The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 510: Compete
Chapter 510 A Comparison
Bai Qingping and Shen Yancong have already made arrangements. In addition to the Xiliang killers who have been working hard to teach the new recruits skills in the past few days, there are also Shen Yancong and the masters of the Taishou Mansion who will protect Bai Qingyan. They must put Bai Qingyan’s safety first.
Shen Yancong received news last night that Bai Qingyan would take people to the mountains to suppress bandits early this morning, so he made a special trip home. His father told Shen Yancong that if Shen Yancong could protect the safety of Princess Zhenguo this time, the Princess Zhenguo would be impressed, so he also gave the ten best guards in the Shen Mansion to Shen Yancong.
Bai Qingping could see that Shen Yan was eager to try, hoping to show off his skills in front of Bai Qingyan and be looked at differently by Bai Qingyan. So he decided not to seek the limelight and chose to stay in the camp today.
The assassins from Xiliang had already discussed last night how to retreat after killing Bai Qingyan on the mountain today, and were ready to wait for Bai Qingyan to arrive.
Soon, someone rushed into the parade ground on a fast horse, reined in his horse and shouted, “The Zhenguo Princess has ordered that Shen Yancong lead his troops to meet up with the Zhenguo Princess at the north gate and go up the mountain to suppress the bandits!”
Shen Yancong tightly grasped the sword at his waist, jumped down from the command platform, clasped his fists and shouted: “Shen Yancong obeys the order!”
After saying this, Shen Yancong bowed to Bai Qingping and said, “Brother Qingping, the training ground is now in your hands!”
Bai Qingping hurriedly returned the greeting: “Brother Yan, don’t worry! You must be extra careful and protect the Princess!”
Shen Yan nodded, jumped on his horse, glanced at the new recruits in the training ground, who were alert and tense, and shouted loudly: “Let’s go!”
There was no recruit who was not afraid when they went into battle for the first time. Some of them had trembling legs before they even set out, and even had some thoughts of retreating. But when they thought about getting ten gold coins if they could cut off the bandit’s head, they gritted their teeth and forced themselves to follow the team towards the north gate.
Bai Qingyan, Bai Jinzhi and the Bai family guards had been waiting in the north of the city early. From afar they saw new recruits holding torches coming in this direction. The horse under Bai Jinzhi’s crotch was breathing heavily and kicking its hooves.
Logically speaking, when new recruits go to the battlefield for the first time, the generals should boost their morale on the podium.
However, that was against regular armies like the Bai Family Army and the Jin Army.
For regular troops, what they say should be ear-splitting and passionate so as to boost morale!
However, facing these militiamen who were gathered together for money and had only been trained for a few months, and who were fighting against bandits… talking about the interests of the country did not boost morale.
Therefore, Bai Qingyan chose to stay outside the city to give them time to digest their fear themselves.
Shen Yancong saw Bai Qingyan and Bai Jinzhi riding on their horses, turned around and said something to the people around him, then he kicked his horse’s belly and rushed towards Bai Qingyan, jumped off the horse and saluted: “Princess Zhenguo, Princess Gaoyi!”
Bai Qingyan nodded: “Did anyone back down halfway?”
Shen Yancong smiled and said, “I did hesitate, but in the end I caught up…”
Bai Qingyan nodded, and watched the new recruits holding torches gathered at the north gate. Bai Qingyan gently pushed his horse forward, and his eyes swept over the new recruits’ expressions of fear or nervousness, and asked, “Are you all scared?”
The recruit shouted three times without even thinking…
“Don’t be afraid!”
“Don’t be afraid!”
“Don’t be afraid!”
Bai Qingyan’s eyebrows were covered with a faint smile, and he said, “I remember that when I first went to the battlefield, I was protected by a female guard team, but I was still afraid!”
In the eyes of these new recruits, although Bai Qingyan is a woman, she is the princess who is invincible in the battles of southern and northern borders and is very majestic. They thought that Bai Qingyan was the kind of general who was not afraid of life and death, but she said that she was also afraid when she first went to the battlefield.
“There’s nothing shameful about being afraid!” Bai Qingyan pulled the reins of his steed and stood in front of the new army holding swaying torches in their hands. “Frontier warriors, who didn’t risk their lives on the battlefield? Who didn’t survive by crawling out of a sea of blood and corpses? Don’t they fear death? No… Everyone is afraid of death! I’ll be afraid too!”
“But we can’t just let those bandits go because we’re afraid. Today they kidnapped someone else’s children. If we let them go, they’ll kidnap our own children someday!” Bai Qingyan’s expression gradually became solemn. “We’re not facing well-trained elite troops from another country, but vicious thugs who are hostile to our own people. We’ve trained for months… and you’re all the best of the best with strong combat capabilities. Can’t you be better than these wild bandits who have never received any training?!”
As the flames flickered, the eyes of the new recruits who were about to engage in actual combat for the first time gradually became firm.
Yes, they were all selected, and they are always the winners in daily battles and training!
“So, what we should be afraid of this time… are those mountain bandits! Those mountain bandits, they know that we are training our troops to suppress bandits, yet they dare to come down the mountain and kidnap children in broad daylight to provoke us! Then let them see that we have been training our troops for months, and what we are doing is not just for show, and the swords on our waists are not just for playing house. Once the swords are unsheathed, blood will be drunk!”
The new recruits are now ready to fight against the bandits.
Bai Qingyan turned his horse around and said to Shen Yancong, “Let’s go!”
Shen Yan withdrew his gaze from the quiver carried on Bai Jinzhi’s back, wondering why she was carrying a quiver of arrows since he didn’t see Princess Zhenguo or County Lady Gaoyi carrying a bow?
Didn’t Princess Zhenguo specifically tell you yesterday that there were so many tall trees on the mountain that arrows were useless and that a sword would be enough?
He rode forward, shouting, “Go!”
The Xiliang assassins felt relieved when they saw that Bai Qingyan did not bring the Sun-Shooting Bow. They had known for a long time that Bai Qingyan’s Sun-Shooting Bow never missed its target. If Bai Qingyan brought the bow and arrow, their chances of survival would be much smaller.
A glimmer of light was about to appear in the sky, and the new soldiers had already surrounded the foot of the mountain.
Shen Yan ordered everyone to lead their own teams, extinguish the torches, and quietly approach the mountain from different directions, striving to capture the bandits as quickly as possible and with the least losses.
Before leaving, Shen Yancong encouraged the new recruits again. Following Bai Qingyan’s idea, he described these bandits as wild goose chasers, and said that whoever got to the camp first and snatched the bandit’s head would get ten gold coins.
Seeing Bai Qingyan and Bai Jinzhi dismount and order the Bai family guards to stay at the foot of the mountain while they went with the new army, Shen Yancong smiled and shouted to the new army, “Although the Princess Zhenguo and Princess Gaoyi left their guards at the foot of the mountain, they are very skilled in martial arts. We must not let them get ahead of us or we will lose ten gold coins!”
When the new recruits saw that the Princess didn’t even bring any guards with her, and didn’t take the bandits seriously, they immediately put all their efforts into rushing up the mountain as if they were competing.
Shen Yan selected six Xiliang killers to follow Bai Qingyan. They held long swords in their hands and saw that the new recruits were rushing up the mountain to catch the bandits. They looked at each other, suddenly drew their swords and turned to attack Bai Qingyan.
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