"Lao Wei, let's do another bowl, crush the shock and wash the dust, and drive away the bad luck." Xiao Heizi finally took his turn to toast and filled Lao Wei with a big bowl.

"Hey, that's it, go get lucky." He Laoba was already drunk and his face was red, similar to a monkey's buttocks, I don't know if he was so red when he took the mountain* knife and chopped the more than 30 heads yesterday. Without waiting for Lao Wei to speak, he poured a big sip of himself, and let out a mouthful of wine, "Happy, happy!" ”

"Don't say anything, Boss Wu, brothers, I should live again, and there will be no words in the water and fire in the future." Lao Wei understood the truth that Da En did not say thank you, and without saying a word, he took a sip of the large bowl of wine, although a few whip marks on his face were still hot, but the wine entered the hero's mouth, and the liver and intestines were full of blood, and he couldn't take care of the slightest pain.

"That's it, one man, two brothers. Lao Wei, you are the eldest brother among us, if you change these younger brothers, you will not be able to watch the excitement. "I also drank a lot, and the alcohol was on my head, and I held Lao Wei and Wu Luzhen's shoulders." After this bowl of wine, tomorrow, well, tomorrow our brothers will go to do something big to break the sky, how about it? ”

"It's done, Boss Wu, you are our eldest brother, and the brothers will follow you with their heads in their hands. Rob the emperor, Ri Niangniang, as long as you Boss Wu said it, the brothers will not pretend to be cowardly. He Laoba stared at the blood-red eyes, stepped on the stone bench, and had already stripped off his spine, and the steam of wine was steaming on the dark tendons and flesh.

"Go together, the brothers will wait for you Boss Wu to speak, and the Yama Hall will dare to break into it three times." Xiao Heizi also became Xiao Drunken Shrimp, and his black muscles were steamed red by alcohol, which also contrasted with He Laoba.

"Lao Tzu's life is the boss, you can save it, in the water and in the fire, but listen to your orders." Lao Du didn't speak much, but under the influence of alcohol, he also showed a different kind of blood and vigor from his usual calm and ruthless.

Wu Luzhen looked drunk and staggered, and at this moment, the captain and the detachment leader who were shining together were holding a big bowl of white dry staring at themselves, as if they had torn themselves apart without saying a few words to Liangshan. Shou Qing was slightly happy, his mustache was cocked, and he flicked his arm to strip off the military shirt on his body, but the physique of the thin southern barbarians and a few sturdy porcelain Shandong men did owe a little bit of good-looking.

"Hahahahaha." Seeing that the Wu detachment, which had always been Sven, also played bare-chested, several people were stunned, and then they burst into laughter, and in the laughter, the sea bowls full of old white dry were banging, and the wine was like a clear spring in the throat, and the pride was all over the world. Many years later, when the famous oil painter Jia Hai created a series of oil paintings of "The Great Cause of the Founding of the People's Republic", the historians and even the public questioned the heavy drinking of the fathers in the oil painting "Gathering Heroes to Turn the Tide", thinking that Wu Shouqing and Wu Shuai, who have always paid attention to military discipline, will not at least not appear so arrogant. Of course, no one dared to ask me to verify the matter, so it became a big historical mystery in the history of the founding of the country.

In the haze, I seemed to remember that Lao Wei asked Du Zicheng who was on duty, and Wu Luzhen, who was carrying a dead pig, He Laoba muttered, "Miss Du and Lao Yang." ”

After some washing, I was preparing the speech for the afternoon swearing-in meeting, and when I put it down, I couldn't help but think of the situation when I went to see our old parents in Shandong more than a month ago - Yuan Datou.

"So, Chen Xuan, have you concluded that Jingshi is going to make a big mess?" Yuan Datou did not let Wang Shizhen, Yang Shiqi, Xu Shichang and others accompany me, but recruited me into the study for an interview. There are only two people here, Yuan Datou and me, and some things are easy to pick and choose.

"Ming Gong, you have a natural insight into the movement of the court, this Yihe boxer bandits made a big fuss in the purple bamboo forest, attacked Xishiku, Dongjiaomin Lane, has touched the bottom line of the interests of overseas countries, those relatives and Qingliu of the imperial court are still doing the spring and autumn dream of killing people with knives, and I don't want to think about tens of thousands of lambs pasted on the talisman paper is also to send meat to the door, no matter how few wolves are wolves, the court can exterminate the long-haired bandits and twisted bandits who are far superior to the boxers, but they have been defeated again and again with foreigners, and now they actually pray that a group of trick-playing gods can defeat foreign guns and foreign cannons, isn't this a big joke in the world?"

"Well, the odds are not high. However, the imperial court has its own cadres and officials who can clean up the situation, and you and I local officials have not been called, and they are good at raising heavy troops, which seems to be. "It's strange that Yuan Datou can't see the situation clearly, but he is still trying to deceive himself.

"Ganchen, Li Zhongtang? Are you Xiang Chenggong? It's already far away. In addition to the faint and old people in the court, they are arrogant and arrogant, and the wishful thinking of the pro-noble and Qingliu can't even deceive the monkeys who sell the art on the flyover, and they still expect them to clean up the situation? I smiled coldly" Xiang Chenggong may still have incense for the Yi Army, but the Yi Army is no longer the Yi Army that Zhu Sangong was back then, in addition to the Wuwei Right Army, does the Beijing Division still have an army that can be fully manned and armed? Nie Junmen may still be brave, but can he support the overall situation of Beijing-Tianjin defense with a single light pole? As long as the foreigners bombard Dagukou, they can take the train from Tianjin all the way to Zhengyangmen. ”

"This, hey, although Chen Xuan is a little harsh, it can be regarded as to the disadvantage of the times. However, Xiang Cheng was supervised by the Holy Grace to pacify Shandong, so how could he dare to move troops without authorization. ”

"Of course it's not an unauthorized move, do you still have some guns and ammunition stored in the Nanyuan barracks?"

"Well, yes, you mean?"

"Your Excellency dispatched a battalion of men and horses to escort ammunition and supplies to the army, which is not considered to be an unauthorized use of troops."

"Well, if you don't join the Beijing Division, it won't be considered a violation, and it doesn't matter if you have a few people."

"I can't hide it, I already have accurate overseas military information, and I ask you to decide." I saw that Yuan Datou was already a little loose, and hurriedly handed over my killer weapon.

"It's, it's true." Yuan's head, which was still sitting firmly on Mount Tai just now, jumped up from the chair all of a sudden. "Britain, France, Germany, Russia, the United States, Japan, Italy, Austria and the eight-nation coalition army, 50 large and small warships, more than 20,000 marines, and 80 artillery pieces have been successively mobilized and assembled in the waters off Yingkou in the Bohai Sea, and are scheduled to bombard Dagukou on June 16 (today) in the Western calendar. This, the military situation is as heavy as Mount Tai, and it must not be child's play. ”

"Governor Yuan, after tonight, there will naturally be news from the concession, and the truth will be known. It's just that according to our analysis, the coalition forces are estimated to be able to attack the capital by mid-August at the latest, and I am afraid that the whole country will be in chaos at that time. "My confident expression made Yuan Shikai let go of his doubts, after all, such a big thing can't deceive people." Since the right army of Wuwei can take care of the south road of the capital, and our insurance regiment is lurking in the northwest of the capital, as long as the saint can get out in time, there will always be a way to meet the saint in time. At that time, no matter which of the two armies under your command can be saved, it will be a great achievement, and who will dare to bare his teeth in front of you at that time. ”

"This, um" Yuan said in his heart: You kid is nominally a regimental training in Shandong, and he is a soldier under my command. But Lao Tzu really ordered you to mobilize every soldier, can you do it without your nod? Even if Lao Tzu doesn't agree, it seems that Wu Chenxuan is already determined to wade into this troubled water. Anyway, if Chen Xuan's news is confirmed tomorrow, it means that he has a powerful overseas intelligence source, then he may have a few more layers of certainty in his next operation in Beijing, so he might as well send a battalion of soldiers to act at the opportunity.

The two of them finished their discussion, looked at each other and laughed, as if they could talk about the world. Who knew that the fate of the land of Shenzhou has since embarked on the road of competing for heroes. "The ups and downs of the country have their own fixed number, and the heroes and heroes don't ask the source."

On this day, the wind and the sun are shining, and a flat threshing floor at the foot of Baima Mountain and out of Lashan Mountain has become a temporary school field. All the officers and soldiers of the insurance regiment of the Jinan Chamber of Commerce lined up neatly and solemnly. But I saw that Wu Yuhan, the captain of the insurance regiment, was sturdy, wearing an ordinary soldier's iron-gray military uniform, calfskin boots, and an armed belt around his waist, full of energy, full of spring breeze, and walked briskly to the oath-taking platform more than one meter high. In the sassy wind, seven or eight hundred officers and veterans who had experienced many battles against bandits stood motionless in the school yard, the bayonets on the tips of their guns flashing with cold light, and the cold and young faces under the octagonal hats. The thought that these young soldiers might be gone forever made me a little distracted, but fortunately, the momentary distraction made everyone think that I was pressing, and the atmosphere seemed even more solemn.

I didn't use the speech script at all, and blurted out: "Now I want to take all of you north, I will leave home, leave Jinan Mansion, and even leave Shandong, and go north to Beijing." Why? for there are thieves who commit rebellion and destroy the people. These people also went out from Shandong, and it can even be said that they were beaten out by us. That's right, it is the boxers who once owed blood debts in Daguanyuan and Ping'an Town, and the remnants of the White Lotus who burned, looted, kidnapped and ransom in Caozhou and Yanzhou. They were beaten with only one breath left, and they didn't even dare to enter the Shandong territory, but now they trembled, lived in the capital, lived in the palace, ate delicacies, drank elixir, and became the elder brother above 10,000 people. Will they do anything good? No, they instigated the people to burn and loot with them, and they also called it a beautiful name: help the Qing Dynasty to destroy the foreign, and help the gold, silver and jewelry of the Qing Dynasty into their own pockets. The foreigners were not destroyed, more than 10,000 people beat a church and didn't fight it for a month, and now the foreigners were attracted by them, 20,000 foreign soldiers were going to enter the capital, the emperor was in danger, the society was in danger, they let the deceived children charge forward, and used their chests to block the guns, Nie Junmen, they fought to the death, but they were stabbed in the back. Now the flames of war have burned to the gate of the capital. We are Shandong heroes, can we watch the crumbs that we drove away just like that and slap our butts and leave? Can we watch our emperor let these scumbags sell to foreign devils? We are in Jinan Mansion, we are very safe, and we can live with our necks curled up regardless of it, but one day your grandson asked you with a history book, what were you doing when you were carrying guns to fight, and foreign devils and boxers were scourging Jingshi? Do you want to tell him that your grandfather was a fool of himself hundreds of miles away? ”

At first, I was still vowing to be a teacher, but the more I talked about it, the more I couldn't hold it back. Worried about the country and the people, hating the bandits, and foreign ghosts have deep feelings. The directors of the Chamber of Commerce and the soldiers of the insurance group were all full of righteous indignation, and they were determined to go north and participate in the righteous deed. "Destroy the bandits! Defeat the foreign ghosts!" The slogans resounded one after another, resounding throughout the venue.

Then, Meng Luochuan awarded me a military flag of the Jinan Chamber of Commerce Insurance Corps with yellow characters on a red background. I held the flag in my hand and waved it at the venue. Suddenly, military songs were sung at the venue. The song shook the entire venue, and then spread out from the venue and floated over the White Horse Mountain. In the midst of the passionate singing, the insurance group embarked on the road to Beijing, and since then a steel hero has left his cradle and walked towards the road of competition for his fame and domination of the world.