Hu Yan Wuhen was busy dealing with the rebel army. All officers above the rank of centurion were executed without exception unless they had special reasons.
The rebel soldiers, too, cried out one after another. Red-hot branding irons were pressed to their faces—how could they not scream? A glaring character for "Rebel" was branded onto each face.
If not for the shortage of labor, Hu Yan Wuhen would never have spared these rebels who had run wild in the Capital City.
Unblocking the sealed city gates, cleaning up the Capital City, filling back in the earthen hills piled outside the city—every task required a vast amount of labor.
The common people truly could not endure any more devastation, so it was not right to conscript them again as laborers.
The royal army had returned and was clearing up the aftermath. The pain had been suffered, and those still alive had to go on living. Qi Capital gradually recovered a measure of vitality...
The Qi Army had won a victory, but the Qin Army had fallen once more into grief and fury.
Qin Kingdom was finished. Yan and Han joined forces to invade, sweeping through all the way like bamboo splitting beneath a blade. There was no effective resistance at all, and the Yan and Han forces nearly claimed land as though racing horses around a field.
Qin Kingdom fell under occupation even faster than anticipated.
In the 536th year of the Wu Era, Qin Kingdom fell and was completely divided and occupied by Yan and Han.
Qin Emperor Xia Lingpei and Empress Dowager Zhuang Hong also fled to Qi Kingdom to seek refuge.
Thus, of the seven kingdoms under heaven, Wei Kingdom and Qin Kingdom had fallen in succession, leaving only five.
The Yan and Han armies reached the foot