Within half a month after the end of the Battle of Longyou.

The land of Sanfu and the counties of Liangzhou suddenly fell silent, and this aura full of abnormal atmosphere spread to the entire land of Xiliang.

So, just as the scorching sun was coming in early summer, the prefectures and counties of Xiliang suddenly calmed down.

This time the calm is calm in the true sense of the word.

Suddenly, the fighting in various counties and counties disappeared, and the grass robbers and robbers also hid one after another, and even the displaced people who fled the famine around Chang'an City quietly left Chang'an in the dead of night.

Quiet, quiet during the day, silent at night, the whole Xiliang seems to be quiet.

Still, there is movement in stillness.

In the past half a month, only the two major shili in the Xiliang land are frequently mobilizing troops and horses. Because of this, the entire Xiliang was extremely silent, and the shili and grass bandit leaders on all sides shrank their men and horses one after another, and the turtles shrank.

On the side of the Wuwei Army.

Under the protection of Huan Fei, Li Ru went to Fufeng County to say that Dong Yue and Hu Zhen's subordinates were surrendered, but things did not go well at first, and Hu Zhen was quite suspicious of Li Li's strength and ability. On the contrary, Dong Yue was very refreshing, and he didn't need Li Ru to state the stakes, and persuaded him bitterly, and he immediately expressed his willingness to lead 9,000 flying bear soldiers to surrender to Li Li. However, he also put forward one condition, that is, he asked Li Li to give priority to him to continue to serve as a heavy cavalry general. The implication is that he is naturally unwilling to give up the Flying Bear Soldiers, and he also wants to continue to command the only heavy armored cavalry battalion in Xiliang.

Regarding Dong Yue's request, which was actually a request, Li Ru did not hesitate and agreed to it. and immediately expressed his willingness to vouch for it, and recommended Dong Yue to the lord Li Li to continue to serve as the commander of the Flying Bear Soldiers, and never broke his promise. Then Dong Yue had no worries and joined forces with the Tiger Roaring Battalion of Huan Fei's headquarters, while Li Ru turned his head and tried to surrender Hu Zhen again. However. Hu Zhen is still hesitating, or he is still waiting for the price to sell, waiting for Chang'an Li Dao to give him more favorable conditions.

During this period, Hu Zhen's friend Yang Ding also kept persuading Hu Zhen to join Li Li's command, causing Hu Zhen to hesitate and repeatedly weigh the pros and cons. It wasn't until Guo Yan and Duan Xuan's army drove outside the camp that Hu Zhen became more and more vacillating, looking ahead and backward, and never made up his mind. Subsequently, the news of the battle of Longyou reached Hu Zhen's camp. And Chang'an Li Wei also officially broke with Li Li who was stationed in Yiwu at this time. At this point, Hu Zhen finally made up his mind to lead more than 23,000 men and horses to join Li Li's command.

Of course, Hu Zhen put forward far more conditions than Dong, and the plan was very large. After he asked Li Li to take power, he gave him the general of Pingxi and the commander of Wudu County. He also asked for a thousand taels of gold, three hundred horses of silk and silk, and ten maids of the palace. But he's also smart. There was no clear indication that it would not surrender its military powers. is obviously willing to be a rich man who sits in a county and worships the marquis.

In this regard, Li Ru only thought about it for a while, and then expressed his position on behalf of Li Li and agreed to all the conditions put forward by Hu Zhen. Subsequently, Hu Zhen's department, Huan Fei, and Dong Yue's department joined forces together, with more than 30,000 troops. and the two generals Guo Yan and Duan Xuan who were stationed outside the camp. Seeing that Hu Zhen and Dong Yue had defected to the Wuwei army, the situation was irreparable, and he immediately led the army to withdraw to Chang'an.

Guo Yan and Duan Xuan are naturally not Zhang Ji and others, and they don't have so many dirty thoughts. For Li Dao and Li Li's uncle and nephew. They are currently generals under Li Wei, so naturally they will not suddenly change their ways. But they also had a very good impression of Li Li and the Wuwei army, and they would not have a large-scale fight with the Wuwei army until they received Li Wei's attack order.

When the 50,000 troops of Guo Yan and Duan Xuan withdrew to Chang'an, Teng Yu of Longyou took 8,000 Xiutu iron cavalry and 30,000 surrendered troops, and joined forces with reinforcements led by Xu Rong and Dian Wei, and then went to Yiwu. And Longyou County was garrisoned by 5,000 newly reorganized troops led by Huan Wolf to guard the Lintao Horse Farm. At the same time, Li Ru and Huan Fei also took more than 30,000 soldiers and horses from Dong Yue and Hu Zhen to evacuate Youfufeng and go to Yiwu to join the Wuwei army.

So far, Li Li has successively collected more than 30,000 soldiers and horses under Xu Rong and Yang Ding, more than 20,000 soldiers and horses from Hu Zhen, 9,000 flying bear heavy armored cavalry under Dong Yue's account and more than 30,000 foot soldiers left by Longyou Niu Fu, about 100,000 troops.

Subsequently, in addition to the 5,000 soldiers and horses stationed in Wuguan to stay at the pass, the remaining 100,000 horses arrived in Yiwu and joined forces with the Wuwei army. The 50,000 Wuwei troops scattered all over the country were assembled for the first time, making the huge Yiwu instantly overcrowded, and 150,000 troops were stationed in a short period of time. For a time, three large camps stretching for more than ten miles were set up in the wilderness outside the city, and there were as many as 1,000 dense military tents, which were brightly lit all night.

At the same time that the Wuwei army was gathering in Yiwu, Li Dao, Guo Yan and other generals stationed in Chang'an also urgently dispatched men. The generals mobilized troops from their own stations, and supplemented their private soldiers and subordinates to their accounts, and within half a month, they successively requisitioned 40,000 garrisons from Anyi, Tongguan, Huayin and other passes to come to Chang'an. However, there were more than 30,000 private soldiers and servants of the generals, and only Li Dao, Guo Yan, Duan Xuan and Zhang Ji took out more than 25,000 followers, and these servants were all elites in a hundred battles. Subsequently, the 25,000 Hu Cong, Li Dao, and Guo Yan jointly led the Tiger Battalion to form the elite iron cavalry of the 170,000 Xiliang army - the 50,000 Tiger Army.

The Tiger Battalion, the Dragon Battalion and the Flying Bear Soldiers were originally the three most brave and skilled iron cavalry under Dong Zhuo. Earlier, the Longxiang Battalion and the Huben Battalion each had 50,000 troops, which were in the hands of Li Dao and Guo Yan respectively, and together they were 100,000 Xiliang Iron Cavalry. The number of Flying Bear soldiers has always been small, at first there were only 3,000 heavily armored iron cavalry, and then slowly expanded to 15,000 people. In the past, Dong Zhuo relied on these three iron horses to dominate the eastern capital of Luoyang, look at Kyushu, and shock the world.

However, in the subsequent battle of the princes' crusade, the Xiliang army and the princes' coalition army lost a lot of soldiers and horses, among which the Longxiang battalion suffered the heaviest losses. At that time, when Li Dao and Guo Yan led the soldiers and horses of Xiyuan to conquer the remnants of the Yellow Turban in Hedong, the Huben camp was temporarily under the tent of Lu Bu, and the Longxiang camp was in the hands of Hu Zhen and Hua Xiong. As a result, under a big battle, the Longxiang battalion lost most of it, with only more than 10,000 cavalry left, and the Huben battalion also lost nearly 20,000 soldiers and horses. After the war, Dong Zhuo moved the capital to Chang'an, and the Huben battalion re-selected armor soldiers among the infantry soldiers to rebuild, and Zuihou was fixed at 30,000 horses. The loss of the Longxiang battalion was too great and was not replenished, so Li Wei took off the 10,000 soldiers of the Longxiang battalion in a fit of anger and turned them into Li Jiahu's subordinates, and the Longxiang battalion was only left with 3,000 men and horses when Li Li took over.

In the past, among the three Xiliang Iron Cavalry, only the Flying Bear Soldiers only increased, because it was Dong Zhuo's personal guard. It's a pity that in the Chang'an Rebellion, all the thousands of flying bear soldiers who followed Dong Zhuo were killed, the two thousand flying bear soldiers who guarded the palace and the Taishi Mansion also died, and those who fled, and two thousand flying bear soldiers died in the battle of Lu Bu against Yiwu. Now the remaining more than 9,000 people are in the hands of Dong Yue, which can be regarded as the only remaining iron cavalry in the three elite iron cavalry in the past, which is still considered complete.

In the first battle of Luoyang, the Xiliang Army under Dong Zhuo was actually no longer a pure Xiliang soldier. There are also a large number of soldiers and horses in Xiyuan and He Jin and He Miao brothers who control the east and west battalions, the middle base battalion, the Yulin Army and the Sili soldiers and horses, plus some soldiers and horses under the command of Ding Yuan and veterans such as Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun. At that time, Dong Zhuo claimed to have 500,000 troops, but in fact there were only more than 400,000, and there were more than 100,000 troops stationed in Xiliang.

After less than two years, the Xiliang Army, which once dominated the world, once again gathered in Chang'an.

It's just that this time the Xiliang Army is divided into two, and one side is still the old powerhouse Xiliang Army, and the other side is the newly risen and reorganized Wuwei Army.

Before the big war, it always seemed extraordinarily calm, like a moment of silence before the storm.

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Yi Wu, inside the lobby of the main hall.

In the lobby, all the generals gathered together, and Li Xuan, Li Ru and Jia Xu and other strategists were also seated.

After the greetings, Li Xuan took the lead in reporting: "My lord, in the past few days, Li Dao, Guo Yan and others have wantonly mobilized troops and horses, and even the subordinates of the former emperor and ministers in the city and the private soldiers of the generals have been gathered, and now Chang'an City has gathered 180,000 troops!" If this continues, the decisive battle between our army and the Xiliang army is imminent, and the big battle is imminent! ”

Li Li, who sat on the throne, since the outbreak of the Battle of Longyou and Li Wei's angry rebuke of Wu Weijun, his sunny and hearty smile disappeared, and his face turned solemn, seemingly calm, but in fact gloomy.

Regarding the battle of Longyou and Jia Xu's transfer of troops to Longyou without asking for instructions, Li Li seemed to turn a blind eye, and did not pursue or praise afterwards.

Subsequently, Dong Yue and Hu Zhen led the troops to surrender, and Li Li set up a banquet in the lobby to receive them and wash the dust, and agreed to their invitation in public. After the feast, he announced the formation of a 15,000-strong Flying Bear Heavy Armored Cavalry Battalion, appointed Dong Yue as the commander, Huan Fei as the deputy commander, and the Tiger Roar Battalion was merged into the Flying Bear Battalion. Because Li Li already had 5,000 sets of heavy armor cavalry equipment given by Dong Zhuo and the heavy armor captured by Yi Wu, plus 500 sets of gold armor given by Li Ru, it was more than enough to form 15,000 heavy armor cavalry. And the thousand taels of gold, three hundred horses of silk and ten beauties that Hu Zhen asked for, Li Li also fulfilled his promise on the spot, as for the duties of the marquis and the prince of Wudu County, he could only be rewarded in the future.

Today is the first time that the generals have gathered together to discuss the upcoming battle after the gathering of 150,000 troops.

At the beginning of the discussion, Li Xuan's words undoubtedly pointed out the current grim situation and focused the thoughts of the generals in the hall on the big war.

Li Li, who was sitting in the hall, looked solemn, his face was as calm as water, and he was noncommittal to Li Xuan's exclamation.

Jia Xu saw that the lord Li Li was not silent, and immediately got up and said: "The 180,000 Xiliang troops assembled by Li Dao and Guo Yan this time are quite strong, and most of these soldiers are elite soldiers left by Dong Xiang. Among them, the 50,000 tiger battalion iron cavalry led by Li Dao and Guo Yan are the most powerful, all of them are strong and skilled tiger warriors formed into an army, and their combat power may still be above our Wuwei iron cavalry. As for the remaining 100,000 infantry troops, there is nothing special about them, the military discipline is lax, and they have been neglecting the war for more than a year. Even though they were elite soldiers in a hundred battles before, they are now afraid that their combat power is extremely limited. Now the army of Chang'an City has been prepared, and it is possible to go out of the city at any time to fight a decisive battle with our army. This Xiliang War is really ready to be launched, and this battle will determine the ownership of the two states of Xiliang and the authority of the world. Please make a decision quickly! ”

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