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Chapter 181 Strikes Luoyang【Please subscribe · Ask for a monthly ticket】

The barracks that Qi Lin attacked had about 2000 people. According to the roster found from the camp owner and general, there should have been 5000 people here.

However, in order to pay for nothing, the leader of this battalion manipulated hundreds of people on the roster, lied that hundreds of people were still alive, and another 1000 people went to do odd jobs to make money.

"Are you going to manage the prisoners here, or continue to attack with me?" Qi Lin looked at the statistical situation in a short period of time, shook his head, and asked the empress.

"It takes a lot of bows and arrows to get rid of all the remaining fighters in a short time..."

"Wait, when did I say I'm going to kill someone?" Qi Lin interrupted the Empress's self-talk, quite surprised by her meaning.

"There are only two ways to deal with captives throughout the ages, either release them or kill them. You don't want to disturb the people, so of course you can't let them become bandit soldiers."

"Forget it, let my soldiers take charge of this matter, you can leave dozens of people to assist."

Qi Lin understood what the Empress meant and expressed helplessness.

Under the surprised eyes of the empress, Qi Lin reiterated the policy of treating captives to the remaining soldiers.

"No beating, no cursing. If you voluntarily pay the travel expenses back home, are you treating the captives, or your own father?"

The empress couldn't help cursing, she really didn't understand why a decisive person like Qi Lin would treat his enemy like this.

Qi Lin ordered the soldiers to gather supplies and prepare to set off, and asked the Empress, "Do you think these soldiers who put down their weapons are still our enemies?"

"Isn't it?" The Empress was very puzzled, they were Li Siyuan's subordinates, and they were not enemies.

"Of course not." Qi Lin replied very simply: "In fact, for these soldiers from peasant households, Li Siyuan and others are his enemies."

"Report, the battlefield has been cleaned and all the prisoners have been taken into custody."

Qi Lin put away his desire to give lectures, and gave an order: "Order the troops, set off immediately."

He got on his horse and led the troops to continue marching in a hurry. Although the Empress was full of doubts, she could only remain silent in the face of the war.

According to Qi Lin's expectation, the news of their breach of the barracks will soon spread around Luoyang, and those military leaders who are fighting for power will put aside their conflicts and lead troops to try to surround Qi Lin and the others.

In order to avoid this situation, Qi Lin had to storm Luoyang before the encirclement was closed, causing chaos in the entire Central Plains, so that they would have a chance to take root.

But after going on the road, Qi Lin found that he still overestimated the organizational capabilities of these military leaders.

He galloped all the way, and found no regular army at all, only the escort organized by the landlord, but after seeing that these outsiders had no intention of encroaching on his land, they quickly retreated.

It can be said that he did not encounter any decent resistance all the way until the city of Luoyang.

After the empress explained, Qi Lin suddenly realized.

The army of this era is not divided into divisions, brigades, regiments, battalions and companies as clear and independent combat units as in later generations. There are all cooking squads and health teams.

As long as the superior gives an order, each combat unit can be pulled out to fight.It is impossible for such a thing to happen under the army of Li Siyuan and others.

They don't have any control over the grassroots of the army. Once a war starts, the deployment of troops will only be based on the barracks just now, and they will also be temporarily equipped with other personnel and materials needed for combat.

Although the army had set up corporals and centurions, at most these people waved whips and ordered the soldiers to advance. Once they were separated from the main force, they would be powerless to maintain the order of the army.

Even the empress, she only maintained a standing imperial army, and the other armies had only organizational systems and no people.

When it comes to wartime, those generals have to recruit their own people, prepare food and grass by themselves, and then go to the battlefield.

Although Qi Lin led Li Xingyun and Zhang Zifan to make such a big commotion on both sides of the Yellow River, it still takes time for these army leaders in Luoyang City to arrest the strong men and collect money and food.

The empress looked at the new army that was working hard but still trying to maintain order, and couldn't help sighing to Qi Lin: "I really don't know how you managed to create such an army."

"My method of training the army has never been hidden. If you want to learn, I will give you an exercise book later."

Qi Lin was still afraid that the Empress would not dare to learn from her.

The empress smiled and shook her head, only thinking that he was playing tricks.

Qi Lin changed the subject, looked at the rough city wall map of Luoyang City, and asked the Empress: "You have experience in siege, how did you take down such a city in the past?"

"Relying on human lives." The empress opened her hands, quite helpless: "I took down a big city like Luoyang several times, all by means of besieging the city, starving more than half of the people in the city to death, and they surrendered. But now we don’t even have 1 people, so there’s nothing we can do with Luoyang’s city walls.”

"I can't do that, and I don't have that much time."

Qi Lin shook his head, hoping that the fairy ship lying in Miaojiang could move now.

It's a pity that if you want that thing to repair itself, it can't be done every few years.

"It seems that I can only do it myself."

Qi Lin doesn't intend to waste time here, and is ready to show his true strength.

He has already dissipated the chaotic breath entangled in his body, and the three ways of spirit, energy and spirit are about to form three flowers, and his strength has faintly recovered a lot.

Although he decided to do it himself, Qi Lin didn't take the world by storm.

He ordered his two brigades to attack the imperial army around Luoyang from two different directions as quickly as possible. He didn't want to kill them, but just defeated them.

Li Siyuan's Forbidden Army is indeed full of courageous existences, facing the menacing new army, trying to overwhelm the opponent with numbers.

But Qi Lin didn't get entangled with them at all, he jumped over the big barracks and attacked the small barracks first.As long as the leader dies, the soldiers below will lose the courage to resist and flee in all directions.

Some of these routs ran home, but most of them ran to the few remaining large barracks outside the city, and were punished by Iron Fist.

There is also a great contradiction between the barracks and the barracks, and there is no affection at all.

However, such a move greatly affected the morale of the soldiers in the remaining barracks.

Qi Lin then led the new army to harass them several times, and did not let these people sleep peacefully all night.

The next day, he ordered another attack, breaking through the exhausted barracks in one fell swoop.

All of a sudden, the entire outside of Luoyang City was full of broken soldiers running all over the ground, frantically flocking to the four gates of Luoyang City, wanting to ask for asylum.

But Qi Lin was just sent to drive them into the city quickly, and did not stop them.

Soon the entire city of Luoyang was filled with rout soldiers. These people who had been defeated in the battle told how the new army fought at night and passed them on as demons and ghosts.

The empress failed to intervene in this series of actions, but just brought her own soldiers to drive the routs into the city.

She was stunned to watch Qi Lin defeat all the garrisons outside the city in just two days by means of mobile warfare, and threw the whole of Luoyang into a panic.

In the end, she only had one word for Qi Lin.

"You rushed the rout into the city, and caused the whole Luoyang to panic. This is certainly a good move, but it also strengthens Luoyang's defense."

Looking at the towering city of Luoyang, the Empress couldn't help asking: "How are you going to tear down this thick city wall?"

"Of course I use the seven swords in my hand."

Since the world of bad people, the seven swords that have never been unsheathed are clanging, excited for the next battle.

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