Chapter 168: Erecting a Jingguan Once More! (One More Chapter Later)

In the grand hall.

A flash of snow-bright blade light streaked past.

Mangu was personally beheaded by the new Jie King Dai Shang!

Ridiculous — he, a long-standing Jie Tribe general famous for his violent temper and tyrannical conduct.

And he indeed possessed outstanding military achievements, having once led Jie cavalry to run rampant inside and outside the Great Zhou Dynasty, defeating all enemies; even Old Jie King Nu Chi had once praised him openly.

Yet unexpectedly, in this city of desperation, the "cowardly" Jie King Dai Shang whom he looked down on struck first in a sudden uprising, and he was instead beheaded!

And Dai Shang's performance also genuinely exceeded the expectations of Gu Xuan and the others.

Originally a young Jie noble, compared to others of his clan he acted more steadily, not so brutal.

But at this critical moment, he ultimately did not cower to death; rather, he erupted with decisive blood-courage.

In other eras, perhaps he could have become a capable Jie King of his generation.

Only pity, the situation now is no longer what it once was.

With the Jie Tribe crushed so badly, the dead dead and the wounded wounded, only a few thousand surviving soldiers besieged in Kuju City, this Jie King of his had long since lost whatever authority he had.

After he swung his blade and severed Mangu's head.

The several hundred personal guards following Mangu were first struck by unbelieving shock.

But merely a moment later, reacting, their eyes turned red as they brandished their weapons and charged at Jie King Dai Shang and his party on the opposite side, to avenge their lord!

"Ah!"

Amid the heart-rending battle cries of Mangu's personal guards.

The grand hall where state affairs were properly discussed instantly turned into a venue like a gangland shootout, and the scene was countless times more bloody and desperate!

Dai Shang naturally had guards too, but their numbers were clearly fewer than Mangu's personal guards, and their combat power was far inferior to those original heavy-armored warriors.

In just a few exchanges, Dai Shang's side was slaughtered to the last man.

And he, even as Jie King, in such a situation could not preserve his life at all; soon after the melee he was hacked to death by a heavy-armored warrior.

Such a terrifying situation shocked all the neutral Jie ministers in the hall.

And Mangu's personal guards had clearly gone mad with killing; after beheading Jie King Dai Shang and all his guards, they actually turned their blades on the neutral ministers below.

In a short time, several old nobles were killed, blood flowing like rivers.

And ultimately, there were still quick-witted old ministers who, the very moment the Jie King was killed, had fled outside the hall.

And it was precisely he who, in the name of suppressing rebellion, commanded several hundred soldiers outside the hall to completely annihilate Mangu's personal guards who had fallen into mad slaughter inside.

Without doubt, this was a grand melee!

The Jie Tribe's last viable fighting force inside Kuju City was thus exhausted in the chaos of Mangu and Dai Shang dying one after another.

One cannot help but say, when a state is about to perish, there must be monsters.

Many times, matters are often just like this.

When the wind is favorable, everything seems to fall into place as if heaven-assisted.

And when the wind is adverse, demons and monsters all come out; all sorts of heaven-defying things can happen.

……

This Jie Tribe melee, however, ultimately saved Gu Xuan and company a round of effort.

And avoided many Human Army soldier casualties.

Because Kuju City, as the Jie Tribe's Dragon Rising Place, and later a city they expanded with great care, its defensibility was actually not low.

And the soldiers in the city, including the warriors under Dai Shang and Mangu together, numbered fully two or three thousand.

And the grain and supplies in the city could also be said to be not few.

If they truly united as one and defended to the death, the Human Army would really have no easy method for a time, only able to swarm-attack the city, because the Camel Fire Oil Bombs had actually been exhausted.

Yet now it instead saved this round of effort.

For these thousand-odd surrendering Jie captives, the Human high command led by Zhou King Gu Xuan had no courtesy to speak of.

First imprison them, then send people to simply screen them; any with offenses against the Human Race, all execute according to law.

The few who had not directly harmed Humans were also escorted with the army, to spend their remaining lives in some mine vein within Great Zhou territory.

Up to this point.

The once rampant major ferocious clan in the North Border, even inside the Great Zhou Dynasty — the Jie Tribe — was thus basically declared destroyed!

From Zhou King Gu Xuan personally leading elite Northern Border Elite Army Special Forces to raid and behead Old Jie King Nu Chi and other Jie core elites, to the new Jie King Dai Shang and Jie cavalry general Mangu killing each other in a melee.

The Human Army led by Gu Xuan killed forty to fifty thousand Jie in total, while its own casualties did not exceed ten thousand.

Such a great victory, placed in former days, would be unimaginable!

Because in the past, merely a thousand-odd Jie cavalry were enough to run rampant in the Great Zhou North Border, harassing at will, while the Great Zhou Border Army under Cheng Luo as main general dared not oppose.

At this moment.

Whether Old General Jiang Bu Shi, or the head of civil ministers the Northern Border Governor, and the many Border Army officers and soldiers, none were not gazing at the Gu Xuan ahead with eyes burning to the extreme.

Undoubtedly, all this victory is inseparable from this Zhou King His Majesty before their eyes!

Without his peerless martial might, almost single-handedly suppressing Cheng Luo and the Sima Clan Remnants, and firmly advocating marching on the Jie Tribe; without him personally leading troops to strike, beheading Jie King Nu Chi, and so on, Great Zhou could not possibly have won so smoothly!

Finally.

Gu Xuan led the army to rest and reorganize in Kuju City for several days, slaughtering cattle and sheep to reward the soldiers.

And the grain and supplies in the city were all taken by Great Zhou.

Then, right beside the main road outside Kuju City — the place all North Border Alien Races must pass — Great Zhou erected a towering Jingguan.

It was a pyramid-like structure piled up from all the Jie corpses collected since this campaign.

It was also a settling of accounts with this ferocious and cruel Alien Race, the Jie Tribe!

Those who came together to witness this scene naturally included many of the North Border's Small Tribes.

Among them were some who had suffered oppression and humiliation at the hands of the Jie Tribe, and a small portion who had once been accomplices of the Jie Tribe.

Regardless of which tribe, without a doubt, this Jingguan was for them all a tremendous deterrence!

Once, how arrogant the Jie Tribe was, and how prosperous!

Relying on their Heavy Arrows and sturdy armor, relying on their endurance and skill in battle, they dominated for a time, even bullying and insulting the suzerain state, the Great Zhou Dynasty, but what of it now?

This great battle proved one fact: the Jin Ren might weaken for a time, might suffer hardship for a time, but sooner or later a King Realm would arise.

And when that moment comes, it will be the time to draw up the list and settle all accounts!

A poet accompanying the army sang: If Zhen E can slay the chief culprit, he will further build a Jingguan of whales and leviathans!

Other small tribe chieftains who witnessed this scene, besides being greatly terrified, would naturally recount this scene to their own people after returning, warning them how to cautiously recognize their race's status, lest they repeat the Jie Tribe's downfall.

As for the Great Zhou Jin Ren people living in the North Border, the enormous impact brought by this great victory was undoubtedly enormous!

(Chapter End)