After sending Zhang Huangyan away, Hou Xuanyan fell asleep, and outside the small bed in the study, the breeze swayed the tender branches.

The branches swaying in the wind, the shadows swaying in the sun, through the thin curtains, reflected on Hou Xuanyan's face. The dappled sunlight sprinkled on his face, adding to his sleepiness, and he fell asleep after a while.

With a creak, the door was pushed open, and he was dressed in a crimson close-fitting narrow-sleeved bust covered with pale cyan thick gauze. Xiaoxiao, who was wearing a pair of snow-white home bell bottoms, tiptoed in with a lunch box in her hand.

Hearing Hou Xuanyan's faint snoring, she gently put down the lunch box and put the four exquisite side dishes inside on the table. I picked up a small bone fan and sat at the head of the bed and fanned it gently.

The reflection of the branches of the tree kept shaking in front of his eyes, and through his eyelids, thousands of troops and horses were conjured. After sleeping for less than half a pillar of incense, Hou Xuanyan suddenly woke up and asked, "Tartar is here?" Is Changzhou lost? ”

Xiaoxiao was frightened by his sudden voice, and stroked her chest and comforted: "Uncle, don't worry, there are no tartars, no tartars." ”

Hou Xuanyan stretched out his hand and rubbed his eyelids, shook his head and scolded: "The dog Tartar has not come for a long time, and the old man is scared, and he can't sleep steadily." ”

Xiaoxiao's cheeks were pink, and the flush she was frightened just now had not faded, and she said to him: "They must have been frightened by the prestige of their uncle and did not dare to come." ”

Hou Xuanyan laughed dumbly, and just wanted to laugh at her for being big-chested and brainless, he suddenly sniffled and asked, "Why is it so fragrant?" ”

Xiaoxiao's pretty face turned red again, pinched the tassel tied around her waist, and said in a low voice: "Uncle's nose is really good, this is the rouge that people entrusted from the most expensive "daughter country" in the east of the city, it is precious..."

Hou Xuan played a carp upright, sat up, and followed the taste to the front of the case: "I said it's so fragrant, where did the braised pork come from." After speaking, he took two sips, stuffed them into his mouth, and said, "It's a pity that a pot of good wine is missing." ”

Xiaoxiao opened her teeth and claws behind him, viciously comparing her hands, and a pair of small pink fists wanted to pound his chest.

Hou Xuanyan finished eating, looked back, and wondered: "What are you doing?" ”

Xiaoxiao was so frightened that she stuck out the tip of her tongue, and immediately changed her tame face, and said, "Uncle, it's okay to retreat." ”

Hou Xuan sighed, pushed the dishes on the case, stared at the map of Ying Tianfu, and his mind had already flown to the mountains and rivers in Changzhou.

Xiaoxiao was disappointed for a while, pouted and angrily picked up the lunch box and left, but unfortunately Hou Xuanyan, who was incomprehensible, was too involved and didn't feel her small movements.

Xiaoxiao Chenghuan has not been around for a long time, and she has just broken down, and she has not yet enjoyed the pleasure of eating the marrow and knowing the taste of men and women. She wants to be favored by her uncle more often. Since coming to the Hou Mansion, the young lady is still a girl, and the two of them are like the identity of the housewife. The sudden happiness made her suffer from gains and losses, and she just wanted to get Hou Xuanyan's favor.

It's a pity that Hou Xuanyan's current mind is full of Changzhou, which is Hong Chengchou's counterattack.

Hong Chengchou, who was far away in Jinling, was not having a good time at the moment, he was going to consume the strength of the Han soldiers in the south to surrender the Qing Dynasty, but who knew that he used too much force, and a whole army was annihilated.

Now that the army has returned defeated, the city has lost its land, and he was not only scolded by Luck Dehun, who stayed in Jinling, but also received a public edict and reprimanded by Dolgon.

Lekdehun is the grandson of Daishan, the fourth generation of Nurhachi's descendants. This twenty-six-year-old is the ambitious Baylor, who does not care about Hong Chengchou's qualifications and prestige at all.

In his eyes, the Han people are all slaves, and a few casual reprimands are no different from reprimanding the family dog. Today, he suddenly received a secret decree from Dolgon, instructing him to lose half of Jiangning Mansion before he was appointed as the general of Pingnan.

Lec Dehun followed his father to fight on horseback at the age of ten, and accumulated military exploits, where did he suffer such humiliation. sent someone to call Hong Chengchou, and he was scolded again.

Hong Chengchou had a prosperous life, and even Emperor Chongzhen saluted him when he saw him. The pillar of the country, who saw him in the whole Ming Dynasty, once he became a traitor, he was scolded by a young man pointing his nose, and he didn't dare to have a slightly disrespectful expression.

Listening to Lecode's broken Chinese, mixed with Manchu insults, Hong Chengchou's thoughts suddenly drifted to Songshan back then. At that time, Hong Chengchou was still the pillar of the Ming Dynasty, leading the soldiers and horses of Shaanxi and Gansu and Datong, a total of 130,000 elites, gathering in Ningyuan and fighting with the Qing soldiers. At that time, his original intention was to slowly approach Jinzhou, step by step, and not to fight. However, Chen Xinjia, the secretary of the Ministry of War, is a sour civilian official who does not know about military affairs, and he is vigorously promoting the war. The army easily advanced, and was cut off by Huang Taiji from the grain route and retreat, and 130,000 people collapsed and collapsed without a fight.

Hong Chengchou led the remaining soldiers and horses, hid in Songshan Mansion, and waited for rescue. But the elite of the Ming Dynasty has long since died, and those who fled escaped, then there are still reinforcements that can hit Songshan.

Half a year later, the city ran out of ammunition and food, and finally could not hold it. The general soldier Cao Bianjiao did not embarrass his uncle Cao Wenzhao, and died in the city with a silver spear. In Matsuyama that year, the wind was strong and the snow was urgent, and people who were cold couldn't feel their siblings. Seeing Cao Bianjiao being hacked to death by the Tartar knife, the knife in Hong Chengchou's hand clanged and fell to the ground. To this day, he still tells himself that it was because it was cold.

Hong Chengchou was defeated, and the Ming generals, who regarded him as a god, lost his soul.

Zu Dashou walked out of the inner city and led the crowd to surrender.

"Speak! Nanban pig, useless Han dog! ”

This roar pulled Hong Chengchou back from the icy and snowy pass back to Jinling, where the heat was unbearable. He hunched his waist and said unhurriedly: "Lord Belle, the slave is not properly commanded, and the crime deserves death." But now that Prince Yu is leading his troops south, and a big war is about to break out, we need to raise grain and grass for Prince Yu to conquer Suzhou. This is a big deal, and when the minions have finished this loyalty for me, it is not too late to remove them from their posts and investigate them. ”

Luckedhun's tone softened, and he asked: "Where is there any food in the Jiangning Mansion Treasury, it has been thrown under Suzhou City by you, and it is cheaper for Hou Xuan." ”

Hong Chengchou bent his waist even more and said: "Chuzhou, west of Jiangning, is a famous land of fish and rice. We can spend money from the people to buy rice for military rations. ”

Luckdehun's eyes lit up, when he was outside the customs, he knew since he was a child that in a famine year, the clansmen would have to go out of the customs to rob the Han people if they had no food to eat. robbed them of their grain, killed all their soldiers, robbed their women, drove their children and women, and went into slavery like cattle and sheep. He blurted out: "The war is urgent, how can I have time to buy food, I will let my warriors with the red flag go to Chuzhou, hehe..."