When Hua Mulan Met Zhu Yingtai

"What's going on!" Zhu Yingtai became a little anxious, and even raised her tone.

My family knows my own family affairs, and Hua Mulan has figured out Zhu Yingtai's temperament over the years.Her little hero is a really impatient person, so she has to be coaxed.

Hua Mulan looked around and saw that no one was approaching under the protection of Lu Mengrui, so she hung the saber back to her waist: "If you want to know, you have to go back to the mansion, there are so many people here, it's not a good time to explain." place."

"Then go!"

Riding the horse and raising the whip all the way, countless smoke and dust were aroused, and pedestrians looked sideways.

As soon as she got back to the Governor's Mansion, Zhu Yingtai threw down a familiar look and drove the guards to the outer courtyard, and took Hua Mulan into the study alone.Her almond eyes are wide open, her pretty face is full of anger.

"Zhong Fu, tell me, what are you doing without telling me? If you lose your mind and go crazy, tell me in advance."

"When did I hide it from you? You also know about it. I have always wanted to retire from my old age and return to my hometown, so that I can spend my life with you in the future."

"You know that's not what I'm talking about! Don't play around with me!"

"I was wrong, I'm going to tell you what I was thinking right now."

Hua Mulan wrapped the handle of the copper pot with a damp cloth, and refilled Zhu Yingtai's cup of tea.

"It's still not as good as Linshen's tea art, let's drink it to quench your thirst and smooth your Qi."

Finally settled down, Hua Mulan first asked a question: "Linshen, you are considered a long-time soldier, tell me, is there a difference between annihilating the enemy and retreating?"

It was an irrelevant question at first, Zhu Yingtai thought about it carefully and answered: "Annihilating the enemy requires killing, and retreating only requires forcing them to retreat. Generally speaking, as long as one or two tenths of the damage is killed, the enemy will attack on its own. Retreat... Zhong Fu, what do you mean..."

"That's what it means. Annihilating the enemy is much more difficult than retreating. I only want to retreat this time, to keep it safe for a while, and there is no danger. As for the future, Rouran has already been disabled by us. It has not been more than ten years If you can't recover your vitality, the imperial court should be able to free up their hands to clean up the people in the south."

"But you can't just bring 20 soldiers and horses, there are [-] people on the other side!"

"How can there be 20 people on the opposite side?"

"The southern barbarians have always been treacherous, and the number of 20 dares to be called 3. I estimate that the [-] soldiers and horses are a lot of water. Excluding the civilian husbands and handymen, there are [-] to [-] people. Let's take away the old and weak Sick and disabled, there are only [-] to [-] troops that can be directly called by the general who recruits the North. "

"You're still in the mood to laugh, and you're still crossing your legs!" Zhu Yingtai not only didn't calm down after hearing Hua Mulan's explanation, but threw the teacup in her hand out.

It just hit Hua Mulan's feet.

There was a crisp sound of "Kang Dang", and the overflowing tea wet a large part of Hua Mulan's lower robe, and Lu Mengrui, who was standing outside guarding the gate, shivered with fright.

"My dear mother, the general and Gongcao actually quarreled and smashed glasses."

Hua Mulan was very good-tempered and shook off the tea on her body, and held her teacup in front of Zhu Yingtai who was trembling with anger.

"Let Yingtai drink tea to calm down, why do you get angrier the more you drink it?"

"6000 people, against 10,000+ people. Do you, Hua Mulan, regard yourself as a three-headed and six-armed god, or do you regard my soldiers we brought from Mobei as iron fighters! You have the reputation of being loyal to the emperor and patriotism, but Mobei ten There will be a funeral in every household!"

"Since I brought them out, I will try my best to bring them back with all their beards and tails. I have no intention of taking them to die." Hua Mulan also became angry, and the result of forcing her not to speak was her tone of voice sank. .

"Then tell me, how do you bring them back? Just rely on our 6000 people plus the embarrassing group of state soldiers? Even if the army in the south is full of soft-legged shrimps, 10,000+ people is still a large number. Even It’s not that simple if you don’t want to annihilate the enemy but just force them to retreat.” Zhu Yingtai originally wanted to use Nanmanzi as well, but she realized that she was also a southerner, so she quickly changed her title and scolded herself for being careless.

"It's really not that simple. If I had fifteen thousand, no, ten thousand of our people, this matter wouldn't be so difficult. It's a pity that the court won't let me bring so many people, so I had to take a risk .”

"The imperial court?" Zhu Yingtai noticed the key point in Hua Mulan's words.

"Are you feeling better? Have another sip of tea?" Hua Mulan picked up the teacup with a smile.

Zhu Yingtai glared at Hua Mulan with a blushing face, then obediently lowered her head and took a sip of tea from Hua Mulan's hand.

"The imperial court is both using and defending against me now. The use is because the pool in Beijing is very deep, and the Shen family can't rely on it for the time being. They can only rely on me to stabilize the situation. The defense is because the soldiers we have trained are too good. Whether it's the Habayashi Guard or the Imperial Army, as long as they don't have an absolute superiority in military strength, we won't be able to please us."

"I know that."

"The 1 people we have summoned are all living in the outer city. It takes only five quarters of an hour to march from the outer city to Miyagi, plus the attack on the city gate, which will not exceed two hours. The court officials and officials don't say anything. I'm still afraid that when my brain gets hot, I will join forces with the inside and the outside to seize the city gate and stage a palace change."

"Is it so serious?" Zhu Yingtai boasted that she had been negotiating with various ministries about the deployment of the military, and all she got was smiling faces, so she really didn't think about it.

"It's not too far away. If I don't say it now, it's just to hinder the empress dowager's face. In the future, when the situation is stable, I will have to put a few hats on my head for disrespect."

"It's really what these people can do."

"The water in the imperial capital is too deep. I figured it out after a month of pondering. So I thought it's better to jump out and go back to a place I'm familiar with."

"But there's no need to take risks like this. Since 1 people are safe, why don't I take 1 people there? Linshen, don't you want to ask this?"

"Don't ask, I just figured it out."

"Oh? Let's hear it." After talking for a long time, Hua Mulan was also thirsty, so she took a sip of the tea cup without being polite.

"Taking away all 1 people will definitely make the imperial court feel that you have other plans. Maybe you plan to kill the carbine as soon as you leave the imperial capital. In addition, the situation in the imperial capital is unstable. If you take them all out, the empress dowager will lose her capital." Suppress all parties, so the queen mother will not be accurate. And if the 1 people are mixed with other teams, it will be a big trouble if you can't command those young soldiers, but it will be bad. So you only mentioned 6000 people in Zhongfu , this is a figure acceptable to all parties.”

"My meritorious service is really clever. It's a pity, Linshen, you only know one thing, not the other."

"Oh? I still need to ask the general to enlighten me."

"Linshen, you seem to have ignored the state soldiers all the time."

"What's the use of those state soldiers? I think they're in the way as a baggage man." Zhu Yingtai felt very disapproving when she thought of the state soldiers she faced in Huangzhou back then.

"Naturally it is useful, and the usefulness is to show weakness. To show the court that we are weak, to let the court know that we are not rebellious, and let my head stay on my neck for two more days, so that I have the opportunity to report on returning home. Weak, these people have just defeated the state soldiers, and they must be full of ambition in their hearts. If I take the state soldiers there again, it will definitely make such people proud and conceited, and despise us, which will increase my chances of winning by a little bit."

"After all, I still don't know where Zhongfu you want to take risks?"

"Then I'll only tell you one person, don't tell others."

"Don't be tricky, just say it."

"Before I went, I asked Lu Mengrui. Nanmanzi's soldiers are all in the Qinghekou area now. It's the flood season, Linshen, what do you think will happen if I bring some people to dig the dam of Qinghekou?"