The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 777: recalcitrant die
Chapter 777: Death to the Resisters
The Jin army soldiers, who were already bloodthirsty after seeing the bloodshed, rushed into the city and ran into the Zhao army who were turning back to defend the city.
Zhao Sheng, the main general of the Zhao family army, was held back by Bai Jinzhi and Lin Kangle and was unable to split himself, so he had to order his subordinates to lead the main force back for defense.
Bai Jinzhi suddenly appeared in the rear and rushed in with a black sail and white python flag raised high, which really caused chaos in the Liang army. Before Zhao Sheng arrived, the Liang army saw the black sail and white python flag and lost their composure, and countless people were trampled while fleeing, so much so that Zhao Sheng actually thought that the Princess Zhenguo had arrived.
The handkerchief soaked in medicine that Bai Jinzhi had covered her mouth and nose with had been washed away by the rain, and all the smell had disappeared. She tore off the handkerchief and rode on her horse, with a red-tasseled spear dripping with blood in her hand. She had no idea how many enemy soldiers she had killed.
The Jin army’s archers occupied the high ground, climbed to the top of the Liang army’s barracks, and shot directly at the Liang army with the help of the flickering flames.
When the crossbows ran out of arrows, they took up their knives and engaged in a bloody hand-to-hand fight.
The burning candles in the barracks were knocked over, igniting the wooden pillars and curtains inside the house. There was no more heavy rain… The fire grew bigger and bigger, gradually reaching the sky, devouring the barracks one by one.
As the east was about to dawn and there was a glimmer of light in the sky, Bai Jinzhi suddenly heard the miserable cries of the Liang army in the distance as the city gate was broken, and the faint shouts and cheers of joy from the city wall at the Qingxi Mountain Pass. Bai Jinzhi felt relieved, as the morale of the Liang army seemed to be showing signs of collapse.
She looked at Zhao Sheng who was still fighting desperately with her sharp eyes, and rushed towards Zhao Sheng with her horse’s belly.
The horse neighed, raised its hooves and leaped up towards the Liang army. Bai Jinzhi tried his best to throw the spear in his hand at Zhao Sheng who was defenseless and facing the enemy.
“General, be careful!”
Upon seeing this, a soldier of the Zhao family opened his eyes wide, shouted loudly, and rushed forward at the risk of his life, crashing into Ping An, whose horse’s hooves had just landed and splashed blood. Ping An lost his balance and fell to the ground with a loud neigh, and he and Bai Jinzhi were thrown to the side, with blood and mud splashing all over Bai Jinzhi’s face.
Because of the collision with the Zhao family soldiers, the spear that Bai Jinzhi threw at Zhao Sheng failed to hit Zhao Sheng, but instead pierced the horse under Zhao Sheng. The horse raised its hooves and neighed in pain, and threw Zhao Sheng, who was fighting the enemy, off and rolled to the ground.
Bai Jinzhi wiped her face, stared at Zhao Sheng with wolf-like eyes, pulled out a big knife from the corpse beside her, and rushed straight towards Zhao Sheng, fighting hard with the Liang army that blocked her way.
The puddles reflected the fire and the figures fighting. The sounds of swords and screams were everywhere.
Lin Kangle reined in his horse and looked around for Bai Jinzhi’s figure amid the flashes of swords and sabers. Seeing Bai Jinzhi, with her face covered in blood, hugging the four spears that Liang Jun was stabbing at her, she looked back… and took advantage of the momentum to pretend that she was overwhelmed by the four Liang Jun soldiers and retreated until all the spears were stabbed into the wall.
Bai Jinzhi spun around along the spear, raised his hand and slashed with his sword… Four heads fell to the ground, and hot blood splattered like hot rain. In the raging fire, the hot blood splattered onto the face of Liang Jun who was about to rush up.
Liang Jun looked at Bai Jinzhi, who was covered in blood and looked murderous, and hesitated to charge.
“My Jin army has broken into the city gate! You will not be killed if you surrender! Those who resist will be killed!” Bai Jinzhi shouted loudly.
The Liang army surrounding Bai Jinzhi hesitated. The Qingxi Mountain Pass ahead had been breached, and the Liang army, which had just been frightened by the black sail and white python flag, was about to collapse. When Bai Jinzhi said this… the Liang army suddenly felt that the situation was hopeless, and the fearful Liang army dropped their weapons.
Zhao Sheng, who had cut off the head of a Jin soldier with one sword, knew that things were not going well. He shouted at the top of his lungs: “Soldiers of the Liang army! Soldiers of the Zhao army! Don’t forget the battle at Wengshan, where the Princess Zhenguo killed 100,000 surrendered prisoners from Xiliang! Take up your weapons, and die in a fight with the enemy. If you put down your swords now, you will be slaughtered like cattle and sheep by the Jin people tomorrow. Fight now… and you can still find a way out! Kill!”
Zhao Sheng’s words suddenly sobered up the Liang army that were about to put down their swords. They all remembered Bai Qingyan’s words at Wengshan about burning and killing the surrendered prisoners. They clenched their swords tightly, as if they had drunk cow’s blood, and fought to the death!
Zhao Sheng’s eyes were firm. He encouraged the soldiers to fight, not because he disregarded their lives, nor because he had issued a military order not to take their heads back to the Qingxi Mountain Pass to be beheaded, but because even if there was no chance of winning, they should try to fight again.
To die on the battlefield is to be a soldier worthy of honor.
To surrender is to become meat on the chopping block and an animal to be slaughtered in the pen of others.
The Jin army that rushed into the city was ordered to gather at the gate of the city wall to fight with the Liang army and not to enter the city.
The Jin army occupied the high ground of the city wall, and its archers and crossbowmen came one after another. The generals of the Liang army led their troops to charge several times in an attempt to retake the high ground of the city wall, but they could not withstand the arrows and crossbows shot from above, and suffered countless casualties, and had to retreat while fighting.
At Liu Hong’s command, the Jin army took advantage of their great momentum and charged into the city.
In the early morning after the rainstorm, a rising sun slowly emerged from the clouds with rolling rosy clouds, rising from the eastern end of Qingxi Mountain, shining brightly with golden light, illuminating the western side that had been washed by heavy rain for a day and a night… The steep and rugged cliffs of thousands of feet high were shining, and even the pine and cypress needles growing in the cracks of the rocks on the top of the mountain were coated with golden light.
This dazzling and brilliant light is like the clear line between yin and yang.
It only illuminated the magnificent cliffs, while the blood-stained city wall between the two cliffs, the blood-red puddles, the broken limbs, and the war-torn land with piles of corpses were all shrouded in darkness.
The sounds of swords, spears, halberds and swords clashing and screams could be heard, but the cliff as sharp as a sword still stood majestically in the golden light, motionless. Only when the wind blew occasionally did the pines and cypresses sway slightly.
When the 1,500 men brought by Bai Jinzhi and Lin Kangle were almost exhausted, Lin Kangle saw the Liang army fleeing in this direction.
Lin Kangle’s horse had already fallen. He rushed to Bai Jinzhi, fighting and saying, “Princess Gaoyi! We have to retreat! The Liang army will fight to the death if they want to escape. We have already won a great victory by taking the Qingxi Mountain Pass. We cannot let the soldiers fight to the death!”
It was now bright outside, and it was no longer the darkness of last night where they could not distinguish friend from foe. A little disturbance would be enough to make the Liang army, which outnumbered them, heartbroken.
Panting, Bai Jinzhi dropped the knife in his hand that had been chopped and bent, raised his hand to wipe the blood off his face, stared at Zhao Sheng who was still fighting, and shouted: “We must stop the Liang army here, otherwise… the Liang army will flee and become an enemy of our Jin country in the future! I want to take Zhao Sheng’s head! To enhance the prestige of our army!”
“Princess Gaoyi!” Seeing that he could not stop Bai Jinzhi, Lin Kangle seized the opportunity to catch a horse that was running wildly without an owner, jumped on the horse, and shouted loudly, “This battle is led by General Liu Hong of the Jin State. If you surrender, you will not be killed!”
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