After confirming that the temple was really full of tartars, Liu Neng carefully retreated to the woods, returned to his subordinates, and told them the news.

"Fuck it!" One of his men clenched his fists and shouted in a low voice, which was immediately echoed by the others.

They were all veterans of the Pingnan Army, and they fought with the Manchus at the beginning, and they were not as afraid of the Manchus as other Ming troops.

"Don't be busy fighting first, Mantar has come to Huguang thousands of miles away, there must be some scheme, we should figure out what they are doing." Liu Neng thought for a while and said.

"Leave a living mouth, and it won't be long before you ask them for their purpose." The subordinate said.

"There are more people in the Mantars than we are, and it will not be easy to take them down, and we will inevitably lose a lot." Liu Neng thought carefully for a while, shook his head, and rejected the suggestion to attack and kill immediately.

Hearing him say this, the other subordinates also closed their mouths. One is that Liu Neng is the leader of the Jinyi Wei Qianhu is their leader, and the other is that everyone has seen the strength of the Manchu Tartars, and they know that it is too difficult for them to kill and capture the Mantars who have more people than their own!

"Actually, it's not impossible." Suddenly, one of his subordinates said timidly

Early in the morning, Fan Zhongxing woke up and felt sweating profusely. He had a nightmare in which he was caught by the Ming army, and then a Ming official tried himself in the lobby and sentenced him to death for treason. On the execution ground, the people watching the execution were crowded, and countless people threw bricks, tiles, and rotten vegetable leaves at him, and Fan Zhongxing felt a hot pain.

An executioner with a red cloth head and half of his body standing in front of him with a sharp smile and a hideous smile, saying that he would cut himself with 3,600 knives, and not a single knife would be missing. Seeing the sharp knife stretched out towards him, Fan Zhongxing screamed in horror and woke up suddenly.

"Mr. Fan, are you having a nightmare?" Ajiga asked Fan Zhongxing in a blunt Daming official dialect.

Ajiga is a white flag and white armor soldier, and Goshha, who is next to the regent Dolgon, was ordered by the regent Dolgon to escort himself to Wuchang with several warriors of the Eight Banners.

There are a lot of Han Eight Banners in the Eight Banners, and the Han slaves who were arrested outside the customs are even more numerous, and they have a lot of dealings with the Han people, and most of the Manchu people will speak some Ming official dialect, but they don't speak very well. Ajiga and the other Eight Banners preferred to communicate in Manchu, although Fan Zhongxing was afraid of revealing his identity because of this, but he didn't dare to talk about them.

Fan Zhongxing is a side branch of the Fan family in Shanxi, over the years, by smuggling a large number of materials outside the customs, the Fan family quickly became rich, becoming the leading wealthy businessman in Shanxi, and because of the smuggling of a large number of urgently needed military materials to the Manchu Qing, the Fan family gained the trust of the Manchu Qing, after the Manchu occupied Beijing, there were many Fan family children in the Manchu court, Fan Zhongxing was also one of them.

Because he had traveled the Huguang trade road and trafficked grain and tea in the early years, Fan Zhongxing was familiar with the Huguang road and terrain, so he was entrusted with the important task by the Manchu regent Dolgon, and went to Wuchang as an envoy to contact the Ming general Zuo Liangyu, trying to persuade Zuo Liangyu to surrender to the Qing Dynasty.

Dolgon led the Eight Banners to defeat the Dashun army at Shanhaiguan and occupied Beijing, but he also saw the combat effectiveness of the Shun army, and had regarded Dashun as the first strong enemy, for the Chongzhen court in Nanjing, Dolgon didn't care too much, because through the years of war, he knew the weakness of the Ming army's combat effectiveness, and now the Ming nine-sided army was lost, as long as a partial division was sent, it could easily defeat the Ming army in the south that had not fought any battles.

But after all, the land of the Ming Dynasty is too vast, the number of Manchurians is too small, and the total strength of the Eight Banners is only about 100,000 people.

The south of the Ming Dynasty is covered with a dense water network, and the Eight Banners cavalry is not suitable for fighting in that terrain.

And Zuo Liangyu's hundreds of thousands of troops occupy Wuchang, shielding the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, if he can surrender, the Eight Banners will cross the Yangtze River to capture the entire Ming Dynasty will be effortless, and with Zuo Liangyu's army in the south to pinch, it will also provide great help for the Eight Banners to quickly defeat the Dashun army.

Therefore, after careful consideration, the Manchu regent Dolgon sent a secret envoy led by Fan Zhongxing, hoping to persuade Zuo Liangyu to surrender, and for this reason, Dolgon promised to give Zuo Liangyu the title of king according to the old practice of King Sanshun and Wu Sangui.

It was precisely with the mission of the Manchu Dynasty that Fan Zhongxing came here under the escort of several Eight Banner soldiers. However, although there are powerful Manchu Eight Banners as a backer, Fan Zhongxing is still uneasy in his heart, if Zuo Liangyu refuses to surrender and sends himself to the imperial court, then I am afraid that what awaits him is really the same as in his dream, the punishment of Ling Chi's execution.

"Nothing." Fan Zhongxing reluctantly smiled at Ajiga.

Seeing that Fan Zhongxing was fine, Ajiga beckoned his subordinates to cook breakfast, and after eating the rebellion, he continued to walk.

A tired and yawning soldier walked into the hall, which was a secret sentry sent out to watch the night. Placed in the enemy territory, Ajiga did not dare to relax for a moment for his own safety.

Breakfast was scones and jerky, the cookcakes were fluffy on the campfire, but the jerky was a little hard, and the hot soup was on the side, and the breakfast was quite hearty. However, Fan Zhongxing was full of thoughts, and he didn't know what to eat at all, so he ate something hastily and stopped eating.

After breakfast was finished and the bonfire was extinguished, Aggiga led the people to sort out the goods. In order to disguise their identities, the group pretended to be merchants from the north, and there was a carriage loaded with fur and deer antler velvet and other northern specialties.

After inspecting the goods and feeding the horses, the horses were put on the wagon, and in order to facilitate the battle, it was not the horses that pulled the cart, but the real horses. There are six people in the group and three war horses. Mainly walking in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, I am afraid that there are too many war horses that are too eye-catching.

And if something happens, with three war horses Ajiga can protect Fan Zhongxing and escape, while the others can only ask for more blessings.

The group left the temple and continued south.

"Twenty or thirty miles away, there is a river called Nie Shui, and after crossing Nie Shui, it is Hanyang Mansion, where Zuo Liangyu's army is stationed, and crossing the Yangtze River from Hanyang is Wuchang Mansion."

Fan Zhongxing pointed to the road ahead and said to Ajiga.

Sure enough, after walking for half a day, a river appeared in front of me, about 100 zhang wide, blocking the way of the group.

"Just cross the river and you'll be in Hanyang." Fan Zhongxing pointed to a ferry moored by the river and smiled at Ajiga.

ps: I need to rush a material on Thursday.,I don't know if I can finish it during the day.,Send a chapter in advance.,I'm afraid the second chapter will be at night.,There should be a second chapter.。 Also, thank you Dr. Yip for your $100 tip.