Chapter 59 Feeding the Horse

The next day, Qi Shoubang personally took Lin Yuxi to Guiduan Cliff and beheaded him, then brought a knife to Zhou Huaiyan to apologize.

"I know I deserve death, but I don't want to dirty your highness's blade. I beg your highness to allow me to be an ordinary soldier and die on the battlefield."

"Died on the battlefield?"

Zhou Huaiyan spoke lazily,

"Then will your two sons think that I killed their parents in the future?"

Qi Shoubang's face turned pale, his lips trembled,

"I have explained everything to them and told the whole army the truth. If Your Highness still has the greatest concern, I only ask that their lives be spared. As for the rest, I will follow Your Highness' orders, whether it is hard labor or slavery."

Zhou Huaiyan nonchalantly played with the forbidden dagger in his hand and did not answer.

Qi Shoubang kowtowed heavily.

"Please forgive my son, Your Highness!"

"Please forgive my son, Your Highness!"

"Please forgive me, Your Highness..."

BANG BANG BANG!!!

Bright red bloodstains were left on the ground, but the man did not stop.

"Stop, it's giving me a headache."

Zhou Huaiyan rubbed his swollen temples.

"I will give you half a month to clean up all the snakes, rats, insects and ants in Jingzhou. If I find any dirt in half a month..."

He didn't finish what he said, just chuckled meaningfully.

He was clearly just an unarmed prince who had never even learned martial arts. He even looked down on him before yesterday. But now, just a chuckle from him made him shudder.

"Yes! Thank you, Your Highness! Thank you, Your Highness!!!"

The man was filled with gratitude and thanked her profusely. But then, the maidservant beside the young prince came up to him with a wine cup in hand.

"General Qi, drink this glass of severed heads."

"...What does this mean?"

It only takes a moment to fall from heaven to hell.

Hongdou put the wine cup into his hands and said in a cold tone,

"General Qi, please remember what you said."

——Died on the battlefield.

Qi Shoubang understood what the other party meant at that moment. The other party just wanted to squeeze out the last bit of value from him before letting him die.

He stared blankly at Zhou Huaiyan, the so-called "waste prince" whom he had belittled and despised for years.

——It turns out that all this is just a pretense.

The real Zhou Huaiyan is a man of deep scheming, extremely intelligent, able to plan and win battles thousands of miles away. He even has an extremely firm and cold-blooded heart.

Even with a frail body, he can still manipulate everyone at will.

This Ninth Prince is the one who deserves it—

A genius with the demeanor of an emperor.

Qi Shoubang laughed miserably and drank up the strong wine in the cup

It's not hatred, nor resentment, everything he has now is what he deserves.

He had guarded the northern border for several years and knew the alien races best. When he rescued Lin Yuxi that year, he had many doubts, but he did not investigate carefully due to his own selfish motives, which led to such a disaster in the end.

If Zhou Huaiyan hadn't been there, Jingzhou would have been breached yesterday, and hundreds of thousands of foreign troops would have marched straight in and invaded the heartland of the Great Zhou.

It would be an unimaginable disaster, like a swarm of locusts.

Even though he knew that Zhou Huaiyan wanted him to die on the battlefield, at this moment, Qi Shoubang checked his conscience and found that his feelings for this prince were actually gratitude.

He straightened his clothes, knelt down and kowtowed, saying loudly:

"Thank you, Your Highness, for your great kindness. May Your Highness live a thousand years, a thousand years, a thousand years!!!"

Zhou Huaiyan looked at him steadily and drank the wine in the glass with an expressionless face.

Since then——

It took only a month from the capital to the northern border, and the three heavily guarded provincial cities were all under the control of the Ninth Prince.

In the next two months, Zhou Huaiyan began to prepare for war.

The two sides have been fighting for three years, and of the so-called 300,000 iron cavalry in the North, only 170,000 of them are still able to maintain their complete combat effectiveness.

Among them, 120,000 are in Ah Fei's hands, and they have been used to resist the attacks of foreign races in the past two months.

The remaining 50,000 were handed over to Zhou Huaiyan to be divided and trained into a new army.

The two thousand personal soldiers he brought with him were all fully capable of using all the new weapons and tactics he had researched. Let each church have ten of them.

Then two months later, Zhou Huaiyan would have 20,000 infantrymen with guns. The remaining 30,000 would be used as surprise troops for other purposes.

In previous wars, the Zhou army had never penetrated deeply into the foreign tribes’ homelands, as the climate there was extremely cold and the terrain was rugged. Even though they tried several times, they were always defeated.

Since then, defense has been the main focus for all these years, and it was Duke Wei who personally presided over the reinforcement of the three strong defense state cities.

Now that Zhou Huaiyan wants to attack the capital of the alien race directly, he naturally has to make some preparations first.

It was mid-October and the temperature in the north was already in the single digits. By the time the war really started, it would probably be the coldest winter.

Originally Zhou Huaiyan had planned to attack in the summer, but now the situation has changed rapidly, and his uncle only has four months left. In these four months, he has to use 170,000 people to defend the three states, kill nearly 300,000 foreigners, and even capture the enemy's capital...

"Your Highness, General Huo Xiao has arrived on time."

Hongdou's voice was filled with obvious excitement. Zhou Huaiyan looked up and saw a familiar man striding in and kneeling down to greet him.

"Your Highness, according to your instructions, all the things have been transported to the destination."

"Um."

Hearing this, Zhou Huaiyan's brows finally relaxed a little.

Two months was enough for two round trips by water and one by land. In this way, all the supplies on both the land and water transport lines arrived.

The things transported by water were naturally for the emperor to see, while the things that Huo Xiao was responsible for transporting by land were Zhou Huaiyan's final trump card.

"Hongdou, distribute the supplies according to the previous deployment, and pass the order that the entire army rest for five days."

Zhou Huaiyan raised his eyes casually, and his gaze lingered for a few seconds on the huge box wrapped in black cloth behind the head palace maid.

"Five days later, full-scale attack."

"yes!!!"

That night, Ah Fei suddenly returned from Yanzhou.

The three provincial capitals are far apart from each other, so it is naturally impossible for all the generals to stay in the same provincial capital.

The other party was not wearing armor, but only black clothes. He strode in with his robes fluttering.

"Why are you here?"

Zhou Huaiyan frowned,

According to the plan and deployment, the enemy should be defending in Yanzhou City. He suddenly became nervous and rushed forward to grab the enemy's hand.

"What happened?!"

"event."

The handsome man had a serious expression. He leaned closer as if to tell Zhou Huaiyan some important military secrets. However, when the latter felt the hot breath on his ear,

The other person almost licked his earlobe and uttered four words,

"Thinking about you."

Nervous Zhou Huaiyan: "......."

Where did this guy learn these corny love words???

After saying this, while Zhou Huaiyan was still in a daze, the man turned around and grabbed his wrist bone, holding it in his palm and stroking it carefully.

Hongdou, who was standing next to him, immediately retreated with interest, closed the door, dismissed the guards outside, and stood more than ten meters away.

The movements were unusually fast and skillful.

"Helubei!!!"

Zhou Huaiyan was so angry that he shook his hand off.

After arriving in the North, he would shout like this whenever he got angry. The first and second time, Ah Fei was trembling with fear and panic.

But the big cat later discovered that there was no special reason why the handsome prince called him by this name, it was just because the pronunciation of three words was more powerful than the two-word curse, and it was also easier to pronounce.

Oh, that doesn’t matter, just curse at me.

Cat with chest outjpg.

After all, beauties can be very charming when they scold people.

Moreover, Zhou Huaiyan never used dirty words, as if the royal upbringing was engraved into his bones. There were only a few words back and forth, but in Ah Fei's eyes, it was simply adorable.

Perhaps because he was used to being abused in the past, he particularly liked to hear the beautiful Ninth Prince scold him, especially when... The angrier Zhou Huaiyan got, the less he could control his strength, and each hit was heavy.

Ah Fei likes something heavier.

The war is imminent, and the two of them will be very busy afterwards. Moreover, Ah Fei is reluctant to let Zhou Huaiyan go to the front line, and will definitely let him stay in the rear to command.

I guess it won't be possible for a long time, that one.

"Owner,"

In private, he still calls Zhou Huaiyan like this.

Ah Fei approached, but of course he was rejected immediately. However, he was so big now, and if he really wanted to come closer, Zhou Huaiyan would not be able to push him away.

Amidst the pushing and shoving, Zhou Huaiyan's heel hit the bed.

"......"

He looked at the other's overly full chest muscles and the vague muscle lines outlined by the tight black clothes.

Just like the long-haired cat when he was a child, it was only small when he brought it home, but as he raised it, it somehow became ten kilograms. Zhou Huaiyan, who was five years old at the time, couldn't even hold it.

“Tsk…”

Has this guy been taking hormones for the past three years? How come he suddenly grew so big?

Noticing the frown on the handsome prince's face, Ah Fei rubbed her head against his shoulder. She rubbed him with her soft curly hair as before.

"Master, Ah Fei came here after taking a bath."

"......"

Zhou Huaiyan stood still for three seconds, pushed his head away in disgust, and rubbed the slightly moist skin on the side of his face with the back of his hand.

"Don't rub your hair against me until it's completely dry!"

I came here in a hurry, so naturally I couldn't wait until it was thoroughly dried.

The big cat turned his head away with a wronged look, and reached out to hook the belt of his beautiful master, saying,

"My hair is not dry, but my body is dry."

But after he finished speaking, he seemed to have sensed something again, and he added, stammering,

"But...but it's getting wet again."

"......"

Zhou Huaiyan couldn't understand.

If he didn't know that Ah Fei was an expert in using the dragon, he would even think that the other party was suffering from some kind of sequelae of the reasonable dragon.

It was clearly like a shy little cat, but after not seeing it for three years, it turned into a clingy big dog, wanting to be touched and petted all the time, and especially likes to lick everywhere.

The mark Zhou Huaiyan left on the inside of his wrist last time has not disappeared yet.

The handsome general caressed the waist of the beautiful prince, his emerald-like eyes staring at him closely. The overly close distance almost made their breathing intertwined.

"The war is coming up, and the master said that if you want the horses to run faster, you have to feed them first."

Zhou Huaiyan: “….”

You've really become a skilled person, even able to use metaphors.

The handsome prince laughed angrily. He stretched out his hand and pinched the soft flesh on the other's chest, exerting force without scruples. The next second, he heard a slight trembling groan in his ear.

"Why, if you don't eat enough, you won't run away?"

"No... we still have to run."

The handsome foreign man not only did not retreat, but he pressed his broad and full chest against the beautiful fingers.

He pushed the handsome prince to sit on the bed.

Zhou Huaiyan missed Ah Fei's voice changing period. He had never imagined that the little cat's originally thin and soft voice would become so deep and magnetic, full of male hormones, and even a random hum was terribly seductive.

At this moment, the man leaned over, pressed against his ear, and breathed hot and moist air.

"When the master gives the order, how dare a horse not run? Even if it runs to death, it has to run..."

Ah Fei untied his belt slowly. He was still hot-tempered like before. Even though it was already autumn, he was still only wearing light clothes.

"It's just that..."

He knelt before the handsome prince, raised his head,

"Brother Huai Yan, are you willing to let the horse run to death because of hunger?"

This angle just allows Zhou Huaiyan to see the pair of exceptionally beautiful emerald eyes that he once liked.

Besides, it can also fully expose her full chest muscles and strong waist and abdomen. Ah Fei did not take off all her clothes foolishly like before. Now the mature big cat has understood the benefits of not showing anything when she wants to.

So he only exposed his upper body, with his outer shirt hanging loosely on his narrow hips. Even his kneeling posture was not formal, but with his feet on the ground, his knees tightly tied and spread apart, his waist and abdomen tightened, showing a beautiful mermaid line,

——Simplicity is suffocating.

What the intention is is obvious!

Zhou Huaiyan looked at him expressionlessly, seemingly indifferent, but the tips of his ears, which had just been touched by the big cat, had already begun to turn red.

He casually scanned the man's exposed chest, waist, abdomen, and even knees, and saw through all of his little tricks at a glance. He sneered.

“There are so many different kinds.”

"Does the master like it?"

Zhou Huaiyan did not answer, but reached out to hook the foreign man's neck, pulled the big cat's head over, and placed it on his waist. He lifted the man's head to an angle that made it difficult for the other party to look up.

The handsome prince stared at the pair of blue eyes for a moment before speaking softly.

"Horses are too weak. Your Highness likes ferocious beasts."

The slender fingertips traced the other's handsome and deep facial features, bringing a subtle, cool, itchy feeling.

"It's best if it's... fierce, violent, and able to devour people."

Zhou Huaiyan lowered his eyes, looking down at him with an absolutely arrogant attitude.

"Tear their flesh, chew their bones, devour them all."

Ah Fei stared at him blankly. Those familiar peach blossom eyes that appeared in his dreams day and night, with black jade pupils shaded by long eyelashes, looked cold and icy, like the ice deep in the snow that had not melted for thousands of years.

Can......

——It’s so beautiful.

The young general looked at him, an expression of infatuation coming to his face uncontrollably.

"A Fei, it will be the ferocious beast you like."

After saying this, the beautiful prince chuckled. At this moment, the big cat felt the cool fingertips between his lips, and Ah Fei opened his mouth slightly. He wanted to kiss the soft flesh on the boy's palm, but was coldly rejected.

Zhou Huaiyan didn't like it very much. His hands always felt wet and sticky. In the past, he couldn't stand it and wanted to wipe it off even if it stained a little rouge. But his cat always liked to lick it.

——This is not a good habit.

It's just that the other person seems to be addicted and can't change.

In these few seconds of silence, the handsome foreign man suddenly broke away his hand, then moved closer to the beautiful prince's waist and bit his belt with his sharp white teeth.

Slowly, pull it open.

“.......”

Zhou Huaiyan looked down at him, pursed his lips, but ultimately did not refuse.

......

Five days later, the counterattack officially began——

Within two months, General Yun Fei led 100,000 Northern Border Iron Cavalry out of three states and captured four cities.

They crushed the enemy with all their might all the way and penetrated into the alien territory.

The author has something to say:

Now he is a mature, ferocious cat who can say cheesy love words and has many scheming tricks.

ps: I should have put it in the draft box, but I was a little shaky and just published it directly, so just consider it an early update...