Chapter 840: General
Liu Ke, or Li Ke in the Three Kingdoms period, had wanted to do this a long time ago. She had seen the corruption and incompetence of the officials of the Han Dynasty, as well as how inhuman they were.
If the Yellow Turban Army was not really incapable of forming a court, she would have joined it long ago.
She represents destiny and the ordinary people's yearning for a peaceful and beautiful future.
The Yellow Turban Army was indeed powerful, but unfortunately, the three Zhang Jue brothers were really not capable enough.
But when it comes to the Yellow Turban Army, Li Ke has a very favorable impression of them. He can be said to be quite sympathetic to those who want to overthrow the Han Dynasty because they cannot survive.
It's a pity, though, that they were taken advantage of.
This is also a very helpless thing. Even Zhang Jue himself was being used. Under such circumstances, the Yellow Turban Army had no chance of success.
So she stepped up.
The battle with Zhang Jue was a battle between two men destined by heaven.
That was why he was severely injured.
But now...
"Follow me! Noxus' destiny is declining! It's time to change the world! If the nobles of the past were the sky above your heads! It's time for us to destroy this sky! The sky is dead!"
Li Ke held the flag condensed by his own fighting spirit and rushed towards the military camp and the Governor's Mansion here.
The people who had robbed her before looked at each other, wondering what this person was doing. But the person who had been given a bite of dry food by Li Ke before looked at Li Ke's back, thought for a while, and chose to follow him.
He himself didn't know what to think. He knew very well that Li Ke alone could never defeat the Noxian army here, because there were 10,000 soldiers here! And they were all the emperor's elite! Although a lot of them were drawn, there was no doubt that these soldiers were still not something that ordinary people could deal with.
He once saw a man grab a weapon with one hand that required all his strength to wield. Facing such a warrior, they were completely useless.
The woman's fate was probably to be caught and tortured to death, right?
But for some reason, he just wanted to go and see what would happen to the person who said he could eat his fill.
Li Ke was very clear about this. The person she defeated could not use it directly, so she chose the best way.
Challenge the authority here.
As a general, you must establish your own prestige.
She rushed to the residence of the city's administrator at full speed. Based on the questions just asked, she knew where the other party was, basically next to the military camp.
So when Li Ke rushed over, what he saw were warriors wearing full body plate armor.
Full body plate armor is actually a thing that was born at the wrong time. When humans needed the combat effectiveness of armor the most, technology was not enough to develop plate armor, or it was not enough to mass-produce it.
And when humans no longer need them, it is time for armor to leave the stage of history.
Because whether from the cost or other aspects, the musket is more than ten thousand times better than armor, so the whole body plate armor is really sad.
But that is in this world, full body plate armor, which is both cool and combat-effective, has become the standard configuration!
"Who are you!"
Seeing Li Ke charging forward, the warrior in full plate armor roared angrily, while the captain of the guard standing on the steps looked at the charging Li Ke with interest - she was also a woman, so she was somewhat concerned about the female warriors.
After all, even in this world, the power gap between men and women exists. It is only some extraordinary beings that can ignore the gender gap.
But Li Ke only took a glance at them and quickly saw the deeply entangled cause and effect lines between them.
That was the sound of countless innocent people howling. They were not fighting for peace, but for plunder. Noxian soldiers were far more brutal than most soldiers in the world for this reason.
They don't fight for love or justice or anything like that. The reason they rob and attack other people is very simple.
Because of the war, they do not have enough food and money to feed themselves, and ordinary work is just waiting for death, so they have to plunder in order to survive, it is that simple!
“How sad…”
Li Ke let out a long sigh.
"Your will to fight is not for destiny! Get out of the way!"
He shouted this slogan, but the guards showed no intention of moving aside and raised their weapons instead.
“What a pity.”
Li Ke sighed softly. In an environment like Noxus, those who could become soldiers of the Guards were undoubtedly the best ones. In this world of frequent wars, soldiers in armies with abundant supplies wore armor that was one or two centimeters thick, which was enough to make armor plates for tanks. Li Ke even saw a few sturdy men with armor that was nearly three centimeters thick.
Such a person would be a deadly weapon even in her Three Kingdoms period. Although he could not become an unrivaled general, he could still be a centurion or a thousand-man commander.
There was no way. In her Three Kingdoms era, there weren't so many monsters and demons coming down to cause trouble, so the top-level combat power was too poor.
But as for mortals like the Hand of Noxus—
I don’t think I can beat Yan Liang.
There is no way. Although Yan Liang is like a gift in the novel, in fact, Yan Liang is also a standard enemy of a thousand people. He can fight a thousand regular troops by himself. Without the help of the unparalleled generals, the army under him is basically killed for fun.
Any unparalleled general will never die unless he is surrounded and beaten by tens of thousands of armored warriors. Even if he is surrounded and beaten by tens of thousands of armored warriors, as long as he has a god-level mount like Red Hare, he can escape by riding the Unparalleled Luanwu.
Even if you don't have a good horse, it will cost hundreds of lives to kill an unparalleled general. For a general like Guan Yu and Lu Bu's level, it requires your soldiers to risk their lives and pile up on them, and thousands of people will be killed or injured, before you can kill such a powerful general .
Of course, if there were unparalleled generals to help, military advisors to form formations and the like, then even people like Guan Yu and Lu Bu would have no way to deal with them. At most they would kill a few hundred people and then die.
However, the combat effectiveness of those who are not unrivaled generals is obviously not very good, and the individuals Li Ke sees now would be the best soldiers and generals in her era.
but--
"I am destiny! Anyone who stands in my way will die!"
She rushed forward, the spear in her hand flashing with dazzling lightning, and penetrated their line in one breath. Countless soldiers were blown away by the wind and waves caused by her charge on horseback.
The man with strong magical energy was directly blown up and fell heavily to the ground.
Everyone who saw this scene was shocked, especially those who followed Li Ke. The expressions on their faces seemed quite exaggerated.
Li Ke just lightly swept the spear in his hand, and a Noxian elite warrior wearing nearly three-centimeter-thick plate armor flew out in a spin, and the arrows rushing towards her were directly knocked away.
Everyone was shocked. Li Ke was like a blackboard eraser. Wherever she arrived, the densely packed soldiers disappeared like words on the blackboard erased by the eraser, leaving a completely blank space.
The scary thing is that this kind of thing is still happening constantly.
The wizard in the fortress wanted to launch a magical attack on Li Ke. Countless spells, arrows and magical weapons kept falling on Li Ke, but before they could get close to Li Ke, they were burned dry by the fighting spirit emanating from Li Ke ten meters away.
On the contrary, after Li Ke sensed that they were attacking him, he casually fired a shot and directly broke the tower where they were, causing all the mages inside to fall to the ground.
So, when the governor of this city-state found out about this, he looked at Li Ke in confusion, thought for a moment, and then spoke to Li Ke who had the gun on his neck.
"I surrender."
Are you kidding? He had at least 3,000 heavily armored troops and a 500-man magician legion under his command, but these people were all killed by Liu Ke like garbage. Is he going to fight Li Ke with his head?
Even courage is not enough!
"Very good. Pass on my order. From now on, treat the people according to the requirements on this form. If anyone fails to do so, I will kill him if I see him. If I see two people committing corruption, I will kill their superiors. If any of your subordinates commits favoritism and bends the law, I will kill you if you do not kill him in advance."
Li Ke took out the system he had implemented during the Han Dynasty. In fact, he had not done enough research on the situation in this world, so he was temporarily unable to set up a legal and effective taxation system - it costs money to run a country, and it is absolutely impossible not to collect taxes.
It’s just that most people don’t know they pay taxes.
"But, but... Noxus..."
The 10% tax rate plus a series of light tax systems seems good, but it is not realistic in Noxus because the taxation in Noxus is unlimited.
That's right, unlimited.
Although it was generally 40% to 60%, with peasants receiving 60% and nobles receiving 20%, because they had to fight wars, most of the time they would get 20% from the peasants, and then there was unlimited corvée labor, whether it was building fortresses and fortresses or joining the army to fight, there were compulsory requirements.
It is only because the Noxians can really get promoted and make money by fighting in wars that this system remains very healthy today.
"It's okay, I'll take care of it."
Li Ke smiled and put the spear in his hand against the governor's neck.
In her opinion, Li Ke was worrying and thinking too much at this time. If he had seen the scenes of the end of the Han Dynasty with his own eyes, he would definitely not be so hesitant.
To put it bluntly, he had never truly experienced what a war-torn era was like. Even in Ionia, daily necessities were scarce. But Ionia was rich in resources, so it was really not easy to starve people to death.
The most common problem is that there is no meat to eat. Under the power of magic, all kinds of plants grow very fast, and there are large areas of uninhabited areas.
Ordinary farmers might go hungry, of course, but for those who learn the Wind Control Sword Technique, if they really can't make ends meet, they can just ask their fellow disciples to take on some bounties on ferocious beasts, and they don't have to worry about not having enough to eat.
His main problem is that he is not starving to death but he also can't eat well, which almost protects his existence in the upward channel.
The governor had no problem with this, but unfortunately, he didn't live long because he found out that Li Ke was going to distribute food and weapons.
That's right, not only did Li Ke open the warehouses to release grain, he also distributed weapons and various military supplies to people in the entire city. The rest of the time he was killing people without hesitation, including bandits, evil gentry, hooligans, and those who took advantage of the chaos to rob, or formed gangs to prevent others from getting supplies, and those who wanted to capture him and seek rewards from Noxus, he killed them all.
So, on the third day, he had an army of a thousand men and the authority to manage the entire city.
And the price was only five thousand heads.
“It’s just that simple.”
The female general from the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms looked at the well-organized city with a smile, as well as the people who looked at her with admiring expressions, and felt helpless about herself at this point in time.
It is so simple that it does not require any excessive strategy. A powerful person only needs to show that he wants to kill someone.
However, she also knew that it was normal for her to feel that she had to change her thoughts before she could change the world at this point in time. Anyone who had not experienced war would think so.
While this is true, the problem is that the fastest way to change the world is always violence that others cannot resist.
"Too naive."
Looking at the slowly approaching Noxian troops, a smile appeared on the female general's face. The Li and Han flags on the top of the city wall rustled in the wind. She waved her spear, looked at the charging Noxian troops, and jumped down.
"I am following the will of heaven, and you are going against it!"
She saw civilians being used as human shields in this army, as well as countless children aged six or seven, and even more enslaved slaves.
At this moment, there was only compassion and anger in her eyes.
"Heavenly punishment!"
The spear in her hand was already full of power, and the air was filled with the anger of the atmosphere and God. As for the anti-human warlords of Noxus, the female general of the Han Dynasty did not feel that she needed to give them respect!
The sky was shrouded in dark clouds, and as the unparalleled female general roared, thunder and lightning continued to strike from the sky. The rage that was emitted alone was enough to completely evaporate the elite Noxian soldiers who were supervising the battle in the rear.
And this is just the first moment.
The slave warriors and children looked at the land behind them that was constantly being baptized by thunder and the army that was vaporized in the thunder and rain, and completely lost their will to fight. But when they turned their heads to look at Li Ke again, they could only see the female general who stretched out her hand to them in the remaining sunlight with a compassionate smile.
They saw something in her eyes.
With her, you can be a human being.
Real people.
