Yong'an Military House, cold winter.
Fifteen-year-old Wei Zhi knelt in front of her father's grave and stuffed a broken military book into her bag. There was no man in the family, and the property was about to be confiscated. Neighbors came to persuade her to get married—to marry a butcher whose wife had died, in exchange for the peace and security of three acres of dry land.
She closed the door and left.
He changed his name to Wei Chi, tied up his chest, pressed his throat, practiced walking at night, and learned to walk like a man. On the first day of joining the army, the veteran sneered: "These people with thin skin and tender flesh will not survive more than three months."
Three months later, she was the first to discover that the enemy's flanks were weak during the city defense battle, and reported it to the battalion officer, winning a small victory. Half a year later, she led five people to guard the beacon. Without water or food for seven days, she lowered herself from the cliff to fetch water and defeated two hundred Beidi. A year later, during the chief examination, she did not use a knife or an arrow, but used "counterintuitive tactics" to make the two Beidi tribes kill each other.
The more prominent her achievements were, the more people were staring at her. Colleague Zhou Hu restrained her at every turn, going through her dormitory late at night to check her details; envoys from the Ministry of War came to hold a banquet and drink wine, and arranged for military prostitutes to test her; the old files of the Yong'an Military House were searched page by page.
She dances on the tip of the knife - she can't lose, because she will die if she loses; she can't stop even if she wins, because if she stops, she will be exposed.
The biggest battle is yet to come. Thirty thousand soldiers from Beidi invaded the south, and Yumen Pass was in danger. Wei Chi proposed the strategy of "luring the enemy deep into the valley + attacking with fire in the valley". The deputy general opposed it, but the main general adopted it against all opinions. On the day of the decisive battle, she stood in the middle of thousands of people, her knife covered in the enemy's blood, her chest tied with a corset, and her throat muffled with a deep voice.
The war was over and the marriage grant from the court arrived.
This time, she couldn't hide it.
