Mengshan Army

The boxers who broke into the church were searching the church to find the last resister, but a large group of strongmen suddenly appeared behind them, which surprised the boxers who had tricked the door into the church and set fire to them. The leading "big brother" It is a subconscious action to order to turn around and attack the strongman. Compared with the foreigners who preach, the robbers who kill Zhuangzi are more dangerous.

Conflicts inevitably occurred. When the "big brother" with a yellow turban on his head was shot to death by a new opponent, the boxers with swords and spears suddenly scattered, relying on their familiarity with the terrain, they disappeared without a trace There were no traces, leaving only two corpses lying on the street in front of the church.

Long Qian led Wang Mingyuan's team into the door of the smoky church. There was a man lying at the door, who had been hacked to death by a knife. He was not a foreigner. The braid behind his head showed that he was an authentic Chinese.

"Don't shoot! We are not the Boxers, we are here to rescue you!" Through the smoke, Long Qian saw a dead body lying beside the door of the hall.

"Why do we save foreigners?" Wang Mingyuan asked puzzled.

"Don't talk nonsense! Follow the order and don't shoot."

After shouting several times in a row, a stammered Chinese finally came, "Who are you?"

Long Qian suddenly shouted a series of foreign words that surprised Wang Mingyuan and Feng Lun!

Captain Long can speak foreign language?Wang Mingyuan and Feng Lun looked at each other.

A tall foreign man with a revolver came out of a room, babbling foreign words.

All the Mengshan thieves watched in amazement as their leader communicated with the foreigner in a language they could not understand. Finally, the foreigner threw the pistol to the ground.Long Qian walked over to pick it up, followed the foreigner into the room just now.

There was a foreigner lying on the bed in the house, and when he leaned over to see, there was blood on the foreigner's stomach, and he was already dead.People saw that the foreigner holding the pistol just now was actually very young. At this time, the very young foreigner hugged the dead foreigner and cried.

"That's his uncle, the missionary of this church. He was beaten to death by the boxers." Long Qian said softly to Wang Mingyuan.Then Long Qian pulled the foreigner up and spoke a bunch of foreign words to him. The foreigner wiped his tears with his fluffy hands and nodded repeatedly.

"Feng Lun, go and wrap the dead man on the bed with a sheet, lift it up, and exit the town!"

Feng Lun asked in puzzlement, "What are we going to do with the dead?"

"Where is there so much nonsense? Do whatever you are asked to do."

Long Qian led Wang Mingyuan's team to put out the fire in the church, "Don't embarrass this person, he is here to visit relatives, not a bad person." Long Qian explained.

Bring things that can be taken away from the church, mostly missionaries' personal belongings, books, clothes and some food.They were especially pleased that several large bags of salt were found in the church basement, which was a treasure.Long Qian's subordinates didn't even look at things like books, paper, pens and ink, but Long Qian regarded them as treasures and ordered them not to be discarded and taken away.What interested Long Qian the most was the acquisition of two military binoculars, probably brought by a young man named David from the United States.The binoculars also aroused the curiosity of Wang Mingyuan, Feng Lun and others. Looking at Long Qian's appearance, he still loved the yellow thing more than the small pistol.

Puzzled and asked Long Qian the reason, Long Qian said that this is a treasure, and I will teach you how to use it slowly.

Soon, Long Qian withdrew the team and withdrew from the town, and the villagers hid back home one by one. The leader was dead, and no one dared to embarrass the dozens of powerful men with foreign guns.Near noon, Long Qian led the team swaggeringly along the official road towards the southeast. He estimated that Cao Kun would not know the news that he robbed Hepingyi Village in Maoyang Town until tomorrow at the earliest. Mengshan friends.

In the afternoon, Long Qian found a hidden place to rest at the foot of the mountain. According to Pingyi Village, it is only six or seven miles away. With Jiang Yun's wit, he and Cheng Erhu will definitely be able to find him.

Taking this opportunity, Long Qian chatted for a while with the foreigner who followed the team out of the town. Seeing that the foreigner kept nodding, Long Qian ordered to dig a hole in the woods and bury the body of the foreigner brought out from Pingyi. up.

"I know what you want to ask me." Long Qian smiled and looked at the backbones, "Why do I know foreign language? Isn't it?"

"Yes, yes, I want to know what else you can't do, captain." Lu Shan nodded like a chicken pecking at rice.

"I'll tell you the details later. I actually went abroad, but I didn't want others to know about it. That foreign boy is not a bad guy. Let him stay with us for now."

Long Qian has already learned about the situation of foreigners. His name is David Diwen, he is 26 years old, he is from California, USA, he graduated from the Economics Department of the University of California, and he likes to travel and explore.His father ran an iron factory in California. David entered his father's company as an intern after graduating from college, and served as the head of the company's planning department two years later.Because his uncle was preaching in China, David took the opportunity to visit his relatives to travel to China. At this time, he came to China for the first time, but encountered such a tragedy.Fortunately, he met Long Qian who was fluent in English.And Long Qian's troops looked more like a regular army than bandits.

But these, Long Qian did not tell his subordinates in detail, only said that he was an American, his uncle was preaching in Pingyi, and he came from the United States to visit his uncle and take a trip by the way.Because he has never been to China before.I have already been to Shanghai, Qingdao, and Jinan, and came here from Jinan, but I did not expect to encounter this incident.

"What do you want him to do? Kill it. Foreigners don't have a good thing." Feng Lun made a gesture of wiping his neck, not caring about David's presence.

"Well, there isn't a good person among foreigners? Maybe?" Long Qian said calmly to Feng Lun, "Do you know why the boxers in Pingyi Village attacked the church?"

"why?"

"Because David, oh, that's him, remember everyone will call him David from now on. David's uncle knows a little bit of medical knowledge, he is a Western medicine doctor, but yesterday the patient his uncle treated died, and the villagers thought it was David's. The uncle killed the neighbor, so the conflict broke out. Everyone also saw that not only David's uncle was killed, but also the church doorkeeper. They were all authentic Chinese. "

"A bunch of damned fake foreign devils." Feng Lun said contemptuously, "They deserve to be killed."

"No doctor dares to say that the patient will be cured. That's why there is a saying "heal the disease that will not die, and the Buddha will have a destiny." I believe that David's uncle didn't kill the villager. You don't believe it, but I believe it."

"Captain, foreign devils really don't have anything good...Captain Long, you didn't do this right. You shouldn't help foreigners fight boxers." Feng Lun said what was in his heart.

"Stop talking, I'll explain the truth to you later, and do as I say now." Long Qian waved his hand forcefully, interrupting Feng Lun's rambling, "Lu Shan, I'll leave this David to you. He must be missing a hair. Got it?"

"Understood." Lu Shan was a little reluctant, but he would not violate Long Qian's order.

"Captain, according to the time, Erhu and the others should be back. Could they get lost because they couldn't find us?" Lu Shan thought of another thing.

"Yes, they should be back, I believe they will find us." Long Qian said with certainty.

Sure enough, after the team had lunch, Jiang Yun led a panting person to find the team.

"How is it? Where's the two tigers?"

"Brother Erhu stayed on the mountain. The officers and soldiers are gone, Lao Song and the others are fine..." Jiang Yun said panting.

"That's great. When it gets dark, we'll go to our old den!" Long Qian still had the last stone in his heart, "By the way, is there any news from the brigade?"

"No. Lao Song said that the officers and soldiers only searched around the mountain for a while and left, heading east along the road."

"Okay, let's go back to the mountain when it gets dark." Long Qian waved his hands vigorously, then turned to David who had been by his side and said, "Mr. Di Wen, I'm afraid you will be with us for a while." Long Qian Made one of the most important decisions of his life.

"Who are you? Where are you going?" David had already woken up from his initial gratitude, and found that this group of people was not a regular army of the Qing Dynasty.

"It doesn't matter who we are. The important thing is that we pulled you back from the death line. I hope you remember this." Long Qian said to David in English.

"Thank you for saving me! But, I want to get out of here. I am an American civilian, not a soldier, and you have no right to restrict my freedom."

"No, you can't go now."

"Why, you guys are kidnapping! Do you understand, kidnapping! It's an act of robbers!" David yelled.

"You're right. Because I told you, we're bandits. Don't bandits in America ever kidnap civilians?"

Everyone didn't understand why the captain brought this devil-like blond foreigner with him, but Long Qian knew that after Yuan Shikai took office as the governor of Shandong, he would start to suppress the Boxer Regiment with unprecedented force.The Caozhou area is the place where the Boxer riots are the most severe, and Yuan Shikai will pay a lot of attention.Once this American named David was released, the government immediately knew his true identity.

"Lu Shan, I will leave this person to you. Where the troops go, where he goes. Where he is, where you are. Do you understand? Attention, he is not a prisoner of war, and you are not allowed to abuse him. I will ask about his situation. .”

"Captain, I hate foreign devils the most. I don't have any good things. Besides, I can't understand what he said." Lu Shan finally expressed his reluctance.

"You don't need to talk to him. Give him a meal when you eat, find him a place when you sleep, and make sure he doesn't run away. I will take care of other things."

Long Qian commanded the troops to turn east that night and return to Mount Meng.Fortunately, many of the officers and soldiers of the Eighth Regiment had their hometowns in this area, so there was no need to look for guides.Fortunately, on the way back to the teacher, there was basically no danger.

On the way back to the mountain, Long Qian kept chatting with the "kidnapped" David.Although David deeply hated Long Qian who had kidnapped him and replaced his previous gratitude, he also hoped that Long Qian would accompany him, because only Long Qian could communicate with him verbally.Overnight, David secretly wondered if Long Qian had ever been to the United States, because Long Qian seemed very familiar with the United States when he chatted with him, not only the capital Washington, the largest city New York, and the largest city in the west, Los Angeles. , Can even say a thing or two about the Hollywood film industry.