The night was already deep, and the dense branches and foliage swallowed up the moonlight and starlight, making the thorny and vine-covered woods even darker, and the deep hands could hardly see the five fingers, and the rain soaked and fermented the fallen leaves that had accumulated for many years, making the ground wet and slippery, and walking in it, as long as you were not careful, you could trip upside down and hang upside down, hit your head on a tree, or even step into waist-deep mud, fall into a swamp, or even fall into a deep pit.

However, on this night, thousands of Peng Yue soldiers led by Peng Yue Jingjia could only rely on a little torch light to illuminate the light of this area, and fled in this vast area of dense forests infested with snakes and insects.

Almost every moment, there are people falling and falling, the muffled sound of hitting the trees, the cracking sound of thorns tearing clothes, the screams for help of falling into the mud pit, one after another, from time to time there are also alarmed tiger howls and wolf howls, and poisonous snakes hiding in the depths of the weeds also come out from time to time, biting heavily on the passing human body that disturbs its rest, but all this has not been able to stop the pace of Peng Yuejun's soldiers fleeing for their lives, because just behind them, more dying screams and begging for mercy are also heard at all times, Countless soldiers of the Western Chu Army who were chasing with torches were also chasing quickly, as long as they stopped for a while, they might be caught up by the soldiers of the Western Chu Army immediately, and died tragically under the swords, spears and axes of the soldiers of the Western Chu Army who hated them to the bone.

The Western Chu army under the leadership of Xiang Yu was originally known for its brutality, which would finally catch the Peng Yue army who had invaded their national capital and harassed the rear of their grain route countless times, or was in the advantageous position of beating the water dogs, of course the Western Chu army would not show any mercy to Peng Yuejun's subordinates, and the soldiers of Peng Yuejun, who had illusions at one time, also understood what choice they should make after seeing their companions who knelt down and surrendered were also mercilessly killed, so no matter how dangerous it was in the depths of the dense forest in the dark night, The soldiers of Peng Yuejun could only move forward desperately, away from the enemies of the Western Chu Army who were more terrifying than the fierce beasts and poisonous snakes.

Peng Yue and Jing Jia and others are even more so, after being chased and defeated by the Western Chu army, seeing that the situation has been extreme, Peng Yue and Jing Jia in addition to decisively abandoning the handsome banner and giving up the command, and changed into the clothes of ordinary soldiers early, and even the horses that are inconvenient in the forest are decisively abandoned, and they just flee to the depths of the dense forest on foot, and they don't have time to discern what direction the road is.

Fortunately, the dark dense forest also caused great difficulties to the pursuit of the Western Chu army, relying on the desire to survive and a bit of luck, when it was close to dawn, Peng Yue and Jing Jia and others were still very lucky to get rid of the pursuit of the Western Chu army, and fled to an open forest for a short rest, but even so, whether it was Peng Yue Jingjia or ordinary soldiers, all up and down were scarred, and there were blood marks and scars hanging from thorns and stones everywhere, and Jing Jia also injured his foot in the flight. It was only with the support of the guards that he barely escaped here.

After hurriedly eating a little dry food that he never dared to leave in the guerrilla war, and drinking some ground water with a fishy smell, after recovering his strength a little, Peng Yue made up his mind to count the number of people around him, and what made Peng Yue frown was that in addition to himself and Jing Jia, there were only more than 80 generals and soldiers left around him, and all of them were exhausted and difficult to fight again. What's worse is that the guide who led the way selected in advance has also been lost in the night, resulting in Peng Yue and the others being unable to distinguish where they are at present, let alone knowing where to go next and which direction to go.

When Peng Yue was worried, Yongya, who was short and strong and also dressed as an ordinary soldier, suddenly stood up, looked around at the surrounding environment, revealing a look of memory, and after a while, Yongya suddenly said: "King, Peng Zhuguo, it seems that the last general of this place has been here." ”

"General Yong, have you been here?" Peng Yue was surprised and asked, "When have you been here?" ”

"More than twenty years ago, when the old Chu State had not been wiped out by the violent Qin." Yongya recalled: "At that time, I was still young, and I often traveled around with Liu Ji and Lu Juan's gangsters, and I came here once, as if I had passed by here once, but it was too long and I can't remember it clearly. ”

"General Yong, do you remember where this is? Is there any way to go? Jing Jia, who was still rubbing his feet, hurriedly asked.

Yongya didn't answer, and recalled carefully for a long time, Yongya said with great confidence: "If I don't remember this location by mistake, this place should not be very far from Surabaya, go a distance to the south, and there is a small road that can lead to Huling and Yutai Pavilion, but the time is too long, I dare not guarantee that I am not mistaken." ”

"There's a path to the south?" Peng Yue glanced at Yongya with some vigilance, and said in his heart that Xiang Yu's garrison Huling would definitely send troops to the edge of the forest area to search and kill us. This husband and Xiang Yu have no deep hatred, should they see that the situation is not good, and want to sell us to Xiang Yu to save their lives, right? So after a little calculation, Peng Yue asked again: "General Yong, is there any other way to go north or continue to go west?" ”

Yongya shook his head and said: "I've only been here once, I don't know, I'm only sure that if you continue to go west, you should be able to find Surabaya, but I don't know how far you have to go to find Surabaya, and as far as I know, the northwest direction of Huling, it seems that there is only one ferry to cross the river." ”

After saying that, Yongya took the initiative to say again: "Zhuguo, why don't you go south first, as long as I can find the path leading to Yutai Pavilion, I will be sure to lead the way out of this deep mountain and old forest." ”

"Peng Zhuguo, then let's go south." Jing Jia hurriedly said: "Let's find General Yong and walk through that path first, otherwise, if we don't get out of this forest after eating the dry food, we will be in big trouble." ”

Peng Yue didn't answer, and said after a while: "Even if we can find that road, we are afraid that it will be more dangerous, if the Western Chu thief army pursues us closely, it will definitely not let go of that path, and our march on that road will only be more dangerous." ”

"But Peng Zhuguo, if we go in other directions, we will probably be in danger of getting lost in the woods." "There is no sun today, and after entering the woods, we have no way to tell the direction, and only by taking advantage of the fact that we can still distinguish things through the branches and leaves of the trees, and hurry south to find the path, can we hope to get out." ”

Looking at the overly dense woods around him, and then looking at the gloomy sky above his head, Peng Yue was embarrassed, and Jing Jia next to him said to Yongya: "Peng Zhuguo, why don't you go south, so that you can be more sure, anyway, there are not many of us, even if we encounter the Western Chu thief army, we can quickly hide in the woods, and it is not easy to be caught by the Western Chu thief army." ”

After hesitating for a long time, without being sure to get out of this dense forest on his own, Peng Yue nodded very reluctantly and said, "Okay, then please trouble General Yong to lead the way, let's go south first, and then find the road you walked through." ”

Yongya agreed, and hurriedly confirmed the direction of the southeast, northwest, and northwest through the point that the branches and leaves of the trees like to face the sun, and then after resting for a while, he personally stepped forward to lead the way, leading everyone to march cautiously to the south, to find the path he had walked once when he was a ranger, Jing Jia walked in the middle with the support of the guards, and Peng Yue followed behind, and was ready to go into the dense forest when he saw that the situation was wrong.

It turns out that Yongya is indeed not mistaken, after a few miles of difficult travel to the south, Yongya really found the forest path he had walked, and what made Yongya and Jingjia and others even happier was that judging by the traces on the path, before this, there was definitely no large army walking this path, and it was basically certain that there was no enemy in front to intercept and block, so although Peng Yue was still somewhat worried, he finally accepted Yongya's suggestion and decided to go to Yutai Pavilion in the west to cross Surabaya.

After marching west along the path with few footprints, a number of Peng Yue soldiers who were separated in the night battle rushed to meet Peng Yue and others, and soon expanded Peng Yue's team to more than 200 people, and Peng Yue, who had been on the lookout, was a little relieved, knowing that as long as he could successfully reach the Yutai Pavilion mentioned by Yongya, even if he was robbed, he would definitely be able to grab a boat to cross the Surabaya River blocking in front.

It's a pity that the good luck of Peng Yue and Yongya and others quickly ran out, and after traveling west along the path for a while, the remnants of Peng Yue's army of two or three hundred people rushed to the rear first, and then before Peng Yue and others stepped forward to identify themselves and ask the defeated soldiers to return to the team, the defeated soldiers who rushed forward had already shouted first, "Run!" There is a Western Chu thief army in the back! Run! ”

Before the words fell, a large number of Western Chu army pursuers had appeared in the distance, roaring and striding after them, Peng Yue and Yongya and others were shocked, and quickly ran westward, Jing Jia, who was injured in his foot, also rolled and crawled, using his strength to desperately flee westward, and the Western Chu army behind saw that he had caught up with a large group of enemies, and pursued faster under cheers, and relied on the advantage of more light in the woods during the day, and bit the tail of Peng Yue and others.

Seeing this scene, Peng Yue had no choice but to quickly chase in front of Yongya, shouting and ordering: "General Yong, you know the road, go to the front to show us the way, you don't have to worry about the back, just lead the way." ”

Yongya didn't want to think about it, so he agreed, quickly quickened his pace and stepped forward, and soon relied on his body to rush to the front to lead the way, Peng Yue comforted Jing Jia, who was injured on his foot, and explained that the guards must protect Jing Jia, and then after Jing Jia thanked him for his kindness, Peng Yue gave a look to the two guards he trusted the most, and he made a mouth to the north, and the two guards understood, and soon took advantage of the opportunity that everyone was in a hurry to flee, and quickly followed Peng Yue to suddenly break away from the brigade and disappear into the depths of the dense forest in the north......

Peng Yue's solo escape was very timely, his figure had just disappeared in the dense forest, and the chasing army of the Western Chu Army, which had finally caught the fish, had already caught up with the group of defeated soldiers of the Peng Yue Army behind, killing the defeated soldiers of the Peng Yue Army behind him like chopping melons and vegetables, and then scattered in pursuit, while the Western Chu Army Brigade further behind continued to pursue, howling and chasing after Yongya and Jing Jia and others, Yongya and Jing Jia and others were even more panicked when they saw it, and they fled more panickedly, and they didn't notice that Peng Yue had already fled alone.

Husband and wife are birds of the same forest, and they fly separately when the disaster comes, and the husband and wife are still like this, of course, not to mention the defeated soldiers of the Peng Yue army who are already frightened birds, Yongya and Jing Jia and others fled for their lives, and the sinister nature of humanity was gradually exposed, as the Western Chu army team chased closer and closer, the two guards who supported Jing Jia to escape couldn't resist the fear in their hearts, and suddenly shouted in unison, and threw down Jing Jia, who had injured his foot, and fled quickly, Jing Jia was shocked when he saw it, and quickly shouted: "What are you doing?" Take me! Take me! I am your King of Chu! I am your king! ”

Of course, Jing Jia's shouting failed to call back the two guards, on the contrary, the West Chu soldiers behind quickly caught up, Jing Jia was cornered, and then he hurriedly drilled south into the dense forest, but the injured foot was destined for him not to run fast, just in a blink of an eye, the two West Chu soldiers had already caught up, and without saying a word, Tingge stabbed him in the back, blood splashed, Jing Jia, who was wearing ordinary soldiers' clothes, just let out a scream, and immediately fell into a pool of blood, with the identity of the king of Chu who was still recognized by Xiang Kang against his will, Closed my eyes forever.

At the same time, in the crowd of the Western Chu Army Brigade, Liu Laosan, who personally led the army to pursue, of course did not know that he had made a great contribution to Xiang Yu, staring at the front of the road, Liu Laosan just urged expressionlessly: "Tell to go down, speed up the advance, and go more than ten miles further to the Yutai Pavilion, and then stop and rest when you get there, block the road of Peng Yue's thief army to cross the river and then slowly find the big fish." ”

After the order was delivered, the officers and men of the Western Chu Army, who were actually quite tired, strengthened their spirits and accelerated the pursuit again, and the Yongya and others who rushed to the front of the line of course also fled faster, and even climbed along the path to the west, during which Yongya kept yelling, "Quick!" Fast! Not far in front is the Yutai Pavilion, where we can cross the river, and it will be safe to cross the river! ”

No matter how fast it is, it is useless, the Western Chu army behind is chasing too closely, and the soldiers around Yongya have been constantly falling behind and losing because of the serious decline in physical strength, and even before Yongya escaped from the dense forest, there were only about a dozen soldiers left around him, and what was worse was that he finally escaped to the edge of the forest area, and just saw an open area in front of him, Yongya suddenly stepped on his foot again, and injured his foot like Jing Jia, and suddenly screamed loudly in pain.

"Brother Yong, get up! We'll help you run! ”

Two warm hands stretched out in time, one left and one right hugged Yongya, holding Yongya and continuing to rush forward, Yongya turned his head to look, and saw that the two soldiers he was holding were actually his fellow villagers who were brought out of Fengyi, tears suddenly welled up in his eyes, and he choked up and said: "Good brother, as long as I can pass this level, I will not treat you badly in the future!" ”

"Brother Yong, let's talk about these things later." An old fellow villager gasped and said, "If we can't escape, we'll die together." ”

Yongya nodded, gritted his teeth and endured the pain in his foot, limping forward with tears in his eyes, but at this moment, Yongya suddenly saw that after throwing him down and running alone to the front of several defeated soldiers fled to the edge of the woods, they all stood up together. Could it be that there is also a Western Chu thief army in front? ”

Surprise to surprise, when the Western Chu army was about to catch up, the instinct to survive was still urging Yongya and his two fellow villagers to continue west, but they finally rushed to the edge of the forest area, and only glanced at the open area in the direction of Yutai Pavilion in the west. ”

At this time, the fastest chasing Xichu soldiers finally caught up with Yongya and the others, but before they could pick up their weapons and greet Yongya and the others, they had already exclaimed in unison, "I'm dreaming? So many thieves?! ”

"Boom" with a loud sound, accompanied by a primitive grenade exploded in the depths of the forest, deep in the woods on both sides of the path, one south and one north suddenly killed two Han army teams with red flags at the same time, shouting to kill the West Chu Army Liu Laosan who was still desperately going west, at the same time, the Han army team that had already lined up at the exit of the path also shouted and charged, and did not hesitate to kill the forest path, and several Western Chu soldiers who had caught up with Yongya and others did not even blink their eyelids, did not immediately put down their weapons and knelt down to surrender, He quickly turned around and ran for his life, and shouted in despair while running, "Run!" Han thief! There is an army of thieves! ”

"I'm not dreaming!" Yongya knelt down excitedly, and cried in front of the soldiers of the Han army who shouted and killed, "It's really the army of the King of Han!" It's really the army of the King of Han! Homecoming! I'm home! We're home! ”

When Yongya was so excited that he cried, Liu Laosan howled like killing a pig in the brigade of the Western Chu Army, "Am I dreaming? How can there be an ambush of Han thieves here? The thief fell from the sky? Why did you suddenly appear here, and you have set up an ambush in advance waiting for me to drill a trap? ”

No matter how much he howled, it was useless, no matter how good Liu Laosan was at pacifying the soldiers, he could take the army on a long-distance long journey and march continuously, and the physical strength seriously consumed by the officers and soldiers of the Western Chu Army in the long-distance pursuit battle could not be recovered immediately, so although the ambushes arranged by the Han army on both sides of the road were not many, they still caught the exhausted Western Chu army pursuers by surprise, and then killed the Western Chu army pursuers to pieces, and were forced to flee to the east, while the Han soldiers were in hot pursuit, He also forced Liu Laosan's army, like Peng Yue's army last night, to flee for his life in the swampy woods, and was lost and captured.

Fortunately, he is good at escaping, and he is surrounded by absolutely reliable fierce guards, Liu Laosan's safety is not much of a problem, but during the eastward escape, Liu Laosan broke his head and couldn't figure it out, "Where did the thief come from?" Although Yutai Pavilion is a ferry, its location is remote, and it is the native of Western Chu of Xiang Yu's husband, how could so many Han thieves suddenly come out? Caught me off guard? ”

At the same time, in the depths of the dense forest, because of the distance, Peng Yue and his two henchmen did not hear the shouting and killing sound from the Yutai Pavilion, and they still fled in the depths of the dense forest, but they fled, and Peng Yue, who had never been here before, suddenly discovered a very dangerous situation......

"What is this place? Direction, direction ......, oh no, we're lost! ”