The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 1171: Shame
Chapter 1171: Avenge
“When the Yan State was strong… the gate of Yecheng Pass was opened.” Ye Shouguan said coldly, “But even Tang Yi, the invincible general of Great Yan who was truly known as the God of War, opened the gate of Yecheng Pass under the guidance of my grandfather and father, but he did not dare to enter Yecheng Pass in the end. Why?”
“Tang Yi is afraid that if he enters Yecheng Pass, he will be surrounded by the Xiliang soldiers on the high peaks on both sides… who will never be able to break through the city walls!” Ye Shouguan looked at the city walls on the peaks on both sides, which were lit up like a long dragon. “If we go straight through Yecheng Pass to Yunjing… Yecheng Pass will be reoccupied by the Xiliang army, and the Yan army’s subsequent food and supplies will not be able to pass through. Are we going to let the army go to Yunjing?”
This… is the real reason why Yecheng Pass is so difficult to break through! Breaking through Yecheng Pass is definitely not just opening the gate of Yecheng Pass to occupy it! Instead, it is necessary to take down the walls and barriers on the mountain peaks on both sides to truly take over Yecheng Pass!
Maybe because no one had ever attacked the mountains on both sides along the city wall, Bai Qingyan underestimated the defense of the mountains on both sides. Even if there were only a hundred soldiers left from Xiliang, it would be extremely difficult for the Zhou people to kill them. On the city wall, there were huge stones that had been polished for decades and had not been used. If someone attacked along the city wall… they would roll down continuously and crush the enemy to death!
Therefore, Ye Shouguan dared to send the soldiers from the two peaks to go around to the rear of the Great Zhou Army…
Ye Shouguan gnashed his teeth and said, “Bai Qingyan is too confident. She thinks…she thinks that if she uses all her main forces to open the gate of Yecheng Pass, she can…follow the city wall we have built and take down the mountains on both sides. Secondly…she can pass through Yecheng Pass and capture Deyang, Le’an, Luquan and Jingrong and then go straight to Yunjing! She is simply dreaming!”
“But, if the Great Zhou army finds that they are being attacked from both sides by our army, will they rush out directly from the south gate of Yechengguan?! What if they take our Xiliang emperor and pass through Yechengguan to attack Deyang!” The loyal generals of Yechengguan were afraid that Yechengguan would be lost in Yechengguan’s hands. “They will imitate the Rongdi in the past and rob wherever they can. Then… the whole Xiliang will know that our generals of Yechengguan failed to save His Majesty! The whole country will probably guess… General, you surrendered to the Great Zhou!”
Ye Shouguan also considered that Bai Qingyan could charge forward without any regard for the army’s food and supplies, and could imitate the Rongdi people in the past and plunder the food from the people wherever they fought. But… Xiliang is short of food now, and the people are starving… It is only a matter of time before the land is full of starving people. Even if he charges forward to rob the people, he will get nothing.
“Bai Qingyan is not that stupid!” Ye Shouguan clenched his fists tightly. “He used jade brocade and fur to make the people of Xiliang stop farming… He was a merchant from the Great Zhou. Bai Qingyan must be aware of the current food shortage in Xiliang. In order to get food for the Tianfeng army, the people of Xiliang have already reached the point of gnawing on tree bark. What else can they, the Great Zhou, rob!”
“So, Bai Qingyan is definitely unwilling to waste the soldiers’ physical strength and energy climbing the mountains and dispersing the troops to attack the mountain walls and fortresses that cannot be taken down at all. It is better to concentrate the troops to attack Yecheng Pass!” Ye Shouguan’s eyes fell on Li Tianfu and Ye Yinglan who were hanging on the cloud ladder. “She hung our Xiliang Emperor on the cloud ladder in order to… force the soldiers on the mountains on both sides of Yecheng Pass to come down along the city wall for help!”
Ye Shouguan pointed at the catapults in the distance and said affirmatively: “The Great Zhou wants to use our Xiliang Emperor to attract reinforcements from the mountains on both sides to rescue him. Look at those catapults. The Great Zhou has endured it until now without using them. Why?!”
Ye Shouguan thought he had seen through Bai Qingyan’s tactics and sneered, “The purpose is to wait for the soldiers on the two peaks to rush down from the city wall and then attack our reinforcements. Da Zhou wants to hold the decisive battle outside and inside Yecheng Pass, and wait until our army is almost exhausted! Da Zhou will definitely attack along the city wall, and it will be easy to take down the city wall barriers on the peaks on both sides! I bet that’s what she is thinking!”
Although Bai Qingyan was brave in battle, he was young after all. He sat on the throne of the Great Zhou Emperor and was praised too highly for his reputation as a god of death. He lacked experience. He probably relied on the support of their Xiliang Emperor Li Tianfu in his hand, thinking that as long as he concentrated on taking the city of Yechengguan, he could use the Xiliang Emperor to attract their troops to come to the rescue… Use the inside and outside of Yechengguan as the battlefield to consume their Xiliang troops, and then kill them from the connected city walls built by Xiliang!
Young! Crazy!
If he fails to capture Bai Qingyan… and the so-called young generals of the Bai family who have survived by chance in this battle, he will be unworthy of the arrogance of this little girl.
Ye Shouguan has not forgotten the humiliation brought to Xiliang by the battle at Wengshan…
This time, the Great Zhou Emperor, the so-called God of Killing Bai Qingyan, led his troops out. If she is killed here, not only will the Great Zhou be leaderless, but the morale of Xiliang will surely be boosted, and Xiliang can also avenge its previous humiliation!
“Quick! Shoot! Kerosene! Kerosene! Shoot!” Ye Shouguan shouted loudly.
However, their arrows shot the heavy shields into hedgehogs and the ladders into hedgehogs as well. The flames jumped on the heavy shields and ladders, but they could not stop the Great Zhou at all.
The Xiliang soldiers are not afraid of death because they want to defend Yecheng Pass!
The Bai family army of the Great Zhou Dynasty was not afraid of death. They were out for revenge! To pacify the world… to pacify Xiliang, and to create the peaceful and prosperous era that the people of the world were looking forward to.
In order to pacify the world, we must first pacify Xiliang. If we want to pacify Xiliang… we must take Yecheng Pass!
Bai Qingqi had already led a small force to the city gate and engaged in a fierce battle with the Xiliang army, which outnumbered them by several times.
The horse Wei Zhaonian was riding was shot by a crossbow arrow and fell off the horse. He rolled to his feet and cut off the enemy’s horse’s legs with a sword, cut off the enemy cavalryman’s horse, and chopped off the man’s head with a sword. His only remaining eye was red, and he grabbed the galloping ownerless warhorse and jumped on it. He pulled the reins, grabbed the horse’s head, and shouted loudly: “The city gate is in sight. Avenge our dead brothers of the Bai family army! Swear to destroy Xiliang! Kill!”
The soldiers followed Wei Zhaonian and rushed forward with roars.
Bai Qingyan led the army behind and roughly calculated that the distance was about the same. The arrow attack of the Xiliang army on the city wall had weakened. It seemed that Bai Qingqi and Bai Jinzhao had already entered the city as planned and slowed down the speed of the Xiliang soldiers transporting arrows to the city wall.
The Xiliang soldiers who had just rushed into the Great Zhou army to stop it from advancing have been completely eliminated, and Bai Qingyan has pushed the line very forward.
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