Shanghai Tang, 16 shops, the new stage theater, a single knife meeting is singing to a critical place.

"Look at this big river, it's a good water!" On the stage, Guan Gong's face is like a heavy jujube, his eyebrows are like a lying silkworm, he looks at the river with his hair, and he recited there sonorously.

Sing again:

"Dajiangdong went to Lang Qianjie, leading these dozens of people, driving this small boat and a leaf, and it is not as good as the nine-fold dragon and phoenix, but it is the tiger's wolf's den, the husband is strong, I look at this single knife will be like the Saicun Society."

Xu walked a few steps and read: "What a river view!" ”

Then he sang: "The water is surging and the mountains are stacked, where is the young Zhou Lang?" Unconsciously gone! Poor Huang Gai turned injured, the broken Cao's canopy was extinct for a while, and the river water of the fierce soldiers was still hot, so as to teach me to be miserable! ”

A long groan: "This is not a river either,"

Singing: "It is the blood of heroes that has been shed for twenty years!" ”

The drum beats, accompanied by the huqin, this sound is long and long, like the moon rising and high clouds. The audience roared "Good ......"

"Boss Pan's play, but it's getting better and better." A rich man in a long robe said.

"It's not, it's really a good teacher and a good apprentice." Another man in a suit also praised, "Have you heard that this city has been occupied by the revolutionaries?" ”

"Really?" The man in the long shirt was taken aback: "Although some shots were fired just now, but when I saw that the sixteen shops were as usual, and the city gate was not closed, I thought it was a thief. The revolutionary party is so fast! Who are they? How can you be so powerful? ”

"Hehe," the suit smiled, "what a supernatural power, it's just that it has been planned for many years, and it is carefully arranged on the spot." You don't know, the leader is the Wang brothers in Taizhou, I have dealt with them a few times, these two people, both are serious revolutionaries, and they came out of the military academy, in this area of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, they have been operating for several years, and the officers up and down the beach have long been familiar with them, and when they heard that they were the leaders, they all raised the white flag and attached themselves! ”

"This Wang brother is really powerful!" The caftan sighed, and then saw that the stage was wonderful, and couldn't help but shout again, "Good!" ”

Not long after, this single knife meeting was sung to the end, and in the sound of everyone, Pan Yueqiao, who played Guan Gong, swayed into the backstage by boat.

As soon as he arrived backstage, he saw his friend Fan Update, who was waiting for him here. Before she could remove her makeup, Pan Yueqiao asked, "How is it?" Has Zhang Shiheng surrendered? ”

Fan Gengxin shook his head and said: "What does this guy say about his own life and the grace of the country, several brothers died for the loyalty of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and he can't disgrace the Zhang family and refuse to surrender." ”

"It's stubborn!" Pan Yueqiao scolded in a low voice, "What did Secretary Wang say?" ”

"Start at six o'clock tonight and storm the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau!"

Pan Yueqiao picked up the pocket watch on the desk and looked at it, "It's less than four o'clock now, it's still too late, I still have a string of performances, and when the singing is over, let's go over together." ”

Fan Gengxin nodded, "I'll go out and buy some food, let's put a mat on the way." The walls of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau are high and thick, and I am afraid that it will take one night. ”

Pan Yueqiao smiled, and went to remove her makeup and put on her makeup, Fan Gengxin turned around and went out of the door, and walked towards the Wang Ji dim sum shop in the city.

Time is not fast, but slow is not slow. After a while, the sky was dusk, the breeze was coming, and Pan Fan and the two stepped on the afterglow of the sunset, accompanied by the sparkling river, while eating snacks, and walked towards the assembly place.

"You know what?" Fan Gengxin finished eating a piece of dim sum in three bites, and suddenly said: "The alliance in Shanghai is now under the leadership of Chen Qimei. ”

Fan Gengxin, who was halfway through the meal, was extremely surprised, and hurriedly swallowed the pastry in his mouth in three or two bites, "How could it be him?" Aren't Tian Tong, Yuan, Xiluo, and Juzheng all in Shanghai? Besides, Huang Xing and Song Jiaoren of the Huaxing Association are also there? No matter how much you turn, you can't turn him! ”

Fan Gengxin smiled: "Tian Tong and they went to Wuchang, and Huang Xing also went." Song Jiaoren drafted the constitution with Mr. Zhang at the Hongzi Guild Hall, and he couldn't get out. If they were there, the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau would have been captured today. There are no tigers in the mountains, isn't it just that the monkey is the king? ”

Pan Yueqiao sighed, "This Chen Qimei is really much worse, he doesn't learn and has no skills, he has a lot of Jianghu qi, what will he do?" ”

"I think there are only two things he can't," Fan Gengxin laughed, "This won't be, that won't." ”

While joking, the two finished eating snacks indiscriminately, and seeing that the time was still rich, they slowly walked to the meeting place.

The gathering place is in the south playground near the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, and when the two of them arrived, the south playground was already full of people, and many bright pine trees were lit early, and the four lights were as bright as day. When the soldiers on guard saw the two coming, they pulled the bolts of their guns and asked, "Who is it?" ”

"Restoration Society member Fan Update (Pan Yueqiao)!"

"Password!"

"Huaxing! Rebate! ”

"Recovery! Go over there and pick up your guns, and you'll be on your way in a moment. The guard said loudly to the two.

The two heard the words of the guards, and hurriedly went to the front to get the gun, who knew that the two had just received the gun in hand, they heard the gunfire in the distance, looked back, and saw the direction of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, it was already a fire, and the shouts were like thunder.

Wang Wenqing, who was discussing the attack plan over there, raised his head when he heard the sound, saw the firelight, and said angrily: "Who attacked without authorization? ”

Li Xianmo was also very surprised, at this moment, the Guangfu Army and the merchant group are reorganizing the army in the South Playground, where else are people so enthusiastic on the beach?

After a while, the spies who were monitoring the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau sent back the news that Chen Qimei of the League had gathered some members of the alliance, about hundreds of people, and was attacking the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau there.

"Nonsense!" Li Xiehe also said angrily, "It's just a fight for merit, it's not such a fight!" ”

Li Xianmo sighed, "Don't talk about it, hurry up and lead the army over." ”

To say that Chen Qimei of this alliance is also a well-known No. 1 person in Shanghai. Without him, this person is the big leader of the Green Gang, and he has 100 minions under him, and he can eat both black and white. It is also for this reason that in June of Xinhai year, when Song Jiaoren founded the Central Alliance, he invited Chen Qimei, a local snake on the beach, to be the minister of general affairs. In fact, it's just a name, the two lakes have long had a common advancement association and a literary society, and the southeastern provinces have always been operated by the Restoration Association, where is the need for the Central Alliance to point fingers? Chen Qimei knows each other very well, although she is the minister of general affairs, but as usual, she lingers in the flower street and willow lane, Qinlou Chu Pavilion, looking for some life pride, and contacting the party, but she doesn't look at it.

But after the news of the Wuchang uprising came, Chen Qimei was a little stupid in her heart. There are many people in the Shanghai business group, so he wants to use his strength to make trouble, and he never thinks about his own upside down past, and Li Pingshu, the head of the business group, said "Chen Qimei is a person", and he didn't see it, so he asked the housekeeper to send him away. Today, all day long, Chen Qimei watched Li Xiehe, Wang Wenqing and Li Xianmo easily recover Zhabei and Chengxiang, which can be said to be effortless. He was a little anxious in his heart, the Chinese community in Shanghai was about to be completely recovered, but he still hadn't made an inch, how could this be done, and he still wanted to be the governor of Shanghai.

So, he gathered some gangs before dusk, drank some wine in a big bowl, and everyone's chests were clapped loudly, and they all said that he would help Brother Chen take down the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau before the Liberation Army and the merchant group, so that those people from the Liberation Society could take a good look at who had the hardest fist on the beach! Let's see if they dare to compete with Brother Chen for the position of governor in the future.

Speaking of which, this Chen Qimei, after all, is also a person who has stayed in the East, and it seems to be a good command to command, He ordered Gao Zibai to help the people all the way, and attacked the gate of the Manufacturing Bureau through the Wangdao Bridge. The real killer move was led by Chen Qimei's bodyguard Liu Fubiao, who led a hundred and ten tall and strong gangs, who also learned from the Guangfu Society, known as the death squad, and rushed straight to the west gate of the back door of the manufacturing bureau from the inclined bridge. When the General Administration of Manufacturing was out of work, he secretly sneaked from the cat's waist of the west fence to the back door of the General Administration.

As soon as everyone arrived at the back door, they followed Chen Qimei's instructions, threw out a few * pieces, shouted a few times, and rushed forward.

Liu Fubiao thought that if these few * were thrown out, the people of the General Manufacturing Bureau would definitely put up a white flag and obediently open the door, just like what they saw in Zhabei today. Unexpectedly, when the smoke cleared, I saw a row of soldiers standing on the wall of the General Manufacturing Bureau, led by an officer, shouting loudly and telling them to retreat. Liu Fubiao thought that they didn't dare to shoot, but he bluffed, so he shouted: "Brothers, follow my brother!" ”

Seeing that the rebels below were still rushing forward, the officer ignored his words and was a little angry, so he let a platoon of empty guns be released to warn him again. Seeing that some people still ignored it, he ordered the guards to fire intensively with live ammunition.

At this moment, more than a dozen people in the death squad fell to the ground, and seven or eight were still rolling on the ground, screaming in pain.

This time, no one was a hero, so he roared, crying and rushing back, this retreating momentum, compared to the charge just now, I don't know how much stronger it is!

Actually, you can't blame these people for anything, in fact, the death squad formed by Chen Qimei, seven or eight out of ten, is the barber of the Zhenyang Gang. It is really difficult for some strong people to let them throw away their shaved heads, pick up the barrel of their guns, and rush forward in the rain of bullets. You know, which of these people is not an ordinary man with an eighty-year-old mother and a three-year-old child? Let them follow the street brawl and make a strong noise, naturally there is no problem. To ask them to put life and death aside, throw their heads, spill their blood, and learn from the 72 martyrs of Huanghuagang, it is really too high to think of them.

The people of this death squad retreated until the area of Wangdao Bridge at the south gate before they stopped, sat on the ground, and didn't get up no matter how Chen Qimei coerced and lured. You just scolded his ancestors, and he was willing to stuff his head into the crotch of his pants.

When Wang Wenqing and others led their troops to come, they saw exactly this kind of scene. Someone couldn't help it, and laughed out loud, followed by everyone laughing.

This laughter, like an invisible whip, slapped Chen Qimei's face. He said angrily: "What are you laughing at! What is there to laugh about! We are making a revolution, are you laughing at the revolution?! ”

After all, Li Xianmo had some friendship with Chen Qimei, so he made a round, "Yingshi led the army to attack the manufacturing bureau regardless of life and death, which is really commendable." The manufacturing bureau has high walls and thick doors, occupies a favorable location, and some setbacks are inevitable. At this moment, our army has arrived, and we must teach Zhang Shiheng a good lesson, so as to give Yingshi this bad breath. ”

Yin Ruizhi on the side said with a smile: "If you don't have diamonds, don't do porcelain work." Tile and fence, fighting for the wind and being jealous, is where your green gang plays prestige. These two armies are facing each other, fighting before the battle, and it still depends on our recovery of the heroes! ”

That Chen Qimei, with a small amount of energy, is the most unstimulated. Seeing that Yin Ruizhi was only a weak woman in his twenties, they were all there to laugh at him, and couldn't help but rush into anger and shouted: "I don't need your Restoration Society to do it, today, I Chen Qimei want to see how long this Zhang Shiheng can be arrogant!" ”

Let's talk about it, and no longer encourage those daredevils, turn around and want to make the General Administration stride. Li Xianmo, who was on the side, hurriedly grabbed him and persuaded: "Ince, don't be angry! There are plenty of guns and ammunition in the General Manufacturing Bureau, and it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, so we must think about it. What can you do alone? ”

Speaking of which, this Li Xianmo also had good intentions, but at this moment, Chen Qimei was annoyed and ashamed, and he was angry, and he couldn't tell the difference between good and bad, he shouted angrily:

"I'm going to go alone today! I want you all to take a look, I, Chen Qimei, how did I sing this single knife to the meeting today! ”

With a word, he shook off Li Xianmo, and walked towards the General Manufacturing Bureau, Li Xianmo on the side stomped his feet again and again, seeing that he couldn't stop it anymore, so he hurriedly asked Gao Zibai to follow, so that he could take care of it.

After a short time, before the time of tea, I heard a soldier on the high wall of the General Manufacturing Bureau shouting loudly: "The head of my family said that if you want to fight, you will fight, don't send this kind of ignorant child in again, and make others laugh in vain." ”

In a word, all the people of the Liberation Society laughed. Yin Ruizhi laughed even more, "I said earlier that he wouldn't be embarrassed, but he didn't listen, now it's okay, let the Manchu Qing see the joke thoroughly!" ”

Li Xiehe laughed and shook his head, turned to Li Xianmo and asked, "Yingshi, do you think now, should we attack immediately, or will you go in and persuade again?" After all, you are also the promoter of the General Directorate of Manufacturing. ”

While everyone was laughing, suddenly Zhu Peizhen, the housekeeper of the Shanghai Provincial Bureau's general ledger office, ran over out of breath and shouted at Li Xianmo from a distance: "Urgent report!" Urgent! The Governor of Liangjiang has ordered the new armies of Nanjing and Songjiang to attack Shanghai! And passed down the order, whether it is a revolutionary or a member of the business group, all of them will be punished on the spot, and they will be killed! ”

Hearing the news, everyone immediately became nervous, the leading few people looked at each other, Wang Wenqing pulled out a short gun, and said awe-inspiringly:

"Victory or defeat is a matter of survival. Tonight, I will give up my life and take down the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau! ”