"Boom!"

It was like a thunderbolt sounding in my ears, and the roof was like papier-mâché, a big hole was torn open, and a cannonball fell from the sky. The gas lamp and kettle on the table were shaken to the ground and shattered, and several pro-soldiers pounced on Li Yuanhong without thinking and firmly covered him with their bodies.

The shells dribbled around the ground a few times, and everyone held their heads in a ball, but after a long time no explosions were heard.

"Dudu, it's a dud!" The soldiers were excited and afraid, and tears flowed out.

"Get out of the way! The cannonballs that could kill Pontus haven't been made yet! Li Yuanhong's cooked duck meat was rotten, and he struggled to get up, his official uniform was covered with dust, and his hair was gray, and he looked really embarrassed.

In the past two days, I don't know how many shells the Governor's Mansion has suffered, and this kind of frightened and calm all day long has made this "revolutionary leader" who was pulled out from under the bed and forced the revolution with a gun, which is really unbearable!

"Governor, stay in Qingshan without worrying about no firewood, let's withdraw first! This son of a bitch, Feng Guozhang, set up the cannon on the commanding heights of Guishan, the military and civil affairs targets in Wuchang City are all within the range of strikes, and the Governor's Mansion is also under the muzzle, you are too dangerous here! Master Gao Chuguan begged bitterly.

"I'm not leaving, I want to live and die together in Wuchang!" Li Yuanhong is still stiff-mouthed.

Gao Chuguan was well aware of his coy attitude, but he made repeated bitter admonitions: "The governor is the success or failure of the revolution, how can he do this time of the struggle of will?" If the governor makes a mistake, it will be the greatest loss of the revolution! ”

Li Yuanhong pondered for a moment and nodded: "That's right, I really shouldn't only care about my own reputation and ruin the great cause of the revolution!" ”

Gao Chu saw that his tone was relieved and comforted: "Now the provincial Kuomintang has hundreds of thousands of troops, and our Hubei Revolutionary Army has 40,000 people, although a small setback is not enough to shake the good situation!" ”

Li Yuanhong wanted to cry when he heard this, the provinces have read their strength, and hundreds of thousands of troops are not fake, but after Wuhan was besieged by Feng Guozhang, he and Huang Xing once asked for help everywhere, and in the end, only Huang Xing's hometown came to Hunan First Association and Hunan Second Association 16,000 people to help in the war, and when the battle was at its worst, the Hunan soldiers did not give Huang Xing a face, and ran back to their hometown quietly! Huang Xing really didn't have the face to be a commander, and left Wuchang gloomily.

slapped the table and bench in the Governor's Mansion, denouncing Huang Xing's abandonment of Wuchang as an act of escape, and Sun Yaoqing, the minister of military orders who sang the loudest in a loud voice, also ran out of the city. But he left Li Yuanhong in the Governor's Mansion to eat cannonballs!

The most hateful thing is Chai Dongliang, the governor of Anhui, who didn't send troops to help, and swallowed his own 500,000 dragon oceans!

"Withdraw!" Li Yuanhong finally said what he thought from the bottom of his heart.

The soldiers surrounded him and got on the horse, and under the cannonballs flying overhead, Li Yuanhong ran out of dozens of miles with his staff officers in one breath, and finally couldn't hear the sound of guns anymore, but he found that he was in a hurry when he left, and his master Gao Chuguan did not follow.

This guy doesn't know how to ride a horse!

"These bastards!" Gao Chuguan stood under the tree and gasped and cursed the street.

Li Yuanhong and the others jumped on the horse and galloped away, Gao Chuguan couldn't ride a horse, the beast didn't listen to the shouting, only circled in place but refused to run forward.

Gao Chuguan scolded Li Yuanhong, who was not righteous for a long time, and began to scold Chai Dongliang, who took the money and didn't do anything, and patted his chest and promised that the money would be given to the Anhui Military Advisory Office, and the Yangtze River Fleet would come to relieve the siege, and they had waited for three days, and they didn't see a single military ship sailing to Wuchang! I only saw hundreds of large and small boats on the Yangtze River, and the Qing army was preparing to cross the river!

There was a sound of horses' hooves in the distance, and Gao Chuguan's frightened soul did not possess his body, and the offense was that the Qing army had already crossed the river? Looking for a crooked neck tree to hang himself, he heard someone shouting, "Is the governor here?" I'm Zhang Zhenwu! ”

Gao Chuguan hurriedly shouted: "Minister Zhang, I'm Gao Chuguan!" ”

Zhang Zhenwu, deputy director of the Wuchang Military Command Department, urged the horse to come over, and found that Gao Chuguan was the only one, so he hurriedly asked, "Where is the governor of Lidu?" ”

"He went to Hongshan, I fell behind!"

Zhang Zhenwu frowned and said, "What should I do?" The Qing army has already sent all the armistice treaties, just waiting for him to seal it! ”

Gao Chuguan was overjoyed and said in disbelief: "Truce? ”

"Well, the 'armistice treaty' sent by Paine, the British consul general in Hankow, the two sides have been armistice for three days, and they have sent representatives to negotiate peace! But if we want to seal it first, and then the Qing army will seal it again, this matter cannot be delayed, but the governor of Li Du took the big seal away, what can we do? Consul Paine is still waiting at the Governor's Palace! Zhang Zhenwu frowned.

Feng Guozhang's ferocity, the Wuchang army and people have long been taught, a fire in Hankou spread for more than 30 miles, hundreds of people were buried in the fire, and artillery was set up on Guishan to bombard Wuchang, and countless casualties were killed. In the battle of Shouyi, Ma Rong, who was the first to rush to Chuwangtai and made great contributions, was caught by the Qing army and stripped of his heart alive.

If Wuchang is captured, the fate of these more than 40,000 people's troops and their families is simply unimaginable, so although the officers and men of the Kuomintang are extremely poorly trained and their military quality is very different from Feng Guozhang's Beiyang Fifth Town, they have relied on the courage to defend their homeland and relied on the hand-to-hand combat of bayonets and mountains to fight every inch of blood, and they have survived until now.

It's just that there is too much blood in Wuchang, and the people's army is close to the desperate situation of running out of oil and running out!

At this point, even the most hard-line military commander Yi Sanwu (Note 1) knew that if he continued to fight, he would definitely be wiped out by Feng Guozhang, so Li Yuanhong and Huang Xing both sent telegrams to Yuan Shikai, hoping to negotiate peace. Now the sleepy pillow has been delivered, although let the Wuchang military and political axe seal first, some of the humiliation of the alliance under the city, but it is a hundred times stronger than being served to the old nest and stewed with a spoonful.

At this juncture, Li Yuanhong actually ran away, and took the big seal away, and the Qing army passed a message through the consul general of Hankow, Pan En, that if the peace clause could not be seen within two hours and the big seal of the Anhui military and political axe was stamped, a general attack on Wuchang would be launched!

Li Yuanhong, you are really harmful! Zhang Zhenwu secretly scolded in his heart!

"General Zhang, don't worry! Just find me a turnip! Gao Chuguan said busily.

"Turnips?" Zhang Zhenwu was stunned.

After a while, a radish with wet mud arrived, Gao Chuguan took out the carving knife from the blue cloth bag he carried, and carved it skillfully.

Zhang Zhenwu couldn't cry or laugh, so he made do with a large seal of radish dipped in ink, stamped a red stamp on the armistice treaty, and sent someone to send it to Consul Paine, who was waiting in the governor's mansion.

"I hope this Feng Guozhang is true to his word!" Gao Chu looked at the distance, the faint road.

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"Order the whole army to prepare, and take advantage of the opportunity for the Kuomintang bandits to think that the truce and preparations are relaxed, and take Wuchang in one fell swoop!" Feng Guozhang gritted his teeth.

"Junmen, no! Seven telegrams a day from the palace guard, ordering us to stop fighting! You must not ruin your future with the courage of your blood! The staff tried hard to persuade each other.

"Junmen, Consul Paine is still in Wuchang, if it is because of the attack of Junmen, the bandits kill the British Consul General in a rage, I am afraid that this negotiation will be categorically difficult to conclude!"

Feng Guozhang sneered: "The general will be ordered by the monarch outside and will not be subject to it, not to mention that Yuan Gongbao is only the prime minister!" The foreigner consul was killed by bandits, what do I do? Besides, I took the salary of the Qing Dynasty and became an official of the Qing Dynasty, why should I listen to the British? After that, he shouted loudly: "Pass my order, a quarter of an hour later, the cannons on the Turtle Mountain will be bombarded, and hundreds of boats on the riverside will be the first to rush into the Wuchang Puppet Governor's Mansion, and the reward will be 1,000 yuan, and the head of the bandit Li Yuanhong will be rewarded with 10,000 silver!" ”

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Shouyi Sanwu: Sun Wu (Yaoqing), Minister of the Wuchang Military Command Department, Jiang Yiwu and Zhang Zhenwu, Deputy Ministers.

Author's words: Li Yuanhong fled from Wuchang City in a hurry and took the official seal with him, and Zhang Zhenwu had no choice but to carve a big seal with a radish!

When I read history, every time I see these plots, I can't help but laugh!