In the jungle on the southern foot of the Qinling Mountains, there are dense trees and large trees that cover the sky and the sun.

It is late June, and the season of the year when trees are most lush.

Here, towering ancient trees can be seen everywhere, and nearly a thousand people crawled into the jungle and disappeared after a while.

Climb up and look into the distance, searching for escapees hiding in the jungle. The dense trees dozens of feet tall didn't shake, and there was no movement at all. If you crawl into the jungle and chase after them, even during the day, the visibility in the woods is less than 100 meters, and it is like a tiger eating the sky and unable to cut his claws.

What's more, there are many poisonous snakes and beasts in the jungle in summer. Unless you have to force it, most people are unwilling to get into the forest. It's too dangerous, and if you are not careful, you will lose your life. If you are bitten by a poisonous snake, it's fine, at least you have a whole body. If you encounter jackals, tigers and leopards, you won't even have a whole body, which is too miserable!

This is by no means nonsense or sensational, but it is true.

It should be noted that the people living on the southern foot of the Qinling Mountains rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, but there are few cultivated land in the mountains, and there are many beasts and animals. When the crops they planted are not mature, most of them are ruined by the beasts in the mountains. Therefore, most of the people here make a living by hunting. Many young and strong men in the village have been hunters for generations, with their ancestors passing by their fathers, fathers passing by their sons, and their descendants are hunters. It has a history of hundreds of years. It can be seen that there are indeed countless poisonous snakes and beasts in the remnants of the Qinling Mountains, which harms the people in the area and raises hundreds of thousands of people.

The mountain people who have lived here for a long time know a very simple truth. It is okay to go up the mountain in winter and spring. If you don’t have enough preparations in summer and autumn, it is best not to go into the forest, because this is the most rampant season for jackals, tigers, leopards and poisons.

Everyone understands the truth. But someone faces the difficulties, but he just rushes into the jungle during this season and walks in a hurry, as if he is afraid that someone will chase after him.

What is most eye-catching is that there are quite a few people who have entered the jungle, with more than a thousand people. Moreover, they are all dressed beautifully, uh. To be precise, they should be luxuriously dressed, half of them wearing brocade robes, and their hair is shiny. They are burly (actually fat). These people cannot walk normally in the jungle, and most of them are half crawling and half walking. At first glance, their magnificent figure is nothing like the blind bears in the deep mountains and forests, which scares the little animals to panic. Birds rush up and circle and scream.

In addition to the hundreds of luxuriously dressed "Honors' Mountain Climbing Team", there are hundreds of soldiers. They are fully armed, well prepared, with light steps and agile figures. Unfortunately, they are leading the war horses to drill into the forest, while the war horses carry large and small packages, with deep horse hooves, which seem to be quite heavy on the horse's back. There are also "ding-ding-dang" utensils while the war horses walk. They should be valuable gold and silver utensils or rare treasures that are more expensive than gold and silver.

It is really difficult for these people to support the elderly and young. They also carry valuable luggage. They all seem to be rich and powerful, but they don’t follow the official road, but instead hurried into the hot and dense jungle. It is also midsummer, and they are really blessed to find faults when they are in the hot weather. However, they are so energetic that they overestimate their own abilities. Within an hour of entering the forest, some people fainted from heatstroke. There are hundreds of people sitting on the stone with sweaty buttocks, panting like a cow, sweaty on their foreheads, but their faces are pale and sick.

"Hu, Huhu———!"

As the man in brocade clothes, who were walking in the middle of the team sat on a smooth stone slab with a "bang", opened his mouth and gasped greedily, the entire team stopped and looked for a place to rest.

"Huhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhu is exhausted. How far is this place from Loudi? Is it possible that the Hangu Pass defenders will catch up immediately?" The man in Jinyi, oh no, to be precise, should be the young man in Jinyi. He sat on the stone and gasped heavily, turned his head to look at the lush jungle behind him, and asked anxiously with a panic look.

At this moment, two people squatted beside him, one left and one right. On the left was a middle-aged man with white face and no beard, who was also exhausted and panting. On the right was also a middle-aged man with a beard of more than a short time, and his figure was quite strong. Kong Wu was strong, as if he was born in a troop and was wearing armor. Although he was sweating profusely, his breathing was normal, at least much better than the man with white face and no beard on the left.

After hearing this, the man in the armor on the right slowly breathed and said respectfully: "Your,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Seeing the man with armored face showing a difficult look, the young man in brocade waved his hand and said, "Dong Qing said it's okay, there is no need to worry about it. At this moment, we are all fleeing people. Whether we can escape from the rule of Li Zhe is still unknown. Once we fail to return to the east, our lives will be over. Now, we have reached this point, so there are no rules, and escaping is important. Therefore, you can say whatever you have with confidence and boldness. Those who speak are not guilty!"

"What Hou Dong said is very true." The man in the armor responded with deep consent: "Although we are safe at the moment, the Hangu defenders will not catch up immediately, but the soldiers and horses under Li's thief were all light and fast horses. Soon they could catch up with the car, and then they would find that they had been trapped in the golden cicada's shell, and then turned back to search for us.

Now we are in the territory of Xiliang, and there are hundreds of thousands of troops under the command of Li Zhe. Once Li Zhe heard the news, he mobilized a large army to search the mountains, and we were afraid that we would not escape and would fall into the hands of Li Zhe again. Therefore, we cannot stay here for a long time. We must rush day and night to enter the deep mountains as soon as possible, and then try to bypass Xingyang Daying and travel east until we return to Luoyang."

After hearing this, the young man in Jinyi frowned and said suspiciously: "So that. From now on, we will spend a long time in the mountains and forests in the future?"

"That's right." The man in armor nodded when he heard the sound, his expression seemed particularly solemn. He said in a deep voice: "The Qinling Mountains are extremely vast, and there are hundreds of miles of jungle in the southern foot of the vein. The southernmost end can reach Nanyang County, and the mountains are steep and steep. There are countless cliffs. Even if there are hundreds of thousands of troops of Li Zhe, it is impossible for him to search the huge jungle mountains, and this is exactly the hope for us to escape.

However, everything has its advantages and disadvantages. The cliffs in the jungle can not only block the army of Li Zhe, but also block the way forward. There are many poisonous snakes and beasts in the jungle, and there are many dangers. The most important thing is that we have no source of food except the dry food we carry on this trip. Therefore, how to survive in the jungle is an inescapable severe test that we must face. If we cannot get food in the jungle, it will be difficult for us to return to Luoyang alive."

At this time, the man on the left white face did not need to say, "I don't know how much dry food Yilang has prepared in advance, and how long will we stay in the jungle?"

The boy in brocade nodded after hearing this, and looked at the man in armor with a scorching eyes, hoping to hear the most ideal answer from his mouth.

"Dong Hourong. At present, we have a total of 1,137 people, and most of the old ministers in the court are here. There are also their wives, children, families, and 600 soldiers with them. According to the current number of people, the dry food, pickles and cured meat we carry can last about twenty days, up to one month. However, we have to stay in the jungle for at least two months, and maybe three months, or even longer. Therefore, we must save dry food from now on, and look for wild vegetables and mushrooms as much as possible to satisfy our hunger. If we can hunt while rushing, it would be best. Only in this way, we can last for about three months, so that no one will starve to death in the jungle. If everything goes well, three months will be enough for us to bypass the Xingyang defenders, and then we will not have to go into the forest anymore. We have enough gold, silver and jade in our hands, and we can exchange food along the way."

The boy in Jinyi looked shocked, his eyes were extremely cold, and he said in a deep voice: "How far is we from Xingyang Camp, and why do we have to walk for three months?"

The man in armor said without hesitation: "It's less than two hundred miles."

"Does it take three months to get there for a two hundred miles?" said the young man in brocade angrily in a bad tone.

After hearing this, the man in armor looked very bitter. He turned his head to look at the vast jungle that covered the clouds, and then looked at the group of old, weak, women and children slumped on the mountain behind him, with dull eyes.

After finally calming down, he lowered his head and said, "Today is the first time I'm going up the mountain. I've been walking on the mountain road that the mountain people have dug out. It took me an entire hour and less than twenty miles. Next, I guess, it may not exceed fifteen miles in one hour, and it will drop sharply afterwards. This is just the speed of the first day of travel. In the future, I will be less physically weaker day by day, and the roads deeper into the jungle are becoming more and more difficult to walk, and there is even no road at all. From this, Dong Hou might as well imagine how far we can go in a day, ten miles, eight miles, or five miles in a day, is it possible that it is two or three miles? What's more, who dares to assert that it won't rain during this period? After a heavy rain, it's probably difficult for us to walk in two or three days. Therefore, it's a blessing to walk out of the jungle within three months."

After hearing this, the man in brocade was extremely decadent and collapsed on the stone, losing his mind. Then the expression on his face changed drastically, his face was ferocious, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Li Zhe, you have forced me to escape from the jungle and be a savage man in the mountains and forests for three months. The evil thief will make me suffer so much. One day, if the evil thief falls into my hands, I will surely crush you and exterminate the nine clans!"

The man in armor changed his expression when he heard the sound. After looking around, he urged in a low voice: "Horse Dong is quiet. Don't stay here for a long time, it's time for me to set off."

"Let's go." The man in brocade gritted his teeth and stood up. With a wave of his hand, he swung his arm, which was eager to support him, and walked forward with his head held high. However, he just took two steps and slid down and fell sideways. Fortunately, the man in armor was quick-eyed and quick-handed, and he grabbed him and then helped him move forward slowly.

It goes without saying that more than a thousand people who fled far away from the mountains were Emperor Liu Xie and his party. The reason why Liu Xie was named "Dong Hou" was not only because he lost his mother since childhood and was raised by Empress Dowager Dong, but was called "Dong Hou" by all the ministers.

The man in armor called "Dong Qing" by Liu Xie was the counselor Dong Cheng, and the man without any need is the middle attendant Dong Hong, who always stayed with Liu Xie. Hundreds of luxuriously dressed "masters climbing teams" were old ministers in the court, as well as their direct children and beloved wife and concubines. This time, the group escaped by the time of the original sacrificial tomb of Loudi, but it was too early to say this matter, and it is still unknown whether they could escape from the Xiliang territory.

The trip to the original sacrificial tomb of Loudi was put on the agenda as early as early as March, but Liu Xie took the excuse to delay it again and again. At first, it was a slap in vain, but then it was annoyed by the "Edict of the Sin of the Sin", and he was reluctant to set off. Later, he became anxious and became ill, but he was really seriously ill, so Li Li was stranded in Chang'an for several days, almost delaying the battle of Chen Cang.

When Li Li defeated Zhang Lu's army, recovered Wudu County and marched into Hanzhong, Liu Xie suddenly decided to lead all officials to the original sacrificial tomb of Loudi, and carried a large number of gold and silver utensils and accompanying packages. Because he held a clearance road with a seal from Sikong Lie, the guards of the passes were exempted from routine inspections and traveled unimpeded along the way.

On the day of the grand sacrifice, Liu Xie relapsed while inspecting the cemetery. He stayed overnight on the shore of Jinghu Lake in the southeast of the cemetery that day, and disappeared the next day. In addition to the officials in the court, there were also the five hundred soldiers sent by Li Jue to escort along the way. Not all the soldiers were missing, but more than 300 people disappeared, and the bodies of more than 100 soldiers were left in the tent of the tent. Li Jue's confidant general and the captain of the guard Yang Feng were gone, and he was not seen in his life or death.

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Chapter completed!