Liu Xiu patted Liu Xiu on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Even if Gongsun's inference is correct, don't forget, there are more than 10,000 people on our side, and no matter how many barbarians have hidden soldiers in Qianyou Mountain, I'm afraid it won't exceed 10,000, right?!" ”

At this time, a young man who was good friends with Liu Xuan came over, handed him the water bladder, and said, "Brother Bosheng, let's drink saliva first!" ”

Liu Xuan waved his hand, indicating that he was not thirsty. The young man raised his eyes and looked around, and said, "Now that the lights are blind here, and Qianyou Mountain is so big, when do we have to search for it?" I watched the whole night, we didn't have to sleep. ”

"A hundred dollars for the head of a brute soldier, let the brothers cheer up!"

The young man nodded, but suddenly, he felt a numbness in the back of his neck, as if he had been stabbed by something, he subconsciously raised his hand to wipe the back of his neck, his hand had not touched the back of his neck, suddenly his eyes were dark, and his body fell straight to the side.

Liu Xiu and Liu Xiu were startled, and the two hurriedly picked up the torch and approached him to take a closer look, it turned out that the young man had a wooden needle stuck in the back of his neck, and the end of the wooden needle was tied with a feather.

Liu Xuan subconsciously said: "What is this? He stretched out his hand and was about to touch it, Zhang Ping jumped over, grabbed Liu Xuan's arm, and said urgently: "Don't touch it, it's poisonous!" It's a poison needle! There are enemies nearby......"

Before he could finish speaking, he heard a rustling sound from their sideways, and then several brutes rushed out of the jungle, all with their long stick-shaped cylinders in their hands, blowing poisonous needles as they ran.

Liu Xiu, Liu Xuan, and Zhang Ping hurriedly dodged to the side. They reacted quickly, but a few of the volunteers around them were unable to dodge and were stabbed by the flying needles.

Like the young man just now, the people shook their bodies twice, and they fell to the ground one after another, foaming at the mouth and spasming their limbs.

"Enemy attack! There was an enemy attack--"In just an instant, Liu Xiu and Liu Xiu's side was like a fried pot, and people started to fight with the brute soldiers who rushed out.

At first, they thought that they were just encountering a small group of brute soldiers, but as they fought, a horn suddenly sounded in the woods, and countless brute soldiers ran out from all directions, blowing needles at a long distance and slashing with knives at close range.

Liu Xuan roared, drew his sword, and rushed towards the barbarian soldiers. Liu Xiu also wanted to fight side by side with his eldest brother, but several oncoming barbarians blocked him, and Liu Xiu held a sword and fought with these barbarians.

The woods were dim, and the brutes appeared too suddenly and scattered, and the two sides were completely disorganized, and it was impossible to distinguish between their own men and enemies there.

Fortunately, Long Yuan has been by Liu Xiu's side and helped Liu Xiu relieve a lot of pressure.

Killing all the barbarians who were blocking the road to the ground, Liu Xiu raised his eyes and looked around, where could he still find the figure of the eldest brother? As far as the eye could see, there were all rebels and barbarians who were disorganized.

Liu Xiu yelled: "Big brother--"

As soon as he finished shouting, Long Yuan pulled him and pounced.

Puff puff! As soon as the two of them rushed to the side, several wooden needles were nailed to the trees beside them. Seeing this, Liu Xiu was also shocked into a cold sweat.

Liu Xiu didn't dare to shout anymore, so he could only rely on his feelings to rush in the direction where his eldest brother might be. How many barbarians there are, Liu Xiu doesn't know, and he can't see clearly, anyway, the barbarians around him are fighting more and more, as if they can't kill them all.

Just as he was struggling to rush forward to kill, dozens of brute soldiers suddenly poured out from the oblique side, and in an instant, Liu Xiu and the people around him were scattered.

There is nothing to say, only to fight to the death. Liu Xiu used his dexterous body technique, holding a sword in both hands, and slashed the surrounding barbarian soldiers.

With a clanging sound, he killed five people in a row in one go. But when I looked at it again, the number of barbarians around me had not decreased, but had gathered more and more, like a tide.

"Retreat! Bosheng has an order, all retreat—"

Shouts of people could be heard in the woods behind. Liu Xiu estimated that the eldest brother and the others had already retreated, but at this time, he wanted to withdraw again, but he couldn't do so. His retreat was completely blocked by the dense brute soldiers.

After Liu Xiu slashed and killed several more brute soldiers, he realized that it was not a way to go on like this, and it was no longer possible to retreat, so he could only rush to the woods with fewer barbarians on one side with all his strength.

It's smaller, but that's relative. Liu Xiu ran more than ten meters away, and dozens of barbarians appeared in front of him, all holding blow-needles in their hands.

Seeing Liu Xiu running towards him, people shot blow needles together. Liu Xiu also reacted quickly, lying on the spot and rolling to the side.

The needles didn't hit him, but all of them were shot at the two brutes who were chasing him from behind.

The two brutes didn't say a word, and fell to the ground on the spot, only convulsing twice before they stopped.

Liu Xiu took this opportunity to jump up from the ground and jump straight forward. Two fast-moving brute soldiers had already reloaded the poison needles and were about to continue to blow at Liu Xiu, when the latter swung out his sword.

Click, click! With two crisp sounds, the two pipes of the blowing needle were cut off by the sword blade, and then Liu Xiu stabbed out with a sword, hitting the throat of a brute soldier.

Without a moment's pause, he drew his sword and swept it, and another brute was cut a half-foot-long cut in his chest, and he let out a wail and fell in a pool of blood.

More than a dozen barbarians nearby put down their barrels, pulled out their scimitars, and roared to kill Liu Xiu.

Liu Xiu did not retreat but advanced, a step forward, he dodged sideways to dodge the oncoming scimitar, and slashed out with a sword, hitting the top of the head of a brute soldier, with a click, half of the man's head was cut off.

He took the opportunity to lunge into it, and the corpse that had not yet fallen to the ground was flying up by him, just colliding with a brute soldier behind him, and the person and the corpse rolled into a ball.

Taking advantage of this gap, Liu Xiu jumped out of the crowd and continued to run through the woods in front of him.

Now the two sides are completely disorganized in the woods, and everywhere there are sounds of fighting, and everywhere there are shouts of tearing.

I don't know how long I ran, Liu Xiudu ran to the side of the county army.

At this time, the situation of the county army was not much better than that of the righteous army, the number of barbarians besieging them was more, some of the county troops had already retreated, while some of the county armies were still fighting with the enemy, and some of the county armies were surrounded by barbarian regiments, and they couldn't retreat if they wanted to.

In the middle of the night, the black hand in the woods could not see the five fingers, the command system of the county army was completely ineffective, the 8,000 county army plus the 3,000 righteous army, now it was like a plate of scattered sand, people were scurrying around from east to west, but no matter which direction they ran, they always saw a crowd of barbarians.

At this time, Liu Xiu was already 100% sure that he was really mistaken by Feng Yi, the barbarian soldiers hiding in Qianyou Mountain were not small stragglers at all, but the elite main force in the barbarian army.

The barbarians who were killed in front were just bait released by others, and their purpose was to introduce all their main forces into the mountains and forests to fight the jungle warfare that barbarians were good at.

The barbarian army's move to hide troops in Qianyou Mountain was indeed unexpected, coupled with Tang Heng's light enemy, which led to this battle, and the Hanzhong army lost in a mess.

Liu Xiu was alone, in such a chaotic battlefield, he couldn't change anything, he fought all the way and ran all the way, and most of what he saw were the corpses of the Hanzhong army.

I don't know how long I have been running, but Liu Xiu, who is in the mountains and forests, can't tell the difference between the southeast and the northwest at all. Fortunately, the shouts of killing around him have become weaker and weaker, indicating that he has successfully escaped from the main battlefield of the melee between the two sides.

At this time, Liu Xiu, from head to toe, almost seemed to have been washed with blood, and the blood beads flowed down his clothes, and it was impossible to tell whether it was his own blood or the blood of the barbarians splashed on him.

Liu Xiu looked down at the sword in his hand, and the blade of the sword already had several curly blades, which showed the intensity of the fight just now.

He walked under a large tree, leaned against the trunk, and slowly slid to the ground. Sweat washed the blood on his face, leaving white trails on his face.

Now he felt as if his body was about to fall apart, and every bone, every muscle, and even every inch of skin was in severe pain.

He had not rested for half a pillar of incense when he heard the rustling of hurried footsteps from the woods on one side. Liu Xiu subconsciously held the hilt of the sword, his nerves tensed, he leaned on the ground with his sword, stood up with the trunk of the tree, and entered the battle state again.

Rustle! The footsteps were getting closer, and suddenly, several figures rushed out of the woods.

Because visibility in the woods is so low, when both sides see each other, the distance between them is less than three meters. The people on both sides were not polite, brandished the weapons in their hands, and slashed at the other with all their might.

When!

The blade collided with the blade, exploding a cloud of sparks. It is also this mass of sparks that makes it clear to both sides that the weapon used by the other party is not the scimitar of the brute, but the long sword.

"Is it your own person?" The other party was the first to ask questions.

"Xiangyang Rebels!" Liu Xiu then replied.

"Don't do it! Don't do it! It's your own people! We are the county army! The man who fought with Liu Xiu said urgently.

When the two sides stepped out of the shadows of the trees, they came to a small clearing, and looked at it through the faint moonlight in the sky, and sure enough, it was their own people.

There were seven or eight people who ran out of the forest, all wearing the uniforms of the county army, some were wounded, some were not injured, but whether they were injured or not, they were all bloody.

"You're the county army?" Liu Xiu took the lead in asking.

"Yes!" The county army led by a man of about thirty years old, he looked around at Liu Xiu, gasped and asked, "How many people are left in your Xiangyang Righteous Army?" ”

Hearing this, Liu Xiu slowly shook his head.

He didn't know how many people were left in the Xiangyang Righteous Army, and he didn't know what the situation was with the eldest brother and Long Yuan, Zhang Ping, Zhu Yun, Li Tong, Li Yi and others, and now he couldn't find anyone.

Seeing Liu Xiu shaking his head, the man and the other county soldiers all showed disappointment, and it seemed that the Xiangyang Righteous Army was almost wiped out.

"You're the only one running out......" The man couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh.

"Where's the county army?"

"Scattered! It's all scattered! When we ran out, we heard someone shouting, as if even the Captain had been poisoned. ”

As they were talking, there was the sound of hurried footsteps behind several county soldiers again, and everyone subconsciously turned their heads to look.

As the footsteps got closer and closer, everyone finally saw clearly that it was the brute who ran over.