Outside Suzhou City, there were high-decorated colorful sheds. The civil and military officials, scholars and celebrities in Suzhou were all dressed clearly and stood up.

Two couplets were hung in front of the city gate, "On the 80th day of the year, Dai Fa was loyal to Taizu, representing the figures of the 17th dynasty; 60,000 people were united in their hearts and died, and the country of Ming Dynasty was preserved for three hundred miles."

A group of people came from afar. They were ragged and covered in dust, but everyone was full of energy and mightyness.

Chen Mingyu and Yan Yingyuan were riding a horse in front. The first couplet that caught his eye when approaching Suzhou was the first to see him. This was Yan Yingyuan's last writing before his death, because Hou Xuanyan deceived Suzhou City and also solved his death plan.

Chen Ming was crying when he met his old man, and he was already crying. These two sentences made him and the Jiangyin man behind him feel like he met a confidant.

The Suzhou defenders lined up in a row. They were newly trained recruits from Gu Yanwu and Xia Wanchun, and they were the first time they were pulled out to appear. Everyone straightened their waists and shoulders, raised their heads and chests.

After staying alone in the lonely city for 80 days, when he saw the pure Ming military uniform again, Yan Yingyuan felt like he was a different life. Looking at these red turbans and green cloth armor, his inner expectation came back little by little. Perhaps the Ming Dynasty really had hope.

As he approached Suzhou, he, Chen Mingyu and others dismounted and handed the whip to their personal soldiers, and walked to the city.

Hou Xuanyan felt his nose sore inexplicably. These people didn't look like a little human. The deep eye sockets, black eye sockets, and the faces that were smoky by artillery fire were not a white place.

"Who is Yan Yingyuan?"

"It's just the lower class." Yan Yingyuan had no official position and did not dare to call himself a subordinate. Speaking of which, he was just a retired official. Dorgon issued a hair shaving order, and Jiangyin was excited and no one wanted to shave his hair and change his clothes. Chen Mingyu, the then official, was determined to rebel against the Qing Dynasty, but knew that he had no talent to command troops, so he remembered his old friend Yan Yingyuan. He then dug out this rare shining point in the late Ming Dynasty, and he immediately did a big job of keeping a name in history.

Hou Xuanyan hurriedly stepped forward: "I have long admired General Yan's name and finally saw my true face. Come on, let's enter the city quickly." After saying that, he looked at the scholar who had not dried up his tears. Hou Xuanyan asked eagerly: "Is this probably Chen Ming meeting Lord Chen?"

Chen Mingyu was flattered. Although Hou Xuanyan on the opposite side looked like a young man last year, he was indeed a real governor. His official position was several times larger than that of him, the ninth-rank dictionary. "Chen Mingyu was a mere dictionary, how dare he call himself an adult in front of the little master Hou?"

The literati and gentlemen in the Jiangnan area like to call Hou Xuanyan the little master because they admire Hou Dongzeng. Hou Xuanyan had no choice but to recognize the reality of this and accepted it with a smile.

Hou Xuanyan held one arm in one hand and said, "Today welcoming Jiangyin men into the city, there is no adult or not. Come on, let's enter the city together."

As soon as he entered Suzhou City, he saw the streets crowded with people. The eyes of the people were filled with awe and curiosity, and he looked at the Jiangyin soldiers and horses with his feet raised his feet. The small Jiangyin City had already become famous in the Jiangnan land because of the feat of resistance to the Qing Dynasty in the past 80 days. You must know that Shi Kefa had been in the Southern Ming army and had only been guarding Yangzhou for one day. Compared with Yangzhou, Jiangyin was difficult to compare with the weapons of the city wall, money, food, and horses. Under such extreme conditions, these native Jiangyin people guarded 80,000 Qing soldiers for a full eighty days.

If Hou Xuanyan hadn't invited them to evacuate the whole city and come to Suzhou, they would have stayed...

There are more and more people on the road, and Suzhou recruits struggled to maintain the smooth road. The bustling area in front of the road section in front of Hou Xuanyan's house was already blocked by the crowd.

Hou Xuanyan simply stopped, climbed a stone stairs, and glanced at countless people. He stretched out his hands and clasped his fists and said loudly, "Dear fellow villagers, please listen to me."

Although the street was crowded, it immediately became silent because of this sound. The woman holding the ignorant child in her arms hurriedly covered the baby's mouth, for fear that he would cry and could not hear Hou Xuan's voice clearly.

Hou Xuanyan raised his voice and said loudly: "Everyone, since the Jiashen National Incident, the traitor Wu Sangui opened Shanhai Pass and led the Qing Dynasty into the pass. Over the past year, the land of China has sunk and the people have suffered. Yangzhou is not far from us, and the corpses were killed everywhere and blood flowed. My hometown of Hou Xuanyan was also slaughtered, and my country women and women were tragically humiliated. I often say to the Jiading survivors, "The elders in my hometown suffered this disaster, and we, the men of Jiading should all die in battle." Now we have a life, and we will not do anything else, but to avenge.

These people in front of you are good men in Jiangyin. They do not have the death penalty for the Jiading man because they have guarded their hometown. Their old wives, sisters and daughters do not have to be humiliated; their ancestral tablets and ancestors’ graves will not be trampled on."

The streets were quiet, as if a needle fell to the ground could be heard clearly. The men of Jiangyin, including Yan Yingyuan, all proudly raised their heads. They could bear all the praise, which was the dignity they had obtained for their desperate efforts. Xu Yuanbao, Fan Xian and others of Jiading had long been tearful and cried. The people of Suzhou empathized with it. They were not far from Yangzhou, and many of their relatives were in Yangzhou. The Qing soldiers killed them for ten days, and they were all their relatives and friends. Thinking that Suzhou had not yet fallen, they were both glad and afraid.

Hou Xuanyan's eyes were also filled with moisture. He breathed a long sigh and said loudly: "Now, the cavalry of the Qing soldiers is already on the way to Suzhou. I want to take you to guard Suzhou. I want to take you to protect your parents from being killed and your wife and daughter from being insulted. Are you willing to fight with me?"

"I am willing to follow the young master to fight to the death!"

An excited civil servant suddenly blushed and shouted loudly. Hou Xuanyan turned around and saw that it was Gu Shouzheng, the second uncle of his wife Gu Ling'er.

Hong Yizhuo, Xu Yuanbao and other people in Jiading roared desperately.

One person moved, and everyone followed. The people around him were soon infected and roared: "Fight to death! Fight to death...

Just like a stone pouring into the calm lake, ripples spread out, with them as the center, the dark and boundless people responded and shouted.

In the small attic of Hou Mansion, Ji'er hugged Gu Ling'er and stared at Hou Xuanyan's back in the middle of the crowd. His eyes were as faint as wine, and he was drunk before drinking.

It took her a long time to wake up. When she looked back suddenly, Xiaoxiao, who was sitting beside her, was staring in front of her, with a light that she had never seen before. Her eyes seemed to be dripping with water.

Ji'er spat and cursed in her heart: "The shameless little hoof has moved the heart of spring. Sooner or later, she will hook up with Xiao Hou's brother..."

In the teahouse next to the street, eight strong men beside Gu Youde protected him and sat upstairs to drink tea.
Chapter completed!