Ye Qingqiu snorted coldly, the corners of his mouth hooked up a bloodthirsty arc, and his eyes were full of thick evil energy.

"Someone will take you down and wait for you." Ye Qingqiu turned slightly sideways and said to the soldiers behind him.

"Yes" The two soldiers behind Ye Qingqiu answered, then turned over and dismounted, and tied General Zaiguo down.

Here, Hou Dong rushed back with a group of men and horses, and when he saw Ye Qingqiu, he said with a look of annoyance, "It's still late" I wanted to capture Siyang City as soon as possible, so that I could come over and help the boss kill the enemy, but I didn't expect that I was still one step late.

"It's not too late, if it weren't for you, I wouldn't have been able to destroy these soldiers in Zaiguo." If it weren't for Siyang City lighting the beacon tower and letting General Zaiguo enter this gourd-like place, she might not be able to beat the Zaiguo army.

Ye Qingqiu glanced behind Hou Dong, and the good-looking Xiumei frowned slightly, "Why are there so many people left?" "He took 10,000 elite soldiers with him, and less than a third of the soldiers came back with him.

Before leaving, she explained, as long as she let Siyang City light the beacon tower, she didn't say let them attack hard! She strongly opposes the kind of thing that hurts a thousand enemies and damages eight hundred to herself.

"The other soldiers, I stayed in Siyang City to defend the city!" Hou Dong didn't think much about it when he heard Ye Qingqiu ask like this, and explained honestly.

"Stay in Siyang City and defend the city? You...... Captured Siyang City? Ye Qingqiu said with a look of surprise.

"Yes, General Zaiguo took almost all the soldiers with him in order to capture Ruyang City today, leaving only 5,000 soldiers to defend the city, and those soldiers are not elite soldiers, almost all of them are new recruits, so it didn't take much effort to attack Siyang City."

Hou Dong briefly explained the matter, and Ye Qingqiu was overjoyed. I didn't want to fight the first battle so beautifully, it seems that God is on her side.

Siyang City is captured, then she will not worry that Ruyang City has nothing to eat, "Someone will quickly go to Siyang City to lead ten cattle and sheep, twenty generations of rice noodles, and send them to Ruyang City." "That day, I heard the soldiers of Ruyang City say that there is not much food in Ruyang City, and after so many days, their food should have already been eaten.

"Boss, I also thought of these things, and I ordered people to do them, and those soldiers are behind me, I believe it won't be long before I will see them.

As soon as Hou Dong's words fell, Ye Qingqiu felt that the ground trembled slightly, and when he looked up, he saw dust in the distance, and faintly heard the cries of cattle and sheep.

I was going to go to my brows, and the corners of my eyes and eyebrows were full of happy expressions, Ye Qingqiu gave a thumbs up, "Amazing!" Ye Qingqiu praised without hesitation.

Hou Dong blushed slightly, scratching his head embarrassedly, Hou Dong felt that Ye Qingqiu's praise was more joyful and happy than the emperor's praise.

But Hou Dong forgot at this moment that Ye Qingqiu was now an emperor.

In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen elite soldiers drove the cattle and sheep to Ye Qingqiu, Ye Qingqiu saw several soldiers behind the cattle and sheep, their faces were flushed, their foreheads and faces were overflowing with sweat, sweat soaked their hair, and those hairs were tightly attached to his cheeks and skull.

It seems that driving cattle is also a technical job.

Ye Qingqiu asked Hou Dong to go to Siyang City with tens of thousands of soldiers, and he himself rushed to Ruyang City with 5,000 people, ten cows, sheep and rice noodles.

Siyang City is a good place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, so they must defend Ruyang City well and must not take it lightly.

Ye Qingqiu took a pair of people to Ruyang City, and the soldiers upstairs went down to the city tower when they saw the three big characters of daughter country fluttering on the flag. Open the city gate and come out to greet Ye Qingqiu.

When the people in the city heard that Ye Qingqiu's rescue soldiers were coming, they also greeted the soldiers guarding the city one by one, knelt on both sides, and respectfully greeted them.

When they saw those cattle and sheep, many people swallowed their saliva, including the soldiers who were defending the city. At this moment, everyone is only thinking about whether these cattle and sheep are used for them to eat or raise.

None of them thought about the question of where these cattle and sheep came from.

Now they just want to take off the cattle and sheep and slaughter them, wash them, and eat them.

"Xia Guan has seen the empress!" A soldier guarding the city ran over and knelt three steps away from Ye Qingqiu.

The other soldiers also knelt down and shouted in unison, "Long live the Empress!"

"Long live the Empress!"

"Get up." Ye Qingqiu sat on the back of the horse and raised his hand slightly, his eyes swept over the soldiers, and their yellow and thin faces made Ye Qingqiu slightly unbearable.

These soldiers have been starved to this point, and they are still sworn to defend the city gate and the people in the city, and they are not afraid of life and death.

It was because of their spirit that she was lucky enough to destroy the army of Zaiguo. Ye Qingqiu's heart was a little moved, his heart was sour, the corners of his eyes were also sour, and his eyes were a little moist.

Ye Qingqiu didn't turn his head and pretended to be inadvertent, wiped away the tears in his eyes and said with a smile, "Do you look at those lively cattle and sheep?" Those will be our dinner today. Ye Qingqiu raised his head and said loudly.

As his words fell, she saw everyone smile, and they cheered like children.

Ye Qingqiu looked at their happy appearance, and his heart felt as if he had eaten honey, sweet. Considering that the soldiers in Ruyang City were hungry and had no strength, Ye Qingqiu ordered the soldiers he brought to slaughter the cattle and sheep and make a sumptuous dinner.

"Where's General Zhenguo?" Ye Qingqiu asked the soldier on the side, she felt that something was wrong at first. It stands to reason that when the empress arrives, General Zhenguo must come out to greet her.

It's not that she, Ye Qingqiu, takes a stance, but Ye Qingqiu still knows something about the general of the daughter country. I won't forget my roots because of my own little credit. And General Zhenguo didn't come to greet him, so it can only show one problem, that is, General Zhenguo had an accident. ”

Ye Qingqiu sat on horseback, his brows furrowed slightly, and secretly prayed in his heart that he hoped that he was thinking too much.

"Your Majesty, the general fainted when he retreated from the country, and he hasn't woken up yet!" Seeing Ye Qingqiu asking, the soldier hurriedly stepped forward and lowered his head and said respectfully.

"Still not awake? It has been several hours since the country was withdrawn. Why haven't you woken up yet? Take me to see it. Ye Qingqiu urged anxiously.

"Yes!"

So Ye Qingqiu followed the soldiers to the place where General Zhenguo lived, the place was very large, there was nothing in the room except the bed, Ye Qingqiu heard the soldier say that almost all the heavy things in the city were taken to smash the soldiers of the country.

"I see." Ye Qingqiu nodded and looked up, no wonder she always felt that Ruyang City was empty, as if something was missing.

It turned out that it was indeed less, Ye Qingqiu came to the window, sat in front of General Zhenguo's bed, raised his hand and reached in for a hand that I pulled out, holding his breath and concentrating on the pulse, with a serious and serious look between his eyebrows.

After a long time, Ye Qingqiu was sure that General Zhenguo was nothing serious, mainly because of fatigue and fainting caused by excessive hunger in recent days.

Knowing the cause of General Zhenguo's illness, Ye Qingqiu took out a white jade bottle of good jade quality from his cuff, poured out a pill and put it in his palm, and then, with one hand, he pinched General Zhenguo's jaw, and with a slight force, his mouth opened, and the pill was put into his mouth.

After that, Ye Qingqiu sent someone to take care of him, and instructed the soldier who took care of the general of Zhenguo, "The general wakes up and asks people to boil some porridge for the general to eat, and you must not eat those meals that are not easy to digest." The general saluted and immediately sent someone to tell me. ”

"My subordinates know!"

After explaining, Ye Qingqiu went out of the room of General Zhenguo to the place where the wounded soldiers were, and as soon as he entered the door, Ye Qingqiu saw a group of old, weak, sick and disabled soldiers lying on the bed*.

Seeing Ye Qingqiu, everyone made a gesture to get up and get out of bed to greet Ye Qingqiu.

Ye Qingqiu hurriedly stopped and said, "Heroes don't have to salute!" ”

Those soldiers listened to Ye Qingqiu's words, their pale faces instantly turned red, and they looked ashamed. Don't dare to look at Ye Qingqiu.

"Your Majesty, are you making fun of us people?" A soldier asked, looking up. They have suffered several defeats, and they have lost two cities, and your majesty is so good that he can call them heroes, isn't this mocking them?

When I say this, there is gratitude, worship, and self-blame..... Only there is no sarcasm, sarcasm. You have all sacrificed your bodies for the country, you are not heroes, who can be called heroes! ”

Ye Qingqiu's voice was loud and sound, hitting everyone's hearts. Everyone couldn't help but have a sour nose and moist their eyes.

At the moment when they faced the enemy, they only thought about protecting their country and not being invaded by the country. But after the war, the country was defended, but they became disabled people who could not take care of themselves.

They have become disabled people who drag down the country, and they are decadent and a little unwilling.

They held the country with their bodies, but what did the state do to them? Not even a word of encouragement, a word of comfort.

How does this make them not sad? The most serious thing is, how will these disabled people have a source of livelihood?

But Ye Qingqiu's heroic sentence poked their tears.

"Rest assured, heroes, the Daughters Congress will always remember your sacrifice and never forget! I don't mean to pay lip service, I know that you are worried about your future life, and I promise you here that all wounded soldiers will be given a silver subsidy every year, and they know that old age and death ......"

In ancient times, when the law was not perfect, soldiers were not paid much attention.

As soon as Ye Qingqiu's words came out, everyone present was stunned, and then everyone showed a happy smile on their faces, and asked uncertainly, "Your Majesty, what did you just say...... Is it true?" A soldier with a lame left leg looked at Ye Qingqiu and asked cautiously.

Ye Qingqiu looked at her and smiled slightly, approachable, "My golden mouth is naturally true!" ”

After confirming Ye Qingqiu's words again, there was a burst of cheers in the room.

The crowd shouted "Long live the Empress!" ”