Rebirth: The Journey of an Heiress novel Chapter 1200

Chapter 1200 -1194: Too Tragic to Behold

Watching Bai Qingyan leave, General Cui Shanzhong then turned to the commander beside him and said, “Have the soldiers ready tonight, Zhou might attack the camp!”

The soldier following General Cui Shanzhong looked back at Jiangzi City and said, “General, Zhou hasn’t fully captured the hidden soldiers we deployed into the city. I believe we should strike while the iron is hot… coordinate inside and out to capture the Emperor of Zhou alive. If we have the Emperor of Zhou in our hands, surely Zhou will hasten to surrender?”

“Zhou is inside the city, we are outside. To truly attack Jiangzi City, Xiliang may not gain an advantage… rather, we might lose troops. And with the Emperor of Zhou’s capability in leading troops, if we can’t seize Jiangzi City in one battle it would be detrimental to Xiliang’s morale!” General Cui Shanzhong said while being helped onto a horse by a young attendant.

If moments ago he thought Bai Qingyan merely sent one person to Yecheng Pass for help to minimize the target, now General Cui Shanzhong could be certain: if Bai Qingyan truly wanted to seek external aid, with her intellect, she would have countless ways to do so.

Sending one person out of the city was merely to test if there were ambushes at the south gate of Jiangzi City, to confirm her prediction of his actions as a Xiliang general.

And because… only one person left the city, he would keep this messenger alive to interrogate about the situation inside the city and the content of the message.

This little young girl is more formidable than he imagined and values the lives of the soldiers around her very much; he must proceed with caution.

General Cui grabbed the reins and looked at the city walls of Jiangzi City, saying, “Since Zhou wants to fight, let’s wait for them to light the beacon smoke to call for aid. If Bai Qingyan intends to hold out without lighting the beacon smoke, we’ll spread the news that the Xiliang army surrounds the Emperor of Zhou, dispatch scouts to watch Yecheng Pass, and once Zhou’s army comes in aid, ambush and annihilate as many as possible!”

“What if the defending General at Yecheng Pass doesn’t come without orders?” a Xiliang general asked.

“Then we’ll starve out Jiangzi City until their supplies are exhausted, and capture the Emperor of Zhou and his successors alive!” Cui Shanzhong said.

If the current defending General at Yecheng Pass leads troops to aid, Xiliang will first annihilate part of Zhou’s forces, then seize Yecheng Pass, isolating the main forces of Zhou on the other side. Without supplies, the starving main force of Zhou… after a while, will hardly be a main force.

Cui Shanzhong had vaguely guessed the troop deployment inside the city from the Zhou soldier who sought aid at Yecheng Pass.

That Zhou soldier was a tough man, claimed there were a hundred thousand or two hundred thousand soldiers in the city with enough provisions for them for ten or twenty years. No matter the torture, he wouldn’t speak the truth; truly a stalwart man.

Yet, in the interrogation process, this tough man exposed many issues that Cui Shanzhong observed. If the city’s supplies were truly sufficient, confidence would lead that soldier to directly say… the city has enough provisions to last half a year or a year, enough to hold until Zhou’s main force returns after taking Yunjing to rescue!

Instead of holding a deadly determination, saying such far-fetched things to deceive Xiliang’s army!

Zhou has always been assisting Xiliang’s disaster victims, sending food continuously to the refugees. Jiangzi City merely serves as a transit point for food going to Yecheng Pass, and just six days ago… Zhou had just sent out a batch of food. To avoid alerting Zhou and catching their attention, even with Xiliang’s army suffering from a food shortage, he didn’t go to raid.

Although there wasn’t a detailed investigation by scouts, Zhou couldn’t possibly transport a batch of food from within its borders to Xiliang every six days, so the supply in the city surely isn’t abundant!

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