"The peace treaty has been sent by the Ship Division, I hope it will not be as unlucky as the Japanese people, and when they go to sea, they will run into the ships of the Xia Kingdom."

"That boatload of Japanese people is dead, just for us to find out that the ships of the Xia Kingdom are coming towards Shengkang's Ming Port."

"It's a pity that we can't send sea ships to the Huaijiang River to cut off the baggage of the soldiers and horses of the Xia Kingdom."

In the middle hall, the lights flickered, and the melted wax water hung in an irregular shape in the middle of the candle flame and fell down.

"Just in case, it's better for us to move our family out of Shengkang!"

Xiao Zhiyi said the words that he was holding back in his heart, and when he heard that Xia Guo's warship was only a few dozen miles away from Ming Port, he had a hint of retreat.

"Xiao Shilang is not unreasonable, the ships of the Japanese people are rushing over, I don't know what time it is." Taiwei Fan Li agreed with his words, nodded, and looked at Gu Chongwen in the middle, although the latter's panicked mood had calmed down, his heart was still heavy.

The war is fought at the door of the house, and it is hundreds of miles away, which are two completely different feelings, Gu Chongwen hesitated for a while, did not answer the other party's words, but simply said.

"It is too dangerous for women and children to stay in the capital, and it will not make a difference to keep them here. Just follow the words of the waiter, let the family leave the capital first, but you can only go quietly, don't let the people know. ”

Taiwei Fan Li saw that he accepted such a suggestion, and finally a smile appeared on his face, "It is really impossible to let the people know, it is better to choose it in the middle of the night, I can use the power in my hands to let the generals of the city open the door quietly." ”

The three of them looked at each other around the table and smiled understandingly.

Soon after, the banquet dispersed, and the three of them discussed the matter, and then talked to their old wife in detail, and then informed the agreed time, and let the family start preparations for evacuation.

There is no impermeable wall in the world, especially in the courtyard of the deep house where there are many people, knowing that they want to evacuate the capital, the servants in the three families reveal each other when they rest, or maybe the son-in-law of the family is reluctant to let go of the prosperity of the capital, and before he leaves, he finally goes to his favorite Qinglou, and after getting drunk, he inadvertently reveals the words to the prostitutes he knows.

By the next day, the news had been circulating secretly in the morning, and by the afternoon, believe it or not, some people had begun to pack their bags and drag their families out of the city.

For a time, hundreds of streets were full of people who had come out of their homes, looking panicked, their steps hurried, and all kinds of shouts were noisy and intertwined.

Gu Chongwen, who heard the news, smashed the teacup in the study, and hurriedly sent someone to inform Fan Li, as well as several other big clans, to help dissuade the people.

In less than half an hour, there were already officials on horseback, and officials carrying water and fire sticks took to the streets.

“…… Folks, don't go, all the rumors outside are rumors, rumors spread by the secret agents of the Xia people, mess with our position, go home quickly, believe in Your Majesty, believe that the ministers of civil and military affairs will definitely drive the soldiers and horses of the Xia State out of the Huaijiang River.

It's too dangerous for you to go out of the city like this, do you know that there are a lot of rogues outside, just waiting for you, go home quickly, don't worry about Xia Guo calling......"

No matter how the officials shouted in the crowd, the crowd that passed through the four gates was largely unmoved.

The man pushes a wheelbarrow to carry his young children and valuable things at home; There is a strong filial son who walks on the pile of people with his old mother on his back; There were also women carrying baskets with the rations of the whole family, and they squeezed them forward. The old man on crutches raised his crutches and swung them at the messenger who was helping him back.

The soap officer, who had been beaten in the head, was immediately furious, stretched out his hand and pushed, pushing the old man to the ground, and the old man's son-in-law rushed from the front, clenched his fist and struck at the officer.

"You dare to beat my father-in-law?! If I don't beat you, my mother-in-law can beat me to death!" If you officials want to run, you don't want to let us ordinary people run, and today you are putting everyone in prison! ”

The nearby soap officer came to stop the man, and the man's mother-in-law, who was broad, saw that her man was at a loss, and rushed up like a tigress, and threw the two soap officers to the ground, and she herself was hit on the head with a stick in the hands of the fallen soap officer, and her head was covered with blood.

"The official messenger has killed someone!"

The old man trembled and screamed in the crowd, and some of the people nearby knew their family and came over to help with their sleeves, and the scene suddenly became even more chaotic.

This moment of conflict attracted more errand soldiers, affecting the crowd out of the city, greater chaos set off, people died in the fighting, there were indignant Jianghu people, vented and ignited the dry wood piled up nearby, the wind blew, the fire helped the wind, the fire rushed up, the straw shed of firewood was burned, like a huge pillar of fire, extending more houses nearby.

Such a chaotic situation is only a small corner in the huge city, but the people nearby are frightened when they look at the black smoke and burning flames that are soaring into the sky, and the pace of escape becomes faster.

Knowing that the situation was difficult to end, Gu Chongwen and the others had to order the city gate to be blocked after breaking the first few teacups and porcelain bottles. However, this order was not carried out at all, and his family, as well as other gentry and clansmen, were already in the ranks of fleeing, and there were also some of them among the soldiers and horses defending the city, and they did not see it when they received the order, but still opened the gates of the city to let the people and the people of the great families among the people go out.

Looking down from the sky, the four gates of the Shengkang capital city to the southeast and northwest directions are all long dragons out of the city extending the official road.

Under the hot skylight, there are all kinds of figures, pedestrians with paper umbrellas and burdens, donkey carts carrying mothers-in-law, green forest heroes with swords on their backs, and luxurious carriages surrounded by maids' guards.

The old man, who couldn't stand the scorching heat, sat under the tree on the side of the road, looking at the passing crowd with cloudy eyes, looking for traces of his family, and occasionally someone shouted: "Hurry up, the government wants to arrest us and go back to defend the city!" ”

The woman holding the child began to sob, and the child in her arms was frightened by this sound and cried in the mother's arms.

With the fermentation of time, the villages near the capital gradually became peasants, who also dragged their families out of the village, followed the crowd, and stayed away from the capital.

In the summer daylight, all the ferry ports along the way are overcrowded, and in the undulating waves, all the boats are constantly passing back and forth, which still seems insufficient.

On August 29, a huge naval battle was about to break out a few miles away from the port of Wu Guoming.

"This letter, hehe......"

On the undulating sea, the eight sea ships that anchored and stopped, in a team of two, lined up in a zigzag, on the flagship headed by the right, the soldiers were busy going up and down on the deck, and Zhou Yu, who had been sleeping for more than an hour, came out of the shipbuilding, still holding the letter handed to him by Gan Ning, which was intercepted from the arms of the dead widow.

"Collusion with foreigners?"

Yuwen Chengdu, who was dressed in chain gold armor, stepped aside, took the letter, and walked to the top of the ship with the governor of the Eastern Wu Navy at the end of the Han Dynasty, he glanced at the contents of the letter, and grinned with a sneer.

"It's still such a diminutive alien islander."

He had seen the corpse of the widow yesterday, with strange robes, short stature, not to be chest height, and disgusting bald buns, and at a glance, he kicked the corpse into the sea to feed the fish.

"Fortunately, it was intercepted, otherwise these barbarians would have been entangled and delayed our time to take Shengkang directly." Zhou Yu looked ahead, and in the distance were more than a dozen huge warships, slowly moving and setting up a formation.

Yizhou, where Shengkang is located, has three military ports, and the original plan was for the Japanese to entangle the sea ships that might go south from the Xia Kingdom, and the seventeen sea ships docked in the military ports entered the Huai River and joined the naval army there, intercepting the river and blocking the two armies of the Xia State from entering the country.

But now, the warships of the Xia Kingdom came earlier than expected, and the commander of this warship, Zhao Kuian, had to lead the fleet to meet the enemy head-on.

He looked at the eight Xia Kingdom warships in the distance, and there was indescribable excitement in his heart, two months ago, the four warships under his command were defeated by the other party, and this time, he would personally lead and fight with the other party.

In the distance, on the flagship of the Xia Kingdom, Zhou Yu watched the fleet of the Wu Kingdom on the opposite side gradually take shape, and there was a serious and serious look in his eyes.

"The generals of Wu's navy are not all waste." He raised his hand, and the herald next to him stepped forward, waving the flag and waving the flag.

On the eight ships, Elsa, Barry, the leader of the Vitna pirates, and Ganning commanded the ship, escorting the ships, and began to disperse to the left and right, entering a state of engagement.

Yuwen Chengdu watched the battle on the sea with interest, which was completely different from the fight on land, he was learning while holding a few pieces of paper and looking there.

This is the military information sent over by land, not that Guan Yu wants to report to Zhou Yu what the situation is there, or let him give any orders, but to let Zhou Yu's fleet know the progress of the war on the Yaozhou side, so as to grasp the accurate timing and enter Shengkang.

"Guan Junhou held the waterway, and Zhang Fei led 10,000 Yizhou troops and Zhang Liao's merging state army to start attacking the city in Yaozhou." Yuwen Chengdu said in a somewhat envious tone, and Zhou Yu on the side smiled and did not speak.

After a while, he spoke softly: "The battle at sea is the key to determining the outcome of this war. ”

"Then I'll take a good look at how the Zhou Dudu at the end of the Han Dynasty dominated the sea and defeated the Wu naval army in one fell swoop." Yuwen Chengdu also laughed, "But when I hear Zhou Yu beating Wu Guo, it's always a little awkward, hahaha!" ”

"Who said no, I suspect that it was His Majesty's intention, hehe!"

The sea breeze was blowing the cloak, hunting and flying in the wind, Zhou Yu looked at the several Wu warships heading towards this side in the distance, he narrowed his eyes, and whispered to the herald beside him.

"Let Gan Ning, and that red-haired female barbarian go up and fight a dozen. In addition, let the Venat barbarians change their course, detour the flanks, and make a feint to attack the rear of the Wu Kingdom! ”

He raised his hand and waved.

"Troops!"

(End of chapter)