Luoya City, meeting hall.
"General, the Damanzi are still camping ten miles away. Our people have had a lot of friction with them these days, but judging from the feedback from the soldiers, the Damanzi are still not good at thinking."
"Even the simplest method of luring the enemy deeper cannot be seen. At present, we have an absolute advantage and our morale is high."
"This group of savage barbarians can only show off their bravery. After the last defeat, they still don't want to make progress. Although we only have 200,000 troops, it is more than enough to deal with them."
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All the generals talked a lot, with deep disdain on their faces. During the conversation, someone even made bold remarks.
"General, I don't think there's any need to waste time like this. My subordinates invite you to fight and lead your troops into formation."
"That's right, Lieutenant Lei has outstanding military strength. He won the first battle last time and defeated the barbarians with 100,000 soldiers and defeated 200,000 barbarians. If he fights this time, the morale of the barbarians will definitely drop."
"I also agree. Damanzi has failed repeatedly these days, and almost all the guerrilla teams he sent have been wiped out. We should take advantage of the victory and pursue it."
"I think it makes sense."
Listening to the words of many generals, Mu Jiushan fell silent. Although he had felt so before.
But in the past two days, Damanzi's behavior always felt like something was wrong.
Damanzi experienced a huge defeat last time and 800,000 people were buried here. Is there really no change?
Although they grew up in a barbaric land, they were not completely brainless wastes. Even animals will stay away after suffering a big loss somewhere.
At this moment, a soldier ran in in a panic: "Report! Report to General. General Zhengwu led 30,000 troops to encircle and suppress the provocative Damanzi."
"Unexpectedly, the barbarians had already laid an ambush, and all thirty thousand soldiers were wiped out. General Zhengwu's head was chopped off by them, and he hung it a hundred meters away from our city."
"What are you talking about? Who gave him the order to attack without authorization?" Mu Jiushan stood up suddenly, his face full of anger.
Even, my heart is trembling.
General Zhengwu disobeyed military orders and attacked without permission. He died when he died. But those 30,000 soldiers are not a small number.
Our side is already weak in terms of troops and horses, but now that the battle has not officially started, we have already lost 30,000 yuan. How can we fight this?
Others were silent and scolded General Zhengwu? Everyone is dead, so there is no point in scolding him. If you scold him, you can get those 30,000 soldiers back.
They can greet all the eighteen generations of General Zhengwu's ancestors. Those present were all veterans who had been on the battlefield for a long time. They knew that the most important thing at the moment was not to curse and hold people accountable, but to stabilize the morale of the military.
Mu Jiushan naturally knew that, so he quickly calmed down and said with a gloomy face: "These barbarians are showing weakness with force just to paralyze us."
"Based on our last military victory, we have somewhat despised the enemy. But at any time, despising the enemy is always a taboo for military strategists."
Hearing this, the expressions of the others changed drastically, especially Lieutenant Lei, who had just asked for a fight, his pupils tightened, revealing a trace of fear and fear.
Fortunately, he didn't go into battle rashly, otherwise he might have ended up like General Zhengwu.
"Have you found out who the commander of the barbarians is?" Mu Jiushan continued.
"Back to the general, the commander-in-chief of Damanzi is called Xinlong Zhige, and he is the fourth son of Xinlong Huashan."
The royal family of Damanzi is called Xinlong Royal Court.
And Xinlong Huashan is the current Daman King. In the eyes of Damanzi, he is a well-deserved king.
"Xinlong Zhige only knows how to eat, drink, have fun, and indulge in sex. Even when he led the army on an expedition, he brought more than a dozen concubines with him, and they played in the tent day and night."
"That's not right. If Xinlong Zhige is really as dissolute as the rumors, how could he think of using force to show weakness and then ambush us."
"I don't know about this. Maybe what I just said was deliberately shown by Xin Long Zhige in order to make us take it lightly."
"This is indeed possible. Since Anwuwei was deposed by Xue Rong, we have lost all sources of information. Relying on scouts alone, the information we can detect is really limited. Is Xinlong Zhige pretending to be a pig to eat the tiger? Short Time cannot be verified at all.”
Speaking of Anwuwei, everyone fell silent for a while.
The Anwu Guards are loyal to the royal family, but even military generals like them cannot deny the power of this group of people.
Since losing the Anwu Guard, they are like missing an eye and an ear on the battlefield.
At this time, Mu Jiushan spoke.
"Regardless of whether the rumors about Xin Long Zhige are fake or not, we just need to treat him as a real opponent."
"Give me an order. From now on, no one is allowed to attack without my order. Anyone who disobeys the order will be killed!"
"And send a small team to take back General Zhengwu's head. No matter what, he was once our leader, and we can't just watch him suffer such humiliation."
"What's more, letting our heads hang there will be a huge blow to our morale. You go down first to appease the soldiers on all sides, recall all troops except the scouts, and temporarily defend Luoya City."
"The last general takes orders."
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Imperial City, Xue Family.
Xue Jingruo sat quietly on the chair, watching the news from the disaster area, with a long-lost smile on her face.
This smile is like a sea of flowers blooming.
She stretched out, revealing her nearly perfect curves. Then he stood up directly and said: "Qiu Wu."
Qiu Wu immediately opened the door and came in, respectfully saying: "Your Majesty."
"Notice that the Ai family is celebrating their 30th birthday!"
Xue Jingruo entered the palace at the age of 15 and is now 30 years old.
However, this is the first time I heard about celebrating my birthday at the age of 30. Even Qiu Wu couldn't help but be stunned when he heard it.
"Xu'er is so smart that he actually thought of a work-for-relief method. The money distributed can help the victims settle down as soon as possible."
"However, although this move is good, it will definitely require a lot of silver. Even if he received a lot of silver for his vigorous and resolute actions some time ago, compared to the millions of disaster victims, I am afraid it is still not enough."
"Xu'er was raised by the Ai family. He is called the concubine of the Ai family. The Ai family should be his strongest support."
"Qiu Wu, please find another way to reveal the news that the Ai family loves money." Xue Jingruo's eyes were calm.
"Your Majesty, if I do this, I'm afraid it will bring a lot of rumors to you." Qiu Wu said hesitantly.
"As long as they are willing to pay, it doesn't matter if they scold the Aijia a few times. Anyway, the Aijia won't lose a piece of meat."
"It's a pity that the silver tael of the Xue Mansion needs the personal consent of the Duke of Zhen. Otherwise, even the Ai family has no right to transfer it. Otherwise, the amount of tael that can be collected will be even more."
Xue Jingruo sighed. She was a woman after all. Even if she controlled the entire palace, she still felt powerless sometimes.
It was indeed not very honorable to say that the Queen Mother needed to make money in this way, but she didn't care.
As long as you can contribute to the people, a few rumors are nothing.
"yes."
Qiu Wu lowered his head and retreated directly.
Ma's Mansion is the residence of Ma Yuheng, the Minister of Household Affairs.
Since Lord Zhen Guo "recuperated", thanks to Ma Yuheng's active efforts to appease the officials below, Xue Rong and his gang would have been in chaos long ago.
At this moment, one-third of the officials from the imperial court were present at Ma Yuheng's home.
Originally there were many, but those below the third rank were confiscated and exterminated by the emperor. These were all officials above the third rank.
As long as they are still there, even if the emperor has great power, he cannot shake the Xue family's status.
All the officials had bad looks on their faces, for no other reason than that they were trying to win over those whom the emperor later supported.
But without exception, all were rejected.
Those people seemed to be frightened when they heard the words "Zhen Guogong". Every time they came to the door, they would either complain of illness or they were not at home. Some people who couldn't avoid it even tried their best to seriously injure themselves. The main theme was the truth.
You know, apart from the Duke of Zhenguo, they are all third-rank officials in the court. How dare these people treat them like this.
But the emperor rose up and the Duke of Zhen ordered not to take action. They could only watch and let them be arrogant.
At this time, the housekeeper of the Ma Mansion walked in and said respectfully: "My lords, there was news just now from the Xue Mansion that the Queen Mother will celebrate her 30th birthday in two days."
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