Three days later, Liu Bang led an army of 50,000 resurrected soldiers out of the forest and embarked on a journey to conquer the west, both to establish the Han dynasty and to find the materials for the non-existent elixir of immortality.
Liu Bang believed that finding those precious medicinal herbs would be much easier by targeting the royal families and high-ranking officials of various states. Furthermore, Wang Han had given him an invincible, immortal army. Along his journey, he employed the simplest and most primitive methods: brute force and plunder. He subjected royal families and nobles to severe torture and interrogation, and forcibly conscripted all men who could walk, regardless of age, into his slave army. These men were branded on the face and forced to plunder and capture more people to serve as slaves after conquering a territory. His sole purpose was to seize precious medicinal herbs and wealth.
Seven days later, Liu Bang led his army of reincarnated beings and 300,000 conscripted slaves into the territory of the Mauryan Empire. Wherever they went, villages and towns were razed to the ground, burned, killed, and looted. Corpses littered the landscape, and large numbers of slaves were driven to serve as their servants and transports. The appearance of this army, composed of the dead and a vast number of slaves, caused a nationwide upheaval in the Mauryan Empire. King Ashoka quickly mobilized 200,000 troops to the border and simultaneously began an emergency conscription throughout the country, searching for eminent monks and shamans.
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Three hundred miles from the border of the Mauryan Empire, two hundred thousand soldiers, each holding a curved sword in one hand and a small shield of various styles in the other, formed a line several kilometers long. Facing them was Liu Bang's army of fifty thousand resurrected soldiers and no less than three hundred thousand slave soldiers.
"Are you afraid when you face an enemy that nearly outnumbers you?" General Agan of the Mauryan Dynasty drew his sword, pointed it at the army led by Liu Bang, and shouted loudly to the soldiers behind him.
"Fear," the Indian army answered in unison, their voices neither loud nor orderly, and many soldiers' hands gripping their swords trembled. They were genuinely afraid, for they all knew that the opposing army contained undead creatures under a sorcerer's spell. This battle was a matter of life and death, or even certain death.
“I’m afraid, I’m afraid too. This battle is a nine-out-of-ten chance of death, and we might all die.” General Agan said loudly, “But even so, we must fight on, because behind us are our homes, our families, our farmland. We must buy them time to evacuate and buy the King time to gather more troops. If we cannot stop them, your families will all die under their swords. Now, do you dare to fight them?”
"Dare!" the three men shouted loudly.
"Their morale is lacking, and their equipment is terrible; they don't even have decent armor. Their formation is also rudimentary." Liu Bang looked at the 200,000-strong army opposite him. This was the first time he had encountered such a large enemy force. However, in terms of morale, formation, and even equipment, apart from their numbers, they were inferior to even the armies he had encountered in the jungle before.
"Give the order to the slave army to attack and annihilate the enemy. Those who survive will be granted freedom." Looking at the massive army of the Mauryan Empire, Liu Bang commanded. This time, unlike usual, he didn't send his resurrected troops to kill the enemy first, then let the slave army clean up the battlefield. The slave army was already quite large, and more would follow, so he planned to whittle down a portion of them. As for granting them freedom, Liu Bang didn't believe that 300,000 untrained slaves, a mix of old and young, could defeat the enemy, even if the enemy seemed weak to him.
Upon receiving the order, the corrupted soldiers drove the slave soldiers to the front lines with their spears. Armed with weapons but without armor or shields, the slave soldiers looked at the 200,000-strong army of the Mauryan Dynasty opposite them, their legs trembling, some even wetting their pants in despair.
"Listen, as long as you eliminate the enemy on the other side, those who survive will be free to go home." Three thousand soldiers resurrected from the dead shouted in front of the three hundred thousand slave soldiers: "Those who still want to go back to see their wives and daughters, follow us and charge forward, kill them all. Anyone who dares to retreat will be killed without mercy."
"Kill..." After saying that, the three thousand resurrected soldiers took the lead and charged towards the enemy's army formation of the Sparrow Dynasty.
"Kill..." For freedom, for that pitiful hope of survival, the 300,000 slave soldiers could only roar as they desperately charged towards the Mauryan Dynasty's army, following the 3,000 impure soldiers in front of them. Behind them, 10,000 impure soldiers followed in a long line, killing anyone who dared to retreat.
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"Loose the arrows...launch them! Elephant troops, prepare to charge!" General Agam immediately gave the order, seeing the filthy earth soldiers charging towards him and the chaotic slave army behind them.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh..." Arrows rained down from the sky like locusts. Unfortunately, landing on the foremost impure soldiers did nothing but slow them down; they simply pulled the arrows from their joints and continued their charge. The slave soldiers behind them fared much worse. Without shields, they were riddled with arrows and fell to the ground. Watching their fallen comrades, they dared not retreat, but instead trampled over the wounded and dead to continue their advance. For behind them, the undead monsters drove them forward. Compared to the impossible enemy behind them, the enemy in front offered them a glimmer of hope.
"Charge! Kill!" After three volleys of arrows, General Agam roared, brandishing his sword as he watched the enemy about to charge into their formation.
"Kill..." The archers quickly cleared passages several meters wide, and the elephant cavalry and cavalry, who were already prepared, rushed out of the cleared passages and charged towards the filthy soldiers and slave army that were about to arrive.
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