When the golden ship on the Mingzhou continent was about to set sail, it was still a dark night in Duqiao, Taizhou thousands of miles away.

The small Duqiao Town, because it is close to the seakou, has built a wharf on the banks of the Linhai River. Now it has become a large stronghold for the Ming army to guide Taizhou. A steady stream of soldiers, baggage and cannons are transported from large ships that are approaching the wharf. Duqiao quickly turned it into a sea of ​​soldiers. The houses, warehouses and shops that originally belonged to the Du family were all requisitioned by the Ming army, filled with various military supplies and arms.

The entire town was under the most severe martial law for many days! At night, any resident, even if he had already entered the Ming Dynasty military household and became a Duqiao military household, was gathered in the houses where they were placed and were not allowed to go to the streets.

But tonight, I don’t know what happened. As soon as the night came, the streets seemed to be filled with people, bitter sounds, shouts, footsteps, the sound of wheels rolling over bluestones, and the sound of dogs barking. First, it sounded from the direction of the Du family’s ancestral home, and then followed the long street to the direction of the pier west of the town.

At this time, Lai Hata, who was escorted by several terrifying lords who had been practicing for a day and was whipped twice, had just had a full meal, washed his feet and was about to go back to the barracks to sleep.

"Rubby, there seems to be a sound outside..." The toad was still a little vigilant. Now it is a wartime period! Although the Song Dynasty seemed to be about to blow up the lights and remove waxes, maybe there is still a return to the scene? Linhai County has not been taken down yet! Maybe that Jia Side and Jia second master would send someone to attack at night or something...

"It seems there is still a fire!"

As soon as the toad was reminded, the other military soldiers who were about to sleep also found something was wrong. Someone also found a faint flash of fire!

"It's gone!?"

"It doesn't look like it's a torch! It should be in the direction of the long street..."

Ripi Li is a local gangster in Duqiao, so he is naturally more knowledgeable than a group of rural people. He laughed and said, "There is nothing, it's just a way to send the Du family to the road!"

Send the Du family to the road?

This sounds a bit creepy!

Lai Hata's heart suddenly stumbled. His black face became even darker, "On the road? It's night now!"

Lai Hato also heard about the news of exile of the Du family. So these days, whenever he had the chance, he would go to the Du family mansion. For nothing else, he wanted to see Du Shisan's sister... He went over to see Du Shisan as a young and frivolous person, and didn't know how big the gap between the two was. Later, he knew that the sky was high and the earth was thick, so he didn't think much about it. But this incident seemed to have made him see hope again.

He now has a landlord with 100 acres of land! And he is also a soldier of Saint Chen... He followed Chen Dexing's people in Huai Shang'er Lang a few years ago. Now there are many people who are granted marquis. With such luck, maybe he would have to rely on the toad?

The Du family is not a Taizhou Yimen, but a sinner from the Ming Dynasty. So he now wants to get Du Shisan out of the Du family’s ancestral home to be his wife. But every time he lets the lords and soldiers guarding outside the house go away without saying a word!

"Good evening, it's easy to do things..." Ripi Li sighed softly at this time, with a little sympathy in his tone and a little gloating. "This is the night when the moon is dark and the wind is high!"

"What? Kill, kill people at night!" Lai Hata shouted, "Kill, kill. Who should I kill?"

Don’t kill Sister Du! Sister Thirteen is so good. She is beautiful and has a good temper and is kind to everyone. She is also well-educated, so she is so sorry to kill her?

"Who else can you kill?" Li Yi sighed, "I will kill the chicken to show the monkey. Kill the Du family and shock hundreds of Yimen in Jiangnan. But a ruler should have such a thundering method!"

"This, this... I really want to kill Thirteenth Sister?"

Ripi Li didn't answer, but nodded silently.

The soldiers around him seemed to believe the nonsense of the bullshit Li. This is probably the reason why the officers don’t like the city soldiers? They thought too much and talked too much and lamented.

"Good people won't be rewarded!"

"What a great person, he's gone..."

"Yes, it's a pity that it's gone!"

Lai Hata burst into tears with a wow, "Thirteenth sister, Thirteenth sister, you are only twenty years old, why did you go like this? Whoever is so cruel will kill you..."

While crying, several lord soldiers wearing war jackets and carrying large swords suddenly rushed out of a room with lights and started scolding without saying a word.

"It's so late, it's already late, why haven't you sleep?"

"What are you crying? Are you afraid of hardship? You toad, do you think the 100 acres of land of the saint are easy to get? If you don't go back to sleep, you will hang up and beat you!"

Of course, the Ming army had corporal punishment! And it was very strict! Historically, the British Sequoia Army in the 19th century was indispensable for corporal punishment of soldiers, not to mention the Ming army that did not even form a nation-state in the 13th century?

Seeing several lords getting angry, Li quickly covered Lai's mouth, and while being careful and saying good things, he pulled the toad, who was crying like a tearful person, into the room...

...

When the toad wanted to eat swan meat, the swan was talking on behalf of the Du family and Xu Ziyuan.

"Official Xu, when it was late at night, I urged me to board the Du family on the boat. Is it a different meaning? Now that my good and cheap family has arrived at the dock, it is hard to fly... This time I go to the underworld, and my Du family can do nothing. The official should not say it clearly, so that I can prepare and die calmly!"

‘I am really a middle-aged woman, she is worthy of being a woman from the Yimen in Jiangnan! Unfortunately, I have already married the woman from the Chen family in Anfeng…’

Xu Ziyuan was amazed in his heart, and his expression was a little polite, but he just smiled and said, "Miss Du, it was the order of the above to let you set off in the middle of the night. I don't know what the above thought, but Xiaguan knew the destination of your trip. It was Taohua Island in Changguo County. There was a water village there, and many barracks were built, but no one lived in it, which happened to be used to resettle you. There may be other people from Yimen in Taizhou to be sent here later."

Du Shisanjie also sighed at the moment. She was only 20 years old, just like a flower, and she was planning to go to Mingdu to study, but she didn't want to die so ignorantly. However, it was really strange that she urged the Du family to go on the road in the middle of the night! Even if she didn't want to kill someone, she must have some special purpose!

Thinking of this, Sister Du Shisan just sighed and blessed Xu Ziyuan Yingying. Then she turned around and walked towards the dock. The Du family members who were about to board the boat walked over. When they walked into the crowd, they reluctantly looked at Duqiao Town shrouded in the night.

Although the future may not be bright, separation from home is always sad!

...

"The sage, the battle report of Fujian, Qingxi and Yongchun counties in Quanzhou Prefecture have been taken down, and the Fifth Division is advancing towards Dehua."

"...It's still a battle report from Fujian. The Putian and Xianyou of Xinghua Army have already been obtained, and there is also a county in Xinghua that will be able to win within a few days."

"...The battle report on Zhejiang West Road has been obtained in Shanghai Town, Huating County, Jiaxing Prefecture, and more than 3,000 soldiers of the First Army Brigade have been landed."

The person who was reading the battle report to Chen Dexing was Yang Po'er. This woman seemed to be the shadow of Chen Dexing. No matter where Chen Dexing went, she would take care of herself and sometimes she would serve as a secretary.

Chen Dexing leaned against a soft couch, half-squinted his eyes, and there was a low table in front of him, with a few side dishes, a pot of purple sunflower wine, and two pairs of bowls and chopsticks.

Yang Po'er's battle reports were all those that had just been sent to the headquarters, and of course they were all good news. Now the main forces of the Song army in Fujian and Liangzhe were concentrated in several big cities, and the troops in the rest of the areas were very empty.

In Fujian, he had heavy troops to defend Fuzhou. The territory near Quanzhou, including the Xinghua Army, has always been the world of maritime merchants. Whether it is a scholarly family, even a Yimen like the Chen family in Xinghua, it is still half a maritime merchant. It is impossible to fight against the Ming Dynasty like Liangzhe and Liangjiang. On the contrary, it has long been in secret with Daming. Chen Dexing is naturally generous to them, and Fujian is a place with eight mountains, one river and one branch of land. Fujian people have always had the tradition of going out and engaging in industry and commerce. Fujian Yimen cannot monopolize the population, and they do not have so much land to farm for too many tenants. Engaging in maritime trade and handicrafts is the way out for Fujian people. Therefore, the Ming army has not encountered too fierce resistance in Fujian.

As for the Song army on Zhejiang West Road, they occupied Wuxian (Suzhou) in Pingjiang, Jiaxing County in Jiaxing Prefecture, and Lin'an Prefecture and other big cities. Shanghai Town, a Shang Town developed from wine, is not an important place, and it is not surprising that there are no heavy troops to guard it.

"Where is Taizhou?" Chen Dexing gently turned a Junkang wine glass and asked, "Is there any news?"

Taizhou is Jia Sidao's hometown, and it is a place with relatively strong military strength. Moreover, the Ming army's dispatch was small in scale, and only two brigades were moved, one brigade attacking Linhai and the other brigade attacking Huangyan. However, the two counties had not been captured yet, and only Duqiao Town, Dudu Salt Field, Zhang'an Town at Linjiangkou, and Wenling Town and Songmen Village near Wenzhou.

"There is no news yet," Yang Po'er replied with a smile, "Nu Nu remembers that tonight it was when the Du family boarded the boat and came to Taohua Island... The moon was dark and the wind was high, so two or three thousand Du family boarded the boat and went to sea. I'm afraid that a few would be scared to death?"

Chen Dexing smiled, "It's just to scare people... If Jia Side can be scared away, the Battle of Jiangnan will be half won."

Chen Dexing's soul comes from later generations, and it seems that there is not enough cruelty and bloodthirsty, so he is not willing to start a massacre in Jiangnan. For the Yimen who is against him, he only plans to scare him and then exile him, and does not intend to kill them all. He suddenly took the Du family away from the sea in the middle of the night, naturally to scare people, and there will be messages released, saying that the Du family was fed fish on the sea. (To be continued...)
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