The most powerful emperor Liu Bang

Chapter 15

After the soldiers reported the situation to Xiang Yu and Fan Zeng, Fan Zeng analyzed it and said: "The escaped man must be Liu Bang. He is not far away. He is in this mountain. You can expand the scope of the search for me. This time, no matter what, we can't let him run away again." Already." Xiang Yu agreed.

Liu Bang led several entourages and ran for dozens of miles at a stretch, and arrived at Qingtan Mountain in Xiao County, Anhui.The mountains here are steep, the ancient trees are towering, the grass is dense and fungus is abundant, and the rabbits and pheasants are flying. It is a good place to live in seclusion.Unexpectedly, Xiang Yu's pursuers arrived here following Liu Bang. Seeing that they had entered the mountain, they quickly formed a formation and surrounded them.

At the Hongmen Banquet, Xiang Yu let Liu Bang go and made him the King of Han. Unexpectedly, he would grow up quickly, and he was ungrateful and bit back, which made Xiang Yu very angry.Ever since he learned that Liu Bang led an army to occupy Pengcheng, Xiang Yu made up his mind to get rid of this old man without mercy.Hearing that Liu Bang was hiding in Qingtan Mountain, Xiang Yu immediately said: "Send a large army to surround and search closely, even if he gets into the mouse hole, he must be found!"

Qingtan Mountain was full of Chu troops for a while, they searched one nest after another, and looked at tree by tree, as if flies and mosquitoes flew by, they also wanted to look at the parents.

It is impossible for Liu Bang to want to go out.He and several followers came to a temple on the mountain and asked the monks if there was any hiding place.

Purdue sentient beings is the mission of the monks, no matter who they are, the monk told: "There is a cave on the mountain where the temple stores food. Maybe you can hide temporarily, but there is no guarantee that the army will not search there, and you can only go there. Allow one or two people."

Everyone felt that there was no other place to hide, and they had to accept their fate, so they said to Liu Bang: "Maybe the Chu army will come to you soon, your king, hurry up and hide in the cave, and we will pretend to be handymen in the temple." Let's see if we can get through."

Liu Bang followed the monks to hide in the cave.His horse wisely ran away to graze grass far away from the cave.It was a false fate, as soon as Liu Bang got into the hole, the stone at the entrance of the cave suddenly collapsed, blocking the entrance of the cave firmly, leaving only a ventilation hole the size of a dog's head.Another spider hastened to spin a web over the vent.Liu Bang was sealed inside.

Chu Jun found Liu Bang's horse halfway up the mountain, and was ecstatic for a while, concluding that Liu Bang must be nearby.They came to the temple and searched everywhere, but there was no sign of Liu Bang.Called all the people in the temple together and asked those who recognized Liu Bang to recognize him, but no one was found.These soldiers searched up the mountain again, and when they passed the cave, they stopped there.Liu Bang didn't dare to show his anger inside, only heard one soldier say: "There is a hole here, could it be hidden in it?" The other said: "Are you looking for Liu Bang to get confused? You don't even look at such a small hole." Is there a hole in this hole, can people go in? There are spider webs on it, if someone goes in, how can the spider web be so good?" After speaking, he called out to others: "Go, go, go, search other places quickly, don't I'm wasting my time here." After they left, Liu Bang breathed a sigh of relief inside, he was scared to death just now.

The Chu army searched the mountains for two days, but saw no one on the horse, thinking that Liu Bang might have gone to other places before the army arrived, and deliberately put the horse in the mountain.The horse was tied to a tree by them, and they forgot to take it away when they left. When Liu Bang's followers found it, they found that there was spring water flowing from its hoof, which was forced out by the horse's hoof when it was thirsty.

The Chu army walked for a long time before they pulled Liu Bang out of the cave like a mud monkey. Fortunately, there were some taro and corn in it. He was not hungry, but he was already thirsty. Feeling dizzy, I went to the temple and drank a large bowl of cold water, saying "it's so sweet".

Liu Bang took a bath in the temple and changed into clean clothes.Just after cleaning up, Lv Zhi came to the temple with a few followers, and Liu Bang was filled with sorrow and joy when he saw it.After entering Pengcheng, he let Lv Zhi stay in the city, and after Xiang Yu called, he was chased by Xiang Yu to this mountain nest before he could rescue Lv Zhi.I thought that Xiang Yu would hurt Lu Zhi if he knew that she was in Pengcheng, but now he came to him and asked in surprise, "How do you know I'm here and can you find me?"

Lu Zhi said: "Where is the king, there are always colorful clouds covering it. I discovered this secret, so I will find it when I look for it."

"I still have this good luck? It seems that I still have some background, and I will always be protected by gods at critical moments, so I can't die easily." Liu Bang said happily.

"Your Majesty's fortune is great, and it's not a time when bad luck turns into good luck, and disaster brings good fortune, so we are determined to follow His Majesty." All the followers and monks cheered in unison.

A few years later, when Liu Bang became emperor, the mountain where he hid was renamed Huangzangyu, and the cave was named Huangzang Cave.The spring that his horse pulled out was named Ma Pa Spring, and the temple where he once lived was named Ruiyun Temple.These places still exist now, located [-] kilometers south of Xuzhou City.

Liu Bang suffered a big defeat in Pengcheng and was going back to Hanzhong.This time Lu Zhi said that he would take his two children and his father-in-law Liu Tian with him, saying: "The family can no longer be separated." Liu Bang also believed that the old father and the child could live in Pei County without any trouble with Xiang Yu in the past. This time I was completely annoyed. If I continue to live, maybe Xiang Yu will find out someday and send someone to kill him.So the couple agreed to take a detour from Yongcheng to Pei County and bring the whole family to Xianyang.

Lu Zhi couldn't ride a horse, so they hired a mule cart to pull it.Several men rode ahead.A group of people walked on the road for five days, and the people lost during the war found Liu Bang one after another. Liu Bang encouraged everyone not to lose heart, saying: "Victory and defeat are commonplace in military affairs, and no one is always victorious. As long as you persevere and pay attention to summing up experience, maybe you will be defeated." The next victory is ours."

These subordinates who came to look for Liu Bang were all favored by Liu Bang, and they all said: "As long as the king is not discouraged, he will be close to death, and we will not hesitate!"

When approaching Pei County, Liu Bang saw many Chu troops walking around, so he did not dare to enter lightly.Liu Bang and Lu Zhi were away most of the time, and his son Liu Ying and daughter Liu Duo were raised by Mrs. Liu and her grandpa's successor, Mrs. Dou.Liu Bang was afraid that the grandpa would not easily take the child and leave with others, so he and Lu Zhi went to the house at night pretending to be a farmer and a woman.As soon as he told the prince, Liu Tian really didn't want to go to Hanzhong with Liu Bang.Liu Bang said: "I have already become king there. When you and your grandson go there, your life will be better than here. Let me serve you well for a few years."

The grandpa said, "I'm already at this age, so I won't trouble you any more. Just take the two children away."

Liu Bang said: "I have completely offended Xiang Yu by attacking Pengcheng this time. He will not spare our family lightly in the next step. Not only you and the child will leave, but also the two elder brothers' families."

"I said, these days there are often some soldiers wandering around the door of the house, who dare to plot against us. Then you go, I am an old bone, what can they do to me." Liu Taigong said.

"Elder-in-law, if you don't leave, how can we go with peace of mind? Even if you leave, we can't let go of our hands and feet to do things outside. If we want to leave, we must go together." Lu Zhi pleaded.

The son and daughter-in-law tried to persuade them again and again, but Mrs. Liu couldn't insist any longer, so she agreed to follow them overnight.

The Liu family has lived in Pei County for many years, adults and children are very familiar with the situation here.Fearing that the goal of walking together would be too big, they met under the big mulberry tree on the west side of Peicheng, and then left together by car.

At dawn, people sent by the Chu army went to watch at the gate of Liu's house, but found no movement, so they rushed in to check, but there was no one.The captain of Peicheng was very busy when he heard this situation, and immediately sent three cavalry to chase and kill them along the way.

In one night, Liu Bang's chariots and horses had traveled a hundred miles.They walked west along the official road. Liu Bang and his two children took a car in front, followed by the eunuch Xia Houying in the middle, and the Tai Gong and Lu Zhi in the back car, and a large group of entourages returned with them.Such a team of people naturally has a big goal.Xiang Yu's pursuers didn't need to ask passers-by, they knew where they were fleeing just by the marks of chariots and horses.The speed of the pursuers was fast, and the distance was not far before noon.Fortunately, these pursuers didn't know that Liu Bang was in the fleeing team, otherwise they would have chased even more urgently.

The two teams were getting closer and closer, and there were shouts of pursuit from behind.Liu Bang's chariot and horsemen heard that there was a Chu army chasing after them, and ran forward desperately. Liu Bang still thought it was too slow, and urged: "Hurry up, hurry up, and hurry up." When he couldn't get up soon, Liu Bang ordered the driver to throw the things down.

Seeing that the pursuers were about to catch up soon, Liu Bang said to the two children: "They are here to chase their father. You are in the car. The car can't go fast. Get off the car. They won't arrest you. Father was arrested by them and taken to meet him." Killed." As he spoke, he pushed the two children down.

Seeing the two children being pushed down, the eunuch Xia Houying hurriedly stopped the car to let them get up, and ran in another direction at a fork.

The grandfather was old and weak, and the car was too fast to bear, so he had to slow down the car.The Chu army caught up with him and Lu Zhi, and they were taken hostage by Xiang Yu.

Chu Jun saw that there were still cars ahead, so a group of people escorted the grandpa and the others back, and a group of people continued to chase.Liu Bang thought that he would not be caught if he ran like this, so he said to the coachman: "Go ahead and run fast, I will get out of the car and hide for a while." What, just run as hard as you can.Liu Bang saw a field of tall crops by the side of the road, taking advantage of the dust raised by the carts and horses, he plunged into the field of crops.

(End of this chapter)