After the Cannon Fodder Awakened, She Married the Female Lead! [Quick Transmigration] 99p2

Chapter 99 p2

At the border, the battle was just as Wen Runan had expected. When the heavy cavalry made its debut, it directly broke through the barbarian’s cavalry. Like a sharp sword, it tore a hole in the military formation and immediately suppressed the barbarian’s morale.

The Zhenbei army became more and more courageous as they fought, constantly pushing the battle line forward and constantly reaping the lives and territory of the barbarian soldiers.

The barbarian soldiers fought while retreating. They were forced all the way to the royal city. It was only after a constant stream of tribesmen had joined the battlefield that they had barely stabilized the situation and defended their last hope.

Wen Runan calculated the time. Seeing that it was now the forty-fifth day of her battle, she ordered the main army to surround the royal city and directly cut off the water and food from the outside.

“Tell them that I will give them five days to consider. If they don’t surrender, I will attack the city,” Wen Runan said. After more than a month of high-intensity fighting, she had grown at a very fast speed.

“Once the city is breached, for every soldier we lose, I will repay it tenfold,” Wen Runan’s voice turned cold. Thinking of the innocent villagers who had been massacred, she added another sentence. “If they fight to the death, then I will slaughter the city.”

General Wang was stunned when he heard this. Seeing that the general had already taken the order and gone out, he silently swallowed the words he wanted to say to stop her.

Now, Wen Runan’s prestige in the army was getting heavier and heavier. Similarly, the soldiers’ recognition of Wen Runan was also very high. The four words “orders are strictly enforced” were very thoroughly reflected.

Wen Runan also noticed the hesitant General Wang, but she had already learned to selectively ignore some things. General Wang was still an elder in Wen Runan’s heart, but on the battlefield, General Wang was also her subordinate.

The two words “slaughter the city” were too terrifying. After the news spread, the not-so-united tribes in the city were immediately divided into two factions, each clearly distinct.

The tribe led by the current khan insisted on fighting to the end and would never surrender. The other group’s opinion was completely different. They wished they could go and open the city gates now and surrender, to strive for a lenient treatment.

Thus, before Wen Runan could even attack the city, a rebellion had already broken out in the royal city. Especially after it got dark, Wen Runan, who was in her own tent, could hear the sounds of fighting in the royal city.

On the fifth day of the siege, the original khan was driven off the stage. After the new khan had hastily succeeded the throne, he directly opened the city gates and stated that he was willing to surrender and become a vassal state.

“I’ve asked you. Are you a subject of the imperial court in the capital? Or are you a subject of my Prince of Zhenbei?” Wen Runan sat on an ancient Mongolian horse and looked down at the new khan.

“This subject is a subject of the Prince of Zhenbei!” The new khan quickly reacted and directly declared his allegiance to Wen Runan.

Wen Runan was very satisfied with the new khan’s perceptiveness. After dismounting, she took the royal seal that the other party had handed her.

“Since you are my subject, are you willing to change your surname?” Wen Runan asked, her sharp gaze falling on the new khan. Although she had given a question, there was only one correct answer that could save his life.

“Thank you for the name, Your Highness!” The new khan reacted very quickly. “This subject, Wen Mengla, pays his respects to Your Highness.”

Wen Runan did not interfere in the subsequent finishing work, because she still remembered the promise she had made. After she had killed the people who had participated in the murder of her father and brother, she had taken a small team of personal guards and returned first.

When Wen Runan had set off, it was the spring when all things were reviving. By the time she returned, the season had already advanced to early summer, and there was a trend of advancing towards midsummer.

“Sixty days. I did it,” Wen Runan was very happy, so happy that she had forgotten that there were still several hundred people around. She directly hugged Li Mo, and it was a very, very tight hug.

“Mm, you are amazing, Your Highness,” Li Mo gently patted Wen Runan’s back. “There shouldn’t be any need to hold a celebration banquet in the next few days, right?”

Wen Runan shook her head gently. “General Wang and the others are still dealing with some things. We’ll hold the celebration banquet after they come back.”

“Alright. Then for the next two days, can you stay with me a little more?” Li Mo rested her head in the crook of Wen Runan’s neck and said, “After the news of you pacifying the barbarians reaches the capital, the imperial court should have some actions. I need to go back for a trip.”

Wen Runan was stunned for a moment and looked at Li Mo in a daze. “You, you’re going back to the south?”

How had she forgotten? Li Mo had always been temporarily staying in the prince’s mansion. She was now wearing the identity of the Heir Apparent of the Prince of Pingnan. After she had pacified the barbarians, it seemed that there was no excuse for her to stay.

“You…” Thinking that the two of them had just been reunited after a long separation and were about to be separated again, Wen Runan felt a tightness in her chest and subconsciously wanted to ask the other party to stay.

She even had an impulse to let Li Mo shed the identity of Jiang Ling and just stay by her side as Li Mo.

“Although I really want to agree to you, it’s not possible now. I still have things I must do,” Li Mo said softly, no longer caring about the occasion, and gently placed a kiss on Wen Runan’s face.

“At most, in three years, I can be with you all the time,” Li Mo promised.

Wen Runan, who had been let go, was a little dazed. After touching her own face, she belatedly realized that she had just said her inner thoughts out loud.

“Three years?” Wen Runan repeated. “Three years is so long.” It had only been less than sixty days since they had been separated this time, and her mind was already full of Li Mo. Especially when it was late at night, she was not even used to sleeping alone.

Li Mo nodded and hardened her heart. “Mm, I’ll set off the day after tomorrow. For the next two days, shall we enjoy ourselves?”

It wasn’t that she couldn’t leave, but many things would progress very slowly, and the time for a change of dynasty would also be much longer.

If the time was long, the uncertain factors would also increase. Li Mo did not like the extra variables. She just wanted to make a move on the three male lead candidates before they had completely grown up, to take their lives while they were weak, and to deal with all of them.

Although Wen Runan was reluctant, she still agreed after hesitating. She had completed what she wanted to do with Li Mo’s support. Then, in turn, it was now her turn to support Li Mo.

With the separation imminent, two days seemed too short in Wen Runan’s eyes. She simply gave up the idea of going out and directly stayed in the prince’s mansion with Li Mo for two days.

To be more precise, in the two days before the separation, Li Mo and Wen Runan had basically not left the courtyard, had not gone out of the room too many times, and had even spent half of the time in bed, leaving their own marks on each other.

“Perhaps we don’t need three years. We can meet,” Li Mo propped herself up on the bed with one hand and said by Wen Runan’s ear. “You don’t have to worry that I will forget you.”

“I will let the tooth mark on my shoulder stay forever. Every time I put on clothes, take them off, and take a shower, I will think of you.”

Wen Runan wanted to say something, but unfortunately, her body’s reaction was too intense. She could only make broken and ambiguous sounds.

The separation came very unexpectedly, but upon a closer look, it was also within reason.

On the morning of the third day, after Wen Runan had opened her eyes, she found that the person lying beside her was gone, not even a residual warmth was left.

**

On the way back, Li Mo did not say a single word. She led two thousand light cavalry and traveled day and night. Before the imperial edict from the capital arrived, she had returned to the Prince of Pingnan’s mansion.

“My son, well done!” Seeing the completely different Li Mo, the Prince of Pingnan was very gratified. Words of praise poured towards Li Mo like they were free.

Li Mo accepted it frankly. Under the circumstances that fit Jiang Ling’s persona, she had appeased the Prince of Pingnan and the princess. Then, at night, she mysteriously went to find the Prince of Pingnan and told him her plan.

The Prince of Pingnan had long known what Xue Zhao had been doing during this period, so after hearing the plan that Li Mo had said, he was not too surprised. All he had was worry.

“It’s not that I don’t agree with this plan, but if you stir up the whole world, the burden on your shoulders will be very heavy,” the Prince of Pingnan exclaimed. “I can help you for a period of time, but I can’t help you for a lifetime.”

“It’s fine. At that time, there might be other people to help,” Li Mo said with a smile.

Li Mo had not forgotten why she wanted to seize the world. It was not for power, but to be with Wen Runan forever, so that she would not be snatched away by the so-called male lead.

When the time was right, she would look for a successor.

“Alright. When I help you with your coming-of-age ceremony later, you can just go ahead and do it,” the Prince of Pingnan doted on his only child very much. After confirming that Li Mo was going to rebel, he did not obstruct her, but did his best to pave the way for her.

“But as for your mother, you can just hide it from her for now. It won’t be too late to tell her after things are done,” the Prince of Pingnan added.

Li Mo nodded. “Don’t worry, Dad. I have a plan in my heart.”

Before the coming-of-age ceremony began, the imperial envoy who had come from the capital to read the emperor’s decree had arrived. The content was within Li Mo’s expectations. The emperor had ordered the Prince of Pingnan to send troops to quell the rebellion in the west, and had also given the Prince of Pingnan a new fief near the northern border, wanting to stir up the opposition between the north and the south.

The Prince of Pingnan had agreed very well on the surface, and then used the excuse of observing the ceremony to lock up the imperial envoy. It was only after Li Mo had successfully accepted the military and political affairs in the fief that he was released.

Since he was going to rebel, Li Mo was too lazy to let the imperial envoy go back. She directly surrounded the city that Gu Xiuwen had occupied with her troops and killed the imperial envoy in front of him.

Li Mo’s meaning was also very obvious. She knew that the current emperor was a fatuous ruler, and the officials were seriously corrupt. The common people had suffered for a long time, so she was going to rebel against this fatuous ruler, rebel against this imperial court, and get justice for the common people who had suffered in the disaster.

“The fatuous ruler has ordered me to quell the so-called rebellion and to kill all the people in the city who have defected to the rebel army. I did not agree,” after saying the big principles, Li Mo began to play the emotional card.

“The life of the emperor is a life, and the lives of the common people are also lives. Why should there be a distinction between high and low? I know that you have all rebelled against the imperial court to survive, so I will not pursue your mistakes.”

“I will not make a move on the innocent common people, nor will I make a move on the so-called rebel army in the mouth of the imperial court. In my eyes, you are all disaster-stricken common people. If you are willing to believe me, I can let you return to your homes and take back your own land from those corrupt officials.”

“Returning to one’s roots. We don’t have to pay for the mistakes of the imperial court. No matter where you have fled from, I will send you back!”

“If you have no land, I will give it to you. If you have no house, I will help you build it. If you are separated from your relatives, I will help you find them!”

Li Mo had been through so many worlds and had long since seen through human nature. After a righteous and moving speech, many of the refugees who had just settled down were moved.

Returning to one’s roots. If they weren’t forced to a dead end, who would be willing to abandon their homeland and go to a foreign land to live?

Seeing the discussion among the common people growing louder and louder, the expression on Gu Xiuwen’s face, who was standing on the city wall, was very complicated. He agreed with Li Mo’s words and was even grateful that she was willing to make a promise and spend a lot of manpower and material resources to help these refugees go home.

But at the same time, Gu Xiuwen was also very clear that Li Mo was his enemy. Once the common people accepted Li Mo, he would lose his status as a commander and become an ordinary person.

After enjoying a life of being above others, Gu Xiuwen had become unwilling to be ordinary, especially when he had seventy thousand troops under him. He suddenly wanted to fight for it.

Since everyone was a person and only had one life, was there a possibility that he could also overthrow the fatuous ruler, kill the corrupt officials, and bring stability to the common people?

“Mr. Gu, I wonder if you are willing to lend me a hand to overthrow this fatuous and corrupt imperial court and establish a new dynasty together?” Li Mo sat on an ancient Mongolian horse and looked up at Gu Xiuwen, who was standing on the city wall with an unwilling expression.

“You have the talent to manage the world, Mr. Gu, and you also have the heart to save the world. If I can get your help, Mr. Gu, I believe we can return a clear and bright world to the common people at a faster speed!”

After appeasing the common people, Li Mo began to try to subdue Gu Xiuwen.

After all, her own death had nothing to do with the other party. Moreover, after a long period of observation, Li Mo had also seen the other party’s character. He had ambition and aspirations. Although it could not be said that he loved the people as his own children, he was not far from it.

Such a person was much better than the other few princes. If possible, Li Mo still wanted to leave the other party alive so that he could play his due role.

“What do you mean, Heir Apparent?” Gu Xiuwen was a little tempted. He was definitely not willing to return to the life of an ordinary person, but if there was a position of being under one person and above ten thousand waiting for him, he was not unacceptable.

“If possible, I hope you can be my current military advisor and future prime minister, Mr. Gu,” Li Mo was not stingy and soon offered the position of prime minister.

Prime minister? Gu Xiuwen’s heart was even more shaken.

Li Mo had said this in front of everyone. It could not be a joke. After she successfully ascended to the throne, whether it was for the hearts of the army or the hearts of the people, she had to fulfill this promise.

In a flash of lightning, Gu Xiuwen had already made a decision, a decision that he was a little regretful of now, but would be extremely glad of in the future.

“I am not worthy of the title of ‘sir.’ If you have any needs, Heir Apparent, just say the word,” Gu Xiuwen chose to submit and recognized Li Mo as his master.

After all, to take a step back, it was true that he had sixty thousand people, but the two hundred thousand troops behind Li Mo were even more not to be trifled with. If they really fought, his chances of winning were very low.