On the eighth day of August in the first year of Hongguang, the second year of Shunzhi in the pseudo-Qing Dynasty, he should be in the Chuzhou Mansion of Tiantian.

Under the command of the puppet Qing Pingnan general Le Ke Dehun, 2,000 soldiers and horses of the Manchu Eight Banners were slaughtered in Chuzhou for seven days in the name of collecting military rations.

It was the night of the full moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the rich Chuzhou Mansion was full of blood and pestles, and corpses were everywhere. The surviving Chuzhou people walked out of the dark corners of hiding and searched for the bodies of their relatives. Since then, there has been no Mid-Autumn Festival in Chuzhou.

When the news came, the world was shocked, and the first to bear the brunt was Suzhou Mansion.

Hou Xuanyan, who was feasting hundreds of officials in the Hou Mansion to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, kicked over the table in front of him.

"Han and barbarian, not incompatible! I, Hou Xuanyan, swore with the heavens that I would kill Luck and avenge my compatriots in Chuzhou! ”

At the same time, the gates of Jinling were wide open, and Manchu and Han officials gathered outside the city to welcome their Yu prince Duoduo back and forth.

Duoduo, who was riding on a horse, looked around at the Jinling officials and gentry who were kneeling on the ground with boundless anger in his eyes. He snorted coldly, led his troops into Jiangning, followed the Qinhuai River, and went straight to the Jinling Forbidden City of the Ming Dynasty. Only then did the officials behind him get up and follow him back to the city.

These days, Duoduo's heart is full of anger, when he was in Jiangnan, where was it not a battle, God blocked and killed God and Buddha and killed Buddha.

But as soon as he left, Bolo was bombed under the city of Suzhou, and then Ji Xiha's head was cut off in Hangzhou. Later, Hong Chengchou, who was pinned on high hopes, lost 100,000 soldiers and horses and lost the entire Changzhou.

These are the descendants of his brother Dorgon, and Haug's line has been jumping up and down lately, provoking at every turn. Many centrists, wall-to-wall grass are biased towards Hauge and the little emperor.

Although Huang Taiji died, his influence was still there, and eight people, including the two Yellow Banner ministers Sony and Tan Tai, who were loyal to him, gathered in the Hauge Mansion to "make an oath together, and wish to die and live together".

At this time, Dolgon's henchmen were repeatedly frustrated in Jiangnan. At this time, Dolgon couldn't sit still at all, and he urgently ordered his younger brother Duoduo, who was the best at fighting, to lead his troops back to Jiangnan.

All the territory of the Qing soldiers in Jiangnan was defeated by Duoduo. Moreover, the 370 pseudo-Qing officials below the governor were all appointed by him. This person's influence in Jiangnan was the highest in the entire Qing court.

In the Fengtian Hall of the Ming Palace, Duoduo looked at Hong Chengchou in the palace and said in a deep voice: "I don't want to investigate the previous things, and I don't want to ask more, now you tell me in detail about our enemies." ”

Hong Chengchou coughed and said: "The defenders of Changzhou are about 100,000 people, and the main general will be a classic history of the original Jiangyin, called Yan Yingyuan. There are only 30,000 people stationed in Yixing, and the main will be Zhu Dadian, the right attendant of the original military department of the Ming Dynasty. If the war breaks out, Suzhou and all over Zhejiang, no less than 50,000 people can be transferred to Changzhou. Suzhou and Wuxi canals are connected, and soldiers and horses can reach Changzhou in one day. ”

Duoduo's anger gathered more and more between his eyebrows, and finally squeezed into two vertical lines, slapped the table, and said angrily: "I have only been away from Jiangnan for a month, where did these soldiers and horses come from?" ”

Hong Chengchou has been studying his opponent Hou Xuanyan these days, he paused, raised his head and said: "Back to the prince, the rebel Hou Xuanyan first used trickery to defraud Suzhou, and the thieves and traitors near Taihu Lake rushed to join him, so that he got 20,000 soldiers and horses. Then he used a trick to surrender, harmed Bolobel, and got Liu Liangzuo's surrender, estimated at 50,000 people. Later, he used sound to attack the east and the west and counter-intrigues, and got rid of Zhang Cunren, the governor of Zhejiang, and the king of Shaoxing Lu, without spending a single soldier, he got no less than 100,000 horses, as well as the whole province of Zhejiang. ”

Luck Dehun interjected: "In the end, he also blew up your scholar Hong and confiscated your remnants, I'm afraid there are seventy or eighty thousand?" ”

Hong Chengchou did not ask for guilt, lowered his head and bent over and said: "What Lord Belle said is right, the slave was defeated in Suzhou, and he gained more than 50,000 people. ”

Duoduo sat on the dragon chair where Emperor Taiyi Zugao had sit, rubbed the dragon's head with a pair of big hands, and said: "This Hou Xuanyan is a big trouble for our Qing Dynasty, and he must be eliminated." Transported all the siege equipment in the Central Plains across the river to prepare for the southern expedition. ”

Just as Duoduo was preparing to attack Changzhou in the south, Zhang Mingzhen of Songjiang Prefecture had already delivered the first batch of artillery ammunition to Suzhou.

When Zheng Zhilong received Zhang Mingzhen's messenger, he thought that they were taking advantage of the anti-Qing righteousness and came to him to ask for artillery ammunition. Just when he was about to give a little bit and send Hanako, Zhang Mingzhen's messenger's words made him take a 180-degree turn in his attitude.

It turns out that Hou Xuan plays these people, not called Huazi, but the God of Wealth!

The price they offered was fair and fair, and even slightly higher than the market price, not to mention that Zheng Zhilong had his own arsenal, even if he bought it from the Dutch and resold it, he could make money.

An arms sales line along the southeast coastline is gradually taking shape, and the newly emerging maritime forces with the label of Hou Xuanyan are also very high-level. Gong Laosan proved with practical actions that he was not boasting, he really took out two-thirds of all the money and honored Zheng Zhilong. In this way, they were able to gain a foothold on the sea, and Gong Laosan's business talent began to slowly show.

Zheng Zhilong is now very satisfied with this unmasked little brother Hou Xuanyan, and regards him as his god of wealth. In terms of arms, he personally instructed that all those sold to Suzhou were not allowed to cut corners and be shoddy.

These gunpowder cannons were all transported to the Changzhou defense line by Hou Xuanyan, and Yan Yingyuan of Changzhou stroked the barrel of the cannon, feeling agitated.

Once upon a time, he could only stay in the middle of the city, watching the artillery from outside the city continue to pour onto his walls. The cannon that took the lives of countless brothers and sisters, and made him hate so much, is now in his own hands.

Gu Shouzheng, the prefect of Changzhou, is a little unprofessional, and all political affairs are handed over to his subordinates, but he runs on the city tower day and night.

He looked at the black cannon barrel and asked, "General Yan, can Changzhou be held?" ”

Yan Yingyuan smiled and said: "Lord Prefect, rest assured, with our strength, we don't dare to talk about taking the initiative to attack, and sticking to Changzhou can be as stable as Mount Tai." ”

The two of them looked side by side to the west, and a dark cloud in Sky Mountain was being swept away by the storm and rushing towards Changzhou. The sky was half light and half dark, and a violent storm was about to erupt.

Suddenly, a flash of lightning swept through the sky, and what followed was a rumbling thunder.

"It's a different day."

"yes, it's changed."

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