Water and fire are said to be merciless...
If it's a large fire, people can still run away and have a chance to survive!
But if it's a flood, water can seep into anything, and as long as you're below the 'water level,' you'll drown no matter where you escape to!
Moreover, the floodwaters washed away the city walls, turning both Yancheng and Yingdu into two pots of dumpling soup...
Jiang Ming stood atop the hill, quietly observing the 'spectacular and tragic' scenes of Yancheng and Yingdu in the basin below...
Although it was hard to bear, it was the only way out!
To advance historical progress and unify the world, certain prices must be paid!
After all, people can't learn by being taught, but they can learn by doing!
Hopefully... this is the last large-scale battle.
This flood has claimed the lives of at least hundreds of thousands of people.
During the rainy season, the river swelled, and the Han River changed its course and flooded the Yan and Ying Basins... The heavenly soldiers and water generals came in an endless stream, and the river continued to ravage the core area of the Chu Kingdom. Apart from a few farmers in the far suburbs who climbed up the mountains and escaped the calamity, almost no soldiers and civilians in Yan City and Ying Capital survived!
This, of course, also includes the King of Chu and all his palace wives, concubines, and children...
The flood raged for three days and four nights before finally receding slowly.
When the sun shines brightly and there are no clouds in the sky, standing on the mountaintop and looking down, one can see that Yancheng and Yingdu, inside and outside the cities, are filled with corpses.
Because the southeast corner of Yancheng is the lowest point, countless corpses drifted there and piled up like mountains, a truly horrific sight!
In addition, the south is already extremely hot, with temperatures hovering around 35 or 36 degrees Celsius for the past few days. The corpses, soaked in water and fermenting under the high temperature, caused a stench to permeate the entire area!
Jiang Ming could smell the suffocating stench even from the top of the mountain.
After a great flood comes a great plague. Jiang Ming dared not linger and led his wife, children, and the 70,000 to 80,000 engineering troops across the Han River back to the territory of the Da Gan Dynasty.
This battle between Yan and Ying was utterly devastating.
The royal family and nobility of the Chu state were almost completely wiped out, along with 800,000 innocent lives lost in the flood...
The number of people affected within the rest of the Chu state is incalculable!
This doesn't even include the great plague that will soon follow the flood!
At this point, the State of Chu was completely crippled, and its fate was ten times worse than that of the State of Jin!
The King of Chu's previous so-called "gathering of forces" to compete with Jiang Ming has turned into him sticking out his neck and letting Jiang Ming sever the lifeline of his kingdom!
Jiang Ming's actions shocked the world!
After hearing about Jiang Ming's methods and cruelty, everyone in the various vassal states trembled with fear, questioning their own existence, terrified that Jiang Ming would chop off their heads at any moment.
He truly managed to petrify the entire world!
The total population of the world is only 40 million, and even if we include the Hu people, it wouldn't exceed 45 million. Yet, he single-handedly killed one-twentieth of the world's population!
Seeing the powerful state of Chu in this state, the feudal lords of the various states no longer dared to disobey the will of the "Fangbo".
Many countries, and even their monarchs, came to Luoyi in person, knelt outside the city gates, and kowtowed to the Emperor of the Great Qian Dynasty.
When Emperor Ji Buyi of the Great Gan Dynasty heard about Jiang Ming's methods, he also felt a chill run down his spine!
His ruthless methods were unprecedented, and the stimulation seemed to have cured the Alzheimer's patient by half...
Inside the Qin palace, when the King of Qin heard about his eldest son's glorious achievements, he was so frightened that he withdrew his troops overnight!
All the nation's military forces were concentrated at Hangu Pass, and they dared not covet even a single step of Jin territory.
Qin had this advantage: Hangu Pass was a bug. Due to its extremely special terrain, the only way to break through Hangu Pass was to have more or fewer people. Under the current conditions of productivity, it was an unsolvable problem.
The Qin state could also use this as a shield, allowing it to attack or defend as needed!
Originally, the State of Jin occupied the Shaoliang region west of the Yellow River. By bypassing Hangu Pass, it was like a sword hanging over the head of the State of Qin!
However, during the second Qin-Jin War, the foolish ruler of Jin lost Shaoliang...
It will be much more difficult to invade Qin now!
Queen Mi Min of Chu, the Queen of Qin and Jiang Ming's stepmother, fainted in the palace upon hearing that her country and royal family had all perished...
Upon waking up, she loudly proclaimed that she wanted to tear Jiang Ming's birth mother, Princess Nanzhu of the Song Kingdom, to pieces to vent her personal anger!
Jiang Ming's father, the King of Qin, was more rational. Faced with Mi Min's crying and tantrums, he simply slapped her hard across the face, sending his principal wife sprawling.
At this moment, is Princess Nanzhu of the Song Kingdom merely the mother of Prince Jiang Ming of the Great Qin Kingdom?
She was no longer his concubine... but the biological mother of his superior, 'Fang Bo'.
At this point, would you still dare to do anything improper to South Sea pearls?
Watch out for her son; he might just slaughter the entire city of Xianyang...
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Luoyi, outside the city.
Jiang Ming returned victorious, and the Emperor of the Great Gan Dynasty stood respectfully outside the city gate to wait for him.
Upon seeing Jiang Ming's 'construction team' approaching from afar, Ji Buyi immediately stepped forward to greet them.
Then he bowed respectfully to Jiang Ming!
Then, he personally led the carriage for Jiang Ming to welcome him back to the city.
Jiang Ming, however, made no attempt to return the courtesy from inside the carriage. He simply sat there quietly, letting Emperor Ji Buyi of the Great Gan Dynasty act as his coachman.
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