"You have been surrounded, please lay down your arms and raise your hands, we guarantee the safety of your lives and property. Please do not put up a needless resistance, or we will be forced to destroy you. The sound of the loudspeaker was so harsh, so that Tao Chengzhang, who was sitting in the cabin, was like a pins and needles, and the big brother of the Green Gang, who had just packed a ticket to travel unhindered on the Grand Canal, was already wilted at this time, and he did not have the heroic spirit of "Lao Tzu on the canal" just now.

Tao Chengzhang poked his head out helplessly, the locks in the upper reaches of the canal were not opened, and the two sand boats downstream followed silently, and lined up on the canal, blocking the channel to death. The tent in the bow of the ship was opened, and two 75 mountain guns stretched out the muzzles of the black holes, staring happily at the fleet on the Grand Canal. Numerous muzzles and heads with steel helmets poked out of the earthen embankments on both banks, and a machine gun mounted on sandbags every fifty meters. The young men of all sizes and the dozen or so revolutionaries escorting the convoy were all pale with earthy faces, and even if a few guys took out a few short guys from the cabin, they were held down by their companions, and they did not dare to raise their hands to shoot. After all, it is wishful thinking to turn around in the narrow river channel in this situation, these wooden boats are no match for machine guns and cannons, as long as there is a firefight, it must be a massacre.

"Let's put down the guys, we're not opponents." After all, Tao Chengzhang is the leader of the meeting, and he is a little self-aware, at this time he is already a fish on the board, and it is just a joke to be a useless struggle.

"Which one is Mr. Tao Chengzhang Tao, please come out and see you." The harsh Zhangqiu accent in the big horn sounded again, making Tao Chengzhang even more convinced that he had been betrayed. "Please rest assured, sir, we are true to our word, and as long as you do not engage in hostile actions, we will guarantee your safety."

"Okay, but I don't know where the hero is? Can the owner show up? "Tao Chengzhang saw that he couldn't get by, and he planned to pretend to be a good man on the road to get by." Shouldering the heavy responsibility of the revolution below, the ship was full of food and ammunition, and there was no money or goods. I also ask you bosses to look at the face of the same anti-Manchurian people and make it convenient. The green mountains do not change, the green water flows for a long time, and the little brother Tao Chengzhang has thanked him here. ”

"Hehe, Mr. Huanqing. When did you become a big brother on the road? Then Mr. Cai of the Restoration Society will have to find another partner. Wu Chenxuan sat in a machine-gun fortification, took the horn from a lieutenant, and started chatting one by one on the shore and one on the bow of the ship, but the mood was heaven and earth.

Tao Chengzhang didn't know that all of this was given by the ancient children's shoes of the Wu Shi of the son of the Bai Qiao cannon. Saying that two days ago, Wu Shigu was very puzzled about the new army of Wuyi who did not attack the city at night, but the Qing army has always had a lot of strange performances, so he didn't take it to heart, and concentrated on mobilizing the people and the children of the green gang in the city to help the rebel army strengthen the city defense. Although Wu Shigu doesn't take it seriously, Tong Huchen is not stupid, the other party obviously has an advantage, and it is easy to break the city, but it is to surround but not fight, there is no way to say this, and he Tong Huchen is the first to not believe it. If the revolution is not revolutionary, it doesn't matter, but there is only one life, and I am not optimistic about it, but there is nowhere to regret it.

On the one hand, Tong Huchen was passionate with Wu Shigu and other revolutionary youths, and on the other hand, he had already sent his cronies and the new army outside the city to get the finish, and met with Wu Shigu and others, and asked the guards to secretly write down the surnames and addresses of these revolutionary parties.

After sitting down, before he finished drinking a cup of tea, the owner of the tea house came in with a young man dressed as a man. Although this guy is wearing a coarse cloth short coat, between his actions and standing, the military demeanor of standing like a pine, sitting like a clock, and walking like the wind is fully displayed.

"Dare to ask if this little brother was sent by Lord Wu?" Tong Huchen couldn't figure out the opponent's path, but it was not too cautious, and Tong Huchen, who didn't dare to hold it up, hurriedly got up and wanted to let the guy sit down and talk.

"Not bad. Master Tong, a lieutenant in the Intelligence Investigation Department of the New Army in Xiawuyi, codenamed Koi, was ordered by Shangfeng to come to assist your department anyway, and serve as the intelligence liaison officer of our army in your department, I hope that Lord Tong can cooperate with my work. ”

"It must be, Brother Jin, I don't know what Lord Wu can command, and he will definitely do the work of dogs and horses."

"Lord Tong, please restrain the headquarters and do not act in a way that disturbs the people. In addition, Wu Shigu and they were urged to send people to negotiate outside the city, restore transportation inside and outside the city, and try not to let the citizens suffer from the pond fish. ”

"Lord Wu has the common people, great mercy and compassion, and is really the reborn parents of the people of the city, it really makes the lower officials regret not being at the beginning, please Brother Jin to give Lord Wu a few good words, brother, I was bewitched by the chaotic party, and I was dizzy for a while before I made a move that was ashamed of the monarch of the imperial court..."

"Master Tong, I heard that your ministry is recruiting troops in the city?" Koi chuckled, "I don't know my brother's experience of graduating from Chengcheng School, can I be qualified to apply for a confidential staff officer?" ”

"Recruitment? How dare the lower officials, it is all a chaotic party to coerce the people, the lower officials are very good at restraining their subordinates, and there is no way to fight against the heavenly army, Brother Jin, you have to give my brother and me a personal witness. Hearing this, Tong Huchen suddenly became confused, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead. What, just now, brother, you said that you were going to join the chaotic party, no, it was the self-improvement army? ”

"Of course, you have to agree with Lord Tong, I learned the infantry department in Chengcheng School, and the homework on the map, the coordination of infantry and artillery, and infantry tactics are quite eye-catching, but I don't know if Lord Tong can appreciate face, let me give it a try." Having said that, there was no flattery on Koi's face, more like he was communicating with a colleague at the same level.

Tong Huchen also understood, he dared to love this special commissioner sent by the Wuyi New Army, who was his confidential staff officer in the open, and secretly his eyes and ears to the peak, and he only had to bow down and obey orders. "It's good, I'm just afraid that I've wronged my brother, if my brother doesn't dislike it, my first team is quite neat, but the team officer had an accident a few days ago, and no one has replaced him so far, my brother is a talented person studying in Japan, and I ask you to submit to this team officer."

"I am only a shallow learner, and I think that I can't serve as the commander of the army, so I ask Lord Tong to forgive me." Koi said very seriously, "Please also think twice." ”

"So you have wronged your brother. Please rest assured, my child must be the head of Lord Wu, but there is a fate, and everything is obeyed. Of course, Tong Huchen was able to carry it clearly, and immediately promised the position of confidential staff officer, and at the request of Koi, he also let him be in charge of the recruitment work first, of course, a group of people from the Wuyi New Army were mixed in, and they unconsciously controlled the target of the self-improvement army.

"Boom" a cannon sounded, at noon there were few guards basking in the sun at the head of the city, this cannon went down, and half of the south city gate building collapsed. This cannon was like pouring hot water on an ant's nest, and the city was in chaos. Wu Shigu took more than a dozen students to hurry to the prefect's yamen, and when he met Tong Huchen who had temporarily found a tea stall on the street, he spread a map on the tea table, and set up a position to command the troops to reinforce the city defense. Wu Shigu saw that the commander of the Tong battalion was determined, and his resolute figure gradually calmed down the soldiers who were still in chaos just now, and began to run in line to reinforce the city according to the officer's instructions. When Wu Shigu saw this scene, he was greatly ashamed, recalling that he was very blind to the Tong Battalion Officer who was born in the green camp of the Qing Army, and he had doubted his loyalty to the revolution.

"Tong Yingzuo, if there is a need to serve in the next place, I and these dozen brothers are willing to obey the orders of the camp." Wu Shigu was very excited, blushing and saying with a thick neck, and the dozen or so students studying in Japan behind him all nodded, vowing to live and die with Taizhou City.

"Mr. Wu, please lead these revolutionary comrades to temporarily take over the prefect's yamen, mobilize the strong men in the city to maintain law and order, and treat the wounded?"

"Obey the orders of the camp." Wu Shigu raised his hand and saluted a plausible military salute, and his robe and horse coat made the solemnity full of humor. "Students, let's do what the child camp tells us. Long live the revolution! ”

"Long live the revolution!" All the students were so excited that they turned around and walked along the road to look at the prefect's yamen, not seeing a staff officer who had just bowed his head to do the homework on the map looking up and looking at these students with great sympathy.

"Staff Officer Li, look at this." The Tong camp officer also noticed the strange appearance of this Li Jin staff officer, and asked cautiously.

"Camp, do according to the plan, and if there is anyone who dares to resist, shoot on the spot." Although I still feel a little pity, the soldiers who carry out the order and never discount the mood obviously will not let the child camp officer release the water because of personal likes and dislikes.

One can imagine how surprised and angry these passionate revolutionary youths were when they were surrounded and disarmed by a group of soldiers who had been ordered to ambush in the second gate in the prefect's yamen. Fortunately, although Wu Shigu was also angry, his sanity was still there, and he stopped his subordinates' resistance, so that there was no blood splashing at the entrance of the yamen.

"Child camper, huh?" Wu Chenxuan entered Taizhou City, first went to Qilu Teahouse for lunch, and then met Tong Huchen, who came to visit the boss, "Please take a seat." ”

"I don't dare to be lowly in my office, and I know that I am guilty of a great sin, and I ask my lord to punish me." Tong Huchen has changed into the official mansion of a five-rank military attaché, except for the braid that was cut off and tied behind his head, the others wearing flower feathers on the top are more like a real Qing military attache than Wu Chenxuan, who is wearing an iron-gray military uniform without rank. But now it is Tong Huchen who is kneeling on the ground and kowtowing and repenting, and it is Wu Chenxuan who is sitting on the chair with a grin.

"Get up, speaking of which, you are an unforgivable crime for killing officials and rebelling." Wu Chenxuan's casual words made Tong Huchen, who had just stood up, weak in his legs and feet, and knelt down one after another, trembling like chaff.

"Lord Wu, you have been convicted of your duties. The lowly post was also coerced by the revolutionary party, and they pretended to entertain the lowly post in the name of their fellow villagers, but they forced the lowly post to submit with a pistol, and the lowly post was really forced to be helpless. By the way, according to the orders of the lord, all the 132 revolutionaries in the city have been arrested. My lord's clever calculation, Lieutenant Li Jin personally commanded, and finally captured the chaotic party, and the lowly position is really admired by the five bodies to the ground, and I also ask the lord to allow the lowly duty to wear the crime and make meritorious service, in order to atone for the previous sins. ”

"Oh, didn't you say that a total of more than a dozen students studying in Japan are revolutionary parties? Where did so many chaotic parties come from? ”

"Well, that's right, I feel that since the students studying in Japan are all chaotic, and Westerners are more vicious and rude than Orientals, then the students studying in the West are even more chaotic. He dispatched his headquarters to Ma Dasuo to arrest more than 30 rebel parties studying in the West and the East, as well as more than 90 college students studying in Shanghai and Guangzhou. The lowly positions have also been captured one by one, and they have not yet come for interrogation, do you think these rebels will be deported to the capital, or will they be reported to the head? ”

"Turtles are equal to chaotic parties, this is really a reliable divine logic." Wu Chenxuan was speechless for a while, and was shocked by the strangeness of the Qing officials.

"There's no need, the official will bring these rebels back for careful interrogation, and see if they can dig out the nest of the rebels and eradicate this disaster for the imperial court."

"Adults are discerning, full of wisdom, clever calculations, loyal to the country, and subordinate officials." Tong Huchen saw that Wu Chenxuan had no intention of continuing to investigate, so he simply added more fire. "My lord, I also heard that Qiao Cannon, the leader of the rebellious party, had raised arms funds overseas and purchased a batch of arms from the Orientals, in a vain attempt to transport them to Taizhou from the canal to support these rebellious parties. According to the plan of the chaotic party, it will be in Taizhou tomorrow. It is said that this batch of arms has... The escort is also a thief leader of the Restoration Association of the Chaotic Party, called Tao Huanqing. ”

"Huh?!" Wu Chenxuan, who was about to get up and leave, sat back again, "There is such a thing, let's hear about it." ”

Seeing that Lord Wu was so interested, Tong Huchen immediately felt that the opportunity was rare, and even sold the revolutionary party's plan to the bottom, which led to the drama of "Wu Chenxuan ambushed the soldiers * canal lock, and Tao Huanqing was captured".