Chapter 107: El's Dedication
On August 18, 165 New Calendar, Princess El wanted to conquer Anwick in person. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
In terms of martial arts alone, Al should be the strongest of Maier's twenty children, and he has also received guidance from Tengyuan. However, martial arts and military strategy are completely two fields, and El is almost blank in terms of military affairs. She was poor at arithmetic and knew nothing about astronomy and geography, so how could Mel have given her an army?
"Father, you misunderstood what I meant." Al puffed out his cheeks in displeasure, "I know how many pounds and taels I have, and I am not the material to lead soldiers at all." Didn't my father say a few days ago that Anwick's front was demoralized and that he needed to find a way to improve his morale? I just want to help my father share his worries. ”
"Worry?" Mel looked puzzled, "How are you going to help me?" ”
"Isn't it enough for the princess of the empire to go to the front and fight side by side with the warriors?" Al raised his little head proudly, "Besides, I'm so strong, I can beat a hundred Anwick people alone!" When the soldiers see my sassy demeanor, their morale will definitely rise! ”
His daughter's childish appearance made Mel cry and laugh, and he walked over and touched Al's head, and persuaded softly.
"Al, your father accepts it, but the battlefield is dangerous, and I can't let you take the risk."
"But I've been on the battlefield before! You've praised me! ”
"It wasn't the same then as it is now." Maier shook his head slightly, "At that time, we were fighting a tailwind battle, and the enemy used cold weapons, and the strength was very weak, so I let you go to the battlefield...... Well? When have I ever put you on the battlefield and praised you? ”
At this, Mair was stunned for a moment, and then remembered that Al had carried him to the battlefield on his back.
"Shhh...... Oh, I remember, you carried me to the battlefield more than once during the counterinsurgency war. I remember warning you that I would punish you if you did it again, but you went into battle stealthily. There were so many things going on at the time that I didn't bother to punish you, and now that you've sent them to the door yourself, it's no wonder that I'm not going to blame. ”
At this, Mel's face darkened.
"Tár!"
"Huh!?"
Al shuddered at Myer's voice. Tal respectfully opened the office door, walked in, closed the door gently, and stood between Mel and Al.
"Your Majesty, please command."
"Tar, I ask you, should a thief be punished if he was caught stealing something five years ago?"
"The sin is not right." Tal replied unhurriedly, "Naturally, it should be punished." ”
"Well, that's right."
Mel nodded, looking at Al with a stern gaze.
"Al, do you know what's wrong?"
Although Al looked terrified, his eyes were full of confusion, and it was obvious that he had forgotten his mistake.
"It seems that I don't know what is wrong."
Mel turned his back and sighed heavily.
"Tár, punish Al to three days' confinement."
"Your Majesty, as you wish."
"Huh?! Confinement, confinement for three days? Why? Father's ...... Father?! Huh? Uncle Tár, Father must be joking, right? It must be so, right? ”
"Your Royal Highness Princess, please come here."
"Huh?! How so?! Father! You can't do this to me! ”
"Your Royal Highness Princess, if you don't cooperate, I can only report this matter to Mrs. Yunxin."
"Huh?! No, no, no, no! Absolutely not! Al's head immediately shook into a rattle, "If Grandma knows that my father is going to punish me, the number of days of confinement will be doubled, to five days!" ”
"Your Royal Highness, the doubling of '3' is '6'."
"Huh? Is it 6? 1…… 2…… 3…… Two 3 ...... That's 4...... 5…… 6! Oh! Sure enough, it's 6! ”
The process of Al breaking his fingers to do the arithmetic made Mel's head feel a little bigger. He couldn't help but wonder if Al knew the meaning of the number "100" and whether she could fight 100 Anwicks.
Although Al has many shortcomings, she also has many advantages. For example, he is emotional, straightforward, single-minded about what he is interested in, very honest, never bragging, etc. She dared to say that she could fight a hundred Anwick people, which showed that she had this confidence. But if she doesn't know how many "100" there are, this statement has no credibility.
What was I thinking...... Whether or not Al can fight a hundred Anwicks, he can't let her go to the front. The Anwicks looted a lot of modern equipment during the war, and the musket retention rate was very high, and even kept the new rifles and artillery! Even if the Anwicks don't have these weapons, I can't let my daughter go to war with these cunning and cruel guys! It's too dangerous!
But Al is a girl who doesn't obey discipline, and even if I don't let her go, she'll sneak away......
Thinking of this, Mel shook his head helplessly.
"Tár, I've changed my mind."
"Huh? Father has changed his mind! I knew my father wouldn't do that to me! ”
Before a smile could bloom on Al's face, Maier's next words knocked her into the ice cave.
"It's useless to just close it tightly. Go and get Mr. Darrys, let him teach Al arithmetic in the confinement cell, and don't let her out until he's mastered addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division up to 1,000! ”
"Father's !!!!!"
It took Al half a month to barely master addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division within 1000. Darith knew that Al had a poor talent for arithmetic, so he wasn't in a hurry at all. He just gave Al half an hour of lessons every day, and then he threw a thick workbook over and told Al to finish the workbook in one day, and as long as she didn't get a single question wrong, he let her out of the confinement cell. For every time Al miscalculates a problem, she has to do a page of arithmetic the next day.
Because freedom is at stake, Al is very cautious when doing the questions. But even so, she miscalculated more than a hundred questions, so that the next day she had a workbook about the same thickness as the first day. After five days of this life, the thickness of the workbook began to slowly thin on the sixth day.
By the day Al was "released from prison", she had made a workbook of only twenty-three pages. On this day, Al's energy was highly concentrated, and a total of 2,300 arithmetic problems were not miscalculated. As he staggered out of the confinement cell, Al's mind was full of numbers and arithmetic symbols, and it took several days to recover.
On September 20th, Al returned to Mayr's office. She wanted to sneak out of the Bluestone Palace and go to the front line of Anwick, but after she was "released from prison", Mel sent sixteen Tairong elves to spy on her around the clock. She escaped three times without success, and finally had to come to Maier to confess.
Tal says that Maier is meeting the guests, and asks Al to wait outside or sit in the nearby break room. Al went to the break room and found that it was full of officials waiting to meet Maier, so he had to stand outside and wait. She didn't wait long, and Wei Xu, who was dressed in military uniform, hurriedly came to the office with a young man with the rank of colonel pinned to his chest.
This young Al knows that it is Wei Xu's adopted son, Yijuan's son Wei Fang. Wei Fang was surprised when he saw Al, and wanted to come forward to talk, but realized that he still had something to do, so he had to give up. When Tal saw Wei Xu and Wei Fang coming, he knocked directly on the office door. Mel's inquiry rang out at the door, and Tal said that Wei Xu and Wei Fang were coming, and Mel immediately asked Tal to invite them in.
When Al saw the Wei family's father and son cutting in line, he was immediately unhappy. But this time the cutting was approved by Maier, and she couldn't say anything, so she could only pout in displeasure. After Tal opened the door, Al's eyes lit up, and she followed Wei Fang into the office without Tal noticing.
Tal quickly notices Al's movements, and he clasps his palm around Al's shoulder, preventing her from continuing inside. In order to enter the office, Al immediately greeted Maier loudly.
"Father! It's me! Al! I'm coming to see you! ”
Her voice made everyone in the office subconsciously turn their heads, counting Maier and the Wei family's father and son, there were a total of ten people in the office, and nine people except Maier were all soldiers. The highest rank of these was Salin, who had the rank of marshal, and the lowest rank was Wei Fang, who was the only officer in the office.
Standing at the door of her office, Al received her temporary warrant officer rank as an intern in the King's Guard, but her temporary rank was revoked due to her lack of interest in the military. She has nothing to do with the army, and her sudden appearance at an impromptu military meeting will naturally make the soldiers feel unhappy. But Al is Myer's daughter after all, and even if he is unhappy, the soldiers will not show it.
"Thank you, Al." Mel said to Al with a blank face, "I'm going to have a meeting now, if there's something to do, I'll talk about it after the meeting." ”
"Meeting? Is it for the Annwick front?! ”
Al's words sent surprised expressions to the soldiers, as they were indeed in a meeting on the front lines of Anwick. Before they could wonder why Al could guess the contents of the meeting, a large bomb followed.
"Father! Let me go to the front! I'm ready to die for the Empire! ”
Al's words made the soldiers' hearts "boom", and their cheeks became extremely hot. How can they not be ashamed that they are not ashamed of the fact that they have fought the battle as it is now, so that the princesses of the empire want to go to the front line and fight to the death?
Maier saw Al slap the senior officers in the face on the spot, and felt his head go round and round. He immediately gave Tar a look and told him to drag Al away. Thinking that his father was trying to drive him away, Al struggled desperately, and then kept pouring salt into the wounds of the soldiers.
"Father! I'm the princess of the Empire! Nothing has been done for the Empire yet! If my death can reinvigorate the Empire's armies! Then let me die on the front line! I'm a fool who can't even do arithmetic anyway! Death is not enough - hmm!! Woooooooooooo Woooooooo ”
If it weren't for Tar's timely gag of her, the Imperial generals would have committed mass suicide in Myr's office. With the cooperation of the Tajon elves, it took a lot of effort for Tal to drag Al out of the office. The guards guarding the door closed the door as fast as they could, and then breathed a long sigh of relief.
After the office door was closed, Mel looked embarrassed and rubbed the end of his charcoal pen against his hair. He opened his lips, closed them, opened them again, and said calmly.
"Let's move on."
The soldiers all bowed their heads because they felt that they had no face to meet the emperor. But in any case, the meeting will continue. Maier briefly explained to the Wei family father and son the content of the meeting that had been discussed, and then asked for their opinions.