Soon after the battle of the Cao Gang's rudder, the salt transport envoy thickened before he came in a sedan chair in embarrassment, it turned out that when this guy was afraid, he was afraid that the revolutionary party would kill him, and even changed the coarse cloth clothes of the people and prepared to flee, until the next person came to report, saying that the new army was encircling and suppressing the Cao Gang, so he hurried over to stop it. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Unexpectedly, a group of black-clothed men rushed up halfway through, thickened and frightened, and ordered the soldiers to fight, but he ran back to the yamen of the salt transportation division to hide.

It wasn't until the gunfire over there that the soldier Zhang Zhizhong ran back to the yamen to report that the man in black had withdrawn, and asked the adults to make a decision quickly. (Yes, that's right, it was Zhang Zhizhong, the later general of the National Army, who was a soldier in the Yamen of the Salt Transportation Division at this time)

Thickening didn't dare to go out, so he sent Zhang Zhizhong and a few soldiers to the Cao Gang to find out, and after a while, Zhang Zhizhong and others came back to report that the Cao Gang was wiped out by the new army.

"Extinguished? What is the meaning? "Thickened surprised.

Zhang Zhizhong said: "The new army has evidence to prove that the revolutionary party is hiding in the Cao Gang, so it asks for someone from the Cao Gang. Instead of handing over the men, the Cao Gang opened fire on the New Army, relying on the Maxim heavy machine gun to shoot and kill more than 40 New Army soldiers. Wang Yongtai was furious, and immediately ordered the cannon to be fired, and launched an attack on the Cao Gang, breaking the Cao Gang's rudder. ”

"Confused! Confused! Long Peifu is confused! Thickening was so angry that he jumped three feet high, regardless of his age in his sixties, and shouted: "Quick! Fast! Prepare the sedan chair, prepare the sedan chair, I must keep Long Peifu. This Wang Yongtai is fake against the revolutionary party, and it is true against Long Peifu. This idiot just offended Wang Yongtai the day before yesterday! He thought that he was something, and even Wang Yongtai dared to offend, thinking that Wang Yongtai was about to be removed from office because of the death of Master Sheng. That Wang Yongtai already belongs to the grasshopper after the autumn, and he can't jump for a few days, and Long Peifu will not die to provoke him. I think that Wang Yongtai didn't kill him when he was finally in power, would he still be removed from office in the future, and he would not be able to insult him again? Long Peifu, Ah Long Peifu, a man in his fifties, how can he still act so recklessly. A few of you, hurry up and go to the Cao Gang Helm with me, we must rescue Long Peifu. ”

The Yanyun Division Yamen and his party sat in a sedan chair, and came to the chief rudder of the Cao Gang in fright, thickened the sedan chair, and just about to ask, they saw a big man carrying four or five heads, and walked over with a grin, and asked: "Who is the person who came?" Is it a mess? The master's knife is not cold yet, I'm afraid it's unbearable hunger and thirst! ”

"In the lower salt transport to thicken, may I ask the general is ......," the thickening hurriedly said.

"Yang Zhenshan, the first standard of the Twenty-four Mixed Association." This shouted, he is a native of Cangzhou, Zhili, fierce by nature, loyal to Wang Yongtai, and it is naturally best for him to come forward to scare away the thickening.

Thickening looked at the bloody head, and said tremblingly: "General Yang, what are you...... How did you kill the people of the court? ”

Yang Zhenshan said disdainfully: "Collusion with the party, there is more than enough to die, what's the matter?" The Salt Envoy still wants to shield Long Peifu? That kid has more than 100 guns under his command, and machine guns, isn't this a rebellion? Isn't it that Lord Long already knew that the Cao Gang was preparing to rebel? ”

Thickening was also taken aback, he didn't expect that there would be so many weapons in the Cao Gang, if the Cao Gang had forty or fifty earthen guns, it would be reasonable, but there were actually more than a hundred guns and machine guns, which couldn't be said, how could there be so many weapons if it wasn't a rebellion. Speaking of which, this is also Long Peifu's own death, in addition to helping the government escort materials, the Cao Gang also privately sells illicit salt from the salt factory.

When the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal passes through Hongze Lake, it often encounters water bandits and lake pirates, and if you encounter a famous and surnamed person, you will not shoot at the face of the Cao Gang, but in these years, there are often lone wolves who take risks, and they take risks with a few fellow villagers to rob the cargo ships of the Cao Gang.

After losing two cargo ships, Long Peifu immediately ordered the Cao Gang to buy weapons, so he bought dozens of second-hand Dongying fast guns and golden hook rifles from some source, and spent a lot of money to buy Japanese-style second-hand Makqin heavy machine guns. The Cao Gang ran rampant on the water, but seeing that the water bandits no longer had to give any face, they just killed them, so this Long Peifu has become arrogant recently.

Since Long Peifu thought that firearms were much better than sword weapons, he asked people to collect earthen guns and shotguns, plus the weapons in his hands, there were hundreds of guns, plus the Cao Gang had always had a very good relationship with the Yanyun Division, so he acted in a somewhat high-profile manner. It's just that Long Peifu didn't expect that the boat capsized in the gutter and was calculated by Wang Yongan.

As the saying goes, you can dance happily and die fast, but Long Peifu really responded to this sentence.

And Zenghou never thought that Long Peifu would have such a big courage, just get more than a hundred guns, and actually get a machine gun - it was like a rebellion, so he stopped speaking for Long Peifu, thinking in his heart about how to get rid of the relationship.

At this time, Wang Yongan rushed into Long Peifu's house with people, and he was ordered to seize the money of the Cao Gang, and his private task was to find Long Peifu's handwriting, so as to imitate his handwriting and forge evidence of collusion with the revolutionary party Sun Yat-sen. Although this Long Peifu is a rough man, he is not Mr. Baizi, he often writes some letters and invitations in the gang himself, but unexpectedly, the invitations hurt himself.

Wang Yongan found some handwriting in his study, but felt that it was not enough, so he pondered how to extract more. Suddenly, a voice came from afar, and Li Yao ran over with a light in his eyes and shouted, "Fourth Young Master, Fourth Young Master, it's gone, we're done!" ”

"What's wrong?" Wang Yongan asked.

Li Yao grinned and said, "When the brothers were arresting people in the inner courtyard, they found Long Peifu's aunts and wives, but they didn't see his wife, so I sent everyone to find his wife." Unexpectedly, the youngest aunt immediately threatened to find it for us, so we followed her and found the rockery in the back garden, never expecting that there was a tunnel under the rockery, leading directly to the treasure house of the Cao Gang, which was full of silver, a million taels. ”

Wang Yongan swallowed a mouthful of spit, he was shocked by the number of one million taels of silver, and then thought that this million taels of silver might not only belong to Long Peifu alone, but the belongings accumulated by the Cao Gang for hundreds of years, but he didn't expect to be robbed by mistake, so he immediately followed Li Yao to the treasure house.

The treasure house of the Cao Gang is huge, there are more than 100 square meters, the soldiers lit torches, one by one dumbfounded, Wang Yongan was also almost blinded by the rows of silver, in addition to the silver, there are many antique calligraphy and painting cultural relics collection, it turns out that the Cao Gang is not only responsible for transportation, sometimes also does no business, but they do less, do more hidden.

Wang Yongan swallowed his saliva, and immediately turned to Li Yao and said, "Take the soldiers out, you go and call Wang Xietong in person, and I will guard the door." ”