The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 1267: Hired
Chapter 1267 Hit
“Now all General Cui Shanzhong can do is to send Li Tianjiao out of the palace. If General Cui Shanzhong knows that the secret passage is in this palace, he will probably send Li Tianjiao back! We can wait and see, but… I don’t think Li Tianjiao will be willing to leave. As an emperor, she has her pride.”
Bai Qingqi, dressed in silver armor stained with blood, led his troops in from outside the hall, holding a silver spear stained red by blood plasma in one hand and a sword taken back from a Xiliang general in the other… Bai Qingyu’s sword.
He saw his fifth brother standing with the Ninth Prince of Dayan. He seemed to have just been through a fierce battle and was breathing heavily.
Bai Qingqi’s eyes turned red, and he decided to teach his daring brother a lesson after returning. He casually threw the sword in the direction of Bai Qingyu.
Bai Qingyu raised her hand to take it, looked at her third brother whose thin lips were stretched into a straight line, and said, “Third brother, we need to take control of a few gates of the imperial palace now! Leave Li Tianjiao to me!”
It is indeed more important to gain control of several gates of the imperial palace now, so as to prevent Li Tianjiao from escaping from the city, and also to cut off the Xiliang soldiers who gave up guarding the Yunjing gate and came to rescue Li Tianjiao.
But it is also very important to capture General Cui Shanzhong’s close associates!
Now the eldest sister has deployed troops on the border of Yan State. No matter how the Great Zhou and Yan State cooperate in this siege, in order to rule the world in the future, there will be a war between Yan State and the Great Zhou. If the eldest sister chooses the time for this war after destroying Xiliang, then Bai Qingqi will have to pave the way for this matter to be justified.
Someone in Yan State was conspiring behind the backs of the Ninth Prince of Yan and General Cui Shanzhong. Even if Yan State admitted it and killed a general of Chu for it, Da Zhou had to be able to produce solid evidence so that it could attack Yan State or negotiate terms with Yan State.
The confidants around the old general Cui Shanzhong are the most important witnesses.
Bai Qingqi saw Xiao Rongyan standing next to Bai Qingyu nodding slightly at him, as if to say that he would take care of Bai Qingyu, so he nodded and reminded Bai Qingyu: “Be careful!”
“Don’t worry, third brother!” Bai Qingyu forced herself to remain calm.
As soon as Bai Qingqi left, Yue Shi saw a silver mask on Li Tianjiao’s desk.
Recognizing that it was Bai Qingyu’s, Yue Shi stepped forward, took the mask, and handed it to Bai Qingyu with both hands: “Fifth Young Master, this is yours!”
“No need!” Bai Qingyu glanced at the mask, shook his head, and ordered, “Let our people clean up the battlefield here as soon as possible and wait for the opportunity!”
The sounds of fighting were still going on outside the hall. When the Bai family army and the people brought by Xiao Rongyan heard that they had to wait here, they rushed out and continued to fight side by side with their comrades.
After ensuring that the control of the North Gate was in the hands of the Great Zhou, the Bai family army led by Xiao Ruohai also came to attack.
Xiao Rongyan sheathed the sword in his hand, and tore off the swaying bright yellow curtain in the hall, pulled off the cloth strip and walked to Bai Qingyu’s side: “Hand…”
Bai Qingyu raised his eyes and looked at the gloomy eyes behind Xiao Rongyan’s mask, and changed his hand to hold the sword. Just now, from holding the sword of the secret guard with his bare hands, Bai Qingyu’s palms had two sword marks so deep that they were exposed, the flesh was turned inside out, and blood kept oozing out.
Xiao Rongyan took out a white jade bottle of hemostatic powder from his chest, poured it into Bai Qingyu’s palm with a rough movement, and tied Bai Qingyu’s hand tightly with a cloth strip. Xiao Ruohai led the Bai family soldiers with steam coming out of their bodies to kill, shouting as he killed: “The palace of Yunjing City has been breached, surrender your weapons and you won’t be killed! Surrender your weapons and you won’t be killed!”
Hearing Xiao Ruohai’s penetrating and deep voice, the soldiers of the Bai family army and the Yan state were immediately excited. When the Xiliang Royal Guards saw the enemy coming from a distance, they panicked. Someone shouted in Xiliang language: “The enemy is coming! Run away!”
The Xiliang army, which was caught in an unexpected pincer attack, was thrown into chaos.
The Xiliang general who led the Xiliang Imperial Guards to fight desperately chopped off the Xiliang soldiers who dropped their swords and surrendered, and shouted loudly: “Anyone who dares to retreat will be killed immediately without mercy!”
The Xiliang general was panting and could hardly lift the sword in his hand.
Not only did Xiao Rongyan bring elite troops this time, but the Yan spies who had been lying in ambush in the palace had also put all possible poisons, laxatives, and knockout drugs in the city’s wells!
Bai Qingyu’s men and Xiao Rongyan’s men acted separately. Some wells were drugged twice. The Xiliang soldiers were also mortals, so how could they withstand it?
Some of the Xiliang soldiers could not be woken up, and some could not even stand up, let alone draw their swords to rescue them.
General Xiliang watched his Xiliang soldiers fall one after another, and there was no sign of the Imperial Guards coming to help. Even the small number of reinforcements that came had painful expressions on their faces. They didn’t know what was going on, but they were quickly resolved. He looked towards the hall and shouted loudly: “Soldiers, charge into the hall. Capturing Bai Qingyu alive is our way to survive. Kill him!”
Yue Shi, Yan army and Bai family army rushed out of the hall and were ready for battle.
Bai Qingyu and Xiao Rongyan also gripped their swords tightly, ready to fight at any time.
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Li Tianjiao, who had been escorted back to the back hall, finally met the old general Cui Shanzhong.
Old General Cui Shanzhong led his troops and originally planned to enter from the north gate of the palace, but when they arrived at the north gate… they were greeted by a rain of arrows. His deputy general shouted that it was Old General Cui Shanzhong who was returning to the palace, but the rain of arrows on the city wall became more and more fierce.
General Cui Shanzhong, who already knew that the Xiliang army had been drugged, immediately realized that the north gate of the palace had fallen, and made a prompt decision to enter the palace from the east gate.
Upon learning that the palace where Li Tianjiao was located had been caught up in a great battle, General Cui Shanzhong immediately sent people to rescue Li Tianjiao. He also redeployed defenses in the main hall at the back, leaving a retreat route, and sent troops to guard the west gate of the imperial city, intending to rescue Li Tianjiao first. If that didn’t work, then send Li Tianjiao out of the city.
“Whether it is the city defense army or the royal guards, there are some who have been infected! Those who were poisoned by the drugs are vomiting and having diarrhea and can’t even stand up. Some who were taken by the knockout drug can’t wake up. Some who were taken by the laxative are defecating everywhere… There is no way they can come to protect the emperor!” General Cui Shanzhong’s deputy general reported the current situation of the Xiliang Army to General Cui Shanzhong.
General Cui Shanzhong’s face turned pale. He asked again in disbelief: “Even the Imperial Guards were infected?!”
The deputy general wiped the sweat off his head and nodded: “Those who were not hit have gone to the city gate to resist the enemy. We still need to get His Majesty out of the city as soon as possible!”
I was careless! I was really careless!
How many people did the Great Zhou arrange in Yunjing City, and how many people did it arrange in the palace? The soldiers were all fine during dinner, so how come some of them suddenly got poisoned, drugged with knockout drugs, or drugged with laxatives!
What General Cui Shanzhong did not expect was that after he met Xiao Rongyan, Xiao Rongyan personally led people into the city from outside the city under the cover of night, and with the help of Yan State’s spies, entered the palace.
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