I rode and slashed unparalleled in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 1117 Tooth for tooth, blood for blood
boom--

A deafening roar echoed across the sky as Su Yao's golden pestle flashed with lightning, striking the city wall directly and nearly killing Himiko instantly.

The reason for using "almost" is that dying like that would be too easy for this person, so Su Yao deliberately tilted his aim slightly and controlled the force a little.

Even with such restraint, Su Yao's lightning power was not something a mortal body could easily withstand.

Lightning struck the city wall, sending shards of stone flying and dust billowing into the sky.

Himiko was thrown back by the shockwave and crashed heavily into the stone wall behind him. His body was charred black, his hair stood on end, and black blood kept gushing from the corner of his mouth. He immediately lost consciousness. Even the royal advisor, Gojibane, and a group of nobles nearby were affected by the lightning strike.

The blast wave sent people and horses flying off the city walls. A few unlucky souls who were a little closer were even hit by flying stones, their heads bleeding and howling in pain.

"Divine punishment! This must be divine punishment!"

"Spare me! Gods, spare me!"

The nobles, regaining their senses, repeatedly kowtowed to the sky, begging for their lives.

However, Su Yao ignored them completely and directly steered Griffin to dive down. When they were close to the city gate, Griffin spat out a huge fireball.

boom--

With another loud bang, the heavy city gate of the Dog Slave Kingdom's capital exploded in the blazing flames, splinters flew everywhere, and the scorching heat wave knocked several Dog Slave Kingdom warriors guarding the city gate to the ground.

"Your Highness is mighty!"

"Charge, everyone!"

"Make these Japanese bastards pay the price!"

Before the deafening crash of the city gate had even subsided, the Han soldiers roared and launched their charge.

We don't speak the same language, and there's not much we can do to communicate these days.

Before the war began, His Highness the Tang King had already conveyed the instructions: The Dog Slave Kingdom had harmed the Han envoys, and its crimes were heinous. It should be executed in time to serve as a warning to others.

To prevent the barbarians from mistaking his benevolence for weakness, Su Yao specially produced a wheel, signifying that the standard for extermination would be based on this wheel.

Taishi Ci confirmed, "Does the General mean that all men taller than a cartwheel should be executed?"

Su Yao nodded silently.

Jiang Qin took a deep breath, clenched his fist, and said, "But the Japanese are all short, wouldn't that be giving them an easy advantage!"

Upon hearing this, Su Yao chuckled lightly, then kicked the car wheel over and drove away.

Jiang Qin stared in confusion and asked Taishi Ci. Taishi Ci paused for a moment, then said:
"I understand what Your Highness means. The wheels are too high, right? We can lay them down!"

Upon hearing this, Jiang Qin's eyes lit up immediately, and he burst into laughter: "Excellent! This humble general thanks General for your generosity!"

Thus, the operational standards for the Han army were established.

At this moment, Su Yao ignored the pleas for mercy and surrender from the nobles of the Dog Slave Kingdom on the city wall and broke down the gate.

The Han warriors immediately swarmed in and began to kill anyone they saw.

In an instant, the capital of the Dog Slave Kingdom was transformed into a living hell.

Faced with overwhelming force, the remaining defenders of the Dog Slave Kingdom were utterly powerless to resist the Han army's attack. What followed could no longer be called a battle, but rather a complete purge.

The Han soldiers, in groups of three or five, cleared out the inhabitants street by street and alley by alley. If they encountered someone kneeling and begging for mercy, and a Han prisoner identified them as someone who had participated in the torture, they were immediately killed with a single blow. If they encountered someone hiding in a house, they were first shot dead with crossbows or the house was set on fire. If they encountered any sporadic resistance, they showed no mercy, thrusting with halberds and hacking them to pieces with swords and axes.

Jiang Qin personally led a team straight to the palace dungeons and work sheds, carefully carrying out the surviving members of the delegation who had been tortured beyond recognition. With each person rescued, his anger intensified, and he carried out the order to massacre the Japanese even more thoroughly.

Taishi Ci then took command, assigning troops to control key routes and dispatching an elite force to attack the ancestral temples and altars of the Dog Slave Kingdom, destroying and burning them to completely annihilate its spiritual symbols.

The cries, pleas for mercy, sounds of fighting, and crackling flames mingled together within the city. The once prosperous Dog Slave King had been transformed into a living hell in just a few hours, with the stench of blood rising to the sky, which seemed to be stained with a faint blood color.

When King Himiko of the Dog Slave Kingdom slowly awoke, he was greeted by this hellish scene.

"Do not!!!"

Himiya let out a heart-wrenching cry, then suddenly realized that he had been tied to the city wall without his knowledge.

He turned around in fear and saw Su Yao, dressed in a red robe, standing beside him, coldly watching the raging fire in the city.

Himiko, like a drowning man grasping at a straw, frantically begged for mercy, admitted his mistakes, and pleaded with the heavenly soldiers and generals to spare his life and his people, weeping and wailing as he vowed never to do it again.

But Su Yao wouldn't believe in crocodile tears; he only believed in the order forged by iron and blood.

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Those who offend our mighty Han, though far away, shall be punished. Blood debts must be repaid in blood.

And these are precisely the only things these barbarians can understand.

So the blood kept flowing.

The clearing operation in the capital of the Dog Slave Kingdom lasted for a day and a night, until dawn the next day when the Han soldiers finally put away their weapons.

After they led the remaining two thousand or so Japanese women out of hell, they quickly lit torches and burned the city to the ground. The Kingdom of Dog Slave thus became a thing of the past.

As for their sinful king, Himiko, Su Yao did not spare him either.

The army, escorting the Dog Slave King and a handful of high-ranking nobles and priests from the Dog Slave Kingdom, along with the rescued Han prisoners, returned to the coast of Hakata Bay where the incident had occurred.

Here, Empress Wu Zetian of the Great Han Dynasty, the Queen of Yamatai, the leaders of the Three Han tribes, and other prominent leaders from nearby Japanese islands were all waiting.

"Today, I will carry out justice here, and use the blood of the executioner to commemorate the heroic spirits of those who sacrificed their lives for the Han Dynasty!"

On the coast of Hakata Bay, the sea breeze, carrying a salty dampness and a lingering smell of blood, blew against everyone's faces.

All eyes were fixed on Su Yao, who was standing on the high platform in a crimson battle robe.

Following the orders of the Empress and Su Yao, the Han soldiers immediately set up a simple but solemn altar upon landing to commemorate their compatriots who had been ambushed and killed here by the Dog Slave Kingdom several months earlier.

On the altar, white banners fluttered in the wind, and on the table were fragments of banners recovered from the remains of the mission, blood-stained documents, and several unrecognizable skeletons—the only remaining relics of the envoy and more than twenty martyred guards.

Su Yao personally poured a jug of strong liquor onto the table. The liquor seeped into the scorched earth, as if conveying solace from the human world to the spirits of the fallen heroes.

"Brothers, ever since you set off for the Japanese islands, His Majesty and I have been eagerly awaiting your safe return. But we never expected that the barbarians of the Dog Slave Kingdom, with their wolfish ambitions, would ambush the delegation with such despicable means, causing your deaths in a foreign land and further disgracing the might of our Great Han!"

"Today, Your Majesty and I have arrived with heavenly troops, having already pacified the Dog Slave Kingdom and captured its ringleaders. We are here to avenge you with blood for blood!"

(End of this chapter)