The next morning.
Meng Ao led the Qin army to launch another attack on the capital of Yelang. Unlike the previous days, this time the Qin army appeared particularly frenzied and ruthless.
Because...
They were afraid that Meng Ao would strip them of their hard-earned military positions!
After facing repeated attacks from the Qin army, the morale and fighting strength of Yelang plummeted, and they finally could not withstand the Qin army's onslaught and began to falter.
When the first Qin soldier climbed the city wall, Meng Ao was overjoyed and repeatedly ordered the drums to be beaten to boost morale, hoping to inspire the entire army to break through the city in one battle.
Heaven rewards those who persevere!
Finally, under the fierce offensive of the Qin army, the capital of Yelang was captured.
Meng Ao personally led his elite troops into the city. The soldiers poured in like a flood, quickly occupying the streets and important buildings. The Yelang defenders were forced to retreat in the chaos and were unable to organize an effective resistance.
The Yelang people in the city were panicked and scattered in all directions during the war.
The Qin army's iron hooves trampled through the streets, dust flew, warhorses neighed, and a scene of utter devastation unfolded.
Having fought against the Yelang people for a long time, Meng Ao knew that they were fierce and warlike. To completely conquer Yelang, in addition to military victory, he also needed to completely defeat them psychologically.
He ordered the massacre of many Yelang nobles and at the same time used iron-fisted methods to suppress ordinary people in order to reduce unnecessary riots.
Meng Ao understood that only by making the Yelang people submit to the might of the Qin sword could the Qin state truly secure this newly conquered foreign land.
Under the Qin army's swift and brutal methods, the Yelang people finally grew fearful and gradually calmed down. Meng Ao's strategy achieved initial success, and the situation in the Yelang capital began to stabilize.
However, Meng Ao knew that this was only the beginning. It would take time for Yelang to truly become a part of Qin, through integration and assimilation.
He decided to station troops in Yelang and began to implement a series of measures to ensure the long-term stability of Qin's rule until the king sent a permanent garrison and officials.
Late that night, Meng Ao personally wrote a report of victory and dispatched scouts to deliver it urgently to Xianyang to report the results of the battle to the King of Qin.
...
"Commander, we're rich... we're rich... money... all money..." Li Balang, his hair and beard disheveled, his eyes bloodshot, staggered into the mansion where the wicked husband was staying.
Seeing him making such a racket, Zhang Erhe suddenly appeared out of nowhere and quickly stopped him, saying, "Brother Ba Liang, keep your voice down, keep your voice down! The commander-in-chief was drunk last night... he's still asleep!"
Li Ba glared with his bloodshot eyes and hissed, "What do you know! If I tell the commander this news, he'll be jumping for joy even if he's on a woman's belly!"
Seeing Li Balang so excited, Zhang Erhe couldn't help but become curious and asked in a low voice, "What is it that makes you so excited?"
Li Balang took a breath and lowered his voice, saying, "I didn't sleep all night, and I counted the wealth of the powerful and wealthy in the city. It's like mountains of gold and silver, and piles of jewels. It's unimaginable!"
Upon hearing this, Zhang Erhe's eyes widened in disbelief as he asked, "Really? Are South Korean elites that wealthy?"
“Absolutely true!” Li Balang nodded excitedly. “I personally recorded them one by one. The sheer number is so large that it could even equal two years’ worth of taxes from my Qin state!”
Zhang Erhe immediately became excited, and without caring whether he was disturbing his wicked husband, he roared, "This matter must be reported to the commander-in-chief immediately. Let's go, let's go, how can we sleep now?"
“Exactly,” Li Balang nodded in agreement. “Go and drag him out of bed. I haven’t slept all night, how can he possibly sleep?!”
The two had made their decision and strode side by side toward the door of the wicked husband's bedroom. They raised their hands, pounded on the door, and shouted, "Commander, get up! There's good news, incredibly good news!"
"Holy crap?!"
"The sky has fallen?!"
The wicked husband, who was fast asleep, was awakened by the loud noise. Because he had drunk too much the night before, he almost urinated after holding it in all night.
He quickly got up and opened the door. When he saw two animals with glowing red eyes standing at the door, he was immediately jolted and almost punched them to death.
"What...what's going on with you two?!"
Seeing the two of them like that, the wicked husband was so frightened that even his anger at having his sweet dream disturbed vanished.
"Commander, wake up! Go check the money... check the money!"
The two men didn't give the wicked husband a chance to explain. They stepped forward and dragged him out of the room, completely disregarding the fact that he was shirtless and only wearing a pair of large shorts that he had ordered someone to make.
"Let me go!"
"Impossible, just shut up and watch!"
The two women didn't give the wicked husband a chance to struggle. Seeing this, the wicked husband also became curious and let the two women pull him away, wanting to see what kind of money could make the two women do this.
The wicked husband was carried by Li Balang and Zhang Erhe all the way to a large mansion.
At this moment, the mansion was surrounded by Qin troops in layers, so tightly guarded that not even a fly could get in.
Meanwhile, the Qin soldiers on the innermost side were excitedly discussing something. Upon entering the mansion, they saw that the huge courtyard was filled with gold, silver, jewels, and all sorts of precious artifacts.
"Commander, look!" Li Balang said excitedly, pointing to the mountain of treasure.
The wicked man rubbed his eyes, staring incredulously at the scene before him.
He took a deep breath, trying to calm himself down, and then slowly walked towards the pile of treasure. The soldiers made way for him, their eyes filled with mocking curiosity, wanting to see how the wicked man would react next.
"These...these were all found in the homes of powerful figures in South Korea?" The wicked husband's voice trembled slightly.
"Indeed, Commander!" Li Balang replied smugly. "We stayed up all night to ransack the city, looting all the valuables' properties. We couldn't even keep track of the exact amount."
"These treasures are enough to make the Qin state the richest in the world!"
The wicked man took a deep breath, and his eight-pack abs contracted, writhing like giant pythons, creating a unique and beautiful sight.
"This is fucking...we've struck it rich!"
"We can learn from Boss Lei now, and eat one bowl of tofu pudding and throw it away..."
Looking at the dazzling mountains of gold, silver, and jewels before him, he felt a surge of greed for the first time and gained a more direct understanding of the powerful and wealthy.
If one wanted to acquire such immense wealth in the Qin state, one would have to kill at least half of the wealthy households in the country, and even then, it would only be enough to barely scrape together that amount of money.
In South Korea, the wealth of the powerful and wealthy in just one city, Sinjeong, would be enormous!
Thinking of this, the wicked man roared, "Send the order to quickly conquer the remaining counties of Han, kill the powerful and wealthy families in the cities, and plunder all their property."
"Erniu, you immediately take 30,000 troops and thoroughly investigate the powerful and wealthy within our ruined city. Do not let any of the city's riches go unpunished."
They came in a hurry, and although they slaughtered the powerful and wealthy after the city was captured and left soldiers to guard the city, they still felt that they hadn't looted it cleanly.
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