Chapter 203: The Problems
A month passed since the war started and the war only intensified and the Wind Kingdom soldiers were really mentally stressed already with all the troubles they were facing.
The South border of the Wind Kingdom was not very well defined as it was a large wilderness where the Quinze River passes through and then it curves northward and enters the Wind Kingdom joining the western sea near port Faling. South of the wilderness was the great desert ’ DaHuang’ or The Grand Yellow. No one knows how far the desert stretches and no one had particularly made a map to cross that desert but the Sky kingdom is to the south of the Great Yellow Desert and that served as the definite border between Sky Kingdom and Wind Kingdom although there was said to be some conflicts defining the borders including the wilderness.
The Tribals had settled in the wilderness which was not fully claimed by the Wind Kingdom as none of the Wind people lived there, till now usually raising cattle. In a way, the wilderness belonged to the Wind Kingdom and tne Sky Kingdom too but there were always no clear definition of the southern borders.
The soldiers of the Wind Kingdom had made their encampment in the wilderness far from the villages of the wind kingdom and the tribals were camping far south from them leaving a vast plain land in between them where the battles took place.
What the military generals found odd was that, the tribals weren’t advancing even though they could if they push forward. The Nature is fighting against the soldiers of the Wind Kingdom while the United Tribes were just watch them getting destroyed and teasing them from their comfy abodes. Even in the last war, they had lost almost ten villages in the south to the tribal people but this time the tribals are not advancing further.
The flu spread wildly among some soldiers through air and so they were isolated and the local and the Imperial physicians sent by the Emperor could not find any medicines for that flu making them bedridden.
With half of the food gone to waste, they had started to ration the grains and that had made the soldiers morality waver.
Xing just stayed in her courtyard reading memorials as usual without bothering much about the war going on. She couldn’t find medicines for the flu spreading among the soldiers and she didn’t have any other solution to the war other than her being there, herself. And they won’t let her be there!
Also, Since the Emperor wants to be just, she let him be and see if his ways work. It’s his kingdom anyway! He can do whatever he wants. If he wants to protect his people, he is well within his rights to do so.
That evening, Xing was reading the sealed letter she received from Seiren sitting in the swing Shengli had brought for her. The person she wanted to contact had agreed to meet her and have a talk with her. Xing didn’t care much about the war because she knew one way or another they will win the war and put an end to the issues surrounding the tribals too. Her concerns were to win the war as soon as possible. All she has to do is step foot in the battlefield and the war will be won by their side. She knew if it is just the tribals against them, they’ll definitely win.