Family affection? Is it important to have rights?

Wu Chen: "And we have to be humble when asking for peace, so that others will think that our Ji country is easy to bully!"

The civil officials also became annoyed. "If we don't ask for peace, do we expect General Lu to win the battle? Let's not talk about how long this war will last and whether there is enough money to support it. General Lu has not won a single battle in these years! How can we rest assured?"

Wu Chen was silent for a long time, he really had no words to refute this matter.

Then Wu Chen continued to insist, "So is it good to ask for peace? Not only will we lose money and land, we may even have to give up a princess as a hostage!"

Having said this, there was silence in the hall.

The eldest princess doesn't have a consort yet, and the prince...

The emperor sat on the throne, with a heavy aura around him. If he really asked for peace first, he would probably be laughed at by future generations.

Not to mention the possibility of ceding territory and paying compensation.

He is almost a sinner.

As Marquis of Jingyang, Gu Shiming was of course also in the palace, but he did not want to speak.

The emperor finally looked at the prime minister and asked in a calm voice, "Prime Minister, do you think we should seek peace or continue fighting?"

Mu Wenyu sat in a wheelchair, but his aura was no less than that of others. "Your Majesty, I think we cannot retreat from this battle. We can save money, but if our aura weakens, the enemy will exploit our remaining resources even more."

Although the emperor disliked the prime minister, his words touched his heart.

These civil officials are really useless.

However, the emperor could not openly reject the proposal of the civil officials, so he specifically asked the prime minister, the highest-ranking official among the civil officials, to answer.

And one person must also be selected from among the military officials.

The emperor looked around and set his sights on Marquis Jingyang.

"I wonder what Marquis Jingyang thinks?"

Gu Shiming: "...I feel that we cannot retreat from this battle."

The emperor nodded and simply gave an order to send food and weapons over. In order to prevent General Lu from making another mistake, the emperor even ordered General Qi and General Lu to lead the troops together.

By the way, let the surrounding generals lead troops to support the border towns.

Even though the people in the border town had seen many wars, they were still afraid in their hearts. After all, General Lu could not give them enough sense of security.

In recent years, the enemy has been able to reach the border town every time, and even a few soldiers have managed to sneak into the city.

If the border town had not been under martial law and no one was allowed to leave, they would have left long ago.

Who knows whether we will win or lose this time?

Mu Tangxi and Ji Qichen did not leave the city wall. They were dozens of miles away from the soldiers and could not hear any sound at all, but they felt the earth shaking.

While General Lu and General Wang of the enemy country were fighting, he whispered, "Why didn't you inform me this time?!"

General Wang's eyes flashed with disdain, but he still perfunctorily replied: "Your Majesty heard that your country's eldest princess is extremely beautiful, so he wants to attack your country."

Since General Lu was able to turn to the Prime Minister because of the Crown Prince's weakness, he can naturally also turn to the wise leader because of the empty treasury of Ji State and the constant natural and man-made disasters.

In General Lu's opinion, these signs are evidence that Ji State's fortune is gradually disappearing.

Moreover, the enemy country promised him that as long as he passed the message to them and did some small actions, after the Ji State was destroyed, they would give him the title of General Zhenbei, and his descendants would worship him for eternity, give him millions of taels of gold, and make him a marquis!

He just chose the better one.

This time, when General Lu heard that General Wang wanted the eldest princess, he still frowned.

Previously, his assistance to the enemy countries was just small actions, neither losing nor winning.

But this time...

General Lu asked, "What are you going to do?"

General Wang said casually: "As long as you lose the war, His Majesty will ask to send the eldest princess to our country for marriage."

General Lu remained silent, looking somewhat hesitant.

What he did before were all small things that didn't affect anything.

But this time it's different.

General Wang also noticed his hesitation and raised the stakes: "Our Majesty only wants some money and the eldest princess. He will not let Ji Kingdom cede land."

General Lu seemed to be convinced. Yes, it didn't matter if we lost the war, as long as we didn't cede land.

but………

Why is General Lu always hesitant?

General Lu listened to the sounds of fighting around him, the clashing of swords, the neighing of war horses, and the screams of his soldiers as they were killed.

Suddenly, a flash of lightning appeared in the dark sky, illuminating the world with snow-white light in an instant.

It illuminated the gloomy face of General Lu, the triumphant smile on General Wang's face, and the soldiers who were fighting desperately.

General Wang knew that General Lu would definitely agree.

The emperor's edict was still on the way, Mu Tangxi and Ji Qichen were holding umbrellas.

A heavy downpour made it impossible to open one's eyes and see the enemy's weapons clearly.

The cold rain wet the soldiers' faces and eyes.

General Lu still maintained his seemingly fierce fight with General Wang, but in fact he was holding back at all times.

He looked at General Wang, as if to see if he would really give him those things.

Finally, amid the thunder and heavy rain, General Lu said something.

General Wang's eyes widened instantly, and then he looked at him with a complicated look.

Then he suddenly led his troops to escape and returned to their camp.

General Lu watched the enemy soldiers leave in a mighty procession with an expressionless face.

He shouted: "The enemy has retreated!"

When the soldiers around General Lu heard this, they also shouted excitedly: "The enemy has retreated!"

Gradually, this sentence spread to the entire group. 150,000 soldiers shouted the same sentence. At this moment, the majestic momentum of the Ji country soldiers shocked the enemy troops in the distance who had not left yet.

General Lu led his troops back to the camp one after another to meet with General Xu.

Mu Tangxi and Ji Qichen were watching from the city wall. The general's armor was different from the soldiers' armor.

So they clearly saw that only General Lu returned, but General Qi, who set out later than them, did not return.

Mu Tangxi sighed. She had just finished discussing things with General Qi and were ready to provide relief to the disaster victims, but now, was he going to get into trouble?

She took the initiative to hold Ji Qichen's hand and walked towards the tent.

Ji Qichen was led quietly.

Inside the tent, when Mu Tangxi and Ji Qichen arrived, General Lu was arguing fiercely with General Xu.

"How could you abandon General Qi's team and run back by yourself?!" Xu Guangzhu asked.

General Lu said impatiently: "Many soldiers are already seriously injured. They need to come back to bandage their wounds!"

"As for General Qi, didn't he lead a group of soldiers to burn the enemy's grain depot?"

As soon as these words came out, Xu Guangzhu's face suddenly changed.

Mu Tangxi also said as if he suddenly remembered: "Oh, it just rained heavily, General Qi shouldn't be able to set fire to the enemy's food, right?"