The Flower Of War

Chapter 43: I'm Slandered!

The next morning, after LingJian's forces had all retreated to the southwest and reached the nearest city of the Qin mountains, GuangDong City.

BaiQing's army, which had originally split into two, was reunited under the command of Prince Liu Yu with the left-wing deputy commando in the hands of Prince Liu JieLu and the right-wing forces in the hands of Yiu.

The army of three thousand soldiers with a thousand horsemen began to move forward towards the northern entrance of GuangDong city.

Seen above the city gate had prepared the LingJian archer warrior who had already drawn his bow.

In front of the gate was also prepared for the cavalry and those who did not, the BaiQing Army continued to move forward up to 1 Li from the city gate.

Prince Liu Yu, along with Prince Liu JieLu and Yiu at the forefront started to open his voice, "Prince Mo WeiLi! You're really brave enough to take your own people hostage, are you desperate now?"

A handsome young man riding white in silver armor complete with matching colored armor that made him appear striking among the others also opened his voice, "It's none of your business! I am not sacrificing my own people! Those who were on the front lines back then were all LingJian prisoners of war so why would I care?"

Yiu was slightly stunned to hear Prince Mo WeiLi's statement, making Yiu think where exactly the original troops they were hiding were.

Prince Liu JieLu who had run out of patience began to speak unhappily which made Prince Mo WeiLi's expression even more gloomy. "Also you're too cruel! Your ancestors will definitely be ashamed to see this attitude of yours!"

"Keep that shit of yours to death! I will avenge my niece who lost her parents when she was a baby because her father killed her in a cruel way! I will make your death worse than a dog!"

Yiu had heard quite a bit about the sparks that ignited this war.

Emperor Liu Xun allegedly told his three generals to go undercover to the country in the south to spy and find the weakness of the country.

One of the General's men in charge of spying on LingJian Mo's country was allegedly revealed by local officials who were under the orders of Emperor Mo-Mo's nephew JiHan-who at the time served as Mayor of Wei City.

Indeed, the size of the city is not too large but its location on the border of the country makes trade in Wei City a promising livelihood for the people and the kingdom, making trade in Wei City a promising livelihood for the people and the kingdom, plus this area is fertile enough to be planted so that it adds to the income of the country, no wonder the city became one of the famous trading centers in the LingJian State.

Immediately Mo JiHan brought the Bai Qing State spy for interrogation and closed all access in and out of both city and interstate access, involving a portion of the border guard forces to search the entire house and place without exception to find the spy headquarters that has been believed to have entered and nested in Wei City since the last ten years.

As a result of being surrounded and unable to send a signal asking for help, The general and the rest of his men who had not been caught attacked Mo JiHan's residence and slaughtered all the residents in the house without leaving even a fly, fortunately, Mo JiHan's only son, who was 1 year old, was entrusted to his foster mother's place so as to avoid death.

Emperor Mo was furious at the news, though, he felt this was a grave insult and decided to execute the General of BaiQing and his men by being burned alive witnessed by the entire LingJian people in the town square, then issued an absolute decree to attack BaiQing Liu.

And it happened like this ....

Yiu realized from his daydreams due to Prince Liu Yu who had shouted to attack, the war drums poured gasoline in the flames of army spirit. The troops from both camps moved forward issuing a series of deafening cries accompanied by a loud voice from the swords clashing against each other.

Yiu quietly retreated from the course of the fight along with thirty right-wing soldiers, accompanying him into the nearby forest.

Yiu spurred his horse as quickly as possible towards the end of the forest that was directly adjacent to the southern gate of Wei city.

In front of the gate stood about a hundred soldiers armed with a spiky wooden fence lined up gallantly in front of the gate.

As Yiu's cavalry emerged from the end of the forest, the entire gate guard soldiers simultaneously pulled out swords from the scabbard.

Yiu's face was still as serious as usual, his eagle eyes were always fixed on his cold face and casually running his horse slowly approaching the gate with undaunted steps.

"I'm not here to fight, I'm offering peace." Yiu's tone sounded resolute but the look on his face did not change at all.

"What do you mean?!" one of LingJian's soldiers ventured back.

"Yes .. I just want you to sign a power-over letter in Wei City and some surrounding villages with it we will be kind to you."

The soldier immediately spat in the first reaction and then shouted no less loudly, "This is our land! Our ancestral land! We will not give up this land to greedy sinners like you!"

"Alright if it's your choice, I'll also act as I choose." Yiu grinned lightly, his right hand then raised and waved lightly.

The fight at the south gate was inevitable, as being outnumbered more than doubled to leave Yiu immediately cornered.

"The situation is turning around now, Candidate Empress BaiQing ... Oh no, LingJian hell prisoner candidate. I'll make sure you feel the hottest hell on earth."

Yiu still did not react much on his horse that was already surrounded by LingJian warriors.

"You sure you don't want to accept my offer?" Yiu again grinned, his eyes still sharp as usual. There was not the slightest trace of fear on her beautiful face.

"You're about to die but still dare to threaten us? Gosh, you're so brave too, miss. Come down or I'll kill you right now?!"

Yiu got off his horse, still with his mainstay expression. Even when his legs dropped off immediately in the leg so that Yiu fell to his knees on the ground with the pointy sword close to his neck, his expression still did not change at all.

"Alright if it's your decision, I won't force it" Yiu said in a flat tone to his face.

Laughter broke out from the ten soldiers surrounding Yiu, but Yiu still showed an indifferent look on his face.

"I have a good choice for you, young lady. What if you come with us to camp? You probably won't end up here? Hey hey listen to me if I'm talking! You're so brave, young lady!"

"At least for a moment I was kind but you threatened me to be your slave." Yiu's grin became increasingly sharp with the look on LingJian's remaining warrior's face immediately drifting away backwards gathered closer to the gate, brandishing their swords trembling.

Yiu stood up then patted his hands, clearing the dust on his hands and clothes casually.

Flashback.

"I understand now .. Listen to me carefully. We break the soldier in two, send some of the strongest or cold-resistant soldiers to join the reserve tonight. We'll send the reserve force in turn for *1 to about 20 men to encircle the south gate and let me take care of it tomorrow."

*1 into traditional Chinese time counting has been defined as 1/96 day so that 1 to equals ¼ hours or 15 minutes.

That night also a total of 5000 soldiers were split into two camps, soldiers with endurance and resistance to cold night air were sent in turns and secretly towards the border.

Flashback off

"You're surrounded now and there's no point in running in, let alone waiting for help from the north gate."

Yiu walked up to the LingJian warrior, emerging from the crowd of BaiQing Warriors in front of him.

"You ********! Shameless! We will protect this land until death picks us up. We'd rather die than be enslaved by you!"

"Well if that's what you want .... However, I'm not sure your leader's answer will be the same as yours."

The BaiQing forces in the south had already taken control of the territory, they barged into the city and held the entire town hostage and opened the northern gate.

The already cornered Prince Mo WeiLi finally chose to sign the 'peace' agreement from BaiQing. LingJian country is also experiencing a crisis both economic and defense due to this conflict so it will not fight for a long time.

BaiQing's troops returned home with a landslide victory but unfortunately again they had to sacrifice one more prince, Liu JieLu.

Welcoming ceremonies were held across the country, welcoming Liu Yu and Yiu's troops. However, the reception was not done too much due to having to do the funeral ceremony for the three Liu Yu brothers.

After the funeral was completed four days later they held a banquet attended by the entire palace.

"I'm glad you guys were able to work together to win the war this time, and also I'm very grateful to Princess Ying for her help. Yu'er did not wrongly choose you as the Candidate Empress BaiQing Liu, so .. let's toast to our victory!"

Emperor Liu Xun spoke as he lifted the cup filled with wine followed by all officials and the royal family including Yiu who were present.

"Repeating the victory of His Majesty!"

The entire hall resounded then a moment of silence to drink the wine in their respective chalices.

"I also told you something, I have also decided that the title of Crown Prince will still be pinned on Prince Liu Yu so that after I die later who will be my successor is Prince Liu Yu."

Emperor Liu Xun looked happy, his manic led to Prince Liu Yu who was also smiling.

"Your Majesty is very wise, Congratulations Crown Prince Liu Yu and Crown Princess Ying MeiWang."

The entire official lowered his head in greeting towards the Emperor and Liu Yu. Yiu also nodded his head towards the Emperor and smiled towards Liu Yu.

The second glass of wine was raised in the air, and they drank it again.

However, in contrast to before, Emperor Liu Xun's expression was troubled. He dropped his cup and held his left chest and fell forward.

After that one hall boisterous, uncontrollable state. Very fucked.

"Emperor poisoned! Protect the emperor and the royal family!" Prince Liu Yu opened his voice amidst the commotion. He quickly carried Emperor Liu Xun's body aided by Yiu who also secured Empress Yan Shi with him.

The next day, news of Emperor Liu Xun's death was leaked to court officials. And that same day Prince Liu Yu was made Emperor even without the Empress, so that the government would continue and the other Kingdoms would not take advantage of the death of Emperor BaiQing.

After the coronation, the first thing he did was to investigate the brains behind the alleged assassination plot of the Emperor from within the palace.

From that day on, Emperor Liu Yu was preoccupied with royal affairs as well as investigations, leaving him with almost no time to meet Yiu at all.

It took two days until the case finally found a bright spot, but there was no clarity on who the suspect was named. All officials broke out in cold sweat awaiting the open-air trial held this afternoon in the royal hall.

"My goal is to open the hearing this time you must have known. I gathered you together without any exceptions because the brain behind the incident was one of ours. I led the Inquiry Institute myself in this case together with the Defense Division and we found evidence of the poison and its purchase notes coming from the other side."

Emperor Liu Yu opened the trial, the officials displaying a face full of question marks as well as being curious.

"To be honest, I'm very hard-hearted in saying this. However, the assassination of the Emperor was extremely intolerable .... Soldier! Arrest Crown Princess Ying MeiWang on suspicion of the Emperor's murder and put him in jail!"

Yiu could not help but be surprised to hear Emperor Liu Yu's statement.

TB