Nanyou peeps have accepted the Qin. The old geezer offers shin a talisman to avoid arrows so they can come back. They are conflicted cause they got to like the HSU in this past 6 months and know they are not "bad invaders" (Kokuyou hills memories came when reading this one XD)
Sei says the future of Qin dynasty depends on this war. They are all worried cause Qin didn't fight against Nanyou since their army went to the capital so they'll face a bigger army.
Sei reminds them that 6gg system was created for this purpose and they have to trust Tou.
Tou will depart. RyuAn says he's conflicted, he doesn't want Han to cease to exist, but he doesn't want Tou to die, and he feels like everyone on Nanyou has that same conflict. It's amazing how they changed in the past 6 months.
He asks Ryu an for one last favor.. The world doesn't know what happened to Nanyou. He is to send messengers to surrounding castles, big and small and let them know about state about how things are in Nanyou.
Han citicenz are worried about what will happen to their country if they lose.
Qin is approaching with 160.000 troops.
Rakuakan and former Nanyou general will march out together.. with 160.000 troops too. "they are very evenly matched"
Rakuakan: that would be if it was just us.
Since the fate of the nation is at play, small groups from all around the country will come. He plans to surround Qin with 50.000 extra soldiers coming from several forts and then hit them with the main army. Making it 210.000 to 160.000 and even more may come... All this preparation will pay off.
They start getting reports that the castles cant send the promised men. Or that they will send fewer than they said.. (a castle cant even send 300 instead of 1000).
The King gets angry and says "They cant? Or they dont want to? (Whole scene reminded me of the coalition army reports with one bad news after another)
Then Muscle-Ten general says: Look Rakuakan, all those castles not sending men... they are all close to Nanyou.
No break next week.