Two Realms Shuttle Gate: Don't Call Me a Demon! Chapter 578

Chapter 578: Chapter 360: Purge (Three Updates of Ten Thousand Words Each) Chapter 578: Chapter 360: Purge (Three Updates of Ten Thousand Words Each) Chikapei watched as the soldiers from the Jieke Group suddenly attacked; the glass dropped from his hands and shattered on the floor, spilling red wine everywhere.

Terrified, he quickly called the manor's security, shouting loudly, “What are you doing? What do you want? This is a private manor, get out of here now, leave my house!”

No one listened to him except for the security personnel.

“Protect the gentlemen and ladies!”

The security personnel shouted tremblingly, their voices shaky, as they instinctively wanted to flee from the Jieke Group soldiers.

But finding a security job here wasn't easy, the benefits were good and the salary was high. If they ran now, they would certainly lose their jobs, not to mention potentially earning the resentment of the powerful, who could easily have them thrown to the fishes.

Besides, surely the attackers wouldn't just open fire? After all, these were dignitaries from the Southern Three Prefectures. A death would be a major incident.

The security personnel thought this, a habitual way of thinking.

Although they were aware of the Jieke Group, the aristocrats were in current control. These personnel, having grown up here, knew the influence of the aristocrats well, which made them seem more formidable than the Jieke Group.

Thus, the security personnel were sure that the Jieke Group wouldn't shoot, and to keep their jobs, they still valiantly stood in the way.

Some security personnel, wanting to show their bravery and loyalty in front of the aristocrats, even pulled out their pistols to confront the soldiers of the Jieke Group, hoping for recognition and promotion from the aristocrats after this incident.

However, as soon as the Jieke Group soldiers saw this, they pulled their triggers without a word.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The sound of gunfire erupted throughout the luxurious manor. On the lawn of the party, several security personnel immediately fell into pools of blood.

The nearby aristocrats were completely stunned; the men shuddered, and the ladies let out dolphin-like shrieks as their faces paled.

The leading platoon leader, seeing this scene, that the enemy was not surrendering but daring to resist, immediately issued combat orders.

“Machine gun fire suppression, combat formation attack, bomb them fiercely with the helicopter.”

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

Two armored vehicles started up, their mounted machine guns firing fiercely. The terrifying 12.7mm bullets instantly ripped through human tissue; many security personnel, along with aristocrats caught in the crossfire, were literally blown apart, their blood staining the walls and the ground.

The soldiers of the Jieke Group advanced in standard combat formations towards the manor, snipers took high ground, soldiers covered each other advancing and threw grenades to clear out enemies in dead angles. Upon encountering any security hiding inside the buildings, they immediately called for helicopter fire support.

A helicopter moved, its 25mm machine gun mounted beneath the nose firing at a villa.

The security personnel hiding inside thought the walls could protect them, not realizing that these ordinary walls couldn't stop the penetration of a 25mm machine gun.

The machine gun punched large, face-sized holes in the walls; those hiding behind them were simply torn apart, and finally finished off with a few 70mm rockets, leaving nothing but rubble and buried corpses.

The entire manor was in uproar with gunshots, but it ended as quickly as it began, lasting only two or three minutes.

Because the mansion's security were either killed horrifically or shaking and kneeling in surrender.

These handgun-equipped security personnel, how could they stand against a regular army's firepower?

Many people were confused and killed under the hail of bullets, while those remaining finally realized what was happening, crying and screaming as they dropped their weapons and knelt, begging for mercy.

“Don't shoot, don't shoot, I'm just here to make a living!”

“Don't kill me, cease fire, I surrender!”

“I'm not protecting them anymore, I want to go home, wuu wuu.”

The security personnel kneeled all over the place, each filled with terror.

They thought the Jieke Group wouldn't dare to shoot, but the attackers didn't hesitate at all, killing most of them in an instant.

To hell with protection, their own lives were at stake.

Seeing these Jieke Group soldiers using heavy firepower to kill, it was clear they were serious. Who would dare to stop them now? The still-warm corpses on the ground were proof of what awaited.

The manor, due to the brief skirmish, was utterly devastated, with collapsed buildings, bullet-riddled walls, the pervasive smell of gunpowder, and mutilated bodies strewn about as if it were a battlefield.

The aristocrats, seeing the carnage, many wet their pants in fear, their faces pale as they emitted hysterical screams and huddled together like quails, shrinking into a mass.

Chikapei, who had been talking loudly before, now lay quivering on the ground, crawling and squeezing into the crowd, not daring to even look at the Jieke Group soldiers.

But the soldiers hadn't forgotten about him; two of them walked up, ignoring his tearful wailing and beat him with the butt of their rifles until his head was bloody. Then, like dragging a dead dog, they grabbed his legs and dragged him out from the crowd.

“Platoon leader, he was the one who called the security and threatened us,”
the soldier reported loudly to the platoon leader.

“I'm not, I didn't.”

Chikapei was truly terrified. Gone was his previous arrogance; seeing the dark muzzles of Jieke Group's guns, his eyes filled with uncontrollable fear and his voice trembled as he said, “I am willing to give up all my property, and I will fully support the policies of Jieke Group, never creating any obstacles.”

“Do you think I'm a fool? Killing you, your property would still be confiscated. Besides, people like you turning into corpses is actually the best help for our policy enforcement.”

The platoon leader, seeing Chikapei's face smeared with snot and tears, drew his pistol from his waist.

“Plea…”

The plea was cut short as Chikapei's head blossomed with a bloody hole, blood gushing out profusely.

This top elite in the Southern Three Prefectures, who held great power, just died from a single bullet.

The other elites, witnessing this scene, couldn't help but feel overwhelmed with terror, truly feeling the ruthlessness of Jieke Group. While the Siam Government needed evidence to arrest someone, Jieke Group just stormed into homes and initiated a mass slaughter without any semblance of reason.

Jia Wenxunliang looked at the dead and unblinking eyes of Chikapei, his head buzzing.

He had considered that Jieke Group might take action, but had not anticipated it to be on such a large scale. From the looks of it, they seemed poised to wipe out all the elites of the Southern Three Prefectures in one fell swoop.

“Take everyone away. Those who should be shot, shoot them; those who should be sent to forced labor in the mines, send them.”

The platoon leader waved his hand grandly, and the soldiers stepped forward, placing hoods over the heads of these elites and pushing them onto military vehicles.

“The Malays are done for.”

Just as this thought flashed through Jia Wenxunliang's mind, his view went dark as a hood was placed over his head and he was dragged away by the soldiers, gripping his arm.

The platoon leader took another group of soldiers to begin sealing off the manor, coordinating with Jieke Group's financial auditors, they found a wealth of assets in the manor including an abundance of gold and silver jewelry, land deeds, antique calligraphy and paintings, and even several boxes of the limited edition Tianyuan Slimming Pills produced by Jieke Group, each costing 49,999 Hua Yuan, totaling hundreds of pills.

Though the Southern Three Prefectures were economically backward, their elite class was rich to the point of being dripping with wealth, holding a large amount of assets.

This scene was not confined to this manor but was happening throughout every city in the Southern Three Prefectures.

The local Malay elites, deeply rooted and believing themselves interwoven in power regardless of who came, expected to be indispensable. However, Jieke Group was not buying it.

With troops mobilized from military camps, they began purging local Malay elites directly, any attempts at resistance were met with ruthless retaliation and massacring by Jieke Group, including entire families where all adult males were shot.

Facing the ferocious forces of Jieke Group, these elites of the Southern Three Prefectures were like paper tigers, easily torn apart.

The powerhouse support they relied on–police, business, and political spheres–stood no chance against Jieke Group, as their troops easily completed the arrests, pulling out the weeds and bringing up the soil by capturing those who were colluding with them in one swoop.

Jieke Group, through practical actions, showcased how ludicrously inadequate the forces that they thought could intimidate Jieke Group were before the military's might. Those who were not compliant faced only one path–cleansing.

After three days of arrests and purges, the elites of the Southern Three Prefectures were nearly wiped out, and a huge amount of property was seized.

A significant quake thus shook through the entire Southern Three Prefectures. Over seventy percent of the officials were either arrested or dismissed, and a large number of merchants were imprisoned.

The lower-class citizens of the Southern Three Prefectures were still trying to comprehend what had happened when the cleansing mission already ended.

Following this, without the restraint of those elites, Jieke Group began moving into the locality, taking over government functions and starting to propagate their policies.

These policies summed up to one thing: bribery of interest.

Jieke Group promised to distribute the land of the rich landlords to the people, along with tax cuts and higher prices on food purchases, they initiated various factory developments, established minimum wage standards as well as overtime and labor protection. The local lower-class Malays resistance quickly dissipated significantly.

Due to the economic backwardness of the Southern Three Prefectures where the lower class mainly consisted of farmers, but with a large amount of land held by the elite who also controlled food pricing, the local Malay lower-class farmers had little land per capita and worked arduously, earning very little in a year, merely to be exploited by those elites.

Not to mention, Jieke Group's mere act of redistributing land already won over many hearts.

Moreover, Jieke Group also introduced its livestock business, encouraging them to raise pigs and Poison Insect, with Jieke Group responsible for planning and purchasing, ensuring steady benefits without worries.

It wasn't that there were no individuals wanting to resist; among the lower class, some harbored thoughts of forming an independent country, but once discovered, they were sent by Jieke Group for reeducation through labor until they reformed.

The majority of the population wouldn't think too deeply since Jieke Group's arrival brought tangible benefits.

Through this thunderous operation, Jieke Group effectively cleared any opposition in the Southern Three Prefectures, and then this cleansing commenced in other Siam occupied territories, across 12 other prefectures.

Although not as violent as in the Southern Three Prefectures, they also cleared out a significant number of dissenters.

Jieke Group employed the policy of giving dates to collaborators and bullets to opponents, which quickly stabilized these occupied areas.

Of course, mainly because these occupied areas were primarily settlements of Siam's ethnic minorities since ethnic tensions in Siam were acute, they were actually oppressed by the Thais.

Thus, although Jieke Group was in the role of an occupier, these people were already oppressed, and now under a seemingly better occupier, they had little to oppose.

Counting on their deep affections for Siam was impossible; they were not Thais, who are the main body of Siam.

Due to the weak resistance sentiment, Jieke Group effectively completed the annexation, turning it into part of Chan Country's territory.

Chapter end

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