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Chapter 1481 Conquering the Empire (27)

The officers of the brigade and regiment headquarters whose command was handed over were all obediently standing behind Zhao Hu at this moment. The brigade and regiment leaders like them were not needed to take part in the current rotation battle, and the regimental leaders below could naturally be in charge.

The five brigade leaders of the First Division watched the battle in the distance in a relaxed mood, and talked with their colleagues in the brigade from time to time.Only Li Haoran seemed hesitant to speak, but his colleagues in the brigade blocked him intentionally or unintentionally.

Zhao Hu, who noticed Li Haoran's unusual behavior, couldn't help asking: "Lieutenant Colonel Li, do you have any suggestions?"

Li Haoran stood at attention and saluted, his colleagues had no choice but to step aside with a bitter face, they were all seen by the warlord, so why would they block them.

Li Haoran maintained a respectful demeanor and said: "Lord Overseer, I want to know if the last sentence in the persuasion notice just now, that the whole city will be destroyed after the city is broken, is it true?"

Hearing this, the five brigade officers of the First Division looked at Li Haoran suspiciously, while the officer of Li Haoran's brigade carefully peeked at Zhao Hu.As for Zhao Hu, he didn't take it seriously, nodded naturally and said, "It's true."

Li Haoran was shocked, gritted his teeth, and then said loudly with a determined face: "Lord Overseer, my subordinates implore you to change this order!"

As soon as this remark came out, the brigade officers of the First Division immediately went into an uproar. What was this rookie talking about?
Actually asked Lord Overseer to change the order?
Doesn't this idiot know that every big man must do what he says, because this has already involved the issue of prestige, so even wrong orders must be enforced.

Besides, this order is also correct. Since you are not willing to surrender and intend to resist desperately, you must have the consciousness of death, and anyway, it is normal to kill all the resisters after breaking the city as an example.

Zhao Hu was also taken aback, and he asked a little strangely: "Is there anything wrong with this order?"

Seeing that other than the people on his side, other people including Zhao Hu's beautiful female guard looked puzzled, Li Haoran couldn't help but sighed in his heart.

He regained his composure, and hurriedly continued, "Lord Overseer, there are still hundreds of thousands of people in this city. Is it too much to kill them all after breaking down the city?"

Hearing this, the officers who were still talking about it were taken aback for a moment, and then they all laughed.

A brigade leader directly jumped out and said: "Lieutenant Colonel, you don't understand this. Just now, Lord Overseer has told the people in the city how to keep their lives safe. Since they have been given a choice, they must Accept the result of the choice. After the city is destroyed and the whole city is slaughtered, it is to let our future enemies understand how to choose!"

"But after we break the city, it means victory. Wouldn't it be better to demote them as slaves to work for us? Why do we have to kill them all?" Li Haoran said anxiously.

He knew very well how powerful Zhao Hu's army was now, and he might be able to break through the city in less than a day. If Zhao Hu didn't change his order at this time, tens of thousands of people in the city would become wild ghosts!
"Hey, Lieutenant Colonel Li, why are you so merciless? Don't you know how many soldiers we killed in this siege? If we have to attack every city in the future, we won't even think about having the strength of a legion. Quickly regain the entire Maritime Province!

"Now as long as we kill everyone after breaking the city, when we attack the city next time, do you think the people and officers and soldiers in the city will surrender or resist to the end? This is a good way to reduce our burden!" Zhou Wen suddenly jumped out and said , he was very unwilling for Zhao Hu to change the order.

Zhou Wen doesn't care about the life and death of the people in the city. What he cares about is that Zhao Hu's prestige cannot be weakened, so the order must not be changed!
Seeing the officers of other brigades, especially the beauties who are said to be very powerful, all looked indifferent, Li Haoran felt a chill in his heart for a while, he didn't expect the officers of Zhao Hujun to be so cold-blooded!

However, if he knew that Zhao Hujun had already slaughtered many cities that resisted to the end in the southeast peninsula, he would understand that it was normal for them to have such a mentality.

Although Li Haoran had no hope in his heart, he still couldn't help shouting at Zhao Hu in grief and indignation: "Lord Overseer!"

At this moment, Li Haoran had already decided in his heart that if Zhao Hu kept his original order, then he would voluntarily resign from his post and leave Zhao Hujun alone.

Although he was a bit reluctant, he did not dare to lead others to rebel, fearing that Zhao Hu's army would be angry and slaughter his own city, so he had no choice but to choose not to serve Zhao Hu.

Zhao Hu was silent. He felt that he seemed a little too cold-blooded. Is it because he slaughtered a city in the southeast peninsula?Or is it because you don't treat the enemy's people as human beings?

Seeing that Zhao Hu was silent, Li Haoran yelled again, this is the last chance, if you haven't responded yet, just wait and leave.

Zhao Hu, who was awakened, nodded and said, "Okay, I will change this order."

"Ah! My lord (Master Overseer) can't do it!" Zhou Wen and those Zhao Hu veterans immediately changed their faces to dissuade them.

The newcomer on Li Haoran's side quickly complimented him with a happy face: "Master Overseer is wise!" Zhou Wen and the others stared at them fiercely.

Zhao Hu waved his hands to stop the crowd who were likely to quarrel, and said with a sigh: "Well, after the city is broken, all the enemy troops, regardless of officers and soldiers, will be executed. Since they are soldiers against us, they must be punished." The consciousness of killing.

"As for the people in the city, no matter men, women, old or young, they are all reduced to slaves, and their generation cannot be promoted for life, that is, they will be slaves until they die. However, after they become slaves, their offspring are the same as other slaves. You can level up."

Hearing this, Zhou Wen and the others, who understood Zhao Hu's temperament, were very reluctant to take the order. Li Haoran and the others originally wanted to dissuade them, but they thought that the soldiers were the main force of resistance, and they had nothing to say about being killed.

At least the hundreds of thousands of people in that city have always survived. Although they have been slaves all their lives, their descendants can upgrade their ranks after all.

Besides, being a slave under Lord Overseer is not much worse than being a human under other warlords.After figuring this out, they also know that they can't push themselves too far, don't they see that other officers are staring at them?Then he took the lead.

Attacking a city is a very difficult task. Even if it is equipped with hundreds of catapults, hundreds of arrow towers, and hundreds of siege vehicles, it is still possible to have a division of elite veterans, plus 4 to [-]. Soldiers, if such an army wants to attack a city with only [-] to [-] people defending it, and its supplies and defensive equipment have been consumed, it will be very difficult to capture without shedding a lot of blood and lives. After all, geographical advantages are not so easy to eliminate .

It's just that today Zhao Hujun showed the world why if there are no laws in war, Zhao Hujun, with Zhao Hu in charge, broke through the city in a short period of a few hours, which stunned everyone who followed this battle.

Not long after seeing Zhao Hu's changed order, some soldiers reported that the city had been breached, and when the remaining enemy troops were being wiped out, all the people in Li Haoran's brigade opened their mouths and were dumbfounded.

Did you make a mistake?How long is this!After I got the authorization, I commanded two brigades in addition to my own troops, but after fighting like this for several days, I didn't even stand firm for an hour. Now I broke the city in a few hours?

Wouldn't it be a lie about the military situation?Could it be that with the addition of three brigades, the combat effectiveness of the troops can rapidly increase by several levels? This is unreasonable!

But when Li Haoran secretly noticed the faces of other brigade officers of the First Division, he was taken aback for a moment, and then he was extremely shocked!

Because Li Haoran found out that the people in the First Division all took it for granted, dare they all think that it is normal to capture a city in a few hours!

From this point of view, the two brigades that I commanded at the beginning did not show their strength, and they were simply training with me!
After learning this, Li Haoran looked at Zhao Hu with reverence, it was this young man who had trained his troops to such an extent, it was really admirable!
Zhao Hu got on his horse and went to the newly conquered city accompanied by all the officers.

Not long after Zhao Hu entered the city, Zhao Hu's army neatly pushed all the guards and soldiers captured outside the city and executed them collectively, and then moved them, together with the remains of the guards and soldiers who died in battle, to the city that was first captured. The wilderness outside the door.

Then, these corpses were built into a pyramid-shaped hill with a layer of corpses and a layer of soil, and finally a large number of trees were planted on the hill to build the so-called "Wuwei", which is the customary name of the Far East mainland. Jingguan".

As for Zhao Hujun's behavior, Li Haoran and the others did not dissuade them, but watched the completion of this Wuwei with great interest.

The reason why there is such a completely different mentality before and after is because the mainland has been used to it for a long time.The victorious side will use the corpses of the losers to build a pyramid-shaped hill to shock future generations. Because it is a product of showing off its force, it is called Wuwei.

The pyramid built from 5 to [-] corpses and mud is huge, and the shadow of this earthen tower can be seen even in the city.Seeing this Wuwei where their relatives and friends are buried, the people in the city immediately turned their eyes away. They are all slaves now, so there is no time to feel the fate of others.

(End of this chapter)