Bend Over [ 折腰 ] - Chapter 41

[Chapter 41]

Wei Liang led two thousand men and horses to ride lightly, and according to the return of the scout horses sent by Gongsun Yang before, he tracked Chen Xiang’s marriage route all the way, and found the dowry team in liyang north a few days later. Because the procession was loaded with 10,000 grain and rice, it was difficult to rush through the heavy weight, and although it had set off early, it was not even halfway through now. Wei Liang led people to ambush a mountain pass in front of them, and when the team entered the mountain pass, a golden drum sounded, and the two ambush soldiers shouted out. Zhenwei Zhonglang, who was escorting the team on Chen Xiang’s orders, surprised Gao Shun and hurriedly shouted who was coming, Wei Liang said”, “Grandpa Ru is coming”, and immediately waved the large knife in his hand. Gao Shun hurriedly raised his sword to deal with Wei Liang’s opponent, but he was beheaded in three rounds. The left and right generals of the same industry saw that Wei Liang was fierce, and the people and horses were densely surrounded, and their hearts were terrified, and they shook their horses twice and went away. Where the remaining soldiers would resist, they would flee in all directions.

The purpose of Wei Shao’s trip was not to kill the enemy, nor to pursue, ordered the people to gather the grain together, went up to open a fragrant car in the middle, saw a young woman shrunk in the corner trembling, the original color had been lost, saw Wei Liang probe in, chaotic fluffy a head, screamed, fainted on the spot, but Wei Liang was startled. Then I saw that the two servant women on the side also looked like earth, kneeling on their knees and begging for forgiveness.

Wei Liang knew that this frightened person was Chen Xiang’s daughter, so he asked Bing Ding to escort the car together, and drove back and forth to Yangzhou. Arriving in Huainan a few days later, stationed in Xia Cai, there was a report of visiting Malay, and Yang Xin sent an envoy, Song Xian, to greet him. Song Xian respectfully invited Wei Liang and his party to enter the city, but Wei Liang refused, and only ordered the sergeant to stand by outside the city, strictly ordering the sergeant not to go near Chen Xiangnu’s accounting room, and patrolling day and night in shifts without mentioning it.

This Yang Xin and Xue Taisu had a grudge, and the previous confrontations were equal, each with victory and defeat, and these two years also held each other. A few days ago, Wei Shao’s emissary Zhang Yong arrived unexpectedly and handed over Wei Shao’s handwritten letter to clarify his intentions.

Wei Shao sat in the north, the fame moved Haiyu, and the heroes of the world went to defect, Yang Xin had already heard about it, but he had never dealt with it. Suddenly, he sent an emissary Zhang Yong to lobby. Zhang Yongben was born in the Jiangdong family, because of the name of Mu Weishao, he went to defect, the official worshiped Changshi, he could speak eloquently, and in three or two sentences, Yang Xinzhi introduced him as a confidant. Although Chen Xiang was strong, he had Wei Shao in the way, and he was not afraid. Sending troops to attack Xuzhou, which only had 20,000 soldiers and horses left, the winning side was extremely large, not to mention the grain and northern horses promised by Wei Shao.

Those grain grains are enough, and a thousand northern horses are the focus. The south does not produce horses, and it can get a thousand northern horses, which is undoubtedly like a tiger. On the spot, he promised to come down, and Zhang Yong’s bloody alliance, set up a feast that night, and the next day selected 100,000 soldiers and horses, and went to Xuzhou in three ways.

Xue Tai sent an army to Yanzhou half a month ago, robbing the people’s wealth all the way, the chickens and dogs were not left, the people complained, and now the army drove to Juye, only a hundred miles away from Dong County, and the Ma Lai reported that thirty miles outside Juye City, the Father and Son of Qiao Ping, the Taishou QiaoPing father and son of Dong County, had led 50,000 soldiers and horses to wait. Half a point is not assured, the urging army will rush straight away. The two armies met outside Juye Castle. Xue Tai looked at the opposite side and saw the circle of the array, when the first white horse sat a middle-aged general, with a face like a Xiushi, knowing that it was Too Shou Qiao Ping. A jujube red horse next to him immediately sat a small general, silver robe plus body, holding a double halberd, eyes like stars, Handsome Xiu was abnormal, guessed that it should be Qiao Ping’s son, haha laughed: “Yanzhou is really no one, and even sent a female doll to fight!” As

soon as these words came out, laughter broke out. Qiao Ci was young and angry, how could he bear such humiliation, despite Qiao Ping’s obstruction, the horse rushed out of the battle, angrily scolding Xue Tai’s old man, and there was Xue Tai’s eighteen-year-old young son on the opposite side, that is, Xue Liang, who was going to marry Chen Xiang’s daughter, and urged the horse to fight with a gun. The two sides picked up the horses in the open space of the formation, the sergeants on both sides shouted loudly, a vicious fight, dozens of rounds, Qiao Ci put Xue Liang under the horse. Xue Liang hurriedly fled back to the position, and Qiao Ci caught up with red eyes and threw a knife out, stabbing Xue Liang in the heart, and Xue Liang fell to the ground and died.

Qiao Ping watched the battle situation from behind, very nervous. Although the eldest brother had already sent envoys to Yuyang to ask for help, he had not seen a reply so far, and no Wei Shao soldiers and horses had arrived. A few days ago, learning that Xue Tai’s army was approaching, Qiao Ping personally led the formation in Juye, preparing to fight to the death. The only son was not yet an adult, and Qiao Ping was originally reluctant to let him fight with him, so he ordered him to stay and defend the city. It’s just that although Yanzhou can gather fifty thousand soldiers and horses, but can’t find a few good generals who can suppress the front, Qiao Ci is determined to fight the front, Qiao Ping has no choice, and thinks that if Dong County is lost, it will be like a nest, under the nest, there are eggs, and finally bite his teeth to let him accompany himself. Fang Cai saw that he could not stand the excitement, went out to fight with Xue Liang viciously, and finally killed Xue Liang under the horse, which was relieved, and hurriedly ordered Mingjin to make him return to the battle.

Over there, Xue Tai saw that the battle had not started, and his parents were actually killed in front of the battle, and they also died at the hands of a hairy teenager who had not dried up, and he was shocked and mournful, and he was furious, and he was unwilling to let it go, that is, he ordered two generals on the left and right to attack and kill Qiao Ci. Cao Xu Zhang Biao was ordered, and he rushed out on horseback, and in the blink of an eye, he surrounded Qiao Ci in the horse formation.

Although Qiao Ci was a newborn calf and a young hero, after all, he was not yet an adult, and there were not many battles he had experienced, Cao Xu Zhang Biao was a general in Xuzhou, accustomed to charging into the battlefield, Qiao Ci was one enemy and two, how to resist? Without paying attention, his left arm was slashed, and the blood flowed.

Qiao Ping saw that his son’s retreat was cut off, and he was injured again, and he was anxious, so he immediately personally took two generals to rush to the rescue, but it was too late, and before he rushed to the front, he heard Cao Xu shout, “Yellow mouth child, I am revenge for the young lord!” Watching the spear in his hand go towards Qiao Ci’s chest, Qiao Ci’s double halberd was against the long knife that Zhang Biao had split, unable to dodge, and was about to splash blood on the spot, suddenly at this moment, above the wilderness in the middle of the two formations, a fast horse galloped like lightning, and rushed to the front, and the man on the horse put on a bucket hat, put his finger on his lips, and made a sharp whistle towards the three war horses that were grouped together in front of him, and the three war horses were like hearing the magic sound, and they actually roared in unison, angrily raised their front hooves, and at once Cao Xu, Zhang Biao, who were fighting together, Qiao Ci and the three of them threw off their horses.

Cao Xu Zhang Biao’s mounts were all great Wanliang horses that had been used for a long time, and Qiao Ci mounts were also raised from childhood, but he did not expect that this stranger whistled, and the horses actually threw their masters to the ground. The three people fell and rolled together, and the man drove the horse to rush to the near front, leaned over and put up Qiao Ci’s arm on the ground, dragged him onto the horse, turned and ran to Qiao Ping, and when he reached Qiao Ping’s horse, he pushed Qiao Yue down, and Qiao Yue landed on the ground and stood firmly on his heels, but the man was still in shock and did not react for a while.

Qiao Ping originally thought that his son was bound to be splashed with blood, and he did not dream that when the thousand guns broke out, this bucket fighter actually killed him like this to save his life, surprise and gratitude needless to say, knowing that this person was not from the two armies, fixed his eyes on it, saw that his bucket was pressed very low, covered his forehead and eyes, looked like he was only in his early twenties, hugged his fist and thanked him: “Thank you Engong for saving my dog, two times ago, there is no time to thank you, but please Engong to leave the name, and in the future, he will be thanked again!”

Qiao Ci stood on the ground, just happened to see the eyes under the man’s bucket, one of them was turquoise, suddenly felt that he had seen it somewhere, it seemed that some faces were familiar, but he couldn’t remember it for a while, and when he was afraid, Xue Tai on the other side had already beaten the drum and ordered the attack, and there was no time to think about it anymore, so he hurriedly whistled, called back his war horse, and turned over to meet the enemy. The two armies fought together in the blink of an eye. Qiao Ping was familiar with military books, and he was also diligent in training troops on weekdays, and at this moment he was struggling to command the formation, but there was no good general around him, the strength of the troops was only half of the other side, the position was gradually compressed to become smaller and smaller, he could only walk and fight, suddenly there was a cannon on each side of the left and right, Xue Tai had ten thousand horses on each flank, and 10,000 horses were pressed up, and the Yanzhou sergeant’s formation was immediately rushed to the ground, killing and wounding countless, Qiao Ping knew that if he continued to fight, fifty thousand soldiers and horses would be completely annihilated here, and he wanted Mingjin to retreat into the city in the hope of counting, but the formation was already chaotic, at this time, if it was suddenly mingjin, The scene was probably even more difficult to clean up, and he was struggling to support it, when he was surprised to see that Fang Cai’s bucket fighter had slashed and killed the two Xue Tai sergeants who were surrounding him with a knife, and the horizontal knife roared loudly, and the roar was like thunder, and the dozens of people in front of him looked frightened, and they did not dare to come closer, watching him kill a bloody road, and rushed to Qiao Ping on horseback, shouting: “Make Junsu Su Mingjin retreat into the city, and the whole army will be destroyed when it is too late!” I’m here to stand in the way for you!

Qiao Ping froze.

This young man who did not know where he came from, although his clothes were simple and seemed to be no more than an ordinary person, somehow, in the midst of such a chaotic battle of thousands of armies and horses, he was like a god of war descending from heaven, and his majesty was majestic, making people involuntarily obey his orders. Immediately turned around, was about to prepare to collect troops, suddenly heard Xue Tai’s formation actually sounded the sound of Mingjin first, looked at the opposite side in surprise, saw that there seemed to be some accident on the other side, Xue Tai on horseback was full of anger, pointing to the sky and scolding, and quickly ordered his generals to return to the army, hating to take his son’s body to retreat, and rushing away in the direction of Southeast Xuzhou.

Fang Cai had killed the heavens and the earth outside the lightless Giant Wild City, and in the blink of an eye, the flag was extinguished. Qiao Ping’s intuition was as if he had experienced the rest of his life, and he still couldn’t believe it, not knowing why Xue Tai’s situation was so good that he suddenly retreated. At this moment, he couldn’t think about it carefully, and ordered to first clean up his position, send the dead and wounded sergeants into the city, take a breath, suddenly remember the fighter, and hurriedly look around, but where is his trace?

……

Qiao Ci chased all the way and chased him out for dozens of miles, and the man in front of him could not shake him off, and finally stopped his horse on the side of the road.

Qiao Ci’s face was stained with blood, and the blood scab on the wound on his arm had not coagulated, but he was still slowly bleeding outwards, but his eyes were shining brightly, and he took a biteQi chased after him, stopped and pointed his knife at the other party and shouted, “I recognize you!” Your green eyes! My eldest sister was kidnapped by you? Where is she now? What did you do to her?

Bi Yan slowly raised her hat, “I am married to her.” The boy is assured that I will do my best to treat her. Gongzi is not lightly injured, or go back to heal as soon as possible. Qiao Ci’s

eyes widened in disbelief.

Bi Yan nodded slightly at him, and then urged the horse to raise its hooves, and in the blink of an eye, it sped away, and the figure disappeared at the end of the wild path.

Qiao Ci stayed where he was.

When Big Qiao eloped with Biyan, the Qiao family strictly concealed it, and even Qiao Ci did not know very well, only faintly heard that it seemed to be related to manubi in the family. As soon as the war was over, fang cai immediately set his eyes on Bi Yan and chased after him here in one breath.

He did not expect that his cousin Big Joe would actually marry him. And listening to his tone, it seems that Big Joe is still willing.

Joci couldn’t imagine such a thing happening.

He couldn’t accept it for a moment. Stopping there for a moment, he suddenly remembered that when Fang Cai himself was about to die under the knife, it was this person who seemed to have saved himself from the sky, and before the two armies, he was brave and amazing, and the strength was so high that he had never seen before in his life.

What kind of person is this?

Joci was confused.

……

After Wei Shao sent the soldiers away, there was less of a man in the family, as if there was a lack of the main heart, and the Wei mansion suddenly became deserted.

Little Qiao had some difficulties every day when he was face to face with Mrs. Zhu, and the rest of the time was very free. It’s just that she is worried about the military intelligence in Yanzhou, and she is also worried every day. Fortunately, more than half a month after Wei Shao left, the news finally came, saying that when Xue Tai attacked Dong County, he suddenly learned that Xuzhou was attacked by Yang Xin of Huainan, and immediately withdrew to the rescue. The two sides encountered a major battle at Jiuli Mountain in Liucheng, Xue Tai was defeated, the loss of soldiers was broken, the loss of grain and grass was innumerable, and finally the wolf retreated to Xuzhou behind closed doors, the vitality was seriously injured, and in the short term, it should be unable to do any more offensive work.

Little Joe’s heart, which had been hanging for many days, finally let go. Back in the room, she was preparing to write a family letter to her father, Qiao Ping, when a message came from the north house, saying that Mrs. Xu had called her over.

Little Joe immediately put down his pen, changed his clothes and went to the North House. Unexpectedly, seeing that Wei Yu was also there, kneeling on the side of Lady Xu, as if she had just finished speaking, Wei Yu bowed to Lady Xu, turned around, and made a face with Xiao Qiao, and her eyes stopped on her face.

Every time Wei Shao sent troops out on expeditions, he always entrusted the heavy responsibility of youzhou’s defense to Wei Yu. It was no surprise that I met him here at the moment.

Little Joe lowered his eyes and called out, “Uncle.”

Wei Yu bowed his head slightly, turned to Lady Xu and said, “Sun Er retreated first.” The grandmother was ready, and the grandchild came early in the morning to deliver it.
Madame
Xu nodded.

Wei Yu glanced at Xiao Qiao and passed by her side.

Xiao Qiao got on the bed and knelt down next to Madam Xu. I saw that there were a few volumes of letters on the case table. It seems to have been sent from different places.

Madame Xu smiled and said, “Zhonglin has been out for more than half a month, and my grandmother is afraid that you will remember it, and as soon as there is news, she will tell you first.” The large army had arrived in Shiyi a few days ago, and the whole army was fortified and deployed, which was very smooth.

Little Joe suddenly felt a little weak.00

These days, the most she remembers is actually Yanzhou. Wei Shao’s side, maybe because he was strong enough, she also knew that he would definitely come back, but in fact, he didn’t think much of it. He looked down and said, “I hope that Fujun will return victorious as soon as possible.”
Madame
Xu nodded and said, “I also received another letter today.” Tomorrow I will leave for Zhongshan Country and take an old relative. I think that you are fine at home, so it is better to go with me and take you to recognize your face, and I have a companion on the road.

Little Joe was a little surprised. I didn’t expect to suddenly be out of the door. I don’t know what Madame Xu is going to do when she goes to Zhongshan Country in person. Only since she opened her mouth, she naturally nodded her head.

“You go back and pack up and leave early tomorrow morning.” Madame Xu smiled.

[End of This Chapter]