Chapter 26: Evading the Pursuit

Two or three hundred officers and soldiers rushed up, Liu Wei took Tang Ji with one hand, beckoned towards Zhou Cang with the other, and shouted loudly: "Yuanfu, go quickly!" ”

There are many officers and soldiers, and even if Zhou Cang is extraordinary, it is impossible for him to defeat two or three hundred people with the strength of one person. He glared at Yan Zheng hatefully, turned his head and followed Liu Wei and Tang Ji, and ran towards a dense jungle.

The mountains and forests were not far from the valley, and Liu Wei pulled Tang Ji, but it was impossible to run too fast, and the officers and soldiers who were chasing them saw that they were getting closer and closer.

"Don Ji on your back and run first!" The distance between the pursuers and them had narrowed to only thirty or fifty paces, and Liu Wei shouted at Zhou Cang, grabbed Tang Ji's arm, and threw her towards Zhou Cang with enough strength.

Tang Ji staggered forward a few steps, just in front of Zhou Cang.

"Offended, ma'am!" The situation was urgent, and Zhou Cang didn't have time to be polite, so he confessed to Tang Ji, grabbed her arm, twisted her body, bowed her back slightly, carried her on his back, and ran quickly towards the mountains and forests in front of him.

The pursuers were only a few steps behind him, and Liu Wei ran wildly behind Zhou Cang, observing whether there was any terrain nearby that could be used.

The valley was low-lying, with withered vegetation and close proximity to pursuers, and there was little to use to hold them back.

"Brothers, the officers and soldiers have been lured, kill!" Seeing that the pursuers were approaching behind him, Liu Wei suddenly had an idea and shouted towards the mountains and forests that were already close at hand.

As soon as they shouted, the officers and soldiers who followed them were taken aback, and they hurriedly stopped the pursuit and formed a defensive formation under the command of a small colonel.

Liu Wei's bluffing shout not only startled the officers and soldiers who pursued them, but even Zhou Cang, who was running in front, slowed down his pace, and subconsciously glanced back at him.

As soon as Zhou Cang turned around, Liu Wei glanced at him and asked him to continue running towards the mountains and forests.

"Oh no, I've been tricked!" Liu Wei and Zhou Cang took Tang Ji into the jungle quickly, and Yan Zheng, who had just caught up, shouted, and shouted at the officers and soldiers who had already lined up in a defensive formation: "There are no ambushes at all, brothers, go into the forest and chase!" ”

The trees in the mountain forest are narrowly spaced, and the ground is overgrown with weeds and bushes, and it is impossible to see the road ahead.

"Yuanfu waits!" After running hundreds of steps into the forest, Liu Wei shouted at Zhou Cang, who was running with weeds in front of him, and raised his hand to point to a low-lying place on the side.

Following the direction of Liu Wei's finger, Zhou Cang saw a depression full of shrubs and weeds. The depression was low, but the shrubs and weeds in it gave the best cover, and if they were hidden, it would be impossible to spot them even if someone passed over them.

The most important thing is that when you look down from above, the scene in this depression will give people the illusion of an unobstructed view, and Zhou Cang asked himself that even if he led people to chase after him, he would definitely ignore this place.

Being able to find such an excellent hiding place in a fast run made Zhou Cang can't help but admire Liu Wei a little more.

After choosing a hiding place, Liu Wei didn't delay much, turned around and ran towards the depression, and Zhou Cang, who was carrying Tang Ji on his back, also hurriedly followed him and burrowed into the dense bushes in the depression.

As soon as the servants went into hiding, Yan Zheng led his pursuers into the forest.

When he ran into the forest, Zhou Cang only cared about running, and did not notice to take care of Tang Ji who was behind him, Tang Ji's arm was scraped by a tree branch at that time, although through the thick clothes, her delicate skin was still scraped a long hole.

Due to the thick clothes, the blood was not soaked, but Tang Ji was a pampered aristocratic woman after all, although she also suffered a lot after fleeing Luoyang with Liu Wei, but the pain still made her look a little strange.

The slight pain in Tang Ji's expression caught Liu Bian's attention, and after Zhou Cang put her down, Liu Bian pulled one of her small hands and gently pinched it.

The scorching pain of the scratched arm, Tang Ji held back her tears, and forced herself not to cry. When Liu Wei held her hand, she raised her head to look at Liu Wei, her big watery eyes were already full of tears.

Liu Wei hugged Tang Ji in his arms, let her snuggle up to her chest, and gently stroked her hair.

When Tang Ji's mood calmed down a little, Liu Wei raised her arm, which had been scratched by a branch, and gently tore the sleeve of her shirt.

He used very lightly to avoid the sound of the cloth tearing, and after tearing open the sleeves of his shirt, he saw that the wound on Tang Ji's lotus arm was still bleeding.

Glancing at the wound on Tang Ji's arm, Liu untied the thick clothes on the outside and tore off two pieces of linen from the clothes inside.

"Bear with me, don't make a sound." While stuffing one of the sackcloths into Tang Ji's torn sleeve, Liu Wei whispered to her: "It's just a skin injury, turn around and avoid these officers and soldiers, I'll find some herbs for you to put on them, and it will be fine in two days." ”

Letting Liu Wei use a strip of cloth to help her bandage her wounds, Tang Ji pursed her lips tightly, and when she looked at Liu Bian, the previous painful expression had faded a lot, and there was more endless tenderness.

After bandaging Tang Ji's wound and tying her torn sleeve tightly with another piece of cloth, Liu Wei nodded at her and hugged her in his arms again.

There was a sound of "rustling" above the depression, and Yan Zheng followed up with more than 200 officers and soldiers, searching for them.

"General, the people of Willow Village have been killed by us, how can there be still living people around here?" Entering the forest, Yan Zhengzheng was directing the officers and soldiers to search the mountains and forests, and a small colonel behind him asked him very puzzled.

"The thieves in Liushuzhuang colluded with the Yellow Turban rebels, and they want to cut down the grass and eradicate the roots!" Walking forward behind the officers and soldiers, Yan Zheng glanced at the little colonel, snorted coldly and said, "It's just that I didn't expect that the little willow village also has something to do with Zhou Cang." This person is a fierce general under Zhang Bao, among the Yellow Turban traitors, his bravery is second only to Guan Hai and Yu Poison, if he is captured, it will be a great credit. ”

As he spoke, Yan Zheng's glasses narrowed slightly, a touch of coldness flashed in his eyes, and then he said to the little colonel: "In a certain impression, Zhou Cang only obeyed Zhang Bao's orders in the past, and no one has ever called him. The young man who was with him could call him by his words, which showed that Zhou Cang was also very in awe of him. This man will not be simple! If he could not be killed, it would have been a greater credit to capture him alive with the woman. ”

Hiding in the bushes in the low-lying place, listening to the conversation between Yan Zheng and Xiao Xiao who passed by, Zhou Cang clenched his fists, his eyes widened, and his eyes seemed to erupt into flames.

Liu Wei, who was sitting beside Tang Ji with his arms around him, noticed Zhou Cang's strange appearance and gently patted him on the back twice.

Zhou Cang turned his head and glanced at Liu Wei, but did not speak, but nodded with a blushing face, and then quietly listened to the noise made by the officers and soldiers searching the forest.

Yan Zheng led two or three hundred officers and soldiers to search the nearby woodland like a grate sifting through lice. Liu Wei and the others were dormant in the depression, and they didn't even dare to make a sound.

Snuggled in Liu Wei's arms, Tang Ji's big eyes flickered and blinked, although her vision was blocked by dense bushes, it was impossible to see the officers and soldiers searching for them, but she still raised her head high and looked up.

The footsteps above the depression grew farther and farther away, and gradually became inaudible. Zhou Cang turned his head to look at Liu Wei, stretched out his hand and pointed upward.

Liu Wei shook his head and made a gesture towards Zhou Cang, asking him to calm down.

Zhou Cang wanted to get out of the depression to find out the situation, but when he saw that Liu Wei would not let him go, he had to sit down peacefully.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for a chaotic sound of footsteps to come from outside the depression, and Yan Zheng took the officers and soldiers back again.

"Strange thing!" was about to walk to the depression, Yan Zheng, who looked puzzled, muttered: "I'm waiting for a few miles, they have a woman with them, and they won't go so fast." Didn't you fly into the sky? ”

"You bring some people and watch here." Walking near the depression where Liu Wei and the others were hiding, Yan Zheng said to the little school next to him: "Let them all open their eyes, if Zhou Cang and the young man run away, be careful of your head!" ”

"No!" Xiao Xiao responded with his hands clenched into fists, and watched Yan Zheng lead most of the Han army towards the forest.

Although Yan Zheng is not very capable, he has also led troops to fight after all, and he will not relax his vigilance when Liu Wei and others are missing.

The woods were overgrown with grass and trees, and there were excellent hiding places everywhere, even if everyone was left to camp in the forest, once it was dark, Liu Wei and the others would still be able to leave calmly.

Rather than staying in the forest and being blind, it is better to take most of the people to monitor the outer part of the jungle, and as for the forest, only a small number of people need to be left to find the traces of Liu Wei and others and be able to transmit information to him in time.

"You two, go over there; You two stay here......" Yan Zheng left the forest, and the colonel assigned tasks to the officers and soldiers who remained in the forest.

Guarding the depression were two young soldiers. These two soldiers were only sixteen or seventeen years old at most, and their faces were still very immature.

After the colonel left, two soldiers sat down on the floor, and one of them whispered to his companion, "Brother, have you heard about the battle of Tiger Prison Pass?" ”

"It is said that General Huaxiong was killed in battle, and Prime Minister Dong Cheng has sent Lu Wenhou to guard the town overnight, but I don't know if it is true." The soldier who was questioned sat cross-legged on the ground, looked around, and said, "But these are all official affairs, and they have nothing to do with our small soldiers. We just have to think about how to live a few more days. ”

The officers and soldiers outside the depression had dispersed, and Zhou Cang was a little impatient to go up and kill the two young soldiers, but Liu Wei, who was sitting on the side with Tang Ji in his arms, never gave instructions to act.

Liu Wei also planned to go up immediately to get rid of the two soldiers and leave here as soon as possible, but the two soldiers mentioned the battle of Tiger Prison Pass at this time.