The governor of Shaxian County was taken aback, and immediately lowered the flag of the protector of the city, raised the flag of rebellion, opened the four gates, and the sound of gongs and drums generally invited Li Yaohan into Shaxian, and then killed chickens and sheep to reward the three armies, and sent two stunning beauties to serve Li Yaohan and Shen Hongying, and the position of the county lord was also preserved.

After occupying Shaxian County, Shen Hongying and Li Yaohan took Youxi respectively, and the two counties of Jiangle were expelled and managed, and more than ten nearby prefectures and counties fell into the hands of Li Yaohan in less than half a month, Shen Hongying knew that he was the commander appointed by Chang Zhenbang, and the Fujian Protector Envoy afterwards, so he let him score three points everywhere, this flattering attitude made Li Yaohan particularly comfortable, seeing that these Fujian Protector Army was so unbearable, Li Yaohan had the idea of monopolizing Fujian, and found Shen Hongying overnight, and said: "Hongying, our brothers have come up with so many days, It's not an outsider anymore, what do you say my brother is doing to you? ”

Shen Hongying flattered: "Brother Li takes care of the younger brother everywhere, just like the younger brother has a parent, the younger brother is grateful, only for the eldest brother to do his best to eliminate the thieves, and help the eldest brother ascend to the position of Fujian military envoy as soon as possible!" ”

Li Yaohan smiled and said: "What are you talking about, brother, you are too outsider, my brother eats meat, can you still drink soup?" ”

Shen Hongying said: "That is, what kind of person is my brother, among the two Guangzhou, he is a well-known hero, that is Long Jiguang, Lu Rongting is not as famous as his brother, this time the younger brother went to Fujian with his brother, and I hope that my brother will help me more." ”

Li Yaohan smiled and said: "According to the arrangement of the Tang General Staff, let us besiege Fuzhou after Yue Zhaolin, Wu Hongchang, and Wang Xifeng near Nanping, this is naturally a foolproof strategy, but brother, our brothers have seen what virtue the Fujian soldiers have these days, so vulnerable, why should we wait for them to come?" ”

Shen Hongying was taken aback and said, "Brother wants to monopolize the work of quelling the chaos? Then Zang Zhiping's soldiers are strong and strong, and the troops at hand are as many as three divisions? ”

Li Yaohan said: "You and my brother join forces, and there are also two divisions of men, so our two battle-hardened divisions can't deal with the three divisions he has just expanded?" What a joke! What's more, now that Fuzhou is empty, the main force has gone with Xu Chongyuan to besiege Xiamen. ”

Shen Hongying said cautiously: "If it is a strong attack, the strength of our brothers will be weakened on a large scale. ”

Li Yaohan said disappreciably: "Now Wang Xifeng's troops are besieged by Sun Monkey's Navy and Xu Chongzhi's troops by land and water, and they are in danger. Jiangxi Wu Hongchang was busy exterminating Xiao Shanmao, Yue Zhaolin was pursued by He Fenglin, and he couldn't fight with us in a short time, as long as our brothers quickly captured Fuzhou and went south to Quanzhou, Xu Chongzhi had already taken Xiamen at that time, let's drive Xu Chongzhi away, and look around at the land of Fujian without his Chang Zhenbang's power, and the whole Fujian is in the pocket of our brothers. In the future, whether you listen to him or not will still be between the two, this real Overseer is much more comfortable than the fake Overseer. ”

Shen Hongying's eyes flickered, and she said, "The elder brother is really wise, and the younger brother is willing to take the lead!" After the two of them summed up for a long time, they quickly sent troops to take Minqing and Minhou in one fell swoop in the early morning of the next day, and arrived at the city of Fuzhou. Shen Hongying said: "What the eldest brother said is that the younger brother also feels a little weird, and he has already made fine works all over the way, so I understand what is going on?" It turns out that whether it is us or Zang Zhiping, in the eyes of Fujian people, it is a conduct, as long as you can live a stable life without fighting, the people don't care who you are? Whoever comes listens to whom, so Zang Zhiping is in chaos, and half of Fujian has it all of a sudden, which is also the truth. As long as our brothers capture Fuzhou City, half of Fujian will be restored. ”

After Li Yaohan heard it, he laughed and said, "Brother has a heart." This common people are this cowardice that makes Lao Tzu like it. The order went down, shouted to the city to surrender, and said that the door would not be opened at three o'clock in the afternoon, and we would have to pursue the relevant responsible persons after the city was broken. ”

Looking at the army outside the city, Zang Zhiping at the head of Fuzhou City said to himself: "Chang Daren knows that I met me, and I will hand over Fujian to me. After finishing speaking, he turned to the adjutant beside him and said, "Tell General Xu that everything is according to plan!" ”

The adjutant immediately went down to give the order, and after a while, the arrogant surrender of the city, but unfortunately this time the answer to them was no longer the beautiful sound of the city gate opening, but the vigorous sound of artillery, and suddenly the soldiers under the city cried and shouted that the mother ran away in embarrassment, Li Yaohan became angry after the inquiry, and immediately set up artillery to bombard the city, this Zang Zhiping is also a person with ideals, and will not easily give up his ideals for the lives of the people, so it is impossible for the other party to automatically open the city after firing a few shots, leaving others with the reputation of Fuzhou, Li Yaohan outside the city is not a good stubble, compared to the lives of the soldiers, he cares more about the power of the Fujian military envoy, so the two sides bombarded each other, leaving countless casualties inside and outside the city, there was still no sign of retreat, until the sky was getting dark, and they each beat the drum to collect the troops to rest for a while and prepare to fight again in the coming day.

After Shen Hongying counted the casualties on both sides, he opened the tent door and walked into Li Yaohan's Chinese army tent, Li Yaohan glanced at him and said, "How many casualties are the brothers?" Shen Hongying smiled faintly and said: "It's insignificant, maybe the march a few days ago was too smooth, as soon as you encounter a real fight, the state can't come, and the movement will inevitably make a big fuss." Li Yaohan couldn't help but sigh and said: "These little cubs are used to living a comfortable life, and now they will cry and shout when they move a little, what a fucking cowardice, Brother Hongying will give the order in a while, whoever makes a fucking fuss and disturbs the morale of the army will be dealt with by military law!" ”

When the military order was issued, there was an uproar among the Zhao army and Shen Hongying's troops, but the officers learned that the battle was so lively during the day, the brothers shouted so happily, and the specific casualties were not enough to see, so they couldn't help but be a little embarrassed, so they made up their minds to rectify military discipline and help the boss enter Fuzhou City as soon as possible.

Not to mention that the mental state of the entire Zhao army on the second day was completely different from that on the first day, and the offensive of Fuzhou City also appeared in a cold posture, which made Li Yaohan, who was watching the battle from the sidelines, feel very relieved, although Fuzhou City was still towering, so that he had the message of victory.

After three or four days of offensive, Fuzhou City has become a life-and-death Shura field for both sides, and hundreds of entities have to be dropped every day before they are willing to give up, and the morale of the Zhao army that has just been raised suddenly fell slowly, but the morale of Fuzhou City on the other side is not very high, after all, the soldiers of the Zhao army rushed to the city wall many times, and they were almost a little bit about to occupy it, but unfortunately they all fell short in the end.

Li Yaohan, Shen Hongying and the important generals of the two armies sat in a group, discussing tomorrow's battle, Shen Hongying said: "With the performance of the officers and men of our two armies these days, we will definitely be able to enter Fuzhou City within five days." When the generals of the two armies heard this, they were overjoyed and excited, but Li Yaohan frowned and said: "Wu Hongchang's department has defeated the thief Xiao Shanmao, and is rushing to Sanming day and night. Yue Zhaolin's department has been repaired and has gone to Nanping three days ago, there is not much time left for us, you must take Fuzhou City within three days, otherwise we will lose all our efforts! ”

"Yes, Boss!" The generals replied.

In the next Liangtian, the soldiers of the Zhao army really risked their lives to attack Fuzhou, but the soldiers defending the city inside and outside the city of Fuzhou suddenly wanted to change a person, and fiercely counterattacked the soldiers of the Zhao army who rushed over, don't look at the people who rushed to the city wall of Fuzhou a few days ago, and now not only can not rush up, but there is no chance to get close to the city wall. The soldiers of the Zhao army were dumbfounded, the black shadow landed, countless Fujian protectors rushed over like wolves and tigers, when the soldiers of the Zhao army reacted, they had missed the opportunity to counterattack, and they could only turn around and run, the soldiers of the French protector army attacked and killed, and the Zhao army was defeated, Li Yaohan was taken aback and wanted to reorganize the gongs and drums, and the Zang Zhiping Department in Fuzhou City behind him also took advantage of the situation to attack and kill, Li Yaohan was defeated, and when he was about to retreat to Shaxian and other places, Minhou and Minqing killed two French protectors in the direction of Minqing, blocking the direction of Li Yaohan's retreat, At this time, several armies outside Fuzhou City also joined forces with each other and surrounded Li Yaohan layer by layer on Shizhu Mountain.

At this time, the Zhao army had lost all its baggage, there was no grain and grass, and the large and small artillery were also lost under the battlefield one by one. When night fell, the remnants of the defeated army gathered their morale even lower, Shen Hongying inspected the various departments, Li Yaohan was depressed and worried, regretting that he should not be greedy enough to swallow the elephant, hatred has now become someone else's bag, just when he was worried and drunk alone, Shen Hongying rushed over and said, "Big brother, who do you see coming?" Shen Hongying looked back at a familiar man, stretched out her hand and scratched her head, and suddenly remembered who this person was? Isn't it Xu Chongzhi who caused his great sorrow to return today and shattered the dream of the Overseer? It was really an enemy who was very red when he saw each other, and he didn't think like he would pull out his sword and kill Xu Chongzhi. Who knew that Shen Hongying grabbed his wrist and said, "Big brother, don't be rash, Commander Xu came up the mountain to invite the eldest brother down the mountain?" ”

"Huh?" Li Yaohan's eyes widened, as if he was a little surprised, and said, "What's going on?" Xu Chongzhi said: "I haven't seen you for a long time, Brother Li's body is still refreshing, Chongzhi is deeply pleased!" I think that the eldest brother is also the father of Xinhai, and he also made some efforts to overthrow the Manchu court back then, and he didn't want to meet in the army today. Zang Zhiping was also willing to represent the Fujian Protector Military Government to grant his eldest brother the position of Fujian Overseer. Li Yaohan was stunned for a moment and said, "Really? Xu Chongzhi said: "The soldiers are surrounded by the mountain, and in a moment they will be bloodied in Shizhu Mountain, if there is no sincerity, the commander-in-chief Xu will not come in person." Li Yaohan thought about it, glanced back at Shen Hongying, and scolded: "What benefits did you kid get?" I let Brother Xu come up. Shen Hongying grinned and said, "The elder brother is the overseer of Fujian, and the younger brother is just a Quanyong town guard." Now Xiamen has been captured by the navy, Wang Xifeng and Wang Dewang withdrew to Zhangzhou. Tang Guomo was neutral in power generation, and the whole of Fujian was completely out of the control of the Jiangxi system. Li Yaohan immediately said: "Yaohan has joined the army since he was a child, what happened? The people of the country are also, now there is no way in Beiyang, the Chang family is domineering, the lives are ruined, thanks to the adults who do not give up, Yaohan is willing to raise troops to protect the law, recover Fujian, and recover eastern Guangdong. After finishing speaking, his face was not red or breathless, so he ordered to change the banner, entered Fuzhou City on horseback, and accepted the appointment of the superintendent of the Fujian Protector Military Government, and since then he has become the third big man in addition to Xu Chongzhi, the chief commander of the Protector Army. After Shen Hongying accepted the adaptation, he became the guardian of Quanyong, the envoy of Quanyong, and guarded Quanzhou.

When the news came, the world was in an uproar, Feng Guozhang and Duan Qirui ordered Chang Zhenbang to exterminate the Bafu Rebellion at all costs, and financed 5 million rounds of ammunition, which were transported to Jiujiang by the commander-in-chief of the navy, Sa Zhenbing. The heroes of Guangdong and Jiangxi provinces are even more impatient, and Long Yuguang of Zhanzhou is even more ambitious, wanting to seize the Gaolei region while Chang Zhenbang is sick and weak. Lu Rongting was also ready to move, wanting to march from Wuzhou to Zhaoqing. For a while, people were confused, and one by one urgent telegrams were sent to the palace of the visiting envoy, and after Tang Baichuan read them one by one, he was torn into pieces and burned.

When Chen Guangyuan, who was sitting in Jiahu, heard this, he sighed greatly and ordered the collection of precious medicinal materials in Hangzhou. The Unicom version of 500,000 oceans was sent to the city of Guangzhou, but he did not send troops south to help Chang Zhenbang pacify Fujian, after all, he now finally drove most of the hostile forces in Zhejiang to Shanghai, leaving one He Fenglin is not enough, if he goes south, maybe He Fenglin will not go north, Lu Yongxiang will not go south, and he will only lose Shanghai in vain.

Chen Guangyuan's attitude really made Lu Yongxiang unhappy, but also let the besieging Shanghai city of Jiangsu army have a bottom in their hearts, Li Chun secretly instructed Li He to return to the Beiyang Thirteenth Army to command the army to besiege Shanghai again, Lu Yongxiang bravely resisted, stubbornly resisted, and defeated the siege troops again and again, but it was also a big injury, the most stunned thing was that a letter was sent to the Prime Minister's Office, the telegram of the presidential palace disappeared like a stone ox into the sea, it was really like a battle between trapped beasts, but the concession of all countries was here, but there was no worry about life, It's just that once the army is gone, how can it make a comeback? He and Wang Guilin, who were bored every day, had to drink for fun and use wine to kill their sorrows. Suddenly, I heard a rumor that there was suddenly an extra brigade of elites under the city, and it was under the banner of He Fenglin, the envoy of Taizhou Town, Lu Yongxiang was overjoyed to open the city and was just about to exit, but he stopped and said: "Wait, there can be a transfer of the surrounding army." ”

"The two places of Jiahu were controlled by Chen Guangyuan, Jiangxi's Yue Zhaolin Department retreated to Shangrao, Li Tingyu's department did not move after leaving for Fuzhou, and the Beiyang 13th Division continued to besiege Shanghai in Kunshan and other places."

Wang Guilin said: "It seems that this He Fenglin is really determined to follow the eldest brother." ”

Lu Yongxiang said: "Without me, Lu Yongxiang, and without you, Wang Guilin, how can He Fenglin be left with him and Fugui under Chen Guangyuan's rule?" You, me, and the three of them have long been grasshoppers on a rope, right, how about the equipment of He Fenglin's people? ”

"Lord Qiyu, He Fenglin's elite soldiers are strong generals, but they are all light weapons, there is nothing in artillery, and ammunition is even more insufficient, but they still have the face to ask adults to prepare hot meals and ...... for them and women. ”

Wang Guilin laughed and said: "This kid really dares to ask for it, I really don't know how many catties and taels he has!" ”

Lu Yongxiang instructed: "Just go down and get ready, those who come are brothers, and you can't slack off." After speaking, he turned back to Wang Guilin and said: "Brother, you are wrong, this He Fenglin is now Han Xin, and Han is Han Sheng, and Chu wins with Chu, this is not too much to ask, if he is allowed to defect to Qi Xieyuan and Li He, we will be even more unbearable in Shanghai, maybe Premier Duan will let us quit Shanghai!" ”

"No, it won't!" Wang Guilin said with some surprise.

Lu Yongxiang said: "Do you know why the president, Premier Duan, turned a deaf ear to our war in Shanghai? In fact, our every move in Shanghai has fallen into their eyes, they take Shanghai as a chessboard, we as a chess piece, and the government as a bet, competing with each other, Shanghai wins, the prime minister wins, and Jiangsu wins, the president wins. Therefore, if we win, the future is limitless, you and I have the share of the overseer, and if we lose, we will be embarrassed, I am afraid that the east mountain will not rise again, and the ashes will not be revived. ”

Wang Guilin suddenly realized, and at the same time felt that there was an extra heavy responsibility on his shoulders, and just when he was quite enlightened, suddenly there was a noisy sound of fighting outside the yamen of the guard. Lu Yongxiang said angrily: "What's the matter, it's messing around here......"

"Probably the Taizhou army had a conflict with our people."

"Go out and have a look, don't hurt the friendship of the friendly army, and don't treat your brother slowly."

Before the words fell, countless soldiers and horses broke in, and dozens of guns were aimed at Wang Guilin and Lu Yongxiang in black pressure.

Lu Yongxiang said angrily: "He Fenglin, you son of a bitch, you come out with me!" ”

As soon as the words fell, a young man in his twenties and thirties walked up to them with a smile like a spring breeze, and said, "Two old brothers, I haven't seen you for a long time, Zhenbang is so polite." ”

Lu Yongxiang said: "You ......" Before he finished speaking, the whole person fell to the ground with a bang, unconscious.

Chang Zhenbang smiled faintly and said, "Carry it down, so you can serve it." ”

"Inform the brothers outside, don't disturb the people, violators will be killed!"

"Let the brothers clean their hands and feet, don't dislike the good and bad, and take away all the things that can be used. There must not be a grain of grain or a copper plate left. ”

The city of Shanghai was busy, and the Qi Xie Yuan Department outside the city was ready to attack.

This book was first published in Reading Books