"Hey, what are you doing?" Su Wan'er watched Si Junlin charging straight ahead to check things out and quickly blocked his way. "Do you really think you're the marshal now?"
"I..." Si Junlin realized his slip as soon as the words left his mouth and quickly lowered his voice. "As the ruler of a country, I should always lead from the front."
"Do you even know what reconnaissance is?" Su Wan'er was truly fed up with this man's way of thinking. There was a set method for scouting the enemy's situation during a battle. At this distance, one should observe the movement of the grass and trees and then use a telescope to take a look. "If you go charging like that, you'll just be throwing your life away."
"Are you worried about me?" Si Junlin asked with a playful smile.
Su Wan'er was slightly taken aback. "I... I'm worried about my own body, okay? Don't forget you're using my body now. If you go charging around and get shot full of holes by the enemy's arrows, it won't be fun."
Sure enough, according to Su Wan'er's deduction, there were at least several hundred ambushes ahead. But the movements of these people didn't seem like those of regular troops. Their steps were disorderly, and their ambush was completely unorganized. It seemed like they just wanted to hide themselves without any strategic deployment.
"Hey, what have you observed?" Si Junlin had little knowledge of battlefield experience. So when Su Wan'er turned around and left, leaving him there alone, he suddenly felt a sense of danger.
"If Your Majesty doesn't trust this humble general, then stay here and observe carefully on your own." Su Wan'er ignored him now. Knowing that he definitely wouldn't dare to stay here alone and would follow her, she walked faster and faster.
"Alas, wait for me."
The two of them returned to the camp one after another. Su Wan'er subconsciously started to deploy the troops. She wanted to send half of the main forces, including the imperial guards, to fight with the enemy first. After a while, they could try to persuade them to surrender. After all, the enemy wasn't very large in number. Maybe they were just passing bandits who only wanted to rob them. After all, there were only about a hundred of them now, and there was no imperial escort for the convenience of travel. Maybe these bandits didn't know their identities, which was why they dared to ambush them here to get some money.
But then she noticed that everyone was looking at her in surprise and disbelief. Only then did she realize that she was the emperor now and shouldn't make such detailed deployments.
So she stopped halfway through and quickly called Si Junlin over. The two of them whispered to each other. Su Wan'er taught him step by step how to deploy the troops later, but Si Junlin deliberately pretended not to understand and asked a question after every sentence.
This kind of intimate whispering between the two of them was, needless to say, obvious to everyone. But it looked extremely awkward to Gu Jingtian.
"Your Majesty, this humble general is willing to lead the troops personally to wipe out the enemy." Gu Jingtian loudly interrupted their conversation. Su Wan'er was just feeling helpless about Si Junlin's mischievous behavior, so she decided to give up on him.
"General Gu is truly brave and good at fighting. Then I'll send you to wipe out the enemy. All the imperial guards will be under your command."
Su Wan'er gave the order in the emperor's tone, but Gu Jingtian thought that Si Junlin looked down on him and deliberately gave him all the imperial guards. So he reported loudly with a sense of righteousness, "Your Majesty, only half of the imperial guards are needed."
"Okay." Su Wan'er felt very relieved. Fortunately, there was a reliable person with her.
So she couldn't help but praise Gu Jingtian. Gu Jingtian also felt that the emperor's praise was sincere this time and was very happy. He was quite puzzled.
"I haven't given the order yet. Who allowed you to deploy the troops?" Si Junlin had been the ruler of a country for a long time and naturally had an air of superiority. So he was very angry that the two of them had ignored him. He made a wild claim, but in everyone's eyes, for the marshal to dare to oppose the emperor was an act of great disrespect.
Su Wan'er was very helpless with him. This was not coming to fight a war at all. It was simply coming to cause trouble.
"Then I wonder what the marshal wants to do?" Naturally, as the emperor, she couldn't not give the marshal face now because the marshal was herself.
"I think half of the imperial guards are definitely not enough. We should still follow what Your Majesty said and send all the imperial guards to General Gu."
Su Wan'er was really relieved. Finally, he said something normal. "Well, it's very reasonable. Then we'll do as the marshal said. General Gu, be careful in everything. I and the other generals will support you from behind."
Naturally, with Gu Jingtian's battle strategies that he often used on the battlefield, it was more than enough to deal with these few hundred bandits. Moreover, the imperial guards were all brave and could fight ten enemies with one. So within less than half an hour, the enemy was already on the verge of defeat.
But halfway through the battle, the enemy suddenly stopped fighting and didn't say they wanted to surrender. They just called a halt and then sent someone to deliver a message saying they wanted to see the emperor.
Gu Jingtian thought it was necessary to report this. After all, today's incident was quite strange. These small bandits actually dared to attack the imperial entourage.
"Your Majesty, a message has just come from the other side asking if Your Majesty has left the palace in person. They said they want to see you and have something important to tell you."
"What important thing? I think it's just their delaying tactic. Don't see them. Just continue the attack." Si Junlin refused in Su Wan'er's tone.
But Su Wan'er became curious. Anyway, the battle was almost over, and they weren't a threat to them. She wondered what the people on the other side wanted to see the emperor for.
Suddenly, countless absurd but interesting stories flashed through her mind. Could it be some remnants of the previous dynasty, or did Si Junlin accidentally kill a loyal official one day, and the official's descendants had risen up to seek revenge?
"Who said not to see them? Bring the person up. I want to see him." Su Wan'er was intrigued. Now that she was the emperor, Si Junlin couldn't stop her. Moreover, she was really curious to know who wanted to see her.
"Your Majesty, it's a disabled woman who can only sit on a horse now. There's also a child with her. May I ask if Your Majesty wants to bring them up?"
The guard reported. Su Wan'er was shocked. Oh my god, she had never expected that it wasn't someone coming to seek revenge but a romantic debt that Si Junlin had incurred. This was really interesting. A woman, and a disabled one at that. How could Si Junlin do such a thing? He was really a beast. And there was even a child. This was truly the most shocking thing since the founding of the Jin Kingdom.
"Bring them up quickly. In a war between two countries, envoys are not to be killed. Don't neglect them."
Su Wan'er was very excited. Like someone watching a show, she ordered the people to be brought over.