Volume 7: Flying Dragon Army, Flying Dragon Army! Chapter 23: Three Bad News

I jumped on the spot and said, "Why did you think of me now?" I asked Geng Ling in a low voice, "Do you want the money in the palace?"

Geng Ling said: "Who doesn't want money? What our Feilong Army lacks the most is military pay."

I asked again, "Do you want to let those people in Heigis go?"

Geng Ling said confidently: "I don't want to."

I said, "That depends on whether you want people or money more."

As the Feilong Army surrounded the imperial city, the soldiers put out the fires everywhere and appeased the common people. At this time, the Guo people outside the imperial city slowly moved closer. The panic on their faces did not leave. They stood behind the Feilong Army, holding the old and the young, and looked up at the city. The eyes were full of anger. An old man came to Geng Ling's horse tremblingly, and said with tears: "General, please avenge our Guo State, and we must not let these murderers go to justice!" As he said that, he suddenly knelt down and kept kowtowing. The others were also kneeling on the ground, looking at Geng Ling without saying a word, with great pleading and begging in their eyes. Gradually, all the people of Guo State nearby rushed over and heard the news, and then knelt silently behind the team. In less than a quarter of an hour, the surroundings of the imperial city were so kneeling that they could not see at all.

General Hegisna was anxious and said quickly: "General Geng, you won't give up a large amount of money that is easy to obtain for these irrelevant people, right?"

Geng Ling said: "Xiaolong, Feilong Army, you have the final say. You can make the decision."

I accidentally touched the old man's eyes, and felt that he seemed to put all his hopes on me. I touched my chin and said, "It seems that we are not here for money, right? This unexpected money is of course very good, and it is reasonable to get it if you don't."

Geng Ling said, "Well said!" He looked up and said, "Now I will give you time to set fire. When you burn the things, it will be the time for our Feilong Army to attack the city!"

The general shrank his neck and said, "Are you... crazy?"

When the people of Guo State heard Geng Ling say this, they were both moved and sad, and they started crying in unison. My mother looked at Geng Ling with a hint of praise. The general hurriedly ran down the city.

We waited for a while but no fireworks emerged in the city. Wu Ying asked Geng Ling, "Brother Geng, are we still using the old method to get in?"

Geng Ling nodded and said, "Okay!"

Kumei said, "Don't have to be so troublesome, I'll help you open the door!" As she said, she jumped up from the horse's back, and jumped into the palace with a few ups and downs. Then we heard the shouts of killing inside, as if thousands of troops were fighting. Wu Ying couldn't help but say, "Even if Master Kumei is a master who has entered the holy level, he wouldn't have caused such a big noise, right?"

After a while, Kumei jumped out of it and laughed, "I have done this bunny with my own hands. I have already started killing each other." Everyone was surprised and happy, and asked her what was going on. It turned out that when the Heigis soldiers saw that the negotiations were not complete, they immediately had internal conflicts. Some of them had already robbed a lot of treasures, so they naturally didn't want to burn them for nothing, so they wanted to break out. Another group of people advocated guarding the palace to death, and maybe they could look forward to reinforcements. Some of them were completely useless and wanted to surrender. So the first group wanted to open the city gate and rushed out. The opponents blocked the city gate and did not ask them to get closer. The two sides became more and more irresistible. They actually started at the city gate. They were now alone, everyone only wanted to protect themselves, and the commanders ignored the orders of the commanders. They could no longer stop the chaos when they fought. We heard the city gates being hit and made loud noises outside. Obviously someone was about to rush out.

Yu Manli said excitedly: "When the city gate opens, everyone will follow me in!"

Geng Ling listened for a while, and suddenly said to Kumei: "Master, do you see clearly that they are really having internal strife?"

Kumei said, "Where is there any fake?"

Geng Ling said to me: "Xiaolong, please go and take a look."

I flew to the middle of the palace and looked down. I saw a group of Heigis soldiers standing face to face in front of the city gate, constantly colliding with their weapons, but their feet were still motionless. There were also a group of people pressing against the city gate with their hands. After a while, they worked together to make the city gate make a sound similar to the thunder after being hit. Under the eaves of the palace on both sides of the city gate, there were two long rows of people hidden under the eaves of the palace, all of which were bowed and stringed swords were unsheathed. It seemed that they were really preparing to open the city gate themselves and create the illusion of internal strife for the Feilong Army. Once we rushed into the city, they would kill them.

I could see clearly in the sky, but the Heigis soldiers on the ground didn't notice me. They all looked nervous and stared at the city gate. The performers were also performing hard. The scene was weird and funny, just like a magician who was wearing it and didn't know it, and was still pretending to be there.

I laughed and fell to the ground, and everyone asked me, "How is it?"

I said to Kumei, "Amei, you go in and take a closer look."

Ku Mei was confused on her face and jumped into the palace without saying a word. This time, after a long time, she came out, she said shyly and angrily: "Heijis, these cunning puppies - they have ambush!" She asked Geng Ling, "Did you know in advance?"

Geng Ling smiled and said, "Of course not, but I'm very surprised why they can argue and divide the camps in such a quick time. This is too fast. Obviously, they sent people to negotiate with us just to delay time. The main purpose is to discuss countermeasures. If we agree to their conditions, it's naturally the best. If it doesn't work, set a trap so that we can't get it."

Xiao Yan said: "The Heijis people are indeed sinister and poisonous!"

My mother said: "But their awareness of not being in trouble in the face of danger and never waiting for death is worth learning from."

Wu Ying said: "What should we do now?"

Geng Ling said: "According to the original method, ask people to enter the city and open the door first."

Kumei shouted, "I'll go!" She was fooled by Heijis and was so angry that she had to find this face. In fact, it was not entirely her fault. Kumei was actually a bit reckless, and she could not hang herself in the sky like me to observe it, so she was blinded for a while.

I said, "Amei, your main task is not to open the city gate. Do you still recognize that guy who was negotiating with us just now? If you can kill him, it would be a great achievement."

Ku Mei said, "Yes, Master!" As she said that, she jumped in again. Geng Ling and others were all confused when they heard her call me Master.

This time, Kumei jumped in and we heard a few more screams. These sounds mixed in a man-made mess and seemed sincere. Geng Ling said loudly: "Listen to the people inside, we have seen your tricks, don't pretend anymore!" Before he finished speaking, he threw a bloody head along the city wall. It was the head of the general who negotiated with us. Then a big chaos broke out in the city, but this chaos was really chaos.

Geng Ling changed his initial combat plan at this moment. While he asked someone to attack the Xicheng Gate opposite us, he launched the Flying Dragon Army in the other three directions to launch an attack. Heijis only said that the main force of the Flying Dragon Army was here, and correspondingly concentrated a large number of troops at the West Gate. As a result, the other three gates soon fell. Geng Ling asked someone to launch a general attack, and attacked from all sides for a while, and the imperial city was a mess.

Since the founding of the State of Guo, it probably never thought of using the imperial city to resist the enemy. The wall was far from the real city wall in terms of height and thickness. The Flying Dragon Army began to use the human ladder to send the swordsmen into it, but also attacked the city gate honestly. Someone accidentally discovered that the wall would fall down with a few people working together. Everyone rushed in. The Flying Dragon Army faced 100,000 against the enemy 20,000. In fact, even if the trap set by the enemy just now was not visible, it would be finally

It is bound to win. Heijis struggled to support the terrain completely. At this time, the wall fell and 20,000 people were exposed to the vision of the Dragon Army. After an extremely short and fierce battle, the decline appeared in a moment. Half an hour later, the battlefield gradually calmed down. The Heijis army was finally wiped out. A soldier came to report: "Commander, we found a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry on the corpses of Heijis soldiers. Please decide what to do."

Geng Ling pondered for a moment and said, "Colle them together first and send someone to take care of them. No one is allowed to move without my order."

The soldiers of Guo State who reported to us said, "General Geng, although I am just an insignificant pawn, I can speak on behalf of our people of Guo State. You have helped us avenge the national revenge this time. These things should belong to your army. Even so, they cannot repay your life-saving grace."

Geng Ling said to me: "Xiaolong, this is what I think about it. We must fight for our things, not our things, we cannot ask for them. The money is the blood and sweat of the people of Guo State. What's the difference if we take them and the Heijis people?"

I nodded and said, "It's right." I turned to the Guo soldier and said, "We Feilong Army will keep this money for you first. When you restore your country, you will definitely need it - has your emperor left his descendants?"

"No, and I say something ruthless, even if we have it, we can't let him continue to harm Guo State."

I said, "Then you can choose someone you trust and become this emperor."

The old man who kept kneeling in front of Geng Ling's horse suddenly said, "Is it necessary to choose this? I think it would be best to let Dragon Sword God or General Geng be our emperor."

I quickly waved my hand and said, "No, no, no, I will pay for it if I open an inn, how can I become the emperor?"

Geng Ling also said: "I can't do it even more."

When the old man said this, the people of Guo State seemed to have seen new hope and knelt down a large area. The old man said, "You two refuse to agree because you think that our Guo State is too weak. Will it drag you down?" The Guo State has a major characteristic, that is, when you beg you, kneel down and say nothing, looking at you with watery eyes. I really can't stand it, so I stabbed Geng Ling and said, "Or why don't you?" Geng Ling glared at me and said, "Why don't you?" He suddenly said to everyone, "Everyone, I am a daughter, how can I be the emperor of another country? This Dragon Sword God does not belong to any country. If he becomes your emperor, let alone Heijis dare not come to invade again, you will be looked up to by people everywhere in the Eighteen-Nation Alliance." Although Geng Ling doesn't know my identity very clearly, I am not a person on the mainland, he has only a slight understanding.

When the people of Guo State heard this, they even believed that they had to pull me into the water. They kowtowed to me together. I persuaded them several times and they couldn't afford to accept it, which made me crazy.

Seeing that I was really unwilling, Geng Ling said, "Let me do this, please take the emperor's candidates first. During this period, our Feilong Army will temporarily take over the city defense and reconstruction work of Guo State. If there is really no suitable person in the end, I will help you persuade the Dragon Sword God." The people agreed.

After this disaster, the population of Guo State dropped by one fifth, the city was almost destroyed, and all the troops were wiped out. If the Feilong Army had not maintained it, the country could be destroyed at any time. It was no wonder that no one was willing to be this emperor in such a big mess.

Seeing that the overall situation was settled, my mother wanted to say goodbye to us and return to Qi. She said to Geng Ling: "I will urge you to send the materials that all countries promise you, and I promised that Commander Geng will prepare as soon as possible."

Geng Ling said: "On behalf of the Feilong Army, I would like to thank the General."

Before leaving, Zhang Danhu still stared at Yu Manli intently, and finally gently touched the armor on Yu Manli's shoulder and said, "This embroidery worker is really beautiful. Can you embroider me a set according to the patterns on my armor?"

Yu Manli Naine said: "Okay..."

My mother signaled me to come and see her off. We were walking side by side. My mother looked back and said, "Yangyang, you are not only the Sword God, but also the Flying Dragon Army in your hand. You will be the backbone of the Allied Army in the future."

I sighed and said, "I have seen through it. Wherever I go, I just need the backbone - I am an artificial heart stent."

My mother smiled and said, "In order to boost the morale of the Allied forces, I am considering one thing."

"What's up?"

"Do I need to make your true identity public?"

I was surprised and said, "What are you going to say?"

My mother said, "It's also a place I haven't thought about. If the Allies knew that you were my son, their morale would definitely be greatly boosted. The Feilong Army would have a lot of diaphragms, but it's hard to say this."

I said, "You won't say I'm your illegitimate child, are you?"

"Bah! I'm not a regular person. I've been Zhao Fanghua for more than 20 years and haven't left the military camp for a day. Will others not know if there is an illegitimate child?"

"Yes, the difference between a woman and a man is that even if you want to have an illegitimate child, you have to give birth to him yourself."

My mother said, "So I'm trying to tell the Queen all the truth and then make it public to the world."

I hurriedly said, "There is a very serious problem here--if the queen knew that you are not a daughter, she would probably not trust you so much."

"This is what I worry about the most-" my mother sighed and said, "Forget it, it's not the time yet, so I'll just think about it later, you can go back."

I curled my lips and said, "I'm so heartless. When my mother talks to her son, she drives me away, regardless of whether your son hasn't been intimate with your daughter-in-law."

My mother smiled and said, "You have no conscience, and I didn't stop you."

I came to Su Jing and said with a smile: "My mother is your mother, right?"

Su Jing is the goddaughter my mother recognizes. It makes sense to say this, but Su Jing also understands that I want to take advantage of her, but she just smiles and says nothing…

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After the Feilong Army was stationed in Guo State, the food and grass that the countries agreed to have been sent in a steady stream soon. In order to repay the tribes for their righteous help, Geng Ling gave them a lot of supplies and the wine brewed by Guo State back to their respective tribes. The money sealed in the palace was not moved. Now what Guo State needs most is clothes and food and other things that depend on for survival. Instead, the Feilong Army took out many belongings to provide pensions to the people of the country.

A month passed in a blink of an eye. During these days, the Flying Dragon Army helped the people of Guo rebuild their homes and trained their troops. Wu Sizhong and Qin Yiwu retreated to the Black Forest and there was no movement, but they had no intention of withdrawing troops. Seeing that the Flying Dragon Army was stationed on the front line, the Allies gradually returned to their past days.

On that day, my mother sent someone to send me a message to Geng Ling and me, asking us to come to Qi State as soon as possible to discuss military information and ask what the person who sent the message was. She also asked questions and didn't know. Geng Ling and I rushed to Qi State with full of questions. Because Wu Ying and Xiao Yan were going to leave the general, they only brought Liu Jing with us.

When I came to Qi State to meet my mother, my mother said, "I have good news and bad news. Which one do you want to listen to first?"

I said, "Why are you playing this game too - let me tell you good news first."

Geng Ling said, "Tell the bad news first."

My mother said, "Then let me tell you the bad news first - according to a reliable tip, Heigis has re-spent 10 troops from the country to assist the border, with 200,000 troops in each army, which means we will soon have another 2 million enemies!"

I sighed and looked at the sky in despair, not even wanting to say a word...

Geng Ling's muscles on her face trembled, and finally she said patiently: "What about the good news?"

My mother said: "The good news is that the problem of your Feilong Army has been personally informed by the Queen. She agreed to give the Feilong Army official enthronement and supply, but as I thought at the beginning, the condition was that I would take charge of it."

Geng Ling said calmly: "This is indeed good news."

My mother said, "We have made an agreement first. I still have to be a false name, but the Feilong Army is still under the command of you two. If the court sends someone to inspect, I hope you two can be in harmony with me."

Geng Ling said: "Of course, the general has to worry about this."

My mother said, "The two news has been finished, let's talk about your thoughts."

Geng Ling said bluntly: "Heijis increased by 2 million troops, and the remnants of Wu Sizhong and Qin Yiwu are conservatively estimated to be 700,000. With the Honglie Empire, the total enemy's strength has reached 4 million. On the other hand, the Flying Dragon Army and the Flying Feng Army have a total of less than 300,000, and the Eighteen-Nation Alliance is only 700,000, and the combat effectiveness is uneven and morale is dispersed. This battle will be very difficult!"
To be continued...