Qilin Guard General Shi Huai looked at the golden eagle in his hand with a blushing face, with an annoyed look on his face as if he was being teased.
"What does King Side by Side mean? He has changed his destination three times in just a few days. What is he doing? Is this a war? This is simply a kid's joke!"
"Mizhou, Chongzhou, and now they have to divert to Jianzhou to join forces. Even if they change positions, it shouldn't be such a trivial matter."
Guo Yi, the deputy general of Qilin Guard, frowned slightly and looked at the aggrieved Shi Huai: "General, I have served alongside Wang Congrong for ten years. I have been on the battlefield for many years. I will never treat war as a child's play!"
"Now that we have been ordered to go to Jianzhou to join forces, the general will see that we should stop complaining and join forces as soon as possible."
"Along with Wang, he has a reputation for being rigorous in governing the army. It would be better for us not to have to deal with him forcefully."
Shi Huai glared at Guo Yi dissatisfied: "What does his rigorous military management have to do with me? I am not under his command. Since I went to the north, I have never neglected my duties. During my expedition, Your Majesty personally
I have been granted the rank of third-rank general, and no matter how powerful I am, I can't do anything to this general like Su Baiqing said."
"If you don't look at the monk's face and look at the Buddha's face, without going through the review of the three Dharma Masters, the King of Side by Side dares to deal with a third-rank official according to the law, which is beyond the rules. Besides, I did nothing wrong. I was completely acting according to the order."
"It is true that King Bingjian can control this general, but according to the laws of our court, he has no right to deal with me."
Guo Yi stared blankly at the young and energetic Shi Huai, lowered his head and sighed silently.
Who did His Majesty choose to be the general of the Qilin Guard?
Doesn't he know that King Bingjian is now acting against the will of the late emperor and that the general will not accept his orders?
On the battlefield, there are numerous military orders, and those who dare to disobey them are engaged in military law. Not to mention a third-rank general, even a first-rank Duke like Jing Guo Yunyang dare not ignore military orders.
"General, let's go to Jianzhou first. We'll talk about the rest later. As long as you make great contributions, His Majesty will naturally take a high look at you!"
Shi Huai's eyes lit up: "That's right, as long as I have made numerous meritorious deeds, who would dare to underestimate me and order the three armies to join forces in Jianzhou!"
In the territory of Qingzhou Prefecture in the southwest of Lingzhou, Yeruha looked at Qingzhou Prefecture in shock and surprise, where there was no trace of any enemy troops, and turned to look at Wanyan Chiezha, who was also relieved.
"My lord, how on earth did you calculate that the soldiers and horses in Gyeongju had evacuated!"
"Brothers from the scouts sent a message that more than 100,000 soldiers and horses were stationed in Yumyeongzhi in Gyeongju and were encircling them from south to north. Now what...how..."
Wanyan Chizha hesitated for a moment, then took out the rice paper with the map sent by the Queen from his arms and handed it to Yeluha.
"Brother Yale, before the Second National War started, Liu Mingzhi had a bet with His Majesty. Has Brother Yale heard anything about it?"
Yeluha took the rice paper and nodded slightly: "I have heard about it. What does this have to do with our withdrawal?"
Wanyan Chizha showed an expression that was unclear: "Liu Mingzhi made a bet with His Majesty and gave me a large sum of money..."
"Maybe it's because of pride, or maybe because he feels guilty towards Princess Yue. As for the specific reason, I don't know. When Liu Mingzhi and Princess Yue were strolling in the imperial garden, accompanied by Princess Yue, he played chess with himself.
It’s a chess game without any structure.”
"Chess game?"
"Yes, chess game!"
"This game of chess has no rules, and it does not conform to the customization of chess. When the game is over, the position of the chess pieces on the chessboard has no rules at all."
"Princess Yue was curious and asked Liu Mingzhi what kind of move this was. It was completely different from the Go game she had learned."
"Liu Mingzhi laughed and said that this was a game that belonged to him. He asked Princess Yue if he could tell anything from the chess game."
"In the end, Princess Yue found nothing and asked Liu Mingzhi the reason. Liu Mingzhi did not explain. He only said that the time had not come yet and Princess Yue would understand in the future."
"Perhaps because Princess Yue couldn't understand the chess game, Liu Mingzhi didn't clean up the chess game. Maybe he thought that the palace maid would clean it up afterward, so he went with Princess Yue to Xiaoyao King Wanyan Feixiong's place."
"After they left, His Majesty happened to come looking for their father and daughter, and accidentally saw Liu Mingzhi playing a chess game in front of Princess Yue."
"At first, His Majesty was puzzled, and he summoned me to the palace to discuss the matter."
Yeluha looked at Wanyan Chiezha in surprise: "Just because of a chess game, Your Majesty is making too much of a fuss."
"No, it's not that your Majesty is making a fuss out of a molehill. It's that your Majesty feels that this chess game looks like a carefully selected and drawn map."
"We are all military leaders, and we have already memorized the territory and terrain of each country. After listening to His Majesty's words, I also ignored the customization of Go itself and watched the game as a map!"
"Later, I observed carefully and found that the chess game decided by Liu Mingzhi indeed looked like a brief map that included the cities in the Southern Territory of Dajin, the tribes in the Southern Turkic Territory, the prefectures in the Northern Territory of Dalong, and the eastern frontier of the Western Region.
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"Although we can see that the chess game looks like a map, no matter how much I and Your Majesty explore, they still can't figure out what the state capitals on this chess game represent."
"After several conversations, I really can't figure out what the mystery is, so this matter will be dropped. I will also put this matter behind me and go all out to deal with the expedition south."
Yeruha seemed to understand something. He stared blankly at the brief map on the rice paper in his hand and the offensive and defensive lines outlined with ink pens on it: "Could this map be the Go map that Liu Mingzhi left behind when he played chess for Princess Yue?
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"That's right, the Dalong troops marched south. Liu Mingzhi cut off the Chongzhou garrison and all the forces that could contact us, and secretly captured Chongzhou. However, Liu Mingzhi ignored the matter of the Admiral's secret agent in His Majesty's hands."
"His Majesty is determined to unify the world. Admiral's spies have been placed in various state capitals in Dalong, transforming into Dalong people to gather information."
"The fall of Chongzhou was hidden from our eyes and ears, but it was not hidden from the eyes and ears of His Majesty's spies."
"Although we know nothing about Chongzhou, your Majesty already knows everything about it."
Yeruha looked at the map outlined with a red pen in his hand in amazement: "Princess Yue is indeed my hope for Dajin. She can guess every step of Liu Mingzhi's military plan from it!"
Wanyan Chizha chuckled and shook his head: "Brother Yale, you are wrong. Although Princess Yue is talented and intelligent and has already managed the government affairs in an orderly manner at a young age, after all, she is just a ten-year-old child who leads the army.
There are very few opportunities to go on an expedition. Liu Mingzhi has been serving in the army for ten years. How can Princess Yue guess his careful layout?"
"The layout and route above should have been deduced by His Majesty after he obtained all the information about the southward march, combined with the previous tactics of the dragon's troops and the generals in the court."
"But in the final analysis, it is still thanks to Princess Yue's great blessing."
"If Liu Mingzhi had not laid out his long-planned plan in front of Princess Yue, Your Majesty would not have learned anything from it!"
"No matter what the reason is, these are no longer important. What is important is that we have learned about Liu Mingzhi's layout. We can safely withdraw our troops and return to the country. We are no longer like headless flies!"
"Without this attack map, we would definitely not have detoured into the hinterland of Gyeongju. Instead, we would have rushed to Jianju, entered Chongzhou, and entered the ambush circle that Liu Mingzhi should have laid out."
"Because no matter how you look at it, Jianzhou and Chongzhou are the closest retreat routes."
"But the more vibrant it is, the more it becomes an abyss once you get into it."
"We have all received the blessing of Princess Yue. Maybe Liu Mingzhi still doesn't know why this happened!"
"Liu Mingzhi's hundred secrets will eventually come to an end. It can be said that there is no end to the road!"