In the early morning of that day, Chen Zhong, who was besieged in Bobai County, Guangxi, had already arranged the tasks of various armies as planned.

First of all, the ten soldiers carefully selected in each army led by Dao Feng, plus himself and the original four special combat members, selected fifteen excellent war horses, and rushed to Guigang under the starry night.

Chen Zhong only brought one guard and went to Dong Sanbu of the Hengxian rebel army, preparing to persuade Dong San to borrow troops from him and attack Guigang.

Chen Zhong agreed with them that when the Battle of Guigang started and the defenders of Yulin poured out, they would take the opportunity to capture Yulin, which was already empty.

Chen Zhong ordered that after the battle of Yulin began, Qi Gang's First Army and Ling Zhan's Tenth Army attacked from the direction of Luchuan, southeast of Yulin. Huang Biao's 19th Army and Yang Tianlong's 8th Army attacked from the direction of Bobai, and after taking Yulin, the 10th and 8th armies moved closer to Guigang and flanked Wang Zhichun's army to rescue Guigang, and they planned to completely annihilate Wang Zhichun's troops outside the city of Guigang.

Chen Zhong told them that after he left this place, the various armies were under the unified command of Deputy Commander-in-Chief Qi Gang and Chief of Staff Yan Xia.

Dong San, who was stationed in the Hengxian area, was a relatively large contingent among the dozen or so peasant rebel armies in Guangxi.

The leader of this rebel army is called Dong San, who was originally an expeditionary force from Guangxi to Beiqi, Vietnam during the Sino-French War. After the end of the Sino-French War, those Qing soldiers in Vietnam had no military pay and source of livelihood. As a result, they had to survive on bandit-style robbery.

Later, under the repeated representations of the French garrison in Vietnam, Su Yuanchun, the governor of Guangxi, was forced by the French to recruit this part of You Yong back into his army.

However, due to the lack of establishment, it could only be maintained by deducting the food and salary of the regular troops, so that the whole army lacked food and clothing, and more soldiers carried weapons to serve as rangers.

After 1890, when the French consolidated their occupation of Vietnam, these stragglers were forced to retreat into China.

These wanderers were deeply persecuted and deceived by the Qing Dynasty, and had strong anti-Qing thoughts, and they participated in the Tiandihui, which became a system of the Guangxi Hui Party.

When Chen Zhong arrived in Hengxian, it was already morning. When he asked the soldiers at the city gate to see Dong San, the soldiers guarding the city gate suddenly surrounded him.

Chen Zhong was taken to the guard room under the city gate and made it clear that he was the little prince of the Hainan Palace, and these guards went to report to Dong San.

After about a quarter of an hour's work, the guards who had gone to report the news returned, and without saying a word, they ordered them in a loud voice: "Tie them up!" These two are spies of the Qing army! After saying that, they unloaded their weapons from Chen Zhong and them, tied them up and locked them in the urn city under the city.

Chen Zhong's guards tried to resist, but were stopped by Chen Zhong, who knew that this was a common method used by the rivers and lakes, and the name was: Dismounting.

After about half an hour, Chen Zhong and the others were taken to a spacious and heroic mansion, and on both sides of the courtyard were soldiers with rifles, all of them murderous.

Chen Zhong looked at this posture to go to the gun, this is a trivial matter. When Chen Zhong walked into the second gate of this mansion, the two gates behind him were all closed in an instant, and it seemed that there was going to be a vicious fight today!

At this time, there was a terrifying laughter from the inner hall, this voice was loud and implied murderous, thinking that this person was Dong San.

"Hahahaha, it seems that I'm here today as a distinguished guest! Are you the little prince of Hainan? Before the person arrived, Chen Zhong saw that this person was tall and strong, with a dark face, a full beard, yellow hair and standing upright, a pair of thick and plump eyebrows, and he looked like he was about forty years old.

Dong San strode in front of Chen Zhong, picked up the big knife in his hand and slashed it down. Chen Zhongli was shocked, but his face still did not change and he did not dodge.

Dong San's round of the big knife on the board door cut the rope on Chen Zhong's body with a "swish".

Dong San saw that Chen Zhong didn't have any dodging and fear, and suddenly laughed out loud and said, "When you come to me, you have to pass three levels, the first level, three knives knock on the mountain!" In the second level, nine bullets into the hall! The third level, a bet to settle the fate! ”

It turned out that this Dong San not only had superb knife skills, but also extremely accurate marksmanship, and was also good at gambling. Therefore, if you want to associate with him, you have to pass these three levels of him.

This first level of "three knives knocking on the mountain" is, test the knife technique with him, and if you can't block his three quick knives, you will leave immediately, if you dodge these three knives, you can enter this threshold, which is considered to be the entry.

The second level of "nine bullets into the hall" is that the big tree in the courtyard is full of chopsticks, holding a rifle, and you must be able to hit nine chopsticks in a row at a distance of 20 meters, and then you can enter the hall and sit down.

This third level of "one bet to determine fate" is that after entering the court, the two sides bet on a game, and the winner is his Dong San's destined person, who can be called a brother.

These quacks all have some quirks, but if you can convince him of that, you don't need to talk about anything else.

Therefore, Chen Zhongli pondered that this Dong San is also a man of temperament, so he might as well try it out with him and completely accept this reckless hero.

Chen Zhong didn't say a word, stretched out his right hand, Dong San saw the young little prince in front of him, his face was not afraid, but put on a posture of accepting the challenge, and he was a little surprised in his heart. It is rumored in the rivers and lakes that the son of the king of Hainan, who was extremely brave back then, was a dou who couldn't be helped, is this a lie?

Dong San hesitated for a moment, threw a bright and shiny Panmen broadsword to Chen Zhong, and then shouted: "Take it!" ”

After speaking, he picked up the big knife in his hand and slashed straight at Chen Zhong's head, the speed was so fast, in the blink of an eye, this sharp big knife arrived in front of Chen Zhong's eyes.

Chen Zhong was not in a hurry, and gently shrunk his body back by half a foot, Dong San's knife was like a lightning bolt slashing in front of his eyes, and the onlookers in the courtyard let out a burst of exclamation.

Immediately afterwards, Dong San's second knife swept over again, this knife was faster than the previous one, slashing straight at the lower part of Chen Zhong, Chen Zhong quickly backflipped, dodging the second knife like the autumn wind sweeping the leaves.

Before he could stand firmly, Dong San's third knife slashed over, and this knife slashed straight at the top of Chen Zhong's head. Chen Zhong did not dodge backwards, but, on the side of his body, he approached Dong San's left back side like lightning, and shouted: "Commander Dong, take it!" ”

Before Dong San could turn around, Chen Zhong's knife was already on Dong San's neck. Dong San gasped, and at this moment, Chen Zhong suddenly stopped attacking.

Dong San's face darkened, and he said, "You have passed!" ”

Chen Zhong clasped his hands into fists and said, "Commander Dong has conceded!" ”

Dong San didn't say a word, threw Chen Zhong a rifle again, didn't look back, and walked straight into the courtyard inside.

Dong San picked up the rifle with both hands, loaded the bolt that was connected to the "bang bang bang bang...... and nine bullets went out in an instant, and he saw that on the tall trees in the distance, nine chopsticks of uneven length fell down with a brush, and these chopsticks were all interrupted by bullets.

Chen Zhong walked to the table where the ammunition was placed, picked up the rifle, skillfully pulled the bolt and loaded it, and there were nine more gunshots, and the chopsticks fell to the ground, but the chopsticks on the ground were intact. It turned out that the silk thread as thin as a hair connecting the chopsticks and the tree was all pierced by Chen Zhong's nine bullets.

Dong San was taken aback when he saw the chopsticks scattered all over the ground!