Chapter 398 A Short Sentence
The year Yun Chen was appointed General Huwei, he had just turned twenty-five.
In May, the Huwei Army set out from Guangyuan City in Youzhou and launched a swift attack on the Black Scale Cavalry.
Recover lost territories along the way and recruit soldiers locally to fight again.
In addition, the Nan Kingdom obtained 100,000 new troops in exchange for ceding the territory of Xiangxiaoya to the Zhao Kingdom. Wherever the red-eyed tiger-head flag passed, no black armor was left behind. The cheers of the people regaining their freedom and peace resounded throughout the city-state.
There was no need to care about Huo Gannian. Yun Chen was like a tiger freed from its iron chains, with a ferocious Tiger Legion behind him. Wherever he went, there was blood and rain.
Yun Chen led the Huwei Army in this way and successively recovered one state, nine cities, eight counties, seventy-two towns, and countless villages, and defeated the Black Scale Cavalry step by step, with more than half of them severely injured, which was a horrific sight.
At the end of the fight, it was unclear whether the Black Scale Cavalry was unable to lead the troops in person because their general Jiao Zuotai had not yet recovered from his injury, or if they were really scared by Yun Chen.
When the battle started again, just by seeing Yun Chen's black horse from afar, watching the cavalry regiment rushing like a torrent, and hearing the iron war drums beating like tiger roars and thunder, the Black Scale Cavalry began to tremble and were frightened from the bottom of their hearts.
They suffered defeat after defeat and retreated like a lost dog, without even having time to set up camp.
In just over three months, the Huwei Army pulled the front line back to Yancheng.
Yancheng was recaptured again, and the remaining 50,000 Black Scale Cavalry were forced to retreat to Guying City.
After three months of fierce fighting, Yun Chen, the youngest general since the founding of the Nan Kingdom, not only created the myth of being undefeated in individual combat and winning ten battles in a row for the entire army, but also created the miracle of recovering lost territory at the fastest speed in the history of the Three Kingdoms.
People say that even if the Black Scale Cavalry eats human flesh, it can never match the courage of a tiger.
Tigers are born to eat zombies like them and are specifically designed to defeat black-scale cavalry.
In addition to winning battles, the Tiger Army also won great favor from the people along the way with its strict military discipline.
Yun Chen had strict military discipline. Whenever the army passed through a city, they would take shelter and rest at the city walls and would never enter the city to disturb the people.
Along the way, not only were soldiers strictly prohibited from asking the people for food, but they also always gave their personal belongings to exiled refugees.
Along the way, every time a city or village was recovered, special troops would be left behind to help the people build walls, clear the fields, and rebuild their homes.
The people were deeply moved. Thinking that the predecessor of the Tiger Army was the Lion Army, which they had abused and betrayed in the past, they expressed their loyalty and submission with tears in their eyes.
Whenever the Tiger Power Army left, the people would rush to see them off and chase them with food and clothes.
Looking at the Lion Power Army on the other side, the situation is similar to that of Yun Chen's side.
Huo Gannian used the attack on Luojiang's lair as an opportunity to gain an advantage, and used the Nan Kingdom's offer of shelter and the establishment of a protectorate as an inducement to persuade the surrounding tribes to unite into an army. He then made a great move in the vast northern wilderness, completely keeping Luojiang's roving troops two hundred miles away from Mount Paektu, and achieved a series of great victories.
Victory news came one after another from the eastern and northern battlefields, and the situation in the country was very good.
People's admiration and respect for heroes and victorious generals has long surpassed that for the emperor.
In this joyous atmosphere, there was only one person who didn't fit in. He was listless all day long, like a shrimp with its thread pulled out. That person was——
Rong Yi.
Yun Chen led the army. Rong Yi was already familiar with his style of being fierce in battle and pure like a happy little lamb after the battle.
When she was in the Lion Army, she had always been the vanguard commander, and all military affairs were managed by Huo Gannian, and she had never been in charge personally.
Now that she was leading the army alone and began to manage military affairs, she did not expect that she was more strict than Huo Gannian and directly issued three iron orders. Anyone who violated them would be dealt with by military law.
It goes without saying that the army must not disturb the people, and must not destroy farmland when taking shortcuts during marches.
The second order was that she did not allow the establishment of military prostitute camps in the army, nor did she allow soldiers to seek pleasure when passing through towns.
But as long as one is human, there will be desires.
After every battle, the soldiers’ passion fades, how can they relieve the emptiness and loneliness in their bodies?
Yun Chen has a trick for this.
No one knew how she came up with such an inhumane and perverse idea. In order to prevent the soldiers from being tempted by lust due to being well fed, she directly ordered the entire army to march quickly and fiercely, and to start fighting immediately after arriving at the designated location. After the battle, they would not stay at the original location for more than three days, and then immediately rush to the next battle point.
This cycle repeated itself over and over again. The soldiers were either busy recuperating from their wounds or catching up on sleep. As soon as they had recovered a little, they had to go into battle again. As soon as the battle was over, they had to rush on their way again. They had no energy to think about those things.
Only Rong Yi, who was used to being around women, couldn't stand it.
No matter how hard or tired he was fighting or training during the day, as soon as he lay down at night and closed his eyes, his mind was full of women.
There's nothing I can do, I'm young after all.
Yun Chen's method of draining people's energy worked on ordinary soldiers, but had no effect on Rong Yi.
Therefore, everyone was full of fighting spirit, waiting for the day when the southeast would be completely recovered. Only Rong Yi was depressed all day long, and he couldn't help but take a few more glances at the female mosquitoes passing by.
In desperation, he could only drink to drown his sorrows, but guess what happened -
Yun Chen’s third order was to ban alcohol.
Rong Yi was almost going crazy. On the day when the army was stationed in Yancheng, he built half of the city wall by himself, and finally he felt like venting his anger.
Seeing this, Luo Dongdong, cracking melon seeds with one hand, commented:
"How does this guy get so much energy every day? I really admire him."
Fu Lin grabbed half a handful of melon seeds from Luo Dongdong's hand and sighed:
"I don't know if Brother Rong is taking food or medicine tonics. I want to learn from him."
"I guess he was born with it. What's the word for it? Uh-huh..."
"Born lustful?"
"Not strong enough."
"A libertine?"
“Not accurate enough.”
"A madcap bee and butterfly?"
“Not relevant enough.”
Fu Lin rhymed several words in a row, but they were all rejected by Luo Dongdong one by one.
The two continued to eat melon seeds while looking at Rong Yi, who was still shirtless and showing off his muscular body.
"I bet he can hold it in for three more days."
"I'll bet on one day."
"Boss, this order is indeed a bit inhumane."
"That's for everyone's own good. The sooner the fight is over, the sooner you can go home to your wife and children."
"By the way, have they reconciled?"
As the question came out, Luo Dongdong and Fu Lin turned around at the same time and glanced at Yun Chen who was two steps behind them.
She was concentrating on inspecting the reconstruction of Yancheng, and because her ears were still not well, she didn't hear the two people's whispering at all.
Luo Dongdong suddenly became bolder. "I heard that General Huo has been writing love letters to our boss every day for almost four months, without missing a single day."
Fu Lin nodded. "Of course not. A special express horse route was opened just for the purpose of delivering love letters. Wherever General Yun goes, General Huo's love letters will follow."
"Tsk tsk..." Luo Dongdong couldn't help but sigh, "But I saw that the boss didn't reply to any of his letters."
"That's more than that!" Fu Lin corrected Luo Dongdong, "I guess I didn't even read it for the first three months. I just tore it up and burned it. I only started reading it recently. It's good. I'm finally starting to calm down."
"How do you know this?" Luo Dongdong asked.
Fu Lin pouted and pointed at Yun Chen as if spitting out melon seed shells:
"Whether she's in a good mood or a bad mood, whether she's read the letter, whether she's thinking about General Huo, whether her anger has subsided or not, it's all written on her face, clearer than black and white."
Luo Dongdong gave a thumbs-up repeatedly in admiration. After thinking for a moment, he breathed a sigh of relief and said with relief:
"It seems that 'Dad' and 'Mom' will be able to reconcile sooner or later... Now I feel relieved. I don't have to worry about having a 'stepfather'. Ouch—"
Before he could finish his words, Yun Chen hit Luo Dongdong on the head with a horsewhip, causing him to grimace in pain.
She feigned anger and said, "If you keep talking nonsense, I'll go and brush the horse!"
"You want to brush an arm too?" Luo Dongdong lamented, "Boss! Why can't you hear anything else? You always believe bad things when you hear them!"
Amidst Fu Lin's laughter, Yun Chen left with a stern face.
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Back in the main tent, Yun Chen sat quietly at the table for a long time.
On the table are the two latest letters delivered today.
The first letter came from the Taoist temple "Tiaoyunlu" in Guangyuan City, Youzhou.
After Yun Chen sent more than a dozen letters, confessing his sins in tears and expressing his willingness to repay the kindness he had shown him in the past at all costs, Huo Luyu finally responded.
There wasn't much in the letter, just a few words:
If you want to repay me, please cherish her for me.
There were only eight words, but Yun Chen felt numb all over and his eyes became moist. All the past events were stirring violently in his chest, and finally turned into a warm current, warming a place in the deepest part of her heart.
These eight words mean Huo Luyu's "I forgive you, I never blame you."
The so-called cherishing "her" refers to Yun Chen himself, not anyone else:
If you, Yun Chen, really want to repay me, then take good care of yourself, do what you want to do, love who you want to love... and don't let me down.
At this moment, Yun Chen finally understood that the rejection at the Taoist temple on the top of the mountain that day and the tightly closed door were actually the sky-high barrier that Huo Luyu had built with all his love and affection.
However, the person imprisoned inside was Huo Luyu, not her Yun Chen.
Yun Chen lay on the table, taking deep breaths and wiping the wet corners of his eyes with his sleeves.
She understood that she could never repay Huo Luyu's kindness and love in her lifetime.
"Do what I want to do, love who I want to love... and don't let her down..."
Yun Chen muttered these two sentences and opened the second letter on the table.
Just like the past three months, it still came from the Luojiang wasteland.
She opened it, and the first sentence that caught her eye was still:
"My dear Chen'er, I have missed you so much for so long that I have become sick with shame..."
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