Along with the System Notification, a shining white light glowed on the west outskirts of Edo. Furthermore, it quickly spread, covering the entire western outskirts.
As the white light spread out, 500 thousand Dali Guards appeared.
Imperial City Dali, palace.
When Dali emperor Duan Zhengchun received the news, he could not react. After a long while, he scolded with a bunch of vulgarities, "F**k, do they want to kill me?"
After half of his guards were removed all of a sudden, Duan Zhengchun even had the heart to die.
"Should I just give up?"
Duan Zhengchun was pacing up and down the reading room. All of a sudden, the thought of abdicating filled his mind.
Since appearing in the wilderness and into Dali, Duan Zhengchun had never had a good night of sleep. Bad news came one after another. The weird appearance of a player prince and outside the imperial city was a desolate land.
The tens of millions of civilians made noise within the city, giving Duan Zhengchun many problems to think about. Even if he ordered civilians to reclaim land and start farming, the benefits would only be felt in the future.
Helplessly, he could only buy grain to survive, if not, the civilians would definitely revolt.
Dali did not lack money, but the problem was that even if they had money, they could not buy grain. Dali Prefecture was surrounded on all four sides by Great Xia, and all trading channels were cut off.
As for smuggling grain, no one had the courage.
One must not underestimate Great Xia Yunnan Provincial Governor Bai Hua just because she was a girl. In the end, she was once a Lord. When she should be firm, she would not show any mercy.
Since she was appointed, she started to strike down on people who smuggled to Dali.
Any chamber of commerce or merchants who were caught would be punished based on Great Xia law. Not only would all the goods be confiscated, but they would also suffer heavy fines. Basically, this fine would cause the entire chamber of commerce to go bankrupt.
Not only that, from then on, that chamber of commerce would be on the official blacklist.
After that, not only could they not buy from officials and the military, but they could not even go out to sea.
Under Bai Hua's heavy punishment, no matter how high the profits were, no one dared to do it.
Facing such an unreasonable neighbor, Duan Zhengchun could only swallow the pain.
The current Dali City could only rely on player storage bags to get grain from other imperial cities. Of course, this was a bare solution and could only barely ensure that the people were fed.
Furthermore, the players had to eat, which meant that grain in Dali was even more expensive than gold. Even the rich Dali could not survive such usage.
Ever since Duan Zhengchun moved into Dali, there would be huge amounts of civilians who escaped into Great Xia on a daily basis.
Duan Zhengchun, who believed in Buddhism, could not bear to see the civilians hungry. As a result, he did not take the suggestion of player prince Duan Hong to use the guards to lock down the borders. Such an attitude undoubtedly increased the speed of civilians leaving. Duan Zhengchun also noticed that the way Duan Hong looked at him was a little weird. In those eyes, he could see a craving for power and ambition.
Unfortunately, he could not see the talent to match up to that ambition.
"Big ambition but lacking in talent." Duan Zhengchun made such a conclusion.
Seeing half his guards moved away for no reason, it was like his greatest foundation of standing up in the wilderness was taken away.
The successive blows made him really depressed.
"Forget it, forget it!"
After hesitating for long while, Duan Zhengchun finally made up his mind, "Men!"
"Present!"
"Let the Honglu Temple meet me."
"Yes, your majesty."
Duan Zhengchun finally made up his mind to lower his head to Great Xia.
As long as he could ensure the continuation of the Duan Family bloodline, he did not mind giving up Dali city.
"This throne is not stable. Why not give it up before I get chased off it?" One had to say that the current Duan Zhengchun showed the decisiveness of an emperor.
How many people in history could choose to give up their throne?
However, Duan Zhengchun did not know that his summoning of the Honglu Temple to express his decision to go under Great Xia was found out by prince Duan Hong.
A huge storm was heading toward Dali.
Edo battlefield.
500 thousand guards who 'descended from the heavens' totally stunned Oda Nobunaga.
"What was that?"
China really defied logic, making Oda Nobunaga feel really helpless. Before he could react, the 500 thousand guards had already charged right at the west gate.
The 1st legion of the City Protection Legion Corps that were there backed out of the battlefield.
If they did not use these troops, they would be useless after the battle.
Since he had spent a huge sum of money, Ouyang Shuo naturally used the guards as the vanguard.
If Ouyang Shuo knew that these guards would belong to Great Xia in the end, he would probably cry out in pain.
The following siege battle was basically really normal. 500 thousand elite guards along with the smooth commanding of Han Xin caught Edo off guard.
If they could not break through like that, nothing could.
Han Xin was undoubtedly a genius general. He was good enough to command no matter how many troops. Even including the 500 thousand guards, whilst focusing on the west, he could still care about the other three sides at the same time.
When Ouyang Shuo looked on, he was filled with respect and awe.
To be able to get the help of such a God General was simply the good fortune of Great Xia.
At 5 PM, along with a loud 'Honglong!', under the fearless assault of the guards, the weak west gate was broken through.
The huge army flooded in like a tsunami.
Oda Nobunaga wanted to order the remaining troops to bring Keisuke Honda and Emperor Meiji out, but helplessly, all four sides were surrounded, and there was no way out.
To try to break out of the encirclement would be futile struggling.
Along with the north gate being broken, the east gate lost control too. Emperor Meiji quietly backed into the palace and killed himself. Keisuke Honda had no face to face his men and also appear in the reincarnation hall with his brothers. Hence, he found a quiet corner to wait for the country war to end and teleport him to the trial lands.
Oda Nobunaga wanted to struggle to the death, but he was outnumbered and captured alive by Han Xin.
At night, along with the army charging into the palace and destroying the stone steele, the Battle of Japan came to its end. A System Notification sounded out.
"World Notification: Congratulations China for taking down Japan, winning the country war, awarding each China region player with 300 country war battle contribution points, congratulations!"
Gaia was really magnanimous. Around 1.615 million Chinese players had participated, and if they added all the points together, it was close to five million.
A sky high amount.
As expected, the bigger the number, the stronger the force.
That was not it.
Following which, Gaia released a regional report.
"Regional Notification: Congratulations China for taking down imperial city Edo, winning the country war. Especially rewarding each player who participated in the Battle of Edo with 500 country war battle contribution points, congratulations!"
Gaia was really fair, not letting the south army players get easy rewards.
"Only the people who did work would be rewarded!"
The moment the notification sounded out, a huge cheer broke out outside of Edo. Compared to the contribution points, the players enjoyed the glory more.
After returning, this was enough for them to brag for their entire life.
At the current moment, those who were at the south army were probably regretting it.
"World Notification: Japan is wiped out, all player items, skills, cultivation methods, and the like removed and teleported to the trial lands."
The moment the notification sounded out, before the millions of Japanese players could mourn, they were teleported away mercilessly.
At a quiet corner, Keisuke Honda said, "I will be back." As he said that, he turned into a white light and disappeared along with his sadness.
"World Notification: China region wins the country war, obtains honor points and innate stats +1 as rewards, congratulations China region!"
When the players received the news, they cheered.
This was a full Chinese feast.
Three days ago, when Baiqi had taken down Nanzhang, they had already enjoyed it once.
Just like that, the China region honor points were slowly climbing up. If one counted the predictable Battle of Korea and Zhenla, after these battles, it would reach scary levels.
They were just a little away from the 100 points needed for the second country weapon.
Moreover, the buff added from the honor points basically meant that the strength of the China region players would double.
From now on, the China region players would sweep the world.
Edo today was destined to be sleepless.
The winners were unable to hide their joy and emotions and were busy celebrating. Although the defeated had already left, there were numerous civilians that remained, shivering in the dark.
Before attacking Edo, Ouyang Shuo had already set up three rules with Feng Qiuhuang, Blood Romance, and the others. After taking down Edo, the army and players were prohibited from pillaging, and all spoils of war would be collected and split up.
Anyone who went against this rule would face military law.
The army was easily stopped, and the super guilds had their own pride and system. The tough ones were the scattered players, who could not bear to not search for items.
Because of this, the entire Edo was in chaos.
Although Ouyang Shuo had already arranged the army and elite forces to maintain order, he could not be too much, only asking them to defend the palace and the armory.
He could only allow players to pillage Edo.
The 100 thousand adventure gamemode players were like locusts, swarming the city and taking everything of value.
The entire Edo was shivering in the darkness, going through their hardest night.