Chapter 152 Siege of the city and the heart to seek the moon
Seeing Xia Houhui rushing out of the city, Wei Ba, who had just turned his head, also rushed out without thinking, reaching out and grabbing Xia Houhui's raised wrist, but he himself was also led out of the city wall by Xia Houhui, and his left hand had just grabbed the battlement.
, before he could hold it tightly, it slipped away and fell with Xia Houhui.
"Young Master!" Dun Wu, with quick eyes and quick hands, grabbed Wei Ba's wrist that was about to slip away and held him tightly.
Wei Ba was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat. He turned his wrist, held Dun Wu's hand, and shouted loudly: "Dun Wu, pull me up."
"Don't worry, young master." Dunwu's voice was also trembling, and it seemed that he had been frightened just now. He tried hard, but found that Wei Ba and Xia Houhui were too heavy, and he couldn't use any force at all.
Unable to pull him up, he had to shout: "Young master, hold on, I'll call for help!"
"Hurry up!" Wei Ba's wrist, which carried the weight of the two people, was in severe pain and seemed to be about to break. He lowered his head and looked at Xia Houhui floating in the air. Xiahou Hui was twisting his wrist, trying to break free.
hand.
"Stinky girl, don't move. If you move again I will throw you down."
"Please!" Xia Houhui raised his face, tears flying in the wind: "Please let me go!"
"Don't even think about it!" Wei Ba roared and categorically rejected it. He took a breath and shouted again: "This is only ten feet high. If you fall, the most likely injury is serious injury. If you are injured, I won't let you.
I will only reward you to the soldiers and torture you until you die."
Xia Houhui visibly shuddered and slowly stopped struggling.
While they were talking, Tang Qianyu and Zhu Yi arrived and worked together to drag Wei Ba and Xia Houhui up. Xia Houhui leaned against the city wall and sat slumped on the ground, motionless. If his chest hadn't been still heaving,
It's simply a corpse.
Looking at the bloody handprints on Xia Houhui's chest, Wei Ba wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and found that his clothes were all stuck to his body with cold sweat. He glanced at the lights outside the city and couldn't help but feel frightened. He just said to Xia Houhui
It was impossible to die if she fell, and she would be seriously injured at most. In fact, it was just to scare her. If she fell from such a high place, she would probably die. If she fell headlong, it would be even worse.
I couldn't tell that this noble lady was really bloody. She actually dared to jump from the city. She was worthy of being the daughter of a general. He took a deep breath, squatted in front of Xia Houhui, opened her eyes and said, "I would rather die than give up."
Me as my concubine?"
Xia Houhui looked at him blankly, there were still tears on his face, but there were no more tears in his eyes, and there was no expression on his face. If there was any expression at all, there was only indifference, contempt, and a trace of self-mockery.
Wei Ba was shocked by her look. He stood up and waved his hand: "Okay, okay, if you don't want to do it, forget it. You go take a bath first and eat something. Later, I will discuss something with you. As long as
If you can do me a favor, I will send you back intact."
Xia Houhui still looked at him blankly, without even moving his eyes. Wei Ba felt a little bored, so he asked someone to take Xia Houhui down to clean her, and then got her some food, and then he returned to the lobby. After this,
, his original intention of teasing Xia Houhui suddenly became meaningless, and even his thoughts disappeared without a trace.
After sitting in the hall for a while, Xia Houhui was brought. Her room in Yiwu was still well-preserved. There was her change of clothes in it. The dirt on her body was washed away, and she put on a beautiful silk dress. Her whole person suddenly looked brand new.
, except that she was still a little haggard, she was completely different from the woman just now who was down and out and wanted to die.
Wei Ba looked at her for a moment and pointed to the seat opposite. "Sit!"
Xia Houhui put his hands in his sleeves and placed them in front of his abdomen. He stood upright, looking down at Wei Ba, but showed no intention of sitting down. Wei Ba was stunned for a moment and then laughed: "You should be clearer, no matter what
Say, you are my prisoner now. If you want to play these little psychological warfare tricks with me, I'm afraid you will be disappointed. If you don't want to go back to that dungeon, don't have too many ideas."
Xia Houhui bit his lip, his originally firm eyes flinched, lowered his head, and sat down on the table.
Wei Ba turned the map in front of him, pushed it in front of Xia Houhui, and clicked on Chang'an. "Currently, the entire Guanzhong is under my control, except for Chang'an."
Xia Houhui said nothing.
"If you hadn't come to disrupt the situation, your uncle would have been captured alive by me, and then I would have used his seal and ribbon to capture Chang'an and all of Guanzhong." Wei Ba said calmly: "It's a pity that you saw through my plan, and you were only so far behind.
After a while, Chang'an became my heartache."
Xia Houhui snorted softly, and his expressionless face finally showed some changes.
"However, if you think Chang'an can hold on until reinforcements arrive, then you are thinking too simply. To be honest, Wuguan and Tongguan are now heavily guarded, not to mention that your main forces are now in the southeast and Sun Quan
Once the battle begins, even if everyone rushes to Guanzhong, I can defend it for more than three months. Three months is enough for me to conquer Chang'an City."
"In that case, why are you looking for me?" Xia Houhui raised his head and looked at Wei Ba coldly, with a hint of ridicule in his eyes.
Wei Ba met her gaze and curled his lips: "If you can avoid fighting, of course it's better not to fight. I'm not a warlike person, and I don't have a hobby of killing people for fun."
Xia Houhui stared at him fiercely. After a moment, his eyes flashed and he avoided Wei Ba's direct gaze.
"Okay, I admit, I'm not afraid of death, I don't want to force your emperor to fight with me." Wei Ba also slowed down and said, "It doesn't matter if you and your uncle are dead, anyway, the Xiahou family is sunset, and he
If Guanzhong is lost, even if we return to Luoyang, there will be no good results. It may be more honorable to die in battle. But the death of Princess Qinghe is a big mistake."
Xia Houhui sneered silently.
"To be honest, I didn't want to make this deal with you. It doesn't matter if you let your uncle and Princess Qinghe go back. They are of no use anyway. Just letting you go makes me very hesitant." Wei Ba rubbed his fingers and was silent for a moment.
, as if she was still unsure about her decision: "You are the smartest woman I have ever seen, and you will marry Master Sima in the future. Master Sima is already a very strong opponent, and with you, Master Sima will be like a tiger."
In the future, not only Cao Rui will be uneasy, but I will also be uneasy."
He sighed longly: "Unfortunately, I have no better way now. I wanted to take you as my concubine, but I didn't expect that you would rather die than follow me." He rubbed his hands: "I am very hesitant now.
I not only want you to persuade Xiahou Mao to abandon the city, but also want to kill you to avoid future troubles. Miss Xiahou, if you stand in my position, what do you think I should do?"
"If it were me, I would kill you now." Xia Houhui replied without thinking, with anger in her eyes. She tensed her body and took two heavy breaths, like a female leopard about to pounce.
After a moment, she weakly relaxed her body and said in frustration: "However, you are a man and I am a woman, they are not the same. Sima and his son were defeated by you first, and I was captured alive by you. They are all yours."
The defeated generals under your command will not be your opponent even if we work together."
Wei Ba blinked: "Are you trying to make me happy?"
Xia Houhui blushed and said nothing, just biting his lip gently.
Wei Ba gritted his teeth: "Okay, I'll take a risk. You write a letter to Xiahou Mao and ask him to abandon the city. I will guarantee his safety and send him back to Luoyang. If not, he will regret it after I conquer Chang'an.
Already."
"I can write, but I don't guarantee that he will listen to me." Xia Houhui stood up slowly: "If he doesn't listen to me, what will you do with me?"
Wei Ba smiled: "If that's the case, I will have to wrong the girl for a few more days. When I capture your brother alive in the future, maybe he will be willing to offer you to me as a concubine. By then, I think the girl will just look down on me.
For the sake of the future of the family, you will also compromise. Don’t you think so?"
Xia Houhui turned her head away in embarrassment, but she had to admit that what Wei Ba said was somewhat reasonable. If Wei Ba could really seriously threaten Cao Wei's empire, Emperor Cao Rui and her brother Xia Houxuan would not mind
She was given to Wei Ba as a gift for temporary relief. In the history of the Cao family, there are many such examples. She is not the first, nor will she be the last.
"I don't think you will have such a day." Xia Houhui looked around, "Should I write now?"
"It's not urgent." Wei Ba smiled, "The girl was frightened and her energy has not recovered. It's better to have a good rest for two days before talking."
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Xunyang, Lujiang County, the Wu Army camp.
Sun Quan, king of Wu, sat in the middle, Lu Xun, the auxiliary general, sat beside him, and Zhu Huan, the Fenwu general, sat opposite him, standing straight and looking at Lu Xun with bright eyes.
Lu Xun was deep in thought, but his face was calm and emotionless. He turned a blind eye to Zhu Huan's urgency.
Cao Xiu, the commander-in-chief of Wei, led an army of 100,000 people and rushed to Wancheng. He did not see Zhou Li, the governor of Poyang, who was expected to come. The plan of false surrender was obvious. However, Cao Xiu did not retreat immediately. On the contrary, he set up a battle formation.
He took on the stance of fighting to the death.
Seeing this situation, Zhu Huan made a bold suggestion. He believed that Cao Xiu could become the Great Sima just because his surname was Cao, not because of his real ability. This time, the outcome of the ambush was decided before the battle, but he only defeated him.
Far from enough. The Wei State is strong. Even if they lose 20,000 to 30,000 people, it is not a fatal injury to them. It is better to send a group of troops to go around behind Cao Xiu, and then encircle Cao Xiu in three directions, and kill Cao Xiu's more than 50,000 people.
People ate them all.
Eating these 50,000 people and inflicting heavy losses on the Wei army was only one of Zhu Huan's goals. He also wanted to take this opportunity to push Wu's forces into the Shouchun area, occupy the entire Jianghuai River, threaten Xuchang and Luoyang, and prepare for the future Northern Expedition.
be prepared.
The idea was proposed by Zhu Huan, but Lu Xun knew that Sun Quan must have been moved, otherwise he would not have rushed to the camp so seriously. With Sun Quan's trust in him, it was not related to such a major strategic matter.
He won't come in person.
However, Lu Xun had a different view.
He shook his head. Zhu Huan's face suddenly darkened. Sun Quan also tightened his eyes. He raised his hand and stroked his purple beard and asked, "Bo Yan, why?"
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