Chapter 124: Distress
Liu Tong led a thousand people to run upstream, a hundred steps away, Liu Tong ordered a formation. The incoming army was Yuan Lian's department, which burned Wuqiu's frugal grain and grass.
It turned out that Yan Xiang found that Wuqiu Jian was a feint attack, and sent scouts to report that Wuqiu Jian's camp was empty, and the Zhao and Gao Shun troops had gone west, so he concluded that Wu Qiu Jian was not to attack Yuan Jian's troops in the north of Yangzhai, but because the grain and grass were cut off and ready to retreat, so he quickly ordered Yuan Jian to send troops to ambush in the upper reaches of the Wudu River, so that Ji Ling led the troops to lurk downstream, and he led his troops to follow Wuqiu Jian's army.
Yuan Tong's department first shot arrows at Liu Tong's department, and after a few rounds, nearly half of the national army was killed and wounded, and Liu Tong's department had a strong bow and crossbow, but because of the limited number of people, although it was useless to shoot Yuan Tong's thousands of men and horses. Yuan Lian's sword and shield soldiers advanced, and Liu Tong had to lead his troops to rush over in order to buy time for the army to cross the river.
Although Wuqiu Jian equipped Liu Tong with good horses and spears, Liu Tong was not very comfortable. Liu Tong rushed into the enemy formation, stabbed left and right, and made a gap, and Wu Ji followed closely behind to escort him. Seeing that Liu Tong was so brave, the soldiers of the National Army screamed, and frantically pounced on it, killing their eyes red. Yuan Jian didn't expect that the hundreds of soldiers on the opposite side would be so desperate, and they were so angry that they almost retreated for Liu Tong.
Yuan Jian shouted: "The enemy has few soldiers, give me all annihilation!" Saying that, he personally stepped forward to stop Liu Tong. Liu Tong saw several generals on the opposite side rushing towards him, and when he saw Yuan Jian shouting, he knew that it was the main general, so he stabbed several roadblockers to death in a row, and greeted him with a gun.
Seeing Liu Tong's ferocity, Yuan Tong's first general rushed to kill with a knife, Liu Tong leaned over and stabbed him to death with one shot. Liu Tong went straight to Yuan Jian without pause, Yuan Tong saw this, he was frightened, and stopped moving, Liu Tong raised his gun to kill, Yuan Lian's guards resisted one after another, Liu Tong was really angry, danced out of the spear, stabbed everyone's horses and bodies, and instantly stabbed five or six people down, driving Yuan Lian directly.
The soldiers around Yuan Lian, seeing that Liu Tong was directly taking his main general, came to Liu Tong one after another. Liu Tong saw that he couldn't penetrate the blocking soldiers, so he threw the spear at Yuan Lian, the spear penetrated a blocking general, and ran to Yuan Lian's chest, Yuan Lian raised his gun to block, Liu Tong's real qi was strong, although the spear was blocked by a person's body once, and its strength weakened, it still broke the big knife in Yuan Lian's hand and shook Yuan Lian off the horse.
Wu Ji, who had been following closely, hurriedly handed Liu Tong the inadequate spear in his hand, and took out his waist knife and continued to slash and kill the soldiers who attacked Liu Tong.
The generals and guards around Yuan Jian saw that Liu Tong was coming viciously, and quickly picked up Yuan Lian and mounted his horse and fled backwards, Yuan Lian's army was scattered, but Liu Tong did not dare to continue the pursuit, only to see that his own troops had been deeply surrounded, and if he did not retreat in time, the whole army would be annihilated.
Liu Tong hurriedly took the opportunity to turn the horse's head and kill backwards. Yuan Lian's formation has been chaotic, the soldiers behind are at a loss, the number is small, Liu Tong led people to kill, Yuan Lian's army retreated while fighting, but there was no sign of defeat, soon Liu Tong saw that Yuan Lian stabilized his position, and re-stopped the attack, Liu Tong had to retreat along the Wudu River, while fighting and retreating, Liu Tong saw that his soldiers continued to die, and it was estimated that it would not last long, so he slowly retreated.
Seeing that Liu Tong was brave and fierce, Yuan Jian did not dare to advance, so he gathered the sword and shield soldiers to form a formation again, advancing step by step. Liu Tong gradually retreated to the vicinity of the bridge, seeing that the Nationalist Army had basically crossed the river, the Nationalist Army on the other side of the river kept shooting Yuan Lian's pursuers with strong crossbows, Yuan Lian's troops did not dare to approach and stayed away from the river, Yan Xiang, who followed the Nationalist Army from Yangzhai City, was already close in front of him, and Ji Ling and Yuan Lian formed an arc-shaped encirclement circle against Liu Tong and Wuqiujian.
Not far away, Liu Tong saw that Wuqiu Jian fled back with less than sixty people, so he hurriedly crossed the bridge with the remaining hundred or so soldiers led by himself, Liu Tong ordered the rest of the pontoon bridges to be burned, and he stood on the only pontoon bridge and waited for Wuqiu Jian. Yuan Jian's archers did not have the same range as the national army and did not dare to approach, but when they saw Wuqiu Jian's handsome banner and knew that Wuqiu Jian was going to cross the river, Yuan Jian recklessly ordered an attack.
Wu Qiu Jian's subordinates saw that Wu Qiu Jian had already gone to the bridge, and about 50 people suddenly gave up crossing the bridge and rushed to kill Yuan Jian's army, in order to leave Wu Qiu Jian enough time to cross the river. Seeing this, Qiu Jian wanted to turn around and stop it. Liu Tong saw that Wuqiujian's war horse had been lost, and there were arrow wounds in the chest, abdomen and back, so he hurriedly ordered Wu Ji and others to set up Wuqiujian and retreat.
Yuan Jian killed the exhausted fifty people of Wuqiu Jian in an instant, Yuan Jian rushed to the front with a few generals and dozens of guards, and went straight to the pontoon bridge, because Liu Tong, Wuqiu Jian and others were on the pontoon bridge, and the national army did not dare to shoot crossbows.
Yuan Jian and others saw that Wuqiu Jian had arrived in the middle of the pontoon bridge, so they learned from Liu Tong and threw the spears and big knives in their hands at Wu Qiujian's back. Seeing this, Liu Tong shouted: "Second uncle! ”
Before the words fell, Liu Tongfei jumped up, stepped on the head of a national army soldier halfway, and once again jumped towards Wuqiu Jian with the help of the dragon. The trampled soldier suddenly fell to the ground with his head shattered, and Liu Tong waved his gun away from the three weapons that flew towards Wu Qiujian's back. Because of the force, he lost his balance in the air and was stabbed in the abdomen by a spear, and fell into the river.
Wu Qiu Jian saw Liu Tong fall into the water, his mind was suddenly confused, crying and struggling to rush to the river, and he was seriously injured, so he fainted for a while.
Seeing that the commander was like this, the generals on the other side rushed to pick up Wuqiujian, who had already fainted, carried him down the pontoon bridge, and ordered someone to burn the pontoon bridge. The Nationalist Army constantly fired at the other side of the river.
Wu Ji had already lost his soul, and organized soldiers to go into the water to find Liu Tong. The soldiers in Xiahe were constantly shot and killed by Yuan Lian's archers. The river was full of corpses, and it was dark and the river was turbulent and it was impossible to find Liu Tong. Seeing that there were more and more soldiers and horses on the other side, Adjutant General Wu Qiu Jian was afraid that the other side would build a bridge to attack, so he had to retreat.
When Zhao Zhao and Gao Shun came, he learned that Liu Tong had fallen into the water, and knew that the matter was serious, so he camped by the river and organized people to search for it downstream overnight. Yan Xiang, Ji Ling, and Yuan Jian saw that the national army had crossed the river, and Gao Shun and the army had been assembled, so they did not dare to cross the river to attack, so they had to retreat.
After Wu Qiujian woke up, he cried bitterly, and personally led his troops to search for a few days along the Wudu River. After Wu Qiu Jian returned, he killed all the guards he sent to Liu Tong, and Wu Ji was beaten with sixty military sticks and almost disabled.
Due to Liu Tong's death, Wu Qiu Jian no longer had the heart to carry out military operations, so he stopped the army.
Wu Qiu Jian originally wanted to go to Yecheng in person, but he didn't dare to go, and he couldn't face his senior brothers, masters, and uncles.
Qiu Jian knew that Liu Kuan had several sons, but the master and uncle really cared about Liu Tong, and Liu Kuan's favorite was also Liu Tong, so he had to send a messenger to go as soon as possible, after the letter was delivered to Yecheng, everyone in Liu's mansion was in pain, Zhang Youniang and Jinxiu washed their faces with tears all day long, and Liu Kuan closed the door for many days.
Soon Tian Feng's petition was sent to Liu Kuan's case, requesting that he be removed from his post in the Military Aircraft Department, but Liu Kuan rejected it.
At the same time that Wuqiu Jian's fast horse sent a letter to Liu Kuan, he also sent the same letter to the Five Elements Temple of Hanshan. On the afternoon of the day of receiving the letter, Hua Jun, Zhang Li, and Wang Bing, who had not been at the door for a long time, came to Liu's mansion.
Liu Kuan took Zhang and his mother to the door to greet him, and the servant carried Hua Jun to sit down when he just entered the house, and saw several masters with his mother, thinking about what Liu Kuan had told him before, Liu Tong came back from the dead, experienced two lives, and thought that several elders had paid so much for Liu Tong, and loved Liu Tong so much, and they were even more sad, and they cried in front of several old people.
"With my mother, cry what to cry! Let's go arrange dinner, we're all hungry! "The older Hua Jun gets, the more irritable his temper becomes.
When he went out with his mother, he told Jinxiu to arrange meals outside the door. As soon as he turned around, he saw Wang Bing recruiting him, went over with his mother, leaned on Wang Bing's arms like a child and cried in a low voice.
Zhang Li knocked on the table, "With your mother, Dahe is alive and well, what are you crying for!" ”
Liu Kuan knew the skills of the three of them, and he was immediately overjoyed and flustered, and his mother thought that the three of them had brought news of Liu Tong, and stopped sobbing.
"Whether it is from the astrological signs or Tong'er's life, Tong'er should still be alive in the world. So, with the mother, don't cry anymore, it's annoying! Hua Jun glared at his mother heavily.
Seeing that he was smiling with his mother, Liu Kuan breathed a sigh of relief, but he knew Hua Jun too well, and he couldn't say that he should still be alive if he was sure of something, Hua Jun was not sure, which meant that the uncles and uncles were not sure either, Liu Kuan secretly prayed, Dahe, don't leave me!
And at this time, thousands of miles away, in Xinye Shayan Village, Luo Hongli had just buried his father Luo Hu and was washing Liu Tong's only clothes and pants in the yard.
Luo Hu, a retired disabled veteran, was drowned in Zhaofu Canal one evening because of saving Liu Tong, and his only daughter Luo Hongli had sold herself to Yaxing in order to bury him, just waiting for the rescued teenager to wake up, she would be picked up by Yaxing to meet the unknown life.