Lin Yuan was stunned when he heard her refusal, and only after a while did he ask, "What are you doing?" ”

Shen Wanqing said delicately: "You didn't prepare anything, you just wanted me to marry you with a word, why!" I'm not going to do it! ”

Lin Yuan's heart was put down, and he said softly: "Okay, I promise you, I will definitely give you a perfect proposal!" ”

Shen Wanqing came out of Lin Yuan's arms, and said with a smile while getting dressed: "Let's go out, there are still many things ahead." ”

Lin Yuan said: "That's right, I still have a lot of things to ask Jiang Huayong, such as why will Long Tengfei follow them to raise troops?" Why did the dragon's troops attack them? What is the situation in Gansu now? I want to know all these things, but since I met Jiang Huayong, things have been one after another, and they have not been broken at all, and I can't spare time to ask. ”

The two of them went out as they spoke, only to see General Sun and Jiang Huayong tie up the deputy leader and take him out of the tent, General Sun said apologetically: "Lin Shuai, I'm really sorry!" After speaking, he pointed at the deputy leader with his hand, and then said: "I have already tied up this beast for you, and you can kill or kill you at will." ”

Lin Yuan looked at Shen Wanqing and asked, "What are you going to do with him?" ”

Shen Wanqing smiled and said, "Let him go, just let him pay attention to it in the future." The deputy leader thanked him again and again, and Lin Yuan said to Jiang Huayong: "Lord Jiang, I have a lot of questions about the situation in Gansu, can you answer them for me?" ”

Jiang Huayong agreed repeatedly, Lin Yuan asked General Sun to take Shen Wanqing to rest, and he and Jiang Huayong walked into the camp, Jiang Huayong asked, "Lin Shuai, what's your problem?" Excuse me. ”

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "I want to ask too much, I might as well ask according to the time when these things happened." So Lin Yuan said: "The first thing I want to ask is: Why does Long Tengfei want to start an incident with you?" ”

Jiang Huayong sighed lightly and said, "What you want to ask, is it all related to Long Tengfei?" ”

Lin Yuan nodded, and Jiang Huayong said: "Then I'll tell you about this matter from beginning to end, you have surrendered my subordinates, and you must know the matter between me and Zhong Xinmin." ”

Lin Yuan replied: "That's right, you just pick out the things related to Long Tengfei." ”

Jiang Huayong said: "At the beginning, I discussed with Zhong Xinmin about the military uprising, and the most fearful thing was Long Tengfei, because Long Tengfei was a person who was very happy and ambitious, and when we sent troops, he half-jokingly said: 'This time there are only three county rebels, the number is too small, and the credit will not be great!'" It would be great if it was like the Mao bandits more than 30 years ago, and then we would be able to make a lot of contributions! So we're all worried that if something happens, he'll treat us all as bandits!" ”

Lin Yuan asked curiously: "Of your two troops, Long Tengfei only has one, why are you afraid of it?" ”

Jiang Huayong replied: "First of all, the combat capability of Long Tengfei's troops is above our two troops, and the second is: the combat location is people's territory, our troops are stationed in Fengxiang, Shaanxi, Zhong Xinyuan's troops are stationed in Guyuan Prefecture, Shaanxi, and Long Tengfei's troops are stationed in Tianshui, Gansu. ”

Lin Yuan nodded, and Jiang Huayong continued: "There is a more critical point, Long Tengfei's troops are the best equipped among our three troops, have you heard of Lin Shuai of the Lanzhou Machinery Bureau established by Lord Zuo Zongtang?" ”

Lin Yuan said: "Of course! ”

Jiang Huayong said: "Although the Lanzhou Machinery Bureau is not comparable to the Tianjin Machinery Bureau and the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, it can still make a lot of bullets and guns. ”

Lin Yuan nodded and said, "So that's the case!" ”

Jiang Huayong said: "Then I'll go on, after I finished discussing with Zhong Xinmin, he actually took the initiative to talk to us about the matter, and the words were righteous and awe-inspiring, so he started the incident with us, who knew that there was a big conspiracy behind this!" ”

Lin Yuan hurriedly asked, "The big conspiracy?" What big conspiracy? ”

Jiang Huayong replied: "It was after we conquered Lanzhou, Long Tengfei called us to a meeting, saying that now that Lanzhou has been conquered, the Qing court will inevitably send heavy troops to come, and look at the troops of the Qing Dynasty today, there are only three elite soldiers, one is the green battalion soldiers practiced by Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Huguang, with the new method, but Hunan is 108,000 miles away from Gansu, and there are Qinling, Daba Mountain, and Wuling Mountain in the middle, Zhang Zhidong's soldiers can't come at all, so there is no need to worry, the real threat is the remaining two." ”

"One is Yuan Shikai's new army, and the other is Lin Yuan's troops, Yuan Shikai's troops will not talk about it first, just say that Lin Yuan's troops have recovered the northeast, blitzkrieg Kulen, and expeditioned to Russia. How can we stop such a force? Moreover, Lin Yuan's troops were able to rush to Gansu from the northeast in less than five days by building the Beijing-Yunnan Railway and the Sealand Railway! ”

Long Tengfei turned to say: In order to protect themselves, the three troops need to be under unified command! When Long Tengfei said this, I understood that he wanted to take command alone, but he was embarrassed to say it directly, but said that he was older than us, so this command should be handed over to him! Of course Zhong Xinyuan and I were unwilling, so the meeting broke up unhappily, and then we heard: Long Tengfei is extremely ambitious, and he wants to be the king of the northwest! ”

Lin Yuan asked in surprise, "King of the Northwest?" He only occupies one place in Lanzhou, and he wants to be called the king of the northwest? ”

Jiang Huayong sighed: "Long Tengfei's ambition is not limited to this, isn't Xinjiang behind Gansu?" He also wants to include Xinjiang! ”

Lin Yuan couldn't help laughing and said, "This dragon Tengfei is a ridiculous little snake, and he wants to swallow the elephant!" Xinjiang is so big, how can he swallow it! ”

Jiang Huayong said: "We are also wondering! But these are all rumors, and we don't believe it too much, but the three of us are already in good shape, plus Long Tengfei controls the food supply, our troops are short of food, and finally one of the troops clashed with Long Tengfei's troops because of food, and the two sides fought and more than a dozen people died. ”

"I had a bad relationship with Long Tengfei, and Zhong Xinyuan also began to disagree, Zhong Xinyuan didn't discuss with me, and directly led the troops north to Guyuan Prefecture, I didn't have the strength to fight Long Tengfei alone, so I planned to go back to Fengxiang Mansion, so I asked Zhang Dayong and Wang Xiang to lead two battalions of troops to go back first, but there was no news of these two people as soon as they went."

"Our troops have no choice but to go back to Fengxiang Mansion, but on the way they were intercepted and killed by Long Tengfei, when we met General Sun, his real name is Sun Ji, he is a good man, seeing the lack of food for the people, he took the people to rebel on the Shaanxi-Gansu border, burned the county government, and robbed the granary, but the food was still not enough, so I made up my mind, entered Xi'an, and defended myself with the danger of the mountains and rivers of Shaanxi, which is what I said to you yesterday."

Lin Yuan thought in his heart: "So that's the case, the mystery of Long Tengfei has been solved, but an even bigger mystery has come, Long Tengfei dares to call him the king of the Northwest, the Northwest has always been fat in the eyes of the British and Russians, will Long Tengfei get their secret support?" ”