Chu Yuxiao pondered in the Imperial Study for the entire morning but couldn’t come up with a solution.

Su Yan, who brought him tea and pastries, heard about this and, after a brief moment of thought, suggested an idea.

"I heard that the Emperor’s sons in Xiliang Country do not get along, and the factional struggles among the ministers are intense.

Why not find someone among them who has some influence, is greedy and lustful, and lacks ambition,

offer him treasures and beauties, and make some slanderous remarks to stir internal strife, forcing Xiliang Country to withdraw its troops on its own?"

Chu Yuxiao slapped the table with excitement, stood up, and exclaimed joyfully:

"Yes, let’s do it! How did I not think of this?"

Looking at Su Yan, he walked over to her, put his arm around her shoulders, and said with a smile:

"Yan’er, your idea is excellent. I heard from Guo Xing that the commander leading the resistance against us this time is an incompetent Seventh Prince of the old Emperor of Xiliang Country.

However, the two deputy commanders beside him are quite formidable. I’ll immediately write a letter to Guo Xing, asking him to mislead this commander."

"Will this really work? I was just suggesting something off the cuff. Besides, even under national crisis, no matter how incompetent, he wouldn’t be foolish enough to listen to us, would he?" Su Yan asked worriedly. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

Chu Yuxiao shook his head, gently pulling her into his arms, and said with a smile, "Don’t worry, it will definitely succeed."

At the front lines, Guo Xing received Chu Yuxiao’s letter, listened to the advice of the strategist Mo Buyan, and dispatched a persuasive person with two beauties and a few hundred gold coins.

They stealthily infiltrated the city currently guarded by the Xiliang Country’s troops and found an official close to the Seventh Prince, explaining the situation.

They promised that if the plan succeeded, there would be another few hundred gold coins as a reward.

The official, like the Seventh Prince, was also greedy and lustful. He accepted the gold and beauties, and then went to see the Seventh Prince.

He suggested that Cangyue Country was not trustworthy. They agreed to send fifty thousand troops for support but only sent twenty thousand.

Moreover, these twenty thousand troops hardly did anything in the military camp. Every time a battle with the Great Nan Dynasty occurred, they stayed in the back instead of charging forward.

This caused Xiliang Country to lose tens of thousands of soldiers while they suffered almost no losses at all.