Liu Yan patted Liu Xiu's shoulder and said with a smile: "Even if Gongsun's inference is correct, don't forget that we also have more than ten thousand soldiers. No matter how many barbarian soldiers are hiding in Qianyou Mountain, I'm afraid they can't exceed one." 10,000?!"
At this time, a young man who was friends with Liu Yan came over, handed him the water bag, and said: "Brother Bo Sheng, please drink some water first!"
Liu Yan waved his hands to express that he was not thirsty. The young man raised his eyes and looked around and said: "It's dark here now, and Qianyou Mountain is so big. How long do we have to search? I think this whole night, we There’s no need to sleep anymore.”
"One hundred dollars for a barbarian soldier's head cheers up all the brothers!"
The young man nodded, but suddenly, he felt numbness on the back of his neck, as if he had been stabbed by something. He subconsciously raised his hand to wipe it from the back of his neck. His hand hadn't even touched the back of his neck. Suddenly, in front of him Suddenly, his body fell straight to the side.
Liu Xiu and Liu Yan were startled. They quickly picked up the torch and came closer to him to take a closer look. It turned out that there was a wooden needle stuck on the back of the young man's neck, with a feather tied at the end of the needle.
Liu Yan subconsciously said: "What is this?" He stretched out his hand to touch it when Zhang Ping rushed over, grabbed Liu Yan's arm and said urgently: "Don't touch it, it's poisonous! It's a poisonous needle! It's nearby. There are enemies..."
Before he finished speaking, he heard a rustling sound coming from their diagonal side. Then, several barbarian soldiers rushed out from the jungle. They all held long, round stick-shaped tubes in their hands, blowing while running. Poison needle.
Liu Xiu, Liu Yan, and Zhang Ping hurriedly dodged to the side. They reacted quickly, but several volunteers around them were unable to dodge and were stung by the flying poisonous needles.
Just like the young man just now, people swayed twice and fell to the ground one after another, foaming at the mouth and convulsing in their limbs.
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack -" In an instant, Liu Yan and Liu Xiu's side felt like a pot was exploding. People started to fight with the barbarians who rushed out.
At first, they thought they were just encountering a small group of barbarians, but as they were fighting, horns suddenly sounded in the woods, and countless barbarians ran out from all directions, blowing needles from a distance and slashing with knives at close range. Before the rebels could realize what was going on, they were all killed in the blink of an eye.
Liu Yan roared, drew his sword, and rushed towards the incoming barbarians. Liu Xiu wanted to follow his elder brother to fight side by side, but several oncoming barbarians blocked him. Liu Xiu held his sword and fought with these barbarians. Several barbarian soldiers fought together.
There was no light in the woods, and the barbarian soldiers appeared too suddenly and too scattered. The two sides were completely confused and couldn't tell where their own people were and where the enemy was.
Fortunately, Long Yuan has been with Liu Xiu and helped Liu Xiu relieve a lot of pressure.
After killing all the barbarians blocking the way to the ground, Liu Xiu raised his eyes and looked around. Where could he find his elder brother? Wherever he looked, there were rebels and barbarians in a chaotic group.
Liu Xiu yelled: "Brother——"
As soon as he finished shouting, Long Yuan pulled him and flew out.
Puff puff! As soon as the two of them threw themselves aside, several wooden needles were nailed to the trees beside them. Seeing this, Liu Xiu also broke into a cold sweat.
Liu Xiu didn't dare to shout anymore, so he could only rely on his feeling to rush towards the direction where his elder brother might be. Liu Xiu didn't know how many barbarians there were, and he couldn't see clearly. Anyway, there were more and more barbarians around him. It seemed that It seems like they can't finish the killing.
Just as he was rushing forward with all his strength, dozens of barbarian soldiers suddenly poured out from the side and dispersed Liu Xiu and the people around him in an instant.
There was nothing to say but to fight to the death. Liu Xiu used his dexterous body skills and held swords in both hands to chop down the surrounding barbarians.
Amidst the clanging sound, he killed five people in a row. But when he looked up, he saw that the number of barbarian soldiers around him not only did not decrease, but gathered more and more, almost like a tide.
"Retreat! Bo Sheng has ordered, everyone retreats——"
People's shouts came from the woods behind. Liu Xiu estimated that his eldest brother and others had retreated, but if he tried to retreat at this time, he could no longer retreat. His retreat was completely blocked by densely packed barbarians.
After Liu Xiu killed several more barbarians, he realized that continuing like this was not an option. It was no longer possible to retreat. He could only charge with all his strength into the woods on one side where there were fewer barbarians.
However, the number of people was small, but that was a relative term. Liu Xiu ran a dozen meters away, and dozens of barbarian soldiers appeared in front of him, all holding needle-blowing tubes in their hands.
Seeing Liu Xiu running towards them, everyone fired the blow needles together. Liu Xiu also reacted quickly, lying down on the spot and rolling sideways.
The flying needles that were fired did not hit him, but instead they all hit the two barbarian soldiers who were chasing him behind him.
The two barbarian soldiers fell to the ground on the spot without saying a word. They only twitched twice and then stopped moving.
Liu Xiu took this opportunity, jumped up from the ground, and jumped straight forward. Two fast-moving barbarians had reloaded their poison needles and were about to continue blowing on Liu Xiu. The latter swung his sword.
Got out.
Click, click! With two crisp sounds, the two needle-blowing pipes were cut off by the edge of the sword. Then, Liu Xiu thrust out his sword and hit a barbarian soldier in the throat.
He didn't stop for a moment, drew his sword and swept across. Another barbarian soldier was cut with a half-foot-long gash in his chest, and he wailed and fell in a pool of blood.
A dozen or so barbarian soldiers nearby put down their weapons, pulled out their scimitars, and roared towards Liu Xiu.
Liu Xiu did not retreat but advanced, and stepped forward to meet him. He sideways dodged the oncoming scimitar, and slashed to the side with his sword, hitting a barbarian soldier on the head. With a click, the man
Half of his head was chopped off.
He took the opportunity to rush over with a lunge, and the body that had not yet fallen to the ground was pushed away by him. It happened to collide with a barbarian soldier behind him, and the body and the man rolled into a ball.
Taking advantage of this gap, Liu Xiu jumped out of the crowd and continued running towards the woods ahead.
Now the two sides were completely in disarray in the woods, with sounds of fighting and shouting everywhere.
After running for who knows how long, Liu Xiu rushed to the side of the county army.
At this time, the situation of the county army was not much better than that of the rebels. There were more barbarians besieging them. Some county troops had retreated, while some were still fighting with the enemy. Others were surrounded by groups of barbarians. I think
There is no way to retreat.
Late at night, it's so dark in the woods that you can't see your fingers. The command system of the county army has completely failed. The eight thousand county troops plus three thousand rebels are now like a piece of loose sand. People are running around here and there, but no matter which direction they run.
, what you see is always a huge crowd of barbarian troops.
At this time, Liu Xiu was already 100% sure that Feng Yi had indeed been right. The barbarians hiding in Qianyou Mountain were not a small group of stragglers at all, but the elite main force of the barbarian army.
The barbarians who were killed in the front were just baits released by others. Their purpose was to introduce all of our main forces into the mountains and forests to engage in jungle warfare, which the barbarians were good at.
The move of the barbarian army to hide their troops in Ganyou Mountain was indeed unexpected. Coupled with Tang Heng's underestimation of the enemy, the Hanzhong army suffered a complete defeat in this battle.
Liu Xiu was alone. On such a chaotic battlefield, he could not change anything. He fought and ran all the way, and most of the things he saw were the corpses of the Hanzhong Army.
He didn't know how long he had been running, but Liu Xiu, who was in the mountains and forests, could no longer tell the difference between east, west and north. Fortunately, the shouts of death around him were getting weaker and weaker, indicating that he had successfully escaped from the main battlefield where the two sides were fighting.
At this time, Liu Xiu looked as if he had been washed with blood from head to toe. Blood beads were dripping down his clothes. It was unclear whether it was his own blood or the blood of the barbarians. On him.
Liu Xiu lowered his head and looked at the sword in his hand. The blade was already curled in several places, which showed the intensity of the fight just now.
He walked under a big tree, leaned on the trunk, and slowly slid to the ground. Sweat washed away the blood on his face, leaving white lines on his face.
Now he felt as if his body was falling apart. Every bone, every muscle and even every inch of skin was in severe pain.
He had not rested for half a stick of incense when he heard the sound of rushing footsteps coming from the woods on one side. Liu Xiu subconsciously held the hilt of the sword, his nerves tensed, he leaned on the ground with the sword, and stood up holding on to the tree trunk. , and entered combat mode again.
Rustle! The footsteps were getting closer and closer, and suddenly, several figures rushed out of the woods.
Because the visibility in the woods was too low, when both sides saw each other, the distance between them was less than three meters. People on both sides were not polite, waving their weapons and slashing at each other with all their strength.
Bang!
The sword's edge collided with the sword's edge, exploding a ball of sparks. It was this ball of sparks that allowed both sides to see clearly that the weapon used by the other side was not a barbarian's scimitar, but a long sword.
"Is he one of us?" the other party asked first.
"Xiangyang Rebels!" Liu Xiu replied immediately.
"Don't do it! Don't do anything! We are our own! We are the county army!" The man who was fighting Liu Xiu said urgently.
When the two parties walked out of the shadow of the trees and came to a small open space, they took a closer look under the weak moonlight in the sky and found that it was indeed their own people.
There were seven or eight people running out of the forest, all wearing county army uniforms. Some were injured, some were not injured, but whether they were injured or not, they were all covered in blood.
"Are you a county army?" Liu Xiu asked first.
"Yes!" The leader of the county army was a man in his thirties. He looked around Liu Xiu and asked breathlessly: "How many people are left in your Xiangyang rebel army?"
Hearing this, Liu Xiu slowly shook his head.
He didn't know how many people were left in the Xiangyang Rebel Army, and he didn't know what was going on with his eldest brother, Long Yuan, Zhang Ping, Zhu Yun, Li Tong, Li Yi and others. Now he couldn't find any of them.
Seeing Liu Xiu shaking his head, the man and other county soldiers looked disappointed. It seemed that the Xiangyang rebel army had almost been wiped out.
"You're the only one who ran out..." The man couldn't help but sigh up to the sky.
"Where's the county army?"
"It's broken up! It's all broken up! When we ran out, we heard someone shouting. It seemed that even the captain had been poisoned."
While they were talking, the sound of rapid footsteps came again from behind several county soldiers, and everyone subconsciously turned their heads to look.
As the footsteps got closer and closer, everyone finally saw clearly that it was the barbarian soldiers running over.