After a night of marching, when the sky was bright, Hou Xuanyan led his troops to bypass Jiaxing Mansion and go straight to Hangzhou via Taihu Lake.

Out of the mouth of Taihu Lake, only take the country road, the army is all people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but they are all familiar with the road.

With the morning sun and a hill full of shrubs in front of him, Hou Xuanyan pointed ahead with a whip and asked, "What kind of mountain is this, does anyone know?" ”

A pawn squeezed out of the crowd and shouted: "My lord, this is Linping Mountain, and after this mountain, you will go further to Hangzhou." ”

Hou Xuanyan nodded, took out a golden bean from his arms, and threw it to him: "Okay, Fan Xian, bring the military uniform." The others went into the mountains to eat and rest, remembering, no fires were allowed. ”

Fan Xian rolled and jumped off the horse, and said with a smile: "Okay." ”

Linping Mountain is covered with dense bushes, there are many snakes, insects and poisonous beasts, Fan Xian from the rear army with a team of people, pushing a cart of military uniforms into the mountain. The soldiers had already gathered in groups of three or five, eating the dry food prepared in advance.

Fan Xian took one by one and sent the new military uniforms to them.

A Jiangyin soldier who was gnawing on dry food, looked at the military uniform, jumped up and threw it on the ground: "This is a military uniform of wild boar skin!" ”

The crowd immediately exploded, picked up the military uniform and saw that it was indeed the clothing of the Qing soldiers. At this time, even the people of Jiading, who blindly worshiped Hou Xuanyan, couldn't sit still.

"Lord Xiaohou, we swear not to surrender!"

"What does that mean?"

"Your Excellency wants to surrender and seek wealth, don't take us with you."

“...”

The voices of the people were loud, startling the birds in the mountains and forests to fly towards the Tianshan Mountains in flocks. Hou Xuanyan pressed his hands in the air, suppressing everyone's emotions. His prestige remained, and the soldiers were temporarily quiet.

"What's the noise? Lao Tzu and the Manchu Qing Dynasty have a grudge against their fathers, how can they bring a group of you fools to the Qing Dynasty. To reduce the Qing Dynasty, Lao Tzu's dedication to the city in Suzhou is not a greater merit. ”

As soon as the soldiers heard this, they made a lot of sense, and they stopped making noise. The person with a head has already reacted and said, "Does Lord Xiaohou want to cheat the city?" ”

Everyone's eyes lit up, and these people didn't think about the danger of a strategy, they just thought that a plan was a good plan.

Hou Xuanyan shook his head secretly, these people still need more training, at least to prohibit it. Now they dare to argue with the main general if they don't agree with each other, and they don't look like elite soldiers at all.

"Yuanbao, come here."

Xu Yuanbao was also hiding in the crowd and screaming, as soon as he saw the Qing military uniform, he subconsciously thought of the whole family he was killed. At this time, hearing Hou Xuanyan calling himself, Xu Yuanbao walked out with a weak heart, and said curtly: "Big brother..."

Hou Xuanyan looked at him funny and said sarcastically: "Look at your grandson, others don't believe it, even you don't believe in Lao Tzu?" ”

Xu Yuanbao touched his scalp and stuck out his tongue: "Big brother, I was wrong." ”

Hou Xuanyan couldn't bear to scold him, pressed his shoulders with both hands, and said, "You take them to stay here, remember not to light a fire, and not to make noise." Arrange more secret posts, and if you find that there are Han people entering the mountain, you will keep them here and cannot be put back. If a Qing soldier comes, he will be killed. ”

"Big brother, where are you going?"

The corners of Hou Xuanyan's mouth twitched, and with a dangerous smile on his tired face, he leaned into his ear: "I will go to the city of Hangzhou with the little Taoist, and you are here to wait for my news." ”

Fan Xian and Hong Yixun had already changed into the clothes of ordinary people, and Hou Xuanyan took off his armor, revealing the short casual clothes inside, and led the two to turn around and leave.

Xu Yuanbao has also experienced several battles, but he didn't panic, and took Hou Xuanyan's personal soldiers to carry a stick inlaid with iron nails and patrol around.

Hou Xuanyan took the two of them out of Linping Mountain, and there was a dilapidated village in front of them. As a wealthy and prosperous township, Hangzhou is also close to the water, and the surrounding small villages are also quite wealthy. But when the Qing soldiers came, all these villages were burned to the ground, and this is the case in front of us. Walking out of this village where no one is dead, from a distance, the city walls of Hangzhou are already within sight.

Hou Xuanyan found a hut at the edge of the village, pushed the door open and entered, there was a well in the courtyard, and there was a corpse lying next to it. The corpse had begun to stench, dense with flies hovering around the corpse, and it could be seen from the body clothes that it was a young female corpse, that is, thirteen or fourteen years old. From behind, the girl is slender and has the charm of a girl in a water town in the south of the Yangtze River.

When I got closer, I saw that the girl must have been insulted before she died, and she wanted to throw herself into a well to avoid being defiled, but unfortunately she couldn't. The clothes on the lower body were torn to shreds, and the exposed thighs were covered with scars. A terrible wound on the back, it can be clearly seen that this was pierced with a sharp knife when he was insulted by lewdness.

Hou Xuanyan's face was expressionless, and his eyes swept over the open door, and sure enough, two corpses were hanging on the beams. "Bury her family, and we'll stay in the village until the evening."

Fan Xian and Hong Yixun both showed resentful expressions on their faces, gritted their teeth and didn't speak, found a farm tool from the yard and began to dig a pit.

Hou Xuanyan took the bodies of a couple from the beams, walked to the bedroom, took a sheet and wrapped the girl's body.

After burying the family, none of the three of them wanted to speak, Hou Xuanyan squatted in the courtyard, took out the dry food from his arms, and threw it to the two of them.

"Hou Dashao, I can't eat it." Fan Xian's expression on his face was distorted, and his words were crying.

Hong Yixun sat cross-legged, his eyes were slightly dilated, and there were words in his mouth, he should be overliving the soul.

Hou Xuanyan stood up and kicked him to the ground: "Eat!" Can't eat it? Do you know what's the best way to deal with a bunch of brutes? ”

Fan Xian shook his head, the muscles on his face twisted together, and he looked at Hou Xuanyan in pain.

"It is more cruel than them, worse than them, more cruel than them, a hundred times more cruel than them. When you see the evil deeds of your enemies, you are like this girl, crying and crying, and you don't even eat. If we are all like you, what revenge will we have, starve ourselves to death, and give our wives and daughters to them to play with; Let our children be their slaves; Our land has become their property. ”

Fan Xian rolled over, picked up the dry food, took a bite hard, and roared in his mouth: "Don't say it, Da Shao, don't say it." ”

Hou Xuanyan patted him on the shoulder and said, "That's right, only when you are full can you have the strength to kill." ”

Hong Yixun walked over silently, took out a pot of wine from his wide robe, nibbled on dry food and poured it into his mouth.