"Brother, before you set out on the expedition, you must promise me that no matter what the situation is this time, you will not be allowed to expand the number again." Before leaving for the expedition the next day, Lu Yan specially found Liu Tao.

It was my fault for leaving him back to the study yesterday, but if it weren't for the sudden increase of five hundred, the work would not have suddenly increased so much.

This is not just a matter of putting people into the army, but selecting the right archers, which means that the original establishment needs to be disrupted and reorganized. In the past, he said that he would not expand the army, the number of people increased, and the combat effectiveness plummeted, and in the end, even the Yellow Turban Thieves were not as good, so even if there were tens of thousands of people, in the end it would only end up being a one-touch collapse.

The insufficient materials were purchased directly from local merchants, and the merchants made a fortune, and they had to sing the praises of virtue. This is definitely sincere, if you change a military master, it may be possible to forcibly conscript.

has earned some fame, according to Liu Tao, it is retreat, but what is actually lost is the money in the army. Sure enough, if the retreat is excessive, pragmatism will be implicated.

"I understand this truth, and I promise that there will be no next time." Liu Tao nodded, it is impossible for an army to increase manpower indefinitely, not to mention anything else, the Zhen clan will definitely not be able to hold on. As for the nominal boss in Youzhou, he has not provided more than half of the military rations so far.

After a pause, he asked rhetorically, "...... those books?"

"I have already copied a copy, and then handed over the original to the county magistrate for his arrangement." Lu Yan immediately replied.

Even if these bamboo slips have become ownerless, since they have claimed that they will not take a stitch and thread, it is unreasonable to take away other people's bamboo slips as a result. It is basic common sense to copy a copy and return the original, and no one can find fault with it.

Anxi County is fifty miles away from Liwu County, and if the elite troops of the imperial court are replaced, it may take more than half a day to arrive. However, Liu Tao's army had to be divided into two days to march.

After marching less than twenty-five miles, the army began to camp in place. Scouts go out to look for thieves around them, or bandits in the camp. The soldiers who stayed behind began to practice, especially the archers for shooting training.

Three hundred new people have been added, which means three more tun commanders and six team rates. Liu Tao originally intended to support that, and Yang Shu, who had previously performed well in siege warfare, served as the commander of the tun, but the latter's decision surprised him.

"You're going to come over and be a soldier?" Liu Tao didn't understand a little, and he didn't do it, but he planned to be a pawn.

"Yes, the subordinates would rather be a small soldier for their own soldiers, please fulfill the lord!" Yang Jie replied calmly.

The title of lord is a bit interesting, after all, most of the soldiers, and even some officers, just call him sir. The two sides are subordinate to each other, just like Sun Jian under Zhu Jun, Sun Jian can't call Zhu Jun 'lord', right?

Calling this lord means becoming his doorman. There is less freedom, but it buttons up the two people, after all, this is already 'their own people'.

Let's just say that Cao Cao, after becoming the prime minister, those Hanchen who came with the emperor were basically marginalized. The ones who really reuse it are the old subordinates who call it 'Lord Gong'. Your own people, you can rest assured when you use it!

Yang shot a ranger, but he didn't expect his consciousness to be so high and his posture to be so low, but it was an excuse for Liu Tao to refuse him.

"But it's not appropriate to let you start directly from the pro-soldiers...... Liu Tao finally accepted him and let him start as a pro-soldier commander. As for the original chief, he was transferred to the bow and arrow unit and served as the commander.

Some people thought Yang was stupid like this, but soon, they regretted why they didn't do it.

After becoming the commander of the pro-soldier, after calling this 'lord', Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, and even Liu Ge and Shangguan Yu, had a closer relationship with Yang Zhu. Maybe it's because the person in front of him is already a 'own person'.

Around noon the next day, the large army had arrived in Liwu County, and the scouts and cavalry took the nitrate to the city to persuade them to surrender according to Liu Tao's wishes. Liu Tao didn't think that the thief would surrender after seeing Gao Sheng, but it could shake the morale of the other party, which was a good result.

"Sir!" But he never thought that the scout cavalry sent out quickly returned to the army and said excitedly, "Liwu County has surrendered!" ”

"Cast ...... Surrendered? Really surrendered? "Liu Tao really didn't react, could it really be that he could pass the head and surrender?

I just thought it was a little incredible, so I looked at the personal panel and unconsciously added 200 experience points. He remembered the original value very well, and now it was indeed 200 points more.

Slowly, there is also experience in surrendering? Liu Tao was a little surprised, it is said that there is indeed no official war yet, and the magic power of the non-war state will not get the bonus of meta-transformation magic, just look at the personal panel and see it at a glance. In the words of the game Hero Invincible, it is just an attack on a neutral force, and the other party surrenders at the moment of contact.

In this situation, there are often three directions in the game: neutral forces need you to pay a certain amount of money, and they will join your team; Reach out to neutral forces, who admire you very much and join your ranks unconditionally; The neutral forces are afraid of you and want to flee for their lives, so you can choose to let them escape or pursue them.

Now, they are equivalent to encountering the second situation, and before they have started fighting, the other party has chosen to surrender unconditionally.

One of the characteristics of the seven generations is that even if the other party is scattered and escaped, they can gain a certain amount of experience, not to mention the choice of 'accepting the other party's surrender'. Of course, the experience points obtained through this method are naturally not as much as those obtained from fighting a battle.

It's just 200 experience points, which is still too little...... Liu Tao complained in his heart.

"Brother, will there be a fraud?" Lu Yan saw that Liu Tao was thinking, thinking that he was releasing the eye of the sky, so he stepped forward to ask.

"No, this time the other party sincerely surrendered. That being said, disarm them first, and then guard them separately. Liu Tao shook his head, and then shouted at Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.

The two responded, and hurriedly went over to take over the defense of Liwu County. It's just that I feel a little unhappy, and I dropped before I fought.

When Liu Tao entered the city, Zhang Fei had already taken people to count the prisoners, and stepped forward to report: "Brother, there are 200 thieves in Liwu County, and all of them have surrendered. The county order and the county lieutenant arranged by the thieves had already fled first. ”

"General!" The Yellow Turban thief at the head spoke, "We are all people who were coerced by thieves earlier. originally didn't plan to rebel, but he was in the thief camp, and his family was in their hands, so he had to be a thief. Now that I surrender, I don't want to live, I just want the general to spare my family members......"

"I beg the general to spare me and my family!" The other captives also responded, with sincere and heartfelt words.

"Let me think about it for one night, and I'll give you an answer tomorrow." Liu Tao almost immediately wanted to agree, but just as the words were about to be spoken, he finally swallowed them, and finally finally held back this sentence.

"General Xie!" What I didn't expect was that I didn't give them a reply, but they solemnly thanked them.

If you think about it carefully, it seems to be clear that if Zhu Jun is like this, he will kill him directly, and there will be no hesitation at all. But since he had to think about it for one night, it meant that he was shaken. In this way, at least things have a turnaround.

"Brother......" Lu Yan stepped forward, he was really worried that Liu Tao would have to take in these two hundred people again.

"I have my own plans!" Liu Tao shook his head, this Lu Yan didn't believe in his promise too much.