The dark clouds in the sky slowly gathered in front of them.

The journey from Hangzhou to Huzhou was a great escape.

If you look at this time in the later days, the city of Hangzhou was broken on the fourth day of the first lunar month, and everyone fled from the city in a panic. After that, the most direct choice for many people was to go to Jiaxing, when Fang La's army still had various encirclements and interceptions, leaving many people. Later, this large number of people who were killed and scattered gathered on the road again, and some order was restored, and it was already the sixth and seventh days of the first lunar month.

At this time, the Fangla rebels gathered from the west to Hangzhou were close to saturation and began to expand in all directions, and the refugees who gathered again painfully chose the direction to go, and gathered and scattered on the land around Hangzhou, although the mountains were not deep, but the waterways were vertical and horizontal, some were chased by the rebels and besieged and killed, and there were also groups of prisoners, who were robbed and captured and sent back to Hangzhou.

For several months, Fang Laxing's momentum was at its peak at this time, Fang Baihua rejected Kangfangting's Wusu camp in the northwest, and Chen Shisheng's Wuwei army in the south was attacked by Deng Yuanjue and Si Xingfang in the middle. Fang La, Fang Qifo and others took Hangzhou with heavy troops, and then there were echoes of the uprising everywhere, and on the roads on all sides of Hangzhou, when those ignorant fugitives reacted, they had already found that at this time, starting from Hangzhou, no matter which direction they went, it almost became a dangerous minefield.

Except for the people who escaped by luck in the mountains and villages, there are not many examples of Hangzhou territory at this time when they really escaped safely in the form of a large army. Most of these people who were driven out of Hangzhou and displaced eventually became sacrifices or original subjects of the "Yongle Dynasty" established by Fang La. The influence belonging to the Wu Dynasty was suppressed to the lowest for a time in the land south of the Yangtze River. Of course, if you want to look for small bright spots, there are naturally some of them.

The whole process took place only in a corner of the junction of Hangzhou and Huzhou, when the largest fleeing procession of wealthy merchants and gentry gathered from Hangzhou traveled around the place in all directions, and the whole preparation took place in less than two days from the early morning of the 10th lunar month to the morning of the 11th month.

On a strategic level, it was difficult to complete too complicated operations in a day and a half, and there were a total of five rebel armies that were already approaching behind the team at that time, led by five generals in the Fang La army: Yao Yi, Lu She, Xue Dounan, Mi Quan, and Shen Zhucheng. And a small number of Black Feather Guards and some of the soldiers of the Badao Battalion led by Liu Dabiao at that time were not counted in it. The combined strength of these five teams is more than 6,000 people, and their morale is high. In the fleeing team, there are a total of 3,000 remnants, plus more than 1,000 bodyguards under the doors of many wealthy businessmen and gentry, but the battlefield is different, and the combat strength of more than 1,000 people is not reliable.

In hindsight, these teams only engaged in a simple staggered and psychological battle within a radius of less than forty miles, and then began to generalize with each other, which was simple, but the subsequent results were somewhat unexpected. Of course, when the incident first happened, it was not only the army under Fang La's command that was unexpected, but even the fleeing team itself only reacted after experiencing extremely stunned emotions.

Gathering clouds, hot and dry weather, winding riverside, the procession then stretched out into the distance. There were nearly 10,000 people in this team, and at the end of the line, a quarrel and infighting were brewing, and the crowd whispered. In the first and middle sections, some soldiers or masters on horseback were running back and forth, most of them holding paper and pencils, and scattered into each small team of the remnants of the army, recording what needed to be recorded.

It seems a bit hasty to make this kind of statistics on the way to escape, but this matter started in the morning, and the meaning passed down from above is also simple, at this time, Chen Xing, the leader of the team, has carefully talked with the gentry led by Tang Xiuxuan, as long as the team goes to Huzhou at this time, every soldier will be the hero of the escort. In order to reward meritorious deeds in the future, at this time, the name and place of origin of each person will be recorded, so that no matter whether the officers or soldiers in the team, everyone will not be left behind, and if these people have died or lost family members in Hangzhou, each of them will also have an additional pension, which is the reward that everyone deserves after escorting these "big shots".

After the city of Hangzhou was broken, it was difficult for the army of Wude Battalion to maintain weaving, although there were more than 3,000 soldiers in this team, but the team to which everyone belonged was quite chaotic, and most of them lost the mind of fighting. The reason why Chen Xingdu was able to become the military leader of this team was because the number of people under his command was the largest at this time, with more than 700 people. Although the rest are also at the disposal, they are quite troublesome to operate. ..., the Wude Battalion is said to be elite, but in fact, the actual combat experience is not a lot, after this defeat, if you only say that you want to build another establishment, I am afraid that many people will be afraid. However, after this order was issued, in order to facilitate the record, these people began to gather automatically, and temporarily elected officers according to the original distribution of the barracks, although it seemed that they each occupied the mountain, but finally established a closer weave, during this period, Chen Xingdu naturally also installed a famous henchman to develop his strength, so that the order could be issued more quickly.

In the statistics of the number of troops, some rumors began to circulate among soldiers and civilians, and there was naturally negative news among them, including the pursuers who were approaching behind them, including the blocked road ahead, which had been secretly circulated and made public to everyone's ears. Then, there was other news that spread in the whispers of the crowd.

"Mr. Tang, they already have a way......"

"I heard that someone in the Tang family has a relationship with the traitors of Qingfeng Village, we now have more than 3,000 martial arts camps in the past, and Qingfeng Village will get out of the way......"

"No, I heard that a man named Ning Liheng came up with a plan, and everything was calculated, General Chen, and they were like a treasure. My cousin was over there at the camp, and I saw ...... last night."

"Who is Ning Liheng?"

"Hey, you don't know what to do, this person seems to be a scholar, but he has the title of ten steps and one calculation, and he has a very high martial arts, when he was in Hangzhou, Fang Lana and his gang made trouble in the city, he helped to make plans, and later, what Shi Bao, Fang Qifo and others went to kill him in person, but he calculated and killed

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