The canal not far from Yangzhou is full of ships of the Ming army, and the military camps of the Ming army are also on both sides of the river, so Yangzhou is now also under martial law in the whole city, and Lin Qilong, the governor of Caoyun who sits in Yangzhou, is even more desperate to boost morale, and wants the officials and officers and soldiers to swear to live and die together in Yangzhou - the word coexistence and death appears more and more frequently in the southeast movement, and every time Deng Mingbing comes to the city, the guards will shout to their subordinates and the imperial court, and then fortunately coexist with their station; It is very dangerous not to carry out such mobilization, for example, Dong Weiguo was captured for the first time when he defended Jiujiang without such propaganda, if it weren't for the fact that he later covered Cao Yun into Guazhou and Deng Ming released all the eight banners of the forbidden brigade in Gaoyou Lake, there were still people who wanted to settle accounts after the autumn.

Because of martial law, the small merchants and vendors around Yangzhou have been banned, so as not to let the Ming army get cover, and the roadside shops that are now open have official backgrounds. In other words, these small shops were part of martial law, they were a cover for the Qing army, providing a foothold for the scouts of the officers and soldiers, and selling food and drink was just to avoid the eyes and ears of the Ming army.

"The Tartars of Yangzhou don't know how to fight at all." After following the official road, Gao Yunxuan came to this conclusion, and now he and his companion were sitting in a roadside tea shop, and after the shopkeeper walked away, Gao Yunxuan secretly expressed his opinion to his companion.

Not far away is the canal area, which is only a stone's throw away from the war zone, and Yangzhou has also ordered martial law, but in the eyes of Gao Yunxuan and his companions, the security here is indeed full of flaws, and it can be called vulnerable.

"A cup of tea costs ten copper plates!" Not far away, a resting traveler exclaimed.

Hearing this, Xiao Er snorted coldly, walked up to the guest with a blue face, stretched out his palm and slapped it heavily on the table: "Are you going to make trouble here?" Don't open your dog's eyes and see, we are the contact point authorized by the Governor of Caoyun Yamen, and it is a serious matter to provide information for the Governor's Yamen and the Yangzhou Governor's Yamen, and it is just a matter of selling you a cup of tea, you dare to be too much! ”

The shopkeeper, who was still unsatisfied, slapped it down again: "Could it be that you are a meticulous work of the Ming army, planning to destroy the major events of the imperial court?" Pay! ”

After entering Yangzhou Mansion, similar situations were not uncommon, Gao Yunxuan and the others who came from Shandong were stunned at first, they felt that these Qing court meticulous works were obviously not taking the errands of the government as their main business, but pondering how to extort tea drinkers to earn some extra money - but they would definitely succeed, because the shops around the official road claimed to be the intelligence contact points of the Yamen, and those serious people were ordered to close because of the smoking cessation order. Therefore, these Qing court who came out in disguise to open a shop made meticulous work, asking for sky-high prices, and did not worry about hunger and thirst, and pedestrians did not pay obediently.

"These eagle minions!" Sitting opposite Gao Yunxuan was a girl with black and yellow on her face, she said hatefully, and a group of more than ten people left the camp of the righteous army, but now there are only five people left, including her. And the fact that they were able to come here was not entirely because of their outstanding skills, but because of the emergency adjustment of the Qing army in Shandong after Caoyun was robbed, they found a gap and jumped out of the encirclement of the Qing army. On the way here, the girl saw a lot of first-class cages that were hung in front of the city gates, and they were filled with messengers sent to the south to ask for help by their better skilled and more experienced old Jianghu, but none of the previous ones could sneak out of the encirclement.

Another Shandong man sitting next to the girl is named Xing Zhisheng, and his master is Wu Junshi, who helped Yu Ye sort out information, and this girl is the daughter of the military advisor, after the shape is becoming more and more sinister. The military advisor arranged this rescue mission again, and asked Gao Yunxuan and Xing Zhisheng to take his daughter out of the rebel camp, in the last words of the military advisor, if he really can't succeed in asking for help, it is good to send his daughter to a nunnery.

After making a silent gesture to the junior sister, Xing Zhisheng glanced at Gao Yunxuan and the others, and everyone began to drink water again and talk about selling salt—they dressed up as little salt sellers, and they also had a serious salt nest in their hands.

In the eyes of these few people who ran the rivers and lakes, the Qing army in Yangzhou Mansion was really vulnerable, and they didn't do serious things all day long thinking about running their own business, and since they entered the territory of Yangzhou Mansion, they had never encountered any dangerous investigations. Now they are only one step away from the Ming army, to calm down, calm down, Gao Yunxuan constantly warned himself, judging from the first-level cages in the counties along the way in Shandong, the batches of senior brothers who set off in front of them were almost all wiped out, and they were the last hope for the Shandong Righteous Army and the Sichuan Army to get in touch.

However, the closer they got to the target, the more worried these people were about the combat effectiveness of the Sichuan army, in their opinion, the Qing army around Yangzhou belonged to the kind of people who could not fight at all, but the Sichuan army allowed them to show off their might around Yangzhou...... If this kind of fish belly troops can fight with the Sichuan army, then how can they expect the Sichuan army to defeat the wolf-like Qing court central troops in Shandong? Baoguo Gong Deng Ming is already prestigious, and the Shandong Righteous Army has great hopes for him, Gao Yunxuan and Xing Zhisheng are the same, but now the worries in their hearts are getting heavier and heavier, only their little junior sister who lacks experience in the rivers and lakes is still enthusiastic, and they don't realize that the combat effectiveness of the Sichuan Army is actually very suspicious, and they are eager to see the world-famous heroes of Gaoyou Lake.

While the other two were talking loudly, Gao Yunxuan and Xing Zhisheng were still exchanging opinions in private, Gao Yunxuan thought that it was not far from the canal, and he was suspicious and considered rushing over in one go, as long as he saw the Ming army, the trip would be considered complete; But Xing Zhisheng was worried that the border between the two armies was the most heavily guarded, and he couldn't rush through at all, let alone bring Senior Sister Wu with him. Therefore, Xing Zhisheng felt that he might as well continue to go around Yangzhou along the official road, anyway, Yangzhou's vigilance should not be strict, and then look for an opportunity to sneak to Guazhou, at least find a place for Senior Sister Wu to settle down first.

When the two of them were undecided, Wu Yue'er coughed softly, stretched out a finger to signal the senior brother to look at someone, and asked softly, "That's the Ming Army, right?" ”

Following Wu Yue'er's gaze, Xing Zhisheng saw a big man with a tiger's back striding into the hotel, this person was tall, with thick limbs, and a fierce aura on his body. When this person entered the door, he casually tied his mount to the wooden stake at the door, and Xing Zhisheng quickly looked at the horse, which was shiny and shiny, as if it was still a stallion that had not been castrated. The horse stood meekly, and when the shopkeeper walked over with a bunch of grass, the horse raised its ears high and looked at the visitor expectantly, and when the little er put the grass at the horse's feet, the horse immediately lowered its head and ate it seriously, and the child did not make any resistance when he stroked its head and neck.

"It's supposed to be a war horse, and it's going well." Xing Zhisheng immediately came to the conclusion that a horse that was engaged in daily hard work would never have such a good fur; Stagecoaches are generally castrated, but their temper is still difficult to compare with the one in front of them. Whether it is a stagecoach or an ordinary war horse in the green camp, they often have a very heavy carrying task, work very hard and are often bullied, so their temper is generally very bad.

And this horse is obviously very well-behaved, apparently life is quite comfortable, and the owner has been treating it very well since birth, in the past, Xing Zhisheng has seen this kind of happy horse in the stable of the big boss, and he is not wary of strangers.

And the big man who entered the door just now was eating noodles with his head bored, and the store brought him a large bowl of fragrant rotten meat noodles, and there was a braised egg in the small plate in front of him. Looking at the tempting egg and smelling the touching aroma of meat, Gao Yunxuan couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva, but they wouldn't eat this kind of thing, it was too attention-grabbing, and in these black shops carefully opened by the Qing army, tabula rasa noodles were more expensive than big fish and meat, not to mention meat noodles.

Wu Yue'er's reason for suspecting that this was a Ming army was obvious, the big man who was gobbling up his head didn't shave his head at all, although his hair was not long, it was a finger high, and his sideburns didn't even shave. If the countryman is not kempt, then at least he will trim his hair before entering the city, otherwise this head shape will definitely meet the standards of the Qing court for killing, and besides, this big man has a good horse, and it is impossible to be a poor man who can't shave his head.

The five Shandong people glanced at each other, including Wu Yue'er, and they all gently reached into their arms and touched the personal weapons they were hiding.

If this is really a fine work of the Ming army, Gao Yunxuan's evaluation of the Sichuan army will become even lower, even worse than the evaluation of the Qing army in Yangzhou, but if it is really these shopkeepers who are dressed up as the Qing army's fine works shouting out the words of taking people, these Shandong people will not sit idly by. Saving this Ming army can be regarded as a gift from the Shandong Righteous Army to Baoguo Gong, and it is much easier to find the Ming Army with him leading the way.

However, the shopkeepers, who proudly threatened tourists with their official backgrounds, now turned a blind eye to the short-haired man, who raised the bowl with both hands and poured the last noodle and juice into his stomach, then twisted the braised egg and threw it into his big mouth, chewed the wine twice and swallowed it down his throat. The shopkeeper, who had always been observing from the side, ran two steps fast and offered a glass of warm water to both hands.

The big man took the cup, threw it up his neck, wiped his mouth indiscriminately, let out a satisfied sigh, took out a note from his bosom and slapped it on the table. Then he got up and walked to the door, and there was already a child who helped him untie the reins and handed it to the big man. ”

"This is a Qing court meticulous work, dressed up as a Ming army." Gao Yunxuan and Xing Zhisheng came to a conclusion, after the big man left just now, the shopkeeper picked up the note he left behind, and said a word to his companion, Gao Yunxuan, who was at the tip of his ear, vaguely heard that it seemed to be the word "military ticket", as the name suggests, it was mostly a kind of banknote circulating within the Qing army.

Both of them saw the melancholy and nervousness in each other's eyes, this Qing court cavalry dressed as a Ming army was quite good, his movements and demeanor were all learned vividly, and it was even rare that he even learned the inner temperament of the rebel very similarly, so that Gao Yunxuan and Xing Zhisheng, the two old rivers and lakes, looked away together. Fortunately, this is in the store, if it is in the wild, maybe a few Shandong have already gone up to test and question, and finally they were directly deceived into the Qing court's yamen without knowing.

And what made Gao Yunxuan and Xing Zhisheng even more frightened was that they couldn't see the slightest flaw in the sinister enemy, but they never managed to hide the eyes of these shopkeepers, although these shopkeepers looked like bullying straw bag ruffians, but the hand they showed just now made the Shandong heroes completely change their contempt for them.

"I really underestimate the heroes of the world." Xing Zhisheng laughed at himself in his heart, until now, he still couldn't figure out how these Qing soldiers who were covered by the identity of ruffians could see that the other party was not a Ming army but a Qing army; Xing Zhisheng can only be sure that the other party's eyesight is really more than a star and a half higher than his own.

"I don't know if the other party has seen through our disguise." Thinking of this, Xing Zhisheng became even more nervous, his hand holding the short stick in his arms never let go, and his palms were full of cold sweat - this Yangzhou Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger is far from being as simple as it seems at first glance.

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