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The queen of heaven heard news from the Hexi Corridor one after another. Another unknown number of Hexi Corridor checkpoints disappeared near Ganzhou. Only then did the Ma family know how this cavalry came from. But the current situation is really serious, and several "horses" in Gansu had to rush to Lanzhou to discuss countermeasures.

In the Lanzhou Grand Marshal's Mansion, there were Ma Fuxiang, Ma Fulu and Ma Lin. The three of them didn't speak for a long time, and the severe situation made them breathless.

Ma Fulu took a heavy breath and broke the silence: "Liu Jintang is really a master. This trick of black tigers is really clever. When it comes to war, we can't play with him. If we do it all, we can still miss a place. Ma Lin, can we immediately destroy Liu Jintang? I heard from the spy that Liu Jintang only brought three thousand people."

Ma Lin also replied, "Brother, I'll give you a solid foundation, it's impossible. Zhao Gang is such a kid! Although he is in Xi'an, the pressure on us has never stopped for a moment. He is transporting supplies every day, exploring the way and laying wires. His military use is just a word "thick". He approaches us day by day, which is clearly because we don't restrain us. If we reveal a little flaw, it will immediately turn into a tiger and pounce on us. After saying these things, I will immediately return to Tianshui. I'm afraid that Zhao Gang will take advantage of my absence to take Tianshui. Even if we return to Ganzhou, we can't defeat the rolling Northern Army."

"Yes, I see that his battles have no characteristics, and they are nothing to the Russians that time. After all, it is to bully the weak with the strong and fight slow with the fast. But the more such an opponent is, the harder it is to deal with." Slow. The slow side is as strong as iron stone, and the faster the other side is as sharp as a sword. We have to clamp us with two sides, and then twist it hard... Even when the Zuo Dashu attacked us, it is not as dangerous as it is now..."

Ma Fulu sat on a stool, burly like a half-iron tower, looking majestic. After a while, he sighed: "Yes, another thing. I heard that they built a simple railway from Taiyuan at the end of last year. It has been built for six or seven hundred miles now, and it is estimated that they will be able to practice Taoism by the end of the year. At that time, there will be not tens of thousands of people, and more than tens of thousands of troops can be driven over. We will die without a burial place!"

The three of them were shocked. After a while, Ma Lin asked: "I heard that the railway is a special fee, and it costs tens of thousands of taels of silver a mile. And it takes many years to build it. Why is Zhao Gang as easy as blowing the railway? Is there a fraud?"

Ma Fulu was not very clear, so he asked one of his subordinates to come over and explain clearly. After a while, a tall man lowered his head and walked in. Ma Fulu didn't look back and asked, "Ma Zhanlong, how do you build the railway in Zhao Gang?"

"I don't know other situations, I only know how I built that section." Ma Zhanlong glanced at Ma Lin and said to Ma Fulu: "They leveled the ground, then pressed the farm truck on it, laid the rails, and finally nailed iron piles on the rails. This way it was very fast, and many of them were laid separately. One team could lay hundreds of meters a day, and those dozens of teams could lay more than ten miles. After I looked at it, they didn't seem to transport much things from the subway, or came in and asked, and then they realized that this was called a narrow-gauge railway. The transportation volume was only one-tenth of a normal railway, and the maximum transportation volume was only a few hundred tons a day."

After hearing this, Ma Lin smiled bitterly and said, "Hundreds of tons? Even if it is dozens of tons, we can't do it. We can transport tens of thousands of tons of grain a day, which is enough for tens of thousands of people to spend half a year. By the way, they are not prepared for Sichuan and Guizhou?"

"You want to break out from Sichuan?" Ma Fulu seemed to have a trembling slightly, "Even if the breakthrough was successful, it would be like forcing Zhao Gang to attack Sichuan. There is no way out for escape from Sichuan. Entering Guizhou, we will not only be surrounded by Han people, but the local Miao people rarely interact with us. If we seize their Miao villages, the Miao people cannot tolerate us."

Ma Fulu nodded and sighed, "Then we will retreat to Qinghai!"

Ma Fuxiang stood up and smiled: "Passing the arrow furnace, crossing the Jinshan Mountain? Crossing the Lancang River and the Yarlung Zangbo River, and then walking thousands of miles on the plateau - what kind of road is that! The elderly, women and children, food and water... what should I do? How many of our 800,000 tribes can walk there alively.

Do you still remember the Tuba Te people who came back from the Russians last time, with a few 200,000 people left, 3800. I remember that at the beginning of the year, Zhao Gang once said that if we agreed to implement his policies, he would never interfere in our internal affairs. If we surrender this time, can we get the same treatment as before?"

Ma Lin said: "One time, another time, now Zhao Gang disagrees with our conditions. He said, 1. Gansu rebelled, and the national and local taxes have been owed for two years, and these must be paid in full. Second, as a state official, if the crime is taken the lead in rebellion, the crime will be increased by the first level, and the official position will be removed at least, and the leading officials will be held accountable. Considering some special circumstances, if our Ma family can hand over the tax equivalent to three years, we can be given a side note, but we cannot have any armed forces.

In fact, the thing now is that no matter how you beg for mercy, people will only beat us: ‘Test!’ Now Northern China is in power, and not Han people all stand aside. It is impossible to use us to compete with the Han people like the Qing Dynasty. So don’t imagine getting recruited like last time. I think even if Zhao Gang loses this time, he will make a comeback next time. We will never give up until he is destroyed."

At this moment, a panicked voice from the guards came from outside the door: "No, no, Tianshui was defeated by the Northern Army!"

When Ma Lin heard this, he felt dark in front of him and fell into a gust.

He was surprised that Tianshui was called Qinzhou in ancient times, and was located in the southeast of Gansu Province. It was "bearing Long in the east, Yitianmen in the west, controlling Bashu in the south, and Jincheng in the north". It was a place that military strategists must fight for in the past dynasties. After the Silk Road was opened, Tianshui became the largest commodity distribution center along the way and in this area. Camel bells ding dong, merchants radiate and exerted their prosperity for the moment. It can be said that Gansu's wealth is in Tianshui, and it is extremely important in any aspect.

Since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, Tianshui has been the gateway to Gansu. This time, Tianshui and Ganzhou were lost together. It was equivalent to closing the front and back doors of the Ma family together. Since 1873, the Ma family is about to endure a catastrophe! When the storm is approaching, where should the Ma family go?
Chapter completed!