The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 637: Fend off the enemy
Chapter 637: Defending against the Enemy
They mounted their horses and galloped at full speed along the long street where there was not even a ghost in sight, heading towards the east gate.
The magnificent gates of the capital city were wide open. Bai Qingyan rode her horse slowly into the city, holding a sun-shooting bow in her hand. The rain splashed tiny water droplets on her silver military armor. Behind her followed Fu Ruoxi, who had a broken arm, and the mighty 20,000 soldiers from the Anping camp. She had an unstoppable momentum that was so fierce that no one dared to go against her.
The general of the Anping camp, who had just come out of the Dali Temple, reined in his horse quickly and stopped his horse with its hooves raised.
Liu Pinggao, a fourth-rank military officer of Anping Camp, pulled the reins tightly. The fierce horse turned a circle before stopping steadily. He opened his eyes wide and looked into the distance…
The woman walking in the front, riding a fiery horse and wearing silver armor, exudes a sharp yet restrained murderous aura. Although she is thin, her strength is honed through countless times of life and death in seas of blood and mountains of corpses. Her strength comes from her bones, and it is so heavy and majestic that people cannot even look at her directly.
Maybe it was because he was soaked by the rain and felt cold all over, but he actually had goose bumps on his skin. He shouted loudly, “It’s the Princess Zhenguo and General Fu! It’s General Fu!”
Through the rain curtain, the generals of Anping camp saw Fu Ruoxi and their hearts were suddenly boiling with excitement.
“It’s really General Fu!” The generals of the Anping camp shouted in the direction of Fu Ruoxi, “General! It must be the Zhenguo Princess who saved General Fu!”
“Now that Prince Xin is forcing the emperor to abdicate, the Zhenguo Princess has asked General Fu to lead the Anping Camp to rescue him! The merits and demerits offset each other… So can our General Fu survive?!”
“Let’s go! Let’s go over there!” Liu Pinggao kicked his horse and galloped towards the direction of the army that was entering the gate.
When Liu Pinggao and his entourage saw Bai Qingyan raise his hand to signal the team to stop, they jumped off their horses without waiting for the horses to stop, knelt on one knee and saluted with their fists: “Greetings to the Princess Zhenguo, General Fu!”
“General!” A general from the Anping camp had tears in his eyes.
Bai Qingyan looked at the generals of the Anping camp kneeling in the rain and looking at Fu Ruoxi, and thought of the Bai family army…
In this world, besides blood ties, the friendship between comrades who have lived and died together is the deepest bond between people.
Once, after Liu Huanzhang betrayed his grandfather, there was a period of time when Bai Qingyan doubted whether his grandfather’s words were right or wrong, but after meeting the soldiers of the Bai family army, he felt that his grandfather was right.
Now seeing that all the soldiers in Anping Camp are loyal to Fu Ruoxi and have no second thoughts, Bai Qingyan feels that he should not doubt the friendship of his comrades just because of Liu Huanzhang. In this world, there are loyal and affectionate people like Shen Kunyang, Wei Zhaonian, Gu Wenchang, Shen Liangyu, and Liu Pinggao in Anping Camp, but naturally there are also villains like Liu Huanzhang.
Loyal, brave and affectionate people are always greater than villains. Otherwise, why was there only one Liu Huanzhang in the Bai family army? The rest of the generals fought to the death to protect the country and sacrificed their lives to protect the young general of the Bai family.
Fu Ruoxi gently pushed her horse forward, standing shoulder to shoulder with Bai Qingyan: “Today, all the Anping army must listen to the orders of the Zhenguo Princess, obey the orders of the Zhenguo Princess, follow the Zhenguo Princess, and go to the palace to rescue the emperor!”
“yes!”
All the generals in the Anping camp shouted in response: “We will follow the princess till death!”
When the general guarding the city saw Bai Qingyan dismount, he became worried again. Why did this princess dismount instead of rushing to the imperial city to rescue the emperor?
Fu Ruoxi also got off the horse and followed closely behind Bai Qingyan.
The generals of Anping camp also came closer to Bai Qingyan.
Bai Qingyan was neither anxious nor impatient, as if the more urgent the situation, the calmer he became. He spoke quickly and steadily, “General Liu Ping and Gao Liu will lead 2,000 soldiers to control the east gate, and General Pan Jianlei will lead 2,000 soldiers to control the west gate! General Fu Ruoxi and I will lead our troops to enter from the Nanwude Gate and fight the rebels head-on!”
Liu Pinggao nodded and asked, “What about the north gate?”
“The Imperial Palace faces south and sits north. General Fan Yuhuai of the Patrol Battalion will certainly lead the Imperial Guards and the Patrol Battalion to block the rebels before the Emperor’s Palace! There is absolutely no way the rebels will escape from the north gate!” Bai Qing said firmly, “The east and west gates will be entrusted to the two generals!”
Liu Pinggao and Pan Jianlei clasped their fists and said yes.
Everyone jumped on their horses and marched towards the palace in a mighty procession, without showing any anxiety or worry about rescuing the emperor.
Bai Qingyan was waiting, waiting for the Nandu Army led by Prince Liang, who came under the banner of rescuing the emperor, and the imperial guards led by Prince Xin to be almost defeated, and then he would take them down in one fell swoop, so as to reduce the casualties of the soldiers in the Anping camp.
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Wude Gate.
At this time, Prince Xian’s men had taken over the breached Wude Gate. The heavy, ancient city gate was scarred by hacking and banging, and one side of the door leaf had been knocked askew and could not be closed.
In front of the palace gate, there were corpses pierced with feather arrows everywhere. Red blood mixed with rain water flowed out from the palace gate and flowed into the ditch, with wood chips and body parts floating on the blood.
Even the Dengwen Drum that fell to the ground in the rain had its drum surface dyed red.
The rain could not wash away the blood that was still flowing in the imperial city, and it could not wash away the bloody smell that was rising into the sky.
The Nandu Army, which was cleaning the city wall, threw the bodies of the imperial guards down from high above, and they were a bloody mess when they hit the ground.
The general of the Nandu Army who was patrolling in the rain saw from afar a dark mass of troops approaching like a tide in the heavy rain. The sounds of horses neighing, footsteps and the friction of armor sounded like thunder rolling in the heavy rain, making the Nandu Army on the city wall feel that the wall beneath their feet was shaking.
The general took a few steps forward, holding the ancient palace wall tightly with his palms, opened his eyes wide, and shouted in panic: “Prepare for battle! Prepare for battle! Archers, get ready! Quick! Send someone to report to King Tong Xian… There are heavy troops coming! Quick! Go… Use heavy objects to block the city gate! Quick!”
The Nandu soldiers who were clearing the corpses of the imperial guards on the city wall hurriedly picked up their bows and arrows, drew their bows and aimed their arrows at the bottom of the city wall.
But… when the Nandu Army saw the dark mass of troops and heard the earth-shaking footsteps of the troops, they knew that the incoming troops were at least tens of thousands, and the Prince Xian only had less than 500 soldiers left at Wude Gate. How could they resist? !
How can the Nandu Army resist the enemy if they are already afraid before they even see the enemy?
When the Southern General vaguely saw that the person leading the troops was a slender figure in silver armor, he immediately thought of the Princess Zhenguo.
If the Princess Zhenguo comes, she will definitely bring with her 20,000 soldiers from the Anping camp outside the east gate of the city!
Twenty thousand…
Thinking of this number, the general defending the city’s legs went weak and he could only stand by holding on to the palace wall. He felt that his army was being defeated.
The Southern Capital Army sent no more than 10,000 men into the city. Prince Xian originally thought that after Prince Xin and the Crown Prince were both defeated, 10,000 men would be more than enough to capture the palace.
Who would have thought that Princess Zhenguo would actually bring 20,000 soldiers from outside the Anping camp!
The earth-shaking footsteps were getting closer and closer, and the veins on the forehead of the general defending Nandu city bulged.
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