Section 19 Hijacking

"This is Yulin Castle!"

Yang Chao said to a few soldiers, pointing to a boxy building not far away that looked like a landlord's compound. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The location was confirmed, and the hands of the watch had turned red, confirming that the building in front of them was the destination.

But a few soldiers were a little confused, and just lay on the grass beside the road with Yang Chao, looking at Yulin Fort.

Ma Tengfei, Zhang Guozhu and Hei Niu followed Yang Chao, and the others rested three miles away.

Especially Ma Tengfei, he looked at Yang Chao with suspicious eyes.

Yang Chao had already discovered that this kid was different from others, he had a strong sense of direction, and he had expressed his doubts many times on the road.

Yang Chao could only explain: "Look at this Yulin Fort, you can't get around." ”

Yulin Fort was originally a post station established in the Yuan Dynasty, and a wide pipeline in front of it extended from south to north, and the post station sat on the side of the road, like a soldier, guarding the road.

"This post is intact, the courtyard wall is high, if there is an ambush, we will not be able to get by."

Yang Chao continued.

Although Yulin Fort is not tall, but the courtyard wall of about two zhang is very intact, this post station has been in use, so it is not deserted, just like Yang Chao said, if soldiers are stationed here, they will definitely be found and will definitely be pursued.

At this time, there was less suspicion in Ma Tengfei's eyes.

Yang Chao continued: "So we now have to find out if there are any officers and soldiers in Yulin Fort. Ma Tengfei, you stay here to guard, you must confirm whether there are officers and soldiers in Yulin Fort, how many officers and soldiers, at least keep a night watch, if you can't be sure tomorrow, we can only break in. ”

Yang Chao plans to let Ma Tengfei keep watch here all night until tomorrow night.

Then he continued to say to the black bull: "The black bull walks three or five miles south from here, and it is also guarded. You are a machine gunner, so pay attention to where to place a suitable machine gun position. ”

As soon as Yang Chao finished speaking, Ma Tengfei became suspicious again, if it was just to confirm the officers and soldiers, then why did he have to go three or five miles away, if it was only to confirm the officers and soldiers, why did he still lay out machine guns, but he was only suspicious, because he couldn't have thought that Yang Chao would wait for Cixi here.

"If you find out about the situation, come back and tell me immediately."

After Yang Chao finished speaking, he let the black bull go first, and watched the black bull walk cautiously in front of Yulin Fort, and after causing no accidents, Yang Chao put his mind at ease and walked back with Zhang Guozhu.

Three miles away, it was still a pipeline, but it was a trumpet-shaped open field, and on one side of the pipe there was a large depression that stretched to the distant hillside, and a large depression was sunken into the mountain, and the depression was full of reeds, and it was now blue-green.

All the soldiers rested on the side of the road, and after two consecutive days of trekking, especially yesterday, they were still walking on mountain roads, and the men and horses were tired, and they all wished they could have a good rest.

There are those who sit on the ground, those who lie down to sleep, and those who get together to chat, and everyone is indescribably relaxed.

Yang Chao felt a little pressure in his heart, because until now, he was still deceiving these people and didn't tell them the truth.

If I told them, I'm afraid no one would dare to follow Yang Chao.

This kind of entanglement makes Yang Chao very conflicted, after all, he is a businessman, he pays attention to integrity, and he understands political tricks, but he has never done it.

Sometimes when reading political books, especially biographies, Yang Chao will reflect, politics must betray conscience, must have no principles, must violate morality? Do you have to do whatever it takes to achieve your goals?

Yang Chao has no standard answer in his heart, but the heroes of the past and present are not like this on May Day.

Yang Chao told himself more than once that he was for a noble purpose, for the sake of the country and the nation, but he was never able to convince himself that the noble purpose was the reason for his despicable behavior, and that he could sacrifice the small self for the sake of the big self?

"This shows that I still have a conscience. The conscience of politicians is eaten by dogs. ”

Yang Chao couldn't help but laugh at himself.

Then arrange for everyone to eat, have a full meal, and even let the cavalry break the flatbread and feed the horses a good meal.

Originally, when the army was marching, the horse was still carrying black beans on its back, but it was a pity to underestimate the difficulty of the march, the black beans were eaten yesterday, and many war horses had eaten the dew-stained grass, and they were a little upset.

Yang Chao thought that Cixi would most likely pass through Yulin Fort in the next day or two, so he had to keep his horse strong.

On the official road south of Yulin Fort, a group of troops was slowly moving forward, with hundreds of Eight Banner soldiers opening the road at the front, a shoulder in the back, four carriages, and thousands of men and women accompanying them.

Shanqi, the commander of the infantry, rode on a horse, followed by a long procession, more than 300 Eight Banner guards like him, hundreds of palace maids and eunuchs, all of them listless and exhausted.

Although Shanqi walked ahead to open the way, he seemed to be preoccupied. When the Eight-Nation Alliance attacked Beijing, he was the infantry commander on duty, so he had no time to go home to arrange family affairs, so he had to hurriedly escort the Empress Dowager and the emperor to escape, and he had already prepared a mule cart.

He didn't know what happened to his Suwang Mansion, whether the old mother lying on the hospital bed would be disturbed, and whether the children of the family would be safe and sound. But loyalty and filial piety were difficult to achieve, and the situation at that time did not allow him to make any arrangements at all, so he could only hurriedly take the queen mother and the emperor to a mule cart and quietly leave Beijing.

fled in a hurry, even the queen mother and the emperor only had a mule cart, not to mention the palace maids and eunuchs, and even the ministers and princes and nobles who accompanied them could only walk.

This is not the worst, a hungry meal is the most uncomfortable, the road is full of fleeing people, the common people fled earlier than the emperor and the queen mother, came out of Beijing and hurriedly rushed in all directions, everywhere there were refugees.

And bad luck, the heavy rain in the first two days of his life increased, but also increased the hardships of escaping, after leaving Beijing until Guanshi, Shanqi asked a local old man for a dough cake and a plate of fried vegetables, the queen mother and the emperor shared the food, and the others could only continue to be hungry.

After eating, the Queen Mother just wanted to drink a bowl of mung bean soup with the emperor alone, but Shanqi couldn't get it, which made him feel extremely sad.

After a day and a night, the queen mother and the emperor could no longer find food, there were homeless people everywhere, even if they wanted to, they couldn't buy it, and Shanqi himself didn't eat a drop of rice. Not far ahead, Yulin Fort is about to arrive, Shanqi doesn't know if Wu Yong of Huailaizhi County is ready, Shanqi doesn't dare to guarantee this.

The world is in chaos, the rebellious ministers and thieves have come out, the two palaces are out of the palace in a hurry, there is no court decree in advance, when Luan arrived at the city of Changping, the officials guarding the city closed the city gate, and constantly fired warnings. The two palaces had no choice but to go around the city with an empty stomach. After arriving at the boundary of Huailai, Shanqi did not dare to use the name of the Empress Dowager Emperor, but asked Yanqing Zhizhou to write an urgent letter to Wu Yong, the leader of Huailai County, telling Huailai County to prepare food for the two palaces and prepare a table for the Manchu and Han Dynasty.

Shanqi served the two palaces with all his heart and soul along the way, the reason why this is so, in addition to the concept of loyalty, there is no guilt in his heart, Cixi and Guangxu have fallen to the point where they are now, to be honest, Shanqi can't get rid of it, because he is also one of the eight banner nobles in the main battle, and he is also one of the leaders.

Shanqi strongly advocated attacking the diplomatic embassy that day, but unfortunately the Qing army was rotten, and thousands of troops could not attack the embassy defended by hundreds of people. By the time the Eight-Nation Coalition entered the city, it was too late.

Wu Yong, the county magistrate of Huailai, received an urgent message yesterday, he was not a Changping county order, and he did not dare to shoot at the queen mother and the emperor. It's just that he is very difficult, where to get a full Han banquet. Even in the peaceful years, it is difficult for Huailai County to prepare all the Manchu and Han banquets, not to mention the materials, and even the cooks cannot be found.

And now, under the will of the Queen Mother, the Boxers are flourishing everywhere, and Huailai County is no exception. Men, women and children in Huailai County have practiced boxing, the four city gates have been sealed by the boxers, and there are altar owners to lead the boxers to guard, without the permission of the altar owner, no one is allowed to enter and exit at will. He, the magistrate, has long been hollowed out by the Boxers. After receiving the urgency, Wu Yong planned to go out of the city to Yulin Fort to meet him in the starry night, but he was blocked in front of the city gate.

Although he didn't dare to say it, Wu Yong sighed in his heart that the Queen Mother ordered to recruit Yihequan as a group practice and organize it into a boxer, which was really a big mistake.

It was not until the early hours of this morning that Wu Yong led a few horses to take advantage of the inattention of the rabble of the Boxers, and rushed out of the West Gate with a whip, and rushed to Yulin Fort in the morning. Then he immediately ordered the steward and the entourage to prepare porridge and rice for the two palaces.

The two houses had not yet arrived, but suddenly, it rained heavily, and it rained for days.

Wu Yong sighed in his heart: "The tiger walks in the wind, the dragon walks in the rain, and the prototype of the Son of Heaven is really turbulent." ”

"Hey, it's raining!"

The black bull also sighed, but he didn't feel that the Son of Heaven was traveling, but he was unhappy in his heart, he didn't want to see the rain, because he was hiding in a bush at this time, and it was really not a comfortable thing to rain.

"Someone!"

At this moment, the black bull saw a crowd of people appear in the distance, some cars and some couldn't drive, a large group of people, no matter how you look at it, they are led by a group of cavalry.

"There are officers and soldiers!"

The black bull was shocked, and saw that those people suddenly stopped in the rain, the black bull did not dare to delay, got out of the grass, and ran in the rain, and the rain became heavier and heavier, and soon only a shadow could be seen.

"There are officers and soldiers of the officer and soldier brigade, you are staring here, I will tell Mr. Yang."

When the black bull passed through Yulin Fort, Ma Tengfei was still guarding here, and he immediately informed Ma Tengfei, and then continued to gallop.

Ma Tengfei frowned, sure enough, there were officers and soldiers.

As soon as he finished sighing, he heard a familiar voice, boom, boom, it was the sound of horses' hooves!

More than ten cavalry galloped towards Yulin Fort, Ma Tengfei lowered his body, he was completely subconscious, at this time the heavy rain was pouring, even if he stood in the rain, as long as it was not close, it was difficult to be found.

A big stone in Shanqi's heart fell to the ground, Huailai County Commander is a loyal minister, there are really not many loyal ministers in these years, if it weren't for the group of Han people in the south to supervise and support the soldiers and refuse to come to Beijing to rescue, why would the two palaces be forced to tour the west.

Although because of the main battle of the Eight Banners nobles, Shanqi is also one of them, in the face of the situation of the two palaces, Shanqi is a little guilty, but the guilt is not to fight foreigners, but not to win, the reason why he did not win, Shanqi does not think it is his own fault, all blame Li Hongzhang, blame Zhang Zhidong, blame those southern governors.

However, Yanqing Zhizhou and Huailai Zhixian are indeed loyal ministers, Yanqing Zhizhou came to greet him as soon as he heard the news, and now the Queen Mother is sitting on the shoulders of Yanqing Zhizhou, and the emperor and Beizi are also sitting in Yanqing Prefecture's car, Yanqing Zhizhou himself is walking behind, and now this Wu Yong also came to Yulinbao early to meet him, and he heard that he was still obstructed by the Boxers, and his loyalty is commendable.

"Okay, you can go with the official to meet the driver!"

Shanqi rode on his horse and said to Wu Yong.

Wu Yong clenched his fists, immediately took two people, rode on a horse and followed Shanqi.

"Brothers. I have inquired clearly, and nearly 1,000 officers and soldiers are about to enter Yulin Fort, what do you say? ”

Three miles away, Yang Chao was standing in the rain, and he was also mobilizing the soldiers of Huayong Company.

"What to do?"

"When the officers and soldiers come, they won't be able to get by."

"What can I do, I can't help but go home."

The soldiers exploded with a buzz, and Yang Chao had already instilled in them the truth that if there were officers and soldiers in Yulin Fort, they would not be able to pass safely, and now they were all a little at a loss, especially when they learned that there were thousands of officers and soldiers.

"Mr. Yang, what do you say?"

When a soldier was at a loss, he suddenly asked Yang Chaodao.

"Yes, what did the gentleman say?"

"Sir is educated, he must know what to do."

"What does the gentleman say, let's do it."

The soldiers chimed in.

This is exactly the result that Yang Chao wants, but he sighs a little in his heart, the people at the bottom of China are superstitious intellectuals, probably this is how they were fooled into taking up arms and rebelling again and again.

"I ask you, do you want to go home?"

Yang Chao didn't answer directly, but asked loudly.

"Yes!"

In unison, this is not to say, they followed Yang Chao, just believing that Yang Chao could take them home.

Yang Chao said: "That's good." If you go south on this road, you will be able to return to Shandong. If you want to go home, you have to pass through Yulin Fort, but the officers and soldiers don't let us live with peace of mind, what do you say? ”

This time, everyone's voice was quiet, no one dared to say that they were fighting officers and soldiers, when they were in Tianjin, they were following foreigners, and if there were no foreigners, these honest soldiers really couldn't afford to attack the officers and soldiers, because that meant rebellion.

"What should I do, sir!"

In the end, they didn't dare to make a decision themselves, so they left the decision to Yang Chao.

Yang Chao said loudly: "If you want me to say, there is no other way out except to take away the officers and soldiers. ”

There was a sound of surprise below, no one really thought about fighting with the officers and soldiers, and they were worried about fighting with the officers and soldiers, not because they were afraid that they would not be able to fight, but because they were afraid of punishing the nine tribes, and the remnants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty's rule for more than 200 years were still there.

Yang Chao knew that there was no time to delay now, Cixi's car was only a few miles away, and the delay on his side was too long, so they would enter Yulinbao ahead of schedule if they couldn't get it.

"Is it a handlebar? Do you want to go home? ”

"Yes!"

"Pick up the gun for Lao Tzu. There were not so many officers and soldiers. And didn't know we were here. If we sneak up on them, we'll be able to take them away easily. If you want to go home, come with me now and pick up all the robberies. ”

After Yang Chao finished speaking, he immediately walked forward, and Hei Niu and Zhang Guozhu hesitated and followed.

The others were uneasy, but they followed.

When he met Ma Tengfei head-on, he immediately reported the situation to Yang Chao, saying that more than a dozen cavalrymen had already arrived at Yulin Fort, and the follow-up troops had not yet seen it.

"Horses take off. You immediately lead a team of horses and rush forward along the official road, entangled the opponent's chariot. We'll all be there right away, and if the enemy attacks, don't fight hard, just run. ”

Yang Chao immediately commanded.

Ma Tengfei nodded, his psychological burden was not very heavy, and he immediately took his horse and beckoned the cavalry brothers to get on their horses and set off.

"Black Bull, you take the machine gun platoon to find a suitable place in front of Yulin Fort to ambush, and you must block the entire road!"

Hei Niu had already found several ideal extremely strong positions just now, and when he answered, he immediately beckoned people to go.

"The rest of the people are fine, and they all give me bayonets. There was a man who dared to run away, and everyone went home and dug his ancestral grave! ”

Yang Chao shouted loudly, there are no officers among these soldiers, it is impossible to charge in line like the Germans, so they can only rely on a force of courage to rush directly to fight, so these soldiers must be forced to pluck up courage, digging ancestral graves is a very serious threat, no one dares to take such a risk.

The cavalry was the first to attack, then the black bull led the men to carry two machine guns, and finally the main force with bright bayonets slowly advanced along the official road.