The 1531st chapter battle empire (27)
The commanders of the brigade headquarters, whose command power was handed over, were standing behind Zhao Hu well at this time. In the current rotational battle, they did not need to take action, and the brigade commanders below could naturally be responsible.
The five brigade commanders of the First Division looked at the battle situation in a comfortable mood, and from time to time they talked to their colleagues in the brigade headquarters. Only Li Haoran looked like he wanted to speak but stopped, but his colleagues in his brigade stopped him intentionally or unintentionally.
Zhao Hu, who noticed Li Haoran's strangeness, couldn't help but ask: "Lieutenant Colonel Li, do you have any suggestions?"
Li Haoran stood attentively and saluted, and his colleague could only retreat aside with a bitter face. There was no way, and he was seen by the governor, so why would he block it?
Li Haoran maintained a respectful expression and said, "Mr. Governor, my subordinates want to know whether the last sentence of the notice of persuading surrender just now, the whole city will be destroyed after the city is broken?"
Hearing this, the officers of the five brigades of the First Division all looked at Li Haoran in confusion, while the officers of the brigade of Li Haoran carefully peeked at Zhao Hu. As for Zhao Hu, they 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 firm look on his face: "Grandmaster, I beg you to change this order!"
As soon as these words came out, the brigade officer of the First Division was immediately in an uproar. What was this new lie talking about?
He actually asked the Governor to change the order?
Don’t this idiot know that all big names will do their best, because this already involves the issue of prestige, so even wrong orders must be implemented with a tough attitude.
Besides, this order is correct. Since you refuse to surrender and plan to resist to the death, you must have the awareness of death. And anyway, there is a saying first, and it is normal to kill all the resisters after breaking the city to serve as a warning.
Zhao Hu was also stunned. He asked a little strangely: "Is there anything wrong with this order?"
Seeing that except for the people on his side, everyone else, including the beautiful female guard Zhao Hu, looked puzzled, Li Haoran couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
He calmed down and quickly said, "Mr. Governor, there are hundreds of thousands of people in this city. After breaking the city, Isn't it too much?"
The officers who were already talking about this were stunned when they heard this, and then they all laughed.
A brigade commander jumped out and said, "Lieutenant Colonel Li, you don't understand this. Just now, the general has told the people in the city in advance how to save their lives and lives. Since they have given them a choice, they have to bear the result of the choice. After the city is broken, the whole city is destroyed, so that our future enemies can understand how to choose!"
"But after we break the city, it's equivalent to victory. Wouldn't it be better to demote them to slaves and work for us? Why have to kill them all?" Li Haoran said anxiously.
He knew very well how strong the Zhao Hu army's combat strength was now. I'm afraid it would be possible to break the city in less than a day. If Zhao Hu did not change the order at this time, hundreds of thousands of people in the city would become wild ghosts!
"Hey, I said Lieutenant Colonel Li, why are you so kind and ruthless? Don't you know how many soldiers we killed in this siege? If we have to siege every city like this in the future, we will not be able to quickly recover the entire seaside province even if we have the strength of a legion!
"Now, as long as we kill everyone after breaking the city, the next time we attack the city, do you think the people and officers and soldiers in the city 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 reluctant to change his orders.
Zhou Wen didn't care about the life and death of the people in the city. What he cared about was that Zhao Hu's prestige could not be weakened, so he could never change the order!
Seeing that the officers of other brigades, especially the beauty who was said to be very powerful, looked indifferent, Li Haoran felt a sense of coldness in his heart. He did not expect that the officers of Zhao Hujun were so cold-blooded!
However, if he knew that Zhao Hu's army had already slaughtered many cities that resisted to the end on the Southeast Peninsula, he would understand that it would be normal for them to have such a mentality.
Although Li Haoran had no hope in his heart, he couldn't help but shouted to Zhao Hu in grief and anger: "Grandmaster!"
At this moment, Li Haoran had decided in his heart that if Zhao Hu kept his original order, he would voluntarily abandon his post and leave Zhao Hujun alone.
Although he was a little reluctant, he did not dare to lead people to rebel. He was afraid that Zhao Hujun would slaughter his city when he was angry, so he could only choose not to serve Zhao Hu.
Zhao Hu was silent. He felt that he seemed too cold-blooded. Is it because he slaughtered the city on the Southeast Peninsula? Or because he did not regard the enemy people as human beings?
Seeing that Zhao Hu didn't say anything, Li Haoran shouted again, this was the last chance. If he hadn't responded, he would leave later.
Zhao Hu, who was woken up, nodded and said, "Okay, I'll change this order."
"Ah! Lord (Sir Governor) can't!" Zhou Wen and the old ministers Zhao Hu immediately changed their faces and dissuaded them.
The newcomer from Li Haoran's side quickly praised: "The General Supervisor is wise!" This made Zhou Wen and others stare at them fiercely.
Zhao Hu waved his hand to stop everyone who was likely to make a noise, and said with a sigh: "So that's it, after breaking the city, all the enemy troops, regardless of the officers and soldiers, will be killed. Since they are in the army and confront us, they must have the awareness of being killed.
"As for the people in the city, both men, women, young and old, they are demoted to slaves, and their generation will not be promoted to their level for life, that is, they will be slaves until death. However, after becoming slaves, they will be born and raised like other slaves, and they can improve their level if they have the ability."
After hearing this, Zhou Wen and others who understood Zhao Hu's temperament were reluctant to accept the order. Li Haoran and others originally wanted to dissuade them, but they thought that the soldiers were the main force of resistance after all, and they had nothing to say when they were killed.
At least hundreds of thousands of people in that city were always preserved. Although they were slaves all their lives, their descendants could upgrade their levels.
Besides, being a slave under the command of the General General is no less inferior to being a human under the command of other warlords. After understanding these, they also knew that they could not be too arrogant. If other officers were not seen, they were eyeing them? They followed up with the order.
Attacking a city is a very difficult task. Even if it is equipped with hundreds of catapults, hundreds of arrow towers, hundreds of siege cars, and the troops are elite veterans of a division, plus 40,000 to 50,000 soldiers, such an army will only attack 30,000 to 40,000 people to defend, and the materials and defensive equipment have been consumed. It is very difficult to conquer without throwing a lot of blood and life. After all, the geographical advantage is not so easy to eliminate.
But today, Zhao Hujun showed the world why there is no law in war. Zhao Hujun, who was under the command of Zhao Hu, actually captured the city in a short period of time, which made everyone who followed this battle stunned.
Not long after seeing the order Zhao Hu changed was spread, soldiers had already broken through the city. When they were now exterminated by the remaining enemy troops, everyone in Li Haoran's brigade opened their mouths and was stunned.
Are you wrong? How long has it been! After I got the authorization, I also 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 have broken the city in a few hours?
It’s not a lie about military information, right? Could it be that with three more brigades, the combat effectiveness of the troops can quickly rise to several levels? This is unreasonable!
But when Li Haoran secretly noticed the expressions of the officers of other brigades of the First Division, he was stunned at first, and then extremely shocked!
Because Li Haoran discovered that the people of the First Division were all taken for granted. It turned out that they all thought it was normal to conquer a city in a few hours!
From this point of view, the two brigades that were commanded by themselves did not show their strength, and they were just cooperating with themselves in training!
After learning about this, Li Haoran looked at Zhao Hu with admiration. It was this young man who trained his troops to such an extent, which was really admirable!
Zhao Hu turned over his horse and went to the newly conquered city accompanied by the officers.
Shortly after Zhao Hu entered the city, Zhao Hu's army neatly suppressed all the guards guarding officers and soldiers who were searched and captured outside the city and executed them collectively. Then, together with the remains of the guards guarding officers and soldiers who died in battle, they moved them to the wilderness outside the city gate that was the first to be broken.
Then, these corpses were built into a pyramid-shaped hill with layers of corpses and soil. Finally, a large number of trees were planted on the hills to build the so-called "Wuwei", which is the "Jingguan" commonly known as the Far Eastern continent.
As for Zhao Hujun's behavior, Li Haoran and the others did not dissuade him, but instead watched the completion of the Wuwei with great enthusiasm.
The reason for this completely different mentality is that the mainland has been like this for a long time. The victorious side will use the bodies of the loser to build a pyramid-shaped hill to shock future generations. Because it is the product of showing off its power, it is called Wuwei.
Chapter completed!