"Report..."
"Bad news, Your Majesty! Something terrible has happened, Your Majesty!"
At that moment, a eunuch came scrambling over, practically rolling and crawling, panic written all over his face.
The Empress, who had been reading memorials, immediately frowned and said coldly:
"Hmph! Little Li, what sort of conduct is this? This is the imperial palace. Who are you putting on this display for?"
At those words, the young eunuch dropped to his knees with a thump and said:
"Your Majesty, something terrible has happened! The army sent to the Western Region has been completely wiped out!"
The words made the previously unconcerned Empress shoot to her feet. She did not even notice the memorial falling to the floor.
With fury blazing in her eyes, she said:
"Say that again. What exactly happened?"
The young eunuch said tremblingly:
"Your Majesty, the army sent to the Western Region to subdue the Yang Family has been completely wiped out."
Hearing this, the Empress trembled all over, her voice filled with barely restrained disbelief as she said:
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible! I sent five thousand Black Moon Iron Cavalry!
"That was the Black Moon Iron Cavalry! With their combat strength, they could easily surround and kill even Grandmasters.
"Five thousand Black Moon Iron Cavalry could move freely even among an army of fifty thousand!
"How could they possibly have died in a barbaric backwater like the Western Region? Are you joking with me?"
The young eunuch did not dare conceal anything and immediately said:
"Your Majesty, according to the report from below, when the Black Moon Iron Cavalry and the army of two hundred thousand arrived in the Western Region,
"They were about to begin their siege, but at that moment, a force of two thousand heavily armored cavalry emerged from the city. They called