Chapter 132: Hiding from the sky and crossing the sea
Bai Lang saw a young general standing alone in front of him, so he came out of the circle, and the two confronted each other about 10 meters away. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info "Since you are Ge Yunfei, Bai is blunt. I'm a traitor, you're a champion, I want to know how to give me a way out? "Bai Lang, at the beginning, I led a crowd of 9,000 people and ate more than 10,000 well-equipped people in Liangbi, which shows that my subordinates are well-trained and have strong combat effectiveness. If I wanted to kill you, you would have died. Is that the best proof that I don't kill you? “
"Ge Yunfei, I'm not a three-year-old child, wouldn't it be ridiculous and generous for such foolish words to come from your mouth. Yes, your troops are strong in combat and have already learned the lesson, but we have already put life and death on the line, and we will not surrender until the last moment. "It is said that Bai Lang is a good man, but in fact, he has a false name!" "What is vain?" "Bai Lang, you let so many people accompany you to die, is it the behavior of a hero."
"They are voluntary, and they all rise up to rebel because they can't survive." "I know that you were forced to rebel. But the country needs stability, and the people need stability. You impose your own suffering on more people, so that more people fall into fire and water, and it is difficult for this to be called a righteous act. "I can't tell you, I want to know how to give us a way out?" "There is only one way out, surrender to me, I will give you dignity, the dignity of living."
"How can I trust your words?" "The words spoken by this official are Chrysostom Yuyan, give you an hour to consider, and I will attack in an hour. Bai Lang, this official doesn't want to kill, I hope you don't force me to make a move, you don't think about yourself, but also for the lives of thousands of brothers, I wait for your decision. Ge Yunfei rode back after speaking. Bai Lang returned to the circle and said, "Ge Yunfei asked us to surrender to Cheng and join his troops, and we will reply within one hour, brothers, I want to hear what you think?" ”
The military advisor's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he said: "King, Ge Yunfei didn't launch an attack, his measures won't be fake, he really wants to take us in." Now that we are in trouble, it is better to commit first and then make plans. We put forward the condition that Toucheng can not be dismantled. If the time comes, we can take the opportunity to pull it out. "Strategist, what if Ge Yunfei deceives us?" A big man asked. "Do we have a way out now, either die in battle or believe in him, which of the two ways do you choose?" Great Chinese Plug.
"What the military advisor said makes sense, but I heard that Ge Yunfei has a good reputation in Shandong, and such a person cares very much about his reputation. I think that according to the meaning of the military advisor, I will be committed to him first, and there will be hope in life. Everyone agreed that this was the only way out of the predicament. At this time, Wen Biao said: "Overseer, if they fake surrender?" As long as they surrender, I can answer on any terms. When they see a new world, they won't leave even if they are driven away. What is called a good bird perched on a tree, this is the truth. ”
A white flag was waved in Bai Lang's array, and Ge Yunfei said: "The matter is done, you go to Zhang De and let them transport the military uniforms over!" "Soon, Bai Lang led his subordinates over." Governor Ge consulted with the brothers and decided to surrender. But there is one condition that the Overseers must agree to, otherwise they will not be able to prove the Overseers' sincerity! "Bai Lang, as long as it's not too much, the official agrees." "Governor Ge, Bai Mou led his troops to surrender to Cheng can but cannot be dismantled, so far."
Ge Yunfei said with a smile: "If this official is not sincere, why bother. Now I will announce that I will use your men to form an independent brigade of the Shandong Overseer's Mansion, with Bai Lang as the captain. If the official breaks his promise, there will be five thunderstorms in the sky. “
Speaking of this, Bai Lang knelt on one leg, and his subordinates also knelt on the ground. "Bai decided to lead his troops to surrender to Cheng and serve the Ge Governor's army!" "Bai Lang, please get up, we will be a family from now on. But you need to change your name! "Bai Lang is confused." In order to hide people's eyes, you have been killed, and your current name is Bai Yong. Bai Lang understood Ge Yunfei's intentions and knew that this was a cover-up, so he naturally had no objections. However, Ge Yunfei's measures gave him a good impression.
Bai Lang's men lost more than 20 killed and more than 30 wounded. Burying the brothers who died in battle, Bai Lang led the brothers to pay tribute. At this time, a dense grave appeared around, and Bai Lang asked in surprise: "Governor Ge, why is this?" "Bai Lang, you are all killed in battle, how many of your subordinates can survive. Since it is acting, it must be acted realistically. In a moment, the uniforms will be delivered, and your people will go and change into uniforms. The wounded brothers should be sent to Xuchang for healing! Hearing these words, Bai Lang let out a long breath, and all doubts were dispelled.
After lunch, more than a dozen carriages came from the east side, and the carriages were carrying military uniforms, military hats, and shoes. Bai Lang and his subordinates turned into officers and soldiers, and they could completely confuse the real with the fake, so far, Bai Lang's subordinates have completely settled. Ge Yunfei ordered to set off, and the troops marched towards Xuchang. The front and rear were cavalry pressing the formation, and the white man was in the center. He and several of his subordinates rode war horses, still walking in the middle of the group. "King!" "I'm an official now, if you want to change your name, how can you forget!"
The military advisor changed his words and said: "Captain, Governor Ge is true to his word, and he is sincerely recruited, maybe we will be blessed by misfortune." "It is said that Ge Yunfei is rich and rivals the country, look at the fabric of this military uniform, it is much stronger than the military uniform we used to deal with the officers and soldiers before. These shoes are actually cowhide, it's really true that hearing is false, seeing is believing! "Captain, subordinates still think it's better to be careful, Ge Yunfei is Yuan Shikai's person after all, maybe he did it for us." "Okay, don't be suspicious, at least you can see Ge Yunfei's sincerity now."
It was almost dusk when the troops arrived in Xuchang, and someone had already informed the Xuchang government that Ge Yunfei led his troops to make a long-distance attack and strangled the Bailang rebels. Under the gate of Xuchang City, a regiment commander of the Lei Zhenchun Department of the Beiyang Army stationed in Xuchang and the mayor of Xuchang led the officials to greet him. The Xuchang government set up tents for the troops in the suburbs and prepared food and drinks. There were wounded soldiers in the army, and the government sent them to the city for treatment. The regimental commander personally led his troops to the ambush site to check and was sure.
Needless to say, Xuchang was located on the Jinghan Railway Line, and Ge Yunfei used the telegraph office to report the victory and report the battle situation to the capital.
That night, the figures of the chief Duan Qirui and Yang Du appeared in the presidential palace again. "Brother Duan, Chenzi, I didn't expect Ge Yunfei to lead his troops to a long-distance attack, set up an ambush in the southwest of Yu County, and strangle the traitor Bai Lang in one fell swoop, which is really gratifying. If you are like Ge Yunfei to solve problems for the country, why worry that the world is not peaceful. "It's really unbelievable, Ge Yunfei only dispatched 2,000 men and horses to strangle Bai Lang, which provides a model for us to strangle the rebellion in the future. Duan Qirui liked.
"My lord, Ge Yunfei should be rewarded. The duty of a soldier dictates, and Ge Yunfei did it. "Pass me the password, seal Ge Yunfei a first-class viscount, General Sheng Wu, and reward 500,000 silver dollars." Yuan Shikai was very happy, this was not his political achievement, in the eyes of outsiders, strangling Bai Lang must have been an order he gave to Ge Yunfei. Yuan Shikai was overjoyed, so he made an exception to leave Duan Qirui and Yang Du to have dinner together, and drank a few more glasses.
Ge Yunfei stayed in Xuchang for two days, and then ordered Wen Biao to let his cavalry troops go to Xuzhou along the railway line, and he and Wen Biao and Bai Lang's men took the train to Xuzhou. The reason why Ge Yunfei did not return to Shandong was that he demanded a fact: because of the killing of Song Jiaoren and Yuan Shikai's loan from the Five Kingdoms, would the confrontation between the two camps of the Constitutional Democrats and the Southern Revolutionaries break out? There is no need to determine who is who, and the conclusion of later generations is that even if there is no Song case and the loan of the Five Kingdoms, the confrontation between the two factions will break out.
Due to the butterfly effect of Ge Yunfei, the Song case did not happen for the time being, and it is difficult to determine whether it can happen in the future. The government of the Republic of China issued silver dollars ahead of schedule, resulting in a smooth transition of Yuan Shikai's government's finances, so the borrowing of the five countries did not happen. What Ge Yunfei asked for was that at present, the military forces in the south are developing rapidly, and the revolutionary party believes that the time is ripe for taking power by force, but it needs an excuse. Bai Lang's uprising was deeply appreciated by the south, and he strangled "Bai Lang," which may have provided an excuse for the southern revolutionary party, and the two major factions were blended together, and there was only one fuse missing.
In the next step, Ge Yunfei will take advantage of this opportunity to take control of Anhui, which is his last plan before going all out to deal with Japan. Because Anhui and Jiangsu are rich provinces, he must have strategic depth to support protracted warfare. Ge Yunfei looked at the scenery of the wilderness outside the window in the box, and he was full of thoughts. In the box next door, Wen Biao and Bai Yong talked, and the two chatted while drinking, which seemed to be very speculative.
"Brother Bai, don't hide it, I've been a bandit before??????。" Wen Biao spoke eloquently. "Brother Wen, you once kidnapped the Overseer's wife, and the Overseer didn't hold a grudge against you at all?" Bai Yong seemed incredulous when he heard this. "Brother Bai, the Overseer is a rare master, a master who can be the master of the world. But he had no ambition and was kind. To tell you the truth, if I lead troops to strangle you, either you will die or I will live. "What Brother Wen said is very true, and I will do the same."
Bai Yong continued: "Brother Wen, as soon as you said that Governor Ge was a star descending from heaven and turning stones into gold, Bai did not complain if he lost. It's really that there are people outside the mountains, talk about the legend of Ge Yunfei, I want to hear it. "Both of them are bandits, and they have a feeling of sympathy for each other. Bai Yong saw his future in Wen Biao, and couldn't help but boil his blood. In particular, he sniffed out in Wen Biao's tone that Ge Yunfei was a maverick, and this secret expedition was not Yuan Shikai's order, and the purpose was to co-opt himself.
Obviously, Ge Yunfei and Yuan Shikai are not of the same mind, Bai Yong saw this and had a firm determination to be loyal to Ge Yunfei.