As he spoke, Zhu Yun chased after him with a blood-stained sword.
Not to be outdone, Liu Xiu and Long Yuan followed Zhu Yun and chased into the woods. More than a dozen barbarians ran all the way, but were killed by Liu Xiu and the other three. They only ran a distance of more than a hundred meters, and more than a dozen barbarians were already there.
Only three poor people were left.
At this time, through the gaps in the woods, I could vaguely see a large group of people in the forest ahead, a dense darkness.
Liu Xiu, Long Yuan, and Zhu Yun stopped one after another. It was still unknown how many barbarians were still ahead. If they pursued them rashly, they would probably be in trouble.
They had just begun to think about retreating when suddenly they heard a woman's scream coming from the woods ahead: "Help...ah..."
Liu Xiu was shaken and said urgently: "They are Han people!" As he spoke, he ran forward.
Zhu Yun wanted to catch him, but his fingertips only touched the hem of Liu Xiu's clothes.
Seeing Liu Xiu and Long Yuan rushing forward one after another, he stamped his feet vigorously and cursed angrily: "Damn it, fight!" As he spoke, he also rushed forward.
Unfortunately for the three wounded barbarians, they were stabbed to the ground by the Liu Xiu trio who came after them as soon as they got closer to their own men.
Liu Xiu looked up and saw that there were indeed many people here, but most of them were women, Han women. They were tied with ropes into a long string. Beside them, there were six barbarian soldiers holding swords.
You can understand what happened without asking. These women wearing Han costumes must have been kidnapped by the barbarians. Liu Xiu shouted: "Kill--" He rushed towards a barbarian soldier with his sword and struck with all his strength.
Huashan's chopping down.
The barbarian soldier had no time to parry with his sword, and was hit in the head by Liu Xiu's sword. With a click, half of the barbarian soldier's body fell off and fell to the ground, while the body with the remaining half of its head still stood in place.
When the women around looked at it, they were so frightened that they screamed and hugged each other.
The remaining five barbarian soldiers looked at Liu Xiu, who had been killed and was covered in blood, as if they were seeing a savage beast. They didn't even dare to attack him and turned around and ran away.
These barbarian soldiers who are responsible for guarding Han women are the old, weak, sick and disabled with the weakest fighting ability among the barbarian soldiers. They have no fighting ability at all. How can they outrun Liu Xiu, Long Yuan and Zhu Yun?
In just a blink of an eye, the three of them were chasing behind them.
The five barbarian soldiers were so frightened that they all threw away their weapons and knelt down to beg for mercy.
Liu Xiu and the others could not understand a word of what they said. Zhu Yun was not polite at all and slashed an old barbarian soldier to death with his sword. The remaining four people shivered in fear.
Zhu Yun refused to give up and continued to kill. Liu Xiu calmed down first, grabbed Zhu Yun, and said in a low voice: "Brother Yun, if you keep them, you may be able to find out the whereabouts of more barbarian soldiers."
After hearing this, Zhu Yun slowly lowered his long sword that he had raised high. His mind turned, he nodded, and said, "What Axiu said makes sense!" As he spoke, he looked at Liu Xiu with strange eyes.
He kept looking over him.
Liu Xiu looked puzzled and asked, "Brother Yun, what's wrong?"
"Axiu, you are so good at hiding it so deeply. How come I didn't know you were so good at it before?!"
On the battlefield just now, Zhu Yun also paid careful attention to the skills of Liu Xiu and Long Yuan.
The former slashed and killed the barbarian soldiers as if the autumn wind swept away the fallen leaves. I am afraid that more barbarian soldiers died under Axiu's sword than he killed, while the latter was completely hidden, and no one could see his power.
depth.
Intuitively, Zhu Yun felt that Long Zhongbo's skills were more terrifying than Axiu's.
Liu Xiu smiled and said: "Thanks to my eldest brother and Brother Yun for teaching me boxing since I was a child!"
Zhu Yun waved his hand and said: "Yes, yes, yes, I don't dare to take credit. I can't teach you your skills!"
As he spoke, he walked towards the women with his sword in hand and said, "You don't have to be afraid, we are all Xiangyang rebels."
While speaking, he used his long sword to cut off the ropes that bound the women one by one. Then he picked up a few ropes and tied up the four surrendered barbarians.
At this time, Li Tong, Li Yi and others also rushed over. Seeing such a group of Han women at the scene, everyone was confused and didn't understand what was going on.
Zhu Yun looked around at the crowd. The original number of one hundred people was probably less than fifty now. He asked, "Where are the other brothers?"
Everyone looked at each other in shock, and someone choked and said: "Captain, the other brothers were either killed in the battle, or were seriously injured and unable to move."
Zhu Yun grinned. Fifty people were gone in the blink of an eye. Zhu Yun took a picture of Liu Xiu and said urgently: "Axiu, you stay and look after them! You guys, follow me to rescue the injured brothers!"
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After assigning tasks, Zhu Yun left in a hurry with a group of people, leaving Liu Xiu, Long Yuan, Li Tong, Li Yi and more than a dozen people behind.
Liu Xiu walked up to the group of women and looked around. Every one of them had a gray head and a face full of mud.
It is estimated that the mud on many people's faces was put on by themselves and fell into the hands of barbarians. If women want to protect themselves, they can only make themselves dirty and ugly. Liu Xiu asked: "Where are you all from?
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"Sir, the Nu family is from Hanzhong!"
"The Nu family is also from Hanzhong!"
"My family is from Bajun!"
"..."
Liu Xiu listened carefully and found that most of these women were from Hanzhong, and some were from Bajun and Guanghan counties. Even if they were not in Hanzhong, they were not far from Hanzhong.
Li Yi walked up to Liu Xiu and said, "Let them go home by themselves, we can't march with them!"
After hearing this, the women became anxious and cried from time to time. Now in the midst of the war, letting these women go home alone would be equivalent to watching them die.
Li Tong shook his head and said: "Save them to the end. I think they should be sent to a nearby government office, and the government will send people to escort them home."
Liu Xiu felt that Li Tongyan was right. He nodded and said, "What Jiyuan said is true."
He looked at everyone again, took out two pieces of dry food from his ration bag, handed it to the two women closest to him, and said, "You guys eat something first."
The two women timidly took the rations first, thanked Liu Xiufu personally, and then wolfed them down. Seeing this, Li Tong and others also took out the rations they had brought with them and distributed them to the girls.
At this time, Li Yi covered his food bag tightly and refused to take out the dry food.
There is a severe drought in other places and there is no food, but here in Yizhou, there is not only a severe drought, but also war and chaos. It is not easy to find a bite to eat. Now asking him to hand over dry food is tantamount to asking him to cut off his own flesh.
Li Tong walked up to Liu Xiu, bowed to the ground, and said, "Uncle Wen, thank you for saving my cousin and me just now!"
Liu Xiu smiled at him and said in a brisk tone: "Ci Yuan and Ji Wen are not bad either. They both killed barbarians just now."
Li Tong's face turned red. Compared with Liu Xiu, he was far behind his cousin.
Not long after, Liu Yan rushed over. When he saw Liu Xiu covered in blood, he was startled. He walked forward quickly and asked with concern: "Axiu, where are you injured? Tell me quickly!"
Liu Xiu waved his hand and said, "Brother, I'm fine." He looked down at his clothes and said, "None of this blood is mine!"
Zhu Yun came over and said cheerfully: "Bosheng, Axiu is much more capable than you think. Half of the barbarians we killed must have been killed by Axiu!"
His words were a bit exaggerated, but the number of barbarians who died in Liu Xiu's hands must have been at least ten or twenty. In the past, Zhu Yun also treated Liu Xiu as his little brother, but now, he no longer dares to underestimate Liu Xiu. .
Liu Yan was startled at first, then burst into laughter, and said proudly: "We, the Liu family brothers, don't give anything for free!" As he spoke, he patted Liu Xiu hard on the shoulder.
Then, he looked at the women present and asked, "How will they deal with it?"
Liu Xiu said: "Brother, I think they should be sent to the local government, and the government will send people to escort them home."
Liu Yan nodded and said, "Okay." Then, he turned his eyes and looked at the four captured barbarians. A cold light flashed in his eyes, and he walked over with his long sword in hand.
Liu Xiu hurriedly caught up with Liu Yan and asked in a low voice: "Brother, have you found any property on the barbarian soldiers?"
Liu Yan blinked, shook his head and said, "No, what's wrong?"
Liu Xiu said in a low voice: "The fact that the barbarian soldiers kidnapped so many women means that they robbed their homes all the way to Hanzhong. How could they have no property on them?"
Liu Yan took a breath, yes, since these barbarians kidnapped so many women, they must have robbed a lot of property. But the strange thing is that when they searched the bodies of these barbarians, not even a copper plate was found. .
His mind turned around and he whispered: "Axiu, do you think... they hid all the stolen property?"
"I think it's nine out of ten."
After thinking for a moment, Liu Yan nodded, smiled and cursed: "Damn, these barbarians are quite cunning!" After speaking, he turned around and shouted: "Respect?"
Zhang Ping walked over quickly and said, "Bo Sheng!"
Liu Yan waved to Zhang Ping, and when he came close to him, he whispered a few words in his ear.
Zhang Ping listened and nodded. When Liu Yan finished speaking, he responded, walked up to the four barbarian captives, and asked a few questions in fluent barbarian language.
Liu Xiu was surprised and said: "Brother, can Brother Ping still speak barbaric words?"
Liu Yan smiled and said, "Jingzhi is from Yizhou County. He has always dealt with barbarians since he was a child."
Yizhou County is located in the west of Yizhou, bordering the barbarian land.
"That's it!" Liu Xiu also knew for the first time that Zhang Ping was from Yizhou County. No wonder his archery skills were so good. Barbarians were good at riding and shooting, and the style of mounted archery was also very popular in Yizhou County.
I don't know what Zhang Ping said to the four barbarians. Without any warning, he suddenly drew his sword and stabbed the three barbarians to death cleanly. Then he carried the last barbarian soldier into the depths of the woods.
Less than a quarter of an hour later, Zhang Ping came out of the woods alone and handed Liu Yan a piece of blood-stained linen cloth. Liu Xiu looked over and saw that there was a map drawn with blood on the linen cloth.
Zhang Ping pointed at the map and said: "The barbarian soldiers told me that they buried all the looted property here."
Liu Yan looked at this map, one head and two big, and he couldn't understand what the hell it was. He asked: "Jingzhi, can you find this place?"