Pan Yucheng went off to get food ready, and Ning Chen took the chance to ask Feng Qizheng, "Did you subdue those two women assassins last night?"

Feng Qizheng's grin turned thoroughly lewd. "Those two were too much for me. I nearly laid down my arms!"

"That good?"

"Good doesn't cover it. If it had been you... you wouldn't be getting out of bed today!"

Ning Chen's mouth twitched, and he kicked him before he could stop himself. "And who are you looking down on?"

Feng Qizheng's face came down in a hurry. "Little Yue knows!"

"Hm?" Ning Chen was lost for words. "Didn't I tell you not to shout about it? How did you manage to let the whole world in on it?"

Feng Qizheng said glumly, "It slipped out and she heard... But I've explained it to her. She ought to believe me."

"How did you explain it?"

Feng Qizheng told him the whole thing!

Ning Chen went stupid, then stuck a thumb up at him, helpless. "That's a real performance."

A little later, Pan Yucheng brought food.

Ning Chen ate and drank his fill, and the army moved out.

Kang Luo and his army had taken the Gaoli Kingdom's Yong'an City and Kangyang City.

Gaoli's territory had never been large to begin with, and with those two cities gone it had lost almost all of its northern land.

Ning Chen was going to help the Gaoli Kingdom take the two cities back.

On the face of it he was helping the Gaoli Kingdom. In fact he had his own plans.

Once the two cities were retaken, he would station fifty thousand men in Kangyang City.

Ten days later Ning Chen brought his army up to Yong'an City.

Ten thousand of the Ning'an Army, the fifty thousand of the Southern Frontier Army, and seventy thousand Gaoli troops.

A hundred and thirty thousand men, drawn up under the walls of the city!

There were fifty thousand Nanyue troops stationed in Yong'an City.

A hundred and thirty thousand men, filling the ground and joining it to the sky.

Gaoli's troops…