Three days later, more than 50,000 Xiliang troops withdrew from Chen Liucheng and returned to the army.

Last night, a banquet was held in the county guard's mansion, and a group of Xiliang generals drank heartily and held a grand weak crown ceremony for Li Li.

Prior to this, Li Li appointed Dian Wei as the captain of the pro-soldier team, and allowed him to select 500 tiger-worthy soldiers from the 5,000 infantry of the Longxiang battalion to reorganize the pro-soldier guard.

Bo Cai was appointed as the commander of the infantry of the Longxiang Battalion, Li Xian was appointed as the commander of the law enforcement team, and Li Fu and Li Zheng took over the iron cavalry of the 3,000 Longxiang Battalion, respectively on the left and right.

During his more than a month in Chen Liucheng, Li Li did not expand his private army, but eliminated hundreds of old and weak soldiers, incorporated them into miscellaneous service, and re-recruited a group of strong Yanzhou young men to enrich the army.

At this point, he still had 3,000 iron cavalry and 5,000 foot soldiers under his command, and the number of soldiers had not decreased or increased, but the combat effectiveness had improved a lot.

The next day, the Xiliang army retreated to Sili.

The 50,000 troops who went out to conquer Chen Liu's army were far more than this at this time.

The generals at all levels in the army, during the period of garrison Chenliu, successively incorporated the defenders of various counties in Chenliu County, and forcibly recruited many private soldiers.

Therefore, at present, Li Dao's army has 60,000 troops, which not only replenishes the soldiers lost in the siege battle, but also increases the number of troops by more than 10,000.

It is true that the Xiliang generals are brave and good at fighting, but the ability to compete for merit and profit and expand the trilogy privately is also a must.

When encountering such a good thing, they have never been willing to be left behind, and they are bold and reckless.

It's just that Dong Zhuo, the commander of the Xiliang Army, has always turned a blind eye to this, ignored it, and acquiesced in the actions of his subordinate generals. Therefore, the generals of Xiliang have long been accustomed to this, and they didn't pay attention to the matter of expanding the tribe privately.

Although Li Li is the supervisor of the army, when he encounters this kind of matter involving the vital interests of the generals of the entire Xiliang Army, he can only turn a deaf ear and avoid it, and he has no idea about it.

The speed at which the army retreated from the division was very fast, it would take five days to come, and only three days to go back was enough.

On the afternoon of the fourth day, the army arrived in Zhongmu County, and the whole army temporarily camped here that night, and continued to rush the next day until it withdrew to Tongguan and entered Chang'an.

As for where the generals will be sent to garrison the troops in the future, they will only know after meeting Dong Zhuo and receiving the order.

Returning to the Zhongmu County Government again, Li Li was still camped in the Beicheng Tun Army, this time he did not return to the backyard of the county government where he originally lived, but stayed in the military camp overnight and stayed with the soldiers.

Late at night. (i.e. from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m.) ）

Accompanied by Dian Wei, Li Li led a team of 100 pro-soldiers, dressed in black, and quietly came to the courtyard of Chen's mansion in the south of the city.

In an instant, Dian Wei led fifty personal soldiers over the wall into the courtyard of the Chen Mansion, while Li Li ordered the remaining personal soldiers to guard the front and rear gates, and not allow a single domestic servant and subordinate to be let go.

This is the place that Li Li had already explored when he left Zhongmu County last time. This time I returned to Chang'an, and this matter must not be delayed any longer; Otherwise, I am afraid that there will be no such haode opportunity in the future.

This time when he came to the Chen Mansion late at night, Li Li neither robbed money, nor coveted the beauty of the Chen family's little sister, but wanted to hijack the Chen family's relatives and go to Chang'an with the army.

However, Chen Yu, the younger sister of the Chen family in the Chen Mansion, is a pretty woman who is famous in Zhongmu, and Li Li has also heard of it earlier, but he has never met him.

The Chen family is the family of the gentry, that is, the gateway of the scholars who most of the ancestors entered the court as officials and had solid family resources, and their ancestors lived in Yanzhou East County.

Chen Yu is the youngest daughter of the Chen family, and it is said that she also has a half-brother who is more than a decade older than her, and once served in Zhongmu County. It is precisely because of this that the Chen family moved here.

It's just that last year, Chen Yu's brother was wanted by the imperial court for offending Xiangguo Dong Zhuo, and he has been on the run since then, and his whereabouts are still unknown.

After the Chen family and brother fled, there were orphans and widows left in the Chen Mansion, and Chen Yu, who was old enough to take care of the family's affairs.

This woman is at the age of twenty-eight, with good looks, a slender figure, a strong personality, integrity, and excellent reviews.

Nicknamed "Jade Lady" by a group of idle scoundrels in the city, she always likes to hang out in front of Chen's Mansion when she has nothing to do, hoping to look at Chen Yu twice.

After Li Li heard the name of the pretty lady of the Chen family earlier, he was curious for a while, so he asked the maidservant about the Chen Mansion.

Unexpectedly, he heard the name of Chen Yu's eldest brother, and from then on, he was thinking about picking up all the children of the Chen family.

It's not that Li Li has ill intentions and wants to achieve ulterior motives, but that Chen Yuyan is famous, and there are often idle people who peep secretly on weekdays, and maybe one day he will encounter an accident.

And he happened to be passing by on the march, and with a show of his hands, he could take all the old and young of the Chen family away by the way. In this way, the tragedy that Chen Yu and the Chen family may encounter will disappear invisibly.

Moreover, the eldest brother of the Chen family is not an unknown person, and he will also be the number one famous figure in the future.

Li Li, in line with the idea of being convenient with others and himself, started early, leaving a little good fate, and meeting the Chen family brothers in the future.

Although the Chen family is the home of the gentry, it is after all the home of the Qin criminals wanted by the imperial court.

The family situation is declining day by day, and it is withering day by day, there are not many nurses and servants in the house, and there are only a few maidservants; Perhaps it won't be long before the Chen family will be unsustainable, and it will become a commoner's home.

Therefore, half an hour later, more than ten members of the Chen family's family were all tied up and brought out by Dian Wei, and even their mouths were sealed with linen.

Seeing that Dian Wei had done everything cleanly, Li Li didn't say much, and after nodding to Dian Wei, he pulled the Chen family in a carriage and quickly returned to the barracks.

Late at night, it's early summer, but it's still a little cold late at night on the border of Sili.

After settling the Chen family a little, Li Li returned to the big tent and stood in front of the rough map, staring motionlessly at the dense small black dots on the silk brocade.

Don't underestimate these black dots, a black dot represents a county, that is, a large territory; Whoever can have such a small black dot can become a prince all the way.

Since Chen Liu's alliance, it is impossible for the princes of the world to reunite and crusade against Dong Zhuo and the Xiliang army under his command again.

Therefore, at present, the Xiliang army is really powerful, and the princes of the world dare not touch its edge, and wherever the army goes, the princes of all sizes have avoided fighting and fled in all directions.

However, Li Li, who knows history, knows that all this is a short-lived prosperity.

Once Dong Zhuo died, the powerful Xiliang Legion would collapse in an instant, with constant infighting, and the generals would attack each other, and eventually all of them would be destroyed.

The once powerful Xiliang Iron Cavalry no longer exists, and in its place, the originally relatively weak marginal forces, such as Ma Teng, Han Sui and others, have taken advantage of the situation to rise and become princes who can stand side by side with Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, Liu Bei and other heroes in the world and compete in the world.

Although Ma Teng, Han Sui and others were eliminated and annexed by Cao Wei in the end, they lived longer and better than Li Dao, Guo Yan and others, and once controlled the trend of the world.

Li Li didn't want to become a short-lived branch in the Xiliang Army, and he didn't want to be beheaded by Cao Wei's general Xu Chu before he was twenty years old.

He didn't want to be a green leaf under a dazzling epiphany, but wanted to be a big tree, a towering tree rooted in the Xiliang Desert and standing tall after being weathered by wind and sand, and even finally shrouded the entire Han world in his shade.

In order to realize this wish, it is very important to return to Chang'an to return to Dong Zhuo and the reward he receives, which directly determines whether Li Li can use the majesty of Dong Zhuo and the Xiliang Army at the moment to quickly lay a foundation and achieve twice the result with half the effort.

If he returns to Chang'an this time, he does not get the opportunity to be released, or he is released, but he does not break away from the subordinates of other generals, and there is no territory that can be used as a foundation; Then his ambition will be postponed indefinitely, and even eventually annihilated in infighting.

"Miss Chen, you can't go in, the general is already asleep!"

Just as Li Li was looking at the map and pondering, the voice of his own soldiers came from outside the big tent.

Immediately, Dian Wei walked in softly, "Lord, Chen Yu is here, clamoring to see you." ”

"Let her in. If the evil comes, you should also go and rest, and you don't have to stay outside the big tent, for tonight's business is done. Don't shirk, you have to march tomorrow, go to sleep! ”

Li Li's figure did not move, and his tone of voice was very resolute and unquestionable.

"This ······ No, the subordinates obeyed. Dian Wei hesitated slightly, and then bowed down to receive the order.