Recruiting Dong Fuxiang was somewhat unexpected, and he was going to fight hard.

The Dong army was reorganized and an infantry brigade was established, with Dong as the brigade commander, "Brother Dong, there is something I want to ask you, I don't know if the eldest brother is willing." Luo Yang asked,

"Don't be a big brother, King Rui, you are the consul of the Huaxia Heavenly Kingdom, the emperor's old man, I am just your pawn, hehe." Dong Fuxiang still knows the depths, seeing that Liang Chengfu, a fierce general of the Taiping Army, and others are cautious in front of Luoyang, respectful, and dare not slack off.

"I plan to set up a special zone in Gansu, and I will select a person from the Ningxia Special Zone to serve as the admiral, and I will manage the hundreds of miles of land in Ningxia Mansion, I don't know if Brother Dong is interested."

"Ah, Admiral."

Of course Dong Fuxiang was shocked, no matter how mixed he was in the world, he hadn't seen much of the world, and he wanted to be a commander all of a sudden, and he couldn't adapt to it, the more he was born in the lower ranks, the more sensitive he was to vanity, who wouldn't want to glorify his ancestors.

"Well, Ma Hualong is capricious, even if he surrenders, it can't last a few days, and this king plans to destroy it by force." There's no more to it,

"So what." Dong Fuxiang was anxious,

"If Brother Dong can destroy Ma Hualong, this Admiral is yours."

Dong Fuxiang suddenly shook his head into a rattle: "If it doesn't work, Ma Hualong's soldiers are wide, at least 100,000 people, I'm a little person, and I don't even have enough teeth to stuff people, besides, the soldiers are united, and the battle is brave, I'll tell the truth, don't say that if you kill the old horse, you just fight hard against Ma Hualong, and we are not opponents." ”

Luo Yang said with a smile: "Brother Dong is a real person, I also know that you can't beat Ma Hualong, even if this king personally goes into battle, it is also very difficult to fight him, killing three thousand enemies and losing eight hundred." ”

"Hey, King Rui, you're kidding me." Dong Fuxiang smiled bitterly,

"No, no, I have an idea, you want to see how first." Luo Yang thought deeply and pretended to be a gesture: "Perhaps, only you can destroy Ma Hualong, and it will be easy." ”

Dong Fuxiang was naturally interested, and asked hard, Luo Yang was not conservative, and said directly: "There are three ways to deal with Ma Hualong, first, using the part-time job of the governor and governor of Gansu as bait to lure Ningxia Ma Hualong and Hezhou Ma Zhanao to express their attitude, whoever surrenders first will get it, and then, to attack other separatist forces, this is Luo Bingzhang's clever plan, second, we concentrate our forces, first attack Ma Hualong in Ningxia Jinji Fort, and then attack Hezhou, each of them is broken, and third, sneak attack Jinji Fort, destroy Ma Hualong in one fell swoop, no matter which method, we have to fight in the end." , and the third method is best. ”

Luo Yang told Dong Fuxiang in detail about the method of directly taking Ma Hualong, and Dong Fuxiang nodded again and again, "Good strategy, good strategy, it's just too hanging." ”

"Wealth and danger are sought, heroes are good at getting ahead, Brother Dong is a heroic model emerging in Gansu, and he is the best candidate." Luo Yang agitated,

Dong Fuxiang hesitated: "The idea is good, I'm afraid we won't be able to eat the old horse, but we will be kicked and broken by the little **." ”

Luo Yang said with a smile: "Don't worry, if you want to attack Jinji Fort, this king should sponsor all your cannons and foreign guns, and you will personally go out." ”

"Okay." DONG Fuxiang was overjoyed,

Several people carefully discussed the details of the battle, and then, Dong Fuxiang still waved the old banner, swimming in the northern Shaanxi area, close to the Ningxia region, and Luo Yang led the troops, quickly south, and returned to the army.

Luo Bingzhang did put forward a clever plan, called the strategy of driving the wolf with the tiger and fighting the tiger again, using a Gansu governor to concurrently serve as the governor, tempting the two healthy horses of Ningxia and Hezhou, so that they could compete with each other, recruit one, and then drive this one to fight the other, Luo Yang felt that it was not the best way, anyway, the Hui army was not so incompetent, so he went deeper on this plan: "If you can achieve the best, if you can't do it, just recruit one, stabilize him first, and then say." ”

As expected, whether it was Hezhou or Ningxia, the two leaders of the Hui army expressed their willingness to surrender.

This is not a good thing, whether it is surrender or refusal, as long as it is together, there must be fraud, it is an expedient measure, for the Gansu Admiral, the two leaders of the Hui army said that they don't care, they are very humble, so that Luo Bingzhang's poisonous plan failed,

Luo Yang convened the generals from all walks of life, discussed the strategy, and on the surface, promised the leaders of the two Hui armies, and even decided to divide the Ningxia Mansion and establish a new province to meet Ma Hualong's actual needs for secession.

Luoyang sent representatives, with the Hui army as a guide, to two places to express condolences and contact, but also to spy on the two situations.

The military envoy came back and reported to Luoyang, saying that no matter Hezhou or Jinji Fort, they are well defended, strong barriers, Hezhou city defense, beyond imagination, Ningxia Jinji Fort, the terrain is dangerous, there are countless large and small fortresses, from Lingwu to Jinji Fort, close to the Yellow River, the big fortress is set with a small fortress, there is a fort in the fort, especially with Jinji Fort as the heavy, the city is four zhang high, three zhang thick, with a large number of guns, the road in many places is narrow, easy to defend and difficult to attack,

In advance, through the leaders of the Hui army who had been to Jinjibao in Shaanxi, and through Dong Fuxiang and others, they learned about the situation in that area.

"No wonder Ma Hualong doesn't occupy Lingzhou as the core, but mainly uses a small rural fort."

The geographical situation of Jinji Fort is indeed steep and abnormal, and after many years of operation of Ma Hualong, coupled with the gathering of troops after the outbreak of the Gansu Change, it has become the most difficult and powerful armed group in Gansu.

Even if the Luoyang army has powerful artillery, if you want to attack Jinji Fort, I am afraid you have to repeatedly rush and kill, and besiege it for a long time, at least one year, Zuo Zongtang in history, a generation of famous marshals, the elite of the Hunan army, the victorious division, and surrounded for more than a year and a half, surrounded the Qing court with great glory, and severely reprimanded the old Zuo Yi for delaying the military plane.

Luo Yang readily accepted the surrender of the two horses,

Surrender is only a name, the sphere of influence of the two horses has not moved a single hair, the establishment of nothing is mentioned, and the frequently dispatched military envoys have been discussing with the two horses how to split Gansu into two provinces and regions to meet the political and military ambitions of the two horses.

Since the two horses had surrendered on the surface, it was also quite convenient for Luoyang's military operations, so he immediately advanced with his troops, nominally continuing to move westward into Lanzhou, preparing to further enter the Hexi Corridor, eliminate other Hui forces that refused to obey, and march into Xining, Qinghai.

With Kong Guangshun, Cao Kezhong and other troops to hold Guyuan, remote monitoring Ningxia Ma Hualong, Guyuan was an important town in Gansu at that time, has always set up a Guyuan governor, with Luo Bingzhang's army into Lanzhou, recruit the Qing army inside and outside the city of Lanzhou, with Tao Maolin, Lei Zhengjuan's army as the left wing, enter Longxi, Dingxi City, monitor Ma Zhanao in Hezhou, ensure the grain route, Luoyang self-unified Chinese army, follow the footsteps of Luo Bingzhang's troops, slowly march to Lanzhou, and then Hu Zhonghe army, Lan Chengchun army, out of Lanzhou and Guyuan, occupy Jingbian, cross the Yellow River, enter Baiyin, Jingtai, and recruit the scattered Qing troops along the way to occupy the towns, or inspect the towns of small groups of Hui troops, and station them respectively, the real purpose of which is to isolate the secret information connection between the two horses,