The queen is sober in the world, and she is winning every step of the palace fight.

Xie Weizhou took the jade pendant and carefully stroked the patterns on it.

No need to look, he is too familiar with the patterns to fake them.

"Any other evidence?"

he asks.

He remembered that the girl before him was the maid of the femme fatale in the palace. Back then, by the Taiye Lake, the master and servant had stripped Prince Rui naked, which had shocked him greatly.

Jasmine took two steps closer and whispered something in code.

Xie Weizhou nodded, convinced.

There might be mistakes in the safekeeping of the jade pendant, and the girl might betray him, but when he and Fei Wan broke into the enemy camp side by side to assassinate the commander, they agreed that if they were separated by the enemy, if they survived the disaster and it was inconvenient for them to show up and meet, they could communicate secretly by writing code words on the road or asking someone to pass on the code words.

The code words were not used at that time.

It’s being used now.

It can be seen that thinking of a way out and countermeasures will always come in handy.

The jade pendant and the secret code made Xie Weizhou basically obey what Jasmine said next.

He was not blindly following.

No matter how powerful Fei Wan is, he has his own judgment.

The Tartars secretly invaded the territory and surrounded and killed the emperor. Several border passes were also under the siege of the Tartars. The people of Qu had great ambitions.

Daliang acted hastily and responded inappropriately. It is still unknown how many loopholes and pests there are inside. It is difficult to predict the outcome by relying solely on conventional tactics.

"Your master is very brave." Xie Weizhou narrowed his eyes and rubbed the stubble on his chin that he had not had time to shave.

Jasmine said calmly, "My master said that if the Marquis succeeds, all the credit will be yours. If he fails, she will bear the blame."

Xie Weizhou raised his eyebrows: "Can she afford it?"

Jasmine said, "I can handle a vast country, let alone such a small matter."

Xie Weizhou found that this girl had an expressionless face and looked like a statue talking, and she seemed to deserve a beating.

He raised his head and smiled: "What a big tone! Don't underestimate this general. I can handle this matter. Besides, there is no possibility of failure!"

He turned around and went to make arrangements.

It was not clear.

He took two hundred light cavalry and quietly left from the south gate of the city.

The enemy was knocking on the north gate, and the old general at the top was busy dealing with it. By the time he heard the news, he had already run away without a trace.

"How infuriating! He deserves to be killed! He's deserting the battlefield! After the battle, I'll definitely give him a good beating. Give him a good beating!"

The old general blew his beard and glared.

At this critical moment when the enemy was attacking the city, Xie Weizhou, who usually performed exceptionally well, actually ran away and took away some elite cavalry.

Damn it!

Fortunately, this guy only took away 200 people.

The old general redeployed his troops and joined the battle.

However, Xie Weizhou and his men did not rush to support the imperial carriage from Sigu Town.

Instead, they made a big circle and arrived at another pass a hundred miles away.

Holding the imperial pass sent by the palace maid Jasmine, he led the team north and entered Qu territory.

Outside the border, the defense of this pass of Qu State was lax, and it did not enter a state of combat readiness because of the battle a hundred miles away.

This was the border between two major tribes in southern Qu State, where authority and responsibilities were confused and lawlessness reigned supreme. Xie Weizhou and his entire team donned cloaks, hid their weapons, and gave the gatekeepers ample gold and silver, so they blindly believed they were a merchant caravan.

White clouds and green grass, vast sky and boundless wilderness.

Two hundred light cavalrymen galloped all the way, following the avoidance route marked on the map, and headed straight for the heart of Qu State.

……

On the afternoon of the second day after arriving in Sigu Town, the emperor woke up a little from his intermittent sleep.

When he learned that the "secret" of his personal expedition had already been known to the Qu Kingdom, and that the other side had gathered nearly 200,000 troops to invade and encircle him...

He nearly fainted again.

The imperial physicians and military doctors waited nervously by the side, ready to step forward and rescue at any time.

Fortunately, the emperor was the ruler of a country after all, and was not that fragile. After choking for a while, he recovered.

"How is the battle going now?"

"Your Majesty, the soldiers are fighting the enemy with all their might. We will not let their conspiracy succeed!"

Several important officials were there to comfort him.

The emperor was furious: "I want to ask, how is the battle going? Where is General Gongsun?"

The ministers lowered their heads, and no one was willing to be the first to report the truth.

Fei Wan, who was serving beside the emperor, spoke calmly.

"Your Majesty, after days and nights of fierce fighting, our army has suffered over ten thousand casualties, and tens of thousands more have been scattered and cannot be contacted. Now only twenty thousand men are defending Sigu Town, with General Gongsun supervising the battle from the city walls. The remaining tens of thousands are scattered throughout the city, engaging the enemy."

The emperor's face turned pale as he pressed on, "Are you saying that the troops I personally led to the battle only have less than 100,000 men left, while the enemy has nearly 200,000?!"

Fei Wan replied, "Yes, the number of people gathered by spies from all over the place is exactly the same."

"Where are the reinforcements?! Didn't I issue the order to defend the king? Where are the reinforcements from the nearby border towns?"

"Your Majesty, half of the important border towns bordering the Kingdom of Qu in the north have been attacked by the enemy. The two commanders of the border towns are dispatching troops to assist the towns. Although three elite teams have been sent to assist the king, they have all been blocked to varying degrees and are currently engaged in combat."

The emperor was furious.

He overturned the bowl of medicine that Fei Wan brought to the ground.

"Where do all these enemy troops come from? Where do they come from?"

They surrounded him, blocked his reinforcements, and knocked on the gates everywhere. Did they fall from the sky?

Why are these Tartars coming to Daliang instead of taking advantage of the summer to graze their livestock?

Everyone knelt on the ground.

Faced with the emperor's furious questioning, no one dared to say a word.

"Royal Concubine, speak!"

Fei Wan bowed lightly and replied, "The latest information the Tiger Guards have gathered has not yet been confirmed. Some of these enemy troops infiltrated from the northeastern border town of Yinglong. The commander of Yinglong has betrayed his country and his entire family to Qu. It has now been discovered that he is the illegitimate son of the treacherous minister Zhongqing Bo, who is secretly raising him abroad. Another part of the enemy troops are not from Qu, but bandits and rebels gathered from all over the country, secretly nurtured by the escaped King Nanyu of Qu, who is taking advantage of the opportunity to rebel. Some of them are also the remnants of the rebels that King Rui instigated in Jiangnan."

Although the battle broke out hastily.

But Daliang is not completely useless.

The emperor personally controls the Tiger Guards all year round, and they are very skilled in spying and investigation.

The various branches of the Tiger Guard sent the latest investigation results as soon as possible. To sum up, it is what Fei Wan said.

The emperor quickly grasped the point.

Chungcheongbok, Seowon...

Isn’t this still the root of evil left by the Queen Mother?

As for why the root of the evil was not eradicated and allowed them to succeed, he did not want to reflect on it.

"Damn it! Damn it!"

He looked furious like a mad beast, as if he wanted to eat people, and frightened several court officials so much that they dared not breathe.

"Quickly summon General Gongsun to see me!"

General Gongsun, who was commanding the battle on the city wall, delayed for a moment. After being summoned several times by the emperor, he had to hand over the battlefield to his deputy general and hurried to see him.

"Tell me the truth, can we defend this place?"

This was the only question the emperor asked when they met.

General Gongsun pondered for a moment.

He knelt on one knee and said, "I will defend this place to the death. For the sake of your majesty's safety, please move elsewhere."

The emperor felt dizzy.

So, this place can’t be defended?

Where to go?

As soon as he felt dizzy, he immediately found a map and frantically looked for a place to take shelter.

Another room.

Fei Wan whispered to Queen Yan, "Did you take too much medicine, sister? Why are you so impatient and violent today?"

But he was not talking about Queen Yan.

But the emperor.

Empress Yan was surprised: "Since you advised me, I haven't used it in the past two days."

Fei Wan thought to herself.

Could it be caused by the accumulation of medicinal properties?

If this kind of irrational anger is really his nature, it's too...

Queen Yan didn't bother to care about what was wrong with the emperor, as long as he promised not to die for the time being.

She asked Fei Wan seriously: "Is this place undefendable?"

As time went on, the enemy broke through the defense line and attacked the city, and the battle situation outside became more and more terrifying.

"Sister, if we can't hold on, we should make plans early."

Fei Wan asked, "What are your plans, sister?"