Late at night, the No. 3 real-time demonstration hall of the base camp in the Chengxian Hall of the Xinhua Palace in Beijing is still bright, and the short-haired uniformed girls on duty sit around the demonstration plate, sipping black tea with sugar, and feeding each other cream cakes with small spoons to each other's moist little mouths, trying to hold back their laughter and play, and fully enjoy their refreshment time before midnight.

At one end of the hall, in the command podium, which protrudes beyond the wall and connects with the corridor that surrounds the whole hall, is quietly appreciating this harmonious scene through the glass curtain wall, is a woman wearing a long nightdress with pink gauze lace edges, white floral slippers, and a black marshal uniform jacket, at first glance she looks to be in her twenties, the long black hair that is scattered to the waist should have just been combed, and the soft fingers like onions are curled with a strand of fine hair lazily playing, showing the charming posture of women, and between the delicate and beautiful eyebrows. But there is a faint sense of heroism.

At the low table behind her, another female palace official dressed as a blue-blue suit, black stockings and high heels, looking a slightly older woman, was trying to hide the tiredness in the corners of her eyes, and skillfully and elegantly brewed a new pot of tea.

"He's coming."

The woman in the long-haired nightdress leaned against the glass curtain wall and whispered to herself.

"Your Majesty will scare him." The female officer smiled softly.

The woman in the nightdress—Liu Qianhua, the Empress of Chengxian—sneered, let go of the hair locks curled around her fingers, and turned to sit down at the low table.

As the steady sound of leather boots approaching step by step, the glass door was pushed open by the guards, and a slender man in his forties knelt on one knee outside the door, and the image of a young beautiful man could still be seen on his slightly wrinkled face.

"Minister Gu Yingyang see the emperor."

"Come in."

As soon as the new army chief of staff, Senior General Gu Yingyang, raised his head, his eyes suddenly widened. Blinked a few more times, as if he couldn't believe what he was seeing.

"What is Uncle Gu doing? Sit down. ”

Hearing this unusually affectionate name, Gu Yingyang was even more uncomfortable, and quickly pretended to cough a few times, sat down opposite Qianhua with his hands and feet, and took a sip of tea. After hesitating again and again, he couldn't help but speak: "Your Majesty...... It seems to be a lot younger all of a sudden...... It's ...... like it was 10 years ago."

"You haven't seen Liu Bailiang yet, have you?" Qianhua seemed to deliberately divert the conversation.

Gu Yingyang paused for a moment, nodded innobly, and said, "No, I didn't go, I don't think it's necessary." ”

Qianhua twisted the small silver spoon on the tray and stirred it gently in the English gold-glazed porcelain teacup, and the water vapor with the fragrance of black tea swirled upward, passing over her lovely little face that did not match her actual age.

"Actually, I personally have no ill will towards Liu Bailiang."

Gu Yingyang blinked again and again, obviously still unable to figure out what kind of medicine the other party was selling in the gourd. casually continued: "The emperor is kind-hearted...... In the end, he is also to blame. ”

Qianhua added two more sugar cubes to the teacup. But he stopped stirring, and the silver spoon was placed back on the tray.

"I hope this is the last civil strife, and that's the end of it, and no one is allowed to settle old scores. Regarding the disposal of Liu Bailiang and Zhang Yaoqian, the group plenary meeting at the end of the year will reach a conclusion, before that. I want you to know in your heart what you should and shouldn't do. ”

Gu Yingyang nodded suddenly: "That...... That's natural, of course, I came back to assist in serving the emperor and avenge myself for personal revenge, I don't dare to think about it......"

"It's good to understand," Qianhua pushed away the teacup and got up to return to the glass curtain wall that overlooked the entire presentation hall. "Since it's here. Just come and have a look—you only seem to have been here once today. ”

Gu Ying said "yes", put down the teacup and leaned over. After only two or three glances, I immediately made a discovery.

"Found Jericho's fleet again? Sure enough, it walked close to the coast, and if you look at it this way, you can drive to the landing site in two days at most...... Tomorrow during the day, the skirmish should begin. ”

"I really want to see it with my own eyes, just like Pan Guochen said, the scene of millions of tons of steel igniting the sea...... How beautiful that would be. ”

Qianhua put his finger on the cold glass, but there was no real burning expectation in his eyes, and suddenly his words changed: "Why didn't I give you the position of chief of the general staff?" ”

Gu Yingyang replied calmly: "Zhilu Dao, the emperor wants to be arbitrary, and the name of law cannot be less, and it is already a great trust to let the minister take charge of the army staff." ”

"Then do you know what I want to do?"

Gu Yingyang paused slightly, and said cautiously: "This ...... Of course, it was to suppress Liu Bailiang's rebellion, so he had to ...... as a last resort."

Qianhua shook her head slightly: "It seems that you haven't visited the other four elders since you came back." ”

"Yes, as soon as I came back, I was busy taking over the work of the Army Staff, and I couldn't spare time for a while......

Gu Yingyang answered honestly.

Qianhua pursed her lips and smiled: "You are a smart person and an honest person, that's why the first emperor trusted you so much and handed over the reference office to you for so long, and you also knew a lot of things that others didn't know...... Actually, I could have used you and then left you aside, but I didn't do that, why? ”

Gu Yingyang lowered his head and muttered for a long time, and let out a breath from his nose: "Could it be ...... The emperor has any secret plans that cannot be made public, and he needs someone like me to operate outside......"

"You, I need the land, it's you."

"We?"

"It's not clear where you're going to be, but it won't be long...... Of course, now is not the time to talk about this, the premise of everything is that we have won this war, otherwise, no matter how beautiful the plan is, it will only be a castle in the air. ”

The corners of Gu Yingyang's mouth curved slightly: "I understand, the emperor wants to say hello to me in advance, I only have one sentence: You can trust me." ”

Qian Hua glanced at him with an ambiguous or intoxicating smile on her face: "You don't want to know more Gu Yingyang put his hands in his trouser pockets, and said with a smile in his nose: "I already know enough about Lu Dao." ”

"I believe in you."

On the afternoon of September 8, 500 nautical miles southwest of the Hooger River estuary, in the western waters of the Bay of Bengal.

Although there were still large areas of gray clouds left in the sky, the wind and waves on the sea surface were much calmer than those of the previous two days, and on the flight deck of the "Dapeng," the flagship of the mobile unit, which had been washed away by the storm, another "Dongfengjia" reconnaissance plane took off briskly, climbed, and gradually disappeared on the sea antenna due south......

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