On the official road from Hangzhou to Nanjing, a team of Ming soldiers and gentry and people were marching in a vast way, attacking towards Nanjing at a slow speed.

Walking in the front were a group of scholars dressed in scholars. Those scholars wearing blue shirts and turbans were wearing banners that read: Eliminate traitors for the country, eliminate harm for the people, kill all the eunuchs and support King Lu.

"Hold King Dai Lu, and give me a bright world to the Ming Dynasty!"

"Kill the eunuch king Cheng'en! The eunuch party lackey Li Laoer got out of Nanjing!"

"King Lu is the orthodox king! There is no empress dowager in the Ming Dynasty!"

"What kind of hen Si Chen is? Support King Dai Lu and give me the orthodox!"

The scholars raised their arms and shouted passionately, and their shouts soared into the sky. The tenants and servants following behind also shouted. More than 100,000 people lined up several miles long, so the shouts were naturally impossible to be consistent, but they sounded huge and their anger rushed into the sky.

Longwan Ferry on the riverside outside Nanjing City is crowded with people by the dock. There are already thousands of people in Nanjing City, and people have run out to welcome the upcoming Huai Army.

Empress Dowager Zhang and Empress Dowager Zhou stood on the dock and looked northeast. There were crowds of people around, but the safety protection work of the two empress dowagers was still very good. The two empress dowagers stood on the platform and protected the surroundings. Among the common people, countless plainclothes and Jinyiwei were responsible for safety. Li Guodong and Princess Kunxing stood behind the empress dowager and the others. While the two empress dowagers were unprepared, the princess like a curious baby pulled Li Guodong's arm from time to time and asked him some questions curiously.

"Duke of Chu, I heard that many people follow King Lu to Beijing. Will you really kill people?"

Li Guodong knew that the princess was soft-hearted, so he whispered in her ear: "Your Highness, Princess, you also know my character. I never kill anyone."

Princess Kunxing whispered: "The people are innocent, and the real culprit is the treacherous and slander who instigated the people. Duke of Chu, just kill those people, don't hurt the people by chance."

"Your Highness Princess, don't worry, I will definitely be careful and will not hurt the people."

Zhang Yan and Zhou Hou heard the voices of the two behind him. Zhou Hou turned his head and saw that his daughter was talking intimately with Duke Chu. She knew her daughter’s thoughts, not to mention that at this time, the only one who could truly protect their family was the Duke of Chu. Therefore, she did not stop it. She just took a look and turned to look into the river.

While the two were whispering, they only heard someone shouting in front of them: "Here, come! The fleet is coming!"

On the northeastern river, there were shadows of sails, and a large fleet was heading towards Nanjing. The fleet was approaching, and the banners such as "Huai", "Shi" and "Duke of Chu" were visible clearly above.

This fleet was the transport fleet of Li Guodong dispatched troops from the two Huaihe Rivers. According to the imperial edict of Empress Dowager Zhang Yan, it was necessary to send troops to block King Lu's team outside the Nanjing area and prevent them from entering Nanjing. This required the dispatch of troops to intercept. However, the Huai army brought to Nanjing by Li Guodong only had 5,000 troops, and the original garrison in Nanjing was already worried, so these 5,000 troops could not be transferred from Nanjing. They must be responsible for the security of Nanjing. Moreover, the city of Nanjing was so big that 5,000 people were not enough.

Therefore, Li Guodong dispatched 20,000 Huai troops from Lianghuai to the south, and then transferred Huang Degong to Lianghuai to assist the Huai army in preventing the Qing army.

After the 20,000 Huai troops heading south, another 10,000 people will be stationed in Nanjing City, and the other 10,000 will be led by Li Guodong to go to Hangzhou to intercept King Lu's team to Beijing.

Lu Wang's own army has 20,000 people, more than 100,000 gentry, scholars and ordinary people. Li Guodong knew very well that Lu Wang's 20,000 people were all a group of mobs. Even if it was Lu Wang's personal guards, because they had not experienced actual combat for decades, the escorts of the royal palace had become corrupt and vulnerable. Perhaps there were many masters with high martial arts skills among the royal palace guards, but no matter how high the martial arts skills were, could they defeat the army?

In Mr. Jin Yong's novel, even masters like the Five Essentials are vulnerable to the army. That's because martial arts masters are fighting on their own no matter what. The army is a unified collective, and they cooperate with each other, and their individual strength cannot be matched at all.

What's more, those guards of the royal palace did not have the martial arts skills like the Five Masters in Jin Yong's novels, and Li Guodong's army was also equipped with a large number of firearms and crossbows, and muskets and crossbows were the nemesis of various martial arts masters.

The fleet finally arrived at the Longwan Ferry Terminal. On warships, soldiers holding bird guns shouted at the sky and saluted the two empress dowagers and Duke of Chu on the shore. Then, a transport ship full of soldiers leaned on the shore.

"My name Fan Xin led the soldiers of the Huai Army to pay tribute to the two empress dowagers!" A trembling cry sounded from a transport ship led by the head.

"Sir, flat!" Zhang Yan shouted. She was wearing a gorgeous zoo suit and opened her arms, and she had a luxurious temperament of being a mother in the world. After all, she was the queen of Tianqi and had experienced two generations of emperors.

The springboard was placed on the boat, and teams of soldiers walked down from the boat. When passing by the viewing platform, they placed their right hands on their chests to salute.

After the infantry was finished, the next ones were the cavalry and artillery off the boat. The soldiers led their horses and pulled the cannons and got off the boat. When they passed by the viewing platform, they also saluted the Queen Mother, the Princess and the Duke of Chu.

After the Empress Dowager and the Princess reviewed the Huai Army who came to Beijing to serve the king, they returned to the palace under the escort of a group of Huai Army soldiers and Jinyiwei. Li Guodong asked Fan Xin, who was temporarily in charge of command, to leave 10,000 people to help station in Nanjing, and personally led 10,000 Huai Army to rush to the halfway between Nanjing and Hangzhou, preparing to intercept King Lu.

Among the more than 10,000 Huai Army that went to the expedition were three thousand cavalry, one thousand artillery, five thousand bird gunners and one thousand knife players, and another five hundred whistle-free cavalry. The Huai Army dispatched from the two Huai Rivers has not been replaced with flintlock rifles, and still uses old bird guns and turtledove-legged guns, but such an army is more than enough to deal with the 20,000 people of King Lu.

In order to intimidate ordinary people who were bewitched by King Lu and the gentry, Li Guodong also seconded two thousand Jinyiwei from Zhang Shuheng's Jinyiwei to march with the Huai Army.

"Start!" Li Guodong, who was riding on a sweat-blooded horse, pointed his horse spear in his hand towards the southeast.

Ten thousand Huai troops set out in a mighty manner and attacked towards Hangzhou. Five hundred nights did not stop and whistle, and rode their horses away first.

It took about 600 miles from Nanjing to Hangzhou. Lu Wang's team has been set off for five days. Because there are a large number of gentry and civilians in the team, the marching speed will not be too fast. So far, they have walked less than 200 miles, and only walked more than 40 miles a day.

The Huai Army was a man and two horses, and they were all Dun hippos with excellent physical strength and endurance. They marched very fast and could travel 200 miles a day! After not leaving at night, they found the Lu King team the afternoon of the next day.

One night, the horse rider went back to report the news, and the other Ye Wubiao's scattered, stared at King Lu's team, recorded their marching routes, and then the Ye Wubiao's squad returned the information in shifts.

"The rebel army of King Lu has not changed. We have been following the official road. As long as we walk along the official road, we will meet King Lu's team in about two days." Li Guodong received the information and said while gesturing the map.

The marching speed of the Huai Army's infantry and artillery was 100 miles a day. It had been two days, and it had been more than two hundred miles a day. After walking for another two days, you could encounter the team of King Lu.

Two days later, Ye Bu took it back and reported: "Dude, there are less than thirty miles left from the Lu King's team!"

"Let's go up and block their way!" Li Guodong gave the order.

After receiving the order, the soldiers of the Huai Army began to trot forward in a small trot. It only took about an hour to arrive. It only made the Jinyiwei in the capital. These Jinyiwei in the capital enforced the law every day and rarely marched in the field. The Huai Army began to trot forward, but the Jinyiwei could not keep up and was left behind far away.

"Li Ni is here! Li Ni is here!" In the Lu King's team, the scholars in front shouted in horror.
Chapter completed!