The person closest to Lin Yuan was so frightened that he screamed "Mom", and as soon as he let go of the gun, he fell to the ground, Lin Yuan kicked the gun on the ground, pointed the muzzle of the gun in his hand at the person, and the other soldiers also took action, and instantly surrounded the people who rushed in at the core, and said one after another: "Put the gun down." ”

Those soldiers were a little at a loss, and looked at a black-faced man behind them in a daze, the black-faced man raised his hand and said to everyone: "Everyone put down their guns first!" When the soldiers heard his words, they all bent down and put down their guns, Lin Yuan asked people to put the guns away, and said to everyone: "I'm not here to kill you, as long as you don't resist, I will definitely not hurt you, now put your hands on top of your heads and sit down by the wall." ”

More than twenty people heard Lin Yuan's words, slowly walked to the wall and sat down, Lin Yuan looked at the black-faced man and said, "You are the leader of these people, right?" ”

The black-faced man nodded, and Lin Yuan then asked, "I heard someone call you battalion commander, are there only about twenty people in your battalion?" ”

The black face sighed and said, "It's hard to say! ”

Lin Yuan knew that there were a lot of hidden secrets here, so he pointed to the table next to him and said with a smile: "Let's go over there and talk about it." The black-faced man stood up and followed Lin Yuan to sit on the edge of the table, Lin Yuan first asked, "What is your name and whose subordinates are they?" ”

The black-faced man looked at Lin Yuan and said, "This lord, you have arrested our brothers, we will serve you, can you tell me first, who are you?" ”

Lin Yuan replied: "My surname is Lin Mingyuan. ”

The black-faced man's face suddenly changed, his face was full of reverence, and he said: "I didn't expect it to be Lin Shuai, disrespectful and disrespectful, I can be caught by you, and it is also my honor." ”

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "I didn't expect my reputation to be so big, and it would be glorious to be caught by me!" So Lin Yuan smiled and said, "You can answer my question, right?" ”

The black-faced man said loudly: "My surname is Wang Mingxiang, and I am the battalion commander of the Xiangzi battalion under Jiang Huayong's general army!" ”

Lin Yuanzhi said that Jiang Huayong's army was one of the three rebel armies, and he then asked, "Then where are the rest of you?" ”

Wang Xiang sighed and said: "This starts from our entry into Gansu, it turns out that Yang Changjun asked our three Lian Yong to raise troops to Xinyuan County at the same time to exterminate the rebels, our Jiang Huayong General Soldier with one, the other two Lian Yong General Army, one is called Long Tengfei, the other is called Zhong Xinyuan, our three troops, the number is about 30,000, I thought that it would take less than a day to go to Xinyuan County to exterminate the bandits, but I didn't expect ......"

Wang Xiang let out another long sigh when he said this, and said: "It's all on Zhong Xinyuan!" ”

Lin Yuan hurriedly asked, "What happened to Zhong Xinyuan?" ”

Wang Xiang said: "Zhong Xinyuan, he is a Muslim! Moreover, his station is in Guyuan Prefecture, and many of the troops are Muslims! ”

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "Guyuan Prefecture is the Guyuan City in my time, it has always been a gathering place for Hui people, and it is not surprising that there are many Hui people in Zhong Xinyuan's army, although the Qing court adopts a hostile and persecutive policy towards the Hui people, but there are still many Hui generals in the Qing court, such as Zuo Guigui, a patriotic general who fought side by side with the Japanese army in Korea!" ”

Wang Xiang continued: "My lord, you still don't know the way, right? If the Hui hadn't killed the political envoy of Gansu first, the Han people in Yuanwu County and Beishan County would not have caused an incident! ”

Lin Yuan said: "I've heard all these things, is it that Zhong Xinyuan saw the Hui people being killed, so he turned back?" ”

Wang Xiang shook his head and said: "That's not the case, Zhong Xinyuan also opposed the rebellion at the beginning, and killed several Hui people in a battle, but then something happened, Zhong Xinyuan completely rebelled!" ”

Lin Yuan's eyes lit up and said, "What's the matter?" Hurry up. ”

Wang Xiang replied: "When we arrived in Xinyuan County, the county seat was already occupied by the rebels, and Long Tengfei's troops attacked the county seat first, and there was a 'Qing Temple' in the county seat......

Lin Yuan asked, "Mosque?" ”

Wang Xiang nodded hurriedly and said: "That's right, it's the mosque, the Hui people all go to that place, after Long Tengfei's troops entered the county seat, they directly burned down the mosque, and also tied several people called 'imam' inside to the pillar and burned to death, Zhong Xinyuan heard about this matter and went to find Long Tengfei to theorize, that day it happened to be a meeting of the three troops together to discuss the pursuit of the rebellion!" The two of them fought in front of so many battalion commanders! Lin Shuai, do you know why they want to fight? ”

Lin Yuan said: "Most of the Hui people believe in Islam, the mosque is the holy place of Islam, the imam is the clergy inside, it is absolutely not to be offended, Long Tengfei not only burned the mosque, but also burned the imam to death, it is simply the biggest insult to the Hui people!" ”

Wang Xiang said: "It's really not because of this fight, the reason for the fight is: Zhong Xinyuan angrily looked for Long Tengfei's theory, Long Tengfei actually looked like he didn't know anything, we guessed at the time that it might be Long Tengfei's subordinates who did it, Long Tengfei didn't know anything at all!" But Zhong Xinyuan doesn't care so much, he will fight when he comes up! We were a dozen of us, and we didn't hold him down! ”

"After the two fought, Zhong Xinyuan came to find our Lord Jiang Huayong, and the two talked secretly all night, and no one knew what they were talking about, but the next morning, Lord Jiang ordered us to stop attacking the rebels, and we guessed at the time that something was going to happen! Zhong Xinyuan and Master Jiang are probably going to be reversed! ”

Lin Yuan frowned and asked, "You Lord Jiang are also Muslims?" ”

Wang Xiang shook his head and said, "No! ”

Lin Yuan asked, "Then why did Zhong Xinyuan discuss the matter of anti-water with him?" ”

Wang Xiang replied: "Although our Lord Jiang is a military attaché, but he has read a lot of books, and he speaks in a set of ways, he is the most benevolent, especially easy to be soft-hearted, for example, we fought a battle with the rebels and arrested more than a dozen peasants, if the chief soldier is someone else, these people don't need to ask, directly cut off their heads, but our Lord Jiang just let them go, gave some silver, and told them to farm the land according to their duty, and not to cause trouble again!" ”

"And our family Jiang is a tenant family, the family is so poor that it can't be said, when he was five years old, he began to herd cattle for the landlord's family, and he can only wear a single coat in the cold winter, and he can't hold the cow to keep warm, he told us that at that time, he was most looking forward to the cow!"

Lin Yuan asked in surprise, "What are you looking forward to that?" ”

Wang Xiang replied: "Isn't the pulled out by the cow hot, and it warms up when you put your feet in!" ”

Lin Yuan sighed: "The life of these tenants is really miserable! ”

Wang Xiang said: "That's right, so we Lord Jiang pity those tenant farmers the most, and who has the most traitors?" Xinyuan County is a Hui people, but Beishan and Yuanwu counties are tenant farmers, which landed peasants want to rebel? Moreover, the tenant farmers in more than a dozen surrounding states and counties have risen up, and the free grain is their banner, so we guess that Zhong Xinyuan and Master Jiang are one to protect the Hui people, and the other to protect the tenant farmers, so they have to fight against the water! ”

Lin Yuan asked, "You guessed?" Didn't they say it explicitly? ”

Wang Xiang said: "At first, they didn't say it explicitly, because they were afraid of Long Tengfei, and Long Tengfei had the largest number of troops, but then something strange suddenly happened, and Zhong Xinyuan and Lord Jiang announced the matter!" ”