Chapter 544: Direction [V6C74 – Sorrow of a Silent Parting]

Seeing no one defying his orders, Qianye’s gaze fell back on Zhao Guanwei. The man was flung high into the air with a flick of his blade, crashing outside the battalion gates and coughing up several mouthfuls of blood.

Qianye paid him no more heed. He turned back to the soldiers and said, “The entire unit will assemble. Those who fail to arrive on time will be punished according to military law.”

Once the order was issued, an officer blew two short and one long bursts from his whistle, a sign of urgency. The camp was aboil as the warriors rushed out from their respective barracks and poured into the drill grounds, instantly forming two neat square formations. The quality of the Zhao clan’s private army could be seen from the speed of their assembly—they were even faster than the imperial regular army.

Qianye nodded when the troops had assembled and casually picked a young soldier to lead him to the main tent, leaving the two battalions on the drill grounds with no orders.

According to military law, these soldier’s couldn’t leave without any order, and neither...