The Empress’ Livestream

End of college entrance examination: Should the host cover her eyes with a thicker strip of cloth to block the light? This is so annoying, there were no sunglasses or protective eyeglasses in ancient times. The ultraviolet rays reflected from the snow will hurt her eyes and cause snow blindness.

Little angels: If not for the reminder in the above comment, I’d have forgotten about this. One should always be cautious of snow blindness.

Let’s get high together: Please, she fighting a war now. Her survival is still in question. What’s the big deal about a pair of eyes?

Jiang Pengji moved her hand and turned off the bullet screen in the livestreaming room. Then she minimized the screen as much as possible to avoid distraction.

Dian Yan was right beside her, and his voice sounded a little thick because of his nervousness. “My lord, will we be falling into a trap?”

He saw that the few soldiers above the gates were thinly spread out. Their enemy was so negligent.

Jiang Pengji laughed and said, “Do you think that everyone is like me? I run the army by stressing and reiterating my commands, violators are dealt with in accordance with the military law, and slackers are taken note of. The Red Lotus Group is different. Their discipline is lax, and now most of their elite soldiers have been transferred away. The ones remaining are those who sit back and relax. Naturally, they are not especially on their guard. The day is so cold, who wants to be out freezing? They’ll be as lazy as they can get.”

Jiang Pengji would only worry about an ambush if the guards above the city gates displayed stern demeanors that suggested they were ready for an enemy to arrive.

Dian Yan nodded thoughtfully.

Looking at the gate, Jiang Pengji narrowed her eyes dangerously and said, “I really don’t like this gate…”

Dian Yan was puzzled. Weren’t all city gates the same? What was there to dislike?

Jiang Pengji said, “Dian Yan, lead the soldiers to cover me. We must capture the city as fast as possible. I have a good idea…”

Dian Yan didn’t ask what her approach was, he just needed to do his job well.

“My lord, please don’t worry.”

Jiang Pengji nodded. She looked down at the long spear in her hand. It was too thin and too long. She turned her head towards Dian Yan’s waist.

Reaching out, she said, “Let me use your two long axes.”

Dian Yan was born tall, strong, and muscular. He had great strength. He especially liked to use this sort of heavy weapon when fighting. With an ax, he could split a person from his skull straight to his pelvis. The scene was bloody and violent. Every time he returned from battle, he looked as if he had just been fished out of a pond of blood.

Hearing that Jiang Pengji wanted to borrow his weapon, Dian Yan was not unwilling, but…

“My lord, these two axes are very heavy. I’m afraid…”

Dian Yan had not finished speaking when his eyes grew so large they were about to pop out of their sockets.

The two long axes were specially made and weighed nearly 50 kilograms, but they appeared light as goose feathers in Jiang Pengji’s hands. She did not seem to be exerting herself at all.

Every time Dian Yan thought he knew enough about his lord’s fighting power, she could always renew his record.

“The weight is handy…”

She hefted the weight, and the corners of her lips tilted into a slight smile. She gazed at the gate with malice and interest.

Seeing Jiang Pengji wielding the double axes, the audience in the livestreaming room was once again swept away by their emotions. The bullet screen was bombarded with comments.

Cola: Eh, yesterday, I saw a general in red clothing and silver armor riding on a white horse. Today it’s the lolita with double-axes?

Old Drivers Alliance: The host’s body is already seventeen or eighteen years old. What lolita? Have you ever seen such an old lolita?

Devil Musician Zhuge: There’s nothing wrong with an old lolita.

Unnatural Talent Guo Fengxiao: I’ve already moved my stool, melon seeds, and drink to where I can watch the host’s heroic appearance on the battlefield.

Boss Cao: Tsk, to the above user, you’re really hardcore. People will really die in this battle. You’re sure you can eat melon seeds and drinks when faced with bloody corpses, spleens, and large and small intestines flowing out of abdominal cavities, piles of feces, and smashed brain matter everywhere?

Thinking about Boss Cao’s comment on the bullet screen, Jiang Pengji couldn’t help it as a similar scene floated across her mind. She almost felt disgusted and nauseated.

Indeed, Jiang Pengji wanted to get up to some mischief.

Currently, Jiang Pengji was not clear about the specifics of the situation of Jinmen County’s garrison, so she could not dare to be careless. In order to get this battle over and done with as quickly as possible, she could only choose to explode onto the scene and break the might of the Red Lotus Group with a blitzkrieg offensive. Her goal was to take down Jinmen County as fast as possible… Therefore, she had to cause some trouble.

Yang Si surveyed the city gates from his position at the back. He didn’t know if Jiang Pengji planned to assume battle formation and directly take the county by storm or if she was going for a sneak attack.

He was still speculating when the soldiers in front stirred.

“No… what does my lord plan to do?” Yang Si’s voice nearly broke into a shriek. This was because he saw Jiang Pengji turning herself over and draping her body over Little White’s back as a line of soldiers advanced forward in an orderly manner.

Because of the snow-covered ground, the blinding rays of sunlight, and the white cloth draped over Jiang Pengji, the soldiers on the gate did not immediately discover her.

The soldiers of the Red Lotus Group hid under the battlement walls to take shelter from the wind. They were not in uniform. Some wore thick clothing, others were sparsely dressed. They huddled and trembled uncontrollably as they tried to stand with their backs straight. The only thing they had common was that they were old. They had weaker bodies than the younger generation.

“Ah, mother… I’m so freaking cold…”

The moment the speaker opened his mouth, a breath escaped in a cloud of steam. The heat that he had spent so much effort to hold in had escaped again.

“Stop talking, you’ll get colder the more you talk. If you have the energy to talk, you should save it to shiver more.”

“If you can’t take it, why don’t you pray to the gods. I feel that it might be a bit useful.”

In this era, the only mode of transportation for ordinary people was walking. Was the only mode of heating up shivering?

As for the coal braziers?

Nonexistent.

They were just a group of old, weak, and disabled soldiers. It was good enough to survive in this world, they didn’t dare make extravagant demands.

The “veterans” guarding the city gates crowded together for heat, barely scrounging up some warmth.

It was a world of ice and snow and they didn’t have enough articles of clothing to keep warm in it. When they guarded the city during the day, they would simply send one or two men to stand guard while the others huddled under the battlement wall to take shelter from the wind, crowding together to keep warm. When the men on sentry duty could not stand the cold any longer, they would rotate.

At this moment, someone complained, “I’m not supposed to be on guard duty today. I really don’t know what kind of crazy thing is going on with the higher-ups, but they transferred everyone away and put me into this sh*thole.”

“You’re not the only one who’s unlucky.”

“Don’t talk so much. It was the chief’s order to transfer men away. They went to eliminate the heretics.”

“Heretics? Who are the heretics?”

“Who else can it be? It’s Liu Xi next door. If the deity said he’s a heretic, then he is a heretic, an evildoer who brings calamity and chaos to the world.”

Liu Xi?

There were only a few in the north who did not know that name, and it was also the case with the commoners of Chengde County.

Most of the commoners mined coal for a living. In a world where commoners could not even afford grain, how would they buy coal?

When no one bought coal, it meant that many people who depended on coal mining lost their livelihoods and were not able to support their families.

Over the past two years, Jiang Pengji had repeatedly purchased large amounts of coal from Chengde County.

Before the relationship between the Red Lotus Group and Jiang Pengji had completely gone down the toilet, she had taken care of the businesses in Chengde County and supported many commoners.

Regarding the topic of “heretics and evildoers,” while the vast majority of people agreed that the Group should crusade against them, only a handful of people remained silent.

At this moment, someone looked up at the sky and found that there were multiple dark spots above them.

One guard raised his hand and pointed. “What’s that?”

As the dark spots quickly grew bigger, stinging pain erupted from his right eye. Blood spurted from his face.