Diqin Designer

Chapter 474 Changes in All Three Parties

However, the bravery of the barbarian soldiers was only directed at those supervising and urging them to fight, not at the Qin people. They had the courage to fight and kill those supervising and urging them to fight, but they dared not risk their lives against the Qin people.

The fear of the Qin people was deeply ingrained in their hearts.

The Qin people were terrifying; they were practically inhuman!

Even if they rushed forward and fought desperately, they would have no chance of winning and would only die inexplicably like their dead kin.

Even if they were to fight desperately, they would have to find a human opponent. They would fight against inhuman monsters like the Qin people, but instead of defeating them, they would only destroy themselves.

After killing those who tried to stop them from escaping, the barbarian soldiers continued to flee without hesitation, not daring to even look back, for fear that if they did, the Qin people would catch up and kill them.

If they looked back, they would find that the Qin people had not pursued them at all, and were still quietly guarding their water fortress, showing no sign of coming out to chase them.

Although the Qin army caught the barbarian soldiers off guard with the power of their muskets, their numbers were too small, so it was best to stop while they were ahead and not pursue them.

They chased after the barbarian soldiers with muskets, and in the end, no one knew who would kill whom.

To be on the safe side, Meng Tian ordered that if the enemy's attack was repelled, they should not be pursued.

Meng Tian also issued an order that if the enemy army was not defeated, the water fortress should be abandoned and the troops should be quickly withdrawn back to the warship.

Fortunately, thanks to the power of firearms and the fact that the barbarian soldiers did not understand firearms, many of them thought that the Qin people had used some kind of magic to kill their own kind, making them feel that the Qin people were not human and could not be opposed, which led to their defeat.

If they dare to charge forward fearlessly, it will be the Qin side that is destined to lose.

However, in this era, many tribes were still in a state of barbarism and ignorance, and feudal superstition was prevalent. When they encountered things they could not understand, they would often attribute them to gods.

And what about the gods? Are they capable of fighting against them?
Is it true that I attacked the Qin people who possessed divine magic?
If the barbarian soldiers had charged closer and seen more clearly, they would have discovered that the Qin soldiers behind the lines were attacking them with sticks. Each stick would spit out a spark, and a member of their own tribe would fall. It was those sticks that killed their tribesmen, not divine intervention.

Furthermore, the Qin people used sticks to generate fire in batches. After one group of Qin people had generated fire with their sticks, they would retreat to the back, and the next group of Qin people would take their place, and this process would continue in a cycle.

If they continue forward without fear of sacrifice, they will have a chance to break through this cycle of fire after paying a certain price.

Unfortunately, the barbarian soldiers were unwilling to fight the Qin people and lacked the fighting spirit to sacrifice themselves. When they saw their kin being killed for no reason, they were terrified and fled.

On the flagship, Meng Tian watched as the barbarian soldiers fled and clashed with the supervising officers, and laughed, "After this battle, Liuqiu Island will be in the hands of Great Qin!"

The barbarians would no longer have the courage and morale to fight against the Qin Dynasty. Moreover, after this battle, the barbarians would no longer be used by the former nobles of the six kingdoms on Liuqiu Island. Without the power of the barbarians, the former nobles of the six kingdoms on the island would not be able to stir up much trouble.

Even if the barbarians were willing to continue serving as slaves to the former nobles of the six kingdoms, the former nobles of the six kingdoms would not dare to employ them.

If the barbarian soldiers dared to kill the people they sent to supervise the battle in order to escape, wouldn't they then betray them and put a butcher's knife to their own throats?
The barbarian soldiers also feared that the former nobles of the six states would settle scores with them later and execute them.

The two sides will be wary of each other, and may even fight each other!

Looking in the direction the barbarian soldiers had fled, Meng Tian suddenly felt that this was an opportunity, one that would be hard to come by again if missed. He quickly weighed the situation and ultimately decided to seize the opportunity.

Meng Tian ordered: "Pass on my command, Zhenguo and Anbang shall sail to target location A, Fenwu and Jishi shall sail to target location B... If enemy ships are spotted, destroy them!"

The former nobles of the six states mobilized a large army of barbarians, but suffered a great defeat. Based on Meng Tian's understanding of the former nobles of the six states, their reaction upon receiving the news would inevitably be: flee, flee immediately! Liuqiu Island is no longer safe. They must leave and flee to a safe place where there are no Qin people!

Meng Tian's plan was to destroy the ships of these former nobles of the six kingdoms before they received the news, so that they could not escape from Liuqiu Island and could only play a real-life battle royale with the barbarians on the island.

If this plan succeeds, it will have the opportunity to wipe out the former noble forces of the six kingdoms on Ryukyu Island.

However, this plan also carries risks. To gain the upper hand, the warships need to sail at night before the former nobles of the six kingdoms receive the battle report and flee.

If it were the Qin navy of the past, Meng Tian would not have given such an order. However, the Qin navy of today is different from the Qin navy of the past. Its ships are better, its equipment is better, and its soldiers are of higher quality, which makes his planned night raid have a good chance of success.

After giving the order, Meng Tian added, "Tell all captains to be extremely cautious. The mission may not be completed, but the safety of the warships and soldiers must be the priority. You are the true wealth of the empire, far more important than the nobles of the six kingdoms!"

Soon after, several warships set off from the water fortress and headed south in the afterglow of the sun.

"Target Location A" and "Target Location B" are locations that Meng Tian and others analyzed as possible ports where the former nobles of the six states might use to anchor their ships.

It doesn't matter if the analysis is wrong, but if it is found, the ships used by the former nobles of the six kingdoms to escape will be destroyed. They will not be able to build ships to cross the sea in a short time and will have to stay on the island.

As long as the former nobles of the six states remain on Liuqiu Island, the island's inhabitants may eliminate them without the Qin Dynasty even lifting a finger.

Even if the barbarians fail to eliminate the former nobles of the six states, the fighting between them will cost both sides a heavy price, which will benefit Qin in conquering and governing Liuqiu in the future.

Meng Tian was making plans in his mind. He looked at Liuqiu Island, an island that China had not yet reclaimed in later generations, and which would soon fall into the control of the Qin Dynasty!
But the Qin Dynasty not only wanted to take Liuqiu Island, but also Qiongzhou Island and many other overseas territories.

The Qin Dynasty will not allow other countries to form island chains to blockade it; only the Qin Dynasty can form island chains with other countries!
On the other side, the fleeing barbarian soldiers, after escaping into the forest and far from the water fortress, gradually regained their senses as their panic subsided and they realized: What have we done?
Not only did they desert in the face of battle, they also killed the officers who were supervising and overseeing their troops.

Many of the barbarian soldiers felt regret and worry when they thought about what they had done. They had killed the military supervisors and those in charge of the battle, and they would surely be punished by them. Not only would they die, but their relatives would also be in danger.

But what's done is done, there's no going back, and we have to find a way to deal with this.

Because they killed the military supervisors, they were seen as traitors by the people of the six states. Even if they were willing to return to the six states and become their slaves, they would certainly be punished, and the punishment the six states would give them...

Thinking of the cruel tortures used by the people of the six kingdoms, the barbarian soldiers shook their heads in their hearts, determined never to submit to the people of the six kingdoms again!
Since they cannot ally with the people of the six states, they can only continue to be enemies with them. In any case, they have already killed the people of the six states who were supervising the army, so killing a few more would not hurt, and would be even better.

Their relatives are still being held hostage by the people of the six kingdoms. Killing the people of the six kingdoms would allow them to rescue their relatives, and now is a good opportunity.

Those who supervised the battle were killed, and none of them had returned to inform the people of the six states in the stronghold. As long as they didn't stop and quickly returned to the stronghold, they could launch a surprise attack before the people of the six states knew anything, and they would surely succeed. After killing the people of the six states and rescuing their families, they would take the heads of the people of the six states to the Qin people to apologize.

Although the Qin people killed many of their people, the barbarian soldiers not only did not hate the Qin people, but were actually quite respectful of them. Moreover, the Qin people originally had no enmity with them; it was all because of the interference of the people from the six states.

If they offer up the heads of the people from the six states and express their willingness to submit, the Qin people will likely accept.

As for being at the beck and call of the Qin people after submitting to them, the barbarian soldiers didn't care much. They were already being used and enslaved by the people of the six states, so there was nothing wrong with being used by the Qin people, who were more powerful than the people of the six states.

Led by some quick-thinking and resourceful soldiers, a large number of Tibetan soldiers marched rapidly towards the fortified city. They wanted to hurry back and catch the people from the six kingdoms in the city off guard.

But when these barbarian soldiers rushed back to the stockade, they noticed something was wrong even before they entered the stockade.

Normally, the soldiers of the six nations who used to guard the watchtowers and arrow towers have disappeared. The six nations had kept the watchtowers and arrow towers guarded at all times to ensure their own safety.

The entire stockade was eerily quiet; even at night, it was never this quiet.

At this moment, not only was it eerily quiet, but an extremely strong stench of blood emanated from within the stockade.

The gates of the fortified village were wide open, something that rarely happens on ordinary days.

The expressions of the many barbarian soldiers changed drastically; something must have happened in the fortified town, and many people must have died.

After they were sent to attack the Qin people, the barbarians in the fortified city were mostly the elderly, weak, women and children. It is easy to imagine who died!

Some of the barbarian soldiers rushed through the open gate into the fortified village, only to find one corpse after another lying on the ground.

Upon seeing these corpses, the sense of foreboding intensified among the Tibetan soldiers. Many of them ran towards their homes, anxiously calling out to their families as they went.

But no one responded; only the voices of other barbarian soldiers calling for their families could be heard.

The fact that no one responded spoke volumes, making the barbarian soldiers even more anxious.

A Tibetan soldier returned home to find his door wide open, his parents lying in the yard, and his wife and children nowhere to be seen. The soldier rushed into the house and found his wife and children dead inside.

Those who killed them seemed to want to kill them as quickly as possible, without humiliating them, and with a clean and efficient kill.

As for who killed them, the answer is already clear: who else could it be but those people from the six kingdoms?
Could it be that the Qin people found this place and massacred the inhabitants?
If the Qin people had the ability, they should have set up an ambush in the fortified city and killed them all. Why didn't the Qin people set up an ambush?
Because this wasn't done by the Qin people at all; it was done by the people from the other six states!

These beasts from the six states coerced them into fighting the Qin while simultaneously slaughtering their relatives in the rear.

The barbarian soldiers cursed Xiong Xin and his men with the most vicious and filthy words they knew, and developed an insatiable hatred for them!

But beyond their hatred, they couldn't understand why those people from the six kingdoms would do such a thing.
What benefits would you gain from doing this, other than making them hate you?
The barbarian soldiers were unaware that Xiong Xin and his men had already devised an escape plan, intending to flee regardless of whether they won or lost the battle.

Since they were going to flee anyway, the barbarians were no longer of any use to them. They couldn't possibly take so many barbarians with them, and the barbarians wouldn't willingly follow them.

Furthermore, after they left, the most likely outcome was that the indigenous people on Liuqiu Island would be employed by the Qin people.

If they cannot be used for our own purposes, they may instead become Qin's lackeys. It would be better to weaken the power of the barbarians before leaving.

As for whether doing so would incur the hatred of the barbarians, and whether there would be any guilt in massacring them.
They've all left Ryuchiu Island, why bother with this? The barbarians are nothing but a bunch of lowly slaves, how can they be considered human? They only killed some slaves, not people, so why should they feel guilty?

If the aborigines want revenge, they must first have the ability to leave Ryuchiu Island, and then they can catch up with them!
Filled with hatred, the many barbarian soldiers spontaneously gathered together. Without anyone leading them, they all shouted, "Revenge!" "Revenge!" "Revenge!"

The voices were unified and filled with hatred. Their homes were destroyed and their relatives were slaughtered. This hatred was irreconcilable!

These barbarian soldiers didn't even collect the bodies of their relatives; they grabbed their weapons and quickly left the stockade with the others, following the trail.

Those people from the six countries definitely want to leave the island. They must hurry and stop them before they leave the island to complete their revenge.

Otherwise, once the people from the six countries leave the island, the vast ocean will make it extremely difficult to find them again!
At the same time, they also sent a troop of soldiers to the water fortress to request assistance from the Qin people.

This was also because they considered that even if they caught up with and stopped the people from the six states, they might not be able to defeat them, so they had to rely on the strength of the Qin people.

If those people from the six states escaped the island, they would need to rely even more on the Qin people, as only the powerful Qin people could possibly find the escaped people from the six states.

If the Qin people can help them avenge their family, they are willing to serve as slaves to the Qin people and never betray them.

Meanwhile, Xiong Xin and his men, escorted by guards, were marching rapidly in one direction. All the surviving nobles of the six former kingdoms were there, and they were heading to a port to board a ship and leave the island.

The Qin people have arrived, so we can't stay on this island. We must leave and find another safe place where the Qin people are not around.

The entire group included nobles from the six kingdoms and their soldiers, as well as some barbarian women.

These Tibetan women were mostly young Tibetan women who were intentionally spared during the massacre at the village.

These women were brought along because they could be used to appease the soldiers and also to increase the population.

Population is the foundation of everything. How can we retake China and restore the six kingdoms if we don't have people?
Of course, not just any barbarian woman would be brought along; only young barbarian women who were healthy and somewhat attractive would be brought along.

However, the need to bring these barbarian women slowed down Xiong Xin and his men's march, preventing them from reaching the fastest possible destination.

(End of this chapter)