Not to mention that the county army was unable to fight anymore, even Liu Xiu was completely exhausted at this time. But the barbarians would not give them a chance to breathe. Two barbarians rushed up the fastest, and they were in front of everyone in the blink of an eye.
Seeing the opponent slashing at him with a knife, an injured county soldier hurriedly dodged to the side, but he was still half a step too late and was struck on the shoulder by the opponent's knife.
The entire blade of this knife did not penetrate into his shoulder.
The county soldier screamed and fell down. The county soldier next to him roared like crazy and stabbed the barbarian soldier with his spear. While the soldier was stabbed to the core, he himself was hit by another soldier.
The barbarian soldier struck with a knife.
The man from the county army stepped forward, slammed into the barbarian soldier with his shoulder, and the sword in his hand stabbed into the opponent's chest.
Two barbarian soldiers fell to the ground, and similarly, two people from the county army also fell to the ground.
Looking up again, there were more barbarian soldiers rushing towards them from behind, with poisonous needles hanging in the strong wind, whizzing in the air. In the blink of an eye, two county soldiers were stabbed by the poisonous needles and fell to the ground.
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This battle is impossible to fight! The man from the county army yelled: "Run!"
People had no choice but to run forward with all their strength, including Liu Xiu. Even as they ran, they could still hear the swishing sound of the poisonous needles, and even feel the feathers of the needle tails on their bodies.
Crossed sideways.
Liu Xiu and others were already exhausted, but at the critical moment of life and death, everyone unleashed their potential and ran in the forest with wind in their ears.
I don’t know how long they ran, but there was no sound of footsteps or the shouts of the barbarians behind them. Everyone couldn’t hold on any longer and lay down on the ground one after another. They had no energy to speak anymore and could only breathe heavily.
After resting for a while, Liu Xiu turned around and saw that there were only three people left among the seven or eight county soldiers. The man from the county army raised his head tremblingly, looked around, and asked breathlessly:
"Where have we run to?"
Liu Xiu didn't know where this place was. He had long been unable to tell the difference between east, west, north and south. Now the only thing he could be sure of was that this place was far away from the main battlefield where the two sides were fighting.
After resting for a while, Liu Xiu slowly stood up from the ground with his sword in hand and said, "We can't stay here for long, the barbarians may chase us at any time!"
The three county soldiers looked at each other. No one said anything, but they still stood up one after another. What Liu Xiu said was true. Although they had temporarily got rid of the pursuers, it did not mean that their situation was safe.
Because there are no pursuers behind them, they don't have to keep running. After all, they can't run now even if they want to. The man from the county army asked: "Brother, what's your name?"
"Liu Xiu."
"A native of Xiangyang?"
"A native of Caiyang, Nanyang."
"Oh! My name is Ma Yan, and their names are Yuan Fu and Yuan Lu. We are both from Xixiang, Hanzhong."
Liu Xiu nodded and didn't say much. He really didn't have the strength to speak anymore.
After they had walked for more than two hours, the woods began to become sparse, and everyone's hearts moved, as if they had suddenly seen the light of day.
They involuntarily quickened their pace, and when Liu Xiu and the others walked out of the forest and looked forward, the fire of hope that had just been ignited in their hearts was instantly extinguished.
It turned out that they did not leave Ganyou Mountain, on the contrary, they entered the depths of Ganyou Mountain.
Standing in front of them and blocking their way was a towering mountain peak. As far as they could see, it was all sheer cliffs. There was not even a place to climb, let alone a hillside.
There is a dead end ahead, but if they turn around and go back, there will be barbarians behind them, which means they are going to die. What should they do?
Ma Yan rolled his eyes and said, "Let's just follow the roots of the mountain. We will definitely find the exit!"
Liu Xiu, Yuan Fu, and Yuan Lu naturally had no way of judging whether what he said was right, but now they could only treat the dead horse as a live doctor.
Ma Yan walked in front, and Liu Xiu and three others followed, walking along the foot of the mountain.
They walked for more than an hour. At this time, the sky was already turning white. Suddenly, Ma Yan, who was leading the way, stopped and said with surprise and joy: "There is an exit ahead!"
Hearing this, Liu Xiu, Yuan Fu, and Yuan Lu were all refreshed and followed Ma Yan to quicken their pace.
Sure enough, they walked a dozen meters further and saw a small canyon.
This canyon is just over two meters wide, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, in the shape of a 'herringbone'. It seems as if someone has cut a large gap in the mountain wall, which makes people marvel at the magic of nature's creation.
Ma Yan was about to walk into the canyon. Liu Xiu took a few steps quickly, caught up with him, grabbed Ma Yan's sleeve, and whispered: "Brother Ma, we don't know the situation inside the canyon, so we can't enter rashly!"
He didn't want to go in rashly, but the mountains were full of barbarians. When it was dark, they could still hide their tracks, but now that it was getting light, they had nowhere to hide. There was no place to hide.
Ma Yan took a deep breath and said, "I can't control that much anymore, just take it one step at a time!"
As he spoke, he took a deep breath, gripped the hilt of his sword, and walked step by step into the canyon.
The canyon was narrow and long. After walking twenty or thirty meters, they finally walked out of the canyon and looked outside. Liu Xiu, Ma Yan, Yuan Fu, and Yuan Lu all opened their eyes in unison.
At the end of the canyon is a huge valley, surrounded by mountains. This is nothing. What is shocking is that the canyon is full of tents. Some tents are made of animal skins, and some tents are made of many pieces of cloth.
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This is obviously not the camp of the Han people. The only possibility is that this is the camp of the barbarians. The barbarian troops who were hiding in Ganyou Mountain actually live in this valley. They actually ran to the barbarian army's lair in a panic!
The four of them were staring at everything in front of them in stunned silence. Suddenly, they heard a whooshing sound, and a sharp arrow pierced the sky and hit Yuan Lu's throat.
Yuan Lu leaned back, took two steps back, opened his mouth, and seemed to want to say something else, but he couldn't spit out a word, and all he spit out was blood.
His body fell straight on his back.
Liu Xiu, Ma Yan, and Yuan Fu, who were standing next to him, were shocked. Yuan Fu exclaimed: "The third child!"
He threw himself on Yuan Lu, and when he looked at Yuan Lu, his neck was pierced by an arrow, his wide-open eyes were covered with a layer of deathly ashes, and there was no trace of breath left.
Liu Xiu and Ma Yan looked to the side and saw many barbarian women rushing out from the tents on the side. They were wearing animal skins covering their breasts and animal skin skirts. They were barefoot and without shoes.
Like the barbarian soldiers, their faces are also painted with color.
Ma Yan came back to his senses, roared angrily, and ran towards the barbarian women with his sword in hand. Upon seeing this, Liu Xiu frowned secretly, this was obviously the lair of the barbarian army, and fighting the barbarians here was tantamount to seeking death.
However, it was too late to call Ma Yan back at this time. In desperation, Liu Xiu had no choice but to chase after him. Several barbarian women on the opposite side twisted their bows and nocked arrows, and fired volleys at Liu Xiu and Ma Yan.
Liu Xiu used his dexterity to dodge the two arrows sideways, while Ma Yan swung his sword to deflect the two arrows.
Rushing up to these barbarian women, Liu Xiu feinted from above and kicked out from behind, hitting a barbarian woman in the stomach and kicking her backwards.
A female barbarian soldier shouted, threw away the bow and arrow in her hand, drew out her machete, and slashed at Liu Xiu's head with all her strength.
Liu Xiu parried with his sword, and with a clang, the scimitar was blocked by the iron sword. Liu Xiu's figure swayed and slid past the opponent. Along with this, the sword edge also opened a gash in the lower abdomen of the barbarian woman.
On the battlefield where life and death depended on a thread, there was no distinction between men and women, only friends and foes. Although he was facing a barbarian woman, Liu Xiu was not polite at all, and at this moment, he did not dare to be polite.
The barbarian woman who had just been kicked by him struggled to stand up. Liu Xiu stepped forward and swept out with a kick, hitting the side of the opponent's head. The barbarian woman grunted and fell to the ground, fainting.
Die.
Liu Xiu had just finished dealing with two barbarian women when he heard exclamations from Ma Yan's side. Ma Yan stabbed an enemy to death with a sword, but he was also stabbed in the back, leaving an extra half-foot length.
bloody mouth.
Seeing this, Liu Xiu rushed over. Just when the barbarian woman was about to slash Ma Yan a second time, Liu Xiu came up to the barbarian woman like a gust of wind, took the lead and pierced her throat with his sword.
The four barbarian women all fell to the ground. Liu Xiu breathed a sigh of relief, stretched out her hand to support the shaky Ma Yan, and asked: "How are you?"
Ma Yan's face turned pale, and his body was shaking with pain. Before he could speak, suddenly, he heard a long horn sound in the valley, and then countless barbarians ran out of the camp.
These barbarians who were left in the camp were either women, or old, weak, sick or disabled, but even so, they could not withstand the large number of them. Looking around, there were few barbarians running towards Liu Xiu and Ma Yan.
There must be hundreds of people.
It can't be fought! This can't be fought at all! Liu Xiu took Ma Yan's arm and said urgently: "Let's go!"
At this time, Ma Yan did not dare to stay any longer. He endured the pain in his back, turned around and ran back. When he passed by Yuan Fu, Ma Yan grabbed his shoulder and shouted sternly: "Stop crying, let's go quickly."
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Yuan Lu was killed, and Yuan Fu cried so hard that his eyes were scarlet. He was pulled by Ma Yan and ran with him staggeringly. But now they wanted to exit the valley by the same way, and there was no chance.
When we arrived at the canyon, we looked outside and saw dozens of barbarian soldiers rushing in along the entrance of the canyon. As for how many barbarian soldiers there were outside the canyon, we could no longer see clearly.
Oops! Now Liu Xiu, Ma Yan, and Yuan Fu all realize what it means to be a turtle in a urn.
They knew very well what would happen if they fell into the hands of the barbarians. With their escape route cut off, there was no hope of escaping from the valley. Yuan Fu turned around and saw a barbarian woman swinging a scimitar and decapitating Yuan Lu's corpse.
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Yuan Fu couldn't help it any longer, and with a roar, he rushed towards the opponent with a spear. He rushed up quickly, but fell down even faster. He was chopped down to the ground by a large group of barbarian women, and all the knives fell. He was killed on the spot.
Chop Yuan Fu into minced meat.
Liu Xiu and Ma Yan were unable to come forward to rescue them. If they went over, they would end up like Yuan Fu. They gave up walking through the canyon and subconsciously ran north because there were almost no barbarian camps in sight.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh! Arrows and needles kept passing by the two of them. Liu Xiu and Ma Yan did not dare to look back. They used all their strength and ran forward with all their strength.