When Shard woke up, a night had already passed.
She was lying on a bed.
The room was antique in style and exquisitely decorated.
The walls were decorated with calligraphy and paintings, porcelain and antiques, as well as bows and arrows.
The quilt was made of silk satin, with a faint fragrance and a lingering scent of Chinese herbal medicine.
It looks like the general's residence at Yumen Pass.
It was clear that they were using the best room inside Yumen Pass for her to recuperate.
Shard rubbed his throbbing head, blinked, and got up from the soft bed.
She flew a long way off the horse and fell to the ground. She didn't suffer many superficial injuries, but she did suffer a lot of internal injuries.
However, she felt much better and was in less pain.
Suddenly, she remembered that the Loulan Kingdom was still under attack from the Xianbei cavalry, and she wondered how much longer her father and the soldiers and civilians in the city could hold out.
Even the fate of Commander Shiraishi, who sacrificed himself to draw away the pursuers, remains unknown.
With that thought in mind, Shard got off the bed, put on his boots, and pushed open the door to the room.
"Princess, you're awake!"
Two maids outside the door rushed over to greet Shard, looking surprised.
When the princess of Loulan was brought back from outside Yumen Pass by the prince, she remained unconscious.
A doctor was called in, and after a long period of work, the doctor said that the princess would not wake up until at least the afternoon of the next day.
I didn't expect to wake up so early this morning.
It seems this princess is in good physical condition.
No wonder, this seemingly frail princess was actually eight feet tall.
Standing right by the door, the two maids had to crane their necks to see the princess's exquisite face and blue eyes.
"Who are you?" Shard asked when he saw two women approaching with concern at the door.
“We are here to serve the princess on the orders of the prince. The prince said that if the princess wakes up and is able to get out of bed and walk around, he asked us to inform Lord Manji.”
The maid said with a smile.
"What? Uncle Manji is still at Yumen Pass? This won't do! Loulan City is under attack by the Xianbei, and Father is in grave danger!"
"I'll go find Uncle Manji right now and beg Your Highness to send troops immediately. If you don't send troops soon, Loulan City will be breached."
Upon hearing this, Shard immediately looked anxious.
She thought that when she was rescued from the clutches of Prince Anxin of Cheshi by the Han cavalry yesterday, the Han cavalry had already set off for Loulan!
"Where is your prince? Where is Uncle Manji? I'm going to find them right now!"
After saying that, he took long strides and headed out.
"Princess, your injury has just healed, so rest here. We'll go and inform Lord Manji now!" the maid hurriedly stopped her.
"We can't wait any longer, we can't afford to waste another moment!"
Shard gripped a maid's shoulder tightly. "Tell me where they are!"
"hiss!"
The maid, wincing in pain as Shard gripped her, cried out, "Princess, be gentle! They're all in the city council chamber!"
"Feel sorry!"
Feeling embarrassed, Shard let go of her hand and then disappeared in a flash.
“Oh, this Loulan princess is quite pretty and has a slender figure, how come she’s so rude?” the captured maid muttered.
“Women from the Western Regions are nowhere near as gentle as women from our Han family,” another maid said.
"Do you think the prince would take a woman from the Western Regions as a concubine? I saw him carrying this woman all the way in from outside the city, his eyes full of tenderness."
"Stop gossiping. How dare we maids discuss the affairs of the Prince? You'll be beheaded if you do."
"Shh!"
......
Inside Yumen Pass, in the General's Mansion, in the council hall.
Liu Wei, the Malaysian Golden Horse Award winner, sat in the central seat.
The list included Xue Rengui, the General of the Vanquishing Army; Shen Lian, the Commander of the Intelligence Division; Zhou Qing, Xue Xiantu, Wang Xinhe, and Jiang Xingba, four cavalry captains of the White Robe Army; two cavalry captains of the Black Armor Cavalry; and a captain of the auxiliary troops of the Black Armor Cavalry.
Meanwhile, Manji, the envoy from the Loulan Kingdom, knelt in the middle, pleading earnestly:
"Your Highness, please send troops as soon as possible! King Weiliao has been fighting with the city's soldiers and civilians for five days, and I'm afraid they can no longer hold them off."
"If the Cheshi Kingdom in the north sends troops south again, the 40,000 people of Loulan City will be slaughtered!"
"Your Highness wouldn't want to acquire a ruined Loulan Kingdom, would you?"
Liu Wei remained silent, his brows furrowed.
On that day, while Liu Wei was terrified of the Qiang people who came to attack Zhangye City, he had already begun to plan the pursuit and annihilation of the Yuchi Xianbei tribe who had fled from Juyan Lake to Hexi.
Furthermore, they plan to reopen the Western Regions Prefectural Governor's Office.
According to the current administrative level of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Western Regions Chief Administrator's Office was under the jurisdiction of Dunhuang Commandery.
After Ding Yuan took office as the governor of Liangzhou, he transferred all the capable troops from the Western Regions Chief Administrator's Office, which was tantamount to abandoning the management of the Western Regions.
Now that Liu Wei has captured Juyan Lake, a key town at a crossroads, he naturally intends to bring the three counties of Hexi under his control.
As for the Western Regions west of the three prefectures of Hexi, they are certainly within the scope of consideration.
Xue Rengui then led his Xuanjia cavalry and auxiliary troops into Dunhuang in a grand procession, where they encountered the vanguard of 3,500 White-Robed Army cavalry at Sanwei Mountain.
The two elite cavalry units joined forces, greatly boosting their morale.
Liu Wei and Shen Lian, who set off a day later, followed closely behind with a hundred cavalrymen from the Imperial Guard.
When officials from all over Dunhuang heard that the King of Yunzhong had come to visit them, they flocked to Sanwei Mountain to pay their respects, weeping and lamenting the atrocities committed by the Xianbei people.
Liu Wei had already learned from Shen Lian that when the Xianbei people arrived, these officials surrendered without any resistance and even provided food and military supplies to Yuchi Gu of the Xianbei.
These people have been registered and blacklisted by the Embroidered Uniform Guard.
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