In a ravine more than fifty miles away from Huaining City, a group of fleeing people were staggering, some of them came from Huaining City, some came from farther away, some were robbed by the Shun army, and some were robbed by the Ming army, anyway, in the eyes of the people, the Ming army and the Shun army were robbers.

Everyone was hungry, pale, tattered, and their eyes glazed, and no one knew where their destination was, but they only knew that they would keep walking, and maybe one day they would not be able to walk, and like many of their companions, they would fall to the ground and be relieved.

In this group of people, there was one person who was in the opposite direction, everyone was walking south, but he was leading the horse to the north, and while walking, he was looking for someone to inquire, "Auntie, have you seen anyone running out of Huaining City?" There are four people in the group, three women and one man, among them there is a girl, in her twenties, her name is Yun Niang"

"I don't know"

The person leading the horse is Li Dingguo, he was ordered by Wang Lanping to help the general find the old mother who escaped from the city first, but so many days have passed, the sea of people is vast, and the people who have fled are everywhere, but there is no whereabouts of their group of four, and they have been finding the riverside, and he has no choice but to look back and inquire all the way, only then did he know that Huaining City has been lost, and the whereabouts of Fengziying and General Wang are unknown.

Li Dingguo went to look for Huaining City alone, maybe they couldn't cross the river and went back to Huaining City.

Walking through the fleeing crowd, Li Dingguo was a little disheartened, he couldn't find the old lady of the Wang family, how could he have the face to see General Wang, his life was saved by General Wang, he may not be able to repay this kindness again, he really hated himself, he couldn't even do this.

Li Dingguo led the horse, looking at the fleeing crowd that was gradually moving away, he was at a loss, where to find it? If you can't find someone, it's better to go to Huaining and kill a few thieves, and it will not be in vain for General Wang to save his life.

After that, he drew his short sword from under the saddle, the sword flashed, imprinting his resolute face, and secretly said in his heart: Kill, what is there to fear if you ride alone!

"Young man, don't do stupid things, I'm old, old man, I want to live a few more days, you can't help it" An old man with a bamboo pole in his hand stood behind Li Dingguo and shouted, it seemed that he had also fled, he probably thought that this young man was looking for a short time, along the way, he had seen too many such people.

Li Dingguo turned to look at him, put the sword back into the saddle, and saluted, "Thank you old man, I'm fine, I'm just looking for someone"

The old man stopped and took a breath, "If you can't find anyone, don't take this road, don't be discouraged, look slowly, you will always find it"

Li Dingguo smiled, "Dare to ask the old man if he has seen four people rushing together, three women and one man, among whom there is a girl in her twenties, named Yun Niang."

The old man thought about it, shook his head and said, "Oh, I didn't pay attention to this, but I will always find it, don't worry, look for it slowly"

Li Dingguo nodded, "Oh, old man Xie"

The old man sighed a few times and continued to hurry, muttering to himself: It's all because this world is not good, it makes the family uneasy, and the wife is separated, alas!

Walking out of a distance, the old man suddenly turned his head and waved his hand to Li Dingguo, "Young man, you wait, the old man remembered, you said a group of four people, it seems that I saw it outside Huaining City two days ago, I don't know if it's the person you are looking for"

Li Dingguo was overjoyed, whether it was a surprise or not, he hurriedly ran over, "Where is it, where is it?" ”

The old man said, "A few days ago, the old man passed by a wood, and saw four people hiding in it, I don't know if it is the person you are looking for, but it is close to Huaining City, you have to be careful, I heard that it has been occupied by the Shun soldiers, then, just over there, you go on horseback, very fast"

Li Dingguo doesn't care what the soldiers are, this is the only clue for so many days, how can he give up, before the old man finished speaking, he had already turned over and ran in the direction that the old man pointed out.

The four people that the old man said were indeed Yun Niang and others, since they went out of the city, they didn't stop until dawn the next day, but where they were going next, I don't know, so they followed the refugees from all over the world all the way to the river, and there were many people who were safe.

But just a few days after they left the city, they heard from their companions that Huaining City was occupied by the Shun soldiers, and Mrs. Wang was so anxious that she decided not to leave, her son didn't know if she was alive or dead, even if she died, someone had to go back to clean up the bones, Yun Niang would naturally follow, because she felt that Brother Lan Ping was not there, and the responsibility for his mother would fall on her.

In this way, a group of four people returned the same way, and wanted to go back to see, but when they went to Huaining City, they saw that the city was full of soldiers, and even the city gate was guarded, and no one knew the situation in the city, so they walked in recklessly, in case someone recognized her as the mother of the Ming army guard, it was a bad thing, so the four of them found a forest to hide, and asked the people who came out of the city from time to time, and asked where the Ming army who originally defended the city went.

Stay in this forest for two days, no one in the city came out, of course no one came out, now Huaining City, allowed to enter but not out, Du Ming, who has just gained power, has put Huaining City under martial law, no one is allowed to go out of the city, saying that there are remnants of the former Ming still do not give up, and they are dissatisfied with the new dynasty everywhere, in fact, they are taking the opportunity to get rid of the people who are dissatisfied with the Du family on weekdays, and they can also take the opportunity to show their loyalty to the new dynasty.

Huaining City can be regarded as a great disaster, it is said that a small county is nothing to fear, who called it now is a troubled time, every time the dynasty changes, a hat of 'the remnants of the previous dynasty' is pressed down, there is no way to live, I knew that this was the case, it was better to go out of the city with General Wang.

For more than ten days in a row, the big families and wealthy merchants in the city, and the people who had big backers in Beijing in the previous dynasty all poured blood mold for eight lifetimes, and the backers of the Ming Dynasty are useless now, even if you are the prince of the former Ming Dynasty, of course, it is the prince who will end up even worse.

Du Ming and the guards who stayed in the city with the Shun army, pinched the charges, and found the reason, but wherever they could get money, they would definitely drill holes in the mountains and knock on the door of whom's house.

Coming and going, this Du Ming became a figure that everyone in Huaining City feared in a blink of an eye, but the young general of the Shun Army was also born in poverty, and he almost didn't do anything to the ordinary small households, and he was mainly so poor that he couldn't make money at all, and he also had a bad reputation for abusing the people.

The old lady of the Wang family and a group of four people, when entering the city, Yun Niang casually wiped some soil on her face to hide her appearance, these years, young women are the most sought-after goods in addition to silver.

Coming to the gate of the city, the soldiers of the Shun army were leaning against the corner of the wall and dozing in twos and threes, and when they heard footsteps, several people stood up against the wall.

"Hey, what are you doing?" The soldier yawned, as if he hadn't slept well, and when he shouted, the rest of the people woke up.

The queen mother owes herself, "Master Bing, we are originally from this city, we didn't dare to stay in the city when we fought a few days ago, and now we won't fight, so we'll come back."

Several soldiers looked at each other and nodded, oh, there have been many such people coming back one after another in the past few days, which is not surprising, and a few people don't care too much.

The soldier leaned his spear against the wall, waved his hand to the four of them, and said, "The county lord rules, it's okay to enter the city, come here, do you have any prohibited items?" ”

The queen mother stepped forward, "The old man and these people are all pure white families, how can there be any contraband"

The soldier rubbed his hands and smiled, "I have the final say, turn around"

Mrs. Wang is a widow who has been observing the festival for more than 20 years, where can she tolerate a young descendant to search her, and she also knows what these people want, but fortunately, there are still some scattered pieces of silver on her body, which was given to her by Kong Ruxian a few days ago, so that she could be entangled on the way to escape, so she simply took it all out and stuffed it into the waist of the soldier, and said, "The soldier is hard, a little tea money, don't embarrass us women."

The soldier got the benefit and nodded happily, "Yes, you are also a good family, go in"

At this moment, two people came out of the city, and the person who came was dressed in soap clothes, and it could be seen that this was the errand officer in the county ya, and there were few original errand officers left in the current county ya, most of them were some ruffians recruited by Du Mingxin, who were powerful in the city, eating and drinking.

As soon as these two officials arrived at the gate of the city, they saw the old lady of the Wang family who was about to enter the city, and one of them couldn't help but look at it a few more times, and he had a thoughtful expression on his face while watching.

The person on the side pushed him, "What are you looking at, let's go"

"No, it seems that I've seen it somewhere, who's it, I can't remember, oh, it's them, come on, come on, people, arrest them"

The soldiers didn't know what was going on, and they were busy copying the guys in their hands, and their eyes stayed on the queen mother and the other four.

The official who shouted this was the person who was originally working in the county office, Yun Niang and the other four people lived in the county government for one night, he had seen it, he didn't think about it at first, and after a closer look, it was really.

Mrs. Wang didn't know what was going on, but there was definitely nothing good about this scene, and the four of them involuntarily retreated.

"Do it, the one in blue clothes, she is Wang Zhuangyuan's wife, and the younger ones behind him are good-looking, the county master has an order, if you catch the old lady of the Wang family, you will be rewarded with a hundred taels of silver, fast"

As soon as these words came out, all the soldiers were shocked at first, and then they turned their heads and were happy, and a gold ingot fell from the world.

When the four of them heard the words of the servant, they turned around and ran away in fright, and five or six soldiers behind them chased after them.

But these four people, how can these soldiers have these soldiers in their legs and feet, and they just ran out of ten zhang away in a panic, and they were caught up by the people behind, maybe they thought it was not fun, and the soldiers did not do it, but laughed behind the queen mother and others, "Run, run, you are the old lady surnamed Wang, isn't your son very powerful, killed so many of my brothers, why didn't he come to save you, oh, he ran away, we beat him away, haha"

The Queen Mother and the other four stumbled, and the soldiers behind them were like shadows, pressing forward step by step, sneering all the way.

In a blink of an eye, he had chased out more than a mile, and in front of him was the small forest where the four people had been hiding before, Shun Jun felt that he had enough fun, so he added his steps and rushed to the front of the four people, with a horizontal hand, one of them laughed, the reward of one hundred taels of silver is a lot of money, "where to run".

"What do you want to do?" Yun Niang's father was the only man among the four, he stopped the three women behind him, revealing what he thought was the most ruthless, and it was the first time in his life that he dared to talk to Uncle Bing like this.

"Get out of the way," a soldier raised his foot and kicked Yun Niang's father in the stomach.

Yun Niang screamed and hurriedly helped his father, "Dad, how are you?"

But soon Yun Niang's hand was grabbed, and then she threw it to the ground, and Yun Niang fell heavily to the ground.

"Haha, Zhuangyuanlang's good looks, I want to see it, yo, it looks quite neat" Saying that, the soldier was about to touch Yun Niang's face.

"Brute, I'll fight with you" Yun Niang's father saw that his daughter was going to be slighted, and he was also let out, in the end, it was the origin of coolies, although he was older, he still had a handful of strength, I saw him endure the pain in his stomach, jumped up, and knocked down the soldier, the two tore together, and the other soldiers also rushed up when they saw this.

Frightened, the three women screamed loudly, this call didn't matter, but they lured Li Dingguo, who had just run to the other side of the woods.

After a punch and kicking, Yun Niang's father was already dying, several soldiers were still angry, and stepped on a few more feet, and then pulled Yun Niang, who was crying on the ground, and scolded, "You old thing, tell you, now this is the world of Dashun, what Wang Zhuangyuan Li Zhuangyuan, bullshit is not"

At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves came, and before a few Shun soldiers turned back, the two Shun soldiers had been violently hit by the fast horses that flew several feet, and the bones were broken on the spot, vomiting blood and dying, and the blood on the neck of the Shun soldier who was pulling Yun Niang was pouring out.

I saw Li Dingguo holding a short sword dripping with blood, riding on a horse, the short sword pointed at the remaining three soldiers, gritted his teeth and said, "Whoever dares to insult Wang Zhuangyuan will die" said another clip of the horse's belly, and rushed towards the three of them.

The three soldiers also rolled out of the pile of dead people, and the reaction was fast, they rolled on the spot and dodged, Li Dingguo held a short blade in his hand, and the pikemen played against each other, and it was a pair of three, it was difficult to take advantage, one inch was short and one inch was dangerous, and it had to be pasted and entangled together to have a chance of winning.

Li Dingguo turned over and dismounted, and when the Sanshun soldiers saw this, they stabbed them with their guns.

Yes! With a scream, Li Dingguo shrank back, dodged three spears, squatted on the ground, and the short sword in his hand pierced into the lower abdomen of a Shun soldier, pulled horizontally, and all kinds of fragments poured out, and the painful Shun soldier screamed and fell on Li Dingguo.

The other two were shocked, seeing that the situation was not good, they hurriedly set their eyes on Yun Niang and the others, probably wanting to catch someone as a hostage, Yun Niang was the closest, and they turned around to arrest it.

Yun Niang was so frightened that she turned around and ran, Yun Niang's mother's nurse who was lying on Yun Niang's father's corpse crying was heartbroken, rushed over quickly, and grabbed a soldier, but she didn't expect a spear to drill out of her chest, and blood splashed Yun Niang's body.

"Mother!" Yun Niang screamed and fainted in the arms of the Queen Mother.

"Yun Niang" Queen Mother helped Yun Niang to the ground.

Mrs. Wang hurriedly blocked Yun Niang behind her, "You bandits"

Li Dingguo also got rid of the corpse of the Shun soldier at this time, quickly got up, and rushed to the back of a Shun soldier in a few steps, his left hand buckled the door in front of him, and the short sword in his right hand was pulled on his neck, and the blood gushed like a spring, so frightened that the other person's face was pale and he ran away, and he didn't run a few feet away, Li Dingguo picked up the spear on the ground and threw it at him.

Yes! Even people with guns were nailed to the ground.

All this happened too fast, the Shun army at the city gate didn't see what was going on, and the six Shun soldiers had all been killed, and then suddenly, together with the dozens of people on the city, screamed and rushed towards this side.

Li Dingguo heard the queen mother just call Yun Niang, and hurriedly ran over and asked, "She is Yun Niang?" Do you know Wang Zhuangyuan? ”

"I'm a mother"

"Old lady, go, come with me, I am sent by General Wang to pick you up" Picking up the unconscious Yun Niang, pulling up the old lady Wang, the three of them disappeared into the deep grass outside Huaining City.

rushed over to find a circle of Shun soldiers who were looking for them to no avail, and in a fit of anger, they cut the bodies of Yun Niang's parents, who had been dead for a long time, into pulp.

Half an hour later, Du Ming and the city defenders, who learned the news, ordered the entire city to go out of the city to search for them, but it was too late.