Princess and the General

d expected.”

“I don’t know if our preparations caught the Gu family’s army unprepared, or if Gu HuaiJiang placed too much trust in his son, sending a son with no battle experience to head Weizhou’s defenses.”

Liu Kuang’s face turned dark, heavily saying: “Don’t underestimate his sons.
Have you seen General Qian’s casket?”

“The one that eldest brother is afraid of is that Gu ShuBai?”

Liu TingTing snorted, “No matter how fierce he may be, he is still just a brat.
Eldest brother, don’t worry.
I can handle it.”

Liu Kuang let out a long sigh and squeezed himself onto a chair.
He did his best to calm down for a moment, but he became stiff and could not move.

After a long pause, he finally said: “I hope that something like a female general being captured alive does not happen again.”

Liu TingTing gnashed her teeth and thought back to when Liu YinYin was captured seventeen years earlier.
At that time, there were all kinds of frivolous conjectures.
People said that because of Liu YinYin’s beauty, after she had been captured, she could not possibly preserve her purity.

Liu Kuang felt the light dim on his face.
He was willing to pay the price of 300 Eastern Ling prisoners of war to trade for Liu YinYin.
Who knew that Gu HuaiJiang would accept, but Liu YinYin’s corpse would not even be returned.

She had poisoned herself.
If she had not been humiliated and tortured, why would she use poison to kill herself?

Liu Kuang was infuriated and executed all 300 of Eastern Ling’s prisoners of war.
In front of his ancestral tablet, he proclaimed that he would avenge Liu YinYin.
If he could not avenge her, he would rather die on the battlefield!

At the time, Liu YinYin was Western Kun’s most famous female general.
After she died, Western Kun’s position as head general was given to the Wang family.
After a decade, Western Kun’s top military brass was changed, and the golden seal of the head general was returned to the Liu family.

After a decade of sharpening his blade, Liu Kuang had been waiting to avenge this shame for over a decade!

“Eldest brother, Liu YinYin and I look the same, but I am not Liu YinYin.
I will not die a brutal death as she did.”

Liu Kuang sneered, “You are not her.
Of course, you are not her.
You two were twins, and you two were the same age; however, she was better at leading troops than we are.
This is why elder brother wants you to not underestimate the younger generation of the Gu family’s army.
Those who are arrogant will surely suffer defeat.
You do not possess YinYin’s talent, thus you must be more humble than YinYin.”

Liu TingTing’s complexion was a little ugly, but she forced out a reply, “Yes, eldest brother’s word is final on this expedition.
But has eldest brother considered changing the main battlefield to Weizhhou? Changchuan could also work.
Zhu Guan is being defended by Gu HuaiJiang himself, so it’s truly quite difficult to fight here.
If not for Gu ShuBai rushing over today, I could have taken Weizhou…”

“Take Weizhou and do what?”

Liu Kuang’s expression sank, “Did you think that by taking Weizhou and flanking them, we could find a breakthrough point at Zhu Guan? Have you not considered that Gu HuaiJiang knew that Zhu Guan would be the site of the main battlefield, and that’s why he stationed the majority of his troops at Zhu Guan.
Once we move our main forces to Weizhou, they will also move their troops.”

“Either way, we can’t avoid Gu HuaiJiang’s eyes.
Since that’s the case, we might as well not move.
We will fight to the death at Zhu Guan!”

*TN: The white cloth wrapped around their heads is a mourning headband.