose. In history, he did not choose Yuan Shao, and now he may not choose Yuan Shao, at least not Liu Xun.

Sun Ce said to Wu Ba, this matter is handed over to me, you and the others contact each other, and let them all rush to Langling.

Wu Ba was suspicious, and agreed on his lips, but his enthusiasm was not enough. Sun Ce was not in a hurry, he knew that Wu Ba would wait and see, this was human nature. When he subdued Li Tong, they could give up. It would be better if Jiang Gan could say that Li Tong would come down.

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Jiang Gan drove a light car and entered Pingchun City.

Not long after Sun Ce led his troops out of Pingyu City, Li Tong received the news and immediately abandoned Langling and contracted to Pingchun. Pingchun is in the south of Huaishui, backed by Dongshan, one of the remaining veins of Tongbai Mountain, easy to defend and difficult to attack, he is Pingchun people, very clear about the terrain. In the face of Zhou Zhi, Chen He and others, he was fearless, dared to fight and rushed, and in the face of Wu Ba and others, he also had enough confidence to take the initiative. But in the face of Sun Ce, he did not have such confidence.

He had already heard the news that Sun Ce had broken Xu Rong in the area of Qicheng and annihilated 20,000 Xiliang soldiers. Of course, he also heard about Sun Ce's killing of Haoqiang in Nanyang and taking away his family property. He is also a strong man, and he doesn't want to give up the land in his hands, otherwise he would have voted for Sun Ce a long time ago.

Knowing that Jiang Gan was coming, Li Tong was very happy and immediately sent someone to welcome Jiang Gan in. Jiang Gan can also be regarded as a celebrity between Jianghuai, and he took the initiative to visit, which made Li Tong feel that his face was bright. Not only did they meet in the main hall, but they also invited many subordinates, and the ceremony was very grand.

The two sides saluted, Li Tong introduced his subordinates one by one, and then asked very politely: "I don't know if Ziyi is here, do you have any advice?" ”

Jiang Gan smiled and looked around. "To save your lives."

Li Tong is not surprised. He knew that Jiang Gan was coming from the direction of Langling, and it was likely that he was a lobbyist for Sun Ce. Sun Ce and the Yellow Turban have an unusual relationship, and he should have come here at the invitation of Wu Ba and others. "Where do you start?"

"I heard that there are five or six thousand of them now?"

Li Tong stroked the short beard under his chin and smiled proudly. "Dare to teach Ziyi that I have just accepted the appointment of the county general, and I am already the governor of Yang'an. Pingchun and Huangxian are all under my jurisdiction. ”

"Oh, yes, how many people are there?" Jiang Gan pretended to be surprised.

"The two counties combined, there are more than 13,000 households and nearly 60,000 people."

Jiang Gan arched his hand. "Congratulations to Lieutenant, these two counties together have more household registrations than Langling, and there are almost six percent of Pingyu."

Li Tong was immediately embarrassed. Jiang Gan seems to praise him, but in fact, he hurts him. What is more than 10,000 households, Sun Ce controls the entire Yuzhou, and there are 20,000 households in Runan County alone. Langling also has a large population, and he has been active near Langling for so long, but he has not been able to control Langling. As soon as Sun Ce came, he directly withdrew from Langling County.

Jiang Gan looked around and took in the expressions of Li Tong and the others. "You know that Liu Zitai is General Yuan's former official, right?"

Li Tong was silent.

"Liu Zitai can be Jiangxia Taishou, it is on the order of General Yuan, and now that General Yuan has died on the battlefield, Liu Zitai neither goes to the funeral nor sends the funeral, but supports the army to fight against the heir designated by General Yuan. Such a person is also worthy of your support? If he was the Taishou of Jiujiang, I would feel very ashamed. ”

Li Tong coughed: "What Ziyi said is inappropriate, General Yuan is wrong, how can Sun Ce be his heir." If you want to inherit, it should also be inherited by Yuan Boyang, the son of General Yuan......"

Before Li could speak, Jiang Gan interrupted him. "Have you seen Yingchuan Xinbi Xinjio recently?"

Li Tong opened his mouth, looking at him left and right, not daring to look at Jiang Gan. Jiang Gan sneered: "So I've seen it." Then let me ask again, has Du Wei ever met Huang Zimei, the son-in-law of General Yuan? ”

Without waiting for Li Tong to answer, Jiang Gan said loudly: "Xin George escorted Yuan Boyang back to his hometown and guarded the tomb of General Yuan. Huang Zimei, as the son-in-law of General Yuan, is in collusion with Liu Zitai, which is unfilial. They stirred up right and wrong, and trapped the two counties of Runan and Jiangxia in fire and water, which was unkind. They misled the captains and struck stones with eggs, for they were unjust. Disloyalty, unfilial piety, unkindness and injustice, Du Wei is in the company of such a person, is he not afraid of dying and exterminating the clan, leaving a stench for 10,000 years? ”

"Who says we're going to lose?" An old Confucian stood up and retorted: "No matter how strong Sun Ce's father and son are, can they still confront Yuan Benchu?" ”

"Who are you?"

The old Confucian snorted and announced a name aloud. Jiang Gan thought about it and shook his head. "I haven't heard of it."

The old man turned pale with anger and glared at Jiang Gan angrily. Jiang Gan smiled slightly. "A few days ago, thousands of people from Runan gathered in Pingyu to seek justice for Xu Zijiang, I'm afraid you are not qualified to participate, right? If it weren't for that, how could you still be ashamed to speak out and confuse the public here. Why, do you think you are more clever than Xu Zijiang? ”