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Winter is coming.

All things recuperate.

Jin Xiaoding hid in the jungle, the trees above his head were bare and leafless, and they couldn't block the sunlight or snow.

Two days after they escaped from Luzhou City, heavy snow finally fell, and last night the goose-feather snow drifted all night. When I woke up this morning, many of the rebels did not get up as they did yesterday.

"Move, don't curl up there, freeze," the little leaders shouted everywhere. They ransacked a large nearby village and looted some clothes to protect them from the cold. At this time, Jin Xiaoding had no intention of maintaining military discipline anymore, not to mention that the rebel army under his command had never emphasized military discipline.

The occasional sound of tree branches breaking in the snow forest can be heard.

Jin Xiaoding's eyes fell on the jade belt more than ten miles away, and the surface of the Yellow River was covered with thick snow.

He was glad. He should be grateful for the snow for his leisure at the moment.

Although some people froze to death, this snow came at the right time. Fifty percent of the soldiers and horses left by the Qing court in Shanxi were under the city of Luzhou, and two percent were in Taiyuan, and there were not many soldiers and horses left behind in southern Jinnan, and the defenders from all over the country did not dare to risk losing the city to search for the rebels who did not know where to hide.

The heavy snow blocked the road, Wu Sangui's cavalry didn't chase after him so quickly, and Jin Xiaoding even doubted that Wu Sangui would chase after him so hard. Judging from his appearance when he attacked Luzhou City, although this person did not have different intentions for the Qing court, he must have a heart for self-preservation.

Who in the world does not do it for himself?

A few miles away there were a few black spots on the snowfield, and they seemed to crawl in a snow pit, and every step was extremely difficult. An hour later, three tightly wrapped people walked in front of Jin Xiaoding.

"How?" Jin Xiaoding's face was full of anticipation.

He shook his head for one person and replied: "It's still not good, the ice is not frozen, one or two people are okay, and the ice will inevitably collapse when thousands of people cross the river together."

Jin Xiaoding looked up at the sky, smiled and said, "It's okay, wait." He was anxious, but he couldn't show himself in front of these people.

The reason why he led the army to flee to Jinnan was precisely because he wanted to follow the old road of Chongzhen's seven-year thief army from Jin to the Central Plains, and he wanted to return to Huguang with the more than 30,000 people who had escaped.

Datong City has been holding on for seven months, and even the strongest city has been breached. If Datong City is broken, it will mean that those in Jiangnan will return to Jiangnan, and those in Jiangbei will return to Jiangbei, and it will be useless for him to stay in Shanxi. The rebels of Shanxi dragged Wu Sangui's army into the winter in the city of Luzhou, and he had squeezed the last drop of blood from these people.

From Shanxi through Henan is Huguang, and the Zhang Tianlu division of the Ming army has been active in Nanyang, Henan, and it is only because of this heavy snow that it has shrunk back.

The offensive and defensive battles under Xiangyang City have stopped, just like Datong City.

Standing at the head of Xiangyang City, the barracks of the Ming army could no longer be seen. Half of the Ming army was stationed in the cottage thirty days in front of Xiangyang City, and the other half of the Ming army hid behind the cottage. Unable to attack the city in winter, Zhai Zhe simply withdrew his troops, so that the soldiers could survive the winter in peace, so as not to worry that the Qing soldiers would go out of the city to raid while sleeping.

Seeing that the Ming army was unable to withdraw, Hong Chengchou in Xiangyang City rarely felt a trace of pride.

Last year, he was ordered to be sent to Nanjing, but he did not expect to encounter the Jiangnan rout.

At that time, Bolo decided to withdraw from the city of Nanjing, and although he was reluctant, he did not resolutely stop it. At that time, the people in the city were panicked, the Jurchens suffered heavy losses in Qianqian and Hangzhou, Liu Liangzuo and Yan Yingyuan wrote privately to figure it out, Li Chengdong was unclear, and in the situation where the Manchus and Han people lost trust, he did not dare to speak out and let the Jurchens risk the annihilation of the entire army to hold Nanjing. So the main thing he did when he came to Huguangyu this year was to coordinate the relationship between the Manchus and the Han Chinese. Because of his weak strength, he failed to turn the tide in Huguang, but he worked hard to drag out the war until the end of the year, and at the same time make Xiangyang City impregnable.

There are 4,000 Jurchens in Xiangyang City, 20,000 people in the Eight Banners of Mongolia and the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, and the remaining 20,000 people are the original Ming Army, who made great contributions when defending the city.

Walking up to the city and seeing that the fields were covered with snow, Hong Chengchou suddenly had a sense of pointing out the country, "If the Han people can be integrated with the Manchus, Jiangbei will still be stronger than Jiangnan"

At present, the Manchus are very strict against the Han people, and the discrimination against Han Wenchen in the court is even more severe, and there will be chaos if it continues for a long time. He believed that the regent's wisdom would have been able to see the problem. If the Qing court reuses Hanchen, Wu Sangui will be Wu, and Wenchen will be him.

The more Hong Chengchou thought about it, the more proud he became.

A few black dots appeared in the distance, and they were patrols of the Ming army. Luck Dehun asked for orders many times to hunt down and kill the Ming army scouts, but he stopped them all, killing a few people was useless, he pointed to hold Xiangyang City, and there was no mistake.

The patrol cavalry of the Ming army appeared under Xiangyang City from time to time, and there were also Ming army activities on the other side, but the Ming army was unable to attack Nanyang City, because Xiangyang City was still here. Only yesterday did he send a messenger across the river to communicate with Dolgon, so that the regent could rest assured about Xiangyang City.

Zhai Zhe is in Yicheng, which is the closest city to Xiangyang.

Ten days ago, Du Yinxi delivered grain and grass from Jingzhou, accompanied by Gao Huijun. Gao Huijun didn't dare to come, but Mrs. Gao persuaded her, so she had the courage to travel. Although she is a concubine in name, after receiving a reward from the imperial court, she can meet people as a flat wife. Fan Yi and Ulan both have children, and Mrs. Gao is so anxious because she wants Gao Huijun to have a son as soon as possible.

A few months apart, Gao Huijun's dress is very different. Everyone around him knows that Zhai Zhe doesn't like luxury, even so, Liu Quan has forty or fifty furrows for Gao Huijun. Because of Liu Suifeng, Liu Quan took special care of Gao Huijun.

After Fan Yongdou came to Jiangnan, Liu Quan obviously felt the pressure. The power of the Shang Alliance is in full swing, and the midday sun cannot always remain at its highest point. Fan Yongdou is a Jin native, but he has never been friends with the Liu family, this was the case in Shanxi back then, and I am afraid it is still the case in Jiangnan now. If the Fan family wants to rise in Jiangnan, they must get a piece of the pie from the business alliance. The Liu family is already rich enough to rival the country, but who would be afraid of having a lot of money?

Today, Gao Huijun wore a goose-yellow fox fur coat, and the whole person looked a lot more mature.

When he saw Zhai Zhe, Gao Huijun lowered his head and didn't dare to look at him directly, but later saw that Zhai Zhe didn't dislike it, so he slowly let go of his courage.

Yicheng is not under the city of Xiangyang, Zhai Zhe has no taboos, he was slightly stunned when he saw Gao Huijun, and suddenly remembered his wife and children in Jiangnan. He left Jiangnan in March and did not know when he would return to Hangzhou. He is like that, and so are the officers and men in the army. Seeing that Chinese New Year's Eve is approaching, the soldiers will inevitably miss their families.

Gao Huijun came to Yicheng to let Zhai Zhe find some solace in the cold winter.

At the same time, Jin Xiaoding's messenger arrived safely in Huguang.