He said he traveled overland with a group of P.L.A. soldiers to the town of Yingxiu, near the earthquake's epicenter.
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He was ordered to send most of his men south and take the rest to New York by sea, but instead he marched the whole group to New York overland through New Jersey, and the result, on June 28, was the Battle of Monmouth.
They agreed to travel together by boat, while another small group herded livestock overland, to their respective settlements.
Only one of the two groups herding cattle overland reached the settlement.
Subsequently those refugees were sent west in 13 overland detachments of about 1,000 per group, the majority on foot.
The planning group decided that the overland approach would not allow troops to enter the village undetected, largely due to the West Side Boys' roadblocks on the road into the village, and that insertion from Rokel Creek was not feasible for large numbers of troops due to the sandbanks and powerful currents in the river.
Two other groups who were travelling overland arrived several days later.
