It doesn't matter what the lord is.

Ah! What a terrible nightmare!

However, when I woke up from the dream, I could still hear the incessant crying. Is there anything more frightening than this?

I turned over and sat up and felt around me, making sure that no one was sleeping in the same bed with me, and I felt relieved.

But then the question arises, where does the howling sound of ghosts and wolves come from?

I'll put on some makeup first and then go out to take a look.

When I got to Fang Shisan's room, I didn't go in, but just found a place to stop. There was a lot of crying inside, some of them were out of breath, their inhalation couldn't keep up with their outhalation. Fang Shisan wouldn't cry so ugly, her crying sound was also very pleasant.

Moreover, the voice was rough but soft, soft but hard, and hard but a bit effeminate. If you listened carefully, you would know that it was Fang Lita's crying.

I really envy them for having a sister like this.

No matter how badly you behave outside, there will always be someone who will work hard and clean up the mess for you. Isn't this the best life?

"I'm sorry, sister, it's all my fault...it's all my fault...wuwuwuwuwu..."

"That fat guy was so despicable. He pretended that he couldn't beat me. I took advantage of him at the beginning, but who would have thought that he had so many people lying in ambush behind him..."

“Woooaaaaaaa… Sister… Sister! You have to help me get revenge… We worked so hard to save up those five cities, we can’t just give them to that fat guy!!”

"Sister! Sister! I know you must have a way, right? Speak, sister?"

"Hey, sister, you will definitely take action, right? You will definitely help me get revenge, right? You will lead the army to the north to defeat that fat guy and take back our city, right?"

I'm sorry, Fang Lita. Even your sister can't fulfill your wish now.

After learning that Fang Yuan led his army to defeat Fang Li Tower, I immediately sent a pigeon to Yuxi City. In addition to the necessary soldiers defending the city, Alayya and Felita all went to the front line, which brought great pressure to Tianxing City. In particular, Felita's siege method was unreasonable. In the absence of magicians and outstanding assassins in Tianxing City, Fang Shisan's only way was to form a formation to increase defense and find a way to hold on to the situation.

After all, there are only five of the ten cities under her command now. The army was led by Fang Lita in a battle. Although the casualties were not too serious, the morale of the army was seriously affected.

I sighed. Who should I blame?

Of course it's my fault. But if it weren't for me, wouldn't these things have happened? It was just a matter of time.

Inside the room, there was only the sound of Fang Lita's hushed cries, while Fang Shisan remained silent from beginning to end.

After a moment, Fang Shisan said softly:

"Don't worry... I will find a way to take back those five cities sooner or later. Including Fang Yuan... I will defeat him too. But we must not be impatient now. We are at a disadvantage. Compared with Qianyuan City, the threat from Yuxi City is already greater. What we need to do now is to calm down and drag out this dangerous situation first."

Fang Lita said bitterly:

"I really can't swallow this! Why can that fat guy laugh at me? How am I inferior to him? Sister, we still have so many people now. Is there really no way we can go to Fang Yuan to get back at him? Please think of another way. Please, my dear sister..."

No matter how he begged, Fang Shisan just sighed.

Faced with an impossible request, even Fang Shisan would be helpless.

Fang Lita finally left in disappointment.

When he left, I was standing at the side of the house. He couldn't see me, but I could see his back as he walked away. When the door was closed, I clearly heard Fang Lita say:

"If the army was stronger, there's no way I could lose. It's not all my fault..."

The two guards behind him whispered in agreement.

Not long after Fang left the tower, Tira went to find Fang Shisan with an excited look on his face.

At that time, I told her that if Fang Lita really got the military power in the end, it meant that the letter was probably forged by him on purpose, so as to put Fang Shisan in an unclear situation and force Fang Shisan to hand over the power. Now Fang Lita really did it, and he ran back with nothing left. Ti La finally had a place to vent her anger, so she ran to Fang Shisan and repeated what I had said to her.

"That's exactly what happened. Thirteenth sister, I think the city lord has gone too far in this matter! If he hadn't taken back the military power from you and hadn't taken the army to fight Fang Yuan, how could we be so passive now! He even came to you to beg for forgiveness, without thinking about how he has treated you for so long!"

I couldn't help but feel a little bit of anticipation in my heart. I really didn't know how Fang Shisan would react when he heard it.

After a long silence, Fang Shisan said softly:

"Even so... if he wants military power, I will give it back to him. He is the mayor of Tianxing City, and I am just his sister... Besides, this can be said to be a lesson learned for Ata, and he should not be so impulsive in the future."

I almost laughed when I heard it outside the door.

Tiara's voice was filled with frustration and he said excitedly:

"But he never learned his lesson—"

Fang Shisan said calmly:

"Stop talking, Tira. There's nothing more to say now. All we can do is hurry up and prepare, using the remaining five cities to try to stop the attacks from Yuxi City and Qianyuan City. Yuxi City itself is also facing threats from the east and west, and it's impossible for them to stay here for too long. Once we stop the first wave of attacks and slowly delay them, they will naturally choose to retreat. Then we can... slowly settle accounts with Fang Yuan."

She opened her mouth, as if trying to convince Tira, or herself:

"As long as we hold on, everything will be fine. We will become united, and Ata will become more mature and stable..."

Zhaochen Thirteen, a professional dog, never fights back when beaten, never speaks back when scolded.

In order to repay the kindness, he didn't care about anything. Unfortunately, in the end, he had nothing.

I glanced at the gray sky.

Just as Tianxing City is already on the verge of collapse, it is time to close the final plan.

24. An army supported by one man

Fang Lita returned the military power to Fang Shisan.

Although Fang Lita, who had just lost a battle, still looked a little suspicious, he should have realized that he was not cut out for it and decided to hand the army back to his sister. It is worth mentioning that Fang Lita was not a complete military rookie. He read so many military books for his sister and learned a little bit. He was good at talking about military affairs on paper, but he was far inferior to Fang Shisan in actual combat.

But now, even if Fang Li Tower handed the situation back to Fang Shisan, it would be extremely difficult for Fang Shisan to launch a "turnaround offensive".

The original ten cities have become five, the army has lost personnel and morale has dropped significantly, and the remaining five cities in the entire territory are also in a panic. On the contrary, the soldiers outside the city are strong, Qianyuan City in the north is still eyeing them, and Yuxi City in the south is also preparing for war. In this case, can Fang Shisan really turn the situation around?

She still didn't give up.

In the past, he could occasionally see meaty dishes, but now they have become extremely simple. Fang Shisan often sits at the table at noon with only a dry pancake to eat. The dry pancake has been baked countless times. It was soft before, but now it crumbles when touched. Whenever he finds it difficult to swallow, Fang Shisan will grope for the cup next to him, take a sip of water, hold it in his mouth for a while, and then slowly swallow it.

I still have the same standard at noon. I learned from Tila that although Fang Shisan eats very little now, he has asked Tila not to delay my diet. That's why I feel complicated. Fang Shisan, who is trying hard to save some money, I wonder if she has ever thought about her brother who still bites the delicious chicken legs in the middle of the night every day, and doesn't eat them all, but just takes a few bites and throws them to the dog wagging its tail beside him.

Because Fang Shisan's meals were prepared by Tira, and Fang Lita had four or five dedicated cooks, Fang Shisan probably never had the chance to know about this. After all, every day during meals, Fang Lita would come over hypocritically, take a piece of pancake and eat with her sister, looking pitiful. But after only two bites, he would put it in his sleeve, pretending to be full, and then go back to eat the delicious food quietly by himself.

Fang Shisan said to me several times with shame:

"Jia De. I apologize to you on behalf of Tianxing City. You came here because you believed in Zhaochen, Tianxing City, and me. But since you came here, not only have you not lived a stable life, but you have been working hard all the time..."

I touched her cheek lovingly and replied:

"It's not tiring at all. Don't worry, everything will be fine. I'm still waiting for you to become the general of Tiance Mansion and appoint me as the first deputy general of Tiance Mansion."

Fang Shisan finally laughed. She placed her slender hand on the back of my hand and replied:

"Yes. Thank you..."

She grabbed my hand like it was the last straw.

I also tried my best to pass the warmth from my body to her.

Fang Shisan sat in a wheelchair, sometimes going to the front line, and sometimes sitting blankly in the City Lord's Mansion.

She was thinking about things almost all the time. She got up very early in the day and went to bed very late at night. Later, she often sat at the table all night. She couldn't see anything and didn't need to turn on the light, but her years of experience allowed her to roughly sketch out what she wanted on paper when she picked up a pen. There are blind typing for keyboards and blind sniping for guns. Fang Shisan's is more special. It can be considered blind writing and blind drawing. But compared with others' accuracy, Fang Shisan is still a little worse. The lines he draws are often intermittent, and many words are written in places where they shouldn't appear.

Every day when I help her sort out the documents, I will understand her intentions and correct the mistakes. In the past, it seemed that the second-in-command of the army would do this, but now that I am here, she is more willing to let me do it directly.

The pressure that once existed suddenly reversed.

At that time, Fang Shisan led his army to the city of Yuxi. The army of Yuxi was not strong enough, and Filita and Alayya were struggling to defend the city. Now, I should be proud of myself, but every day when I see Fang Shisan's sad face, I just feel depressed.

Today, during dinner, I brought the dishes that Ti La had cooked, and moved a chair to sit next to Fang Shisan. Fang Shisan was still slowly chewing a dry biscuit. Her thoughts seemed to be not on the food, but on the battle formation in front of her. I picked up a fried green bean and handed it to her lips. Fang Shisan could not see it, nor did she react. When the bean touched her lips, she instinctively opened her mouth, and I took the opportunity to feed it into her mouth.

"Thank you...eat more, I'm not very hungry."

Fang Shisan chewed slowly and took another bite of the dry pancake.

I divided the vegetables in the bowl into half, eating half myself and feeding the other half to Fang Shisan. I took a bite and she took a bite, and we shared the bowl of stir-fried beans. Although the taste was still quite ordinary, it would taste better if we shared it.

I don’t know if it’s just my psychology.

I took out my handkerchief and helped Fang Shisan wipe the oil stains from the corners of her mouth. She was a little embarrassed and pushed the table with her hand, and the wheelchair slid back a little distance. Fang Shisan said in a panic:

"Just let Tira come..."

I smiled and said:

"There's not much to do right now anyway, so it doesn't matter."

I stopped talking and sat beside her, quietly accompanying her. At first, Fang Shisan was a little reserved, but then, she focused almost all her attention on thinking about the deployment of troops, and from time to time she wrote and drew on the paper in front of her. I didn't disturb her, and she gradually forgot my existence.

I suddenly noticed that when the pen in her hand left the paper, her right hand would involuntarily rest on her left arm. Whenever she was thinking hard but to no avail, or when she began to feel sleepy, she would suddenly pinch her arm with her hand. Not just a simple pinch, but a pinch and then a hard twist to force herself to stay awake. It was also when she lifted up her long sleeves that I discovered that there were already many purple marks scattered on her arm.

Outside, the wind and rain were raging, flags were waving, and shouts of killing were deafening, but inside the City Lord's Mansion, it was uncharacteristically quiet.

However, the situation was far from as optimistic as Fang Shisan had imagined. She kept changing the formation of the city defense and the distribution of troops, predicting the focus of the enemy's next attack and adopting the best response strategy. This was like dancing on the edge of a cliff. One wrong step would lead to eternal damnation.

During this period, Tianxing City is temporarily fine, and the armies of Yuxi City and Qianyuan City are also temporarily fine.

Tila is fine, I am fine, and Fang Lita, who eats and drinks a lot and sleeps until he wakes up naturally every day, is also fine.

However, Fang Shisan, who had suffered from long-term malnutrition, lack of sleep and excessive worry, began to cough up blood.

The bright red blood flowed on the snow-white handkerchief, and it took a long time to slowly seep in and dry. Fang Shisan wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, leaned over the desk again, and once again endured a sleepless night alone.

25. A formation I have never seen before

The sky was gloomy and the wind was sticky.

My sleep quality last night was really worrying. The air was so humid that it was sticky. When I slept, I felt like there was a wet towel covering my face. When I breathed, the humid water vapor was inhaled into my lungs along the trachea. When I opened my eyes, my limbs were sore, my arms were cold, and my head was dizzy.

I rinsed my face with cold water, put on some makeup, and went out to find Fang Shisan.

Knowing that Fang Shisan couldn't be in the bedroom, I quietly pushed open the door of the office. Fang Shisan was still sitting in the wheelchair, leaning forward, his pretty face pressed against the bluestone desk, snoring softly. The clothes he had been wearing had slipped to the ground. In his dream, Shisan folded his arms and frowned.

Most likely he just couldn't hold on any longer.

I glanced at the sketch in front of her and found that it depicted a formation I had never seen before. These days, I have learned a lot about formations from Fang Shisan. At first glance, I found that the formation on her drawing was quite exquisite, but it was just a shell, and the content inside had not been filled in.

I was a little surprised for a moment.

Usually, strategists would study the formations in ancient books and at most make some changes. As long as they were used flexibly, they could exert great power. But Fang Shisan seemed to be planning to create a brand new formation, one that was only suitable for the current Tianxing City and would definitely defeat the opponent after using it.

Perhaps she discovered that studying could no longer save Tianxing City.

The formations in the book were fixed after all. No matter how flexible and adaptable things were hundreds of years ago, there would always be some limitations. Judging from Fang Shisan's attitude, she was planning to combine her own theories and experience with the current situation of Tianxing City to create an unbeatable formation that could protect the five cities.

I walked closer, wanting to find out what was going on. At this moment, Fang Shisan woke up, raised his head, and looked nervously in the direction of the footsteps.

I whispered:

"it's me."

The expression on her face was visibly more relaxed.

I picked up the clothes on the ground, put them on her, and said:

"If you're sleepy, how about I carry you back and lie down for a while?"

Fang Shisan rubbed his hands, exhaled, and said:

"Thank you... I just slept for a while and I feel much better now."

I went to the kitchen and boiled a pot of water, poured it into a cup, blew on it a few times, and after testing that it was not that hot, I handed it to Fang Shisan. Then I went back to the kitchen, found some green beans from the corner, and chopped them on the chopping board. I estimated that it was around five in the morning, and Tira hadn't gotten up yet. No one else could cook for Fang Shisan except me. So I lit the fire, poured oil, and started cooking. After that, I put the pancakes that Fang Shisan usually ate - to be precise, they were now the most primitive "biscuits" - into the steamer and steamed them slightly. Then I beat an egg and made egg drop soup, and brought it to Fang Shisan's table.

Fang Shisan was slightly surprised, raised his head and asked:

"Can you still cook?"

"Yes."

I responded:

"Try it. If you like it, I'll make it for you in the future."

Fang Shisan smiled and said softly:

"I love so much."

I laughed and cursed:

"How do you know if you haven't eaten yet?"

Fang Shisan lowered his head and whispered:

"This way, even if it doesn't taste good, I can always eat it in the future."

I continued to feed food into Fang Shisan's mouth just like I did last time.