LSBM - Chapter 198: A Traitor Has Appeared Among Us

Khorasan had been gripped by terror and joy over early spring.

Those who felt joy were the ones who had been oppressed by the Persians and the Abbasids.

Shu Yichao’s invasion was as swift and batshit insane as ever.

His strategy was simple.

He would first have his terracotta warriors fly across the city walls before leaping off gigantified to clear the garrison troops’ defenses. Specters would emerge from defeated enemy troops, and they, together with the ghost horsemen, would quell any enemy resistance.

It was a straightforward tactic, but so far, no city had been able to survive it.

The peasants and slaves in the city felt vindicated when they saw those who had previously treated them no different from livestock were massacred in cold blood.

To their further delight, whenever Shu Yichao conquered a city, the ghost horsemen would distribute the land to them according to Tang laws.

The landowners in the region were being uprooted, and it would be a waste to leave these lands unoccupied, so they figured that they might as well distribute it to the locals.

The people of Khorasan were overjoyed. No one knew better than them what it meant to have a few hectares of land in this era.

My gosh! The world has finally taken pity on us after decades of suffering!

Black Lotus Temples started popping out like bamboo shoots after a rain.

Of course, these plots of land weren’t given for free.

The ghost horsemen had all been sly, old foxes back in their time.

Want land?

Sure. You just have to tie your Abbasid masters up, slit their wrists, and let them bleed to death.

The ghost horsemen even inscribed the names of those who did so on Shu Yichao’s Soul Summoning Tower, heralding them as ‘war merits’. Once the locals had stained their hands with Abbasid blood, they would have no choice but to throw their lot with the Tangs.

If they wanted to survive, their only option was to be Great Tang’s citizens.

Those who were gripped by terror were the areas under the Abbasid Caliphate’s rule.

There were four key cities in Khorasan.

Balkh, lo

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