Li Hui made a special trip to sneak into Nanzhong with an army as a vanguard, and also relied on his own connections to find out the news.

After Li Qi received Li Hui's letter, he couldn't wait to open it and read it. The more he read it, the more nervous he became, until a stone slowly fell to the ground.

It turned out that Li Hui received news from the Cuan clan in Yizhou County, saying that before Yong Kai launched an army to rebel, he had close contacts with Liu Chong, the prefect of Zangke County, and Liu Chong was also highly suspected of treason. Although Liu Chong has not yet deployed his troops.

However, if Li Qi's army penetrates deep into Yizhou County alone, and Liu Chong's troops march out of Pingyi into Qianwei, cutting off Li Qi's retreat route and cutting off Li Qi's food and grass, our army's situation will be in great danger.

However, because Cuan Xi was deposed by Liu Zhang, the Cuan family now loves Li Qi. As long as Li Qi can lure Yong Kai out of his hometown in Yizhou County, the Cuan family is willing to contribute to regain Yizhou County for Li Qi.

Now Li Qi's preliminary judgment is that Cao Cao wants to attack himself, but the north has not yet been completely pacified, with Ma Teng and Han Sui in the west, Liu Biao, Sun Quan and other powerful princes in the south, so he can only instruct Shi Xie to attack the southern part of Yizhou.

However, Shi Xie did not directly raise troops, but used his own methods to incite Yong Kai's rebellion in Yizhou County. Yong Kai colluded with Liu Chong in an attempt to have Li Qi buried in the wilderness of Nanzhong.

Li Qi gave Li Hui's letter to Fazheng. After reading it, Zhang Ren and others asked: "Do you have any plan to lure Yong Kai out of Yizhou County?"

Fa Zhengdao: "We just need to advance slowly."

Li Qi asked: "Why?"

Fa Zhengdao said: "If we advance too quickly, Yongkai will stick to Yizhou County and wait for work, allowing Liu Chong to outflank the retreat, and our army will inevitably fall into a passive position; but if our army stagnates, Liu Chong will be suspicious and dare not follow.

The delay in sending troops from Zoke County will be detrimental to our army. The best way for us now is to pretend that we are not acclimatized to the situation and move forward slowly, luring Liu Chong and Yong Kai to think that our army's combat effectiveness has declined and send troops at the same time."

Fa Zheng's plan is based on the premise that Liu Chong will indeed raise troops to respond to Yong Kai.

But if Liu Chong has no rebellious intentions, then there is nothing to worry about Yong Kai, and the slow march will only slightly delay the time to annihilate Yong Kai.

Li Qi followed Fa Zheng's words and traveled thirty or forty miles a day, slowly heading towards Yizhou County.

On the other hand, Li Qi sent Liao Hua to lead an army to secretly station at Tanlu Mountain.

Every day, Li Qi let a small group of soldiers escape from the military camp, but then quietly sneaked into Liao Hua's camp.

The information Yong Kai got here was that the Shu army went deep into Nanzhong and was not acclimated to the climate. Every day, soldiers could not bear the suffering and fled.

When Li Qi first left Chengdu, he had 30,000 elite soldiers. However, the current number of troops is less than 25,000, and the daily march is only 30 to 40 miles.

Yong Kai was overjoyed when he heard this, but he did not lead his troops out of the city as Li Qi Fazheng had predicted.

Li Qi asked for advice on Fa Zheng.

Fa Zheng said: "Don't worry, my lord, as long as Liu Chong sends troops to cut off our retreat, we will pretend to retreat, and Yong Kai will definitely come out."

Li Qi continued to move slowly according to his plan.

Since he traveled thirty to forty miles a day and spent most of the time resting in place, Li Qibian also had time to investigate the local folk customs.

He always contacted the local indigenous people in the name of asking for directions and buying medicine, and by the way, he promoted the new atmosphere of Yizhou after the change of ownership.

Li Qi learned that after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty opened the Southwest Yi, he set up counties and counties in Nanzhong, hoping to strengthen the management of the people in Nanzhong. However, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was not reassured by letting them manage themselves, so he sent them to Nazhong.

Massive immigration and military.

The army was stationed here in the form of military camps, conveyed Confucian cultural ideas to the local area, and opened schools to spread Confucian culture.

Moreover, because the Han Dynasty's imperial examination system and conscription system actually had great drawbacks, power was gradually controlled by a few powerful gentry families.

So far, the most prominent ones are the four families of Meng, Cuan, Dong and Li.

Li Qi, the representative of the Meng family, guessed that he was Meng Huo who had not yet grown up; Cuan Xi of the Cuan family was once the magistrate of Jianling County and was disposed of during the Liu Zhang period; Dong He, the representative of the Dong family, and Li Hui, the representative of the Li family, were both officials in Yizhou.

Li Qixun wondered whether he should find Meng Huo first and take this boy to Chengdu to avoid future troubles?

If Cuan Xi can make a contribution in the Yongkai Rebellion, he can be promoted to an official position and taken to Chengdu.

As for the Nanzhong area, according to historical records, after the establishment of Jianning County in the third year of Jianxing, Li Hui has been serving as the prefect. Li Hui is quite reliable. He needs food and people, and he is known as Li Hui.

Since the family is based in Yizhou County, it should not be difficult to deal with the other three families.

After thinking about it, Li Qi received another letter from Liao Hua at the rear, saying that there were enemy movements more than a hundred miles away from Tanlu Mountain, and he suspected that they were Liu Chong from Zangke County.

Li Qi sighed: "Finally out of the cave!"

According to Fa Zheng's plan, he retreated from Chao Tanlu Mountain.

Sure enough, Yong Kai got the news and personally led his troops to chase him, hoping to attack Li Qi from front to back with Liu Chong and wipe out Li Qi in the wild land of southern China.

Fa Zhengdao: "When we came, I had already observed the place where Yong Kai was ambushed. Now we just need to retreat to the valley and set up more archers in the dense woods to lure Yong Kai here."

Li Qidao: "Just what I want."

Anyway, when you have no idea, just say "it suits my idea".

Let others feel that you think the same way.

When Li Qi withdrew his troops, he also specially used the method of reducing the number of soldiers, making Yong Kai mistakenly believe that there were many deserters every day.

The specific method is to steam some more buns while making rice in the pot, and let some soldiers eat the buns in turn.

When Yong Kai was chasing the Shu army, he saw only traces of pot burials for less than 20,000 people. He became more and more excited and ordered Meng Jie to speed up the pursuit as the vanguard.

Meng Jie accepted the order and pursued the Shu army to the canyon. When he found the birds in the forest were frightened, he reined in his horse and stopped moving forward.

He asked the messenger to report to Yong Kai that there was a suspected Shu army ambushing ahead.

Yong Kai led his army to catch up and ordered Meng Jie to say: "As a vanguard, you should clear the obstacles in front and open the way for the army."

The implication is, if you don't go, why don't you wait for me to go?

Meng Jie had no choice but to order the soldiers holding daggers and shields to clear the way in front, and walked cautiously deep into the dense forest.

Seeing that the enemy was well prepared, Li Qi simply ordered Lei Tong to lead his army out of the dense forest, pretending to be defeated first, and then seeing whether Yong Kai would pursue him or not.

Lei Tong went out to confront Meng Jie and shouted: "Yong Kai conspired to rebel. Why do you agree with him?"

Meng Jie didn't answer, clapped his horse and stepped forward to fight with Lei Tong.

The battle was not a close one, Lei Tong was defeated and ordered his soldiers to retreat.

Yong Kai smiled and said: "Is this the so-called ambush? I don't know how Liu Jiyu was defeated."

Yong Kai ordered Meng Jie's vanguard to catch up. Meng Jie was still doubtful, but since Yong Kai gave the order, he had to obey, and Lei Tong's combat power was indeed mediocre. If he didn't take the opportunity to catch up now,

I'm afraid I've missed the opportunity.

Meng Jie led the charge, while Yong Kai watched from behind.

After Meng Jie's team rushed into the dense forest, they were suddenly attacked by thousands of arrows from all sides, and the soldiers were shot into hedgehogs one by one.

Lei Tongfu led his troops back to fight, but Meng Jie was defeated and was surrounded and captured by several soldiers.

When Yong Kai saw this, he originally wanted to rush over to rescue Meng Jie, but there was a sound of cannons on both sides. Gan Ning on the left and Zhang Ren on the right all rushed out, and Yong Kai's army was in chaos.

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