The Counterattack of the Villains

Gongsun Zan led the white horse Yi Cong and ran towards the east. As for the ordinary soldiers, he could no longer take care of them.

Whether they can escape, and how much they can escape, can only depend on their fate.

Anyway, as long as they have money and food, ordinary soldiers are just like leeks, growing one crop after another, as much as they want.

As long as he can keep his capital of 3,000 white horses, he will have the capital to regroup.

However, he didn't run very far when he saw a black line appear on the horizon in front of him, and it was a large army rushing over.

Gongsun Zan was overjoyed. He thought it was Yuan Shao who sent troops to meet them.

But when he saw clearly the flags and armor of this large army, he couldn't help but be shocked. It turned out to be Dong's army.

"Xilulu..."

Gongsun Zan and all the white horse followers reined in their horses one after another. There was a burst of horses neighing in the field, and everyone's faces were filled with despair.

It now appears that the armies on the left and right wings have been defeated, their retreat has been blocked, and they have no way to go to heaven and no way to enter the earth.

Gongsun Zan gritted his teeth and shouted: "Enter the mountain and walk out of the mountain."

"boom"

Just when they turned to the right and wanted to rush into the mountains and forests to the south, a figure suddenly fell from the sky and landed heavily in front of them ten feet away.

The ground was cracked, and the strong gas pushed away the smoke and dust, forming a circular shock wave visible to the naked eye.

He wears a three-pronged purple gold crown with hair, an animal-faced head-swallowing chain armor, an exquisite lion belt tied around his waist, gold-threaded green-soap boots on his feet, and a thunder-blasting halberd in his palm.

Lightning flashed all over the body, electric snakes leaped, and the two feathers on the purple gold crown curved backwards, swaying left and right in the strong wind, making it look particularly arrogant and arrogant.

"Where are you going?"

Looking at the face with a devilish smile in front of him, Gongsun Zan's face turned ashen.

The double-headed spear in his hand helped him gain the reputation of General White Horse, but it could not give him any sense of security.

In terms of one-round force, Gongsun Zan is not as good as Sun Jian. Even Sun Jian can't stand a single step in front of the God of War, and he is even less helpful.

Gongsun Zan's heart felt cold. He looked at Li Mu who was slowly walking towards him and said desperately: "Let my brothers go. I am willing to capture them without mercy."

Li Mugong smiled and said: "You can capture me without any restraint, what's the difference between you and me? It's just a matter of a halberd."

Gongsun Zan was speechless, but was speechless.

What you said makes perfect sense.

Then they saw Li Mu raising his halberd to stab the sky, and the terrifying thunder pillar came to the world again, hitting the tip of the halberd, and all of it was absorbed by the Fangtian halberd.

The dazzling thunder light emitted by the thunder pillar made Gongsun Zan and all the white horses feel stinging in their eyes.

Everyone's hearts were raised to their throats, quietly waiting for the earth-shattering blow to arrive. No one could dare to resist.

This man should not belong in this world at all.

Some people call him the God of War, while others regard him as a demon. No matter what he is, he doesn't look like a human being.

"Keep people under the halberd."

At this moment, a blue figure came up from behind, stepped on the back of one of the white horses, and jumped in front of Gongsun Zan's horse.

"General, please stop, I promise you."

As soon as Zhao Yun finished speaking, the terrifying Thunder Pillar disappeared instantly, and the raised Square Heavenly Halberd suddenly fell back to the ground.

Did you really stop?

Gongsun Zan looked at this scene blankly, and his mind was a little confused for a while.

"Hehehe..."

Li Mu laughed. After laughing, he raised his halberd and pointed it at Gongsun Zan, and said in a serious voice: "You are lucky, I can let you go, but the condition is to give up Zilong to me, will you agree?"

Gongsun Zan looked at the figure in front of the horse with an incredible expression on his face.

He had never paid much attention to that figure since he came under his command.

He said in disbelief: "You mean, if you let Zilong join your army, you will let us go?"

Li Mu said proudly: "Not bad."

Gongsun Zan subconsciously asked: "Why?"

Li Mu glanced at him contemptuously and said: "In someone's eyes, ten of your Gongsun Zan are not as good as one Zilong."

Zhao Yun's heart felt hot, but Gongsun Zan's breathing was stagnant, and he felt extremely uncomfortable.

But now he had to rely on Zhao Yun to survive, and no matter how uncomfortable he felt, he didn't dare to show it on his face.

He didn't even look at Zhao Yun, but said: "Zilong, since General Lu values ​​you so much, then you should follow him!"

Zhao Yun turned back to look at Gongsun Zan and saw that he was just staring at Li Mu without even looking at him. He was completely disappointed with him.

Silently bowing his fist to Gongsun Zan, Zhao Yun turned around and walked to Li Mu, knelt down on one knee, clasped his fist and said, "Zhao Zilong pays homage to my lord."

Li Mu inserted the Fangtian Halberd into the ground, bowed down and helped Zhao Yun up, and said happily: "I have a son, dragon, like a tiger with added wings. You can follow me to stop the war first. After the troops are withdrawn, we can have a good time over wine."

"yes."

Li Mu held Zhao Yun's arm and flew up, passing Gongsun Zan and Baima Yicong.

After putting down Zhao Yun, he flew up into the air again and hovered in the sky. The Fang Tianji was raised high again, attracting thunder from the sky, and at the same time, he unleashed the Crazy Thunder of Heaven.

In an instant, the sky was filled with endless thunderballs the size of basketballs.

With this deterrent force, Li Mu shouted loudly: "Those who surrender will be spared death, and those who resist stubbornly will be killed without mercy."

In order to increase his persuasiveness, Li Mu controlled a thunderball and struck it at a group of enemy troops that were resisting the most fiercely.

"Boom boom boom..."

The extremely explosive thunderballs were like energy cannonballs, blowing up a large group of enemies and releasing a large amount of lightning at the same time.

Enemy soldiers in the surrounding area fell in pieces, twitching all over, foaming at the mouth, and smoking.

With just this random blow, three to four hundred enemy soldiers were killed.

This suddenly became the last straw that broke the camel's back. The remaining soldiers of the Jiangdong Army and the Youzhou Army threw down their weapons and knelt down to surrender.

The Battle of Hulao Pass came to an end.

The eighteen princes challenged Dong, which eventually became a big joke.

Li Mu waved his free left hand towards the sky, and the thunderballs that filled the sky flew high into the sky one after another.

"Boom boom boom..."

Numerous thunderballs exploded into dense clusters of electric sparks, just like the fireworks celebrating Li Mu's victory.

And under the sky full of electric sparks, Li Mu's figure was like a god in the sky.

…

When Cheng Lian's army rushed here, Li Mu stopped their charge and ordered them to clear a way to let Gongsun Zan and Baima Yicong leave.

As for the remaining tens of thousands of Youzhou troops under Gongsun Zan, they were naturally captured by Li Mu.

The army in this era did not have such high loyalty. They would sacrifice their lives for whoever gave them food and salary.

Only the coach's direct confidants have so much loyalty.

For ordinary soldiers, surrendering after a defeat means changing masters and continuing to serve, as long as they have food to eat.

The surrendered pawns are usually disrupted and inserted into one's own army.

Generally, the method of placing one or two lowered pawns in a group is adopted. The specific method of placement depends on the number of one's own army.

It mainly depends on the ratio of the number of your own troops and the number of reduced soldiers.

If the number of your own troops is several times that of the surrendered pawns, then there will be one surrendered pawn per group, and four soldiers will lead one surrendered pawn. Naturally, there will be no fear of chaos caused by the surrendered pawns.

Very few people would allow the surrendered soldiers to form their own army, as that would be very dangerous.

And if there are more surrendered pawns than your own army, then there is nothing you can do. Either you bet that the surrendered pawns will not happen again, or you can only trap the surrendered pawns and kill them.

Letting go of the surrendered soldiers is the same as letting the tiger return to the mountain. Keeping it will consume food and grass. When it is impossible to recruit them, the natural choice is to kill them.

This is the case with Bai Qi. It's not that he is really crazy and must kill those 400,000 Zhao troops, but that he really can't control it and can't afford it.

Li Mu did not have this problem. Hulao Pass had 280,000 soldiers and horses, but the captured soldiers this time were only about 50,000.

Even if a pawn is placed in a group, the whole group cannot be arranged.

Therefore, Li Mu picked out his 50,000 direct descendants and did not surrender the soldiers, allowing the other 230,000 troops to absorb the 50,000 surrendered soldiers.

After the battle, the number of troops in Li Mu's hands reached 330,000.

You know, during the Battle of Chibi, Cao Cao led 200,000 troops, and he dared to call himself an army of 800,000.

Li Mu's 330,000 troops are said to be an army of one million. No one must have any objections.

Now Dong Zhuo has only 150,000 soldiers and horses left under his command, most of them are Xiliang troops. In the Central Plains, they are basically hated by people and ghosts.

When Li Mu's army was reorganized, even if he directly deployed his chariots and horses to attack Luoyang, Dong Zhuo would not be able to overturn the situation.

However, Li Mu would not do this. In his opinion, forcibly attacking the city was the stupidest approach and would only increase casualties needlessly.

He could have used a better method to easily deal with Dong Zhuo, capture the city of Luoyang, and be the one who held the emperor hostage to order the princes.

However, Li Mu believed that if he came to do this, he would never cause as much anger as Dong Zhuo did.

In order to paralyze Dong Zhuo, he would send a messenger back to Luoyang every now and then to deliver messages and bring the battle reports that Li Mu had fabricated himself.

In the battle report prepared by Li Mu for Dong Zhuo, the situation was excellent and he had won consecutive battles.

In this way, Dong Zhuo would not be tempted to move the capital, and it would be convenient for him to go back and kill Dong Zhuo's head and take over a complete Luoyang.

…

On the way back to Hulao Pass, Li Mu rode with Zhang Liao on his left and Zhao Yun on his right.

Zang Ba, Cheng Lian, and Gao Shun led the army to clean up the aftermath and escort the surrendered soldiers.

"My lord, I have something to say, I don't know whether I should say it or not."

Looking at Zhao Yun who was slightly hesitant, Li Mu said cheerfully: "Zilong, here, there is no such thing as being convicted for words."

"In the future, there is no need to mention the phrase 'what should be said and what should not be said'. If you have something to say, just say it directly. Whether it is an unflattering advice or a flattering one, I will not refuse anyone who comes."

"Hehehe..."

Zhang Liao on the side chuckled again and again, and Zhao Yun also smiled when he heard this, and then said sternly: "Then Yun said it bluntly, with the ability of the lord, he can dominate one side, why should he succumb to Dong Zhuo's men?"

"Then Dong Zhuo is full of evil, and he will definitely not end well in the future. If my lord follows him, he will only ruin his own reputation, which will cause a lot of harm and no benefit."

Li Mu nodded and said: "What Zilong said is absolutely true. Dong Zhuo will indeed not end well, because when the army is reorganized, I will return to Luoyang and take his head with my own hands."

Zhao Yun said in surprise: "My lord, you actually have such a plan?"

Li Mudao said: "I have had this plan for a long time, but I have never found a suitable opportunity. This meeting of the eighteen princes is my opportunity."

Zhao Yun's eyes flashed and he asked again: "What about after killing Dong Zhuo?"

Li Mu said in a deep voice: "Of course it will bring peace to the world and bring peace to the people."

"Zilong, I was born in the border area of ​​Bingzhou and my family is poor. Fortunately, I still have the courage to settle down and make a living."

"But for ninety-nine percent of the poor in the world, even settling down and living in poverty is just a luxury."

"I came from a humble background, so I know what the people need most, and I also know how to make the world truly peaceful. You will slowly see it in the future."

Zhao Yun said happily: "Yun believes in my lord."

Li Mu turned to look at him and smiled.

Not long after walking, the city of Hulao Pass was already in sight, but he saw that slender figure still standing at the top of the city, waiting for his beloved to return.

Li Mu smiled at Zhang Liao and Zhao Yun and said, "Wenyuan Zilong, I'll go first."

After saying that, he jumped up from his horse and flew towards the city tower. The red rabbit horse strode forward with four hooves and galloped towards the city gate, following closely behind its master.

Zhao Yun looked at Li Mu absentmindedly and murmured: "Is it really possible to practice martial arts to such an extent by flying across the sky?"

Zhang Liao said with a smile: "Others may not be able to, but if anything happens to my lord, it will not be surprising."

Zhao Yun turned his head to look at Zhang Liao, and Zhao Yun could see the fanatical admiration on his face.

Zhao Yun couldn't help but think to himself, could a person who could be so respected by his followers really be a capricious, violent and vicious thief?

It seems that rumors can really lie.

…

On the city tower, looking at Li Mu falling from the sky, the enthusiasm in Diao Chan's eyes was no less than that of Zhang Liao.

"Congratulations to the general on your triumphant return."

Li Mu lowered his head and looked at the beauty with a beautiful smile in front of him, stretched out his hand and gently embraced her into his arms, as if he was holding the most precious treasure.

"Your congratulations are worth a thousand words from others."

Although there were many soldiers around him, Diao Chan wrapped her arms around his majestic waist without any scruples, sinking herself into his broad embrace.

This embrace makes her feel safer than anywhere else in the world.

Hao Meng, Wei Xu and others originally planned to come over to see the ceremony, but when they saw this scene, they all stopped in their tracks and calmly waved the surrounding soldiers to leave.

In the evening, Zang Ba, Cheng Lian, Cao Xing, Gao Shun and others returned.

The heads of Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Sun Jian, Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, Han Dang, Fang Yue, Zhao Fu and other generals were all cut off and put into wooden boxes.

Famous magic weapons such as the male and female double sword, Qinglong Yanyue Sword, Zhangba Snake Spear, and Ancient Ding Sword also fell into Li Mu's hands.

Looking at these magical weapons, as well as his own Thunder-exploding Square Heavenly Halberd, Li Mu was extremely depressed.

When will it be possible for him to obtain storage equipment that can take away things from the world of reincarnation?

What a broken system, it doesn't even have a storage space, and it has no function other than being able to send him in and out of the world of reincarnation. It's really rubbish.

After complaining about the system, Li Mu sent six hundred miles to rush to send the pile of heads to Luoyang to Dong Zhuo to reassure him.

After all, it has been more than two months since I came to Hulao Pass. It would be unjustifiable if I still haven't achieved anything.

When sending someone to deliver the head, Li Mu also asked a messenger to tell Dong Zhuo that the allied forces of the princes would be defeated in half a month or in twenty days, and he would be able to return to the court with his troops.

The messenger took the order and left. Li Mu ordered to reward the three armies, and then began to reorganize the army.

Reorganizing the army is quite simple. Pull all the surrendered soldiers outside the city and wait, then gather all the corps commanders and let them pull people by themselves, one by one until they are finished.

To replenish the ranks of the soldiers who have been surrendered, one person is selected, and the extra men equal to the number of surrendered soldiers are reorganized into an army.

In this way, the team will be reorganized, and then it will take another ten days and a half to train and run in, and then it will be a fighting army again.

More than half a month later, the army's training was completed.

Li Mu also organized a petition to criticize Dong. He summoned all commanders and above to publicly publish a petition to criticize Dong.

The military system of the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty was divided into eight levels: army, battalion, department, song, tun, team, shrine and wu.

There are five people in a team, and the leader is the team leader.

Ten people have one tenth, so why are the officers so long?

A team of five men is formed, and the leader is Du Bo.

The second team is a tun, and the commander is a tun general.

The five villages form a qu, and the chief officer is the qu chief.

The two songs form one, and the commander is Yajiang.

The five divisions form a battalion, and the commander is the captain.

Two battalions form an army, and the leader is a general.

If compared with the modern military system, corps commanders and chief officers are equivalent to non-commissioned officers, Dubotun will be the backbone of grassroots cadres, and commanders and above belong to the general class.

Therefore, as long as you control the generals above, you can control the entire army.

The backbone of cadres below the Qu Chang usually follow the lead of the Qu Chang. As long as the Qu Chang has no different intentions, they will not have different intentions, because it is useless to have different intentions.

The generals below Qu Chang only control a hundred troops and horses. Even if they have different intentions, they will not be able to cause any trouble.

These soldiers in Hulao Pass were killed suddenly after Li Jue, Guo Si and others. When Li Mu returned to Hulao Pass to take charge of the overall situation, he was already convinced by Li Mu.

Now that they heard that Li Mu planned to kill Dong Zhuo and control the court and the world by himself, how could they have any objections?

Generals are not afraid of ambition in the people they serve, but they are afraid of lack of ambition.

Because the master has no ambition, they have no chance to succeed.

The more ambitious the lord is and has the ability to match it, then they will be destined to prosper if they follow such a lord.

After issuing a petition to criticize Dong and all the generals expressed support, Li Mu arranged various strategies.

After everyone expressed their understanding, Li Mu decisively ordered to repair for one day and set off the next day to return to Luoyang.

Now Li Mu has 330,000 troops, and he has left 50,000 troops behind, with Zang Ba Hao Meng guarding the pass.

These two people, Zang Ba is brave and Hao Meng is resourceful, together they are more than enough to defend Hulao Pass.

Other generals led an army of 280,000 and followed Li Mu back to Luoyang, waiting for an opportunity to annihilate Dong Zhuo's direct Xiliang army.

The dog heads of Dong Zhuo and Li Ru were naturally picked off by Li Mu himself.

After taking complete control of Luoyang, Li Mu will send troops to Anyi, Xingyang, Mianchi and Huayin to completely wipe out Niu Fu, Xu Rong, Dong Yue and Duan Xuan, the remnants of Dong Zhuo.

Niu Fu and Dong Yue must die, but Xu Rong and Duan Yan can avoid death if they are willing to surrender.

Xu Rong was a powerful general who was able to defeat Cao Cao and Sun Jian until they lost their armor and were defeated. In the original history, he finally abandoned the dark side and turned to the bright side.

Duan Yan was a rare decent person among Dong Zhuo's generals.

When he stationed troops in Huayin, he did not help Zhou and others like Niu Fu and Dong Yue, nor did he cause harm to the people like Li Jue and Guo Si. Instead, he worked diligently on local farming and made the people live and work in peace and contentment.

When Emperor Xian was on his way back east, Duan Yan took the initiative to greet the emperor. Even though he was misunderstood, he still respectfully provided food, clothing and supplies.

After Emperor Xian moved to Xudu, Duan Yan united with the princes in Guanzhong to attack Li Jue, killed him, cut off Li Jue's head and sent it to Xudu.

Due to his great achievements, Duan Yan was granted the title of Marquis and General, and later he was conscripted as Da Honglu and Guanglu Doctor.

Although he was not a loyal minister, he was considered a capable minister, and Li Mu could tolerate him.