The eyes of the masses are bright, no matter which camp the masses are. Wang Ziming was originally the person Yuan Shikai placed next to Feng Guozhang. After the assassination of Zhu Rui, the governor of Zhejiang, Feng Guozhang simply arranged Wang Ziming to the position of governor of Zhejiang. Wang Ziming was quite greedy for power, and even though he knew that this was inappropriate, he still took office. After learning that the People's Party had easily broken through the defense line laid by the Beiyang Army in western Zhejiang, he immediately chose to flee. As a former governor, Wang Ziming is also very smart, he did not choose to abandon the city and flee directly in a stupid manner. Wang Ziming first arranged for his subordinates to strengthen the defense, and he also pretended to patrol the various cities, and even punished several teams of subordinates who had made loopholes in their defenses because of panic.

After doing enough to defend the city of Hangzhou, Wang Ziming took his subordinates out of the city to inspect. I didn't bring my wife and children, and I didn't have big boxes and small boxes of things. Wang Ziming's personal soldiers only brought a few small packages. After inspecting the defenses outside the city, Wang Ziming returned to the city again to arrange several military affairs. He disappeared after showing his face several times in front of people.

Wang Ziming knew very well that if he didn't do this and ran away directly, the result would be that the entire Beiyang Army in Hangzhou City would collapse immediately. Collapse is a matter of time, and the People's Party, which can annihilate more than 100,000 Japanese troops, can easily crush the defenders of Hangzhou. In this case, from the perspective of Wang Ziming's interests, Zhejiang, which is full of defeated troops, is even more dangerous. Rather than this, it is better to make the Beiyang Army defending Hangzhou the target of the People's Party, and Wang Ziming seized this opportunity to withdraw to Shanghai first.

Such a resolute decision did buy Wang Ziming time, and the Beiyang Army, which was kept in the dark, did last less than twenty-four hours. But after not finding Wang Ziming many times, the Beiyang Army also understood. The Beiyang Army in the east of the city was the first to choose to flee for their lives. The Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army opposite these routs received an order to "let go of none of them."

The rout is more terrible than banditry, and this has been proven countless times in history, and the BJP has also encountered it. After the release of the captured Beiyang Third Town, these Beiyang troops, who had no weapons in their hands, also turned into routs after the march, plundering the people on the Xuzhou side along the way. The purpose of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army's march into Zhejiang was to eliminate the counter-revolution in Zhejiang, not to let the flames of war poison Zhejiang. What's more, these Beiyang troops have taken up too much blood of the masses in western Zhejiang.

"Shoot!" The commanders and fighters at the front were given orders. The fire network composed of machine guns and rifles instantly covered the routed troops of the Beiyang Army who fled outside the city. The Beiyang Army thought that the People's Party did not have many men outside the city, and the soldiers dragging their guns thought that they would be able to escape by bypassing the People's Party's position blocked outside the city gate. By the time they suddenly discovered that a large number of Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army fighters had suddenly appeared from many places, the bullets were already whizzing. Those who ran at the front were knocked to the ground in pieces. The direct death was relatively less painful, and the wails of those guys who did not die immediately frightened the Beiyang army behind them screaming and turned around and ran back to Hangzhou City.

A rout means that the military organization in the city has collapsed. Some of the lucky ones were not killed immediately, and the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army captured a very small number of lucky ones at once. After interrogation, the news that Wang Ziming, the governor of Zhejiang, had fled privately surprised the comrades.

As one of the masterminds and main executors of the 412 massacre, Wang Ziming is entrenched in the top three positions on the blacklist of the People's Party this time. This is an important person who wants to see people alive and see corpses when he dies. The defeated soldiers didn't know much, they had no intention of fighting, and after hearing that Wang Ziming, the governor of Hangzhou, had fled, everyone simply dispersed in a hurry. As for when Wang Ziming ran, where he ran, and where he ran, they naturally didn't know anything. Even if Wang Ziming had really fled, the defeated soldiers were completely uncertain.

While stepping up military deployments, comrades on the front line also conveyed the latest situation to the command.

The attack on Hangzhou was the 39th Army under the Fifth Field Army, and the army commander Zhao Weiguang said: "Since we can't determine Wang Ziming's movements, let these defeated soldiers first determine who is still in the city." Those in the city must not let them escape. ”

To deal with the Beiyang Army, there was no need to worry too much about the troops from other places being dispatched to carry out rescue, and coupled with the reconnaissance of the air force, the 39th Army of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army did not leave a reserve at all, but dispatched all 20,000 troops to completely surround the city of Hangzhou.

The battle in the eastern part of the city alarmed troops in other areas, and word soon spread. Ji Ye, who was working as a liaison in the north of the city, soon got the news. Ji Ye rushed into the division headquarters to which he belonged, "Division Commander Liu, please make a message to the army commander and immediately send a search team to arrest Wang Ziming." ”

Division Commander Liu's expression was very serious, "Comrade Ji Ye, it is not your wish to arrest Wang Ziming alone, it is also one of the tasks of this war. ”

Listening to Master Liu's words, Ji Ye breathed a sigh of relief. If she couldn't catch the executioner Wang Ziming, she would never be at peace in her heart. However, Master Liu's next words made Ji Ye a little surprised. "Comrade Ji Ye, there is always a first-come-first-served problem. The purpose of waging a war is to win the war, and only when the war is won can the follow-up action to arrest the counter-revolutionaries can follow. So I suggest you think carefully about the order of these questions. Don't let your personal thoughts affect the course of this war. ”

Ji Ye is also a smart comrade, she soon found that when she broke in, there was a discussion meeting in the division headquarters, and the staff officers and political commissars and other commanders who were interrupted by Ji Ye did not look at Ji Ye with malicious eyes, but a trace of blame was still indispensable. "Ahh Sorry to disturb the work of the comrades. Ji Ye couldn't help blushing.

The battle against the Southern Beiyang Army was not very difficult, and after the follow-up troops of the 40th Army followed up in the afternoon of the same day, the 39th Army, which had already arranged its offensive position, immediately launched an attack. After the reorganization, the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army carried out large-scale personnel mobilization and training. In addition to supporting the new troops in terms of personnel, experienced troops have also made great efforts in training.

Assault fire from light machine guns, rifles, grenades, and artillery easily tore apart the enemy's defenses, and the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army captured the city and occupied important heights at very small cost. Condescendingly, the troops saw the enemy running in a dwindling encirclement. They tried to find a way to escape, and each attempt failed at the cost of a few lives.

A large number of Beiyang troops surrendered immediately, and the sharp knife troops divided the city of Hangzhou into pieces along the streets and bridges of Hangzhou. The nights in August were still very short, and by 8 p.m. it was still not completely dark. It is very easy to distinguish between the combat camouflage uniforms of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army and the cyan uniforms of the Beiyang Army. Condescendingly, you can see where the red flag of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army is pointing, and the Beiyang Army, which is far more numerous than the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, has put down its weapons and surrendered on its knees.

Some of the Beiyang Army, which continued to run in the vultures, also lost the will to fight, and turned around and ran away after seeing the ranks of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army. However, there were more and more workers' and peasants' revolutionary troops in the city of Hangzhou, and after running back and forth for a while, surrounded by the muzzles of black holes and the bright bayonets, these guys also surrendered.

After the Beiyang Army lost the command of Wang Ziming, it was no longer possible to talk about such a thing as military heart, and the battle went extremely smoothly. When it was completely dark, real resistance erupted at the seat of the Zhejiang Parliament.

The gang in the Zhejiang parliament knew that the People's Party would never let them go. During the 412 massacre last year, the people of the Zhejiang West Branch of the Liberation Society were killed very badly, but the last remaining group of people were withdrawn to the People's Party in a systematic manner. The parliamentarians all know that even if the People's Party will let go of the people of the Zhejiang Council, the West Zhejiang Branch will not let go of the members of the Zhejiang Council. There are also a lot of people who have played with guns in the Zhejiang Council, and it is not good to lead the troops to fight, and in the end it is enough to kill one, and they still have the confidence to kill two and earn one.

The troops were given orders to capture these reactionary leaders alive. In the face of the stubborn resistance of these people, it was not difficult to completely turn these counter-revolutionary and the buildings of the Zhejiang Council into powder with devastating firepower. When the war has been won, it is better to consider the issue of capturing alive.

As soon as the attacking troops discussed, it was unrealistic to want to catch all these guys who were immortal. At the moment, you can only kill as few enemies as possible. After the troops were redeployed, one red and two green signal flares rose into the sky. Then several dazzling new stars burst out of the sky. The flares are condescending, illuminating a large area centered on the Zhejiang Council at night as if it were day.

The heavy machine guns that had been carried in place opened fire on the walls of the Parliament, and the bullets made deep pits in the walls of the courtyards, or they simply penetrated the walls and went directly into the courtyard. Fragments of masonry and ash foam took on the appearance of smoke in the air. The enemy firepower guarding the seat of the council was weakened to the point where it could barely be counted. The attacking troops, with dust-proof eyes, took advantage of this situation and began to crawl forward.

As the flares fell to the ground, darkness returned to the vicinity of the council slightly, and less than ten minutes later, several more flares rose into the sky again. The heavy machine guns of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army continued to slash at the walls, and several of the courtyard walls were cut by bullets and fell staggering towards the courtyard. With the sound of the rumbling courtyard wall falling to the ground, thicker smoke rose from the courtyard.

The heavy machine guns near the courtyard wall stopped firing, and the soldiers near the courtyard wall had already reached the one-man height courtyard wall in three steps and two steps. The warriors in front put the wooden ladder on the gap, and the warriors in the back climbed the wooden ladder and jumped into the courtyard.

Ji Ye had also followed the troops to the enemy's last stronghold at this time, and when she saw the soldiers swarming in, she drew her pistol and rushed inside. The comrades on the front line could tell from Ji Ye's neck-length short hair that she was a woman. Someone immediately grabbed Ji Ye. "Don't go!"

Ji Ye thought that this was a comrade who was worried about his safety, and he didn't wait for her to say anything to take revenge in person. The comrade who grabbed her said: "You are not from the army, so don't go and disrupt the order of the army." ”

It turns out that I was underestimated! Ji Yeden felt furious. She also fought in Nanjing, and together with hundreds of soldiers of the People's Party and the Liberation Society, she withstood the attack of Wang Youhong's tens of thousands of troops. At this moment, the sound of the trumpet sounded almost simultaneously from all sides of the seat of the Zhejiang Parliament! This was the order to attack, and every warrior immediately raised his weapon and rushed towards the gap where the enemy was no longer visible.

The comrade who came to Ji Ye paused slightly, let go of his hand, and rushed forward with his troops. Half a step late, Ji Ye also merged into the torrent composed of warriors and began to attack the last fortress of the enemy in Hangzhou.

Cai Yuanpei once thought that he knew how to war, at least he thought that he knew how to command war. When the People's Party imposed the real war on the city of Hangzhou, Cai Yuanpei realized that he did not understand the war at all. Cai Yuanpei knew that "mourning soldiers will win". After the Beiyang Army lost its supreme commander, not only did it not show the posture of "mourning soldiers" in an unfavorable situation, but it collapsed completely. The only people in Hangzhou who could command were a group of councillors and the local garrison in Hangzhou, which was still under the control of the Restoration Society.

Cai Yuanpei also knows that "soldiers and gods fight quickly", "quiet as a rabbit, moving like a virgin". When the city of Hangzhou was in chaos, the People's Party did not move, and there was no news at all. Then the offensive began simultaneously on all sides. All sorts of news followed. The People's Party broke through the North, South, East, and West gates. The People's Party attacked the city of Hangzhou. The speed of change in the battle situation was even faster than Cai Yuanpei's imagination of the entire battle situation in his mind, and by the time Cai Yuanpei really determined the battle situation, the People's Party had already begun to besiege the Zhejiang Parliament.

The siege battle was much beyond Cai Yuanpei's imagination. The new gadgets that illuminate the seat of the Zhejiang Council as if it were day radiate a dazzling white light in the sky, and even the naked eye cannot look at it directly. The battle is not an imaginary knife-to-gun fight. The firepower of the People's Party is not a front, but a firepower point. At every point, the BJP dropped ammunition of terrible density. It wasn't an attack at all, it was a storm of bullets.

Cai Yuanpei also personally went to the front line. Of course, at this time, the straight-line distance between the "rear" and the front line was only more than two hundred meters. The BJP's circular offensive turned the front line of parliament in front of the front. Where dense bullets go, they can beat people into a sieve, and they can break people into pieces. Cai Yuanpei saw with his own eyes that a brave congressman accidentally leaked under the firepower of the People's Party, and his head, shoulders, arms, and upper body instantly turned into rag-like things in a violent tremor. As if it wasn't flesh, it was a pile of mud. Neither the parliamentarians nor the participating garrisons dared to raise their heads, and then the BJP suddenly swarmed through the cracks in the collapsed walls.

The guys in the Zhejiang Parliament, who had already dared to carry guns in desperation, waited for the soldiers of the People's Party to rush into the parliament house shouting the slogan "Shoot or kill." Faced with the muzzles of the black holes, and the bayonets that glittered with the light of day above their heads, the men honestly raised their hands in surrender. As for the soldiers of the garrison headquarters, they even coughed and shouted "Don't shoot, sir", and obediently surrendered.

All this is the truth that Cai Yuanpei saw and experienced with his own eyes. And all this made Cai Yuanpei feel unreal. From the position where the People's Party launched the attack to the distance between the Jiangsu Parliament, a leading figure in Hangzhou would spend much more time on the road than the time for the People's Party to attack.

The BJP soldiers, dressed in fancy clothes and wearing steel helmets, moved smoothly to take out all the resistors and settle the battle. If it weren't for the fact that these people were shouting Chinese, Cai Yuanpei wouldn't even be able to connect them with the Chinese. As a university scholar, Cai Yuanpei is still willing to seek truth from facts. He was surprised to find that it was only when the People's Party army appeared in front of him that he realized that he had never known that he was fighting a war with such a powerful force.

didn't wait for Cai Yuanpei to think about anything, but saw a woman wearing a military uniform of strange colors and carrying a pistol appear in front of Cai Yuanpei. After carefully identifying it, Cai Yuanpei finally recognized that this was Ji Ye, the cadre of the West Zhejiang Branch.

Ji Ye shouted: "Surnamed Cai, it's finally time to repay the blood debt you owe!" ”

The voice was not too loud in the chaotic noise, and then Cai Yuanpei saw Ji Ye raise his pistol and wanted to shoot himself, and then he was pulled away by several People's Party soldiers. For some reason, Ji Ye's action of wanting to kill himself made Cai Yuanpei feel relaxed for a while. This is the only person Cai Yuanpei is familiar with in this intense and strange night, the only thing that can be understood and imagined with reason.