Today's second update: Chapter 1750! 2/3!
As for those nations that had not nominally submitted, Xu Kun had neither the time nor the reason to adopt the conciliatory policies he had used toward the wolf tribes led by Silla.
They had to be killed.
The chief culprits had to be eliminated. That was beyond question.
Anyone who dared kill a human envoy already had one foot in the grave.
Those who stubbornly resisted had to die!
But Xu Kun could not treat the innocent commoners the same way he had treated the Loulan Kingdom.
As the troops split up and set out, Xu Kun boarded the Nine-Dragon Chariot and began inspecting the nations of the Western Regions!
War flames spread across the vast lands of the Western Regions. With the forces Xu Kun had brought west this time, let alone the Thirty-Six Kingdoms of the Western Regions, he could sweep through even three hundred and sixty kingdoms one by one!
Hao Jian, Su Xiaoxiao, Sima Dai, Li Taibai, and the others he had arranged each led their own armies.
Some nations proved remarkably defiant. When the great army approached, they did not choose surrender, but instead chose to fight for their nation!
They swore to live and die with their homeland!
There was no need to show any mercy to such stubborn fools. Once they were beaten badly enough, they would understand!
The path of conquest and dominance was destined to be bloody.
At some point, a dragon-slaying youth would inevitably become a dragon himself.
If one put oneself in the shoes of these weak nations with saintly compassion and saw them as the human race of old, one would inevitably feel the helplessness of a weak race being bullied!
To the expeditionary army, those fighting to defend their