Priceless: A widow with a baby asks the prince to marry again

Inside the central military tent, Chu Shiyu looked indifferent as he listened to the messenger's report.

"Ten thousand enemy troops fled! Countless were killed! Now only 20,000 are still holding out, and less than 10,000 of them are still attacking!"

The general in the tent was delighted: "General, your plan is brilliant! The enemy has suffered heavy losses and their morale has plummeted! Our army is about to win!"

Chu Shiyu did not comment. In fact, this was quite different from what he expected. He had originally intended to lure the enemy deep into the city and strangle them...

He anticipated that the enemy would not fall into his trap, but under repeated cavalry attacks, the enemy had been responding passively and would be defeated anyway, but the Daxia army would suffer greater losses.

Unexpectedly, the enemy's command was so incompetent that they neither fell into the trap nor responded effectively! They could suppress the pursuit of the front camp, but could not stop the rear camp?

The Oirat and Tatar prisoners of war were just tools he used to identify the enemy, but they actually directly caused the enemy to flee?

However, the battlefield changes rapidly, and Chu Shiyu is not so arrogant as to think he can control everything.

"What is the status of our cavalry?"

"General! It is roughly estimated that there are more than a thousand casualties, and nearly half of the seriously injured have returned to the city for treatment! Both groups of cavalry have retained more than 90% of their combat effectiveness!"

This result seemed better than inviting a wolf into the house. Chu Shiyu nodded and gave the order: "The cavalry will raid the city, and 100,000 infantry will leave the city from the south and north, and form a battle array a hundred feet away to surround the north and south sides."

"Yes!" Several generals commanding the infantry came out of the tent in high spirits.

The remaining generals were somewhat regretful and asked, "What about the east? Aren't they going to surround it?"

Chu Shiyu shook his head calmly: "Don't chase after desperate enemies. If we kill them all, our army will suffer more casualties. Let them run to the east."

"Also, take a group of Wala prisoners to the city wall, inform those who are still attacking the city of their current situation, and persuade them to surrender."

...

Qin Tao was driven back to the city. He felt humiliated and could no longer charge into battle. He was angry for a long time!

But soon he couldn't sit still, so he settled for the next best thing and went back to the military camp where he used to be! He wanted to serve as an archer in the arrow tower!

"It's full! Go somewhere else!"

Fang Qiu refused fiercely! The bowstring in his hand never stopped vibrating!

Qin Tao, however, simply carried his bow and quickly climbed up the arrow tower where two people were already standing!

The small arrow tower was not big, and the two people standing in front would have been almost full, but he stood in the middle behind them! He took the arrow marked with Fang Qiu on the ground without any hesitation!

"We can stand here if we squeeze in. This arrow tower is stable!"

As Qin Tao spoke, he drew his bow and the arrow shot out from the gap between the two people in front of him, accurately piercing the back of an enemy's head!

"Didn't you join the cavalry? Here you can come back whenever you want, and leave whenever you want."

Fang Qiu gnashed her teeth, still angry that Qin Tao had abandoned her to join the cavalry! Although her main goal now was to earn military merit, she still yearned for horseback fighting. After all, galloping on the battlefield was her interest!

Qin Tao couldn't help but show his anger again, complaining: "Uncle Zhao drove me back to the city!"

Hearing this, Fang Qiu felt relieved and gloated, "Oh? The Qin family army actually doesn't like General Wei Yu's only son? This is weird!"

"It's not that I don't like you...I like you too much!"

Qin Tao's face turned from anger to depression. He glanced at Fang Qiu who shared the same interests as him and said frankly: "This time the cavalry charge was in a goose formation. I just felt unsatisfied and wanted to charge from the left wing to the right wing!"

"My father has done a lot of things alone in the midst of a huge army! But Uncle Zhao and the others followed me to protect me! That's fine, but they also had to drive me back! Do they think I'm some fragile thing?!"

Fang Qiu couldn't help but feel the same way, but in the blink of an eye, she said with disdain: "I have also heard about General Wei Yu's achievements in battle. He always had a purpose when he broke into the army! Either to save his comrades from death, or to take the enemy's head! How could he be as reckless as you?"

The boy's face turned red, and he obviously knew that what he was doing was inappropriate...

But he stubbornly argued, "I didn't disrupt the formation! If I were just an ordinary soldier, no one would care whether I charged or not! Besides, I killed at least 20 to 30 enemy soldiers in each charge! Although it's not as good as killing an enemy general, it's not a complete failure, right?"

"Soldier against soldier, general against general, you are not really a pawn! If something happens to you, the morale of the entire Qin family army will be shaken, and even the entire situation will be affected! Not to mention dozens, even hundreds of enemy troops are not worth your risk!"

Fang Qiu said with disdain: "You are so reckless just for your own pleasure. It would be a light punishment for you to be sent back to the city. If it were my father, he would definitely give you a military stick!"

"How dare you say that to me?! In terms of status, you and I shouldn't be in the army now! Isn't it just for pleasure that we stay in the Northwest Army to cover up our mistakes?!"

Qin Tao was so angry that he pulled the bow in his hand to its full extent!

Fang Qiu paused and looked at the other person who was silently shooting arrows next to her. This person was also a disguised woman who came to protect her. After being guided by Liu Rusi, she generously accepted their presence and no longer deceived herself to conceal her identity.

Then, Fang Qiu said proudly: "I am different from you now. I am not just doing this for pleasure! I want to accumulate military merits and become a general!"

Qin Tao was stunned for a moment, and asked in confusion: "Aren't you afraid of becoming a deputy general because of your military achievements? You discussed with me before how to be happy and still be a lieutenant."

Fang Qiu curled his lips... and then frankly explained his current situation...

"So that's it! Your father is just like my mother, pretending not to know!" Qin Tao exclaimed.

"You know?" Fang Qiu asked back.

Qin Tao said indifferently: "I was supposed to come to the Qin Army, but my mother said that I should get married and have children first before coming... I am determined to stay here now, my father agreed, and my mother turned a blind eye."

Fang Qiu suddenly felt a little unhappy. Even if he worked hard, he might not be able to achieve his goal, but Qin Tao could achieve it by following the path...

"Humph...Since you know that Princess Taihua knows you are here, why do you deliberately not want military merit?"

While the two chatted, the bows and arrows in their hands never stopped. In less than a moment, the small arrow tower shot hundreds of arrows, and all of them hit the target! Half of them were from Qin Tao! ——Fang Qiu and the other woman had been fighting hard for half an hour. Their arms were numb and their fingers were worn out. They shot less frequently.

"I am already the Prince of Changtai. If nothing unexpected happens, I will have to take over the Qin Army. What's the point of having military merits?" Qin Tao complained...

Fang Qiu couldn't help it and yelled, "Are you showing off to me?"

"I'm not trying to show off... To be honest, I envy you for having such an unprecedented goal. All your future achievements are the result of your own hard work."

Qin Tao said with a depressed look: "And I have basically been like this all my life. Now I am a prince, and I guess I will be like this until I die... I will take over the 100,000 Qin Family Army, but it will always be the 100,000 Qin Family Army..."

Fang Qiu paused, and understood his state of mind. As someone from a military family, she also knew these inside stories… The current emperor was very strict about titles, especially hereditary titles. Even a prince had to make achievements before he could be crowned a king.

Qin Tao was granted the title of Prince of Changtai at the age of one, all because of General Wei Yu and ***.

Wei Yu fought bloody battles on the frontier more than a decade ago, and fought his way out of a dead end, and even frightened the northern tribes outside the northwest! If it weren't for the grassland, Daxia would be hard to control, and I'm afraid the area east of the Altai Mountains would have been incorporated into Daxia's territory!

Wei Yu returned triumphantly with 30,000 elite soldiers!

The emperor must reward this army that fights for the country, otherwise it will affect the morale of the entire Daxia army. If the rewards and punishments are unfair, who will be willing to sacrifice their lives?

But Wei Yu was not loyal to the emperor, so the army could not grow larger and was limited to 100,000 troops before departure. Even the armaments had to be restricted, such as the number of war horses could not exceed 10,000...

In the end, Wei Yu was only given the title of general, a general's mansion, and some flashy things.

However, the emperor conferred the title of Prince on Qin Tao, and this move made everyone feel that it was a great favor and reward!

After all, for ordinary people, the achievements of their fathers are to be passed on to their descendants. In the long run, enfeoffing Qin Tao as a prince is no different from enfeoffing Wei Yu as a prince! After all, the next person after a prince is a prince!

However, *** was the princess of Daxia, and Qin Tao also had royal ties, so she was naturally one with Daxia, and they could find common ground while reserving differences on the issue of Wei Yu's disloyalty to the emperor.

But all this also meant that Qin Tao’s road was over when he was born. He could only go down, not up...