Chapter 1570 What an Honor

He turned to look at the counselor in Xuanyi: "Isn't it because you showed us such an obvious flaw to lure us to climb the mountain from another place? If this prince's guess is correct, the Emperor of Zhou must have set up an ambush."

When counselor Xuanyi was about to say something, he raised his hand to stop Prince Xiping behind his back.

"The tactics of the soldiers are deceitful... True or false, I bet the Emperor of Zhou exposed such a huge flaw just to lure us into a bigger deception!" Prince Xiping was very confident, "This Emperor of Zhou is already at the end of his rope! "

After saying that, Prince Xiping drew his sword and shouted loudly: "Kill him!"

"Your Majesty! No!"

Counselor Xuanyi's voice was drowned out in the high-pitched shouts of the Xiping Army soldiers, and he could only watch the Prince of Xiping lead the Xiping Army to the mountain to kill.

The Dazhou archers hiding in the tall trees watched the Xiping army rushing towards the mountain with flames soaring into the sky one by one. They either drew their bow strings to full length or aimed their crossbow arrows downwards. They did not take action, waiting for Bai Qingyan's whistle. Voice command.

Bai Qingyan and other Zhou soldiers hid behind the tree, waiting with bated breath...

Hearing the sound of the Xiping Army attacking, Bai Qingyan poked his head out from behind the tree and looked down the mountain. He could already see the vanguard of the Xiping Army holding torches in their hands about to charge forward.

Bai Qingyan bit the bone whistle in her mouth, drew her bow and arrow, and stabilized herself...

She needs more of these Xiping troops, and more!

The Xiping Army is still fifty steps away from where Bai Qingyan asked the soldiers to pile up snowballs... thirty steps... twenty steps...

Bai Qingyan clenched her bone whistle, blew it hard, let go suddenly, and arrows whizzed out.

Hearing the whistle, the archers lurking in the trees fired arrows one after another. The arrows rained down from the heights of the forest, like a massacre, and there were screams.

Before the Xiping army could react, they raised their bows and arrows and shot at the tall dark trees. The soldiers used ropes to hold the crossbar across the middle of the road, shouting and pulling the crossbar to both sides.

Snowballs wrapped with stones rolled down the high slope one after another...

The snowball rushing downwards hit the big tree with a loud sound. The giant tree shook with snow like sprinkled salt, forcing the soldiers of the Xiping Army to not be able to see the scene on the tree at all.

The snowball, wrapped in stones and gaining weight, rolled faster and faster when it hit the Xiping soldiers, and immediately fell into a large area...

Arrows rained down, snowballs rolled, and screams came one after another.

"There is an ambush! There is an ambush!" the vanguard general of the Xiping Army shouted loudly, "Withdraw! Withdraw!"

Bai Qingyan saw the right moment, drew his bow... and fired the arrow according to the sound!

The vanguard general of the Xiping Army didn't have time to shout "Retreat", so he clutched his throat and knelt on the ground, staring wide-eyed at the swaying fire in the distance that seemed to be within reach.

With a cold look in her eyes, she bit the bone whistle and blew it again...

The bone whistle sounded in the dark forest, and the crossbowmen and archers on the tall trees immediately stopped shooting downwards.

"kill!"

Bai Qingyan gave an order, and the Zhou army hiding behind the tree all drew their swords and rushed towards the Xiping army who was knocked down by the snowball and couldn't get up. They swung their swords like harvesting and killed them all amidst the screams one after another in the dark night. The first batch of Xiping troops who rushed up the high slope quickly recovered the feather arrows that could still be used.

Prince Xiping saw his remnants of soldiers crawling and escaping from the mountain with each other's support. He stood up in shock and said, "How... how could it be possible?"

Counselor Xuanyi gritted his teeth and said to the Prince of Prince Xiping: "Your Majesty, the Emperor of the Zhou Dynasty is always very powerful in using troops. We might as well trap the Zhou army at the foot of the mountain, and then send people to ask for help from other vassals to resist the Zhou reinforcements!"

Prince Xiping tightened his fists and asked other vassal kings for help, asking them to come over and kill Bai Qingyan together. This... was different from his father's original plan.

My father said that only by killing the Emperor of Zhou Dynasty can the Xiping army intimidate other vassal kings and respect their Xiping Palace.

Now that his father is dead, he is still young. If he cannot kill the Zhou Emperor with the power of the Xiping Palace, he will have no say among the vassal kings in the future.

"Your Majesty!" Counselor Xuanyi saw the hesitation of Prince Xiping and stepped forward, "Now is not the time to fight for the glory of killing the Emperor of Zhou in a moment of anger, but we should find a way to kill the Emperor of Zhou! Otherwise...if the Great Zhou Emperor is saved and regains the Great Zhou City, the first person the Great Zhou Emperor will take revenge on will definitely be our Xiping Army!"

Prince Xiping was silent for a moment, then raised his eyes again, looking at the dense forest on the mountain with hateful eyes, and said: "I don't believe it, they shot all the arrows, how could the Emperor of Zhou be able to conjure arrows out of thin air! Kill them! Kill everyone!"

Without giving the Zhou Army time to breathe again, the second batch of Xiping Army troops headed towards the mountain to kill.

At this time, a group of Zhou troops sent by Bai Qingyan to find a way out came back.

"Your Majesty, only the area at the bottom of the mountain near the river is not blocked by anyone, but the river is not frozen and is very fast..." The leader of the team who came back from exploring the path gasped.

Bai Qingyan nodded, already having a plan in mind...

"Report!" The scouts from the Bai Family Army came back and knelt down on one knee to report to Bai Qingyan, "Commander Bai, the Prince of Xiping is willing to order all the troops to climb the mountain!"

Bai Qingyan tightened his palms. Although he couldn't bear it, he had to make a decision: "Keep people behind and cover the retreat of the remaining soldiers along the river. Everyone including me..."

"Your Majesty!" Liu Pinggao didn't wait for Bai Qing's words to finish before he stepped forward and clasped his fists to plead for orders, "Your Majesty, I will take someone to stay behind!"

Seeing Bai Qingyan's thin lips pursed tightly, Liu Pinggao stepped forward and looked at Bai Qingyan seriously: "Your Majesty, this opportunity to follow you out was snatched from the hands of General Cheng Yuanzhi of the Bai family army! General... knows Your Majesty will take the lead in war, but I will never allow Your Majesty to take risks! This time His Majesty was put in danger because of Liu Pinggao’s carelessness! I just want to redeem myself! I beg Your Majesty to help!"

After Liu Pinggao bowed to Bai Qingyan for a long time, he looked up at Bai Qingyan. The rising fire made Liu Pinggao's face look more determined. He said: "Your Majesty... It is an honor for Liu Pinggao to fight with your Majesty in this life." That's it! If there is an afterlife... Liu Pinggao is still willing to follow His Majesty!"

"Your Majesty! The last general will stay..."

"The general is also willing to stay!"

The soldiers surrounding Bai Qingyan stood up one after another and expressed their willingness to stay and cover the retreat of their comrades.

They knew clearly that staying... would lead to death, but they were still willing to stay and die in order to let more comrades live and to allow their majesty to escape.

Among the wounded soldiers who were placed far away, a centurion whose leg was cut off by the enemy army heard this. He stood up with the help of the soldiers on the side and came towards Bai Qingyan to ask for orders. Said: "Your Majesty! Let's stay... We are all injured and can't cross the river. On the contrary, we are dragging down the army! We wounded soldiers will stay behind!"