The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 1104: confuse
Chapter 1104 Confusion
Bai Qingyan took the map and glanced at it, his lips curled up: “Sure enough, this is Yun Poxing’s style.”
Xiao Ruohai stood beside Bai Qingyan and whispered, “I’ll tell Shen Liangyu right away…”
Bai Qingyan nodded: “Go!”
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On the way out of the city from the prefectural mansion where Bai Qingyan was temporarily staying, the envoy of the Tianfeng Kingdom lifted the curtain of the carriage and saw the people and soldiers in the city repairing the city gate together. When they saw his carriage with the elephant flag of the Tianfeng Kingdom hanging on it, they all looked at him with hostility, and the feeling that a great war was about to break out became stronger and stronger.
As soon as he walked out of the gate of Pingyang City, the envoy of Tianfeng Kingdom saw a carriage with the flag of Yan Kingdom speeding past his carriage, and his mood became more solemn.
When Feng Yao arrived, Bai Qingyan, Bai Qingyu, Bai Jinzhi, Shen Kunyang, Cheng Yuanzhi, Xie Yuchang, Yang Wuce and other generals stood in front of a huge map to discuss the route for the Great Zhou to go to war.
Wei Zhong asked someone to invite Feng Yao to the front hall for tea, and took Xiao Rongyan’s letter into the room and handed it to Bai Qingyan.
Bai Qingyan had just finished reading Xiao Rongyan’s letter when he heard Cheng Yuanzhi say, “From what happened last night, I think… it’s feasible to use kerosene to deal with the giant elephants! The people of Tianfeng Country have put extremely thick fur under the armor of the giant elephants. As long as there is enough kerosene, it will definitely burn! Even if it doesn’t work… as long as there is enough kerosene, we can always burn the armor of the giant elephants, and then we can turn those giant elephants into roasted elephants!”
“It is indeed feasible to use kerosene to deal with the elephant army, but… we must occupy the high ground!” Bai Qingyan folded up Xiao Rongyan’s letter and put it aside. He stood up and walked towards the map, speaking in a steady voice, “The kerosene worked yesterday because we were on the city wall, occupying the high ground, and naturally had the advantage of firing rockets!”
Yang Wuce stepped forward and pointed at Lai’an Mountain: “We can set up an ambush at Lai’an Mountain in advance and try to lure the Xiang army to Lai’an Mountain, or force them into Lai’an Mountain and attack with kerosene. It may be a problem that we cannot block the exits on both sides of Lai’an Mountain!”
“It’s easy to block the exit…” Bai Qingyu stood beside Bai Qingyan, looking at the map and said, “Place huge rocks and kerosene-soaked chevaux de frise on both sides of the valley in advance. The difficult part…is how to lure the elephant army into Lai’anshan, or force them into Lai’anshan Gorge.”
“I am more in favor of bringing them in! The elephant is a huge creature. It would only seem more realistic if the elephant forced us into the canyon!” Shen Kunyang said.
Bai Qingyan shook his head, expressing his disagreement: “Although Lai’anshan is not far from Pingdu City, it is also not far from Pingyang City. Even if the generals of Tianfeng Kingdom have not realized that our army deliberately led people to the Anshan Gorge, they will directly attack Pingyang City and lead the army that “flees” to Anshan to retreat and defend. In this way, we can defeat the Great Zhou army in one fell swoop!”
“If we really have to lure the Tianfeng Kingdom’s elephant army to Lai’anshan, we must first attack Pingdu City with our main force, and we must inflict heavy losses, so that the Tianfeng Kingdom will pursue us relentlessly!” Bai Qingyan looked at the map and said in a deep voice, “Now is not the last resort, and there are too many variables in setting an ambush in Lai’anshan!”
She walked to the giant map and her eyes fell on Hanwen Mountain, south of Pingdu City and north of Danshui River.
“If we really want to set an ambush…it shouldn’t be in Anshan Gorge! It should be…here!” Bai Qingyan pointed to Han Wenshan behind Pingdu City.
Now, Great Zhou and Great Yan are eager to go to war, not only to drive the Tianfeng Kingdom out of this land before the arrival of spring, but also to prevent war and danger from happening in their respective territories, so as to avoid suffering for their own people.
So if we want to fight… we have to pull the front line southward, the farther away from Da Zhou and Dayan, the better.
“Sister, do you have a plan in mind?” Bai Qingyu turned to look at Bai Qingyan, with a smile in her eyes.
Grandfather once said… that my sister is a natural born commander, which means… that my sister can not only coordinate the battle situation as a commander, but also… fight on the battlefield as a general!
“Two generals can each lead 20,000 soldiers and set up battle array at the north and east gates of Pingdu City. If Tianfeng Country wants to resolve the crisis, they will naturally send out giant elephants to fight! Before the battle, let the soldiers trample the snow and make it slippery. As long as they send the giant elephants out of the city… their giant elephants will never come back!” Bai Qingyu took a general look at the terrain, pointed at the south and west gates of Pingdu City, and said, “Yan Country will besiege the city at the south and west gates!”
“Besiege the city! Trap them to death!” Cheng Yuanzhi rolled up his sleeves. “Xiliang is short of food. It won’t be long before they surrender! When they surrender, I’ll beat that son of a bitch Emperor of Tianfeng to death.”
Bai Qingyan looked at Cheng Yuanzhi’s gnashing teeth and said with a smile: “When the time comes, let Yan Kingdom make a hole at the south gate, giving Tianfeng Kingdom a chance to break out and let Tianfeng Kingdom go south…”
“Go south… and you will reach Hanwen Mountain. There are high mountains on both sides of Hanwen Mountain and a canyon in the middle, which is not suitable for camping. Beyond Hanwen Mountain is the Danshui River. It is a taboo for military strategists to camp with their backs to the river!” Bai Qingyan pointed to the south side of the Danshui River, “and after crossing the river to camp, the Danshui River will become the first natural barrier of Tianfeng Kingdom. So… if Tianfeng Kingdom flees Pingyang City, they must cross the Danshui River and camp south of the Danshui River!”
Yang Wuce gripped the hilt of the sword at his waist, nodded repeatedly, and looked at Bai Qingyan with shining eyes.
Cheng Yuanzhi clasped his fists towards Bai Qingyan and said, “I, Old Cheng, will definitely obey Commander Xiao Bai’s orders. Commander Xiao Bai, please give me your orders!”
Upon hearing this, Shen Kunyang, Bai Qingyu, Bai Jinzhi, Xie Yuchang and Yang Wuce all clasped their fists and asked for orders.
“Generals Bai Jinzhi and Yang Wuce, immediately lead 20,000 soldiers each to set up battle array at the north gate and east gate of Pingdu City! Before attacking the city, have the soldiers trample the snow and make it slippery to prevent the giant elephants from leaving the city. Start the siege at 11:00 am tomorrow morning!” She pointed her finger at Pingdu City.
“Your Majesty, didn’t we agree with the State of Yan… to send troops to attack the State of Tianfeng and Xiliang tomorrow? If we send troops first now and attack the city early tomorrow morning, then when we besiege the city tonight… won’t the State of Tianfeng and Xiliang be prepared?” Yang Wuce was puzzled.
Bai Jinzhi was also puzzled: “Yes, elder sister, could it be that elder sister does not intend to cooperate with Yan State?”
Bai Qingyu glanced at Bai Jinzhi and said, “Sister asked you to besiege the city in advance because she wanted to give Tianfeng a feeling…We, the Great Zhou, besieged Pingdu City with a large army, just because we couldn’t bear the humiliation of Xiliang and Tianfeng attacking the city yesterday. We didn’t really want to fight! We made a gesture of besieging but not attacking just to vent our anger and force Tianfeng to give us greater benefits!”
Bai Qingyu saw her elder sister nod, and then continued, “While Great Zhou was showing our strength to Tianfeng Nation, we were also telling Tianfeng Nation that we were not afraid of Tianfeng Nation. But in fact, Great Zhou was still somewhat afraid of Tianfeng Nation’s elephant army… This gave them the illusion that Great Zhou was powerful on the outside but weak on the inside.”
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