The counterattack of the villains

It took more than an hour to complete the carpet search of the entire palace. Zhang Liao and the others found more than [-] hidden guards and killed them all.

However, they still encountered some troubles, and they were quite troublesome, so Zhao Yun planned to report the matter to Li Mu and ask him to make a decision.

As early as when Li Mu and his party arrived at Fushou's bedroom, the soldiers who stayed here to protect Fushou had already reported the matter to Zhang Liao, Zhao Yun, and Cheng Lian, so Zhao Yun quickly found Fushou's bedroom.

Seeing Liu Xie in imperial robes, he cupped his fists in salute and said, "The last general will see Your Majesty."

Because he didn't know Wang Yun and the others, he didn't greet them.

Liu Xie raised his hand and said, "General, excuse me."

After Zhao Yun got up, Li Mu asked, "Why did Zilong come here?"

Zhao Yundao: "Report to my lord, there are more than a dozen guards who hijacked several concubines and a group of palace people. I'll wait for the rat to make a move. I'll ask my lord to decide how to deal with it."

Li Mu got up and said, "So that's how it is. You lead the way, and I'll handle this matter."

"Yes."

Li Mu said to Liu Xie again: "Your Majesty, I will come as soon as I go."

Unexpectedly, Liu Xie also got up and said, "I will go with the Taifu."

After pondering for a moment, Li Mu nodded and said, "That's fine, please, Your Majesty."

Wang Yun and the others looked at each other, and got up to follow, and even Fu Shou followed behind Liu Xie.

The crowd followed Zhao Yun and quickly came to a bedroom surrounded by a group of Yulin cavalry.

More than a dozen imperial guards, each holding a concubine or maid, with a long sword around their necks, huddled against the wall in the front hall.

The Habayashi riders in the hall did not dare to get too close, they surrounded them in a fan shape with a distance of several feet.

Seeing that Li Mu and his party had arrived, the Habayashi riders separated a gap and let Li Mu and the others come forward.

When the guards saw Li Mu, all of them turned pale, and their sword hands began to tremble.

When the hijacked concubines, maids, and servants saw Liu Xie, they all cried out, "Help, Your Majesty, save us."

Liu Xie frowned, and looked up at Li Mu beside him, but saw that his face was calm, and he didn't seem to be troubled.

One of the old guards looked at Li Mu sadly and said: "General Lu, we just want to survive, we have no objection, and we can even be loyal to you, why do you want to drive us all to death?"

Li Mu said expressionlessly: "Since your Xiliang army came to Luoyang, how many things have you done to cause the anger of the people and gods? Why are the people angry if you don't kill you?"

Another guard said with a ruthless face: "If the general must kill us, then let's kill them too, otherwise, back away and let us go."

"Ah……"

A sinister smile appeared on Li Mu's face, and he said, "What makes you think that I dare not do this?"

After finishing speaking, he stopped talking nonsense, pushed his palms forward flatly, and made a "Mountain Overturning Sea" strike in the cloud-dispelling palm. The extremely ferocious palm force was struck out like a landslide and tsunami.

Dozens of old guards and the people they kidnapped were all blasted against the wall by the force of their palms, their eyes widened, blood spurted from their mouths, and then they fell limp to the ground.

"what……"

Fu Shou let out an exclamation, covered his mouth with his hands, his pretty face turned pale, and looked at this scene in disbelief.

What made it hard for her to accept was that Li Mu, who had given her a sense of generosity and righteousness just now, became so ruthless at this moment.

Liu Xie also widened his eyes and opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to say.

This time even Zhao Yun frowned, the bedroom was dead silent, and a needle could be heard.

In this silence, Li Mu stepped forward, helped a concubine, pressed his single palm on her vest, and poured the true essence of the Sacred Heart into her body.

There was a look of surprise in Zhao Yun's eyes, could it be that the lord can save them?
But he could clearly sense how fierce the palm was just now. I'm afraid that the internal organs of these people have been shattered and died on the spot. How can this be saved?
Not only him, but others also looked at Li Mu's actions in disbelief.

However, within dozens of breaths, the concubine who was judged to have died on the spot by Zhao Yun opened her eyes.

Li Mu withdrew his palm and walked towards the next fallen concubine.

The concubine who was rescued looked down at herself blankly, looked at the blood on the skirt, and muttered to herself in a daze: "I'm not dead?"

Fu Shou couldn't help but ran forward, and asked with concern: "You... how do you feel?"

The woman felt herself carefully, but found that she didn't feel any discomfort, so she shook her head and said, "I don't know, I don't feel any discomfort."

At this time, Li Mu finally said, "It's lucky for you, I just practiced a secret technique of bringing the dead back to life a few months ago, otherwise today's situation would be really difficult."

Hearing Li Mu's words, all the people present were shocked and amazed.

Liu Xie and Fu Shou were all relieved, it turned out that this was not because he was cruel, but because he had the ability to bring the dead back to life.

In this way, in front of everyone, Li Mu rescued the hostages he personally killed one by one.

Liu Xie walked up to Li Mu, looked up at him and said excitedly, "Teacher, can you really bring the dead back to life? And there will be no future troubles?"

Those who had just been revived also looked at him nervously.

Li Mu smiled and said: "There is no future trouble, but there are conditions. The most basic point is that the body is not damaged and the gods are not dissipated. Otherwise, I will be helpless."

"Besides, using this secret technique will consume the vitality of the minister, so this secret technique cannot be used indefinitely."

"I can only revive 30 to [-] people in one breath, and my vitality will be severely injured, and I won't be able to recover for several months."

"Otherwise, if you resurrect all the soldiers who died in battle under your command, wouldn't you have endless troops?"

Suddenly, Zhao Yun couldn't help but smile, he was thinking about this question just now.

It's true, resurrecting the dead is already very against the sky, how can it be used infinitely?

Even if the gods descended to earth, it would be impossible to achieve such a level.

Liu Xie's expression darkened. Originally, he wanted to ask Li Mu to help him resurrect his mother!

And those servants who were rescued by Li Mu fell on the ground one after another, kowtowing to Li Mu repeatedly, saying "thank you for saving your life, Tai Tuo".

Several concubines also bowed their hands and thanked each other.

……

When the palace was completely pacified, the battle outside the city basically came to an end.

The Xiliang Army originally consisted of 5000 soldiers. At the beginning, Hua Xiong led 8 Xiliang Army to crusade against the [-]th princes, and lost more than [-] people in a big defeat. Therefore, the Xiliang Army camp actually only had more than [-] soldiers and horses.

Fighting 26 with [-], with mental calculations and unintentional calculations, coupled with the fact that they were trapped in the camp and five unparalleled generals, the Xiliang Army was completely defeated.

After World War I, more than [-] people were directly wiped out, and the other [-] people all surrendered.

There were still [-] soldiers and horses in the camp of the Han army near Beiman Mountain. After they received the news of the collapse of the Xiliang army, Chun Yuqiong, the general in command, approached Song Xian and others and expressed his willingness to surrender.

Like Cao Cao, Chun Yuqiong was born as a lieutenant in the Eighth School of Xiyuan. After Dong Zhuo came to Beijing, he judged the situation and voted for Dong Zhuo.

In the original history, after Dong Zhuo's death, he voted for Yuan Shao, and was finally beheaded by his former colleague Cao Cao in the Battle of Guandu.

With Chunyuqiong's 7 troops surrendering, Li Mu's force reached 40 in one fell swoop.

Although some troops were lost in the battle, the lost troops were not even a fraction, and could be replenished easily.

The more than [-] soldiers who surrendered from Xiliang had already been doomed.

Except for some generals who will be taken to the city for public execution to buy people's hearts, other soldiers will be murdered in batches.

It's not that Xiliang soldiers are necessarily bad, but the Xiliang soldiers under Dong Zhuo's command must be bad, and the Xiliang soldiers under Ma Teng and Ma Chao's father and son are good.

In the original history, before Dong Zhuo hijacked Liu Xie and moved the capital to Chang'an, he sent troops to burn, kill and loot. These Xiliang soldiers were no better than devils, and Luoyang was almost turned into a dead city by them.

Although this incident has not happened yet, through this incident, it can also be seen that the brutality of these Xiliang soldiers is deep in their bones.

So Li Mu doesn't discriminate against Xiliang soldiers, but simply discriminates against Dong Zhuo's Xiliang soldiers.

If Ma Teng is willing to lead an army to vote, Li Mu is still very happy to accept it.

……

In the afternoon, after Li Mu's generals settled down the army, they immediately sent messengers into the city to report.

At this time, the guards of the imperial palace had been replaced by Habayashi Qi, and the messengers held Song Xian's command talisman, and naturally entered the palace smoothly.

The guarded Yulin cavalry brought the messengers to Li Mu, and Li Mu ordered the messengers to inform Song Xian and others that they would enter the city and palace to receive the rewards tomorrow morning.

Several people in Song Xian heard that Li Mu had been named a general, and since then the power has been transferred to the government, and there are all the officials in the court and His Majesty's support. Knowing that their prosperity is just around the corner, they are overjoyed.

Originally, the great man did not go to court every day, but once every five days, but now it is a critical period, so the ministers gathered in the court again early the next morning.

First of all, the first thing is to announce the distribution of official positions to the officials, and then the generals under Li Mu's command will go to the hall to accept the reward.

Among the nine strong generals, except for Zhao Yun, the other eight were named "Si'an Siping generals".

The so-called Sian Siping refers to Generals Anton, Annan, Anxi, Anbei, Pingdong, Pingnan, Pingxi, and Pingbei.

If we use the nine-rank division system of later generations to correspond, the generals belong to the first-rank officials, and the Si'an and Siping generals belong to the third-rank official positions.

The reason why they were only given a third-rank official position was because Li Mu didn't want to do it all at once, so as not to be unable to get promoted in the future.

Zhao Yun and Gao Shun are one level lower than the other eight people. Zhao Yun is the general who conquers the captives, and Gao Shun is the general who suppresses the army. They are both equal to the third rank.

In fact, for the ten people, it doesn't matter whether they have formal official positions, because they are different from other generals who call Lu Bu "general".

They called Li Mu "Master", and they belonged to Li Mu's family generals, which meant that they were members of Li Mu's family.

The other generals who called Li Mu "generals" were just his subordinates, and they were completely different from family generals. They had nothing to do with him except that their positions belonged to him.

Therefore, even if General Jiu Jian did not have an official position officially granted by the court, his status was not low.

It's just men, how many don't respect honor?
Li Mu was willing to give them formal official positions, so they were naturally very happy, the ranks of the third rank and the third rank were really not low.

Of course, apart from General Nine and Gao Shun, other generals also have their own rewards, but these rewards will be sent directly to the generals along with the imperial edict, and they don't need to enter the palace.

After the court meeting, Liu Xie followed Li Mu's wishes and issued an edict to reward the three armies for a three-day celebration. At the same time, he sent enough wine, meat, food and grass to Hulao Pass.

After the court was over, Song Xian, Wei Xu and others went to Lu Mansion first, and had a celebration banquet with Li Mu in the evening.

Li Mu took Zhang Liao and Zhao Yun with him, and went to Zhuangzi outside the city to pick up Diao Chan and others.

When I saw Diao Chan again, in just two days, she had already become one with Mrs. Yan and Lu Lingqi, and their relationship was very good.

In this era, smart women will never be jealous, they will only have a good relationship with the big wife and the husband's children.

After Diao Chan returned to the city, she went home first, and Li Mu sent Wang Yun a betrothal gift the next day, and married Diao Chan after ten days.

Although Diao Chan is just like a wife, in Li Mu's eyes, there is no distinction between wives and concubines.

Regardless of whether there is love in his heart, but at least on the surface, he treats his women equally.

……

Five days after Li Mu married Diao Chan, he sent four armies, Cheng Lian, Wei Xu, Zhang Liao, and Zhao Yun, each with 3 troops, to conquer Niu Fu, Dong Yue, Xu Rong, and Duan Yan.

To Cheng Lian's surprise, before he arrived in Mianchi, Dong Yue had already gone to Anyi to join Niu Fu.

But Niu Fu was worried that Dong Yue would seize his power, so he slaughtered Dong Yue, and Cheng Lian easily captured Mianchi.

But when Wei Xu led a large army under the city of Lin'an, Niu Fu could not win, so he packed up the gold and silver, abandoned the city at night and fled.

As a result, one of his followers named Hu Chi'er saw the money, so he killed Niu Fu and took his property.

It's a pity that Hu Chi'er was too greedy, and wanted to eat both ends. After he cut off Niu Fu's head, he sent it to Wei Xu, hoping to get a half-job with this credit.

Who knew that when he arrived at Weixu's camp, Jia Xu, a counselor under Niu Fu's command, was also there.

Jia Xu exposed the fact that Hu Chi'er had murdered and seized money in a few words, and was finally ordered to be beheaded by Wei Xu.

It turned out that before Wei Xu set off, Li Mu had already told him that there was one talent to pay attention to when attacking Niu Fu, and that was Jia Xu, a counselor under Niu Fu's command.

If you meet this person, you must treat him politely and persuade him to serve you. If this person is stubborn, you must kill him decisively and never let him go.

Jia Xu, a poisonous man who can open Wushuang in this world, is not only full of poisonous schemes, but also knows the magic of attracting wind and thunder, and his force is not weak. Li Mu will never let him wander outside.

Either it's for me, or no one else can get it.

What Wei Xu didn't expect was that Jia Xu sent him to the door before he started to attack the city.

Only then did he know that Niu Fu had abandoned the city and fled last night, the general had fled, and Anyi was already an isolated city at this time, so Jia Xu naturally wouldn't seek death and surrendered decisively.

After Jia Xu chatted with Wei Xu for less than a quarter of an hour, Hu Chi'er arrived with Niu Fu's head, which happened to bump into his hand.

After all, Jia Xu has also served under Niu Fu for so long, so there is still some kind of friendship. How could he not avenge Niu Fu?

Naturally, Wei Xu also saw this, and was happy to push the boat along, selling Jia Xu's favor, and immediately ordered Hu Chi'er to be killed, and Niu Fu's head to be buried in peace.

Cheng Lianwei, Wei Xu's two teams were easy and smooth enough, but Zhang Liao and Zhao Yun's two teams were even easier and smoother.

When they led the army to Xingyang and Huayin, Xu Rong and Duan Yan directly opened the city gate, and brought all the civil and military soldiers under their command to greet them in front of the city gate empty-handed.

In this way, the four cities were easily obtained, and Li Mu added two more unparalleled generals and a top unparalleled adviser.

Each of the four left [-] soldiers and horses, and sent their generals to defend the city, and then sent troops to Luoyang.

Li Mu met Xu Rong, Duan Yan and Jia Xu, and asked them whether they would like to be civil servants or generals.

The three of them didn't understand, so Li Mu handed over the written new system to the three of them.

After reading it, the three of them suddenly realized that Xu Rong expressed his wish to be a general, Duan Yan wanted to be a civil servant, and Jia Xu still wanted to do his old job and be a counselor.

Li Mu then invited the little emperor, and named Xu Rong a general to promote martial arts to serve under his account.

Xu Rong was originally a fourth-rank Dianjun Zhonglang general, but General Yangwu was a fourth-rank general, so he was promoted to a higher level, Xu Rong was naturally grateful.

As for Duan Yan, Li Mu helped him get a position as the magistrate of Huazhou, which is also a fourth-rank official.

In the past, he only managed one city and one place in Huayin County, but now he is in charge of the entire Huazhou Prefecture. Naturally, he has been greatly promoted, but he has lost his military power.

Fortunately, he himself has no interest in fighting, and is better at governing the place.

As a counselor, Jia Xu doesn't need any official position with real power, he just needs to hang up a position to receive a salary, so Li Mu gave him the official position of Doctor Guanglu.

Doctor Guanglu is an official who is added and commended. He has no actual power and receives a third-rank salary.

Up to now, Dong Zhuo's chaos has been completely resolved, Li Mu has more than [-] troops in his hands, and Jia Xu, a poisonous soldier, as his military advisor.

The most amazing thing is that not only will the court not hold him back, but it will be his backing.

So it's time to move on to the next step.

The theme of this second step of the plan is: Order to seek thieves.