In the Great Qin Dynasty, I, the Unruly Commander, begin by dual-cultivating with Yan Ling Ji.

Liujia Village was in complete chaos. Some young men carried grain and ran away into the distance, while others dragged their families along and hid in a panic.

Just then, the Xiongnu cavalry arrived at the village entrance. The elderly men who had been enjoying the cool air hadn't even run a few meters before they were cut down by the Xiongnu cavalry and died instantly.

One of the elderly men who fell to the ground was even trampled over by the Hun cavalry while laughing, turning him into a bloody and mangled corpse.

Thousands of Xiongnu cavalrymen, like jackals smelling blood, rushed into the village and killed anyone they saw. Some Xiongnu cavalrymen lingered behind the villagers who tried to escape, toying with them like cats playing with mice, and occasionally shooting an arrow into the fleeing ones.

The elderly and men were all subjected to a brutal massacre. Children were left unattended; there was a rule on the grasslands: children who could not cross the river on horseback were not killed.

This serves two purposes: firstly, it maintains population balance, allowing the children to be abducted only when they are grown up, thus avoiding the depletion of resources.

Secondly, these children were too young and posed no threat to them, so killing them would be pointless. This could also be interpreted as the last vestige of humanity remaining among the grassland people.

As for the women, their fate was even worse. Every now and then, a woman would be lewdly carried out of the courtyard by the Xiongnu cavalry, her scimitar dripping with blood.

Even worse, some women commit bestial acts in front of their deceased husbands.

Newlywed Liu Yue and her husband Xu Tian carefully hid in the cellar, barely daring to breathe in the cramped space.

"Husband, I'm afraid..."

"Don't be afraid, Yue'er. Those alien races won't find us here. We'll be alright..."

With a loud crash, the wooden planks above the cellar were suddenly ripped open, revealing three Hun soldiers wielding curved swords with bloodthirsty smiles on their faces.

Liu Yue was terrified and cowered in a corner of the cellar. Although Xu Tian was also very scared, he still mustered up his courage and stood in front of Liu Yue.

"I told you, these people from the Central Plains are very cunning."

"Haha, this Central Plains woman is really pretty. Let me have her first, and you can have the other women."

"Haha, this is what you said."

A Xiongnu soldier jumped down and slashed at Xu Tian with his sword. Xu Tian raised his kitchen knife to defend himself, but an ordinary villager was no match for the skilled Xiongnu soldier. The Xiongnu soldier slashed Xu Tian's kitchen knife away, and seeing the curved blade coming down, Xu Tian was so frightened that he hurriedly knelt down and begged for mercy.

"Please, spare me! You can do whatever you want with my wife..."

The Xiongnu soldier beheaded him with a single blow, and the blood gushing from his artery splattered on Liu Yue's pretty face, making her visibly pale.

The Xiongnu soldier sheathed his scimitar, then swept Liu Yue up in his arms.

Seeing this, another Xiongnu soldier jumped down impatiently and shoved the Xiongnu soldier aside.

"I told you, I want this woman, the others are yours."

The Xiongnu soldier shrugged, gave a wicked laugh, and went with the Xiongnu soldier above him to plunder food and valuables from the room.

The remaining Xiongnu soldier, seeing Liu Yue's pale face and terrified expression, pounced on her like a hungry tiger. Liu Yue's clothes were torn apart, and her tears of fear soaked her undergarments.

……

The entire Liu Family Village was now like a living hell. Some bloodthirsty Xiongnu cavalrymen even killed children, right before their mothers' eyes.

The Xiongnu cavalry commander watched his subordinates' bestial behavior with indifference, finding nothing amiss.

These people from the Central Plains were nothing more than two-legged sheep left by the wolf god, to be slaughtered at will, and tools for them to reproduce.

Even the Qin army, known for its ferocity, could not do anything to them.

Suddenly, a golden light streaked across the sky. High above, Ying Ziqing looked down at the hellish scene below, her eyes beneath the mask almost spitting out fury.

The golden lines on his forehead lit up.

The dark silver Dragon Sky Sword appeared in his hand, its blade pointing directly at the village below.

A hoarse, angry voice came from beneath the mask:

"Divine punishment descends from the heavens, cleansing all impurities!"

The next second, the once clear sky was suddenly covered by thick dark clouds.

Thousands of thick, golden bolts of lightning, each as thick as a bucket, accompanied by raging flames, crashed down with the fury of the gods and mortals!

The next second, the whole world seemed to be cleansed by the golden lightning.

Everything struck by thunder is utterly destroyed.

The Hun soldiers on the ground died in extreme agony without even realizing it.

Thunder rises from the heavens, and darkness arises from the red earth.

After the divine punishment, the originally yellow ground turned dark red, with traces of flames everywhere.

Those thousands of Xiongnu soldiers, along with their warhorses, were all reduced to ashes and vanished without a trace under this divine thunder.

Only a few dozen women, barely clothed, remained in the entire Liu family village.

At this moment, three thousand Ironclad Cavalry and two thousand rogue soldiers arrived at the scene.

Meng Tian came to Ying Ziqing's side.

Ying Ziqing said coldly, "Take them to Beidi County and settle them properly."

Looking at the scantily clad, dazed women, Meng Tian's face showed anger, and he said in a deep voice:

"This humble general will certainly not fail in his mission and will make proper arrangements for them."

He then led dozens of thugs to the women, removed his mask, and revealed a look of grief and anger on his face.

"Sorry, we're late..."

Ying Ziqing ordered Li Cunli to lead his troops to Beidi County, a key town in the northern border region.

He transformed into a golden bolt of lightning and went to rescue the surrounding villages.

Some villages were saved by Ying Ziqing, while others were reduced to ashes before Ying Ziqing even arrived.

By the time Ying Ziqing arrived in Beidi County, it was already dusk. Li Cunli and Meng Tian had already set up camp with three thousand Iron Pagoda soldiers and two thousand Bad People.

In the prefectural governor's mansion,

Jia Zhuang, the prefect of Beidi and concurrently the general in charge of border defense, knelt in fear in the main hall of the prefect's mansion.

In the main seat,

Wearing a mask, Ying Ziqing wiped the Greedy Wolf Blade in her hand.

At this moment, Li Cunli entered from outside the main hall and handed the intelligence to Ying Ziqing, which listed all of Jia Zhuang's mistakes and dereliction of duty during his tenure as the governor of Beidi.

Ying Ziqing casually tossed it aside and said with a sneer:

"Very well, it seems our prefect is so busy indulging in revelry that he doesn't even know the Xiongnu army is at the gates."

Jia Zhuang knelt down with a thud, his voice trembling as he said:

"This humble general has done his best, but the Northern Prefecture is really short-handed and cannot spare any manpower to rescue those villages."

"Hmph, you're short-handed. I bet you're thinking of using those villages to fend off those Xiongnu wolf soldiers."

Ying Ziqing vanished from the main seat in an instant, and with a flash of sharp light, Jia Zhuang's two arms and two legs were severed.

Ying Ziqing turned her head and said calmly:

"At noon tomorrow, Jia Zhuang will be executed by dismemberment to restore morale!"

"Yes, Commander," Li Cunli said in a deep voice.