Chapter 11 3. Survival from a desperate situation

In Liu Xiu's bones, the blood of the great ancestor Liu Bang flows.Thanks to the excellent genes of the great ancestor Liu Bang, he passed on the excellent escape technique to Liu Xiu.When Liu Xiu heard that the people of Ji County were going to turn against him, his first instinct was to run out of the bed, rush out of the guest house, and lead everyone towards the south gate. When I rushed to the south gate, I found that the south gate was closed tightly.Liu Xiu drew his sword and rose up, roaring angrily to kill him.After a chaotic battle, the crowd leveled off the gatekeepers and took the gate away.After rushing out of the city gate, Liu Xiu ran non-stop, day and night, across the city, across the pond, and along the main road.

I don't know how long they ran, let alone how far they ran. Finally, everyone couldn't hold on anymore. The hungry Liu Xiu decided to have a meal by the roadside. It was winter, and the north wind blew across the sky like a knife.Liu Xiu was cold, hungry and sleepy, so she leaned aside and fell asleep.At this time, Feng Yi, the head secretary, came to Liu Xiu with a bowl of hot soybean milk and said, "Warm up before going to sleep." Liu Xiu looked at Feng Yi in surprise and excitement, and asked, "Where did you get the hot soy milk?" Feng Yi said: "Da Sima just drink it, don't care where it came from."

Feng Yi, courtesy name Gongsun, was born in Fucheng, Yingchuan (now east of Baofeng, Henan), and one of Liu Xiu's fans.When he was young, he was familiar with the art of war. When Liu Xiu attacked his father's city, he couldn't attack for a long time. The reason was that Feng Yi stood firm in the city.Later, Feng Yi voted for Liu Xiu after being recommended by his younger brother. Liu Xiu rested for a while, continued to gallop on horseback, and came to the outside of Raoyang City. Raoyang City, today's northeast of Raoyang County, Hebei Province, is 180 kilometers away from Jixian by air.Escaping for one's life also depends on strength. At this time, people are hungry and horses are tired, and everyone wants to find a restaurant to have a good meal and then sleep.If heaven fulfills people's wishes, it is no less than being a living god for a while.

However, everyone was outside the city, looking at Raoyang City like a pack of wolves drooling hungry, but they dared not go in. As I said before, in the vast northern land, Wang Lang, a copycat version of the royal family, is like hard currency, and people recognize him, but not Liu Xiu's shop.However, Liu Xiu pondered for a long time outside the city, and made a risky decision: We can't run anymore, let's go to the city for a meal. When entering the country, you have to follow the custom. Liu Xiu falsely claimed that he was an envoy sent by Handan City and wanted to go to the city to handle errands.Sure enough, as soon as the city heard that it was sent by the emperor of Handan City, he immediately opened the city gate.Liu Xiu led the team into the city swaggeringly, and was then led to the government guest house.

The officials of the guest house held a banquet in hospitality, and they served big bowls of wine and large pieces of meat. The generals, who had fled for a long time, rolled up their sleeves and ate like beggars.The meal was so bad that some people even quarreled over the meal. As everyone knows, this detail almost spoiled Liu Xiu's event. Officials at the Raoyang Government Guest House believed that the group of people in front of them did not look like envoys sent by Handan City at all, but looked like a defeated army fleeing for their lives.It's better to find a way to test it out. If you really came here for your life, then the meal is worth the money.

Death came to Liu Xiu again like a devil.When everyone was eating happily, they suddenly heard the sound of drums outside, and someone shouted: "General Handan is here!" When everyone heard it, they yelled badly.Liu Xiu reacted faster and jumped onto the carriage, ready to run.However, when he was about to start running, he suddenly found a fatal problem - even if he ran, could he get out of Raoyang City? So what to do?At this time, Liu Xiu took a breather and calmed down, no, no running around.Even if it is pretending, you have to pretend a little bit.So, he tidied up his messy clothes, walked back to the guest house with everyone and sat down.

Then, Liu Xiu sent someone to pass the word, since General Handan is here, please sit inside. When you come out to play, quality is very important, and psychological quality is even more important.The loud shouting in the lobby outside was actually intended to scare Liu Xiu and his group.Unexpectedly, Liu Xiu got away with it. Everyone realized that it was a false alarm, but they didn't dare to grab food after being killed, and of course they didn't want to rest.Liu Xiu rectified for a while, got into the car and left Raoyang City. What a tough trip it has been.The weather is getting colder and colder, and there is still heavy snow in the sky.However, as soon as Liu Xiu and his party left Raoyang City, they immediately resumed their instincts as exiles, riding in the frost and snow, running day and night.

After running for an unknown amount of time, they saw a city in the distance ahead.When I inquired, it was Xiaquyang City (now west of Jinzhou City, Hebei Province).Liu Xiu was wondering if he should go to the city and cheat for another meal? However, he quickly dismissed the idea. According to intelligence, Wang Lang's pursuers were biting behind their buttocks, and if they didn't escape, they would die.Therefore, Liu Xiu had no choice but to give up the idea of ​​going to the city to eat the overlord's meal, and galloped forward. At this time, the scout horses sent out came back to report a bad news-there was a river ahead, and there were no boats on the river, only broken ice, and it was impossible for people and horses to cross it.

There is no way forward, and there are chasing soldiers behind. Is the sky going to kill Liu Xiu here? Liu Xiu, who had no way out, looked up at the sky, and then pretended to look at the ground calmly. He called a person over and said, "Please go ahead and see if you can cross the river." The man Liu Xiu summoned was Wang Ba, styled Yuanbo, from Yingyang, Yingchuan (today's Xuchangxi, Henan). When Wang Ba was young, he was a jailer.But he is very ambitious and does not work with peace of mind.So his father told him that since he didn't want to be a jailer, he should go to Chang'an to be plated with gold.When Wang Ba came back from Chang'an, Liu Xiu had rebelled and led his troops through Yingyang.Wang Ba seized this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and immediately begged to see Liu Xiu, saying that if he wanted to be a Liu fan, he could start as a soldier.

Later, although Liu Xiu became the great Sima, many guests who followed him in the early years almost all ran away when they heard that he was going to cross the Yellow River north.Liu Xiu looked left and right, and saw that Wang Ba hadn't tried to run away, so he gave him a sentence: "Everyone who follows me is gone, but the son is left alone. Work hard! The wind knows the strength of the grass." The strong wind knows the strong grass.Wang Ba silently chanted these words of his idol Liu Xiu in his heart countless times, as if a force was empowered from the sky and pierced his feet.What kind of power is this?Its name is faith.To make a revolution, courage is not enough, faith must be added.Faith is like a compass, no matter how far you go, you will never lose your way.

Wang Ba rode a horse and came to the big river.The name of this river is Hutuo River.He saw that the surface of the river was as reported by the scouts. On the cold river bed, there were broken ice everywhere, and there were no boats on the river. If you want to cross the river, you must have two wings on your body. Seeing all this, Wang Ba couldn't help taking a breath.Is my lord Liu Xiu really going to die? Wang Ba looked at the river, feeling restless for a long time.A gust of cold wind came, waking up his frozen thoughts.At this time, he suddenly remembered the scene where Liu Xiu pretended to be an envoy from Handan in Raoyang City and entered the city to cheat.At the critical moment of life and death, if you report back truthfully, the team will know that there is no way forward, and they may disperse in a hurry.Why don't we play tricks too? Thinking of this, Wang Ba's head suddenly opened up, and he immediately galloped back.He returned to the team and told Liu Xiu: "The surface of the Hutuo River is frozen, and the river bed is very solid. There is absolutely no problem for vehicles and horses to cross the river." Liu Xiu laughed as soon as he heard it.He patted Wang Ba on the shoulder and said, "What Tanma got is false information, what you get is true information." Liu Xiu led the team to continue on their way.When they came to the Hutuo River, even Wang Ba didn't believe it. Just as he had fooled, the Hutuo River was covered with hard ice, and horses and horses could cross the river smoothly. What exactly is going on? Oh, Wang Ba suddenly understood, the weather.It's all thanks to the weather.The cold weather made the river freeze over.As he went back and forth, God happened to pave the river bed for them. Liu Xiuji is a man of nature, and under Wang Ba's command, the team crossed the river smoothly.When they rushed to Nangong (now Nangong City, Hebei Province), they encountered a violent storm. Liu Xiu and others took a rest, and then went on to the west of Xiabo (southeast of Shenxian County, Hebei Province). At this time, Liu Xiu stopped his horse.It's not that he can't run anymore, but the road ahead is vast and he doesn't know where to go. The world is so vast that there is no place to hide. What kind of troubled world is this?At this time, Liu Xiu's entourage looked like a group of frightened birds, and they looked around in a daze.At this time, even Liu Xiu couldn't make up his mind, and everyone felt chilled. Liu Xiu looked up at the sky, thinking silently, God is omnipotent, save people to the end, can you point out a way of escape for the distressed people at this time? Talk about a way out, and a miracle happened. There is always such a routine in martial arts novels: when the protagonist is knocked off a cliff by a master, suddenly a white shadow shoots out from the sky, and an old man with fluttering white hair can be seen, with a palm, to send the protagonist who is about to fall back to the top of the mountain.When the protagonist slowly opened his eyes, the old man looked like a fairy, and saw another white shadow flying away on a crane. Liu Xiu, a master rebel, also met an old man with profound morals.This white-haired old man, dressed in white, stood by the roadside, as if he had been waiting for a long time.At this time, the old man in white said to Liu Xiu: "Don't be depressed, don't despair, hope is ahead." Everyone was baffled, but they all looked at the old man in front of them in surprise. The old man in white slowly pointed to the front and said: "In front of you is Xindu County. The prefect of Xindu County is from Nanyang, named Ren Guang. He doesn't listen to Wang Lang, he only listens to Liu Xuan's side. You should quickly vote for him. " After the old man finished speaking, he left leisurely, and everyone was dumbfounded. Is it a dream?Liu Xiu pinched the flesh, it really hurt.Oh, it turns out that all this is true.Liu Xiu, who was overjoyed, seemed to have caught a piece of driftwood in the vast sea, and rushed towards Xindu County.