After Li Wei saw Li Li nodding firmly, his heart was inexplicably relaxed, and at the same time, he also felt a little regretful.

There is no father who does not love his son. The same goes for Li Dao.

Li Li is very good, he is very intelligent, calm and far-sighted at a young age.

However, he is not his own son after all.

Li Wei often said that his wife Yang loved his son Li Shi, but in fact, this was not a pretext, but in fact, he himself doted on his own son Li Shi even more.

Recently, Li Li has become more and more calm and sophisticated, and his wisdom is outstanding, and he even secretly expands his troops and horses.

These can't be hidden from Li Dao's ears and eyes, but he just pretends not to know.

Because of this, Li Dao was tormented and hesitant to make up his mind late every night.

On the one hand, there are young biological sons, and on the other hand, nephews who are getting better and better, all of them are their relatives and juniors, but there is only one Li family, and the head of the family can only be one of them.

In hesitation, Li Wei knew that this matter had to be decided early; Otherwise, once you return to Chang'an, with the Yang family involved, you may intensify the contradiction and turn against each other.

So, taking advantage of Li Li's further recognition by the generals, Li Dao planned a trial of Zuihou, the purpose of which was to see how Li Li decided.

If he is willing to set up his own door, then I will help him rebuild his home as much as possible; If he covets the position of the head of the Li family, that is, the property of the Li family, then the relationship between uncle and nephew will end here. The help he can give him is limited to the position of an iron cavalry of the 3,000 Dragon Battalion and a partial military captain. In addition, he will not provide any more help, lest he be greedy enough to covet more things that do not belong to him.

Fortunately, Li Li's final decision was wise and decisive.

The decisiveness is somewhat beyond Li Wei's expectations, and it can almost be regarded as leaving the house and leaving for itself.

At least in Li Wei's opinion, the three thousand dragon camp and Li Fu's father and son are really nothing, you know, in the Li Mansion in Chang'an City, there are still three thousand trilogies and more than a thousand strong domestic servants, these people are all elite soldiers who have taken off their military status and are willing to enter the Li family as servants.

In addition, the Li family has amassed a lot of money over the years, although they dare not say that they are rich enough to rival the country, but it is enough to supply 10,000 soldiers and horses for ten years.

However, Li Li voluntarily gave up all this, and the Li family's room was separated from the second room represented by Li Dao and divided into two.

Since then, Li Dao has represented a branch of the Li family, while Li Li and Li Xian brothers have been reduced to a side branch and want to break away from the Li family and set up their own doors.

This is the cruel fate of the children of the family, although the Li family is far from being comparable to those century-old families, but it is also a newly rising upstart. There are also three, six, nine and other differences between the children of the family, and they will not easily give up the orthodox status of the family to their nephews and relatives.

The Eastern Han Dynasty was the dynasty in which the Chinese family shili rose, and thus determined the change of dynasties for hundreds of years thereafter, and it was also a typical example of the family-style development that the dignitaries and nobles scrambled to emulate in the history of the millennium.

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The next day, the siege of Chenliu continued.

After the defeat in the initial battle, the Xiliang army changed its siege strategy and adopted the catapult proposed by Li Li to attack the city from a distance, instead of sending a large number of foot soldiers to forcibly attack the city.

At present, the range of the catapult is limited, and the attack power is far less strong than that of the thunderbolt in the Cao Wei period, and it can only throw more than 100 steps.

When attacking, a large number of giant shield soldiers are required to cover the slingers so that they are not shot by the crossbowmen on the city.

After changing the siege tactics, the 50,000 Xiliang army had sufficient troops, and a large number of soldiers could be dispatched to vigorously cut down trees, and a large number of ladders and simple giant wooden vehicles were made to rush the city.

The city chariot, although also called a "car", was actually pulled by a war horse and had no decent wheels; Only two logs served as the wheel rim of the chariot, and on the cart was a pointed log several zhang long and the thickness of a wooden barrel, which was pulled by the horses and struck the city gate.

These siege ordnance are very cumbersome and simple, they are not troublesome to make, there is not much jishu content, they are easy to learn, and ordinary soldiers can make them after reading it.

For three days in a row, the Xiliang soldiers used simple catapults to attack the city every day, throwing stones, oil cans, and thistles to the city, and when they were finished, they collected their troops and returned to the camp.

Crisp and neat, come and go freely, so angry that Zhang Miao gritted his teeth.

It didn't matter if the Xiliang soldiers threw it around, but it made the defenders at the head of the city busy and miserable.

In the past three days, the casualties of the Xiliang soldiers themselves were not large, but they were not small in the lethality of Chen Liucheng's defenders.

At least 3,000 Chen Liu's soldiers were injured, all of them were injured by flying stones or tribulus terrestris, and more than 1,000 of them were seriously injured and died.

In the four-day battle with the Xiliang soldiers, nearly 5,000 soldiers defending the city were lost, resulting in the loss of nearly half of the soldiers and horses in Zhang Miao's hands, and the losses were heavy.

In addition, morale is low, and there is a tendency to slump.

In addition, the arrow battlements and walls on the head of the city are badly damaged, and the city tower is in a mess, full of ruins after the fire, and there are gravel and thistles everywhere, and it is very difficult to pass normally, and if you are not careful, you will be hurt by the fragments of rubble.

At first glance, the siege method proposed by Li Li seems to have little effect, but it is extremely destructive. Although it did not break through the city, its lethality was amazing.

Most of Chen Liubing's soldiers were only injured and lost their combat effectiveness, but they did not die immediately. As a result, thousands of wounded soldiers needed to be taken care of by Zhang Miao, and the troops became more and more stretched, and the pressure on defending the city increased several times.

At the same time, Li Li has been busy and dizzy in the past three days, non-stop.

As the supervisor of the 50,000-strong army, especially in the Xiliang Army, which has extremely poor military discipline, the position of supervising the army is not an easy errand.

First of all, we must set up a crack and upright law enforcement team of more than 100 people to inspect the military discipline of each battalion and arrest lawbreakers.

Second, it is necessary to sort out practical and feasible military discipline regulations, report them to the officers and men of the whole army, and strictly enforce military discipline and regulations.

Zuihou means to enforce the law strictly, treat everyone equally, be fair and strict, not afraid of offending people, and not favoritism.

In particular, zuihou is the most important. If he can't be fair and strict, and the law must be strictly enforced, then Li Li would rather not be this vain war.

Military discipline is not only to restrain officers and men from violating military rules and not to act evil at will, but also to establish prestige and prestige in the hearts of all officers and men of the army.

This is what Li Li values most. Otherwise, why would he take on this thankless and offending errand.

The formation of a law enforcement team was very simple, Li Li directly selected 20 brave and fierce men from the soldiers and horses under the accounts of the generals, and then selected 20 chiefs from his own soldiers, with Bo Cai as the captain, and a law enforcement team of 200 people was formed.

It is not difficult to sort out the military regulations, the Xiliang Army originally had written military regulations, but they have been floating on the surface and have not been implemented.

After Li Li took over the rectification of military discipline, he did not change the original military regulations, but directly reiterated the precepts again, informed the officers and men of the whole army that they were aware of them, and immediately ordered the law enforcement team to inspect the battalions day and night without interruption and severely punish the officers and men who violated the military regulations.

In the past three days, more than 100 women who went out of the camp without permission and soldiers who robbed the people of their money were ordered by Li Li to be beheaded in public at the gate of the camp, and their heads were hung on both sides of the gate of the village for three days.

Under the bright sun, the blood-stained and dried heads were dangling in front of tens of thousands of soldiers every day, and they could be seen when they looked up when they entered and exited the camp gate.

For a time, the murderous name of the prison army Li Li was deeply imprinted in the hearts of all the soldiers. In the middle of the night, many soldiers still had hundreds of dried and rotten human heads in their minds, waking up in the middle of the night, drenched in cold sweat.

Subsequently, Li Li had the name of "Cold Yama".

Don't look at this name and sound majestic, but in fact, it is a catharsis of the dissatisfaction of the officers and men of the whole army with his murderous and ruthless massacre of his colleagues behind their backs, and it can also be said to be a kind of resentment hidden in their hearts.

No matter how much the soldiers resented Li Li in their hearts and were dissatisfied with his brutal methods.

However, under Li Li's spicy hand, the effect of rectifying military discipline was indeed immediate, and the results were rapid.

In three days, the military discipline of the 50,000-strong army suddenly changed greatly, and the tens of thousands of Xiliang soldiers, who were originally arrogant and domineering, suddenly became forbidden by order, and their unruly posture disappeared without a trace, but there was a bit of the military appearance of an elite division.