Chapter seventy-eight
Zhang Youliang knew that his limit was approaching, and he did not make any resistance. When the fighters of the two insurance regiments carried him out of the gate, he did not cry or shout. The warriors did not want to embarrass the old man, and his movements were not rough. Zhang Youliang did not resist either, and let them take him to the door.
"Pick him up on the shoulder." Chen Ke had already descended the watchtower at this time, and he ordered. Hua Xiongmao quickly connected the dislocated arm. Zhang Youliang only moved his arm slightly, and then stood straight in front of the crowd. Chen Ke didn't want Hua Xiongmao to pick up Zhang Youliang's jaw. At present, the insurance group is far from carrying out sufficiently in-depth ideological education, if Zhang Youliang shouts out, "Do you want to rebel?" Chen Ke was not sure that he would be able to explain to his comrades why he rebelled.
1906 was completely different from 1927, when the party could mobilize the masses to fight against the Kuomintang without hesitation, because the people did not think that the Kuomintang was really the "destiny" of the central government. But in 1906, the people still considered the Manchu Qing to be the imperial court. The people dared to happily kill a landlord, but they did not dare to happily fight against the imperial court. Of course, the people didn't know what was going on with the imperial court. In order to avoid trouble, Chen Ke was only ready to execute Zhang Youliang and declare the end of the Zhang family's rule in Yue Zhangji.
Chen Ke didn't care about killing a landlord in his heart, but many things were not so simple, since it was necessary to prove that the insurance group had controlled Yue Zhangji, it was necessary to execute Zhang Youliang as a ritual.
The troops have completely resolved the resistance inside the enclosure, and all the people in the enclosure have been brought out. There were five or six hundred of these people, which was the same number as the soldiers of the insurance regiment. The dispatch of troops was very hasty, and the Central Military Commission mainly drew up an operational plan, and did not think so much about how to deal with it after the war. Everyone's general view is to uproot the power of the Zhang family from Yue Zhangji. When they saw these five or six hundred people, everyone's faces were a little worried. How do you do this uprooting?
Chen Ke called the cadres together, and He Zudao took the lead in asking: "Battalion commander, what should I do next?" ”
"An Min." Chen Ke said with a smile.
An Min? This word makes the comrades confused, and they are about to kill people, no matter how you look at it, it is "terrifying to the people", and it cannot be associated with An Min in any case.
He Zudao has been with Chen Ke for more than a year, and he knows that Chen Ke sometimes has an unexpected sense of humor, so he keeps quiet and saves Chen Ke from making trouble by saying the wrong thing. And Xu Dian, the commander of the first company, asked suspiciously: "Do you want to write a notice for the people?" ”
As soon as I heard this, I learned it from the commentary. Not to mention how high the literacy rate is in Yue Zhangji, the insurance group drove the people to see the notices with knives and guns, which is also outrageous.
"Humph!" Chai Qingguo snorted coldly, "We are going to kill all the people of the Zhang family." What kind of bullshit notice to write for the people. Xu Dian voted to kick Chai Qingguo out of the venue in Beijing back then, Chai Qingguo was very resentful of this, and he was never polite when he refuted Xu Dian.
"Kill them all?" Xu Dian was taken aback by Chai Qingguo's statement, "How many people do you have to kill?" ”
"Since we want to occupy this enclosure, don't we kill all the people of the Zhang family, and wait for them to take revenge later?" Chai Qingguo said in a contemptuous tone.
"You'll have to kill some, but don't kill too many." Hua Xiongmao interjected, "It's enough to kill the people of the Zhang family." If you don't kill anything else, it's better to let them live. ”
"Of course I want to let them go, can I get them a boat and send them away?" Chai Qingguo said with a sneer.
"Could it be ......, do you want to ...... on the ship" Xu Dian has seen the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Cao Cao conquered Jingzhou that year, named Liu Biao's son Liu Cong as the assassin of Jingzhou, and sent Liu Cong and his mother Lady Cai to Qingzhou, but secretly ordered Yu Ban to intercept and kill them halfway.
"Humph!" Chai Qingguo just snorted in agreement.
After hearing this, the cadres of the insurance group all looked gloomy, but Chen Ke felt that if he arranged for them to do this, it was estimated that these comrades would probably agree.
Of course, Chen Ke couldn't have arranged it that way. Seeing that everyone couldn't come up with a way, Chen Ke said his thoughts.
"An Min, the first thing is to let the people know where our bottom line is. In the end, who to kill, who to release, and who to woo. Don't let go of the one that should be killed, and don't let go of the one that should be released. What do you think? ”
The comrades nodded their heads.
"Let's talk about who we're going to let go. In Yue Zhangji, all the relatives of the soldiers of our insurance regiment and our comrades who are willing to come out to guarantee them will all come to our side. Now let's go and talk to our comrades. Chen Ke ordered.
As the first secretary of the People's Party these days, Chen Ke has relied on being able to come up with a plan that is acceptable to everyone when facing various problems, and this has established his prestige. Of course, as the founder of the People's Party, he had enough status. So the comrades generally did not oppose Chen Ke's order. After listening to Chen Ke's suggestion, the comrades felt that they could accept it, so they went one after another.
Among the 600 people dispatched by the insurance group this time, there were more than 80 comrades from Yue Zhangji, and they did not know what the insurance group was going to do with these people. From the beginning, Chen Ke held a meeting, and these comrades from Yue Zhangji also began to look at each other, and they did not want their relatives and friends to be treated as enemies. However, the discipline of the insurance group was finally established, although everyone looked at each other, but the squad leaders effectively managed the team, and they were not allowed to talk to each other. Everyone was in a hurry, and suddenly they were given orders to pull over the people they thought were reliable. These local comrades from Yue Zhangji were immediately happy. They lined up, dragging their friends and relatives out of the crowd.
In this battle, those people were already scared enough, and they even thought that bandits had come to break through the siege. If it weren't for the fact that the battle was going on so quickly, the people wouldn't have had a chance to join the battle group at all, but I am afraid that they would eventually join the battle under Zhang Youliang's organization. When the insurance group brought them all out, they saw many familiar villagers, and they were relieved. Knowing that this insurance group was only going to fight Zhang Youliang, not to slaughter Weizi, everyone was even more relieved.
Now seeing that dozens of his acquaintances began to pull people over, the people were even more relieved, and all those who were called were obediently led to the other side.
More than half of the original five or six hundred people were pulled away in an instant, and more than three hundred people were pulled away. The remainder numbered two hundred forty or fifty. Chen Ke ordered a company to bring the relatives and friends of these insurance regiments to the south of the fence and settle down. When the men had bypassed the fence and disappeared behind the wall, Chen Ke ordered the musketeers to surround the rest on both sides.
"Wen Qing, you're not going to kill all these people, are you?" Xu Dian was anxious when he saw this situation. After the relatives and friends of these insurance groups were pulled to the side of the insurance group, there was already a unanimous attitude within the insurance group in the face of the remaining people. They are no longer their own people. If Chen Ke ordered their killing, the warriors from Yue Zhangji would at least have no obvious objections. And to take those people to a distant place, this is obviously to clear the idle people and other miscellaneous people, and prepare for the next drastic action.
"There are no young people on the battlefield, only battalion commanders. Political Commissar Xu, please pay attention to this in the future. We are soldiers, and soldiers should have the discipline of soldiers. Chen Ke immediately admonished Xu Dian solemnly.
"Camp Commander Chen, we can't kill people indiscriminately. We're going to be a lawyer! Xu Dian was really anxious, he was born in the law department of the University of Tokyo, and he couldn't help but take out this law in a hurry.
"I did this to unite the majority and divide the minority. Comrades, you see, as long as we don't kill people indiscriminately, the more than 300 people have already stood on our side, at least they don't follow Zhang Youliang anymore, right? Chen Ke said with a smile.
At this time, the cadres had gathered together again, and after hearing this, everyone couldn't figure out Chen Ke's thoughts, but they felt that there was at least some truth in what they said.
"The people we deal with are made up of a lot of relationships, and for them, relatives and relatives have their own standards. We can't draw too fine or too thick for this standard. Let's take a look at how to divide it next. ”
"Separate the people of the Zhang family from those who are not from the Zhang family." Chai Qingguo still has the attitude of cutting the grass and eradicating the roots.
"This won't work, let's separate Zhang Youliang's subordinates from ordinary people." Xu Dian immediately objected, "The people of the Zhang family may not have fought with us, we just want to suppress the enemy." What kind of heroes are it to kill innocents indiscriminately. ”
"Then how do you know who is Zhang Youliang's subordinate and who is not? This time the fence was broken so quickly, and many of Zhang Youliang's subordinates were blocked before they had time to go out. Now we ask them, will they admit it? If you admit it, you will be killed! You think they're that stupid? Well! Chai Qingguo became more and more angry the more he spoke, and couldn't help but say again, "Do you think they are the same as you?" ”
"What do you mean!" Xu Dian also became angry when he heard this. Chai Qingguo: This is a disguised way to say that Xu Dian is stupid.
"Are you discussing this? I asked you how to separate these people. Don't quarrel anymore. Chen Ke immediately stopped the battle between the two. Do other comrades have any opinions? ”
As a matter of fact, the opinions of these two people basically represent everyone's intentions, and after hearing Chen Ke say this, the comrades have no other opinions. "Battalion commander, what do you think?" Hua Xiongmao said.
"I still want to see what people think." Chen Ke doesn't want to show his abilities anymore. The revolution is not Chen Ke alone to fight the world, what is needed now is to be able to tap the ability of the comrades as soon as possible. So he wants someone to take responsibility.
"Report to the battalion commander, I have something to say." Richiro Kuroshima applied in Chinese, which he was becoming more and more proficient in. Although it is becoming more and more difficult to distinguish Kuroshima's nationality when he speaks, Kuroshima is still very well-behaved as a Japanese.
"You're ready to speak!" Chen Ke said.
"Let's divide according to the label of this enemy and outsiders." Hei Dao said in a proper manner.
"Why do you want to divide it like this?" Chen Ke asked. Although it was still a commanding tone, a satisfied smile appeared on his face.
Kuroshima Renichiro stood straight according to the requirements of the military posture, very much like a soldier, he looked at each other levelly, and said calmly: "Now we are going to come up with a reason to separate these people, so that our enemies are getting smaller and smaller, and they are becoming more and more isolated." Locals will never look at the life and death of outsiders. If we use this method, we will have much less resistance. ”
"What do you see?" Chen Ke asked.
The other comrades all had some sudden realizations, and this method of division was really reasonable. Comrades agreed.
Chen Ke waved his hand to everyone, "It's not enough to just do this. Absolutely not enough. You think, now these people think they're going to be cleaned up by us. Especially those hired from other places, we have taken a group of our own people, and now that we have separated them, they must think that we are going to attack them. What if they immediately rose up and resisted? ”
This is not a joke, and the comrades also find it quite tricky.
"We are now going to divide them, and the divides, that is, those who remain to the end, are our enemies. So now we're going to divide it according to the way of the locals and the outsiders, but we're going to guide the ideas of these people. If you say that the locals don't care about the life and death of outsiders, this is natural. At the same time, outsiders have no reason to play for the locals, which is also natural. So let me ask, who is our enemy this time? ”
"It's Zhang Youliang, the local landlord." Hua Xiongmao said.
"Yes, so we have to tell these people that we are going to fight Zhang Youliang, and it has nothing to do with outsiders, they came out for us, Zhang Youliang has been arrested, and they don't need to give Zhang Youliang their lives now. As long as these outsiders stay out of the situation, there are even fewer people left. What do you think? ”
At this time, the comrades all had some sudden realizations. So Hua Xiongmao, an "outsider", personally went to shout, and the soldiers from Yue Zhangji helped to screen and maintain order.
I heard Hua Xiongmao shouting: "Heroes from other places, you are working for Zhang Youliang, and now Zhang Youliang has been arrested." You don't get a penny, and I know you're just taking people's money and eliminating disasters for others. Now that things have come to this point, although you are a good man with love and righteousness, you also have to think about yourself. "The thugs from out of town immediately lost their fighting spirit.
"We're just here to beat Zhang Youliang this time, not to ask us for trouble, you all come out, we won't kill the prisoners." Hua Xiongmao shouted while asking the local fighters to point out the outsiders, and then drag them out regardless of whether they wanted to or not. One by one, they tied their left arms with long ropes and escorted them to the lake by a group of musketeers. These people have seventy or eighty numbers, and after this screening. There were only one hundred and fifty or sixty people left in Yuezhangji, who were left in the same place.
Neither screening met with real resistance, and the number of potential enemies that could be called reduced to a quarter of their original number. The insurance group faces the same number of people as they are, and the number ratio is one to one. Except for the two pairs of guards who were divided, the people who stayed in place have now become insurance groups, with an absolute advantage of three to one.
Chen Ke watched as the troops tightly surrounded these people in the middle, and the soldiers' expressions were grim, and the hands holding the weapons became even harder. Somehow, there was a tense atmosphere in the scene.
The local people who were surrounded in the middle also felt this strange atmosphere, and they leaned closer to each other, and under such pressure, some people began to cry in low voices.