Three days later, more than 50,000 Xiliang troops withdrew from Chenliu City and returned to Sili.

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

Before this, Li Li appointed Dian Wei as the captain of his personal soldiers and allowed him to select 500 tiger soldiers from the 5,000 infantrymen of Longxiang Camp and reorganize his personal soldiers guards.

Bo Cai was appointed as the commander of the infantry commander of the Longxiang Camp, Li Xian was appointed as the commander of the law enforcement team, and Li Fu and Li Zheng and his son took over the three thousand cavalry of the Longxiang Camp, and were the left and right commanders respectively.

In more than a month in Chenliu City, Li Li did not expand his private troops, but instead eliminated hundreds of old and weak soldiers, included them in chores, and recruited a group of strong young and strong Yanzhou to enrich the army.

At this point, he still had three thousand iron cavalry and five thousand infantry under his command. His troops did not decrease or increase, but his combat effectiveness had improved a lot.

The next day, the Xiliang army retreated to Sili.

The 50,000 troops that went to Chenliu were far more than this number at this time.

During the period when the generals of the army were stationed in Chenliu, they successively recruited the defenders of various counties in Chenliu County and forcibly recruited many private soldiers.

Therefore, Li Jue's army now has 60,000, which not only supplemented the soldiers who were damaged in the siege, but also added more than 10,000 troops.

It is true that the generals of Xiliang are brave and good at fighting, but they are also a great skill in privately expanding their corps.

When they encounter such good things, they are never willing to betray others and are bold and arrogant.

However, Dong Zhuo, the commander of the Western Liang army, has always turned a blind eye to this, and ignored it, accusing the actions of his subordinates and generals. Therefore, the Western Liang generals have long been accustomed to this and have never taken the matter of privately expanding the troops to heart.

Although Li Li is the supervisor of the army, he can only turn a deaf ear to the vital interests of the generals of the entire Xiliang army, and he can only ignore it and avoid it, just pretend that he is unaware of it.

The army retreated to Sili very quickly, and it took 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. The entire army temporarily camped here overnight that night. The next day, they had to continue rushing until they retreated to Tongguan and entered Chang'an.

As for where the subsequent generals were sent to garrison, they had to know only after meeting Dong Zhuo and received the transfer order.

When he returned to Zhongmu County Government Office again, Li Li still set up camp in Beicheng. This time he did not return to his original residence, the backyard of the county government office, but stayed overnight in the military camp and stayed with the soldiers.

Late at night, Hai. (i.e., 21:00 to 23:00 at night.)

Accompanied by Dian Wei, Li Li brought a team of 100 soldiers in black clothes to the outside of the Chen Mansion's house in the south of the city.

In an instant, Dian Wei brought fifty personal soldiers over the wall and entered the Chen Mansion courtyard, while Li Lizhe ordered the remaining personal soldiers to guard the front and back gates and not let a servant and servant go away.

This is a place that Li Li had already found out when he left Zhongmu County last time. This time he returned to Chang'an, this matter must not be delayed; otherwise, there would be no such good opportunity in the future.

When Li Li came to Chen's mansion late at night, he neither robbed money nor coveted the beauty of the Chen family's younger sister, but wanted to hijack the Chen family's direct relatives to Chang'an with the army.

However, Chen Yu, a young girl from the Chen family, is a famous beauty in Zhongmu. Li Li has heard of it before, but he has never met her.

The Chen family was a family of gentry, which means that most of the ancestors came to the court to serve as officials and had wealthy families. Their ancestors lived in Dongjun, Yanzhou.

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

However, last year, Chen Yu's brother was ordered to be wanted by the court for offending Prime Minister Dong Zhuo. Since then, he has been fleeing and his whereabouts are still unknown.

After the elder brother of the Chen family fled, the Chen family was left with orphans and widows, while Chen Yu, who was over and over, took on the big and small affairs of the family.

This girl is in her 28th year of age. She has a beautiful appearance, a slim figure, a strong personality, an upright person, and a very good reputation.

He was dubbed "Miss Jade" by a group of idle rogues in the city. He always likes to wander in front of the Chen Mansion if he has something to do, hoping to look at Chen Yu more.

After Li Li heard of the name of the pretty lady of the Chen family, he was curious and asked the maid about the matter about the Chen family.

Unexpectedly, he heard the name of Brother Chen Yu. From then on, he planned to take away all the Chen family.

This is not that Li Li has ulterior motives and wants to achieve his unspeakable goals, but that Chen Yu is famous outside and often has idle people watching secretly, and maybe one day they will encounter an unexpected situation.

And he happened to pass by here in a marching manner, and he could just take away all the Chen family's elders and young people by the way. In this way, the tragedy that Chen Yu and the Chen family might encounter will be eliminated invisibly.

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

Li Li, based on the idea of ​​being convenient to others and being convenient to himself, started early and left a little good relationship, so as to meet with the Chen brother in the future.

Although the Chen family is a family of gentry, it is a family of criminals wanted by the imperial court.

The family situation is getting worse and worse, and there are not many guards and entourages in the mansion, and there are only a few maids. Perhaps it will not take long before the Chen family will be unable to sustain and become a commoner's home.

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

Seeing that Dian Wei had done everything neatly, Li Li didn't say much, nodded to Dian Wei, then pulled the Chen family with a carriage and quickly returned to the military camp.

It is late at night, and it is early summer, but it is still a bit cold late at night in Sili.

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

Don’t underestimate these black dots. A black dot represents a county, that is, a large area of ​​territory. Anyone who can have such a small black dot can become a prince.

Since the Chenliu Alliance, the princes of the world will never be able to reunite and attack Dong Zhuo and his Xiliang army again.

Therefore, the Xiliang Army is extremely powerful at present, and the princes in the world dare not touch their edge. Wherever the army goes, the princes of all sizes avoid fighting and fleeing in all directions.

However, Li Li, who knew history, knew that all this was a flash in strength.

Once Dong Zhuo dies, the powerful Xiliang Legion will collapse instantly, with internal strife, and generals will attack each other and eventually die together.

The once extremely powerful Western Liang Iron Cavalry will no longer exist. Instead, the originally weak marginal strength, such as Ma Teng, Han Sui and others, took advantage of the situation to rise and become the vassal forces that can stand together with heroes such as Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, and Liu Bei and compete for the world.

Although Ma Teng, Han Sui and others were eventually destroyed and merged by Cao Wei, they lived longer and wonderfully than Li Jue, Guo Si and others, and once influenced the direction of the world's general trend.

Li Li didn't want to become a short-lived branch of the Xiliang Legion, nor did he want to be cut off by Cao Wei general Xu Chu before he was twenty years old.

He didn't want to be a green leaf under the dazzling fringe, but wanted to become a big tree, a towering tree that was rooted in the desert of Xiliang and stood tall through the wind and sand, and even eventually enveloped the entire Han world under his shade.

To realize this wish, returning to Chang'an to report Dong Zhuo and the rewards he received is crucial, which directly determines whether Li Li can take advantage of the current power of Dong Zhuo and the Western Liang army to quickly lay a foundation and achieve twice the result with half the effort.

If he returned to Chang'an this time but did not get the opportunity to release him, or he did not leave the jurisdiction of other generals, and there was no territory that could be used as a foundation; then his ambition would be postponed indefinitely, and even eventually ended up in internal strife.

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

Just as Li Li was looking at the map and thinking hard, the voices of personal soldiers came from outside the tent.

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

"Let her come in. When you are evil, you can go and rest too. Don't be outside the big tent. The matter tonight has been completed. Don't shirk it. You will have to march tomorrow, go to bed!"

Li Li's body was not moved, and his tone was very firm and unquestionable.

"This...No, my subordinates obeyed the order." Dian Wei hesitated for a moment, then bowed to take the order and said.
Chapter completed!