In the evening, the light rain that was not very heavy before suddenly turned into a heavy rain.

Jiang Yan's mood suddenly became heavy, he originally wanted to go out of the city and sneak attack, he directly stopped his action, although Ning Ruyan only told him the approximate flood area, but here in Nanyang, it happens to be the necessary place for flood discharge, this place is very close to the Yangtze River, once the upstream bursts the embankment, then this side is bound to suffer a disaster.

"Master Hou, why did you stop?" Fu Junli was in charge of guarding the city, and he was originally going to send people out of the city before going up to the city tower, but before the city gate was opened, the team stopped.

"The rain is too heavy, and if it continues and the Yangtze River overflows, this place will inevitably be flooded." Jiang Yan's face was solemn, "You arranged for someone to inform the people that they must move out overnight." ”

"Huh?"

"Don't, hurry up, just withdraw to Cangzhou." Jiang Yan instantly made up his mind, "Give you two hours to inform everyone in the city, let's follow the team if you want to leave, and you don't have to be too reluctant to go." ”

"Yes." Although Fu Junli felt a little exaggerated, he still firmly obeyed the order.

The people of Nanyang City actually didn't sleep, because this side is in the south of the Yangtze River, the rain is frequent, every year in this season, they will pay attention to it, fortunately, in recent years, large-scale floods have not happened, so everyone's life is still quite stable.

Therefore, when the people of the yamen told everyone to evacuate, many people refused.

Of course, some people agreed, after all, this rain is indeed a bit evil.

But in the end, only about a third of the people packed their things and prepared to follow.

Fu Junli saw that this was not good, so he could only continue to mobilize: "After we leave, this Nanyang City will be an empty city, after all, it is impossible for the imperial court to put the army here to take risks, and when the time comes, it will also be a death, but everyone will leave with them, maybe there is still a way to live." ”

In the end, almost seventy percent of the inhabitants left with the army, while the remaining thirty percent did not leave anyway.

And Xia Chunlin's side has always sent a stall to investigate around Nanyang City, although it is raining heavily, but so many people acting together, it will naturally be noticed.

"Migrating?" Li Zhou frowned, "What is that Jiang Yan doing?" ”

Xia Chunlin frowned and groaned, and only looked up at the scout after a long time: "Do you say that the people are all leaving or only the army is leaving?" ”

"My subordinates saw that many people left Nanyang City with their families and went north."

Li Zhou couldn't help but laugh: "Could it be that he is going to abandon Nanyang City?" ”

"...... to the north," Xia Chunlin's fingers tapped lightly on the table, "Abandon the city?" How can it be? ”

"Why is that?" Li Zhou frowned, "If you evacuate the people, is it to set up an empty city plan?" ”

Xia Chunlin shook his head: "This matter...... Why is it so weird? He said to the scout, "Keep investigating, and keep reporting if there's anything going on." ”

The scout took orders.

It's just that after this scout went out, he didn't come back until dawn.

Everyone knows that if the scout doesn't come back at the specified time, it's basically a lot of bad luck.

I could only continue to send scouts out, but after several scouts went out, they did not come back.

"There's a deception in this." Xia Chunlin stood up suddenly.

"Hmm." Li Zhou also sensed that something was wrong, "What now?" Nanyang City, to fight or not to fight? After a pause, "Is it because there is not enough food and grass that you are evacuating?" ”

Xia Chunlin frowned, didn't speak, and made a decision for a long time to send someone to attack the city.

The rain was too heavy, not to mention the siege of the city, even the road was difficult, and although the officers and soldiers defending the city did not have a good sight, they only needed to throw stones and arrows from the city tower, which was relatively easy.

"Lord Wang, you can't attack the city, this will undoubtedly lose both, wait for the rain to stop." Li Zhou anxiously dissuaded.

Xia Chunlin also knew that this would not work, but he didn't know why, he just felt apprehensive in his heart, and always felt that something bad was going to happen, but at this time, looking at the fallen soldiers one by one, he could only give a retreat order.

At this time, the north gate is located.

Jiang Yan sat on horseback in a cloak and watched the soldiers escort the people out of the city in an orderly manner, and slowly moved away from Nanyang City.

"My lord, it's almost dawn, let's go."

"Have you all withdrawn?"

"Those who are willing to follow have withdrawn."

Jiang Yan glanced at Nanyang City and sighed slightly, it wasn't that he wanted to give up those people, he was really powerless, if they didn't leave, they couldn't carry them away, and they couldn't give up the lives of most of them for the sake of that small number of people, and then turned the horse's head: "Go." ”

The sky slowly brightened, and the rain seemed to light up.

After marching in the middle of the night, some people could no longer bear it, especially some old and weak women and children.

Jiang Yan asked these people to go to the car, but they haven't reached a safe place yet, and they can't stay for the time being.

Since the people came out, they would naturally follow the arrangement.

Finally, at noon, the rain completely stopped, and Jiang Yan ordered to rest.

Because this place happens to be a high ground, you can look at Nanyang Castle from afar.

"Shall we go?" An old woman cried and asked her child, "Can I come back?" ”

"Mother, I'll be back."

"But where can you go when you're gone?"

"That's right, the home is gone."

"Woo ......"

"There's no need for you to be so depressed." Fu Junli stood up and reassured loudly, "People move the living tree and move the dead, since our Hou Ye let us go, then we won't ignore everyone, and besides, this is to save everyone." ”

"Why don't you fight the rebels?" Some people questioned.

"yes, are you going to give it to the rebels?"

"The prince said that it was the Hou Ye who bewitched the emperor, so he turned the other ......" The man was covered in his mouth as soon as he said half of it.

"It's not that we don't fight, but that the flood is coming." Jiang Yan got up and told everyone with internal force, "This year's rain is too big, and the upstream dikes can't stop the flood, and Nanyang City will be flooded." ”

Everyone began to whisper, a little unconvinced.

Jiang Yan didn't explain too much, after all, he had sent people from the Ministry of Industry to investigate before, the upstream embankment had fallen into disrepair, even if he ordered the local yamen to reinforce, but the news that came back was not ideal, those people were still perfunctory, if the rain was small, they might have survived, but with such a heavy rain, it was impossible to survive.

Fortunately, most of the people came out.

"Master Hou, the rebels have entered Nanyang City." At this time, Li Qi rushed over.

"Keep on your way." Jiang Yan nodded.

However, just as everyone got up to clean up, suddenly there was a rumbling sound in the distance. (End of chapter)