The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 1206: fatty meat
Chapter 1206 Fat
Several secret guards of the Bai family did not dare to delay and quickly returned to the city to report the matter to Bai Qingyan.
Bai Qingyan put down the bamboo slips in her hand after hearing this, and guessed that it must be after General Cui Shanzhong sent the news of her being trapped in Gyantse City to the direction of Yecheng Pass. At this time…either Yang Wuce heard the news and sent troops to help, or…Yang Wuce knew that there was no signal smoke in Gyantse City, and guessed that she had other arrangements but was worried, so she frequently sent spies to investigate the situation in Gyantse City. Therefore, General Cui Shanzhong wanted to attack the city to force Yang Wuce to bring troops to help, intending to pretend to attack the city.
Bai Qingyan was counting the things Du Sanbao was doing. She had been assigning more people to Du Sanbao these days, so it should be about done.
She stood up, found the already written secret letter on the table and handed it to the Bai family guard: “Send someone with this letter to find Du Sanbao, and tell him to dig through the secrets today no matter what! After the person with the secret letter goes out, immediately go find General Yang Wuce’s spy. If you can’t find him, don’t waste time, go straight to Yechengguan and hand the secret letter to General Yang Wuce in person. Xiliang is now eager for the spy from Yechengguan to go back and report the news, so they will never stop our people from reporting the news!”
“Send another guard from the Bai family to leave the city through the secret passage and head straight to the north. We must arrive at Bailong City before dark today. Tell the commander of Bailong City to make preparations as soon as he receives the letter… We must make the Western Liang spies think that we will deliver food to Gyantse City the day after tomorrow. We must be careful of the ambushes of the Western Liang army. I don’t care how the battle is fought, but we must win… Not only must we win, but we must also make sure that the Western Liang soldiers who ambush them to steal their food never return!”
“Yes!” The Bai family guard took the order, took the letter from Bai Qingyan and went out to do the work.
Bai Qingyan changed his clothes and, accompanied by the Bai family’s secret guards, climbed up the four city gates to take a closer look.
She calculated the time. Today, the smoke from cooking fires in Xiliang lasted longer than in the past few days…
Could it be that… in order to prevent the smoke from rising twice from alerting the Great Zhou, the dry food eaten at night and tomorrow morning must be prepared during lunch time today so that the soldiers can attack the city tomorrow?
Liu Pinggao followed closely behind Bai Qingyan, but he did not notice any changes in the Xiliang military camp in the distance. It seemed to be exactly the same as usual.
Bai Qingyan turned around and calculated the time that had passed since she met with old General Cui Shanzhong and refused to negotiate on the day of the siege. If Yang Wuce had sent troops to help… they would have come a long time ago!
Liu Pinggao listened to the fluttering flags, took a step forward, and said to Bai Qing: “Your Majesty, don’t worry too much. I will definitely hold Gyantse City firmly!”
Bai Qingyan has been making meticulous arrangements these past few days. Every time before cooking in Xiliang, His Majesty would go up to the city wall and watch carefully. I heard from Eunuch Wei that His Majesty would stand in front of the map for several hours after coming down from the city wall. After all, His Majesty is pregnant, how could he be so busy?
“I guess General Yang Wuce of Yecheng Pass must have received the news that Jiangzi City was besieged, and he has sent spies to inquire several times, but… because he is worried that I have some arrangements here, his rash dispatch of troops to rescue the emperor will ruin my plan, so he has not taken any action!” Bai Qingyan turned and looked at the Xiliang military camp in the distance again, “General Cui may attack the city tomorrow to force General Yang Wuce to lead troops to rescue the emperor, so that they can set an ambush in the middle of the journey!”
The Xiliang Army wanted to recapture Yecheng Pass and cut off the food supply of the main force of the Great Zhou.
Liu Pinggao looked towards the Xiliang military camp in surprise and asked, “Attacking the city?”
“According to my previous speculation about why General Cui was reluctant to attack, it was because General Cui was waiting for the food and grass to be sent from Bailong City to Jiangzi City. General Cui originally… probably wanted to rob the food and grass so that the Xiliang army would have food in their hands, and then force the commander of Yecheng Pass to come to the rescue, and Xiliang would take the opportunity to set an ambush.” Bai Qing spoke slowly.
Liu Pinggao nodded, and the battle in Xiliang would be fought successfully.
“General Cui is such a cautious man, but he actually ordered an attack on the city tomorrow. Isn’t he afraid of alarming Bailong City and preventing the food from being delivered? After all, Bailong City and Jiangzi City are not far apart…” Bai Qingyan pursed his lips and thought carefully, “Our advantage over General Cui is… we know that the next time Bailong City will deliver food will be around the eleventh or twelfth of this month, while General Cui relied entirely on the intervals between each delivery of food from Bailong City to make his guess.”
Liu Pinggao thought for a moment and said, “But the reason why we sent food so often before was because Yechengguan wanted to help the people of Xiliang. Now that Yechengguan has enough food, we will definitely not send food as often as before.”
“Or General Cui has already intercepted the military rations…” Bai Qingyan stared in the direction of the Xiliang military camp with a frown.
“I think this is impossible! The commander of Bailong City is a very law-abiding person. Your Majesty has not sent anyone to Bailong City to order the delivery of grain. He is just too full… Is there any grain that has not been delivered or what? Why does he have to send it to Jiangzi City?” Liu Pinggao is familiar with the commander of Bailong City. “Besides, General Qi, the commander of Bailong City, dislikes the people of Xiliang! At first, he wanted to submit a memorial to Your Majesty, not wanting to use the grain of the Great Zhou to save the people of Xiliang, but I stopped him!”
How could such a person be so anxious to send food to the Great Zhou to rescue the people of Xiliang? It would be good enough if he didn’t delay sending it.
“Then…” Bai Qingyan raised his head and exhaled softly, “General Cui has asked for reinforcements. General Cui will send reinforcements to ambush on the grain road!”
This is the result that Bai Qingyan least wants to see.
“Where will the reinforcements from Xiliang come from?” Liu Pinggao looked incredulous.
“There are still some cities that the Great Zhou and Yan Kingdom have not taken. The reinforcements may come from here. There are not many soldiers guarding one city, but what about two cities… three cities… four or five? Add them up and they will be a lot!”
Bai Qingyan’s words made Liu Pinggao’s back suddenly tense up: “Your Majesty, if the food is taken away by the Xiliang people, then we…”
Fearing to put pressure on Liu Pinggao, Bai Qingyan turned to look at him and said, “However, it is possible that I am overthinking it! Perhaps General Cui just wanted to pretend to attack the city for General Yang Wuce to see. After all, Xiliang only has this little wealth.”
Bai Qing’s voice was not loud, but it was very clear: “General Cui is reluctant to let the Xiliang soldiers really risk their lives to attack the city.”
“Your Majesty, no matter whether Xiliang is pretending to attack the city tomorrow or really attacking the city, we must make arrangements in advance…try to destroy as many Xiliang troops as possible!” Liu Ping stood tall beside Bai Qingyan, “Even if they don’t attack the city tomorrow, we must be prepared in advance, and when they really attack the city, we will give them a taste of their own medicine! And take a bite of their fat meat!”
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