Chapter 418: Reinforcements Arrive and Retreat into Fancheng

Cao Xiu's subordinates fought hard for half a day, broke through the siege overnight, and marched all night, although they fought with a bloody force, but it was difficult to compete with Guan Ping's new force after all. And with Guan Ping's bravery, how can Cao Xiu's subordinates be able to resist it? The Qinglong Glaive Knife has regained its former glory today, drinking blood, Guan Ping is covered with blood, but almost all of them are enemies, and the more he fights, the more brave he becomes. Cao Xiu's subordinates have more than ten brave generals, but they are just live targets for Guan Ping to practice knives, and if he is lucky, he can only save the whole corpse. Before the tea time, only three people were left with their lives, but they all held their weapons, looked at Guan Ping from a distance, and did not dare to step forward to attack.

Guan Ping's long knife drooped, blood flowed down from the tip of the knife like water, and he looked at the three people proudly: "Who dares to step forward?" The three of them looked at each other, and finally another person burst into a shout, dancing the big axe, and slammed it towards Guan Ping's head. This person was known for his strength under Cao Xiu's tent, and his strength could be seen from his weapons. Guan Ping only raised his knife with one arm to meet him, and he just blocked the blow of this broken gold and jade. The other party saw that Guan Ping couldn't move with just one hand, his face was shocked, and he couldn't believe that there were still people with such divine power in the world, so he used the power of his body again, hoping to defeat Guan Ping. only forced his face to be red, but when he looked at Guan Ping, he was still calm.

Guan Ping felt that the other party's strength had been exhausted, so he smiled and said, "It's time for General Ben to do it." After speaking, he held his other hand on the hilt of the sword, and with a strong force, he swung the big axe aside and cut it off with another sword. There was a splash of blood, and the member Wei Jiang fell off his horse in two. Guan Ping looked at the other two again, and stepped forward, the two of them were already frightened, threw down their weapons, and fled backwards, where else can they take care of any big governor, what kindness?

The defeat has been decided, Cao Xiu, as the great Sima of Cao Wei, naturally does not want to be captured and humiliated, seeing that Guan Ping is unstoppable, he took out his sword, and without waiting for Guan Ping to approach, he will kill himself with a horizontal sword, and he cannot fall into the majesty of Dawei. When the soldiers on the left and right saw Cao Xiu's actions, they naturally understood what he meant, and hurriedly stepped forward to hug him and persuaded: "Governor, don't do this." Cao Xiu was wounded, his strength was far inferior to that of the other party, and his weapon was taken away, and he couldn't help shouting: "I am a general of the country, how can I be captured and humiliated?" Although the pro-soldier knew Cao Xiu's intentions, he couldn't watch the main general kill himself, and he didn't know what to do, but he heard a rapid sound of horses' hooves, and when he looked at it, he saw that there was a Cao Wei soldier and horse directly inserted into the Guanping array, and when he saw the banner in the army, he knew that it was Jianwei General Jia Kui, and couldn't help but rejoice: "Look, it's General Jia's soldiers and horses." ”

Cao Xiu also saw the banner of the word "Jia" earlier, and he was both happy and ashamed in his heart, and thought secretly: I never imagined that at a critical time, it was actually Jia Kui, who was the most unharmonious on weekdays, to save him. Saving his life was important, Cao Xiu didn't think much about it, so he had to shout: "Jia Jianwei brought troops to rescue, we should fight to the death in order to survive." The morale of the soldiers in the department was depressed, but when they saw the rescuers, they were all in high spirits, forgetting to fight to the death, and moved closer to Jia Kui.

Guan Ping was ordered to ambush here, and his subordinates did not have many soldiers and horses, so he naturally had an advantage over Cao Xiu's defeated army, but he didn't expect Jia Kui's army to suddenly hit from behind, and Cao Xiu waved his army in front again. Two pinching attacks, Rao is Guan Ping is brave, and it is only the strength of one person, but the subordinate soldiers can't resist it, and gradually collapses. Seeing that the two armies of Cao Xiu and Jia Kui broke through and converged, Guan Ping knew that it would be difficult to kill Cao Xiu, and continued to fight, only fearing defeat and no victory, he sighed and led the army to fight and retreat.

Jia Kui divided his troops into the rear of Cao Xiu, no matter how Cao Xiu's army pursued in front, they all marched slowly, in order to be afraid of Guo Huai's treacherous schemes. Cao Xiu was confident that even if he didn't have Jia Kui's soldiers and horses, he would be able to encircle and annihilate Guo Tong, and Jia Kui would not come, and there would be one less person to fight for merit, so he never sent someone to urge. Therefore, Jia Kui's army and horses were far behind Cao Xiu, and he was still camping and resting at night, but when he saw the continuous retreat of defeated troops in front, he knew that Cao Xiu was in ambush and returned defeated. Although Jia Kui hated Cao Xiu for not saying anything, but the conquest was a major national event, Jia Kui did not dare to be sloppy in the slightest, and immediately ordered troops to help, and rescued Cao Xiu at this time.

When the two met, Cao Xiu knew that he was at fault, so he was the first to speak: "I regret not listening to the general's words, so I can have today's defeat." Jia Kui saw that Cao Xiu took the initiative to say such a thing, and it was inconvenient to say any more, so he had to say: "The governor doesn't have to mind the common things of winning and defeating soldiers." The top priority at the moment is to retreat to Fancheng, collect the defeated troops, and then plan for the future. Cao Xiu fell to such a point that he realized that Jia Kui was indeed prescient, and naturally complied at this moment: "Just follow the general's words." So Jia Kui gave the order to go down, no longer pursue Guan Ping's soldiers and horses, and the army turned around and returned to Fancheng.

When the defeated troops were collected in the road, when they arrived in Fancheng, including the defenders, Cao Xiu regathered 30,000 people, although he was wounded, but he knew that Guo Huai would arrive in the city soon, so he had to insist on it, while sending people to inquire about the news of the Han army, while actively deploying defensive strategies.

After two days of inquiry, there was no news of Guo Huai, but Wen Xiu was brought back to the city. There was no news for a few days, Cao Xiu originally thought that Wen Xiu was under siege and would definitely die, but he never thought that he would be able to come back alive, so he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and immediately asked people to come in to meet. Seeing Wen Xiu covered in blood and looking exhausted, he couldn't help but think of Zhang Pu and other generals who died in battle, Cao Xiuhu had tears in his eyes and said in a low voice: "I don't want to be able to see the general again, the general can rush out of the siege of the Han army alone, and he is really a hero." ”

Wen Xiu sighed and said: "It's not that the last general has martial arts, but Zhao Shu Gaoyi, who released the last general and came back." Everyone was puzzled, and Wen Xiu had to tell them one by one from the beginning. On the same day, Zhang Pu led his troops to protect Cao Xiu to break through the siege, but Wen Xiu still carried Cao Xiu's banner and insisted on supervising the army to fight. The soldiers who were willing to stay behind after Wen Xiu's break naturally held the determination to die and fought to the end. Although Guo Huai's Han army had the advantage, it was so anxious that it was difficult to retreat, so he had to let the army retreat temporarily. The reinstated sergeant set up a high platform nearby, shot indiscriminately with a crossbow, and waited for more than half of the casualties in the Wenxiu Station to lose his sharpness, and then rushed back and forth with a thunderbolt horse, breaking through the Wei army's defense line in one fell swoop.

Wen Xiu led his troops to fight to the death, but the disparity in numbers was huge, and in the end, only a few dozen people remained, fighting on foot. Wen Xiu had no hope of returning alive, so even if he was at a complete disadvantage, he tried his best to fight, and killing one more would be enough. I didn't want the Han army to stop the offensive again, so I only formed a formation from a distance, surrounding everyone in the middle, Wen Xiu only said that the other party was going to use crossbow arrows to shoot indiscriminately, and was about to shout that everyone was desperately moving forward, and they couldn't sit still. Seeing the Han army slowly coming out of the formation and riding a few horses, although the leader was also fully armored, his face was delicate and there was no killing intent, and he knew at a glance that he was not a general of the battle. Although Wen Xiu didn't know this person, he knew Guo Huai who was following him, and said in his heart: With Guo Huai's respect, he is still behind this person, but he doesn't know what the origin is?

Wen Xiu was looking at the other party and guessing his identity, when he heard Guo Huai shouting: "Who is the main general?" Wen Xiu thought that Hengzhi was dead, and he should let the Han army know the prestige of Wen's father and son, so he stepped forward and said, "I am Wen Xiu, the general of the Great Wei Dynasty." Who are you? Guo Huai didn't answer, and looked carefully into the formation for a moment before turning to Zhao Shu in front of him and said in a low voice: "General, Cao Xiu is really not here." Zhao Shu nodded and said, "The imperial court can have a loyal person like Liao Yuanjian, and how can Cao Wei not have one or two righteous people?" Nai personally stepped forward, pointed behind Wen Xiu, and said: "General Liao is a general of our country, and I hope that the general can return his bones intact." ”

It turned out that after Liao Hua killed himself, Cao Xiu respected his loyalty and martyrdom, and ordered someone to take care of his corpse, so he parked it in its place. Wen Xiu and the others have been sticking here, but they are busy with the battle, where can they take care of the corpse of the enemy general? So it has been placed next to it, and at this moment Liao Hua's corpse has been pressed on top of two Wei Jun corpses, fortunately, most of them are still exposed, and Cao Wei's armor is slightly different from Shu Han's, and it was discovered by Zhao Shu. From the beginning of the battle, Zhao Shu ordered the whole army to carefully inquire about the news of Liaohua, to see people in life and corpses in death, but there has been no news. Now that he has attacked the last line of defense of the Wei army, Zhao Shu naturally has to search carefully, and sure enough, he saw Liao Hua's body, although he knew that he had no chance of survival, but he still couldn't help but feel a little sad.

For Liao Hua, although it was indeed because of him that the Wei army suffered a crushing defeat, Wen Xiu also understood that it was an inevitable fraud between enemy countries, and it was even more admirable to be able to commit suicide in the end. When Zhao Shu opened his mouth to ask, Wen Xiu didn't think about it, so he ordered two subordinates to carry Liao Hua's body to the front of the battle. With a wave of Zhao Shu's hand, two Han soldiers stepped forward and carried Liao Hua's body back into the formation. Zhao Shu glanced at it, and saw that there were still a few arrows stuck in the corpse, but fortunately, it was a whole corpse, which was a little comforting, so he turned to Wen Xiu and said, "Thank you, General Gaoyi." It's just that the general knows that General Liao Hua is extremely important to our army, so why not threaten him with his corpse in exchange for his own life and that of his subordinates? ”

Wen Xiu snorted coldly and sneered: "The heroic martyr who died in General Liao is deeply admired, if he is replaced by someone else, he will not return you even if he is chopped into several pieces." As for threatening corpses in exchange for his own life, although he is not a hero, he does not disdain it. Zhao Shu nodded, and suddenly said: "The general is so good, I can't help but express it." Naifu waved his hand to make the Han army get out of the way, and said: "The general can take his subordinates to go by himself, and when they meet on the battlefield in the future, they will decide life and death." ”

Wen Xiu never thought that a corpse in Liao Hua could really be exchanged for the lives of these dozens of people, he was stunned for a moment, and seeing that the other party did not seem to be a fake, he couldn't help but clench his fists and said: "Thank you general, dare to ask the general's name?" Zhao Shu smiled slightly: "I am Zhao Shu, the general of the Han Dynasty, and I also asked the general to reply to the governor of Cao Xiu, saying that when Xuchang said goodbye, Zhao Shu was very worried, and met on the battlefield in Japan, but it was the enemy country fighting, and he could not tolerate the slightest affection, and the governor of Wangdu was not to blame." ”

Wen Xiu never thought that the "young man" in front of him, who seemed to be only in his twenties, was actually the legendary Zhao Shu, that is, the culprit who killed his adoptive father, and he couldn't help but feel murderous, and he was about to step forward to assassinate him desperately, but seeing that Zhao Shu was guarded by a strict guard, he would definitely not succeed, but would harm the lives of the soldiers behind him. had no choice but to give up, but he no longer thanked him, but only said coldly: "I must convey it." Then he slowly walked out of the Han army with his subordinates. There were no war horses, so Wen Xiu and the others were not able to catch up with Cao Xiu's army, and arrived in Fancheng two days late.

After listening to Wen Xiu's words, Cao Xiu couldn't help but sigh: "I don't want Zhao Shu to really come to Fancheng." Fu said self-deprecatingly: "It is not in vain to be defeated in his hands." I think that when I was in Xudu, Emperor Taizu also praised him, but I didn't want to become a big trouble for my country today. I knew this was the case, and I should have killed him in Xudu that day. Alas!!! ”

After Cao Xiu finished talking to himself, there was a sudden report from the future, saying that Guo Huai's army had arrived at the city and was arraying to challenge. Cao Xiu was shocked in his heart, and coughed a few more times. Wen Xiu remembered Cao Xiu's injuries and couldn't help asking, "How is Du Xiu's injury?" Cao Xiu easily stopped coughing, and then shook his head and said: "I have been barely able to support it in the past two days, but fortunately, the general has come back safely and can help me." Wen Xiu immediately replied: "The last general should do his best to assist the governor to defend the city." Since the governor is in physical condition, the last general will go to the city to supervise the battle. Then he turned around and went out.

"General, stay still." Jia Kui listened carefully to Wen Xiu's narration without saying a word, and when he was about to leave, he got up and shouted again. Wen Xiu immediately stopped and asked, "What does General Jia command?" Jia Kui stared at Wen Xiu for a moment before he replied lukewarmly: "The general has just returned, and he hasn't rested, how can he fight again?" I still want to go down and rest for a while, and the affairs of the city are not bothered by the general. Wen Xiu and the martial artists couldn't understand Jia Kui's words, and really thought that the other party was concerned about his body, so he couldn't help but smile and said: "The last general is strong, there is no need to rest, the war is tight, or go to the city to defend immediately." Then he took another great stride and prepared to go out.

Jia Kui made his eyes look at him, asked the guards in front of the door to stop him, and continued to say indifferently: "There are people guarding the city, the Han army is new, the offensive may not be fierce, and please ask the general to rest for a day, and wait for the Han army to attack tomorrow." It's not too late for the general to come out and meet the battle. Wen Xiu saw two strong men stopping in front of him, and seemed to understand Jia Kui's intentions, and suddenly became angry, and said loudly to Cao Xiu: "The last general is loyal to the country, and he fought desperately and bloody again, before he escaped, and all hopes were to supervise Mingjian." ”

After listening to Jia Kui's first sentence, Cao Xiu understood his implied meaning, and he couldn't help but beat a drum in his heart. After Wen Xiu willingly broke off, he had a grudge against Shu Han for killing his father, and it was said that Cao Xiu should not doubt his loyalty. However, Wen Ping is not Wen Xiu's biological father, and Zhao Shu may not be a woman's benevolence, so he is willing to let the enemy general leave for no reason. The defeat this time is that the defeat is to believe in others too much, do you still dare to believe in Wen Xiu now? Cao Xiu looked at Wen Xiu, and then at Jia Kui, and felt that Jia Kui's worries were not completely unreasonable, not to mention that even if Wen Xiu had worked all the way, he should rest and recover his strength, so he smiled and said: "General Jia has no other intentions." General Wen has fought hard, and it is time to rest for a while before he can ......"

Wen Xiu was expecting Cao Xiu to speak for himself, but he never expected that what he was waiting for was such a sentence. In fact, as far as Cao Xiu is concerned, not believing in Wen Xiu is just a thought, and more still feels that Wen Xiu should really rest. But how could Wen Xiu tell Cao Xiu's kindness at this moment? I only felt full of blood, and was splashed down by a basin of ice water on my head, and I was not only angry in my heart, but also ashamed, why didn't I learn from Liao Hua and kill myself, but wanted to stay here to be humiliated? As soon as he thought of this, Wen Xiu didn't want to argue with the two anymore, but pulled out his sword and said angrily: "Since the governor doesn't believe in the last general, the last general can only die to show his will, and I hope the governor will take care of his life!" "Then you have to learn that Liao Hua horizontal sword to kill yourself.