Chapter 27: The Assassination

It is conceivable that when this sentence was expressed, the female generals were so shocked that they were all staying in the local area. This dead silence lasted for a long time before one of them finally stuttered: "How...how is this happening?"

My mother said slowly: "The Guo State in the Alliance of Eighteen Kingdoms made peace with Heijis privately. The Guo State Army camp was settling beside our army, named Fangying, but secretly lent to Heijis, resulting in our army being surrounded by 100,000 troops of Heijis. Although we fought to the death, we were finally injured!"

This sentence was like water entering the oil pan. Several female generals shouted with red eyes: "General, send troops. We swear to avenge the dead sisters and kill Heigis's bastards!"!" Someone also shouted: "The most hateful thing is the Alliance of Eighteen Kingdoms. Let's take their old nest first!"

My mother waved her hand and said, "It was too early to say this. The situation is still unclear. We only know that Guo State has surrendered to the enemy. The attitude of the other seventeen countries is currently unknown."

Someone angrily said: "The Eighteen-Nation Alliance is a bird of a feather, what good bird can there be? I think they are killed!"

My mother said in a deep voice: "Everyone, I am as sad and angry as everyone, but this is useless. We are soldiers, and the duty of soldiers is to defend the country. If we are now willing to expand the conflict, it is just right that Heijis's soldiers are directed to the Federal Continent. There is no need to hide the fact that the situation at this time is that the enemy is strong and we are weak, and there is an internal strife. The federal continent will never have peace. My daughter's country will be dragged down sooner or later. It is not embarrassing that soldiers will die in battle. The most shameful thing is to lose power and humiliate the country. On that day, what will we face to meet the people of the country and the emperor?"

All the generals were silent for a moment, but they all looked angry.

My mother summoned a guard and said, "Go and call the sender, I have something to ask her."

After a while, two guards helped the female soldier who was delivering the letter. She had changed her clothes and ate some food. She looked a little bloody. As soon as she arrived at the door, the man flew in and knelt on the ground and cried, "General, find a way to save General Zhang and his sisters--"

The mother's eyes flashed and said, "What did you say?"

The female soldier burst into tears and said, "General Zhang and tens of thousands of sisters were trapped in the mountain by Heijis's 100,000 troops. The food and grass are only enough for a month. Please send troops to rescue him quickly."

My mother rushed forward and said, "So they are not dead yet?"

The female soldier said with a blank expression on her face: "Who said they were dead?"

My mother hurriedly opened the military report on the table: "Didn't this say that my 50,000 Feifeng Army was wiped out?"

"This... can I see?" My mother handed the military newspaper to her. The female soldier looked carefully and said, "This is strange. When Heijis attacked, General Zhang led all his sisters to break through the siege. When she wrote this military newspaper, we had already rushed to a mountain."

My mother said, "What the hell is going on? Tell me in detail."

The female soldier breathed a sigh of relief and said, "General Zhang has always been worried about the Guo State Army, so he secretly added two squads of secret whistles. Before Heijis attacked, we were not completely caught off guard. The general led us to fight and retreat, and finally fell on an unknown mountain. Now Heijis's 100,000 troops trapped us on the mountain. The general and his sisters were eager to rescue the general."

My mother said, "Why did the military newspaper say that you were wiped out?"

The female soldier read the military newspaper again, and was also unclear, so Ma Jing took it over and looked at it for a while, and hesitated: "What is the sloppy written in this military newspaper? I won't say anything about it. There are several unclear things. I think General Zhang's original intention should be 'almost' annihilated all the troops."

The generals were stunned for a moment and said, "It should be like this."

My mother breathed a sigh of relief, and she felt better, and she smiled and said, "Zhang Danhu, the little bastard, is smart, but unfortunately she is ignorant. The military newspapers have been written inexplicably for some reason. This time, she almost wiped out my 50,000 Feifeng Army in one stroke."

All the generals also felt relieved and laughed.

My mother looked furious and asked the female soldier again: "You said you were trapped on the mountain, how is your current situation?"

The female soldier said, "General Zhang sent people to occupy the important roads. It is easy to defend and difficult to attack. It is not very good yet, but the food and grass are only one month old, and there is still..." The female soldier said sadly, "We have no 50,000 people now. When we broke through, Deputy General Wang and 3,000 people covered us, all of them... sacrificed their lives for the country. In order to let me break through and deliver a letter, General Zhang's 1,000 guard sisters were also killed in the battlefield. I, I..." She didn't say a word afterwards, and fell to the ground crying.

A group of generals said anxiously: "General, let me lead my troops to rescue General Zhang!"

My mother waved her hand to stop everyone's talk and said solemnly: "We have to make a long-term plan for this matter. If the commander of the Heijis army is not a wine bag, they will definitely be re-arranged and wait for us to enter. We will break in rashly, just like a wolf entering the pocket, and the losses will be even greater at that time."

Everyone said again: "What should we do now?"

My mother asked the female soldier who delivered the letter: "The Guo State Army has surrendered to the enemy, what about the other seventeen countries?"

The female soldier said, "It seems that other countries want to surrender but cannot make up their minds. They are half-believing and half-doubted. When we were fighting with Hegis, they each stayed in seclusion and neither sent troops to help us, nor let Hegis' army enter the city."

The female generals started arguing again: "I just said that there was no good thing in them."

My mother coughed and said, "It's no wonder they are. The seventeen countries have a small state of power and have no backbone. Now the most urgent task is to unite them." My mother cleared her throat and said, "All the generals obey the order!"

The generals immediately calmed down when they heard this, and their mother shouted: "Ma Jing obeyed the order!"

Ma Jing walked forward and said, "The end will be here!"

"You should quickly bring people to the Seventeen Kingdoms, and you must persuade them to stick to the city and not let Heijis enter the city. You will tell them that the army of the Kingdom of Women will arrive soon. If they resist the enemy, our Feifeng Army will be their support. If they surrender to the enemy, then our enemy will be our enemy. Our army will never let them go. You must tell them the benefits and harms of Heijis. Heijis's ambitions are tantamount to leading a wolf into the house. Only by sincere cooperation with my Kingdom of Women will you have a way of life. You can consider the details yourself. This matter is crucial. Only success is allowed and not failure!"

Ma Jing said: "Abide by the order!"

"Wang Qing!"

A 40-year-old female general came out of the queue and said, "The last one is here!"

"You mobilize all the troops of the two border provinces to station at the junction of the Eighteen Kingdoms and My Girls Kingdom. If the Eighteen Kingdoms turn against each other, you will be my first line of defense. Be sure to block the enemy outside the Girls Kingdom."

Wang Qing said: "Abide by the order!"

"Zhao Deli!"

"The last one will be here!"

"I will leave all the food, supplies and supplies to you. Once the war begins, you must keep our army's bloodline unobstructed. Only generals who died in battle are not allowed to starve soldiers. If there is a half-point difference, the military law will not be spared!"

"Abide by the order!"

"Li Wei!"

"The last one will be here!"

"I'll order you to train new recruits."

"This..." Li Wei said in confusion: "General, the training of recruits has always been a special person."

"I asked you to train not ordinary soldiers. Although my Feifeng Army is elite, the number of people is too small. I asked you to select vanguards from various troops and train them to supplement them. As for the number of people, it is controlled at about 30,000. Remember, the first purpose of joining my Feifeng Army is to voluntarily, and you don't need any forced recruitment."

"Abide by the order!"

"The other generals returned to the headquarters to rectify their troops and wait for the dispatch, and then followed the commander in person in three days."

The generals bowed and clasped their fists and said, "As for your order!"

My mother arranged the defense, logistics, and recruitment of new recruits in a few words, and each of them followed one by one.

After handling the military, Wang Qing glanced around and said carefully: "General, I heard that Mr. Sword God is staying in the general's mansion. I wonder if we can meet?"

My mother was stunned, then pointed at me and said, "That's it."

The generals looked over together, with surprise and surprise in their eyes. They probably didn't expect that the Sword God was a young man like me. I was holding half a bowl of noodles in my hand. Seeing countless pairs of eyes staring at me in a flash, I couldn't help but say embarrassedly: "Eat some generals before leaving?"

The crowd was shocked. They were all martial arts people. I heard that the Sword God was inevitably curious here. Their state of mind was probably like a person who made a living by typing and met the Nobel Prize winner in Literature. But I don’t know if they would be disappointed when they saw me like this...

Wang Qing lost his mind for a moment and smiled and said, "If you are willing to appreciate your face, I wonder if you can give me some tips?"

"This..." People are afraid of being famous and pigs are afraid of being strong. I had expected this situation, but I didn't expect it to be so soon. How could you tell her? A dignified sword god can't do martial arts? If she was a sister who had practiced Taekwondo for two days and wanted to try it with someone else, it would be fine. At most, she would kick her twice, but this is a general in the ace army. The guaranteed level is a swordsman. If you give me a punch, I will be qualified to be disabled and have a strong will.

Fortunately, Ma Jing was having a good relationship with me, so he came out to rescue him and said, "Mr. Sword God is now at a rank. General Wang wants to ask for advice and must wait for the teacher to come back next time." She said the whole story and finally said about Kumei. A few of the generals really whispered: "So, hasn't he become our master?"

Wang Qing said regretfully: "Since that's the case, we have to do it next time."

...

After the generals left, my mother frowned and walked around the house for two times. I asked her, "How do you plan to save those people?"

My mother said, "Let's take a step by step. Apart from Guo State, the attitude of the Seventeen Kingdoms is very important. Of course, I must save these people if they support them. 50,000 people, one-quarter of the Feifeng Army, equivalent to one-eighth of the national defense force of the Women's Kingdom. Whether in terms of the overall situation or morality, this expedition is a foregone conclusion."

I said, "Well, it's equivalent to Za Jinhua. A small part of the family has been taken in. No matter how the opponent yells, we have to accompany us, or we will be eliminated!"

"Your metaphor is appropriate-" my mother suddenly glared and said, "You guys have been eating, drinking, gamblers and gambling all these years?"

I laughed and said, "I was wronged. I learned the last two items when I went to the Kingdom of Women."

My mother talked to me for a few words, and her depression was slightly reduced, but there was always a sense of indelible worry between her eyebrows. The 50,000 Feifeng Army was trapped in the mountain, and the Kingdom of Women took the initiative to lose everything. The burden on her shoulders was quite heavy.

My mother pondered for a while, took out a paper brush and wrote a letter bit by bit, and I asked, "What are you writing?"

"Application, this defeat was my decision-making mistake. I will resign from the Empress as the General."

I was surprised and said, "Don't you want to personally fight in three days?"

My mother said, "Don't worry, the queen will not agree. I just go through the form to cover up the historians' mouths. There is no one who can be responsible for such a big mistake. I can't let the queen leave the talk."

I said, "What if the Queen really agrees?"

My mother smiled bitterly and said, "Then I will worry."

My mother didn't close her eyes all night. She stayed in the war room and discussed with a few staff officers against the map until noon the next day. From her expression, there was no result. After lunch, the queen's imperial edict finally came. The queen scolded her mother in the imperial edict, saying that you, Zhao Fanghua, as a general, did not even realize the common sense of "win and defeat are military corpses". After suffering losses, she resigned and put me and the people in the place, etc. In short, everyone can see that it is not so much a curse, but rather comfort and reassurance. She only said that at the end of the imperial edict, she would have to pay three months of salary. This is also a silence between the two acts of the emperor and his ministers.

The one who came to announce the imperial edict was Grand Aunt Cao. After reading the edict, she took her mother's hand privately and said, "The emperor punished the general for his salary for others to see. She hoped that the general would not mind."

My mother sighed and said, "Of course I understand."

Aunt Cao said: "The emperor didn't sleep all night last night. One is because he was worried about the soldiers trapped on the front line, and the other is because he was worried about the body of the general. She said, "The general is probably a hundred times more uncomfortable than me. Those soldiers are monarchs and ministers to me, and General Yu is sisters. It doesn't matter if I don't sleep all night, but the general is afraid that he will not sleep for several consecutive nights.' This is the emperor's original words. She wants me to tell you that all life and death will be done by the general in this expedition. If you have any difficulties or requirements, please raise them."

My mother's eyes turned red and said, "I'm sorry to report to the emperor, Zhao Fanghua was ashamed of herself, and she could only repay her death."

Aunt Cao turned to me again and said, "The emperor is also very concerned about Mr. Sword God. He repeatedly asked me to convey my respect to him. Prince Yun wrote a letter saying that her side was basically correct and she would send her back tomorrow. I hope that Mr. can go and go back quickly. The whole country of Daughter is very grateful."

I said, "Rest as the emperor, I will definitely come back like a wild dog that has broken away."

Aunt Cao: "...this is good."

After seeing her off, my mother had no time to sleep. The general's mansion sent troops and commanders from various departments came and went. All matters about going to war were dealt with by my mother. Overnight, my mother got much older, and her hair on her temples turned white as if it was dyed with frost. I felt sorry for her and advised her to take a break. My mother took my hand guiltily and said, "Yangyang, you are leaving tomorrow. Mom should have been with you more, but unfortunately we don't have much time left. You have to live a good life after you go back. As for my affairs... don't tell your father."

Before I could say anything, someone came to report the military information, so my mother had to cheer up and deal with it.

At this moment, there was a chaos at the gate of the General's Mansion, and the sound of the shouts of guards and the sound of weapons intersecting. It seemed that someone was rushing into the General's Mansion in an open fire. For a moment, Guard Zhao arrived quickly with a team of guards. His mother looked at the military newspaper in one hand, without raising her head and said, "What's the matter?"

Guard Zhao knelt on one knee and said concisely: "General, there is an assassin!"

Then my mother looked up at her and said as usual: "Oh? I'm so brave. I want to kill me in broad daylight. How many of them are there?"

Zhao Huwei said: "More than 10, it's not clear what's going on."
To be continued...