Bend Over [ 折腰 ] - Chapter 154
[Chapter 152]
Wei Shao’s grandfather moved the prefecture from Fanyang to Yuyang, which was closer to the border guard town, with the intention of defending against the Xiongnu.
Shanggu is far from Yuyang, but three or two days of horse travel, once the upper valley is lost, Yuyang is also in danger.
After setting out as a messenger, after seeing the Yuyang Order that arrived later and arranging many matters for the evacuation of the people at the border, Lady Xu summoned Zhu Shi and Xiao Qiao and asked the two to quickly pack up their things and take Phi Fei to the safer Fanyang first.
“Grandma won’t go, and I won’t go.”
Little Joe immediately refused.
Zhu Shi had already learned the news of the Xiongnu’s southern prisoners, ben was worried, as soon as he heard That Lady Xu had made such an arrangement, he knew that Yuyang might also be lost, his face immediately turned gray, he hesitated, and said: “The daughter-in-law will not leave…”
Lady Xu slammed her crutches and said angrily: “I stayed to sit in Yuyang, what is the use of you two staying here?” But it’s just a matter of worrying about me! I’ve made up my mind and won’t change it! You two quickly took Philippe on my way!” Xu was
too excited and coughed again.
After only coughing a few times, he struggled to suppress it, and his breathing was a little uncertain.
Zhu Shi glanced at her, shrank down, and did not open his mouth again.
Xiao Qiao looked at Madame Xu’s white-haired face and paused: “In this way, the granddaughter-in-law will listen to her grandmother’s words, and then leave.” Madame Xu’s
expression eased, she stared at Xiao Qiao for a moment, and said slowly, “Yuyang will be fine.” I told you to leave, just in case, don’t worry. Let’s go. Little Joe’s
nose was sour, suppressing the thousands of emotions in his heart, he came to her and knelt down and bowed to her.
……
When the Xiongnu went south, Lady Xu would sit in town and work with the military and the people to resist the attack, and reinforcements would soon arrive, summoning the people to participate in the resistance.
Those who volunteer to participate in the war can go to the Yuyang Office to receive armor and weapons.
This official notice was displayed at the gate of the four gates of Yuyang.
However, Yuyang’s order also obeyed Lady Xu’s orders, and within two days, the city gate was opened widely, allowing the people to evacuate Yuyang on their own, and then return to the city after the situation was stable.
The people of the city refused to evacuate at first. Or rather, unwilling to believe.
The streets and alleys are full of people talking about this.
Gradually, I don’t know which family and which household began to carry the family out of the city from the south city gate.
Panic began to spread, and more and more people left.
Xiao Qiao sat in the speeding carriage, and when she went to Fanyang along the road, on both sides of the road, there were already people who had been left behind by the carriage and went in the same direction as her. Or dragging the family with the mouth, or pushing the wheelbarrow, or walking, the mother’s back to the child, the son’s support of the old mother, from north to south, far away, the two streams of people, like a long queue, endless.
Xiao Qiao and Zhu Shi sat in the same carriage, Chunniang held Phi Fei next to her, and the rest of the servants and maids who accompanied them sat in another car.
After Zhu Shi came out of the city, he didn’t say a word, he looked sluggish, and even Phi Fei seemed to feel the solemn atmosphere of the adults around him, and he was obediently held by Chunniang, not noisy or noisy.
After walking for two days on the road, on the third day, the carriage finally arrived at Fan Yang, and was welcomed into the city by Fan Yang’s order, and after being settled, Xiao Qiao slept with Philip on the bed, and when he was moaning, suddenly a servant woman rushed over, saying that Madame’s mood was suddenly out of control, and these people could not be comforted, and begged Xiao Qiao to come and see.
Xiao Qiao let Chunniang look at Fei Fei and hurried over to see Zhu Shi walking around the room, not only saying in his mouth: “Spirit seat!” Spirit bit! I forgot to take out the spirit seat of husband and Lun Er together!” My sin! My sin! These
days on the road, her spirit is not very good, at this moment her face is even more pale, her forehead is constantly rolling down the sweat droplets, shaking her lips, and her appearance is extremely ugly.
As soon as he saw Xiao Qiao, he immediately pounced on her and grabbed her arm tightly: “Your father-in-law and your uncle’s spiritual seat have not yet been brought out!” How can this be good! The hand was
extremely strong, and the pinched little Joe’s arm hurt.
Xiao Qiao broke free: “Grandmother said that Yuyang would be fine!” The mother-in-law is still at ease to stay and wait, and there will be good news in the near future!
Zhu Shi stared at her and sneered, “You are naturally not worried!” When you married my Wei family, you didn’t have any good intentions! Yuyang is broken, you are all out, what else does it have to do with you?
Xiao Qiao looked at Zhu Shi and said, “Mother-in-law, I just wanted to come and talk to you, I want to go back.” Zhu Shi
was stunned.
“Grandmother is old and now in poor health, so she can’t stay alone in Yuyang.” But if I insisted on that day, my grandmother would not allow it, so I would send Philippe here first. You settle down here, and I’ll be back today.”
Zhu’s mouth opened slightly.
“Mother-in-law has worked hard all the way, did not sleep a stable sleep, both here, and a good rest, don’t think about it anymore!” Rest assured, the spiritual position of the father-in-law and the great uncle will be safe!
Xiao Qiao instructed the servant woman Haosheng to serve the Zhu clan.
She was only seventeen years old now, and her face was still a little girlish.
Only at this moment, whether it is the tone of speech or the determination in the eyes, it carries an unquestionable force.
Not only were the few servant women nearby, it was Zhu Shi, who could not even say a word.
He only fixed his gaze on the back of her as she turned away, looking gray and depressed.
……
The news brought by Wei Yu was exact.
On the second day of the Fang, the Xiongnu’s 300,000 cavalry crossed the border river and directly attacked the clouds and bai to the three valleys.
Although the defenders had done their best, Uwei was bound to win, dispatched all the elite, the cavalry was huge, with amazing destructive power, after holding out for several days, the people of Yunzhong Baideng were almost retreating, and Lady Xu made the decision to take the initiative to abandon Yunzhong Baideng.
Mobilize all your forces and stick to the upper valley of the defensive line that leads directly to Yuyang.
Outside Shanggu City, every twenty miles, a defensive line was set up, deep trenches were dug, and sharp spears were inserted to block the fierce attack of the Xiongnu cavalry, and to turn the horse battle into a melee battle that was more favorable to the Wei family’s soldiers.
There are three such defensive lines.
Every line of defense had to hold the Huns for at least a day.
The Xiongnu should also have the intention of capturing Yuyang, and at the beginning, they focused on the upper valley to conquer the target, and launched a fierce offensive against this place.
As soon as the battle began, Lady Xu left Yuyang and personally rushed to the border city to boost the morale of the soldiers who fought bravely.
But after all, he was old, and he went all the way up, from the clouds to Bai Deng, and then on the way to the upper valley, he fell ill.
For three consecutive days, Madame Xu was ill, insisted on fighting, and personally cheered for the soldiers guarding the defensive line.
The defenders, inspired by Lady Xu, repelled wave after wave of frenzied attacks by the Xiongnu.
The three-day defense line that was originally scheduled to last for five days.
On the sixth day, he finally retreated into the city.
On the same day, in the face of the Siege of the Xiongnu, Lady Xu still personally went to the city wall with her soldiers and beat drums to cheer.
But when she went down the city wall, Madame Xu finally fell.
She was already old, her health was not good before, she had thought too much about it for days, and now her physical strength was exhausted to the limit, and as soon as she fell, her illness was extremely heavy.
Although Lei Yan, the commander-in-chief of the defense war, wanted to hide it, the news of Lady Xu’s fall spread rapidly among the defenders.
The 300,000 cavalry of the Xiongnu, day and night, attacked such a wave of waves like a tide, and the battle was so vast that it was not too much to call it thunder.
With the main army of the princes still not returning, the goal of the battle now was to try to prevent the Xiongnu offensive and wait for reinforcements to arrive.
But the pressure was on 300,000 Xiongnu to besiege the city.
The reason why the Wei family sergeant was able to persist until this moment was entirely by a belief.
Lady Xu was like their main heart. She fell suddenly, did not appear today, and the morale of the defenders was somewhat affected.
Then, there was news that Wu Wei, the crown prince of the Xiongnu Zuoxian, personally rushed to shanggu to supervise the battle, and used a thousand horses and ten thousand gold as a reward for capturing Yuyang.
The Huns were full of spirit and could not be a life. Outside the gate of the northern city of Shanggu, the wolf flag was everywhere, covering the sky and the sun, and in the gap between the offensive and defensive battles, the Wei family soldiers had a solemn tired face, and heard the sound of the Huns’ neat iron armor singing, faintly entering the city with the wind.
……
Madame Xu woke up, slowly opened her eyes, as if she heard the sound of the earth-shaking slaughter on the city wall, and struggled to get up.
Stopped by Zhong Mi.
“What’s going on?” I have to go there myself!” Don’t stop me! “The
Lady is coming!”
Even if she has always been as calm as Zhong Mi, at this moment, she can’t suppress the excitement in her heart, and her voice trembles slightly.
“The old lady is assured that the lady has brought a battle flag of the old prince, and she has replaced the old lady to encourage the sergeant and inspire the fight!”
……
The Huns rested for a moment and launched a new wave of attacks.
Since last night, the siege has not stopped.
The goal of the Xiongnu was to take Yuyang before Wei Shao returned to the army.
Lei Yan’s eyes were red, and he couldn’t remember how many times he had repelled the Attacks of the Huns when he commanded this group of soldiers.
Arrows rained down, stone cannons flew everywhere, under the city walls, the corpses piled higher and higher, the roar of the Huns was like a whisper in the ears, and as the sky grew darker, the excited faces of the blood stained could be seen clearly.
He gradually felt hidden.
As the commander of this defensive campaign, he understood better than anyone how important morale was to repelling the enemy’s attack.
If you are slightly discouraged, the defense line may be torn open.
Once the mouth is broken, what happens next, no one can protect.
At this moment, the war drums on the high platform behind the city wall, which had been silent since yesterday, were suddenly beaten again.
The drum rumbled, like thunder, like a cloud rolling over, and resounded in everyone’s ears.
In the midst of the fierce fire and thunder that fell from the sky, the Wei family soldier turned his tired face stained with dust and blood, and they were amazed to see that the place where Madame Xu had stood was now one more person again.
The lady actually appeared!
They were young and beautiful, dressed in Lady Xu’s armor, and succeeded Lady Xu, continuing to work with them to defend the city and defend Yuyang!
Beside her, a new black flag flew with the wind.
In the middle of the banner, a golden tiger head is embroidered, and the fangs of the tiger look at it, just like the glory of the mighty and mighty, intimidating people’s souls.
“The soldiers of the Wei family listened, forty years ago, your grandfather of the prince, under this tiger banner, recaptured the occupied Hetao from Shan Yu’s hand, so that the Xiongnu still dare not go south to herd horses! But now the Huns want to tarnish their glory, can you promise it? Reinforcements will soon arrive, and your prince will soon return! He needs you to keep going! I swear to you in the name of the Empress of the Wei clan that I will stand here and fight with you until the last moment of repelling the Xiongnu! The
sound of the lady’s war drums seemed to overwhelm the noise under the city walls.
“No promise!”
“No promise!”
The sergeants recovered from the shock, their blood boiling, and they all shouted angrily and roared.
[End of This Chapter]
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