The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 861: boiling
Chapter 861 Boiling
Bai Jinzhao and Bai Jinhua were dressed in military uniforms, standing on both sides with archers, shooting arrows at the enemy troops under the city wall and in the distance to resist the enemy troops climbing the city wall.
Shen Yan’an and Shen Yanzhong also helped carry stones, and led the team to take turns in an orderly manner to smash the enemy troops who were trying to climb up the city wall.
Seeing that Li Mingrui had ordered his men to push the catapult, and the archers had already released their arrows…
Shen Yanan shouted loudly: “Everyone squat down! Everyone squat down!”
As soon as Shen Yan’an finished speaking, an arrow flying from a distance pierced Shen Yan’an’s arm, and Shen Yan’an fell to the ground immediately. He gritted his teeth to prevent himself from crying out in pain, hid under the wall, and adjusted his breathing.
The first wave of arrows stopped, and Shen Yanan stood up again, shouting: “Shoot! Shoot! Shoot that fucking bastard!”
Under the city wall, a rain of arrows flew over the wall and injured the people in the city. Some arrows even penetrated the temporary tents set up for doctors to treat the wounded.
The Shuoyang Army, which was still running to deliver supplies to the top of the city wall, shouted, “Hurry, hurry, hurry! Hide! Hide!”
The children and young men who were running errands and carrying stones were agile. They either hid under the tables or in the houses. When the rain of arrows stopped, they quickly carried the stones to the city walls.
The kabuki in the brothel stretched their necks to look outside. Seeing the Shuoyang soldiers and civilians working together to fight the enemy, they were filled with emotion…
Ever since Na Kang met Bai Qingyan and composed a song called “General Bai’s Marching Song”, she stayed in Shuoyang. She opened the window and looked at the people downstairs running and shouting to go to the city gate to help their children who were joining the army, and her palms tightened.
Some children who usually played well with the fifth and sixth girls of the Bai family who were patrolling the city, joined together and shouted to help: “The fifth and sixth sisters of the Bai family have gone up to the city wall to kill the bandits! Let’s go and help!”
“Wait for me! I’ll get the slingshot… and kill those thieves!” a child shouted.
Looking at the united people of Shuoyang, Na Kang’s emotions surged again and she suddenly felt heroic. She turned and ran towards the brothel, shouting loudly for her sisters to put on their clothes and go with the people to help.
A prostitute leaned against a red lacquered pillar and said delicately, “We can’t carry anything on our shoulders or hands, so what can we do to help?”
“We can beat the drums! We can cheer! We can encourage the soldiers!” Na Kang said loudly, “Don’t we always dance to ‘General Bai’s Marching Song’ in this brothel? Don’t we envy women like the Princess Zhenguo, who can ride a horse and hold a sword, leading troops to kill the enemy?! Isn’t today our chance?!”
The prostitutes seemed to be encouraged by Nakang’s words, and some of them expressed their willingness to follow Nakang to help.
The prostitutes changed into neat clothes, tied up their long hair, and did what they could, even if it was helping the doctors to bandage the soldiers’ simple wounds or bringing them a bowl of water.
Li Mingrui had no idea what was happening in Shuoyang City. He had never been to a real battlefield before. This was his first time. He only felt that the speed of capturing the city was much slower than he had imagined. The horse under him was restless and kicked its hooves back and forth.
He turned around and asked the experienced general: “Small Shuoyang, a ragtag army… Why is it so difficult to attack?”
The commander of the imperial guards looked at the soldiers upstairs who were fighting desperately, and he did not think that they were just a motley crowd.
“Although the accuracy of Shuoyang’s archers is not very good, they are brave enough to fight to the death. In this case… it will be more difficult to defeat them.” said the general of the imperial guards.
Li Mingrui tightened his grip on the reins: “How long do you think it will take?”
“Sir, this is really hard to say! When it comes to war… no one can say how long it will take to capture a city!” said the general.
Li Mingrui pulled the reins, staring at the figures of Bai Jinzhao and Bai Jinhua leading the troops to shoot arrows on the city wall. He turned his horse’s head and said to the Jin army general: “All their forces should be concentrated at the north gate. You should immediately lead a thousand soldiers to go around to the west gate or the south gate and disperse their forces to deploy defenses, so that it will be easier to attack the north gate!”
The Jin army general took the order, turned his horse around and galloped away with his soldiers.
Li Mingrui’s palms were full of sweat. Although he had read many military books since he was young, this was his first time to go to the battlefield. When the fighting really started, Li Mingrui was still a little uneasy. Even though he was facing the motley crowd of soldiers from Shuoyang, he did not dare to slack off.
However, what Li Mingrui did not expect was that just as he ordered his generals to take a thousand soldiers away to attract Shuoyang’s troops, he heard a deafening cry of killing suddenly coming from the rear of their army.
Li Mingrui turned his head and saw a huge army holding black sails and white python flags suddenly appearing from behind, rushing towards them like a black tide.
Li Mingrui widened his eyes, staring at the black sails and white python flags fluttering in the wind. The armored cavalry in the front were lined up in a row. Even before they arrived, the momentum and the deafening roar were enough to frighten the imperial guards who spent every day in the imperial city.
Li Mingrui was shocked and terrified, holding the reins tightly. All he could see were soldiers and armors, roughly estimated to be tens of thousands… His heart was trembling. Was Bai Qingyan back? How could she be so fast? !
When the King of Liang issued an order to recruit young boys and girls from all over the country, Li Mingrui persuaded the King of Liang to ask the emperor for an edict to clear his name, saying that the prince was a traitor and that the King of Liang had made great contributions to the pacification. Unless someone held the golden order or the imperial edict of His Majesty and mobilized troops without authorization, the city should not be opened to let them go…
Li Mingrui calculated carefully that even if Bai Qingyan and her group forced their way back to the capital city, someone would stop them on the way, and she would never be able to come back so quickly!
But who dares to say that everything in the world is absolute! If the people in Shuoyang City saw that their reinforcements had arrived and went out of the city to fight, how could the imperial guards, who had rarely experienced war in the imperial city, be their opponents? !
“Retreat! Retreat! Retreat quickly!” Li Mingrui shouted.
The messengers beside Li Mingrui spread out to pass on the order, and the horn for the guards to retreat sounded…
Bai Jinzhao, who was still fighting desperately on the Shuoyang city wall, looked up into the distance, only to hear the enemy’s retreat horn and see a dark mass in the distance. He didn’t know whether it was the enemy or reinforcements.
The imperial guards who were attacking the city heard the horn and retreated.
The soldiers holding the black sail and white python flag in the distance were getting faster and faster, getting closer and closer. Bai Jinzhao opened his eyes wide and shouted: “Black sail and white python! It’s the black sail and white python flag! It’s the flag of my Bai family army!”
“It’s the Princess Zhenguo who’s back! The Princess Zhenguo who’s back!”
It was not just Bai Jinzhao. When the black sail and white python flag came into view, the entire Shuoyang army was boiling!
Bai Jinzhao’s blood boiled with excitement. He fired another arrow and shouted at the top of his lungs, “Shen Yan’an! Follow me out of the city with your troops to chase the enemy!”
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