Lin Yuan hurriedly asked, "Strange things? What do you mean? ”

Wang Xiang said: "On the second day when Lord Jiang ordered to stop the attack, Long Tengfei suddenly came to Lord Jiang and Zhong Xinyuan, and brought one of his subordinates, saying that that the subordinate was the officer who ordered the burning of the mosque, Long Tengfei killed the subordinate on the spot to make amends to Zhong Xinyuan, and then the three of them discussed together for a long time, and when the day turned, the three of them announced that they would stop attacking the rebels and let the troops move to Lanzhou Mansion. ”

Lin Yuan asked, "Is there anything strange about this?" Didn't you just say that Long Tengfei didn't know anything about the burning of the mosque? Isn't it normal to kill the officer who caused the accident after knowing the truth? ”

Wang Xiang said: "The strange thing is not this, the strange thing is that Long Tengfei is also anti-water, he is neither a Muslim, nor is he poor, it is said that his family has 10,000 acres of fertile land, why should such a person fight against water with Zhong Xinyuan and Lord Jiang?" ”

Lin Yuan asked, "Then do you know the Tao now?" ”

Wang Xiang shook his head and said, "I haven't figured it out until now. ”

Lin Yuan said: "Then you can go on, what about after capturing Lanzhou Mansion?" ”

Wang Xiang said: "Lanzhou Mansion cannot be regarded as our capture at all, because there is no one to defend it at all, those green battalion soldiers are not vulnerable at all, and the only few township regiments are unable to catch up with us in terms of numbers and equipment, so we captured Lanzhou Mansion without much effort." ”

"After capturing Lanzhou Mansion, we sent someone to send a letter to Xi'an Mansion, saying that we did not want to rebel against the Qing Dynasty, we just wanted to admonish the army and let the court treat the tenant farmers and Hui people well, but the letter was sent to Lu but there was no reply, and we don't know if Lu Dao was in chaos, and the person who sent the letter had an accident."

"When we were waiting in Lanzhou Mansion, there was a difference of opinion between the three of them, our station was in Fengyang Mansion, so Lord Jiang wanted to take us back to Fengyang Mansion first, and then enter Xi'an, and then admonish the army, if the imperial court sent a minister, then we will be obedient; And Zhong Xinyuan's station is in Guyuan Prefecture, and he wants to return to Guyuan Prefecture first. ”

"Long Tengfei's station is near Tianshui, he wants to stay in Lanzhou, just like that, the three of them are getting more and more unable to talk together, and gradually there is a conflict, once there are fatalities, at the same time, there are more and more farmers in Gansu and Shaanxi, and the imperial court has also sent some people to clean up, and what is even more chaotic is: those farmers who have made trouble also have disputes with each other, and they are also fighting each other, let's just say it, the whole Gansu has been completely chaotic into a pot of porridge!"

"When Lord Jiang saw this situation, he asked us to go back to Fengyang Mansion first, so I took my Xiangzi battalion and Zhang Dayong's Yongzi battalion to Fengyang Mansion, but we didn't have much food! At the beginning, I didn't expect so many things to follow, and I thought that I could raise food in the local area, but as I just said, Gansu is already in chaos, where to raise food? Not only that, but when we got to Zhangjiachuan, Long Tengfei's troops suddenly attacked us! ”

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "Zhang Jiachuan? Isn't that what those Muslims told me? Unexpectedly, that battle turned out to be fought by Wang Xiang and Long Tengfei. Lin Yuan asked, "Why are Long Tengfei's troops attacking you?" ”

Wang Xiang shook his head and sighed: "I don't know what to say at all, my Xiangzi battalion has been broken up, and there are less than 100 people left in more than 1,000 people, and Zhang Dayong's Yongzi battalion has more people, more than 600 left, we will continue to go to Fengxiang Mansion, but the food is getting less and less, and people fall behind and run away from time to time on the road, if we usually send people to arrest them, but at this time we don't dare to send people at all!" Maybe the people who sent it ran away! ”

"When we arrived near Yinfeng Mountain, there were only three or four hundred people left in the team, Zhang Dayong said, there is a Yinfeng Mountain nearby, there is a group of bandits on the mountain, they have been entrenched here for more than 20 years, they must be hiding a lot of food!"

"So we decided, take down Yinfeng Mountain, get food, and then go to Fengxiang Mansion, the people on Yinfeng Mountain do not have decent guns, although Yinfeng Mountain is dangerous, but it was quickly captured by us! But after going up the mountain, Zhang Dayong changed his hexagram, he saw that the terrain of Yinfeng Mountain was dangerous, and he wanted to occupy the mountain as the king, we don't agree, isn't it? Let's talk about it again today! ”

Lin Yuan asked, "Then the gunshots we heard were made by both of you?" ”

Wang Xiang said: "That's right, we talked to them and collapsed, so I said to Zhang Dayong: 'You take your Yangguan Road, I cross my single-plank bridge, we go down the mountain, and from then on the well water will not interfere with the river water!'" Who knew that Zhang Dayong said unrelentingly: "You can go, but the guns and food must be left!" ”

"As soon as I heard it, I thought, isn't this bullying? We also have the credit for laying down the cottage, so give them everything! I got into an argument with them, and as we talked, we shot and then we started fighting, and we had few people and suffered a big loss, didn't we? There are only twenty or so people left. ”

Lin Yuan asked, "What about Zhang Dayong's people?" How much is left? ”

Wang Xiang said: "Don't look at Zhang Dayong's many people, but there are many people who run after going up the mountain, don't we divide the property of the cottage after we go up the mountain?" Some people moved their minds to slip away and secretly ran down the mountain, and today they were killed by us a lot, and now there are more than 100 people left. ”

At this moment, Lin Yuan heard a soldier say, "Lin Shuai, someone is here again!" Lin Yuan hurriedly came to the window and saw a group of soldiers coming over with guns, Lin Yuan called Wang Xiang closer, pointed to the people outside and said, "They are Zhang Dayong's people, right?" ”

Wang Xiang nodded and said, "That's right, the big black and thin man in the crowd is Zhang Dayong!" Lin Yuan picked up the binoculars and took a closer look, and sure enough, he saw a big man in the team, and that person was two meters tall! I only heard the big man shouting loudly: "Wang Yingtong, we are still brothers, as long as you come out, leave the gun for us, and you can take the food away!" Go wherever you want! ”

Wang Xiang looked at Lin Yuan and asked, "Lin Shuai, what should I do?" ”

Lin Yuan thought in his heart: "I have to keep these people, and after I go deep into Gansu, I can use them to recruit that person named Jiang Huayong, but since this Zhang Dayong wants to occupy the mountain as the king, maybe he is not willing to surrender to me, I have to subdue him first!" ”

So Lin Yuan asked Wang Xiang to return to the crowd, and then called a soldier over, pointed at Zhang Dayong and said, "This distance, 100 meters, can you kill Zhang Dayong with one shot?" ”

The soldier shook his head in embarrassment, patted the submachine gun in his hand, and said: "Lin Shuai, the guy in his hand is not strong, this guy is shooting a pistol bullet, and the trajectory is unstable after being discharged, and I can see the suspension at a distance of 100 meters!" ”

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "Just thinking about fighting in close combat after coming up, I knew that Lu Dao was going to fight a long distance, so I brought the rifle here!" Lin Yuan asked the soldiers to go back, and shouted outside the window: "Zhang Dayong, I'm Lin Yuan, don't fight!" ”

Zhang Dayong laughed and shouted, "Lin Yuan? Don't be funny, what is Lin Shuai doing here? Brother Wang, don't pretend to be a ghost inside, if you don't come out again, I'm going to be rude to you! ”

Zhang Dayong said this, waved his hand at the back, and said loudly: "Push the cannon over!" ”