Yang Xiaoshan did not stop at Zhaoping, he directly led the team north to bypass Lipu, crossed Maling, arrived at Liutang and Gaotian eleven days later, and then climbed Xiangshan, the provincial capital Guilin was under his nose.

According to Yang Xiuqing's plan, they will disguise themselves as Qing troops to open the city gate and seize Guilin. On Elephant Mountain, Yang Xiaoshan summoned Luo Xuan, Li Xiucheng, Chen Yucheng and others to discuss countermeasures.

"Although Dongwang has a plan, the specific implementation still needs to be discussed. This disguised as the Qing army entering Guilin is very risky, and you need to think of a comprehensive way to get in. Yang Xiaoshan pondered for a moment and proposed.

"Xiaoshan, I propose that we not have too many people disguised as Qing soldiers, as long as one person shows his feet, all the brothers will suffer. Our life and death are small, but if we destroy the great things of the kingdom of heaven, it will be serious. "After all, Luo Xuan is older, and he thinks very thoughtfully.

"I agree, only a few people can disguise, preferably no more than two hundred. After all, we have never been a Qing army, and some things can't stand up to scrutiny. Li Xiucheng also agreed, camouflage such a high-tech job, the more people, the worse the thing.

"Two hundred people, I'm afraid I won't be able to open the gate of Guilin, even if I go in, it's useless, wouldn't it be sent to death? I'm against it! Chen Yucheng objected, there are at least a few hundred people on a city gate in Guilin, in case the brothers who disguised themselves did not break down the city gate, and were cut off from the back road, they would not have become meat buns and beat dogs, and finally died in vain.

"At least five hundred men, and a large army will be able to respond in the back." Wei Jun agreed with Chen Yucheng and also proposed.

Yang Xiaoshan listened to everyone's suggestions and nodded, everyone was very reasonable. But it is difficult to learn from the strengths of others, and to do both. It is a contradiction to have a small number of people and enough people to take the city gates, so how can we combine the two?

The crowd fell into deep thought, and nothing seemed to be a good idea.

"There it is!" Yang Xiaoshan's eyes suddenly lit up, "We have about five hundred war horses. My plan is this, 100 people disguised as Qing troops, and the other 400 will appear in the guise of our Taiping army. Outside their city, he played Huang Zhong's bitter trick, and the first hundred brothers pretended to be no match for the Taiping army, ran around the provincial capital a few more times, and went to the city gate at every opportunity. The other 400 men pursued behind the city gate, watched from a distance, and as soon as the gate was captured, they immediately went to support. In addition, our large army is hidden on the Elephant Mountain, once the fire is exchanged, we will immediately go to support, as long as the five hundred brothers hold on for a while, and when the large army arrives, this Guilin will be taken. Yang Xiaoshan said in detail, and basically all aspects were taken care of.

"Yes, if you add a play, the Qing army will believe more that we are really defeated Qing army, this method is very good!" Luo Xuan clapped his hands.

The others also nodded their heads, this method is a very good idea to synthesize the opinions of everyone just now.

"I'm okay, big brother. Just have to let me go to the city gate. Chen Yucheng immediately asked for battle.

"I'm going too!"

"Count me in!"

"I'm definitely going!"

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When everyone heard this, they immediately shouted to go.

"Don't argue, I'll go to the city gate with the outline. Xiucheng, you are more calm, you will lead the rest of the people, see the situation before acting, and you must not be impulsive. Do you have any comments? "Yang Xiaoshan handed over the team to Li Xiucheng, Chen Yucheng was too impulsive, and Wei Jun was too young to lead the army and had too little experience to be suitable.

Although some people were reluctant, they understood that Koyama's arrangement was the most suitable and did not dare to raise objections.

Seeing that everyone had no objections, Yang Xiaoshan slapped his hand, "Okay, so be it." Everyone went back to prepare and set off at dusk, when the light was not good, and it was easier to cheat the city. ”

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Guilin City is located on the west bank of the Li River, which was originally built in the Yuan Dynasty and was built in the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty. The city has ten gates, a moat in the southeast, and three water gates on it: the west water, the south water, and the small bridge. The scattered peaks and caves on the outskirts of the city are not only pleasing to the eye, but also the natural barrier of the city. If you want to attack the city here, it is very difficult.

The governor of Guilin Province is Zou Minghe, and at this time the official position in Guangxi is that the phoenix with fallen hair is not as good as a chicken, and the old governor has long returned to his hometown and has been raising his old age. The officials have never found anyone willing to come to Guangxi to be the governor, everyone knows that there are bandits and arrogance here, and it is too risky to be an official here, and if you don't do it, you have to give up your life, so you are either looking for someone or stuffing silver to avoid this errand.

Zou Minghe was forced in, and he had just served as the governor of Guangxi for less than a month. Hearing that the Taiping army had left Yong'an and arrived in Shaoping, he was worried that the Taiping army would come to Guilin to trouble him, so he immediately discussed with his subordinates about defending the provincial capital. I have to say that Governor Zou has studied many methods in order to save his life.

The first thing he did was to move out of the governor's yamen and live in a private hall. He was afraid that if Guilin was lost, the Taiping army would cut himself down as soon as he rushed to the governor's yamen, and he would have a chance to escape if he lived in the guild hall.

Then, according to the advice of his subordinates, he demolished the houses outside the city, and forced the inhabitants of the city to defend the city to make a strong noise, and the residents not only had to stand guard during the day, but also to raise lamps at night to help defend them. Although Guilin is a provincial capital, a lot of troops have been transferred to Saishan, and there are only more than 1,500 defenders in the huge Guilin. Governor Zou felt that the troops were insufficient, and recruited hundreds of regiments to defend Guilin, and then announced that 100,000 taels of silver would recruit capable people who could repel the Taiping army, but unfortunately there were no hermits like Zhuge Liang in Guilin City, and no one came to apply for the job.

Later, he didn't know where to find out that the Zhaozhong Temple in the city had more than 20 Qianming relics cannons buried in the ground. He sent people to dig up these antique cannons and set them up on the top of the city, and finally these cannons made him feel safer again.

After doing everything he could, the last thing he did was to burn incense at home, worship the Buddha, and pray for the appearance of the Savior.

Perhaps Governor Zou's sincerity really touched the heavens, and finally one day, a subordinate came down to report, "There is a cavalry officer outside the city that is about to enter the city, and please go and see if it is a brother army to help defend it." ”

Governor Zou was excited when he heard this, and finally there were reinforcements to support, which was a great thing. He immediately put on his official uniform and hurried to the gate of the city to meet the Qing troops who came to support.

"It's our officers and soldiers, open the door quickly and let them in, they are helping us defend Guilin." Governor Zou, who came to the city tower, was excited to get the seal letter of the Qing army outside the city gate, and ordered his subordinates to quickly open the door.