The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 1595: Finale (1)
Chapter 1595 Finale (Part 1)
Bai Qingyan glanced at the “unbearable” Princess Huangshan. The white-haired old lady was so frightened that her face turned pale. She held her two young grandchildren in her arms and trembled non-stop.
“In that case, why don’t we from the Great Zhou send someone to escort Princess Huangshan and the Crown Prince and his entourage? I wonder where Princess Huangshan’s mother’s home is?” Bai Qingjue said in a gentle voice.
The Prince of Huangshan knelt down again and moved towards Bai Qingjue, bowing respectfully: “Your Majesty, my mother…”
“Let your mother speak for herself.”
When Bai Qingyan’s clear and calm voice came, the Prince of Huangshan’s back trembled, his throat churned, and he pursed his lips.
Princess Huangshan tightened her grip around the child in her arms and pretended to be calm as she spoke, “Meet the Emperor of Great Zhou. My mother’s family is in Yaodu.”
As soon as Princess Huangshan finished speaking, Shen Liangyu quickly walked towards Bai Qingjue. He looked at the Huangshan family with great disgust, clasped his fists and whispered to Qingjue: “Sir, the old nanny beside Princess Huangshan can’t stand it anymore. They are the eldest sister who went to Yaodu to seek refuge with Princess Huangshan.”
Shen Liangyu arrived after Bai Qingyan led his troops to capture Dengfeng City. Later, the young emperor of Yan State sent envoys to ask for peace, and His Majesty stopped fighting. Shen Liangyu had been holding back his energy and wanted to beat down those vassal kings of Yan State who dared to attack their little Bai Shuai.
Therefore, Shen Liangyu was very excited when he caught the Huangshan Prince and his entourage today, and felt that a war was about to begin. . .
Bai Qingjue nodded upon hearing this.
“According to what I have learned, the mother’s family of Princess Huangshan should be in Yangquan. Why… is she going to Yaodu?” Bai Qingjue turned and said to Bai Qingyan with a smile, “Eldest sister, there must be something fishy going on here!”
Princess Huangshan glanced at the stunningly handsome Emperor of Great Zhou, who pursed his lips and remained expressionless, yet had an overwhelming sense of authority. She lowered her eyes in panic and said, “I’m going to visit my eldest sister…”
There must be something wrong when things are abnormal. What’s more, the statements of the Crown Prince of Huangshan and the Crown Princess of Huangshan are inconsistent and they have not come up with a good story. It can be seen that the King of Huangshan made the decision in a hurry to let the Crown Prince leave with his family.
It seems that King Huangshan is going to fight a desperate battle.
It is understandable that the princes do not want to reduce their fiefdoms. To give up the military power that they originally held in their hands is not only a painful act, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is life-threatening.
Putting himself in other people’s shoes, if Bai Qingyan were a vassal king… he would probably not be willing to surrender to Zhou along with Yan State, and then lose the military power in his hands and the benefits that vassal kings can enjoy. Therefore, it was within Bai Qingyan’s expectations that the vassal king of Yan State would cause trouble.
For example, the King of Ji’an who is closest to the troops led by Bai Qingyu and Bai Jinxiu, or… the King of Huangshan of Yan State who is closer to her.
Although the King of Huangshan is not as young and vigorous as the King of Xiping and the King of Jiujiang, he will still give it a try when the Emperor of Yan wants to surrender to the Great Zhou.
These vassal kings of Yan State would certainly not act alone. They must have communicated with each other and someone was willing to take the lead.
King Huangshan is not the one who takes the lead!
Even if someone who is too far away from the Great Zhou army takes the lead, he will not be convincing enough, so… the only one left is King Ji’an who can take the lead.
Bai Qingyan’s eyes fell on the Crown Prince of Huangshan: “It seems that King Huangshan has received the letter from King Ji’an.”
Bai Qingyan said this casually, and the Prince of Huangshan looked up at Bai Qingyan in shock. He didn’t expect that the Emperor of Da Zhou actually knew about it. But how did the Emperor of Da Zhou know about it?
Could it be… Could it be that the letter was sent by the Emperor of the Great Zhou?
But my father said that it was a handwritten letter from Prince Ji’an, and it also had Prince Ji’an’s private seal!
Or has King Ji’an already surrendered to the Great Zhou and deliberately set up a trap to harm his father?
That’s not right. King Jian has no reason to do this…
If Prince Ji’an really wanted to curry favor with the Emperor of the Great Zhou, he should have persuaded his father to surrender instead of framing his father!
Seeing the expression on the Huangshan prince’s face, Bai Qingyan raised his eyebrows slightly, turned around and said to Bai Qingjue, “Take him away! Pass the order… All the soldiers of the Great Zhou must assemble.”
All soldiers, gather together. Are we going to attack Huangshan?
The Emperor of the Great Zhou was a military genius, and my father had no time to prepare. If the Emperor of the Great Zhou had been on guard and started a war first, I’m afraid my father would not have been able to resist.
Among the nine vassal kings, the one with the strongest military force was actually King Xiping, so King Xiping dared to attack the Emperor of the Great Zhou. Even King Xiping was dealt with by the Emperor of the Great Zhou, let alone his father.
The reason why his father thought of the assassination plan was because he knew that his troops were insufficient and their combat effectiveness was not as good as that of the Great Zhou.
“Your Majesty!” The Crown Prince of Huangshan shouted loudly. He was shocked and even more terrified. He shouted loudly, “Your Majesty, my father didn’t want to assassinate you. It was King Ji’an who bewitched my father. Your Majesty… please let me go back. I will go back and persuade my father to submit to the Great Zhou! My father has always been timid. As long as Your Majesty promises not to reduce the power of the vassal states, my father will definitely obey your orders! He will never resist!”
Bai Qingyan paused and turned his head to look at Bai Qingjue, who nodded.
The King of Huangshan was not very courageous, and his son inherited his father’s courage. When he was frightened, he vomited everything.
Bai Qingjue personally interrogated the Crown Prince of Huangshan. The Crown Prince of Huangshan said that the King of Huangshan was going to send someone to assassinate the Emperor of Great Zhou. After the assassination was successful, he would let the death squads in the palace lead the Great Zhou army into an ambush.
Bai Qingyan and Xiao Ruojiang knelt in front of the table, carefully looking at the map of the surrounding area drawn by Xiao Ruojiang.
“From the time we captured Dengfeng to now, time is tight, so we can only calibrate it based on the map we already have. It can be used!” Xiao Ruojiang said to Bai Qing.
Bai Qingjue, who was kneeling beside Bai Qingyan, looked at Bai Qingyan with a cold expression: “Eldest sister…are you going to mobilize troops to attack Huangshan City now?”
Bai Qingyan’s eyes fell on the area around the Great Zhou military camp, and then on Huang’an City: “Have you sent more people to watch the four gates of Huang’an City?”
“We’ve sent someone to keep an eye on it, don’t worry, elder sister…” Bai Qingjue said.
Bai Qingyan nodded: “Then let’s wait! When King Huangshan comes to assassinate me, the Emperor of the Great Zhou, we will send troops… to set up an ambush here!”
Bai Qingjue picked up the candle beside him and held it up to illuminate the location Bai Qingyan pointed to on the map: “Here?”
“If the King of Huangshan sends someone to assassinate me, the Emperor of the Great Zhou, no matter if he succeeds or not, he will lead the Great Zhou army into an ambush. No matter where the King of Huangshan ambush is, he must leave Huangshan City!” Bai Qingyan pointed at the location of Huangshan City, and then pointed in the direction of the Great Zhou military camp. “According to the location of our military camp and the location of Huangshan City, the location of the King of Huangshan can be ruled out to the west of Huangshan City!”
Bai Qingyan drew a circle on the map with his finger: “King Huangshan is timid and cautious. He can only act at night if he doesn’t want to be discovered. Now it is almost April, and the night time is short. King Huangshan doesn’t have much time left. He needs to set up an ambush, send people to assassinate the emperor, and lead the Great Zhou army to the ambush site before dawn! The ambush site left for King Huangshan can only be within this range!”
Xiao Ruojiang suddenly understood.
“Let’s take Huangshan King as an example because he is timid. He will attack unexpectedly, so he naturally has to choose the most suitable ambush location, not the best ambush location. Compared with the length of the journey and the time, this is the best choice within the range of options!” Bai Qingjue pointed at a location.
“Starting from Huangshan City, whether we go in a detour or straight ahead! If we want to set up an ambush here, we must…” Bai Qingyan pointed back to the place where Bai Qingyan had just chosen to set up an ambush, “pass by here! For King Huangshan, this is not the best choice within his available time, so we set up an ambush here!”
After Bai Qingyan finished speaking, he tapped the map heavily with his fingers: “Let’s go tomorrow night!”
“So anxious?” Xiao Ruojiang looked at Bai Qingyan, “I mean… King Huangshan would be so anxious?”
“King Huangshan must have made a hasty decision to send his wife and children out of the city. Ajue went to check their luggage, and found that they were not fully packed. It can be seen that King Huangshan was in a hurry to act.” Bai Qingyan said with a smile.
“He is going to choose assassins tonight. Since he wants to lure the Great Zhou army into an encirclement, then to kill me, the Great Zhou emperor… he needs to hit the target with one strike. Naturally, he has to choose the best assassin and make foolproof preparations. Otherwise, if I don’t die, the Great Zhou army won’t pursue me with all their strength, and their ambush will be meaningless! So we have to prepare tonight. It will be easy to be discovered during the day tomorrow and it will be inconvenient to act. We can only do it tomorrow night!” Bai Qingyan smiled, “After all, the longer the night, the more dreams there are!”
In the brightly lit barracks in Huangshan City, King Huangshan stood in front of the map hanging on the wall, pointed at the ambush site, and turned to look at his generals and said, “We will take action tomorrow night to avoid any more trouble. Everyone, act according to the instructions.”
“yes!”
The generals under King Huangshan clasped their fists and gave the order.
After waiting for the generals to leave, King Huangshan asked his deputy general, “Have you chosen the people?”
“I still need your review!”
“Let’s go…” King Huangshan clenched his fists.
King Huangshan made intensive preparations throughout the night, and at daybreak he finally selected the assassins to assassinate Bai Qingyan, all of whom were the best of the best.
King Huangshan ordered these assassins to have a good rest for a day and set off after eating their fill at night. He also promised that as long as they could kill the Emperor of the Great Zhou and come back alive, they would be rich and powerful from then on.
On that day, the Huangshan army was resting and the city gates were closed to no one entering or leaving.
After nightfall, the south gate of Huangshan City was opened wide, and more than 200 death warriors dressed in dark brown uniforms, with their cuffs and trouser legs tightly tied with cotton cloth of the same color, rode out on horseback.
Afterwards, the cautious King Huangshan sent the first batch of 200 soldiers to the ambush site set yesterday. Half an hour later, King Huangshan personally led all the troops to set out. No torches were allowed to be lit in the entire army, and they marched to the ambush site in the dark under the moonlight.
King Huangshan first sent two hundred soldiers to explore the way. If they were discovered by the Great Zhou army and really encountered danger, their army would still have time to retreat. If they were not discovered and arrived safely, they could also go ahead to attack the front.
Clouds covered the moon, and the stars were sparse. The distant mountains and nearby trees were dark shadows.
King Huangshan stopped at the entrance of the forest path and ordered his deputy general to lead the troops ahead.
I don’t know if it’s because he has been too cautious for many years, but King Huangshan has been uneasy since he sent out his troops today.
He rode on his horse and looked into the long but not steep mountain forest path. This was not the best place for an ambush. The path was wide and the sides were long and not steep. If the Great Zhou army was ambushed here, it would be easy for them to rush in.
In a head-on clash, a bloody hand-to-hand combat, King Huangshan knew his own limitations and that his own soldiers… could never be compared with those elite warriors of the Great Zhou who had survived the battles to destroy Liang and Xiliang.
The soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty were truly the elite who survived life and death situations on the battlefield and remained.
At that time, the Yan State relied on Xie Xun’s new army to recapture Southern Yan, as well as the few soldiers that other vassal kings gave to the Second Prince. Moreover, the battle for Southern Yan… The Yan State fought almost effortlessly, with the people lining the streets to welcome them, so naturally there was no chance for them to risk their lives on the battlefield.
King Huangshan gripped the reins tightly, feeling that this passage was… deep and quiet, and seemed to be filled with some dangerous yet sweet smell.
It was not that King Huangshan was suspicious. The first batch of more than 200 people he sent to the ambush site were all killed in the alley by the Bai family army under the moonlight when he led his troops out of the city.
When the blue-gray clouds covered the moon, the sound of killing shook the sky.
When the crescent moon broke through the clouds and shone brightly, corpses were everywhere.
These two hundred soldiers were killed by Bai’s army without any ability to fight back.
The two mountain paths were cleared away by the Bai family’s army in an extremely fast and neat manner.
Apart from the slight smell of blood lingering in the chilly night breeze, no one could tell that more than 200 Huangshan soldiers had died here.
The Great Zhou army lying in ambush on both sides soon noticed the movement of a large group of horses. The horses’ hooves and footsteps were extremely fast, and there were a lot of soldiers, but except for the two people in the front who were leading the way on fast horses and holding torches, there was no light.
Shen Liangyu chewed a piece of grass in his mouth, patiently lying in the grass nest, watching the Huangshan army enter the mountain path little by little…
“Swoosh—bang!”
The fireworks soared into the sky like a dragon and exploded in the sky.
King Huangshan, who had already entered the mountain path, immediately reined in his horse, raised his head and stared wide-eyed as he saw a sudden red light in the sky, covering the soldiers on the mountain path… and the dense trees and tall forests.
“Shoot!”
King Huangshan’s eyes, reflecting the red light, also reflected the horrifying scene of rain of arrows falling towards them at high speed from the sky.
The red light dissipated, and countless screams were heard on the mountain path.
There was a deafening cry of killing coming from the entrance of the mountain path, shouting to block their retreat.
At the exit… there were also generals of the Great Zhou shouting, trying to block their way out.
King Huangshan fell off his horse and was protected by a heavy shield. The rain of arrows continued, hitting the heavy shield that was like a tortoise shell, making it crackle.
On the slopes on both sides, three groups of archers of the Great Zhou Army took turns. King Huangshan knew that the Great Zhou Army had no chance to take advantage of the arrows that hit his shield like a rainstorm.
King Huangshan didn’t understand why he was ambushed. It was obviously…he who set the ambush! But why…he stepped into the full trap of the Great Zhou army?
Was there a spy around him, or did King Ji’an deceive him?
Bright light shines on the ground…
“call out–”
A feather arrow came out of nowhere and actually penetrated through the gap in the heavy shield, just brushing the nose of King Huangshan. King Huangshan was so frightened that he fell backwards and almost knocked down the soldier who was holding up the shield for him.
“Your Majesty!”
“Your Majesty!”
Inside the heavy shield “turtle shell”, the deputy general and guards hurried to support King Huangshan.
King Huangshan didn’t have time to think, and he didn’t even have time to stand up. He shouted at the top of his voice: “Surrender! We surrender! I want to see the Emperor of the Great Zhou!”
If he doesn’t surrender, all his Huangshan troops will die here.
Surrender… You can still save your life. We will have to surrender sooner or later, so it is better to surrender early so that fewer soldiers will die and fewer orphans and widows will be left.
Shen Liangyu didn’t expect that the King of Huangshan would surrender so quickly. He had just sent out the archers, and their Bai family army had not yet deployed their archers, let alone show the true capabilities of the Tiger Eagle Army.
When the rain of arrows stopped, the Huangshan army dropped their weapons and surrendered.
King Huangshan was also helped to stand up from the “turtle shell” of the middle shield that had been shot into a hedgehog-like shape, and the Huangshan army also gathered in the direction of King Huangshan…
After the continuous rain of arrows, the mountain road was filled with the corpses of the Huangshan army.
He saw a figure in silver armor on the high slope, riding a horse out of the tall trees, standing on the steep slope with a bow and arrow in his hand, looking down at him.
The moonlight was like silver frost, falling on her body. Although the distance was very far, King Huangshan could still feel the breathtaking outline of the woman’s face, as if she was isolated from the world in that holy light, and she seemed so high and mighty, and noble.
On March 26, the third year of Yuanhe, King Huangshan of Yan State led his troops out of the city to fight against the Great Zhou, but was ambushed on the Yuming Mountain Road and suffered a miserable defeat.
On the 27th of the same month, the Dongyi navy defeated the Yan navy, landed on Yan territory, captured two cities in one go, and continued to march towards Yan capital with great momentum. When the news came back to Yan capital, all the people of Yan knew that Yan’s luck had come to an end.
The news that King Ji’an and King Huangshan, one dead and one captured, quickly spread throughout the State of Yan.
King Yongjia, who was the first to receive the news, realized after careful consideration that the Emperor of the Great Zhou was determined to unify the world. He felt that he was unable to compete with the Great Zhou, so he handed over his military power and took his entire family to follow the Emperor of Yan and the angel to the capital of Yan, only hoping to save his own life and property.
The two vassal kings who had the most powerful military forces, King Xiping and King Ji’an, are already dead. Even if they rise up in resistance, the Emperor of the Great Zhou will definitely send troops to suppress them. The entire country of Dayan cannot even compete with the Great Zhou. How long can they hold out? In the end, they may end up dead and their families destroyed.
After receiving the news of King Ji’an’s death and King Huangshan’s defeat overnight, King Yiling was silent for a long time. He discussed with King Tongqiu about entering Yandu together and no longer tried to fight against the Great Zhou.
On the ninth day of the fourth month of the third year of Yuanhe, the emperor of the Great Zhou led a large army of the Great Zhou to arrive at the capital of Yan. Emperor Murong Li of Yan and Regent Murong Yan of Yan led hundreds of officials, holding jade tablets and leading sheep, and went out of the city to welcome them. They formally surrendered to the Great Zhou. The Yan State was declared extinct, and the Great Zhou accomplished the great feat of unifying the world in just a few years.
At the same time, the envoys of Dongyi State, which had captured four cities of Yan State, met with the Emperor of Zhou State in Yandu and stated that Dongyi State was completely submissive to Zhou State. Since Yan State had submitted to Zhou State, Dongyi State should withdraw its troops without any conditions.
Bai Qingyan finally met his third sister, Bai Jintong, in the Yan State Palace.
In the hall where the flames of copper lamps flickered, Xiao Rongyan and Murong Li saw Bai Jintong, dressed in men’s clothes and looking heroic, appear in their field of vision. They could not tell that Bai Jintong was a woman.
“Eldest sister!” Bai Jintong came in and bowed to her eldest sister first, then turned to look at Xiao Rongyan and called out, “Brother-in-law…”
Murong Li understood that today was a family meeting, so he stood up and saluted Bai Jintong obediently, but he couldn’t figure out what to call Bai Jintong, so he said, “Third Miss!”
Bai Qingyan waved to Bai Jintong: “Ajue still has to deal with some things, you will see him later.”
Bai Jintong’s eyes turned red, and he trotted to Bai Qingyan and bowed solemnly to her: “Congratulations, elder sister, for unifying the world…”
“Congratulations to us, we finally achieved our dream!” Bai Qingyan smiled and glanced at Xiao Rongyan and Murong Li, “Only if we work together can the world be unified, Jintong… I’m sorry for putting you through this!”
Bai Jintong shook his head: “Eldest sister knows me, now I have run a men’s clothing business… I am willing to collect intelligence for the Great Zhou!”
“If you hadn’t promptly sent the news of the alliance between the Yan clan and the vassal kings back to Dadu and delivered it to your eldest sister, Yan would have been in for more war!” Xiao Rongyan said, “You have made a great contribution.”
“If the Third Miss hadn’t sent the message in time, I wouldn’t have survived. Uncle Jiu wouldn’t have been able to get back in time, and my mother…my mother would have been used by the clan members and the princes. The soldiers of Yan would have become…killing weapons for the clan members, and the people would have suffered even more.” Murong Li also said, “Uncle Jiu is right. The Third Miss has made a great contribution.”
Bai Qingyan smiled and touched Bai Jintong’s head: “This time when you go back, you should be crowned king! Third Aunt will definitely be happy!”
When letting Bai Jintong go out to do business, Bai Qingyan once said…Bai Jintong’s fortune is the Bai family’s fortune!
This time, the key to the Great Zhou’s destruction of Yan was that Bai Jintong sent the news back to the capital city. The Great Zhou sent a large number of troops to the border in advance, catching those vassal kings off guard.
On the tenth day of the fourth month of the third year of Yuanhe, the Emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty named Emperor Murong Li of Yan as King of Yanshan, and named the Regent of Yan, Murong Yan, as King of Yanxiang. He then set out with the Kings of Yanshan and Yanxiang and returned to Dadu.
The army led by the King of Protector of Great Zhou and the army led by the King of Zhennan also set out to return to the capital city, destined to meet up with the Emperor of Great Zhou at Yudai.
The army led by King Zheng of the Great Zhou and King Fu of the Great Zhou met with the Emperor of the Great Zhou at the border of the State of Yan and escorted the Emperor of the Great Zhou back to the capital city.
Upon hearing the news, Shen Qingzhu and Xiao Ruohai, who had led the Dongyi army to the territory of Yan State, withdrew the Dongyi army and returned to Dongyi.
Accompanying Bai Qingyan back from Yan State were Shen Tianzhi, the Grand Minister of the Great Zhou who was previously in charge of the Zhou region in Yan, and Xue Renyi.
As the Emperor of the Great Zhou was heavily guarded back to the capital, the people lined the streets to welcome him, kneeling on the ground and shouting “Long live the Emperor!”, hoping to catch a glimpse of this emperor… who would once again unify this land that had been ravaged by war for so long.
Their emperor was sitting in a carriage with magnificent relief carvings of the sun and the moon and the revival of all things. They did not see their majesty’s heroic figure on horseback, nor did they see the figures of the rumored King Zheng, King Fu and King Zhong. Riding in the front was the Great Zhou Emperor’s fourth sister, King Gaoyi, also a heroic young woman. Although she was young, she showed the power of a woman.
Bai Qingyan was reading memorials along the way, and discussing what would happen after the unification with Xiao Rongyan, Bai Qingyu, Bai Jinxiu, Bai Jintong, Bai Qingjue, Murong Li, and Shen Tianzhi.
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