"Your Majesty, that's the end result. You are still sick, you still listen to the doctor, your body is important, don't worry about so many things, we will deal with it well and not let you down. ”

Meng Gu looked at the pale face of the Imperial Emperor on the hospital bed in front of him, and he said in a low voice.

The Emperor seemed to ignore his advice.

"Okay...... It would be nice to have 100,000...... At least the disadvantage in forces is not so great...... Finally...... There's no way to ...... to the west."

The emperor's face flashed with a hint of disappointment, but it was also full of helplessness, and he couldn't help muttering.

"Lao Yang has already returned to the front line?"

He seemed to remember something, but he turned his head with difficulty and looked at Meng Gu.

……

"Yes, Your Majesty, the current situation is that the eastern and western fronts are about to fight, and it is very likely that it will be the final battle. So I have ordered him to rush back in the starry night, he is a star, he doesn't need a plane, or he can return to the extreme north in half a day. ”

Meng Gu reported in a low voice again.

He thought about it, but said tentatively: "Your Majesty, you...... Don't blame him, he's a quick surname, and he's also a martyr, he can't hide his words in his heart, just say whatever he wants, you know......"

He stopped talking.

"I know, I know ......"

The emperor muttered, but nodded: "I never blame him, he is my deputy chief of the military department, the person I have always trusted the most, and even ...... I trust you more than you - you old Meng, but there are a lot more twists and turns than him. ”

He said with a hard smile.

……

"Your Majesty......" Meng Gu suddenly showed a trace of embarrassment and a bitter smile on his face, and he bowed his head deeply.

"Hehe......" The emperor on the bed laughed weakly.

"Just kidding, my military chief, how can there be no twists and turns? I'm just telling you, I don't blame Lao Yang. The deputy commander in charge of operations doesn't need to bend around, if Lao Yang is like you, then I don't like him anymore. And if you were like Lao Yang, I would never have trusted you to take charge of the headquarters of the three armed forces of the empire so trusted—you are all people I can trust to confidant. ”

"Your Majesty, what do you mean...... Let the subordinates have no place to be ashamed, it is our bad that makes you suffer to ......"

Meng Gu nodded, and he said in a low voice.

……

"You guy, I'm not dead."

The emperor continued to smile weakly: "What is not affected, the royal family and nobles are supported by the people, and at the critical moment, they should be affected." The royal family is the first to bear the brunt, how much power, how high the status, how great the responsibility, everything is just responsibility. ”

He gasped weakly: "I'm fine, it's just that I can't take care of things lately, it's nothing." The empire will not die, and after a while, I will still take care of our empire with your brothers. ”

He said in a low voice, a glimmer of hope and expectation flashing in his eyes.

"Yes, yes." Meng Gu replied in a loud voice.

The emperor looked at his military chief, but smiled strangely: "However, old Meng, we should also think about the way back...... How are the people now? ”

He asked vaguely, but Meng Gu seemed to understand the Emperor's inquiry: "The people are okay, they only know that the extreme north is in danger, but they don't know too well the extent of the danger - we have blocked the news. ”

"En......" the Emperor nodded in a deep voice.

……

"It's right to block the news, you can't make a mess before the war, and people are panicking, so that the front line will be affected, and it will be troublesome. However, it is time for us to prepare for the next step...... You go, negotiate with Zhu Shoufu, and form a ...... Prepare a fleet in case of emergency. ”

"What if...... It doesn't matter if everyone dies, but the children have to go first, go ...... Go to Nanriku. The people of the Southern Continent have always been loyal friends and grateful to the Empire, and the Empire has taken good care of them over the years—and now, they will take care of the children of the Empire. ”

"On their side, the battle situation is much better than ours, maybe even if we fail, their side may not succeed. Even if they don't succeed, they will at least survive for a while before the barbarians clean us up...... We are all old, but as long as there is a child alive in Huaxia, it will never fall. ”

"Not to mention anything else, just the two little babies of the Xie family, a double legendary star soul descendant, and a goddess soul descendant - maybe they can lead the rise of the Fourth Empire again...... Back then, my Xia clan, my Third Reich, didn't this happen? ”

"As long as the children are here, hope is there, and Huaxia will never die!"

He said in a low voice, but his eyes were full of determination and sonorousness.

……

"Yes, Your Majesty, I have ordered them to begin to assemble a fleet, and when the great war begins, it is also when the fleet is completed—they can at any time send our children to the South Continent in batches."

Meng Gu replied in a low voice.

"However, Your Majesty, this is only a last resort, and we will never fall so easily. Moreover, the strategy of the Western Continent is really good, even if we can't hold on in the end, as long as we fall slower than the barbarian Western Army Regiment, we may not suffer great losses. ”

He thought about it, looked at the Emperor with relief, and said.

"Well...... That's good. The Emperor smiled and nodded.

"I still believe in you, and the empire will not fall so easily. Hold on, understand? It also lasts a day, and the people of the Western Continent will be able to break through and bring us victory. ”

He solemnly admonished.

……

"Don't worry, we all understand." Meng Gu also nodded solemnly.

"Alright, I trust you, then go."

The Emperor stared silently at his military chief, and finally nodded again.

Immediately, he smiled bitterly and said, "The doctor didn't let me look at the matter, and I was really worried, so I summoned you to ask." After that, you and Zhu Shoufu must cooperate sincerely, the eldest prince...... He's still too young, and I'm still feeling ...... in some places There's always some unease about him - you watch him more and don't let him mess with him. ”

A hint of strangeness and worry flashed between his eyebrows, and then he shook his head with a smile, but he whispered to Meng Gu.

"Yes, Your Majesty, we will."

Meng Gu nodded solemnly again.

"Yes, go ahead."

The Emperor gasped sharply a few times, then let out a long sigh of relief, he waved his hand at Meng Gu, and closed his eyes tiredly.

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"The analysis of the general staff headquarters of the three armed forces of the empire claims that after a month of tentative attacks, the barbarian army on the north bank of the Daling River is very likely to launch a decisive battle, and this battle will most likely directly lead to the final direction of the battlefield in the eastern part of the mainland. At the same time, the empire's million-strong army is also waiting for it! ”

A spokesman for the military department claimed that hundreds of thousands of troops from the Shang Alliance to reinforce the empire had arrived on the battlefield. At present, the defense of our army has been greatly consolidated and strengthened by reinforcements. Under the light of the goddess of empire and the protection of the heroic spirits of the ancestors, please don't worry, compatriots, and take their place. The emperor [***] team will never disappoint your compatriots! ”

In Tianwumen Square, under the giant magic crystal screen, people were quietly listening to the battle briefing. When the announcer's sonorous voice finally subsided, the square was suddenly full of whispers.

……

"So...... We're going to have a decisive battle? ”

"The barbarians may think they can fight us...... After all......"

"That's fine, I've heard that the longer we fight, the lower our odds of winning, and since the barbarians want to come, we're still afraid of them?"

"That's it! Didn't the Empire come with reinforcements? ”

"Just them? The three of them can stand up to our imperial soldiers, and it would be good for them to be used by themselves. ”

"Yes, don't forget, on the other side is the unpredictable Long'er, and we don't have a commander who is good enough to fight him. Moreover, the reinforcements of the Shang Alliance, do they really use them? ”

"It's a whole legion, hundreds of thousands of people...... Even if a few people are used by one person, at least the disadvantage of our troops that has been pulled up by the Fifth Legion of the Barbarians is not so great, and this time, we are also fighting a defensive battle? Maybe ......"

"Let's hope so......"

Gradually, everyone fell silent, their eyes flashing bright or dark, but they all looked in the direction of the extreme north.

There, what will it bring us in the end? Cheers of victory? Still is...... A painful disaster?

No one will know, but no one will not want it, that's the former.

……

"They...... Will win. The empire never let us down, the military never let us down! ”

A woman hugged her child tightly, she murmured.

The sequence plate on her chest is enough to prove that she works in a place with a high level of secrecy. And the work clothes with the smell of engine oil and star oil stains, which seem to have no time to change after work, also make people see that this seems to be a worker in a military factory.

She seemed to have lost too much of her spirit in the work of day and night, and she looked very tired and withered, but she still stubbornly looked at the north, and her eyes flashed with hope.

"De'er, let's go, go home, we just have to wait quietly, father will bring us victory."

She whispered softly to the child in her arms.

The child nodded incomprehensibly, he looked at his mother, as if he didn't want his mother's thin body to continue to hold him, but he struggled out of the woman's arms, he took the corner of his mother's clothes, and the two left silently.

……

Looking at the figures of women and children, the crowd was silent, and the eyes of a few people were already revealing a sadness and hesitation.

"Let's go home too......"

In the gloomy silence, an old man's voice rang out.

"Everyone must believe in the Empire, our soldiers, will not let us down! Never! Nor never! ”

He shouted with all his might.

People nodded their heads and dispersed, setting out on their way home, they didn't know where they would go in the future, but they had no choice.

They could only look to the north as they dispersed.

There, it's the far north.

There, it's the Daling River.

It is a place where the light of hope always flickers and never goes out in people's minds.

There, perhaps, too, will be the tears and blood of despair, which will initially spread and sweep through the empire, and even ...... A place for the whole human race. (To be continued.) )