As the commander of the vanguard sent to suppress the rebellion, the Qing Dynasty Veteran was free to do as he pleased in the outlying regions until Lord Qin's main force reached the war zone.
After all, Lord Qin's orders were clear: within seven days, the players had to take the main city of the Pilig family, crush the family of the rebellious pharaoh, and escort him and his rebel allies to the Ptolemaic royal city to present them as captives before Her Majesty Fuli'er's coronation.
It sounded like a difficult job.
But when the players actually got down to it, they found that it was much easier than they'd imagined.
After capturing the first small oasis's pharaoh and his entire family in less than twenty minutes, the Qing Dynasty Veteran barely paused. He sent the governor appointed by the Pharaoh Queen to the city they'd just captured, helped him disarm the city guard and release all the officials imprisoned for their loyalty to the pharaoh, then immediately set off for the next oasis with the players who remained.
There was a reason the Qing Dynasty Veteran was in such a hurry.
According to Lord Qin's strategy, once the player army reached the battlefield, the Thousand-Year Quicksand would begin patrolling the vast territories of the three rebel families as a show of force, ensuring absolute air superiority. For now, the players' most destructive option for a surprise airborne assault depended on the Sun Ship.
In other words, he had only two days to carry out airborne strikes at will.
He planned to use twelve hours to launch six successful air raids, capturing the six small-oasis pharaohs first. Then he would spend the remaining thirty-six hours clearing out the armed forces of the six small oases one by one. With the