After Lin Junting's department entered the city gate safely, there was no accident, Lu Rongting couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, with a cross on his hand, but begging for the protection of the Buddha and Bodhisattva in his mouth, the sin of slaughtering the city did not know if it could be offset by his merit of reshaping the golden body, and after he finished praying, he immediately threw heavy troops behind the palace in person, and when his troops just entered two-thirds of the city gate, two stone walls fell on both sides of the city gate and blocked the two ends of the entire city gate hole tightly. Then what boiling water, stones, and gunpowder on the city wall were thrown down, and the Guangxi army suddenly became a mess. The Guangxi army that has not yet entered the city under the leadership of Lu Rongting quickly rushed out of the scope of bullets on the city wall, but the Guangxi army that entered the city was not so good, and the broadsword team that had already eaten and drunk well and rested heard the sound of the boulder falling, and rushed out like a flood, according to the body of these Guangxi soldiers, it was a burst of indiscriminate slashing, although Ma Ji and others also successfully organized several counteroffensives, but the army was in turmoil, and there was a big knife in front of them, and there were bullets and boulders flying over their heads, and the Guangxi soldiers were in chaos, The number of cannibalists is even more innumerable, especially in order to compete for the opportunity to get out of the city through the huge stone gap in the city gate, these people are just fighting everything, dense crowds, no need to aim, a stone can be exchanged for four or five people screaming. Fortunately, Long Shichu himself was not a Cantonese, and he did not have much malice towards these Guangxi people, and after killing them for about half an hour, he finally allowed these Guangxi people to surrender, and there were three or four thousand prisoners after the count.

This is the lower city of the palace army, the first to hope to raid the town guard to make the yamen successful, Lin Junting's department just rushed to the front of the town guard yamen, then saw a burst of fire above the town guard envoy yamen, and then a gunsmith of all countries rushed head-on from the houses on both sides of the countless big knife teams, taking advantage of the night to cover up, Lin Junting's department was defeated and retreated, with heavy casualties! In the end, he had no choice but to surrender.

But what happened to these people is not the worst, the most miserable is Lin Hujun, when these carefully selected big men came out of the tunnel in embarrassment, they found that the room was in a circle, the masked man holding a big knife, according to their heads, it was really out of one to slash one, out of two to kill two, even if these people noticed that something was wrong, they couldn't turn around and run away, the people behind would push you forward, and these people above were tired of killing, The people below also reacted to the hand that wanted to retreat, gasoline and kerosene or something scattered in the tunnel, and then a small match triggered a human BBQ event, listening to the screams of the Guangxi people below, the Guangzhou people above couldn't help but laugh, it's not that they are cruel by nature, but it should be so, when the other party shouted the slogan of slaughtering the city for three or four days, have you ever thought about the innocent people in the city? Of course, how could Lin Hu die here? He had the fearless spirit of the revolutionaries who endured humiliation and stealing their lives alone in order to preserve the flame of revolution, and after shooting and killing several Guangxi soldiers who tried to escape in vain, he carried out a strategic shift and retreated to Lu Rongting's camp.

Lu Rongting had just returned to the camp, and before his anger had subsided, he got the news that he saw a large army rushing towards him. It was Li Tingyu's Beiyang Sixth Division, Lu Rongting was shocked, and hurriedly gathered his remnants of the defeated generals, after counting, there are now less than 10,000 of the 30,000 horses left, knowing that at this time they will definitely not be able to defeat the Beiyang Sixth Division, leaving a 3,000-strong brigade behind the palace, how can this 3,000-man soldier who has no fighting heart be Li Tingyu's opponent, a charge over, without even fighting, it was torn apart.

Lu Rongting, who returned from defeat, withdrew to Nanning with the rest of the men, and was safe along the way, and when he arrived at the city of Nanning, he found that the city was closed.

Tao Haoming took the lead in coming to the city and shouted: "Hurry up and open the door, Lu Dashuai will be in the city." ”

In the past, if he shouted like this, within half a minute, the city gate opened, the city gate official knelt on the ground and begged for an explanation, who knew that today he shouted under the city almost his voice was hoarse, and the city gate only lazily stood up a man who looked loyal with his head and big ears, this person Tao Haoming is not a stranger, it is Lu Rongting's general, Shen Hongying, the commander of the Gui Army, I saw him stretch a lazy waist, and said: "Who should I be so noisy?" It turned out to be Lu Rongting, a thief! ”

"Bold! How can you, a thief and a thief, say such a rebellious thing! Tao Haoming said angrily.

Shen Hongying sneered and said: "You shouldn't say such a thing as a great rebellion, you betrayed Emperor Yuan, and you still have the face to say that others are rebellious!" It's really a joke in the world! Okay, I think Lu Rongting didn't want to fight with you for the sake of treating Lao Tzu well in the past, so get out of here, lest Lao Tzu come up and bombard you, and then don't blame Lao Tzu for not being emotional. ”

Lu Rongting was furious, and immediately ordered the siege of the city, Shen Hongying unequivocally immediately fired artillery to counterattack, Lu Rongting's long-defeated army, as soon as the artillery fire rang out, it was torn apart.

On the city tower, there is another man who looks like a white-faced scholar next to Shen Hongying, and this man is really like a figure in a painting. The sword eyebrows and starry eyes are really indescribable appreciation, Lu Rongting thought to himself that if Lao Tzu grew up with this virtue, he could trick many women into sleeping in one day, and it would be a lot of money to sell it backhanded.

"Lu Dashuai has admired his name for a long time, and his later generation Tang Baichuan is polite, I would like to advise Dashuai not to bother with anything in Nanchang, hurry up and take a look elsewhere, after Longji Guanglong patrols and recovers Guangxi, Dashuai is of little use to Cai Yi, Li Liejun or Sun Monkey, let's find a place to settle down, don't become cannon fodder for Li Liejun and others, let alone be Huang Xing's second, think about those revolutionaries, except for the descendants of the Sun family, who still remembers them?"

Lu Rongting was taken aback, looked back and said, "This person is Tang Baichuan, he is really young!" ”

Tao Haoming said: "Now that Nanning has been lost, I hope that the adults will go to Liuzhou as soon as possible!" ”

Lu Rongting nodded, and immediately arched his hand to Tang Baichuan on the city tower, and said, "Thank you Chief of Staff Tang for reminding him, he will be destined for a day, and Lu will definitely treat him as a guest." After speaking, he took the rest of the soldiers and horses and drove to Liuzhou.

Shen Hongying said puzzledly: "Lord Tang took advantage of the victory to pursue and kill Lu Rongting, Liangguang is at your fingertips!" ”

Tang Baichuan shook his head and said: "General Shen, just now I have notified the telecommunications office and sent a telegram that the Protector Army will not fight the Protector Army, and I also know that if Lu Rongting is killed, Guangxi can be determined, but if you don't kill him, I naturally have my reasons, now you are the Nanning town guard envoy of the Metropolitan Governor, as long as you guard Nanning for the Metropolitan Governor, it will be better." Leave the rest alone. ”

Lu Rongting ran day and night, hurried overnight, and finally arrived at the city of Guilin, fortunately, Chen Bingkun was not as unreliable as Shen Hongying, and was still loyal to Lu Rongting, and went out of the city to welcome Lu Rongting into the city of Guilin, and after a short rest, he put all kinds of information and a stack of telegrams in front of Lu Rongting.

Lu Rongting looked at the telegrams one by one, and his face became extremely bad, but it also made him clear about his current situation.

When Lu Rongting set out to besiege Qinlian, Li Liejun did not stop it, under the banner of discussing the relationship with the rebel army in Guangzhou, he quietly sent troops to Baise, and when he learned the news of Lu Rongting's defeat, he immediately attacked and expelled the Gui army descendants of Baise and others.

This is the internal situation in Guangxi, as for the national war situation, Lu Rongting didn't even look at it and threw it aside, these things may have been very instructive before, but now everything has changed, what he is most concerned about is how to return to the position of dominating Guangxi, and the ones who can have an impact on this are Tang Shaoyi in Yunnan and Chang Zhenbang in Guangdong.

Yunnan's telegram was as high-profile as it was, calling on the people of the whole country to overthrow the tyranny of Emperor Hongxian, and instead of saying a word about the affairs of Guangxi, it hyped up that under the strong inspiration of the Yunnan Protector Army, the military and people of Jiangxi and Guangdong enthusiastically joined the ranks of defending the country and fighting Yuan, and put forward the idea of establishing a military affairs institute in Zhaoqing, Guangdong. It's a pity that this proposal did not get a response from Chang Zhenbang.

"These damn brutes, you know that you are selling opium in a vain attempt to divide the territory, Lao Tzu was really blind to rebel with you!" Lu Rongting crumpled the telegraph regiment in Yunnan in his hands and tore it into powder, but he was full of resentment, he did not dare to turn against him and return to the arms of Emperor Hongxian, it was not that Emperor Yuan did not take him in, the emperor welcomed it very much, but Guilin and Liuzhou were almost all warlords and warlords who were fighting for power and profit in the name of the Protector Army, and he did not dare to fall into the mouth of the tiger.

After scolding those people in Yunnan, Lu Rongting picked up those telegrams in Guangdong from the ground, Chang Zhenbang's idea was very simple, calling on all provinces not to get involved in the battle between the Protector Army and Emperor Hongxian, especially the proposal of the three principles of Guangdong and Jiangxi was even more said in Lu Rongting's heart, this telegram was actually read before the conquest of Qinlian, but he didn't feel it as much as now.

"It's hateful, I didn't make arrangements earlier, so that the soldiers met each other!" Lu Rongting sighed and continued to flip through the message. In addition to advocating the three principles of Guangdong and Jiangxi to the whole country, the governor of Guangdong issued a statement against Guangxi's current situation, only blaming Lu Rongting for violating the principle of 'protecting the army and not fighting the army', and issued a so-called tolerant policy, in fact, it is also said that Lu Rongting was not kind and beat Lao Tzu's Qinlian, but Lao Tzu was kind-hearted and did not care, and did not want to take the opportunity to occupy Guangxi's territory, but only hoped that Guangxi could have a unified local government, and did not want warlords to fight and trap the people in fire and water.

"Fuck, what the hell is so nice, what about Lao Tzu's Nanning?" Lu Rongting scolded: "If there is no Chang Zhenbang's harmony, Lao Tzu will just lose a hundred colors." ”

There is also a telegram sent from Zhanjiang, which is a telegram sent by Long Jiguang to close the belly and the lost territory of the two Guangzhous, which are all some loyal and patriotic nonsense, but it is a fact that he sent troops from Guangdong to attack the Longzhou town and guard the area. Lu Rongting didn't look at it for a few moments, tore the telegram into casual, threw it on the ground fiercely, stepped on it a few more times and said: "What kind of thing are you Long Jiguang, he Chang Zhenbang took you Guangzhou and extinguished your prestige, why don't you go to him if you want to recover the lost land, dare to provoke Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu is so easy to provoke?" ”

However, scolding and scolding, Lu Rongting is still a little puzzled, the hatred between the Long family and Chang Zhenbang is afraid that it is not under him, the thread in Long Jiguang's head is not right, it makes him willing to let go of such a big hatred to make trouble for himself, although he is not kind, and he secretly calculated Long Jinguang, but he is also a relative of the Long family, and now the general trend is that it is better to cheapen others than to cheapen himself. In fact, he didn't think about it, Chang Zhenbang only took Long Jiguang's Guangzhou, Huizhou, and Shaoguan three regions, at best, it was only one-third of Guangdong, but what you Lu Rongting took was the whole of Guangxi, and even annexed one of Long Jiguang's divisions, and this feud was bigger.

"What's going on!" Lu Rongting glanced back at Chen Bingkun, and said again: "What's going on?" When did the Long brothers get together with Chang Zhenbang. ”

Chen Bingkun smiled bitterly and handed over an official document, and said: "On the day that the adults besieged Qinlian, Chang Zhenbang sent the general Li Tingyu to help Qinlian on the one hand, and sent Tang Baichuan to lobby Long Jiguang on the other hand, and sent the captured Jijun army with 3,000 people fully armed and sent it to Long Jiguang, and paid him 200,000 yuan to recover the lost land in Guangxi, and in return, Long Yuguang and Ma Cunfa gave up Chaomei and other places. ”

"He Long Jiguang is stupid, without Chaomei and other places, how can he compete with Chang Zhenbang for Guangdong?" Lu Rongting couldn't help but say mockingly.

Chen Bingkun said: "Boss, you are wrong to think so, now Chang Zhenbang is arrogant, under the banner of rebelling and protecting the country, and has an ace army like the Beiyang Sixth Division in his hands, and Jiangxi is his base camp behind him. It's really better to let Chang Zhenbang support a heavily armed army to grab the chassis of Jiangxi with us, after all, he has the qualifications to seize Guangdong again, if not, does our army really dare to cross the line to fight Zhanjiang? ”

"! Chang Zhenbang is really calculating! Lu Rongting roared unwillingly: "Didn't he not annex Guangxi?" What's going on with this Long Jiguang? And Shen Hongying from Nanning, doesn't he plan to explain it to the world? What's going on with that white-eyed wolf who can't be fed! ”

Chen Bingkun said: "Chang Zhenbang sent people to buy him with 200,000 oceans and the position of a Nanning town guard. As long as he guards Nanning, as for Shen Hongying to occupy other places, Chang Zhenbang has no right to call the shots, so the Long family brothers have been relatively close to him recently, and they have the intention of joining forces to fight against the boss! ”

Lu Rongting couldn't help but laugh and said: "These wastes together are not as good as one of Lao Tzu's thighs, see that Lao Tzu is relieved and doesn't clean him up!" ”

Chen Bingkun said: "The two of them are not a problem, but Liu Xianshi in Guizhou and Li Liejun in Yunnan are eyeing the boss, be careful that these two dogs who eat people and don't spit out bones will knife you in the back!" ”

Lu Rongting couldn't help nodding with a gloomy face, and said: "What you said is very reasonable, this new school of people is ruthless, they are all people who take tea and cool temperament, but it is Long Jiguang These old-fashioned people have principles, even if Lao Tzu loses, he can stay alive and go to Beijing to retire." In this way, you let a trustworthy person go to Long Jiguang's side, and say that Lao Tzu is willing to give him the places south of Nanning, including Nanning, and rule Guangxi with him. ”

Chen Bingkun said: "The boss has a good idea, only Nanning in the southeast of our Guangxi is a good place to raise soldiers, but in the hands of Chang Zhenbang, Long Jiguang has to turn his face with Chang Zhenbang if he wants to occupy Nanning, the boss only needs to recuperate, and he can naturally make a profit, don't say Guangxi, even Guangdong may fall into the hands of the big brother, this trick is really wonderful!" ”

A smile finally appeared on Lu Rongting's gloomy face and said: "Eat a trench and grow wise, now we have suffered a big loss from the Cantonese Yankees, and sooner or later we will have to come back with interest one day." ”

"Telegram! 100,000 urgent! ”

There was a sound of the telecommunications officer breaking through the door, as if something terrible had happened, Lu Rongting's face was gloomy again, and after the telecommunications officer came in and saluted, he sent a telegram to Lu Rongting's face.

After Lu Rongting saw it, he couldn't come back to his senses for a long time, and muttered in disbelief: "This is going to change the sky, change the sky, hateful, hateful, hateful!" ”

Chen Bingkun opened it and looked at it, he was taken aback, and he couldn't believe his eyes, and said: "Boss, this Feng Guozhang was selected by the emperor from among many soldiers, and he especially promoted him to have a prominent position in the military world today, and he personally renewed the strings, and the favor was even more than that of the princes, how could he get rid of this kind of thing!" It's really morally degenerate, and people's hearts are not ancient! ”

The telegram fell to the ground from his hand, and it was written that Feng Guozhang, the overseer of Jiangsu, Li Chun, the overseer of Jiangxi, Zhu Rui, the overseer of Zhejiang, Jin Yunpeng, the overseer of Shandong, Tang Qianming, the overseer of Hunan, and Chang Zhenbang, the governor of Yue and Jiangxi, jointly issued a telegram asking Yuan Shikai to abolish the imperial system and punish the culprits.

This kind of impact was obviously not as big as Lu Rongting for Chen Bingkun, so he quickly reacted, grabbed Lu Rongting's hand and said: "Big brother, now is not the time for you to sigh, please take the lead in issuing a telegram as the overseer of Guangxi, agree with Chang Zhenbang's three principles of Guangdong and Jiangxi, appreciate and support his proposition that the Protector Army will not fight the Protector Army, and at the same time call on the national overseers to force the palace to the emperor and ask him to abdicate." ”

Lu Rongting frowned and said, "This is not good, I am a national protector." ”

Chen Bingkun said: The emperor has abdicated, and this protector army has nothing to do, so let's stand with the big guy! ”

"Yes, as you wish!"

The first book of the Book King novel