Bend Over [ 折腰 ] - Chapter 15

[Chapter 15: The Wrath of Wei Hou (Part I)]

Chen Rui’s eyes were full of Xiao Qiao’s shadow, and when he got off the city, he went straight to the Taishou Mansion, ordered him to go down, and immediately arranged the Xitang to prepare himself and Xiao Qiao to marry.

By his nature, he has fallen in love with a woman, not to mention that he still falls into his own hands, and he is like a sheep into the mouth of a tiger and is allowed to be slaughtered, where will there be such a reason for patience and accommodation? Only this time I don’t know how, I actually can’t give her a hard hand, I thought it’s a big deal to wait another day, wait for Xitang, whether she wants it or not, she will become her own person, then shake the spirit to take out the male dragon, Yang Qi, wait for her to taste her ability to serve women, not afraid that she will not surrender. On this day, he arranged for the defense of the city, and after entrusting important positions such as guards and lieutenants to his cronies, he ignored everything and went around in front of Xiao Qiao, ordering people to continue to hold jewels and silk to Xiao Qiao and do everything to please her. Finally, in the evening of the next day, everything was ready to stop, the new house was arranged in a similar way, and Chen Rui was also waiting for the auspicious time, and ordered someone to go to the room to forcibly take Xiao Qiao out to perform the wedding ceremony, and at this moment, the urgent report came, saying that the spies found a marching army coming in the direction of the city thirty miles outside the city, like Wei Shao’s men and horses, and they were about to be forced to the city.

Not wanting Wei Shao to march so fast, Chen Rui had to suspend the wedding ceremony, order the spies to explore again, and come back to report that it was less than ten miles away.

Chen Rui broke his mouth and scolded Wei Shao for the good deeds of the bad guys, took off his dress, ordered someone to take the lock armor goggles, put on his body in full, and took the painting halberd, shaking his spirit to lead the army out to meet the enemy, suddenly remembered, hesitated, turned back and hurried back to the room, pushed open the door, and said to Xiao Qiao: “Beauty, Wei Shao himself found it and sent him to death.” I don’t know how to do good things to you and me! And you see, and I will go out of the city and kill him under his horse, and when I return victoriously, I will perform the worship service with you. You wait for me. Saying that he took out the rope, he tied her hands and feet in three or two strokes, and finally carried her to the bed and lay down, comforting her in his mouth: “Beauty Hugh blames me for being thick again.” I’m really not at ease with you. I’m afraid I’m not here, and if you don’t think about having a good villain, then I’ll regret it too late! And be patient, I will go back. After saying that, he put down the tent and turned around, and ordered the servants to guard the gate, and only then did he hurry to the city gate, order the soldiers, turn over on the horse, set up the flag, and lead the troops out of the city gate chen bing in the wilderness, the wind was majestic, and waited for Wei Shao to arrive.

Wei Shao marched, and on the way, there were already spies who frequently reported that Chen Huan had been subdued by Chen Rui, and that the general of the Shiyi City Defense had changed, and Chen Rui also led his troops to line up outside the city, threatening to fight with himself, so he rushed straight to the city, and when he saw the city pool from a distance, the two armies encountered.

Wei Shao looked at the opposite side from afar, at the head of the formation, and saw Chen Rui sitting on the back of a horse, drawing a cross-handed hand, and four strong generals were lined up on both sides, and behind him was a tall and tall, and the chen characters on the embroidery bucket were large, fluttering in the wind, and the mighty wind was eight sides. Chen Rui slapped his horse and was shouting provocatively at himself, with an arrogant posture.

Wei Shao didn’t hear anything, he only took his own double-machine piercing tiger iron bow from the left and right, and after aiming, he filled the crossbow with full force and fired a three-shot bead at Chen Rui.

The cluster of arrows with a faint sharp roar that tore through the air, head and tail in the air, such as a straight spirit snake, straight to Chen Rui more than a hundred steps away, Chen Rui was defenseless, surprised, saw the wind galloping, blinked and came to the near front, even too late to swing the arrow, and despite the ugliness, hurriedly leaned over the horse’s back, this survey dodged the arrow cluster, a gurgling wind above his head, only to listen to the “poof” behind him three consecutive muffled sounds, looking back, The three clusters of arrows were coherently and deeply nailed into the flagpole, although a hundred steps away, the force still penetrated the thick poplar wood, the tail of the arrow hummed and trembled, the sawdust of the flagpole flew, and another gust of wind swept through, and with the slight sound of “Kerala”, the flagpole was broken into two pieces, and fell to the ground with the big flag.

Wei Shao’s grandfather Wei Lun was summoned to Luoyang when he was young and served as a Yulin Lang general for a while. Although the Wei family was a clan and his ancestors had also held important positions in the past, because of his handsome appearance, he was affected by this, and at first no one believed in his ability. One day, the Han Emperor set up a banquet, and the feast was played with archery, saying that he had heard that a good archer in ancient times had an arrow that could penetrate the power of five armor, hoping to see it with his own eyes. Many good shooters in the feast came out to test shoot, but none of them could shoot through the five. When the Han Emperor was disappointed, Wei Lun came out and tried the Seventh Division. The Han Emperor was surprised, but still let people stack seven layers of fine rope armor. As a result, Wei Lun was a hole in the hole. The Han Emperor was horrified, and the diners were all shaken. Wei Lun became famous for this, and the Han Emperor named him a strong crossbow general and ordered him to lead an army against the Xiongnu. Lady Xu, Wei Shao’s grandmother, who was still the lord of the house at the time, also fell in love with Wei Lun because of this, and later married him and gave birth to Wei Shao’s father, Wei Jing. The Wei Jing is also known for being good at shooting.

Unexpectedly, a few decades later, Wei Shao actually lived up to the name of the ancestor’s strong crossbow, shooting such a superb crossbow!

The two armies were silent for a moment, and suddenly, Wei Shao’s side emitted a neat “tiger wei” whistle, and the sergeants slammed their shields to the ground, and if thunder rolled, the sound shook the ground. Before Chen Rui’s front, the generals looked at each other and were silent, and before the two armies could start a battle, they lost a lot of momentum first.

Chen Rui’s back was startled into a cold sweat, seeing that the big banner was broken, the momentum lost first, he couldn’t help but be annoyed and angry, sat up straight and urged the horse to come out of the line, and challenged Wei Shao loudly.

Wei Shao slowly closed his bow and crossbow, his face condensed, and did not pay attention to it. Wei Liang had already urged his horse to get out of the line and greeted Chen Rui, “Chen Rui Xiao’er, first win over me and then talk about anything else!” Earlier, Chen Rui’s deputy general Zhang Gong on the side of the horse greeted him, but where was Wei Liang’s opponent, only a few rounds, he was beheaded under the horse. Another vice admiral, Liu Xiang, came out of the line, but he was still defeated and returned home with serious injuries.

In just two days, Chen Rui’s power was taken away, Chen Rui was arrogant, he could not listen to half a sentence of bystander, he often threatened with military law, the generals were already uncertain, and at this moment they were facing each other, first Wei Shao fired a strong crossbow to shock the two armies, the banner landed, first lost morale, and now Zhang Gong Liu Xiang died again, one was seriously injured, and the rest of the people still had the heart to fight, they all showed hesitation, and then refused to let anyone out.

If we talk about fighting alone, Wei Liang rarely lost a battle in his life, this time he lost his hoof before the horse, and lost the newlywed female monarch at his own hands, which was regarded as a great shame and humiliation, and he was eager to immediately kill into the city to retake the female monarch, seeing that the other party had no one to fight, he roared angrily, and even came to Chen Rui alone. Everyone was horrified by his momentum, they all retreated, Chen Rui was helpless, he stood up on his own, the two immediately looked at each other, Wei Liang slashed down with a large knife, the force was like a thousand jun, Chen Rui actually had a heavy arm, barely able to get out, shocked by Wei Liang’s divine power, this was a little regretted that he was a light enemy, and knew that it should not be good to fight.

His mind was racing very fast, and after a few more moments of coping, he shook his horse and turned around and led the way toward the city, ordering him to retreat into the city and defend it strictly. The crowd saw him turn around and clap his horse and go to the city, the position was suddenly in chaos, the sergeant also disregarded the formation, and rushed to follow the city, Wei Shao ordered the drum to chase, chased under the city wall in one breath, Chen Rui ordered the city gate to close quickly, at this time there were still backward soldiers who did not have time to enter the city, and in the blink of an eye, they were chased by the Wei army and surrounded and suppressed.

Wei Shao stood under the flag gate and ordered Qiang to attack the city. Chen Rui fixed his mind, personally climbed the wall to command the defense of the city, and when the drum sounded, the shouts shook the ground, and the stones inside and outside the city wall were like rain, and the fireballs flew everywhere, as if the sky was destroying and the mountain was falling.

The walls of Shiyi city were high, and the defenders of the city were all Chen Huan’s old troops, and they were also well trained on weekdays, and after Chen Rui retreated into the city, he knew that there was no way back, and one by one he could only fight with all his strength to defend the city, and although Wei Shao’s offensive was fierce, he could not take it for a while.

When the two sides encountered each other, the sky was already twilight, and the fierce battle continued until dark, with casualties on each side. It was just that Wei Shao’s offensive did not weaken, but became more and more ferocious, and the soldiers saw Wei Shao taking the lead in climbing the ladder, one by one, they were even more desperate, fighting with death, and the offensive continued wave after wave, like a continuous tide. How could the Shiyi defenders have encountered such a fierce attack? Gradually, it became unsupportable. Chen Rui saw that the situation was not good, refused to admit defeat, killed two retreating soldiers on the spot, and forced the rest of the soldiers to die, at this time, suddenly the killing sound behind him was loud, and when he turned back, he saw that it was Chen Huan who appeared on the wall again. It turned out that Chen Huan’s cronies took advantage of this opportunity to dismiss him and asked him to go to the city again to lead the battle to boost morale. Although Chen Huan was annoyed that his nephew treated him in this way, but it was a matter of the gain or loss of the city, at this moment he could not care about chen Rui’s calculations, hurriedly put on his armor and arrived, took the flag, ordered his men to tie up Chen Rui, hacked several of his cronies to death, and went to the city to command.

The Shiyi defenders were already scattered, but when they suddenly saw Chen Huan appear, they were encouraged, and their morale rose again, and they even resisted a wave of attacks from Wei Shao. However, Wei Shao’s offensive was really fierce, and Chen Huan gradually couldn’t resist it, knowing that if he continued like this, it would be difficult to escape the city, and when he was anxious, he suddenly thought of Qiao Nu, and immediately ordered someone to take her to the wall and threaten Wei Shao to retreat. I didn’t want Chen Rui to take advantage of the fact that no one was ready, he had already broken free of the rope, and was about to sneak down to take Xiao Qiao to escape with him, when he suddenly heard Chen Huan’s order to take Xiao Qiao to the city wall, scolded Chen Huan’s old man with a broken mouth, grabbed the knife and killed the guards nearby, turned around and hurried away to the city. Chen Huan was furious, and when he ordered his men to pursue him, he suddenly saw the flames in the city behind him, and a large area of continuous fire broke out, and when he fixed his eyes, the fire light actually came from the direction of the Taishou Mansion.

Near the Taishou Mansion is the grain depot. Chen Huan has been in business for many years, and all the reserves are there, and the grain hidden can support the whole city to defend for a year. On weekdays, fireworks are extremely strict, and I don’t know whyAt such a critical juncture, it actually caught fire. The fire took advantage of the wind, spreading, almost reflecting half of the night sky, and the city was noisy and chaotic.

Chen Huan was horrified, he had the heart to save the grain depot, but the attack under the city was fierce, and he could only grit his teeth and continue to defend, but the soldiers at the city gate were distracted by the fire, and they were shocked by Wei Shao’s fierce attack that was bound to win, at this moment, even if Chen Huan was sitting in the town, he could not take care of each other, and suddenly there was a loud “bang” at the city gate, and the city gate had been broken by the giant wood, and in the shouting, the crowd outside the city poured in, and the two sides launched a final hand-to-hand battle.

Not to mention the fierceness of this melee, only to say that Chen Rui took advantage of the chaos to escape, when he was embarrassed, his heart still could not let go of the beauty, rushed to the Taishou Mansion in one breath, saw that the direction of the fire was exactly where she was closed, turned around twice in the same place, bit his teeth, and finally rushed in, but saw that the fire was raging inside, the whole house had been engulfed in the fire, the beams of the house were constantly collapsing, standing outside the courtyard, a burst of hot fire came and was forced to take a few steps back.

Chen Rui knew that the beauty must have died in the sea of fire, and he was in pain and remorse, and shouted: “Kill me!” A wave of anger came up, turned his head to find Wei Shao desperately, out of the Taishou Mansion, only to take a few steps, heard a shout in front of him, through the fire behind him, identified that it was Wei Shao’s army that had attacked the city, was coming in his own direction, startled again, stomped his feet, hurriedly turned around and returned to the Taishou Mansion, lest he be chased, panic, run all the way to the backyard, and finally escape from the hut wall over the wall.

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A battle was finally over, and it was late at night. Chen Huan was wounded and captured, and most of the Shiyi defenders suffered casualties, and the rest surrendered. Although the generals under Wei Shao were also tired and many were injured, the army was excited when they conquered Shiyi, and there was cheers everywhere.

The deputy general Li Chong, who disposed of the casualties after the war, counted and resettled the matters, Gongsun Yang arranged for people to put out the fire, wei Shao strode towards the Taishou Mansion, and halfway through, Gongsun Yang and a sergeant major hurried towards him, and the sergeant major saw Wei Shao, rushed to him, knelt down on one knee, and said that he had sent someone to pursue Chen Rui who had fled, but did not find the female jun.

According to the confessions of the taishoufu subordinates, the female monarch was locked up in the newly arranged house at that time, and the source of the fire was the location of the new house. At that time, the servant woman who was guarding her on chen rui’s order saw the fire in the room and opened the door to inspect, but the fireworks were so strong that they were confused, and they hurriedly called for someone to put out the fire, but the fire was too large, and soon ignited the whole house.

The sergeant major had already sent people to look around the neighborhood, but there was no sign of the female monarch, and it was expected that she would most likely have been buried in the sea of fire.

After the sergeant major finished his report, he looked at Wei Shao with a somewhat uneasy look.

Wei Shao stopped where he was, looked up slightly, and looked at the raging fire that was still burning not far away.

His face and body were still stained with large pieces of blood, and his armor reflected the fire on the opposite side, and his expression also brought out some vicious and murderous colors.

At first he seemed slightly distracted, and he didn’t know what he was thinking.

“Pass on my order, kill Chen Huan, destroy the family, the woman is cast into a camp prostitute, the pawn is buried alive, and not a single one is left.”

After a moment, he spoke word for word, but his tone was rather flat, without any ups and downs.

Gongsun Yang was taken aback and looked at him. Seeing that his eyes were also blood-red and his eyes were murderous, he hurried forward to dissuade him, but before he could speak, Wei Shao had already said, “Sir, I don’t need to say much, I have already made up my mind.” The voice was cold.

When Gongsun Yang hesitated, another sergeant major rushed behind him, but this man had a happy face and shouted loudly from a distance: “Prince! Found the Lady! Found the Lady! The lady hid in the empty stables in the upper wind!

Gongsun Yang was overjoyed, and hurriedly walked up to ask the truth, and the sergeant major reported that the female monarch was safe and sound, but her hands and wrists were burned by fire, and it seemed that the injuries were not light, and they had been taken to a safe place.

Gongsun Yang turned his head to repeat it, looked at Wei Shao’s expression, and exhorted, “Lord! Chen Huan could not be killed, leaving another use, the remaining defenders of Shiyi also surrendered the lord, the pit killing was for ominous, hoping that the lord would think twice.
After
he finished persuading, he saw that although Wei Shao did not nod, he did not make a sound, secretly relieved, thought about it, and advised: “Lady Jun is fine.” It’s just that this twist and turn, I must have been frightened a lot. Why didn’t the lord visit the lady? The rest of the city, leave it to me.

“Mr. Fu Lao sent a military doctor to treat her wounds, and then she was guarded by someone, so that there would be no more mistakes.” I had something else to do, I went first!

Wei Shao dropped a sentence and turned away.

Gongsun Yang looked at his back, shook his head, and commanded him to continue.

[End of This Chapter]