Chapter 2 Where to Go
"This king has been unconscious before. Tell me, how long have we escaped from the royal city? Where are we now?"
The young general paused and replied: "Your Majesty, this place is close to Canaan Pass, the southern border of the kingdom. I escorted you out of the palace five days ago."
"You were accidentally shot by an arrow on the way and have been unconscious ever since. After discussion, we plan to escort you to the Yunqin Empire for temporary refuge and report the rebellion of King Cheng to the emperor of the empire in the hope that the empire will send troops to eliminate the rebels.
After speaking, he knelt on one knee, bowed his head and said ashamedly: "My subordinates are not good at guarding, please forgive me, Your Majesty."
Li Mufan looked at the young general and the soldiers in the blood-stained battle robe, and said in a deep voice: "General, please stand up. If it weren't for the general and the soldiers, I would have died long ago! What crime have you committed?"
After a pause, looking at the somewhat frustrated expressions of the crowd, he continued: "General Liu, do you think the Yunqin Empire will help me restore my country? "
Liu Long was stunned when he heard this, and looked at Fan Qingyue and several other captains of the personal guards beside him, and said hesitantly: "Your Majesty, you are the legitimate king of the Yunqin Empire. If the empire knew that the traitor was rebelling, it would not ignore it!"
Li Mufan shook his head slightly and said: "This palace coup, King Cheng and others took advantage of my wedding to attack, which was obviously planned for a long time. If you say that there is no tacit consent from the empire, I definitely donβt believe it. Otherwise, once the empire blames it, no one can bear the blame. "
"It must be that King Cheng sold out the country and promised huge profits, so the empire would be indifferent! "
The one who spoke was the female general Fan Qingyue, who had a face full of resentment. If King Cheng was here, he would probably be chopped in half by her.
Looking at the female general who was hugging him for warmth,
"General Fan is right. The high-ranking officials of the empire have always been unwilling to do anything without profit. I am afraid that my trip to Yunqin will be dangerous, and the rebels will surely be guarding the border tightly, waiting for us to fall into their trap."
The guards looked at each other in bewilderment. Since they couldn't even go to the Yunqin Empire, didn't that mean they had no way to go to heaven or to the earth?
Looking at everyone quietly, he saw that although they looked anxious, they all stood silently and did not move. Li Mufan praised in his heart: "What a group of heroes!"
"General Liu, how many soldiers do we have left?"
"Your Majesty, many brothers have died while fleeing all the way here. Now there are only 255 people in my guard camp. "
Hearing this, Li Mufan nodded silently.
"General Liu, you have served in the frontier army. Tell me about the situation of the kingdom's borders. "
Liu Long immediately responded: "Yes, Your Majesty"
"Your Majesty, the kingdom's south and southwest border the Yunqin Empire and have always been undefended. There is only one Canaan Pass, with less than 10,000 soldiers and only three or four generals."
"The west is the Xihe Kingdom, which is also a vassal state of Yunqin. The defense is also weak, and the north of the kingdom is the territory of the Barbarian Bull Clan. In recent years, the Barbarian Bull Clan and other tribes on the grassland occasionally go south to plunder, causing considerable pressure on the kingdom, so most of the domestic elites are gathered here. "
"As for the east, it has always been the territory of the elves. You know that the elves are a mysterious race, far beyond the ability of our human race to fight, so the east is almost undefended except for some necessary garrisons to avoid misunderstandings by the elves. "
"Xuan-level race?"
Li Mufan was slightly stunned and reacted immediately.
