In a ruined house near the Great North Gate, more than thirty or forty young men who looked like beggars were curled up, or lying down, or squatting, the cauldron was steaming with the aroma of dog meat, they all breathed greedily, only a beggar with the appearance of a strong man looked cautiously at the sky above the Great North Gate.

A lame beggar came to him, pulled his sleeve, and said, "Brother Ant, what are the stars in the sky to look at, let's hurry up and smell the aroma of this dog meat, I don't know when I will be able to eat such fat fragrant meat." ”

The ant said with a smile: "When Lao Tzu has money and eats dog meat every day, I am afraid that I will get tired of eating this dog meat." ”

The lame beggar glared at him, and said unhappily: "They all want food, what big things to say, if Lao Tzu can eat a full stomach every day, he will die of happiness." After saying that, he didn't take care of the ants, but got up little by little to the cauldron, closed his eyes and greedily absorbed the breath of dog meat. But he climbed too close, which angered many beggars, and with the shouting and scolding from the sky, the lame beggar stepped aside.

The sudden crackling sound of firecrackers outside the window shook the ruins like a cannon, shaking off a lot of dust from the roof, and when it fell into the pot of dog meat, it attracted the beggars to scold.

A sturdy beggar quietly approached the ant and said, "Did the swallow boss give a signal?" ”

The ant shook his head and said, "No! But it should be tonight! ”

"This damn firecracker sound makes people's heads hurt!" The sturdy beggar kicked the wall very unpleasantly, and the dust fell like rain, and a few beggars were furious, rolled up their sleeves, and were about to copy the guy to fight, and saw a few sturdy beggars on the side glaring angrily, pointing at Sang and scolding Huai, and then lowered his sleeves, and sat aside.

Ant said: "Whose firecracker is this, tomorrow everyone will go to their house to report the good news!" ”

The lame beggar just now said mockingly: "Do you know who his family is? It scares you to death when you say it, do you know Chen Lianbo, head of Chen? ”

"Chen Lianbo? What is this thing? The ant said contemptuously, but secretly wrote down the man's name in his heart, but his eyes were still fixed on the window.

The ant's contemptuous tone angered the many beggars present, all of whom frowned at him coldly, if it weren't for the fact that there were many people, they would have pounced on him and taught this bastard boy who didn't know the height of the sky and the height of the earth to teach him a good lesson. This makes the ants even more curious about this person named Chen Lianbo, there are many big names in Guangzhou, but there are really not many people who are even beggars shaken. The ant quietly thought about the big man just now and made a look, the big man walked to the lame beggar and squatted, and said: "Brother, who is this Chen Lianbo, what does it have to do with us beggars, why are they all so angry as if they scolded Lao Tzu." ”

At the mention of Chen Lianbo, the lame beggar couldn't help but straighten his waist, and said very arrogantly: "The child has no mother, it's a long story, you give Lao Tzu two steamed buns tomorrow, and Lao Tzu will tell you!" ”

Dahan was stunned for a moment, and said angrily: "You bastard, you love to talk or not, and there are two steamed buns, none of them, it's a big deal for Lao Tzu to ask others to go!" ”

"Don't, you think there are too many steamed buns, it's good for you to give one!" The lame beggar said euphemistically.

"You bully us outsiders, don't you know? Half a steamed bun, love it or not, anyway, this Chen Lianbo is a big man in Guangzhou City, and it won't take half a day for Lao Tzu to know. Believe it or not! The big man roared viciously, as if a steamed bun had already taken out his heart.

"Am I still convinced? Half is half! The lame beggar hurriedly pulled the big man to his side, and said very arrogantly: "Who doesn't know that we Cantonese people are rich, and there are the governors of Liangguang sent by the emperor, the governors of Sun Monkey, and the overseers of Yuan Datou will meet with the representatives of the merchant group when they take office in Guangzhou." Don't look at these people in other places to show off their might, horizontal domineering, but to our Guangdong ground, is the dragon you have to coil, is the tiger your squatting, especially when formulating important policies, obediently ask the business group leader for advice, the higher the prestige of the business group leader on the ground in Guangdong, the greater the impact on local military and political affairs, when the Guangzhou businessmen think that a policy seriously damages the interests of the business community, sometimes they will take the market strike and other ways to make trouble with those dog officials, you don't have to say, this trick is also dedicated to these dog officials, after the Wuhan civil unrest, The social order was poor, and the Guangzhou merchants established the Guangzhou Business Group for self-defense. This Chen Lianbo Chen Dahu sat in the top spot of the business group, Long Overseer invited him to be the adviser of the Overseer's Mansion, and later he became the premier of the Guangdong Food Relief Association, and every New Year's holiday will send rations to our beggars, do you say that Chen Tuanjun is not the reborn parents of our beggars in Guangzhou? ”

The ant nodded secretly when he heard this, and then glanced at Dahan, who asked: "There are so many firecrackers in the middle of the night, and people can't sleep, what is the joy of his family, so he has to ignore the celebration of the neighbors!" ”

The lame beggar said, "Who knows? However, Captain Chen is a great benevolent person, in the past, he was kind and charitable, and he would never let the brothers return empty-handed, and this happy day will definitely be indispensable to the benefits of the brothers tomorrow, as for what happy event? Fuck it, Fang Zheng is either promoted to get rich, or he marries a little wife and has children, and there is nothing else important! ”

"Look, what's that!"

The ant suddenly pointed out the window and screamed, and several strong men and beggars hurriedly leaned over to take a look and immediately said with joy: "Brother Ant, it's the signal of the swallow boss, let's act!" The ant nodded, and made a clean up for the beggars, and the big man next to him nodded slowly. After a while, there was a burst of gunfire in the ruins, and the blood suddenly stained the ground of the ruins, and the dog meat pot was also overturned to the ground, and the soup slowly merged with pools of blood and flowed towards the ruins door.

A soldier leaning against the heavy city gate was awakened from his dream by the sudden sound of gunfire, and could not help but say with a gloomy face: "There is a gunshot! ”

The other smiled, reached out and poked the other party's head, and said, "It's stupid to dream!" What kind of gunshots are there, this is a happy event for the head of Chen's family, and he must have just married the thirteenth concubine and gave birth to a big fat boy. Ha ha. After saying that, everyone laughed. People in Guangdong like green hats at every turn, but they don't know that when they look back, their daughter-in-law is afraid that they will be cold, and they have already made dozens of green hats for themselves. It doesn't hurt if you don't have a daughter-in-law, and if you give someone a top on your mouth, it can be regarded as a courtesy.

"It's so late, it's better to set off firecrackers in the cave room, it's so noisy that people can't sleep." The soldier who had just woken up stretched his waist and said very dissatisfiedly: "I don't know that Lao Tzu married fourteen beautiful girls in one breath in a dream, one more than his Chen family!" After speaking, he seemed to fall asleep again, and in the sound of a sharp gunshot, he leaned against the wall and slowly collapsed. At this time, these soldiers reacted, and before they could react, dozens of beggars and strong men who looked like merchants rushed over from all sides, and a burst of gunfire solved these soldiers guarding the city gate. Then he left four or three people to pile up the dead soldiers into a simple fortification, and then let the two Chinese characters set up machine guns and aim them at the inside of the city, and let the two men set up machine guns and aim them at the outside of the city. This is not to say that there are reinforcements from outside the city, but there is an urn city outside the Great North Gate, if this urn city is not taken as soon as possible, not only will the rebel army outside the city not be able to enter, but they will also be killed together by the Guangzhou army urn that has been rushed over.

The sound of machine guns rang out suddenly, sweeping all the lives in the urn city like two fire snakes, and the guards who were caught off guard were swept by these two fire snakes before they could shoot back, or they were killed, or they were seriously injured and fell to the ground.

Chen Dahu's firecrackers were ringing, and the soldiers on the city gate tower could not listen to the gunfire as firecrackers, and the officer on duty immediately decided to shoot from the city wall of the urn city, and at the same time sent heavy troops to try to recapture the city gate that was hidden by ants and others, but unfortunately all this had already fallen into the calculations of Chang Zhenbang and Tang Baichuan, and the artillery outside the city had been pushed to the place where the arrangement was realized after the swallow sent out the siege signal, and as soon as he heard the sound of machine gun fire in the city, he began to order the bombardment of the urn city, and the fire was burning all at once, The soldiers on the urn city were blown apart like kites with broken strings, and then Chang Zhenbang's rebellious protector army had quickly killed in front of the door, smashed the barricades, rushed into the Great North Gate, and rushed over like flowing water, and the ants were also aimed at the machine guns outside the city, and the four machine guns were like four fire snakes staggered to harvest the lives of those Guangzhou soldiers who tried to recapture the city gate.

Seeing that there was no possibility of retaking the city gate, the officer on duty immediately ordered the soldiers to retreat in the direction of the city, trying to use the side of the Great North Gate to arrange the defense line along the street, forming a local superior force to block these rebellious protector troops on the front line of the city gate, but unfortunately what he didn't expect was that Chang Zhenbang actually opened three city gates at the same time, such a crazy move is rare in the history of war, but when the strength of the three divisions rushed over like a flood, the defense line along the street collapsed immediately because it was too fragile, and the officer on duty sighed, I had to take off my military uniform and blend in with the deserters and flee for my life.

After Chang Zhenbang and others entered the urn city, they immediately hit the "rebel and protect the country, surrender the gun and don't kill!" Many people in Guangzhou who opposed the imperial system also joined Chang Zhenbang's team, this team became more and more, and soon the sleeping Guangzhou City became a city that never sleeps, those who rebelled against the area where the Protector Army had not entered, and the rebels who took advantage of the fire to rob the people began to move, but unfortunately their wishful thinking also made a mistake Xiao Jiujiu, Chen Lianbo, who had been prepared for a long time, also began to maintain law and order everywhere with the merchant group armies, as for the places where the rebel Protector Army passed, it was handed over to Zhu Fuquan's Shaoguan soldiers, This can let Chang Zhenbang see what it means to suppress the bandit elite, no one expected that Zhu Fuquan, who was honest and loved the people like a son, seemed to be incarnated as a demon king from hell at this time, everywhere he went, but there were chaotic people, whether you were a first-time offender, or an eighty-year-old mother in the family, or a three-year-old child, all of them were up and down, mercilessly, and after the statistics, the mob that died in his hands was thousands of people, but no one was qualified to blame him, after all, all the people he killed were mobs, everyone knew that if these mobs were allowed to act, I'm afraid that there are more than thousands of deaths.

Even if you are Bao Qingtian here in Guangzhou, as long as you are not a local, you will complain, not to mention that you have been bewitched by Sun Monkey for many years, and you have long buried the emotions against Yuan Shikai in your heart, and many people even think that if Yuan Shikai is not making trouble, Sun Monkey can become the emperor, and Sun Monkey becomes the emperor, Guangzhou people can celebrate each other, and every household has the hope of being an official. Therefore, after Yuan Shikai became the emperor, he reused his cronies, many people felt that after Sun Monkey became emperor, at least more than half of the Cantonese people could enter the court as officials, but now it is good that not only can they not be officials, but they are also looted by Long Jiguang in every way, with such complex emotions, the people of Guangzhou began to act, they spontaneously helped the rebel army to lead the way, and soon Chang Zhenbang and others were killed in the Overseer's Mansion, at this time the Overseer's Mansion had already been empty.

The sound of the cannon overwhelmed the sound of Chen Dahu's firecrackers at once, and Long Jiguang was also awakened from his sleep by the sound of the cannons, he hurriedly got off the body of his subordinate's wife, hurriedly put on his clothes and called the adjutant general, and asked, "What's going on with this cannon sound?" But the revolutionary party rebelled? "The dazed adjutant didn't know what was going on. The angry Long Jiguang gave him two slaps, turned around and let people lead the horse, hurried out of the Overseer's Mansion, and ran towards the barracks.

Chang Zhenbang immediately sent someone to take over the Overseer's Office, occupied the telecommunications office, and began to telegraph the whole country, announcing that the rebel army had captured Guangzhou, and in the name of the governor of the rebel protectorate and the governor of Guangdong and Jiangxi, he announced that Jiangxi and Guangdong opposed the imperial system, supported the central government, and did not allow other troops to enter Guangdong. He also sent a telegram to several town guards in Guangdong Province, Dao Yin, inviting them to come to Guangzhou for a military and political conference to maintain order in Guangdong. At the same time, Li Tingyu's Beiyang Sixth Division was ordered to continue to pursue Long Jiguang and be sure to capture Long Jiguang alive.

The loss of Guangzhou overnight and the recent defeat of the army sent by Long Jiguang to Yunnan made Long Jiguang's army demoralized, and he had not even come into contact with the Beiyang Sixth Division, only to hear that he was "rebelling and protecting the country" and then collapsed. Li Tingyu's Sixth Division commander drove straight in, but unfortunately Long Jiguang was not easy to follow, and even changed into a small soldier's clothes and finished a trick from under Li Tingyu's nose The golden cicada escaped from the shell, Li Tingyu won a complete victory, capturing 2,000 Long Jiguang's Ji army, 3,000 Guangzhou soldiers, and countless guns and ammunition. It's loud.

After dawn, Long Jiguang gathered the remnants of the army, leaving only less than 3,000 descendants around him, and couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh: "Lao Tzu has been fighting geese all his life, and I can't imagine that today I will be pecked by Yan, but as long as I, Long Jiguang, do not die, these two Guang will still be Lao Tzu Long's family sooner or later!" After saying that, he waved his army south and fled to Huizhou.

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