Qu Shiyun is Lin Xiao's fellow villager, all of them are from Changshu, Jiangsu, of course, they are a fellow townsman who does not know how many generations are missing, Changshu is a small place, a water town in the south of the Yangtze River with beautiful mountains and clear waters, Wu Nong's soft language, there are many literati in history, but there are not many bloody heroes, Qu Shiyun is one of them.

As one of the few local national heroes, Qu Shiyun was promoted as a legendary figure in later generations, and Lin Xiao was also familiar with his deeds, the day before yesterday, when Mo Yuanwei mentioned that Qu Shiyun was captured and imprisoned, Lin Xiao suddenly remembered that history introduced that Qu Shiyun had been imprisoned for a period of time before he was killed.

Although he couldn't remember exactly when Qu Shiyun was killed, Lin Xiao felt that since there was still hope for rescue, it was worth working hard to rescue him as soon as possible.

Of course, the real reason for rescuing Qu Shiyun was not because of his fellow villagers, but because Lin Xiao took into account a more far-reaching factor.

Historically, the Southern Ming Dynasty was able to survive for more than ten years, mainly relying on the support of several major warlords, especially the sincere protector of Li Dingguo, the king of Xining. However, there were many opportunities for the Southern Ming Dynasty to exist better, and there were several times when the situation of resisting the Qing Dynasty was quite good, but it was a pity that the warlords of all walks of life could only share hardships and could not share joys and sorrows, and often as soon as the situation improved, they fought for power and profit, suspicion and jealousy, and even killed each other, which greatly weakened the strength of the anti-Qing Dynasty and caused the people's will and military spirit to fluctuate, so that the situation was irreparable.

Lin Xiao thinks that at present, they have Qinzhou and Fangchenggang bases in their hands, and there is no problem in self-protection, but if they want to send troops to counterattack, they lack the support of the imperial court, and even if they lay down the territory, they lack manpower to defend, and his righteous army is all field troops used to attack, not to defend places.

Thinking about the long term, if there is no support from the bigwigs in the DPRK and China, it will inevitably be suspicious and crushed by people from all walks of life in the future.

In order to become famous and rightfully join the anti-Qing team, he decided to take a risk, no matter what, he had to try to rescue Qu Shiyun, and then use Qu Shiyun's prestige to gain the support of the imperial court, even if it was only logistical support, it was better than fighting alone.

After listening to Lin Xiao's introduction, the brothers agreed, especially Duan Zhenghong had long been eager to try, especially the special forces in the 21st century finally came to the 17th century, only once as a machine gunner, and they didn't show their skills yet.

Lin Xiao looked at the five former comrades-in-arms in front of him, today's brothers, and was very moved in his heart.

Without the organization, they would not have been the subordinate relationship they used to be, but as always, they still unconditionally support his decision every time and implement it without hesitation.

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Next, to study the attack route, Lin Xiao already had a preliminary plan in his heart, he opened the military laptop, called up the map, and studied it with everyone.

Due to the rush for time, Lin Xiao decided to make the most of the many rivers and lakes in this place - take the waterway.

Judging from the map, the nearest most direct waterway is to enter the Xun River, the Guijiang River and the Li River, these three rivers are actually the same river, except for a section of mountain road at the beginning, you can go all the way to Guilin, but you must pass through Wuzhou, which is likely to have fallen, and the degree of danger is higher.

The second road is through the Yujiang River, the Qianjiang River, the Liujiang River, the Luoqing River into the Yijiang River, after going ashore you need to walk nearly 50 miles of mountain road, this road is much farther, the whole journey is nearly 600 kilometers, even with the high speed of the pirate ship, you can't catch up in one night, you must delay a day to go ashore to hide your whereabouts, but you can avoid any big city throughout the whole process, and the chance of getting into trouble on the way is very small.

Most of the people supported the second line, and it was the natural reaction of the special combat personnel to not expose it if they could not be exposed.

Lin Xiao's heart is also biased towards the second route, he is not afraid that the Qing army will have many ships and many ships, he is afraid that they will do something like chaining the river, then it will be a bit risky once it is entangled.

In addition to Lin Xiao, Zhang Chenfeng, Duan Zhenghong, Liu Xulei, Zhu Yujia, and Xia Bomin, there are He Shouxin, Situ Zheng, and Qin Shuya, all of whom are martial artists, and their skills are quite good, and they are all locals, so they can recognize the way.

As for Ding Shuai and Li Hanzhi, because of the heavy tasks, Lin Xiao asked them to stay at their original posts.

As a result, Mo Yuanwei quit and insisted on going with him, he felt that he was a local snake, and he had been stationed in Guilin before, and if necessary, he could also contact the details in the city, etc., in short, with him inexhaustible benefits.

"Lord Mo...... Brother Luan...... This ......"

Lin Xiao hesitated and looked at He Shouxin, and when he saw He Shouxin nodding silently, he agreed.

The plan stopped, and they set out that night, and a group of ten people with enough ammunition, divided into two groups, carried the pirate speedboat out of the city to the north, and hid in the mountain road.

The pirate ship is a very light fiberglass hull, and the heaviest thing in the whole ship is the engine, and it is not difficult for four people to carry one at all, and they can take turns to leave two people on guard to lead the way.

Under the leadership of He Shouxin, the group walked more than 20 miles of mountain roads in the dark, and came to a place called Sanli Village, where there was a small river in the east of the village, and the banks were planted with willows.

The group gently lowered the speedboat into the river, boarded the boat and started the engine, and drove away.

More than an hour later, it entered the Yujiang River, the speedboat accelerated all the way to the vicinity of Guigang, Lin Xiao turned on the infrared night vision telescope, observing the situation on the riverside, there are some lights on the riverbank, there will be several barracks-like buildings every once in a while, it seems that although this is the front line, the Qing army is still resting after conquering Yulin, and has not yet sent troops to attack.

Soon there was a big bend in front, here is the confluence of the three rivers of the Yujiang River, the Qianjiang River and the Xunjiang River, and the bank of the river is Guiping City, where the Ming army is also temporarily garrisoned.

Bypass Guiping and turn left into the Qianjiang River, along the Qianjiang River all the way up the river is the 100,000 mountain area, both sides are black and swarthy peaks, the river is full of dangerous shoals, rarely see villages, there is no fishing fire at all.

After driving not far away, the river narrows abruptly, the water flow becomes more and more rapid, and the towering strange peaks on both sides form a steep gorge, Lin Xiao knows that this should be a place called Ballista, which is the exit of the famous Dateng Gorge.

Legend here the original big vine across the river, day and night floating, can be for people to climb across the river, so the name of the big vine gorge, in the early Ming Dynasty the Yao people here had a large-scale uprising, in the official army suppressed the uprising when the big vine was cut off, so later it was also called the broken vine gorge.

Lin Xiao saw a reef on both sides of the river, and knew that there were reefs lurking under the water here, coupled with the whirlpool of the river, the raging tide was reversed, and the danger was numerous, so he hurriedly beckoned everyone to sit down, and the two speedboats slowed down one after the other, and cautiously went upstream.

The turbulent river rolled up the waves from time to time, and the tips of the waves naughtily licked everyone's clothes and faces, and the two speedboats passed through the waves for a while, and suddenly rose into the air, turning the people on the boats into a mess.

About half an hour later, as the Qianjiang River turned left again, the river finally opened up, and the speedboat that drove out of the canyon accelerated all the way again, and when it was nearly five o'clock in the morning, it entered the Luoqing River and drove through the east of Liuzhou, and the road in front was full of two mountains and one river, and the coast was deserted.

After about another hour of driving, after passing the mouth of a tributary called the Luojiang River, the sky was already slightly bright, and Lin Xiao decided to find a hidden river bay nearby.

Everyone packed up their belongings and dragged the speedboat up to the river bank and into a mountainous dense forest more than 200 meters offshore.

The east is white, the sky is almost dawn, Lin Xiao asked everyone to take out the wide cloak prepared in advance from their backpacks and change into civilian clothes, in case they are found by passing by to cover up a little, here is still fifty kilometers away from Guilin, it is unlikely to meet the brigade of Qing soldiers, but there will inevitably be small villages on the bank of the river, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not be bumped into by mountain hunters or woodcutters, so they can only disguise themselves slightly to hide people's eyes and ears.

The crowd took off their helmets, tidied up their hair buns, and put their cloaks and plainclothes on the outside of their uniforms, and then found a place to hide, drink water and eat dry food for a short rest.

Since Temasek, Lin Xiao has asked his special combat team members to keep all their hair, only shaved but not shaved, in case of disguised reconnaissance in the future, so after more than half a year, everyone's hair can barely be combed into a bun, except for some trouble when taking a bath, everyone is gradually getting used to it.

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