My wife is number one in the world

Chapter 4202 A Small Dish

"Uncles, please don't stand on ceremony."

"Thank you, Your Highness Princess."

Liu Mingzhi gently put the stopper back on the wine flask, casually hung the flask back on his waist, and then looked up at Qin Shaoguang with a faint smile.

"Shaoguang".

Upon hearing this, Qin Shaoguang immediately turned around and focused his gaze on Young Master Liu.

"Your Majesty, I am here."

"Shaoguang, in private, let's not use 'Your Majesty' anymore, just call me Commander!"

Upon hearing Liu Mingzhi's words, Qin Shaoguang was immediately excited and raised his arm to cup his hands in greeting to Young Master Liu with a broad smile.

Qin Shaoguang understood perfectly well that the fact that Young Master Liu still allowed him to call him "Commander" as before meant that in addition to the duty between ruler and subject, there was also a brotherly bond between them.

With this brotherly bond in place, as long as he doesn't suddenly lose his mind and do something that violates principles, the brotherhood he has with Young Master Liu will be enough to benefit three generations of his family for life.

If his sons and grandsons are successful enough, this affection might even bring blessings to three more generations of his descendants.

Faced with such a situation, how could Qin Shaoguang not be excited!

"Yes, sir, I understand, commander."

Liu Mingzhi smiled and nodded slightly, then pointed with his right hand to the military camp two miles away.

"Shaoguang, how many soldiers do you know that I am currently on the hillside?"

Upon hearing Young Master Liu's question, Qin Shaoguang immediately replied loudly, "Reporting to the Commander, besides myself, Old Ma... Ma Tianping, and our respective personal guards, only the dozens of soldiers currently on duty outside the gate know about this matter."

However, when I led my personal guards to the hillside, Ma Tianping had already gone to the army tent to inform General Zheng and the others about this matter.

"This humble general is also unsure whether General Zheng and the others will inform the soldiers in the main camp that you, Commander-in-Chief, are currently on this hillside."

Liu Mingzhi withdrew his gaze from the military camp two miles away, raised an eyebrow, and glanced at Qin Shaoguang.

"Ma Tianping, Ma Da Nao?"

Upon hearing this, Qin Shaoguang immediately suppressed a smile and nodded vigorously at Young Master Liu.

"Reporting to the Commander, it is indeed him!"

Liu Mingzhi nodded knowingly, then smiled faintly and said softly, "Hahaha, Tianping is a wise man who appears foolish."

When Tianping saw that I, the young master, was just staying on this small hillside with Yue'er, observing the situation at the military camp from afar, without going directly to the camp, he was sure that I had a deeper meaning in doing so.

It's possible that before he went to find Zheng Jizhong, Li Zhihai, and the others at the main military tent, he had already instructed the soldiers on duty outside the gate not to reveal that he was currently on this hillside.

However, as the saying goes, nothing is absolute.

Shaoguang, just in case, you should immediately send a personal guard to inform the soldiers on duty outside the gate that they must not reveal my current location on the hillside without my order.

Then, I went to the main military tent and ordered Zheng Jizhong, Zhang Yaohe, Li Zhihai, and the others not to inform the soldiers in the camp about this matter without my permission.

Those who disobey orders will be dealt with according to military law.

"I haven't seen soldiers drill in formation for a long time. Today, I want to see what it's really like when they're training."

"Yes, I understand."

After solemnly clasping his hands in a fist salute to Young Master Liu, Qin Shaoguang immediately turned to look at a bodyguard with a resolute face and a burly build.

"Xiao Lin, you heard what His Majesty just said. You must return to the camp immediately to relay the order."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"Your Majesty, Your Highness, I shall take my leave now."

"Well, let's go!"

After Qin Shaoguang's personal guards rode away, the little cutie gently pursed her luscious, proud cherry lips twice, and with a slightly curious expression on her beautiful face, she turned to look at Zheng Yunfei standing to the side.

"Uncle Zheng".

Upon hearing the little cutie's soft, delicate voice calling out, Zheng Yunfei immediately turned around and focused his gaze on her pretty face.

"Your Majesty, please speak."

The little cutie pinched her slender waist with one hand, then slowly looked around at the situation on the small hill.

"Uncle Zheng, please immediately give orders to the soldiers hiding around the hillside, and tell them to come out from their hiding places. I want to see where they are hiding."

"Yes, Your Majesty, I obey."

After Zheng Yunfei responded loudly to Xiao Ke'er's words, he immediately raised the command flag in his hand and waved it forcefully in several places around the small hill.

In an instant, dozens of fully armored dragon warriors suddenly appeared around the hillside.

These dragon warriors either held their weapons at their waists with one hand, or carried single-shot and repeating crossbows with both hands, or longbows such as the Yellow Bow and the Iron Bow for long-range shooting.

A few of the great dragon warriors even had five or six thunderbolts, which had been neatly tied with thin ropes and were ready to be thrown at any time, on their shoulders.

The little cutie looked at the soldiers, who had removed all the obstructions around them, revealing the true face of the pit. She then looked at the single-shot crossbows and repeating crossbows in the soldiers' hands, as well as various longbows and the thunderbolts they carried on their backs. She immediately parted her cherry lips and took a deep breath.

At that moment, she finally understood where the murderous aura she had just sensed came from.

If things go as I expected, from the moment I and my old man began observing the military camp two miles away, dozens of hidden arrows were already quietly aimed at us.

The little cutie silently withdrew her gaze from the dozens of dragon soldiers, and instantly turned around angrily to look at Young Master Liu, who was smiling at her.

"You old rascal, didn't you already sense these soldiers hiding around us?" Liu Mingzhi heard his little darling's angry question, but his smile remained as he turned his head and quickly glanced at the dozens of dragon soldiers who had emerged from the various pits.

"Hehehe, my dear daughter, do you want to hear the truth or a lie?"

Upon hearing this, the little cutie immediately pretended to be annoyed and gave her stinky old man a sweet, soft snort.

"Humph!"

"You old geezer, isn't that a pointless question?"

"I've already asked you this question, so naturally I want to hear the truth."

Qin Shaoguang, Zheng Yunfei, and the surrounding soldiers of the Great Dragon Army couldn't help but show a hint of surprise in their eyes after hearing the conversation between Young Master Liu and his daughter, Little Cutie.

I had long heard that among His Majesty's many children, Princess Liu Luoyue, the fourth princess born to the former Empress Wanyan Wanyan of the Jin Dynasty, was the most favored by His Majesty.

At first, they thought the rumors were exaggerated to some extent.

No matter how favored the princess is, can she possibly be as favored as the princes?
After all, one of the many princes will one day become the successor to the Great Dragon Heavenly Dynasty, inheriting the vast land and rivers of the Great Dragon Heavenly Dynasty.

Only at this moment did Qin Shaoguang and Zheng Yunfei, along with a group of Great Dragon soldiers, suddenly realize that the rumors were true!
The Fourth Princess standing before them was not at all overstated in her favor with the Emperor; in fact, she was almost too well-regarded.

At this moment, Qin Shaoguang, Zheng Yunfei, and all the soldiers of the Great Dragon Army couldn't help but have some doubts.

If His Majesty the Emperor could truly pluck a star from the sky, then when the Fourth Princess desires a star, would His Majesty personally pluck one down and give it to her?

Liu Mingzhi had no idea what Qin Shaoguang and Zheng Yunfei, along with the other soldiers of the Great Dragon Army, were thinking. Looking at the feigned annoyance on the beautiful face of the little cutie, he chuckled and reached out his right hand to pluck a half-green and half-yellow weed from the ground.

"Hahaha, haha~ hahaha."

“My dear daughter, to tell you the truth, at first I didn’t realize that so many dragon warriors were hidden around the hill.”

However, after I roughly observed the surroundings of the small hill where my daughter and I were standing, as well as the distance from the hill to the military camp, I suddenly realized that the small hill where my daughter and I were standing was definitely not simple.

So, I immediately held my breath and carefully sensed the surroundings of the hillside.

As expected, just as I had thought, the situation around the small hill where my daughter and I were standing was indeed not simple.

Within a mere hundred paces, there were at least twenty hidden killing intents.

"My dear daughter, if she's like this within a hundred paces, imagine how she'll behave in places further away."

As Liu Mingzhi spoke with a smile, he turned his head slightly to look at Zheng Yunfei, who was standing to the side.

"Yunfei, how many of our Great Dragon's soldiers are hidden on this hillside?"

Upon hearing Young Master Liu's question, Zheng Yunfei quickly bowed slightly to him.

"Your Majesty, based on the surrounding environment of the hillside, within every hundred paces..."

Before Zheng Yunfei could finish speaking, Young Master Liu interrupted him with an annoyed look.

"Yunfei, I already made Shaoguang call me 'General' just now, but you're still calling me 'Your Majesty' all the time."

What's wrong? Your face is bigger than Shaoguang's, you bastard?

As soon as Liu Mingzhi uttered those words in a rather irritating tone, Zheng Yunfei's expression tightened, and he hurriedly cupped his hands in greeting to Young Master Liu again.

"General, I know I was wrong, I know I was wrong."

According to the commander, based on the environment and terrain around the hill, there are between thirty and fifty soldiers hidden within every hundred paces.

Five hundred soldiers were hidden across the entire hillside.

As soon as Zheng Yunfei finished speaking, Young Master Liu immediately raised his binoculars to roughly observe the situation in the distance on the hillside.

"Five hundred people in total?"

"Indeed, Commander."

Liu Mingzhi chuckled and nodded, then moved the binoculars away from his eyes and looked up with a smile, turning his gaze back to the little cutie's stunningly beautiful face.

"My dear daughter, now you should understand why your two great-uncles chose to locate the military camp in the west of the city in such a place, right?"

Upon hearing her father's cheerful inquiry, the little cutie's brows furrowed slightly, and after a moment's thought, she turned her fair and slender neck to glance at the large flat area below the hill.

Immediately afterwards, she turned her slender waist, which could be grasped in one hand, and looked at Qin Shaoguang, who was standing to the side.

"Uncle Qin, have you dug horse traps on this large flat area between this small hillside where we are standing and the military camp two miles away?"

Upon hearing the little cutie's sweet voice ask him this question, Qin Shaoguang immediately cupped his hands in a respectful gesture towards her.

"Your Highness, there are a total of nine horse traps between where we stand and the army camp."

These nine horse traps are five in the north-south direction and four in the east-west direction.

These horse traps are crisscrossed and vary in length. The location of each trap was constructed in sequence based on the seemingly weakest points in the defenses around the army camp two miles away.

If enemy cavalry were to launch a surprise attack on our camp from the terrain of this small hill, I dare not presume to say too much, but it would be no problem to directly deplete the enemy's forces by two or three thousand.

Moreover, these nine horse traps were merely a small appetizer set up for the enemy.

The real weapon capable of inflicting heavy losses on the enemy was the more than one hundred siege cannons that had been prepared and deployed in the army camp long ago.

The more than one hundred cannons were set up in various corners of the army camp. Once the enemy's main force gathered on this small hill, the soldiers could launch an artillery barrage on the hill beneath our feet in an instant.

With the power of those artillery shells, a single explosion could wipe out a large number of enemy troops.

This means that if an enemy suddenly attacks, our Great Dragon Dynasty's soldiers will already have a significant impact on the enemy's morale before they even have a chance to muster their strength and prepare for battle.