Douluo Continent: I've joined forces with Tang San and taken Xiao Wu as my concubine!

Chapter 195, Occupying a Country

Meng Bei's troops quickly took complete control of the royal city, and all members of the royal family were arrested and brought to justice, including the deceased King Silvis and his prince, as well as many other members of the royal family.

Most of these people were parasites who abused their status to commit numerous evils, but a small number of them had a heart for the people, restrained their own behavior, and had a good reputation and a certain prestige among the people.

In principle, the latter of these two types of people does not deserve to die.

However, Meng Bei was too lazy to spend time distinguishing between them.

He gave the order.

"Execute them all!"

In an instant, blood flowed like a river...

Not long after, the remaining 200,000 troops also arrived at the city.

Meng Beiming's army then stationed itself in the city to further eliminate any remaining fugitives.

Meanwhile, Meng Bei divided the 100,000 cavalrymen of the vanguard into two armies, which were respectively assigned to Feng Duo and Yang Wudi, who had performed well in the previous battles, to annihilate the grain transport troops outside the city.

On the vast plains of Vixlock, the infantry had nowhere to escape, and the cavalry had a completely overwhelming advantage.

Soon, three days later, the army won a great victory.

The troops outside the city were all captured and annihilated, with only a small number of troops escaping.

The resistance forces within the city were completely wiped out. Those former nobles and ministers of the kingdom were all taken to Tiandou City. Meng Bei promised to forgive and forget, but how Xue Qinghe would deal with them was none of Meng Bei's concern.

News of the fall of the Kingdom of Silves spread quickly.

Upon hearing of this, other cities within the Kingdom of Sylvester sent letters to Mengbei expressing their willingness to submit.

Years of peace have softened the spines of the world's nobles, making them utterly incapable of resisting.

Another reason is that Meng Bei is representing the Heavenly Dou Empire in its campaign against the Kingdom of Silves.

Although the Kingdom of Sylves has stood on this land for five hundred years, it is clearly no match for the Heavenly Dou Empire, which has a history of over a thousand years.

The nobles did not resist the rule of the empire. Thousands of years of history had taught them that under the rule of the Tiandou Empire, their interests would not be violated and their noble status would remain that of nobles. Therefore, when Meng Bei attacked on behalf of the empire, surrendering became a matter of course.

If the same thing happened to the Spirit Hall, they might have to fight to the death.

After all, if the Spirit Hall were in power, it's hard to say whether their profits would be distributed among those peasants.

As everyone knows, the Spirit Hall has always been fond of currying favor with those who are lowly.

With the cooperation of all parties in the Silves region, the subjugation of Mengbei proceeded in an orderly manner.

Outside of the Silvis region, the other four countries were outraged upon hearing the news and launched a barrage of criticism against Northern Bangladesh.

King Barak, who was nearby, publicly declared that King Silvis was his brother, and that if the empire insisted on invading his brother's country, he would provide assistance to the Kingdom of Silvis with the full strength of his nation, and even send troops to help.

Two days later, Windlord led his army in a surprise attack on Barak.

The Kingdom of Barak was completely unprepared; he hadn't expected the other side to launch an attack on him without any reason.

Caught off guard, the city was breached in less than half a day.

King Barak, fearing he would be hanged, rode a silverback giant ape from the zoo and fled for nearly a thousand miles overnight, escaping directly from Barak, a city near the Kingdom of Silves, to the distant city of Soto.

That is, the city where Shrek Academy was originally located.

In fact, Fengduo only managed to break through the city by chance through a sneak attack. His strength was not enough to occupy Barak City. He did this simply to teach King Barak a lesson on Mengbei's orders. Therefore, Fengduo led his army to withdraw shortly after the city fell.

Even he hadn't expected King Barak to be so cowardly.

Afterwards, the ministers of the Kingdom of Barak could not find the king and assumed that he had been assassinated by Windbell, which caused quite a commotion.

After this incident, the attitudes of the other countries softened.

At least, they no longer dare to openly criticize Meng Bei.

However, they remained deeply dissatisfied with the war waged by the royal family behind the scenes.

Everyone understands the principle of "if the lips are gone, the teeth will be cold".

If the royal family's goal is only targeting the Kingdom of Silves, that's fine. The real problem is if their aim is to eliminate all national powers within the empire. That would be...

Just then, the Spirit Hall launched a fierce attack on the Star Luo Empire.

Compared to Meng Bei, Bibi Dong is much more ruthless.

In the past, any noble who disobeyed was spared. A large number of commoner Soul Masters were promoted, and the lands that had been seized by the nobles were uniformly distributed. They gradually eroded the Star Luo Empire, directly undermining its foundation.

The emperor of the Star Luo Empire mobilized the entire nation to resist, but due to the overwhelming disparity in strength, the Star Luo Empire was still repeatedly defeated.

Left with no other option, the Star Luo Empire sent a letter of appeal to Heaven Dou City. The Star Luo Empire's emperor earnestly requested that Heaven Dou Empire form an alliance with the Star Luo Empire to jointly send troops to resist the invasion of the Spirit Hall.

Xue Qinghe naturally refused.

Although she and that woman were at odds, in a sense, the Spirit Hall was also her power, so how could she possibly agree to join forces with the Star Luo Empire to attack the Spirit Hall?

What she needs to do now is to completely eliminate the dissenting voices within the country, ensuring that even after her identity is revealed, the Heavenly Dou Empire will not fall out of her control.

Currently, this goal is not far from being achieved.

Most of the Soul Masters in the Tiandou Kingdom are led by the Soul Master Alliance, and Meng Bei can ensure that the Soul Master Alliance will not oppose Qian Renxue's rule.

The common people in the country basically just go with the flow and have no right to speak, so the only remaining destabilizing factor is the nobles, led by the remaining four countries.

Recently, four countries jointly pressured Xue Qinghe, demanding that he prioritize the overall situation, abandon the occupation of the Kingdom of Silves, stop the internal strife, agree to the Star Luo Empire's alliance request, and send troops to fight against the Spirit Hall.

There was originally another demand to remove Meng Bei from his position as Grand Marshal, but they abandoned that demand because they were afraid that Meng Bei would go crazy and send troops to attack them.

After receiving petitions from various countries, Xue Qinghe did not express his opinion but instead summoned his ministers to discuss whether or not to form an alliance with the Xingluo Empire.

So the ministers began to express their opinions.

Some say that we should prioritize the overall situation and form an alliance.

Xue Qinghe silently memorized his name.

Of course, Xue Qinghe's confidants also indicated that an alliance could not be formed...

The two sides argued endlessly, and the matter was thus dragged on.

Seeing that Xue Qinghe was genuinely discussing the matter with his ministers, the four countries assumed there was hope for an alliance and thus lowered their guard.

During this period, Mengbei had completely integrated the Silves region.

On this day, the Burning Flame Sect was surrounded by thousands of Soul Masters.

(End of this chapter)