Hou Xuanyan walked up to Xia Wanchun, who was still in a daze, and patted him on the shoulder.

"Brother Xia, thanks to you this time, we people owe you our lives."

Xia Wanchun obviously hasn't woken up from the bloodshed in front of him, Hou Xuanyan's remarks before the war, what Han people don't fight Han people, they are all Ming disciples or something. What he said was sincere, and even he believed it.

Xu Yuanbao split the prisoner cart with a knife and released a group of poor women. These cowardly Jiangnan women, where have they seen such a bloody scene, they didn't dare to raise their heads for a while, they lowered their heads and trembled.

Xu Yuanbao grinned and said loudly: "What are you crying about, what are you crying about, now you are all saved." ”

The women were even more frightened when they saw that he was covered in blood and that he was holding a blood-dripping steel knife in his hand.

Xu Yuanbao was bored, lowered his head and stroked his big dog, and stopped talking. Hou Xuanyan walked over, looked at the group of poor women, and sighed. They all have good families, but in the blink of an eye, like their own people, they are homeless, not to mention, I am afraid they have all been insulted.

"Sisters, where are you from?"

A slightly more bold one, seeing that he was still normal, came out and said: "King, we are all ordinary women near Haining, and we were captured by this group of soldiers. ”

Hou Xuanyan's old face turned red, and then he smiled: "Don't get me wrong, I'm not the king of the mountain, is there anyone else in your family?" ”

When the women saw that he was handsome and not a vicious person, they gradually grew bolder.

A young girl said with a crying voice: "Our whole village has been killed. ”

The others also gossiped, and gradually all the voices were women's cries and confiding. Hou Xuanyan had a big head for a while, listening to this meaning, this group of people basically had the same fate as Jiading.

Xia Wanchun finally regained his senses, walked out, and said, "If this is the case, it will be difficult to do." ”

The people he recruited were going to defect to his father Xia Yunyi and attack Hangzhou and Suzhou, and they really couldn't take a group of women with them.

Hou Xuanyan picked up the hare roasted by the Qing soldiers, and greeted him while gnawing on it, gathering the Jiading teenagers around. Pointing to a young man who looked shrewd and strong, he asked, "What's your name?" ”

Hearing Hou Xiaoxian ask himself by name, the young man looked left and right excitedly, raised his head and smiled: "Hou Da Shao, the little one is called Fan Xian, and he followed Master Hou to guard the west gate when guarding the city." ”

Hou Xuanyan took a big bite of meat, chewed his mouth full of oil, and pointed at him with a stick. "Okay, take the rest of the brothers and this group of women, and go to the fishing village by night. I expect that the brothers who crossed the river will come back to look for us, and when you find them, you will cross the river with them. Send a message to them, when I am not there, everything is arranged by Gong Zifang and Gong Sanshu. You pass the word to Uncle Gong, remember! Do not stay in Shaoxing and go to Fuzhou. ”

"What about you, Childe?" The rest gathered around Hou Xuanyan and asked hurriedly.

"I'll follow Brother Xia and fight Hangzhou!"

The joy on Fan Xian's face disappeared suddenly, and he pulled his neck and shouted: "Then I won't leave, we will stay in Hou Dashao's body, and we will also go to Hangzhou." ”

"Fart! Lao Tzu still instructed you not to move, did he? Get out, get out of here, get out now! ”

Everyone lowered their heads and refused to leave, Hou Xuanyan flew up and kicked Fan Xian.

"Didn't you move it? Remember, be careful on the road, and maybe the brothers who jumped into the river, and take them with you if you don't die. ”

Fan Xian stomped his feet, hey, and walked back with people. Hou Xuanyan said to the women: "Now that the Qing soldiers are in charge, Jiangbei can no longer stay, and the sisters stay in Jiangbei, like sheep in the wolves." I asked my men to escort you across the river to the place controlled by our Ming Dynasty, and then find a way. ”

The women knelt down to thank them, and Hou Xuanyan threw away the hare and stepped forward to help people.

After sending everyone away, Hou Xuanyan looked back and saw that his hare had been picked up by Xu Yuanbao. He took a bite of it himself, took a bite of the rhubarb to the dog's mouth, and ate it with great pleasure. On the other side, the pheasant was also taken by Hong Yixun, and he was eating happily.

"Leave some for Lao Tzu!"

...

Xia Wanchun is very happy about Hou Xuanyan's joining, he is a traditional scholar, and he believes that it is easy to get a thousand troops and difficult to find. Hou Xuanyan was able to deduce the intentions of his people, and even knew that they were going to fight Suzhou and Hangzhou. This vision made him look up to Hou Xuanyan even more.

"Brother Hou, how did you know that we were going to fight Suhang?"

Looking at the genius in front of him, the young man from Jiang Zuo, Hou Xuanyan carried his hands behind his back and his nostrils were facing the sky. sighed in his heart, Lao Tzu was about to start pretending.

"As the so-called national affairs, family affairs, world affairs, and everything is concerned. Although I study hard at home, the general trend of the world is all in my chest. For the sake of the general, he does not know astronomy, he does not know the strange door, he does not know the yin and yang, he does not look at the formation map, and he does not know the strength of the troops, and he is a mediocre talent. Wu Zhikui, the chief soldier, is a student of Lingzun, and no one knows the heart of loyalty and righteousness. If you are willing to sit and wait for death, you will definitely contact the anti-Qing righteous people and try to recover. Hangzhou is the most important city, and if you lay down Hangzhou, you can radiate the south of the Yangtze River.

And everyone in the world knows that Jiangnan is rich, and with Jiangnan, there is money and grain. ”

Xia Wanchun heard it in a fog, although he didn't understand, but he admired it even more in his heart.

He had a lost brother's expression, his eyes were full of stars, and he said excitedly: "With Brother Hou this time, we may not be able to capture Suzhou and Hangzhou, turn the tide of the tide, and help the building to fall." In this important town in the north of the Yangtze River, strangle the momentum of the Jiannu family, and save half of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Immediately, he thought of what Hou Xuanyan said before he was leaving, and asked, "Brother Hou said that we would lose this battle, why do you want to go with me again?" ”

"Previously, I was looking for the remnants of Jiading and bringing them back to the south. Now that I have found it, the national disaster is at the head, how can I be greedy for life and afraid of death. ”

Xia Wanchun was as if he was drunk, his face was flushed, and he almost bowed without bowing his head.

Hou Xuanyan thought to himself in his heart, if he comes, he will be safe, and I have already sent all the children of my hometown to the south, and half of the responsibility has been relieved of my shoulders. But if you don't do anything, hide in the south or even hide in the South Seas, you can naturally survive. But in that case, Shenzhou Lu Shen fell into the hands of a foreign race, wouldn't he be a waste of a crossing place.

Instead of messing around here for a lifetime, it's better to fight vigorously and fight once.

I'm going to be a butterfly flapping its wings!