The news of Sun Wei's successful revolution in Hubei quickly spread throughout the country, and young men and women from all over the country who were influenced by the new ideas gathered in Hubei, and Sun Wei's name also resounded throughout China.

The old city of Wuchang became lively, and every day you could see young students marching through the streets and alleys holding revolutionary banners, and many students giving speeches on the main roads, encouraging the people of the whole country to join the revolutionary ranks. Reporters from major newspapers gradually appeared in Wuchang City, and those who saw the hope of the success of the revolution were not afraid of the Qing government's retaliation. Sun Wei's photos also appeared on the headlines of major newspapers and became a great hero for the liberation of the people.

Sun Wei, who was busy, led Yang Yuying, who was deceived by himself, and took Tan Lin, the newly appointed commander of the guard battalion, and a few plainclothes guards to stroll on the crowded street, making Yang Yuying, a lady who usually doesn't go out of the door, very happy.

When Sun Wei led Yang Yuying to the Chuwangtai Ordnance Station to explain his heroic performance at that time, they heard that the recruiting station next to the Chuwangtai Ordnance Station became full of people, disrupting the original order. Seeing the mess in the recruiting office, Sun Wei asked the guards to open the crowd and lead people in.

As soon as I entered, I saw a girl born at the age of eighteen or nineteen with clear eyebrows and beautiful lips and white teeth, pointing to the officer in the recruiting office and saying angrily: "Why don't you let me be a soldier? The officer was not angry when he saw that it was a beautiful woman, and said, "We don't have a female soldier here, and besides, women are not suitable for war." ”

The woman was furious and said, "I came for the revolution, how can you send it without a female soldier." Since I was a child, I have been able to ride a horse and shoot a gun, and there are many men who are better than you, so how can I not be suitable for being a soldier. The officer added: "We don't have a female soldier here, and it is inconvenient for you to live in the men's barracks as a woman." It's useless for you to tell me, you should go to our governor and tell you that as long as he agrees with you to be a soldier, we will let you be a soldier." ”

Sun Wei walked out of the crowd and asked, "What is your name and where is your ancestral hometown?" When the woman saw someone talking behind her back, she turned around and asked, "Who are you?" Tan Lin helped Sun Wei reply: "Don't be rude, this is our Xu Dudu." The woman didn't believe it, and turned around at Sun Wei with a face full of disbelief: "You are Sun Wei and Xu Dudu?" Are you kidding. Sun Weile said: "Where am I not like Sun Wei?" The woman said: "Too young, not much older than me, how can it be Xu Dudu." ”

The officer from the recruitment office seemed to know Sun Wei and hurried over to pay his respects. The woman's eyes widened and her face was full of surprise: "Are you really Xu Dudu?" Sun Wei smiled and nodded very forcefully.

The people in the crowd also recognized Sun Wei and rushed to salute Sun Wei, and Sun Wei waved his hand in thanks.

The woman pointed to the officer at the recruiting office and said, "I want to be a soldier, but he won't let me, and he says that women are not suitable to be soldiers." Sun Wei didn't speak yet, but Yang Yuying in the back opened her mouth first: "How did my sister think of being a soldier, that should be what their big men do, we women can do our best for the revolution in the rear." Yesterday, there was a sister named Zhang Zhujun who formed a Red Cross ambulance team, why don't I introduce my sister to him? The woman said: "My sister's kindness and sister understand it, but looking at the world today, everyone should work hard to improve themselves, and they should fulfill their national responsibilities. I am not here for any glory, but to overthrow this dark and rotten Manchu court, even if I die. ”

Yang Yuying saw that her ambition to be a soldier was very strong, and it was difficult to persuade her, so she turned to look at Sun Wei and said, "Brother Xu, what do you think." Sun Wei said: "It's not impossible to be a soldier, but if I form a women's battalion, I can't let a big man command it." The woman said, "My brother and I have learned the art of marching and fighting since I was a child, so why do I have to have a man in command?" ”

Sun Wei said: "Don't talk big, fighting is no better than anything else, you will die." The woman said, "You can ask me to recruit a battalion of female soldiers for training and see what I can do." "Sun Wei is a little bit out of the door now, this chick is here to test the waters, and there must be many women behind who want to join the army. Sun Wei said: "Is there a woman besides you who wants to join the army?" The woman said, "Of course, as long as you agree to set up a women's battalion, I can find female soldiers." ”

Sun Wei said: "What's your name?" Who are you? The woman said, "My name is Wu Shuqing, and I am now practicing martial arts at the Shenyang Normal School." Most of my other sisters are also students, and some of them are dissatisfied with their marriages and have run away from home and are now homeless. ”

Sun Wei said secretly: "They are all pioneers of the women's liberation movement!" We must help them, these homeless people are the backbone of the revolution, as long as they feel the hope of the revolution and the warmth of the revolutionary group, and let them develop a sense of identity and dependence on the revolution, they will dedicate everything to the revolution, including their own lives. ”

Sun Wei said: "Okay, I agree to set up a women's battalion, you are the pipe band, if you say something big, I can't help but remove you, and the women's battalion will be disbanded." Wu Shuqing said happily: "A word is a certainty!" ”

On the spot, Sun Wei used the paper and pen of the recruiting office to write crookedly in traditional Chinese characters that he had just learned: "Wu Shuqing is hereby appointed as the custodian of the provisional women's battalion, and all military supplies will be given to meet her requirements." The inscription was: "Sun Wei, the governor of the Hubei Military Government". Wu Shuqing got the note and thanked Sun Wei, and left happily.

Sun Wei saw that there were many people around and the number was still increasing, so they all came to watch the hero in their hearts. Sun Wei gave Tan Lin a look, Tan Lin nodded knowingly and said loudly: "Governor Xu is busy with official business, please let everyone go, don't hinder the work of the governor." ”

When the citizens of Wuchang heard this, they automatically made way for Sun Wei and his party, and Sun Wei led everyone to wave to the enthusiastic citizens of Wuchang and walked forward. After returning to the Governor's Mansion, everyone was tired and sweating, and Sun Wei couldn't stop sighing that the power of the people was too strong.

After Sun Wei sent Yang Yuying to the courtyard where Yang Yi lived, he went to take a bath by himself, and after washing, he had to deal with his official business.

Let's not talk about how hard Sun Wei works in handling official business, but let's talk about our classmate Wu Shuqing.

Wu Shuqing got the note written by Sun Wei and happily returned to the hotel, where a group of girls were already waiting for her to come back. This group of girls is no more than twenty-three or four, and the small ones are only sixteen or seventeen, not only dressed as students, but also dressed as ladies, a total of forty or fifty people, and the three houses are crowded.

When they saw Wu Shuqing coming back, they all rushed up, and dozens of mouths chattered about her situation. Wu Shuqing pushed away the crowd and drooped her head, sitting on the edge of the bed dejectedly, no matter how the girls asked, she didn't say a word.

The girls were disappointed when they saw his expression, and the atmosphere became solemn and quiet. A younger girl sat next to Wu Shuqing and comforted her: "Sister Shuqing, don't be discouraged, you don't know Li Shuqing, the wife of Liu Gong, deputy minister of the General Supervision Department, we can ask her for mercy." ”

Wu Shuqing smiled slyly, jumped out of bed and said to the little girl, "Quan Fang, we succeeded!" We can be soldiers! Hearing Wu Shuqing's words, everyone suddenly boiled and cheered. The woman named Quan Fang pretended to have a straight face and said, "Okay, Sister Shuqing, you are so bad, you dare to lie to us, see if we don't clean you up." He laughed as he spoke, and led a group of girls into a fight.

After the fight, they all sat down to listen to Wu Shuqing talk about joining the army. When they heard that Wu Shuqing saw the Metropolitan Governor Sun Wei, they were all envious, and they all asked Wu Shuzhen about Sun Wei's appearance and age. They were shocked when they learned that Sun Wei was only twenty-one or twelve, and they didn't expect that the dignified governor of the Hubei Military Government would be so young. Wu Shuqing sat on the bed again and said, "It's a pity that it's too ordinary." The girls were stunned when they heard this, they were obviously thundered by Wu Shuqing's last sentence, where is this.

With Sun Wei's note, a group of girls left the hotel in a mighty way, thinking about the departure of Chuwangtai Ordnance Institute, where to find their equipment and baggage. After arriving at the Chuwangtai Armory, they knocked on the door of the armory, and asked for a table and a few stools with Sun Wei's note, and by the way, asked for a blank banner.

A group of girls put the table next to the recruiting office, wrote on the banner "Hubei Revolutionary Army Women's Battalion Recruitment Office" and put it up, and openly recruited female soldiers here.

Many of the female students who marched rushed over as if they had found an organization when they saw the words "recruiting female soldiers", and they all crowded around the tables in the recruitment office of the women's battalion and asked to join the women's battalion. The news of the recruitment of female soldiers spread far and wide, and many ladies in Wuchang, small family jade, and peasant girls who were worried about their livelihood also joined the ranks of recruitment. Wu Shuqing asked her sisters to help maintain order, and she sat down at the table and began to register the place of origin and family status of the female students, female citizens, and peasant girls who applied for the recruitment.

By the time it got dark, they had recruited more than 100 female soldiers, all of whom were placed in the new barracks provided by the Logistics Department. The girls lay on the bed for a long time and couldn't sleep, especially the woman named Quan Fang.

Quan Fang's full name is Liang Quan Fang, and like Wu Shuqing, she is a native of Huangpi County, Hanyang Prefecture, Hubei, but her fate is far worse than Wu Shuqing. She has many brothers and sisters, and only a few acres of thin land can barely survive.

Because of her long mark, she was favored by the old pedants of the neighboring village and wanted to accept her as a concubine. The old scholar is almost seventy years old, and he is a man of great origin, who has served several terms as a county magistrate by virtue of his relatives, and has quite a lot of assets. The old pedant who had been buried in the loess to his neck was disrespectful to the old man, and gave Liang Quanfang's family a lot of dowry gifts, wanting to accept a sixteen-year-old girl as a concubine.

Liang Quanfang's parents coveted the old pedant's dowry, so they married their daughter to the old pedant. Liang Quanfang begged her parents bitterly when she found out, but her parents were indifferent. Liang Quanfang is also a person with great perseverance, knowing that it is impossible to change anything with her parents, so she moved her mind to run away from home.

Coincidentally, as soon as Liang Quanfang walked out of the house, he met Wu Shuqing and his group who came to join the army. Wu Shuqing's group also had a few people who were dissatisfied with their marriage and ran away from home, and the same experience made Liang Quanfang join Wu Shuqing's team. Early the next morning, Wu Shuqing called all the female soldiers up, and except for the two who went to recruit recruits, the rest of them started their first day of training.

Wu Shuqing used what she learned from the school and what her brother taught on these recruits, and the training of these recruits was about to fall apart, and then they knew that being a soldier was not just talking.

Sun Wei is busy, really busy. The doors of his governor's mansion were about to be broken, and the culprit was the women's camp built by Sun Weigang.

Sun Wei felt that his soldiers were really not very good, and his ideological consciousness was not very high, and when he saw that he had built a women's battalion, he thought it was a military prostitute camp, and the next day a few soldiers entered the women's camp to molest the female soldiers. To say that Wu Shuqing is really tough, the female soldiers and female generals who led him beat the soldiers who came to tease and beat them with the butts of their guns, which made those soldiers scream miserably, not to mention their bosses, even if their own mother came and didn't know each other, they were scared that other soldiers who wanted to enter the women's camp ran away. Wu Shuqing felt that she was still angry after beating them, so she tied them up again and escorted them to Sun Wei. When Sun Wei saw that the female battalion manager he had just appointed yesterday took his No. 100 female soldiers to escort a few soldiers with blue noses and swollen faces into his Governor's Mansion, he took a big jump at that time. Sun Wei has a question mark in his head, is this the situation of Shenma? After listening to Wu Shuqing's explanation, Sun Wei was also very angry, but seeing the miserable situation of those soldiers, Sun Wei was not very good at punishing them.

Sun Wei wanted to help them plead for mercy, but Wu Shuqing didn't buy it, and he had to ask Sun Wei to severely punish these hooligan soldiers and give others a warning, plus the women's army behind Wu Shuqing coaxed together, making Sun Wei noisy. In order to give a warning to the first-time offenders, in order to make the latecomers stop, Sun Wei ordered the guard battalion to pull them to the door of their barracks, and no one rewarded them with ten military sticks, and they were paid half a month's salary, and Wu Shuqing and his women's army left satisfied.

What Sun Wei didn't expect was that his actions pierced the bottom line of some people, who had already complained about the establishment of women's battalions, and now Sun Wei actually punished soldiers for the sake of women's battalions, how deviant this is in a deeply patriarchal society. The first to find Sun Wei was Tang Hualong, since his younger brother Tang Qianming's fleet came back from Jiujiang, he had a little more confidence, and this time he was dissatisfied with Sun Wei's seizure of power some time ago.

Tang Hualong led a group of so-called highly respected people to Sun Wei's governor's mansion to make nonsense, saying that Sun Wei's establishment of a women's camp was immoral and trampled on China's fine cultural traditions. Sun Wei really can't take these old and immortal people seriously, these people are about to go to the ground when they don't look at them, but they represent the gentry of the whole Hubei. (To be continued.) )