The boxers who attacked the church were searching the church to find out the most rebellious repressors, but a large number of strongmen suddenly appeared behind them, which surprised the boxers who had deceived the door and rushed into the church to kill people and set fires, and the leading "senior brother" ordered to turn around and attack the strongman, which was a subconscious action, compared to the missionary foreigners, the robbers who killed the Zhuangzi were more dangerous, which meant the destruction of the rich gentry in the village, the loss of a lot of money and the abuse of young women.

Inevitably, when the "elder brother" with a yellow turban on his head was killed by a volley of guns from his new opponent, the boxers armed with broadswords and spears suddenly scattered, and with the familiarity of the terrain, they disappeared without a trace, leaving only two corpses lying in the street in front of the church.

Long Qian led Wang Mingyuan's team to rush into the door of the smoky church, and there was a person lying at the door, who had been hacked to death with a knife, not a foreigner, and the braid on the back of his head showed that he was an authentic Chinese.

"Don't shoot! We are not the Boxers, we are here to save you! Through the smoke, Long Qian saw a corpse lying by the door of the hall.

"Why are we saving foreigners?" Wang Mingyuan asked puzzled.

"Don't talk nonsense! Orders were carried out and no shots were allowed. ”

shouted several times in a row, and finally a stammering Chinese dialect came, "Who are you?" ”

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

Can Captain Dragon speak foreign? Wang Mingyuan and Feng Lun looked at each other.

A tall foreigner with a revolver came out of a room, muttering foreign words.

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

There was still a foreigner lying on the bed in the room, and when he looked over, there was a bloodstain on the foreigner's stomach, and the person was already dead. People saw that the foreigner who was holding the pistol just now was actually very young, and then 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 up the foreigner and said a lot of foreign words to him, and the foreigner wiped his tears with his plush hands and nodded again and again.

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

Feng Lun asked puzzledly, "What are we going to do with the dead?" ”

"Where is all this nonsense? Do whatever you want. ”

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

Bring with you what you can take with you from the church, mostly the missionary's personal belongings, books, clothes, and some food. To everyone's special delight, several large bags of table salt were found in the basement of the church, which were treasures. Long Qian's subordinates didn't look at books, paper, pen and ink and other things, but Long Qian regarded them as treasures and ordered them not to be discarded and taken away. What interested Long Qian the most was that he got two military binoculars, which were estimated to be brought by a young man named David from the United States. The telescope also aroused the curiosity of Wang Mingyuan, Feng Lun and others, looking at Long Qian's appearance, his love for the yellow and Chengcheng thing was still on the small pistol.

Puzzled, he asked Long Qian why, and Long Qian said that this is a treasure, and I will teach it to you slowly.

Soon, Long Qian withdrew from the town with his team, and the villagers all hid back home one by one, the leader was dead, and no one dared to embarrass dozens of strongmen with foreign guns. Near noon, Long Qian led his team swaggering along the official road to the southeast, and he estimated that Cao Kun would not learn the news of his robbery of Maoyang Town and Pingyi Village until tomorrow at the earliest, and by that time, he had already returned to Mengshan.

In the afternoon, Long Qian found a hidden place to rest at the foot of the mountain, which is only six or seven miles away from Pingyi Village, with Jiang Yun's cleverness, he and Cheng Erhu will definitely be able to find themselves.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Long Qian talked for a while with the foreigner who withdrew from the town with the team, and seeing that the foreigner kept nodding, Long Qian ordered to dig a pit in the woods and bury the body of the foreigner brought out of Pingyi.

"I know what you want to ask me," Long Qian smiled and looked at a few backbones, "I wonder why I know what foreign language I know?" Right? ”

"Yes, yes, I'm wondering what else you won't know, Captain Dao." Lu Shan nodded like a chicken pecking rice.

"I'll tell you more about the situation later. Actually, I've been overseas, but I didn't want people to know about it in the past. That foreign boy is not a bad person, let him follow us for the time being. ”

Long Qian has already learned about the situation of foreigners, his name is David. Devon, 26 years old, is a native of California, USA, graduated from the University of California with a degree in economics, and loves to travel and explore. After graduating from college, David joined his father's company as an apprentice at his father's iron mill in California, and two years later became the head of the company's planning department. Because his uncle was a missionary in China, David took advantage of the opportunity to visit relatives to travel to China, and this is when he came to China for the first time. Fortunately, he met Long Qian, who was fluent in English. And Long Qian's troops looked more like a regular army than bandits.

However, Long Qian did not tell his subordinates in detail, only said that it was an American, and his uncle was preaching in Pingyi, and he came from the United States to see his uncle and travel by the way. Because he's never been to China before. I have been to Shanghai, Qingdao, Jinan, and from Jinan to here, but I didn't expect to encounter this incident.

"What do you want him to follow? Forget it. Foreigners don't have a good thing. Feng Lun made a gesture to wipe his neck, and he didn't care about David's presence.

"Well, there is no good person among foreigners? Not necessarily, right? Long Qian calmly said to Feng Lun, "Do you know what the boxers of Pingyi Village are attacking the church for?" ”

"For what?"

"Because David, oh, that's him, remember that everyone will call him David in the future. David's uncle knew a little bit about medicine, he was a Western doctor, but yesterday the patient his uncle treated died, and the villagers thought that David's uncle had killed the neighbor, so the conflict broke out. Everyone also saw that not only David's uncle was killed, but even the janitors who helped in the church were killed, they were all authentic Chinese. ”

"A bunch of goddamn fake foreigners." Feng Lun said disdainfully, "You deserve to be killed." ”

"No doctor dares to say that he will cure the patient, so there is 'curing the immortal disease, Buddha is destined to be a person'. I believe David's uncle didn't kill the villager. You don't believe it, but I do. ”

"Captain, there really isn't anything good about foreign devils...... Captain Long, you didn't do the right thing in this matter, you shouldn't help foreigners fight boxers. Feng Lun was cross-hearted, but still said what was in his heart.

"Don't say it, I'll tell you the truth later, and now do as I say." Long Qian waved his hand vigorously, interrupting Feng Lun's ramblings, "Lu Shan, this David, I'll hand it over to you to carry, and you are not allowed to miss a single hair from him." I see? ”

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

"Captain, according to the time, the two tigers should also come back. Could it be that we can't find us and get lost? Lu Shan thought of another thing.

"Yes, we should be back, I'm sure they'll find us." Long Qian said with certainty.

Sure enough, after the team had lunch, Jiang Yun took a person to find the team out of breath.

"How? What about the two tigers? ”

"Brother Erhu stayed on the mountain. The officers and soldiers are gone, and the old Song and them have nothing to do......" Jiang Yun gasped.

"Great. When it gets dark, we'll go to our nest! Long Qian still had the last stone in his heart that had not landed, "By the way, is there any news from the brigade?" ”

"Nope. Lao Song said that the officers and soldiers only searched the mountain for a little and left, and went east along the avenue. ”

"Alright, let's wait until it gets dark and go back to the mountain." Long Qian waved his hand vigorously, and turned to David, who had been following him, and said, "Mr. Diwen, I'm afraid you will be with us for the time being. "Long Qian made one of the most important decisions of his life.

"Who are you? Where to go? David had come to his senses from his initial gratitude, and found that these people were not the regular army of the Great Qing Kingdom.

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

"Thank you, thank you for saving me! But, I'm getting 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."

"For what, you are kidnapping! Got it, kidnapping! It's the act of robbers! David cried out.

"You're right. Because I told you that we are bandits. Do bandits in the United States never kidnap civilians? ”

Everyone didn't understand why the captain wanted to bring this devilish blonde and blue-eyed foreigner, but Long Qian knew that Yuan Shikai was going to start an unprecedented military suppression of the Boxers after he became the governor of Shandong. The area around Caozhou is the most powerful place for the Boxer Rebellion, and Yuan Shikai's attention will be very high. As soon as this American named David was released, the government immediately knew his own truth.

"Lu Shan, this person will be handed over to you. Where the troops went, he went. Where he is, where you are. Got it? Note that he is not a prisoner of war, and he is not allowed to be abused, beaten, or scolded, and I will inquire about his situation. ”

"Captain, I'm the most annoying to foreign devils, there is no good thing. Besides, I don't understand what he's saying. Lu Shan finally expressed his reluctance.

"No need to talk to him. Just give him a meal when he eats, find him a place when he sleeps, and make sure he doesn't run away. I'll take care of the rest. ”

Long Qian commanded the troops to begin to turn east that night and return to Mengshan. Fortunately, among the officers and men of the Eighth Brigade, there are quite a lot of hometowns in this area, and there is no need to find a guide. Fortunately, on the way back to the division, there were basically no dangerous situations.

On the way back to the mountain, Long Qian kept chatting with David, who was "kidnapped". Although David deeply hated Long Qian who kidnapped him, instead of his previous gratitude, he hoped that Long Qian would accompany him, because only Long Qian could communicate with him verbally. Overnight, David secretly wondered if Long Qian had been to the United States, because Long Qian seemed to be very familiar with the United States when he talked about the United States, not only the capital Washington, the largest metropolis New York, and the largest city in the west, Los Angeles, but also the Hollywood film industry.