Liu Zhang, Dong Zhuo and Wei Yan got the ending of Yiwu almost at the same time, and their moods were different.

Liu Zhang got the news as soon as he let people spread the good news, and the entire camp suddenly thundered with joy, although there were still eighty or ninety thousand enemies outside the camp, and the crisis of the camp had not been completely lifted, but everyone understood that after Yiwu fell into his own hands, Wei Yan's 100,000 troops could rush to the aid of martial arts at any time, Dong Zhuo would face the double pressure from the west and the south at the same time, Dong Zhuo, who was full of wounded soldiers, did not say that he was attacking, I am afraid that it was impossible to even defend, so to speak, when Yiwu changed hands, Liu, Dong Zhi's victory or defeat is a foregone conclusion.

Dong Zhuo was like a mourner after learning the news, at this moment, Xu Rong and Dong Min's tens of thousands of troops were wiped out in one day, exposing his west to the front of Wei Yan's 100,000 troops, which was tantamount to declaring his complete defeat; The wealth accumulated by the Dong family for several generations, especially the wealth he had accumulated after he became the owner of Luoyang, had all become trophies of others; What made him even more angry was that since Lu Bu rebelled out of Chang'an, he thought that there were still opposition forces in Chang'an, and he was worried that the Dong clan would be harmed, so he moved all of them into the strong fortress of Yiwu, who expected that all of them would become prisoners of the enemy in a blink of an eye, which is equivalent to saying that except for Li Ru and Niu Fu, the two sons-in-law and nephews, he has almost become a loner, although he still has some women in Chang'an City, but these are just tools for him to vent his desires, he has never regarded these people as his own women, of course, If others dare to touch them, Dong Zhuo will never let them go, not because they like it, but for his dignity (at this time, Dong Zhuo didn't know that Niu Fu's son-in-law had become a prisoner of others, as for why, it will be described later). Dong Zhuo looked at Mi Hui, who fled to martial arts in a panic, and was simply furious, and slapped the case to blame why Xu Rong, Dong Min and others were all killed in battle, and only he escaped back? Even if he wanted to kill Mi Hui and the two thousand Qiang soldiers who escaped from the battle, even if Beigong Yan repeatedly begged, Dong Zhuo still refused to give up. It was Li Ru who waved everyone away and said something to Dong Zhuo alone, Dong Zhuo reluctantly pardoned Mi Hui's capital crime, but the death penalty was avoidable, and the living crime was unforgivable, and Mi Hui received thirty military sticks. It is not difficult to guess what Li Ru said, it is nothing more than what if the secret hui is beheaded, I am afraid that Beigong Yan and the Qiang soldiers will be resentful, Beigong Yan still has 10,000 Qiang soldiers in his hands, plus 2,000 people in the secret Hui department, the number of people has reached 12,000 people, now the Yiwu has been lost, the defeat can not be reversed, only to retreat to Chang'an to defend or retreat to the hinterland of Xiliang to avoid Liu Zhang's edge, at this time the Xiliang army is outnumbered, it is the time to use people, and no matter what choice is made, there must be enough troops to protect the retreat and the comeback, In this case, 12,000 Qiang horses are indispensable, and they can only be coerced and can not be offended, and if they punish Mihui severely, it is easy to cause contradictions and estrangement between Qiang and Han, and even more serious will even cause civil strife. Dong Zhuo considered his own net worth and life, so he had to agree with Li Ru's opinion to let Mihui go, as for the thirty military sticks, it was nothing to an iron-clad soldier, and everyone thought that Mihui had escaped, who knows......

The military stick is a very flexible punishment, because the person who inflicts the punishment can understand the monarch's mind and treat each victim differently. If the monarch is not disappointed in you, it is just a punishment, and he will use you in the future, then the military stick is a kind of march, don't look at the fierceness of the beating, but it is lifted up heavily and gently put down, at most it is a little pain of flesh and skin, and it does not hurt the muscles and bones; If you are completely abandoned, but you have people or money in the court, the torturer will not be too embarrassed; There is also a kind of people who have offended the monarch, the monarch will not sleep because you are alive, but the monarch has to let you go against his will for some reason, then those loyal torturers will definitely beat you to death in order for the monarch to have a peaceful sleep, and more importantly, to cater to the monarch......

Unfortunately, Mi Hui belongs to a third party, and the person who tortured him is still a petty officer of Dong Zhuo's guards, and his family and wealth are placed in Yiwu, which is a gift from Dong Zhuo to him, but it is not to take his subordinates as hostages, so that they dare not have the slightest dissent, now it's okay, all of them are lost to the Yizhou army, he and Mi Hui are really national enemies and family hatred, and he misunderstood Dong Zhuo's meaning, and as a result, Mi Hui, the self-proclaimed first warrior of the Qiang people, The impressive person who could fight with Zhang Fei actually fell under the mere thirty military sticks, and the thirty military sticks swallowed their last breath as soon as they finished fighting.

The Qiang people respect the brave, and when the 12,000 Qiang soldiers listened to the earth-shattering screams when Mi Hui was tortured, their faces felt hot, because they thought that Mi Hui had lost the face of the Qiang people, wasn't it just thirty military sticks? As for barking ten times worse than killing a pig? Do you think it's not enough to be embarrassed on your side, and you still want to throw people into Liu Zhang's camp? But when they gathered Mi Hui's corpse, looking at Mi Hui's corpse where all the bones in his ass were beaten into rice grains and almost beaten in two from his buttocks, everyone felt a chill, and no one accused Mi Hui of his reaction when he was tortured.

Li Ru finally persuaded Dong Zhuo, and as soon as he put his mind at ease, Mi Hui was beaten to death in a blink of an eye, and Li Ru couldn't wait to bury the tortured soldier alive! But he can't, firstly, because legally speaking, this person is not guilty at all, he just beat Mihui with thirty military sticks according to Dong Zhuo's order, and there are not many half sticks, who called Mihui's "body" not good? The second reason is that he didn't have that time, the first time he learned that Mihui was killed was not to complain to Dong Zhuo, but to find Beigong Yan non-stop, and persuaded him with good words, repeatedly saying that it was just an accident, hoping that it would not hurt the friendship between the two families, and at the same time said that he would bury Mihui.

In the last battle, Dong Zhuo actually let Beigong Yan's clansmen leave their mounts and participate in the attack as infantrymen, and as a result, two thousand Qiang soldiers became victims, which obviously made him dissatisfied with the behavior of using his people as cannon fodder, and this time he was killed by his henchmen and beloved generals, and he felt good in his heart, but thinking that Dong Zhuo helped him avenge the killing of his father, no matter what, he was kind to himself, and at this time, the two armies were still grasshoppers together in vain, and he could only make efforts to one place if he wanted to live, so he had to secretly accept Li Ru's statement.

After appeasing Beigong Yan, Li Ru found Dong Zhuo again, and persuaded Dong Zhuo for a long time before he was willing to apologize to Beigong Yan for this matter, and at the same time treated Mi Hui as a dead man, saying that he would be generous to Mi Hui and give Mi Hui's family a rich bereavement. Then, Li Ru put forward an opinion to Dong Zhuo that made Dong Zhuo extremely angry, that is, to retreat immediately, without the slightest hesitation, otherwise once the enemy army in Yiwu pounced, everything would really be over. Dong Zhuo knows very well that this retreat is easy, but it is not so simple to come back, his rule is completely based on powerful military suppression, and it is not popular at all, if these territories are ceded to Liu Zhang, with Liu Zhang's means of winning the hearts of the people, within ten days, I am afraid that these people will follow Liu Zhang's ass and go. Even if it is the army that Dong Zhuo relies on to protect himself, after suffering successive defeats, the morale of the army has reached the freezing point, if he retreats at this time, the military spirit will really be scattered, I am afraid that before he arrives in Chang'an, more than half of the people have already run away, and if there are no people, what is the use of retreating to Chang'an? What's more, Chang'an is not a good place to go at the moment, there is Lu Bu in the northeast of Chang'an, if Dong Zhuo retreats from martial arts, the south and southwest are completely Liu Zhang's territory, Chang'an is basically a lonely city, no matter how tall and strong the city is, once it is surrounded by Liu Zhang, Liu Zhang does not even need to attack, just the siege is enough to make him die without a place to be buried. Dong Zhuo said his own concerns to Li Ru, Li Ru said that retreating to Chang'an is not the ultimate goal, his idea is to retreat to Chang'an on the way, send a fast horse to summon Niu Fu to evacuate the Hangu line, the two armies converge, plus the Chang'an defenders, the strength will exceed 100,000, and then just like leaving Luoyang that year, Chang'an will be looted, and then use the army to force all the people of Chang'an to go to Wuwei with the army, resist Liu Zhang on the Wuwei line, and continue to develop westward after a stalemate. Li Ru was not willing to use this method of drying up and fishing, but everyone knew that the land in the Wuwei area was barren and sparse, and if An Chang was not emptied, there would be no foundation for confrontation with Liu Zhang. Facing the reality, Dong Zhuo, who had been roaring for a long time, finally gritted his teeth and accepted Li Ru's opinion, and decided to retreat to Chang'an the next day.