The moon shadow of the Wuhu camp is slanting westward, and the soldiers have been exhausted by a day's training, and they are sleeping sweetly at the moment. Two searchlights flickered, and a pillar of light the size of a water tank was projected from the tall watchtower around the camp. The sentry on duty carried a heavy Mauser gun on his back, and stood with a knife and axe. Two bright red iron-blooded eighteen-star flags fluttered in the wind on a moonlit night.

In the large conference room, the electric lights are lit as if it were daytime. Lu Kai, Gao Ming, and all the officers above the platoon commander level were holding a meeting in front of a huge sand table. Today, not only the officers of the 1st Brigade and the 2nd Regiment, but also the chief of the Wuhu Police Station and the chief and deputy captains of the gendarmerie are all here.

"Starting early tomorrow morning, the soldiers will be given enough ammunition to their hands, and they will not be allowed to ask for leave for any reason, understand?" Lu Kai roared.

"Understood!"

"If you understand, go back and prepare, and tell the soldiers that a major military exercise is going to be held."

Gao Ming was biting his ear with the police chief: "Spill the secret agent, loosen the outside and keep the inside quiet, the families of the officials of the former Qing Dynasty must be secretly monitored, not only in the city, but also in the countryside." ”

The police chief nodded and said, "The lowly position must be strictly investigated, and a suspicious person will not be spared." ”

Gao Ming frowned and said: "Remember, it is more important than anything else to pacify the ground and maintain law and order, as long as we don't mess up, no one can afford to rise up to the wind and waves, and we can't lose the hearts of the people at any time!" If there is a mistake in this, the governor will come back to take off your black hat. ”

The police chief nodded repeatedly.

Lu Kai has always been a lazy and scoundrel, but his expression at this moment was extremely solemn, and Chai Dongliang sent an urgent code telegram, asking the Wuhu battalion to be on alert at the first level, ready for battle and ready to be on call at any time. Gao Ming and Lu Kai couldn't figure out what was going on, but judging from the recent situation, they felt that something was going to happen.

In addition to dispatching special telegraph operators to be on duty at night and guarding the telegraph room to keep in touch with Chai Dongliang in Nanjing and He Tianshou in the Anqing battalion, they also sent additional manpower to prepare for battle.

Wuhu is loose on the outside and tight on the inside, there is nothing to see on the surface, the common people are still living according to the habits of the past, but there are more beggars on the street who look nervous and vigilant, and there are more merchants in the countryside who carry the burden and sell needles and threads. These people are not interested in begging for money and selling goods, but often chatting with old men who are standing under the wall basking in the sun, asking if there are any strangers who have come recently.

Unlike Wuhu, Anqing blew up the nest, and after He Tianshou received the telegram, he sounded the siren of the camp in the middle of the night. The sleepy soldiers were suddenly awakened, and hurriedly dressed up and carrying guns and horses to the school yard.

Lao He copied a foreign knife in his hand, and said with a hideous face: "I received a telegram from the governor today, I don't know which of the eight lambs who are not long-eyed, and the idea of beating us in Anhui, brothers, do you think we can make them happy?" ”

The soldiers roared in unison: "Can't! ”

He Tianshou shouted: "Whose food are you eating?" ”

The soldiers shouted in unison: "Chaidudu's meal." ”

He Tianshou raised his knife and shouted: "Whose clothes are you wearing?" ”

The soldier shouted again: "Chaitdudu's clothes! ”

He Tianshou shouted again: "After eating the governor's meal and wearing the governor's clothes, who will you give your life to in the future?" ”

The soldiers shouted in unison: "I am willing to die for the governor of Chai Dudu!" ”

He Tianshou smiled with satisfaction: "That's right, Lao Tzu hasn't trained you in vain during this time, and the gratitude is good." I'm not afraid of the jokes of the brothers, our Lao He has a problem with gambling, he lost the house at the beginning, and put his sister-in-law on the gambling table, and almost ruined the family! ”

The originally solemn scene suddenly became chaotic, and the soldiers leaned back and fell in laughter.

He Tianshou couldn't laugh, he said with a calm face: "It was our governor who helped me get back the capital, and also disposed of a few bastards who set up a situation to harm me, from that day on, Lao He's life was sold to the governor!" Let's talk about you, since the day you became a soldier, who has not been deducted from military salaries, and who has not been bullied by commanders and veterans? Since the governor came, he paid you with his own hands, and covered the quilt for you in the middle of the night, such a commander who loves soldiers like children, I have been a soldier for 20 years, and I haven't seen it fucking before! The governor is good to us, we know how to be grateful, which king and eight lambs want to rebel, they have to step on Lao He's corpse first! Which bastard wants to rebel in the nest, eat Lao Tzu's 300 guns first! ”

The soldiers remembered the changes in the past few months, there was more meat in the food, more fine grain, the squad leader personally washed the feet of the recruits, the officers covered the quilts for themselves at night, and the salaries and silver were distributed to their hands a lot of money, and the hearts of the soldiers were condensed bit by bit.

In just three months, the soldiers of the First Brigade of the Anhui Revolutionary Army have long regarded Chai Dongliang as their father and brother, and now they hear that some people want to calculate him, and they all hate him, but a few soldiers with active brains realized that He Tianshou said for a long time, and he didn't even say who the enemy was, and he didn't know who to sprinkle his anger on!

He Tianshou saw that the soldier's anger had been arched, so he said with satisfaction: "Starting tomorrow, half of our two battalions in Anqing will go to the streets, and anyone who looks like a thief and a thief is not like a good person, will be arrested by Lao Tzu, and the whole city will be carefully checked, and the search will be carried out from house to house according to the household registration book, and no villain will be spared." There are additional sentry posts at the city gate, and people entering and leaving Anqing must search carefully, and they would rather catch mistakes than let them go, understand? ”

The soldier yelled: "Understood! ”

As soon as the morning dawned, a battalion of soldiers rushed out of the camp gate like wolves. The common people were surprised to find that these big-headed soldiers who had nothing to do to help the shops worked, they seemed to be a different person, with a black face accompanied by the local security guard, who searched door to door, and saw that there were foreigners on the street.

Passers-by look at these plague gods, even the most peaceful good people and lay people who eat fasting and chant Buddha, they will suddenly rise with fear, and their behavior is naturally a little abnormal, and these actions feel suspicious in the eyes of the soldiers, and they often take it down without saying a word, and send it to the camp after the rope is tied up.

The people of Anqing are uneasy, and they always feel that there is a feeling of great disaster coming, and they are puzzled one by one, this good day has only been a few days, and it is about to end? Anqing City is full of rumors, there is everything, everyone is looking forward to Chai Dudu coming back quickly, when he is there, the city of Anqing is peaceful, and the world will be in chaos as soon as he leaves.

If Chai Dudu doesn't come back, these soldiers are like hornets without kings, and I don't know what kind of mess will happen!

Dividing line

Chai Dongliang sat in the office on the second floor of Guanghua Bank in a daze, he really couldn't figure out who supported He Zudao and Zhang Guangcheng and made them dare to move their own people. Jiangxi's Li Liejun? It's impossible, he is a hardcore alliance, and he will definitely not make trouble at the juncture when the special envoy goes to Yanjing and urges Yuan Shikai to come to Nanjing to take office. Isn't this giving authority? If the Anhui Revolutionary Army and the Jiangxi People's Army had fought in Nanjing, wouldn't it have given Yuan Shikai an excuse to refuse to come to Nanjing? Besides, although the Jiangxi People's Army has a large number, its combat effectiveness is really not very good, and if the Party and the People's Army can defeat the new army, Sun Wen and Huang Xing would have led 400,000 troops to kill the Yangtze River and unify China by force.

Chai Dongliang is confident enough that his Anhui First Brigade has 4,000 people, and it will not be a problem to eliminate 10,000 or 20,000 people's troops. Not to mention his own Yangtze River sailors, he can threaten Jiujiang and Nanchang at any time. Li Liejun is not a fool, and he will not do such a thing as a relative, a hater, and a hater.

Chai Dongliang thought about it, and he didn't feel that he had a deep hatred with anyone.

The forensic examination report and Chai Dongliang's investigation records were sent over, and the court of the War Department was brought to life, and the detained Anhui Revolutionary Army and Jiangxi military and civilians were all released. Anyway, after so many days of trial, there is no result of the review, and there are casualties on both sides, so the law is not responsible, Li Liejun complained a little, and ran to the army chief's office to shoot the table with Huang Xing for a long time. Huang Xing pushed him back with a word, your thousands of Jiangxi People's Army beat more than 100 people in the Anhui Revolutionary Army, and you still suffered a loss when you beat one out of ten, do you still have the face to say this kind of thing? Instead, Lao Tzu plunged into the dung pit and drowned!

But the Liangzi of the Jiangxi People's Army and the Anhui Revolutionary Army are married, and they always look at each other angrily when they meet them on the street.

Chai Dongliang originally planned to send a regiment of soldiers back to Anhui, but Huang Xing saw that it was cheap, since they came, the public order in Nanjing has indeed been much better, the number of chaotic soldiers disturbing the streets has been greatly reduced, and the people who have blocked the gate of the presidential palace with their families and their families, and the common people who kneel on the ground with a paper to sue the emperor are almost extinct. Huang Xing personally approached Chai Dongliang, hoping that he could keep the group for a while, and wait until the special delegation headed by Cai Yuanpei took Yuan Shikai to Nanjing to take office as president, and then it was not too late to withdraw to Anhui.

Chai Dongliang didn't refute his face, and reluctantly agreed, Huang Xingxi rubbed Chai Dongliang with a wine and dinner, and then went back with a full burp and satisfaction, and when he left, he specially instructed Chai Dongliang that when he came again next time, he didn't need to send the tea, and he would make a few more jars of good wine.

Chai Dongliang was a little strange, he just gave him ten jars of old wine, and he drank it all in only three or two days? After Huang Xing heard this, he scolded the staff in the temporary political axe, these people actually took advantage of him to go out, honestly and unceremoniously divided the unopened jars of good wine, and they didn't even let go of the remaining half of the jar, poured out the wine inside, replaced it with cold water and mixed it in.

Chai Dongliang was amused when he heard it, where is this temporary political axe, it is clearly Shuibo Liangshan! The good thing about this kind of thing is that Huang Xing is approachable, and everyone likes him, so he dares to beat his autumn wind. The ugly thing to say is that the temporary political axe is a grass platform team at all, and there are no rules at all!

After such a group of people with such strong habits have saved up political axes, after they really rule the whole of China, I am afraid it may not necessarily be a blessing for the people.

When Chai Dongliang was biting his pen and dazed, Kuang Haishan ran upstairs angrily, and when he saw Chai Dongliang, he didn't salute, and slapped a "declaration" with the fragrance of fresh ink on the table with a "pop".

"Dudu, is there any royal law here? What a bastard! "Kuang Haishan's green tendons on his neck are bursting up!

(To be continued)