The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 422: Urgent move
Chapter 422 Urgent Recruitment
Lupin raised his hand and gently stroked the brocade box, with deep hatred hidden in his eyes. He said slowly with a stern face: “Your old General Zhao used this method, but never got a single piece of information from our Fifth Master! It was just that our brothers in the Bai Family Army couldn’t hold on any longer and leaked the information. Later, they died to apologize and didn’t want to live in disgrace. Only one was saved by our Prince! Today, I really want to see if the bones of your Zhao Family Army… are really harder than our Bai Family Army!”
Bai Qingyan did not come down from the city wall. She noticed that the number of elite Zhao family soldiers who had just entered the city was not right. She suspected that there were still people outside the city keeping watch. If these elite Zhao family soldiers who sneaked into the city did not leave the city at the agreed time, the person who kept watch would go back to Liangying to report the news.
Shen Qingzhu had come to Chunmu Mountain earlier and had already figured out the working styles of most of the Liang army’s generals. In addition to Zhao Tong, Zhao Sheng also led the Zhao army this time.
Zhao Sheng is a meticulous person. He would not be so stupid as to allow all the people to enter the city at once without leaving even one person to tip off the police.
General Wang Xiping quickly ran up to the tower and clasped his fists to Bai Qingyan who was hiding in the dark, saying, “General Bai, Lupin has found out where the Liang army’s granary is. It’s not in the barracks, but hidden in the valley between Puwen City and their army’s barracks, less than two miles away from their barracks. The people I selected are ready and can leave the city at any time. I guess there must be Liang army lookouts outside the city, so in order to avoid leaks, I specially selected people who can swim, but the canal is too long from inside the city to outside the city, and we Jin people are not good at swimming, so it’s a bit mysterious. I plan to let them go out from the east gate or west gate to take a detour.”
General Xun Tianzhang is indeed cautious.
“Open the city gate and go out from the north gate! Send people with hunting dogs to follow closely out of the city and search around. If you see anyone trying to report back to Liangying, kill them!” Bai Qingyan turned and looked at Wang Xiping, “Tell the people who are going to burn the grain and grass that after they find the granary and set it on fire, they should try to catch a few more tongues on the way back and interrogate where County Lady Gaoyi is trapped!”
It’s not that Bai Qingyan didn’t believe that Lupin could get something out of those Zhao family soldiers. After all, Zhao Tong’s grandfather Zhao Yi was a living devil in his interrogation skills. She didn’t believe that the eleven Zhao family soldiers captured alive were all strong men.
The reason why Wang Xiping’s people caught someone and questioned him again was just because they wanted to confirm the accuracy and authenticity of the news.
Wang Xiping clasped his fists and said, “Yes!”
Bai Qingyan drew out the feather arrow and put it on the Sun-Shooting Bow. Although it was a dark and windy night, she had been staring at the dark place for a long time, and her eyes had already adapted to the darkness. As long as something moved in the darkness, she would be able to detect it.
Soon the city gate was opened and the drawbridge was slowly lowered. Twenty black cavalrymen led by Du Sanbao rushed out of the city on horseback, took off their armor and lightly dressed, carrying only flammable objects, and galloped towards the Liang camp.
Seeing this, a soldier of the Zhao family army hiding in the dark crawled on the ground, nervously holding the sword at his waist and being on full alert.
Only when a galloping horse passed by him did the soldier of the Zhao family army slowly reveal his head and look deeply in the direction of Longyang City. He saw that the drawbridge of Longyang City had not been retracted and the city gate had not been closed. He could not help but feel nervous.
Not long after, the sound of dog barking was heard from inside the city gate. He stood up with one foot on the ground, bent over, and prepared to retreat at any time.
Seeing the Jin soldiers holding torches and leading nine howling hounds out of the city, he gripped his sword tightly and moved slowly backwards.
Bai Qingyan looked back and forth in the darkness, and vaguely saw a dark silhouette moving backwards. She suddenly pulled the bow to its full length, and the sharp arrow with a cold glow aimed directly at the black shadow that was still slowly moving.
The archers standing on the city wall with Bai Qingyan all drew their bows and pointed in the direction of Bai Qingyan’s arrow.
“put!”
At Bai Qingyan’s command, the sound of countless arrows breaking through the air interlaced in the darkness, and they rushed straight towards the Zhao family soldiers like leeches.
The Zhao family army, which was moving slowly, heard the sound of breaking wind and looked up… a feather arrow with a cold glow pierced straight into his pupils which were filled with fear.
A shrill scream pierced the night sky. The Jin army, which had already come out from the other end of the suspension bridge, released the hunting dogs. Upon hearing the sound, the nine hunting dogs bared their teeth and pounced towards the source of the sound, with the Jin soldiers following closely behind and running all the way.
Soon, the Zhao family army, which had been shot like hedgehogs and had already died, were dragged into the city.
Even the horses that the Zhao army rode when they arrived were found by hunting dogs and brought back by the Jin army.
“It’s indeed a harvest!” Wang Xiping couldn’t help but sigh as he looked at the Zhao family army and the fourteen horses in front of him.
Bai Qingyan’s eyes fell on the fourteen dark-bodied, sturdy horses in front of him. He approached one of them and gently stroked the horse’s mane, and something suddenly occurred to him.
No wonder Xiao Rongyan told her so firmly that Daliang would definitely declare war on Jin.
It seems that if Dayan agreed to send troops to help Beirong, it would ask Beirong to give strong horses to Daliang so that Daliang would have the confidence to go to war with Jin.
Beirong wants Dayan’s help, but Dayan is afraid that Jin will stab it in the back, so… dragging Jin into the war is the best option, and Beirong will naturally agree.
As for Daliang, it had strong soldiers and good horses. In addition, all the men of the family of King Bai Weiting of Zhenguo were killed in southern Xinjiang. The Rong and Di people were plunged into civil war. Dayan sent troops to help the Rong people. It was a good time, place and people for Daliang to recover the lost territory. How could it resist?
Xiao Rongyan’s calculations were really clear.
“Have you checked everywhere? Is there only one person keeping watch?” Bai Qingyan asked, looking at the Zhao family soldier with arrows all over his body.
“We’ve checked carefully, even the horse hoof prints were carefully identified. There were only fourteen horses, and they are all here!” said one of Wang Xiping’s subordinates respectfully.
Bai Qingyan nodded: “You have all worked hard tonight! Go and rest early!”
Seeing that Bai Qingyan was not heading towards the military camp after getting on his horse, Wang Xiping took two steps forward and asked, “General Bai, are you not going back to the camp?”
“I’ll go to the prison to take a look.” Bai Qingyan raised his hand and took the black gold horsewhip handed over by the Jin soldier.
“General Bai, you should go and have a rest! You haven’t stopped for a moment since we arrived in Longyang City. This can’t go on!” Wang Xiping advised.
“No problem! I know what I’m doing!”
Before Bai Qingyan could whip his horse and leave, he saw Wang Xiping’s men coming on horseback to report.
“Report! General Bai! General Wang! Commander Liu Hong brought the imperial edict to the north gate, urgently summoning all the generals in Longyang City to the martial arts arena to obey orders!”
This time the emperor appointed General Liu Hong as the commander-in-chief. Before the army set out, the emperor specially summoned Liu Hong to the palace and reminded him that in this battle with Daliang, if he could do without Bai Qingyan, he should not use Bai Qingyan and should suppress Bai Qingyan.
Firstly, we must not let other countries think that the men of Jin are useless and that victory can only be achieved by relying on women.
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