Chapter 182: Kuiyang
"Captain, this is the strongest liquor that can be found in the city."
The liquor was poured into a washed kettle and boiled on the small stove in the house, and after a while it was boiling, and the whole room exuded the pungent smell of millet wine, which concealed the sour smell of blood.
"Give me the rest of the wine."
Li You's face was a little pale, he reached out to ask Heifu for wine, and poured a big sip directly into his mouth, almost choking.
The familiar taste is permeated in the mouth, the last time I tasted this taste, it was more than ten years ago, when I went to Cai Layue Township Festival, only on that day, regardless of gender, regardless of age, you can sit and drink together. He even remembered that there was a childhood sweetheart Shangcai girl sitting on the seat opposite him, and after drinking a little, her cheeks were flushed, and she boldly showed her love to Li You in the mulberry forest outside the township, the favorite tryst place for young men and women......
It's a pity that on the third day after that, Li You took his younger brother and protected his mother, and moved to Xianyang, Qin State, with the people sent by Li Si, the bold girl who sprayed alcohol, I'm afraid that she was already married, maybe her son was ten years old.
He took another sip, swallowed the past, and commented with a wry smile: "This is indeed the strongest wine in Cai Di, but it is still a little worse than the old wine in Guanzhong......"
Li You smacked his lips and savored it, then looked at the hideous wound on his exposed chest, and said to Heifu: "Let's do it." โ
"I'm going to sterilize the lieutenant with boiling wine."
Heifu asked Bu Cheng to help, and after washing his hands, he poured the boiling wine on Li You's wound!
Li You's forehead was full of green tendons and he was sweating profusely, but fortunately he bit the wooden stick in his mouth, otherwise he would have let out a miserable scream......
A moment later, after Heifu dressed Li You's wounds, he felt alive again.
"You still have gold sore medicine with you."
Li You was a little surprised as he watched the lacquered wooden vial that Heifu took out of his arms like a trick. He always felt that Heifu seemed to know that the Qin army was going to be defeated, and the rest of the people were withdrawn in a hurry, but he and his hundred men carried some necessary things with them, dry food, weapons, and even copper coins rewarded along the way...... It's more complete than Li You's being a lieutenant.
"This was given to me by a familiar healer during the battle against Wei."
Heifu explained: "Du Wei can rest assured, the doctor's name is Chen Wuyi, he is the disciple of the Qin State Imperial Physician Ling Xia Gong, he said that this medicine is a golden prescription for the Qin State Imperial Doctor, and my subordinate Tun Chang was also seriously injured, and his body was cured by this ointment." โ
"I hope so."
Li You was drunk and tired, and attributed this to Heifu's natural sensitivity to danger, which is why he arranged for Heifu to command instead of Xu Yang on his behalf.
At this extraordinary moment, perhaps only such a person can take them out of danger.
As he spoke, Li You had already closed his eyes, and in his dream, the pain seemed to disappear, and he seemed to have returned to the mulberry forest in Shangcai, but the red-cheeked girl sitting opposite had the face of a princess of Qin, and smiled at him......
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After arranging for Bu Cheng and another clever soldier to stay behind to take care of Li You, Heifu walked out of the door, this is a small yi, their original plan was to retreat to Pingyu quickly, but Ji Ying and others sent out by Heifu to reconnoiter the way forward reported that they saw a Chu army of up to 10,000 people moving towards Pingyu, just in front of them.
Heifu expected that this Chu army must have been ordered to capture Pingyu and Shangcai, more than 600 of them, and with Li You's injury number, they couldn't go fast at all, and the speed was not as fast as the enemy's heel army.
So after some discussion, everyone decided to continue south, and Li You also agreed to this plan.
This was already their best choice, the area south of Xiangcheng, just passed by Li Xin, along the way the countryside more or less left a few people to guard, Heifu and they after a day and a night of driving, fortunately arrived at a small township between Pingyu and Mengqiu: ้ฒ (tรณng) Yang.
Outside were four military officials sitting in front of the small case, namely Xu Yang, Zhai Chong, and "Man", in addition, there were also 100 generals Tu Si who had been stationed in Liyang on the order of Li Xin.
In addition to Tu Si still in spirit, the other three were all tired, Zhai Chong held his head with his hand, dozed off there, and Man was lying on the desk, already snoring.
Today is the first day of the 11th lunar month, and after leaving the battlefield, they have been on the road for two days and two nights, and they are too tired.
Heifu coughed, which woke up a few people, and then said to them: "The captain is fine, I have asked the Bu Cheng who is familiar with medical skills to take care of him, and there is no danger of his life at present." โ
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, Heifu did not delay, and after Zhai Chong and Man came to his senses, he looked at Tu Si and said: "General Tu Bai has been stationed here for half a month and is familiar with geography, so let him tell us about the distance and location between Liyang and the surrounding cities." โ
Tu Si, who was full of beard, spoke at this time, with a thick Longxi accent, he said that Liyang is a small town, Li Xin passed through this place when he went to Mengqiu, and sent troops to attack it, because he was afraid that the Chu people in the city would repeat, so he drove them all away, so this small city of one mile square is now empty, and only a hundred Qin soldiers are stationed.
It wasn't until Heifu and they came to knock on the door that Tu Si learned the news that Li Xin and Meng Tian were defeated by the Chu army, and couldn't help but be shocked, fortunately, he was also an old military official, he had participated in many wars, and he had experienced defeat and victory, so he quickly calmed down and introduced the situation in Liyang to everyone.
"This place is 100 miles away from Xiangcheng in the north, 80 miles away from Bedhill in the east, 180 miles away from Shangcai in the west, 90 miles away from Pingyu, and 80 miles away from Xincai in the south.
Heifu nodded: "The Chu army in the south has been cleared by General Li, and this place is safe for the time being, so it's not too late to rest here for a night and then hit the road......"
"Otherwise, since Pingyu can't go, then you have to leave for Shangcai quickly, and if you want me to say, leave immediately." Xu Yang on the side raised objections.
Xu Yang is about thirty years old, he has the same title as Heifu, the same level, and he has followed Li You for a longer time, and he is older, and he took the lead in giving Heifu the nickname "Hundred Generals". Therefore, there are still some dissatisfaction with Heifu's ability to command everyone on behalf of Li You, and they are the first to raise objections at this moment
Zhai Chong couldn't help it at this time, and said while yawning: "General Xu Bai, after the soldiers retreated from Xiangcheng, they have not rested for two nights, and they are sleepy and tired, cold and hungry, and they really can't walk. If you force yourself on the road, how should you deal with the Chu people? What is the difference between this and sending one's own neck to the sword of the Chu people? โ
Heifu also bowed his head and said: "General Zhai Bai's words are reasonable, besides, the captain's injury is showing signs of aggravation, and he also needs to rest, even if according to what General Xu Baijiang said, everyone will walk for three more days to rush to Shangcai, in case the captain can't withstand the bumps, what happens, as a short soldier, we will also be held accountable and beheaded!" โ
Xu Yang was speechless for a while, and finally Heifu slapped the board: "We will rest in this town for the night, so that the soldiers can eat and sleep enough." Next, we continued to the southwest, bypassing the Chu army besieging Pingyu, and then followed Rushui and returned to Shangcai. โ
Everyone was dozing off standing now, and they had long wanted to rest and recuperate, and there was no objection, so Heifu asked Tu Si to take people to take turns on duty in Xiaoyi, so that his subordinates who had been on the road for two nights could have a good night's sleep.
"I also asked General Tu Bai to send a few people, in groups of two, to ride horses in the city, and go to Pingyu, Bedqiu, Xincai, and Xiangdi to investigate the enemy's situation, and then the two of them flew to Shangcai to report the news, informing the defenders that Captain Li would meet in the future, and asked them to send someone to the front line of Rushui to respond."
Heifu asked everyone to gather together to rest according to the arrangement, and as soon as something happened to deal with it in time, although he was also sleepy, he did not close his eyes immediately, but sat in front of the desk, and looked at the map drawn on the silk and frowned.
He is now in danger, and he must make the right choice at every step, so that he can bring everyone back to Qin.
After a while, Tu Si brought him something to eat, simmering corn, crisp sunflower vegetables, and a bowl of fish with a fishy smell.
Tu Si smiled and said: "There is nothing else in this Xiaoyi in Liyang, there are a lot of fish, the fish is called the fish, its meat is delicate, the taste is delicious, and the hundred generals will try it quickly." โ
Heifu was not polite, took the chopsticks and ate it, the taste of the meal was average, the fish was also rough, and there were even fish scales floating in the soup, but for a person who had chewed dry food for two days, a hot meal was a delicacy.
Watching Heifu eat, Tu Si also said to himself on the side: "When we followed General Li to Pingyu and Bedhill, the Chu army was vulnerable to a blow, and it was scattered after a casual fight. At that time, I only thought that this battle would be over soon, but who expected it to be a big defeat, I still can't believe it. โ
"It should have been the plan of the Chu people, and Chen Ying seems to have had an accident."
Heifu said while chewing on the fish, but it was useless to say this now, what they urgently needed to know now was where the Qin army's large army had withdrawn? There is also the direction of the Chu army's attack, and now in this land of Chen Cai in Huaibei, how many cities are still in the hands of the Qin army?
After eating, Heifu was already tired, thanked Tu Si again, and after discussing the evacuation together tomorrow and tomorrow, he fell asleep against the wall in a daze......
When he was woken up by Ji Ying in a hurry, he didn't know how long it had been, and when he looked out the window, the sky was dark and bright.
"Hundred generals."
Ji Ying's face was solemn: "There is a soldier from outside the city, with a red flag, it is the Chu army!" โ