Flying Clouds in Another World

On the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, when many idle people were still talking about the romantic affair that happened on the Lantern Festival night, many court officials who were qualified to attend court became nervous again.

As early as the beginning of the first month, reports of the battle in the border areas reached Tiandu Changluo, and only a few core officials knew about it. Considering that the emperor had just had another serious illness and had just improved a little, it was not appropriate to be too stimulated, so they chose to keep it secret and blocked the news.

However, after the tenth day, battle reports came in more and more, and the emperor's health finally recovered to the point where he could handle some government affairs, and the military situation in the border areas could no longer be concealed.

On the 17th, the belated first grand court meeting of the new year was finally held!

At the grand court meeting, these border war reports were finally leaked out, and there were dozens of them at once.

The Northern Wilderness invaded the border again, with an army of 800,000!

Although the total number is 200,000 to 300,000 less than last year, the damage caused is greater.

This is because the number of soldiers in this battle is estimated to be at least 300,000, and the number of armored soldiers exceeds 100,000!

Although there were millions of people last year, there were only a few hundred thousand actual combat soldiers, and less than ten thousand armored soldiers!

From New Year's Eve to the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, more than 130 counties in several states and nineteen counties in the north were once again looted by the barbarians.

Except for a few counties that repelled the barbarians, the garrisons in most places were simply not capable of fighting. There was even a shocking incident where 29 counties and three prefectures were breached by the barbarians.

As for the people who were killed or captured, the number was at least over three million, and nearly 20 million became refugees.

The emperor was furious! He was so angry that he vomited blood in the court! He almost fainted again!

There are so many different types of ministers!

Some are angry, some are sad, some are frightened, and some are secretly excited!

Finally, the emperor held on to his health and set a national policy: within three years, a large-scale expedition to the Northern Wilderness must be launched again! All government offices were ordered to complete preparations within two years.

Before Liu Feiyun could figure out how to teach Yuan Yanxi a lesson, he received several letters from his hometown in Anping.

"This time, Beihuang dispatched 35,000 soldiers to attack Anya County in several routes, aiming directly at our Liu family's Anping County, and another 30,000 barbarian tribesmen followed to assist! Among them, there were 5,000 armored cavalry and 10,000 armored infantry! Fortunately, Dad had been prepared this time and mobilized a large number of local warriors and able-bodied men to participate in the battle! He adopted the tactic of defeating the barbarians one by one, annihilated 3,000 armored cavalry, 5,000 armored infantry, and nearly 10,000 unarmored soldiers, and captured more than 10,000 auxiliary barbarians, which scared off the barbarians! It seems! The number of households under Dad's rule will increase again!"

After reading the letter from his father, Liu Feiyun did not look happy at all, but rather a little worried.

Liu Qianqian also frowned, "It seems that these barbarians in the Northern Wilderness have set their sights on our Anping Liu family! They will hate our Anping Liu family even more!"

"Of course! But! The strength displayed by these barbarians this time is far greater than last year! This time they plundered more property and people from other states and counties. I'm afraid they will come again next year! And their scale and combat power will be even larger and stronger! Alas! If this continues, there will be no peace in the northern border of the empire!"

Liu Qianqian folded her hands and looked at her mother Chu Bihe's, feeling mixed emotions:

"My mother praised me for my good business! It's rare that she would praise me for my business! Well! She also said! Beihuang suffered a loss at the hands of my father again this time, which might be bad for the two of us, and told us to be careful in Changluo City in the near future!"

"Unfavorable! It's nothing more than another assassination attempt! After the cleanup at the foreign factory last year, the Northern Wilderness Barbarians should not have much power left in Changluo City! I don't think they can cause much trouble! But we'd better be careful!"

As Liu Feiyun spoke, he opened another letter.

"Ha! Shihu is a promising kid! He will be able to come to Changluo to help me by the end of this year! This is really good news! No! Before he comes, I have to do something first to get some interest from Yuan Yanxi!"

Seeing Liu Feiyun's excited face, Liu Qianqian hurriedly reminded him, "Little brother! Don't do anything rash! I know you hate Yuan Yanxi so much now! You wish you could kill her! But you can't let hatred cloud your mind and do something stupid! Put yourself in danger! This is Changluo, not our hometown of Anping!"

Liu Feiyun chuckled and said, "Don't worry, big sister! I know what to do!"

As the emperor decided to launch a massive expedition to the Northern Wilderness, its influence gradually spread!

What Liu Feiyun felt most obviously was that many people, whether in Wende Liberal Arts College or Taozhu Business College, began to talk about topics related to Beihuang.

In the Blood Blade Military Academy, some people even directly discussed the specific strategies, tactics and tactics of the Northern Expedition.

As a non-staff student with the qualification of auditing, Liu Feiyun has been coming to Blood Blade Military Academy more frequently these days than before. He even spends more time studying at the Military Academy than at the Arts College!

If he was just an ordinary student at Wende College, he would not be allowed to do this! But he was a disciple of Dean Chang Xianzhi. As long as Dean Chang Xianzhi didn't say anything, how could other lecturers bother him?

However, just because Wende College has no objection doesn't mean that Blood Blade College has no objection.

On this day, Liu Feiyun came to Blood Blade Academy to audit classes again. Soon after arriving at the war game demonstration hall, he was ridiculed and driven away by several people.

"Hey! Isn't this the little butcher from the Liu family? What?! Are you here to steal my skills again?"

"Really? I don't know what the academy's top leaders were thinking. They actually allowed outsiders to sit in on the class! Military science is different from other subjects. It is a subject that concerns the survival of the empire! How can they let people learn it?"

"That's right! Who knows if some people have ulterior motives, or if they are just trying to flatter themselves! If you really want to join the army and serve the empire, you should just apply to the academy. Why bother reading sage books or taking exams for honors?"

"Yes! People like this should all be kicked out!"

When several students from the military academy saw Liu Feiyun, they started to criticize him without any hesitation, which immediately attracted more people to agree with them.

Liu Feiyun sneered in his heart: a bunch of self-righteous frogs in the well, golden sparrows in a cage, who have never even seen a real battlefield, but they think they are tigers in the mountains and eagles in the sky!

However, these people's ability to talk about war on paper is indeed impressive! In addition, they have a noble family background, so they naturally have a group of followers and some influence among students.

"Can I come to class? You guys have no say! If you don't have the ability, then don't make a scene in front of me! Get as far away from me as possible!"

Liu Feiyun will not be tolerant or polite to these people!