Just a few days after the excavation of the basement was completed, another earth-shattering earthquake struck, this time even more violent. At that time, Song Huizong, who was paying tribute to Song Zhezong, and all the princes, Wang Qi and other ministers were killed, and the Empress Dowager Gao Taotao, the eldest princess, Empress Xiang and others disappeared.

King Cao took advantage of the chaos to raise troops and seized imperial power.

On the day of the earthquake, Pang Yuqin's whole family, as well as Song Shopkeeper, Pang Jinghui, Zhuang Zhenmou and their families, all met together to set up a sacrificial shed on the side of the road outside the city to prepare for the funeral of the emperor Song Zhezong.

After the earthquake, they returned to the city only to find that the entire capital had been destroyed. After inquiring, I learned that the new emperor had died in the earthquake, and King Cao had already proclaimed himself emperor. Immediately, he found that King Cao's men and horses were blocking the city gate and began to arrest people everywhere. Then he received a report from Gonggong Jiao, saying that Prince Cao wanted to arrest Du Wenhao and his family, including Zhuang Zhenmou and other relatives and friends.

Pang Yuqin immediately led everyone to the basement of the ghost mansion. Fortunately, the ground crack of the earthquake did not damage the well and the dug basement, and they did not even dare to return home, and fortunately they did not go back, although their mansion was in ruins, King Cao's men and horses still stole all the valuable things, and waited there to wait for the rabbit.

Pang Yuqin sent Wu Cong and Silly Fat out to inquire about the news, and when they came back, they learned that King Cao had issued an order to remove Du Wenhao from all his positions, and issued a sea arrest notice to arrest him and his whole family on the grounds that he colluded with the White Coat Society to try to rebel.

At this time, the whole city was under martial law, and there was no way to leave the city, so he could only live in the basement of the well with fear. At the same time, she sent people to wait near the ruins every day, waiting for Du Wenhao to come back, she knew that Du Wenhao would definitely come back to find them.

During this period, King Cao issued an order to remove the right to command the troops of the Huainan West Road Observation Envoy, which took advantage of the two major earthquakes in the capital, the capital has been razed to the ground, and the victims were all over the field, on the grounds that King Cao usurped the throne and supported the unification, led the troops to rise up and killed the eunuch of King Cao's decree.

King Cao was furious and sent troops to recruit and suppress him. The two armies faced each other, and Cao Wang Wenchen led the troops and suffered a heavy defeat. had to return to the capital.

At this time, the Jurchen tribe of the Great Liao had already captured most of the territory of the Great Liao and began to harass the border of the Great Song Dynasty.

Seeing that this observation had made the uprising successful, the new emperor was helpless, and the rest of the troops followed suit, announcing their independence from the court and establishing themselves as kings. King Cao was helpless and unable to conquer and suppress, and all walks of life crusaded against each other for their respective spheres of influence, resulting in chaos in the world.

Du Wenhao also recounted the dangers they encountered in Western Xia, and everyone was stunned to hear that two major earthquakes had occurred at the same time in the capitals of Song, Xia, and Liao on the same day and at the same time, and that the emperors and important ministers of the three places died almost at the same time. I also heard that now the Great Liao has been swallowed up by the Jurchens, and the Great Song Dynasty is also divided, so I am even more worried.

Du Wenhao remembered that the Empress Dowager Gao Tao was kind to him, and now that her whereabouts are unknown, not only is her heart gloomy. Although Gao Tao is much older than herself, her feelings for herself are sincere, and she always feels a little guilty in her heart, but now she has nowhere to find her. I hope she's not caught in the cracks, but is waiting for her somewhere.

There are many people in the basement, and it is impossible to arrange it according to the family, so all the men live in one, the women in one, one in the public area, and there is a toilet and storage room.

After discussing it, everyone felt that it was obviously inappropriate to live in the basement like this, so it was better to leave the capital as soon as possible and go south, out of the control of King Cao.

Du Wenhao sent Xu Huaqiang to take the guards out in disguise to investigate, and found that the inspection of the city gates was still very strict. It's almost impossible for so many people to get out of town. We can only wait patiently for the right time.

After Wang Runxue knew that her father died tragically, the emperor kindly allowed her to accompany Song Shenzong to the funeral, crying all the time, thinking of the sacrifice. But now the investigation is very strict, and for everyone's safety, I can only give up.

Finally, Xu Huaqiang, who had gone out to investigate that day, came back and told Du Wenhao in surprise that there were many refugees from the north, and the city was crowded, and there were too many people entering and leaving the city, and the officers and soldiers could no longer check.

Du Wenhao immediately decided to take advantage of the chaos to get out of the city.

After everyone dressed up, they discussed the meeting place after leaving the city, and took advantage of the dusk to leave the haunted house in turn, blending in with the flow of refugees entering and leaving the city, and walking out of the city.

From the haunted house to the city gate, you have to pass through the armory. The armory was in ruins, and the craftsmen didn't know where to flee. Only the stench of rotting corpses permeated.

This is the place where Du Wenhao pinned his dream of enriching the country and strengthening the army, and now the dream is shattered, and only the ruins remain.

Walking a short distance ahead, I can already faintly see the city gate, but the refugee tide does not move, and when I inquire, it is said that the city gate is being checked, although the check is relatively loose, but it still hinders the refugees from leaving the city. And there were more refugees who wanted to enter the city, and both sides were blocked at the city gates.

Du Wenhao was anxious, and he heard a scolding and evasive voice from far behind: "Get out!" Get out of here! The emperor is here, don't get out of the way, look for death! ”

Then came the screams of the whipping. The tide of refugees suddenly became chaotic, and people crowded on both sides. Then, from a distance, I saw a large group of cavalry rushing towards me, and the people who could not escape were trampled by the horses, and many were killed and wounded.

Xu Huaqiang and his escort team had already formed a wall, surrounding the women and the old and young in the middle, and leaned towards the side of the road.

Seeing this, Du Wenhao secretly shouted that it was not good, and King Cao evacuated the capital, indicating that the Jurchen army was already approaching the capital, and now it was impossible to move quickly with the family, in this case, once the enemy army or rebellious soldiers were encountered, it was not enough to protect so many people with just a dozen guards.

Fortunately, they didn't have far from the ghost house, and Du Wenhao immediately ordered to squeeze out the crowd and return to the basement of the ghost house!

Everyone didn't know why they had to go back, but Du Wenhao decided and could only obey. Escorted by the convoy, they squeezed through the crowd and left the main street. Climb over the ruins, return to the haunted house, and then back to the basement.

Du Wenhao asked Lin Qingdai to be in charge of guarding, asking everyone not to come out, and he took Xu Huaqiang and a few other guards and returned to the street.

Hide in the rubble on the side of the road and check the streets.

By this time, the street was already full of soldiers, standing in rows on both sides, squeezing the refugees into the ruins on both sides, and the cries and cries were heard one after another. The bodies of refugees who had been trampled to death because they were unable to dodge because of the crowd were lying on both sides of the road.

Obviously, King Cao has not come out yet.

Du Wenhao took the guards to the military arsenal that had become a ruin, and found the firearms test site according to the location in his memory.

What is gratifying is that on the fire and gas test site, there are seven or eight iron cast cannons! There were also several large boxes of shells next to it, as well as iron bullets and clay shells. There were also several boxes of gunpowder. Apparently, at the time of the big earthquake, new artillery was being prepared here.

Since the craftsmen all died in the earthquake, King Cao's people didn't know what these cannons were used for, they hadn't seen them at all, and they were too heavy, so they left them there, and the refugees couldn't lift the iron guy, and they had no interest in it, so they kept it there.

Du Wenhao ordered the artillery to be erected high above the ruins, from here, you can look down on the street in the distance.

Although there were soldiers on guard in the distance, because the artillery had not yet appeared at this time, these soldiers had not seen the artillery, and they did not know what they were tinkering with, and they were all around refugees looking for food, and they thought that they were also such refugees, so they did not come to interfere from a distance.

After several artillery pieces were erected, Du Wenhao personally filled the gunpowder into the artillery. Aimed at the street below.

As soon as he was ready, he heard the sound of shouting and evasion, and saw a team of soldiers coming from a distance, and the guard of honor was bright and majestic.

Du Wenhao secretly scolded in his heart, his grandmother's, this King Cao is the emperor, and he has to put on a score when he flees. Lao Tzu told you to swing!

Du Wenhao adjusted the muzzle of the cannon again, held a torch, and waited.

Finally, the Huang Luo umbrella chariot appeared, which was a sign only for the emperor!

King Cao was sitting in it at the moment, he was very nervous, he had just received a report that the Jurchen army was moving south, his army was about to collapse at the touch of a button, and he fled in all directions, and the Jurchen army was pointing directly at the capital, which was less than a hundred miles away from the capital! And the hearts of the forbidden troops around the capital are fluctuating, and they are afraid that they will not be able to resist the attack of the Jurchen army. King Cao was still self-aware, and immediately ordered to go out of the city and take refuge in the south.

When the team walked here, somehow, King Cao's heartbeat suddenly accelerated, and he always felt that something was wrong. Maybe it was the cries of the refugees on both sides, or the scolding of the soldiers was too loud, but in short, he felt uncomfortable, he frowned and raised the curtain, and looked out.

At this moment, he saw a flash of fire on the ruins not far away! There was an earth-shattering bang, and a cloud of things flew towards him at a gallop!

He exclaimed, and subconsciously raised his hand to block it in front of him, but he didn't know that this thing couldn't be blocked by his hand!

With a bang, this mass smashed the outer wall of his ultra-luxury chariot! rushed straight in, exploded with a bang, and immediately, the entire carriage was filled with raging flames!

It turned out that the shell fired by Du Wenhao was an incendiary bomb developed by Li Hong and them according to Du Wenhao's requirements!

King Cao's body was full of flames, he screamed miserably, jumped out of the car and danced his hands to the sky, the flames swallowed him whole, and the soldiers around him hurriedly stepped forward to save him.

But at this moment, there were several loud noises in the connection, and a few more cannonballs flew in, exploding around the chariot, and King Cao became a sea of fire around him!

Du Wenhao laughed, he originally wanted to use iron eggs, but if the iron eggs were not accurate, they would not be able to hurt King Cao, he smashed a clay bomb, and found that there were sulfur, oil and other ignition materials in it, so he knew that this thing was likely to be an incendiary bomb, and immediately decided that all the guns were loaded with clay bombs, which had not been tested before, and I didn't know if it worked, so I could only gamble. I didn't expect to succeed in one fell swoop!

The loud sound of the connection had never been heard before, the war horses were frightened, neighing, rushing around, and the incendiary bombs that came one after another made the ministers, soldiers, and horses who followed all around them also burned with flames, and they were too busy to take care of themselves, who could care about saving King Cao.

Because the weather was already cold, King Cao's satin robe was flammable, and he was wearing cotton clothes and pants, and he couldn't take it off, and the eunuchs and soldiers who had saved him before couldn't find water to extinguish the fire for a while. Soon, King Cao became a flaming and dancing torch.

At this time, the whole team was in disarray, and while King Cao was dancing and screaming with fire hands, a startled horse fell down the soldier on his back, took off on all fours, and ran towards him screaming. Kick him down with his forefoot and stomp heavily on his chest with his hindfoot!

King Cao let out a long scream, which was the result of being trampled by horses and burned by fire.

Following this horse, several startled horses galloped forward along the street, and under the random kicking, King Cao's flesh and blood were blurred!

I don't know who shouted: "The Jurchens are coming into the city!" Run! ”

The whole street was suddenly in chaos, and the tide of refugees who had been blocked on both sides of the road could not be controlled, and the soldiers who squeezed through the block began to rush out of the city like crazy!

Countless feet stepped on King Cao's dying and charred body, and after the refugees ran away, the frightened soldiers found that King Cao's body had been trampled beyond recognition and was no longer human!

Du Wenhao was very happy, and left the ruins of the armory with the guards in the chaos, and sneaked back to the basement of the ghost house.

That night, they heard shouts of killing outside from the dry well, and the screams continued for a night.

The next day, the sound disappeared, Du Wenhao did not take the risk to go out to check, and waited for another two days before sending Xu Huaqiang and two guards to carefully go out of the dry well to check.

They soon returned, and reported in surprise that there were almost no people in the city, except for the dead and the old and crippled refugees, and after asking, they learned that the Jurchen army broke into the city, killed the city, and fought with the Song army, killing countless casualties, the Song army fled, and the refugees in the city also ran away. There isn't a good house in the city. There was no property left, so the Jurchen army abandoned the city and pursued it south.

Only then did Du Wenhao decide to evacuate.

Coming out of the basement, sure enough, there were more corpses all over the city that had begun to decompose, and the rotting corpses in the city smelled foul, and the smell was even stronger, choking people almost couldn't breathe, Du Wenhao asked everyone to wet their mouths and noses with towels. That's a little bit of relief.

There were no soldiers in sight in the city, walking through the streets strewn with corpses, out of the city, Du Wenhao came to the place where the horses were originally stored, but it was empty, presumably the Jurchen army killed them, and the special combat team guarding the horses had to flee.

Now that the Jurchen army has taken control of this piece of land, and if you take the big road, you may encounter the Jurchen army, Du Wenhao decided to take the small road, avoid the town, and go south.

Along the way, I also encountered bandits and robbers, but there were many of them, and there were escorts and special combat members, so there was no danger along the way.

Their group of refugees, the old and the young, and the three young children, are Pang Yuqin's little brother (the son of his father Pang Jinghui's concubine Yu'er) is two or three years old, the little sister Slug Dou'er is five or six years old, and Zhuang Zhenmou's (Zhuang Zhi County) son is one or two years old. The special combat team members made two pairs of sliding rods, and when they reached a slightly flat section, they carried them slowly. So you don't get too tired.

After more than a month of arduous trekking for the old and the young, they finally left the area controlled by King Cao and arrived at a place where the Jurchen army had not yet invaded. I bought a few more big cars, and then took the car to the southwest direction of Daliguo.

When passing through Jinghu South Road, when I passed through the intersection and checked, I learned that it was the people of the Baiyi Society who controlled this road! Moreover, the coach is the dozen or so that he released at the beginning.

Du Wenhao didn't want to show up, but remembered the golden scroll of the missionary treasure that the White Clothes Society had deposited here for him, so he asked Du Wenhao to take the gold scroll, sneaked into the residence of the leader of the White Clothes Society, and put the gold scroll on the bookcase.

As they continued south, they heard news that King Cao had been assassinated by a human stabbing king, and that the roads under their jurisdiction were divided and went their own way. After the Jurchens raised troops to kill the plains and occupied the northern areas of the Song Dynasty such as the capital of Kaifeng, they were blocked by the mountainous areas, so they no longer marched south, but attacked Western Xia.

That is to say, the Northern Song Dynasty has perished, but there is no shadow of the Southern Song Dynasty, because the whole history has been chaotic, and it is unknown whether the Southern Song Dynasty can be established in the future.

Du Wenhao and they went all the way south.

It is really a coincidence that there is no book in the world, and it happened that I heard the news of Li Pu, and his team has grown to tens of thousands of people, controlling a large area. And the way to Dali is only a few days away, so Du Wenhao asked Xu Huaqiang to take the special combat team members and escorts to join them, achieve a career, don't follow him to Dali.

Xu Huaqiang and others began to disagree, Du Wenhao insisted on letting them go, saying that his two concubines Lin Qingdai and Wang Runxue could completely protect everyone, plus the road was already very safe, the way was orderly, there were no rogue soldiers and bandits, and there was no need to go to Dali. They can't be delayed.

Xu Huaqiang listened to Du Wenhao's words firmly, and at the same time, they also wanted to fight for their future, so they kowtowed goodbye, took all the remaining special combat team members and escorts, and went to Lipu's army.

Du Wenhao's family and Pang Jinghui, Zhuang Zhenmou and several other families continued to travel south, without saying anything all the way, and finally entered the territory of Dali.

There are a lot of refugees who have fled into Dali on the border, Dali is not blocked by refugees, because many places in Dali are not developed, the most needed is manpower, there can be so many refugees who have fled to Dali, greatly increasing the number of people, and also increasing the valuable labor force, so not only do not block, but also give them the necessary care and assistance, and demarcate the area for land reclamation to them.

Fortunately, Pang Yuqin had the foresight to find that when the momentum was wrong, he began to dig the basement, and at the same time transferred a large amount of gold and silver, so the three families came to Dali, and their bags were still very abundant.

From the Great Song Dynasty, which was in turmoil, to Dali, where the country was safe and secure, looking at the birds singing and the fragrance of flowers, the men and women weaving, the shepherd boys playing the flute in the fields, and the women in the riverside villages playing the yarn, the pastoral scenery was very comfortable.