After Azure Dragon and White Tiger buried the dead soldiers, Liang Junhao followed Azure Dragon and White Tiger to the courtyard where the people were settled.
The people paced back and forth in the yard, anxiously waiting for Liang Junhao and the others to return.
They had already learned from the soldiers protecting them that the emperor had not given up on them and had sent soldiers to come over. The person who came to rescue them today was His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.
They knew that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was their hero and their patron saint.
Since he was three years old, he came to the border to guard them, so that the countries in all directions did not dare to send troops to attack.
It was not until a while ago, after His Royal Highness the Crown Prince returned to the palace, that those despicable people dared to secretly send troops here.
Liang Junhao came to the yard, and the soldiers guarding outside the door shouted happily when they saw His Royal Highness the Crown Prince return safely.
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has returned safely! His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has returned safely!"
When the soldiers and civilians inside heard that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had returned safely, they ran out excitedly and knelt on the ground to salute.
"I, a commoner, greet His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. May His Royal Highness live a thousand years and a thousand thousand years!"
"Get up quickly!" Liang Junhao stepped forward and helped an old man up.
"Thank you, Your Highness the Crown Prince!" The people stood up to express their gratitude.
"My fellow villagers, you don't need to bow when you see me in the future. Do you have a village chief or a headman here?" Liang Junhao asked the people.
"Your Highness, I am the village chief."
"Your Highness, I am the village head!"
Two men came out, one was the village chief and the other was the head of the village.
"Can you tell me about the situation here? Where did the county magistrate and others go?" Liang Junhao asked the village chief and the head of the village.
"The county magistrate, the county constable, the county magistrate, and their families fled yesterday. Even the guards ran away.
The wealthy families with carriages and money also ran away. We also wanted to escape, but there were too many elderly people in the village, so it took us some time to pack our luggage, and we didn't run away.
Fortunately, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince arrived in time and saved us.
We will never forget the great kindness of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince," said the village chief.
"You mean, the county magistrate here didn't bring soldiers and detectives to stop the Japanese?" Liang Junhao asked in shock.
He thought that the county magistrate and his men might have been killed or captured by Japanese soldiers, but he didn't expect this to be the case. They abandoned the city and fled, leaving the people of the entire county behind. Such an official who is greedy for life and afraid of death is not worthy of being an official.
"Yes, they packed up their belongings and fled with their families. That's how the Japanese could easily enter the county town and harm us with impunity." The village head said disappointedly and angrily.
"Do you know the situation in other villages? Do you know how many Japanese soldiers have entered Jiangchang County?" Liang Junhao asked the head of the village.
“I don’t know how many soldiers there were, but they also seemed to have sent a lot of soldiers to the villages in the countryside to massacre them.
I heard that they were taking all the young women back to Nanzhou County.” The village head told His Royal Highness the Crown Prince what he had heard.
"You mean, their headquarters is in Nanzhou County?" Liang Junhao asked.
If that's the case, the Japanese should have sent a lot of soldiers over.
"Yes, it's in Nanzhou County." The village head said affirmatively.
“Okay, thank you very much.
Get a good night's rest tonight. Tomorrow I will send you to Hezhou County and have the county magistrate there accommodate you. You can move back after I drive the Japanese soldiers out of Qingxuan Country." Liang Junhao told them the arrangements.
"There is no need for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to escort us, we can go there by ourselves. The soldiers should stay here to fight against Japan." The village head gratefully refused.
"You are all weak folks. If you encounter the brutal Japanese, there is no way you can escape.
Let the soldiers escort you out of the city and go to Hezhou County.
The number of people in our palace is too small, so it is not suitable for us to fight them head-on, we can only use our wits to defeat them.
I plan to go to the villages in the countryside first to see if I can rescue the villagers and send them out of the city.
"We'll wait until the imperial army arrives before we can have a real fight with them and drive them out." Liang Junhao made his plan known to the villagers so that they would accept his arrangement without pressure.
"Okay, we will follow the arrangements of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." said the head of the village.
Although he had not read much, he knew one thing: when there was a huge disparity in strength, one should not engage in a head-on confrontation.
It's like you can't use eggs to hit stones, that's self-destructive.
The head of the village and the village chief took the villagers in to rest and regain their strength so that they could leave the city and go to Hezhou County tomorrow.
The situation General Wang encountered was similar to that of Liang Junhao. They rescued the villagers, settled them down, and planned to send them out of the city to Hezhou County tomorrow.
The intelligence network in Jiangchang County had just been damaged, with two secret guards killed. More than a hundred civilians were rescued and settled here, with the plan to send them out of the city tomorrow.
"Lord Leng Xiao, the Dark King said that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will be here in the next two days and asked us to assist him. Tell me, how should we contact him?" Leng Chun said.
"Leng Zhan, what do you think we should do?" Leng Xiao asked Lord Leng Zhan of the Nanzhou County Intelligence Network.
"I think our first priority is to find His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, tell him the news we've found, and then assist him in driving the Japanese soldiers out of Qingxuan Kingdom.
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is the Dark King's future husband and will also be half our master, so we should be at his beck and call." Leng Zhan thought for a moment and said to Leng Xie.
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