waited until it was dark, He Shouxin and Mo Yuanwei did not come back, Feng Anmin and the others came back and reported the situation they had detected to Lin Xiao.

The Qing army mainly had three barracks in Guilin City, one between Ronghu Lake and Xishan outside the Rongshu Gate in the south of the city, and they did not go to inspect it; The Jingjiang Royal Mansion at the foot of Duxiu Peak Mountain in the city is where Kong Youde's old nest is located, and there are also large troops stationed next to the palace; Outside the north gate, at the foot of the Wind Cave Mountain, there is a larger barracks, the camp tent stretches for six or seven miles along the foot of the Wind Cave Mountain, they can't get close at all, there is no way to find out the details of the barracks, only the barracks of the barracks are not far from the embankment of the Li River.

It seems that we can only wait for Mo Yuanwei's information.

But the city gate is closed, Mo Yuanwei looks like he won't be able to come back tonight, nothing will happen, right?

Lin Xiao nibbled on a piece of hare meat, but he was faintly worried in his heart.

……

Mo Yuanwei didn't have anything to do, and was fidgeting and waiting for one of his old friends.

Mo Yuanwei once stationed in Guilin, he used to have a comrade-in-arms named Yu Cheng, the two are life and death brothers who joined the army together, because the two have good fists and feet, among which Mo Yuanwei is known for his strength and fierceness, and Yu Cheng's martial arts are famous for his skills, and he is known for his dexterity, which is generally higher than Mo Yuanwei. The two of them charge forward every time they go into battle, because of their bravery and repeated exploits, they quickly stood out in the army, and later they were promoted to still be colleagues of the same thousand households, because of their personalities, they almost became brothers of the opposite sex, and promised to marry their children in the future.

Later, Mo Yuanwei was ordered to change to Qinzhou, and Yu Cheng was favored by Zhang Tongchang, the new governor of Liangguang, and set up a new thousand households with the hundred households he led as the backbone, and appointed him as the leader of the thousand households, and was incorporated into the main force of the Ming army to garrison the key pass north of Guilin.

Yu Cheng has a cousin named Yu Gui, who opened a few rice shops in Guilin, Nanning and other places, relying on Yu Cheng's relationship business is quite passable, because there is often a grain import and export business, often between Guilin, Nanning and Qinzhou, often for Yu Cheng to bring some grain, meat and dried fruits to Mo Yuanwei, Mo Yuanwei often asked him to bring some local fish to Yu Cheng.

At the beginning of the year, the Qing army Kong Youde troops out of Hunan to attack Guangxi, stationed in Quanzhou and Yanguan are mostly the Yunnan army that came to Qinwang, the supervisor Qu Shiyun because of the Guangxi local soldiers repeatedly after the vicious war consumption for a long time can not recuperate, had to comfort the reuse of the Yunnan army, let them defend the key places in northern Guizhou, the main force of the Gui army has been less than 10,000 cronies of the Guilin army to the south of Guilin Pingle area, as a result, these Yunnan generals not only fled without a fight, but plundered all the way, the strict pass was quickly broken, Yu Cheng was captured because of the collapse of the team, and he had no choice but to surrender to the Qing with a general, full of grievances, he became a general of the Qing army.

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In early October, the Qing army invaded Guilin, and Yu Cheng also entered the Guilin camp with the army.

Originally, the garrison of Guilin City was also the Dian army, and the Qing soldiers were scattered before they were killed, and the city was empty, so that Zhu Hengshu, the king of Jingjiang, and Qu Shiyun, the superintendent of Jingjiang, who refused to flee, were captured.

Kong Youde was overjoyed, imprisoned Zhu Hengshu, occupied his palace and changed it to his own Dingnan palace, and tried his best to win over Qu Shiyun, who had defeated him several times, and repeatedly lured him to surrender, but Qu Shiyun sternly refused.

Kong Youde knew that he could not be persuaded for a while, so he ordered Qu Shiyun and Zhang Tongchang to be imprisoned in the temporary prison of Fengdong Mountain, in order to slowly persuade them to surrender. Qu Shiyun resisted with a hunger strike, Kong Youde had no choice, so he replaced the food delivery person with a former Ming Dynasty head of the Ministry of Rites, and the guards were also replaced by former Ming soldiers, and Qu Shiyun was willing to eat.

Because Yu Cheng was Zhang Tongchang's old department, he happened to be selected to lead the team to guard Qu Shiyun, he admired the Qu Pavilion Department and Governor Zhang very much, and always wanted to send a message to the Qu Pavilion Department privately and try to rescue him.

A few days ago, one of Yu Gui's buddies went to Qinzhou to do errands, and Yu Cheng secretly instructed him to see Mo Yuanwei, hoping that he would contact him in many ways and find a way to rescue him.

In the afternoon of the same day, Mo Yuanwei and He Shouxin disguised themselves and entered the city, touched Yu Gui's shop and connected with Yu Gui, but got bad news.

It turned out that a few days ago, a soldier under Yu Cheng privately sent a secret to Jiao Lian, the old department of the Qu Pavilion Department, to meet him to counterattack Guilin. Unexpectedly, he was arrested when he returned, and Jiao Lian's reply letter on his body was also searched, Kong Youde knew that he could no longer change Qu Shiyun's determination, and he was afraid of leaving behind trouble, so he decided to kill him, and he would be executed in the near future.

At the same time, the former head of the Ministry of Rites and Yu Cheng's department were also implicated, were closely interrogated, everyone passed the hall, Yu Cheng, as the chief officer of the army, was also detained, and was not allowed to leave the camp before passing the customs.

Mo Yuanwei and the others had no choice but to stay in the store, waiting for news, until the city gate was closed, and they didn't see Yu Cheng coming, and they didn't see Yu Cheng until the afternoon of the next day.

It turned out that Kong Youde's subordinates had been tortured and couldn't ask why, but it happened that the soldier and the head of the Ministry of Rites were fellow villagers, so they had to put all the blame on him and did it hastily. After Yu Cheng and the rest of his subordinates were reprimanded, they were all released and regained their freedom, so that Yu Cheng was able to leave the camp for an excuse to come to connect.

At that moment, Yu Cheng gave a full explanation of the terrain and troop deployment near Fengdong Mountain, and made an appointment with the time to start tonight, as well as the location and method of contact, Mo Yuanwei and He Shouxin hurriedly went out of the city and rushed back to the Swallow Rock Ancient Temple.

After listening to Mo Yuanwei's report, Lin Xiao made up his mind, now the tens of thousands of main forces of Kong Youde's army went south to besiege Liuzhou, the number of garrisons in Guilin is actually not very large, and the three battalions only have a total of four or five thousand soldiers.

At the moment, everyone was summoned to arrange a plan of action, and the pre-agreed time was at three o'clock in the middle of the night, when the Qing army's vigilance was the most lax, and there was enough time to escape at night after saving people.

Considering the concealment and safety of the operation, Lin Xiao decided to leave the cold weapon team members on the periphery, and immediately divided the whole team into three groups:

Feng Suqin led the maid and Yao soldiers, a total of eight people, as the first group, set off at three o'clock with a horse to the designated place at the foot of Yu Mountain to prepare to pick up people, and immediately rode back to the ancient temple along the original road after receiving people, waiting for the rendezvous;

Duan Zhenghong led Xia Bomin, Zhu Yujia, Situ Zheng and Qin Shuya as the second group, and set off at three o'clock to dive to the bank of the Li River in Yushan to find a blocking location and prepare to respond;

Lin Xiao led Zhang Chenfeng, Liu Xulei, He Shouxin and Mo Yuanwei as the third group, responsible for infiltrating Fengdong Mountain, contacting Yu Cheng and entering the cave prison to save people.

Everyone received the order, hastily had dinner, and took a nap, Lin Xiao and Duan Zhenghong and Feng Suqin discussed the possible unexpected situations and countermeasures in detail.

In the blink of an eye, night fell, a full moon rose, it was the middle of the moon, the moonlight was bright, and the members of each group nervously checked their equipment and prepared to set off.