Ten months ago, on the night before the army set off, Chen Yunniang made a bold decision.

She instructed Xiaohe to seduce Liu Wu and to get him two sets of military uniforms so she could impersonate a soldier and follow Lu Ziqian to the front lines.

Xiaohe was shocked: "Miss, you...you're not joking, are you?"

"You don't know martial arts, what would you do on the battlefield?"

Chen Yunniang stared at the moonlight outside the window, her gaze resolute: "Let's go to the battlefield to find a way out."

"Now that I have lost my title as county princess, I am disliked by Ziqian, and Su Yujiao is constantly scheming against and making things difficult for me. There is no way for me to survive in this capital city."

"If Lu Wen catches me and takes me back, I'll die a horrible death."

"If I can help Ziqian win this battle, I will not only make a great contribution, but I can also make him change his mind about me."

Xiaohe thought Chen Yunniang must be crazy to think that a woman like her wanted to go to war and make meritorious contributions.

Does she really think she's a female knight-errant?

Speaking of the last plague, Miss knew a little about medicine, but this is a battlefield. If she goes there, won't she become a target?

"Miss, the battlefield is no joke. This is real warfare, not child's play."

Chen Yunniang said confidently, "I know, I'm not playing games."

"Who says you can only win a battle if you know martial arts?"

“Sometimes you have to outsmart people,” she said, pointing to her head.

Xiaohe asked in confusion, "Does Miss know military strategy?"

She had never seen a young lady reading military books.

"Never mind that. I'm absolutely confident this time. If I can recover the lost territory without losing a single soldier, the Emperor will definitely bestow upon me the title of Princess. Don't try to fob me off with the title of County Princess this time."

Xiaohe felt helpless looking at Chen Yunniang's frantic state, but she was just a maid and dared not disobey her.

"Go quickly, don't delay my important business."

"Once this is done, you'll be well rewarded."

"If I become the general's wife, I will definitely have Ziqian elevate you to the rank of concubine."

Xiaohe's heart fluttered and her face flushed when she thought of Lu Ziqian's handsome face. Could she also become General Lu's woman?

Chen Yunniang looked at Xiaohe's blushing face and sneered inwardly. What a fool! A cheap slut who's been played with by men. No wonder Ziqian would never look at her.

"This servant will go right away."

"Dress up nicely, and don't come back if you can't win over Liu Wu."

"yes."

Xiaohe went back to her room and changed into a transparent bodice and gauze skirt, with only a black cloak over her clothes. She wore nothing else.

These days, courtesans all wear this kind of thing. She bought this outfit when she went to the brothel last time to buy medicine to treat her genital disease.

Whether it was due to the effectiveness of the medicine or a misdiagnosis, the red spots and pustules on her body were completely healed.

She even deliberately used Lian'er's towel to wash herself, and then secretly put it back. After observing for a while, she didn't see that Lian'er had been infected.

So she found a doctor to examine her again in front of Chen Yunniang. The doctor said that she was in good health and had no illness at all, and that the previous diagnosis was most likely a misdiagnosis.

Now, she has become Chen Yunniang's personal maid, and Lian'er has once again taken a backseat.

For Chen Yunniang, Xiaohe was still more convenient to use.

Xiaohe returned in the middle of the night, carrying two sets of military uniforms and a proper waist tag. Liu Wu is quite reliable.

The next day, they infiltrated the army and became Liu Wu's subordinates.

Along the way, Liu Wu pulled Xiao He into the camp and had sex with her repeatedly, even sharing her with his good brothers. Xiao He became their squad's open prostitute.

Therefore, Chen Yunniang and her servant received a lot of convenience and help, and actually managed to reach the battlefield smoothly.

Upon arriving at the destination, Chen Yunniang went directly to Lu Ziqian. Lu Ziqian was shocked to see her and immediately offered to take her back.

She refused to go back and revealed her plans.

She planned to spread smallpox within the Jin Kingdom, and once they were all infected with the plague, Lu Ziqian would lead a large army to attack the city, winning the battle effortlessly.

After all, the people of the Great Ming Kingdom had all been vaccinated against smallpox and were not afraid of it.

However, the Jin people had never been vaccinated against smallpox, and they could use this advantage to easily breach the city.

Lu Ziqian refused to resort to such cruel and despicable methods.

"Why not?" Chen Yunniang protested.

"They are the enemy; to be merciful to the enemy is to be cruel to oneself."

Lu Ziqian's face turned ashen: "First of all, the plague is contagious, and the spread is uncontrollable, which will also affect innocent people."

"Secondly, it's not conducive to battlefield cleanup. If the ground is littered with plague-infected corpses, who would dare to clean it up?"

"Third, the plague has polluted the rivers and the land. The cities I painstakingly conquered have become ghost towns that no one dares to live in. What use are they?"

"Plagues are not wars, but disasters."

"And if we use such insidious tactics today, other countries will use the same tactics against us in the future."

"At that time, no one will be spared; they will only bring about their own destruction."

Chen Yunniang remained unconvinced: "We've all been vaccinated against smallpox, so the epidemic is under control here."

"Besides, isn't it a good thing for us that the Jin Dynasty was destroyed?"

Lu Ziqian pinched the bridge of his nose, extremely annoyed: "Do you even know what a plague is, or what a battlefield is?"

"During war, corpses piled up like mountains. To prevent the spread of plague, people would pour kerosene on the corpses and burn them all."

"There are many kinds of plagues, and no one can control them."

"You say smallpox is smallpox, but what if smallpox accelerates the decomposition of corpses and causes other plagues to emerge? Can you still control it?"

Chen Yunniang continued to argue, "Ziqian, that won't happen. My method really won't waste a single soldier."

"You only care about the lives of the Jin people, but don't you care about the lives of our soldiers?"

"Don't you want to return to the capital with all your soldiers, without a single one missing?"

"Their wives, children, and parents are still waiting for them."

Lu Ziqian stopped arguing with her and told her to leave, warning her that it was a capital offense for a woman to enter or leave a military camp at will.

Chen Yunniang remained resolute, even threatening to make a scene, saying she would rather die here than let the matter escalate.

She threatened Lu Ziqian with her own life, but Lu Ziqian ignored her and directly ordered two of his confidants to knock her unconscious and send her out of the military camp.

Half a month later, Chen Yunniang secretly returned and, together with Xiaohe and Liu Wu, infiltrated the military camp again.

This time, however, she didn't let Lu Ziqian know, and decided to do something big in silence.

"Miss, how should we spread the plague?"

Xiaohe is curious, how exactly should she do it?

Could it be that Miss is capable of causing a plague?

Chen Yunniang took out a small porcelain bottle, which contained pus from patients she had collected in the epidemic area last year.

"I originally intended for Liu Wu to use this opportunity during the war to target the Jurchens."

"But now I have a better way, after all, that other way was too slow."

"What method?"

“On my way back, I encountered several beggars who had not been vaccinated against smallpox and looked sick with coughs and fevers. I suspected they had contracted smallpox.”

Xiaohe frowned: "Having contracted smallpox for so long, how come you're still alive?"