Chapter 59: The Secret Operation of the White Lotus Sect
The city gates of Kunming were closed for three full days. After three days, due to the shortage of supplies in the city and the fact that the people, especially the wealthy officials, could no longer eat fresh food, the city gates were opened because they could no longer survive. However, everyone passing by had to accept strict regulations.
Li Xiang and Liu Dahai were unable to ensure the safety of sending the six people out of the city, so they had to send liaison personnel out of the city to find people from the Yunnan headquarters to find a solution.
Zhang Huahan and the other six could only wait in the cellar. When they were free, Zhang Huahan, Xiaoyue, Wang Xiaowu, Zhang Cai and Ah Gutu practiced every day, and Li Mazi also learned one and a half moves from Wang Xiaowu.
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In an unknown mountain forest in southern Yunnan, there are densely packed tents and carriages. More than 50,000 people wearing civilian clothes and carrying swords and guns gathered here. Tens of thousands of them held muskets, and another 3,000 held weapons.
Armed with fast guns made by the Chinese Revolutionary Army, among these crowds, six top leaders were discussing something together, escorted by hundreds of fast guns.
These six people are all members of the leadership of the Chinese Revolutionary Army. They are Chen Zhenhui, who was rescued by the guerrillas of the Chinese Revolutionary Army militia while being escorted from Nanjing to Beijing, and is now the governor of Yunnan Province, and Wu Weiye, the deputy governor of Yunnan Province.
Wu Qilong, the three militia chiefs in charge of 18,000 militiamen, and Wen Qi, Taiyida, and Hao Yunlong, the three militia chiefs in charge of tens of thousands of militiamen, discussed the intelligence of Deputy Commander Zhang Huahan sent from Kunming.
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Chen Zhenhui said: "Deputy Commander Zhang is trapped in Kunming, which is guarded by the enemy's main force. We are no match for the enemy in Kunming now and cannot take military rescue operations at all." The more than 16,000 militia troops led by Wen Qi were actually led by Zhang Huahan.
Among those who escaped from the 30,000 militia troops, there was originally a militia leader named Bai, but he led the 3,000 militia troops and died during the second break. Wen Qi experienced that battle at that time, that battle
It would have been extremely fierce, if Zhang Huahan and the militia chief named Bai had not led eight thousand brave militia soldiers to fight to the death, and the musketeers, quick shooters and shield soldiers broke through the enemy's encirclement. In addition, the mountainous terrain was complex, and the war horses
Due to various reasons such as being unable to run and the Manchu Qing army not pursuing him, he was able to escape with more than 10,000 people. Zhang Huahan was able to survive in that situation, and even assassinated Leng Sengji.
Wen Qi felt the existence of a miracle. This kind of miracle had only appeared on the deceased commander-in-chief Zhang Huahan, who had the same name as the deputy commander-in-chief. However, the miracle that happened to the commander-in-chief Zhang Huahan did not always happen, and he died in the end.
Wen Qi said: "My troops and my life were saved after the deputy commander was killed. Anyway, I want to save him. No matter what, I must rescue the deputy commander."
Wu Qilong said: "I heard from the leader that Governor Chen means that we cannot use force to save him. If we use force, we will not be able to save the deputy commander even if we all die in the battle. What he means is that we must use wisdom."
Wen Qi nodded, but after the six people discussed for a long time, they only came up with a way to send in two people who were proficient in disguise to help the six people disguise themselves out of the city.
Ye Bilong, who was in the Commander's Mansion in Kunming, was actually happy. After he investigated what happened, he concluded that Leng Sengji's death was indeed an accident, because the musketeer who killed Leng Sengji and the musketeer who were caught there were not the same.
From the confessions of the more than 20 musketeers who accompanied them out of the military camp, they learned that the six murderers and the colonel who had not been caught were not originally going to kill Leng that night.
They went to the street where Seng Ji lives at the request of the vain school. Moreover, the six murderers who were not caught met the school after the Musketeers were reorganized. After being tortured and tortured by the school,
After a detailed investigation, the suspicion that he was an assassin of the Chinese Revolutionary Army was ruled out. The six fugitive musketeers were only strong, had a small amount of alcohol, and hid ammunition.
Shot and killed Leng Sengji.
As soon as Leng Sengji died, Yi Bilong became the leader of the main Manchu army. Since this place is far away from Beijing, the report of Hong Chengchou's death has not yet reached the capital. Now that Leng Sengji was killed, Yi Bilong
I can wait for the imperial court to issue the order of the selected military commander before reporting Leng Sengji's death. If the imperial court chooses Bi Long himself as the military commander, it will be fine. If he sends someone else to be the military commander, it will be fine.
, then reporting Leng Sengji’s death would show the coach’s incompetence, and it would also strengthen Ye Bilong’s own reputation.
Ye Bilong was happily thinking wildly when suddenly a herald came in from outside. The herald knelt down and reported: "General Tulie reported that thirteen white lotus warriors with high martial arts skills who entered the city carrying weapons were found at the east city gate.
After a battle, three White Lotus believers were killed and ten White Lotus believers were captured. Twenty-one of our troops died and 32 were injured. He asked the deputy commander for instructions." Ye Bilong listened.
Then he said: "Does the opponent's martial arts skills not know how to use muskets? What happened to the musketeers on duty that caused so many casualties in our army?" The herald said: "It is because of the use of muskets that there were so many casualties. It is said that if they were not used,
Not only did the musketeers kill more people, but they couldn't even catch them. The ten people captured by the opponent were all captured by our army after being shot several times." Ye Bilong said: "It's so powerful, it seems that it must be the White Lotus Sect.
The bandit leaders are here, bring them all here and I will interrogate them personally."
After being tortured and interrogated in extremely cruel ways, Ye Bilong was shocked when he heard the news from the two White Lotus Sect prisoners who were relieved.
It turns out that these thirteen members of the White Lotus Sect are all leaders of the White Lotus Sect. In addition to them, there are more than 200 leaders and key members of the White Lotus Sect who have come to Kunming. The reason why they came here is because the followers of the White Lotus Sect have been in trouble due to the war.
Since the Chinese Revolutionary Army established bases in all non-urban areas in central and southern China to implement land reform and promote scientific elimination of superstition, believers in the White Lotus Sect have withdrawn one after another. Many leaders and backbones of the White Lotus Sect have quit the White Lotus Sect and joined the Chinese Communist Party.
The revolutionary army became a regular force or militia or government cadres of the Chinese Revolutionary Army. It was also difficult to recruit believers in places under the complete rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the north. Under such circumstances, the White Lotus Sect has gone from the original number of 100,000 to only a few.
There are thousands of believers, and most of them are people who have no faith in the sect and just pretend to be believers and pay not a penny. If these people are really forced to hand over money and food to the White Lotus Sect, they will quit immediately.
Less than half of the believers have true faith and can contribute money and effort. At the critical moment when the sect is about to disappear, the leader of the White Lotus Sect, He Tong, proposed the decision to buy people with money. However, after the White Lotus Sect was repeatedly annihilated by the Ming Dynasty army,
, there is no funds at all, even the expenses within the sect are provided by the members of the sect. Now the leaders of the White Lotus sect have to find ways to support themselves. The White Lotus sect does not even have ten liang of silver, so how can it get money? The leader of the White Lotus sect
He Tong found a way.
The predecessor of the White Lotus Sect was actually the Ming Sect. After Zhu Yuanzhang took advantage of the power of the Ming Sect to seize the world, he drowned the young Ming King Han Lin'er and directly annihilated the Ming Sect. Due to the Ming government's encirclement and suppression of the Ming Sect, the Ming Sect was forced to change its name to the White Lotus Sect, which means coming out of the mud.
Bu Ran, that mud is of course the treacherous Zhu Ming Dynasty.
After Xiao Ming Wang Han Lin'er drowned, the leaders of the Ming Cult already knew that Zhu Yuanzhang, who had a large number of soldiers, had betrayed the Ming Cult, and those who did not join Zhu Yuanzhang in the Ming Cult would definitely be purged and massacred by Zhu Yuanzhang, so they buried the treasures collected by the Ming Cult in a hidden place
, prepared to be used when Mingjiao makes a comeback in the future.
The map recording this treasure is in a secret cave in a mountain range at the junction of Tibet and Yunnan where Ming Cult personnel were originally stationed. Due to an earthquake, the secret cave collapsed, but the first generation of the White Lotus Cult leader wrote
He drew the detailed address and geographical map of the collapsed cave. He Tong, the leader of the White Lotus Sect, discovered it when he accidentally saw it from a hidden compartment and read through something written by the first generation leader of the White Lotus Sect.
The leader of the White Lotus Sect, He Tong, personally led all the existing leaders and key personnel of the White Lotus Sect to search for the closed cave. Since the accurate address was found, more than a hundred people continued to dig and finally found the tattered sheepskin treasure map.
The treasure map records that the treasure was in an underground palace built underground in the south of Kunming City, which was still occupied by Mingjiao believers at that time.
This time, more than two hundred leaders and key members of the White Lotus Sect came to Kunming under the personal leadership of He Tong, the leader of the White Lotus Sect. They used various methods to bring weapons in. Some hid weapons in the barrels of barrel trucks, and some in
Weapons were hidden in the chassis of the carriage. This time, when the thirteen White Lotus leaders were pulling a thatched cart with weapons into the city, a soldier accidentally used a spear to bucket the thatched grass to see if anyone was hidden inside.
It was only after their weapons clashed that they started fighting.
The two White Lotus Sect prisoners who were relieved couldn't bear the torture anymore, but the eight prisoners who didn't speak were all tough guys, and they remained silent no matter what cruel punishment was used. Five of them couldn't bear the torture.
He bit his tongue and committed suicide. Four people died.
For Ye Bilong, it was enough to have two people who were relieved, so he directly killed the remaining four leaders of the White Lotus Sect who were no longer in human form and did not speak.
Ye Bilong secretly admired the iron-willed leaders of the White Lotus Sect. He immediately moved the two White Lotus Sect prisoners who were relieved to the upper room to recuperate, and sent people to serve them with food and drinks.
After asking two people about the White Lotus Sect's stronghold in Kunming, they sent people to clear it out.
Ye Bilong first put the city gate under martial law, and all personnel were only allowed in but not allowed out. Materials were also only allowed in but not allowed out. He sent troops to kill the White Lotus Sect's stronghold in Kunming provided by the two men. There was no one in those strongholds.
, only a few key members of the White Lotus Sect were captured who had no time to escape. It turned out that as soon as several leaders of the White Lotus Sect were arrested, the leader of the White Lotus Sect, He Tong, immediately informed everyone to evacuate the stronghold and find a new place to live.
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In Li Xiang's hotel, twelve guests suddenly moved in. Because three rooms were already occupied, the twelve people could only squeeze into seven rooms.
Li Xiang and others discovered that not only their inn, but also several inns in the south of the city had guests. Gao Shunzi, who was interested, asked about several other inns while buying food, and found that there were more than 200 new guests in each inn today.
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In the evening, after greeting the guests, Li Xiang, Gao Shunzi and Liu Dahai had dinner together in Li Xiang's room. Gao Shunzi said: "These people have accents from Huguang, Henan, Minnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and other places. There are 230 people who live there."
One person, I also asked Xiao Wang to go to the north, east and west of the city to find out. There are not a lot of new guests in the inns there. They all live in the south of the city. The city gate is on guard today and everything is only allowed in but not out. I guess
It is related to the armed fight that occurred at the east gate the day before yesterday. According to the information sent by the Green Camp Army, it was to arrest the White Lotus Sect."
Liu Dahai took a mouthful of rice and said: "These people are not from the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but are most likely from the White Lotus Sect. It probably has nothing to do with us. We just need to see what these people are going to do. Lao Wang will come tomorrow
During the meal, ask him to send two people to keep an eye on them and check their whereabouts." Gao Shunzi nodded.
Li Xiang said: "The letter sent to the headquarters has probably arrived. I don't know what the leaders are thinking of." Liu Dahai said: "Yes, but the longer you stay here, the more advantageous it will be. If there is no new situation,
, it is estimated that martial law will be lifted.”
In a quiet little courtyard deep in a small alley in the south of Kunming, people were moving in and out of the house, moving soil, while others were piling the soil into an empty courtyard next door. In the open space
A mountain of earth has been piled up in the courtyard. There is a big hole in the house in the small courtyard. People are going in and out, digging the hole and carrying the excavated earth out.
Next to the cave, there was a table with a sheepskin map. Eight people stood looking at the map. One of them, a fat monk, said: "We really don't have enough funds to dig a hole directly above the underground palace where the treasure is hidden."
Another tall man with a black face said: "The entrance to the underground palace where the treasure is hidden is under the hotel where I live. It's a pity that I don't have the money to buy the hotel." If Li Xiangzai were there, he would have recognized that this person was the one who lived there.
Guests at their own hotels.
Among the eight people, a middle-aged man of medium height and handsome appearance dressed as a scribe said: "It just takes a few more days. There is nothing to complain about. It's just a pity that the five elders and the eight guardians were killed by the Manchu minions.
They were caught, and there was a traitor among them, who betrayed all our strongholds, and they must have known about our search for treasures. What everyone needs to pay attention to is that once surrounded by the Manchus, it is better to escape.
If you can't escape, you will commit suicide and become a martyr. If you are caught by the Manchus, you will either be worse off than dead or betray our religion. There is no good outcome."
Another burly middle-aged man said: "What the leader said is that everyone must keep in mind that the only brothers at the top of our sect are the four heavenly kings, the two special envoys on the left and right, the three elders and the five sect leaders of the Five Elements Sect.
As for me, the deputy leader, everyone must be careful. From tomorrow on, everyone should not come. Wait in your own inn. If there is any news, I will inform you. Please also tell the brothers waiting at the inn.
If you can escape after being surrounded by the Manchu minions, you must not come here. Go to the brothers in other inns or find a hiding place to hide yourself. Be careful. Now is the time when our teaching's life and death are at stake. Everyone must
Don’t be a member of the dead cult.” The other six people clasped their fists and lowered their heads and shouted: “Follow the holy orders of the leader and deputy leader.”
The leader of the White Lotus Sect, He Tong, who was of medium height and handsome and dressed as a scribe, looked at the treasure map and said: "It is said that this underground palace was built in a long time ago. At that time, there were barbarians here. Who built it and how did it build it?"
I don’t know, but the treasure is at the outermost part of the underground palace. According to the introduction about this underground palace written by the first leader after our religion changed its name, this underground palace has many mechanisms. When the seniors of our religion discovered it, they only had to break through the underground palace.
The most peripheral mechanisms and ghostly objects killed hundreds of martial arts masters, and the dozens of surviving masters were seriously injured. As a result, King Xiao Ming lost a large number of independent masters at once. Otherwise, Zhu Yuanzhang would have assassinated Xiao Ming in the first place.
Queen, those masters even assassinated and killed Zhu Yuanzhang. Anyway, what everyone needs to pay attention to is that you should withdraw after entering and taking the treasure. We people now have no strength to go deeper. It is a scary place."
Everyone gasped after hearing this, and the deputy leader Zhan Yun asked: "Ghostly thing? What is it?" The leader He Tong said: "The first leader after the name change didn't know it either. All he knew was those things.
The old seniors who have died a long time ago are things we cannot afford to offend anyway. Please remember not to go deeper after entering. More than sixty meters underground is the top and entrance of the underground palace. How big is the underground palace and how many are there?
I don’t know if there really were gods and ghosts in ancient times? But we, the Fire God King, definitely existed."
In the Marshal's Mansion in Kunming City, Ye Bilong drank tea and listened to the report from the deputy general below: "A total of 231 people suddenly stayed in the eleven inns in the south of the city. Thirteen of them were investigated. It is estimated that they are
There are 218 members of the White Lotus Sect. Today, dozens of them entered the courtyard of a small hidden alley. The courtyard has been checked. There is a large courtyard and a small courtyard because the households want to go to Sichuan.
They were eager to move, so they were bought at a low price. We sent people to take a look, and the damp earth and rocks were piled up into hills. It seems that this is the location where the White Lotus Sect was digging. Do you think we want to arrest anyone?"
After E Bilong took a sip of tea, he said: "Why are you in a hurry? We will go in and catch them after they dig it up. After taking the treasure, the brothers can live a prosperous life for two years. Wait and send people to monitor closely.
By the way, you said the owners of those two courtyards moved to Sichuan. How many people have moved in recent months?"
The adjutant said: "Many, especially in the past month, a full 10% of the people have left. It is said that most of them went to the countryside and Sichuan, but also to Jiangnan, Fujian, Guangdong and other places."
After pressing the teacup heavily on the table, Abiliong said: "You can just tell them all to go to the territory of the Chinese Revolutionary Army! Tell the governor that no one is allowed to move in the future, and they will all squat in Kunming!"
Late at night, in the house where Li Xiang lived in a hotel named "Inn" in the south of the city, Li Xiang, Gao Shunzi and Liu Dahai had dinner together after they had finished their work. Gao Shunzi said: "They went to a hidden courtyard, and they didn't know they were digging.
What, the excavated soil is piled up like a hill." Li Xiang said: "I don't care about others, we just have to be careful ourselves."
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