Chapter 144: Head Start

Xiahou Hui stood by the city wall, looking at the crowded crowd under the city, his face pale.

She came from Chang'an and spent a lot of effort to persuade Xiahou Mao to put the tyrant under house arrest, but now, she found that she was still busy in vain. An Ding betrayed, Longyou was eroded, Xiahou Mao remembered Wei Ba again in a panic, and invited him out again.

Xiahou Hui was very frustrated, she felt that it was her fault, because Xiahou Mao asked her for advice first, and she couldn't give Xiahou Mao strong help, which forced Xiahou Mao to be helpless, so she could only trust Wei Ba and ask Wei Ba for help.

She can understand Xiahou Mao's current hardship. Xiahou Mao himself did not understand military affairs, and he didn't even know much about the entire situation in Guanzhong, let alone the counties west of Longshan. He was able to realize the urgency of the situation from a stable rebellion, and he was already over-performing.

It was a big mistake for him to be in charge of the war in the entire Western Theater, and he should have asked Cao Zhen to preside over the overall situation earlier, instead of thinking about giving the Xiahou clan a chance to make meritorious contributions. This is not an opportunity, this is a disaster, both a disaster for Cao Wei Jiangshan and a disaster for the Xiahou clan.

Although Xiahou Hui is not very clear about the situation of Longyou, she can have a premonition that the loss of Longyou will be how the Son of Heaven will be angry, even if Xiahou Mao will save his life because of the princess, he can only be an idler in Luoyang in the future.

Everything started because of greed, knowing that Xiahou Mao was not the material to lead the troops, but he wanted to let him be in charge of the war in the west, this is greed.

In addition to regret, Xiahou Hui blamed himself even more. She prides herself on being smart and not weaker than men, but it turns out that her understanding of people's guesses and scheming is higher than that of ordinary people, but it is not as high as she thinks. But he couldn't find enough evidence to prove his conjecture and completely eliminate the hidden danger of Wei Ba. What frustrated her even more was that she didn't have any insight beyond ordinary people in military affairs. As long as she could provide a little useful advice, Xiahou Mao would not ask Wei Ba for advice.

In an instant, she realized that her pride was actually vulnerable, and all the victories could not be realized. is like those talkers who can only talk rhetorically, when it comes to metaphysics, no one is convinced. But when it comes to actually doing things, it's scrambling, full of mistakes, and ridiculous.

A rush of footsteps came, interrupting Xiahou Hui's self-blame.

"Xiahou girl......" Xu Ran gasped and hurriedly raised his hand to salute.

"Duwei Xu, what's wrong with you?" Xiahou Hui asked in surprise.

"Miss Xiahou. Come and see. Xu Ran walked to the edge of the city and motioned to Xiahou Hui to pay attention to the soldiers who were entering the city. Xiahou Hui looked at it for a while and didn't see any problems.

"What's wrong with them?"

"Miss Xiahou, they are reinforcements from Tongguan."

"From Tongguan? So what? ”

Xu Ran looked at Xiahou Hui in surprise, and saw that Xiahou Hui was still looking at him blankly. I couldn't help but stomp my foot and raise my voice. "Miss Xiahou, you once passed through Tongguan, have you ever seen the defenders of Tongguan so strong?"

Xiahou Hui was stunned for a moment, then suddenly understood, and a cool breath rushed down his spine to the back of his head: "Fake? ”

"Well, nine times out of ten, it's fake." Xu Ran sweat flowed from his forehead, arched his hand and said: "Miss Xiahou, I wanted to ask the general just now, but the general was discussing with Wei Lang, and I didn't dare to let Wei Lang know about it, so I came to ask the girl." ”

Xiahou Hui turned around and was about to leave, Xu Ran hurriedly stepped forward to stop her, and said anxiously: "Girl, I am responsible for the safety of the general, I will fight to the death, and I will rescue the general." Just ask the girl to leave the dock immediately. ”

Xiahou Hui's lips turned pale. She knew very well what Xu Ran meant, the Wuwu was unusually strong, and it was very difficult to attack from the outside, because of this, Xiahou Mao sent the main troops to the mouth of the Nanshan Baoxian Valley, and now there are only five hundred people from Xu Ran's department and one hundred and ten personal guards around Xiahou Mao, and the others are some temporarily recruited people, which are not of great use at all. Since the enemy pretended to be the defenders of Tongguan and entered the city, and he was such a fierce man, there was no suspense about the loss of Yiwu.

The top priority is not to fight to the death with the enemy, but to escape, escape from Yiwu, and flee back to Chang'an.

No matter how smart Xiahou Hui was, when he suddenly encountered such an emergency, he was still a little panicked, and cold sweat flowed on his forehead. She thought for a while, turned to Xu Ran and shouted: "Captain Xu, give up the outer city, you lead people to defend the inner city, get ready, and be ready to break through at any time." ”

Xu Ran nodded, and then realized that Xiahou Hui did not flee according to his Jihua choice, and hurriedly asked, "...... that girl?"

"Since Wei Ba is still by the general's side, we still have a chance." Xiahou Hui said while trotting: "I will take someone to restrain Wei Ba, rescue my uncle, and then break through together." ”

Xu Ran followed behind and said urgently: "Girl, you should go first, and I will go to save the general." ”

"It's an order!" Xiahou Hui suddenly stopped and shouted, "Do you want to disobey the order?" ”

Xu Ran shuddered, took a step back, and bowed down to receive the order: "Huh." Then he turned and hurried down to the city.

Xiahou Hui took the twenty knights who protected her and ran all the way to Xiahou Mao's lobby.

"You two go and prepare your horses and wait at the north gate." The leading lieutenant gave the order as he ran: "The others are ready to fight!" ”

"Whoa." The knights already knew that they were acting urgently, so they pulled out the long knives at their waists, picked up their crossbows, and prepared for battle, protecting them around Xiahou Hui with murderous energy. The two knights ran down the slope of the city and went straight to the stables.

When they arrived at the door of the lobby, the armor soldiers on duty were startled when they saw their appearance, and instinctively stepped forward to intercept them, Xiahou Hui squeezed out of the knights, and shouted: "Get out of the way!" ”

Seeing that it was Xiahou Hui, the armor hurriedly put away the weapons in his hands, and Xiahou Hui ignored them and ran towards the hall with people. Wei Ba was "meditating", and when he heard the hurried and chaotic footsteps outside, he was just happy, and then he heard Xiahou Hui's loud shout, and his heart suddenly tightened, and he rushed towards Xiahou Mao who was spinning in a circle.

As soon as he launched, Xiahou Hui rushed in with twenty hideous-looking knights, pointed at Wei Ba with his hand, and shouted: "Take it!" ”

Several knights pulled the crossbow machine, and the crossbow arrows flew towards Wei Ba with a roar. Wei Ba was taken aback, he didn't care about catching Xiahou Mao, forcibly turned around, rushed behind the screen, and took a shield from Lan Qi with his hand, and put it behind his back to protect the door and the back of his heart.

"Plop puff!" With a few muffled sounds, the crossbow bolt shot at Wei Ba's position just now, and the powerful Liliang caused the shelf with the map behind him to shake twice, and collapsed with a bang.

Xiahou Mao was furious: "Yuanrong, what are you doing here?" ”

Xiahou Hui rushed forward, grabbed Xiahou Mao, and said loudly: "Uncle, someone pretended to be the defenders of Tongguan and had already entered the city, and Wei Ba surrendered by fraud. ”

She said so much in one breath that Xiahou Mao didn't have time to react at all, but Xiahou Hui didn't intend to ask him to understand, she only wanted to snatch Xiahou Mao out before the enemies of the deception city attacked the inner city.

These knights brought by Xiahou Hui are all elites who have experienced the battlefield, and at this moment, without Xiahou Hui's orders, they made the right response, the five people faced the screen and waited for the battle, and the rest of them held Xiahou Mao and Xiahou Hui hostage and retreated.

Xiahou Hui was relieved to see that he had successfully grabbed Xiahou Mao. She glanced at the screen and ordered loudly: "What are you waiting for, take down this reverse Shu work!" ”

"Whoa!" The armor soldiers in the hall also came to their senses and agreed with a bang, some of them escorted Xiahou Mao to retreat, and some of them surrounded him.

Wei Ba complained bitterly. Seeing that it was about to be completed, he didn't expect to be taken advantage of by Xiahou Hui again. From Xiahou Hui's words just now, he could guess that there should be something wrong with the Tongguan garrison pretended to be a soldier of the Wei family. There are only 500 people left in the dock, in addition to the more than 100 armor soldiers in the hall, as long as a thousand soldiers enter the city, there is no problem at all to take the Wu, but it is a pity to let Xiahou Mao run away, he is so deliberate to approach Xiahou Mao, doesn't he just want to capture Xiahou Mao at a critical moment, and then order the Wei army in the city to lay down their arms and surrender?

With Xiahou Mao's character, he probably won't be righteous and awe-inspiring, and if he says "shoot at me" as if he were dead, as long as he is controlled and takes Hewu, it will be a piece of cake.

The most important point of Zhao Yun's boxing technique is to advance in the middle and hit the key point, and the most important principle of marching combat is the same, breaking through the enemy's Chinese army, killing the opponent's generals, even if it is cutting down the opponent's general flag, you can also defeat the opponent at the fastest speed. On the battlefield, the Chinese army is the most well-guarded, and it is definitely not a simple matter to kill a general like Guan Erye in Baima. Similarly, in Hewu, it is not so easy to restrain Xiahou Mao, he only has one chance, it is too early, it is too late...... Not even more.

This is the situation now, he is waiting for Dunwu's signal, as soon as Dunwu arrives, he will immediately attack and restrain Xiahou Mao. But he never expected that Xiahou Hui came ahead of Dunwu, so the situation reversed sharply, Xiahou Mao was temporarily safe, but he fell into danger.

From the chaotic footsteps, he could be heard that through a thin screen, at least twenty armorers stood in front of him, and among these twenty armorers, there were at least five crossbows. He can rush out, knock out one or two of them, and then he will be surrounded by other people and chopped into meat sauce.

Xiahou Mao is not enough for the masters, and he Wei Ba is also not so fearless. Wei Ba slowly took a step back, leaning his back against the wall, so as not to fall into the situation of being attacked on all sides, he held the shield in his left hand, pulled out the short knife on his waist with his right hand, and at the same time slowly pulled the wall curtain, took a deep breath, listened intently, and his ears echoed the words that Master Zhao Yun had said countless times, as if he had returned to the hanging boulder where he practiced martial arts.

"Quiet as a virgin, like Mount Tai collapsing in front, and the face does not change color; Moving like a rabbit, like a cow, with no thickness into the room. (To be continued.) )