Eight hundred miles of Yunmengze, also known as Yunmeng Daze, with the accumulation of sediment, has become a small lake dotted on the Jianghan Plain.

With Dongting Lake as the mainstay, around these lakes and lakes, it has now become a sea of corpses and blood.

It has been seven days since Hou Xuanyan and Yuezhou's Fengzi Camp converged, and there was hardly a day that went untacted. Luckedhun's escape from Jinling and the strategically important city of Nanjing have become the biggest joke since the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs.

Fortunately, his grandfather Daishan was a powerful man and had an ambiguous attitude, and neither Dolgon nor Hauge wanted to offend him. Only then did he have the opportunity to increase his troops to support Jingzhou, and Luck was holding back his strength and preparing to atone for his crimes, who knew that he would meet his old enemies as soon as he arrived in Huguang. The enemies were very red when they met, and Hou Xuanyan couldn't let the people of Jingxiang be slaughtered by them, so dozens of field battles of all sizes were fought.

Until yesterday, Lekdehun and his army, which had been hovering near Yuezhou, disappeared out of thin air. Hou Xuanyan's spies had already reported back, and they were sent to Jingzhou to support. At this time, Hou Xuanyan couldn't sit still and decided to go to Jingzhou. He left Gu Yanwu and Zheng Zunqian to lead his men to guard Yuezhou, and the others followed him out of the city.

At sunset, under the blood-red sunset, smoke and dust filled the air. Hou Xuanyan sat on a small mound of earth, surrounded by corpses. Just now, he took the main force of 50,000 people out of Yuezhou to Jingzhou to support the defenders of the city. On the way, they encountered a group of Han soldiers in the green battalion, and after a fierce battle, the Qing soldiers had no intention of fighting, and each side lost thousands of people.

In front of Hou Xuanyan, a braided general was pressed to the ground, and his mouth was a thick Liaodong accent. This general is not low-level, it seems that he is a middle-level military attache in the Qing army, he has a bright blade around his neck, and he confesses his origin in a panic: "The small one is the subordinate of the King of Pingxi, who came from Jinzhou to exterminate Hou Xuanyan in Suzhou." ”

Everyone laughed, and Hou Xuanyan asked, "Then why didn't you come to Huguang if you didn't go to Suzhou?" ”

It turned out that after Wu Sangui entered the customs, he played the banner of "revenge on the monarch's father". At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, he still maintained certain contacts with the Southern Ming court. Regarding the regime of King Fu of Nanjing, he even said emotionally: "I can't bear to add one arrow to the other." Unlike other demoted officers, Wu Sangui also had a force under his own independent command, that is, the Guanning Iron Cavalry, which had good combat power. Therefore, at the beginning of entering the customs, Dolgon has always been on guard against him, but only used his hatred of Li Zicheng to let him lead his troops to attack Li Zicheng.

When Li Zicheng died, Dolgon transferred him back to Jinzhou, Liaodong, wanting to completely sever his contact with Nanming.

The general of the Wu army, who was kneeling on the ground, did not know the origin of the soldiers and horses that had met them in a narrow way and captured him, and when they heard their sudden laughter, they were so frightened that they did not dare to speak again.

Qin He, the commander of Hou Xuanyan's own army, kicked him in the back and said angrily: "What did our commander ask you about, are you deaf?" ”

The captured general was originally a distant relative of Zu Dashou, and he became a general by virtue of his life experience in the army, but he was actually a straw bag. He trembled and said: "Later, I heard that Jingzhou had fallen, and Jinling and Suzhou were blocked by rivers, so they transferred us to fight Jingzhou." ”

Hou Xuanyan gasped, faintly worried in his heart, his face was as calm as water, and he asked in a deep voice, "Wu Sangui is also here?" ”

The general nodded, and the people around him didn't care, except for Wu Shengzhao's eyes.

Wu Sangui is here, and the strength of the Qing soldiers of the Green Battalion under his command is not weaker than that of the Eight Banners, and this time Jingzhou's blocking Yinxi is even more difficult to defend.

The Manchu Eight Banners have always been not very good at attacking cities and plundering land, and they have been fighting on a flat grassland on the land where their ancestors have lived for generations. Or fight in the forests of the Changbai Mountains in the white waters of Montenegro. Therefore, after entering the customs, most of the cities were captured by the Han soldiers of the green battalion.

Wu Shengzhao couldn't see any clues from Hou Xuanyan's expression, so he had to ask stubbornly: "Commander, what should we do?" ”

Hou Xuanyan stood up, patted the dirt on his buttocks, and said, "Continue the march and camp in Longwan tonight." ”

Xia Wanchun asked on the side: "Most of the states and counties along the way are borderless places, and countless officials have abandoned the city and fled, do we still have to divide people to garrison?" ”

Hou Xuanyan shook his head and said, "These towns in Huguang don't matter, so you don't have to delay the fighter plane for this. As long as Jingzhou wins, there will be no danger to defend at all, and they will all become turtles in the urn. Now dividing the troops to occupy it is adding a lot of burdens to themselves. As long as we hold Jinling and choke the Yangtze River, and cut off the north-south passage, we will have enough capital to fight with the Qing dogs, and don't care about the gains and losses of this city and place. As long as you hold Yuezhou, you can provide grain and grass when you advance, and you can retreat as a way out. ”

Xia Wanchun nodded, and everyone followed the pace of the army all the way to the north. When the general kneeling on the ground saw that the other party's generals were gone, no one paid attention to him, and he knelt on the ground and did not dare to speak. The soldiers and horses who caught up later, looked at his outfit, whether there were people around, and a young general stretched out his spear and poked him through with one shot.

The Fengzi Battalion was the most mobile battalion in the entire Northern Expeditionary Army, and its marching speed was worthy of their title. Xia Wanchun was a pioneer, and he had already arrived in Longwan with the Fengzi Battalion, and set up camp with his back against Bailu Lake. Hou Xuanyan and Wu Shengzhao, with the soldiers and horses of Hangzhou, are still halfway.

With a cool breeze, Wu Shengzhao took advantage of the fact that there was no one around and said to Hou Xuanyan: "Commander, I don't know how many people there are outside Jingzhou City now. Isn't it too careless for us to rush forward like this? ”

Hou Xuanyan glanced at him and said, "When you heard Wu Sangui's name, were you scared?" ”

Wu Shengzhao's face turned red, and he said with a stiff neck: "Wu Sangui is also a human, what is there to be afraid of, the last general is just worried that we are outnumbered." ”

Wu Shengzhao is a native of Liaodong, and he is in awe of Guanning Tieqi from the bottom of his bones, which is why he is so afraid of Wu Sangui. Although Hou Xuanyan didn't say it, he didn't know the bottom in his heart. Wu Sangui is not the idiot described in Jin Yong's novel, this person does not say anything else, his soldiers and horses can easily block 200,000 Eight Banner soldiers from Shanhaiguan. If he hadn't switched it on, the Tartar would still be hunting in Changbai Mountain.

"The gains and losses of Jingzhou are related to the recovery of the entire north of Dongting Lake, and we can't help it. Save Jinling, Suzhou will be as stable as Mount Tai. 200,000 people from the Yinxi and Loyal Battalions are guarding Jingzhou, and there is no need for us to be afraid. Lao Wu, you have to remember that if you don't move forward in the war, it is equivalent to retreating, avoiding war is admitting defeat, and cowardice is suicide. Even if you retreat to Yashan, how many more days will you be able to live? ”

Wu Shengzhao's swarthy face was a little unbearable, and he bowed his waist on the horse and said, "Commander, the last general..." The last general was taught. ”

Hou Xuanyan's eyes seemed to glance at him unintentionally, and then he turned his head and rode forward.