The first battle would be the last! One cannon blast to obliterate every grudge! The world was stunned!

Great Wei's border.

The Heavenly Wolf Mountains.

This had originally been Great Wei's frontier, part of its territory.

But the Barbarian Tribe's surprise attack had caught Great Wei off guard.

More precisely, apart from Xu Qingxiao, Ji Ling, and Prince Huaining, no one in all of Great Wei had known about the Barbarian Tribe's invasion plans.

Chen Zhengru and the others had known, but only part of the story.

They had known nothing about things like the Barbarian Tribe's cannons.

Many people had been sacrificed in this war, soldiers and civilians alike, but those sacrifices had been inevitable.

During this time, Xu Qingxiao had also struggled and hesitated.

Should I sacrifice these people?

In theory, he could use the First-Rank Divine Martial Cannon to strike straight into the Barbarian Tribe Stronghold.

But doing so would be like letting a tiger return to the mountains.

Against the Barbarian Tribe's million-strong army, one cannon blast could kill a hundred thousand without difficulty, but by the second shot, they would choose to flee.

They would flee to the Chuyuan Dynasty or the Tuxie Dynasty.

Once they escaped into either dynasty, all his previous efforts would come to nothing.

They would still suffer no truly crippling losses, and they would learn that Great Wei possessed such a secret weapon.

In that case, Great Wei would not have lost, but it would not have won either.

There was nothing wrong with Prince Huaining's strategy. This was not cruelty, but a matter of making sacrifices from a broader perspective.

Some people were destined to be sacrificed. From that broader perspective, sacrificing over a hundred thousand people on the border would buy the destruction of the Barbarian Tribe.

Thus, after a period of torment, Xu Qingxiao had agreed to Prince Huaining's proposal.

After all, Prince Huaining was