If you look at the map, Jinan Mansion, Fengyang Mansion, Xiangyang Mansion, and Hanzhong Mansion just draw a deep arc in the shape of a bowl, and Henan and the four pseudo-Qing vassal kings who control it are in this bowl at this time.

Fengyang was lost, Prince Zheng Jierharang was killed in battle, and the Qing court fell into panic. Before entering the customs, Zilharang was one of the eight Heshuo Baylors, and the gold content of Baylor in the early Qing Dynasty was quite high, and only military merits could seal Baylor. After entering the customs, Zilharang was one of the four princes, although his military exploits were not as good as those of Prince Hauge of Su and Dolgon of Rui, but they were also regarded as many military exploits. Jierharang was surrounded in Fengyang, and the Qing court could not send troops to support, and anyone with a discerning eye could see that the Manchu Qing Dynasty was already at the end of its strong crossbow.

They have not occupied the Central Plains for a long time, and at this time they are still in the mentality of robbers, thinking that it is a big deal to loot and withdraw to their hometown outside the Guanwai. This mentality was deeply ingrained in the Manchus, and it was also this bandit mentality that was at work when they signed various treaties a hundred years later and handed over the looted Han money to Fanbang. Why are you distressed...

Capturing Fengyang and killing Ji'er Harang is a good thing for the surviving people in the city, but it is not for the entire battle situation. The Northern Expeditionary Army lost its bait, and the plan to encircle the reinforcements was completely ruined, the bait was gone, and the fish naturally would not come.

Henan's Kong Youde, Wu Sangui, Geng Zhongming, and Shang Kexi took the opportunity to open their mouths to the lions of the Qing court, and the Manchus were also very happy, and added officials to the knights and rewarded the generals of the Han Eight Banners of the Liaodong system, aiming to win the loyalty of these old Liao warlords. After all, they are the absolute main force in the heart of the Central Plains, Wu Sangui and Kong Youde are also determined to follow the Manchu Qing Dynasty, they are not loyal to Jiannu, but because they know that the Northern Expeditionary Army never treats prisoners preferentially.

In the past, when they were fighting, these opportunists saw that things were not good and led their troops to surrender, and not only could they save their lives, but even the soldiers and horses under their command were commanded as usual. It is only a matter of nominal obedience to any one power, and for these old pragmatist warlords, nominal is the least valuable thing. But then there was an alternative in Jiangnan, since the day Hou Xuanyan took the incident, he has never kept his word and loves to kill generals, and his reputation has become more and more famous.

More than once, he was advised not to treat the generals so ruthlessly, but Hou Xuanyan knew that Nanming was lost in the hands of a group of capricious military oilers. If you recruit them, not only will you not be able to mobilize them to fight, but you will be given a counterattack at a critical time. A group of people who nominally surrendered, what did they collect? Maybe when you will stab yourself in the back, it is better to fight openly as an enemy.

The advantage of this is that the Northern Expeditionary Army in the south of the Yangtze River was unprecedentedly united, and there was no bad thing that was the most common mutual attack in the late Ming Dynasty, and the whole army was under the control of Hou Xuanyan. But there are also disadvantages, such as now, they have succeeded in making the relationship between the Manchus and the traitor kings who depend on them even tighter.

In May of the first year of Jing You, Hou Xuanyan had leveled all the counties near Fengyang Mansion in the central capital, the original Ming Dynasty Nanjing Yingtian Mansion, and now only Xuzhou is still in the hands of the Qing soldiers. Xuzhou, known as "the key to the north" and "the important town of the south", in the words of Xuzhou people, is neither south nor north, not big or small. Since ancient times, for the military forces in the south, occupying Xuzhou is equivalent to getting a key to open the lock of the northern gate; And in the eyes of the rulers of the northern regime, the capture of Xuzhou is equivalent to occupying the bridgehead of the march to the south.

Hou Xuanyan stationed on the outskirts of Fuli Bridge in Suzhou, and after getting off the horse, he raised his eyes and looked into the distance, and there was a mountain forest in the distance.

"Map."

While the two soldiers dragged away the map, Hou Xuanyan pointed his horse whip and said to Xia Wanchun and Yan Yingyuan beside him: "'Don't go east because of the Prancing Horse, and the song is upstream. 'Xuzhou is a battleground for soldiers, and if I take Xuzhou and Huozi Battalion to join Shandong, Shenjing is in my hands. ”

Yan Yingyuan stared at the map and said: "Guogong, there are many important towns in Xuzhou, including Tongshan, Xiao County, Pei County, Pizhou, Dangshan, Feng County, Suqian, and Suining. With so many cities at the horns of each other, and so close to each other, if you want to break them one by one, there will definitely be other prefectures to come to your aid. ”

Hou Xuanyan didn't care, he pointed forward with a horsewhip, and said in high spirits: "I have an army of 230,000, I can cut the river by throwing the whip, and I can dry up the river by drinking the horse, and the Qing soldiers in Xuzhou dare to flee without hearing the wind when they see me?" Since the beginning of my uprising, I have killed Duoduo and then beheaded Zilharang, and I have eliminated two of the four princes of the Pseudo-Qing Dynasty, and the Manchurians dare not speak out loud when they hear my name, and I will tremble when I dream of it at night..."

Hou Xuanyan blew up, and Xia Wanchun next to him kindly reminded: "Commander, be careful to repeat the old things of the former Qin." ”

The so-called old things of the former Qin Dynasty refer to the former Qin Shizu Xuanzhao Emperor Fu Jian. In the early part of his reign, he made great efforts to govern the country, reused the Han Wang Meng, implemented a series of policies to rest with the people, strengthened production, and finally made the country strong and unified the north. Then he led the elite soldiers to attack the Eastern Jin Dynasty in the south, and because of his arrogance and arrogance, he was beaten back to before the liberation, and left an idiom for future generations.

"Damn, that's a disappointment.." Hou Xuanyan twisted his head stupidly and looked at the soldiers and horses behind him, the three armies were still majestic, but the faces of the soldiers were more or less tired. He has the magic hand of his own little military doctor, but the soldiers are already tired from a long battle. Since the start of the Northern Expedition, they seem to have been repairing in Suining for three days.

Thinking of Xia Wanchun's words, Hou Xuanyan secretly said in his heart, I am really a disaster star. No matter which way he is on, his soldiers are always the hardest way, just like now the Northern Expedition Third Route Army is repairing the stalemate in the place where it has been captured, only the Middle Route Army is constantly advancing, if it is really taken to work, coupled with the terrain of Xuzhou, there may really be a possibility of overturning.

"There is a flat land in front, just camp there, bury the pot and make rice, and wait until tomorrow when we enter Xuzhou."

Piles of bonfires are lit next to the ferry of Fuli Bridge, and the spring breeze brings warmth, even in the evening, the wind is warm and very comfortable. The air was mixed with the smell of charcoal burning smoke, which was faint and very good, which reminded Hou Xuanyan of the cooking smoke in his hometown in later generations.

Hou Xuanyan was lying on the grass with his head resting on his hands, looking at the red glow in the sky, breathing in the air far away from the bloody gas, and a plan for an all-out attack in his mind was gradually improving. The Manchus were really a paper tiger, and it turned out that as long as they got rid of a group of Han people in the rear and eliminated the black sheep, the Manchus would be vulnerable in front of the Han regime with one heart and one mind. The so-called invincible warriors of the Eight Banners, whose reputation has been spread to the sky, is just a matter of picking up the leak king and good luck.

Just when Hou Xuanyan was excitedly thinking about how to arrange troops to encroach on the territory of the pseudo-Qing Dynasty, Chen Changzhi of the Hidden Elephant Battalion came in person, approached and said, "Guogong, there is something urgent to report. ”

Hou Xuanyan chuckled in his heart, sat up straight, and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"There is news from Jinling that the folk rumor that today's son is a daughter, and it is also said that the prince of the country is raising the empress, which is unjust. These rumors have been rampant recently, and have spread all over the streets and alleys, and what is even more terrifying is that we can't find the source of the news in Jinling. Chen Changzhi's words did not have the ingredients that had been pushed by the slightest effort, he was really strange.

There was something in Jinling that the submarine camp could not find, this matter is even stranger than the "rumor", and it can be expected that there may be an unusual group behind it. As for the Hidden Elephant Battalion, they didn't know that the Son of Heaven was a woman, and the people in the world who knew about it were just Hou Xuanyan, Wang Xiangnian, and more than a dozen personal palace ladies in the palace. Therefore, the whole Hidden Elephant Battalion defined this incident as a simple rumor, it may be that someone wanted to create some trouble, and they even suspected that the Manchus sent people to do it, in order to interfere with the Northern Expedition.

The same thing, when I heard it in Hou Xuanyan's ears, it changed its taste. His face was not shocked, only the corners of his eyes twitched inadvertently, and his heart had already turned upside down. If the matter of raising the empress is hammered by someone, this is a major event that shakes the country's foundation, and I don't know how many people will have to be killed to calm down.

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