At the foot of Jiangyin City, Boluo and Liu Liangzuo were furious and did not mention it.

At this time, Zhao Ming and his party had already run dozens of miles. The sky was dawn and the air was fresh in the morning. There was a dense forest ahead.

Twenty people left the city, half of which were lost, and only ten people were left. Besides Zhao Ming, almost everyone was injured, but everyone was very excited.

Dozens of people emerged from the camps of tens of thousands of Qing troops, probably only in the storytelling novels. Everyone was filled with passion and unconsciously regarded themselves as heroes.

At this time, Zhao Ming ran to the woods, strangled the reins of the horse, and smiled at the sky.

Wang Deshun followed up panting, and after the passion, his hands and feet were trembling.

"Deshun, you are good." Zhao Ming praised.

"Xipi, are we rushing out?" Wang Deshun still couldn't believe the facts he saw.

"Run out!" Zhao Ming was quite contented and turned over and dismounted, "I said that I would definitely be able to fight out if I led you to break through."

Everyone dismounted and prepared to go into the forest to rest. At this moment, a group of soldiers wearing head hats or wrapped in head turbans suddenly jumped out of the woods, with bows and arrows and bird guns aimed at them.

The sudden change made Zhao Ming stunned. Wang Deshun and others behind him were stunned. They raised their hands slowly one by one. Wang Deshun beat his chest and stamped his feet, regretting in his heart, "I just knew that I couldn't believe in someone with the surname Zhao!"

The group is as quiet as death. It's over. No matter how capable you are, you will have to be beaten into a sieve once the bird gun is fired.

When Wang Deshun and others were desperate, Zhao Ming suddenly laughed loudly, and the person who came out of the forest also laughed.

Wang Deshun was confused, but when he looked closely, the hair of these people was still there, which meant that they were not the Qing army.

"Brother Bo'an! I've found you!" He Wencheng ran over excitedly when he saw Zhao Ming.

Zhao Ming grabbed his hand and was also a little excited, "Chang Geng, why are you here?"

He Wencheng sighed and said, "I originally followed the Tang King to central Zhejiang, but soon the Qing soldiers followed him and killed him. The Lu King led the country to the Qing Xiancheng, Ma Shiying, Fang Guoan fled south, and Hangzhou was also lost. I don't know where to go, so I went north to find you and Damu!"

After the demise of the Hongguang Dynasty, Ma Shiying fled to Hangzhou and supported the Lu King who had once fought for the throne with King Fu. His Highness, who was praised by the Donglin Party, became the governor of the Ming Dynasty and re-established the regime.

However, after Ma Shiying and others established the Lu Wang Jianguo regime, they did not actively prepare for war, but instead ceded land to seek peace from the Qing Dynasty, which was easily destroyed by the Qing Dynasty.

Of course, Lu Wang's regime has no money or soldiers, and Ma Shiying seeks peace, which is actually a rogue move. He has no cards to play at all.

Zhao Ming's face darkened, and Ma Shiying ran away again. Now, in addition to the Hongguang court, the Hangzhou Lu Wang was also responsible for the blame.

He Wencheng didn't notice Zhao Ming's expression. He looked at the people behind Zhao Ming and suddenly asked, "Where is Brother Damu? Brother Bo'an, where are you going?"

Zhao Ming came to his senses, "Da Mu was surrounded by Qing soldiers in Jiangyin City. I came out of Jiangyin and wanted to find reinforcements to rescue Jiangyin."

As he said that, Zhao Ming looked heavy, "Have you fallen into the hands of the Qing army now?"

He Wencheng nodded and whispered: "Hangzhou has fallen!"

At this time, Cheng Bi, who was behind Zhao Ming, frowned, "Central Zhejiang has fallen, where can we go to invite reinforcements?"

Zhao Ming and his group were silent for a while and their morale was low. However, He Wencheng said, "Brother Bo'an, I heard that there are rebel activities in Kunshan, Jiading and Taihu Lake. Maybe you can go there to see it!"

Zhao Ming heard the horse turn over and pulled the reins of the horse, "Let's go, let's go to Kunshan first, and then to Jiading!"

He Wencheng also turned over a horse and walked side by side with Zhao Ming. Zhao Ming asked many questions along the way. When he learned that the Qing soldiers were attacking Hangzhou, Fang Guoan and the Qing soldiers fought fiercely at the city. King Lu did not help the Ming army, but instead used wine and food to fill the army. He was so angry that the Ming soldiers retreated. King Lu then opened the city and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty.

After hearing He Wencheng's narration, Zhao Ming shook his head and was so angry that he was so angry that he would stab him to death on the road to the Qing Dynasty in the future.

Zhao Ming then asked about the whereabouts of the King of Tang again. He Wencheng shook his head. He was not sure that Hangzhou was lost too suddenly. Many officials in the city were unwilling to surrender to the Qing Dynasty. All the officials who came to Hangzhou from Nanjing were cheated by Lu Wang. The King of Tang was missing in the chaos.

After Chongzhen, the ones who had the most hope of restoring the Ming Dynasty were the King of Tang and King Lu.

The Tang Dynasty King Zhu Youjian was completely different from other vassal kings who were raised from high walls. He suffered from suffering since childhood and grew up in adversity. He knew the sufferings of the people and also cared about the world. His experience was not as good as that of Lufan, and those who were under captive vassal kings like Lufan.

When he was a child, he was not happy about his grandfather and was imprisoned for more than ten years, but he was keen on studying. After inheriting the title of King of Tang, he did not indulge in pleasure like other vassal kings. Instead, he helped the victims. When the Qing army entered the pass, he formed a group of troops to capture the king.

However, this time, he did not bring benefits to him. Instead, he was demoted to a commoner by Chongzhen and placed under house arrest on Fengyang High Wall. He was not released until the Hongguang period.

His experience made him completely different from other vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty. He was a vassal king with ambition to revive.

In the early days of King Lu, he was actually an ordinary vassal king, and he was not as distinctive as the Tang king. However, after more than ten years of hardship in the anti-Qing struggle, he finally became a vassal king with a heart of the world and a strong personality.

Most of the vassal kings in the late Ming Dynasty had no eyes, and only these two people could take on the task of carrying the flag.

After hearing He Wencheng's words, Zhao Ming couldn't help but feel a little worried, hoping not to change the trajectory of the Tang King and allow him to escape from Fujian and ascend the throne.

The fall of central Zhejiang further deteriorated the situation, making Zhao Ming and his party feel very heavy.

They walked along the path and arrived at Kunshan territory two days later, and found that all the villages along the way were empty.

The Jiangnan area is densely populated, and there should be some people in the village, but at this time it is even more broken than the north. It can be said that it is ten rooms and ten empty, and there is not even one ghost.

Everyone headed eastward, not only did the people not see the people in the wilderness, but even the Qing soldiers were not seen, which made Zhao Ming feel badly.

As everyone approached Kunshan County, a southeastern wind blew, and a foul stench was mixed in the air. The more everyone walked forward, the stench became stronger and stronger, almost making people vomit.

"What is that?" Wang Deshun suddenly shouted.

When Zhao Ming and others climbed over a raised high ground, the scene in front of them made Zhao Ming's face change drastically.

Under Kunshan City, there are small hills after hills, like the haystacks in the fields after autumn harvest. However, these small hills are not piled up with straw, they are all corpses.

Wang Deshun, He Wencheng and others, before they got close, they covered their mouths and vomited wildly.

Zhao Ming turned over and got off the horse, his face pale, looking at the piled corpses. Among them, there were old, young, male and female, all of which were highly decayed!

Zhao Ming walked to Kunshan City and looked inside through the open city gate. The streets in the city were covered with corpses, flies were flocking and maggots were hiking around the corpses.

Zhao Ming looked at the corpses all over the city, and knew that they were late, and his eyes were filled with tears. He remembered a poem, "The snowy white bones are everywhere on the battlefield, and the dead are still dead. I still want to surrender. I send a message to the pedestrians to keep their noses covered, and the living people are not as fragrant as the dead!"
Chapter completed!