Bend Over [ 折腰 ] - Chapter 155

[Chapter 153]

The battle to defend the upper valley has been going on for more than half a month.

On the thick city wall made of solid rock, there are scars left by knives, axes and fires everywhere. Blood stained the black soil under the city wall, seeping into the rock wall layer by layer, and the air was filled with the stench of blood.

The tidal waves of the Huns came in waves and were repelled in waves.

A few days ago, a Qiang army of 50,000 people, led by Qiao Ci, finally arrived, giving strong support to the sergeant of the Wei family, who was trapped in the siege.

The Qiang army took advantage of the fact that the Xiongnu army did not have time to guard against it, and tore open a surrounding opening from the flank. The Wei family sergeant in the city got the news, and in the beating of war drums, Kaichengmen lined up and rushed out, fighting side by side with the Qiang army.

The Xiongnu were better at the cavalry field fighting method. Heavy troops were overwhelmed, and the siege did not stop for many days. The morale was already low. Suddenly, the situation suddenly changed. On the ground, several thousand cavalry commanders were also damaged, and they were embarrassed.

Because he did not know the number of reinforcements, Wu Wei did not dare to launch a siege for a while, and ordered the team to be organized on the spot, not only for respite, but also to inquire about the enemy’s situation.

…

the siege of the city for ten days was tenacious, and with the timely arrival of reinforcements, it was finally resolved.

The Wei family sergeants fought against the Huns with few enemies and many blood. The two generations of female princes of the Wei family climbed the city wall in person, and lived and died together with the army and the people. The news also spread wings all over Yuyang. More and more people began to turn around on the road to escape, and came from all directions spontaneously.

The men put on the armor that was taken off the dead, took up blood-stained swords and spears, and joined the ranks of the defense battle.

Under the leadership of Xiao Qiao, the woman took care of the wounded and served hot soup and rice in time for the soldiers who fought bloody battles.

In just a few days, tens of thousands of people who volunteered to join the defense battle came to the area.

The army and the people are united as never before, and they share the same hatred for the enemy.

Everyone has only one thought, stick to it and never give in.

…

Uvey begins to feel uneasy about the situation.

He is the son of Shan Yu, Prince Tu Qi. However, his prestige in the royal court has never been as good as that of his uncle Rizhu Wang Wuzhuqu.

Wuzhuqu used the Wei family’s daughter as the princess in those days, and the Huns not only did not think it was embarrassing, but believed that it was an honor for him to win the Wei family’s daughter.

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

It is not uncommon for the descendants of the Xiongnu royal family or nobles to have Han blood. Now the king of the royal court, the king of Yiqiruo, and the trusted counselor of the king, the king of Yizhizi, are both after the princesses who were sent to be married by the Han family in the past.

But none of these people are like Wei Yan, and they can make U Wei feel an unprecedented sense of threat when he first sees him.

Wei Yan has become famous in just a few years. After he conquered the Donghu people who had been stubbornly entrenched in the Congling Mountains for decades, and included the land of Donghu as one of the twenty-four tribes of the Huns, the Huns began to call him by the name Hutu Kun affectionately.

Even Shan Yu made him the king of Jian Jiang – this is the title of a great king who is qualified to command ten thousand cavalry.

Uwe was extremely wary of this.

Therefore, not long ago, when Liu Yan, the emperor of the Langya court, sent an envoy to express his intention to borrow troops through the Han ministers who had previously surrendered to the Xiongnu, Wu Wei vigorously turned from it and finally persuaded Shan Yu to send troops and let him lead the south.

According to his original plan, at this time, he should have captured Yuyang long ago. Not only was the Huns suppressed by the Wei clan and took away the land of the Hetao for many years, but more importantly, in advocating the weak and the strong to prevail In the king’s tent of the Huns, he needs this victory too much, so that Shanyu, his clan, and even the Huyan clan, Xubu clan, and Qiulin clan, who have always questioned him, see his ability. .

But he did not expect that the battle situation would be so delayed in Shanggu.

He failed to seize the opportunity to annihilate the 100,000 Wei family defenders in one fell swoop, so that they could borrow the Qiang soldiers for help, and he had already missed the best fighter opportunity. .

If he continued to delay, if Wei Shao returned to the army, he was even more uncertain about the situation.

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

The next day, Wu Wei re-mobilized his troops, and at the moment before dawn, he personally supervised the formation and rushed out to launch a ferocious attack on the opposing Han-Qiang coalition forces.

Kill someone, get a bounty.

Kill ten people and get beautiful women.

Kill a hundred people, seal a centurion.

And if you can break the city and win the Wei family lady who played the drums to help out, seal a thousand households and give them a marquis!

…

The fierce battle continued from morning to evening.

Lei Yan and Qiao Ci were desperate and led the crowd to fight to the death.

The sound of the fighting resounded in the ears, and the fields near the city gate were filled with corpses.

The Huns stepped on the densely packed corpses layer after layer of the same robes, set up cloud ladders, and dug the city wall.

At the head of the city, a sergeant fell down, and someone behind him immediately filled up.

On the southeast corner of the city gate, there was a sudden loud bang, accompanied by a wild cry of excitement from the Huns.

A flowing arrow swished above his head, and a flowing arrow fell and stuck on the back of a dead sergeant, only half a step away from Xiao Qiao.

Xiao Qiao has long felt no fear.

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

“Lady, come with me!”

Jia Xi roared.

“The city is going to be destroyed?”

Xiao Qiao asked in a calm tone.

She hadn’t 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 in her eyes, but she didn’t feel tired at all.

“A hole in the southeastern city wall was cut, and Mr. Qiao and his men were blocking the gap. All the sergeants were ready for street battles, vowing to guard the upper valley and never give up half an inch! General Jia ordered me to send the lady away quickly! The rest The women are also quickly withdrawing from the city!”

“You all leave the South City Gate immediately! You don’t need to be used here anymore!”

Xiao Qiao immediately said to the women.

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

In the battle of defending the city, if it reached the point of street fighting, Xiao Qiao knew that if he stayed, it would only become a burden.

Mrs. Xu was seriously ill, but fortunately, a few days ago, she had been sent to Shanggu.

In the face of the 300,000 menacing Xiongnu iron cavalry, and sticking to this moment, everyone here has done their best.

She suddenly felt dizzy.

He closed his eyes and held the city wall with his hands.

“Lady!”

Jia Xi felt that she was strange, and reached out to help her, but stopped when she was about to touch her.

Xiao Qiao calmed down, opened his eyes and said, “I’m fine. I’ll go right now.”

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

At first, the sound seemed to be non-existent, but gradually, it was like a dull thunder, and it was clear to the ears.

With the rapid advancement of the sound waves, the ground below and the turrets of the city wall followed its rhythm, trembling slightly like an earthquake.

Both sides of the red-eyed battle also felt this increasingly clear and unusual ground movement.

The Huns stopped climbing, and the sergeants at the front of the city stopped their swords and guns, and turned their heads to look at the sound.

Xiao Qiao was taken aback for a moment, then suddenly lifted her skirt and climbed the steps.

She rushed to the high platform at the head of the city in one breath and looked ahead.

In the direction of the setting sun, at the end of the distant field, she saw a long row of black legions rushing towards the direction of the city like a tide line.

…

On the difficult 22nd day of the Battle of Shanggu Guard, Marquis of Yan Wei Shao finally came back with his army.

…

Wei Yan stopped his horse alone on the high hill, looking at the shadow of the army coming from the golden sunset in the distance, his expression was indifferent.

For a moment, he turned his eyes slowly towards the direction of Shanggu City.

From a distance, he couldn’t see her face clearly. Only vaguely saw the vague shadow standing on the high drum stage.

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

He suddenly remembered that year, just like this moment, he once looked at the back of her drumming on the Luli Stage from a distance, with an indescribable delusion in his heart.

Today, she is still the noble lady of the Wei family.

And he didn’t even call Wei Yan anymore.

He was in a trance for a moment, then abruptly closed his eyes, pulled the reins of the horse, gave a low drink, turned around, and rode away one by one, gradually disappearing at the end of Gaogang.

…

The monarch led the army, returned in time, and went up to the valley city wall with thunderous cheers.

The drums were thundering, and the sound of killing was everywhere, and the Huns who had climbed half of the city wall fell one after another.

The sergeant opened the city gate and rushed out.

This battle for the defense of Shanggu, which has lasted for more than half a month, has ended without any suspense.

When Wei Shao came back, he brought the Wei family’s iron cavalry, which was no less inferior to the Huns’ cavalry.

The Xiongnu lost their military superiority, and their morale, which had suffered from setbacks in the siege of the city for days, fell to the bottom in an instant.

After hastily resisted for a while, the army was defeated like a mountain, and it was defeated all the way north.

Chase until the next day.

The Huns were killed, wounded and captured, as many as 100,000.

…

Many times, I clearly felt that as long as I rushed again, the defenders in the city would not be able to resist, and the city was broken.

But time and time again, opportunities are lost. The city was there, only separated by a city wall, but it could never be breached.

When Wu Wei fled back to the grasslands in a hurry across the river boundary, he still couldn’t believe it.

…

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

There was laughter everywhere.

Xiao Qiao didn’t have time to take a breath, and immediately rushed to the temporary treatment center not far from the city gate to see Adi.

Qiao Ci was injured on the back of his arm. Medics are treating his wounds.

Because of the loss of blood, his face was a little pale, but he was full of energy. He stretched out his arms to let the military doctor wrap his wounds, while chatting and laughing with a group of Wei family sergeants who were surrounding him.

“Master Qiao, I heard that the Qiang girl was charming and affectionate, and the prince who liked him took the initiative to give flowers to show his love. Master Qiao expressed his talent and should have received flowers?”

A sergeant who had just bandaged the wound asked.

After the war, it is inevitable for men to think about where to go.

Qiao Ci didn’t have any airs at all. These days, the Beihe Qiang soldiers and the Wei family sergeant who had moved in together lived and died together, and they had already fought together. The sergeant asked curiously, and everyone on the side laughed.

Qiao Ci’s face was slightly hot, and she waved her hands quickly, when she suddenly saw Xiao Qiao come in, her eyes lit up, her face brightened, she called out “Sister”, and immediately stood up to greet her.

Xiao Qiao motioned him not to get up.

The sergeants turned their heads and saw the lady coming, and hurriedly made way for her.

The treatment place, which was full of people, was instantly quiet, and countless eyes turned to her.

Xiao Qiao quickly came to Qiao Ci and saw that he had not had time to replace the blood-stained shirt. He was injured and had a bloody hole on his forehead. He was very distressed. He raised his hand and touched it lightly, asking, “Does it hurt? ?”

Qiao Ci grinned and said, “It’s just a small injury! It doesn’t hurt!”

Seeing this, the nearby sergeants all secretly envied.

“Sister, how are you?”

“I’m fine.” Xiao Qiao smiled.

“Miss, how is the old lady now?”

a general asked.

Xiao Qiao looked up, saw many eyes looking at him, nodded to the crowd, and said, “The old lady has been sent back to Yuyang for recuperation, and she will be able to recuperate. Preservation, on behalf of the

monarchs, I would like to express my thanks to you all.” “If I can serve the queen, I will die!”

a bold sergeant said loudly.

The crowd immediately joined in.

Xiao Qiao smiled, facing the faces of the sergeants who were looking at him with eager eyes, and suddenly gradually felt dizzy.

These days, with Mrs. Xu’s illness, she really didn’t have a moment to breathe. Before, she had been forcibly holding on with the thought that she could never fall down.

Finally, when the siege was understood, I learned that Adi was injured, and hurried over to visit.

Seeing that he was fine, the whole person relaxed, and the string that had been tensing in his body seemed to suddenly break and could no longer be supported.

“Sister–” “Men–” Amidst the

tinnitus

, accompanied by the erratic noise, her body softened and fell to the ground.

[End of This Chapter]