In the city of Guangzhou, there was a busy scene in the Overseer's Mansion, in addition to the signboard of the Guangzhou Overseer's Mansion was replaced by the Governor's Mansion of the Protector of the Nation, Chang Zhenbang issued a series of orders, appointing Zhu Fuquan as the Propaganda Envoy of Guangdong and Jiangxi and concurrently serving as the Governor of Qingxiang in Guangdong, fully responsible for the work of pacifying the people's livelihood in Guangdong and Jiangxi and eliminating the thieves, and at the same time appointed Chen Lianbo as the Director of the Finance Department of the Governor's Office of the Governor of the Rebellion and Protectorate, Li Tingyu as the Left Counselor of the Rebellion and Protectorate, Hua Zhongtian as the Right Counselor of the Rebellion and Protectorate, and Tang Baichuan as the Chief of the General Staff of the Rebellion and Protector of the Country. Li Guoyun, the former Guangdong Governor, was appointed as the director of the Government Affairs Department to supervise the government affairs of Guangdong, Qi Yang, the Guangxi Governor, Zhang Xiaoliu was the director of the Secretariat, Wang Dewang was the head of the Guard Regiment of the Metropolitan Governor's Office, and Chang Zhenyan was the colonel of the Metropolitan Governor's Secret Department, enjoying the treatment of a major general. Within three days, there were dozens of plaques in the style of loving the people like children sent by the local squires of Guangzhou, and they were very inspiring, but the Cantonese people hated Long Jiguang more than the flood beast.

The promulgation of the three principles of Guangdong and Jiangxi united the conservative forces in Guangdong and Jiangxi, calmed the hearts of the people in the two provinces, dispelled the concerns of the surrounding warlords, won the appreciation of the British consul general, and also made Lu Rongting of the Guangxi Protector Army angry, kicked over the table on the spot, gave up the plan to persuade the envoy Long Shichu of Qinlian Town, joined Wuming, and went south to the counties of Qinlian Dao the next day, and surrounded Qinlian City.

Chang Zhenbang telegraphed and questioned Lu Rongting: "I am also protecting the country, why don't I send troops to the north, but invade my Qinlian." ”

Lu Rongting said: "Emperor Hongxian is the enemy of the whole country, you occupy my Guangdong, you are the enemy of my Lu Rongting, the enemy of the whole country, the enemy of the whole country, the enemy of the Gui army, the crusade of my Gui army!" ”

The difference between Guangxi and Guangdong is one word, the people of the two places are like fire and water, and their hatred is higher than the sky, and both sides have the idea that they would rather die than cheapen each other, so that Lu Rongting's telegram was one place, and the people of the whole Guangdong were boiling, and the people in Maoming, Zhanjiang and other places spontaneously organized themselves and prepared to resist Lu Rongting's attack. At the same time, representatives of the Guangdong business group and representatives from all walks of life in Guangzhou gathered in the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion to sponsor the military salary of 300,000 Wu Qian Dayang, and asked Chang Zhenbang to send troops to resist the land. Chang Zhenbang for Lu Rongting's invasion and appointed Li Tingyu, the left counselor of the rebellion and protectorate, to lead the Beiyang Sixth Division to march into Qinlian and recover the lost territory, and at the same time sent a telegram to the whole province, asking Zhaoyang Luo Zhenshou to envoy Li Yaohan, and Gao Lei Zhenshou to send troops to cooperate, these two people are not loyal ministers and filial sons, they are both people who have milk at both ends of the first rat, Chang Zhenbang held a consultative meeting These two people were noncommittal at first, but secretly sent people to negotiate, when Chang Zhenbang promised not to seize power, not to disarm, a lot of military salaries, and not to move the chassis, Immediately sent a message to support the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Governor's Office led by Chang Zhenbang, and said that now that Lu Rongting is invading the east, they have the responsibility to defend the territory as the town guard, and they cannot get rid of it, but they promised to send a competent candidate of no less weight to participate in the consultation meeting. But now Lu Rongting's attack on Qinlian has greatly angered the people of the two places, and it is also a challenge to their rights, the two of them are unequivocal, willing to accompany Li Tingyu to send troops to Qinlian, and at the same time, the Long family brothers, who have a hatred of seizing the city with Chang Zhenbang, also issued a statement, telegraphing the whole country, denouncing Lu Rongting, and guaranteeing that Chang Zhenbang will not conflict with the other party during the period of sending troops to Guangxi.

Lu Rongting's 30,000 army besieged Qinlian City, Long Shichu looked at the Guangxi army below, his face couldn't help but be gloomy, no matter what the reason, he did not support Yuan Shikai to be the emperor, and even with Qinlian Dao Yin Zhu Weichao, the commander Feng Xiangrong secretly discussed against Yuan Huguo, and Li Liejun, Lu Rongting had more contact in private, who knew that he would bite the gold halfway, Chang Zhenbang's rebellion and protectorate was obviously more in line with the interests of Guangdong, I thought that he would be able to be safe with Lu Rongting, who knew that he would see the poor dagger, This Lu Rongting's wolf ambition is just to annex Liangguang under the banner of protecting the country, even if he can bear this kind of thing, even the people of Guangzhou can't bear it! Whether it is a revolution or an anti-Yuan project, there may be conservatives among the people, but in the face of the invasion of the Guangxi people, their thoughts are the same, they really have money to pay, food to pay, and have a strong contribution, in less than three days, here he Long Shichu's army has expanded nearly three times, from one division to three divisions, but in addition to the regular armed forces in his hands, one division is the guns of all countries, and the other division is the broadsword team.

Zhu Weichao said tiredly: "Lord Long, now the people of the whole city are relying on you, the Metropolitan Governor is calling, and General Li's men will arrive in a few days!" ”

Long Shichu sighed and said, "The people of Yue are innocent, innocent of this catastrophe!" ”

Zhu Weichao sighed and said: "The adults are not from the two Guangzhous, they don't understand the truth of this, the world is unified, Guangxi and Guangdong make trouble, the world is strife, Guangxi and Guangdong are making trouble, that is, China is destroyed, and the people in these two places will still make trouble, so they can only complain." ”

Long Shichu sighed and said, "How is Feng Xiangrong?" ”

Zhu Weichao said: "Commander Feng didn't go out of the house and handed over the military power to the deputy commander. Ben Daoyin also assigned all government affairs and was ready to study behind closed doors! Take care, Lady Taka. After speaking, Zhu Weichao reluctantly left, he was born and raised in Guangxi, and even the stakes in it, before Chang Zhenbang entered Guangzhou, no matter what the reason, he and Feng Xiangrong hoped that Long Shichu could protect the country with Lu Rongting, but who knows that people are not as good as heaven, Chang Zhenbang took the lead in Guangdong to shout the slogan of rebellion and protection of the country, since the people of Guangdong have already protected the country, then why follow the people of Guangxi? Now that Lu Rongting is raising troops to fight, it shows his wolf ambitions, and they who were the most active at the beginning have no choice but to be shrunken turtles, which can be regarded as a move to understand the times.

"Why bother?" Long Shichu sighed and patrolled the defenses amid the gunfire, calming the wounded

Under the city gate, the Guangxi army launched an attack again, the artillery fire rumbled, the ancient city wall was still standing in the holes, the Guangdong army on the city tower launched a fierce counterattack again, even if there was no modern armed broadsword team members unceremoniously used stones, it was the boiling water and other traditional Chinese city defense tactics and the Guangxi army with a deep hatred like the sea, the hatred between the two sides is natural like the blood flowing in the body, no one will choose to be merciful, because they know that once they fall into the hands of the other party, there will be no good end.

Lu Rongting looked at the tragic siege battle, his face was a little gloomy, and he said coldly: "When will you be able to take this city?" ”

Tan Haoming, the envoy of Longzhou Town, said: "Big brother, if we rely on our own people to forcibly attack the city, it will take seven or eight days for a long time, and three or four days for a short time. ”

"What? it, why is it so long! Lu Rongting said unhappily: "Feng Xiangrong's kid took so much money from us at the beginning, didn't he pat his chest and promise to persuade Long Shichu and Lao Tzu to get it?" Where are you hiding now, what are you going to eat? ”

Tao Haoming said: "Big brother, Feng Gongzi has avoided suspicion now, and now I'm afraid it's not good!" "Feng Xiangrong is the son of the French who killed three battles and three victories in the year, forcing the collapse of the Perjory cabinet, and the only general and veteran Feng Zicai who won a big victory in foreign countries.

Lu Rongting said: "Send someone to tell Feng Gongzi that he has to do things for Lao Tzu after receiving Lao Tzu's money, and his benefits are indispensable on the day the city is broken. ”

Tao Haoming said: "Big brother, this is not appropriate!" ”

Lu Rongting said: "The soldiers are very fast, take down Qin Lian, you can persuade Li Yaohan and coerce Wang Chunliang, is there a third of Guangdong, relying on the Guangxi brothers, we are afraid that we will not be able to clean up Chang Zhenbang and Long Jiguang?" If you stay here for too long, you will inevitably have a lot of dreams at night! ”

Lin Hu ran over and said, "Brother Lu, let me make Lin Hu the vanguard next time you attack the city!" ”

Lu Rongting glanced at him and said, "Brother Lin Hu is not in a hurry, you are a famous general in land warfare, and siege is not your strong point!" When you enter Guangzhou City, the eldest brother will definitely let you be the striker to avenge the revenge of the virtuous brother! ”

Lin Hu said fiercely: "This Chang Zhenbang and I have the hatred of seizing the city and insulting his wife, Lin Hu will definitely kill this in this life with his own hands to relieve the hatred in Lao Tzu's heart!" ”

Not far away, Lin Junting couldn't help but ask Tao Haoming: "Why does this Lin Hu have such a big hatred with Chang Zhenbang?" ”

Tao Haoming said: "When Chang Zhenbang became famous in Shahe Town, he stepped on Lin Hu to go up, this Lin Hu was afraid of death and found a stand-in from his cronies and ran away, his brother Lin Bao surrendered, Chang Zhenbang sent Lin Hu's wife and young daughter over, and entrusted his brother Lin Bao to take care of it, but I heard that Lin Bao and his wife and daughter both committed adultery later, and they were accepted as two rooms and three rooms. ”

After hearing this, Lin Junting spit out and said in disgust: "This Chang Zhenbang can also be regarded as a person who will be righteous, Lin Hu's wife does not commit suicide and is clean but hooks up with his brother to commit adultery, it is okay for him to discipline him, what is the matter with Chang Zhenbang, he is greedy for life and afraid of death, and he still has the face to say others?" I really don't know how the face looks like this, I just can't afford to lose! Lao Tzu looks down on it! ”

"Enough of you! General Lin showed up for the revolution, and he abandoned his family and business in a sincere situation, and you people are not fucking here. Lu Rongting sat down and the general Ma Ji scolded: "Don't you know that after Brother Lu enters Guangdong, he will have to rely on the power of the revolutionary party?" ”

Lin Junting said with some unconvincing after hearing this: "Boy, these revolutionary parties are all masters who shout slogans by themselves and let others rush to kill the front. But as soon as others run away, they turn their backs on the revolution, which is really shameless, and Lao Tzu hates this kind of person the most in his life. Then he turned around and went to his camp.

After a short rest, Lu Rongting issued a statement on the day of breaking the city, disbanding military discipline for three days, and the Guangxi army, which had attacked a little unsmoothly many times, once again heroically launched a fierce attack, Long Shichu was naturally not an idle person, relying on the strength of the people in the city, the city walls that were broken by artillery bombardment were thickened one by one, and the gunpowder on the city, huge stones, and boiling dirty water were also prepared one by one, after a short rest, the soldiers and civilians defending the city once again broke out the enthusiasm of defending the country and the Guangxi soldiers who crawled over like ants beat them back, This time, the Guangxi soldiers left hundreds of corpses and retreated in ashes, and the angry Lu Rongting killed two officers in a row.

The war just now, the entire Qinlian City can be heard, but Feng Xiangrong hugged left and right with a worry-free attitude, he is the son of the veteran Feng Zicai, because of his father's outstanding achievements, his identity is inevitably a little detached, whether it is Guangxi or Guangdong, he is his own, so he doesn't care when the city breaks.

"Feng Gongzi is so happy!" A cold voice came from under the bedroom, so frightened that Feng Xiangrong fell off the bed with a bang, the woman screamed in the quilt, when Feng Xiangrong was born and asked for help, a black shadow pounced from under the bed, covered his mouth, and at the same time a cold dagger stuck in his neck, and said: "Feng Gongzi, don't talk nonsense, brother, I am Lu Rongting Lu Dashuai's person, I have something to say to Gongzi Haosheng today." ”

When Feng Xiangrong heard that it was Lu Rongting's person, his face suddenly relaxed, and he said, "Who should I be, it turned out to be him!" What do you have to say, why bother? ”

The man said: "Now in order to save the people of Guangdong from fire and water, Lu Dashuai raised troops to crusade against the shameless warlord Chang Zhenbang, but unfortunately he was blocked by this small Qinlian City, I hope that Feng Gongzi will help and open the gate of Qinlian for Dashuai, and there will be heavy thanks after the deed!" ”

As soon as Feng Xiangrong heard this, his relaxed face once again appeared angry, and said: "Although I, Feng Xiangrong, am not a thing to eat, drink and have fun, I also know that I am a Cantonese person, if you kill me Feng Xiangrong, Lao Tzu will not do such a thing!" ”

The man said angrily: "Isn't Childe afraid that Lu Dashuai will shake out the matter of your refuge?" ”

Feng Xiangrong said: "This time and that time! Fight for your country then, fight for your home at this time! ”

"Then Lao Tzu will kill you!" The man was furious and swung a knife at Feng Xiangrong's neck, at this moment the woman on the bed didn't know what was going on, she suddenly stood up, first threw a pillow, the man heard the wind behind him, he didn't care about killing Feng Xiangrong, his body was crooked and he dodged over, and then the woman didn't care about putting on clothes, pulled out the hairpin on her head and resigned to the man, the man flew up and kicked the woman, and at the same time stabbed her heart, who knew that the woman didn't dodge, maybe she couldn't dodge, but reached out and held the man's wrist tightly, The man couldn't get out of his hands for a while, Feng Xiangrong had already taken the gun in his hand, fired several shots in a row, and killed the man, the woman glanced at Feng Xiangrong and said, "Childe...... You are the ...... Guang" Before he finished speaking, Feng Xiangrong couldn't help but shed a few tears, and the guards outside the door, Ma Ben, rushed in after hearing the gunshots, but saw Commander Feng muttering to himself holding a dead naked woman.

"Your Excellency, you're alright!" The leader of Ma Ben couldn't help but ask.

Feng Xiangrong turned around and glanced at him coldly, and said: "Tell Lord Long that there are spy assassins in Qinlian City, let him stay, and at the same time tell the deputy commander and the brothers, just say that Lao Tzu has no chance to occupy the city in person, so please ask them to kill the Guangxi dog for me!" Just like when I killed foreign devils with my father, the enemy who committed the crime in the future killed him cleanly. ”

After everyone went out, Feng Xiangrong found a housekeeper again, and asked him to arrange the woman's funeral, then changed into civilian clothes and went to Zhu Weichao's house, after the two discussed for a long time, they also argued for a long time, and finally Zhu Weichao couldn't help sighing, and reluctantly agreed, and that night a figure came out of Qinlian City at night and went straight to Lu Rongting's camp.

Lu Rongting glanced at this figure and said, "Master Zhu is one of Lao Tzu's cronies, and Lao Tzu naturally won't treat him badly." After the deed was completed, Master Zhu was crowned the deputy envoy of the Guangdong Patrol, and Feng Gongzi was the envoy of Qinlian Town and the commander of the Fifth Division of Guangxi! ”

The man smiled bitterly and said: "Dashuai, it's easy for Master Zhu to say it, but Feng Gongzi said that he wants Dashuai to give him 200,000 taels of ocean before he is willing to cooperate, as for the official position, he doesn't dare to ask for it, he just wants to live the rest of his life in peace." ”

Lu Rongting laughed and said: "This slippery head is not stupid, but who made him the son of Feng Dashuai, how can he live in seclusion like this?" Tell him that the money is given to him, he can not want it, and the official gives it to him, he can't do it! ”

The next day, the Guangxi army charged several times, but they were all repelled by Long Shichu, but the casualties were not large, Long Shichu was also a battle-hardened battle, instinctively sensed that something was wrong, and then a soldier sent a note, after he read it, his face did not change, secretly stuffed into his mouth, and at the same time announced like the army, Counselor Li had crossed Maoming with two divisions of troops, and arrived at Qinlian two or three days later, and the soldiers and civilians in the city cheered.

That night, it turned out that someone was constantly turning in circles with torches on the city gate under the jurisdiction of the army under the command of Feng Xiangrong, Lu Rongting was overjoyed when he saw it, and immediately let Lin Junting lead the troops to rush over, and before they arrived, the other party's city gate was opened with a squeak. Lin Junting was overjoyed, and hurriedly asked his subordinates to move forward quickly, making sure to get the first credit for entering the city.

At the same time, Lin Hu took the elite of a regiment carefully selected from Lu Rongting's army to sneak into the secret passage leading to the outside of the city from Zhu Weichao's house, this secret passage is very narrow, if Zhu Weichao's family escapes out of the city, it is absolutely enough, but it is inevitably a little cramped for the army's sneak attack, Lin Hu's soldiers are all tall men selected from a thousand, more than one meter seventy-five in size, plus the guns and ammunition on their bodies, Lin Hu's soldiers can only move forward one by one, but fortunately they set off early, There is time for them to move forward little by little, so as not to miss the appointed time.

Lu Rongting sat in the camp, waiting for the city to start when the fire was soaring, just when he was secretly proud, he suddenly trembled in fear for no reason, he frowned unconsciously, looking at Lin Junting's department who entered the city, he vaguely had a feeling of a beast stepping into a trap!

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