Chapter 226: News from Harbin
(2nd update today)
At first, the bandits in the Jiangbei area were dismissive, thinking that the 24 Mixed Association was just a bluff, but they didn't want this group of officers and soldiers to fight, let alone bandits, and even the local bullies were directly killed by them, and they directly moved all the property on the charge of harboring bandits, burned all the land deeds and IOUs, the people applauded, and the gentry were sincerely afraid, and they no longer dared to stop the 24 Mixed Association. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Through this series of blows, Wang Yongan not only eliminated the bandits, but also drove away some members of the revolutionary party, and the situation in the entire Jiangbei region changed greatly, and the league had to send Chen Qimei north to Yangzhou to beg Wang Yongan not to attack the revolutionary party. In fact, it was not Wang Yongan's intention to injure the revolutionary party by mistake, but now the League often uses the Jianghu Hui Party and bandits to cause chaos to the Qing government, which cannot hurt the foundation of the Qing court at all, and can only add some trouble to the common people.
And the Hui Party is not active in opposing the Qing Dynasty, and what they say is good and anti-Qing Xinghan, but in fact, they point to others and see for themselves that if the Qing Dynasty is really finished, they will just make a profit. It's just that I didn't expect the 24th Mixed Association to be so fierce, and directly attacked the Hui Party in the Jiangbei area, killing thousands of people, and no Hui Party dared to stay in the Jiangbei area, and fled into Jiangnan or Lianghu one after another, and some fled to Henan and Shandong provinces.
Now, the 20 million people in Jiangbei are safe, but the surrounding areas are unstable. Wang Yongan did not let the army return to the base camp, but continued to make persistent efforts, with the aim of giving the 20 million people in Jiangbei a sense that this group of Beiyang New Army wearing bells and whistles (camouflage uniforms) was the real master of this land.
First of all, in terms of clothing, there are nearly a million new troops in the country, although they are dressed differently, but they are mainly in dark tones such as gray, black, earthy yellow, and blue-gray, but when they come to the 24th Mixed Association, they are actually wearing toad skin (camouflage uniform), and they do not wear a big cap on their heads, but a jungle penny hat. The second is the military uniform, on the soldier's left arm embroidered with the soldier's name, number, and number, in addition to each soldier's neck to wear an Arabic numeral iron plate, which is also a soldier number. In addition, each soldier of the 24 mixed associations was equipped with a brand-new Hanyang-made rifle, a cross belt, a bayonet, 100 rounds of ammunition, a kettle on his left buttocks, and a lunch box on his right buttocks, which had to be stuffed with dry food, and a piece of braised pork had to be sandwiched into the dry food. In the end, there is an unwritten rule in the Twenty-Four Mixed Association, that is, after the commander gives the charge, anyone who stops or escapes from the battle, anyone can kill him, there is no need for a team of supervisors on the battlefield, everyone is a team of supervisors, and if a unit escapes, all the commanders will be executed, regardless of whether you are wronged or not, and whoever leads the soldiers is responsible.
It is such a strictly disciplined army, every time it encounters the enemy, it will fight to the death, there are no veteran oils and old fritters watching others send themselves to death and hide aside, but all such people have long been directly executed by the commander. Therefore, after the 24th Mixed Association met the enemy, it was like crazy, as long as the commander ordered the charge, he rushed forward with a bayonet, and often did not need the other party to resist, so he was frightened by this momentum and fled, and the 24th Mixed Association also swept through the Jiangbei with this fierceness.
As soon as April passed, Wang Yongan received a letter from Harbin, and the writer of the letter was Xiao Xiaoyue.
Xiao Xiaoyue introduced the energy of his group in the letter, since leaving Yangzhou five months ago, the group first went to Qingdao, and then came to Dalian, and when in Dalian, they were supported by a group of Japanese doctors and nurses, who expressed great admiration for the Chinese doctors and nurses who went to the epidemic area. If it weren't for the Japanese, Xiao Xiaoyue's chest was so tall - I'm afraid Xiao Xiaoyue would have agreed to become the girlfriend of a Japanese male doctor - but who made Xiao Xiaoyue think that the person who can be called his man in his bones must be at least about the same height as himself, and then the Japanese man is as big as his son when he takes it out, which is really embarrassing.
After waiting in Dalian for Xia Ming to lead the supplies and some other volunteers to converge, everyone arrived in Harbin by train, and at this time, Wu Liande and other doctors also arrived in Harbin a week in advance to conduct a preliminary investigation of the plague disaster in Northeast China, and finally came to the conclusion that the plague can be controlled, but recommended burning the corpses to cut off the source of pollution.
However, the proposal to burn the corpse was opposed by both inside and outside the Qing court, not only because of the imperial court, but because the Chinese have been the deceased since ancient times, respecting the habit of corpses, and the relatives of the deceased were unwilling to let the deceased die without a whole body, and immediately launched a protest, and the imperial court did not want to have a large-scale protest in the disaster area where the plague disaster was already serious.
While the imperial court was hesitating, the plague spread from Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces to Mukden Province, then to Zhili Province, and finally to Jingshi.
When the plague reached Beijing, the Qing court panicked and immediately agreed to the request of Wu Liande and others to incinerate the corpses, and then the three northeastern provinces, Zhili Province, Shandong Province, and Shanxi Province began to burn the bodies of the plague dead, and isolated suspected plague patients and several patients, gradually controlling the spread of plague.
The main staff in the fight against the plague were the staff of the Qing court, including local doctors, nurses, police, officers and soldiers of the patrol battalion, local volunteers, medical volunteers from the south, and even doctors from Japan and Russia. Xiao Xiaoyue was lucky not to fall ill, but some of her students were very unfortunate that nine nurses and four doctors had already fallen on the front line of the fight against the epidemic in Harbin, and the bodies were burned, not even a cemetery. Yue Wenzheng built a martyr's cemetery in the village of Pingfang in Harbin, and carved a large tombstone with the names of the victims, which was forgotten a few years after the fall of the Qing court, and became the quicksand of history.
Although they knew that they would die, and no one even knew their names, they threw themselves into it to eradicate the plague. Xiao Xiaoyue and others did not give up their faith, they firmly believed that the final victory must belong to the Chinese and to mankind.
The letter is very long, more than 30 pages, but it does not reveal any content of personal feelings, like an old friend to tell his own experience, but Wang Yongan is not a fool after all, how can he not see Xiao Xiaoyue and his feelings. And Yuan Nianzhen is even smarter, and he is sensitive to the cattiness between them...... So Yuan Nianzhen took the initiative to say: "Jingyun, why don't you marry her too, Sister Xiaoyue is beautiful, capable and assertive." ”
Wang Yongan just smiled faintly and said to Nianzhen: "My wife only has you, it can only be you, and I can only hold you in my heart." ”
Just when Jiangbei was suppressing bandits, news suddenly came from the Liangguang region that shocked the world, and the Guangzhou general Fu Qi was assassinated.