Chapter 213

Fusang, south coast of Kyushu Island, a primitive village.

It was just dawn, and a few native men wearing simple tree bark and animal skins rubbed their sleepy eyes and walked to the seaside, preparing to see if there was any harvest in the fishing nets set last night.

Then, they froze there.

On the sea, it was dense, all huge, moving "mountains"!

They were slowly pressing toward the shore!

"That... what is that?!"

A native pointed at the sea, his teeth chattering.

"Is it... a god? Or a monster?"

"Quick! Quick, tell the chief!"

The village was suddenly in chaos.

Gong? None.

Drum? None either.

Only panicked screams and the sound of wooden sticks hitting hollow tree trunks.

Men, women, old, and young crawled out of the low thatched sheds, holding sharpened stone spears, wooden sticks with stone flakes tied to them, and simple bone arrows, looking in terror at the behemoths getting closer and clearer on the sea.

"Shoot arrows! Stop them from landing!"

A strong native who seemed to be the leader roared in the native language, taking the lead in shooting a bone arrow at the sea.

The bone arrow flew a few dozen paces and fell weakly into the sea, not even touching the edge of the nearest tower ship.

The tower ship did not stop.

The sharp iron rams at the bows of the first few ships were aimed at the beach.

"Boom!!"

The heavy ship hulls used their remaining speed to slam onto the beach, the bows digging deep into the sand, kicking up dust that filled the sky.

Immediately after, the baffles on both sides of the ship "bang bang" lowered, turning into a wide gangplank.

"Warriors of Great Qin! Follow me and kill—!"

Meng Tian was the first to jump off the gangplank, his long sword drawn, flashing cold light in the morning sun.

"Kill—!!!"

The black torrent poured down from the tower ships one after another.

Heavy armored infantry carried large shields, forming a tight shield wall, advancing steadily.

In the gaps of the shield wall, there was the cold light of dense crossbow arrows.

There were even light-armored elite soldiers, holding long swords and short halberds, quickly spreading out from the flanks to outflank.

Where had the natives seen this formation?

That bright iron armor, those halberds like a forest, that neat and uniform army formation that revealed infinite murderous intent in silence, completely crushed their pitiful courage.

"Ah—!"

Don't know who shouted first, threw down the stone spear, turned around, and ran into the woods behind.

The defeat was like a collapsing mountain.

One person ran, driving ten, ten driving a hundred.

The natives who had just tried to resist instantly turned into headless flies, crying for their fathers and mothers, fleeing in all directions.

"Crossbowmen, a hundred paces ahead, cover fire!" Meng Tian ordered calmly.

"Swish swish swish—!"

A black cloud of crossbow arrows rose into the air, drawing an arc of death, and fell into the fleeing native crowd.

Sharp iron triangular arrowheads easily pierced thin tree bark and animal skins, bringing up patches of blood flowers.

Screams rang out in succession.

"Advance forward! Drive them, do not let them gather!"

"Outflank from the flanks, cut off their retreat!"

The Qin army's command system was terrifyingly efficient.

Orders were issued layer by layer, and the various arms cooperated tacitly.

This was not a battle at all, but a one-sided massacre and driving.

The natives' stone spears and wooden bows were like toys in front of the Qin army's iron armor and powerful crossbows.

Occasionally, a few brave ones would howl and rush up, but before they could get close to the shield wall, they were shot into hedgehogs by crossbow arrows,

Or had their bones broken by stones thrown by the catapults (small) flying from behind.

Landing, clearing the beachhead, establishing a forward base.

It took less than an hour.

Next, it was the planned division and joint attack.

Meng Tian divided the 200,000-strong army into ten routes, each with 20,000 people, led by capable generals,

According to the map provided by Gu Shanhe, they swept out in a fan shape toward the directions of the mineral veins and larger settlements marked on the map in the interior.

The battle... no, the marching process, was almost identical.

When the Qin army arrived at a native village or gathering place, it was first a round of crossbow arrow coverage, knocking out any signs of organized resistance,

Then the infantry advanced, capturing all natives trying to escape or hide.

Resist? Kill without mercy.

Surrender? Tie them up and guard them centrally.

Equipment, tactics, organization, combat will... all-round crushing.

Qin soldiers even felt that this was easier than fighting the Xiongnu in the north.

At least the Xiongnu had horses and swords.

These Fusang natives were really ridiculously weak.

Gu Shanhe and Ying Zheng sat in the center, and messenger soldiers flew in to report one after another.

"Report—! The left route army has captured the A-character target settlement, captured 3,000 natives, and discovered a suspected silver vein!"

"Report—! The right route army has swept the B-character area, encountered no decent resistance, and has begun to explore gold mines according to the map markings!"

"Report—! The center vanguard has arrived at the C-character area, the local native leader led the crowd... to kneel and surrender, offering a bag of rough gold sand."

Good news came one after another.

The red dots marked on the map were pulled out and controlled one by one.

More and more natives were caught, piled up in temporarily established open-air camps, circled like livestock.

The discovered gold and silver veins, initially explored, had amazing reserves, making the civil servants responsible for recording shake their hands.

The seventh day, dusk.

The last sweeping detachment reported that all predetermined target areas had been cleared, and no large-scale native resistance forces had been found.

Those who escaped into the deep mountains were no longer a concern.

Meng Tian came to the center army tent to report to Ying Zheng and Gu Shanhe:

"Your Majesty, Guoshi."

"Fusang main island (Kyushu) and surrounding major islands have all been cleared."

"A total of over 417,000 natives were captured. Our army's casualties: 132 slightly injured, zero deaths."

"A total of three large gold mines, five silver mines, and over ten medium and small mineral veins were discovered, all of which have been guarded by troops."

"Good!"

Ying Zheng stood up suddenly, walked to the door of the tent, looked at this strange land under the sunset, full of ambition.

"Seven days! Only seven days!"

"Hahaha! Guoshi, that map of yours is truly worth a thousand gold! And this time-limited merit..."

He looked at Gu Shanhe, implying something.

He vaguely felt that the Guoshi seemed to have an obsession with "fast."

Gu Shanhe smiled slightly and didn't answer.

In his mind, the system's prompt sounded on time:

【Ding! Time-limited mission "Seven Days to Break Fusang" completed!】

【Conquest of the entire Fusang territory determined to be passed!】

【Reward issued: 2 million emotion points!】

【Current emotion point balance: 3.6 million points.】

Very good, another sum of money.

Gu Shanhe was in a good mood.

"Your Majesty," Gu Shanhe said, "The natives here are ignorant and uneducated, their nature is close to beasts, keeping them is useless, killing them is a pity."

"(Little days) It is better to make them all slaves, divide them into the Shaofu and local government offices, and send them to places of hard labor such as mines, road construction, and canal digging."

"Work ten hours a day, only provide one meal of thin porridge, to squeeze out their strength and add bricks and tiles to our Great Qin's construction."

"In this way, waste can be utilized, and the trouble of their resurgence can be cut off."

Ying Zheng's eyes flashed with light as he listened.

This method... is ruthless enough, absolute enough, and practical enough.

It can not only maximize the use of these free laborers, accelerate the mining of gold and silver, and carry out infrastructure construction, but also fundamentally consume and eliminate the population and resistance potential of these foreign races.

"Approved! Let it be according to the Guoshi's words!"

"Meng Tian, pass the order down, all prisoners, deal with them according to the Guoshi's words!"

"From today on, load them onto ships in batches and transport them back to the country; local mines and projects are just lacking manpower!"

"Yes!"

"Also,"

Ying Zheng walked to the Fusang map hanging in the tent, his finger pointing at a high mountain peak in the center,

"This place should be the highest mountain here. Tomorrow, I want to visit its peak personally!"

The next day, noon.

On a mountain peak that was not particularly high, but was the most conspicuous one here.

Ying Zheng, Gu Shanhe, Meng Tian, and a group of generals reached the top.

The wind on the top of the mountain was strong, blowing the black dragon flag hunting.

Ying Zheng took a specially made, thicker and heavier dark black dragon flag from the guard.

Then he walked to the edge of the cliff, overlooking the land that had just been conquered under his feet, in the distance was the blue sea, and further away, the bay where the fleet was anchored.

He took a deep breath, used all his strength, and slammed the dragon flag in his hand into the rock crevice on the top of the mountain!

"This is the end of Great Qin's East Sea!"

Ying Zheng's voice, like a dragon's roar, echoed in the mountain peak and sea breeze.

"From today on, wherever the sun and moon shine, wherever the sea is within sight! Wherever the rivers reach, wherever boats can reach! All are Qin territory! All living people are Qin subjects! If there is any disobedience, it shall be like the direction of this flag—crushed into powder!"

"Great Qin for ten thousand generations! Your Majesty for ten thousand years!!"

Behind him, all the generals and guards cheered fanatically.

Gu Shanhe stood aside, looking at the black dragon flag standing proudly in the wind,

And looked at the system map, Great Qin's territory had expanded a large piece to the east again, almost touching the edge of the ocean.

Fusang, settled in seven days.

Next, it is time to help the First Emperor unify the world.