Chapter 45 (Catching Bugs)
"Uncle, are you discussing something important with mother?" She took a step back cautiously, pricked up her ears and asked tentatively: "Am I disturbing you? Otherwise, I will go out first and you continue?"
He turned around and prepared to run out.
"stop."
The cheerful footsteps paused.
The little princess turned around reluctantly, trying to defend herself with her innocent eyes wide open: "Mother, I didn't hear anything. It doesn't count as eavesdropping on military secrets without permission, right?"
Yun Peijin sneered: "Come here and explain to your uncles and aunts what you have been doing for the past two days without going out or eating."
Yunmian was really confused this time. She touched her forehead to make sure she didn't have a fever and had heard the words wrongly, and answered in a daze: "I didn't do anything. Didn't mother ask me how to let the snipe and the clam fight so that we, the fishermen, can benefit? I went back and kept thinking about this problem. I just figured it out, and then I ran here to tell mother..."
An uncle asked her with a strange look on his face: "Didn't the general scold you?"
Yunmian shook her head: "No, my mother doesn't scold people, she only mocks me for being stupid!"
Another uncle: "So did she taunt you particularly badly and threaten you?"
“How is that possible!” Yun Mian subconsciously ran to her mother and held her behind her. Then she explained, “My mother would never threaten me. You are not allowed to slander her!”
Another uncle asked tentatively: "Then haven't you been hit by the general's strict requirements these past two days, so you are so sad that you can't eat and don't want to go out?"
"Or, is the general punishing you by grounding you to reflect on your actions?"
Yunmian’s eyes were full of: What nonsense are you talking about?
She opened her mouth, and under the gaze of countless eyes, she said firmly: "Of course not! I'm just helping mother solve her problems!"
The little girl's facial features wrinkled into a ball, and she tried to explain: "My mother didn't do anything. She didn't scold me or punish me, and she didn't ground me! I just accidentally got too absorbed in thinking about the problem, so I didn't go out much. If the problem is not solved, I won't have fun when I go out to play!"
Everyone: “Ah…” Is this really the case?
Yunmian: “???” Why does everyone seem so disappointed?
She felt that there was something wrong with these elders, but she couldn't tell what was wrong.
Yun Peijin crossed his arms and looked coldly at everyone as they accepted this reality in a daze.
After all these people smiled awkwardly and were too ashamed to look her in the eye, Yun Peijin gently raised her chin to the confused culprit: "Tell me, what solution have you come up with? It's a good opportunity to take advantage of the fact that there are so many people here, so you can tell them and let them discuss it together."
Yunmian scratched his head, trying hard to ignore everyone's weird comments, reorganizing his thoughts, and after thinking it through, he expressed his ideas in an orderly manner.
"Let's use the same method as before. We have to secretly escort the fourth prince Tu Heng back to Tu Kingdom. But we have to choose a good time. For example, when the eldest and second princes are both injured in the fight and still have a little bit of strength left to fight, then let Tu Heng appear."
This would reduce the competitiveness of other princes to the greatest extent possible, without making it easy for Tu Heng and the forces behind him to become the mantis catching the cicada.
"After Tu Heng returns, he will inevitably engage in a new round of struggle with the forces behind the other princes. Everyone may regard him as the most important contender for the position of crown prince. After the two sides consume each other, the power of Tu Kingdom will probably be in chaos."
Amidst the increasingly suspicious gazes, the nine-year-old Yun Mian still frowned as she carefully described her thoughts: "We have to ensure that Tu Heng will inherit the throne. This process may be quite long, which is just the right time for our people on the border to plant in spring and harvest in autumn. When the border is truly settled, our soldiers will have trained and coordinated well, and Tu Country will have just settled down after a period of turmoil. We will take the opportunity to attack, and they will definitely be caught off guard..."
Yun Mian even took out a map from his arms and drew a scribbled diagram showing which direction of Tu State was easier to defend than to attack, where the most troops were stationed, which general was the best at fighting, etc., in the hope that his words would be understood more quickly by the audience.
"The other two countries will certainly not remain indifferent, but Nan Ke and Tu are sandwiched between our Daqing, and Nan Ke is the weakest. Uncle Bai is stationed at the Nan Ke border, so Nan Ke is probably powerless and will not have much impact."
Yun Mian finally focused on the Snow Country. Her soft voice suddenly became serious: "We must avoid fighting in winter. Snow Country has heavy snow all year round. Their people and soldiers have long been accustomed to surviving in severe cold conditions. If our soldiers fight them in winter, they will definitely suffer a great loss."
"So either we have to take as much territory as possible from Tu Country before the autumn harvest, while summer is still here, or we have to make plans after next spring."
"But we are not necessarily at a disadvantage against the Snow Country." Yun Mian pondered over the military books he had read before, and said slowly, "The Snow Country has a strong military force, and Daqing is indeed a little weak in comparison. In this case, it will be helpful for us to observe their attack methods and the flaws of their soldiers during the battle. After all, there is no army in the world that is absolutely flawless. We can try to find the flaws in their military formations and their charge against the enemy, and try to narrow the gap in strength between the two armies."
After saying that, Yun Mian scratched his head in annoyance: "But this is difficult, and it may cost lives, so my suggestion is to deal with Tuguo first, at least equip our soldiers with the fine armor that only Tuguo soldiers have, otherwise we will be at a disadvantage in the battle."
Of all the battles in military books throughout history, Yun Mian hated the kind of victory that came with the sacrifice of lives and the crushing of opponents.
It's not that I'm criticizing this way of fighting, but... with so many people dying on the battlefield, how many families outside the battlefield, which already lack strong labor, will lose their ability to survive?
A victory filled with human lives was the most tragic and helpless kind of victory in Yun Mian's eyes. Just looking at the record of the number of soldiers who died, she felt a suffocating feeling of a sea of blood and corpses.
But what’s important now is not this, but whether the method I came up with can satisfy my mother and uncles?
Yunmian looked at her mother with a little trepidation and expectation.
Yun Peijin ignored his daughter and took in the surprised, stunned and shocked looks of the others.
Yun Peijin suppressed the smile on his lips, coughed lightly, and knocked on the table in front of him with his fingers.
The knocking sound brought the stunned crowd back to their senses.
They looked at Yun Peijin, and then at Yun Mian, who was at least four points similar to Yun Peijin, and the same sentence emerged in their minds: The disciple is better than the master.
Yun Peijin is already the most recognized and respected general in Daqing by the people. She is a rare female general. Even when men mention her, they mostly express admiration and awe.
They thought that was the end of it. Even though Yun Mian came to the military camp, everyone looked at her like an ignorant child. They basically didn't have much hope that she could grow to the same strength and level as Yun Peijin now.
But now, just when they were pampering and protecting her like a child, just when they felt that Yun Peijin was too harsh and unkind to Yun Mian, the little girl whom they protected and never had high hopes for pushed open the door and rushed in blankly.
She first defended their doubts and persuasions against Yun Peijin.
He then took out what he had been thinking about for two whole days, and planned a plan to destroy and nibble away at the enemy country, word for word, in a clear and organized manner. He even took the other two countries into full consideration. Although it was not foolproof, it sounded comprehensive at first glance.
It was like a slap in the face, neither too light nor too heavy, hitting them in the face.
Without using much force, it brought them back to their senses from their long-standing unconscious contempt, and they woke up in a daze.
If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, who would have believed that such a comprehensive plan was actually come up with by a child?
Perhaps they were really wrong. Just as the general said, although she was still a child, she was also a rising star, not a fragile girl who needed to be pampered and protected.
Yunmian waited for a long time but didn't hear anyone talking. After thinking for a while, she moved closer to her mother and asked her in a low voice: "Mom, what happened? Why do you all seem to be stunned?"
The soldiers who usually led the troops with gloomy faces and shouting now had dull eyes. Yun Mian watched for a while and felt it was weird, but at the same time, she couldn't help but worry about the future of Daqing.
If this happens on the battlefield, can we really fight this war?
Yun Peijin knocked her forehead helplessly, took the scribble-like drawing on the table, looked at it for a few seconds, felt his eyes hurt, and threw it down again.
She was impatient to wait for these people to calm down, so she frowned and said bluntly: "Mianmian has already decided on the basic outline. While everyone is here today, let's discuss more details. If it is feasible in the end, this general will draft a memorial to the court, and wait for those corrupt officials in the court to slowly tear it apart and cooperate with us to arrange it as soon as possible."
The tall and strong soldiers responded with awkward smiles. They felt guilty facing their own general just now, and now they felt guilty facing the general's daughter. It was... quite embarrassing.
However, looking at those two similar faces, they inexplicably boosted their morale.
The general is so powerful. As the general's daughter, she has accepted General Bai's instruction and can come up with such a complete strategy. She will definitely not be weaker than the general in the future, right?
This shows that the general has successors. As the soldiers and generals led by the general, they all feel that there is some ambition stirring silently in their hearts after they come to their senses.
Before, the little princess talked about eroding Tu Kingdom, right? She also said that Nan Ke was the weakest and there was no need to worry about it for the time being, right? She also said... she also said that Xuejing Kingdom was strong, but she could use them to improve herself and find more of their flaws, right?
So, so even though the little princess said it very very very tactfully, what she actually wanted to do was to deal with Tuguo first, and she wouldn't let the other two go either, right? !
Although the little princess was just a girl, she stood beside the general with her back straight, like a young pine or poplar tree that was actively growing. Her immature but firm aura seemed to have affected these adults whose blood had not yet cooled down.
The heart of driving a tiger to devour a wolf... The little princess will surely be able to lead the Tu Kingdom's army to a more vast territory in the future, right?
See you tomorrow.
Thanks to the little angel who threw the grenade:
1 Xianyu;
Thanks to the little angel who irrigated the nutrient solution:
30 bottles of Xianyu;
12 19 bottles;
Keep smiling 10 bottles;
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