In the Hall of Supreme Harmony.
Han Qing was engrossed in the battle reports submitted from below, her delicate brows knitted tight and her pretty face frosty. Inwardly, she kept cursing the Cangling Kingdom for not knowing what was good for it. She had yet to settle accounts with them, yet they had actually struck first!
As she cursed, A-Fu's aged figure hurried up outside the hall. Panting, he announced from outside, "Your Majesty, Duke Cai requests an audience."
Duke Cai was Cai Tianming, the former city lord of Shenzhou City. Since returning from the North Sea Kingdom, however, his illustrious military achievements, together with the new sovereign's accession, had earned him promotion from Her Majesty the Empress to Great General Who Guards the Nation of the Shenzhou Kingdom, with the title of Duke Who Guards the Nation.
He was also one of the Shenzhou Kingdom's two supreme commanders, leading the eight hundred thousand troops of the Shenzhou Army, reorganized from the New Shenzhou Army and the Ace Army.
"Summon him!"
Cai Tianming hurried inside, his voice arriving before he did. "Your Majesty, the latest military report from Primordial City!"
"Quickly!" Han Qing urged the moment she heard it was from Primordial City.
She took the report from Cai Tianming and read it swiftly but carefully.
This military report from Primordial City had been rushed over by Projection Ant.
"The Cangling Kingdom has indeed deployed its main force!" Han Qing's tone was biting.
Hearing this, Xiao Qing immediately said from beside her, "Cangling dares recklessly wage war on us, disregarding the common people along both countries' borders!"
"No!" Han Qing said. "They are disregarding our people of Shenzhou. The battlefield is within our borders."
Shifting the center of the battlefield to the area around Primordial City suited the Cangling Kingdom