War is a major event of the country, a place of life and death, and a way of survival. We must attach great importance to it.
Fan Bei knew the importance of this battle, but he did not expect it to last for three months.
The Qin army was stationed in Fen City, while the Wei army was stationed in Mi City. The two cities were separated by Mi River. In the past three months, there had been many battles.
The two armies fought to the death because of the hatred in their hearts.
Food and fodder were constantly transported to the two cities, providing sufficient supplies for the military.
The war was getting more and more intense. While the people of Qin and Mujiang were paying attention, other countries were also secretly observing.
The Jin Country and the Yue Country had already formed a marriage alliance. The strength of the two countries, which were already on good terms, could not be underestimated.
From another perspective, the State of Yue had married the most famous princess of the State of Yue to the State of Jin in March to curry favor with the State of Jin. The State of Jin's power was growing day by day, and the State of Yue's behavior was mainly to seek protection. Therefore, in major matters, it mainly depended on the attitude of the Jin Country. If the Jin Country did not take action, the Yue Country would not act rashly.
As for Northern Qi, it had always been ambitious and unsatisfied with its own territory. It wanted to invade and expand, so in this Battle of Mishui, the Northern Qi Kingdom had always wanted to find an opportunity to attack. However, it was still a question as to which country they would ally with.
Although the power of Qin had fallen to the Empress Dowager, the previously unknown King of Qin had shown outstanding performance on the battlefield in the past few months. It was obvious that he was gradually turning the situation around and taking back the position of the ruler. It was difficult to imagine whether he could restore the prestige of Qin in the future. However, if they helped him before he seized power, they would probably end up empty-handed.
As for Mujiang, although the young King of Qin had a hard time in the Battle of Mishui and his military strength could not be underestimated, his internal affairs were really corrupt. The ruler abused villains and listened to calumny, killing many loyal officials. The king of Mujiang was a person blinded by greed and had a deep obsession with power. He was always on guard against his own son. He had deposed two crown princes one after another. Because of the groundless usurpation of the throne, he had also killed the famous battlefield Qifeng female general Yao Suling in his early years. Because he was afraid that her prestige on the battlefield would affect his position as a sovereign. If it wasn't for Yao Suling's husband, Feng Ting, Bu Yunti, and other loyal generals guarding the border, they would have been killed by Jin long ago.
They couldn't stand on the side of the increasingly corrupt Mujiang Kingdom, but the King of Qin wasn't too sure. This made the rulers of Northern Qi feel very troubled, so they decided to continue watching.
As for the Eastern Capital, it had never interfered in the political affairs of other countries. Its view on natural and man-made disasters was that as long as it did not endanger the Eastern Capital, as long as trade was not interrupted, and as long as business could continue, it would only laugh even if you fought until blood flowed like a river.
The Southern Mountain Range occupied the largest territory among the Nine Nations, but its population was not proportional to its territory. It would not attract trouble that would only feed itself. Therefore, it focused on dealing with its own country's land reclamation plan. It only wanted to take advantage of the autumn harvest to store more food. In a desolate land, food and clothing were the most important problems that needed to be solved.
As such, the Overlord Kingdom of the Nine Nations, Jin, did not make a move. Its affiliated kingdom, Zhao Yan, and its ally, Yue, would not make a move either. Northern Qi was still observing the situation, the Eastern Capital was ignoring it, and the Southern Region was busy with its own matters. Tuotuo, who had always been living mysteriously in the desert, would not do anything. He only appeared once every hundred years, and the rare time he appeared, he might even be seen as a god or a monster.
As a result, Qin and Mujiang fought for three months as if no one else was around.
This year, the farmers of the Qin State in Mujiang had quite a lot of complaints. The newly harvested crops in autumn had not even rolled into their own granaries before they were requisitioned as military rations, leaving only a small amount for the winter.
Fortunately, this year's harvest was not bad, and the farmers had a lot of harvest, so it did not lead to the miserable situation of many people being displaced by the war.
The memorials from the Qin court to stop the war were piled up like a mountain but they were all suppressed. Empress Dowager Qin had other plans. She had always been in contact with Qin Qi and that nephew of hers had always listened to her. With him on the battlefield, a small Qin Feng wouldn't be able to cause any trouble. Moreover, the joyous harvest of the three cities in succession greatly satisfied the Prime Minister's faction. They thought that if they won this battle, perhaps the State of Qin could stand side by side with the State of Jin.
The taste of power could always make people addicted, and the fruit of victory was even more tempting. On this point, Empress Dowager Qin was like this, and so was the King of Mujiang. He was already fifty-six years old, but he still refused to appoint a crown prince. He only wanted to sit on the supreme throne and watch the people under the throne prostrate themselves.
In his life, he loved people flattering him the most, and he hated the appearance of forces that threatened his throne. After executing the female general Yao Suling who had always made him uneasy, he began to gradually weaken Feng Ting's military power.
Feng Ting was stubborn and honest. Without Yao Suling, he would have lost half his life, which was why he had kept him alive until now. However, his daughter with Yao Suling was growing day by day and was becoming more and more famous. The King of Mujiang was afraid that she would become the next Yao Suling, so he had come up with a plan to send her to the State of Qin for a marriage alliance. She could not disobey the imperial edict. After leaving Mujiang, which had always been protected by various forces, he killed her and framed Qin. He used Feng Ting's anger to start a war. In this way, not only could he get rid of Feng Jiuchao, but he could also maximize Feng Ting's value. It would be even better if he died in battle. In this way, he could be the King of Mujiang without any worries.
However, he had never thought that the reason why he could be the king of Mujiang without any worries was because these brave military officials who were not afraid of death on the battlefield protected Mujiang for him and prevented Mujiang from being invaded by foreign countries. If the last of the military officials were wiped out one by one, the remaining treacherous officials who only knew how to speak beautiful words and slander would sooner or later be swallowed up by Jin or Northern Qi, who were secretly waiting for an opportunity.
Sighing about the situation of the world, the plans of a country, and the complicated and unbreakable veil between the monarch and his subjects.
Fan Bei, who had transmigrated, did not know that she had become an important chess piece on the chessboard of this world. Her appearance was enough to change the situation and break all the peace on the surface.
She only followed her own thoughts and thought of countermeasures and plans in the three months of battle with Mujiang. She planned the timing, the terrain, and the people. As Qin Feng's secret military advisor, she faced the strongest opponent of Mujiang, Mujiang General Feng Ting.
She only felt that she had found an opponent, an opponent who could match her, an opponent who could slowly dig deeper into her potential. That Feng Ting whom she had never met before, even though he was twenty years older than her, he was like a mirror, reflecting her various strengths and weaknesses.
In the game against the Wind Thunder Battlefield, every move was the same as the next one. He placed his pieces without regret. Every step led to the next thrilling and exciting move.
During this process, Fan Bei had drawn up hundreds of battle plans against Mujiang, flipped through military books, and chewed through the major battles in the Nine Kingdoms in the past few hundred years. He planned and planned to win in danger.
If the enemy is trapped and does not fight, the enemy will lose his strength and become weaker.
The general has too many troops to resist, so he can only make the enemy tired and weaken the enemy's momentum.
Change the enemy's formation frequently, draw out the enemy's strong forces, wait for the enemy to defeat himself, and then take advantage of it.
Outsiders watching the battle only knew when the battle would start today, how many troops the two sides would send, and the outcome of the battle.
Only when one watched the battle would one be able to feel every step and move behind these appearances. They would anticipate the other party's reaction and their own endurance. They would only dare to fight after thinking about each step in detail.
However, although Fan Bei was full of confidence, every time he thought he would break through the defense of Mujiang, the other party had a way to resist.
Thus, in these three months, Mujiang and Qin country still stayed in their respective positions and didn't have a winner.
Fan Bei was anxious and knew that fighting like this wasn't a good idea. If Qin Feng wanted to consolidate his power, he had to win the hearts of more people and make some achievements. Otherwise, it would be useless.
And the long war was clearly unbearable for the Qin army.
There was also Qin Qi who had been guarding at the side. Fan Bai only felt that the situation was not good.
The only thing he gained was that Qin Feng's personality had been tempered a lot after three months of life in the army. On the other hand, Fan Bei was getting more and more unable to see through her own thoughts. He was becoming more and more susceptible to external disturbances and emotional fluctuations.
She was no longer an ignorant girl, nor was she the cold and indifferent Fanbei. She was troubled by many things and became more and more confused.
There were many times when he woke up in the middle of the night, not because he was worried about the battle the next day, but because he would have many strange dreams. The images in the dreams were very blurry, like the mosaicked scenes in the 21st century. It was as if they were through frosted glass and could not be seen clearly. He could only feel that the dream was about the battlefield, about killing people, but that battlefield did not seem like the Battle of Mi Water. It was like many different old battles that had happened in places that he had never been to.
There was always a protagonist in the dream. It was a woman. She couldn't see her age and couldn't hear her voice, but she felt very familiar.
She always held a blood-stained sword and rode a date red horse. She was the most important person on the battlefield, and her sword rose and fell in an instant, causing blood to splash everywhere. It was terrifying.
At the end of the dream, it was always this woman who stood in a pile of corpses with her back facing Fan Bei. She slowly wiped the blood off the sword, and when she was done, she slowly turned around and looked at Fan Bei...
Every time this happened, Fan Bei would wake up with a start. She was afraid that when the woman turned her body around, she would find out that she had been watching her from behind. When she found out, she would kill her without hesitation.
Although it was just a dream, the chill in the dream was so real.
This dream lasted for quite a few days, repeating over and over again. The scene of the dream was changing, but the content was very different.
What terrified Fan Bei the most was that the blurriness in the dream was weakening day by day. She was afraid that one day, those dreams would be projected very clearly, and the last woman, the woman whose face could not be seen clearly, would see her and kill her after the image became clear, just like how she raised her sword to kill her enemies.
This feeling was very illusory and ethereal, but it was also real. It was as if the secret hidden in the darkest night before dawn was about to be revealed by the rising sun.
Fan Bai faintly felt that this secret must have an explosive nature.
She did not want to know, nor did she want to know. Her intuition had always been too accurate.
However, this nightmarish dream kept pestering her, making her look haggard day by day.
The others only said that she was worried for Qin Feng and comforted her.
She forced a smile and nodded in agreement.
Under such circumstances, autumn passed completely and winter arrived.
The climate of Mujiang had four distinct seasons. Winter was very cold. It was only early winter, but some mornings, one could already see the thin frost covering the reeds outside the city.
Fan Bei changed from a white silk skirt to a cotton undergarment, and then changed into the clothes of the women of Fen City who were sewn with thick cotton inside and outside.
On this day, she left Qin Feng and the others and went to the tailor shop to get new clothes.
In the tailor shop, Fan Bei looked at a blurry bronze mirror on the wall. After looking at the person in the mirror, a faint smile appeared on his lips.
He had come to this world and seemed to have fused very naturally. Now, even he did not believe that he had transmigrated half a year ago.
Anyone who saw this outfit would think that he was from the Nine Nations.
The person in the mirror was not wearing any makeup or jewelry. Her waist-length black hair was parted from top to bottom. The hair above her ears was tied into a long bun with a pale green hair band with white edges. The hair below her ears naturally hung behind her head.
She was wearing a set of light green clothes. The green color was extremely faint, like a drop of jade liquid in a piece of white crystal. It was as elegant as the crescent moon hanging on the branches at dusk. It was hazy, but it also carried infinite beauty that made people daydream.
There was a white belt around her waist, which simply tied her top and skirt. A long light green tassel hung down, which made her look very pleasant against the white cotton shoes under the skirt.
This caused the young men and women passing by the tailor shop to turn their heads and take a few more glances.
Fan Bei smiled. At this moment, she felt the peace of the world. It was as if the long days of reading at night and reading pictures were far away. Now, there was only silence left. She looked in the mirror. Perhaps she was a girl after all, and it was her nature. Fan Bei liked this new dress more and more. The clothes she brought from the palace were no longer suitable for this slightly cold weather. This set of clothes solved many problems very well.
Fan Bei thanked the shopkeeper, paid the money, and left the shop.
The three months of living in the tent had almost bored her to death. This time, he had specially come to pick up the clothes personally and also took a walk on the streets of Fu City to experience the life of the world.
Fen City was a relatively large town. There were many shops on both sides of the main street. Even if the long-lasting war broke out nearby, there were still people doing business.
Fan Bei took a walk alone, slowly walking around. He had been troubled by dreams for the past few days, and now he had vented a lot.
She looked around at the restaurant and shops, and when she turned her eyes inadvertently, she paused slightly.
Beside a shop opposite her stood a young master with cold facial features. He was wearing a black robe embroidered with flying fish patterns and had a dark green hair band. In the middle of the bustling crowd, he looked straight at her without avoiding her gaze.
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