Seeing Father Luther leave neatly, many citizens began to pack up their things and walk towards the city gates.

Some of them went to the countryside in search of a moment of peace, while others went to Venice with Father Luther to live behind the lines.

Anyway, Florence can't stay any longer.

A week later, the entire city was evacuated, the doors and windows were closed, and the citizens left where they had lived for generations and began to move around.

The city came to a complete standstill, and Dirmit and his Disaster Relief Army were the last to leave.

At this time, there were less than 2,000 soldiers in his ranks, and there were not many people infected with diseases, most of whom were deserters.

Dirmit didn't pursue it, and in the face of such an invisible enemy, the fear in the hearts of the soldiers would naturally be even stronger, and besides, these troops were drawn from the hands of nobles everywhere, and their loyalty was not high in the first place.

With the departure of the army, Florence became almost an empty city, and there were no corpses in the streets of the city, but there were ordinary people who had died of illness lying on the sides of the surrounding roads leaving the city.

Whenever he encountered these people, Dirmit would order the soldiers to stop and burn the corpses, so as to minimize the possibility of the disease continuing to spread.

After all, there have been similar cases where people coveted the contents of the corpses, and unfortunately ended up infecting.

Dirmit led the team towards Venice, and halfway through, he suddenly received a letter from Eugen.

"There was a riot in San Marino!" After reading the letter, Dirmit couldn't help but exclaim, he couldn't imagine that at such a critical moment, there would be someone who would take advantage of the fire to rob.

Eugen made it clear in his letter that San Marino was flooded with refugees due to the outbreak of the disease, and many conflicts between these refugees and the local population inevitably took place.

You must know that San Marino is the largest commercial city on the Italian peninsula, where there is a lot of wealth, and now that the disaster has erupted, some people have malice in their hearts and want to take advantage of the fire to make a profit.

In this way, the refugees in the city were instigated, and they turned into robbers and began to plunder.

Most of the standing army in San Marino had been transferred from the local lords long before and the local lords had left the city early to avoid disaster, which made the situation uncontrollable and worsened.

There is no doubt that this will cause great harm, and the unbridled robbery will inevitably cause great chaos, which is a breeding ground for the spread of disease, and if it continues like this, I am afraid that the whole of San Marino will become a dead city and repeat the tragedy of Sicily.

Even more frighteningly, once this culture of looting spreads, other refugees will be affected, and it may hit cities that were not affected in the first place.

At that time, the defense line of the disaster resistance army will be greatly threatened, and the disease may even use it to cross the last line of defense and spread to the interior of the continent.

For this reason, Eugen urgently issued an order to Dirmit to lead a team to San Marino to quell the local riots.

The reason why the same thing did not happen in Florence is largely due to the fact that some of the measures that Dirmit implemented there, and the fact that he was now sent there, can be said to complement each other.

Without hesitation, Dirmit immediately ordered the troops to be rerouted to San Marino as soon as he received the order.

In his heart, he had long been ready to die locally, and at this moment, he had no intention of retreating in the face of illness.

However, his soldiers were not as he thought, and on the night he learned that the team had been diverted to San Marino, nearly 200 more people in the team fled.

In order to stabilize the morale of the army, Dirmit had to kill two captured deserters with his own hands, which only curbed this terrible trend.

Just as Dirmit was on his way to San Marino, Eugen also left Venice and came to Verona, a large city in the middle of the Upo River defense.

Along the Po River, there were several small towns that were at the forefront of the Po River defenses, and the lords who managed them in a unified manner had their castles built in the large city of Verona.

Verona, and Vienna, are only one word apart, but their status is very different.

The city of Verona is not a major city in the whole of Italy, and the lord here is only a count subordinate to the Medici family, and the count himself is not a member of the Medici family, but has made a lot of achievements for the Medici family, and his relationship with the Duke of Gian is similar to the relationship between Corleone and Eugen.

The Earl's name is Sartre. To Eugen's surprise, the Count of Sartre, who was already in his fifties, did not flee backwards like other nobles in the face of the attacking disease, but remained steadfast in his castle.

If he was the only one left, it might be because he was old and incapacitated, but even the young people in his family had not left, and he looked like he was waiting for battle, which was very puzzling.

In the eyes of others, he didn't know whether to say that he was brave or that he was reckless.

In any case, Verona has a count here.

Ou was not willing to deal with these messy lords at all, he did not need to deal with these counts in vain, nor did he want to provoke them for no reason.

But right now, this Verona, he really has to go.

Because the local garrison actually opposed the transfer of Eugen, the commander of the anti-disaster army, and actually refused to establish a disaster defense line.

Originally, according to Eugen's plan, there was an earl's army here, which was definitely the most stable link in the defense line, but now there is no earl's army, and it only relies on the garrisons in a few small towns to defend, which does not play a big role at all.

The disaster is approaching day by day, and at such a critical moment, there is such a fork, and Eugen is also holding a fire in his heart.

He didn't understand why so many people came to dismantle the stage, which was obviously a good thing for everyone, and he Eugen was busy in front of him, but from time to time some people jumped out to make trouble.

On the way, Eugen's anger was accumulating, and there was a faint hint of fierceness in his eyes, and he snorted coldly and said to himself: "Hmph, Lao Tzu has already killed an earl, and he doesn't care about another one, I hope this Count Sartre will not deceive people too much!" ”

The carriage was galloping along the avenue connecting Venice to Verona, and at last, the voice of the coachman was heard in front of him: "Dear Lord Eugen, Verona, has arrived. ”