"Don't worry, I'll bring you back safely the same way I sent you there."
"I'm relieved." Princess Xue'er nodded vigorously.
"Five days from now is an auspicious day, suitable for a long journey. We will set off in five days."
"Yes," Princess Xue'er stood up and gave Jiang Tian a deep bow, "I entrust everything to Lord Jiang."
...
Liao Dynasty.
Dadingfu in Zhongjing.
Inside the main hall of the imperial palace.
Empress Dowager Xiao ruled from behind a curtain, sitting behind the young emperor, with a beaded curtain completely concealing this powerful woman.
"Guards!" Empress Xiao roared, "Remove this beaded curtain from me. Today I must face the civil and military officials directly."
"Yes..." Several eunuchs quickly stepped forward and lifted the beaded curtain in front of Empress Xiao.
Empress Dowager Xiao walked to the front.
"Gentlemen," Empress Xiao pointed south, "we have dispatched 100,000 iron cavalry to conquer the Great Xia."
"However, after our iron cavalry entered the Great Wall, they were utterly defeated and routed within just a few days."
"When has our Liao cavalry ever suffered such a crushing defeat?" Empress Dowager Xiao glanced at the Southern King, "Yelü Xian, tell me, what happened?"
King Yelü Xian of the Southern Court quickly stepped forward: "Your Majesty, although I am the King of the Southern Court, I am unaware of this matter of going south to fight."
"As the Southern King, you are detrimental to the intelligence gathering of the Great Xia Dynasty."
"Great King of the Southern Court, what is your crime?"
Yelü Xian knelt on the ground: "Your Majesty, I, as the King of the Southern Court, was completely unaware of this military operation."
"Your Majesty, as far as I know, this operation was planned by Xiao Tianyou and Xiao Tianzuo."
"Your Majesty does not know who Xiao Tianyou and Xiao Tianzuo's opponents are. Your Majesty has no way to take any action."
After Empress Dowager Xiao came to power, she continued to suppress Yelü Xian, the Prince of the Southern Court.
Yelü Xian never expected that Xiao Tianzuo and Xiao Tianyou would lead an army of 100,000, with Zhang Shicheng's rebel army acting as an inside agent.
That kind of battle is a battle that will surely be won.
The result was that they were able to almost completely wipe out their army.
"Yelü Xian, you are shirking your responsibility," Empress Dowager Xiao said aggressively.
"Your Majesty, I will never shirk my responsibilities. Our Liao Kingdom should now unite as one, share a common hatred for the enemy, and find out and completely eliminate them."
"Empress Dowager." The Privy Councilor of the Northern Privy Council stood up. "We should now quickly investigate which army of the Great Xia has such formidable strength."
"A message was sent by carrier pigeon from Huolian City. It was from a man named Jiang Tian. He has an army of 50,000 men under his command, and both Xiao Tianzuo and Xiao Tianyou died at his hands."
Everyone was shocked when they heard this.
For these civil and military officials of the Liao Dynasty.
Although they failed to breach the Great Wall, they believed that the army of the Great Xia Dynasty was utterly incapable of defeat.
The Great Xia Dynasty launched numerous military campaigns, sending troops to the grasslands.
However, when these armies of the Great Xia Dynasty went to the grasslands and faced off against the two armies, they never won a single battle.
Each time, they annihilated the soldiers of the Great Xia Dynasty.
In their view, they were the only ones who had the right to annihilate the Great Xia Dynasty's army.
There was absolutely no chance that the Great Xia Dynasty's army could wipe them out.
"Your Majesty the Southern Court, Jiang Tian, what is his background?" Empress Dowager Xiao asked coldly.
Yelü Xian, the Southern King, was completely bewildered. He had never heard of Jiang Tian before. When he heard that Jiang Tian had wiped out 100,000 Liao soldiers, he was more shocked than everyone else present.
Seeing that the Southern King Yelü Xian remained silent, Empress Dowager Xiao was even more furious.
"As the Southern King of Liao, you are in charge of the war against the Great Xia Dynasty. How can you know absolutely nothing about Jiang Tian?"
Yelü Xian's face turned pale.
"Your Majesty, please forgive me. I have failed in this matter. I will strengthen our intelligence work immediately."
"Yelü Xian, keep a close eye on your daughter. Someone has seen her flirting with that man named Jiang Tian in Feihu City," Empress Dowager Xiao said coldly.
The Southern King's face turned even paler: "Empress Dowager, is this a frame-up? As the Southern King, my daughter would never have colluded with anyone from the Great Xia Dynasty."
“My men saw it with their own eyes. How could this be false? Your daughter is unchaste. She should have married Xiao Tianzuo, but instead she was strolling hand in hand with a lowly shrimp in the street.”
Seeing the murderous intent in Empress Xiao's eyes, Yelü Xian respectfully kowtowed three times to her, saying, "Your Majesty, please calm down. I think someone must have misread it."
There are many people in the world who look alike.
"If my people can make a mistake, then can Xiao Tianzuo also make a mistake?"
It was Xiao Tianzuo who saw Jiang Tian's daughter flirting with someone.
He then flew into a rage and decisively took action, intending to kill Jiang Tian.
As it turned out, Jiang Tian had many capable men under his command, and Xiao Tianzuo was caught off guard and subdued by Jiang Tian.
Upon hearing this, Yelü Xian, the Southern King, gritted his teeth in anger: "If this is true, Empress Dowager, I will definitely kill my daughter."
Empress Dowager Xiao: "Whether or not you kill your daughter is your own business. In short, the Great Xia Dynasty killed two of my marshals and wiped out 100,000 of my elite cavalry."
"If I don't avenge this, I swear I will not be a human being."
[Ding, Empress Xiao of Liao's anger level +1315]
[Ding! The rage value of Yelü Xian, the Southern King of Liao, has increased by 1982.]
[Ding! The rage value of the King of the Northern Privy Council of Liao Kingdom has increased by 1452]
Jiang Tian suddenly received nearly 30,000 anger points.
"The Liao people are angry now, I'll wipe them out."
...
In the imperial court.
Yelü Xian, the Southern King, knelt respectfully before Empress Dowager Xiao.
"Your Majesty, this is the latest intelligence I have received."
"explain……"
"The Great Xia is preparing to send a princess to marry the Xiongnu. If these two families unite, it will be detrimental to our Liao Kingdom."
"I already know about this matter. The beacon fires have inadvertently wiped out most of the marriage alliance."
"This team of 5,000 men was wiped out by the flames of war."
"Without an escort, this wedding procession won't amount to much." Empress Dowager Xiao glanced at Yelü Xian with disdain. "You should focus your main efforts on gathering intelligence now."
"I have lost these 100,000 iron cavalry; this grudge must be avenged."
"promise……"
Just then, the Privy Councilor of the Northern Privy Council said, "Your Majesty, I have received intelligence that Princess Xue'er of the Great Xia Dynasty is not dead."
The emperor of the Great Xia Dynasty planned to send Jiang Tian and Pang De, the son of their prime minister, to escort the princess to the Xiongnu for a marriage alliance.
Upon hearing this, Empress Dowager Xiao clenched her fists tightly: "As long as Jiang Tian steps out of the Great Wall, we must kill him."
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