Chapter 164 Obstacles
Many citizens saw Father Luther leaving quickly and as if inspired, they began to pack up and walk outside the city gate.
Some of them went to the countryside to seek a moment of peace, while others went to Venice to live behind the defense line.
No matter what, Florence can no longer stay there.
A week later, the entire city evacuated, the doors and windows in the city were closed, and the citizens left the places where they lived for generations and began to move around.
The city was completely stagnant, and Dimit and the troops under the anti-disaster army led by him were the last group to leave.
At this time, there were less than two thousand soldiers in his team, and not many people were infected with the disease, and most of them became deserters.
Dimit did not pursue the matter. Faced with such an invisible enemy, the fear in the soldiers would naturally become stronger. Moreover, these troops were all drawn from the nobles from all over the country, and their loyalty was not high.
As the army left, Florence almost became an empty city. No corpses were seen on the streets of the city. Instead, there were ordinary people who died of illness lying on both sides of the surrounding roads leaving the city.
Whenever they encounter these people, Dimit will order the soldiers to stop and burn the bodies with fire. Only in this way can the possibility of the disease continue to spread to the greatest extent.
After all, similar examples have occurred. Some people are greedy for the property on the corpses, but unfortunately they are contagious.
Dimit led his team to Venice. Halfway through, he suddenly received a letter from Eugen.
"There was a riot in the city of San Marino!" After reading the letter, Dimit couldn't help but exclaim. He could not imagine that at such a critical moment, someone would even rob the fire.
The specific situation, Eugen said it clearly in the letter. Due to the outbreak of the disease, a large number of refugees poured into the city of San Marino, and many conflicts between these refugees and local residents inevitably arose.
You should know that San Marino is the largest commercial city on the Italian Peninsula. There are countless wealth there. When the disaster breaks out, some people have malicious intentions in their hearts and want to take advantage of the fire to rob and make a fuss.
The refugees in the city were motivated by others, turned into robbers and began to rob.
Most of the standing troops in the city of San Marino were transferred away by the local lords long ago, and the local lords also left there early in order to avoid disasters. This led to the situation being unable to be controlled at all and became more and more serious.
This incident will undoubtedly cause great harm. Unscrupulous robbery will inevitably cause great chaos, and chaos is a breeding ground for the spread of diseases. If this continues, the entire San Marino will probably become a dead city and recreate the tragedy of Sicily.
What's even more terrifying is that once this plundering ethos spreads and other refugees are affected, it may impact the cities that were not affected.
By that time, the defense line of the anti-disaster army will be greatly threatened, and the disease may even cross the last line of defense and spread to the mainland.
For this reason, Eugen urgently gave Dimit an order, asking him to lead his team to San Marino to quell the local riots.
The reason why the same thing happened in Florence is largely because some measures that Dimites implemented were now sent to him, which can be said to be a perfect match.
Dimit did not hesitate at all. As soon as he received the order, he immediately ordered the troops to change their route and go to San Marino.
In his heart, he had already prepared to die in the local area. At this moment, he had no intention of retreating when facing the disease.
However, his soldiers were not the same as he thought. When he learned that the team changed to San Marino, nearly two hundred people fled.
In order to stabilize the morale of the army, Dimit had to kill two captured deserters with his own hands, which curbed this terrible trend.
Just as Dimites headed for San Marino, Eugen also left Venice and came to Verona, a large city in the middle of the Yupo River defense line.
Along the Po River, there are several small towns, which are the frontier positions of the Po River defense line. The lords who unified the management of these towns were built in the large city of Verona.
Verona and Vienna are only one word different, but their status is very different.
Verona is not a major city in the whole of Italy. The lord here is just an earl who belongs to the Medici family. The earl himself is not a member of the Medici family, but has made considerable achievements for the Medici family. His relationship with the Duke of Ji'an is similar to the relationship between Corion and Eugen.
The name of the Count was Sartre. What surprised Eugen was that the Count Sartre, who was in his fifties, did not flee backwards like other nobles in the face of the disease that came, but remained firmly in his castle.
If only he was staying, it might be because he was old and had difficulty moving, but even the young people in his family were not leaving. It was very puzzling to look at him.
In the eyes of others, he didn't know whether he should be brave or reckless.
In any case, Verona was in charge of an earl.
Ou was not willing to deal with these messy lords and lords at all. He neither needed to silence the Counts and Counts, nor was he willing to provoke them for no reason.
But at present, he really has to go to Verona.
Because the local garrison actually opposed the mobilization of Eugen, the leader of the disaster resistance army, he actually refused to establish a disaster resistance line.
This problem is a big deal. According to Eugen's plan, there was an earl's army here, which was definitely the most stable link in the defense line. However, now there is no earl's army and relying on the garrisons in a few small towns to defend, it will not have much effect at all.
The disaster is approaching, and such a fault occurs at this critical moment. Eugen is also holding a fire in his heart.
He didn't understand why so many people came to sabotage him, Eugen was busy in front, but from time to time, some people jumped out to make trouble.
On the way, Eugen's anger accumulated, and a trace of fierce light appeared in his eyes. He snorted coldly and said to himself: "Hmph, I have killed one count, and I don't care about another one. I hope this Earl Sartre won't deceive people too much!"
The carriage galloped on the Avenue connecting Verona in Venice. Finally, the voice of the coachman came from the front: "Dear Lord Eugen, Verona, has arrived."
Chapter completed!