Luoyang southwest Yique Pass, south of Dagu Pass, southeast Yuyuan Pass, Yique Pass is the closest to Luoyang, about 40 miles, Shi A asked Liu Ze: "Ming Gong, Sanguan is dangerous, Yique is the closest, where is the best?" Liu Ze looked back at the soldiers behind him and said: "We have to stay away from Luoyang as soon as possible and enter the deep mountains, so that we have a chance to have a chance. Shi Adao: "After Yique, it is only a stone's throw away from Lu Hun Pass, why is Ming Gong willing to seek the near and far?" Liu Ze smiled bitterly: "With the physical strength of the brothers, we climbed over the mountains near Yique Pass and rushed to Luhun, I am afraid that Yuan Shao has already displayed his troops, waiting for us to be caught." Shi A thought about it, yes, the brothers fought fiercely for half the night, and their physical strength was seriously overdrawn, and when they arrived at Luhun, they were afraid that they would no longer be able to walk, so it was better to turn over Yique and find a place to hide for a day to recover their strength.

Xu You ordered Yan Liang and Zhang He to divide their troops into two ways to pursue, and sent fast horses to rush overnight to notify Sanguan.

Liu Ze and his entourage came to the mountains next to Yique Pass, Liu Ze ordered to abandon the horses, try to carry the materials that can be used, and after the preparation, the war horses were driven far away, and more than 90 people entered the mountains. After turning over the two hills, Liu Ze ordered to rest. The brothers are too tired, they are in a hurry at night, and they can't light torches, the mountain road is steep, in case they stumble and get injured, they will lose a few more lives, and it is strange if Liu Ze is distressed to death. Everyone groped for food, water, replenished energy, closed their clothes on the path, and fell asleep.

Liu Ze saw that the soldiers couldn't support it, and they fell asleep one after another, this cold day was not a joke, and he was busy waking up Shi A who was asleep, Liu Ze said: "Brothers, I know that you are tired, but in this barren mountain range, the weather is cold, if you sleep, I am afraid it will be difficult to see the sun tomorrow." We can only sleep peacefully if we have a strong spirit, climb over the mountains, and come across a village. Shi A said: "Brothers, for the sake of Ming Gong's danger, we must be careful. Let's go. ”

Xu You dispatched troops and soon received the news of the three passes, and no one passed through the three passes. Under the bright firelight, Xu You looked at the map, did Liu Rundong turn around? At this time, a scout came to report that at the foot of the mountain in the Kansai of Iku, a messy horse's hoof prints were found. Xu Yu was overjoyed and immediately mobilized a large army to surround the mountains of Yique. Liu Rundong has entered the mountain, and my army is heavily surrounded, see where you are going.

Liu Ze looked at the sky, there was still an hour before the sky would be clear, if the sky was clear, the chance of escaping would be too slim. Shi A pointed to the small valley in front of him and said, "Ming Gong, please look, there seems to be a cottage in the valley." By the cold moonlight, Liu Ze saw a dark house in the valley, about a dozen families, Liu Ze said: "Let the brothers go into the village to rest." Shi A and the others quietly walked into the village, and suddenly the dogs in the village began to bark wildly. One by one, the firewood doors were pushed open, and more than 20 sturdy mountain people, holding wooden sticks, greeted them, and when they saw nearly 100 people, they were dumbfounded. Liu Ze stepped forward and said: "Don't be surprised, big brothers, my brothers and I were chased and killed by the enemy, so we had to go into the mountains to hide, and when I saw the village, I wanted the brothers to come over to rest and take a breath." The mountain people held torches, and saw that Liu Zewen was polite, his clothes were stained with blood, and the people behind him were all in tatters, but they were all in good spirits. Seeing that the other party had no malicious intent, a big man came out and said, "That is the case, but the mountain village is too small, and everything can only be investigated." Liu Ze was overjoyed and said: "I am grateful to have a mouthful of hot soup to warm my stomachs and intestines." Later, we will present silver taels, and we will not let the big brothers be busy in vain. ”

Xu Youshuai rushed to the place where the horseshoe prints disappeared, and saw many war horses leisurely gnawing on dry grass and branches, and immediately became excited as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and said loudly: "Liu Rundong will enter the mountain from here, and the troops will light torches and enter the mountain to pursue, and Liu Rundong must be captured and killed." Yan Liang frowned and said, "Master Xu, the brothers have been busy all night and have not rested. Xu You said: "Liu Rundong is already a fish and meat on the case, and the Ming public has an order, and whoever captures Liu Rundong will be crowned a marquis and rewarded with 100,000 yuan." Those who participated in the encirclement and suppression tonight will be rewarded with five catties of meat and a thousand coins. When the soldiers heard of such a great reward, they screamed, and two thousand men and horses, carrying torches, began to enter the mountain. It's just that what Xu You didn't know was that the place where he entered the mountain was nearly five miles away from Liu Ze.

In the small mountain village, the soldiers had a full and hot meal, and their eyes began to fight one by one, Liu Ze understood that he could not stay, once the Yuan army surrounded the mountains around Yique, it would be difficult for less than a hundred people to have a chance to live. Liu Ze said to the nearby mountain people: "This big brother, we want to go to Huoyang Mountain to hide from the enemy, but I don't know if there is a shortcut out of this mountain." The mountaineer said, "There is a short road, but it is difficult to walk. Liu Ze asked, "I don't know how many hours, can I get out of this mountain?" "Half an hour is enough." Liu Ze was overjoyed, ordered Shi A to take out a few pieces of silver cakes, handed them to the mountain people, and then said to the mountain people: "Can you bother the eldest brother to lead the way for us, and we have a lot of money to thank you." Seeing that Liu Ze was so polite, more than 90 men were respectful to Liu Ze, and guessed Liu Ze's identity in their hearts, so they said: "When I tell my family, I will leave immediately." ”

Yuan Jun was inspired by Xu You, supported for less than an hour, after all, people are not iron, a night of running, so that the soldiers are seriously overdrawn, the mountain road is not as flat as the road, many soldiers can no longer walk, paralyzed on the ground. Yan Liang said: "Military advisor, if you don't rest, the army's heart will collapse." Xu You looked at the staggered soldiers, sighed, and said, "Rest for half an hour." ”

Yuan Shao stayed awake all night, waiting for Xu You's news, and when he heard Liu Ze enter the mountain, he kept issuing military orders and ordered to strictly guard all passes, and the army rushed to Yique Wai Mountain overnight.

Before dawn, Liu Ze finally saw the path outside the mountain, said goodbye to the mountain people, and took advantage of the night to quickly go south. When the sky was bright, Liu Ze and his entourage left Yique Pass ten miles away. Although he rested twice, the soldiers were too tired, and Liu Ze endured it and walked some remote paths with everyone.

After the soldiers rested, Xu You divided the 2,000 people into more than a dozen roads, and began to search in all directions, and finally a team of soldiers found a small mountain village. The chief inquired about the mountain people, and learned that an hour earlier a group of men had left the village and was heading in some direction. Tun Changfei reported to Xu You, Xu You inquired carefully, and the villager who happened to lead the way came back, Xu You caught the drudgery of the mountain people, and ordered the mountain people to lead the way again.

When Xu You came out of the mountain, he saw a group of Yuan soldiers patrolling in front of the mountain, hurriedly found the commander of the army, and ordered him to lead the troops to chase Liu Ze, he was tired, half lying on the soft couch, giving orders one by one, and felt inexplicable fear of Liu Ze's tenacity in his heart.

In a big forest on the side of the road, Liu Ze and the others spread the thick fallen leaves on their bodies and slept one by one. The wind passed through the treetops, the branches clashed, and the birds looking for food flew tiredly, standing on the branches, chirping to their heart's content. At noon, the sound of miscellaneous footsteps quickly woke up the sleeping soldiers, and Liu Ze said softly: "Don't be impatient, pass on." Soon, all the soldiers got Liu Ze's order and lay quietly under the leaves.

Outside the woods, a tun chief said to the captain who led the team: "The forest is huge, will Liu Rundong hide in the forest?" The captain waved his hand, and the five hundred people immediately quieted down, and the captain stretched out his ears to listen carefully for a long time, and said, "Liu Rundong will not be in this forest." The tun chief asked confusedly, "How do you know?" The captain laughed, and the sound shook the treetops, startling the birds on the trees to fly around, "I saw the branches swaying, the birds chirping, if Liu Rundong was in the forest, how dare the birds land?" The tun chief stretched out his thumb, "Captain Takami." The lieutenant laughed and led the team away.

Xu You was anxious, the army of 50,000 combed this place back and forth several times, but he didn't find any clues, could it be that Liu Rundong had wings? Xu Yu viciously ordered that all suspicious points should not be let go, and let all the soldiers reorganize it.

At dusk, another group of men and horses came to this wood, and outside the woods, the lieutenant ordered loudly, "Wutun disperse, search and advance, don't let go of an inch of land, and stick a spear into me fiercely." ”

Liu Ze and the others had eaten and drunk enough at the moment, waiting for the night to fall, and when they heard the sound of talking outside the forest, Liu Ze gestured to Shi A, and more than ninety people quickly hidden.

The trees were tall, and the light in the woods was much darker than outside, and the tuns, under the leadership of the tun chief, entered the woods in a straggler formation.

When they searched near Liu Ze and the others, the distance between the soldiers and soldiers of Yuan was even more dispersed. From time to time, the tun chief shouted and passed messages to each other. A sergeant Yuan searched under a big tree and muttered: "Grandma, I've been tired for a day, and I haven't even caught people's hair." As he spoke, he took off his pants and prepared to release the water. A large hand covered the soldier's mouth, and the soldier struggled and whined, but the sound quickly died down as his neck was torn off. A hundred people were soon treated in the same way. Liu Ze said in a low voice: "Brothers, change your clothes." More than ninety people quickly changed into Yuan Jun's clothes, Liu Ze nodded, and said, "Cover the corpse with leaves, and then kill the rest of the soldiers in turn." "After a day's rest, the physical strength of more than 90 people has been quickly recovered, and under the special training, it is a piece of cake to deal with the equal number of people.

Under the protection of several pro-soldiers, the lieutenant waited for the results on the road outside the woods, and one of the pro-soldiers pointed to the woods and said, "Come out, come out." In a daze, the lieutenant saw a group of soldiers walking towards the forest, so he asked loudly, "Is there a result?" Someone in the forest replied, "No." The lieutenant said loudly: "Assemble the team and go back to the village to rest." A soldier next to him said, "Why is this voice so unfamiliar?" The lieutenant and his commander crawled together every day, and when he heard the words of his own soldiers, his doubts arose, and he asked loudly: "Who is here?" Can the tun chief be available? The people in the woods were almost out of the woods, and one of them said, "The tun chief is in a hurry, and he will come later." Du Wei was relieved, and was about to speak again, only to feel a cold neck, and a sharp sword was on his neck, it was Shi A. The soldiers were so frightened that they were about to draw their knives, but their chests were pierced by a sharp blade.

Du Wei opened his panicked eyes and looked at the person who came, Liu Ze smiled at Du Wei and said, "I am Dongping Liu Ze is also." Du Wei fluttered and knelt on the ground, "Lord Liu spares his life, the villain is also forced to do so, the poor villain has an eighty-year-old mother and a howling baby below, please spare the villain's life." "It's not hard to survive, tell me where you are camping?" What do you say in the military tonight? Shi Ah tightened the long sword in his hand very cooperatively, and Du Wei suddenly felt a tingling pain," the villain said. Liu Ze nodded at Shi A, and Shi A's long sword slightly left Du Wei's neck, "The camp is standing ten miles ahead, near a large town called Pingchangli; Tonight's password is... It's—" Shi A's long sword tightened again, and said, "Say it quickly." Du Wei glanced at Liu Ze and said, "Capture Liu Rundong alive." Liu Ze laughed, Shi Ah used his strength, and Du Wei's neck made a 180-degree rotation.

Liu Ze turned over the captain's war horse, and more than ninety people slowly rushed forward.