Dominating Martial King
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343: Chapter 219 Power (Subscribe) 343: Chapter 219 Power (Subscribe) After nightfall, three thousand torches burned on the official road south of West Mountain Town, resembling a winding fire snake, advancing toward Xiushui County.

Chu Yunyun originally estimated to gather twelve thousand people, but after nightfall, the number of troops assembled on the south side of West Mountain Town far exceeded this number.

Not only did many of the prominent families and aristocrats in West Mountain Town, who were filled with both respect and fear, bring out all their resources, but even many forces on the outskirts of West Mountain Town also voluntarily sent their martial cultivators and house soldiers subflexure.

At this time, an hour had passed since the battle at Black Bear Mountain ended.

The news that the West Mountain Hall almost annihilated the Xiushui County Army on the south slope of Black Bear Mountain and that the Dan Family had dramatically defeated the West Mountain bandits at Ghost Cry Gorge had already spread throughout Xiushui County.

Anyone in West Mountain Town with any information had already learned of this and realized that the overall situation in West Mountain Town was settled, and Xiushui had undergone a heavenly transformation.

After this battle, not only would the Iron Banner Gang’s West Mountain Hall be the overlord of the entire West Mountain Town, but its power would also cover the northern part of Xiushui County and almost half of West Mountain.

In the next ten years, unless there were significant changes, West Mountain Hall would be the largest Jianghu force in northern Xiushui County.

Chu Xisheng, the Hall Master of West Mountain Hall, would be one of the few powerful figures within Xiushui County.

All the local tyrants, merchants, guard escorts, horse gangs, and salt vendors living in the Northern Territory of Xiushui County would have to rely on his favor.

If they did not express their submission to West Mountain Town now, they might never have another chance to do so.

Therefore, even after nightfall, groups of warriors carrying torches arrived uninvited, hurrying to the gathering place designated by Chu Yunyun.

Liu Ruoxi and Lu Pingyuan finally counted the number, which was fourteen thousand two hundred people.

They were all well-equipped, with cultivation entering the grade, strong and robust men.

The rate of leather armor exceeded eighty-five percent, and there were more than five hundred sets of iron armor, surpassing the leather armor rate of some border armies.

This was mainly due to the contribution of West Mountain Hall.

West Mountain Hall had fourteen hundred people, all donned in armor.

Those hunters each had a set of leather armor.

Anyone within the hunters of West Mountain who valued their life would find a way to make themselves a set of leather armor.

Using high-quality materials, the defense capability far surpassed the standard leather armor of the county army and the border army.

West Mountain Hall also captured a large number of weapons at Black Bear Mountain.

Chu Yunyun distributed all the still usable swords, spears, and armor, fully arming all the West Mountain Gang members and hunters to the teeth.

The prominent families and local tyrants in West Mountain Town also brought out their weaponry, with over a hundred sets of iron armor among them.

When these over fourteen thousand people marched along the official road toward Xiushui County City, all the villages along the way shut their doors tightly, and all the caravans avoided to the sides of the road.

The constables from Six Gates and county soldiers patrolling the official roads also very consciously gave way.

They all looked at the advancing armored soldiers and hunters with pale faces and anxious expressions.

It’s said that when the army exceeds ten thousand, there is no end in sight.

The more than ten thousand soldiers organized by West Mountain Hall, like a long dragon, marched on the official road.

From the front line to the back, it stretched over seven li long.

Those waiting by the roadside needed a full fifteen minutes to see the end of the army.

Chu Yunyun, to compensate Zhou Liangchen, appointed Zhou Liangchen as the commander of the vanguard, leading fifteen hundred local tyrants and house soldiers to march at the forefront.

Zhou Liangchen was initially quite excited.

He was relatively steady, but after all, he was a young man full of blood and energy.

Zhou Liangchen had also dreamed of joining the army and leading soldiers to battle across the fields when he was young.

At this time, having the opportunity to lead over a thousand troops, Zhou Liangchen cherished it very much.

But he soon became disappointed, as the West Mountain Hall army marched southward, all the way to the walls of Xiushui County City, without any obstruction.

No one was foolish enough to try to stop the West Mountain Hall army with a mantis trying to stop a chariot.

Even when Zhou Liangchen led his men to sweep through the three estates of the Shangguan Family and the Sheen Family, none of the aristocratic families in Xiushui Inner City made any move.

Therefore, when the fourteen thousand troops of the West Mountain Hall arrayed themselves three li north of Xiushui County City,

Zhou Liangchen crossed his arms in disappointment, looking at the city walls ahead, especially the many people above the city gate, looking down toward the north.

——These prominent families in Xiushui County had no backbone at all.

Zhou Liangchen did not know that in the rear of the battle formation, Wei Yang was commenting on him.

The former Divine Strategy Captain spoke in an admiring tone, “His marching has a method, it seems he has studied earnestly.

I heard that the Coastal Zhou Family produced a few Third Grade generals, it must be family heritage.”

Li Shenshan, however, gave a slight smile, “It seems quite proper, but it just looks good.

If he were in the north, a few hundred cavalry charges could make him panic.”

Wei Yang laughed silently.

The thousand men Zhou Liangchen commanded were a ragtag band.

Being able to lead them like this already made him stronger than many of the thousand-households commanders in the local county army.

The kid just needed some time to train in the army and accumulate some experience.

By the age of thirty, he could serve as a border army thousand-households commander in the Northern Army, better than both him and Li Shenshan.

Besides, their West Mountain Hall was just a Jianghu gang, not a rebel force.

With the current standard of West Mountain Hall, it was more than sufficient to deal with Jianghu conflicts.

They could even confront the local county army head-on, so they couldn’t ask for too much.

Thinking of the word ‘rebellion,’ Wei Yang looked toward the north with some thoughts.

He wondered when Shui Canglang and Gong Wugou, the two Deputy Generals, would raise the banner of rebellion.

When would they avenge the Dominating Martial King and their fallen brothers at Luofeng Mountain?