Chapter 271 – Pitfall of Sixty-Five Thousand
Chapter 271 – Killing Sixty-Five Thousand in a Pit
“I will second the motion!”
“I will second what General Yuchi said!”
“I also think that what General Yuchi said makes sense!”
In the tent, a group of Western Qin generals expressed their attitudes one after another, and the generalized theme was that these surrendered soldiers could not be used!
“Very well! Then let’s follow General Yuchi’s advice and recruit from the three states and eighteen prefectures!”
Xin Zhuo smiled, but there was no smile in his eyes, “But I don’t know, how long will it take to train the recruits?”
Yuchi Jun hesitated for a moment: “If we play against the western countries, I’m afraid it will take at least a year, and if we meet the western allies once more, I’m afraid it will take two years!”
“Two years!”
Xin Zhuo got up and walked down from the marshal seat, slowly walking to Yuchi Jun, looking straight into his pair of tiger eyes, “Two years, relying on this remaining 100,000 or so armies of Western Qin, can it be peaceful?”
Yuchi Jun said in a deep voice: “The neighboring countries in the western region have already been crippled, Da Dudu’s battle has struck peace for at least fifteen years!”
“Ignorant! Confused!”
Xin Zhuo angrily rebuked, his gaze towards Yuchi Jun was already filled with disappointment.
“The last general …… knows the offense!”
Yuchi Jun immediately knelt down and lowered his head, but the word “know my sins” was obviously not said with much sincerity.
The other generals in the tent glanced at each other, somewhat confused, they really felt that General Yuchi had a point, where did the words “ignorant” and “confused” come from?
Xin Zhuo looked at the blue sky and white clouds outside the account, he suddenly misses the old man who understands his own mind and is continuing to fool the countries in the western region!
Once a person has a certain status and realm, the vision and pattern will change.
Yuchi Jun and others are looking at ten steps, he is looking at thirty steps, fifty steps, or …… these people and himself are standing in different positions, limiting their thoughts.
Xin Zhuo could be sure that a great victory of the Western Qin Army must not be something that the Emperor and Prime Ministers who had every intention of taking care of the Jiang family as a warlord would like to see, and he did not even dare to guarantee that the imperial court would find an excuse to place a charge against himself and send the Divine Strategies Army and the Frontier Army of the Palace to take advantage of the opportunity to sneak up on the Western Qin Army.
He had the certainty to deal with the western region army, but he had no way to deal with the God’s Policy Army and the Palace Front Army that he knew nothing about, and those Great Zhou elite armies would never be too much weaker than the Western Qin army.
In addition, it was hard to tell if there would be a Venerable Master, Divine Daozi, or Earth Immortal sent by the public ministers and emperors to assassinate himself.
Therefore, his enemies were not necessarily the Western Region countries, but also the imperial court.
Using two years to train a new army? The yellow flowers were cold!
Saving for a rainy day is a must.
Not only in terms of the army, but also in terms of one’s own personal martial realm.
As a matter of fact, he had started laying out his plans early on, waiting for this day!
For the sake of his own life, he could do anything, even if it meant beheading countless people to make enemies of the world.
Therefore, he suddenly felt that these western Qin army generals in the account is vulgar and clumsy, once I have an accident, you as the old man “hardcore” where to run?
“Get rid of the evil”, “completely eliminate” those politicians in the capital, is really too good at it!
However, after thinking it over, he still sighed and helped Yuchi Jun up with a soft face: “Old General, there’s no need to be like this! I was also in a hurry!”
“The last general understands!” Yuchi Jun still lowered his head.
Xin Zhuo patted his arms and walked back to the marshal’s seat, looking at the generals: “These Western Region captives must be collected, discuss it?”
The generals looked at each other, already understood that the mind of the great governor can not be changed, can only turn to think about the feasibility of the matter, just think about it, or feel that millions of Western surrendered pawns to be integrated, is really not reliable, even if it is integrated into the original Western Qin army, it is not reliable.
Even if organized into the original Western Qin army, another day the thirteen countries of the royal family with a wave of the arm, will still incite them!
“So …… can only be collected and organized by the innocent, illiterate, or rude and stupid only know how to eat military rations descending pawns!”
Still, Yuchi Jun came up with the idea, and hesitantly asked, “But what about the rest of the descended soldiers? Why don’t we release them?”
Xin Zhuo suddenly handed over three paper rafts. Yuchi Jun carefully took them, scanned them, and fiercely stared at them with his eyes wide open, his body trembling violently.
The group of veteran generals beside Jiang Gu’en and Tuoba Ke’ui immediately received the paper rafts, and after a cursory glance, their faces also turned white.
Xin Zhuo playing with two small swords, scanning the generals, calmly said: “Collect three hundred and eighty thousand lowest level western region descending soldiers, orphans and shallow family members are prioritized, break up and compile into the western Qin army, replenish the western Qin army to half a million braided quota ……”
After a moment’s pause, once again got up and walked down, looked at the crowd, slowly said: “The remaining western descended pawns include generals at all levels above ten captains, great generals, tribal chiefs, chieftains, lords, schemers, princes, princesses, thirteen countries’ royal relatives, princes and nobles’ generals, totaling more than six hundred and fifty thousand, all of them …… Pit them to death!”
“Great Capital Governor think twice!”
“Grand Capital Governor must not!”
“It’s bad luck to kill prisoners!”
“Killing 650,000 troops is unprecedented! Do you want to set a precedent in heaven and earth?”
“Such a killing is no different from a tyrant? Isn’t the Governor afraid of the curse of the world?”
“Governor, think twice! Think twice! My Western Qin army has always been known for its benevolence and righteousness, and its military style is noble ……”
The tent full of generals have been scared beyond words, have kneeled down, and even have red eyes of the generation.
They are really scared, six hundred and fifty thousand lives, not pigs, dogs, cows and sheep, how terrible is this? How tyrannical?
“Have you ever thought about the more than 200,000 dead West Qin soldiers? Have you ever considered those 100,000 sons of the various House families, people and martial artists who died defending the pass?”
Xin Zhuo suddenly rebuked angrily: “Their lives are not lives? Mercy is not in the hands of soldiers and righteousness is not in the hands of money! You as a general in command of a party, how can you be so soft and unbearable? This king wants to destroy the thirteen kingdoms, not to release the captives and make them recover and come back to slaughter my Western Qin people another day!
Not to mention a mere 650,000 people, even if it’s 6 million or 60 million, what’s the point of killing them? Anyone who dares to block the King’s plan will be killed for sure!”
“Please think twice, Great Governor!”
A group of generals heavily clasped their heads, still unwilling to let go of their mouths.
Yuchi Jun raised his head, his lips trembling: “It would not be better to behead the senior generals, chiefs, lords, princes, and princesses among the surrendered soldiers ……”
“Shut up!”
Xin Zhuo slammed the tiger talisman heavily on Yuchi Jun’s head, “Men! Take down Jiang Gu’en, Yuchi Jun, Tuoba Ke’ui, Lin Haotian, and Folding Kun with me, and imprison them in the army’s death row, and do not release them without my order!”
The armor outside the tent clangs, dozens of wolf-like Iron Floating Guards have already barged in, escorting a group of veteran generals, rudely dragging them out of the tent.
“Grand Capital Governor must not just do killings and disregard his reputation, it is not favorable to the world, it is not favorable to Grand Capital Governor!”
“Grand Capital Governor! The last general has absolutely no second thoughts, I just think that killing prisoners is ominous, my Western Qin army is the army of justice, the army of civilization, killing like this, hundreds of years of Jiang’s reputation will be destroyed once and for all!”
“Da Dudu ……”
The mournful roars of a group of veteran generals gradually moved away.
Dozens of generals remained silent in the tent.
Xin Zhuo looked at Jiang Bange’er, Jiang XIII and Jiang Yuxi: “Begin to collect the surrendered soldiers after noon, I’ll give you a day’s time, tomorrow at noon, you’ll lead the pits and kill them, and make the Benefactor General Yan Ruizong assist! Remember, make the 380,000 soldiers watch the entire process! Don’t blink! I will arrange for Confucian students to wash …… their brains!”
The three of them looked shocked and saluted in unison: “Here!”
(End of chapter)