The soldiers wanted to go back, but the soldiers on duty would naturally prevent them.
Some soldiers learned through letters from home that their old mother was sick, their father broke his leg during harvest, the sister married into another family was not doing well, the parents were uncared for, and the crops in the field were unharvested. How could they stay in Fengzhou any longer?
Seeing the soldiers on duty block them, they started breaking through by force and blood was shed.
By the time Prince Huai and others arrived, one to two thousand people had already run away.
In some camps, all one thousand people in the camp had fled.
Because the captain in the camp also received a letter from home, advising him to return quickly, saying his parents missed him.
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Although those who ran away were not a large proportion of the tens of thousands in Prince Huai's army, the impact was tremendous.
The matter of the letters from home had already spread.
