若真如萧将军所言
“If it is truly as General Xiao says,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
若真如 萧 将 军 所言
“If it is truly as General Xiao says,”
“and the Nanzhao forces learned of the imperial instruction,”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
An imperial written order (手谕) carried supreme authority; leakage of royal military directives constituted high treason and tactical disaster.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
if truly; if indeed
Combines a conditional marker with an emphasis on veracity to hypothesize about a critical claim.
what has been said
A formal Classical Chinese construction equivalent to 所说的话, common in written and formal spoken Chinese.