She blocked Nighthawk's mouth with just a few words, because Nighthawk simply couldn't afford to take this risk.
Moreover, Mo Lanyue's biggest problem has been solved now. If she escapes from the palace again because of her displeasure, it won't be Nighthawk who can trick her back by writing a letter to someone. Thinking of this, Nighthawk is unhappy in every possible way.
, I had no choice but to calm down and stop showing a bad face to her.
"Then do you think 30,000 soldiers, plus the imperial guards in the palace, are enough to stop possible foreign enemies?"
Nighthawk's question made Mo Lanyue really dumbfounded. She didn't even know which groups of people had bad intentions against Caiying, so how could she imagine and estimate whether their defenses were adequate or not.
"It's hard to say, but at least it can be guaranteed that with the current deployment, even if someone does sneak in, they will be discovered in a short period of time. If they come openly, there will be no fear, unless..."
"Unless what?"
"Unless they have more people than the army in the palace and outside the city, then even the gods have no choice but to ask for help from outside."
Mo Lanyue knew that the answer Nighthawk wanted was probably her promise. She didn't want to make any kind of promise to Nighthawk, but in order to temporarily quiet her ears, she had no choice but to comfort her.
"When you are really at the end of your rope, just go to the Purple Thunder Army stationed nearby for help. Don't worry too much."
Hearing Mo Lanyue's exact promise, Nighthawk felt much more at ease.
Just when she was satisfied and wanted to leave Caiyue Palace, the Minister of War, whose name Mo Lanyue didn't know, suddenly broke in sweating profusely. He ignored the obstruction of the eunuch outside and rushed directly into the room without communication.
Before Mo Lanyue could speak, Nighthawk had already spoken on her behalf and taught the minister a lesson for the rude intrusion.
"Chen Yishan, do you know that trespassing in the harem is forbidden in the palace? Do you plan to accept the punishment of sixty boards?"
The minister named Chen Yishan plopped down and knelt in front of the two of them, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, please excuse me, but I really have urgent matters to report to the Emperor, so I rushed in without caring about the etiquette in the palace.
"
"No matter how desperate you are, you can't..."
Nighthawk was about to scold her again, but Mo Lanyue pulled her and interrupted her.
"What's the matter? Tell me."
She said to Chen Yishan, since it was an emergency and he was an official in charge of the Ministry of War, the combination of the two gave her a very bad feeling.
Even if she expected that the bandits would form a gang and come together to seize the palace property or even the entire palace, Chen Yishan would not be so frightened that he would not even care about his life.
"Your Majesty, all the 30,000 troops who were left outside the city have defected!"
"What?!"
Chen Yishan's words were like a bolt from the blue. Even Mo Lanyue couldn't help but start to panic. She never thought that the entire 30,000-strong army would defect together. This was too... Are these people from the Caiying Kingdom? She was very confused.
Doubtful, there is no basic patriotism at all.
Nighthawk was so startled that he staggered back a few steps, helped himself to a chair nearby and sat down.
"How is it possible...more than 30,000 people, all defected..."
With a sad look on his face, Chen Yishan told Mo Lanyue and Ye Ying what he knew in detail.
It turned out that the remaining 30,000 soldiers were under the jurisdiction of a general named Song Qinglong. He had been doing well before and would send letters to the Ministry of War every other day explaining the situation in the army and food supply issues.
However, the letter that was supposed to be delivered the day before yesterday has not been delivered to the Ministry of War. Chen Yishan waited for a day and still did not arrive. Yesterday, he took someone out of the city to see what the problem was.
Unexpectedly, when Chen Yishan arrived at the military camp, he found that the place was in a mess, with things scattered all over the place, but not a single soldier in the military camp could be found.
The number of 30,000 people is absolutely huge. The most desertions that occurred in the past were generals taking away thousands of soldiers. Compared with this 30,000-strong army, it was simply insignificant and completely worth mentioning.
"If Song Qinglong has always been loyal to the court, why did he disappear with all the soldiers in two days? This is obviously his premeditated plan. And you, didn't you receive any news beforehand?"
"Before this, General Song was indeed loyal and made many great contributions to the court, but..."
"Don't hesitate, just say it if you have something to say."
Mo Lanyue couldn't stand Chen Yishan's way of stopping to look at her face after saying a word, so she lectured in a deep voice.
"This is just the speculation of the minister, and it has not been confirmed. A few days ago, the imperial doctor Song Lin died tragically for no reason while working in the palace. It was said that he was killed by an assassin. But the body was sent to the Song family, and they discovered that Song Lin
The way Lin died was not like being injured by an assassin, but like... he had offended someone and was killed as a result."
Mo Lanyue raised her eyebrows, and Chen Yishan suddenly mentioned Song Lin's matter, which surprised her.
"Are you going to say that Song Qinglong and Song Lin are relatives?"
"Song Qinglong is the son of the imperial physician Song Lin. Their family has been passed down for several generations. It is said that Song Lin and his son Song Qinglong have a very good relationship. Song Qinglong is even more filial to him and does not dare to disobey him no matter how big or small. This time
Song Lin's death was unclear. I'm afraid Song Qinglong was resentful, so..."
Song Lin looked like he was only about forty. She never expected that he actually had a son of a general who held an important position in the court. She had just been told that day that the snake venom in her body was gone and would no longer threaten her life. The next moment she
The pain in her abdomen and the blood flowing out of her lower body made her extremely emotionally unstable. Especially when she saw Song Lin being asked questions and didn't know anything, she recorded the loss of her fetus in his account without even thinking about the consequences.
on the head.
In retrospect, she was indeed reckless. After all, Song Lin may not have been able to predict the impact of treatment on the fetus. In the past, I heard that pregnant people could cause miscarriages by applying hot water bottles to their stomachs, like her repeated miscarriages of heat and ice.
Alternation has an impact to some extent. The only reason is that Song Lin categorically told her that the treatment would never endanger the fetus. Since Song Lin had always taken good care of her, of course she blindly believed Song Lin's words.
"Your Majesty, what should you do about this?"
Seeing that she didn't speak again for a long time, Chen Yishan boldly asked her.
"What should I do? What can I do? Those who ran away expected to become enemies of the imperial court, but with our current strength, it is simply unrealistic to chase them back and hold them accountable. Now our remaining soldiers are stationed in
As long as the remaining troops in the imperial city and palace are stabilized, the situation is not too dangerous for the time being."
Mo Lanyue ordered Chen Yishan to strengthen supervision of the movements of the remaining soldiers to prevent any soldiers from wanting to leave after hearing the news of the collective defection of the 30,000-strong army.
Now the only ones left in the Caiying Kingdom are these 30,000 soldiers plus the palace guards. Since the other armies were dispersed by Nighthawk to deal with the armies of the four countries, they were either destroyed or escaped.
He voluntarily surrendered to the four countries and must have been incorporated into his own military camp by the four countries.
This Caiying Kingdom is really at the end of its might.
She thought mockingly to herself that although she was the one who planned to make the Caiying Kingdom, which was already surrounded by enemies, so desolate, at that time she just wanted to keep Caiying Nation as a source of supply on the premise of eliminating the threat posed by the Caiying Nation to the other four countries.
She entertained and entertained. But she missed one thing, that is, when the country's political power does not have enough troops to support it, it is a normal plot development to be watched, oppressed, and annexed by others.
The country is powerful and fashionable, and there are various gangs, bandits, and bandits who cannot be caught or recruited by the court. With the current weakness of Caiying Country, how can anyone not be tempted by it.
As soon as Chen Yishan left, Nighthawk, who was about to leave, decided not to leave because of Mo Lanyue's Caiyue Palace.
Mo Lanyue threw aside the map of the imperial palace, and asked for a large map of the imperial city. Following the previous method, she roughly drew the distribution of military forces in the city on the map, including the imperial city of Caiying Kingdom and the pattern of purple thunder.
There is not much difference. There are also gates in the four directions of east, west, north and south. Each gate is heavily guarded, but after all, the soldiers are dispersed. If the intruders can gather more than ten thousand people to attack the city, I am afraid that no matter what
The gates on either side are easily breached by them.
"What are you going to do, continue to sit back and wait for death?"
Mo Lanyue hadn't started to show disgust at the people who had been squatting next to her and watching her every move, but before the work here was finished, they kept asking questions, and she really couldn't bear it.
. She raised her head and stared at Nighthawk. After all, she had been an empress for more than ten or twenty years. If Nighthawk provided her with some advice or solutions, she would be happy to accept them, but she was like a problem baby who pinned everything on her.
In her case, she really doubted how Nighthawk had been able to maintain a stable position in the country for so many years.
"Nighthawk, let me ask you a question first."
Mo Lanyue asked in reply, "Have you never encountered such a situation before?"
"Are you talking about this situation of internal and external troubles? In the past, our Caiying Kingdom has always been in a dominant position. The North Korean generals are brave and good at fighting. It is enough for me to have them."
She was really defeated by her. The king of a country should at least learn something other than giving orders to others.
"What's that look in your eyes? Are you looking down on me? Mo Lanyue, I'm just asking for your opinion. It doesn't mean I think you are capable. You..."
"Don't blame me for asking you out if you bother me again!"
Faced with Nighthawk's arrogant speech, Mo Lanyue finally couldn't help but say harsh words. Did this old woman really think that she didn't dare to touch her? How long had it been since she was here to argue with her about such trivial matters?
She continued to look at the map of the imperial city with a headache. She was not familiar with the complex map at the time, so she could only roughly circle a few positions that she thought were important, and then began to arrange the deployment of troops in the city.
Before he could figure it out, Liu Jueming came to the door again with a desperate intention. Mo Lanyue was very upset, and she started scolding him before he could say anything.
"What are you doing here? I don't have time to talk nonsense with you now!"
"Come out with me and take a look. There's chaos outside."