Chapter Twenty-Three: The Great Era
Hearing Zhao Bei's new interpretation of the revolution, he was happy to be a soldier, but the idealists of the Qunzhi Society did not think so, for them, participating in the revolution was to expel the Tartars, to restore China, and to make this dying nation strong again! Grab money, grab land, rob girls? I'm afraid it's not that time yet! In this way, what is the difference with those parties? Besides, the scenery of the flag people is a thing of the past, and the current flag people, in addition to their high status, are not much different from the Han people, and many of them are quite miserable, so they are more ambitious, and they can ride on the heads of the Han people with courage.
Zhao Bei glanced at several senior officers standing under the review stand, and saw that their faces were a little unpleasant, knowing that they had opinions.
It is normal to have opinions, the same rice to raise a hundred kinds of people, people have their own ideas, those who have no ideas are wooden people, if you want to unify the thinking of the troops, it is not possible to do it overnight.
But they should indeed be comforted, so Zhao Bei changed his words and said: "However, as revolutionary soldiers, of course we can't just grab this and that, we are not bandits, nor are we the Eight Banners soldiers who entered the customs and plundered back then, so even if we rob money and food, we must rob in an orderly and organized manner!" That's what the army of Napoleon, the Western god of war, did! The looted things are handed over and distributed in a unified manner, and it is absolutely not allowed to rob them privately! We also have military discipline, and if we violate military discipline, others can be accommodating, but I will not be accommodating! You can't even grab a toothpick without my orders! I won't be stingy with what you deserve, and you must not stretch out your hand if you don't deserve it! Let's only rob the enemy, not the people! We are revolutionary soldiers, not bandits, and we have to be disciplined! Discipline is combat effectiveness! I have handed over this matter of formulating military discipline for the revolutionary army to the comrades of the Qunzhi Society, and soon, we will be able to have our own military discipline regulations, and once they are formulated, no officer or soldier shall violate them, otherwise, military law will be carried out! ……”
After half an hour of impassionedness, he finally completed the mobilization speech, Zhao Bei took a German ** kettle, drank a small half in one go, raised his hand to wipe his mouth, and looked at Duan Fang and Yin Chang who were kneeling next to the review stand. Several soldiers were serving the two of them to eat and drink with wine and meat, Yin Chang was eating meat and drinking wine, but Duan Fang was paralyzed, and the mud was generally supported, and the wine bowl was brought to his mouth, and he didn't know how to open his mouth, and the soldier who fed him to drink was not impatient, so he reached out and pinched his chin, opened his mouth and poured it hard, choking Duanfang's snot and tears.
Tian Jinfu, who was guarding the two, ran up to the review stand, stood up and saluted, and said, "Report!" Duan Fang and Yin Chang have finished eating wine and meat, are they going to be executed now? ”
Zhao Bei glanced at Yin Chang and asked, "Has the executioner been found?" ”
"The ministry has played a ghost knife." Tian Jinfu raised his head and said.
"Then it's up to you." Zhao Bei turned his head because he found that Yin Chang was looking at him with a strange look, which made him very uncomfortable, making a dying person stare at him, no matter who changed it, he would avoid the other party's gaze.
Tian Jinfu walked down the review stand, waved his hand, and said, "Raise the cannon!" ”
"Wait! I have something to say! Yin Chang struggled to his feet and shouted to Zhao Bei.
"Bring him over and talk." Zhao Bei nodded towards Tian Jinfu.
The soldier escorted Yin Chang over, and wanted to order him to kneel, but was stopped by Zhao Bei.
"What do you want to say?" Zhao Bei asked. "If you have any last words, if you want to write them down, you can also write them down."
"You're the vanguard officer who instigated the mutiny? On what charges did you kill us? Yin Chang was surprised by Zhao Bei's youth.
"Yes, I am the vanguard of the revolution." Zhao Bei grimaced. "Killing you is not a personal vendetta, but a public outrage! Not only to avenge the soldiers you killed, but also to sacrifice the flag! At the same time, it is also to make our revolutionary position clear. ”
"Revolutionary position? Grab money, grab land, rob girls? Yin Chang smiled miserably, but no one paid attention to him after laughing for a long time, and then he asked stupidly, "Is it a gun or a knife?" ”
"Knives." Zhao Bei raised his head and looked at the graves in the distance. "It's the devil's knife you ordered Goshha to slash those soldiers."
"You made up that crappy story, right?" Yin Chang asked with a pale face.
"What's the story?" Zhao Bei was slightly stunned.
"Yuan Shikai's story, you asked Bing Ding to tell it deliberately outside the door of the prison cell. Does Yuan Shikai have the courage to kill the emperor? I'm afraid you made it up, right? What is your purpose in making up this story? ”
Zhao Bei said meaningfully: "It doesn't matter if Yuan Shikai poisoned Guangxu or not, the important thing is that Guangxu was indeed poisoned." So, it's not necessarily just a story. "I can't let Yin Chang be verbose anymore, and with a wave of his hand, several soldiers escorted Yin Chang down and knelt with Duan Fang.
"Kill! Kill! ”
The soldiers clamoured.
A cannon rang out, the sword flashed, and the two heads fell to the ground, and then hung high on the flagpole, dangling in the wind.
"Report, the culprit has been executed!" Tian Jinfu ran up to the review stand and said.
Looking at the two headless corpses, Zhao Bei felt a little emotional.
"When they slashed and killed soldiers, they probably didn't think that they would die under the same ghost-headed knife."
This is war! It is a life-and-death struggle between the two groups, and it is also a fierce collision between the two eras, this war needs sacrifices, those soldiers are sacrifices, Yin Chang is also a sacrifice, if he Zhao Bei does not do well, then, the next victim is him.
"Report!"
Just when Zhao Bei sighed, Zou Runyou ran over and stood under the review platform to salute.
"Say." Zhao Bei retracted his gaze.
"I received a telegram from the War Department of the Puppet Qing Dynasty, which was forwarded by a foreign gunboat on the Yangtze River, and it was sent to Duanfang and Yinchang."
"Read!"
"Yes! …… In this Anqing rebellion, the rebels occupied the provincial wall, the bandits rose up, and the south of the Yangtze River was shaken, fearing that it would become a trend of erosion. I hereby order your department to march eastward quickly, go all out to suppress it, and level it out in an instant! Military Aircraft Division, War Department. Stem. ”
Zhao Bei glanced at the newspaper in Zou Runyou's hand, with a sneer on the corner of his mouth. Now the rebel troops not only have the radio station, but also the Qing army's telegraph codebook, it can be said that all the actions of the Qing court's troops cannot escape their eyes, but unfortunately, the current wireless telegraph communication distance is too short, the Qing army is not equipped with a few radios, and the domestic signals received are very few, but foreign steamers on the Yangtze River send out some clear code telegrams from time to time.
"How do I call back?" Zou Runyou raised his head and looked at the two human heads dangling on the flagpole. "Just take this opportunity to electrify the uprising!"
Zhao Bei shook his head and said, "No! Now that there is no electricity to revolt, since the Qing court is still in a dream, let them continue to dream. The reply was written: Our army has marched eastward, and I hope that the War Department will quickly give a brief account of the movements of the new troops and patrol units in various provinces, so as to deal with the situation; In addition, there were a large number of gunboats on the Yangtze River, and Wangsu sent cadres to advance eastward, densely covering Jiangning and Shanghai, intimidating the Hui Party and defending the important financial areas in the south of the Yangtze River. ”
……
To the west!
At nine o'clock in the morning of November 22, 1908, Zhao Bei, the "vanguard officer of the revolutionary army", personally presided over the braiding ceremony of all the officers outside Huangnigang Town, and then killed Duanfang and Yinchang in front of the army, and officially swore to go west after burning all the baggage boats.
The revolutionary army was organized into two echelons, and advanced rapidly to the west along the road built by the new army in Qiucao, with Zhao Bei as the commander-in-chief, Wu Zhenhan as the commander of the first echelon, and Yang Wangpeng as the commander of the second echelon.
"When will I wake up after a long dream for a thousand years, and who will make the alarm bell ring. East Asia Xiongzhou will sink the land, and listen to the lyrics of a song...... Don't send Shaoguang to the old, and the old man is self-pitying. Catching up with Japan, Europe and the United States, the world's civilization is the first to open. ……”
The red flag hunting, the military song is loud, the morale is like a rainbow, and the era known as the "Wushen Revolution" in history has officially kicked off.