I, Altria, only want to rule China.

"Damned Hu dog, you actually dared to humiliate our lord, watch out for the arrow!" Yu Jin frowned, picked up a bow and arrow from the side, and shot at Tuoba Xiu.

Facing Yu Jin's arrow, Tuoba Xiu did not move. When the arrow was getting closer and closer to him, he turned his head, dodged the long arrow, and firmly grasped the arrow in his right hand, mockingly.

"It seems that the people on your side are not that good. They are good at shooting arrows from the dark, but I wonder if they dare to come down and fight me."

"This guy's fighting power is pretty good." Leah was a little surprised.

You have to know that Yu Jin is considered a second-rate master in the martial arts world. The arrow he shot out could be caught by the opponent with one hand. The opponent should have reached the level of a first-rate master.

However, this guy, as the main general, was stupid enough to challenge his own people in a duel. If Leah didn't go down and capture him, it would be a shame for his arrogant character.

"I'll come and meet you!" Leah spoke immediately, fearing that this guy would run away.

Hearing that Liya wanted to fight him, Tuoba Xiu's face suddenly showed joy. This little girl was young and energetic, and she captured her alive in a short while.

At that time...hehehe, thinking of those exciting and wonderful things, Tuoba Xiu's face suddenly showed a lewd expression.

The city gate was opened, and Liya rode a black horse and rushed towards Tuoba Xiu.

Seeing Liya riding a horse and rushing towards him, Tuoba Xiu's smile widened. He decided to capture the girl in front of him in one move. It must be wonderful to see her panicked expression, right?

In Liya's eyes, this guy is just a one-star character in those games that like to show off their strength. He is not even worthy of being used as dog food for five-star characters!

So in order to capture this guy alive, Leah quickly rushed towards him.

Seeing Liya coming at him aggressively, Tuoba Xiu was not panicked. She was just a woman, how strong could she be?

He grew up in the army and has only reached the level of a first-class master after all his practice. Among the younger generation, he rarely meets an opponent, so he looks down on Leah from the bottom of his heart.

But how could he know that Leah was not an ordinary person at all, but a humanoid Tyrannosaurus Rex. Although she looked like a human, she was a real dragon inside!

The two of us are not at the same level at all. It can be said that you practice martial arts while I practice Taoism!

Seeing the other party slashing with the sword, and even sweeping the back of the sword towards her, she knew how much he despised Leah from the bottom of his heart.

Leah leaned back and avoided the opponent's sweep.

At the other party's surprised look, he quickly stood up, stabbed him in the shoulder with a gun, and knocked him off the horse.

At this time, it was too late for Tuoba Xiu to regret.

After Tuoba Xiu fell to the ground and rolled a few times, he felt a sharp pain in his shoulder, and then a sword was placed on his neck.

At this time, Tuoba Xiu finally realized that he had lost? Even with Liya holding a sword at his neck, Tuoba Xiu still felt it was so unreal.

"Let me go!" Tuoba Xiu shouted immediately after he realized what was happening.

Damn it, he was careless and didn’t dodge!

"It's ridiculous that you challenge me with such little strength." Seeing that Tuoba Xiu wanted to resist, Liya immediately lowered her sword, and the cold sword was already against the opponent's neck.

At this moment Tuoba Xiu finally calmed down, knowing that his life depended on Liya's thoughts.

"What do you want to do?" Tuoba Xiu took a deep breath.

"Tell your men to drop their weapons and surrender." Leah said calmly.

"Impossible, even if you kill me, it's impossible! You just defeated me when I wasn't paying attention." Hearing Liya's request, Tuoba Xiu immediately refused sternly.

"Really?" Looking at the tough expression on the other person's face, Liya didn't hesitate and slashed Tuoba Xiu's thigh with a sword.

As a sword flashed across, blood from Tuoba Xiu's thigh gushed out like water.

He didn't think that I would be provoked by his words and let him go, and then have a competition with him, right?

"Stop, stop, stop, I surrender, I will tell them to surrender immediately!" Tuoba Xiu did not expect Liya to be so cruel. Seeing that he did not speak and seemed to be planning to attack again with the sword, he hurriedly spoke.

"Tsk, I was hoping you'd be tougher." Seeing the other person's look, Leah curled her lips.

"I have lost, all of you drop your weapons!" Tuoba Xiu, who was held hostage by Liya, could only shout to his soldiers.

"General!" Seeing that Tuoba Xiu actually asked them to surrender, a deputy general among the soldiers did not want to just give up.

"Li Lin, are you the commander-in-chief or am I? If I die, can you still survive if you go back?" Tuoba Xiu cursed angrily.

Hearing this, the young deputy general named Li Lin sighed and dropped his weapon. As Li Liang dropped his weapon, the other soldiers also dropped their weapons.

"Okay, they have all put down their weapons, can you let me go now?" Tuoba Xiu turned around and looked at Liya with a flattering smile.

"Not yet. They can still pick up weapons and fight at any time. Let's wait until my soldiers tie them all up." Leah shook her head.

At Leah's command, all the soldiers in the city ran out, temporarily tied up the surrendered soldiers, and took them back to the city.

Seeing that their side had captured 5000 enemy soldiers without losing a single soldier, both the soldiers and the people in the city cheered.

Li Lin was a little surprised to see the people so happy. He had been a soldier for so many years, but he had never seen people cheering for an army.

It was good that the people were not afraid of the army. This was the first time he had seen such a scene. What method did this girl use to make these people love her so much?

"Can you finally let me go now?" Tuoba Xiu covered his injured thigh and limped.

"Wait a little longer, you are still of some use to me, and I will let you go after this is over." Leah looked at the other person and said lightly.

Chapter 20 My Name is Hua Mulan

"Really?" Tuoba Xiu cried, he felt that he was being used by Liya. You can't trust a beautiful woman's words at all!

"Of course, what good would it be for me to kill you?" Leah smiled, like a cunning little fox.

"Okay." Tuoba Xiu could only sigh.

After entering the city, Liya found one of the surrendered soldiers. Seeing his uneasy look, Liya said directly: "Tell me all your actions since you left Liangzhou and arrived at Wu'an County. Don't hide anything, otherwise you know the consequences."

Facing Leah's gaze, the soldier did not hide anything and told her everything about what happened after they left Liangzhou, went to Wuxing County, stayed there for one night, and then went to Wuan County.

"What kind of person is Li Lin?" Liya thought for a moment and asked again.

Today she saw that the general looked pretty good, but she didn't know if he was just pretending.

"General Li Lin treated us very well and never treated us harshly. Sometimes when we had conflicts with other soldiers, he would try his best to help us."

Speaking of Li Lin, the soldier showed a rare hint of admiration.

After hearing what the soldier said, Leah felt that Li Lin was a good person, but it seemed that she still needed the other party to sincerely surrender to her.

Leah planned to let this soldier leave and find the next soldier to ask the same question to see if they all had the same lines.

Unexpectedly, the soldier did not leave, but instead had a hesitant look on his face.

"What's wrong? Do you have anything else to say?" Seeing the other person's look, Leah asked with some confusion.

"General, you are a woman, right?" the soldier asked after taking a deep breath.

"Isn't this something that is obvious at first glance?"

Leah looked at the soldier curiously and a little strangely. It was then that she unexpectedly discovered that under the dusty face of this soldier, he actually looked surprisingly handsome.

"Why are you asking this?"

Under Leah's gaze, the soldier took a step back a little embarrassedly, as if he was not used to being stared at like that.

"Um...can I...serve under your command, General...in the future..." Under Leah's gaze, the soldier stammered after saying this and lowered his head.

Leah was even more surprised to hear what the soldier said.

If you say that a soldier has a crush on you, wouldn't it be a suicidal act to rashly say such a thing?

"Why? Tell me your reasons." Leah did not refuse immediately, but wanted to see what was going on with this soldier.

The soldier raised his head, his face flushed: "General, actually, I... I am also... a woman..."

"A female!?" Leah was very surprised when she heard that.

She held the soldier down with one hand and reached out the other hand to his collar and chest.

The soldier didn't dare to move, he just blushed and lowered his head.

After groping the soldier's chest for a while, Leah really felt a pair of soft and slippery things. On top of these things, there was a layer of gauze-like thing.

"Take off your clothes and let me see if it's true." Although she had already confirmed it in her heart, Leah still said directly.

"Okay, okay."

Although his face was already blushing, the soldier still undressed under Leah's command, revealing a pair of big white rabbits tightly wrapped in white gauze.

Liya asked the man to put on his clothes again, and then asked, "What's your name? Why are you pretending to be a man to join the army as a woman?"

"General, my name is Hua Mulan. Last year, our country went to war with the State of Song and my father was about to be drafted. However, he had a leg injury in the previous war, so I took my father's name." Hua Mulan told her story.

"Mulan!?" Leah looked at the soldier in front of her with some surprise.

You should know that although Hua Mulan was a figure in the Northern Wei Dynasty, there are very few real records about her, which has led many people to doubt her authenticity.

After all, she served in the army for 12 years without anyone discovering that she was a girl, which seemed too incredible to many people.

However, since a soldier disguised as a man appeared in front of her and called herself Mulan, it meant that the other party did exist in real life. After all, there was no need for her to deceive herself.

"Okay, you can stay with me from now on. You don't have to dress up as a man. Just go back to being a girl." Leah patted Mulan's shoulder and said with a smile.

The appearance of Hua Mulan made her feel that she was not alone. Perhaps in the future, there would be more and more female generals around her.

After all, she is now in the Northern Wei Dynasty, a country ruled by ethnic minorities, and the ethnic minorities have not been completely contaminated by Confucian culture. There are still many women among them who like riding and killing.

If she unified the north, there would definitely be some female generals from ethnic minorities.

Although Leah's goal is to revive the Han people, this revival is not to revive the pure-blooded Han people, but the orthodox culture of the Han people.

Would she not recognize the people of the Five Barbarians? Of course not. Even if they were the Five Barbarians, as long as they studied our Han books and intermarried with Han children, they would also be Han people.

Otherwise, first of all, her current identity would not allow her to pass this test. If the Five Barbarians do not acknowledge it, then no one in New China will have clean blood.

China has never been a mono-ethnic country.

In terms of ethnic origin, the Huaxia ethnic group did not have a single ethnic origin during its formation process.

The Yanhuang tribe, the Miao and Man tribe, and the Dongyi tribe went through a long historical period before they finally merged into the Huaxia tribe.

With constant intermarriage, China has long been a multi-ethnic country.

Whether Mongolians, Manchus, Uighurs, Huis, Zhuangs... we are all Chinese.

The foreign races she hated were those who acted high and mighty and degraded others to the lowest class. The ordinary people of the Five Barbarians were actually no different from the Han people and were all objects of exploitation.

"Thank you, General!" Hua Mulan said excitedly when she heard Liya say this.

After thinking about it, Liya asked someone to bring Li Lin up.

Li Lin, who was brought up, took a look at Liya and frowned slightly. He especially looked at a soldier beside Liya. He actually looked familiar. Upon closer inspection, wasn't he one of his subordinates?

What does this mean? Let your subordinates laugh at you?

"Hmph!" Thinking of this, Li Lin snorted.

Chapter 21: Leah's Official Counterattack

Liya didn't know that the other party had thought so much at once. She just looked at the other party and said, "I want to surrender General Li. I wonder if General Li is willing to surrender to me."

"Anyone has the right to kill traitors, and you are a woman. It is impossible for me to surrender!" Li Lin raised his chin directly, as if he was ready to be killed.

"General Li Lin's words are a bit too much. I am a Han Chinese. When did I become a traitor? It was the Wei Kingdom that occupied my Han territory and caused countless compatriots to be displaced and unable to eat. I am just following the will of my ancestors and recovering the Han territory. I remember that General Li Lin is a Han Chinese. Could it be that he has been kneeling to the Xianbei for too long and can no longer stand up?"

Liya smiled slightly, her words were not without poison.

"You..." Li Lin opened his mouth, but couldn't find any words to counterattack.

There is nothing wrong with being loyal to the emperor while receiving food from him, but his loyalty was to a foreign race that massacred his compatriots, which is very problematic.

According to modern parlance, this is called a traitor!

"You also said that I am a woman. Since you men are so capable, why don't you take the initiative to stand up? Why does the rebellion have to fall on me, a woman? Is this what I want? Isn't it because you men have no backbone that you have to force us women to stand up ourselves?"

This is very feminist!

Liya added: "I wonder if the general has ever heard of the saying that women are weak by nature, but strong as mothers?"

Of course, Li Lin had never heard of the last sentence. After all, it was a sentence from Liang Qichao's "New Citizen Theory" in modern times. Of course, Liya just wanted him to understand the meaning of it, so it didn't matter whether he had heard of it or not.

Li Lin opened his mouth but couldn't say a word. Leah's words were so sharp that they hurt his heart, but they also made so much sense that he couldn't even come up with a word of counter-complaint.

"Even so, I don't think you can do it very well. There have been cases of women intervening in politics in history, but what were the results?" Li Lin protested, but this time his tone was not so strong.

"Is that so? Why don't you go to the city and ask a random citizen to see how they feel about my administration?" Leah said with a smile.

If Li Lin was really a good general who loved his people like his own children, he would know how advanced her current policies were and how good they were for the people.