Your Majesty the Empress, I am really not a traitor!

Raising her head and looking at the statue of the founding emperor staring at her angrily in the center, Xia Yuxiao did not dodge, but looked directly into the eyes of the ancestor.

In the hearts of most people at home and abroad, the ancestor is a very dignified person with abundant martial virtues.

However, the actual ancestor is somewhat different. According to Xia Yuxiao's own understanding, the ancestor himself is indeed full of martial arts, but he is not as angry as a statue.

This statue was actually designed by the ancestor himself when he was alive, in order to teach his descendants all the time.In any temple dedicated to statues in Daxia, you may find it difficult to find a layout similar to Taimiao, where glaring statues dominate.

"Chen Xia Yuxiao went up to pay homage to my ancestors. Since I took the throne, I have done my best and never dared to be negligent. I worship my father today. I hope that my ancestors will be successful, and I also hope that my ancestors will protect me. The Xia Jiangshan community is stable, the country is rich and the people are strong."

After paying homage to the ancestors, Xia Yuxiao let out a sigh of relief.

I have been here several times before, and the most impressive time was the day when I became the real heir to the throne.

On that day, the ancestors in front of her left a big impression on her.

"Jingqing, you should watch outside, I'm going down."

Xia Yuxiao walked to the back of the main hall, that is, directly behind the statue of the founding emperor, and pushed open the stone door behind, which was the steps leading to the underground palace.

"Yes, Your Majesty, please be careful."

"I know, the ancestors will not let me be in any danger."

After saying this, Xia Yuxiao took the sacrifice she wanted to offer, and walked down the underground palace alone.

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The underground palace is not as heavy and breathless as the mausoleums of many dignitaries. On the contrary, the air inside the underground palace of the emperor's mausoleum in Daxia is unusually fresh, as if it has come to a new world.

Both sides of the entire underground palace are covered with unknown spheres, these spheres emit bright light, and light up one by one as Xia Yuxiao advances.

Finally, she came to the gate of her father's underground palace.

The gate of the underground palace was open, but the other underground palaces that Xia Yuxiao passed just now were all closed, as if this underground palace knew who she was going to see, and opened the gate of the underground palace long ago to wait for her.

Stepping into his father's underground palace, it was a splendid underground palace, and in the center of the palace, two coffins lay quietly.

Put the tribute and light the incense, everything is just like ordinary folk ancestor worship.

A weak wind brushed her cheek, she raised her head, and vaguely saw her father's figure.

"dad."

"......you lost weight."

The tall "Emperor"—Xia Yuxiao didn't know whether it was her hallucination or her father's real manifestation—was silent for a moment, and then said.

"I thought . . . you would say something else."

"What did you say? You said you were ruthless, that you were unscrupulous, that you are a girl and shouldn't fight for the throne?" The first emperor squatted down in front of her, and then smiled, "You are my daughter. forget it."

"It would have been nice if you had said this a few years earlier."

"A few years ago, I said that I was not the emperor. You may not become the emperor either."

The late emperor looked at her thoughtfully, then nodded, "Well, she looks like an emperor now. The ancestors didn't miss her."

The two were silent for a long time.In fact, when she first entered here, she had a lot of things in her heart that she wanted to say to her dead father, but when she really sat here, she couldn't say anything.

"Yuxiao, do you know? The moment I left, I was quite relieved." I don't know if it was for her sake, but the first emperor's words came out after a period of thinking, "Your mother and I , I planted the emperor's heart in your body. This heart grows very well—even though it's beyond my expectation, it doesn't matter, it's a blessing to be able to grow out."

"Now, daughter, the emperor, how do you feel doing it?"

"feeling bad."

"Then do you want to continue?"

"think."

The father and daughter looked at each other, and then, as the father, the first emperor laughed.

"I knew you would say that. Daughter, for us, the emperor is a kind of mission. The mission is not something you can just shake off if you want to. Of course, even if you can get rid of it, we can't shake it off." The task is handed over to others casually. This is also the purpose of me arranging enough people for you to hold the scene. How is it? That kid, did you do a good job, right?"

"Very good, although it's a little dangerous, but it's indeed a very good... chess piece." Xia Yuxiao hesitated for a moment, then said.

"Chess pieces...do you really think so?" Noticing her hesitation, the first emperor asked with a smile.

"..."

"I once told you that you may not be able to play this big game of chess alone. I am not questioning your ability, but our opponent is too strong. A chess player will always have flaws."

"If you just treat him as a pawn on the chessboard, then I'm afraid it will be very difficult for you to deal with our opponents. This game of chess has been played for thousands of years, and their rules are very barbaric, and they will not play according to the rules."

"If they find that they may not be able to beat you, they may even turn the tables. At that time, no matter how many and good chess pieces you have, it will be ruined. But if you have a chess player beside you... ..."

"You two can swarm up and beat up that stinky chess basket opposite. This is the correct answer."

"Have you learnt that?"

Chapter 33 The tiebreaker?Life and death!

A cloud of mist appeared in front of Xia Yuxiao, and in the mist, the figure of her father seemed to be getting more and more blurred.

However, contrary to that blurred figure, Xia Yuxiao felt her heart was clearer than ever.

When the fog in front of her cleared, she recovered from the trance. There was nothing around, no fog, and no figure of her father, only the two coffins lying quietly and the unburned incense.

She sat in front of the coffin, and did not stand up until the incense was completely burned out, and walked out of the underground palace.

Maybe what my father said is right. Sometimes, one chess player may not be enough.

Although his father was ill later, judging from the time his father spent with him before his death, he didn't seem to be old and faint. The fact that he promoted Qin Ji's father and Qin Ji may not simply be a loss of judgment The ability to listen to slander.

In fact, Qin Ji did show a reliable side.Xia Yuxiao always thought that he was playing a dangerous move in his hands, if he used it well, it would be the ultimate decisive move, if he used it poorly, he would lead himself into the abyss.

However, in his father's mouth, he seemed to be a "chess player" like himself.

Let your thoughts come back a little.While thinking, she had already walked back to the entrance of the underground palace, where Song Jingqing had been waiting for a long time.

"Your Majesty, you are back."

"Ah."

Xia Yuxiao nodded: "Let's go out."

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On the battlefield, just as Qin Ji said, a deadly battle broke out.

This is not surprising, Qin Ji and Qin Siyue had already guessed the arrival of this deadly battle.

The southern part of Samanjan is almost completely controlled by Bactria, which is unacceptable to the church.

Most of the cities in the plains in the southern region were occupied by Daxia, and a large part of the mountainous area was captured by Daxia. The battle in the valley was also a victory for Daxia and Daxi Kingdom. Huang Tiecheng was defeated by Daxi Kingdom, Shiqiao City Also occupied by Atlantis...

Throughout the whole process, the Holy See Army and the Samanjan Army were being chased and beaten all the way. Although they also caused a certain degree of casualties to the enemy, compared with the situation of dead and lost land on their own side, it is difficult for the church now. Estimate the current situation.

At least in the south, Samanjan and the church have lost major control over the region.Especially when Shiqiao City and Huangtie City were captured, once Shiqiao was occupied, the continuous supplies and soldiers in the northern part of Samanjan had to find ways to detour a long way to transport supplies, or use ships to transport them.

The former undoubtedly greatly strengthened the logistical burden, and it is difficult to guarantee whether other bridges will be broken.After all, the stone bridge behind Stonebridge City is already relatively difficult to deal with among these bridges.

As for the latter, it's hard to say, although boat transportation is a good way, but the current in this place is fast, making it difficult to transport large quantities of supplies.Moreover, the transportation of ships is still not as fast and large-scale as the transportation of bridges.

Lacking logistical supplies, attacking and replenishing troops, the troops in the south will be exhausted sooner or later, and once the southern region is lost, how will the whole country of Samanjan see itself?How does the church-state see itself?

The Pope sent out a letter to go out, and a group of people left in a majestic manner, showing the glory of the Lord to the people.Then what?The Holy See Army couldn't even help a country like Samanjan to keep its own territory. Instead, it suffered a lot of casualties.

In this way, the image on my side can't be stretched.

Therefore, no matter what, the church does not want the entire southern region to be controlled by Daxia. Even if it really wants to be controlled by Daxia, the Daxia army must pay the price.

In order to solve this problem, this time, the church finally ended in person on a large scale.

Nearly [-] Holy See troops and nearly a thousand paladins were assembled. At the same time, the church also recruited strong men from Samanjan into the team on a large scale again, started training, and sent most of the existing troops in Samanjan to Gathered together, a huge army of more than [-] people was formed, with the purpose of crossing the river and counterattacking Daxia's army.

Moreover, the current southern region is not a complete failure. There are still many churches and Samandian troops still standing firm. They were divided and surrounded by the current Qin Ji, just like making dumplings. Basically, they can barely resistance.

But once the counter-offensive on his side takes effect, then Daxia's army will face the embarrassing situation of being flanked by the enemy, with wolves in front and tigers behind.

Therefore, it is very necessary to launch a campaign that can turn the tide of the war.

Qin Ji probably also guessed this point, so he ordered the troops without combat missions to prepare for the next battle early on.

Sure enough, the enemy did launch an attack, but something happened that caused Qin Ji to collapse.

He had guessed that the enemy would make a big move, and he did take precautions, but he didn't expect that the gang of churches would come up with such a big fight all at once.

The scale is too big, and the dumpling stuffing can easily overwhelm you.

Since the opponent has mobilized so many troops to fight this battle, if he doesn't follow suit, it will be disrespectful to the opponent.

Qin Ji mobilized all the troops that could be mobilized and did not need to garrison and fight for the time being, and roughly mobilized more than 8 troops. Although it is not large enough compared to the size of the enemy, if it is used properly, the church may be overwhelmed. go around.

On both sides of the Chen Bing River, just waiting for a small spark to ignite the explosive barrel, the battle will start immediately.

In the end, the church took the lead in launching an attack across the river. However, with the full preparations of the soldiers in Daxia, the progress of the church's attack was very slow, and their attacks were forced back again and again.

It seems that Daxia is as stable as Mount Tai, but the soldiers of Daxia are also human. Even if they can push back the enemy, it will not be easy to win against an enemy that is really powerful and has a larger force than themselves.

An attack and defense did thwart the church's initial attack plan, and at the same time brought huge casualties. Just the few previous battles had cost huge sacrifices.

Needless to say, this time the church used a well-organized and complete paladin army for the first time. These paladins rushed to the front of the team, and even those heavy crossbows could hardly cause fatal damage to them.

It is often only when several Great Xia soldiers join forces that it is possible to fight off a paladin.

These paladins are simply humanoid monsters. In this battle, a 3000-man army led by General Chen surrounded 3000 paladins. They thought they would easily take down the enemy, but they never expected it. As soon as the armor and holy spells of this group of paladins were opened, the [-] troops were stunned and failed to take down these fifty paladins. At least half of the paladins successfully broke through...

Thus, on the first day of the battle, both sides left countless corpses on the battlefield.

Chapter 34 Consume until you die

No one expected that this battle would allow the two sides to fight desperately for two full months.

On this piece of land in the south of Samanjan, the army of Daxia fell into an unprecedented bitter battle, and the number of casualties reported from the front line was increasing day by day, and it seemed that the church did not intend to give up and continue to attack.

The church has many ways to keep their troops alive, and their troops on the front line are constantly pushing forward with huge casualties, trying to make a name for themselves.

Facing the church's style of attack, Qin Ji had to make a relatively cheap response: let the army of Daxia withdraw one after another, and arrange the follow-up defense line in advance.Use the temporary concession of space to adjust the position of the battlefield.

At the same time, during this period of time, Qin Ji's work intensity has also been full. While constantly mobilizing troops from other troops on the battlefield that don't need much manpower, on the one hand, he is also commanding the army of Daxi Kingdom to attack.

It is true that the army of Atlantis can't go head-to-head with the regular Holy See army, but at least it is still possible for Atlantis to fight against the troops of Samanjan.Qin Ji ordered the troops of Daxi Kingdom to attack in the opposite direction, constantly harassing and consuming the Samanjan troops who were still resisting.

Such consumption, to a certain extent, relieved the pressure on Daxia's army on the front line.