For the encounter with Fang La's rebel bandits on the road, it was basically beyond Ning Yi's expectations. Although these people in Hangzhou were temporarily able to rampage by taking advantage of the earthquake and the sudden attack, the duration was bound to be short. As time passed, these people would be more inclined to hide in the city ruins and escape for a chance to consider the next step.

Considering that these people's rampage would not last too long, Ning Yi was also worried about the situation in Taiping Lane. Seeing the tragic scene on the street, and then suddenly encountering those ten or so desperate people, Ning Yi was also stunned. But when things came to a head, one had to be bold. He made a decision immediately. Then, he ran with his knife, and the remaining people behind him chased after him after a moment.

The buildings in the nearby blocks were not in good condition. They had been sparsely shaken by the earthquake. In some places, the walls had collapsed, and some houses had been shaken open by the earthquake. After days of rain, there were only broken ladders and beams left. Some had experienced fires earlier, leaving blackened ruins. In fact, there were also intact families around. Some had people inside who closed their doors and dared not come out. Others had escaped in the early days or during today's violence because of the heavy disaster.

A dozen or so thugs, stained with blood, chased after him in several directions in these ruins. Ning Yi, running in front, was only wearing a scholar's robe, holding a knife in his hand, tied with cloth, which looked really ridiculous. But his momentum was swift, and his habit of holding a knife, which he had developed in his early years, was almost fixed. There was a matter-of-course momentum in his running.

Passing through the ruins ahead and turning onto the street, the pursuers also changed direction, some climbing over the collapsed low walls, and some rushing through the black mud. Although Ning Yi ran fast, some of these people were even faster. One tall man with a single saber clearly surpassed the others in speed. When Ning Yi realized that the turn was unwise and rushed through a ruin, the man had already reduced the distance between him and Ning Yi by half, grabbing a brick when crossing a low wall and throwing it with a bang.

Although ranged weapons on the battlefield were mainly bows and arrows at this time, in ordinary struggles, the most readily available stones were still the most handy in the mid-range. They were simple and convenient, and hitting anyone was uncomfortable. In fact, people with some strength had practiced this. Ning Yi was running past a pillar when the stone exploded on the pillar with a bang. The splashing wood chips and stones made his face tingle faintly. Looking slightly to the side and behind, the distance between that figure and him was shortened again.

After running for another ten meters, just passing through a room that was originally supposed to be the lobby of an inn, the curses behind him suddenly stopped. Ning Yi turned around and waved his knife hard. A deep shadow had already jumped up, blocking the sunlight behind.

With a loud bang—almost sparks splashed in broad daylight. A large amount of blood suddenly rushed out of Ning Yi's body. A flash of knife light almost flew past his ear, and with a poof, half of the blade was stuck in the wood of a distant abandoned house, followed by a banging sound.

Ning Yi's arm was sore from the shock. He didn't even know exactly what happened, and it was difficult to determine whether the man who jumped up and slashed from behind had any unbelievable expression. This self-defense knife was made for him by Kang Xian when he left Jiangning, with a shape slightly inclined to the military knives and machetes of later generations, which was conducive to pure hacking. In terms of pure quality, the things that Kang Xian could give him were definitely good steel above a hundred refinements, which was almost a treasure knife in this era. Lu Hongti had said that his simple and brave moves and styles were just a joke in front of real masters, but the man in front of him was not a master after all. A head-on collision with a fake knife, driven by the explosive qigong left by Lu Hongti, exerted an amazing and sharp power.

In his sight, the man chasing from behind jumped up and slashed down fiercely. The scholar in front also turned around and slashed with a knife while running. Then there was a violent sound mixed together. The person who jumped up was split along with the knife, and almost half of his chest cavity was split open. The corpse, accompanied by shocking scarlet, was like a bucket of ink splashed past the scholar. Due to the angle, the scholar who split his opponent with this simple knife did not even get a drop of blood on his body. He just staggered a few times, turned around and continued to run.

This knife was simple, rude, and neat to the point that he himself couldn't believe it. He didn't have time to think about it. Ning Yi continued to run wildly. After a slight silence, the crowd behind him continued to roar and chase after him. A few stones almost fell beside Ning Yi's legs, but they were weak and were just a vent. When he ran to a crossroads ahead, Ning Yi's footsteps suddenly stopped. He turned his body, and the people chasing behind him also suddenly stopped.

In the street on Ning Yi's side, two soldiers were already visible. Ning Yi actually knew one of them, the big bearded man who had previously told Ning Yi to detour. These people and the soldiers following behind them did not seem to be injured. Ning Yi saw them, feeling that the other soldiers were probably not far away, raised his knife and pointed it at the approaching bandits, indicating that there were people here. But the big bearded man was stunned when he saw Ning Yi's posture holding a knife at the intersection.

For a moment, the three parties were quiet. Ning Yi stood in the center of the intersection. The soldiers and bandits could not see each other, but seeing this posture, they could naturally determine what was going on. Two bandits who came later rushed to the side of the accumulated rubble to break through and looked towards the alley in the scorching sun. At this time, they finally saw each other.

Ning Yi glanced sideways at the big bearded officer and soldiers in the alley. These two were stunned for a moment, and then turned around and ran away.

The bandit on the rubble pile turned his gaze back to Ning Yi. Ning Yi opened his mouth and sighed, turned around and continued to run away.

Ning Yi ran towards a private house with an open door at the end of the street. At this time, he had roughly felt that the internal skills taught by Lu Hongti were effective in strengthening the body and assisting running, but the most important thing was the instantaneous explosive power. No wonder Lu Hongti also said that this was not a top-notch internal skill, and using it too much would hurt the body. Relatively speaking, several people in this group behind him were slightly faster than him. Except for the man who was killed by him with a knife earlier, the remaining people were already gradually catching up. In this kind of chase, unnecessary turns had become a very stupid thing.

Rushing through the deserted courtyard, Ning Yi slammed against some messy objects on the side of the wall, turned over the wall behind him, and only saw two people standing a little to the side of the street opposite him when he jumped down. There were only these two people on this street at this time, a man and a woman. The woman standing in front looked petite, wearing a hat and a gauze scarf, wearing a colorful dress like a minority ethnic group, standing there like a delicate clothes rack. Her eyes were obviously looking at Ning Yi who suddenly jumped over the wall through the veil. The man behind her was a tall and rough-looking middle-aged man, who looked like a girl's follower, carrying a long wooden box on his back, not knowing what was inside.

Ning Yi jumped down the wall and staggered a few steps before standing firm, but his arm subconsciously waved at the two and shouted, "Go away!" However, this sound was not because he subconsciously wanted to save people, but because of some ominous feelings that floated in his heart. As soon as he finished shouting, he rushed in another direction. In a fleeting glance, the girl seemed to tilt her head slightly as she looked at him, and in that ethnic flower skirt that almost dragged to the ground, the embroidered shoe that the girl showed under the skirt retreated slightly and disappeared into the skirt. Her skirt was mainly blue, green and yellow, only the embroidered shoes under the hem were stained with blood.

Running far away, the bandits chasing behind also came over, their tone seemed to be a little stunned, Ning Yi vaguely heard them say: "Liu... Head, leader..."

"Liu Dabiao..."

For some reason, this title made Ning Yi feel a little strange, but he couldn't say exactly where the strangeness was. Looking back slightly, the girl and the middle-aged man were also looking towards here among the bandits. At this time, he ran to this street corner, looked to the side, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Hundreds of soldiers, led by a young general, were copying over here.

The crowd looking over there glanced over here, and then, the girl in the ethnic flower dress first turned around and walked towards a fork in the road...

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When he returned to Taiping Lane again, it was already afternoon, and the riots in the city had been temporarily quelled. Ning Yi actually had a wound on his shoulder from the broken blade that flew out, but of course, it was not serious. Taiping Lane had not been hit by bandits today, and everything was fine. After Juan'er bandaged him slightly, Ning Yi began to go out with Geng Huyuann and others to visit the wealthy merchants, bodyguard agencies and martial arts halls nearby.

At this time, there was a mixed battle outside the city, and the situation inside the city was like a small boat in a storm. Wealthy families were panicked, and if they were small families, they had become even more difficult. What Ning Yi did was not to save the city, which was beyond what he could do. Even if he prepared for a rainy day, what he did was only for the benefit of his family and a small number of people, and that was all he could do. Eloquence and persuasion, combined with the general trend, were originally his strengths. In less than two days, he contacted many people nearby and made a "secret agreement". If the city was good, everything would be fine. If the city was not good, the secret agreement would have a certain effect.

During these days, the people who guided the battle situation inside and outside the city were also not idle for a moment. On the second day of the war, in addition to the battle of the Qian Tang Gate in the southwest, a battle suddenly broke out near the north gate, which was originally the most neglected in defense. In the city, someone who had been lurking in the city directed a group of bandits to constantly create chaos. On the third day, an official at the wharf in the south wanted to steal a boat and escape, and then chaos broke out among the crowd. The news that officials wanted to escape began to spread in the city. This was enough to prove the power of the strategist hidden in the city.

At the same time, more and more refugees and troops belonging to Fang La began to gather towards Hangzhou under the drive or mobilization...

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