Rebirth: The Journey of an Heiress novel Chapter 1201

Chapter 1201 -1195: Not Getting Up

From outside, servants and soldiers were heard saluting Bai Qingyan, prompting the secret guard team leader to rise, but the military doctor applying medicine stopped him: “Don’t move!”

The leader of the secret guard team sat back down and spoke kindly to the military doctor: “The Emperor is here! Certainly to ask about Xiliang’s army. I’m not fit to be bare-chested here…”

“Almost done!” The military doctor slowly spread the ointment on a fine cotton cloth and then pressed it onto the shoulder of the Bai family’s secret guard team leader, making him gasp with pain.

Before Bai Qingyan entered the room, soldiers inspecting the city and checking door-to-door came to report, saying… the patrol team found people dressed in Zhou army armor who couldn’t correctly respond to the password, captured by Zhou soldiers. After killing two to set an example during interrogation, they confessed to being those General Cui Shanzhong had ordered to infiltrate among the refugees, exactly like the previous captured Xiliang soldiers said.

“They also didn’t know how many people General Cui Shanzhong indeed sent, similar to what the previously returned Xiliang soldiers said, all believing General Cui Shanzhong only sent their team into the city! During interrogation…we found that the purposes of these teams entering the city vary!” reported a junior officer.

Bai Qingyan’s eyes lowered slightly: “Are the granaries and arsenal arranged?”

Liu Pinggao bowed to Bai Qingyan: “As instructed by the Emperor, the feigned movements to transfer grain and weaponry are yet to settle; I suppose once completed, those mice lurking in the shadows will obediently fall into our trap!”

Bai Qingyan looked at the pitch-black night; all conceivable precautions Bai Qingyan had already considered…

“Miss!” The Bai family’s secret guard team leader supported himself on the door frame, staggering out from inside, kneeling with one knee before Bai Qingyan, and looked up at her, saying, “Miss, indeed there are hidden troops outside the southern city gate. As soon as I left the gate not far, my horse’s leg was broken, quite a few ambushers, seemed as if waiting for you to leave the city!”

Liu Pinggao’s heart tightened; it was just as Bai Qingyan anticipated. General Cui initially did not surround the southern city gate with Xiliang soldiers, precisely to leave a passage to lure Bai Qingyan out from the south gate… to capture Bai Qingyan alive!

At this moment, Liu Pinggao felt extremely fearful thinking, had he truly escorted Bai Qingyan out the city then, she might have already been captured alive by Xiliang, their Emperor captured, then every battle… would be unnecessary!

“You’ve worked hard!” Bai Qingyan lifted him up.

“I’ve roughly figured out, this time General Cui brought over fifty thousand Xiliang troops, but seemingly lacking in provisions. I overheard those soldiers mention…due to besieging the city tonight, the Xiliang troops ambushed outside the south gate could barely eat a full meal!” While deep in distress, the Bai family’s secret guard team leader didn’t forget to keenly scout for information, “The soldiers conducting interrogation barely whipped a few times before switching turns; their strength wasn’t considerable either, judging from the force of the whip hitting the body, it seemed as if they truly hadn’t eaten well, losing control over strength after swinging five or six times.”

Liu Pinggao listened, dumbfounded, this Bai family’s secret guard managed to detect such subtle differences during his torture to gather intelligence, this is… quite formidable indeed!

It is said that the Bai family’s guards were all former Bai family army soldiers, no wonder the once Bai family army was feared by all, undefeated in battles. If each one in Bai family army were truly such iron-blooded men, is there any army they couldn’t defeat?

Bai Qingyan nodded, standing by the flickering sheepskin lantern, blowing on her eyelids, observing the elongated shadows of the red lacquered wooden pillars swaying with lamp’s shadow, after a while, she asked Liu Pinggao: “When is the next batch of Zhou grain arriving?”

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