The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 1208: loyal to the country
Chapter 1208: Serving the Country with Loyalty
The soldier was frightened by Du Sanbao and immediately responded, saying that he would check immediately…
That night, Du Sanbao took over the post of the general guarding the South Gate and asked him to guard the North Gate. Then he quietly called the twenty-four brothers who had dug with him on weekdays, and prepared to leave the city and attack the camp after the Xiliang soldiers had rested.
Although General Liu said… His Majesty said that the Great Zhou army is not allowed to attack the camp tonight, but as a general of the Great Zhou, how could Du Sanbao miss this good opportunity?
“His Majesty said that we are not allowed to attack the camp, so it is definitely impossible to lead the team out of the city. We can only act secretly.” Du Sanbao lowered his voice and said, “The Xiliang people will attack the city tomorrow. If we don’t cause trouble for the Xiliang people tonight, will they really get enough sleep… and come to attack us tomorrow? This is absolutely not possible!”
“But… General, there are only more than twenty of us. Even if we sacrifice our lives, I’m afraid we can’t cause much trouble in the Xiliang military camp!” Someone said to Du Sanbao with an embarrassed look on his face.
“So, I asked people to collect all the unused firecrackers from Jiangzi City during the New Year. We can take them with us. When the Xiliang Army is sleeping soundly, we can throw all the kerosene, torches… and firecrackers into the barracks! It will be enough to give them a hard time!” Du Sanbao gritted his teeth when he mentioned the Xiliang Army, and said, “We will leave two people in the city and set out from the south gate. Once we leave… these two people will immediately go to find General Liu Pinggao and tell him that I am leading people to attack the barracks from the east, west, south, and north. Once the Xiliang Army on all four sides is attacked at the same time and the Xiliang Army barracks are on fire, we will retreat and General Liu Pinggao will definitely open the city gates for us!”
“General, is this feasible?” A Great Zhou soldier hesitated. “It’s not that I’m afraid of death, but if we kill first and report later… we will be punished by military law later!”
“Don’t worry! General Liu Pinggao also wants to launch a surprise attack on the Xiliang military camp, but… Your Majesty is afraid that our soldiers will die in vain and can’t bear it!” Du Sanbao looked as if he understood Bai Qing’s meaning, “But are our soldiers of the Great Zhou afraid of death? Xiliang will attack the city tomorrow, and we must disrupt them! Besides, we are not going to fight head-on!”
Seeing that the other soldiers were still hesitating, Du Sanbao said, “Besides, how many times have I, Du Sanbao, done things that were done first and then reported to the emperor? Which time did I mess things up? We, the people below, must know how to share the worries of His Majesty. His Majesty is pregnant now!”
Hearing Du Sanbao say this, several soldiers remembered that Bai Qingyan had ordered Du Sanbao alone to take them to dig a tunnel, which showed that Bai Qingyan trusted Du Sanbao.
They looked up at Du Sanbao and said solemnly, “We listen to General Du and are willing to sacrifice our lives to be loyal to His Majesty! But… General, I think we don’t need to alarm General Liu. After lighting the fire, we can just run back through the tunnel we dug! We didn’t seal the tunnel, so we can just leave two brothers to watch the entrance.”
Du Sanbao thought about it and chuckled: “You kid want to do good deeds without leaving a name!”
“Anyway, we are all loyal to the country, so we won’t be punished if we don’t leave our names!” said the young general with a smile.
“However, we have to go out from the south gate, otherwise there is no way to get the horses and the things we want to bring out through such a small cave!” Du Sanbao looked up at the soldiers and said, “We’ll see what happens. If the Xiliang people are tight… opening and closing the city gate will threaten the safety of the city, so we’ll try to come back through the cave. If the Xiliang people don’t find us, we’d better come back through the city gate. Horses are also precious!”
“You stay in the city, you are a pretty good archer. When we leave the city, if you see the Xiliang spies moving, just shoot them to death without mercy!” Du Sanbao turned to the young general who did a good deed but didn’t want to leave his name and said, “Let’s take our brothers on the city wall and put on a good show to scare the hell out of those Xiliang bastards!”
Du Sanbao made the decision. He took 22 people with him, rode on horses loaded with kerosene and firecrackers, and pretended to be ordered to ride fast out of the city…
When the Xiliang spies saw that the gate of Gyantse City was opened again, they sent someone back to report the news. However, in recent days, the Great Zhou had always been teasing Xiliang like this, but it was just a small-scale fight.
But who would have thought that before the spy could go back to report the news, as soon as he stood up and moved, an arrow whistled from somewhere above the city gate and hit the Xiliang spy directly in the heart. The spy fell to the ground and died before he could even utter a scream.
The Xiliang spies, who had been teased for the past few days, became alert immediately. They looked up at the wall of Gyantse City, not daring to breathe. They stood stiffly and heard a gruff general on the top of the building shouting, “Quick, quick, quick! Cheer up! We must break the morale of the Xiliang army when we attack the camp tonight! Quick!”
The Xiliang spy quietly crept out of the crossbow’s shooting range, and when he was out of the shooting range, he shouted loudly: “The Great Zhou is going to attack the camp! The Great Zhou is going to attack the camp!”
The Xiliang spies here shouted at the top of their lungs, and Du Sanbao and his cavalry had already thrown all the kerosene, torches and firecrackers into the Xiliang military camp.
The soldiers of the Great Zhou rushed out, threw jars of kerosene, torches, and firecrackers, and then ran rapidly into the city of Gyantse.
Fire suddenly rose high in the Xiliang military camp, and firecrackers exploded with a crackling sound, first scaring the Xiliang war horses and then starting fires everywhere.
Soon, the Xiliang military camps at the north gate, the east gate, and the west gate were all ablaze with flames and firecrackers popped.
Before Du Sanbao left the city, he asked someone to say hello and ask the gatekeeper general to keep the door open for them. Because Du Sanbao had been working for Bai Qingyan before, and insisted that he had a mission to leave the city, the gatekeeper general did not dare to ask whether he had let the man out and did not delay in reporting to Liu Pinggao.
When Liu Pinggao, who was lying on the bed, heard this, he was so shocked that he didn’t even put on his clothes. He rushed out of the inner room in his slippers: “Du Sanbao’s men have already left?! You just let them out of the city like that?!”
“General, General Du insisted on leaving the city, saying he had a mission and told us not to ask questions that we shouldn’t! We can’t stop him!” said the gatekeeping general bitterly.
Liu Pinggao thought for a moment and said, “Du Sanbao must have gone out of the city to attack the camp! This Du Sanbao dared to attack the camp with more than 20 people. He is so audacious! Order the four city gates to open when our soldiers who are heading to the Xiliang military camp turn back!”
“General, do you want to report to His Majesty?” asked the gatekeeper general.
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