In the capital of the Mauryan Empire (I couldn't find the name, so I'm just writing it like this), King Ashoka stood silently on the city wall, watching the resurrected army that had already besieged the city. In twenty days, hundreds of thousands of soldiers had died, and more than a million civilians had perished. They had tried almost everything, but they couldn't stop this immortal army. The people pointed their anger at the previous king, his father, believing that his father had offended the gods, which had caused the gods to send down the immortal army to punish the Mauryan Empire. Some even rebelled against the Mauryan Empire, believing that its destruction was the will of the gods. Now, at the tender age of thirteen, he had taken the throne and was facing the situation of this immortal army besieging the city.
"Alas! Heaven is going to destroy my dynasty." Looking at the almost entirely despairing faces of the soldiers on the city walls and the people in the town, Ashoka sighed and asked a minister beside him, "What did the envoy sent to negotiate say?"
"Your Majesty, the envoy's head has been returned. And there's one more thing to say," the minister said reluctantly.
"What did you say?" Ashoka asked.
"Your Majesty, they demand that we hand over all our precious medicinal herbs and all our gold and silver treasures." Upon hearing this, the minister cautiously said, "Furthermore, all men in the country will be enslaved, branded on their faces, and those taller than a cartwheel will be sent to conquer the next country."
"Bang bang..." Upon hearing this, King Ashoka clenched his fists, his teeth grinding together. Humiliation, unprecedented humiliation, was worse than the destruction of their country; this was an attempt to exterminate their race.
"Soldiers, my people!" Ashoka turned to the soldiers on the city walls, and roared at the top of his lungs, "Now, the undead monsters outside the city are about to attack! They want to destroy our country, to exterminate our people! They are not divine punishment, they are the minions of demons! They want to enslave all men! We have no reason to retreat, no reason to fear! There can be no worse outcome! We will be fearless and fight them to the bitter end! This is our only hope! Men, women, young, and old, take up arms! For our country, for our people, fight them to the last man!"
After speaking, Ashoka knelt before everyone and kowtowed heavily. "I beg you all, for the continuation of our nation, fight to the death! This is our only hope."
"Fight to the last man."
"Let's fight them."
"Never back down."
On the city walls and throughout the city, soldiers and civilians alike shouted slogans. Ashoka was right; continuing the fight was their only hope.
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"This is finally getting interesting, but even if you fight with all your might, you cannot stop my advance." Hearing the shouts echoing from the city ahead, Liu Bang rode to the front lines. He uttered only one sentence: "Soldiers, let them know that the mighty army of Qin is unstoppable."
"Kill, kill, kill... kill, kill, kill."
The reanimated soldiers roared back, their imposing presence completely drowning out the sounds from the city ahead.
"Kill!" Liu Bang brandished his sword and charged ahead.
"Kill..." The corrupted soldiers immediately followed Liu Bang's footsteps and rushed towards the city ahead.
"Fire Release: Dragon Flame Song Technique." Liu Bang, who was at the forefront, formed hand seals and spewed out fireballs as big as dragon heads when he was only fifty meters away from the city wall.
"Boom boom boom..." Explosions continued to resound on the city walls and gates ahead.
In the series of explosions, the city walls collapsed and the city gates were blown apart.
"Kill..." the reanimated soldiers shouted, swarming into the city from the collapsed walls and the blown-open gates, like tigers among sheep, pointing their weapons at everyone in the city.
The battle lasted for a day and a night. It didn't end until dawn the next day.
The sun rises, its rays shining upon the city stained crimson with blood. It appears both desolate and beautiful.
Reincarnated soldiers gathered precious medicinal herbs and treasures from the city, while the wretched prisoners cleaned up the corpses. Crows gathered above the entire city, perching on houses and broken city walls.
Liu Bang looked at the gold, silver, and various precious medicinal herbs he had looted from the national treasury and smiled with satisfaction. He immediately ordered his soldiers to bury everything except the herbs, intending to reclaim the Qin state upon his return after completing the trial of King Han.
In the shadows, Wang Han, who had been watching his every move, also smiled. The things that were meant to be buried were obediently handed over to him by the soldiers in charge of burying them.
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Meanwhile, in the Qin state, unbeknownst to Liu Bang, just three days after he conquered the capital of the Mauryan Empire, Ying Zheng received news from Wang Han that a pre-prepared Qin army of over 300,000 men had left the Qin border. Wang Han and Ying Zheng had planned that this army would follow Liu Bang's route and seize all the territories he had conquered.
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