The sound of artillery continues, and the atmosphere in Changsha City is still tense. It's all propaganda bombs, exploding in the sky, and it doesn't hurt anyone. But some of the stink bombs still landed in the city, smashing the roofs of the houses, and the residents of Changsha City were still worried, and the pedestrians on the streets were exceptional.

However, in the area of Tianxin Pavilion in the south of the city, there was a group of people gathered, most of them dressed up, and they were also in a posture of farewell from the long pavilion.

These people are all members of the Hunan Constitutional Friendship Association, headed by Tan Yanxun, president of the Constitutional Friends Association and speaker of the Hunan Parliament, and a member of the Constitutional Friendship Association, named Yu Haoqing, who is also a Hunan Quanshen.

Tan Yantian raised his wine glass and drank it with Yu Haoqing.

"You don't have to send it, Yu went to the meeting alone, and he was already ready to go away and never go back, and even explained the aftermath. If you can't save the lives of the people of the city, Yu will be like this! ”

Yu Haoqing raised the empty wine glass above his head. Then he threw it hard and smashed it to pieces, with a solemn expression, quite a strong man who would never return, and the few catties standing behind him. The servants were all dead-faced, obviously not wanting to follow Yu Haoqing to death.

In fact, Yu Haoqing just went to negotiate with the commander of the Fifth Division of the Republican Army besieging the city. Although it is said that "the two armies are fighting, they will not be killed", but considering the momentum of the Southern Revolutionary Party after the Hunan Revolution, Yu Haoqing did not dare to be careless, and arranged the aftermath before leaving the city. If the negotiations fail and the embarrassed Republican Army kills the chickens and monkeys, he can be regarded as a member of the Constitutional Friends Association, who has done his best for the constitutional cause of the Constitutional Friends Association.

Originally, the Republican Army asked Tan Yantian to negotiate the surrender in person, and Tan Yanxun also agreed, but because most of the people in the Constitutional Friends Association were worried that no one would be able to order the Constitutional Friends Association after Tan Yanhe left, they finally decided to send Yu Haoqing to go on Tan Yantian's behalf and explore the wind first.

No, no, the Republican army has been besieging the city for two days, although it has not attacked the city, but it has sent cavalry to patrol and sweep around, it is impossible for the provincial constitution to move to Hengyang, and the Republican army has issued an ultimatum, if it cannot send a negotiator, the Republican army will attack this afternoon.

In the face of a republican army with high morale and ammunition. The defenders of Changsha did not have any confidence to hold the city that had just experienced a fierce street battle, as one of the consequences of that street battle, the city wall of Changsha is now incomplete, and only the rammed earth is used to block the gap in the city wall, not to mention the pipe retreat, even the earth cannon can also blow it up.

Moreover, the defenders of the city were short of ammunition and demoralized, and such a tired division could not withstand the sharp Republican army in any case.

Therefore, Yu Haoqing must negotiate with the Republican Army, and it is impossible to expect the Republican Army to retreat. At present, the only hope of the Hunan Constitutional Friendship Association is that the Republican Army will be able to open up the net and let go of these hunts of the Constitutional Friendship Association, instead of exterminating the Hunan constitutionalists and cutting down the grass and roots, as the newspapers controlled by some revolutionary parties in the south are clamoring for.

"Xiusong, take care of yourself here. Although the Republican Army has guaranteed the safety of the negotiators, there are now too many people shouting and killing in the League and the Liberation Society, and there are still many parties mixed in the besieging army. The Republican Army is reasonable, but it does not mean that these Jianghu people are also reasonable, and if a single negotiation fails, they still hope to return as soon as possible, so let's find another way.

Tan Yan replied with a few words of encouragement, and then changed the conversation. Pointing to the Tianxin Pavilion that was high above, he said: "Back then, the Hongyang long-haired thief army attacked Changsha. The thief army has been based on Tianxin Pavilion, condescending, seeing that Changsha City is about to fall, Jiang Yulou risked leading his troops to rush to kill and recapture Tianxin Pavilion, so as to hold Changsha. Jiang Ohlou is martial arts, and now you Yu Xiusong is Wenyong, if you can protect the lives of the people of Changsha, you Yu Xiusong is the hero of Changsha. ”

Yu Haoqing smiled faintly, hugged his fists to the group of Zhuzhong who saw him off, then turned around and boarded the mule cart, and took a few servants out of the city and into the republican position.

After contacting the Republican liaison officer, a team of soldiers escorted Yu Haoqing and others to Yuelu Mountain.

At the foot of Yuelu Mountain, there was already an officer waiting, and after reading the handwritten letter from Tan Yantian brought by Yu Haoqing, the officer smiled faintly and said, "Tan Yanzhi doesn't have the courage to come over, so please ask Mr. Yu to come with me." ”

"Dare to ask what the chief is called?" Before Yu Haoqing came, he deliberately studied the rank system of the Republican Army and found that the officer in front of him was a colonel. It's a high-ranking officer.

"Just call me, "Colonel Tian, all right." The man nodded, ordered the soldiers to bring a sliding pole, asked Yu Haoqing to sit on it, and then mounted his war horse and led the crowd to the mountainside.

When he arrived at the place, Yu Haoqing looked up. But he walked to Yuelu Academy.

"Wait here." After Colonel Natian gave a word of advice, he ran into the gate of the academy on foot.

Yu Haoqing stood by the sliding pole and waited for a while, only then did he see a group of people walking out of the mountain gate, led by a young officer, and most of the others were senior officers, but there were also a few people dressed as civilians, and there were even two monks to have fun.

"You are that Yu Haoqing?"

The young officer walked up to Yu Haoqing. He looked at him with his hands behind his back.

"The contemptible Yu Haoqing, cursive Xiusong, is now a member of the Hunan Provincial Assembly and a member of the Constitutional Friendship Association. This time, I was ordered to negotiate peace with your ministry, and I hope that your ministry will raise your noble hand and be sure to protect the lives of the people of Changsha. ”

Yu Haoqing bowed slightly, but before he could raise his head, he heard the officer snort coldly.

"Humph! What are these words? Could it be that our Republican Army went to Changsha to kill people and set fires? A good sentence "Save the lives of the people.!" When your Constitutional Friends staged a mutiny in Changsha and attacked the army, did you consider the interests of the people of Changsha? If it weren't for your party's hatred of the revolution and the same kind of fighting, how could this "war of rebellion" break out? Now that the great powers are around, the domestic situation is turbulent, and this is not the time for internal strife, but you constitutional diehards have driven us revolutionaries to the brink of civil war! If this war of rebellion has caused any casualties to innocent people, it is your constitutional faction and your constitutional friends who should be fully responsible for this! ”

This is said very politely, and it smells of gunpowder. ** Starter, hand. Playing ** made Yu Haoqing's already panicked heart beat faster.

"Dare to ask what the chief is called? But Commander Wu of the Fifth Division? Yu Haoqing arched his hand.

"Division Commander Wu wants to command the troops to fight, where is the spare time to talk to you?"

The young officer gave Yu Haoqing a blank look. said lightly: "I am Zhao Bei, commander-in-chief of the Republican Army." ”

"Zhao,, Commander Zhao?" Yu Haoqing was quite surprised, he really didn't expect Zhao Bei to rush to the outskirts of Changsha in person, counting the rìzi, he was afraid that he would leave Wuhan a few days ago.

"You don't have to be surprised, not long after the Fifth Division marched south, I came by boat, all the way up the Xiangjiang River, and I got ashore before dawn today, I heard that your Xianyou Association was preparing to surrender, and I planned to meet with Speaker Tan when I was visiting Yuelu Academy, but I didn't expect him to dare to come."

Zhao Bei's words solved Yu Haoqing's confusion, but at the same time, it also made his heart even more bottomless.

"Actually, it's not that Zu'an doesn't dare to come, but the Hunan Council can't do without him, and Dianfa Zu'an knows that it was the commander-in-chief who asked for it, and he will definitely rush to the taste in person against the public opinion, Commander Xin, after all, he and the commander-in-chief are also friends." Yu Haoqing set up almost.

But Zhao Bei didn't eat this set, waved his hand, and said: "Don't come to this set, Tan Yanho did have some dealings with me before, but it was purely official exchanges, as for personal relationships, the two of us can't talk about it."

The commander-in-chief's words were very clear, and he was very clear, but Yu Haoqing was not an outsider, and Wang Xuan, the special envoy of Tan Yantian and Zhang Renjun, the governor of Guangdong, went to Wuhan to "draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle." "Yu Haoqing also knows about this, if there is no such matter, the weapons and ammunition of the Communist Party will not suddenly lose its main source, if it is seriously investigated, on the issue of the Hunan and Guizhou incident, the commander-in-chief is not clean.

However, these words cannot be put on the surface, annoying the commander-in-chief, the Hunan Constitutional Friendship Association will definitely be killed without leaving a chicken and dog, offending the League and the Restoration Association is nothing, and offending President Yuan Da is nothing, but if the commander-in-chief is offended, the destruction of the Constitutional Friendship Association will be a certainty.

Yu Haoqing didn't dare to take risks, so he rationally changed the topic.

"I heard that the election of the official president of the Republic of China is about to be held, not only to elect the president! At the same time, it is necessary to elect a vice president, commander-in-chief of the vanguard of the revolution, a hero of the republic, and since the revolution, the fierce war in the south. He has made great contributions to the cause of republican constitutionalism. If a contemptible person is an election commissioner, the commander-in-chief must be elected as the vice president of the Republic of China. ”

After listening to Yu Haoqing's "confession", Zhao Bei just smiled faintly, did not respond positively, raised his finger and pointed to the mountain gate of the academy, and said to Yu Haoqing: "Mr. Yu, this Yuelu Academy is a place where scholars study hard, and they talk about fame and fortune here. It's a little cheesy. ”

In this case, isn't it for fame and fortune that people study hard at the door of the reader?

However, since the commander-in-chief said so, then there must be a deep meaning, Yu Haoqing had to say a few words, not sure what the commander-in-chief had in mind, and looked at the people around the commander-in-chief, but saw a young man about thirty years old staring at him.

"Yu Haoqing, go back and tell those villains of the Xianyou Association! If you don't open the city and surrender today, when the revolutionary army enters the city, they will definitely be killed! We, the revolutionaries, want to sacrifice the heads of these villains to the martyrs who died at the hands of traitors! ”

The young man scolded, startling Yu Haoqing, he saw that this person was wearing a dress and a top hat, and he didn't seem to be an officer of the Republican Army, so he asked, "Dare to ask who is here?" Such a wild mouth. ”

Without waiting for the young man to answer, Zhao Bei had already pointed to the man and said, "His name is Liu Jieyi, and his name is frosty." He is a high-ranking cadre of the League and one of the founders of the Communist Association, and your Constitutional Friends Association staged a coup d'état and killed many cadres and officers of the Communist Association. The murdered governor of Guizhou, Jiao Dafeng, is still his friend. ”

Yu Haoqing was stunned and said: "What does the Guizhou Elders Association have to do with the Hunan Constitutional Friendship Association?" As for the Hunan change, it is far from being as simple as it seems. Of course, the Constitutional Friendship Association has killed people, but the Communist Association has also killed people, and who is right and who is wrong cannot be made clear in a few words, and everything will be said after the investigation team sent by the Central Committee comes. ”

"You don't have to wait for a mission. Last time, the central government said that it would send an investigation team to investigate the "Xinzhou tragedy," but no one has come to see it until now, but non-governmental people in Germany and the United States have organized a committee to investigate the Xinzhou coup, as for the coup d'état in Hunan and Guizhou. The central investigation team is afraid that it will not be able to be counted on. ”

Zhao Bei interrupted Yu Haoqing's words and gave a pound to the Colonel Tian who was standing beside him. Eyes scere, and said: "Yiren, give the letter I wrote just now to this Commissioner Yu, and let him take it back and let Tan Yanxun read it." ”

Yu Haoqing took the letter and looked at it, but saw that the envelope was hot with fire paint.

Zhao Bei said: "Remember, this letter was given to Tan Yanjiao alone, he just needs to read it alone, others don't need to read it, it's useless to read it, and they can only cut off the last way of life for the Constitutional Friendship Association." Mr. Yu is a smart person, and this truth should be understood. In addition, if Changsha does not open the city and surrender before dark, our republican army will attack, and at that time. Don't complain about anything." It's better to hurry up and write the second defense of the ambush, maybe it will be useful when you go to the military court. Yiren, send Mr. Yu down the mountain, I still want to visit Yuelu Academy, so I won't be far away. ”

Tian Jinfu led people to send Yu Haoqing down the foot of the mountain. Zhao Bei walked back to Yuelu Academy with everyone.

"Shuangsheng, I heard that you studied at Yuelu Academy when you were a teenager, but you don't know what you learned?" Zhao Bei asked Liu Yuanyi.

Liu Tieyi smiled bitterly and said: "It's not that old-fashioned, back then I still dreamed of taking the test to show talent and test people, now looking back, those years were really wasted, if it weren't for the elder brother I met in this academy, this Yuelu Academy is afraid that there will be nothing to remember." Now all provinces are running new schools, and this Yuelu Academy is deserted. It is good to clear it, so as not to mislead people's children, but it is also a destination to make a cultural memorial hall in the future. ”

After a few words, Liu Yuan changed his words and asked: "Just now, Yu Haoqing wanted to use the position of vice president to win over the commander-in-chief, but I don't know why the commander-in-chief disdains it?" ”

Zhao Bei smiled and said: "I am suitable to be a general, and if I am the president, there seems to be a more suitable candidate than me now." ”

"Oh? I wonder who is more suitable to be this vice president in the Commander-in-Chief's mind? Liu Yuanyi asked.

Zhao Bei shook his head and said, "Today, we are here to visit, not to discuss politics." I stayed in Changsha for less than a day, and I was about to rush back to Wuhan, so let's not say anything else, just devote ourselves to the mountains and rivers. It's rare to have free time to play, let's go to Wenchang Pavilion to have a look. ”

Everyone followed in the footsteps of the commander-in-chief, and although Liu Yuanyi also followed, he was still thinking about the official presidential election.

Now that the war of rebellion has broken out, the rebel armies of all walks of life are progressing smoothly, and the merger of the League and the Liberation Association has basically been negotiated, if a presidential election is held at this time and a full president and vice president are elected. The Southern Revolutionaries are fully capable of challenging Yuan Shikai and the Beiyang Group, and the main purpose of Liu Jieyi and others remaining by Zhao Bei's side is also this.

If you can't overturn Yuan Shikai. The Southern Revolutionaries decided to win the race for vice president, and now the most promising person to become vice president, in addition to the leader of the coalition party, is Li Yuanhong, who is precisely Zhao Bei's subordinate, so if the South really wants to win the vice presidential race, it must respect Zhao Bei's opinion.

"Perhaps, it would be more appropriate for Li Huanglu to be the vice president, if Zhao Zhenhua is willing to run for election. The South has a bigger chance of winning. ”

Liu Yuanyi pondered it carefully, but he also quickly realized that what Zhao Bei valued was not a false name, but strength.

Strength determines everything, strength brings confidence!

The commander-in-chief is very powerful and confident, and Liu Jieyi firmly believes this.