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The official road outside Gaoyaoxicheng leads to Yangchun and Guangning counties. However, except for the six or seven miles long stone road near the county town, the rest of the area are mostly stone roads built according to the situation. Some areas have been disrepair for many years, and heavy rains and mudslides have become muddy and full of the ground. It is better for people to walk, but if the carriages and horses pass through, they will have to be pushed for half a day.

Although Gaoyao Magistrate Qin Ming was incompetent, he really wanted to do something practical for the people after taking office. After inspecting this road, he wanted to ask the mansion to allocate some money and work with Yangchun and other counties to repair it together, so as not to abandon this official road connecting the two prefectures and counties. Of course, Qin Magistrate did not do this with the kindness of benefiting the people, but most of it was to set up checkpoints and collect taxes on this road. The merchants were very smart and it was difficult to walk on the road. How could they come?

However, in recent years, the Qing court's rule in Guangdong was not solid. From top to bottom, war was the first priority. Local affairs were naturally not taken seriously. Without the assistance of the superiors and neighboring counties, it was obvious that the power of a county could not be built by relying on the high side.

Just like that, Qin Ming has been a county priest for almost three years, but the road is still like three years ago, and it is even worse than three years ago. The reason is that some people in the city often steal stone slabs on the road when building their own houses. As a result, you steal and I steal. The originally complete stone slab road has become a hole in the east and a patch in the west. People can trip if they are not careful when they walk on it.

However, the stone road full of pits is the only escape route for the Qing army in the city. They have no other choice. They either sacrifice their lives to rush out, run as far as they can, or wait for the Ming army to block the city gate and die obediently. No one wants to die. As an official and a soldier, they want to live, but they can only grit their teeth and rush forward.

There were many houses outside the west gate, which were once a market, but four years ago, when the Qing army massacred the city in Gaoyao, they did not let the people outside the city go. It was not counted if the people killed them. Another fire burned all the houses outside the east and west cities. At this time, there was a ruin outside the city, with weeds growing on the ruins, and unknown grasses actually grew taller than people.

After escaping from the city, the Qing soldiers had no other direction to run, so they could only follow the stone road all the way west, because there was a dense forest on the south side of the road, which was stretched for dozens of miles, and the forest grew along the hills. If it weren't for the familiar terrain, 90% of people would get lost if they had to get in. In addition, except for the outside of the forest, the trees inside were a little cut, but the trees inside were intact, and it was difficult to walk around the thorns.

To the north is a farmland, which was already April, and this year it was full and good. The wheat grows green in the field. You can escape in the wheat field and make people run fast. The problem is that you cannot walk on the horse, because the ditches are crisscrossing in the field, and if the horse accidentally walks, you will fall down.

North and South, for Xiang Guoqing and his personal soldiers, they were dead ends, and there was only a stone road to survive.

"Run!"

Without exception, the Qing soldiers all chose to run west. This road was their only way to live. As for where to run after rushing out and how many people could escape, it depends on their fate.

After completely controlling the situation in the city, Zhou Shixiang ordered the count of the number of prisoners, and the Green Camp and the Han Army Banner were detained separately, and the officers from the two groups of officers were brought over. He had to figure out why the Han Army Banner, which was not originally in Song Ying's information, appeared in Gaoyao City, and what were they here to do. In addition to them, are there any other Qing soldiers near Gaoyao, and whether there is a Han Army Banner among them. (The novel "Han'er Not a Slave" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there is also a 100% lottery gift for everyone! Open WeChat now, click the "+" sign in the upper right to "Add Friends", search for the official account "qdread" and follow, hurry up!)
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