Chapter 42 The Dragon Returns to the Sea
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It was not easy for Yuan Qi to send someone to find Zhu Yicheng at this time. Now there are chaotic outside Hangzhou city, with people running and running everywhere. Not to mention whether the sent people can come back to the camp to find Zhu Yicheng, even if they arrive, it will be useless.
When the chaos arose, Zhu Yicheng ran away as soon as possible. Of course, he didn't run alone. There were several people with him. In addition to Li Juan'er, there were five people who were attracted to him. They were originally six, but unfortunately the other person could not meet in time during the chaos. Now he doesn't know where he went.
Since he ran away, Zhu Yicheng would certainly not wear the conspicuous prince's robe anymore. He and Li Juan'er both changed into ordinary clothes and wore a melon-skin hat on his head, which was the kind of landlord melon-skin hat that he often saw in movies. In order not to attract attention, he didn't bring anything except a small bag with him. He even made some mud from the ground and painted his face black. He lowered his head and mixed in the crowd, even if Yuan Qi couldn't recognize him in person.
After leaving the camp, Zhu Yicheng and the others had no better choice. They just followed the crowded people. After running for a while, the front became chaotic. He heard that the Qing army was coming from the front. Zhu Yicheng and others quickly changed directions and didn't know how far they had run. They only heard shouts of killing coming from a distance. They were sometimes north, sometimes west, and sometimes south, and were still lucky. When they ran until dark, they stopped in a forest and stopped.
"Water... is there water?" As he gasped, Zhu Yicheng sat on the ground with his butt, leaning against the tree trunk, his head covered in sweat.
"I have water here, Your Highness, please..." Li Juaner took off the water hyacinth on her back and handed it over. Zhu Yicheng took a big gulp and drank it, poured half of the gourd water before breathing a sigh of relief.
"Don't call yourself a slave anymore, and don't call me any more Your Highness." Although Zhu Yicheng, who escaped from the sky, was tired and exhausted, he was in a happy mood. At this time, he no longer called himself a lonely person. This kind of title rule was specifically told by Zhou Zhongliang at the beginning. Zhu Yicheng is the real self now.
"Slave..." As soon as Li Juaner spoke, she saw Zhu Yicheng staring at her eyes and quickly changed her mouth: "I...I understand..."
"I'll call me Zhu in the future... No, I'd better call me Brother Hong." Zhu Yicheng said this. In order to avoid trouble, Zhu Yicheng decided to give him a pseudonym. Zhu's close meaning is Hong, and Hong's close pronunciation is Hong. As for the name, just simply call the word Qiang. Hong Qiang, it's pretty good to read.
This is somewhat similar to the origin of the Hongmen. In order to avoid suspicion, the Hongmen also found itself as the external name for the organization. This origin is somewhat similar.
It was already dark, the moonlight today was not very good, and the wilderness was even darker and could not see clearly. Zhu Yicheng and the others were worried that it would attract attention and dare not make a fire. They just used the dry food they carried to make a simple deal, and then they each rested on the trunks.
At this moment, Zhang Yunyi's water and land army had completely captured Yuan Qi's rebel army headquarters. Hundreds of thousands of rebel troops were wiped out in one day. Yuan Qi broke through the encirclement under Gao Jin's cover and fled north. In addition to leaving some of his troops to join the Hangzhou defenders and gathered the prisoners, Zhang Yunyi continued to chase with the main force. At this point, the Hangzhou war officially came to an end.
From the beginning to the end of the Hangzhou War, half of the Hangzhou City was destroyed in ruins. The Hangzhou defenders and young men suffered more than 16,000 casualties, and the rebels suffered even greater casualties. If it were not counted on the number of Zhang Yunyi breaking the formation on the last day, the rebels lost more than 50,000 lives in Hangzhou City.
Although Zhang Yunyi's troops were strong and his command was appropriate, there were too many rebel soldiers after all. In addition, the resistance of Yuan Qi and Gao Jin attracted Zhang Yunyi's attention. It was inevitable that he would be a little missed when facing the rebel soldiers all over the mountains. But Zhang Yunyi didn't know that Zhu Yicheng was not with Yuan Qi and ran away from the beginning of the chaos, so Zhu Yicheng escaped by chance.
In the early morning, the sky gradually became brighter, and Zhu Yicheng, who was insecure, woke up quickly. He stood up and prepared to move his body, but when he saw clearly the scene in the forest, he was stunned.
Last night, Zhu Yicheng, who escaped, did not notice that many people were following them, but now it seems that hundreds of people were resting around them for a night. Seeing this scene, Zhu Yicheng was stunned at first, then laughed and cried.
According to his intention, the fewer people escape, the better. Moreover, the rebellion is too dangerous. It is better to be a commoner in the future, or find an opportunity to come overseas.
But he forgot that people have herd mentality. Yesterday, most people were panicked. Seeing Zhu Yicheng and the others fled along the way, many people followed them all the way. At night, Zhu Yicheng told them not to burn the fire, and they followed them silently. It was not until dawn that there were more people.
"Your Highness..." Seeing Zhu Yicheng get up, a man who defected to him came forward to pay his respects to him, but as soon as his words were said, he quickly reacted and changed his words: "Master Hong, where are we going next?"
"Why are there so many people?" Zhu Yicheng answered the question irrelevantly and frowned at the crowd in the forest.
The other party shook his head and said he didn't know. Zhu Yicheng thought for a while and said, "Do you know where this is?"
"This, let me find someone to ask for information."
"Go and go back quickly, be careful not to let people discover it."
"yes!"
The other party held his fists and left. After Zhu Yicheng simply finished breakfast, the man rushed back and reported to Zhu Yicheng that they were in a forest near Yongchang.
"Yongchang?" There are too many Chinese place names called Yongchang. Although Zhu Yicheng is from Zhejiang, he can't remember where Yongchang is. After careful inquiry, he realized that Yongchang is a small town in the southwest of Hangzhou. Its north is Lin'an and Tonglu is to the south.
After roughly passing the map in my mind, Zhu Yicheng figured out where he was. Now they are not far from Hangzhou, so they can't stay in this place for a long time, so they still have to leave immediately.
As for where to go, Zhu Yicheng thought about a place for a while. Now, it is definitely not possible to go to Hangzhou in the east. If you don’t have a boat to the south, you can’t cross the river. If you go to the north, you can’t even go to Luo. He can only continue to go west, and you can’t go west directly. A place name jumped out of Zhu Yicheng’s mind, that is, a place further southwest of Tonglu - Wulong Mountain.
Wulong Mountain is close to Jiande and is located in Jiangbei. It is a vast mountainous land. Later generations in Zhejiang are more famous Fuchunjiang Reservoir. Zhu Yicheng once went there with his classmates and knew the situation there. There are many mountains and forests and few people. Not to mention a year or two, no one will know about it even if he hides for a lifetime.
After confirming the direction of progress, Zhu Yicheng did not delay and asked everyone to set off immediately. Who would have thought that when they were about to leave, the rebels who followed each other stood up and silently followed Zhu Yicheng and others to move forward together...
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