The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 1203: survive
Chapter 1203 Survival
“But… didn’t His Majesty ask us to prepare the meal in advance? Isn’t this because we are going to attack the camp…”
Bai Qingyan shook her head. She had not thought about attacking the city today. “Cooking in advance and lighting the smoke from the kitchen is just to alert General Cui and wake up the Xiliang soldiers who just went to bed not long ago. This is to make sure that the Xiliang soldiers are not well fed and have a good rest.”
But I didn’t expect that General Cui was so capable. There were few soldiers of the Great Zhou in Gyantse City. If an ambush was set up openly, they would not be able to leave the city to attack the camp, and it would also allow a large number of Xiliang soldiers to have a good rest.
However, it would be good to be able to tie down a small number of Xiliang soldiers.
“Your Majesty, what should we do next?” Liu Pinggao asked.
“Send someone to watch at the city gate. If those Xiliang soldiers who are blatantly lying in ambush there withdraw, open the city gate and let the cavalry go out to show their strength, forcing those Xiliang soldiers to come back. When you see them returning, quickly enter the city… Don’t engage in a fight!” Bai Qingyan said.
Liu Pinggao then realized that Bai Qingyan was trying to consume the Xiliang soldiers and not let them have a good rest, so he left.
“By the way, I have sent Du Sanbao to do other things. You can find another general to be responsible for the defense of the southeast city wall.” Bai Qingyan looked up at Liu Pinggao.
“Okay, I understand!” Liu Pinggao responded and stepped back.
Seeing Liu Pinggao leave, Chunzhi came in with a prepared bird’s nest and placed it on Bai Qingyan’s desk, saying, “Miss, after you finish your bird’s nest, go to sleep for a while! If you don’t think about yourself, you should think about the baby in your belly. Doctor Hong is not here… If you don’t get enough rest and feel uncomfortable, I don’t know what to do!”
“Well, don’t worry, I know what’s going on!” Bai Qingyan shook the bamboo slips in his hand, and suddenly turned his head to look at Chunzhi as if he remembered something, “You should go and have a rest. You haven’t closed your eyes for a long time since you took care of me!”
Chunzhi scratched her head in embarrassment: “I am such a loser. I fell asleep leaning against the pillar while guarding the young lady. Eunuch Wei must be so tired to guard the young lady. Just now, it was only after I repeatedly promised Eunuch Wei that I would never leave the young lady that he went to rest!”
Bai Qingyan picked up the bird’s nest and stirred it with a spoon, then said to Chunzhi with a smile: “You are already very good, beyond my expectation.”
“Chunzhi will work harder in the future!” Chunzhi said to Bai Qing with a smile, “As long as the young lady doesn’t despise Chunzhi for being stupid, that’s all!”
Bai Qingyan tasted a mouthful of bird’s nest, lowered his eyes and thought carefully about how to consume a part of the Xiliang army before February 12 if Du Sanbao failed, and not too much… so as not to force General Cui to abandon food to attack the city. After all, there is food in the city.
You have to be prepared for both situations.
Now that the city is under siege, it seems that the Great Zhou is in a passive position, but Xiliang cannot afford to lose… General Cui has too many concerns and wants, which has resulted in Xiliang being in a more passive situation than the Great Zhou.
At this time, Du Sanbao led his men into the secret passage of Gyantse City.
The exit of the secret passage has been sealed. Liu Pinggao originally wanted to prevent the Western Liang army from entering the city. Naturally, the exit of the secret passage must be guarded by the Western Liang army, and the soldiers of the Great Zhou have no way to really get out.
Du Sanbao was afraid of alerting the Xiliang soldiers guarding the exit of the secret passage, so dozens of people quietly dug a tunnel from the right side of the secret passage. According to Bai Qingyan’s instructions, they used the structure of the secret passage to dig a tunnel leading to the outside of the Xiliang encirclement so that they could send someone to Bailong City to deliver a letter…
He also had to send a letter to General Ye Shouguan of Yecheng Pass, asking the defenders of these two cities to cooperate with Bai Qingyan in fighting a battle and annihilate all the main forces of Xiliang.
Du Sanbao didn’t dare to make any big noise, so he dug the tunnel very slowly. He came back home every day covered in dust and exhausted, and set out again the next morning full of energy and energy.
At the same time, the Xiliang troops who were sent into the city with the refugees by General Cui were also captured one by one, but Bai Qingyan did not send them back or make it public. He only ordered them to be imprisoned.
Liu Pinggao also took people to lobby the people and defend Gyantse City together with them.
These people, just as Bai Qingyan said, had experienced starvation… and even seen people eating their own children. They thought that the Great Zhou could give them food and houses to keep them alive, and they were very willing to become citizens of the Great Zhou.
Although it is true that they were people of Xiliang for the first half of their lives, if the Xiliang army really took over Gyantse City, they would go back to the days when they had no food and their food would be taken away by the Xiliang army. Would they still be able to survive?
The Emperor of Great Zhou is now in Gyantse City, and the army of Great Zhou will certainly come back to provide assistance. They will follow the Emperor of Great Zhou to defend the city, and after they have made meritorious service, they can be exempted from the silver and food owed to the government. This is a good thing, so how could they not be willing?
But Liu Pinggao also told them that if they were unwilling to live and die with the Great Zhou and wanted to leave Gyantse City to escape the war, Liu Pinggao could let them leave the city. Since they were all citizens of Xiliang, General Cui would not make it too difficult for them. However, it would be impossible for anyone who left to become a citizen of the Great Zhou!
Soon, people from the entire city were mobilized.
Some people were willing to help the soldiers transport supplies to the top of the city wall to resist the enemy before the Xiliang army started to attack the city, while others decided to leave the city to avoid the war after much deliberation.
Liu Pinggao personally rode out of the city and told the people of Xiliang that they wanted to leave the city, but General Cui was worried that the Great Zhou army would use their own method to retaliate, so he asked the soldiers to blend in with the people and go out to deliver the message.
And if those civilians were taken away and imprisoned, they would need to be provided with food every day. The Xiliang army did not have enough food, so where would they get food to feed the civilians?
On the contrary, the people of Xiliang are in the city and can only survive if the Great Zhou gives them food!
Therefore, the Xiliang army did not allow the people to leave the city…
After Liu Pinggao came back, he played a trick and said to the people of Xiliang with an indignant look on his face: “The general of Xiliang said that you are not allowed to leave the city! Once you enter the city of Da Zhou, you are the people of Da Zhou, and you have nothing to do with them in Xiliang! When they attack the city in the future, they will definitely not show mercy to you Xiliang traitors! If we dare to let you out of the city… we will shoot you immediately!”
The people who were carrying bags and preparing to leave the city were panicked and didn’t know what to do. Someone shouted: “General, are you lying to us because you don’t want us to leave the city?!”
“Yeah! You’re lying to us!”
Liu Pinggao looked heartbroken: “Since you don’t believe me, I have no choice. So… those who want to leave can leave the city now, but… after leaving the city, you can’t enter our Great Zhou city again. So… those who are willing to leave the city, please line up on the right!”
“Wang Jin!” Liu Pinggao turned to look at Wang Jin, “Take these people up to the city wall and have a good look to see whether it is us in the Great Zhou who won’t let them go, or whether it is the Western Liang people who will not let them leave at all!”
Second update…