The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 1199: appalling
Chapter 1199 Horrible
After watching Bai Qingyan leave, General Cui Shanzhong turned around and said to the generals around him: “Tell the soldiers to be ready tonight, the Great Zhou may attack the camp!”
The soldiers following General Cui Shanzhong looked back at Gyantse City and said, “General, the Great Zhou has not yet caught all the secret troops we sent into the city. I think we should strike while the iron is hot… break into the city and capture the Great Zhou emperor alive. Now that we have the Great Zhou emperor in our hands, are we still afraid that the Great Zhou will not surrender quickly?”
“The Great Zhou is in the city and we are outside. If we really want to attack Gyantse City, we in Xiliang may not gain any benefit… instead we will lose troops. And with the Great Zhou emperor’s ability to lead troops, if we cannot directly capture Gyantse City in one battle, it will be detrimental to the morale of us in Xiliang!” After the old general Cui Shanzhong finished speaking, he had already been helped onto the horse by a little boy.
If he had just thought that Bai Qingyan had really only sent one person to Yechengguan to ask for help in order to weaken the target, then now Old General Cui Shanzhong could be sure that if Bai Qingyan really wanted to ask for help from the outside world, with her mind she would definitely have countless ways to do it.
She sent a man out of the city just to test whether there were ambushes at the south gate of Gyantse City, in order to confirm her prediction of the actions of this Xiliang general.
And because… only one person could leave the city, he would keep the messenger alive to interrogate the situation in the city and the content of the message.
This little girl is more powerful than he thought, and she cherishes the lives of the soldiers around her very much, so he must deal with her with caution.
General Cui pulled the reins, glanced at the wall of Jiangzi City and said, “Since the Great Zhou must fight, we will wait for the Great Zhou to light the signal smoke for help. If Bai Qingyan intends to resist and does not light the signal smoke for help, we will spread the news that the Xiliang army is besieging the Great Zhou emperor, send spies to keep an eye on the movements of Yecheng Pass, and once the Great Zhou army comes to help, we will set up an ambush and annihilate as many of the Great Zhou army as possible!”
“What if the general guarding Yecheng Pass does not come without receiving orders?” asked a Xiliang general.
“Then we will trap Jiangzi City to death. When the city runs out of ammunition and food, we will capture the Emperor of the Great Zhou and his heir alive in one fell swoop!” Cui Shanzhong said.
If the general defending Yecheng Pass led his troops to come to the rescue at this time, they in Xiliang would first annihilate part of the Great Zhou’s forces, and then seize Yecheng Pass, isolating the main force of the Great Zhou on the other side of Yecheng Pass. The main force of the Great Zhou without food… would no longer be the main force after being hungry for a long time.
Cui Shanzhong had just vaguely guessed the deployment of troops in the city from the Great Zhou soldier who went to Yechengguan for help.
The soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty were tough guys. They said that there were 100,000 or 200,000 soldiers in the city, and that the food and grass were enough for the soldiers in the city to use for ten or twenty years. No matter how they tortured him, he just wouldn’t tell the truth. He was considered a tough guy.
But this tough guy also revealed a lot of problems during the interrogation, which were discovered by Cui Shanzhong. If there was really enough food and grass in the city, his confidence would make the soldier say it directly… The food and grass in the city were enough to sustain for half a year or a year, enough for the main force of the Great Zhou to capture Yunjing and return to rescue the emperor!
Instead of trying to force them to death and telling them all these fantastic and impossible things to fool the Xiliang Army!
The Great Zhou had been providing relief to the disaster victims in Xiliang, and food was being sent to the refugees continuously. Gyantse City was merely a transit station for food sent to Yecheng Pass. Six days ago… a batch of food from the Great Zhou had just been sent out. In order not to alarm the Great Zhou and draw its attention, he did not go to plunder even when the Western Liang army was short of food.
Although there were no spies to investigate in detail, it was impossible for the Great Zhou to send a batch of food from the Great Zhou to Xiliang every six days, so there would not be much food in the city!
The next thing Cui Shanzhong has to do is to trap Jiangzi City, and then send people to rob the grain of Da Zhou, and send the grain from Da Zhou to the main army of Da Zhou. The grain must be sent before the troops move. Without the grain… let’s see how Da Zhou will fight the battle in Yunjing!
Cui Shanzhong’s choice to encircle Bai Qingyan in Gyantse City was not without detailed planning.
What they have to guard against next is a surprise attack from the Great Zhou.
Today is the first day of their siege of Xiliang City. If they want to dampen the morale of the Xiliang army, tonight is the best night to launch a surprise attack.
Although this was the first time Cui Shanzhong fought against Bai Qingyan, he had already studied in detail every battle that Bai Qingyan had fought since the Bai family’s sons died on the battlefield and returned to the battlefield, especially the several major battles with Yun Poxing. He knew that Bai Qingyan was almost meticulous in fighting, and could be prepared to judge their movements from the slightest action.
Therefore, this time, old General Cui Shanzhong needs the entire Xiliang army to be fully alert to deal with it.
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As soon as he and Bai Qingyan returned to the city, Liu Pinggao said, “Your Majesty…light the signal smoke to ask for help! Even if we don’t light the signal smoke to ask for help, I’m afraid Cui Shanzhong will spread the news of the siege!”
“If General Cui spreads the news, the Great Zhou army may not believe it. But if we light the signal smoke, the Great Zhou soldiers will definitely come to rescue us. Xiliang has set an ambush on the way… Have you thought about the consequences?” Bai Qingyan threw the horsewhip to Liu Pinggao with a grim expression.
She was very clear in her mind that General Cui might be waiting for the Great Zhou to light the signal fire. “If General Yang Wuce from Yecheng Pass leads his troops to help, General Cui will definitely retake Yecheng Pass. By then… we and the main force of the Great Zhou that is heading to Yunjing will be cut in two!”
As long as Yechengguan is reached, the food can be transported from Fengerlan City to Yechengguan without being lost.
What Bai Qingyan is worried about now is not the safety of Jiangzi City, but the fact that General Cui will set an ambush on the way to rob the food and grass sent by Da Zhou to Yecheng Pass. Not to mention cutting off the main force of Da Zhou’s food and grass, Xiliang is now seriously short of food.
Bai Qingyan’s fingers gently stroked the jade cicada in the purse worn on her waist. Sitting and waiting for death was not her style. The most conservative thing to do was to delay the main force of Xiliang so that Aqi and Ayu could successfully capture Yunjing.
But even if Bai Qingyan still had 5,000 troops, she would never be satisfied with just delaying the main force of Xiliang and waiting for the main force of Da Zhou to take Yunjing before turning back to rescue. Now Jiangzi City is not at a dead end. On the premise of tying down the main force of Xiliang, she must think about how to use the wolf smoke to destroy the main force of Xiliang here.
If the main force of Xiliang is gone here, Xiliang will have no chance to turn the tide…
It can be said that the Xiliang soldiers led by General Cui Shanzhong are the last hope of Xiliang.
Bai Qingyan walked slowly, replaying the map of Xiliang over and over in his mind, as well as the map around Gyantse City… and the map from Gyantse City to Yecheng Pass.
The team of Bai family’s secret guards was settled in the mansion where Bai Qingyan was staying. The military doctor was giving the team members medicine for their injuries. Fortunately, there were no broken bones, only some superficial injuries, but… it still looked horrible.
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