This is the credit of Li Yuanyin, the commander of the Jinyi Guard beside Ji Qingwen.

It turned out to be Li Yuanyin, a senior spy, who took advantage of the White Lotus Sect's large-scale siege of the city a few days ago, and sent a few spies under the name of Jinyiwei to infiltrate Wenzhou City.

The White Lotus Sect was originally a rabble, and it was not a big deal for tens of thousands of people to have one or two fresh faces mixed in. And according to Li Yuanyin's instructions, when these people entered the city, they also brought some silver taels, clothes, dry food and other items, and with these things, they quickly saved their popularity in Wenzhou City.

It was these people who searched everywhere for news, and took advantage of the darkness of the night to write the information into a note, tied it to a stone, and threw it out of the already not very tall city wall of Wenzhou City. Now Xu Hongru is busy digging tunnels, where can he still manage the affairs of the city, and he doesn't know anything about the spies in the city.

But Ji Qingwen was a hard-working code farmer in the 21st century before he crossed over, although he was useless and accomplished, his understanding of the importance of various information and intelligence was superior.

After he learned that Xu Hongru was planning to dig a tunnel to leave Wenzhou, he immediately realized that this was an extremely important piece of information, and immediately ordered Li Yuanyin to step up his search for information, or at least find out where the exit of the tunnel was.

The reliability of the excavated tunnel at the end of the Ming Dynasty is not as good as that of the road tunnel or subway passage excavated in later generations, and there is no accurate direction at all. In fact, Xu Hongru didn't need any accurate direction, he just wanted to be able to dig out Wenzhou City, and not to dig the exit in Ji Qingwen's military camp was considered a great success.

Therefore, no matter how much information was spent, in the end, only an ambiguous message came that "the exit is probably to the north".

That's the trouble.

North - Wenzhou City Oujiang River line is the north, hundreds of miles of routes, there may be the exit of the tunnel, always pull up tens of thousands of horses, inch by inch carpet search, right? If you really want to do this and make such a big move, maybe Xu Hongru will have to change the direction when he hears the wind and grass, so that the officials and soldiers will be empty.

At this time, Ji Qingwen suddenly remembered that he had watched a classic war science and education movie more than a dozen times before crossing over - "Tunnel War"!

In the movie, in order to explore the situation of the guerrillas digging tunnels, the Japanese devils specially buried a large water tank in the ground, and judged the general direction of the tunnel excavation through the echo from this water tank.

This method actually didn't work in the movie, and at most you could only hear the general direction. However, Ji Qingwen is much more shrewd than the Japanese devils, and Xu Hongru is far inferior to the anti-Japanese guerrillas, and it is more than enough to use this method to deal with Xu Hongru.

So Ji Qingwen spent a little money, bought seven or eight large vats, sent people to bury them in the mud in the north of Wenzhou every ten miles, and sent a few brothers with sensitive ears to listen to the sound coming from the water tank.

With different sounds coming from different places, Ji Qingwen quickly deduced the approximate location of the tunnel excavation. After that, Ji Qingwen came to fight poison with poison, and asked Liu Kongzhao to gather more than 2,000 officers and soldiers, and dig his trench in this place, what he wanted was to dig the foundation so that Xu Hongru's tunnel could not be dug.

When Zhu Yuanzhang had just established the Ming Dynasty, in order to reduce the military salaries and military expenses paid by the imperial court and thus alleviate the country's difficulties, he set up a military system of guarding the tuntian, and adopted the method of employing soldiers in agriculture to achieve a certain degree of self-sufficiency in the local garrison troops.

However, after 200 years of changes, except for the frontier army of the Ming Dynasty, the soldiers of the guards in the interior have been completely reduced to yeoman farmers or tenants of hereditary officers, and they may not be able to spend five days engaged in military training for 365 days a year, and 360 days of farming.

Therefore, the guard system, by the end of the Ming Dynasty and the Chongzhen period, had been completely bankrupt militarily, but there had long been a large group of organized peasants who were good at farming......

And these peasants gave Ji Qingwen a lot of help at this time.

When they heard the order to dig a trench, they immediately came to their senses, picked up countless farm tools and dug them in the field.

Because it was Ji Qingwen's idea, Ji Qingwen was naturally responsible for the food supply during the two days of work. And Ji Qingwen is a rich man, and he knows very well the truth of "soldiers and horses are not moved, grain and grass go first", and he has never been stingy in terms of food, although all fresh raw materials in the market are bought, every meal is boiled into several large pots of chowder porridge for these farmers and soldiers to eat.

These chowder porridges are naturally coarser than the military rations of the Ming Wu Army, but they are also meat, vegetarian and polished rice, which can be regarded as a rare delicacy for these guards who rarely eat a full meal a year.

Eating these "delicious" soldiers, they naturally worked harder, but in two days, a trench as deep as one zhang was dug within a distance of the elder in the north of Wenzhou City, and the progress of the project was very rapid.

The White Lotus Sect in Wenzhou City, because of the lack of food and clothing, did not work so efficiently, until two days later they dug the place of the trench, but they could no longer dig it, and when they looked up, they only saw a large group of officers and soldiers standing on their heads, as if they were watching the crickets and looking at themselves.

This made these White Lotus Sect disciples who had worked hard to "dig through" the tunnel in a dilemma, and they could only raise their hands and surrender on the spot.

The war has developed to this extent, and Ji Qingwen has changed from a life-and-death duel with the White Lotus Sect to a game of cat and mouse. Therefore, he didn't want to embarrass these little rats who drilled holes in the ground, and ordered people to arrest all these disciples, and ordered someone with an honest face, and asked him to go back and report to the sect leader Xu Hongru, so that he would stop doing such useless things, and just concentrate on waiting for death in Wenzhou City.

When it was over, Ji Qingwen also specially instructed one more sentence: "Please ask Sect Master Xu to look for it in the city, see if there are any good coffins left in the city, and you can collect the body of Sect Master Xu." If not, even if you send someone out of the city to say something, I, Ji Qingwen, promise to prepare a good coffin for Sect Master Xu! ”

It was these words that angered the White Lotus Sect Leader Xu Hongru, so that he did not listen to Zhou Xiuying's advice, and led thousands of backbones of the White Lotus Sect, opened the city gate and broke through to the outside of the city.

Naturally, there is no reason for such an unreasonable risky action to succeed.

Although Xu Hongru personally led the operation, under the siege of several armies of the imperial court, he hurriedly threw down the corpses of two thousand White Lotus disciples and retreated.

After so many attempts, Xu Hongru finally completely dispelled the expectation of defeating the official army, and in the name of recuperating from his injuries, he locked himself in the yamen of Wenzhou Mansion alone, and devoted himself to studying the White Lotus Doctrine that he would not even believe in before. As for the military defense in Wenzhou City, it was all entrusted to Zhou Xiuying and Xu Daoqing.

Zhou Xiuying has been following Xu Hongru for nearly 20 years, and she knows that her "sect leader father" will not be able to retreat after every failure, so she doesn't care about him.

In fact, Zhou Xiuying had other plans in her heart.

Don't look at the number of rounds of the official army now, but as long as you choose a rainy night without starlight and moonlight, it is not very difficult for you, Xu Daoqing and a few other disciples with strong martial arts in the sect to protect Xu Hongru and get out.

But if this is done, then the capital accumulated by the White Lotus Sect in the Jiangnan Incident this time will be completely lost, and it can only be left for a comeback in the future.

Who knew that Xu Hongru had been in retreat for three days, and after he re-exited, he put forward a strange idea: the disciples of the Sect are ready, and the deity is going to ascend to the pole and become the emperor!

This news startled the entire White Lotus Sect in the city.

The first person to be frightened was undoubtedly Zhou Xiuying, Xu Hongru's most trusted daughter.

Zhou Xiuying and Xu Hongru have a father-daughter relationship, and they naturally speak a lot more casually, and immediately persuade: "Daddy, now that the heavy troops of the imperial court are outside the city, why did Daddy choose to call the king and emperor at this time?" After one day becoming famous, wouldn't it be good to be serious again? ”

Xu Hongru's face sank and said, "Success? The deity now occupies the state and county, and can be called a hegemon, how can it not be regarded as a success? How can you not be serious about ascending to the pole? ”