Chapter 41: Tomorrow Will Be Better
But things didn't go as smoothly as Xiao Ming thought, first of all, Hangzhou was unstable, Hangzhou City had already been exchanged twice, for this largest city in the southeast, the Demon Sect rebels were determined to win, originally according to the historical progress, this situation would not have happened, but the odd number appeared on Xiao Ming.
Originally, Fang La was in the second year of Xuanhe in the beginning of October nine Qingxi uprising, on the first day of November, the righteous army occupied the northwest of Qingxi Bangyuan Cave steep mountain, put officials, generals, establish political power, on the 22nd, the righteous army with a feint retreat to lure the ambush, in the northwest of Qingxi Xikeng, ambush all annihilated Cai, Yan Suobu. Following the victory and eastward advance, conquering Qingxi and approaching Muzhou, the prefect Zhang Huiyan abandoned the city and fled.
On the second day of the first month of December, Fang La led 20,000 people into Muzhou, killed corrupt officials, opened a warehouse to help the poor, and divided troops to occupy Fenshui, Tonglu, Shouchang, Sui'an and other counties, and then divided the east and west roads to the north, the east road marched to Hangzhou, and the west road attacked Shezhou (author's note: this is in Anhui Province) On the 20th, the Shezhou guard general Guo Shizhong led the army to fight, and was wiped out, and Maoli was also killed by the people on behalf of Zhizhou, and the county officials of Wuyuan (now Qinghua in the northwest of Wuyuan, Jiangxi Province), Qimen, Jixi (belonging to Anhui) and other counties fled when they heard the news.
Fang La then sent an army to the north to attack Ningguo and Xuancheng (belonging to Anhui), and led the main force to move to the East Road, conquering Xincheng (southwest of Fuyang, Zhejiang Province) and Fuyang, and approaching Hangzhou, while Lu Shixiang led the West Route Army to continue to attack Shezhou.
But what the ghost makes the god worse is that due to the appearance of Xiao Ming, the destroyer of history, Hangzhou's status has changed in the eyes of the demon rebels, and more attention has been paid to it, and Lu Shixiang personally asked for orders to attack Hangzhou, which may be the so-called butterfly wing effect, and the spatial and temporal dimensions of history have been changed.
Originally, on December 28, the rebels began to attack the city, the prefect Zhao Ting fled first in fear of the battle, in the early morning of the 29th, Fang La led the crowd to break through the city of Hangzhou, killing Chen Jian, the envoy of the two Zhejiang systems, and Zhao Yue, the rebels took Hangzhou and set fire to it for six days, killing countless people, and a large amount of finance and food cloth were robbed, but it became Lu Shixiang to attack Hangzhou in advance, relying on the Youming army to break the city in the early morning of the 24th, and withdrew from Hangzhou on the 27th.
The rebels are not without gains, the city of Hangzhou has been robbed for three days, the treasury has countless money and grain, and a large part of it has been transported out of the city, and Fang La's West Road army has been helped by the Huzhou Mingjiao branch Tan Shisheng, along the waters of Taihu Lake has reached the Hangzhou area, the entire rebel army is in one place, a total of more than 100,000 troops to threaten Hangzhou.
The situation is still very critical, the Richanglong personnel left behind in Hangzhou, several times a day fast horses to deliver information, although the city of Hangzhou is now back in the hands of the official army, but the number of officers and soldiers is still insufficient, the two Zhejiang Road to make Chen Hengbo control the soldiers and horses, only know how to fight in the wilderness, but have no experience in defending the city.
After careful consideration, the official army decided to abandon Hangzhou and withdraw troops to Xiuzhou (Jiaxing) to wait for reinforcements, the news came, everyone was worried, Hangzhou City is not guaranteed, then Qiantang County is also difficult to preserve, unless you go north to Jiangning Mansion, or south to Wuzhou (now Jinhua, Zhejiang), but this is more difficult, for Gu's refinery and Richanglong firm, the rebels will definitely not let go, this can be thought of with their toes, so they can't get along with the rebels at all.
As a result of everyone's deliberations, going north to Xiuzhou, Richanglong still had a weaving factory base in Xiuzhou, which was run by a big manager under Jie Zhicong, and the personnel of Gu's refinery and iron factory also followed.
In the past two days, Xiao Ming and they have all been arranging such things, all the craftsmen and Huwei and their families will evacuate first, the machinery and equipment can be taken away, and the burial of those that cannot be taken away, the blast furnace and the shed plant, there is no way, just leave a few old and weak to watch, as long as someone is there, these things will be there, although Xiao Ming is reluctant to make a trade-off.
Richanglong had a lot of wealth, but the big shopkeeper Su Cai'er was very wise, and scattered all the loom equipment to the homes of the weavers and workers, leaving some silver for each person, and only the important technical craftsmen and the management of the firm went to Xiuzhou, and the martial artists and family members of the nursing home escorted them along the way.
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On a small hillside in the north of Hangzhou, Su Caier and Xiao Ming stood together, Shen Bei'er and Su Bi and others had already left Hangzhou first, Su Caier insisted on evacuating with the rest of the people, but the remaining personnel were most of the personnel from the refinery and iron factory, Xiao Ming was also among these people, the officials and soldiers and the people of Hangzhou also left together, and the entire official road was crowded with people.
"it! Leave those ducks out of the way, it will be faster."
A Mao Niang said: "I raised it so well, I can't bear it" After speaking, she began to wipe her tears.
There was also a noise on the side, and the people were noisy calling for their children and daughters, and from time to time some children fell and cried bitterly.
"Xiao Nan, Xiao Douzi, Mao Tou, his father, Mu Niang......!" All kinds of cries are endless.
The official army withdrew from the city of Hangzhou, and the rebels immediately occupied Hangzhou, and a large number of people in the city also withdrew.
The people who thought that Hangzhou had recovered and rushed back began to flee again, and it was the habit of most people to be obedient, and the bloody nature of the Han people had been polished by the military weakness of the Song Dynasty. The constant civil strife hastened the decline of the country, and Xiao Ming already roughly understood the essence of the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty!
"Alas!" Xiao Ming sighed, in the troubled times, the heroes and heroes should be in the troubled times, as an individual, even if he is a traverser, he has the knowledge and insight that the ancestors cannot match, he can't survive if he is not strong, and the strong will inevitably kill and slaughter, these Xiao Ming don't like it, and he is not such a person, can he find a better way? Xiao Ming thought of the word "interests" that he had told Gongsun Sheng.
That's right, it's interests, some people are busy for interests, some people kill people and set fires for interests, some people calculate for interests, and some people sell their souls for interests, and the weakness of human nature lies in this, the same in ancient and modern times! The flaunting of morality is not as good as the temptation of interests, wealth, power, fame, are all interests, how can there be any loyal and loyal people in the world, it depends on the temptation you give is not in place, the temptation is there, these people can betray anything, the development of human society must be driven by interests, Xiao Ming's deep understanding of history and philosophy, from books directly to reality, is now the most profound and thorough.
Secretly clenched his fists, feeling the surging energy in his body, Xiao Ming secretly made up his mind, "If I can't do better in such an ancient society, then I will be a failure when I return to modern society, then what should I do when I go back?" ”
Su Cai'er also sighed faintly on the side, and looked at Xiao Ming with a little confused eyes.
"Will we ever come back?" She said.
Xiao Ming looked at this beautiful girl and smiled lightly: "Reluctant? We will be back soon."
"Really? You're not going to lie to me, are you? ”
Xiao Ming said: "Believe me, Hangzhou's tomorrow will be better, and all because we want to come back, its beauty is because of us, it is we who will make it more beautiful and moving"
Su Caier was deeply moved by Xiao Ming's words, the girl's heart may understand a deeper meaning, she just smiled, she chose to believe Xiao Ming, believe in the thin man in front of her who brushed her hair in the haze.
Richang Longcai is strong, all the personnel evacuated are carriages and horses, plus the personnel of the Gu refinery and the iron factory, soon rushed to the front of the team, the carriage drove by, the people gave way, everyone on the road was hungry to eat some dry food, drink some water, it was still early, everyone wanted to rush more, the area west of the official road near Lin'an County had been occupied by the rebels, and the road was not safe.
The crowd had traveled less than thirty miles, and the terrain in front of them was not very flat, and hills and dense woods appeared, and suddenly there was a commotion in the ranks in front of them, and many people ran back crying and shouting.
The Iron Factory Tiger Guard and the Richang Takashi Warrior who served as guards reported that the Demon Sect rebels, numbering in thousands, had come out of the woods to the west, surrounded the pipeline, and were robbing the people.
Richanglong's carriages and horses all stopped immediately, and now all the dispatching and commanding of this team are under the command of Xiao Ming, Xiao Ming led people up the hillside to observe, only to see that two miles ahead, there was a group of rebels who did not carry flags, blocked on the pipeline, and there were cavalry running on both sides, chasing the fleeing people.
Xiao Ming waved his hand to Luo Wen, Luo Wen immediately began to arrange, all the family members and important cargo vehicles were immediately concentrated, a circle of carriages was encircled outside, the horses were untied, the empty cars were knocked down, the tiger guards and all the martial artists were all cowered inside, and the black god crossbows were all wound up and prepared, ready to defend themselves.
Xiao Ming and the others were still standing on the hillside to observe, the people on the official road had already run away, and Xiao Ming and their team were left alone on the road, and the carriage in a circle was like a conspicuous target, and the rebels soon found out and were gathering the team to slowly approach.
The distance between the other party is getting closer and closer, the tiger guards are waiting quietly, no order is not allowed to attack, this team of tiger guards has less than five hundred, plus the two hundred martial artists of Richanglong, the total number is less than seven hundred, there are no long weapons, only bows and crossbows and swords, but it does not prevent them from daring to confront the opponent's cavalry.
At this time, a sharp whistle suddenly sounded from the hillside on the right, and then rushed down a group of officers and soldiers with the banner of Song Zi, the number was not too many, a young general in white robe and white armor stood on the hillside on horseback, pointed the silver spear in his hand downward, and the dense bow and arrow shot in the direction of the rebels.
The rebels who were advancing on foot were suddenly shot down, so they retreated, the rebels found that there were officers and soldiers appeared, not only did not panic, but were extremely excited, the cavalry on both sides suddenly began to accelerate towards the officers and soldiers, and the Song army commanded by the white-robed general was all some infantry, although the number was two battalions, but the infantry could not beat the cavalry This is the general law of the battlefield in this era, although the rebels only have a few hundred cavalry, but once they charge, the infantry will be quickly dispersed, and the cavalry can be killed at will.
The fiasco is inevitable, Xiao Ming doesn't dare to count on these officers and soldiers, but if he doesn't see them being killed, what else can he do? If you can't take care of yourself, how can you take care of others?
The "rumbling" of horses' hooves has already sounded, and the cavalry has already begun to charge......!
This story is purely fictional, and if there are similarities, it will be a great honor! *************