Li Xiucheng left the city, and the burden of presiding over the city guard was pressed on Tan Shaoguang's shoulders again. He thought about Li Xiucheng's words again, and decided to hold a meeting in his Muwang Mansion the next day to adjust the deployment of the city defense, and also beat his brothers well, cutting off their cranky thoughts.

What he didn't expect was that his eight younger brothers would hold a meeting in front of him -- that night, the four princes and four heavenly generals in Suzhou City gathered in Gao Yongkuan's Nawang Mansion to come out with a charter.

"Li Futai and I have already negotiated." Gao Yongkuan, who was sitting in the middle, clenched his fists and looked around, "It's up to us now!" ”

Zheng Guokui accompanied Gao Yongkuan and Wang Anjun and met Cheng Xueqi in the camp of the Huai army in the north of the city. "Cheng Shilang", who has always been fierce, was extremely affectionate this time, sending someone to report to Li Hongzhang on the one hand, and recounting the friendship with Gao Yongkuan in the past.

"Lao Gao, this is really good!" He shook Gao Yongkuan's hand and said excitedly, "To tell the truth, you are from Hubei, I am from Anhui, and under the hands of this Bird Heavenly King, I can't do it!" Look at me, I've only been here for a few years, and I've already been promoted to the general army, so I'm also a second-class member. Come over too, with this merit and your old Gao's ability, it is not impossible to be knighted! ”

This is where the conversation begins. The matter of rewarding is up to Li Hongzhang to decide, but with Guan Zhuofan's letter, it is not a problem, so he carefully considered how to get rid of Tan Shaoguang, how to open the city, how to hand over and other matters, and then sent Gao Yongkuan and Wang Anjun back to the city.

Sure enough, it was the third day. And a message was delivered into the city. Please Gao Yongkuan to meet Li Zhongcheng on the boat in Yangcheng Lake. Wait until a small boat sends Gao Yongkuan to it. Li Hongzhang went out of the cabin to greet him, followed by Cheng Xueqi, and Gordon, the commander of the Changsheng Army.

At this moment, Gao Yongkuan told the brothers in the audience about this experience, and carefully took out a piece of paper and passed it on.

"This is a letter of guarantee written to me by Li Zhongcheng." Gao Yongkuan said proudly, "Oh, the name and fingerprint next to it are the guarantor Gordon, which is specially pointed out by Guan Dashuai!" Besides, I have already bowed to Cheng Xueqi, my niece Mu Qing, and promised Ma Gewen, the deputy leader of Chang Shengjun. Rest assured, this time is rich and you can't run! ”

Gao Yongkuan's conditions. Li Hongzhang, like Guan Zhuofan, agreed to it all. It's just that there is a shortage of eight people. Because it is necessary to specify which province and which responsibility, it has been reported to the imperial court, and it needs to be assigned by the imperial court.

"It doesn't matter about this, I have already stated that with the old street as the boundary, the West City is still ours garrisoned, among the eight gates of Suzhou, only four gates are opened, so that the Huai army and the Xuan army can enter the city, and the rest of the four gates of Chang, Xu, Pan, and Qi are still under our guard, until the edict of the imperial court comes down and points out the real shortcomings, we are willing to go out of the city to reorganize - first make up his twenty battalions, and others, take your time, so as to grind his twenty battalions out again."

When everyone present heard this, they were all happy, and Wang Anjun was the first to hold back, jumped up and said, "Second brother, what are you waiting for?" Just do it overnight! ”

If you do it, you are going to kill Tan Shaoguang. Among the eight people, there are also two or three, and they have unbearable feelings.

"Can you not kill?" Zhang Dazhou said hesitantly, "Forget it about forcing him out of the city, in the end, he is the eldest brother who has worshipped." ”

"He is an old brother in Guangxi, and when he swore to us Hubei people, do you think he had any good intentions?" Gao Yongkuan said coldly, "When he left us alone outside Qingpu City, did he ever think that he was our eldest brother?" ”

As soon as this sentence was said, the people next to him stopped squeaking, and everyone understood in their hearts that the so-called "forcing him out of the city" was something that could not be done -- without Tan Shaoguang's head to make a "vote for his name", how could he win the trust of the officials and the army?

So I decided to do it at the meeting of King Mu's Mansion tomorrow.

"Tan Shaoguang's Chinese army is in the east of the city, but there are only a thousand, and there are only thirty or forty personal soldiers in his palace." Gao Yongkuan began to distribute, "Lao Zhou and Lao Fan, your soldiers will be deployed in the east of the city overnight tonight, and when we kill Tan Shaoguang, we will destroy his Chinese army." Zhang Dazhou's soldiers were arranged to be close to his palace, and as long as there was a noise inside, they would immediately break in and kill people. ”

After speaking, he turned his head to look at Wang Anjun with a gloomy face: "Lao Wang, I'll see you tomorrow." As soon as I slam the table, I will use the knife! ”

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The next day, from Gao Yongkuan and below, eight people each brought three or four personal guards into Tan Shaoguang's Muwang Mansion, among which Wang Anjun looked thin, but he was the best at using a knife, and a Burmese knife with a length of no more than three feet hung on his waist, and sat next to Tan Shaoguang with his hands up.

Tan Shaoguang was still kept in the dark, and he never dreamed that these brothers were here to take his life. In addition to their nine years old, there was also a foreigner "Tianfu" who attended the meeting, that is, the British officer who pointed out the "stinky crockpot" to Tan Shaoguang during the attack on Shanghai, Savich. As a captain of the British Royal Infantry Regiment, with his military talent, he won the trust of Tan Shaoguang.

Tan Shaoguang first made an analysis of the current offensive and defensive situation inside and outside the city, and believed that the reason why the situation has become worse and worse in recent days is that some people have not done their best.

"Sixth, Fuzi Fort was lost in your hands, but the soldiers in your fort only died four and wounded seven. Does that sound like a word? Tan Shaoguang looked at Fan Qifa, frowned and said, "If you don't want to fight, don't fight as soon as possible!" Starting tomorrow, your soldiers in Xumen will be handed over to Sa Compatriots to command, and you will give me a closed door in the house to think, take cold water to wash your face, and wake up. ”

Fan Qifa was submissive, and before he dared to defend himself, Wu Guiwen, the "king" on the side, spoke.

"Big brother, I can't blame the sixth brother, right?" Wu Guiwen's tone was lazy, and there was no respect for the past, "There is also a shortage of food, salary, and guns and cannons are not as good as the officers and soldiers, how can this battle be fought?" Besides, how can Qifa also be his own brother, you take his soldiers and hand them over to Savich, what is this? ”

"Fourth, what did you say?" Tan Shaoguang was stunned, almost unable to believe his ears.

"I said you were unfair!" Wu Guiwen simply stood up and roared loudly, "We are not convinced!" ”

As soon as he stood up, the five or six people around him also stood up with the hula, all of them were violent, only Gao Yongkuan and Wang Anjun, with gloomy faces, still sitting upright. With the sensitivity peculiar to a soldier, Savage already felt that something was wrong, and he also stood up and pulled out the short gun he had with him.

Tan Shaoguang was stunned, no matter how he could not have imagined, this group of former brothers turned their faces so quickly, turned their faces, and looked at Gao Yongkuan on the left.

"Er, what do you say?"

Gao Yongkuan's face was hideous, he slapped it on the table hard, pointed at Wu Guiwen and scolded: "Fourth, do you want to rebel fuckingly?" ”

"Rebellion is rebellion!" Wang Anjun, who was sitting on the side, drew his knife with his backhand, as sharp as an ape, and the sword light flashed like a match, and Savich's right hand holding the gun was broken in unison, and the gun in his hand fell to the ground with a bang!

Tan Shaoguang knew that he had been tricked, but he didn't have a blade on his body, and as soon as he shouted "coming", he was stabbed into the lower abdomen by Wang Anjun, who rubbed his body up, and then Wu Guiwen and several people rushed up together, slashed together, and killed Tan Shaoguang and Savizhi on the spot, and then Fan Qi started to cut off his head.

A "coming" alarmed the pro-soldiers outside the house, but before they rushed in, the guards brought by Gao Yongkuan had already moved, gunshots, hand-to-hand combat, and shouting and scolding sounded, and then the gate of the palace opened violently, and Zhang Dazhou arranged hundreds of soldiers outside to rush in, and the pro-soldiers of the Mu Wangfu were no longer able to resist.

In less than half an hour, the people in King Mu's mansion, regardless of men, women, old and young, were killed.

After killing the people of the palace, it is time to do it outside. Tan Shaoguang's confidant Chinese army in the east of the city was suddenly surrounded and raided by Wu Guiwen and Fan Qifa's subordinates, and 1,300 people were killed cleanly. Then Gao Yongkuan ordered the whole city to be searched, and no one close to Tan Shaoguang escaped a knife.

In this large-scale robbery, there are always nearly 3,000 people in Suzhou City who have become ghosts under the knife, and there are also innocent people, who are involved in it, and the jade is burned.

Gao Yongkuan was ready to make a move in the city, and the officials and troops outside the city had naturally received the news in advance. Li Hongzhang sent his sixth brother Zhaoqing, accompanied by the deputy general Guo Songlin, around the city to the Xuanjun camp in Mudu, and contacted Guan Zhuofan about the two armies entering the city from north to south. Unexpectedly, it was Ding Shijie who received Li Zhaoqing.

"Admiral Ding," Li Zhaoqing said in amazement, "What about Guan Fantai?" ”

"It's really unfortunate," Ding Shijie said apologetically, "because of an urgent matter, our marshal rushed to Kunshan this morning, and we want to use the telegraph room there to communicate with Shanghai." ”

*(To be continued......)