Zhu Mianchu then called Xiaohuan and Mansui. At this time, Mansui also took off her previous armor and changed into the same palace maid clothes as Xiaohuan. Zhu Mianchu's eyes lit up.

After watching Man Sui dress up, Zhu Mianzhu looked down at herself again. She could see the tip of her shoes at a glance... She immediately lost all interest and said weakly:

"It's time to rest."

After saying that, she walked towards the bed, and Xiaohuan and Mansui followed closely behind Zhu Mianchu.

Time flew by and it was the end of February. At Qingshan Pass, just as dawn was breaking, Zhao Yi and Wu Cheng, along with over 19,000 men, had been waiting near the pass for days. Their food supplies were almost gone. On the Great Wall, Zhao Yi approached Wu Cheng and said,

"Wu Cheng, are the Manchus not leaving this border crossing? We've been stuck here on our own for three days."

Wu Cheng heard what Zhao Yi said and glanced at Zhao Yi:

"Even if we want to retreat, we have to eat up all the food and fodder before we retreat. Besides, this attack is an opportunity to make achievements. The two of us each led 10,000 people, but we have no military achievements. Now the princess has no other trustworthy people under her command. If she has others in the future, we who have no military achievements will have nothing to show for it except that we were the first to follow the princess."

"A general without military achievements will not be able to command the support of his people. Moreover, our 20,000 men have never seen actual combat except for defending Pinggu County. We must let the soldiers see blood."

Wu Cheng had just finished speaking to Zhao Yi when a confidant came running over and said:

"General, they are coming! The Jiannu are driving hundreds of thousands of our Ming people towards Qingshan Pass, accompanied by tens of thousands of cavalry."

When Zhao Yi and Wu Cheng heard what the confidant said, they hurriedly climbed up the city wall and looked inside the pass. A black line was looming in the distant sky. As time passed, a huge team appeared outside the Qingshan Pass city wall. Some of the musketeers standing on the city wall couldn't help but tremble in their arms. Before, the defense of Pinggu County was only a few hundred cavalry and some vassal troops. Tens of thousands of people against a few hundred people, they could be repelled with a round of volleys.

But now, looking over, it is so densely packed that there is no end in sight. The thin city wall facing hundreds of thousands of people is like a small boat on the sea.

In the distance among the Qing army, several cavalrymen rode their horses to the center of the army:

"General, the Qingshan Pass ahead has been filled with earth, and there are Ming troops stationed on the city walls."

Du Du looked at the city wall blocked with earth from afar, sneered, and said to those around him:

"Select tens of thousands of Ming people and drive them to dig through the earthen walls with their hands."

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As several people rode their horses to select Ming cannon fodder, Zhao Yi and Wu Cheng at Qingshan Pass in the distance also had cold sweat in their palms. There were too many enemies. The more passionate they were at the beginning, the more cold sweat they were sweating now. Wu Cheng had only read military books before and had no practical experience.

Especially when he saw the Qing army driving the unarmed Ming people to attack, he didn't know whether to order the shooting. The close confidants around him kept looking at Wu Cheng and Zhao Yi.

Zhao Yi said to Wu Cheng:

"These are the people of our Ming Dynasty. Do we want to massacre these defenseless people?"

After hearing what Zhao Yi said, Wu Cheng was also at a loss, and then said to Zhao Yi:

"I suggested sending troops to the princess because of the great magical power she displayed two years ago, which could split mountains and crack the earth. With the princess around, even if we couldn't fight, we could still win. But who knew that the princess didn't come with us."

At this point, the people driven away by the Qing army in the distance were only a few hundred meters away from the city wall. The armed soldiers on the city wall turned their heads to look at Zhao Yi and Wu Cheng from time to time, waiting for them to give the order to shoot.

Wu Cheng wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and looked at the soldiers around him who were holding muskets with their arms shaking slightly. These soldiers were the ones he watched grow up step by step in the past two years. When they were recruited, most of them were refugees and farmers' children. They had been eating, drinking, and living together for the past two years, and they had already developed a deep relationship. I must bring them back alive!

Bring them back alive? Thinking of this, Wu Cheng suddenly remembered the piece of divine magic weapon that the princess gave him before she left. When she gave him the divine magic weapon, she also said that he should use it at the right time and try to bring all the soldiers back alive. Wu Cheng had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and he took out the piece of emerald green branch from his arms and hurriedly said to Zhao Yi:

"Zhao Yi, Zhao Yi, quickly take out the magical weapon the princess gave you."

At this time, Zhao Yi, who was holding a gun and looking ahead, heard what Wu Cheng said, and hurriedly took out a piece of emerald green branch from his arms. Looking at the group of Ming Dynasty people in front of them who were about to enter the range of the musket, Zhao Yi and Wu Cheng looked at each other, and broke the branches in their hands together. The moment the branches were broken, they turned into fluorescent spots and dissipated in the air.

At this time, Zhu Mianzhu was holding Mansui and Xiaohuan as pillows in her sleep. Suddenly she opened her eyes and found that the medium for transmitting the message was broken. In fact, what was given to Zhao Yi and Wu Cheng was not a magic weapon, but a branch condensed with grass elements. The only function of the branch was to tell Zhu Mianzhu that the branch was used.

The moment she opened her eyes, Zhu Mianzhuo sat up and looked at the dim sky outside. She stretched out her left and right hands and woke up Xiaohuan and Mansui. Seeing them open their eyes, full of confusion, as if they had not woken up yet, Zhu Mianzhuo said to them:

"Get up, you two should wash up first. I'm going out for a while. You don't have to wait for me for breakfast."

As he spoke, he turned into a stream of emerald green light and flew from the phoenix couch to the silk-covered open space in front of the bed. Because Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youjian was a workaholic, Empress Zhou followed Zhu Youjian to rest in the Qianqing Palace for many years, and the Kunning Palace was now always used by Zhu Mianzhu.

Standing barefoot on the bright red silk embroidered with dragons and phoenixes, Zhu Mianzhuo glanced down at her small arms and legs. With a thought, a ray of emerald green light enveloped her young body. When the light faded, Zhu Mianzhuo had transformed into the true form of the Great Compassion Tree King, and her divine armor also appeared. If she wanted to unleash her full strength, she had to reveal her true form.

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