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On the tenth day of the ninth month, the rain stopped. The Qi soldiers once again went to attack Yanmen Pass, and Mu Chen led his four hundred thousand strong army to meet the enemy.

Yan Chenglee led the left flank of the army and met with the female general of Great Qi, Princess Jin Hua, five kilometers away from the city.

Princess Jin Hua was dressed in bright red armor, and holding onto his plum blossom spear, he laughed proudly, and said to Yan Chenglee: "I wonder who is it? So you are a King Jing of the Great Yan Empire, why have you come here today? "

She suddenly opened her eyes wide and raised her voice, making the Plum Blossom Spear dance with a 'whoosh' sound.

This was a silent demonstration of strength. As the only female general of Great Qi Army, Princess Jin Hua had extraordinary strength, and had led the Great Qi Army to clash with the Great Yan Army multiple times, causing the Great Yan Army to be in a lot of trouble.

Yan Chenglee had never fought with Great Qi Army before, so he naturally did not know who Princess Jin Hua was. However, from her attire and the analysis that Mu Chen had of Great Qi, he could guess who she was.

Princess Honeyflower of the Great Qi had not encountered her during the previous battle. He should have only recently brought his troops to reinforce his.

He heard that this woman was ruthless and knew that she was a difficult opponent to deal with.

He smiled and said, "Princess Jinhua, I've heard a lot about you."

"Oh, the King Jing actually knows this princess, what an honor." Princess Honeyflower laughed. The golden ornaments on his hair clashed together with her movements, producing a crisp sound.

The two of them looked at each other, tightly grasping their weapons. They didn't move too much, but they were fully prepared. Wherever their eyes looked, sparks flew everywhere.

This King Jing Lord who had never appeared on the battlefield before, had a pretty imposing aura. Princess Jin Hua clenched his spear tightly, thinking that he had almost lost to Yan Chenglee's imposing aura, he couldn't help but be enraged in his heart. A weak man of the Great Yan Dynasty actually wanted to suppress her with his imposing aura?

She thrust her Plum Blossom Spear forward as she shouted in anger, "Yan Jun, do not know of the current situation and enter deep into my land. Retreat as fast as you can and avoid being massacred."

Was this a backlash?

Yan Chenglee waved his overlord spear and said angrily: "Arrogant bandit army, you sent troops to invade our Yanmen territory and massacred my people. Do you still dare to come and fight?"

Dong …

The two spears fiercely collided. The two simultaneously shouted at the army behind them, "Kill!"

The soldiers were in high spirits. They raised their weapons and rushed into the enemy's formation, bravely killing the enemy.

had a basic understanding of Princess Jin Hua's Spear Arts, from retreating to advancing, finding the gap to counterattack, and after a few rounds, Princess Jin Hua's Spear Arts started to become disorderly. Noticing the situation of his opponent, Yan Chenglee deliberately took the attack head on, causing his to be injured and left with heavy injuries.

However, she didn't know that it was a trap. She led her troops and chased after Yan Chenglee, who had the ambushed soldiers flanking from both sides, severely injuring the army led by Princess Jin Hua.

Seeing that the situation was bad, Princess Jin Hua immediately ordered her troops to retreat. Seeing that, Yan Chenglee immediately followed along, but realised that Princess Jin Hua had already led her troops and merged with the main group, and had no choice but to give up. Together with Big Yan's main group, they forced the Great Qi Army unit to retreat.

The Great Qi Army team had been working hard for a long time, but seeing that they were unable to break through the Great Yan Army and had to take down Yanmen Pass, they retreated decisively.

The casualties on both sides were similar, it was obvious that the battle was intense. The large army retreated back into the city, and Mu Chen and Yan Chenglee climbed onto the city walls to take a look.

"The reinforcements sent by the enemy are the Golden Flower Princess, this is very different from what we expected." He had thought that Great Qi would join forces with Great Lee and request for Great Lee to send troops to attack Yanmen Pass together, then immediately kill and enter the capital.

Indeed, there was clearly a soldier who was more courageous and battling than the Great Qi, yet he sent a female general like Princess Golden Flower over. What was the emperor of the Great Qi planning?

Mu Chen had no idea. He looked at the corpses all over the city, his temples throbbed, and he turned his head to say: "Send people to count the number of rockets and stones. If the enemy attacks the city, the firearm attacks must not be interrupted."

"He should be back soon." The enemy's generals had yet to bring out their full strength, and so far, it seemed that they had been testing them out.

"Don't worry, Your Royal Highness, we have plenty of food and we can still respond in a year. When General Song's reinforcements arrive and send troops out again, we will definitely be able to force the enemy troops to retreat."

"..."

After Great Qi Army returned to the camp, Princess Jin Hua reported the situation of the battle to the Marshal, and swore to take Yan Chenglee's head the next time they fought.

The Emperor heard that the battle situation was extremely intense and the two armies were in a stalemate. Thinking back to last year's natural disaster, when the food harvest was poor, if the battle were to continue in this fashion, the supply of food would definitely be insufficient. Thinking of this situation, he panicked.

He could not rest at ease for days and nights. He consulted his advisor, who said, "Do not disturb the Emperor. Our army still has four hundred thousand men, plus the one hundred thousand reinforcements that Princess Jinhua has brought, we have five hundred thousand men in total. Our provisions are still sufficient for three months.

The Emperor of Qi had promised to send the Military Advisor to the front line and bestow him with a gold medal, giving him the authority to command an army.

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At the same time, in the Great Yan Jing city, the emperor was ordering his men to clean up the mess. General Zhao led a thousand elite soldiers to hunt down the rebel, Zheng Shijun, while the loyal officials and the Marquis of Zhen Yuan were responsible for calming down the people who had been angered and burying the fallen soldiers and their families.

"Your Majesty, King Kang Le requests an audience."

In the imperial study room, the emperor was currently revising the imperial reports. After the internal strife had been resolved, the number of memorials submitted by different places had increased by more than two times compared to usual. Every day, he would diligently review them and his hands were about to be cut off.

Just as he was looking at the report from the Southwest Army camp asking for pay, the Emperor became angry and threw the report at Lee Dehai's head. Lee Dehai did not dare dodge and immediately knelt down, the report flying over his head and landing behind him.

The emperor sneered, "Zheng Shijun rebelled. The southern military camp's Hu He didn't even fart. Now he actually shamelessly asked me for a military salary. How dare he?"

The Emperor was so angry that his eyes burned. "Lee Dehai, tell me, what do you mean by this Hu He?"

"There is a female tribe in the southwest. If we send troops to suppress the internal strife, we might let the female tribe take advantage of the situation and enter." Lee Dehai thought of a more reasonable reason, but he knew that he could not deceive the wise and mighty emperor.

Sure enough, the emperor looked at him attentively, and said. "Let the King Kang Le in."

Lee Dehai quickly stood up and personally welcomed the King Kang Le. The moment he entered the door, he saw the emperor holding onto his chin, staring at him as if he was his prey.

"This son greets royal father." As he was leading his troops to support General Zhao, he was interrupted by the men sent by the Second Prince, which delayed him for a while. When he later found out that the Emperor's secret guard was following behind him, monitoring him, he guessed that the Emperor might have suspected him.

The Emperor carefully looked at him. His hawk-like eyes were deep like the ocean and bottomless.

"Stand up."

Yan Cheng'an stood up, and with a calm tone, he reported everything that had happened during the battle to the Emperor.

"Second Bro sent people to intercept you?" The Emperor raised his head and looked at Yan Cheng'an aggressively, as if he could see through his expression and see through his thoughts.

"Yes, those people have the tiger emblem of Second Brother's jade pendant on their clothes."

The emperor smirked and laughed, but he did not reprimand Yan Cheng'an. "I understand, what else do you have to report?"

Yan Cheng'an shook his head, the emperor waved his hand for him to leave.

Just as he left, Lee Dehai entered, "Your Majesty …"

"I'm fine." The emperor waved his hands as his head throbbed with pain. He had suffered undue recuperation in the past few years and had lost much more than he could handle. He had no idea how much longer he could hold on.

"The emperor should first rest for a while. After he's rested, we can continue to read the imperial reports." Lee Dehai sincerely recommended.

The Emperor's body was no longer the same as before. Recently, he had been feeling uncomfortable here, as well as pain everywhere. However, every day, he would go to court, and the ministers would report the matter of the kingdom, review the imperial reports, or receive envoys or ministers from other countries.

"I am fine, you can leave first." The Emperor waved his hand and rubbed his temples.

Lee Dehai stood there for a while before he turned and walked out.

After a while, he led the Queen in.

"Your Majesty, I've heard that you've been feeling unwell recently. I've made you some Soothing Soup. Drink a little, and you can rest for a while." The empress ordered someone to place the bowl on the table, scooped up a bowl, and carried it to the emperor's side.

The empress had personally brought the soup. Even if the emperor didn't want to drink it, he had no choice but to give her face. He took the bowl, held his breath and finished it in one breath.

Afterwards, he waved for the others to get down, and pulled the Queen to sit on the Arhat Bed above, lying down on her lap with her head on her pillow.0

"I'm a bit tired, let me rest a bit." After all these years of being husband and wife, she was the only one who finally made him feel at ease.

The empress stroked his hair. "Is the emperor worried about the Second Prince?"

The emperor's eyes were closed. He had not slept well for several days. His eyeballs had a feeling of discomfort from the swelling.

As he listened to the empress's words, he recalled how many years ago, after the empress had drugged his beloved concubine and they had a huge argument, the empress had hysterically said to him, "If you make me forgive and be magnanimous, then how can you not make others be lenient to us, mother and son?" As the eldest son, if Yongming did as you said and did nothing, would he still be alive? In the royal family, if my son doesn't fight for anything, then he will die.

"You're right." Sighing softly, the Emperor thought to himself, what the Empress said back then sounded like an outrageous injustice to him. If it weren't for the fact that she had caused so much trouble, which made it easy for the ministers who had been recruited because of her intelligence to be displeased, he would have set up a new post.

His voice was very low, like a sigh. The empress didn't hear him and asked, "What did you say?"

"Nothing." He shook his head, thinking back to the time when he was not the crown prince. Although he was valued by his father, he did not covet the position, but as the elder brother of the crown prince, he still wanted his life.

"Mm, then go to sleep for a while."

"..."

In October, the Noble Consort Zheng and the Beauty Zheng were crippled and sent to the Cold Palace to be imprisoned. The First Palace of Second Prince sent them to the border and they were unable to return to the capital for the rest of their lives.

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