Chapter Seventy-Five: The Ambition of Xuande
Jizhou, Guangping County.
The north bank of the Shahe River is full of corpses and the river is soaked red, and the cicadas in the forest several miles away are constantly singing, and this place is already very close to Guangzong City.
During the day, a team of Xiang Yong and Guangzong ran out to report the news and launched a fierce battle here.
"Uh......"
A sudden pour of breath sounded in the silent night sky, and a young man in the bones opened his eyes and sat up with his scarred body, his right hand wrapped in rags with a Han sword.
Holding on to the long sword, the young man staggered to his feet, and the leather armor on his body was cut through several cracks, breaking as he got up, and draped over his waist.
"Virtue ...... Deran? The voice in his mouth was hoarse and weak, and he shook his drowsy head, and the young man staggered towards the bank of the river, and was only two steps away from the corpse under his feet, and fell to his knees.
Holding the Han sword, the young man raised his head and looked at the waning moon in the sky, gasped for breath, and rested for half a pillar of incense before the young man stood up again, staggered to the shore, and drank the river water on the riverside.
The water smelled of blood.
The empty belly was filled with water, and the young man walked back again, slowly and sequentially examining the faces of the corpses on the ground.
He is Liu Bei, it has been three months since Zhuo County borrowed money from his uncle Liu Yuanqi, he recruited the ranger swordsmen in the village and the good men who were willing to follow him out of Zhuo County, all the way south towards Zhonglang General Lu Zhi's army. He knew very well what he could do without the help of the regular army, with his own 200 men.
He once studied under Lu Zhimen, he is not a grass-headed common man who has no way to serve the country, he can rely on Lu Zhi.
"Xiao Wang...... Tiger Head ...... Wei Xian......"
A familiar face was found in the corpse, just after noon today, a Yellow Turban rebellion of about 400 found his village Yong, the enemy was outnumbered, Liu Bei did not know how the battle ended, in the melee he was knocked down by the enemy's horse and lost consciousness.
"Big brother...... I, I'm here. ”
Liu Bei's hair was messy, and he didn't know where the hair crown had fallen, and his face full of death turned happy when he heard the words, and he hurriedly ran towards his brother who was lying on the ground.
"Awen, great, don't move, let my brother see your injuries."
Liu Wen, the brother of the family, Liu Wen was lying on the ground weakly, his legs were pressed by a horse corpse, Liu Bei carefully looked at his upper body and put down the stone in his heart, and said: "Ah Wen, there is no injury on your body, but you were crushed by the horse corpse, don't worry, my brother will save you soon." ”
Liu Wen's face was very pale, and when he heard this, he laughed and said, "Brother, I said how I felt about my shortcomings, but it turned out that I was pressed..."
"It's okay, it's okay, brother, I'll get you out......"
Liu Bei said that he tried his best to carry the horse corpse, the ranger has been for several years, he is the most famous swordsman in Zhuo County, but the strength is not what he has seen, the horse corpse is too heavy.
"Wait a little longer, Awen will bear with it a little longer, and it will be fine soon."
Liu Bei swung his long sword and stabbed at the joint of the horse's leg one after another, and the long sword slashed through the horse's leg and slid to the ground with brown blood.
The horse's legs, horse's head, and horse's buttocks were divided in turn under Liu Bei's sword, and in the process, Liu Bei fell to the ground several times without physical strength, and got up again.
Struggling to remove the horse corpse, Liu Bei saw that his brother Liu Wen's leg had been completely crushed, his right leg bone had been broken, and his legs were unnaturally twisted and pressed into the dirt by the horse corpse.
"Big brother...... Did the horse move away? I feel a little cold on my legs. ”
"Ah, move, move, you take a rest first, and then we can go."
Liu Bei gritted his teeth, a mist swirled in his eyes, and he frowned and suffocated, he still had to find his own disciples and swordsmen, and it was impossible for them all to die.
He couldn't get Liu Wen back with a broken leg by himself.
Just as he was looking around left and right, a voice of surprise suddenly came from the forest: "Brother, is it you, brother?" ”
Liu Bei recognized this voice, and hurriedly turned around and said, "Deran! Where are you? I am here! ”
As soon as the words fell, two scarred young men rushed out of the forest not far away, and Liu Deran ran to Liu Bei before he said: "Brother, I know, I know that you will be fine!" ”
"Deran, it's good that you are alive, come brother, help me carry Ah Wen to the forest first."
With the help of Liu Deran and his doorman, the three of them quickly carried Liu Wen to a safe place in the forest, Liu Wen had passed out, they cleared a clearing, and the doorman carried the horse carcass back and set up a bonfire in the forest.
"It seems that only you and I survived, alas." He sighed and asked, "Deran, did we win in the end?" I killed a few thieves before I was knocked off by a galloping horse, what happened? ”
"Run, run." Liu Deran shook his head in distress and said: "There are more than 400 thieves, I can't wait for 150 people, Yide is brave, and he rushed out with his brothers, and I ran away with Yide in the chaos...... The thief was led by Yide, and I ran to the mountains to hide until the night, and then I came back to see, fortunately, my brother was still alive. ”
"Yes, Yide!" Liu Bei clapped his hands and said: "Yide's martial arts are strong and the Yellow Turban Rebellion is definitely not an opponent, how many people did Yide bring to rush out?" ”
Yide, named Zhang Fei, the son of the Tu family in Zhuo County, has been good at practicing martial arts since he was a child, but he was always forced by his father to learn calligraphy and painting, and he always mixed with Liu Bei, and the calligraphy and painting did not succeed, but he overturned all the ranger swordsmen in Zhuo County who were not satisfied with Liu Bei with a spear.
"It was very chaotic at that time, Yide had a loud voice, and many brothers followed him with an angry roar, maybe thirty or forty brothers."
"Good, good, good!" Liu Bei swallowed the horse meat in his mouth, and said three times in a row, "Yide ran to Guangzong, right?" ”
Liu Deran shook his head, his face was a little gray, and said, "Deran doesn't know, brother, it's better to ...... Let's go back to Zhuoxian. ”
"What, Deran is scared?" Liu Bei tore off a piece of skin and meat from the horse's bone and stuffed it into his mouth, glanced at Liu Deran with a wicked smile, and said, "Yide will come back with his brothers, don't be afraid." ”
"How did my brother know that Zhang Fei's house would come back?" Shaking his head, Liu Deran said: "Don't care if he will come back, let's go back, the brothers are all dead, Zhuojun is safe, the elder brother continues to wear gorgeous clothes and fly eagles and lackeys, what's wrong with Dading cooking?" Why do you have to live this life of nine deaths, let the Yellow Turban Rebellion let the Han army pacify, what does it have to do with us? ”
"De Ran's words are wrong!" Liu Bei's cynical face suddenly became angry when he heard this, and said: "First, Yide will not leave me, he will come back tomorrow morning at the latest, whoever Zhang Yide abandons, will not abandon me Liu Xuande!" Second, those swordsmen and rangers who followed us died when they died, and the gold cakes were put in their homes, and that was the coffin money, understand? Third! ”
Liu Bei straightened his color and said, "This is related to them, Jian Yong, Yide, Xiao Wang, and Wei Xian...... All brothers. It doesn't matter, but it's about you and me, you know? Because your surname is Liu, my surname is Liu, and I am a clan member of the Han family, yes, my brother understands, Deran You are a rich son, and you don't look down on this useless clan name at all, without these, you are still in Zhuo County. But the brother is different, the bloodline of Gaozu is the only thing that the brother is proud of, so he will do everything to keep the Liu family's world! So go and kill someone, it doesn't matter! Go to war, it doesn't matter! Keep the Han family in the world, and the Liu family can prosper forever! Go to Guangzong, there is Mr. Lu Zhonglang, and when we have merit, we will go to Shanggu, Shanggu has the same brother Gongsun Bogui, you have never seen the senior brother, his demeanor is far more human, and they can help the brother to achieve great ambitions! In public and private, my brother must seize this life-changing opportunity! ”
Liu Bei grabbed the Han sword on his side and thrust it in front of him, pointed at the Han sword and said, "If my brother wants to help the world and get ahead, he depends on it!" ”