After seeing Cheng Ruoxue off, Lu Yanluo did not delay and went to find Wen Jie in private. After handing the drawings of the musket to Wen Jie personally, she immediately returned to Prince Ye's Mansion, packed her bags, and walked quickly towards Chu Xuan's study.

Chu Xuan was about to set off for the Wucheng Bingmasi in the suburbs of Beijing to inspect his troops and set off.

"A'Luo?" Chu Xuan walked out of the study quickly and just saw Lu Yanluo holding a bag.

Lu Yanluo raised the gift in her hand and smiled: "Your Majesty, Lu Yanluo also wants to volunteer to go with you to the battle."

"Nonsense!" Chu Xuan immediately stopped him: "Swords have no eyes on the battlefield, what are you going to do? Stay at home and wait for me to come back."

Lu Yanluo shook her head: "I know medical skills. When I get to the North, I won't go to the battlefield. I will just be a military doctor. Is that okay?"

"No." Chu Xuan refused firmly: "If you go, I will be distracted, and I have a military doctor, so you don't need to take risks."

Lu Yanluo was a little choked up, glaring at the man angrily. If soft tactics didn't work, she decided to use hard tactics: "I must go to the North Territory. If you don't take me with you, then I will go by myself. It's not like I can't find it!"

"You!" Chu Xuan was so angry that he had no choice. Lu Yanluo was a person who could do what she said. If she said she would go, she would definitely go. Chu Xuan had no choice but to compromise: "You can go, but you have to promise me that you will stay in Zhongzhou and not go anywhere else."

"Yes, sir!"

Three days later, the emperor saw off the entire army in front of the Meridian Gate. Chu Xuan led everyone to kneel and bid farewell to the emperor, and then they marched towards the northern border in a mighty manner.

After walking northward for more than twenty days, we finally arrived at the gate of Zhongzhou City.

During this period, Dongchen has been mobilizing troops everywhere in preparation for the large-scale siege that will begin soon.

Chu Xuan's arrival undoubtedly brought hope and light to the people of Zhongzhou.

On that day, Chu Xuan reorganized the soldiers he brought with him and the soldiers from the northern border, totaling 250,000 troops, while Dongchen had 300,000.

Just when Chu Xuan was thinking about how to defeat the larger force with a smaller one, a group of soldiers and horses rushed to the outside of Zhongzhou City.

The person who came was Wen Jie.

Before leaving, Lu Yanluo gave the drawings of the musket to Wen Jie, with the purpose of letting him use the drawings to build a Shenji Camp.

If there was anyone in the capital city to whom Lu Yanluo could entrust this matter with peace of mind, it would be Wen Jie. And Wen Jie lived up to everyone's expectations and finally arrived.

And that very night, Dongchen, which had been resting for more than a month, officially launched an attack on Zhongzhou.

Cheng Ruoxue volunteered to lead 30,000 Cheng family soldiers out of the city through a secret passage and went around behind the enemy. Chu Xuan used the Zhongzhou city gate as the boundary and faced the enemy head-on, forming a situation of being surrounded from the front and back with Cheng Ruoxue.

The Shenji Battalion, which consisted of only 500 men, took advantage of the change in night to sneak into the battlefield and use their muskets to launch surprise attacks on the enemy.

With these three approaches, the battle soon came to an end. General Dongchen saw that the situation was not going well and hurriedly called back his troops.

In the tent, Cheng Ruoxue took off her armor, revealing a scarlet knife wound on her fair shoulder that was particularly eye-catching.

Lu Yanluo carefully cleaned the area around the wound, applied medicine, and then sighed, "Sister Cheng, swords have no eyes on the battlefield, so you need to be more careful."

Cheng Ruoxue had her back to Lu Yanluo. The thrill of fighting on the battlefield had not yet subsided. She was silent for a moment when she heard the words, shook her head, raised her hand and slowly put on her undershirt, then touched the sword in front of her, her eyes shining brightly.

"I have kept this sword in the closet for several years. Before this, I thought it was my fate to spend the rest of my life in the inner house. I never thought that today, I would see it unsheathed and drink blood again."

Cheng Ruoxue was a little nostalgic: "Before I got married, I used to wear it to kill enemies in front of the enemy's battle array without changing my expression, but everyone told me that the inner house is the home of women, so I took off my armor and walked into the Zhenbei Marquis Mansion."

Lu Yanluo sighed softly and patted Cheng Ruoxue soothingly. She understood.

Cheng Ruoxue was born into a general's family and grew up in the army. She has a straightforward and free-spirited personality. However, there happened to be a vicious and scheming woman named Yun in the mansion of the Marquis of Zhenbei, who came between her and the Marquis of Zhenbei. In addition, Cheng Ruoxue had been married for many years but had never been able to get pregnant, and the elders had many resentments towards her.

Due to many reasons, Cheng Ruoxue's life in Zhenbei Hou Mansion became difficult. Gradually, she had to find ways to suppress the Yun family and was forced to start a life of competing for favor in the inner house all day long.

The once heroic, upright and generous Cheng Ruoxue was put aside along with the sword and covered in dust.

"Now that I think about it, retiring from the battlefield and marrying the Marquis of Zhenbei was the most wrong decision I made in my life. I had already accepted my fate, but since I met you, I realized that people should live more freely and unrestrainedly."

Cheng Ruoxue turned to look at Lu Yanluo with a bright smile on her face: "So I am very grateful that the prince allowed me to go with the army this time. Yanluo, it feels so good to be myself again."

Lu Yanluo suddenly realized that Cheng Ruoxue in front of her had changed a lot from when they first met. She must be like this: her original appearance, passionate as fire, not the self-pitying woman in the inner chamber.

During the evening rest, Lu Yanluo told Chu Xuan about her conversation with Cheng Ruoxue, and she couldn't help but sigh.

On the other hand, Chu Xuan was not surprised at all. He just smiled indifferently. What he thought was different from Lu Yanluo.

In today's battle, Cheng Ruoxue fought very beautifully, and the well-trained Cheng family army behind her also made Chu Xuan very interested.

The Cheng family has been a lineage of military generals for generations. When Emperor Taizu was on campaigns, the generals who followed him included members of the Cheng family.

It's just that the current emperor has suppressed military officers too much, forcing the Cheng family to send their daughter from the battlefield to the inner palace in order to balance the relationship between the Cheng family and the royal family.

In order to protect the foundation of the Cheng family, the head of the Cheng family disorganized the Cheng family army of that year and re-incorporated them into the military. Gradually, everyone seemed to have almost forgotten the Cheng family army that once galloped across the border and was invincible.

Today, I had the honor to see this team. Although there were only tens of thousands of people, it made Chu Xuan's eyes light up. If he could recruit them for his own use, it would surely be a powerful weapon in the future.

Coincidentally, on the next day, Cheng Ruoxue and several lieutenants knelt in front of Chu Xuan.

Cheng Ruoxue respectfully took out a pitch-black token and presented it to Chu Xuan.

Chu Xuan picked it up and saw the word "Cheng" on it. Then he looked at Cheng Ruoxue's appearance and had some idea in his mind.

As expected, Cheng Ruoxue spoke solemnly: "Your Highness, this is the Cheng Family Army token that my father personally handed to me before this expedition. Your Highness must know everything about the Cheng Family, and I also know everything about Your Highness. Today, I, Cheng Ruoxue, will lead more than 30,000 Cheng Family Army soldiers to join His Highness the Night King. From now on, the Cheng Family Army will follow His Highness's lead!"

After a moment, Chu Xuan stepped forward and helped Cheng Ruoxue up: "I will definitely live up to General Cheng's trust."

Chu Xuan called him General Cheng instead of Madam Zhenbei Hou's wife. The difference made Cheng Ruoxue feel inexplicably relieved. Maybe one day, the Cheng family army could really be reunited.