Daming: My boss Zhu Yuanzhang

"That's good. As long as we can ensure the safety of the father-in-law, everything else will be easy." Chen Su said softly.

They had been sneaking into the city for so long, and the reason why they had not taken action was mainly because they were concerned about Li Wei's safety. After all, the entire city was guarded by Guo Ying's troops. Once the situation was discovered, the city could be quickly sealed off, and they could not get out at all.

But what he didn't expect was that Li Wei actually used some plan to control the guards guarding him. With this advantage, Li Wei could easily leave the house without alerting Guo Ying, and the rest of the matter would be easy to handle. .

Ma Liusi said: "The teacher asked us to wait outside his mansion tonight so that everyone can prepare!"

"it is good!"

Chen Su, Xie Feihu and others agreed solemnly, and then dispersed to make arrangements.

Time passed slowly, and the sky was getting dark. Li Wei quietly looked at the sky in the mansion.

The sky was boundless, but when it came to the courtyard wall, it was cut off. He hadn't seen the world behind the courtyard wall for more than half a year, and it was finally time to go out today.

"Prince-in-law, it's getting late, why don't you go back to your house for dinner?" Chen Shan said from behind him.

Li Wei shook his head gently: "Bring out the food and eat outside."

After being bored for a long time, he always yearns for the vast world outside. Today he doesn't want to go back to the house.

"Uh." Chen Shan was stunned for a moment, then he said yes and turned around to let others arrange it.

After a while, the dishes were served, and Li Wei simply ate some food in the courtyard, and then quietly waited for midnight.

The sky is getting darker and darker, and the bustling city of Yangzhou is gradually getting quieter. However, there are many unidentified people gathered inside and outside Li Wei's mansion, densely scattered around the mansion, waiting for the appointed time.

"Boom...boom!"

The sound of the clock sounded, one fast and two slow, and finally it was midnight.

Midnight is late at night. The so-called midnight watch refers to this time. There was not such a rich night life in ancient times. At this time, everyone has basically gone to bed. The only ones who are not sleeping are the night guards on the city wall and those who are doing the watch. Others are basically doing bad things, and Li Wei is one of them.

"It's time, open the door!"

Li Wei led Chen Shan and a group of guards to the courtyard gate and gave instructions softly.

"Yes!"

Chen Shan responded and immediately stepped forward to have the door open. With a creaking sound, Li Wei stepped forward and walked out of the courtyard where he had been imprisoned for more than half a year.

"teacher!"

"Master!"

Chen Su, Xie Feihu and others had already been waiting outside. When they saw him coming out, they immediately bowed respectfully to meet him.

Nearly a thousand people gathered outside the mansion, all dressed in black, like ghosts in the night.

Li Wei nodded lightly and ordered in a deep voice: "Feihu, you lead a group of night guards to sneak into Guo Ying's house first and get rid of Zhi Ye's guards. Chen Su, you lead five hundred men to completely surround Wuding Hou's house." , we must not let anyone in the house escape! The remaining people come with me!"

"Yes!"

Everyone claimed to have taken the order.

"Take action."

Li Wei stopped talking nonsense and gave the order directly.

Chen Su and Xie Feihu immediately led people to rush to Guo Ying's mansion.

Guo Ying's mansion was not far from him, but within a quarter of an hour, everyone came here under the cover of night.

Chen Su led the remaining people to surround the large Hou Mansion. Xie Feihu led a group of people to climb over the wall on human ladders.

A moment later, with a few inaudible groans, Xie Feihu and others quietly got rid of the night guard, and then opened the door of the Hou Mansion from inside. Li Wei immediately took Chen Shan and others poured into the house.

With so many people coming in, it was inevitable that they would create some noise. Even though Li Wei was very careful, he quickly alerted the guards at the house.

"There are assassins!"

A guard came out of the room. When he saw so many men in black, he was shocked and shouted.

Xie Feihu waved his hand gently, and a group of people immediately rushed out from behind to kill him.

Following the shouts of the guards, dozens of guards immediately rushed out of each room, but when they saw the enemy who was almost ten times their size in front of them, they were dumbfounded!
What kind of assassin is this? This is clearly a mutiny!
"Take them all!" Li Wei shouted in a deep voice.

Xie Feihu immediately led his men and rushed forward. Due to the huge gap in numbers, these guards only resisted for a moment and were quickly subdued.

Guo Ying, who was resting in the backyard, was awakened when he heard the noise.

He had experienced many battles and was not panicked by the sudden attack. He quickly put on his clothes, picked up his sword and armor and rushed out of the house.

"what happened?"

Guo Ying shouted loudly while putting on his armor.

A servant ran over in a panic and shouted: "Master Marquis, what's wrong, a group of soldiers and horses came from nowhere and suddenly rushed into the house. Their numerous guards were unable to resist them!"

"Send someone to the military camp immediately to ask for help!" Guo Ying said immediately.

"We can't get out, the Hou Mansion has been surrounded by them!"

When Guo Ying heard this, his heart suddenly sank.

The area of ​​his mansion is not small. If he wants to surround them, the opponent's troops must be at least hundreds of people. When did there be such an army in the city?
After thinking for a moment, Guo Ying suddenly thought of a possibility: "It's Li Wei!"

In this Yangzhou city, if anyone has the ability to raise an army of hundreds of people without anyone noticing, then it is probably the prince-consort who is imprisoned in the city.

Li Wei once held a heavy army. Even though he is now under house arrest, there are still many cronies outside who are ready to take action. When His Majesty asked him to come to Yangzhou, he had told him to be more vigilant. If Li Wei's old troops came to rescue him, they would fight with Yizhen. The soldiers and horses of Zhenhai Guard and Zhenhai Guard worked together to surround these people and annihilate them.

However, what he didn't expect was that Li Wei had already brought so many soldiers and horses into the city without knowing when, and directly carried out a beheading operation on him.

"Everyone, come with me and rush out with me!" Guo Ying shouted loudly.

The top priority now is to break out of the encirclement quickly. As long as he breaks out and leads the soldiers and horses in the barracks, he can easily annihilate Li Wei's few soldiers and horses in the city.

The dozen or so remaining guards and servants gathered around him immediately upon hearing his cry. Guo Ying took the lead and led these people towards the back door.

However, when he led someone to open the back door, what he saw was the night guards waiting in full formation.

"Wu Dinghou, you're fine!" Chen Su said with a smile.

"Chen Su!" Guo Ying stopped, stared at him and said solemnly. Chen Su had been working in Jinyiwei for so long, and most of the ministers in the court knew him.

Chen Su looked at him calmly and said with a smile: "I'm just the one, you'd better just go ahead and capture him, so as not to hurt your harmony and embarrass my father-in-law."

Guo Ying's face was ugly. Chen Su was famous for being ruthless. If he led someone to charge, I'm afraid this guy would really kill him, and he wouldn't be merciful just because he was a marquis. "Li Wei asked you to come?" Guo Ying asked.

Chen Su nodded lightly: "Yes, the father-in-law brought people in from the front yard. You will see him soon."

Hearing his words, Guo Ying's heart suddenly sank to the bottom.

Li Wei has already come out of the mansion where he was imprisoned, and he has also organized this group of people. This is obviously a rebellion!
While the two were confronting each other, Li Wei had already led people to the backyard, and soon found Guo Ying and others who were confronting Chen Su.

When Guo Ying saw him, he knew that he would have no luck, so he could only shout to Li Wei in a stern and restrained voice: "Li Consort, you are leading a night attack on the Marquis. Are you planning to rebel?"

Li Wei came to him calmly and said with a nonchalant smile: "Why not?"

Guo Ying's face turned pale and she said in a deep voice: "You have to think clearly, your majesty is so wise and powerful today, there is no way you can succeed. Besides, if you carry out such a treasonous act, where will you leave the princess?"

Li Wei's eyes narrowed slightly. He didn't care whether he succeeded or not. The worst he could do was to retreat overseas. It wouldn't be so easy for Zhu Yuanzhang to destroy him. However, what Guo Ying said after that touched his sore spot. These days, he didn't dare to Facing Anqing is for this reason.

"Now I don't have to worry about it. Are you going to put down your weapons now, or should I have someone help you?" Li Wei said indifferently.

Guo Ying stared at him and tightened the knife in his hand.

"Wu Dinghou, you were once a subordinate of the teacher. Why don't you put down your weapons and follow the teacher to achieve a great cause?" Xie Feihu said solemnly at the side.

Guo Ying snorted coldly: "I am the Marquis of Dingyuan personally conferred by His Majesty, and I am deeply blessed by the Holy Spirit. How could I do such a rebellious thing with you!"

Li Wei stared at him: "In that case, I won't be polite."

After saying that, he waved his hand, and Chen Su and others immediately stopped hesitating and rushed forward together.

"kill!"

Guo Ying shouted and slashed at Chen Su with his sword. Chen Su quickly dodged and avoided.

Although he was reused by Li Wei, he was just an ordinary craftsman and could not compete with a fierce general like Guo Ying who fought on the battlefield.

However, although he dodged away, more soldiers surrounded Guo Ying.

Under the siege of everyone, Guo Ying was still fierce and fierce. He swept across the sword and forced everyone to dare not get close. However, his guards and servants were not so capable. They fell to the ground one after another with screams. Soon he was the only one left in the field, still resisting.

Li Wei looked at him with an expressionless face and remained silent.

Although these night guards are no match for Guo Ying one on one, they have been trained to cooperate with each other tacitly. Once someone is injured, they will immediately retreat, and then a new person will take over.

Guo Ying fought hard, but was still tightly trapped in the center and unable to escape. As time went by, he suffered more and more injuries, and soon the Night Guards took the opportunity to severely injure him.

Chen Su led his men to escort him in front of Li Wei. Guo Ying gasped for air and glared at Li Wei with fierce eyes.

Li Wei waved his hand indifferently and asked Chen Su to escort him down.

After the battle, the Hou Mansion finally returned to peace. Li Wei summoned Chen Shan to him and ordered him to lead people to guard outside the Hou Mansion, while the night guards hid in the house.

After locking up Guo Ying, Chen Su found Li Wei again.

"Master, our noise is a bit loud. The people around us must have heard the noise. Do you think it is..." Chen Su said and scratched his neck.

They only controlled the Hou Mansion, but there were tens of thousands of defenders in Yangzhou. If the news leaked out and the army arrived, they would still be unable to resist.

"No!" Li Wei narrowed his eyes and said sternly.

Chen Su's face changed slightly and he quickly lowered his head.

Li Wei thought for a while and said: "Let's let the Night Guards temporarily control the people around them. After a while, I will control these troops and then let them go."

"Yes!" Chen Su respectfully agreed, then turned and left.

One night passed, and when the sun rose again, the mansion had quietly changed its owner.

But now that the crisis has not been resolved, Li Wei summoned everyone again at dawn.

"This is an appointment document stamped with Guo Ying's official seal. Chen Shan, take a few brothers to the military camp and say that Guo Ying promoted you, and then publicize the theories I told you in the military. "Li Wei took out several appointment documents and said.

As the chief general guarding Yangzhou, Guo Ying had the authority to appoint low-level military attaches. Of course, high-level military attaches still had to report to the court to make it easier.

But it doesn't matter. As long as we slowly replace these low-level military officers with educated people, those senior military officers will soon be left alone. Then we can find an opportunity to summon them in the name of Guo Ying and get rid of them.

"Yes!" Chen Shan took the document, turned and left.

After Chen Shan left, Li Wei asked Chen Su and others about the situation outside.

Although he and Ma Liusi exchanged a lot of information through secret means during this period, it was still very inconvenient and many things were unknown.

"After we escaped, we first went to Japan to get in touch with Lu Tang. The imperial court sent people to take over the troops stationed in Japan, but they were detained by Lu Tang. Later, in order to rescue you, we brought some people with us. Sneaked into Yangzhou quietly, while others were hiding overseas."

Li Wei nodded slightly and asked, "Are Abu and the others okay?"

Chen Su looked embarrassed when he heard this, but Xie Feihu took over and replied: "After Abu learned that his wife was killed, he immediately brought those guards back to attack the capital, but they were stopped by Wang Dazhi and Zhang Tie. Now the three thousand guards are temporarily left to them. master."

Li Wei sighed softly upon hearing this and said, "Okay, I understand."

Abu was Xiaoqing's brother, so he knew that she would die desperately. Wang Dazhi and Zhang Tie were right to stop her. Under the circumstances, returning rashly would mean death.

"In this case, you immediately send a message to Lu Hong and the others, asking them to bring back the Navy and the Shenji Battalion, and let Lu Tang and the others be responsible for the response," Li Wei said.

"Yes!" Xie Feihu responded.

Now that it was time to show his strength, all the navy and Shenji battalions that could be mobilized had to be transferred back. These were his main forces, and the other was the Japanese army led by Lu Tang.

These troops add up to 70,000 to 80,000 people and are equipped with advanced firearms. They are a huge force.

But now there is a problem, ammunition.

The Ordnance Bureau is in the capital, so it is naturally impossible to provide them with ammunition. If the supply is cut off, his troops will not be able to last a few battles.

After thinking about it, Li Wei asked Chen Su: "Is there any way for Ye Xingwei to get in touch with the Ordnance Bureau now?"

Chen Su frowned and thought for a while, then said: "We still have some manpower in the capital, but now the Ordnance Bureau is tightly blocked by the guards. It may be difficult to get in touch with the people inside!"

"Even if it's difficult, you have to try it and think of a way!" Li Wei said solemnly.

The problem of ammunition must be solved. It would be too time-consuming to build another weapons bureau and there would be no time at all. Especially smokeless gunpowder and the like require a lot of equipment to make. It is best to smuggle the items in the weapons bureau. come out.

"Yes!"

Chen Su respectfully agreed. (End of chapter)