Chapter 213: The Female General Shows Her Might
In the second year of Jianxing, there was a fierce confrontation between Fuping Shihu and Shao Xu.
Shao Xu relied on the strong city to not come out, so that Shi Hu outside the city was helpless, but at this time, Shi Le once again sent someone to urge him to take Fuping as soon as possible, so as to deter Jizhou Haoqiang.
Under the pressure of both sides of the enemy, the tyrannical elements in Shi Hu's nature completely broke out, and he temporarily stopped the military attack on Fuping, and instead sent troops to plunder the people everywhere, preparing to threaten Shao Xu with the lives of the people.
Shao Xu was very anxious when he learned of this, as a typical good official who loved the people in ancient times, it was his bounden duty to protect the interests of the people.
Shi Hu did this to force Shao Xu to choose between the people and himself, or Shao Xu continued to retreat into the city, ignoring the people under the city, and letting the Hu people slaughter, thus losing the support of the people of Leling; Shao Xu had to risk his life and choose to go out of the city to fight the powerful Hu Qi, so as to defend his official reputation with death!
In Fuping City, many officials, including his nephew Shao Cun, persuaded Shao Xu not to make a fool of Shi Hu's treachery, but Shao Xu was unmoved and insisted on leading the elite out of the city to rescue the people who were captured by Shi Hu.
Fortunately, at a critical time, Liu Shao rushed to the coast of Leling with Liaodong reinforcements, which temporarily dispelled Shao Xu's idea of going out of the city to fight. However, Liu Shao knew his father's character very well, unless he defeated Shi Hu's army as soon as possible and saved the people of Leling, Shao Xu would still go out of the city to fight the Hu people.
Liu Shao stood on the bow of the boat with his whole body draped, his brows furrowed, thinking of a way to relieve the siege of Fuping.
This time, Liu Shao was forcibly pushed to the position of commander of the reinforcement army by Wei Shuo, and at the beginning, many people in the army did not accept her, and they all thought that she was just a woman, how could she lead the army?
However, everyone didn't expect that Liu Shao was different from ordinary ladies, and he was skilled in arching and horses since he was a child. After marrying Liu Yao, he went through several battles, and he was very familiar with the military, and soon relied on his own ability to dispel everyone's suspicions about him.
After leading the army to the coastal area of Yanci, in view of the strong enemy army, Liu Shao did not blindly choose to land, but only passed the news of reinforcements to Fuping to enhance the confidence of everyone to defend the city. She took reinforcements and kept cruising on the sea, looking for an opportunity to relieve the siege of Fuping.
However, Shi Hu had an army of 100,000 under his command, and he himself was brave and good at fighting, and for a while, Liu Shao couldn't find any chance to defeat Shi Hu.
Seeing that Fuping was becoming more and more precarious, Shao Xu was forced to become more and more impatient by the suffering of the people in the city, and she had to choose to take a risk.
Mr. Liu quietly came to Liu Shao's side and comforted: "Commander Liu, don't worry, Master Shao has his own natural appearance, and he will definitely be able to survive this catastrophe." ”
"Commander Liu, the general planned to personally lead reinforcements to attack the Shihu camp. What do you think? ”
Mr. Liu was shocked when he heard this, and turned his head to see Liu Shao's worried face, but he still persuaded kindly: "Shi Hu is a general, it is impossible to have no defense." And our army has less than 6,000 men, and the probability of success is too low unless the opportunity is rare. ”
"What if the attack is more than tens of thousands?"
"Huh?"
Without waiting for Mr. Liu to ask, Liu Shao took the initiative to explain: "I plan to send someone to Le'an to lobby Neishi Tianhua to send troops to help." As long as Qingzhou is willing to send troops to help me attack the Hu people, I will be a little more sure. ”
"It's not easy to convince Qingzhou to send troops. Qingzhou went up to Cao Wei, the assassin, and went down to Tian Hua, who was in Le'an, and might secretly support and give Shao Lao some food, grass, ordnance and other materials, but he didn't dare to risk offending Shi Le and send troops directly. ”
Mr. Liu was not optimistic about asking Qingzhou for help, he knew how much Cao Wei and his subordinates were afraid of Shile in their hearts, although Shao Xu's demise was very unfavorable to Qingzhou. But Mr. Liu still concluded that Qingzhou still did not dare to send troops to help. However, even so, Mr. Liu still plans to go to Le'an in person, as Liu Shaoshi said, Qingzhou is currently the only chance to defeat Shi Hu and relieve the siege of Fuping.
"Commander Liu, this commander knows that you have been in Cao Wei's mansion. I have had a relationship with many Qingzhou officials, and I don't know if I would like to go to Le'an to persuade Tian Hua to send troops to help? ”
"Please reassure the commander, I will get up and go to Le'an to meet Tian Hua, and I will definitely persuade him to send troops to help!"
Mr. Liu turned around and got off the boat with a fist and left, Liu Shaoshi looked at Mr. Liu's back, his heart was clouded, and he didn't know if Mr. Liu could successfully persuade Qingzhou to send troops on this trip.
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In the blink of an eye, Shi Hu captured thousands of people from nearby. He took advantage of Shao Xu's character of loving the people like a son, and asked Hu Qi to escort the captured people to Fuping City, and drove them in the direction of Xiangguo in front of Shao Xu. Some of the people could not bear the oppression of Hu Lu, and shouted "Shao Taishou" and "General Shao", expressing their reluctance to leave their hometowns.
Shao Xu, who stood on the head of the city and witnessed all this, could no longer hold back the anger in his heart, and in order to save the people from fire and water, he resolutely led 5,000 soldiers out of Fuping regardless of the persuasion of everyone.
Shao Xu didn't care about going out of the city, but he just fell for Shi Hu's tricks. Shi Hu was overjoyed when he saw that the smelly and hard Shao Xu finally ran out of the turtle shell, and immediately sent the cavalry that had been ambushed a long time ago to cut off Shao Xu's retreat back to the city.
In this way, Shao Xu completely fell into a desperate situation, besieged by nearly 80,000 Hulu troops, it can be said that there is no way to go to heaven and no way to enter the earth.
Shao Xu, who was riding on a horse, saw that his life was cut off, so he looked around at the five thousand soldiers who were accompanying him, and saw that there was no fear on everyone's faces, so he couldn't help shouting: "Everyone, we hate Hu Lu's tyranny, and I went out of the city just to save the people from fire and water, but I accidentally fell into Hu Lu's treacherous scheme!" Hu Lu was afraid that Fuping City was strong and thick, so he lured me out of the city with treacherous tricks, and then cut off my back road with a large army. ”
"Now that we are in the place of death, as the pillars of the Jin family, how can the descendants of China descend to the generation of Hulu? I have resolved to repay my country with death, and if you share this will, you can take up your sword and spear and kill the enemy with me. Avenge the suffering villagers in Leling, and let the brutal Hulu understand that the lives of the villagers are to be repaid with their lives. A tooth for a tooth, blood for a blood! ”
"A tooth for a tooth, blood for a blood!"
"Avenge the folks of Leling!"
As soon as Shao continued to say this, the morale of the 5,000 soldiers suddenly rose, and they all clamored to fight to the death with Hu Lu!
In the gap between Shao Xu's morale, Shi Hu had mobilized the army to surround Shao Xu's regiment. At this time, Shi Hu breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that Shao Xu had no chance to escape from Ascension. In order to solve Shao Xu as soon as possible, Shi Hu set up a supervision team behind the army and declared to the generals in the army: Those who dare to retreat will be killed!
Shao Xu stared at the nearly 90,000 Hulu army in front of him with burning eyes, saying that it was false not to be nervous, but he had no choice. Not to mention that Shao Xuben was unwilling to surrender to Shi Le's generation, and even if he wanted to surrender now, he was afraid that Shi Le would not accept him anymore because of the experience of the past.
Shao Xu was not afraid of death, he had nothing to love after his son's death, and he was ready to die to die for the country, but he didn't expect this day to come so soon. At the moment, the only thing that worries Shao Xu is that Fuping is safe, and his nephew Shao Cunzhi is not talented enough to inherit his career. After his death, Fuping will inevitably fall, and the people of Leling will definitely be retaliated against.
The brave and fearless Shao Xu rushed to the Hulu army without hesitation with 5,000 soldiers who were determined to die, and an unprecedented and tragic battle broke out.
The Leling defenders, who had no way out, burst out with a combat strength far beyond usual, and even let the Hulu army, which was more than ten times more numerous, have no way to take them for a while.
After fighting with Hu Lu for most of the day, Shao Xu's side became fewer and fewer, and in the end, only more than 1,000 scarred people were left around him.
Looking at the slowly approaching enemy army, Shao Xu knew that the last moment was coming, he gasped for breath, without showing a trace of fear on his face, and quietly waited for Hu Lu to rush up......
"Kill! Don't let go of a Hu man! ”
"Capture Shihu alive!"
"Reinforcements are coming!"
Just when Shao Xu and the others were about to be wiped out, a burst of shouts of killing suddenly came from the southeast side of the battlefield, alarming the enemy and us who were fighting.
Shi Hu's face changed greatly, and when he turned around, he saw dust covering the sky in the east and south directions, and he couldn't see how many reinforcements had come for a while.
can see this momentum, there are at least tens of thousands of Jin troops who came to rescue Shao Xu. If it was before the war, Shi Hu would never have put tens of thousands of Jin troops in his eyes, but now that he has been fighting with the Fuping defenders for several days, his command is already sleepy and lacking horses, coupled with the sudden change of the army's unstable heart, how can he still be the opponent of the reinforcements?
Shi Hu glanced at Shao Xu, who was surrounded in the formation, gritted his teeth and finally chose to retreat......
Liu Shao looked at the slowly retreating Hulu army, his eyes were full of unwillingness, but he could only watch Shi Hu withdraw with most of the main force, and finally captured less than 20,000 Hulu. (To be continued.) )