Hubei and Henan junction, Wusheng Xiongguan, the car is not square track, the horse is not riding.

Huang Zhonglin stood on top of the city tower, holding the city wall with his hand, and looked at the southern Chu land from afar. He already knew about the rebellion in Wuchang. Two days ago, when Zhang Xiyuan led the Henan patrol battalion through the customs, he also carefully told him to be more careful. But Zhang Xiyuan smiled contemptuously, "The Yellow Pipe Belt still has to be optimistic about his own soldiers, your subordinates, but they are all from Wuchang, don't miss the future of the Yellow Pipe Belt." ”

Zhang Xiyuan's words are targeted. This garrison at Wusheng Pass is the 3rd Battalion of the 42nd Standard of the 21st Mixed Association of the 21st Mixed Association of which Li Yuanhong is the co-ordinator, because it is the Wuchang New Army, and it is also the descendant of Li Yuanhong, who has now taken the lead in the rebellion and has become the governor of Ezhou, so it will naturally be suspected by the Yu army.

This suspicion is not wrong, because in the third battalion, there are indeed representatives of the Literary Society, and nearly one-third of the battalion has joined the Literary Society. As long as someone climbs the heights and shouts, I am afraid that they will rebel!

Fortunately, Huang Zhonglin still controls the two-thirds and still holds on.

On this day, Huang Zhonglin suddenly felt something, so he climbed the city tower and looked south, he had a premonition that something bad would happen today.

I thought that after waiting for more than half a day, the south side was still green grass and trees, white clouds were loaded, the rivers and mountains were beautiful, and the vast outline was scarce.

"Alas!" Huang Zhonglin let out a long sigh, then turned around and wanted to walk towards the staircase. At this time, a guard suddenly shouted: "Look at the pipe belt!" ”

Huang Zhonglin looked back when he heard the voice, and saw that between heaven and earth, fifty or sixty horses were rushing quickly, looking at the dress, it was clearly the Yu army that had just passed the south a few days ago!

There were still dozens of zhang away from Wusheng Pass, and one of the cavalry shouted: "Huang Zhonglin, open the city gate quickly!" Hurry up and open the door! ”

Listening to that voice, it looks like Zhang Xiyuan, who is leading the army!

When the horse team got closer, everyone on the city wall looked carefully, and sure enough, who was Zhang Xiyuan?

At this time, Zhang Xiyuan no longer had the high-spirited appearance he had when he passed the customs a few days ago, his military uniform was not neat, his sleeves were torn into several pieces, and his face was even blacker.

At this time, between the sky, there was a black line, the number of people was more, and it was even more chaotic, far away, the sound of crying and shouting to the mother reached the gate, but it was the defeated Yu army foot soldiers.

Zhang Xiyuan's horse general ran to the front of the pass, seeing that the city gate had not yet been seen, he had to tighten the reins of the horse, stand in front of the horse pass, and shouted loudly to the city tower: "Where is Huang Zhonglin? Fuck the door open! Didn't you see that Lao Tzu was back? ”

Huang Zhonglin heard the scolding, but he came back to his senses and shouted tightly: "Hurry up! Go and open the city gate and let Zhang Xietong in! ”

The guard next to him replied loudly, and shouted below: "The pipe has an order, open and close the door quickly!" ”

Liu Huaou, who was on duty at the door at this time, secretly "puffed", and the boss reluctantly shouted at his men to open the door.

At this moment, a strange change occurred.

Rolling thunder sounds, flashing from afar, hundreds of horses jumped out of the sky, galloping, flying towards Wusheng Pass!

In the middle of the horse team, a big flag flew in the wind, and the word "Han" loomed in the air!

"Don't open the door! Herald! Don't open the door! When Huang Zhonglin saw the Chinese character military flag, his face was colorless with fright, and he hurriedly revised the order loudly just now.

But at this time, Liu Huaou had already understood, he reversed his lazy demeanor, suddenly moved like a rabbit, rushed to the door in three or two steps, quickly picked up the door bolt, opened the door, the door just opened a line, and dozens of horsemen waiting in front of the door had already galloped over.

Zhang Xiyuan hid in the middle of the horse team all the way, which was the safest, but at this moment at the Wusheng Pass, everyone rushed to the road, and no one refused to give up half a step, you must know that at this moment, who is willing to take a step slower? Who cares if you are a big official or a small official?

Zhang Xiyuan shouted angrily, but he was still squeezed behind by everyone. He was so angry that he did not see that there was already the clever man beside him, jumping off his horse and squeezing forward through the gap in the horse.

The city gate was squeezed more and more open, but Zhang Xiyuan was squeezed back more and more, and Huang Zhonglin on the city tower was more and more anxious, because the cavalry of the Wuchang Han army had already rushed through the group of defeated soldiers in front, like a rushing and roaring flood, rushing through a tofu-like mud wall, and the defeated soldiers immediately knelt on the ground, raising their hands high, and no one dared to move.

But no one in the Han army horse team paid attention to them, and still galloped forward!

Huang Zhonglin was terrified, and ordered the people below to close the city gate earlier, and ordered the artillerymen and machine gunners in the battalion to shoot immediately.

The gunfire was very fast, and the cannon fire soon after. Hearing the sound of the gun, Huang Zhonglin felt a little comforted in his heart, and he didn't look at it, the muzzle and muzzle of the gun were all facing the sky on both sides. After feeling some comfort in his heart, Huang Zhonglin followed up and shouted: "Close the gate of his X!" If you let in a Han soldier, Lao Tzu will kill you! ”

Where can the gates be closed? Yu Jun, who is also struggling for his life, is like a group of crazy people, making enough strength to squeeze forward, but the world is like this, the more you want to do, the more you can't do anything. The more you squeeze in, trying to escape into the pass, the more you can't squeeze in, because the city gate has been blocked by several people side by side.

The horse's hooves behind him were like heavy drums, knocking on Zhang Xiyuan's heart one by one. Zhang Xiyuan watched the road in front of him gradually blocked, the flow of people stagnated, frightened and angry, touched his waist, then took out the German-made short gun, rushed to the front, and as soon as he pulled the trigger, a shuttle bullet flew out.

The short gun in his hand, also known as the box gun, has 20 bullets in his hand, and he was furious, these 20 bullets, after a while, he was fine, to say that his marksmanship, like his character, has always been very poor, but today I want to shoot the people crowded in front of him, and where do I use what marksmanship, as long as the heart is ruthless enough, and the hand is black enough, it is enough.

Zhang Xiyuan's box of bullets ran out, and the brothers in front of him who were born and died with him in the past really fell in a pool of blood one by one, although some died immediately, and they were still screaming on the ground, but Zhang Xiyuan had already stepped on the blood of his robe and galloped into Wusheng Pass.

He went in, but this door could no longer be closed, first, because he didn't want to close it, Liu Huaou, who was guarding the door, was the representative of the Literary Society in the third battalion, and it was undoubtedly a fool's dream to ask him to close the door and refuse the Han army outside the gate; Second, it really can't be closed, between the two city gates, more than a dozen corpses are crowded next to each other, and there are still those who are not dead crying there, how can it be closed?

Huang Zhonglin, who rushed downstairs, saw this appearance, and his heart suddenly turned to ashes, but when he looked at Zhang Xiyuan, the horse didn't stop, and he went straight to the north gate of Wusheng Pass.

Since the city gate cannot be closed, this Wusheng Pass is already destined to be in the bag of the Wuchang Han army!

I heard the Wuchang Han army roaring in unison, and in the whistling sound, the hooves rolled, and the vanguard cavalry of the Han army rushed into Wusheng Pass in the wind.

Finally, before the 25th, he grabbed the Wusheng Pass. Xiong Bingkun and Cai Jimin glanced at each other, and the boss breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. But the words of the herald outside the door made the two jump up in shock.

"The fourth town of the Manchu Beiyang New Army is already ten miles away from the front of the pass. The captain of the square team has already led the vanguard horse team and greeted him......"

"How can this be done?" Xiong Bingkun was anxious to turn around, and he didn't listen to the herald finish speaking, so he hurriedly said: "These two sons don't know anything, if there are three long and two short, how can you and I explain to the King of Han!" ”

After Xiong Bingkun finished speaking, he grabbed the short gun on the table and was about to go out to pick up Fang Xiaoru. I didn't want to be caught by Cai Jimin, "Zai Qian, don't worry, the second son is wise and brave, far better than you and me, since he went to meet the enemy, he must be completely sure." Wusheng Pass has just been won and needs to be rectified urgently, you and I should hurry up and clean up this Wusheng Pass as the best policy! ”

The herald was interrupted by Xiong Bingkun in the middle of his words just now, and after hearing Cai Jimin's words at this moment, he hurriedly interjected: "This is also what the team officer meant, when he left, I asked me to tell the two standard commanders, he tried his best to gain time, and asked the two standard commanders to take over the defense of Wu Shengguan as soon as possible." Defend the gateway of Chu and E! ”

It turned out that the horse team that captured the pass was the vanguard of the Wuchang Han Army led by Fang Xiaoru. After he captured Wusheng Pass, he hurriedly sent sentries to inspect the situation of the Manchu Xinyang camp. Sure enough, after just a few meals, Tanma sent back the news that the front had encountered the Manchu reconnaissance rangers, looking at its number, it was the fourth town horse team of Beiyang.

When he heard the news, Fang Xiaoru was feeding the horses, he was silent for a while, gently stroked the long mane of the white horse sitting down back and forth, and suddenly ordered the gathering loudly, but only brought more than 100 elite horsemen with the forwards, galloped out of the pass, and greeted the Beiyang New Army.

A few miles out of Wusheng Pass in front, there is a small hillside, and under the hillside, there is a small plain. Fang Xiaoru stationed his horse on this hillside, erected the Chinese character military flag high, and quietly waited for the arrival of the new Beiyang army.

Speaking of which, the fourth town of the Beiyang New Army and the Wuhan New Army were born in the same vein. When Zhang Zhidong was still the governor of Liangjiang, he was heartbroken by the defeat of the First Sino-Japanese War, and after obtaining the favor of the imperial court, he hired foreign generals to train a new army called the Ziqiang Army in accordance with Western law. Later, this self-strengthening army, except for the personal soldiers and a sentry was taken to Wuchang by Zhang Zhidong, as the team for the formation and training of the Wuchang New Army, and all the remaining horse infantry artillery battalions were incorporated into the Wuwei Right Army by Yuan Shikai, and then it was organized into the fourth town of the Beiyang Standing Army, stationed in Tianjin.

Pity that Zhang Zhidong, who worked hard all his life, did not hesitate to kill and exterminate soldiers, and fell into the notoriety of "Shi Tu", only thinking about seeking a permanent foundation for the Qing Dynasty and an improvement and rise for China. Unexpectedly, only two years after his death, Wuchang, which he had worked so hard to manage, actually became the first spark to destroy the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the new army that he had worked hard to do all his life became the executioner of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

This may not be cruel, what is even more cruel is that the self-improvement army that Zhang Zhidong has worked hard to build was originally to defend the country against foreign insults, but now he has to decide a life and death before this martial victory pass!

Why do you say Zhang Zhidong is here in this life?

"Laugh, laugh, laugh,

Laughing at the lonely and loyal old Xiangtao,

The iron bucket of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was ruined!

Why did you abolish the Green Battalion and call more Han soldiers?

Why do you build more foreign guns in an iron factory?

Why did you stop the imperial examination and break the study prison?

Why do you want to hire foreigners to teach in the school?

Only to make the morning bell and dusk drum move the city,

The rain and the European wind are high,

Plant the roots of the revolution! ”