On the Seven Towers

Green Forest City Provisional Government.

Li Tianrui has completely recovered from the black water disease he suffered from last time. He has been able to work normally these days, but he has been under a lot of pressure recently. Due to the fall of Heimuguan, the committee asked him to expand his troops on the spot. Not only should he independently complete the control around Greenwood City, but he would also need to send troops to support Hewan New City within half a month.

It is impossible to create a new army on the spot. It will definitely need to reorganize local troops or recruit civilians to join the army. The average quality of people in this era is quite low, and no matter which method is used to recruit soldiers, there is still a long way to go to meet the requirements.

Li Tianrui felt that he had tried his best, but there was still a huge gap between completing the committee's target number of people.

At this moment, Li Tianrui was considering the framework for forming this new regiment. He reluctantly dropped many of his recognized subordinates into the new regiment. This feeling was a bit like giving away a treasure that he had collected for a long time, which made him very reluctant to part with it, so he was particularly entangled in the selection of personnel. Just as he was thinking about it, there was a knock on the door of the office. His orderly reported: "Report to the head of the regiment, Advisor Luo Ling wants to see you."

Li Tianrui was a little surprised. Because Luo Ling was responsible for civil affairs and magic affairs, they met almost every day, so there were very few things that needed to be discussed at another time.

"Welcome, welcome, Teacher Luo rarely comes to my office recently." Li Tianrui asked Luo Ling to sit down and poured her tea, "What's wrong with Teacher Luo? Is there something wrong with the mage class you are training in?" ?”

Li Tianrui asked this mainly because Luo Ling's expression looked a little strange today. Normally she always gives people a feeling of being confident, but when she walked into the room today, Li Tianrui actually saw the uneasiness in her heart.

"No, no." Luo Ling picked up the tea, but did not drink it, but gently turned it back and forth. Just like people use hot water cups to warm their hands in winter. But this makes it feel even weirder. Li Tianrui felt that Luo Ling seemed to be uneasy, so he didn't say anything, but looked at her quietly.

Perhaps after adjusting her mood, Luo Ling said after a while: "Captain Li, what do you think of the fact that the Empire is preparing to attack Hewan New City?"

"This thing? I think it is very likely to be true. Not to mention that when the committee informed us of this situation, it gave us several different sources of this information. Even from a tactical point of view, attacking our hometown is also A good idea. On the one hand, with the imperial attack, our forces in all directions have been restrained and we can no longer have the energy to expand. On the other hand, everyone knows that there are many factories in Hewan New City, which is like this in China. Technology, the birthplace of Chinese gadgets, is of greater benefit to the empire than any other city in conquering Hewan New City," Li Tianrui analyzed.

"Then do you think the Imperial people have a good chance of winning?" Luo Ling asked again.

"It's hard to say what the imperial army looks like. We haven't seen it before, but from the Heimuguan battle report I've seen, the combat effectiveness of their ace teams is really impressive. And it's not impossible to deal with our guns and artillery. There is no way. Also, Wang Jiyuan has done an analysis of the opponent's strength. He believes that the Imperials can pull out at most about 50,000 troops to attack Hewan New City without affecting the guards at Heimuguan.

So, to be honest, this battle still poses a great threat to us. "

"Do you think the loss will be great even if we block them?" Luo Ling asked again.

"If they send out the Black Guard and Beast Breed Legion, led by masters, the losses will not be small. Just look at Heimuguan. Our battle loss ratio is not as good as expected. Not to mention Hewan New City It is the core area we have worked hard to build, and many factories and research institutes are there. If these suffer losses, the impact on us will be no less than the sacrifice of soldiers," Li Tianrui analyzed seriously.

"In other words, as long as the opponent starts to attack Hewan New City with its main force, we will suffer heavy losses, right?" Although Luo Ling asked, her eyes kept looking at the ground.

"Yes." Li Tianrui felt something was wrong in his heart and asked, "Teacher Luo, why are you asking this question..."

Luo Ling let out a long sigh, and her beautiful eyes finally stopped looking around and met Li Tianrui's eyes: "If there is a way to eliminate these enemies, it may cause a lot of collateral damage and even cause many civilians to die. What do you think?" Should we use this method?”

Li Tianrui was stunned by the question. His eyes suddenly opened and he stared at Luo Ling's slightly pale face. Having said this, he fully understood what Luo Ling meant. But this thing is too challenging for a modern person's bottom line. He had never thought of this idea himself, or in other words, even if he thought about it for a moment, he would keep it firmly in his heart. But Luo Ling now singled out this method, which made him suddenly at a loss and even panicked.

"Teacher Luo, could it be that you have put your mind on that?"

"Yes. I remember... you mentioned that you... have the last bottle of black water disease... black water sample." Luo Ling said this intermittently.

"This is biological warfare..." Li Tianrui murmured.

Luo Ling concentrated and said, "As long as we take advantage of the fact that the imperial people are still gathering at Heimuguan, we can release bacteria there to infect a few people. Within a day or two, the first batch of infected people will appear at Heimuguan, but they don't have as dense a magician configuration as us, so they won't have time to treat the infected people. In less than two weeks, the imperial army will be paralyzed. Due to the exchange of messengers and the dispatch of scouts, they will definitely bring the virus to nearby villages and towns and the territory of the empire. Maybe... there will be a plague that sweeps across the continent."

The scene described by Luo Ling is terrible, but very realistic. According to Li Tianrui's own deduction, things will develop in this way. Maybe the empire will use the power of blood to fight against the blackwater disease as Liu Yisheng said in other historical lines, but by the time they can do this, the army that is on the expedition to Hewan New City must have been finished.

This method of attack is not uncommon in the history of mankind. Whether it is the siege war in medieval Europe or the Mongolian army that swept across Eurasia, they have done similar things. However, as a demonized bacterium, Blackwater itself is more powerful than any plague in history, and the consequences it may cause are even more disastrous.

However, the most vicious fruit is indeed the most delicious and tempting.