BAD NEW TO THE PALACE

the first wave of news about the war has just reached the palace during the hours of the meeting of ministers

"Your majesty from him we have received news from the soldiers on the borders"

"speaks!"

"Your Majesty all the soldiers and inhabitants of Shu County are ... they are"

"stop stuttering and say it once"

"They are all dead your majesty, they were cruelly murdered without mercy even the children"

the room full of ministers was silent in complete silence "when did all this happen ?!"

"His majesty from him yesterday before sunrise the fields were completely consumed by fire"

The empress who also attended the meetings was stunned 'The maid I gave my daughter to was from there, does this mean that she is really dead?' thoughts of guilt that hadn't invaded her for a long time came rushing to her head. her face turned white along with everyone in the room

Your majesty there are not enough people in the armies, what should we do with her majesty?"

the ministers in unison "please your majesty indicate what we should do"

"They deploy the army to the borders and issue the decree that families who have more than one male child of legal age have the obligation to send one to the army for the good of the dynasty"

"his majesty is wise"

"Long live her majesty, long live his majesty"

The royal guard was forced to search house by house in the capital based on their genealogical trees to remove the children of families to be sent to the army camps to do a training of training with weapons and send them to supervise in case of for war to break out again.

the soldiers of the royal guard trained some soldiers while the different high-ranking soldiers were in charge of preparing what was necessary for war.

After a month of training, reinforcements from the Zhou army arrived at the border.

Things were not looking good, several cities of Shu were completely destroyed and there were only houses with lots of dead in the streets from where the edor to death emanated.

Several soldiers analyzing the situation could not bear such a scene and vomited, others fainted and had to be taken back to the established base.

As they analyzed the situation and entered the houses, they saw that the supplies were almost empty in the houses, corpses were seen everywhere, of children, of young adults, even of babies, it was a heartbreaking sight.