"Burn it, this is not the Qinhuai River, and there are no businesswomen singing the melodious music. This gentle hometown is not the destination of the Eight Banners men after all."

Duduolema turned around, looked at the small town connecting the north and the south, and quietly ordered his subordinates.

Tunji nodded and led the wolf-like banner men to surround the town. Then, a raging fire broke out in the town, and those who were still in the town ran towards the outside of the town in panic.

"Kill! Leave no one behind!" Berenikan, who led the men to surround the way, issued orders to his subordinates while unfurling his bow and arrows.

The arrows instantly killed the people who were trying to escape and turned them upside down.

Heart-wrenching cries were mixed with curses, and the people were driven back by arrows that were pressing forward step by step.

The fire reflected the sky red and thick smoke billowed.

Duduo sat on his horse and watched expressionlessly. Although there were no Ming troops stationed here, he seemed to have lost the battle and was stabbed hard in the heart.

In the light of the fire, he seemed to see the mocking smile of the old Juren.

Not long after, Tunji ran over with a gray face.

"Your Majesty, it's clean!"

"Let's go, Liu Liangzuo sent someone to say that Hangzhou is heavily guarded and prepare for a vicious battle."

After saying that, the army set off, with Duduo riding his horse in the middle of the army and Nikan guarding him on the side, heading towards Hangzhou.

Not long after leaving, a ranger from the former army came to report that a special envoy from the Ming Army had arrived. Duduo knew that it was King Lu who should have replied, so he ordered the messenger to be brought to the Chinese army to meet him.

Soon, an old horse appeared in Duduo's sight.

Gao Qiqian, who was riding on the horse, was sweating nervously. He had already seen that the man without armor riding on the horse in front of him was Prince Yu Duduo.

"I am here to deliver a message to Prince Yu of the Qing Dynasty on the orders of King Lu, the Supervisor of the Ming Dynasty." He stood up and dismounted from his horse, bowed his hands and saluted.

"How presumptuous! Why don't you bow to me, the Prince of the Qing Dynasty, after you meet him?" Nikan shouted angrily when he saw that the man in front of him spoke in a non-yin and yang way.

At this time, Gao Qiqian saw the black smoke billowing in the town in the distance. His heart trembled and he replied with a pale face: "I only worship the king of Ming Dynasty, not the king of the enemy."

Nikan was about to have a fit, but was stopped by Dodo, who raised his fingers at Gao Qiqian.

Gao Qiqian hurriedly presented the letter box.

Duduo did not avoid others. He opened the letter and unfolded the paper. His expression changed drastically. The content of the letter was very simple. There was only one poem: Wang Shibei set the day of the Central Plains, and the family sacrifices were not forgotten.
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Nikan, who was standing behind him, stretched his neck and glanced at the content, and said to himself: "Is this how this poem is used?"

Duduo's face turned pale at first and then turned green, and then he laughed angrily. He couldn't help but said to Gao Qi, "Don't all of you wise people only use their words?"

Although he didn't know what was written in the letter, Gao Qiqian, who observed carefully, could tell that Duduo was very angry.

"The prince is joking. Others may not know, but I am definitely not very good at it." Gao Qiqian said with a smile.

"Go back and tell your master that I will definitely take his head from his neck as a sacrifice to my father. Get lost!" Duduo said in a cold tone.

Gao Qiqian was overjoyed, so he hurriedly bowed and excused himself. Just as he was about to get on his horse, he heard a "whoosh" sound and an arrow pierced his calf.

Caught off guard, Gao Qiqian fell from his horse and screamed in horror.

When the Qing army set off again, Nikan rode past, spat at Gao Qiqian on the ground, and said with a ferocious smile: "Is that how that line of poetry is used?"

After saying that, he rode straight ahead.

Lying on the ground, Gao Qi felt heartbreaking pain, and the arrow penetrated his calf.

Looking at the dust constantly floating in the sky, Gao Qiqian wiped the sweat from his face, struggled to sit up, jumped one leg in front of the horse, tried his best to climb on the horse's back, and drove the horse away.

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Liu Liangzuo did not attack Hangzhou City. He had already seen that Hangzhou City had been prepared. If the ants attacked the city, they would suffer heavy losses.

His troops were forward and did not carry many artillery, so he could only wait for the main force to arrive.

At that time, just follow the example of the Battle of Yangzhou and use the red cannon to blow open the city gate.

Under the Fengshan Gate in the city, Qi Biaojia, the official of the governor's office, was directing Minzhuang to block the city gate with bricks, stones and mud.

After reporting to Zhu Changzi the news that Qian Su's rebel army was on the way, Qi Biaojia accepted the king's order and led Minzhuang to reinforce and seal all the city gates except Shuimen.

At this time, other city gates are under construction at the same time.

"Sir, how strong must this be to be reinforced to withstand the Tatar cannons?" The person guarding the city gate today was Niu San, a small flag officer. He stood next to Qi Biaojia and whispered.

Qi Biaojia shook his head, he didn't know, but naturally the thicker the better.

After failing to strike up a conversation, Niu San smiled, turned and walked away. The moment he turned his head, his face suddenly changed, and he glanced at Minzhuang who was working with a gloomy look.

If the city gate is blocked, there will be no need for them, the city guards, to guard it.

At this moment, a large group of people came from a distance. It looked like there were hundreds of people, and they immediately surrounded the city gate.

The first person in charge was none other than Lu Ruoteng, the political envoy to the left in Zhejiang.

"I've seen Lu Fantai!" Qi Biaojia hurriedly stepped forward to salute.

"Brother Qi, you're welcome." Lu Ruoteng was thin and short, looking a little frail.

Qi Biaojia saw that the formation was a bit big and didn't know what was going on, so he quietly stood aside and watched.

The people who were working on the construction also cast curious glances.

"Everyone, it's okay, keep working!" Lu Ruoteng walked towards Xiaoqiu Niu San and shouted to the people with a smile.

Niu San saw that the high official in front of him seemed to be walking towards him, and his eyelids began to jump.

He looked around at his men, who looked at each other, and then slowly moved closer to Niu San.

"Are you Niu San, a small flag officer of the Cheng Cao Army?"

"Greetings, my lord!"

Lu Ruoteng looked at the muscular man kneeling on the ground and pondered for a while.

"Do you know what I want from you?"

"Young people don't know."

Niu San shook his head and looked at Lu Ruoteng innocently.

"The supervisor of the country has orders to disarm the city commander and take him into custody. To tell you the truth, your matter has been exposed!"

Seeing that Niu San was still pretending, Lu Ruoteng shook his head and sighed. He had already thoroughly investigated the Cheng Cao Army. If he didn't investigate, he wouldn't know. If he did, he would be shocked.

By offering huge rewards and reporting on each other, Lu Ruoteng easily uncovered several small flag officials who had been bribed by the Tatars. However, these people all confessed that they had never placed Tatars in the city gates under their jurisdiction. What they had done

, it’s just a record of daily entry and exit from the city gate to the upline.

As a result, only the Cheng Cao Army who was on duty at Fengshan Gate was left.

Lu Ruoteng did not rush to take it down, but first summoned hundreds of households for questioning. The hundred households confessed that there was nothing unusual on weekdays, but that the small flag officer Niu San often found a few other small flag officers to replace him.<

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Chapter completed!