Chapter 522: Bad Luck
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"King-" Seeing the scene when Liu Xiu fell from the cliff into the water, all the Han soldiers present screamed in surprise. When they run to the front of Shunshui, and then they want to find Liu Xiu, where can they still see Liu Xiu?
The rebel army also did not give them the opportunity to search for Liu Xiu carefully, and chased them from behind, Geng Yi and others were forced to fight and retreat, and Liu Xiu, who fell into Shunshui, was also missing.
From Liu Xiu's rebellion with his eldest brother in Nanyang Chungling, until now, strictly speaking, as long as Liu Xiu led the troops to fight alone, he never suffered a defeat.
In the case of a huge disparity in the strength of the enemy and us, he chose to lead the army to retreat at most, avoid its edge, and preserve his strength. And this time the Han army pursued the Youlai Army, the Big Spear Army, and the Battle of the Wuman Army, which was Liu Xiu's first defeat.
And this defeat is really infuriating. When the Youlai Army, the Big Spear Army, and the Wuman Army were at their strongest, Liu Xiu fought a succession of battles, killed the rebel army, and fled from Changshan County in Jizhou to Youbeiping in Youzhou.
As a result, 200,000 enemy troops were defeated by him, and when the enemy army was only a few tens of thousands left, he was carried away by a series of victories, and led a light cavalry to advance, resulting in being surrounded by enemy regiments several times his size, and capsized in the gutter.
The Han army, which suffered a defeat, was defeated all the way back to Fanyang in Zhuo County, Youzhou, from the right Beiping.
In fact, in the battle on the north bank of Shunshui, although the Han army was defeated, the casualties were not large, mainly because Liu Xiu's soldiers and horses were too few, and only a few thousand people were lost in total, but Liu Xiu's disappearance greatly hit the morale of the Han army.
Now, the main army under Liu Xiu's command has arrived in Fanyang and joined forces with Geng Yi and other defeated troops. It was not until this time that the generals of the Han army finally learned that the king had fallen into Shunshui, and now his life and death were uncertain, and his whereabouts were unknown.
After learning of this, all the generals of the Han army were shocked. The generals above are as anxious as ants on a hot pot, and the soldiers of the Han army below are even more mournful. The whole army was in turmoil.
You must know that Liu Xiu is the core of the whole army and the backbone of all the soldiers, and now Liu Xiu's whereabouts are unknown, I don't know whether he is alive or dead, the officers and men of the whole army seem to have lost their direction in an instant, and they don't know what to do.
In the tent of the Chinese army, all the generals of the Han army gathered together, but the atmosphere in the entire camp tent was extremely solemn. Some people shook their heads and sighed, sighed for a long time, some had wet red eyes and choked in a low voice, and some people had no master and dull eyes. Seeing this, Wu Han was depressed in his heart, slapped the table, stood up, and shouted: "Whether the king is there or not, we should continue."
Work hard to annihilate the thief army! Besides, the king now has an heir! ”
The implication is that even if the king is really unfortunate to die, there are heirs who can inherit the throne.
The generals glanced at Wu Han one after another, but instead of being inspired by his words, they became even more desperate.
The reason is very simple, Guo Shengtong is pregnant, but he is not yet in childbirth, who knows whether he is pregnant with a son or a daughter, and if he is a daughter, how to inherit the throne?
Even if it is a child, how can a newborn baby lead the soldiers of the Han army.
Looking around at the expressions of everyone present, Wu Han also realized that he was counting on the heir of the king, and now it was a bit fantastical, and it was too far.
He changed his words again: "The king's brother, there are heirs in Nanyang, it's a big deal, we can take the king's brother's heirs to Hebei!" ”
His words made the hearts of everyone present move, and they nodded secretly, thinking that this was a good idea.
If the king is really gone, someone must stand up and reunite the hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the whole army.
This person, Deng Yu is not good, Jia Fu, Wu Han, Geng Yi generals are not good, the king's own nephew will take over the throne of King Xiao, and then the king's heir will be the emperor in Hebei, and King Xiao will supervise the country, which is very feasible. Seeing that the expressions on people's faces were no longer as desperate as they were just now, and their eyes had regained some brilliance, Wu Han slowed down his tone and said meaningfully: "What I just said is only the worst case!" I believe that the king will be killed
Cheng Xiang. From Nanyang to Hebei, how many hardships the king has experienced, and how many hardships and dangers he has experienced, but the king has survived unharmed. ”
Everyone nodded one after another, indicating that Wu Han was right.
Geng Yi stood up and said, "I'll return to Shunshui and search for the king!" We have to see people in life, and we have to see corpses in death, so we can give Mrs. Wang an explanation when we return to Jizhou! ”
Everyone present nodded and looked at Wu Han in unison. Wu Han had no objection, and said categorically: "Early tomorrow morning, our army will set off for the north!" ”
Liu Xiu was on the north bank of the river and jumped off the cliff by a frightened war horse. Speaking of which, Liu Xiu was also unlucky enough, good and decent, and fell into the water inexplicably.
After the war horse fell into the water, it sank to the bottom of the water vigorously, and Liu Xiu was also shocked and dizzy. He wanted to leave the war horse quickly, but when he wanted to get rid of the war horse, he suddenly found that one foot was stuck in the stirrup.
Liu Xiu was dragged by the war horse and kept sinking to the bottom of the water, he continued to kick his legs, trying to get rid of the stirrups, but it was useless, the stirrups became tighter and tighter.
What's even worse is that there is an undercurrent hidden under the water, and Liu Xiu, along with the war horse, was swept by the undercurrent, and the sinking speed was faster.
Knowing that if he continued like this, he would have to be drowned alive, Liu Xiu used all his strength, drew his sword, curled up in a ball, and violently used the Chixiao sword to break the belt of the stirrup.
Then, with his legs kicking together, he finally floated up from the bottom of the water.
After his head came out of the water, he took a long breath in the sky, and after a moment's pause, he looked around and found himself floating rapidly downstream with the raging current.
Liu Xiu also wanted to grab the stones on the shore, but some of the stones were so light and slippery that he couldn't grasp them at all, while some of the stones were sharp and sharp.
He felt that his physical strength was rapidly draining, and he did not dare to struggle any more, allowing the current to roll him down and drift downward.
I don't know how long it took for this drift, but when Liu Xiu regained consciousness, he found that he had been washed ashore by the river.
It was a shallow shoal at the corner of the river, and he slowly raised his head and looked around, with the river behind him and the trees in front of him. As for what exactly is this place, Liu Xiu is not clear.
He crawled to the shore and came to a place where there was no water, and lay on his back on the ground, wheezing as if his whole body was going to be torn apart.
He slowed down for a quarter of an hour, feeling some strength regain in his body, and then slowly removed his armor and took off his clothes.
He had a wound on his palm, and he also had a wound on his body, which had not scabbed over due to the long immersion in the river, and was soaked white, and his flesh turned out.
Holding back the pain, he took out the gold sore medicine from his clothes, bit off the lid, and poured the foam inside onto the wound.
The wound with the medicinal foam was like being burned by fire, and the severe pain made Liu Xiu's eyes blacken, and he almost fainted on the spot.
Liu Xiu grabbed a thin wooden stick casually and bit it in his mouth, which was to prevent himself from biting his gums.
After the first severe pain, the next thing Liu Xiu was almost numb, and he kept pouring the gold sore medicine on various wounds on his body.
Liu Xiu bit the wooden stick, beads of sweat dripping down his cheeks. When he finished medicating all the wounds he could medicate, the whole person seemed to collapse, and he collapsed on the ground, leaving only the strength to breathe.
I don't know how long it took, but it got dark. Liu Xiu slowly opened his eyes, and first checked the wounds on his body, some of the small wounds had begun to scab.
Because Liu Xiu has drunk gold liquid, the healing speed of the wound has always been much faster than ordinary people, and if it hadn't been soaked in the river water for too long, it would not have scabbed until now.
He remedicated his wounds, then tore off a few strips of his robe and bandaged them one by one.
He was wrapping his wounds when he heard a rustling sound in the woods. Liu Xiu's body was shocked, and he picked up his Chixiao Sword as soon as possible, drew the sword out of its sheath, and stared at the woods without blinking.
After he saw clearly what came out of the woods, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, it was really a leaky house that happened to rain overnight! It turned out that what came out of the woods was a blind black bear more than two meters long.
This is Youbeiping County, in modern times, it already includes part of Liaoning, and it is not too much to say that this is the Northeast. This big black bear was blind and looked like a black hill when it came out of the woods.
Seeing this brute, Liu Xiu could only sigh in his heart, he was really unlucky!
The bear's sense of smell is very keen, almost seven times that of a hunting dog, and it can smell the smell of blood within a radius of a mile. The bear's sense of hearing is sharper, and he can hear footsteps three hundred paces away.
It can be said that bears are natural jungle killers.
At this time, the blind black bear that Liu Xiu encountered was obviously attracted by the smell of blood on Liu Xiu's body.
As the bear approached him, a pair of round black eyes stared at him, and at the same time, the transparent liquid continued to drip down the corners of the bear's mouth.
Liu Xiu took a deep breath, beat his spirit, supported the ground with the Chixiao Sword, and slowly stood up. He bent over, stared at the black bear walking step by step, and said: "If you don't eat me, we can still cooperate with each other to catch prey in the mountains, but if you want to eat me, I can only fight with you, in this way, it will not be good for you and me!"
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If it was a person on the other side, he might still feel that Liu Xiu's words made some sense, but unfortunately, now he is facing a bear and a beast who doesn't understand human language. The black bear did not slow down, and still approached Liu Xiu step by step.
When the distance between a man and a bear was only seven or eight steps away, the black bear roared, and its four paws dug the ground together, rushing straight towards Liu Xiu.
Liu Xiuqiang endured the pain on his body and dodged to the side.
Call! A fishy wind whistled past him, and at the same time, he felt a burning pain in his shoulder, and when he turned his head, he saw that the flesh on his shoulder had been cut open by the black bear's claws.
The wound wasn't deep, but it hurt terribly. The claws of the beast are full of bacteria, and it is absolutely unpleasant to be scratched by the claws of the beast.
Bears don't eat dead prey, this statement is not credible, when the bear is very hungry, let alone dead prey, even if it is rotten prey, it can eat it cleanly.
The blow failed to kill the prey, and the black bear roared angrily, turned around, and rushed towards Liu Xiu again. suffered a loss just now, but this time Liu Xiu dodged faster, leaning against the ground and rolling to the side.
The black bear attacked him several times in a row, but Liu Xiu dodged it, which stimulated the beastly nature of the black bear, and it stood up in front of Liu Xiu, and its body more than two meters long stood there, really like an iron tower.
This time, without waiting for the black bear to attack, Liu Xiu took the initiative to rush towards the black bear. The black bear's instinctive reaction swept towards him with a claw. Liu Xiu leaned down, and the sharp claws of the black bear did not sweep over his head, but swept against his scalp. Liu Xiu dodged the black bear's attack, and the person also approached the black bear's body, and the sword in his hand stabbed forward fiercely by inertia.