Chapter 101: Opportunity

The Huguang Governor's Office was brightly lit, and when the Eighth Battalion of the project had just begun to revolt, someone quickly reported to the Huguang Governor Ruizi, who was shocked and hurriedly sent someone to invite Zhang Biao, the governor of Hubei and the commander of the eighth town of the new army, and Tie Zhong, the commander of the second standard of the new first town in Hubei. Zhang Biao saw that Rui Zheng was frightened and uneasy, so he comforted: "The rebels have no unified command, they are just a rabble, the governor does not need to panic, and he immediately brought people to suppress it." After saying that, Zhang Biao walked out. Zhang Biao ordered the commanders of the associations, standards, and battalions to stop the internal response on the one hand, and on the other hand, to send reliable troops to suppress them. However, the commanders of the associations, standards, and battalions left the barracks one after another, fearing that they would be killed by the revolutionary party.

When there was no one to command the barracks, Sun Wei asked Xiong Bingkun to send the members of the Communist Association into the barracks to pacify the soldiers, and the revolutionaries and revolutionaries in the barracks responded to encourage the soldiers to revolt, and then they all joined up with the ordnance station. Sun Wei reorganized the responding rebel army according to their original numbers, and asked them to elect their own team leaders, platoon commanders, and commanders, and assemble them at the ordnance station to listen to them. The attacking troops sent people to report that the battle was going well, and the occasional resistance was scattered by the revolutionary army.

Soon the revolutionary army attacked the door of the Huguang Governor's Office, and the attack was blocked. There were four machine guns in the Huguang Governor's Office, and the revolutionary army, which was being beaten like a rain of guns, did not dare to show its head. Xiong Bingkun sent someone to report that the Governor's Office could not be attacked for a long time, and whether it could be attacked with fire. Sun Wei knew that the Huguang Governor's Office was captured by fire in history, but it also destroyed this magnificent building. If there is nothing to do with Sun Wei if he follows the development of history, and when his identity is revealed after the success of the revolution, then he, a little man with no power and no background, will be buried in the long river of history. Sun Wei immediately rejected Xiong Bingkun's suggestion and immediately marched to the governor's office with the troops he had just assembled.

When he arrived at the gate of the Governor's Office, Sun Wei saw Xiong Bingkun and Luo Bingshun, both of whom were dusty and tired. Xiong Bingkun said: "Commander-in-chief, on the opposite side is the descendant of Hubei Governor Zhang Biao's descendant troops, about 1,000 people, there are four water machine guns, and the brothers were all killed by them. Sun Wei looked at the Governor's Office opposite, and the four machine guns were frantically spewing flames. Sun Wei knew that it was time for him to behave, if he could survive, the future would be rewritten, and if he unfortunately died, it would not be in vain this time.

Sun Wei said: "Deputy Commander Xiong, you bring someone to cover me for firepower, and I will take someone to rush once." Xiong Bingkun hurriedly said: "No, you are the commander-in-chief, and you have to command the battle, this is too dangerous, so I'll lead the team to rush once." ”

Sun Wei said: "They are all revolutionary comrades, my Sun Wei's life is life, your life is also life, there is no difference, not to mention that I have a very powerful weapon." I will now appoint you as the acting commander, and I will lead the team to charge once. With that, he called over the two men who had been guarding him to help him carry his bag, opened the bag containing the weapon, and filled the two guns with bullets, each equipped with a magazine. Sun Wei gave a gun to the soldier who helped him with the weapon and asked, "What's your name?" ”

The soldier said: "Report to the commander-in-chief, my name is Wang Hu, and I belong to the second shed of the first row of the front team of the eighth battalion of the project. Sun Wei asked another soldier who was following him, "Where are you?" Another soldier said: "Report to the commander-in-chief, my name is Liu Fei, and I am in the same shed as Wang Hu." Sun Wei said: "Okay, you will be my guards in the future." The two said in unison: "Yes!" ”

After Sun Wei handed them how to use AK-47 and grenades, he took a pistol and hung up the grenade, and led the two of them and a hundred death squads to rush to the governor's office, Xiong Bingkun led the rest of the troops to prepare to respond. More than 100 people formed a straggler camp and charged forward, Sun Wei felt the bullets whizzing past his ears, although people were constantly knocked down, but the open space in front of the Governor's Office was not wide, and he quickly rushed to a place forty or fifty meters away from the Governor's Office in the night.

Sun Wei, Wang Hu, and Liu Fei all took off their grenades, pulled out the pull rings, and threw them at the machine gun's ring fortifications. Perhaps Sun Wei threw a grenade during military training, which was very accurate, and immediately blew up a fortification, making a machine gun dumb fire. Wang Hu and Liu Fei were so strong that they smashed into the wall, but they also bounced into the crowd and knocked down a group of people. Immediately they threw a second grenade, which was off the rails but spread to the machine-gun position, and the machine-guns were all silent.

Xiong Bingkun in the back was stunned, what a big killer! The bombs we made can only be counted as firecrackers in this comparison. Xiong Bingkun immediately realized that he should have made a general attack, and then jumped out of the hidden fortifications and shouted: "Brothers, rush!" "Take the lead in killing the Governor's Office. Zhang Biaobu saw that the revolutionary army had such a big killing weapon, and saw that the two people who rushed to the front were each holding a strange gun, which was comparable to the Makqin heavy machine gun, but it was lighter and more flexible than the Makqin heavy machine gun, and suddenly lost morale and ran backwards. Zhang Biao personally led the team to supervise the battle, and even killing a few deserters could not change the decline, but the number of people who fled became more and more blocked. Zhang Biao knew that the general trend had gone against the courage and became colder, so he led the remnants of the heavy battalion and crossed the river by Wenchang Gate along the city wall.

Sun Wei led the team into the Governor's Office, and saw that the Governor's Office was in a mess, and many people surrendered. Sun Wei ordered someone to catch a soldier and inquire about it, only to learn that the governor of Huguang had fled at the beginning of the uprising, and only Zhang Biao's descendants of about 1,500 people were blocking the revolutionary army. Sun Wei ordered Xu Shaobin to lead a platoon of the front team to garrison here, count the property of the governor's office, and then lead the troops back to the Chuwangtai Ordnance Station. At this time, the sky was already bright, and the Chuwangtai Ordnance Station was already crowded with people, with a preliminary estimate of four or five thousand people. Everyone admired Sun Wei's courage in attacking the governor's office, and Sun Wei held the "big killing weapon" and military salary, so everyone obeyed Sun Wei's leadership.

At this time, although the revolutionary army was outnumbered and powerful, it was in urgent need of officers, and the officers were all propertied or inextricably linked to the Qing court, although they did not dare to prevent the uprising, they did not dare to go along with the uprising, for fear that the Qing army would counterattack and be liquidated by the Qing army. Sun Wei immediately sent Xiong Bingkun to lead the second and third platoons of the front team and the right team of Yang Jinlong's headquarters to receive the official money bureau, the two bureaus of silver and copper coins, and the treasury office, and inspect the street security of Wuchang City, where he reorganized the army and strived to recover the three towns of Wuhan.

Sun Wei first invited the leaders of the Literary Society, the Communist Advancement Association, and the revolutionary army with officers in the New Army to the ordnance institute to discuss the reorganization of the army. The largest of the officers of the New Army uprising was only one squad officer, and the rest were platoon commanders and principal and deputy officers. When discussing the reorganization of the army, many people thought that the officers of the army should be selected from among the officers who had fled, because the old officers had the prestige to serve the public. Xu Wei thought to himself: "If you choose the old officer and Lao Tzu, you are a duke who selflessly cherishes your reputation, and you are afraid that people will say that you love power and make a revolution for the sake of being an official, but Lao Tzu is not afraid." Lao Tzu worked hard and couldn't cheapen others. Sun Wei persuaded; I know that the Zhugong Revolution is for the sake of our Chinese nation and the Chinese people. But think about it, who are those old officers who have escaped. They were the lackeys and minions of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and they did not dare to stop us when they knew that our revolution was the will of the people. If they were allowed to become officers again, then China would still be restored to before the revolution, and the blood of so many of our comrades would have been shed in vain. This is not really patriotic. True patriotism means that we unite to defeat the old warlords and the feudal forces. Besides, we have only recovered Wuchang, and the whole Chinese people are still in dire straits, and we should unite as one to restore the whole of China. The Zhugong Revolution has not yet succeeded, and comrades still need to work hard! ”

Everyone was enthusiastic about what Sun Wei said: "May the world be fair!" Sun Wei said: "I and Zhugong worked hard to recover the whole of China. ”

After untying everyone's knots, Sun Wei began to reorganize the troops.

Sun Wei served as the commander-in-chief of the Hubei Revolutionary Army, and Xiong Bingkun was the deputy commander-in-chief.

Sun Wei selected the able-bodied from the revolutionary army and set up a guard battalion, with Wang Hu and Liu Fei as the chief and deputy managers. There are four brigades, each with five squadrons, and each squadron with five squadrons. The brigade shall have a principal and deputy captain, a squadron shall have a principal and deputy squadron leader, and a squadron shall have a principal and deputy squadron leader. Sun Wei set ten people in each squad, and the whole battalion totaled 1,000 and 20 people. The officers of the guard battalion were all selected from the death squads that followed Sun Wei's charge, and even the squad leaders selected from elsewhere did not have a background in the Gongjin Society.

The former 15th Infantry Association was blocked in the barracks at the beginning of the uprising, and only nearly 2,000 people left behind by the officers and some soldiers were left. Sun Wei selected 1,200 people from among them and set them as the second standard of the Hubei Revolutionary Army, with Cai Jimin and Ma Mingxi as the chief and deputy standard commanders, and the two battalions under the command of the third battalion and the fourth battalion of the Hubei Revolutionary Army, Hu Xiaoqian and Xu Daming as the main and deputy leaders of the third battalion, and Wu Xinghan and Fang Wei as the main and deputy leaders of the fourth battalion. Cai Jimin and Ma Mingxi were ordered to immediately reorganize the troops, and after resting and eating, they joined forces with the guard battalion led by Sun Wei to attack Hanyang and take the Hanyang Arsenal as soon as possible.

Sun Wei set up the first standard of the Hubei Revolutionary Army, and Xiong Bingkun and Zhou Dingyuan served as the chief and deputy standard. There are two battalions for the first and second battalions of the Hubei Revolutionary Army, with Xu Shaobin and Jin Zhaolong serving as the principal and deputy leaders of the first battalion, and Xu Shaobin and Luo Bingshun serving as the principal and deputy conductors of the second battalion. The first standard of the Hubei Revolutionary Army is also 1,200 people, which is composed of the 8th Battalion of the original Engineering and the remainder of the 15th Association.

The first artillery battalion was set up as the first artillery battalion of the Hubei Revolutionary Army, with Xu Wannian and Cai Hanqing as the principal and deputy leaders, and there were only more than 400 officers and men left in the original eighth artillery battalion and the artillery corps of Li Yuanhong's uprising, and Sun Wei had to select from the surveying and mapping school and educated soldiers to reach the full strength of 576 people, after all, artillery is a technical branch of the army.

Sun Wei set up a baggage team for the first battalion of the Hubei Revolutionary Army, because most of the baggage team was taken away by Zhang Biao, so most of the personnel of the baggage team were Li Yuanhong's 21st mixed auxiliary baggage team, and the **** Sheng and Zhang Bin, who led the 21st mixed brigade to respond, were the main and deputy pipe belts. The battalion consisted of two teams of 300 men.

Sun Wei set up an engineering battalion as the first engineering battalion of the Hubei Revolutionary Army, with Cheng Zhengying and Guan Xinyuan as the main and deputy pipe belts. The battalion consisted of two teams of 300 men.

After the reorganization was completed, there were still 241 people who were set up by Sun Wei as the military police battalion, and the only officer in charge of the gendarmerie battalion was named Zhang Shouyi, and the adjutant was originally a platoon commander named Han Dong. This gendarmerie battalion is not really a gendarme, just a name.

When Sun Wei was working hard to reorganize the troops and prepare to recover the entire three towns of Wuhan, Tang Hualong's family was also full of people. At the beginning of the uprising, Tang Hualong's door was closed and he hid at home and waited and watched. When Tang Hualong learned that the revolutionary army had defeated Rui Cheng and Zhang Biao in the Governor's Office, he understood that it was time for him to come out and speculate. He knew that the revolutionary party did not have a single person available politically, and if he turned to the revolution at this time with his prestige, then the minister of civil affairs would definitely be himself. Therefore, after dawn, he summoned his colleagues from the Hubei Consultative Bureau to his home to discuss how to maximize his own interests and strive to obtain the fruits of the victory of the revolution. On the other hand, he sent people to the Chuwangtai Ordnance Institute to invite representatives of the revolutionary party to discuss the formation of a military government.

The military literacy of the Hubei New Army is generally very high, because the soldiers selected by Zhang Zhidong when he founded the Hubei New Army were all good people and strong and strong, without the accumulated habits of the old army, well-disciplined and well-trained. Although the combat effectiveness of the reorganized soldiers has decreased, Sun Wei believes that through the baptism of the battle formation and the run-in between the robes, the combat effectiveness will soon improve.

At the end of the reorganization of the soldiers, Sun Wei saw the officer leading a dozen soldiers to press a person towards the Chuwangtai Ordnance Station, and it seemed that the people were reluctant to come to the place. The officer Sun Wei knew Cheng Dingguo, one of the more than 40 people who followed Xiong Bingkun to revolt first. Sun Wei saw that the detained person was well-dressed and should be from a rich family, and guessed that it should be Li Yuanhong.

Sun Wei hurriedly greeted him and said to Cheng Dingguo: "Cheng Teamzheng, what are you doing, how are you doing that robbery." Zhou Dingguo said: "The team is right? At this time, Wang Hu next to Sun Wei hurriedly said: "The commander-in-chief has promoted you to the team." Cheng Dingguo was pleasantly surprised: "Commander-in-Chief Xie Xu!" Sun Wei said in his heart: "It seems that there are still people who like to be officials." Said to Cheng Dingguo: "What's the matter with you?" Without waiting for Cheng Dingguo to answer, Li Yuanhong hurriedly said: "I am Li Yuanhong, the 21st Mixed Association Commander, who was kidnapped by Commander-in-Chief Xu's subordinates at gunpoint, please Commander-in-Chief Xu to me." ”

Although Sun Wei knew the reason, he still pretended to be very angry and said to Cheng Dingguo: "I heard that Li Yuanhong did not lead his troops to resist, why did he arrest him!" Cheng Dingguo hurriedly said: "We want to invite Li Xietong to come out and preside over the plan, not persecution." Li Yuanhong hurriedly said: "The revolutionary party is full of talents, and Commander-in-Chief Xu is even more wise and martial, what do you want me to do." ”

Sun Wei said: "I know that Li Xietong is a great talent, I want to abdicate and make way for Xian, let Li Xietong be the commander-in-chief, how about the three towns of Wuhan to be the governor of the Hubei Military Government in the future?" Sun Wei knew that Li Yuanhong would not respond to his words and let him say it to death. Li Yuanhong didn't know what to do: "This move is a big matter, so we must be cautious." I am not a revolutionary party, I am not qualified to be the governor, the qualified one is Sun Wen, why don't you take him as the governor. (To be continued.) )