February.

The warm breeze of early spring began to circumvent the mountains and countryside south of the Qinling Mountains, and the vegetation that had been dormant under the snow line for the first winter was trying to straighten its body and show the tender green buds in front of the world. Grizzly bears, who had been hungry for a winter, came out of their tree hollows and began to wander around in search of food.

In such a season, there is hope and disappointment, and for experienced hunters, the hard days are finally over, and for those who are not skilled in hunting, the mountains and forests are the place to be buried.

Mt. Yonekura.

Eighteen Dragon Ponds.

The huge rocks here have been shattered by the long-term erosion of rain, and several faults in the middle have sunk deeply, gradually forming one turquoise pool after another. If you look at it from the perspective of enjoying the scenery, most people will be very excited and praise this place, but if you flee here, the situation and mood will be very bad.

Lu Pheasant and others exposed their whereabouts in Wuguan, and Zhang Ping, the Qin general who was asked by Li Yuan to return to the division, was shocked to sweat profusely, and returned from the front line of Xicheng day and night.

Guo Ting and Zhang Ping were wary, which made Jihua, who Lu Pheasant had originally envisioned for Guo and Zhang Erbu to attract the attention of the Qin army and break through the mountain trail with his cronies, died without a problem. However, Guo Ting was still soft-hearted towards the Lu family after all, and he cared about Lu Ze's old feelings, so he did not take Zhang Ping's suggestion, but chose to "escort" Lu Pheasant and others all the way.

In this way, the movements of Lü Pheasant's army were almost invisible in front of the besieging Qin army, and with the support of reliable information provided by Yan Le, the Qin army only dispatched Zhang Ping's army, and surrounded Lü Pheasant and Guo Ting's defeated troops in this inaccessible deep mountain.

After a few days of fleeing, the soldiers who followed Lu Pheasant and Guo Ting increased from nearly 2,500 people. It gradually declined to less than four hundred people left.

Among them, what made Lu Pheasant even more crazy was that among the three generals of Lu Ze's old department, Xue Ou, the only general who took refuge in them, died in battle at the beginning, with the humiliation of being deceived, Qin General Zhang Ping chased after him all the way, and his personal combat effectiveness was also suddenly increased by several grades, which made Xue Ou suffer a big loss in the heads-up.

Xue Ou died in battle, and the soldiers of Lu Pheasant's army were even more demoralized, taking advantage of the generals' inattention. These rogue soldiers burrowed into the dense jungle in groups of three or five, and they could not be found again in the blink of an eye. With spring approaching on Mt. Yonekura, the sprouting vegetation begins to have tender rhizomes, and with the wild animals that come out to hunt for food through the winter, if you are lucky enough not to run into large animals such as tigers, leopards and bears, you may be able to escape with your life.

The soldiers were scattered, and the morale of the army was shaken.

Finally arrived at the Eighteen Dragon Pond, Lu Pheasant and the others were exhausted, and they couldn't even move their feet. Fortunately, Zhang Ping was also constrained by the rugged road and failed to continue to stick to the back.

Temporary garrison of the Lu Pheasant Army.

A few grass huts built in a humble way became Lu Pheasant's residence.

At this time, Lu Pheasant has long since lost his high-spirited appearance when the riots first started. After many days of planning and hard thinking, when Zuihou was about to succeed, he found that what he did was just an illusory dream. Such a psychological blow made Lu Pheasant more painful than physical exhaustion.

"Sister, Ying'er is coughing and talking nonsense again. If this continues, I'm afraid! Lu Shizhi's expression was sad, and his young and handsome face had long since lost his arrogance.

"You still have the face to say, if you didn't take charge of it and take Ying'er to hunt some beast, how could it be-!" Lu Pheasant angrily reprimanded.

Liu Ying's body bones have not yet grown, and he has been following the troops for several days, even if he is riding a carriage, he is also exhausted, and the foggy and miasma terrain conditions in Hanzhong can be said to be pervasive for the invasion of weak people, Lu Pheasant was busy coping with the difficulties in front of him during this time, and the care of Liu Ying could only be entrusted to Lu Shizhi, but he didn't want to be careless, and he still failed to keep Liu Ying healthy.

Lu Shizhi's brother, his performance in all aspects of this day disappointed Lu Pheasant very much, not only did he not make achievements in the military, but he was also negligent in these details of life, and his various actions were not even as good as his nephew Lu Tai. Under the anger of hating iron and not steel, Lu Pheasant naturally had no good face for him.

"Auntie, now is not the time for temper, the top priority is to hurry up and find Lang Zhong to save Brother Ying." Lu Tai saw that the two relatives had the intention of quarrelling, and hurriedly persuaded him.

"Langzhong, in this barren mountain and wilderness, where is there anything to be found in Langzhong, this God, don't give me Lu Pheasant a way to live." Lu Pheasant wept and couldn't cry.

In front of Lu Shizhi and Lu Tai, she has always played the role of a strong woman, but today, when the news of Liu Ying's dying life was confirmed, all her disguises did not exist.

"Auntie, if we continue to walk southeast, although it is possible to get out of this vast primeval mountain and reach Nanjun, it is also possible that we will die on the road before we can get out. It's better to be like this, if my aunt can trust me, I will take Brother Ying to the southwest, if I can be lucky enough to reach Shudi, maybe there is a glimmer of life. Lu Tai was silent for a while, Zuihou stepped forward, picked up Lu Pheasant and said.

"Shudi, Tai'er, are you sure to hide your identity and escape the search of the Qin people?" Lu Pheasant asked with some disbelief.

"To be honest, there are Qin people all around, where is there any certainty, it's just that if you continue to follow the big army, the goal is too big and the Qin people will not stop, and if there are only a few people, as long as they hide, and when the limelight passes, maybe they will have a little chance to live." Lu Tai smiled bitterly.

"This—this is not going to wait." Lu Pheasant lowered his head and looked at Liu Ying, who was sleeping, a little reluctant. After Liu Bang favored Qi Ji, the whole meaning of Lu Pheasant's life was poured into Liu Ying. Now, let her leave Liu Ying behind, how can she be willing to do this.

"Auntie, time is pressing, the Qin people behind will not stop, if it's late, even this only chance will be gone." Lu Tai said urgently.

Compared with Lu Shizhi, who doesn't know anything, Lu Tai, who has just passed his eighteenth birthday, quickly matured in the face of pressure and difficulties, and his coldness and decisiveness originated from his father Lu Ze.

"Atai-, you are a good boy, I'll leave it to you Ying'er." Lu Pheasant picked up Liu Ying, handed him over to Lu Tai's hands, and instructed softly. After saying a word, Lu Pheasant, who could no longer control the pain in his heart, silently walked back to the grass hut, turned his back to everyone and said a word.

Lu Tai took three or four of Lu's housekeepers to find a mountain path, and Guo Ting, Zhang Ping, who were already estranged from Lu Pheasant, did not stop Zhu Lu's action, they cared about Lu Pheasant and the large amount of wealth she carried by her, not an underage child.

In the hopeless and painful march, Lü Pheasant, Guo Ting and others were still struggling, and their former ally, the nominal leader of the Hanzhong riots, Ying Shi, was shown to the public by the Qin army a few days later.

In the seventh year of the Qin New Calendar, February 19.

The Qin army Wang Shang captured Nanzheng and captured the nominal first evil "god witch" Ying Shi in the Hanzhong riots, this blind and blinded old pious woman was still talking nonsense to a group of believers until she was caught by the Qin army.

This kind of blind trust existed in the Qin period, even in the past two thousand years, it also existed, but the difference was that the methods of deception were constantly renovated.

After Ying's identity was confirmed, he was beheaded by Wang Shang on the streets of Nanzheng to show the public, and the scene at that time was seen by more than 10,000 people in Nanzheng.

After the Win clan, the leaders of the Qiang people who followed the rebellion were also annihilated by the Qin army one after another, and the Hanzhong riots that lasted for nearly three months were basically quelled.

Chen Ping and Li Zheng took advantage of this opportunity to begin to execute the jihua of immigrating from Guanzhong to Hanzhong, and most of the Qiang people in Hanzhong were killed in the riots, and the rest had no heart to rebel. (To be continued......)