212, The Queen's Favorite Husband

Yan Beitian never thought that the empress would come to the war and bring her son with her. When he saw Yan Chu, he rubbed his eyes several times before he was sure that the person standing in front of him was her son.

He was darker and fatter. The soil and water in the capital were not enough to support people. How could her son be raised like this?

Yan Beitian was born in the capital since she was a child. She didn't come to the border town until she was sixteen years old. With her mother stationed at the border, she grew up in the capital, which was full of luxury. Even after more than thirty years in the border town, it didn't change at all.

Her husband was arranged by the elders in the capital. He was a truly virtuous and gentle man. Yan Beitian knew that it was a shame to let this pampered husband accompany him to the border as soon as he got married, so she only married him in this life, and didn't even take a maid.

Now her three daughters and one son are all born to Zhengjun, but Zhengfu's body is too weak. The harsh environment in the north has hollowed out his body. Not long after Yan Beitian gave birth to his son, Zhengfu died of an illness.

Since then, Yan Beitian has not remarried. Because he feels sorry for his son who was born without a father, he dotes on this youngest son.

At that time, the roots of the Yan family had all moved to the capital. Most of the Yan clan members in the capital were already five generations away. Yan Beitian was not at ease to hand over the young son to those clan members who were not close to him for education, so he could only bring him with him.

On the one hand, she felt that she did not give her son enough living conditions to make him look like a girl, and on the other hand, she doted on him even more because of this. If he wanted to dance with a stick or a gun, he would dance with a stick or a gun. If he liked the empress, she would shamelessly hand over a secret letter to the empress. As long as the original body wanted, she would give him everything, but she did not realize that this was a vicious cycle. This son would never be a man like his father in his life.

Since Yan Chu married into the palace, Yan Beitian was most worried about him. After all, he was from the capital, and he had to report to the capital every few years. He knew that even after more than 30 years, the aesthetics in the capital were still the same as before.

Her son could find someone who really liked him in the north, but in the capital, that was out of the question.

What's more, the queen, who had all the handsome men in the world, how could she really like her boy who was spoiled like a girl?

However, Yan Beitian's worries were slightly relieved when she saw how the queen and her son got along.

Lingtian Pass had limited conditions. Even if the queen came, the table of food that was prepared with great effort was not as good as that of ordinary wealthy farmers. The only bacon that could be called meat was a few pieces visible to the naked eye. It was black, so the queen, who had never eaten such a thing, dared not eat it.

But she also understood the situation in the north, and was not too picky. She just picked some fresh vegetables that looked good and put them in Yan Chu's bowl.

Such skilled movements are definitely not fake, Yan Beitian still has the ability to judge people.

"Mother-in-law, what is the situation outside the Great Wall now?"

Feng Zhao drank a mouthful of porridge that was a little stuck in her throat, and held back the frowning movement. She drank the bowl of porridge with a stiff face, and then asked Yan Beitian.

Mother-in-law?

Yan Beitian's hair almost stood up. If the person in front of her was just her daughter-in-law, she could still accept this title with a smile, but she is the current empress. The emperor is ranked before the emperor. If she accepts this mother-in-law calmly, she will be blinded by lard.

"Mother-in-law, don't mind."

Feng Zhao looked at Yan Beitian's expression and knew what she was thinking. She curled her lips slightly and pulled Yan Chu's hand: "A Chu Yuan accompanied me to the north regardless of the danger. In this life, I will never let him down."

Yan Chu accepted this sentence calmly and also shook the empress's hand in return.

Is his son so charming?

Yan Beitian swallowed his saliva. Although he and the empress didn't spend much time together face to face, they kept in touch with each other through letters. He also knew the empress's character. This behavior was definitely not because Yan Chu was her son.

Suppressing the shock in his heart, looking at his son who was smiling happily, Yan Beitian felt that it was right for the empress to like his son. Except for his lack of appearance, his son was not inferior to anyone else.

Thinking of this, Yan Beitian breathed a sigh of relief and did not dissuade the empress from calling her mother-in-law. He still kept the respectful address of Your Majesty.

When Yan Beitian discussed the current situation with the empress, he did not avoid Yan Chu. After hearing that the Red Women's tribes secretly dispatched troops to attack Jialing Pass or Zhenhai Pass, he frowned.

"How many defenses are there at Jialing Pass or Zhenhai Pass?" The empress asked while looking at the defense map.

"There are 30,000 soldiers stationed at Jialing Pass and 50,000 soldiers stationed at Zhenhai Pass, 10,000 of which are temporarily recruited militia." The Chi Nu tribe wants to take a long detour to attack these two passes, which will take longer time. In this way, there is a high possibility that there will be problems with food and grass supply.

The most important thing is to attack the capital with overwhelming force. Lingtian Pass is the closest road, and even if Jialing Pass and Zhenhai Pass are captured, they still have to cross several long mountains or take a big detour to reach the next pass.

If Lingtian Pass had not been attacked for a long time, the other party would not have thought of attacking these two passes.

Of course, it is not ruled out that the other party deliberately set up traps to lure them into the trap and disperse the reinforcements.

It took too long. If Tianhuang planned to go to war, the reinforcements from the capital should have arrived. The people of the Chi Nu tribe are not stupid and should have guessed this.

"When the follow-up troops arrive, each will dispatch 30,000 troops to the other two passes, and the rest will be stationed at Lingtian Pass."

The total number of troops brought this time is 150,000. After subtracting 60,000, there are still 90,000 left. In addition to the original garrison at Lingtian Pass, as well as the natural dangers here that are easy to defend and difficult to attack, if you want to stop the Chi Nu tribes, you still have to go. It's more than enough, at least to be able to fight a war of attrition for a long time, depending on which side's subsequent supplies are sufficient.

In four months, it will be winter in the border town. The Red Girl tribes are in extremely cold places. When winter comes, they cannot work and graze. They need to rely on stored food to survive the winter. Even though they have prepared enough food in advance for this war. Food and grass may not survive the whole winter.

There are two hundred thousand troops, and all the young men of the Red Girl tribes are probably in the army. Such consumption of food and grass is definitely not a small amount. It depends on who can survive who.

Now that Feng Zhao doesn't know their true and false intentions, this approach is actually the most appropriate.

This happened to coincide with Yan Beitian's thought. Before, she was worried that the Queen would be eager to start a war with the Red Girl tribes as soon as she arrived, regardless of the actual situation. If anything happened to the Queen, she, the leader of the army, would be in trouble. General.

Now it seems that this worry can be eliminated.

"Your Majesty, General, the enemy has attacked the city."

A soldier hurried in to report. Feng Zhao and Yan Beitian looked stern, put on their armor, picked up their weapons, and walked towards the city wall.

"Just wait in the camp tent for me to come back."

Before leaving, Feng Zhao warned Yan Chu, then put on his helmet and followed Yan Beitian away without looking back.

At this time, there was a lot of noise in the camp. Yan Chu opened the curtain and went out. The scene outside the tent was busy but orderly.

Those carrying stones, carrying bows and arrows, were running between the city wall and the camp. Yan Chu was dressed in an ordinary way at the moment. The soldiers were coming and going in a hurry, and no one recognized him as Feng Jun who came with the queen.

"Little General?"

Before he married Feng Zhao, he was Yan Beitian's son. He grew up in a military camp. Even after a year passed, some people still recognized him after looking at him twice.

Yan Chu turned around and saw that the person talking to him was a tall, dark, thin man. He could tell this by looking at the man's raised Adam's apple and flat chest.

There is a lack of water in the border town, especially for the soldiers at the bottom or the men who help with the cooking. They cannot have the luxury of clean water for washing themselves. At most, they can only go to the river a few miles away to take a bath during their breaks. In addition, the Northland is very dusty and windy, so most faces are dirty.

Therefore, when the services are almost the same, the only way to distinguish between men and women is this stupid method.

Yan Chu looked at the other person carefully and recognized who this person was.

When I was in the border town, I once formed a men's army to prove that men are not weaker than women. At that time, the Red Girl tribe only occasionally invaded the border, and the scale was not large. The men's army led by the original body was really repelled. He passed a small team of three to four hundred people and became famous in the border town.

Most of the men in the border town are casual and not so restrained. When I heard that General Yan's son had formed a men's army and defeated the Red Girl tribe's army, I immediately became excited. It turned out that this army was just because of a man. The team where the joke started had more than 3,000 people at its largest. Most of these people were unmarried men who felt it was an honor to go to the battlefield to defend their homeland. Moreover, their team leader was the son of General Yan. , If you can't be a soldier for General Yan, you can be a good soldier for her son.

In his previous life, he wanted to encourage men to resist the rule of women. It was from this team that he had forgotten. This group of men who grew up in the North never felt that they were inferior to women, but even in the civilized society In the North, they still suffer a lot of unfair treatment.

For example, the army never recruits male soldiers, and when the land is allocated, it is only based on the number of girls in the family, not men. The original owner promised them various benefits and deceived this group of "old soldiers" who were not very smart. In the end The ending can be imagined.

In fact, these people's ambitions are not as big as the original ones. They just want to seek equality. Unfortunately, in the end, the original rebellion failed, and these people were all implicated. They were either abandoned by their wives' families or died on the battlefield.

At this time, all that has not happened, and those people are naturally still living, and even want to contribute a little bit of their strength to the fight against the Red Women.

"Little general, no no no, Lord Feng."

"Little General" is their honorific title for the original person. When the original person repelled the small team of three to four hundred people, he gave their men a lot of face. In addition, his mother is a general. Although he is a man, it is ridiculous. It's not an exaggeration to be called a little general.

The dark and thin man remembered that the young general married to the capital a year ago and became the high-ranking Fengjun.

His Majesty has personally arrived at Lingtian Pass, so it is not so strange that Yan Chu, who is already Fengjun, appears here.

"Fengjun, I still remember the promise I made back then. Now that the Scarlet Nu clan has invaded the country, I beg Fengjun to summon our brothers again and go outside the customs to kill them."

The dark and thin man's eyes were particularly shining. He knelt heavily on the ground and looked up at Yan Chu, as if he saw hope when he saw him.

"I--"

"Fengjun, I'm going to inform those brothers right away. Just wait for my good news."

The man hurriedly ran out of the camp without waiting for Yan Chu's answer. Yan Chu looked at the man's retreating figure and didn't even have time to wave to him to stop.

"Little general!"

"Fengjun!"

"Young General!"

About an hour later, men appeared outside the camp. Among them were old men in their fifties or sixties with half of their hair white, and young boys of thirteen or fourteen who still looked young. The most exaggerated was that Yan Chu saw a four or five-year-old child who had just finished speaking. He held up a wooden stick that he had found from somewhere and waved and shouted at him across the fence of the camp.

"Mr. Feng, I originally just wanted to call my former brothers, but I didn't expect that everyone would come spontaneously when they heard that Mr. Feng was going to gather our men to form an army to kill the enemy."

The thin and dark man who had hurried away before Yan Chu finished speaking squeezed through the crowd with difficulty and said to Yan Chu.

"Drive out the enemy and protect my home!"

Whether it was a young child or an old man, they all looked at Yan Chu with a burning gaze and shouted slogans in unison.

"Let everyone come in." Yan Chu whispered to the guards beside him.

The guard hesitated for a moment, but considering the other party's identity, he let all the men in.

No one expected that today, the first male army that would scare the world would be established so casually.

*****

"Where is my man?"

"Where is my son?"

"Wasn't he in the field/stove/market just now? He disappeared in the blink of an eye?"

The most exaggerated thing was that a girl was taking a bath that day. Her husband said he was going to help her get clothes, but he never came back. The girl's bathhouse and other rooms had to pass through a yard, and there was nothing to cover them. It was not until her mother came home at night that she was freed from the cold bathtub.

Why is the father not here? Because the father ran away too.

In one day, most of the men in Lingtian Pass and several nearby cities disappeared inexplicably. Later, the girls who were anxious to find their missing family members learned that the men who had planted half of the land, cooked half of the dishes, and bought half of the tools had gone to the pass to join the army. The army was still organized by the former young general, now Feng Jun.

Later, when a man was missing from the family, everyone knew about it. It was probably another boy who went to join the army.

In the past, some people might have complained, but now that they are in a great crisis, they can only admire these brave men.

The author has something to say: It will be finished tomorrow. I will draw a lot for which story to start.