Chapter 345 : It’s Not Easy Being the Head of Household 29 (2/2)

“Jun Liyou, what do you want? Just say it.” Since things had already come to this, she had no other choice.

Shi Sheng shrugged. “I just wanted to hand over this traitor, who tried to rebel. You decide his punishment.”

The Empress stared at Shi Sheng with bloodshot eyes, as if trying to read her intentions.

Shi Sheng’s gaze was calm, as she held Ling Yue’s hand in hers.

The Empress’s gaze shifted to Ling Yue for a moment. In the end, she took a deep breath and gave the order that sealed Qin Hua’s fate. “Take him away. Execute.”

Someone covered Qin Hua’s mouth, so he was unable to speak and could only glare hatefully at Shi Sheng.

Shi Sheng shot him an uncaring smile.

‘The winner is the king, while the loser is the thief. Who told you to lose?’

On this night, the Prime Minister got married.

On this night, the Protector General besieged the city.

On this night, the Heir of Qin was put to death.

……

It seemed that Qin Hua’s death pushed Jiang Zhi to convince the Protector General to finally attack the city.

Shi Sheng’s troops had already been set up within the city. The cries of battle seemed to shake the very heavens and earth, scaring the commoners even more.

Just a few hours ago, they had engaged in the revelry of the Prime Minister’s wedding.

Yet that very same night, rivers of blood flowed and the city was in danger of being taken.

The battle to root out the traitors and rescue the Empress had begun.

The Protector General’s troops had marched a long way from the border to get to the capital. Yet, they weren’t even allowed proper rest before being sent into battle. Hence, they lost the first few skirmishes.

But after those initial battles, they actually started to win.

Well, they did have an FL-sama who came from the future, so it wasn’t surprising they would win. All she had to do was to put in a little effort to implement the simplest of modern-day strategies, which were much more refined than this period’s.

The morale of the Protector General’s troops rose greatly.

“Ning Princess, you are truly a genius!”

Jiang Zhi and another armour-clad woman stood together in the main tent of the encampment. The woman gave her a hearty pat on the shoulder.

“They were just little tricks.” Jiang Zhi wasn’t smiling. She felt unable to smile right now.

Jiang Zhi suspected Shi Sheng was also a transmigrator like her, but she had no evidence to back it up. She could only place her hopes on ending this war without giving Shi Sheng time to counterattack.

“You are too humble, Ning Princess.” The Protector General laughed heartily once more. “Without your tactics these past few battles, we probably wouldn’t have been able to win.”

The two discussed matters of warfare and eventually settled on certain strategies and tactics, which the Protector General immediately sent for people to arrange.

Once the arrangements were in place, the Protector General found Jiang Zhi standing outside the tent, her figure rather desolate.

The Protector General couldn’t help but feel the urge to comfort her.

“Don’t be upset. You’ll be able to avenge them soon.” She patted Jiang Zhi’s shoulder.

The latter didn’t reply, merely staring at the city walls off in the distance.

The Protector General sighed and followed her gaze.

The city walls were brightly lit and one could see human figures bustling about atop it.

Even from this distance, they could tell the people on the walls were very busy.

“What are they up to?” The Protector General muttered. ‘Why are they busying themselves atop the wall this late at night, instead of going to bed?’

Hearing the Protector General’s words, Jiang Zhi’s mind returned to the present and she focused on the happenings atop the walls.

At their current distance, it was hard to tell what exactly the defenders were working on.Jiang Zhi frowned and watched for a while, but she still couldn’t figure out what they were up to.

The Protector General had already sent scouts to check, and they had just returned.

Hearing their reports, Jiang Zhi and the Protector General engaged each other in discussion and came to a conclusion:

They were planning on attacking with cannons.

Jiang Zhi couldn’t help but reveal a ridiculing expression.

She had already thought of this and deliberately ordered the troops to camp further away. With the technological standards of this era, there was no chance of cannonballs reaching them at this distance.