The pigeon flew north for less than half the night before it landed in the backyard of a house in Yangzhou City. Although it was late at night, the flutter of the pigeon's wings quickly alarmed the well-intentioned, and they immediately stepped forward to take out a roll of silk left in the bamboo whistle.

After a while, people kept moving around in the courtyard, which had been very quiet, and more than a dozen people gathered in the hall in the backyard, and the lit candles swayed slightly in the wind, so that the faces of everyone present were obscure for a while.

What appeared here at this time was the leader of the White Lotus Sect who gave the imperial court a big headache and sent a sea fishing document to arrest all over the world. Even Xu Qinglian and Bai Lian and a few others were also present, looking preoccupied one by one.

Since the identity of the government was discovered by the government in Shandong a few years ago, all the conspiracies fell short, and a lot of manpower was lost, the White Lotus Sect finally stopped, just hibernation everywhere, low-key absorption of some believers, so as to make some preparations for the future.

And after a few years of development, the White Lotus Sect has indeed grown in strength, and at the same time, it is a little ready to move, planning when it will be able to do something big again. At this time, the sect leader who had been hiding in the Wei Mansion in Nanjing suddenly issued a secret order, saying that he had said that he had moved the Xu family to rise up and rebelled against the imperial court, which naturally made them overjoyed and immediately decided to fully cooperate.

So in just one month, many good players in the sect ran from all over the country to the Nanzhili area to wait for the time to come. Even some of the cultists who were here already knew that something big was coming, and they were ready to do it. As long as Nanjing raised troops, these White Lotus Sect members would echo outside, thus coercing a large number of people to attack the surrounding prefectures and counties, and helping Wei Guogong's army to kill Beijing as quickly as possible.

Originally, they thought that everything was just a matter of time, and that they would be able to do it after a while. But who would have thought that what they waited for today was the bad news that the identity of the sect leader was revealed and he was captured by the government. When everyone was woken up overnight, gathered in the hall again, and passed on the newly arrived urgent letter, everyone's faces looked extremely ugly and solemn.

After being silent for a long time, Chang Feng, the oldest elder in the sect, spoke: "At this point, we should always come up with a countermeasure." Let's talk about it, what should I do? ”

"Needless to say? Of course, it's the idea to save the sect leader from the eagle's claw first, and then talk about the rest! Immediately, someone said what he meant out loud, and many people agreed.

"Of course my dad wants to save it, but how to save it is a saying." After Xu Qinglian pondered for a while, she said: "Nanjing City must be tightly guarded at this time, and they must have been prepared, if we rush into it rashly, I am afraid that not only will we not be able to save my father, but we may also put all the sect brothers in it." ”

Bai Lian, who had always been-for-tat with him, nodded his head this time and said, "Yes, since the government has ascertained the identity of the sect leader, it will naturally prevent my Holy Sect brothers from coming to the rescue, and even lay a trap because of this." Therefore, we must warn all our brothers that the more this time comes, the more we must not act rashly. ”

"Then we just watched the sect leader be killed by the government?" Someone glanced at the two people very dissatisfied: "Young Master, you are the sect leader's son, and Bai Lian, you are also the sect leader's personal disciple......

"Naturally, we are more anxious than others to rescue my father from the government, but this has a premise, that is, we must not trap ourselves in it. I don't think even my dad wants us to be wiped out by the government for him. Xu Qinglian immediately said.

"And you don't see it, do you? Although the current situation of the sect leader in the official mansion is far from being as dangerous as we think, at least for the time being, he will not be harmed. Bai Lian nodded at the message with a serious expression: "It can be clearly written on this that Nanjing intends to send the sect leader to the capital to ask for merit." ”

These words made everyone's hearts move: "What do you mean...... Can we take the opportunity to rescue the Sect Master in the middle of the road? ”

"Exactly! It's a long way to get to the capital, and we can always find an opportunity. Xu Qinglian also nodded. For the sake of their father and master, these two people, who have always been dissatisfied with each other for the identity of the heir of the White Lotus Sect, have a rare singing and harmonizing.

Bai Lian then continued: "So the top priority now is to find out when the government will take the sect leader on the road, as well as the relevant routes. As long as we can grasp these and make corresponding arrangements, we can still save the sect leader from the government! ”

As Xu Ziyang's son and personal disciple, the mental strategy of these two people is at the top of the White Lotus Sect, and every time they make a disturbance in the local area in the past, they are mostly arranged behind their backs. Over time, the other masters of the sect have become accustomed to doing what they want. Now that these two people have given such a countermeasure at the same time, everyone will naturally not object again.

Seeing that everyone nodded, Bai Lian and Xu Qinglian glanced at each other again, and the former continued: "But we also have to be careful that the government will use this as bait to lure us into being fooled, so we must let the brothers in Nanjing City show their tricks brighter, but don't let them be deceived." ”

"You can rest assured of this, the eyeliner we buried in Nanjing City are all smart people, and even those who are in the official mansion, don't try to hide anything from us."

"Then act as such, and wait for the government's movements." Xu Qinglian finally came to a conclusion.

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Perhaps, just as Xu Qinglian and the others considered, after the government took Xu Ziyang, it really did not rush to escort people to Beijing, but first threw them into the local Jinyi Guard Yamen to take care of them.

Soon after, there was a news from there that made the White Lotus Sect members very annoyed - their own sect leader had suffered enough at the hands of Jinyiwei, and he was almost no longer human.

Although he had known that there would be such a result, after all, because of Xu Ziyang's identity, the government really wanted to dig out many secrets of the White Lotus Sect from his mouth, so as to completely annihilate them in one fell swoop. But when they heard the news, they were still a little unbearable, and many of them even put forward the idea of going to Nanjing to risk rescuing the sect leader immediately.

However, these people's proposals were finally suppressed by Xu Qinglian and Bai Lian. They knew very well that this might also be the news that the government deliberately spread in order to lure them into the bait. However, they are still full of worries about this, and they are also worried that Xu Ziyang's body and bones will not be able to withstand such torture, and they are worried that he will really confess some inside information if he can't be tortured.

For this reason, the White Lotus Sect people also quickly made a transfer, and they did not dare to stay in their original stronghold.

However, the calm results showed that they were still a little worried, Xu Ziyang, as the head of a sect, was obviously not something that could be easily defeated by torture, at least he didn't bring out the inside story of the sect.

And a few days later, another news came back - Xu Shi's government had run out of patience, or because the capital had come to urge after learning about this, the Nanjing government finally decided to escort Xu Ziyang to the capital on May 27.

When they learned of this, these people from the White Lotus Sect immediately lifted their spirits, and those who had been patient began to move.

But then another news came that made people stunned - two groups of people would leave Nanjing at the same time that day and go north by two roads!

"Hey, I actually used a suspicious tactic, this Xu Chengzong really deserves to be Xu Da's descendant." Xu Qinglian couldn't help but sneered: "Senior Brother Bai, what do you say you should do?" ”

"What else can we do, since they have set up a suspicious plan, we can only divide our troops. Fortunately, our Holy Sect has been quite manpower in the Nanzhi area recently, and it is not yet in the dilemma of having to take care of all the way. As Bai Lian spoke, he had come to the huge geographical map hanging in the room.

Although this map is far less elaborate than that used in the yamen of the Ministry of War, it also marks almost all the important places in the states and counties of the Ming Dynasty. This was obtained by the White Lotus Sect with great difficulty in order to cooperate with the Nanjing Rebellion that day, but I didn't expect it to be used to rescue its own sect leader in the end.

Xu Qinglian then followed, her eyes swept back and forth in the area of Nanzhili, and she said: "Now many of our sects are on standby in Nanzhi, so if you want to save people, you must do it before they leave the country." ”

"You're just talking about dry roads, but the waterways are a bit of a problem. And since we are escorting Master to the capital, Nanjing will definitely send enough soldiers and horses to prevent us from attacking halfway. Bai Lian said with a deep frown.

"Naturally, it will not be possible to storm on the dry road, after all, our Holy Sect people are not an army, and it is difficult to compete with them, so we can only come up with a plan. For example, use some Jianghu means to ......" Speaking of this, Xu Qinglian's fingers kept moving on the map, and finally fell to a certain government-run post station that was about to leave Nanzhili and enter the Shandong territory: "You said that if our people changed the people in the post station one step earlier, would it be easy to get it after the escorted army was selected?" ”

After thinking for a while, Bai Lian nodded and said, "This is indeed a good way, for those officials and soldiers, the post station run by the government is the easiest place for them to be paralyzed." ”

"Then only the waterway is left...... Xu Qinglian focused her attention on the canal waterway on the other side: "If Master is escorted to the capital from this side, how can we rescue it?" ”

"Waterways?" Bai Lian suddenly smiled: "Although we are a little difficult to start, we can find other people who are familiar with waterways to help." In this way, you will do the dry road, and the water road will be handed over to me, so that no matter which way they go, we can rescue Master safely! ”