The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 810: In the middle
Chapter 810: Falling into a Trap
In Cao Renyi’s opinion, the death of the Fourth Prince at the Qingxi Mountain Pass must have been caused by the Jin army. As long as he could kill Jin’s God of Killing Bai Qingyan, it would be considered as his revenge for the Fourth Prince!
The Fourth Prince can now rest in peace!
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All the generals had already dispersed as planned, but Bai Qingyan relaxed and sat in the big tent, flipping through the bamboo slips in his hand, waiting for the spies to report back on how many troops Cao Renyi had brought with him so that he could make the next arrangements.
“Report…”
Soon, the spy rushed into the commander’s tent, clasped his fists and said to Bai Qing: “Report, the Liang army has about 60,000 people.”
She stroked the bamboo slips with her fingers. It seemed that Cao Renyi had come out in full force with 60,000 people. So… Daming Prefecture would be empty.
Bai Qingyan raised his eyes and spoke calmly, “Order Zhao Sheng and Zhao Ran… After Cao Renyi enters the Jin camp, immediately lead the troops to Daming Prefecture and raise the Cao flag. We must seize Daming Prefecture tonight. There must be no mistakes!”
Letting the Jin army raise the banner of Cao Renyi would at least allow the troops led by Zhao Sheng and Zhao Ran to sneak into the city and reduce the casualties of the Jin army.
“Yes!” The spy received the order and immediately rushed to the place where Zhao Sheng and Zhao Ran were hiding their troops to deliver the message.
Xiao Rongyan looked at Bai Qingyan who gave the order decisively, and couldn’t help feeling that she was born for the battlefield. She had very clear ideas when leading troops to fight, and her reactions were extremely fast and meticulous.
When Cao Renyi and his 60,000 Liang troops arrived at the Jin army camp under the cover of darkness without lighting torches, they suddenly heard the guards on the lookout tower at the entrance of the Jin army camp shouting, “The enemy is invading! The enemy is invading!”
The Jin army also started beating drums.
Upon hearing this, Cao Renyi drew his sword and shouted, “Soldiers of Daliang! In this battle, we must drive the Jin dogs out of our Liang territory! Kill them!”
For a moment, the shouts of killing by the Liang army were deafening. The soldiers guarding outside the Jin army camp put up a brief resistance according to the strategy and then retreated into the Jin camp. The sound of swords clashing was soon drowned out by the shouts of killing by the Liang army.
In the Jin camp, the soldiers tensed their muscles, held their breath and hid in the dark tent, wrapped their arms with conspicuous white cloth, gripped the sword handles tightly, adjusted their sword-holding posture, and waited for the horn to sound, then they would charge out as planned.
Except for the fire basins erected high around the camp, where the flames were still flying up and down with the wind, all the lights in the camp were turned off, with only the lights on in the commander’s tent in the center…
Animals are afraid of fire and humans pursue light; this is their nature.
The brightly lit tent was meant to show Cao Renyi and Liang’s soldiers the way, to lead them in that direction and into the center of the military camp.
A Liang soldier rushed into the dark tent, but just as he entered… he was grabbed by the Jin army who were hiding on both sides of the tent and were on guard. His mouth was covered and his neck was cut cleanly with a knife. The battle-hardened soldiers acted decisively and efficiently without any delay.
Bai Qingyan sat in the only commander’s tent with the light on. He raised his eyes and looked towards the main gate of the camp, which was suddenly noisy, with a calm look in his eyes.
Bai Qingyan is waiting…
Cao Renyi was ambitious and fond of showing off his achievements. Judging from the battles he had fought in the past, he would always order his subordinates not to touch the enemy generals, and he would personally behead them or capture them alive.
Therefore, this time, Cao Renyi’s surprise attack was definitely intended to capture her, the undefeated general of Jin, alive. Fortunately, Daliang had established his prestige, which could be regarded as a deterrent to Jin.
Even if Cao Renyi had not given any instructions in advance, the Liang army, which had followed Cao Renyi for a long time, knew the rules and would definitely give Cao Renyi directions.
As expected, Cao Renyi did not disappoint Bai Qingyan. As soon as he entered the military camp and learned where Bai Qingyan’s tent was, he led his troops and rode towards Bai Qingyan’s tent.
Shen Qingzhu, wearing black armor, stood on the ceiling of the general’s tent with a sword in his arms and a horn in his hand. When he saw Cao Renyi entering the military camp and rushing towards the general’s tent, he immediately blew the horn.
Suddenly, horns sounded in the Jin camp, and the Jin army hiding in the tents roared and rushed out of the big tents, rushing into the Liang army that had just rushed into the Jin camp…
The sounds of swords and fighting reached the sky.
Cao Renyi immediately reined in his horse and looked around. Unexpectedly, the troops of Jin army were fully armored and rushing out of the big tent.
“Oh no! We’ve fallen into a trap!”
As Cao Renyi cried out in surprise, he saw torches suddenly light up around the Jin army camp, illuminating the outside of the camp as if it were daytime, and sounds of killing could be heard from afar.
“Hold on! Retreat!” Cao Renyi turned his horse around and shouted at the top of his lungs, his voice almost drowned out by the screams and cries of swords from the Liang army.
The Liang army, which had just rushed into the Jin camp with great momentum to start a massacre, saw the raging fire around the camp, the Jin army wearing armor and full of murderous aura, and saw their commander turning his horse’s head and shouting to retreat. They were immediately thrown into confusion and became the cattle and sheep to be slaughtered by the Jin army, and were killed without a single piece of armor left.
“General! The Jin army has blocked our way out from the rear! We’ve fallen into a trap!” A Liang army general quickly ran to Cao Renyi and shouted, “General! What should we do?!”
As soon as the general finished speaking, an arrow shot out from somewhere and hit the general in the chest. The force was so great that the Liang general was thrown off his horse. Before the Liang general could even stand up, he was beheaded by the Jin army who came out of nowhere.
Cao Renyi gritted his teeth and stabbed the Jin army that had chopped off the head of Liang general with his spear, and shouted again: “Retreat! Retreat quickly!”
He thought that this time he could win a battle in which the outnumbered side could defeat the larger side… and make his name as Cao Renyi famous among all nations!
But who knew what went wrong and I actually fell into a trap!
Cao Renyi suspected that there was a traitor in his army, otherwise how would the Jin army know that he would launch a surprise attack tonight and make such thorough preparations!
“Retreat! Retreat! Retreat!” Cao Renyi was terrified and shouted loudly, but he was surrounded by the Jin army fighting hard and the Liang army trying to defend themselves. There was no room for his horse to gallop…
The horse under Cao Renyi sensed the danger, shook its head, raised its hooves to trample down the Liang soldiers who were protecting Cao Renyi, and rushed out like mad, throwing the temporarily unstable Cao Renyi off the horse.
“General!” The Liang army immediately protected Cao Renyi.
Cao Renyi, who was covered in dust and dirt, used his spear to prop himself up, his face pale with pain. He saw his horse charging forward alone, but before it left the Jin camp, it was pierced by the spear and fell to the ground with a neigh.
The Liang army soldiers helped them up, and the shield soldiers protected Cao Renyi among them, and they retreated with difficulty.
Cao Renyi has calmed down. He looked at the Jin army that was approaching from a distance and knew that he was being plotted against by the Jin army from both inside and outside. If he continued fighting like this, he would have no chance of winning and would only suffer heavy losses and then be defeated miserably. He was afraid that he could not retreat now.
Since Princess Zhenguo wanted to surrender, Yang Wuce had a special relationship with him.
Now, he has only two choices. Either kill Princess Zhenguo and carry her head to let these soldiers who originally belonged to Liang State return to Liang State.
Or… surrender!
Killing the Princess Zhenguo and allowing 150,000 people to return to Liang State, or surrendering…which one has a greater merit?
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