"elder brother!"

More than a hundred refugees fled south in a panic, and from time to time, they looked over the woods three or four miles away behind them. In order to buy more time for them to escape, more than a dozen township heroes resolutely stayed in the woods over there and dealt with the pursuers, but hearing the shrill screams coming from the woods, no one could believe that those township heroes holding bamboo guns and wooden spears could kill the pursuers covered in armor.

The refugees' eyes were filled with fear; some people could not run anymore and sat in the muddy field in despair.

The young man with dirt on his face held the little girl's hand and followed the crowd panting. He didn't want to be hit and staggered, rolled down the river bank, and the little girl who was thrown away her hands screamed in panic.

"I'm fine, I'm fine, Xiaoyu, don't stop, run to the woods ahead! Get in and don't come out again! Two legs can't run four legs!"

Although the river embankment is not high, the slope protection is very steep and it is wet and slippery after the rain. The boy went south all the way and for several days he caught snails, loaches, small fish and shrimps from the wild field, mixed with wild vegetables and entered his stomach. At this time, he was extremely weak and could not climb the river embankment several times. Seeing that there were cavalry hiding in the woods, he waved and shouted at the little girl.

The little girl was lying on the river bank crying, unable to reach her hand, so she thought of sliding down the river bank and being with the boy.

The river embankment was steep and slippery, and the cavalry chased after him from behind, and it might not be possible to rush up the river embankment for a while. It was almost impossible for the people under the river embankment to escape the massacre. Seeing the little girl descending the river embankment, the boy shouted anxiously: "Don't come down, let's run forward together! It will be safe to reach the woods in front!"

The boys didn't know what the big river they passed through after they left their hometown and fled south. There were many woods on both sides. Compared with the elm forest behind them, the woods in front were larger and denser. They thought that they would have greater hope of survival when they crawled in.

Immediately, the boy tried his best to lead the little girl on the river bank to stumble into the woods three or four miles away.

However, the cavalry that was chasing quickly defeated more than ten township heroes who took the initiative to stand up in the woods behind him and rode their horses out of the woods to chase after him.

For the killing cavalry, the distance between four or five miles is more than a few blinks.

These cavalrymen covered the refugees from behind, raised their long swords high, and faced the refugees' necks from behind, quickly and fiercely slashed them, bringing up a bunch of blood. In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen unarmed refugees fell in a pool of blood.

Although the woods two miles away seem to have a greater chance of survival, this distance is as difficult as a natural barrier to the remaining refugees.

Refugees crowded on the river bank may not be safer.

Several cavalrymen were seen interspersing, taking off their bows hanging in their saddles, and shooting at the refugees on the river bank. These refugees carried their packages with them. The cavalry wanted to plunder their belongings, so of course they would not allow them to escape south.

The little girl fell down the river bank and fell into a small mud pond. The boy ran over and hugged her tightly.

Seeing the two cavalry riding their horses towards them with ferocious faces, the young man couldn't help but tremble, but he still protected the little girl strongly, picked up a tree branch and stood in front of him, trying to fight against the pursuers in front of him.

"This little turtle is a little planted!" A cavalry clamped his horse and smiled at the people around him.

He took off his riding bow from his saddle and looked at the boy a few times as if he was looking at his prey. After taking out a feather arrow from the arrow pouch, he had not yet put the bow string on it, but he heard the sound of horn blowing sounds in the woods ahead. Both cavalry looked forward in shock.

But he saw six cavalrymen wearing leather armor and bows leaping out of the woods ahead, looking like scouts and whistle detectives in the south.

“These grandsons are the ones

I just want to save these refugees?" The cavalryman who stopped in front of the young man asked his companions in surprise.

The main force of the puppet Chu army was still north of the Yingshui River, while the Southern Dynasties built defense lines in the Rushui River, but in the buffer zone between the Rushui River and Yingshui River, scouts from both sides would occasionally collide head-on.

Generally speaking, scouts are only responsible for staring at the other party's movements. Occasionally, they will ride horses to avoid them and will not easily engage in battle.

Seeing that six Southern Dynasties scouts dared to blow their horns out of the woods in front, dozens of Chu army scouts quickly gathered together to form two teams, trying to encircle the six Southern Dynasties scouts from left and right.

"Swoosh!" Several scouts of the Southern Dynasty were not afraid of the Chu army's encirclement and rushed straight to the river embankment. When they were 150 or 60 steps apart, the current knight stood up on the back of the horse, opened the bow and strings, and a sharp arrow was like a meteor, and the next moment he hit the front of a Chu army.

More than a dozen Chu soldiers were stunned for a while before they realized that these Southern Dynasties scouts were really tough. Their arches were not that far away. At this time, they thought of setting a distance to the west, but the distance between the two sides had been about a hundred steps closer. Six Southern Dynasties scouts set their bows and shot arrows one after another, which were accurate and fierce. The next moment, four Chu army scouts were shot off their horses.

The remaining Chu army scouts dared not stay anymore, and they all lowered their bodies and fled to the edge of the woods in the north, opening the distance as quickly as possible, and fleeing desperately.

The six scouts of the Southern Dynasty had no intention of chasing them. They rushed to the river bank and saw dozens of corpses lying in pools of blood. They fell from the river bank and fell from all over the river bank. The others also became frightened birds.

One person rushed forward, waved his hand to the southwest, and said, "You walk directly to the southwest along the path behind the woods - don't care about the corpses of your relatives. People are born to have no support and die back to the land. Thirty miles away is the mountain. You can hurry up and get over there, our people are there to meet you across the river..."

This man untied two heavy cloth bags from the saddle and threw them over, saying,

"Each person eats a little bit of wheat cake inside, and you must not eat it alone. You can help you when you go to Wangshanjin, and you will not be able to stop at night. Next time, you may be called to the pseudo-Church scout, but there may not be rescuers on the side!"

"Thank you, Grandpa Bing!" The refugees who survived the disaster lay on the mud and kowtowed, took the cloth bag and took out the wheat cakes inside to share the food, and said in a hurry that relatives and friends who were lying in a pool of blood. Several people still had some strength to carry the injured and fled in a hurry to the southwest.

When the little girl rolled down the river bank, she frowned. The boy struggled to carry her back, but the boy was too weak, so his physical strength could be supplemented by a small piece of wheat cake? Before he could go far, the others were pulled behind him, and he staggered and almost fell down, and had to sit in the mud to rest.

Two knights rode over, pulled the boy and the little girl on their backs, and rode back to the river bank.

The little girl looked at the boy for the leader knight and asked, "Where are you from?"

"We are from Liujiaji, Shangshui County! Half a month ago, more than a thousand puppet Chu troops rushed from Shangshui City to Liujiaji, attacked the village, and killed people everywhere. My parents were scattered by pursuers while fleeing, only me, Xiaoyu and his elder brother hid and hid all the way here. However, when this group of puppet Chu troops caught up, my elder brother and more than a dozen villagers wanted to stop them in the forest behind. I guess they had been killed at this time..." said the young man.

Xu Huai saw that the young man was only thirteen or fourteen years old, and in this situation he could clearly explain the matter before and after Liu's encounter with the enemy. He looked at his side full of mud, and the long dresses he had torn into several places were not the gilt clothes worn by the poor, and the little girl also wore silk clothes, so he was not the children of the poor.

"Shi Hu, go to the forest in front to see. This team of puppet Chu troops wanted to rob property, but they might not have killed everyone in a hurry!" Xu Huai said to Shi Hu.

Shi Hu led the two of them to the woods ahead.

Did not show his face, so as not to see the puppet Chu army scouts.

Zhou Jing, Niu Er and others, who were informative, only then did the woods ahead? Zhou Jing recognized the young man and said, "Your name is Liu Huting, right? I was still staying in the Liu family's group a month ago. Your elder brother is Liu Yueting. Your father Liu Zhijing is the leader of the Liu clan..."

After a while, Shi Hu led his men to pick up three injured people from the woods and said to Xu Huai: "There are two people who are too seriously injured and have no way to survive. They can only keep them in the woods!"

"Big Brother! Big Brother!" The boy saw an injured person, jumped off his horse and ran over, and asked with concern, "Where are you hurt?"

"Don't touch your brother, he has two arrow wounds on his body. There is no way to pull the arrow out at this time!" Shi Hu stopped the young man.

Xu Huai looked over the field west of the Fenquan River, sighed lightly, and said, "Look back at Shanjin!"

This time he came out, he originally planned to cross the Fenquan River and go to Yingzhou to see the enemy situation, but now there are three injured and two children, so he still has to escort them back to the Shanjin stronghold first.

Yingzhou is located in the lower reaches of the Ying River, governing Ruyin County, connecting to Caizhou in the west, Bozhou in the east, Huoqiu County in Shouchun in the south, and Yingshang County in the southeast, and Yingshang County in the Yingkou in the south, and is adjacent to Huaichuan County in Guangzhou, Huoqiu County in Shouchun Prefecture, and Shouchun Prefecture-maintained Shou County in Shouchun Prefecture.

At this time, in addition to the Jinghu North Road Strategy and Pacification Envoy Liu Xian and the General, the Xuanwei Army Commander Fu Qi led 20,000 troops to station in Huaichuan, Huangchuan and other cities, Zhao Guan was granted the title of Queen Huai and moved to Shou County.

In addition to the general Han Shiliang leading 20,000 troops to guard Xuzhou on the north bank of the lower reaches of the Huai River, two important towns in Suzhou, and Yang Maoyan, the Sima of the Huai Palace, also the governor of Chuzhou on the south bank of the lower reaches of the Huai River, and led 10,000 troops to guard Chuzhou on the south bank of the lower reaches of the Huai River, Zhao Guan, the Huai King, moved more than 70,000 troops to Shouchun and Luzhou on the south side of Shouchun.

Although Shouchun Prefecture is mainly located on the south bank of the Huai River, the Huai Palace sent troops to occupy Yingshang, Xiacai and other cities next to the north bank of the Huai River to strengthen the protection of Shouchun and the prefecture-governing Shou County.

In early June, Zhong Changqing, the commander of Yuehailou, led his troops to set out from Xiangcheng, along the Ying River to the southeast, and entered the two counties of Shenqiu and Taihe. The military pressure along the Huaihe River increased sharply.

However, neither Zhong Changqing nor Yue Hailou hoped that a new army of 60,000 could be directly torn apart the defense line deployed by Dayue on the Rushui and Huai River coasts.
Chapter completed!