After hearing Li Yao's words, Zhao Min was stunned for a moment, then smiled bitterly: "You girl, I know what you said just now is out of concern for me, but when I think about it carefully, I still feel that you are cursing me to lose to Zhang Wuji."
Li Yao said: "Your Majesty, that's not what I meant. I just think that you are still so young and so beautiful. In addition to the world, you should also have your own life."
Zhao Min smiled and waved her hand: "Stop talking. I don't like what you said, but don't worry. Even if I am really at the end of my rope one day, I will give you a way to survive. I am young, and you are even younger than me. Your life has been severely persecuted by us Mongols. Therefore, you need to survive even more."
Li Yao said no more, nor did she dare to say anything more.
She knew her own identity, and there were some things that little people like them could never control.
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It was the evening of the second day.
Zhao Min's army of more than 100,000 was only thirty miles away from Zhang Wuji's military camp.
Wang Baobao came to Zhao Min's carriage and whispered, "Your Majesty, should we set up camp here?"
After thinking for a while, Zhao Min said, "No, let the army advance another ten miles and set up camp twenty miles away from Zhang Wuji's camp."
At this moment, Zhao Min actually felt a little nervous. It was the first time in all these years that she could hear her own heartbeat.
Seeing this expression, Zhao Min couldn't help but laugh at herself in her heart.
She never expected that a battle involving hundreds of thousands of people would allow her to hear her own heartbeat. It was not a good sign.
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Zhang Wuji on the other side was also extremely nervous. He had never felt this way in his life, so much so that he was absent-minded when Zhou Zhiruo talked to him.
Zhou Zhiruo understood Zhang Wuji well. If he was willing to do some excessive little actions or have some excessive thoughts towards her at this time, it would actually mean that he was not nervous. On the contrary, the more honest and gentleman Zhang Wuji acted, the less likely it was a good thing.
She glanced at Zhao Linger, hoping that Zhao Linger would say something at this time.
But Zhao Linger opened her mouth several times but was speechless.
Just then, Yang Buhui and Wei Xiangjun brought today's dinner to the three of them.
Yang Buhui said with a smile: "Brother Wuji, it's time for dinner. It's a little simple. With our current conditions, we can only find these things. After defeating Zhao Min, we will find a way to have a good meal."
A few simple pancakes and a little broth were the dinner for the five of them.
Zhang Wuji is not a picky eater, but these things tonight still made him lose his appetite.
Zhou Zhiruo picked up a pancake and stuffed it into Zhang Wuji's hand: "My dear, you have to eat even if you can't finish it. Zhao Min's army is only twenty or thirty miles away from us. Who knows whether we will have a decisive battle with her tomorrow. If you don't eat your fill today, I won't agree."
Zhao Linger also smiled and filled a bowl of meat soup for Zhang Wuji.
"Young Master, I have followed you for so long, but this is the first time I see you like this. It really makes me feel distressed, but now that things have come to this, I don't know what to say to you."
"But husband and wife should live and die together. Don't worry, no matter what happens, I will be by your side and will never leave you."
It would have been fine if Zhao Linger hadn't said this, but after she said this, the atmosphere suddenly changed.
Almost no one knew how to proceed.
After a moment's silence, Yang Buhui spoke first: "Brother Wuji, sisters, I'm going to say something that I shouldn't say. Are you guys a little pessimistic now?"
"With your current mentality, you are not even as good as the girls of the Hunan Army."
Afterwards, Yang Buhui asked Wei Xiangjun, "Sister Xiangjun, tell brother Wuji and the sisters what you are thinking now?"
Wei Xiangjun said slightly embarrassedly: "I, I didn't think about anything from the beginning to the end. Thinking too much will only cause trouble for myself."
Yang Buhui was speechless: "You girl, you are heartless."
After criticizing Wei Xiangjun for a few words, Yang Buhui said to Zhang Wuji in a serious tone: "Brother Wuji, there are some things I wanted to tell you a few days ago."
Zhang Wuji looked up at Yang Buhui and said, "Sister Buhui, if you have anything to say, just say it directly. Why do you have to wait for a few days? By doing this, are you treating me as an outsider, or are you treating yourself as an outsider?"
Yang Buhui smiled and said, "Brother Wuji, let me say something disrespectful. You are the emperor and you should look further ahead. The current battle is not that important. Look how worried you are."
Zhang Wuji was stunned for a moment: "Sister Buhui, isn't this battle important?"
"We can't afford to lose this battle."
Yang Buhui smiled and said, "That's not right. Since Brother Wuji mentioned that he can't afford to lose, then I will analyze with you whether I can afford to lose."
"I think we can afford to lose, but Zhao Min can't."
"If we lose, the worst that can happen is that we retreat. The land west of the Yellow River is so vast, and Zhao Min has only just captured Jinyang. We can rely on the cities in Hexi to consume her. Even if we can't defend all the land west of the Yellow River, we can go east and go directly to Dadu. Aren't there still hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses led by General Zhang there? Moreover, the land within hundreds of miles of Dadu has probably been included in the sphere of influence of our Ming Dynasty by General Zhang."
"There is Sister Yu's endless supply of money and food mobilized from Jiangnan, and Sister Gong is a person who is good at business. The situation in Dadu must be much better than when we left there."
"So, as long as we can save our lives, it doesn't matter even if we lose a battle. The worst that can happen is we can start over again. Brother Wuji, you are only in your twenties. If everything goes smoothly all the time, how boring your second half of life will be."
"But look at Zhao Min now, she is really at the end of her rope."
"The Yuan Empire has already lost the support of the people. It is not so easy for her to turn the tide. The Han people all over the world wish she would die sooner. If Zhao Min loses this battle, where can she go? If she retreats to Jinyang, she will be surrounded and killed by us sooner or later. Although I am not very clear about the situation in Zhigu Village, I believe that they should have been surrounded and killed by General Zhang as well."
"If Zhao Min loses, fleeing north to the grassland will be her only way out. However, since she came to power, she has killed so many Mongolian nobles. If she flees to the grassland, her fate will probably not be better than falling into our hands."
"So, what I've concluded is that if we lose this battle, the worst that can happen is we can just start over again. If Zhao Min loses, it's basically equivalent to death."
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