The field is a nest of gold and silver, and the local finances here are relatively abundant, and the other places of this county are more magnificent.

After the recovery of Fushun, this county government became the headquarters of the southward advance team of the Republican Army, Bai Wenwei worked here, and the division headquarters of the first division was located here.

The sky gradually darkened, but before it was time to hold the lights, the county government was also a little dim.

At this moment, there were bursts of screams and wails from behind the wall of the Fushun County Yamen, and when I heard it on an errand in the Yamen, I knew that this was using torture and torture people.

Although a few years ago, the Qing court carried out a new policy, and the group of students from the Ministry of Justice shouted for "civilized trials", but this is just the opinion of scholars, in such an era of lack of effective reconnaissance methods, the confession of the prisoner is very important, which can save the county magistrate a lot of trouble.

But now that the Guangfu Revolutionary Army has long banned the torture of prisoners, how can the screams and wails of prisoners come from the Yali of Fushun County?

After the restoration, the government cleared a part, but local security is inseparable from these local snakes, so some people are retained, but the name has been changed, not called "official errand", "Ya service", changed to "jǐng shi".

But the people are still those people, and even the dress is no different from before, except that a red cloth strip is tied on the arm, with the words "Iron and Blood Republic" written on it, and even the torture instrument is left over from the former Qing Dynasty, and it was originally intended to be destroyed on the spot, but fortunately, there is no time to do it, otherwise, this torture will have to change now.

In fact, this torture instrument is also very simple, the so-called "clamping stick", as for those more "advanced" torture instruments, it is not needed now, because these prisoners are not hard bones, as soon as the clamping stick asks him anything, he will answer honestly.

There were a total of six people who were tortured, all of whom were Yi people who came from Daxue Mountain, Yazhou Prefecture, and one of them was the "Zhuowo" under Tusi, which was equivalent to the county order of Han Land.

But now after all, it's and. The old rules of the past are outdated. Let alone. The orders for torture came directly from the commander-in-chief. Who is the commander-in-chief? That was to slash and kill the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Qin Chaduanfang, and the people of Yinchang all the way to the revolution. It's a lot of killing. Who would dare to disobey his commands?

Present. This has just been transformed from a yagong to a jǐng Shidi man, and no one dares to be perfunctory. This torture instrument is used quite authentically. Don't worry about people and don't speak.

In fact, there was only one Yi person who was really punished. There are two main reasons for the "Zhuowo" in that toast land: one is one. He was the only one of the six Yi people who could speak Chinese. Others couldn't ask why; Second. This person is the surface. But in fact, the outsiders are strong and the people are doing the same thing. The fear in my heart immediately appeared in my eyes. The jǐng scholars were experienced and picked the target of torture at a glance. It is completely consistent with the views of the Commander-in-Chief.

As for the commander-in-chief who ordered the torture of the prisoners, he was not in the patio to observe the execution. Instead, he sat on the main hall of the yamen. Across the table was talking to a man dressed as a teahouse guy. There was a horse lamp on the table. It has brought a little light to this dark and dreary county government.

This man who was talking to the commander-in-chief was wearing a man's clothes. But it's not a teahouse guy. His name is Zhang Baoqing. Aged 28. This was originally a battalion assistant in the Zhao Erfengchuan Border Patrol Army. Later, he was captured alive by the Tusi troops in the snowy mountains. became a slave baby in the hands of Toast. If it weren't for the commander-in-chief's decisive action. I don't know where it will be sold to Nazhuowo. As for the old clothes on him. But it was Tian Jinfu, the captain of the guard, who bought the land from the guys at the Yipinxiang Teahouse. It's a bit old though. But at least it fits well. It's much stronger than the grass vine that was originally tied around the waist.

It was also on this piece of Baoqing that he wrote those words on the ground with his feet. The twenty slaves were able to regain zìyóu.

Taking advantage of the torture of that Zhuo Wo just now, Zhao Bei had chatted with this Baoqing assistant for a while, and basically figured out what happened before and after they fell into the hands of Western Sichuan Tusi.

This Zhang Baoqing is not a native of western Sichuan, his ancestral home is Xiangxiang, Hunan, is a descendant of the Hunan army, in the early years, his grandparents followed the Hunan army into Sichuan, chased and killed the Taiping army general Shi Dakai, and later stationed in the eastern Sichuan chóngqìng mansion, generation after the soldiers, in the middle of the Sino-Japanese War, Zhang Baoqing, who was fourteen years old, followed his father to Shandong with the army, and participated in the battle of Weihaiwei, Zhang's father died in Weihaiwei, and then the war ended, Zhang Baoqing returned to his hometown in Xiangxiang, and buried his father in the cemetery of his family, After that, he rushed back to Chóngqìng Mansion to continue to serve as a soldier, and later the Hunan Army was reorganized into a patrol battalion, and he was also promoted to sentry commander, Zhao Erfeng formed the Sichuan Border Patrol Army, and transferred Zhang Baoqing over, because he had studied for a few years and participated in the First Sino-Japanese War, so he was arranged in the camp office to assist the supervisor Cāo to train soldiers.

After the outbreak of the "Xushen Revolution", Zhao Erfeng received a letter from Zhao Erxun and learned that the provincial wall was empty, so he decided to immediately lead the army from the Tibetan border Batang garrison back to Chengdu to assist in the defense

Erfeng decided to set off as soon as possible, so he led the main force eastward, and the battalion ~, dealt with the aftermath, and escorted the dependents of the army back to the east.

According to the agreement, after handing over the affairs of Batang to the people sent by the minister in Tibet, the supervisor led this left-behind force of hundreds of people to escort the same number of dependents back to the east, and the march was relatively smooth at the beginning, but when they reached the Litang Division, they found that there were a large number of Tusi troops with a hostile position in front of them, and the mountain road was also blocked by boulders and huge trees, so they could not continue to advance.

This trade road used to be the road that the horse gang often walked, but then there was a better road, this trade road was abandoned, there has been no caravan for many years, not only the mountains are high and the forests are dense, and the people are inaccessible, it is quite difficult to walk, fortunately, everyone works together, drink the mountain stream when they are thirsty, eat the birds and animals they hunt when they are hungry, open the road in the mountains, build a bridge when they meet the water, and try to go around in a circle to rush to the arrow furnace to meet with Zhao Erfeng's palace troops.

Although they deliberately avoided the Tusi territory where villages gathered along the way, but when they reached the area of the Daxue Mountain, they still encountered the Tusi army, after an ambush battle, the Qing army was surrounded by several times the Tusi combined army on a hill, resisted for two days and two nights, and ran out of ammunition and food, and the supervisor was also killed, and the troops were scattered, and they surrendered to the Tusi armed forces one after another. After a few turns, he fell into the hands of Kalo Tusi, because it was not easy to discipline, so he was resold again, and followed the Zhuo Wo to Fushun City, where he was rescued by Zhao Bei.

Calculated carefully, this Zhang Baoqing has been a slave baby in the hands of Tusi and Touren for nearly a month, and this rì has not only suffered a lot, but also been sold and sold, and his dignity has been lost, and his hatred for Tusi is no longer describable in words.

Speaking of sadness, this very burly man actually cried down, if it wasn't for the guards, I'm afraid he would have rushed out and killed Na Zhuowo and others on the spot.

Zhao Bei silently listened to the story of this assistant officer, and was very sympathetic to his experience, as for Fu Huafeng, who was standing on the side, he also sighed again and again, although he had also stayed in the territory of the Tusi on the side of the Sichuan in the past, and had seen the miserable life of slaves, but after all, it was a Yiren, and now even the Han people were regarded as cattle and horses by the Tusi, which was unbearable.

"Helper Zhang, you are lucky, think about those who died on the territory of Toast, think about those comrades who are still sold by Toast and Touren, you can get out of the tiger's mouth, it is a blessing in misfortune."

Zhao Bei comforted a few words, changed his words, and asked, "According to what you just said, you didn't arrive at the arrow furnace, right?" ”

“。 We are still a few days away from the archery furnace. ”

"So, you don't know the current state of Zhao Feng's main force, right?"

"Yes. What did the two adults mean just now, Zhao Junmen is now trapped in the area of the arrow furnace? In this way, it is necessary to dispatch a strong force as soon as possible, drive straight in, and receive food, grass and ammunition, so as not to fall into the hands of Tusi, which is more than 10,000 people. ”

Seeing this Zhang Baoqing's eager expression, Zhao Bei stood up and paced a few steps with his hands behind his back.

Zhang Baoqing's words made the commander-in-chief temporarily relieved, originally he thought that Zhao Erfeng's main force was scattered, the collapse of this army itself is not worth paying attention to, the commander-in-chief is worried about the guns and ammunition of this army, now most of the Chuanbian Tusi are old-fashioned muskets, and the combat effectiveness is not strong, but Zhao Erfeng's patrol army is a more advanced breech rifle, once these rifles fall into the hands of the Chuanbian Tusi, the situation on the Sichuan side will only become more turbulent, and it will become more difficult to suppress the rebellion by force, This will also seriously threaten the implementation of Sichuan's industrial development plan.

Now there is not much time left for Zhaobei, and it is necessary to establish a number of large industrial bases in Sichuan and Hubei before the outbreak of World War I, which is not only a reliable backing for the unification of the country, but also a powerful weapon to resist the aggression of the foreign powers.

Now it seems that it is not Zhao Erfeng's main force that has been dispersed, but only a rearguard force escorting the dependents of the army, and Zhao Bei can rest assured for the time being.

However, Zhao Erfeng's Sichuan Border Patrol Force must be resolved as soon as possible, and once this force is absorbed, the Republican Army's control over Sichuan will be unprecedentedly strengthened, and the threat in western Sichuan will also be reduced, which is a matter of killing two birds with one stone.

Just as Zhao Bei was pondering which troops to send to Yazhou City to join Zhang Licheng's brigade, Tian Jinfu, the captain of the guard, hurriedly walked into the main hall of the Yamen, holding a few pieces of paper in his hand, and when he arrived at the commander-in-chief, he presented the papers.

"I thought that Zhuo Wo had any ability, and the feelings were also a bully of the soft and afraid of the hard, as soon as the stick was on, he pulled it gently, and he said everything honestly.

These people, the purpose of coming to this Fushun is not only to buy salt! ”