Bend Over [ 折腰 ] - Chapter 155

[Chapter 153]

The battle for the defense of Shanggu has been going on for more than half a month.

Above the thick walls of the rock, there are traces of knives and axes and fires. Blood stained the black earth under the city walls, seeping into the rock walls layer by layer, and the air was filled with a foul-smelling smell of blood.

The Huns’ tidal offensive came in waves and was repulsed by waves.

A few days ago, a Qiang army of 50,000 people under the leadership of Qiao Ci finally arrived, providing strong support to the Wei family soldiers who were under siege.

The Qiang army, with lightning speed and no time to cover its ears, took advantage of the fact that the Xiongnu army had no time to defend, and tore a siege opening from the flank. The Wei family soldiers in the city received the news, and in the sound of war drums beating, they rushed out of the city gate and fought side by side with the Qiang army.

The Xiongnu were already good at the way of fighting in cavalry field battles, heavy troops pressed the border, the siege of the city did not stop for many days, morale was already low, suddenly the situation suddenly changed, the opponents lined up to fight, the incident was sudden, caught off guard, not only was beaten back more than ten miles, but also lost several thousand horsemen, and they were overwhelmed.

Because he did not know the number of reinforcements, Uvi did not dare to launch another siege for a while, and ordered the team to be sorted out in situ, both for respite and for the enemy’s situation.

……

After holding on to the siege of the city for more than ten days, with the timely arrival of reinforcements, it was finally relieved.

The Wei family soldiers fought bravely against the Xiongnu with fewer enemies and more enemies. Two generations of female monarchs of the Wei clan have successively climbed the city wall and died together with the military and the people. This news was also like a wing, spreading throughout the four fields of Yuyang. More and more people began to turn around from the road of escape and spontaneously rushed from all directions.

The men put on the armor they had taken off the dead, picked up blood-stained swords and spears, and joined the defense.

Under the leadership of Little Joe, the woman took care of the wounded and delivered hot soup and hot rice to the soldiers who fought in blood in time.

Within a few days, tens of thousands of people had volunteered to join the battle for defense.

The military and the people are united in an unprecedented way and share the same hatred.

Everyone has only one thought, to persevere and never to back down.

……

Uve began to feel uneasy about the outcome of the war.

He was the son of Shan Yu, Prince Tuqi. However, his prestige in the royal court has never been as good as that of his uncle, The Emperor Ofuzu.

When Wu Zhuqu took the wei woman as the princess, the Xiongnu not only did not think that he was ashamed, but thought that it was a glorious thing for him to be able to take the wei woman.

A few years ago, Wu Zhuqu welcomed back his son Wei Yu, the princess of the Wei clan.

It is not unusual for the Xiongnu royal family or noble heirs to have Han Chinese blood. Today, the Yi chieftain Ruo Wang in the royal court and the trusted courtier King Yi ZhiFu are both princesses sent by the former Han Dynasty to make peace.

But these people, none of whom resembled Wei Yu, could make Uvi feel an unprecedented sense of threat when he first saw him.

In just a few years, Wei Yu’s reputation had risen. After he conquered the Donghu people who had stubbornly occupied the Onion Ridge for decades, and included the land of Donghu as one of the twenty-four xiongnu, the Xiongnu began to affectionately call him by the name of HutuKun.

Even Shan Yu made him the King of Gradual Generals,”a great king qualified to command the Ten Thousand Horsemen.

Uwe was extremely wary of this.

Therefore, not long ago, when Liu Yan, the emperor of the Langya court, sent emissaries to express his intention to ask for favors and borrow troops through the Han courtiers who had previously surrendered to the Xiongnu, Uwei vigorously turned around from it, and finally persuaded Shan Yu to send troops and let him lead the south.

According to his original idea, at this time, he should have already captured Yuyang, not only the shame of the Xiongnu being suppressed by the Wei clan and taking away the land of Hetao for many years, but more importantly, in the Xiongnu king’s tent that advocated the victory of the weak and the strong as the king, he also needed this victory too much, so that Shan Yu, let the clansmen, and let the Xiongnu nobles Hu Yan, Xu Bu, and Qiu Lin, who had always questioned him, see his ability.

But he did not expect that the war situation would be so delayed in the upper valley.

He had failed to seize the opportunity to annihilate the 100,000 Wei defenders in one fell swoop, allowing them to borrow the Qiang soldiers for help, and had already missed the best fighter, and now, if he delayed for one more day, it would be more unfavorable to him.

If he delayed any longer, if he waited until Wei Shao returned to the army, he was even more unsure of the situation.

He commanded the elite division of the Xiongnu, and with more battles and less battles, he could not afford to lose this battle.

The next day, Uvi re-mobilized his men and horses, and at the moment before dawn, personally supervised the battle, poured out of the nest, and launched another ferocious attack on the han and Qiang coalition forces on the opposite side.

Kill one person and get a bounty.

Kill ten people and get beautiful women.

Kill a hundred people and seal the centurion.

And if you can break the city, take the Wei lady who beats the drum to help the battle, seal a thousand households, and give the marquis!

……

The battle continued from morning to evening.

Lei Yan and Qiao Ci fought bravely and led the crowd to fight against the dead.

The sound of fighting resounded through the ears, and the field near the city gate was occupied by corpses.

The Huns stepped on the dense corpses of their comrades, built ladders, and dug the city walls.

At the head of the city, the sergeant fell down one, and immediately there would be people behind him to fill it.

On the southeast side of the city gate, there was a sudden loud bang, accompanied by a roar of excitement from the Huns.

Overhead stray arrows whizzed, and a stray arrow fell and stuck into the back of a dead sergeant, not more than half a step away from Little Joe.

Little Joe had long since lost his sense of fear.

She and the two women continued to climb the city wall carrying a basket of stone cannons, and saw Jia Kai running towards her with blood flowing all over her face.

“Lady Jun, come with me!”

Jia Kai roared.

“The city is going to be broken?”

Little Joe asked, in a quiet tone.

She had not closed her eyes for several days and nights, her face was as white as paper, her eyes were dry, and when the wind blew, she seemed to have tears, but people did not feel tired.

“The southeast city wall has been cut through a hole, Qiao Gongzi and his men are plugging the gap, and all the soldiers are ready for street battles, vowing to defend the valley and never give up half an inch!” General Jia ordered me to send the female monarch away as soon as possible! The rest of the women also quickly retreated out of the city! “Go

from the South Gate at once!” You don’t need to be used here anymore!

Little Joe immediately said to the women.

With tears in their eyes, the women knelt down to her, got up and left.

The battle to defend the city, if it reaches the point of this kind of street fighting, Xiao Qiao knows that if he stays any longer, it will indeed only become a burden.

Lady Xu was seriously ill, but fortunately, a few days ago, she had been sent out of Shanggu.

In the face of 300,000 menacing Hun iron horses,Sticking to this moment, everyone here has achieved their own extremes.

She suddenly felt a dizziness.

He closed his eyes and held his hands against the city walls.

“Lady!”

Jia Kai felt that she was different, reached out to help, and when he was about to touch her, he stopped again.

Little Qiao fixed his mind, opened his eyes, and said, “I’m fine.” I’ll just go. Suddenly

, at this moment, there seemed to be a faint sound of ten thousand horses galloping in the distance.

At first, if there was nothing, this wave gradually became like muffled thunder, clear to the ears.

As the sound advanced rapidly, the earth beneath its feet and the corner towers of the city walls followed its rhythm, trembling slightly like an earthquake.

Both sides of the red-eyed combat also felt this unusual movement that was becoming clearer and clearer.

The Huns stopped climbing, and the sergeants at the head of the city stopped their swords and guns and turned their heads to follow the prestige.

Little Joe was distracted for a moment and jerked his skirt up the stairs.

In one breath, she rushed to the top of the high platform at the head of the city and looked ahead.

In the direction of the setting sun, at the far end of the wilderness, she saw a long line of black legions that looked like a tidal line rushing in the direction of the city.

……

On the difficult twenty-second day of the Battle of Shanggu Guard, Wei Shao, the Marquis of Yan, finally returned with his army.

……

Wei Yu stopped his horse alone on the high hill, looking at the shadow of the army wrapped in the golden sunset in the distance, looking indifferent.

For a moment, he slowly turned his gaze to the direction of Shanggu Castle.

It was a little far away, and he couldn’t see her face clearly. I only faintly saw the vague shadow standing on the high drum platform.

But he knew it was her. No matter how far away he was, he could recognize it at a glance.

Suddenly remembering that year, and just like this moment, he had looked at the back of her drumming on the Deer Li Stage in the distance, with unspeakable delusions.

Today, she is still a noble Wei lady.

And he didn’t even have a name called Wei Yu.

He was out of his mind for a moment, covered his eyes, pulled the reins of the horse, drank lowly, turned around, and rode away on his horse, and the figure gradually disappeared at the end of the high post.

……

The prince led the army, returned in time, and on the walls of the upper valley, there was a thunderous roar.

The drums thundered, the killing sounded everywhere, and the Huns who had climbed half of the city wall fell one after another.

The sergeant opened the city gate and came out to meet the kill.

The battle to defend Shanggu, which had lasted for more than half a month, ended without any suspense.

Wei Shao returned, taking the Wei family’s iron horse, which was not inferior to the Xiongnu cavalry, and went straight to the Shuluo Hell with a murderous spirit and thunderous anger.

The Xiongnu lost their military superiority, and the morale of the siege that had been frustrated for several days fell to the bottom in an instant.

Hastily resisted for a while, and then the army was defeated like a mountain, and all the way north was defeated.

The chase battle lasted until the next day.

The Xiongnu were killed, wounded and captured, reaching 100,000.

……

Many times, he clearly felt that as long as he rushed again, the defenders in the city would not be able to resist, and the destruction of the city was close at hand.

But again and again, the opportunity is lost. The city was built there, separated only by a wall, but it could not be breached.

When Uvi fled back to the grasslands across the river boundary, he still couldn’t believe that he was full of ambition and made a surprise attack on the south, and finally ended in such a dismal end.

……

The siege of Shanggu was lifted, and the solemn atmosphere of slaughter and slaughter that had been suppressed for many days over the city was completely eliminated.

Laughter can be heard everywhere.

Little Qiao did not have time to catch his breath, and immediately rushed to see Adi at the temporary treatment place set up not far from the city gate.

Qiao Ci was injured in the back of his arm. The medic was healing his wounds.

Because of the loss of a lot of blood, his face was a little pale, but his spirit was vibrant, and while stretching out his arm to let the military doctor wrap himself up, he talked and laughed with a group of Wei family soldiers who gathered around.

“Qiao Gongzi, I heard that the Qiang women were feminine and affectionate, and there was a favorite Lang Jun, so he took the initiative to give flowers to show his kindness, and Qiao Gongzi had a list of talents, and he should have received flowers?”

A sergeant who had just bandaged his wound asked.

After the big war, men inevitably think about where to go.

Qiao Ci didn’t have the slightest shelf at all, these days with the Beihe Qiang soldiers who had moved in and the Wei family soldiers lived and died together, and they had already become a piece. The sergeant asked curiously, and the people on the side laughed.

Qiao Ci’s face was slightly hot, busy waving his hands, suddenly saw Xiao Qiao come in, his eyes lit up, his face was happy, he called out “Sister A”, and immediately stood up to meet her.

Little Joe motioned for him not to get up.

The sergeants turned their heads, saw that the lady was coming, and hurried to make way for her.

The originally crowded place of treatment was instantly quiet, and countless eyes turned to her.

Xiao Qiao quickly walked to Qiao Ci, saw that his blood-stained battle robe had not yet had time to change, a body wound, and a bloody mouth hanging on his forehead, he was very distressed, raised his hand and gently touched it, and asked: “Does it hurt?”

Qiao Ci grinned and said, “It’s just a small injury!” No pain! The

sergeants close by saw the situation and were secretly envious.

“Sister, how are you?”

“I’m fine.” Little Joe smiled.

“Lady, how is the old lady doing now?”

A who will ask.

Xiao Qiao looked up, saw many pairs of eyes looking at him, nodded to the crowd, and said, “The old lady has been sent back to Yuyang to be safe, and she will be able to turn around, thank you for your concern.” This time, it is all up to you to fight for your lives, and the city can be saved, and I thank you on behalf of the prince. ”

“If I can serve the female monarch, I will not give up waiting for death!”

A bold sergeant shouted.

The crowd immediately chimed in.

Little Joe smiled and looked at the face of his sergeant with eager eyes, and suddenly gradually felt dizzy.

These days, with Madame Xu’s illness, she really didn’t have to take a moment to breathe, and she had been forcibly holding on with a thought that she absolutely could not fall.

Finally, when he learned that Ah Di was injured, he hurried over to visit him.

Seeing that he was all right, the whole person relaxed, and the string that had been stretched in his body seemed to suddenly break and could no longer support it.

“Sister—”

“Lady—”

In a burst of tinnitus, accompanied by a fluttering noise, her body softened and she fell to the ground.

[End of This Chapter]