Covering the sky: Starting with the holy body, the immortal Taoist comes to attack

Chapter 168 Rebuilding the Jingguan! (One more chapter coming later)
In the main hall.

A flash of bright light appeared.

Manggu was personally beheaded by the new Jie King, Daishang!

It's laughable that he was a long-time commander of the Jie tribe, known for his volatile temper and ruthless behavior.

Moreover, he himself was indeed a man of outstanding military achievements. He once led the Jie cavalry to roam freely within and outside the Great Zhou Dynasty, defeating all enemies. Even the old Jie King Nuchi had praised him.

Unexpectedly, in this desperate city, the "cowardly" Jie King Dai Shang, whom he looked down upon, launched a sudden attack and was beheaded!

Dai Shang's performance was indeed somewhat unexpected by Gu Xuan and the others.

Originally a young nobleman of the Jie tribe, he was more composed and less tyrannical than others in his tribe.

But at this critical moment, he did not succumb to cowardice; instead, he displayed resolute courage.

In other times, he might have become a great and accomplished King of the Tribe.

Unfortunately, the situation is very different now.

After such a crushing defeat for the Jie tribe, with the entire tribe either dead or wounded, and the few thousand remaining soldiers besieged in Kuoju City, the Jie king had long since lost all prestige.

After he swung his sword and beheaded Manggu.

The hundreds of guards who followed Manggu were initially stunned into disbelief.

But after only a moment, they reacted and their eyes turned red. They brandished their weapons and charged at King Dai Shang and his men, wanting to avenge their commander!
"what!"

Amidst the heart-wrenching battle cries of the Manggu guards.

The grand hall where political affairs were discussed was transformed into a scene resembling a gang fight, but one that was many times more bloody and brutal!
Dai Shang naturally also had guards, but their numbers were significantly fewer than those of the Manggu personal guards, and their combat strength was far inferior to these original heavily armored warriors.

In just a few exchanges, Dai Shang's men were completely wiped out.

Even though he was the King of Jie, he couldn't save his life in such a situation. He was killed by a heavily armored warrior shortly after the fight.

This terrifying situation shocked all the neutral Jie ministers in the hall.

Manggu's personal guards had gone mad with killing. After slaughtering King Daishang and all his guards, they even turned their attention to the neutral ministers below.

In a short time, several old nobles were killed, and blood flowed like a river.

Ultimately, some veteran ministers reacted quickly and escaped outside the palace the moment King Jie was killed.

It was he who, under the pretext of suppressing a rebellion, commanded hundreds of soldiers outside the hall to slaughter all the Manggu guards who were engaged in a frenzied killing spree inside the hall.

Without a doubt, this is a chaotic free-for-all!

Originally, the last remaining force of the Jie tribe, which should have resided in Kuoju City, was almost completely wiped out in the chaos following the deaths of Manggu and Daishang.

It must be said that when a nation is about to perish, there will inevitably be monstrous evils.

That's often how things are.

When things are going smoothly, everything seems to fall into place naturally, as if divinely ordained.

When things are going against you, all sorts of monsters and demons come out, and anything that defies the heavens can happen.

……

This chaotic battle among the Jie tribe ultimately saved Gu Xuan and others a lot of trouble.

This also prevented many human soldiers from being killed or wounded. As the birthplace of the Jie people and a city they later painstakingly expanded, Kuoju City was actually quite easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Moreover, the soldiers in the city, including Dai Shang, Mang Gu and other warriors, numbered two to three thousand.

The city also had a considerable amount of grain, fodder, and supplies.

If they truly unite and defend their city with unwavering resolve, the human army will have no easy way to stop them and will have to resort to swarming attacks, since they have already exhausted their camel fuel and oil bombs.

But now we can save ourselves that trouble.

The human leaders, headed by King Zhou Gu Xuan, showed little courtesy to the more than one thousand Jie prisoners who surrendered.

First, imprison them, then send people to conduct a simple screening. Anyone who has committed a crime against the human race will be publicly executed.

Those few who had not directly harmed the human race were also escorted along with the army, and would spend the rest of their lives in a mine within the territory of the Great Zhou.

This is the end.

The Jie tribe, a once rampant and fierce tribe that ravaged the northern border and even the territory of the Great Zhou Dynasty, was thus essentially wiped out!
From the time when King Zhou Gu Xuan personally led his elite border troops in a special raid to kill the old Jie King Nu Chi and other core elites of the Jie tribe, to the current battle between the new Jie King Dai Shang and the Jie cavalry general Mang Gu.

The human army, led by Gu Xuan, killed a total of 40,000 to 50,000 Jie people, while suffering fewer than 10,000 casualties themselves.

Such a resounding victory would have been unimaginable in the past!

In the past, the Jie tribe had only a thousand or so cavalrymen, yet they were enough to roam freely and harass the northern border of the Great Zhou, and the Great Zhou army, led by Cheng Luo, dared not confront them.

at this moment.

Whether it was the veteran general Jiang Bushi, the chief civil official and governor of the northern border, or many border soldiers, they all gazed at Gu Xuan with extremely eager eyes.

Undoubtedly, all these victories are inseparable from His Majesty King Zhou before us!
Without his unparalleled martial prowess, his almost single-handed suppression of Cheng Luo and other remnants of the Sima clan, his advocacy for the invasion of the Jie tribe, his personal leadership of the army to kill the Jie king Nuchi, and so on, the Great Zhou could not have won so smoothly!
finally.

Gu Xuan led his army to rest in Kuoju City for several days, where he cooked beef and slaughtered sheep to reward his soldiers.

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

Then, right next to the main road outside Kuoju City, a place where all the alien races of the Northern Territory would pass through, the Great Zhou erected a massive Jingguan (a mound of skulls).

It was a pyramid-like structure built from all the corpses of the Jie people collected since the start of this campaign.

It was also a reckoning with the Jie people, this fierce and cruel foreign tribe!

Many small tribes from the North were also present to witness this scene.

Some of them had suffered oppression and humiliation at the hands of the Jie people, while a small number had been accomplices of the Jie people.

Regardless of which tribe it was, there was no doubt that this mound of skulls was a huge deterrent to them!

Once upon a time, the Jie people were incredibly arrogant and powerful.

Relying on their heavy arrows and armor, and their perseverance and skill in battle, they were once rampant, even bullying and humiliating their suzerain state, the Great Zhou Dynasty. But what has become of them now?

This great war proved a fact: the human race may be weak and suffer for a time, but sooner or later a king will rise.

And when that moment comes, it will be time to make a list and settle accounts!
A poet who came with the army sang: If suppressing evil can kill the chief culprit, we will build a Jingguan (a mound of skulls) to resemble whales and salamanders!
The other tribal leaders who witnessed this scene were greatly shocked and, upon returning home, naturally recounted the incident to their own people, warning them how to carefully recognize the status of their tribe so as not to repeat the mistakes of the Jie tribe.

For the people of the Great Zhou tribe living in the northern border, the impact of this great victory was undoubtedly enormous!

(End of this chapter)