With one hand pressing the hilt of the long sword at his waist, Lu Bu stood only more than ten steps away from the wall of the Tiger Prison Pass, looking up at the strange line of symbols painted on the wall.

Before leaving the Tiger Prison Pass, Liu Wei wrote on the wall of the pass with ink charcoal, "King Hongnong visited here". However, these characters are not written in the seal script commonly used nowadays, but in simplified regular script that emerged two thousand years later.

If this line of characters Liu Wei was written in traditional characters, perhaps Lu Bu could vaguely distinguish what he was writing, but he couldn't write traditional characters, let alone leave a message in seal script.

The seven simplified characters were clearly reflected in front of Lu Bu's eyes, but Lu Bu was confused. Staring at the big line of characters for a while, he furrowed his brows and asked Zhang Liao beside him: "Wenyuan, what is painted on the wall?" ”

"The last general doesn't know!" Looking at the big characters, Zhang Liao also looked confused, and said to Lu Bu: "It looks like a line of words, but I have never seen such strange handwriting!" The last general is only a shallow learner, and he really doesn't recognize what is painted on the wall! ”

Lu Bu clenched one hand into a fist, gently pounded the palm of the other hand, and said to Zhang Liao and the generals behind him: "Generals, the people who captured the Tiger Prison must have wanted to provoke us by painting symbols on the wall. If I can't guess what he's drawing, I'll laugh at him! ”

"Wen Hou's words are not bad!" After Lu Bu finished speaking, Zhang Liao on the side took over and said: "The third symbol looks a bit like the word 'king'. ”

"King?" Listening to Zhang Liao's words, Lu Bu was stunned for a moment, looked at the two words in front of him carefully, frowned tightly, and muttered in his mouth: "Could it be the Tiger Prison Pass captured by King Hongnong?" ”

"But the first two symbols, no matter what, can't be related to the word 'Hongnong'." Zhang Liao frowned slightly, looked at the line of words on the wall with a tangled expression, took Lu Bu's words and said: "Except for the word 'king', the last general really can't see that the others will be words!" ”

Dozens of generals under Lu Bu's command were standing behind him, surrounding the line on the wall, and two soldiers escorted one person and came to Lu Bu.

"General Jia!" Seeing the comer, Lu Bu turned his head, looked at him and said: "The Tiger Prison Pass was broken, Wei Xu is nowhere to be found, and he didn't see Zhao Shu leading the troops back, and there is a line of strange handwriting on the wall, Feng Xian is incompetent, and he is guessing to himself, General Jia happened to come, and he will definitely be able to guess So, please General Jia to solve the confusion for Feng Xian!" ”

It was Jia Xu who came to Lu Bu.

Since Liu Wei escaped from under the noses of Jia Xu and others, Dong Zhuo transferred him to the Tiger Prison Pass and cooperated with Lu Bu to guard the pass. It is precisely because of Jia Xu that Lu Bu was able to keep the tiger firmly guarded.

As soon as he returned to Tiger Prison Pass, Lu Bu was called by Zhang Liao to watch Liu Wei's inscription on the wall, while Jia Xu went to command the soldiers to put out the fire.

The fire had been brought under control, but Lu Bu was still leading a group of generals to stand by the city wall and study something. Jia Xu had doubts in his heart, so he came over.

Nodding slightly towards Lu Bu, Jia Xu didn't speak, just silently walked to the inscription on the wall, and looked up at the few big characters written in ink.

Looking at the big characters for a while, Jia Xu shook his head and said to Lu Bu: "Wen Hou, the last general really can't see what is painted on the wall. But the one who painted these must be the king of Hongnong! ”

"Why did General Jia say this?" As soon as Jia Xu's words came out, Lu Bu was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly asked, "How can you determine that it was King Hongnong who left the handwriting?" ”

"The third picture must be the word 'king'!" Jia Xu raised his hand, pointed to the simplified character "Wang" on the wall and said to Lu Bu: "Since King Hongnong killed Li Wenyou and fled Luoyang, his behavior is very strange, and he often acts unexpectedly!" Such a strange picture, in the world, I am afraid that only he can think of it. ”

Having said this, Jia Xu turned around, walked past Lu Bu and the others, pointed to the flames in the barracks that had been extinguished, and said to Lu Bu and the others: "Luoyang City, the passes are heavy, and there are heavy guards everywhere, but King Hongnong was able to successfully escape, which shows that he has the ability to predict in advance when he encounters danger. Ordinary people will definitely defend the pass when they break through the Tiger Prison Pass, but when we come here, we haven't even seen a thief, except for King Hongnong, I'm afraid there are few people who have such bearing and courage! ”

"General Jia has a high opinion of King Hongnong!" Lu Bu nodded, frowned slightly and said to Jia Xu: "When King Hongnong escaped from the palace, he slipped away from under Fengxian's nose. Father didn't blame Feng Xian, but made Feng Xian feel guilty! If it is really King Hongnong who breaks through the Tiger Prison, we will definitely capture him this time and hand him over to my father! ”

With a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, Jia Xu clenched his fists with both hands, bowed slightly, and did not speak, but in his heart he was quite dissatisfied with what Lu Bu said.

In the mountains, Liu Wei only led less than 100 Yellow Turbans to defeat the army, but he was able to successfully escape under the encirclement and suppression of thousands of elite officers and soldiers. In Jia Xu's opinion, although Lu Bu is sensitive, he is still slightly inferior to Liu Wei, who is good at escaping.

"All armies obey orders!" Seeing that Jia Xu didn't speak, Lu Bu turned around and shouted to the generals who followed him: "Leave 10,000 soldiers and horses behind you and strictly guard the Tiger Pass!" The rest of the ministries will increase the search for nearby mountains and forests! King Hongnong captured the Tiger Prison Pass, and he will definitely not return to the outside of the Pass! To the south is a flat river, which is unavoidable; To the north, there is a natural danger of the Yellow River, and it is not easy to cross the river! Their only path is to go west, into the mountains and forests to escape! ”

"Warm wait!" As soon as Lu Bu's words fell, one of the generals clenched his fists and said to him: "We came from the west, and we did not encounter any soldiers and horses along the way, nor did we find any signs of soldiers and horses marching......

"This is exactly what King Hongnong is best at!" Lu Bu's eyes narrowed slightly, first glanced at Jia Xu, and then said to the general: "King Hongnong is good at escaping, it is not surprising that we have not found any trace of him!" If it were someone else, I might have thought that they would choose the north and south roads, but King Hongnong would definitely choose to go straight west and flee with us! ”

After listening to Lu Bu's analysis, Jia Xu nodded slightly. What Lu Bu thought was exactly what he thought, and in his expectation, Liu Wei must have chosen to go west into the mountains.

Turning his head to look at the vast mountains in the distance, Jia Xu's mood was not as optimistic as Lu Bu's.

In the depths of the mountains, the grass and trees are thick, and it is not easy to find Liu Wei in the vast mountains.

Lü Bu ordered the army to advance westward, looking for Liu Bian's traces, Liu Bian had already led a team of more than 1,000 people into the mountains.

Although the mountains here cannot be compared with the mountains, the forests in the mountains are also very dense, and the canopies of the trees are connected, the branches and leaves are connected, and the sunlight passes through the gaps in the trees, casting tiny spots of light on the ground covered with thick dead leaves.

Liu Wei held the wooden stick he had chopped on the road when he was going up the mountain, and poked the ground with the wooden stick to make sure that there were no deep potholes on the road in front of him, and then continued to move forward.

The team of more than 1,000 people, each holding a wooden stick, probed the road with the wooden stick, and followed Liu Wei slowly.

The speed of marching in the mountains and forests will definitely not be very fast, and it is impossible for such a large number of people to pass through the mountains that were not inhabited at all before, it is impossible not to leave traces, as long as Dong Zhuojun has people who know how to track and experience, it is not difficult to find them.

Entering the forest, Liu Wei looked left and right all the way, as if he was looking for something.

"Stop!" After walking through the forest for nearly an hour, but the team did not go far, Liu Wei raised his hand and shouted to the people behind him, stopping the advance of the team.

"Pick some seven-leaf flowers! There are many snakes and insects in the forest, so let the soldiers rub some juice on their ankles and arms! Standing in the forest, Liu Wei stretched out his hand and pointed to a bush not far away, and gave an order to Zhou Cang and Dian Wei behind him.

The two responded, and Zhou Cang waved to the soldiers who followed behind him, and shouted to them: "Brothers, pick some seven-leaf flowers, knead the juice, and smear them on your body." ”

The men who came out with Liu Wei from Woniu Mountain knew the effect of the seven-leaf and one-branch flower, and those Dongjun soldiers and Huainan soldiers who later served did not know the effect of this herb, and after Zhou Cang gave the order, a group of men who came down from Woniu Mountain were already coaxed and ran towards the place full of seven-leaf and one-branch flowers.

Seeing that the group of men ran to a place full of green grass, picking up those green blades of grass, more than a thousand Dongjun soldiers and Huainan soldiers were at a loss, and some people who were standing a little in front of them also followed to the place where the green grass was growing after hesitating for a while, and more people stood in place and watched.

A small piece of seven-leaf flowers growing in the forest was quickly picked up by the men. These men were not stingy, and after plucking out the nearby seven leaves and flowers, they returned to the ranks and distributed the excess to the soldiers who stood by in a daze, not understanding why they had come to pull such grass.

After receiving a seven-leaf flower handed by a man, Liu Wei twisted the blade of grass with two fingers, turned his head and shouted to the officers and soldiers who followed behind him: "Soldiers, crush the blade of grass and smear the juice on your ankles and wrists, and the snakes and insects in the forest will not bite you again!" ”

The men who followed down from Woniu Mountain did not hesitate to follow the method that Liu Wei said, and after going down the mountain, some of them saw the poisonous snake turn around and flee when they passed by, and they were also convinced of Liu Bian's statement.

Those officers and soldiers who had not seen the effects of medicinal herbs were all puzzled, but when they saw more than 100 men crushing the blades of grass and smearing them on their ankles and wrists, they did not hesitate to knead the blades of grass handed to them into a paste and smear them on their bodies.

Seeing that more than 1,000 people were smearing the seven-leaf flower, a faint smile appeared on the corner of Liu Wei's mouth, there was no need to be afraid of the invasion of snakes and insects, what would cause trouble to the team's march was only the complex terrain in the mountains!