The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 1201: when the troops were dispatched
Chapter 1201: When the Troops Dispatch
True and false, real and fake, when Bai Qingyan really sends troops, Xiliang will be caught off guard.
Just as Bai Qingyan expected, after General Cui returned, he ordered the entire army to be on alert and prepare for an ambush in anticipation of a night attack from the Great Zhou…
General Cui felt that Bai Qingyan was full of tricks. In the previous battles with Yun Poxing, he led a small group of troops to attack the camp at night, burning the food and fodder, and burning the weapons camp.
Now that Bai Qingyan has blatantly said that he will come back to attack the camp at night, if they do not take it seriously, it might just play into Bai Qingyan’s hands!
What Xiliang lacks most now is food and fodder, so General Cui has to be on guard. At the same time… General Cui also wants to weaken the small force that Bai Qingyan sent to attack the camp. The fewer soldiers in the city, the better it is for Xiliang.
After all, if they really cannot lure the main force of the Great Zhou to return to rescue their emperor and are about to reach Yunjing, General Cui will have to change his strategy to attack the city and capture Bai Qingyan to save the situation.
What he hoped more at this moment was that he would send someone to deliver the news of the siege of Xiliang to Yechengguan, so that the garrison commander of Yechengguan could send troops to investigate as soon as possible, and then pass the news to the main force of the Great Zhou on the front line. If the garrison commander of the Great Zhou at Yechengguan came to rescue him and was ambushed, the main force of the Great Zhou would have to turn back to rescue him.
General Cui sighed deeply, looked up at the overcast sky, and ordered: “Send the spies to watch quietly, and report immediately if the Great Zhou Army’s city gates are opened!”
“yes!”
Liu Pinggao was worried and personally climbed up several city walls to inspect…
Du Sanbao saw Liu Pinggao coming, and after bowing to him, he said, “Master Liu, I heard that they are short of food in Xiliang. Do you want me to have my brothers roast a pig on the tower? The wind is blowing towards the Xiliang military camp. When they smell the meat, they will be so hungry!”
Liu Pinggao put his hands behind his back, gently waving the whip with his hand, and said, “Well! People are starving… and you are roasting pigs here! There is nothing a starving person can’t do. Are you urging them to attack the city, or are you in a hurry to reincarnate?”
Liu Pinggao reprimanded Du Sanbao in a lukewarm manner.
Du Sanbao pursed his lips, frowned and said, “My idea is not good, General, just don’t use it. There is no need to say that. When I followed General Wang Xiping before, General Wang Xiping liked us to come up with ideas the most. Even if the method doesn’t work, it always shows that we use our brains!”
“Then should I still praise you!” Liu Pinggao whipped Du Sanbao’s shoulder lightly with his whip, then approached Du Sanbao and softened his voice. “His Majesty is in the city now, so we should be cautious in everything we do. I like your quick mind, but you just like to act without consulting me! Now that His Majesty is here… this is not the time to be quick-witted, so follow His Majesty’s orders! When His Majesty is not here… when we fight, you can give us some advice!”
Hearing Liu Pinggao’s words, Du Sanbao clasped his fists and bowed to Liu Pinggao: “Lord Liu’s words make sense. Du Sanbao will never act first and report later. I will obey Lord Liu and His Majesty’s orders in everything!”
Liu Ping laughed loudly and tapped Du Sanbao’s helmet with his whip: “His Majesty will remember you. You have a bright future ahead of you. Don’t mess around. Do you understand?”
“Alas!” Du Sanbao responded, and his dissatisfaction with Liu Pinggao’s idea quietly dissipated.
After watching Liu Pinggao leave, Du Sanbao’s subordinates trotted over, straightened their helmets and asked Du Sanbao: “General, when are we going to open the city gates?”
“Why are you in such a hurry…” Du Sanbao said to the Xiliang army camping around the city in the distance, “Look, the lights are still on in the Xiliang army. Let’s open the city gates after they fall asleep. We won’t scare them to death!”
The cold wind was howling, giving a feeling of being in a panic.
The lanterns on the tower of Gyantse were swaying wildly in the wind, while the lights of the Xiliang military camp in the distance were like a galaxy of stars, tightly surrounding Gyantse City. If the soldiers of both armies were not on high alert, it would have been a truly beautiful sight to see from afar.
February 11th was the day Bai Qingyan had set for a counterattack. On that day… she wanted General Cui to carry out all his plans, whether it was to rob food or ambush the Great Zhou army coming from the direction of Yecheng Pass, in order to separate his 50,000 Western Liang soldiers, so that they would be easier to deal with.
Before that, Bai Qingyan hopes to get as much help as possible from the people in the city.
That night, the Great Zhou army within the high walls slept well, but the Western Liang army outside the city was not so lucky.
General Cui also did not sleep all night. After asking the soldiers to turn off the lights, he sat quietly in the tent waiting for Bai Qingyan to send troops for a night attack.
Sure enough, not long after the Xiliang army turned off the lights, their spies came to report that the west gate of the Great Zhou was open…
The Xiliang army was immediately on high alert, especially those surrounding the Xicheng Gate, who held their swords and arrows tightly and dared not let go.
But who knew that after waiting for more than an hour, there was still no attack from the Great Zhou army. Then they heard that the east gate was opened, and the Western Liang army surrounding the east city began to be on guard again, but they had waited for a long time and still saw no attack.
General Cui sat in the commander’s tent and ordered all the generals surrounding the four gates of Gyantse City to be on alert. This must be Bai Qingyan’s trick to paralyze their Xiliang Army.
However, after an hour had passed since the north gate was opened and there was still no sign of the Great Zhou army attacking the camp, General Cui realized that something was wrong.
At this time, most of the night had passed. The Xiliang army, which had been on alert for half the night, did not wait for the enemy to attack the camp. Instead, they all showed signs of fatigue.
Not only were they not full, they couldn’t even sleep well. Some people in the military camp even began to doubt General Cui’s judgment of the war situation, and muttered whether General Cui was too old.
The frequent actions of the Great Zhou army to open the city gates made General Cui, who had already ordered his soldiers to hold the defense for such a long time, feel that this was Bai Qingyan’s deliberate attempt to confuse the enemy.
She must have wanted to disrupt their Xiliang army and make Xiliang think that every time the Zhou opened and closed the city gates, it was just a scare to them and they had no real intention of attacking the camp.
General Cui said to the generals of Xiliang: “Next, the Great Zhou will open the South Gate! If I were the emperor of the Great Zhou, once the South Gate is opened… there would definitely be no Great Zhou army attacking the camp, pretending to tease the Western Liang army. After we in Xiliang let down our guard, we would definitely open the city gate again and send troops to attack the camp! Go… send a few more spies to watch the South Gate to see if there are any Great Zhou soldiers coming out after the South Gate of Jiangzi City is opened!”
Xiliang soon sent more spies to the South Gate, which opened wide and then slowly closed. As expected, no troops from the Great Zhou came out to attack the camp.
After the spy reported back, the Xiliang soldiers all praised General Cui for his foresight.
General Cui gritted his teeth, stood up, and said with certainty: “The next time the gates of the Great Zhou are opened, it will be time to send troops!”
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