On the eighth day of the seventh month, before dawn, the White Lotus Sect soldiers in Qingzhou City left the camp early in accordance with the pre-rehearsed procedures, and began to line up on both sides of the street, guarding the city gate inside and outside, and the south city gate soon ushered in the leaders of the White Lotus Sect who revolted in various places.

Yang Shiqi even found a group of Taoist priests who did things according to the situation, these people were not from the White Lotus Sect, or they were simply selling their mouths to make a living, and welcomed their comrades from all over the uprising to gather in Qingzhou City at the city gate.

In the morning, more than 600 people came one after another, there were leaders, there were messengers, Yang Shiqi saw that the number of people was about the same, so he loudly announced that the auspicious time had arrived, and suddenly a group of people knelt on the ground under his command, and shouted "Long live the generalissimo!" The others didn't know why, so they knelt first, and waited until they saw Dong Yangao who Shi Shiran came out of the sudden realization, and they all showed a look of indignation.

Yang Shiqi counted the people and found that there was a weak Wang Xuan missing, and as a result, the people below became noisy, and the Ming Dynasty said sarcastically: "Wang Xuan is very beautiful now, saying that he wants to lay down Linqu and dedicate it to the Buddha Mother, and is calling on all the leaders to discuss the plan with him! It seems that he is not afraid of the official army, Elder Dong, oh no, Generalissimo Dong, do you want to send someone to ask him again, to see what good strategy he has to resist the official army?"

"Phew!" Dong Yangao's henchmen chirped: "What kind of thing is Wang Xuan, and he dares to say that he can defeat Linqu without shame? Be careful of his own Jimo City, which was copied by the official army!"

"I see that more than one Wang Xuan wants to provoke trouble!" Gao Yang'er said in a strange manner: "You also have to think about why you provoked trouble? Why haven't you seen him for half a month, a month, Elder Dong has given himself the title of Generalissimo of the World's Soldiers and Horses, and a few of us are not used to it, and these eight kings, sixty-four hexagrams, I have never heard of it, is this for me Gao Yang'er, whether to be the king of the Eight Palaces, or to be the chief soldier?"

Gao Yang'er said a very important issue, the position in the church and the position in the army seem to be separated by Dong Yangao. Of course, this was Yang Shiqi's idea, and naturally Yang Shiqi came out to explain.

"The Eight Kings is the position in the sect, and the general soldier is the official position when leading the troops to fight," Yang Shiqi said: "There is no conflict." ”

"What kind of officer is above the general army?" Gao Yang'er said.

"It's the Great General. Yang Shiqi said.

"What about the generals?"

"It's the Generalissimo. Yang Shiqi said.

"It turned out to be Elder Dong!" Gao Yang'er exclaimed exaggeratedly: "It's really eye-catching! The White Lotus Sect Brotherhood has always been elected, when did Elder Dong hold a meeting without telling us and elect a position like Generalissimo?"

Dong Yangao blushed and didn't speak, Yang Shiqi said: "Now it's different from the past, now that the White Lotus Sect has revolted, and as a soldier in wartime, it naturally needs to be disciplined and obeyed from top to bottom, and now this conference is also like this, the reason why the brothers in the sect are invited to gather together is to talk about the future use of troops, it can't be like now, they act independently for each other, and the officers and soldiers can easily break it one by one- Only a pair of chopsticks is not easy to break; who here can say that he can repel the officers and soldiers by himself alone?"

As soon as Yang Shiqi said this, the hall suddenly fell silent, everyone was silent, and no one dared to pick this head. But after all, it is tens of thousands of officers and soldiers, how can these thousands of men and horses in each person's hands be able to eat? Don't look at these guys one by one, but in fact, no one has ever fought with the officials and soldiers face to face, it is nothing more than breaking through the county government, occupying a county and thinking that he is a middle boss, when the Buddha mother was going to revolt in Shandong, a hundred calls, big and small leaders are anxious to think of the soldiers, nothing more than a match for the place, and now they have really picked the fruit down, but no one is psychologically prepared to fight with the officials and soldiers.

Seeing that no one spoke for a long time, Dong Yangao snorted coldly, "What is the situation now, if you still want to let others fight to the death with the officials and soldiers, and sit next to you to collect profits, then this seat can only say one sentence, there are no eggs under the nest." ”

All the leaders were silent and gasped.

"Then you say," said Bai Baier, "what should I do?"

Dong Yangao gestured to Yang Shiqi, and Yang Shiqi unfolded the map and began to compare: "The imperial court sent Liu Sheng, Marquis of Anyuan, to suppress the uprising, and at the same time ordered Wang Wen, the chief military officer of Hebei, to defend from the north, and ordered the Shandong Metropolitan Division to intercept it in the east, and ordered the Henan Metropolitan Division to guard the southwest two roads, imitating us to smuggle across the Yellow River and develop southward. Nanjing sent Zhang Hui, the commander of the Shence Army, to block the Taihang Valley and prevent us from flowing into the mountains - it seems that there is only one way south to Xuzhou, which is why we are attacking the line of Linqu and Linyi. But after the students researched, they found that there might be another way to the north. ”

"Oh?" Dong Yangao was slightly surprised, his original plan was given by Yang Shiqi, saying that he would take Linyi and go all the way south from Xuzhou and Suzhou to Nanjing! But now Yang Shiqi seems to have a new plan, which is to march east to seize the eastern section of the canal.

"You should know that the millions of military and civilians in Beijing rely on the supply of Jiangnan for all their use, and all supplies must go north from the Grand Canal," Yang Shiqi said: "As long as we cut off the canal for three months, the capital of Beijing will become a dead city, and then we will go north with an elite army, and it will be like a bamboo." ”

"As we said before," someone said, "didn't you capture Nanjing?"

"Nanjing is guarded only by the crown prince," Yang Shiqi said unhurriedly: "If the crown prince is killed, won't the emperor of Beijing be appointed again? There are also the kings of Han and Zhao! ”

Dong Yangao began to shake his head: "Zhu Di is not the emperor of straw bales, if the canal is intercepted, then it will not send 50,000 troops, he will definitely send the whole country to rescue, how can we resist it at that time?"

"Hey, my lord is too worried. Yang Shiqi shook his head and said with a smile: "Now that the three provinces have launched an uprising, the momentum is huge, and the emperor has only sent 50,000 troops, because he has no troops to send! Therefore, the student said that the current situation is the best situation, the emperor was dragged by the northern captives, if he can't take advantage of this opportunity to go north and attack the emperor with the Tatars, how long will he wait?"

Whispering in the audience, Yang Shiqi's plan seemed to be seamless. However, Yang Shiqi had long known that the Xu Su area was not without soldiers, and even the officers and soldiers had already set up a pocket array waiting for their arrival. As for the cutting off of the Grand Canal, it will naturally seriously threaten the safety of Beijing, but Yang Shiqi knows that this rabble will not be able to take that step at all, and will be defeated.

Suddenly, there was a shout: "The Buddha Mother is here—"

I saw a woman slowly coming from the hall, and the sun shone on her white gauze skirt, as if it had gilded her, so that all the congregants were willing to kneel on the ground, shouting for a childless old mother.

Yang Shiqi saw the face of the Buddha Mother this time, and it was a face without a veil, and he couldn't help but pause for a breath.

Such a face is indeed irresistible, and it is indeed a beauty that cannot be described in any words, but her expression is cold and oppressive.

"The Buddha Mother is here," someone shouted, "We have the backbone of the heart!"

"What Hall Master Liu said is very true. Gao Yang'er nodded his head and said: "There is the Buddha Mother, the big banner is a tree, and the heroes of all walks of life in the world, who will not return to their hearts! It also saves Wang Xuan from tossing blindly in Jimo, and Elder Dong also jumped to the stage with a roar." ”