The little general is my favorite [Rebirth]

The concubine Huo - should be called Empress Empress - moved into Chaofeng Palace today.

Qi Yao followed Huo Shi into Chaofeng Palace, Huo Shi pointed to a painting on the wall, and told the palace staff: "Remove this peony picture."

It is Yue Shi's favorite peony, the color is extremely heavy, and the painting of the originally graceful and luxurious peony is unbearably vulgar.

After the Yue family was gifted and died, the inner court had already counted the utensils in Chaofeng Palace, some were taken back to the warehouse, some were rewarded to the palace people, and some were sent back to the forging bureau to be remade.

Emperor Hongguang issued a decree yesterday to confer the concubine Huo's family as empress, and the palace staff even cleaned Chaofeng Palace, but they did not expect to miss a picture of peonies. Originally, there were peony pictures hanging everywhere in Chaofeng Palace. One pair was hung in the corner and was ignored by the palace people.

The palace people quickly took down the peony picture, and Huo asked Qi Yao: "I went to your side hall to see it, what's not satisfactory?"

Qi Yao shook her head, she is not yet married, she moved to Chaofeng Palace with her mother and concubine, there is nothing wrong with it, it is much better than when she lived in Furong Palace.

Huo said to Qi Yao: "Forget it, there is no rush."

Now that she has just entered the lord's palace, it's not appropriate to be critical and show off too much.

The mother and daughter went to Mrs. Huo's bedroom. Qi Yao helped Mrs. Huo to sit down on the soft bed. The maid had just tidied up the bedroom, served tea for the two of them, and then retreated.

Qi Yao took a sip of tea, stroked the edge of the teacup, hesitated for a long time, but couldn't help asking: "Isn't the concubine mother feeling wronged? The emperor made the concubine mother the empress, and only issued an imperial decree to move the concubine mother to the palace." It’s fine if there’s no grand ceremony, but there’s not even a decent announcement ceremony.”

Huo raised her eyebrows: "What if you are wronged?"

Qi Yao was at a loss for words for a while, and looked at Huo Shi in a daze.

Huo Shi said: "If you feel wronged, should the mother and concubine go to your father and emperor to make trouble?"

"No..." Qi Yao denied, but hesitated to say clearly.

"Ayao, you still don't understand the situation in front of you." Huo Shi sighed: "Your father didn't need to make me queen in the first place."

Cheng Engong Yue's family rebelled, and Anyang Hou Ma's family was also involved. Concubine Li Ma also took a white silk and went west with Yue. Immediately afterwards, Concubine Liang died of illness. Now there is only Huo's concubine in the huge harem. And Bai Lang's male favorite.

However, Emperor Hongguang has no plans to choose a concubine, and the internal affairs of the harem have long been handed over to Huo, so what does it matter if the queen is sealed or not?

Emperor Hongguang just wanted to fulfill the Huo family's identity based on the friendship between the Huo family and the Huo family who had followed him for many years.

What's more, now that the war in northern Xinjiang has started, the palace doesn't even hold a Mid-Autumn Festival banquet this year, so how can it mobilize the army to make a successor?

Huo spread out these words and told Qi Yao one by one.Since Qi Yao was sensible, Huo's has intentionally cultivated her, the harem is full of turmoil, and the court situation, Huo's will analyze and explain to her.

Even if the harem is not allowed to participate in politics and women are not allowed to be officials, the Huo family does not want Qi Yao to grow up to be an ignorant and shallow woman.

However, although Qi Yao has a wider vision than ordinary boudoir girls, she is still too young and immature.

After hearing Huo's words, Qi Yao pursed her lips, and after a while, sighed: "It would be great if my son was a man."

Huo shook his head: "If you were a man, we might not live to this moment."

If the Huo family had given birth to a prince back then, the Huo family, who was highly valued by His Majesty, would have been feared by the Yue family, then the Huo family, whose foundation was not as deep as the Yue family, might not be able to grow at all, and would be suppressed by the Yue family first.

The Yue family and Qi Chen would also regard the Huo family's son as a more threatening competitor, while Qi Xuan, who was from a weaker family, would not be so conspicuous.

Qi Yao's face turned pale, she naturally knew how narrow and selfish Yue Shi was, and she couldn't even tolerate her as a princess. Earlier, the Beidi envoy came to ask for peace, and Yue Shi revealed that he wanted Qi Yao to go to Beidi when he met the wife of the aristocratic family. And the meaning of pro.

At that time Qi Yao was startled, angry and afraid, even though her mother and concubine told her that her father would never let Daning's princess marry Beidi, she still had trouble sleeping and eating.

It wasn't until the elder brother detained Beidi's envoy that she was really relieved—Beidi was at fault, and there was absolutely no reason to ask her to go and get married.

Huo touched Qi Yao's hair on the temples, and said in relief: "Instead of worrying about that little grievance, it's better to pick up your brother as soon as possible."

After Concubine Liang passed away, Qi Heng was raised under her name.Emperor Hongguang also strengthened his discipline, and often sent Qi Heng to the imperial study to test his homework.

Qi Heng is well-behaved, not only copying the scriptures for the concubine Dai Xiao, but also studying and practicing martial arts. The child who is less than seven years old seems to have grown up overnight.

At that time, Mrs. Huo told Qi Yao to take care of her younger brother, not only because they are siblings connected by blood, but also because he may be the future monarch of Daning.

If Qi Heng ascends the throne, the Huo family will be the queen mother, and Qi Yao will be the eldest princess in the future, and she will also rely on this younger brother for support.

There is also Qi Xuan who went to the northern Xinjiang, and will be the real powerful figure of the Daning royal family before Qi Heng becomes the only one.

Qi Yao looked at the sun outside the window, it was almost noon, and it was time for Qi Heng to leave school, so she got up and said, "The minister has gone over there."

Mrs. Huo nodded at her, watched Qi Yao leave, thought for a moment, then got up and went to the side hall where Qi Heng would live in the future, to see if the arrangement was in order, so that Qi Heng could take a nap.

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In mid-August, after the Xiaoyue tribe, the Beizhou army defeated two other small tribes, and penetrated into Beidi like a broken bamboo, approaching the southern section of the Yantu Mountains.

It was night, and the army was stationed on the spot. Qi Xuan, Song Huai, Song Xiao and other generals were discussing matters in the big tent of the Chinese army.

Yang Ye pointed to the map and said, "Thirty miles further north is Chunxi Racecourse, which was the nearest supply point when Beidi invaded in previous years. There are about 1 people in this tribe, and [-]% of them are young and middle-aged men."

In Beidi, a tribe of 1 people is not that big. They are all young and middle-aged, which means that they are all soldiers. They are responsible for raising war horses on weekdays. The closest and fastest reinforcements.

Qi Xuan asked, "How many horses do they have?"

Yang Ye replied: "About [-] adult war horses and about [-] foals."

The offspring bred by war horses may not all become war horses, and those with poor qualifications will be eliminated and reduced to rally horses or food horses.

Qi Xuan and Song Xiao looked at each other, thinking about countermeasures.

They have 1 Beizhou Army, and Liangzhou Army and Jizhou Army who follow behind, transport food and grass, and are ready to support at any time. It is not difficult to attack a tribe of [-] people. The problem is how to deal with these horses.

In previous battles, the Beidi cavalry did not have such a large number of horses, and when the Northern Guards fought against the Beidi cavalry, they always picked their mounts to kill the horses first, and then wiped out the soldiers.

But this time is different.Their goal this time is to take down the racecourse and take over these war horses.

So these war horses cannot be killed.

But if they were not controlled, when the Beizhou army attacked, the tribal soldiers would lead their horses to form a cavalry team to fight. If they couldn't beat them, they would definitely lead these horses to retreat.

In this way, even if the Beizhou Army took down the racecourse, there would be only an empty shell.

How to kill or drive away the tribal garrison and keep the horses is the key.

Song Huai suddenly said: "Let's go find the winner!"

Everyone's eyes lit up, even if it is a human-raised war horse, there will be a leader in the horse herd.

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The Beizhou Army stationed at a place less than [-] miles away from the Chunxi Racecourse, and sent a small team of cavalry to harass the racecourse every day. After the Beidi cavalry chased them out, they ran back to the Beizhou Army Station.

The horse farm garrison fears that the Beizhou Army has twice as many troops as themselves, and dare not act rashly. Every time they chase the Beizhou Army camp, they dare not go any further. They cannot bear the repeated provocations of the Beizhou Army. One day, the Beizhou army got tired of playing the game of teasing the cat with the tail of the mouse and launched an attack on them, so they hurriedly asked the nearby tribes for help.

A few days later, the Langya tribe in the northwest sent 1 horses to help, but unexpectedly, they were ambushed by the Beizhou army during the night march, and the entire army was almost wiped out.

At the same time, under the cover of Qi Xuan, Song Huai and others, experienced groom Fang Cheng took advantage of the darkness to sneak into the stables of Chunxi Racecourse and successfully approached the winner they were looking for.

The proud war horses are very sensitive to the scent of strangers, so they didn't plan to approach the horses directly at first, for fear of scaring the "horses".

It was the experienced grooms of the Beizhou Army who lay on the edge of the grass next to the racecourse for two days before finally discovering the red-headed horse controlled by the grooms and leading the group of horses to let loose.

Qi Xuan and Song Huai led three people to cover Fang Cheng's infiltration into the Chunxi Racecourse, but Qi Xuan, Song Huai and the other three did not go to the stables to disturb the horses, but went to the grain and grass warehouse, and deliberately exposed their whereabouts.

"Who?" The soldier in charge of food and grass yelled in Di language, and immediately recruited the surrounding soldiers to surround Qi Xuan, Song Huai and others.

But Qi Xuan, Song Huai and the others were all skilled men, so they immediately dispersed and fled in different directions under the cover of night.The soldiers who came up were stunned for a moment, and while chasing separately, they shouted loudly, and torches were lit all over the garrison, causing confusion in an instant.

Qi Xuan and Song Huai fled to the direction of the stables this time. They found out before that there are usually five grooms in the stables to guard the horses at the same time.

Seeing two suspicious people rushing over, combined with the noise in the camp, the groom who was closest to Qi Xuan immediately realized their identities, shouted a few times to his companions in Di language, and several grooms quickly surrounded them.

Qi Xuan and Song Huai back to back, turned to ask him: "What did they say?"

Song Huai: "They said, stop us, don't let us run away with horses."

They had intentionally exposed their whereabouts, and only changed into the clothes of Beidi soldiers, not even covering their faces. With the dim light of the fire around the stables, Qi Xuan saw the jokes and smiles on Song Huai's face: They didn't intend to rob The horses ran away, and they were going to take all the horses.

Qi Xuan pursed his lips and Song Huai looked at each other. The next moment, the two drew their daggers from their waists and faced several grooms respectively.

Even in three-on-one, the groom was no match for Qi Xuan and Song Huai in skill, and was immediately knocked to the ground.

What the groom didn't even expect was that the horses in the stable suddenly started to move.It turned out that Fang Cheng had already mounted the leading horse, led the horses out of the racecourse, and ran to the grassland.

The groom who fell on the ground was shocked when he saw this, he hurriedly took out a short whistle and blew a short whistle, but was immediately wiped by Qi Xuan's dagger on his neck.

Soldiers holding torches and searching for suspicious persons noticed the commotion of the horse herd and rushed towards them one after another. Unexpectedly, there were also bursts of hoofbeats behind them. Looking back, it was the Northern Guards who killed them.

……

The garrison at Chunxi Racecourse did not wait for the support of other tribes. Having lost their horses, they faced the Northern Guards, which had twice the number of them, and were quickly defeated and fled in all directions.

The next morning, except for some of the foals that were frightened by the fighting and lost, Fang Cheng rode the winner and led more than [-] war horses back to the horse farm.

All the soldiers cheered for the victory, but inside the large tent of the Chinese army, Qi Xuan and the others looked solemn.

Just now, Qi Xuan asked the question that has been on his mind since the beginning of the war: "Everyone, have you ever thought about why we win so easily every time?"

Song Xiao, Song Huai and the others frowned. It was indeed too easy. In less than half a month, they had defeated four tribes, and the number of casualties in each battle was far lower than before. Although this is a good thing, it is also too much. It's weird.

Qi Xuan glanced over the crowd, did not continue to show off, and said the reason he had been thinking about for a long time: "Because of the split."

Everyone looked at him in unison, and Qi Xuan said: "There were originally 25 tribes in Beidi. Before their unification, although there were frictions with the Central Plains, they never dared to provoke them directly. Then the Huchar tribe unified the 25 tribes and established Beidi. , sent troops to the Central Plains, and the previous dynasty was destroyed precisely because of this.”

Song Xiao and Song Huai nodded, and several lieutenants who were not convinced by Qi Xuan were also waiting for his next words.

"Now the Beidi regime is divided, and each tribe has lost its backbone, and each tribe has their own calculations..." Qi Xuan looked at the crowd and said, "So they ran away if they couldn't win, and they had no intention of resisting to the death."

Qi Xuan: "The method of Di Feng's ascension to the throne six years ago was no different from telling the tribal leaders that anyone can sit on the throne of Beidi. When Di Feng was strong, they were willing to follow Di Feng, but now, it may not be the case."

The author has something to say: Xuanxuan: Huaihuai and I are smart little ghosts!

Huai Huai: No, no, no, you guys who are conspiring and plotting have the worst hearts.

Xuanxuan: ...but you are all in my heart! [Wronged]

Huaihuai: ......... I lost :)