Turning his head, Sima Hongyan said to Ten Red Sleeves: "Starting tomorrow, you will come to the barracks, reassign these female soldiers to various squads, and then start training them separately." ”

Then Sima Hongyan said to a few sisters, "Expand two other squads, and then promote two red sleeves from the current women's army, now that there are more people, our team will also be expanded." ”

Shi Jinyan and several people with ten red sleeves received orders at the same time. Looking at the radiant 3,000 female soldiers again, Sima Hongyan said, "Let's do this first, let's go back!" ”

After returning to the palace, Sima Hongyan went to accompany Nan Jiuxiao and Guo Zidi and his wife, as well as Nan Guying for dinner. Others went to arrange for the women's army.

More than ten days later, suddenly the front line came to report that Ban Jingchong and Guo Jixiong broke the rebels of King Yu in Lingcheng, exterminated 220,000 rebels, and Yan Shicheng, the king of Yu, was killed by five rebellious city lords, and the head surrendered.

However, according to Sima Hongyan's previous order, General Ban did not accept the surrender, and directly cut off the heads of the five surrendered people and hung them on the top of Lingcheng to set an example.

After hearing that the Yanling army did not accept the surrender of the rebels, the rebel reinforcements who were trapped outside the city were so frightened that they had no heart to fight, and they could not hold out when they returned to Yuecheng. When the Yanling army came to the city, the rebel leader was forced to hang himself in the palace under pressure, and the people opened the door to welcome the army into the city, and the rebellion of King Yu subsided.

After Sima Hongyan got the news, he said goodbye and sent an order to General Ban to gather a large army to garrison Wangyue City and wait for the next order.

The hundred officials did not know Sima Hongyan's intentions, and some ministers asked why they did not let the two generals, Ban and Guo, return to the court. Sima Hongyan said that if it was only for the incompetent King Yu, there was no need to send an army of 400,000 to deal with it, and her goal was not King Yu, but Xiyue.

The next day, Sima Hongyan issued another appointment, appointing Nan Guying as the vanguard of the expedition to the west, and accompanied Sima Hongyan to conquer the western Vietnam.

As soon as the hundred officials heard that Sima Hongyan was going to go on the expedition in person, all of them objected, and one by one said that a country should not be without a king for a day, and that as the lord of a country, he should not be in danger, and so on.

Sima Hongyan stopped the noise of everyone and said: "Now that we have changed from a daily court to a full-day official business, state affairs can be resolved as quickly as possible, and I have delegated power, so that you have the opportunity to give full play to your abilities, what can I not leave?" In addition, the West Vietnam has always been domineering and has repeatedly violated the border, and if I do not subdue them at one time, the West Vietnamese border will never be at peace. Since they are cheating on me as a woman, then I want them to know the consequences of annoying a woman! ”

The ministers didn't listen to that, they still pleaded endlessly, and the annoyed Sima Hongyan frowned. In desperation, Sima Hongyan said: "Since the adults have stopped me from going, you must have a way to subdue Xiyue, so let's hear it." If I will only be blindly loyal and cannot solve the actual problem, then whoever says no will go in my place. ”

As soon as they heard that they were going to be sent to fight against Western Vietnam, the ministers immediately shut their mouths and stood there in embarrassment, not knowing what to do.

Sima Hongyan said: "Ladies and gentlemen, since you are the pillars of the country, you must share the worries of the people of the country, and I am the phoenix lord of Yanling, so I must defend Yanling against the attacking enemy." Everyone has a responsibility to do and should do their best to accomplish the mission. But if you are still just talking cheap and can't do practical things like before, then I think you will really be ashamed of the black veil on your head. ”

These words are so serious, they are a disguised replic of the incompetence of the officials, and the people who were chattering just now dare not speak again.

Sima Hongyan turned his head to Li Mingzhong and Liao Ziling and said: "After I set out on the expedition, please ask the two adults to preside over the daily affairs, Shi Jinyan and Li Siyu will assist, and the rest of the people will follow the steps. ”

In the main hall, Li Mingzhong and Liao Ziling, Li Siyu and Shi Jinyan received orders together.

Seeing that there was nothing else to do today, Sima Hongyan went back to the palace, and on the way, asked the female soldier entourage to immediately invite Nan Guying, her four younger sisters, and Guo Zidi and his wife to Fengming Palace, where she lived.

Later, when everyone arrived, Sima Hongyan sent everyone else out to guard the door, and only these sisters and friends were left in the house.

Sima Hongyan said: "The reason why I want to do it myself on this expedition to Xiyue is to completely eradicate Xiyue and calm the trouble of the West. Years of compromise and the blows I have dealt to them cannot change their rudeness and greed, so I will cure them once and for all! ”

Everyone was shocked, and Shi Jinyan asked, "Hongyan, have you already decided, or are you discussing with us?" ”

Sima Hongyan smiled firmly: "It's not a discussion, I've already decided!" ”

Shi Jinyan said: "Then do you know what the consequences of attacking Western Vietnam will be? You will prompt several other countries to join forces to deal with us, and then we will be attacked on our backs, and Yanling will be in danger, how will you end up at that time? ”

Sima Hongyan said: "No! It's because everybody thinks that this doesn't happen! ”

Ban Lingruo also asked worriedly, "Sister, how can you be so sure?" You must know that the emperor tried his best to maintain the relationship between the five countries, just to prevent them from uniting and carving up Yanling, and the people of Yanling who have endured humiliation and burdens for many years can see it, and if you attack Xiyue so suddenly, I am afraid that the previous efforts will be in vain! ”

Sima Hongyan sneered and said, "If they really want to unite and carve up Yanling, how can Yanling still hold on to this day?" After so many years, they have had countless opportunities to unite to destroy us, but why didn't they do it? Sisters, it's not because of our forbearance, but because they don't dare! ”

Hearing Sima Hongyan's words, there was a certain amount of truth, which caused everyone to think, and they all found a place to sit down and patiently listened to Sima Hongyan's words.

Sima Hongyan said to everyone: "Actually, this truth is not complicated, everyone think about it, the other four countries all know that Yanling has fertile land, deep resources, and suitable climate, and is the most suitable land for survival. But this is the truth, but we cannot ignore a very important issue, which is that there is no trust between the four countries at all. ”

Guo Zidiqi said: "If they plan in advance and agree on a way to divide up, it is not impossible. ”

Sima Hongyan said: "That's right! And I'm guessing they've been planning it that way a while ago. The reason why they didn't do that was because they didn't just talk about it, and no one wanted to be the first to do it. ”

Seeing that everyone didn't quite understand, Sima Hongyan continued: "We also know that the other four countries also have contradictions with each other, since they can form an alliance privately, won't anyone also form a private alliance with Yanling?" For example, Dongning and Nanyi have fought for several years for the control of the sea area. If Nanyi and Yanling join hands in private, once Dongning sends troops to invade the territory on a large scale, it is entirely possible that Yanling and Nanyi will join forces to destroy Dongning, and then as long as Yanling hands over the control of the sea area to Nanyi, won't Dongning become a big resentment to be counterattacked? ”

Ban Lingruo said: "This can only be regarded as speculation, and there is no way to confirm the truth or falsehood!" ”

Sima Hongyan said: "It is precisely because they are all inaccurate things that no one dares to be the first to provoke a war, because they are afraid that they will be copied and fall into a dilemma." Maybe you can't calculate others, but you will be calculated by others. Among these five countries, I think only Beiling is actually the most calm, although they live a hard life, but they are also the most afraid of people to calculate by virtue of the advantages of the terrain. Because no one would be interested in a desolate country with ice and snow. This is also the reason why Beiling dares to trade with Yanling! ”

Let Sima Hongyan say, the actual situation is the same.

Sima Hongyan said again: "Actually, I want to attack Xiyue after a long period of consideration. The secret enmity between Xiyue and Nanyi is not small, when Xiyue's vitality was greatly injured, he didn't dare to commit Yanling again, but he didn't go to Nanyi for trouble. We all know that in order to snatch food and medicinal herbs, Xiyue once killed many villagers on the border of Nanyi, and even many Nanyi women were defiled by Xiyue people. Nanyi is the most religious country among the five countries, and the insult of a woman is considered a blasphemy against their gods, how can this hatred be resigned? ”

Nan Guying said: "Then you mean that if we attack Xiyue, Nanyi will only stand by and watch, and will not help?" ”

Sima Hongyan said: "If we attack Xiyue for no reason, then everyone knows what we want to do, and Nanyi may send troops because of the cold lips and teeth." But this time King Yu gave us a good opportunity, and he colluded with Xiyue in a vain attempt to echo inside and outside and seize the power of Yanling. In other words, it was Xiyue who provoked the dispute first, and it was he who provoked us first, so we would be forced to fight back, so even if we wiped out Xiyue, they would be at their fault. ”

Nan Guying suddenly said: "Did you plan all this today from the time I told you that King Yu colluded with Xiyue?" ”

Sima Hongyan grinned and said, "Actually, I wasn't too sure at the time!" However, judging from the intelligence obtained from secret agents these days, Xiyue has already gathered more than 400,000 troops, and in the name of helping Yanling Fuzheng, it is going to send troops to Yanling. Since they are coming, I will simply ask General Ban to block the news of King Yu's defeat, and as long as the West Vietnamese army arrives at Yanyue Pass, I will just send troops to meet the attack. But I don't think it's as good as a lifetime to govern for a while, so I simply destroyed him completely! ”

Nan Xunyan said: "I think Hongyan's idea is good. Taking advantage of the fact that the other countries did not understand, we quickly settled the battle, and it is estimated that the West Vietnamese would not have guessed that we wanted to wipe them out. ”

The opportunity was rare, and everyone was ignited.

Guo Zidi got up and said, "Lord Feng! This time, I am willing to lead the troops to fight and help the Phoenix Lord. ”

Sima Hongyan said: "This is exactly what I want to say to you next, this time I will personally go on the expedition, although the current Chao is quite stable, but I am still not very relieved in the capital, and I need to have reliable people to stay and guard." So Guo Gongzi may be going to disappoint you, you have to stay in the capital with Sister Nan to help me protect Kyoto. ”

Guo Zidi was stunned, but he didn't expect Sima Hongyan to want to take him there. Nan Xunyan got up at this time and said: "Hongyan, if it's because we just got married, then you don't have to, Zidi is a soldier of the country, how can we stay in the rear when the country is employing people, but let you go to the front line to bleed and kill the enemy?" Zidi and I are going to help you, and we must not let you face it alone. ”