Great Qin swiftly invaded a region and quickly surrounded a system main city. The city lord of this system main city was already dead—neither among those who had surrendered nor among those captured. Otherwise, they could have been coerced into persuading the others to surrender.
At present, every system main city had at most four hundred thousand people. Most of their soldiers had died, leaving them with virtually no fighting strength; they were basically all civilians.
This system main city had already been relocated, and its walls had been destroyed. The people inside were fearfully packing their belongings, preparing to flee.
But they had not expected Great Qin's army to surround their system main city so quickly.
Zhao Fu did not waste words. Those willing to surrender were to come out; those unwilling would have the city burned. Zhao Fu did not want to charge in and incur needless casualties.
Under the crushing pressure of the army and the many city lords, most people remained sensible and chose to come out and surrender. There were roughly 280,000 of them. More than a hundred thousand still refused to surrender, staying inside the city and intending to put up a cornered beast's stubborn resistance.
Zhao Fu ordered Fire Arrows to be launched, and the entire system main city was quickly set ablaze. The raging fire devoured everything, burning many people alive. Some tried to rush out and fight Great Qin to the death, but the waiting archers shot them down, leaving corpses carpeting the ground.
After swiftly dealing with this system main city, Great Qin's army swept toward the next main city. Its city lord had already surrendered, so they easily gained another 400,000 people.
Having acquired so many people again, Zhao Fu began constructing Teleportation Arrays to send them back to