Chapter 52: Jin Yao Leads the Troops
"Are you here?" In the big tent, Lian Po looked at Jin Yao happily and walked quickly to greet him.
"What is the current situation?" Jin Yao didn't waste any words and walked directly under the map.
Diao Xun came up to him immediately and explained to him, because no one in the entire tent was willing to contact him.
"The situation is not optimistic. Zhao State has divided its troops into two routes. Yan general Su Fu, a famous official, is leading an army of 200,000 to the north, intending to seize Daiyi and stop General Li Mu from leading his troops to the south at Yanmen Pass. Su Fu is also leading an army of 400,000 to march straight to Handan!" Diao Xun marked the movements of the Yan army on the map, and explained the time when they received the intelligence and the speculated where the Yan army might be at the moment.
Jin Yao listened silently, then sat in his seat without saying a word, waiting for Lian Po's order.
He was a beginner in warfare and had to listen to Lian Po in everything and learn from him.
"Take you with you to join the army to learn!" Lian Po had been observing Jin Yao before he spoke.
However, the generals from all four directions were all watching Jin Yao's nose and no one was willing to let Jin Yao join their army.
"Diao Xun, take Qing with you to our personal guard camp!" Lian Po also knew the anger of the soldiers. Finally, he sighed and incorporated Jin Yao into his personal guard camp.
"No need, I'm the deputy general of the army, not a small soldier!" Jin Yao suddenly refused.
"You..." Lian Po frowned.
The generals around also looked up and glared at Jin Yao.
"I have the king's order and I am the prime minister of Zhao State. You must listen to me!" Jin Yao glanced at the generals around him coldly.
"Just because you are a young boy, you want to command us?" A general sneered.
However, a cold light flashed, and Jin Yao appeared behind the general and said calmly: "Those who disobey the king's order and disrespect their superiors shall be executed!"
As he finished speaking, the officer covered his neck in disbelief, blood dripping from between his fingers.
"How dare you!" The other generals could no longer sit still and drew their swords to stab Jin Yao.
Jin Yao did not dodge or evade. Holding the long sword pulled from Diao Xun's waist, he advanced instead of retreating and killed the attacking generals.
For a moment, the whole tent was filled with flashing swords and flying blood. Finally, several corpses were found on the ground, leaving only Jin Yao standing on the ground, covered in blood and with scars all over his body.
"Is there anyone else who will disobey the king's order and disobey the orders?" Jin Yao looked at the officers around him with red eyes.
"We will follow the king's order!" All the officers were shocked. A young boy of more than thirteen years old was so murderous that he dared to kill people in the central army's tent!
"There's no need to make any arrangements, General. Just transfer all these people's subordinates to my account and obey orders!" Jin Yao then turned around and looked at Lian Po and said.
Lian Po did not expect that Jin Yao would dare to kill people in the big tent, and kill so many at one time.
However, Lian Po was also very clear that these people deserved to be put to death, and the army obeyed orders. No matter how dissatisfied and angry they were, Jin Yao was still a prince of Zhao, a senior minister, and a deputy general of the army.
"Take him away and give him a proper burial!" Lian Po waved his hand as he looked at the guards who rushed in.
The guards carried away all the bodies, replaced the tables, and washed away the bloodstains on the ground, but the smell of blood in the tent could not be dispelled.
Fear also remained in the hearts of all the officers and generals. That young man should not be provoked. He really dared to kill people !
"If there is nothing else, I will go and organize the army first!" Jin Yao looked at Lian Po and saluted.
"Go!" Lian Po waved his hand helplessly, and signaled with his eyes to Diao Xun to take Jin Yao to take over the barracks and troops of the killed officers.
"The Shangqing's methods are too cruel!" Diao Xun said in a low voice as he took Jin Yao to various camps.
Jin Yao did not answer, but looked ahead indifferently until he arrived at the first military camp, a position of 500 people.
Diao Xun dismounted from his horse and announced that Jin Yao would be their chief officer, and that their chief officer had been killed.
"What!" All the soldiers were in an uproar and looked at Jin Yao in disbelief. They killed the general before the battle even started!
"Either die or shut up and follow me!" Jin Yao said coldly, glancing at the soldiers around him.
Seeing this, Diao Xun hurriedly signaled to the deputy captain with his eyes, and then looked at Jin Yao, whose sword was still dripping with blood. He had no doubt that if these soldiers did not shut up, they would really be killed by Jin Yao.
So, under the command of the deputy village chief, the soldiers all shut up.
"If you want to follow me, I don't necessarily want you to!" Jin Yao nodded with satisfaction, then rode his horse past the soldiers in formation, wielding the whip on each sturdy soldier, and finally spoke after he had walked through all the Tunqu.
"All the soldiers who have been beaten, step out and follow me. The rest of you, please wait for the general to take you in!" Jin Yao shouted at the less than fifty soldiers who were selected from a camp, and then he took these people to the next military camp.
The same method, the same deterrence, but the difference was that he killed people again and then took away more than fifty people again.
In the end, Jin Yao withdrew 800 soldiers from various military camps, forcibly expelled a military settlement near the mountains and forests, occupied the place, and set up a new camp.
"Shang Qing...you've gone too far!" Diao Xun couldn't stand it anymore. Killing, mocking, belittling, expelling, almost all the methods used by aristocrats were used.
"What I want are obedient soldiers who can fight, not a bunch of useless people who don't respect orders and have no fighting ability!" Jin Yao said coldly.
Diao Xun was so angry that he finally returned to the central military tent and explained to Lian Po what Jin Yao had done.
Lian Po remained silent. Although he was a little annoyed, he also knew that a great war was imminent and what the consequences would be if the commander and his deputy commander did not get along.
"The first three things a new official does upon taking office should be considered as a greeting gift from the Lord Shangqing!" Lian Po held his forehead and asked people to take over the soldiers who were abandoned by Jin Yao.
In the new camp, Jin Yao looked at the eight hundred selected warriors, and all eight hundred men glared at him.
"A bunch of trash, set up camp and train!" Jin Yao cursed angrily, then walked into the tent left by this group of soldiers.
"You!" All the soldiers looked at Jin Yao angrily.
"If you are not trash, what are you? You are not even worthy of my name being remembered now!" Jin Yao threw the roster directly into the brazier and burned it.
"Everyone, every day, must swing the sword five hundred times. Anyone who slacks off or plays tricks will be killed!" Jin Yao said, pointing at the wooden stakes used for training.
The eight hundred people dared not speak out and could only follow Jin Yao's orders to train.
Jin Yao really didn't have any contact with these 800 people again. Apart from giving them daily training tasks, he didn't care about anything else. They also ate the delicacies sent from Handan, which was a world of difference from the soldiers.
