Lin Yuan asked directly, "How many soldiers do you have in your hands now?" ”

Yang Changjun's face was depressed when he heard this, and he said: "Although there are more than 100,000 soldiers, they are all green battalion soldiers, and you know the combat effectiveness. ”

Lin Yuan said: "It doesn't matter, I don't need how strong their combat power is, as long as they can work." ”

Yang Changjun asked: "Dare to ask Lin Shuai, what are you going to do with them?" ”

Lin Yuan said with a smile: "Lord Yuan asked me to reconnoiter the situation of the railway, I need some transit bases, and the construction of these bases requires manpower." ”

Yang Changjun hurriedly said: "Okay, good, although these green battalion soldiers are laymen in war, they can still build a camp." ”

Lin Yuan said again: "Give me another 300 cavalry, and I will go to suppress the bandits." ”

Yang Changjun asked, "Bandits? Which bandit are you going to suppress? Will you not be able to exterminate the bandits with 300 men? ”

Lin Yuan smiled: "Of course not, don't ask so much, hurry up and transfer someone to me, and send me to my station after the transfer." ”

Yang Changjun nodded and said, "Then please go to the Yamen." Lin Yuan followed Yang Changjun to the yamen, so Yang Changjun called the officers and asked them to obey Lin Yuan's command, Lin Yuan glanced at these officers, only to see that they were either listless or pot-bellied, they were indeed not people who could fight, and they were all afraid when they heard that Lin Yuan was going to command them.

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "I have to give them a reassuring pill first, and then they can work for me with peace of mind." So Lin Yuan smiled at them and said, "You don't have to worry, what I let you do won't die, you don't even have to do it yourself, just let your subordinates do it." ”

The officers were relieved when they heard this, and Lin Yuan said to them: "You come with me, and I'll tell you what to do when you get to the place." ”

Lin Yuan then led them to the station of Yuan Shikai's troops, Lin Yuan found Yuan Shikai and said to him: "Lord Yuan, if you want me to continue to reconnoiter the railway situation, you have to meet my request. ”

Yuan Shikai had already set up a poisonous plan with Liu Wantong, Ning Maniac and others to murder Lin Yuan, and wanted Lin Yuan to continue to reconnoiter the railway situation, so he asked, "What do you want?" ”

Lin Yuan said: "It's a long way from Xi'an to Lanzhou, and we can't bring too many things with one car, so we need to build a transit base, and after the transit base is completed, people need to be stationed. ”

Yuan Shikai thought to himself: "What a vicious Lin Yuan, I haven't treated you yet?" You first divided a large number of my men. However, Yuan Shikai still agreed, Lin Yuan came out, asked the officers to lead the green battalion soldiers to build a transit base, and returned to the station by himself, and found that Yang Changjun had transferred three hundred cavalry, so Lin Yuan ordered everyone to rest for a day first, and set off for Yinfeng Mountain, the station of Lao Jinshan, the next day.

As soon as this order was announced, Chen Fei and the soldiers were very surprised, and Chen Fei said to Lin Yuan: "According to what Lao Jinshan said, there are more than 500 enemy troops on Yinfeng Mountain, and they are well-equipped, but we only have 300 cavalry, and the combat effectiveness is almost negligible, can we be the opponent of others?" ”

Lin Yuan said with a smile: "I think very clearly, the people on the mountain are part of Lian Yong, and these people may not be willing to be bandits, so I didn't go to fight them, but to recruit them." ”

Chen Fei hesitated and asked, "Can this work?" Lin Yuan smiled but didn't answer, Chen Fei smiled and said, "In that case, what are we going to do with these three hundred cavalry?" Wouldn't it be better if we went on our own? ”

Lin Yuan smiled: "Why did you forget the corpses blocked on the railway, if you don't move them away, how can we get there!" ”

Chen Fei said: "I understand, it turns out that what you asked Yang Changjun for is just a porter!" ”

Lin Yuan nodded, and then Liu Wantong came and said to Lin Yuan: "Lin Shuai, I heard that you are going to go into the mountains tomorrow to suppress bandits, I don't understand, just leave such a thing to us, why do you do it yourself?" ”

Lin Yuan smiled: "Don't bother you, let's go by ourselves." ”

Liu Wantong hurriedly said: "That's not good, I want to protect your safety, so let's do it, I will personally bring three hundred soldiers tomorrow to protect your safety." ”

Chen Fei listened and whispered to Lin Yuan: "Yuan Shikai's people are going, are we going to hand over the work of the porters to them?" Don't bring the cavalry. ”

Lin Yuan shook his head lightly and said, "They are nominally protecting our safety, but if they really go to the wilderness, what if they are three hundred of them to twelve of us, destroy us all, and then put the blame on the rebels?" So Yang Changjun's 300 cavalry, we still have to take it! ”

Lin Yuan then agreed to Liu Wantong, and Liu Wantong thought: "Lin Yuan, our Lord Yuan has already made a clever plan, and this time you will die!" Then he went back, Lin Yuan began to prepare for transportation, this time there were more people, so Lin Yuan arranged a special train.

Accompanied by the stationmaster of Xi'an Station, Lin Yuan boarded the train to check, and soon he said worriedly: "We will bring six hundred people and three hundred horses tomorrow, I'm afraid this train can't fit it." ”

The stationmaster shook his head and said: "It really can't be loaded, there is no problem with people, a few carriages can be loaded, but the horses are not good, the horses are so big, and they need three hundred!" And we don't have any bigger trains. ”

Lin Yuan said: "Then I have to reduce the number of people and horses." He calculated in his heart, then turned back to his attendant and said, "Go and inform Liu Wantong that tomorrow his men will be reduced to one hundred and fifty, and I will reduce the number of cavalry to one hundred and fifty, and it should be able to fit it." ”

The attendant turned around and left, and Lin Yuan said to the stationmaster again: "Do we have a lot of gasoline at Xi'an Station?" ”

The stationmaster smiled: "What do you want gasoline for?" ”

Lin Yuan replied: "Burn the corpse." ”

The stationmaster said: "It's better to dig a pit and bury it deeply, we still have to supply the train engine with gasoline here, and the personnel transfer will definitely be very frequent in the future, and it is not okay to have less oil." ”

Lin Yuan said: "Then you can prepare 500 shovels for me to put on the car, 500 masks, 500 pairs of gloves, 500 cloth jackets, and disinfectant, right?" Bring me some big buckets. The stationmaster agreed, and when the two were talking, Lin Yuan suddenly saw his attendant coming back, followed by Liu Wantong, Lin Yuan asked in surprise: "Liu Yingtong, what are you doing?" ”

Liu Wantong said: "Lin Shuai, I heard that you are going to withdraw our people, this matter must not be allowed, those cavalry have no combat effectiveness, and the safety of adults depends on us to protect them!" Therefore, adults must not remove our people! ”

Lin Yuan wondered in his heart: "Why is he still worried about my safety, it's really strange, there can't be some conspiracy here, right?" Lin Yuan saw that Liu Wantong's appearance was very resolute, so he said: "Okay, your people will not be reduced, I will reduce the cavalry to one hundred." ”

Liu Wantong saluted with a "snap" and said loudly: "Swear to protect Lin Shuai's safety!" Only then did he turn around and leave, Lin Yuan thought to himself, "What the hell is this guy going to do!" ”

On the second day, the group got on the train and set off, Lin Yuan still took people to take the railway chariot, this time Shen Wanqing and Gao Yu did not follow, Lao Jinshan followed Lin Yuan with a few people, and once again came to the vicinity of the corpse pile, Lin Yuan asked everyone to stop, and then ordered: "Clean up the corpse." ”