"boom!"
With a deafening crash, the city gate was finally smashed open. The Qin army poured into the city like a flood.
"Kill! Leave no one alive!" Wang Li spurred his horse and charged ahead. "Let these traitors know the price of betraying Qin!"
Screams of agony soon echoed through the streets.
The Qin army was like bloodthirsty demons, killing anyone they saw.
Some people sought refuge in Buddhist temples, hoping for divine protection, but the Qin army set them ablaze, reducing the entire temple to ashes.
Some people hid in the cellar, thinking they could escape, but the Qin army threw torches into it, burning them alive.
More people were chased and killed in the streets, slashed to the ground, and blood flowed everywhere.
Wherever the Qin army's iron hooves trod, not a blade of grass grew!
"Reporting, General!" an officer reported, "A large group of people have been discovered attempting to escape in the south of the city..."
"Chase them!" Wang Li shouted sternly. "Don't let a single one escape! I will make these traitors know the consequences of betraying the Great Qin!"
The cavalry quickly caught up with the fleeing crowd.
A dense rain of arrows swept over, and men and horses were thrown into disarray.
Those who tried to escape were shot to death by a hail of arrows, lying scattered and broken on the road.
"Take a headcount!"
"Reporting to the General, in this battle, over 200,000 soldiers and civilians of Shule were killed. The entire city was wiped out!"
Wang Li nodded in satisfaction: "Cut off all their heads and hang them on the city wall. Let everyone see what the consequences of betrayal are!"
Meanwhile, west of Yanqi lies the Kingdom of Wensu.
When the Qin cavalry appeared at the city gates, panic gripped the city.
The horrific scenes in the two major cities ahead chilled everyone to the bone. The bloody massacres were simply unheard of!
"Your Majesty! The Qin army has surrounded the city!" the ministers exclaimed in alarm.
King Wensu's face turned ashen.
He knew that all of this was the bitter fruit of his own actions.
They were greedy for small gains and participated in the Xiongnu's conspiracy, but now the entire city's people are going to be buried with them!
"Surrender! Surrender now!" he shouted hoarsely.
But the Qin army gave him no chance at all.
The improved "swarm" spewed tongues of death, and a dense rain of arrows covered the entire city.
Within just one hour, the defending troops on the city wall had been almost entirely wiped out.
The Qin army surged into the city like a tidal wave and unleashed a bloody massacre.
On the streets, cries and pleas for mercy rose and fell, flames soared into the sky, and thick smoke billowed.
The entire city was quickly reduced to ashes.
The streets were littered with corpses, and blood flowed in small rivers, meandering among the ruins.
Cities were razed to the ground, and tribes were exterminated.
This is the price of betrayal!
The wicked man personally led the captured Yuezhi king through all these cities.
"See that?" he sneered. "This is what happens to your allies! How about it, was it worth it?"
The Yuezhi king's face turned ashen. He finally understood the price of challenging the Qin Dynasty!
Three months later.
The once prosperous city-states of the Western Regions have now become scorched earth, with countless corpses exposed on the wilderness, and the stench of blood still seems to linger in the air.
"Pass down the order," he said in a deep voice, "cut off the heads of all these traitors and hang them at every pass. Let everyone see the consequences of betraying the Great Qin!"
This is how an empire rules—establishing authority through bloodshed and suppressing dissent through killing!
The sun was setting in the west, turning half the sky red.
The wicked man stood on the high platform, gazing at the blood-stained land, and suddenly made a decision.
Those who are not of our kind will surely have different hearts; our submission today is merely a matter of power being stronger than others.
Since trouble was bound to happen sooner or later, we might as well go all the way and massacre the entire Western Regions to prevent future disasters.
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