It is said that Bai Lang is tall and long, and he runs very fast, so he is also called the "white wolf". He likes to read novels and admires Song Jiangzhi very much. "Sex is bold, good at controlling people, squandering wealth and righteousness, thinking that he can win the public."

The border areas of Henan and Hubei are already poor and poor places, coupled with years of war and chaos. Due to the lack of food and clothing for the people here, it is easy to take risks, and the birth and development of the Bai Lang Army has a unique advantage in this kind of place.

At the beginning of the Bai Lang uprising, there were only twenty or thirty people and a rifle. Soon, he seized the rich man's rifle and pistol, and 30 soil. Combined with Li Lang, Zhang Qun and other poles, the number of people increased to more than 100. On February 8, the first year of the Republic of China (1912), Bai Lang led the crowd to move from Yaodian to Daogutian Village. When the Spring Festival was approaching, Bai Langji gathered hungry people in four townships and went to the Liuji warehouse in the east of the city to grab more than 170 trucks of grain.

That night, Bai Lang learned that the county official Zhang Litang would leave his post the next day, passing through Jiaomaling. He led people to intercept and seized 16 rifles in one fell swoop, and captured the son of Zhang Litang and obtained more than 10 redemption guns. After that, he united with Li Fengchao and other poles, with more than 200 people, and his power grew.

Zhang Zhenfang, the governor of Henan, was the cousin of Yuan Shikai, who was born in Xiucai and served as the customs governor of Tianjin, managed the imperial family during the revolution, and later served as the governor of Zhili. Because Henan is Yuan Shikai's hometown, Yuan Shikai transferred his cousin from Zhili. Zhang Zhenfang is a minister of aggregation and only knows how to loot, which injects an accelerator into the growth of Bai Lang's army.

There is a popular local song: "Good Bai Lang, Bai Lang is good, rob the rich and help the poor, do the right thing for heaven, everyone says Bai Lang is good!" ”

There is also one that: "Old Bai Lang, Bai Lang is old, robbing the rich and saving the poor, doing the right thing for heaven, everyone says Bai Lang is good." In the past two years, the rich and the poor have been even. ”

When the Bai Lang army and the official army were fighting, they often shouted a slogan: "The Bai Lang army fights the officers, not the brothers." ”

Since Bai Lang compared himself to Song Jiang, he treated his military advisor Lu Wenyu as Wu Yong. The strategy of the Bai Lang army is to attack the west from the east and avoid the real and make up for nothing.

On April 23 of the first year of the Republic of China, Yu Yaoting, the commander of the 13th Battalion of the Beiyang Army, entered to suppress Bai Lang, and Bai Lang retreated from Gaohuang Temple to the area of Madao and Zhangzhuang in the west of the city.

On May 12, Yu Yaoting led his troops to the camp, and when he arrived at Li Wenyi, he was defeated and retreated by Bai Lang's troops. Subsequently, Bai Lang united with Du Qibin and others to attack Yu Yaoting's garrison Daying Town at night, and Yu Yaoting's army fled.

After Bai Lang repelled the official army, he performed a play in the village to celebrate for three days, and discussed a joint action plan with Du Qibin, Niu Tianxiang, Gao Yongcheng and other pole leaders.

On October 24, Bai Lang led the people to attack Yu County in the north, and went south to open Chunshui, Xiangheguan and other places in Miyang. Later, due to the joint attack of several county regiments, the Bai Lang army was defeated and withdrew to Baofeng.

In the winter of that year, Bai Lang's army returned to the south and entered the Wuyang Sow Gorge (now belonging to the border area of Wugang City). It successively united with Wang Chuanxin of Nanyang, Song Lao, Li Hongbin, Wang Zhen and other poles in the Lushan area, totaling more than 600 people, to capture Tang County (now Tanghe County). In one fell swoop, most of the 59th Independent Regiment of the Army was wiped out, and a large number of rifles, machine guns, artillery, and bullets were captured, and the Bailang Army increased to more than 1,000 people, and its prestige was greatly shaken.

This was followed by a return to the north to attack Lushan and Poyu County, and clearly put forward the slogan of "fighting the rich and helping the poor".

The Beiyang Army gathered nearly 10,000 people from Lei Zhenchun, Wang Yuxiu, Lei Cunxiu and other units to encircle and suppress it. Bai Lang led the crowd to break out of the encirclement. The soldiers were divided into two routes, one to the west to attack Lu's, and the other to the south to Xichuan Xiping Town, Jingziguan and other places.

The Second Revolution broke out. Yuan Shikai used troops against the south and transferred the main force of the Beiyang Army to the south to fight the Kuomintang. The rear was empty, and Bai Lang took the opportunity to entangle the veterans and the defeated soldiers in the area of Fan Zao, crisscrossing Wuyang and other counties.

Bai Lang dealt a heavy blow to the Beiyang Army and received the attention and support of Sun Yat-sen and other revolutionaries.

In July of the second year of the Republic of China (1913), Huang Xing, commander-in-chief of Yuan, sent a letter to Bai Lang, saying: "Self-sufficiency, between Hubei and Henan, invincible, high-rollers, and people with lofty ideals responded, and the Central Plains will be swept away in the future, and the culprits will be annihilated......

Huang Xing proposed that Bai Lang attack Hubei and respond to Li Lie's army in Jiangxi.

Subsequently, on September 16, Bai Lang broke through Zaoyang, an important town in Hubei, and annihilated more than 500 defenders of the city. After entering the city, he opened a warehouse to help the poor, posted notices, proclaimed himself the commander of the Republic of China Fuhan to fight against Yuan, and played the banner of fighting against Yuan, and cooperated with the Second Revolution.

On January 11, the third year of the Republic of China, Bai Lang's army crossed the Jinghan Railway from west to east, and successively captured Guangshan and Gushi. Henan is the defense area of Zhao Kui, the wing commander of the Yi Army, and Yuan Shikai sent Zhao Kui as the "Supervision of the Suppression of Bandits in Southern Henan", instructed him to recover the lost territory, and strictly ordered him to exterminate the Bai Lang Army with all his might.

However, Bai Lang's army was very agile, and immediately entered Anhui upon hearing the news, and captured Lu'an and Huoshan counties on the 26th.

Lu'an County Magistrate Yin Baosen abandoned the city, Yuan Shikai was furious and immediately ordered to be shot.

At the same time, he was determined to replace his cousin Zhang Zhenfang, who could only loot, and sent Duan Qirui, the first general of the Beiyang Army, to be the governor of Henan, and instructed him to go to Xinyang to supervise the division.

Bai Lang has become a big problem in Yuan Shikai's heart, and he catches "wolves" and rewards him again and again, totaling Beijing and Henan, gradually increasing from 5,000 yuan to 120,000 yuan.

The Bai Lang Army did not take this prestigious Duan Du Du in his eyes, and openly set up the base camp of the Bai Lang Army on the Qiqi Mountain in the territory of Chengshan County, not far from Xinyang.

How many people did the Bai Lang Army have? Some say that there are only 10,000 people, and less than 1,000 people have armor; Some said that there were about 2,500 men who could fight, and 20,000 were coerced.

Bai Lang's proclamation declared that all veterans who joined the gang would not be accepted without arms.

The Beiyang Army's monthly salary was four taels, but the Bai Lang Army lured each other with a monthly salary of ten taels. Bai Lang's army could walk 100 and 20 miles a day, but the officers and men could only walk 50 or 60 miles a day, so although the officers and men claimed to be chasing "wolves," in fact they could only send each other off in formation.

YUAN Zheng. The government was greatly puzzled by the erratic and impermanence of this "bandit" army, and in order to cover up its own incompetence, the government spared no effort to exaggerate the strength of the Bai Lang army.

According to Yuan Zheng. According to the battle reports released before and after the government, about one million "bandits" have been killed, and Bai Lang himself does not know how many times he has been killed by the Beiyang Army.

YUAN Zheng. These good news of the government have greatly increased the ambition of the Bai Lang Army and further mythologized it.

For a time, rumors and legends about Bai Langjun's army were flying all over the sky.

Legend has it that Bai Lang once sent the fifth column to infiltrate the major cities of Tianjin, Beijing, Shanghai, Hankou, and Guangzhou, posing as antique merchants, grocery store owners, and itinerant beggars, respectively, to carry out various activities.

There is also information that Bai Lang has established transportation networks and transportation stations in major cities, on the one hand, transporting the materials they have grabbed by waterway to the places where the prices are high, and on the other hand, exchanging them for all kinds of materials they need.

YUAN Zheng. The government's communiqué conclusively said that Bai Lang's secret organ had been cracked in Guangzhou, and at the same time, it also said that in addition to Bai Lang, there were also "yellow lions" and "green wolves" among the "bandits."

So Yuan Shikai issued an order in the name of the president: "All arrests and arrests."

In March of the third year of the Republic of China, four children in Wuchang City were swimming in the pond and accidentally touched a waste gun. This time it was terrible, and the arresting officers immediately arrested the four children.

An astonishing piece of news spread: "The white wolf has sent the boy vanguard to Wuchang!" President Yuan sent a secret telegram to the provinces, instructing them to strictly guard against the "boy vanguard" of the Bailang faction.

An even more serious rumor was that Zhang Xun, the commander of the Braided Army and the Yangtze River patrol envoy, actually met with Bai Lang's secret envoy at the headquarters in Xuzhou.

This rumor really scared Yuan Shikai a lot.

Although Zhang Xun belongs to the Beiyang lineage, he is a side branch of the Beiyang lineage, not a descendant of Yuan. Not long ago, in order to compete for the Nanjing Shuaiyin, Yuan Zeng played some tricks to force Zhang Xun to give up the Jiangsu Governor and Nanjing's territory, which was a new feud.

There is also an old account that Zhang Xun has always been loyal to the Qing court, as evidenced by the fact that he and his troops have always kept braids.

Since there are new hatreds and old hatreds, it is possible that Zhang Xun is unreliable.

Yuan Shikai was really afraid of the combination of the Braided Army and the Bai Lang Army.

In order to solve this problem, Yuan came up with a clever plan to "fight poison with poison", that is, to order Zhang Xun to attack the Bai Lang army.

Zhang Xun gladly accepted the order, but asked Yuan for permission to expand his forces and recruit ten battalions of new soldiers. This counter-demand made Yuan Shikai swallow the bitter fruit, and hurriedly sent Ruan Zhongshu, who was a henchman and had a friendship with Zhang Xun, to Xuzhou to dredge up, telling him not to recruit troops and not to suppress bandits!

In view of the strength of the Beiyang Army in the Central Plains, Bai Lang adopted the suggestion of Shen Staff Officer sent by Sun Yat-sen to seize Sichuan as an anti-Yuan base area, and in March he returned from the east to capture Jingzi Pass and move west.

On the way to the west, Bai Lang declared with a proclamation of "Governor of the Central Plains Fuhan Army": "Since the reform of our country, the government has been treacherous, and the people's morale is not high. The governor of Pontus dropped out of farming and rested for a long time! It is used to entangle heroes and ask for the people's lives. However, at the beginning of the incident, there was no land to rely on, no salary to fund, no ordnance to rely on, and the east and west were rushing, and they were tired of the locality...... After the army crossed the border, the merchants and the people were able to welcome the division without resisting or fleeing, and the governor of the capital also protected them and never burned them."

At the beginning of April, after Keshang Nan and Qinling Mountains, he went to the suburbs of Xi'an and issued a document entitled "Seeking Yuan to oppose imperialism and support the republic".

On April 6, Bai Lang's army broke through more than 10,000 people of Shaanxi Governor Zhang Fenghui to intercept the west, and Kezhouzhi, Qianxian, Huxian, Binxian, Fengxiang, Longxian and other places, the army approached Tongwei County, and Chen Hongbao, the magistrate of the county, led the gentry to meet them.

Bai Lang ordered the garrison outside the city to bring only more than 100 people into the city and live in a school.

He said to his subordinates: "This county town is as small as a fight, the people are poor and pitiful, and the students can still be cultivated." ”

He donated 2,000 taels of silver for the purpose of running the school.

After a long period of rushing operations, lack of rest and supplies, and more than 20,000 Shaanxi and Gansu infantry cavalry in close pursuit, the situation of the Bailang army was unfavorable. In particular, the Battle of Lintan on 25 May met with stubborn resistance because it failed to properly handle relations with ethnic minorities. Bai Lang and the main general Song were wounded, the fierce general Qiu Zhanbiao was killed in battle, and the rebels suffered more than 1,000 casualties, and their vitality was greatly damaged.

Then, during the capture of Qinzhou (Tianshui), the military division Li Baimao and the general Li Hongbin were killed one after another. Coupled with the extreme shortage of food, the difficulty of supply, the unstable morale of the army, and the difficulty of entering the Sichuan, many advocated returning to Yu, and Bai Lang led the army to return to the east.