After the general's wife was reborn, everyone knelt down and begged her for mercy.

Everyone was startled. Although the sound felt far away, it was getting closer and faster. Standing at a high place, one could even see a mass of black people running towards this side quickly.

"Master Marquis, the dike has burst upstream." Someone rushed over, shouting with his inner strength as he ran.

"Leave quickly." Jiang Yan shouted.

As soon as everyone heard this, they didn't care about anything and got up and started to hurry. Although they were far away from there, if the flood really came down, the area submerged could not be estimated. Therefore, the farther away, the safer it would be.

There were more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians in total. The team was huge and the pull was very long. However, they had already trekked hard for most of the night, and the distance was not close anymore. Especially as they went north, the terrain became higher and higher. Of course, when the black flood came rushing in, it was no longer that big here.

Only the last soldiers were flooded, but the water level barely reached their ankles and quickly receded.

At this time, the most fortunate people are the people. If they don't follow, they will definitely be washed away by the flood without a trace. This is life-saving.

So, I don't know who started it, but suddenly the people knelt down and shouted "Zhen Guohou", even louder than the sound of the flood.

Li Qi and the others were a little excited and shouted too.

"Okay, it's important to hurry up and get to Cangzhou as soon as possible." Jiang Yan raised his hand to signal.

The shouts of the crowd stopped, and then they continued on their way. At this time, they seemed to be more energetic. After all, they would die if they didn't run, and now with the Marquis of Zhen Guo, anyone who could run out would have a way to live. .

At this time, the city of Nanyang was already flooded with ocean, and those people who did not follow felt regretful. Of course, many people were washed away before they had time to regret.

Although Xia Chunlin reacted later, it was a long time late after all. Therefore, during the evacuation, many soldiers were involved in the flood. When they finally retreated to a safe area, they found that More than half of the 200,000-strong army that had been assembled had been lost.

"Damn it." Xia Chunlin chopped down a tree on the roadside with an angry palm.

"Okay, there's no point in going crazy now." Li Zhou also looked sad, "Let's go back to Xinyang first, so that we can keep the green hills and don't have to worry about running out of firewood."

Fortunately, there were no floods in Xinyang, otherwise, they would really become bandits.

Xia Chunlin knew that the best way at this time was to go back, but he was really unwilling to do so. The hard work of planning for more than half a year was all in vain.

"That's fine. The Yangtze River is the boundary. In the future, we can unify the entire south of the Yangtze River and set up another stove." Li Zhou didn't feel so uncomfortable. "When we have the opportunity, we can cross the river again."

So, the Qing side army who had been fighting for half a year on the side of Qing Jun returned to the starting point. However, when they left, they were high-spirited and felt that they would definitely be able to conquer Huanglong. However, when they came back, they were disgraced, and many of them even lost their relatives.

There was even a saying among the people that the Marquis of Xinyang and the eldest prince were acting rebelliously. They were simply not justified in their name and words, so they offended God, and the flood was the punishment for rebellion.

When Xia Chunlin found out, he was very angry and ordered the heads of several communicators to be chopped off. After that, although everyone did not dare to speak openly, privately the spread became even more powerful, and even affected the Hongmei Sect, because the Hongmei Sect The Sect supports the Qing emperor, but now because of heavy losses and useless efforts, everyone is beginning to doubt the rationality of the Hongmei Sect.

Jiang Yan had already led everyone outside Cangzhou City. He did not ask to enter the city rashly. Instead, he set up camp outside the city and prepared a refugee area.

After that, people were sent into the city to negotiate with the guards of Cangzhou City. Although there was heavy rain here in Cangzhou City, it did not cause floods. Therefore, it was appropriate for the victims of Nanyang City to come and seek help. The guard of Cangzhou City is named Meng Bozhao, and the county magistrate is named Song Kuang. The two are brothers-in-law. They are both selfish and greedy, but also cautious.

In recent years, Cangzhou has been almost controlled by the two of them.

At this time, Jiang Yan sent people to ask them to provide disaster relief and resettle the victims. Together, the two of them had to do it. After all, the person outside was Jiang Yan, but it couldn't be in vain. It must be beneficial.

Therefore, when Li Wu came to inform them, they did not refuse, but they did not make arrangements immediately. Instead, they kept crying about poverty and talking about difficulties.

Jiang Yan was so angry that he laughed and had no choice but to enter the city in person.

Meng Bozhao and Song Kuang received him attentively, but then they still cried about poverty.

Jiang Yan didn't listen to this at all, and just glanced at the two of them lightly: "Stop talking so much, give me a precise word now, can I do it?"

"This..." After the two of them looked at each other, they didn't know how to answer.

"I'll give you one last chance, whether you can or not."

"Master Marquis, it's not that we can't, but that we really have difficulties." Meng Bozhao twitched the corners of his mouth. He was also a military general and put his hand on the saber on his waist. "I also have 30,000 garrison troops to feed here. ,so……"

"Is this impossible?"

Meng Bozhao twitched the corner of his mouth.

"Then there's nothing more to say." Jiang Yan stood up and walked out, "Let's do it."

Then, before Meng Bozhao could react, the sword in Li Wu's hand had already been unsheathed, and then he heard a thud, and the tall body fell directly to the ground, his eyes widened, only his neck Blood splattered everywhere.

This is a sword sealing the throat.

Song Kuang trembled with fright. When Li Wu looked at him, he knelt down and said, "Master Hou, please forgive me. I'm a capable official. I promise to do a good job."

Li Wu put away the sword directly: "Then do it well."

Soon, the garrison of Cangzhou City was taken over by Jiang Yan, and Song Kuang, who had survived, did not dare to make a move, and began to actively resettle the victims, and would report to Jiang Yan all the time.

With the help of Cangzhou City, more than 30,000 victims were quickly resettled and provided with hot rice porridge.

However, Song Kuang did not dare to relax at all, because he had embezzled a lot of food in the granary, and the actual survival in it did not match the amount. He knew that he could not hide it, so he simply told the truth. Fortunately, Jiang Yan Instead of killing him directly, we asked him to give up his merits and give him a chance to live.

In the capital, Ning Ruyan felt that every day was like a year. Because of the flood, she could not receive letters from Xinyang, but luckily Jiang Yan had a letter delivered. (End of chapter)