"What's the situation?" Yuan Shikai is in the governor's yamen in the signing room and Yang Shiqi arranged this year's list of offerings in Beijing, which one has more and which one is less, there can be no mistakes, usually these things have regulations, this year's ruling party has won such a treasure land in Shandong, and the level of the offering will naturally be improved, but how much to increase can neither make the high-ranking adults dissatisfied and can not have no room, plus this year's ruling party is different from previous years to train the new army, and there are more yamen to deal with, this list also has to add some, which joints need to be broken, Which temples can be visited, and those mountains still don't go to provoke, compared to the provincial government affairs, these are the big things for Lao Yuan. When he was thinking carefully and trying his best to weigh it, there was a sudden gunshot outside, and after a while, there was a disturbance of the crowd, Yuan Shikai couldn't sit still, Yang Shiqi turned around and went out, summoned the foreman guard to come in, and the officer came in and said a thousand words, "Lord Hui, just now Ximen Qian sent someone to report, saying that there are displaced people in the direction of Daguan Garden in the commercial port area outside the West Gate, besieging Daguan Garden, and now the situation is unknown, but it seems that Daguan Garden has been prepared in advance, closed the door, and now the chaos has not yet attacked." In addition, the sound of artillery was heard from the western suburbs, which seemed to be in the direction of Ping'an Town, and had not yet been reported by the locality. ”

"What is the direction of the South Gate? Are all four doors strictly guarded? Lao Yuan was half relieved when he heard that there was nothing in the city, but what he was most worried about was the military camp of the Wuwei Right Army outside the south gate.

"Lord Hui, everything is normal at the South Gate. Now, except for Ximen Qianzong, who has closed the city gate and guarded it strictly, the other three gates are still as usual. The foreman replied.

"You immediately send someone out of the city, take my token and pass on my general order, Jiang Gui, the commander of the left wing, will stay in the battalion, the artillery team will take Duan Qirui as the deputy, and all the left wing infantry and artillery will stay in the battalion, and there will be no mistakes. With the commander of the horse army, Zhang Xun led the headquarters of the people, and immediately stationed in Jinan Mansion, on the road to pay attention to the ambush of the bandits, and in case of resistance, the whole will be regarded as the bandits to be exterminated. Wang Shizhen, the commander of the right wing, led the men and horses of the headquarters to send troops after half an hour, bypassing the polder wall, crossing the northern foot of Qinglong Mountain, and heading west to Ping'an Town to intercept and kill the bandits. The four gates were ordered to be thousand, the west gate, the south gate, and the east gate were closed immediately, and the south gate was not allowed to enter the city except for the right army of our armed guard, and the north gate sent a battalion of patrol battalions to garrison in the urn city, and in case of bandits entering the city, they were lured into the urn city to besiege and kill. The North Water Gate and the North Gate of the Weizi Wall should also be on guard, and there is no need to panic when encountering a bandit attack, just close the city gate and defend yourself. The foreman guard went down to give the order, and strengthened the guards of the governor's yamen, not to mention it, but said that Yuan Shikai and Yang Shiqi continued to drink tea and discuss in the signing room.

"The proprietor has a plan." Yang Shiqi said with a smile: "This group of bandits is strange, if there is a famine, inciting 350,000 hungry people to rebel, besieging the provincial capital is still a bit interesting, listening to the situation is only a few hundred people to make a rebellion, could it be that the leader of this rebellion has other plans?" ”

"Man dies for wealth, and birds die for food. To say that in the past, if the bandits did not take down the inner city, they would basically gain nothing, but now the real rich and wealthy people in Jinan Mansion are all in the west, and these gangs are not some bandits who have risen up, but hundreds of grass bandits in the name of bandits. Yuan Shikai also smiled slightly.

"In that case, why did the proprietor send troops into the city, did he have to exterminate this gang of grass bandits, and then the yellow finch would not succeed?"

"Haha, Xingcheng laughed, although Yuan is not talented, he has also read the Four Books and Five Classics and knows the righteousness. No matter how much silver these rich men were robbed of, Yuan would not move his mind. This is an opportunity, Duan Zhiquan and Wang Shizhen have said that this insurance regiment is a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger, and the training is extremely strict, and the elite soldiers are no less than our armed guard right army, and Zhiquan also assumes that any team of our army will definitely not be able to defeat the insurance regiment without using the horse army artillery team. The old man was also very curious, Zhiquan has always been arrogant outward and internal, so he admires a regiment to train his arms, and he doesn't know what they are capable of. This time the bandits are also single, did not attack the city, the thief head calculated that the old man will not use the army for the merchants in the outer city, even if he sends troops, he has to transfer troops from the south gate barracks into the city, and then go out of the city to suppress the bandits after stabilizing the city defense, he is not enough, he wants to play a time difference, and he will slip away when he grabs enough, but the old man just didn't give him this opportunity. I let Zhang Xun's horse team and them enter the south gate is to settle the hearts of these bandits, so that they think they have a plan, but they don't know how far the north gate is not necessarily far from the commercial port area, the brigade of people and horses through the city, do not stop, from the north bread copy the entire commercial port area, they dare not fight hard, can only go out of the west gate of the polder wall and the bandits in Ping'an Town outside the city to converge, when Wang Shizhen from the south, Zhang Xun from the north, gather and annihilate the bandits in Ping'an Town, even if there are fish that slip through the net, it is impossible to take away a large number of goods. When the time comes, the heads of the bandits and the recovered property will be transported into Jinan Mansion, and those officials will not know what else can be used to play the old man. ”

"The proprietor Zhizhu is in his hand, and Xingcheng admires it. But what if this insurance group can hold on? Yang Shiqi actually hoped in his heart that he could give the Chamber of Commerce a heavy blow, so that he could mediate the profits, and deliberately mentioned that he hoped that if the insurance group was kept, it would also arouse Lao Yuan's vigilance, so that he could embezzle the Chamber of Commerce in the future.

"If it is defended, it is also the old man's appeasement of the place, this insurance regiment has been approved by the old man, and when the time comes, the two armies of Mabu will exterminate the bandits besieging the commercial port, and the chamber of commerce will naturally know how to repay the favor. And after this battle, the old man of the insurance regiment can see clearly, and it will be a big gain to help me in the future. Speaking of this, Lao Yuan looked at Yang Shiqi, although Yang Shiqi was calm on the surface, but his heart was weak after all. Lao Yuan didn't care much about himself, lowered his head and continued to look at the city defense map of Jinan, as if he was talking to himself, "The sea is tolerant of all rivers, and the walls are rigid if there is no desire" Yang Shiqi's face was hot, knowing that his careful thinking could not hide from the owner.

The current Chen Da Dart's head is not hot, but cold, just a large piece of wet body has just been wet, and now it is cold inside and out, the most important thing is that it is cool in his heart. I thought that the three-way attack could make the thirty-odd regiments in the Grand View Garden look at their heads, who knew that their actions were expected, and suddenly came out of the water cannon such a big killing weapon, although no one could die, but even the iron fence door could not be touched, and suddenly the morale was completely lost, and the people who shrank back no longer had the arrogance just now. In fact, he is not the worst way. Just when the water cannon at the east gate and the north gate was powerful, the west gate was separated by an iron fence and had already been handed over, it turned out that Li Changshui led people around the west gate, and the north gate of the east gate was already inextricably beaten. I saw that eight shields had been erected inside the big iron fence gate, the shield looked more than half a person high, painted black, there was a hole waist-high, the movable stall was pinned to the side, a black iron pipe stretched out from it, looking at the top of the shield There was a black steel helmet shaking, obviously there was someone behind the shield. A boxer is self-assured of his bravery, raising the iron pestle to smash the door latch, who knows that the iron pipe behind the shield is a spark, half of the iron pipe spews out iron sand, it is actually four shotguns, the iron sand is not very powerful, but the head and face of the beaten several boxers who were seriously injured in the head and face fell to the ground rolling and howling, with their eyes closed and full of blood, it seems that their eyes are useless. The crowd was just about to retreat, and the other four guns rang out, it was a Manlisa rifle, so close to the crowd was dense, four bullets fell six guys, two dead and four wounded, except for one who injured his arm, he still picked up a life, and the other few people were left to fall to the ground and pour gas, less air in and more air out, and they were not alive when they saw it. The others ran around the iron fence gate in confusion, and the gunners behind the shields were not in a hurry, pulled the bolt and loaded, and after a while they loaded the bullets again. Looking at the miserable situation of the brothers in front of them, the others shrank behind the big trees at the top of the wall, afraid that they would also be on the road. Li Changshui couldn't help it, but the lid of the pot held by a little apprentice gave him an idea, bowed his head and ordered all his cronies, and snatched out some cutting boards, noodle cases, door panels and the like from the surrounding shops, and used ropes to tighten the brakes, making a temporary shield on one side, and the shotguns couldn't threaten them for a while, but the Manlixia rifles that kept firing were not blocked by the door panels, and from time to time someone would be hit and fall down, but the two windows on the second floor suddenly opened, and the barrels of the four shotguns stretched out, There was a burst of gunfire, and the boxers who couldn't care about their heads dropped a dozen corpses and wounded soldiers and retreated. This time, the red-eyed boxers went into battle with the Eight Immortals Table draped in quilts, and after several hits did not penetrate, the shotguns had stopped firing and wasted ammunition, and the four Manlisha of the insurance regiment could not stand it, and the shields were retreating step by step through the crack in the door, avoiding the bricks and tiles thrown from outside the fence and the piercing spears that stabbed in from time to time. Li Changshui looked very excited after the battle, and rushed up with his big axe, the little apprentices saw the senior brother rushing to the gate violently, and avoided it one after another, Li Changshui rushed to the front, stood still with two lunges, twisted his waist, fought with his arms, exhaled and opened his voice, and split Huashan with one move, and this kid was lucky, and he actually hit the crack in the door with an axe, and the pig iron latch with the thickness of the duck egg was actually broken. The door was pushed open with a bang, and the 100-person boxers outside the door were stunned, and instantly ecstatic, rushing into the corridor with knives, guns and sticks.

Li Changshui threw the axe, pulled out the big blade he was carrying behind his back, and roared, "Rob the big one." He also rushed into the corridor with the crowd. The road was originally more than six meters wide, but when the shield array retreated just now, the other merchants who helped were not idle, throwing in a lot of wooden boxes, bamboo baskets, bamboo poles, wooden strips, and finally a wilted guy actually spilled a sack of soybeans on the cement pavement, and the pit was bitter The heroes who rushed in front of him, one by one became rolling gourds, Li Changshui had a little kung fu, shook it, sank his waist and hips, and stabilized his body, the boxers behind did not know the situation in front of him, and continued to pour in, Li Changshui was pushed forward by the crowd, It's just that the big knife in his hand doesn't know when it was squeezed out, and he doesn't care about looking for it at this time, so he thinks he can just go into the yard and find something convenient. At this time, the guy who rushed to the head was not ten steps away from the exit, just got up and slipped and fell, one hand was on the ground but felt oily, and he screamed in his heart that it was a pity, the best soybean oil was so wasted, I didn't know that the loser actually knocked over a jar of soybean oil, leaving it all over the ground, ruining good things, at this moment the shield suddenly separated, and two people dressed in gray short clothes looked like officers and soldiers, holding two lit lanterns in their hands, and threw them into the corridor with a flick of their hands. This master will also use the crop handle with both hands, and the stick in his hand will sweep at the horse lantern when he sits on the ground, and the horse lantern will fly back, but how can the glass lampshade withstand the blow like playing baseball, and the lamp will be broken and the oil will be spilled, and the sparks will fall on the soybean oil all over the ground.