Chapter 1020: Plundering

"It's all over, the Azure Dragon Army entered the city a step ahead of us!"

While the Azure Dragon Army soldiers were slaughtering their way in from three sides of the city gates, the battle at the east gate was still continuing.

Ding Lu rolled his eyes fiercely upon hearing the sounds of killing inside the city.

"They have more men, this isn't fair." A Marine commander looked aggrieved.

How could their eight thousand men compare to the numerous Azure Dragon Army?

Hearing this, Ding Lu chuckled twice, patted the commander on the shoulder, and said, "Forget it, forget it, just let them have it. We already carved up such a large Nanzhan Continent first, how can we not even let the Army have a little soup?"

"That's true." The commander felt better inside.

While the two were talking, because of the collapse of the other three sides of the city walls, the Jiaozhi soldiers on the east wall could no longer hold on and fled one after another.

Seeing this, Ding Lu immediately ordered the Marines to take the opportunity to scale the wall and also slaughter their way into Hanoi.

"Bang, bang, bang..."

Following the total fall of the city walls, the Jiaozhi soldiers fled everywhere in the city like headless flies.

Some Jiaozhi soldiers were afraid of death and knelt directly on both sides of the road, choosing to surrender.

As for the Jiaozhi soldiers who refused to surrender, they were not polite either and kept shooting them down.

In the pursuit, the number of Jiaozhi soldiers became fewer and fewer, and the Azure Dragon Army and Marine soldiers gradually approached the Jiaozhi Imperial Palace.

By this time, the news of the total fall of the city walls had already reached the palace.

The terrified Jiaozhi officials and generals no longer cared about the Emperor Ruan Chushan, but instead, like the commoners in the city, closed their doors and windows, hiding at home and not daring to show their faces.

There were even some shrewd Jiaozhi officials busy having their servants sew the royal flags of the Dayan Wang at home, preparing to surrender to the Dayan army to show their loyalty.

Inside the sleeping quarters, it was already in chaos; the eunuchs and palace maids no longer paid attention to the imperial concubines, but instead stole the gold and silver jewelry from the palace and fled.

Some of the imperial guards in the palace were still on duty, while others had turned into robbers; they fought with the eunuchs and palace maids, even raising blades to kill.

A group of palace maids who had stolen the concubines' gold had just fled to the palace gate when they were suddenly frightened and ran back into the palace, screaming as they ran.

It turned out that the Dayan soldiers wearing green military uniforms had already arrived.

"Bang, bang, bang..."

The first to arrive were naturally the Azure Dragon Army soldiers; they were just preparing to charge into the palace gate when they saw three hundred imperial palace guards rush out.

The Azure Dragon Army soldiers immediately opened fire, and the three hundred imperial guard soldiers fell one after another, all shot dead within a minute.

Stepping over the corpses of the Jiaozhi imperial guards, a large number of Azure Dragon Army soldiers charged into the Imperial Palace.

Suddenly, there were gunshots everywhere in the Imperial Palace.

This was the Azure Dragon Army clearing out the remnants in the palace.

"Your Majesty, what should we do..." Inside the sleeping quarters, the imperial concubines were crying in a group.

The gunshots went from far to near and were now ringing out directly inside the palace.

This meant that the Jiaozhi army in the city had completely collapsed, and the Dayan army had already slaughtered its way into the Capital City.

Ruan Chushan seemed not to have heard the voices of the concubines.

His gaze was dull, and his hands trembled slightly.

Suddenly, a look of madness appeared in his dull gaze; clenching his fists, he shouted, "My Jiaozhi would rather perish at the hands of the Frank than perish at the hands of Dayan! Yan Wang, you won, but you also lost. You want me to pay tribute? Keep dreaming!"

Having said that, Ruan Chushan suddenly rushed to the wall and took down a precious sword from it.

With a "clink," he drew the sword, and Ruan Chushan's fingers moved from the hilt to the tip of the blade.

Suddenly looking at the concubines, Imperial Princes, and Princesses, he widened his eyes, his pupils contracting like the exposed eyeballs of a toad, and asked, "Are you willing to die with me?"

The concubines were terrified and could not help but shrink back one by one.

Ruan Chushan pointed at a concubine, the tip of the sword resting against her throat, and asked again, "Are you willing?"

"I am." The concubine was terrified and said cautiously, "Your Majesty, please don't joke."

"Splat!" Before the concubine's words had faded, Ruan Chushan's sword pierced into her throat.

"Ah!" Seeing that Ruan Chushan had really killed someone, the concubines let out bursts of screams.

A concubine shouted, "The Emperor has gone mad,

everyone run!"

The many concubines were extremely afraid; they rose one after another and ran outward regardless of everything.

"Don't go, all of you die with me, accompany me down, you are still my concubines!" Ruan Chushan cried and laughed, but the sword in his hand did not stop; he hacked and killed three concubines in succession, then chased out of the sleeping quarters to hunt down the concubines.

But he had not run more than a few steps when he was suddenly surrounded by a group of Azure Dragon Army soldiers.

Seeing the Dayan soldiers, Ruan Chushan seemed to freeze completely.

The sword in his hand fell to the ground, and he plopped to his knees, begging repeatedly, "Don't kill me, don't kill me."

The Azure Dragon Army soldiers could not understand what he was saying at all; one simply stepped forward and struck the back of Ruan Chushan's head with the butt of his rifle.

Ruan Chushan immediately fainted to the ground.

Sporadic fighting continued for another night.

The next morning, Qin Shan entered Hanoi.

At this time, Hanoi was full of Azure Dragon Army soldiers and Marine soldiers.

They stood guard at every important position in the streets, completely controlling this Jiaozhi Capital City.

Entering Hanoi, Qin Shan went straight to the Imperial Palace.

He had already learned the news that the Jiaozhi Emperor Ruan Chushan had been captured.

However, to him, this Ruan Chushan was now just a prisoner of Dayan; it didn't matter whether he saw him or not, so he let the soldiers lock him up in the prison in the city.

Going straight to the main hall where the Jiaozhi Imperial Palace conducted government affairs, Qin Shan said to Mu An, who was following him, "Blow up the Dragon Throne above; from now on, there will be no more emperors in Jiaozhi."

Responding with a yes, Mu An ordered the soldiers to tie Hand Grenades to Ruan Chushan's Dragon Throne.

With a "boom," the Dragon Throne was blown to pieces.

Qin Shan then revealed a satisfied smile.

Jiaozhi was once a part of the Central Plains dynasty; now it has simply returned to its rightful place.

"General, we have finished counting the supplies in the Granary and the national treasury." Just as Qin Shan blew up the Dragon Throne, Shang Yi walked in from outside and handed a document to Qin Shan.

Qin Shan nodded and began to flip through it.

Their principle for marching south to fight was that they could not operate at a loss.

Since that was the case, they naturally had to plunder the wealth of Jiaozhi.

This Jiaozhi had a population of ten million, produced abundant rice, and had engaged in frequent trade with Westerners over the past few decades, so it could be called quite wealthy.

This point could naturally be seen from this inventory list.

The rice reserves in Hanoi city alone amounted to six million shi, and this did not even include the grain reserves of other cities in Jiaozhi.

Besides this, six hundred and sixty thousand taels of gold and over eight million taels of silver were found in the Jiaozhi national treasury, not to mention items like silk, cloth, and jewelry.

"Also, search and confiscate the homes of the Jiaozhi ministers and generals within the city; the combined family wealth of these fat pigs is not small either." Qin Shan revealed a wicked grin.

Having come from the Great Song of the past, he naturally understood the ability of these officials to line their own pockets.

It was even possible for some high-ranking officials to be as wealthy as a nation.

Plundering these people might yield even more than the harvest from the national treasury.

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