It's getting dark, but the office is still brightly lit.

Zhao Bei and his colleagues are still working overtime here.

Now the economy is weak, for this kind of small trading companies has reached the critical juncture of life and death, due to the loss of several large orders, these days the boss is depressed, fired a few lazy employees in a row, therefore, the rest of the people are a lot more honest, the boss did not say to let go, then no one wants to get off work.

As a twenty-five-year-old young salesman, Zhao Bei's sales performance is very good, and he is also valued by the boss, and now everyone is staring at the orders in his hand.

Zhao Bei sorted out the order forms, raised his head and looked at the boss, but saw that he was still sitting behind the door with an iron face, holding the company's current accounts for the last month in a daze. Zhao Bei sighed in his heart, as an employee, he sympathized with the boss, after all, the company couldn't go on, everyone broke up, and no one could get down.

In this solemn atmosphere, the office was eerily quiet, and only the ticking of the wall clock could be heard.

Suddenly, the mobile phone rang, judging from the familiar march, it was Zhao Bei's copycat mobile phone ringing.

Everyone raised their heads to look at Zhao Bei, and the boss's eyes almost lit up.

Zhao Bei lifted the cover of the mobile phone with a somewhat trembling hand, but saw a few lines of words flashing on the mobile phone screen, which was a text message:

"Want to cross? If you want, press 1; If you don't want to, press 2; If you don't, you will default to the choice of traversing. ”

Zhao Bei muttered: "It's not a customer's phone, it's a spam text message." ”

There was a sigh in the office, and the boss's iron-clad face was almost black.

Zhao Beizheng was about to close his phone, but after glancing at the phone screen again, he changed his mind, because this text message was really weird.

When this mood is depressed, it is not bad to adjust it appropriately, not to mention, as a happy bachelor, Zhao Beiping's biggest hobby is to read time-traveling novels on the Internet.

So, without hesitation, he pressed the "1" and watched the lines disappear from the screen.

"No more follow-up?" Zhao Bei is a little strange, according to past experience, text messages like this are often one after another, but now, the mobile phone screen has become blank.

Just when it was strange, the mobile phone suddenly erupted with a dazzling white light, enveloping Zhao Bei's whole person.

"Ah—————— don't buy knockoffs—————— Zhao Bei's screams came out of the white light, and after a burst of "crackling", his whole person disappeared with the rapidly fading white light, the desk became empty, and several orders fell fluttering on the floor, and then, everything fell silent.

In front of everyone's eyes, the "ace salesman" Zhao Bei disappeared like this, and disappeared with his copycat mobile phone.

After a while, the colleagues came back to their senses, and suddenly panicked, drilled the table after the table, and made phone calls, and the boss was even darker and fainted.

Although the police, reporters and even feng shui masters have tried hard to track down Zhao Bei's whereabouts, nothing has been found, and Zhao Bei's disappearance has become a mystery, and no one will see him again in the future.

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Zhao Bei only felt that his eyes were dark, and the whole person seemed to have fallen into the abyss, and in a whirlwind of the sky, he fell down heavily, smashed on the roof, and then rolled down the eaves to the street, grinning with his teeth.

"Ouch!"

After snorting miserably, Zhao Bei regained his senses, but it was still dark in front of him, and he looked up at the sky and saw some stars.

It's not Venus, it's the stars in the night sky, it's night, the wind and the moon are cold, and it's silent.

"What are you kidding? Really crossed? Zhao Bei stood up, touched the corner of his forehead, raised his head, and saw a lantern hanging under the eaves behind him, and the eaves and lanterns were in a simple shape.

Thinking back to the scene just now, he felt like he was in a dream.

The familiar mobile phone rang, looking for prestige, Zhao Bei saw his copycat mobile phone, the "culprit" that caused him to cross is now lying at his feet.

In the darkness, the small color screen on the side of the mobile phone flickered stubbornly, and the melodious march sounded particularly loud in the silent street.

Zhao Bei leaned over and picked up the phone, glanced at the screen, but saw that there was another text message on it:

"Congratulations on your successful crossing! It is now November 1908 and the location is Anqing City, Anhui Province. After receiving this message, please throw the phone 20 meters away within 5 seconds, because the phone is about to self-destruct, if you don't want to be blown up, throw it now. Now, start the self-destruct countdown, five ...... Four ......"

"!" Zhao Bei looked at these cold text messages, cursed, and threw this damn knockoff out without hesitation.

In a hurry, Zhao Bei didn't observe carefully, just followed the trend of the street and threw the phone out with all his might. After the phone was taken off, he let out a long sigh of relief, and then quickly crawled to the ground, covering his ears with his hands.

A few seconds later, there was a "boom", a flame accompanied by a deafening loud sound, and the small and exquisitely crafted copycat mobile phone exploded, and the scorching air wave mixed with brick and stone fragments came all over the sky, spilling all over the street, and even Zhao Bei suffered a lot of broken tiles.

"! What kind of battery? This knockoff just can't be bought! Zhao Bei tried to calm himself down, recalling the scene when he bought a mobile phone, and felt more and more that the mobile phone dealer was full of smiling faces, not like a good person.

"Crossed? In 1908? The last years of the Qing Dynasty? Three years later will be 1911, the Xinhai Revolution, the great era. Zhao Bei looked up, and saw a wolf near the landing point of the mobile phone, in the firelight, there were shadows and shadows, and some figures could be seen, crying wolves, hugging their heads and running around, and the background was a collapsed city wall, and the huge gap in the city wall was obviously the "masterpiece" of the mobile phone. What surprised him even more was that it was only now that he found that just across the street corner not far from him, the row of low houses along the street was full of soldiers with rifles, and the few lanterns hanging under the eaves of the shops on the street showed their faces full of astonishment, which surprised Zhao Bei a lot.

The GIs all had big pigtails on the back of their heads, apparently confirming that the text messages from their mobile phones —————— it was the Qing Dynasty.

"It's over, no braids." Zhao Bei stretched out his hand and touched the back of his head, waiting for those soldiers to rush up and catch him, the "anti-thief" who did not keep braids, to receive the reward.

But unexpectedly, the pigtailed soldiers did not come forward to arrest the "anti-thief", but after a moment of hesitation, they broke out into a burst of cheers.

"The gates have exploded!"

"The patrol team is running!"

"That man blew open the gates! Who knows? ”

"It's not like our people. Without braids, is it a 'election striker' sent by the Democratic Party? That bomb of his was so powerful, more powerful than a cannonball. ”

"It doesn't matter who he is, it's all in the same boat anyway. Xue Guan, lead us out and answer the people outside the city! ”

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This corps huddled on the street corner and made a noise is the new army in the city of Anqing, which belongs to the 2nd Infantry Battalion of the 62nd Standard (Regiment) of the 31st Mixed Association (Brigade) of the New Army of the Qing Empire, and the leader is Xue Zhe, the commander of the battalion, with a total of more than 100 officers and soldiers, which is only the size of a team (company). This unit is usually stationed in the infantry battalion school yard inside the north gate of Anqing City, and according to military law, they must not be mobilized without a warrant from Lord Futai, but now, this team of more than 100 people has left their posts without permission, pulled out of the barracks at night, and drove to the area around the north gate, where they have been lurking here for a long time.

The reason for this is very simple, because according to the plan of the revolutionaries, the troops of the New Army of the 31st Anhui Mixed Association will launch an uprising tonight, capture the provincial capital of Anqing, and fire the first shot of the New Army's anti-Qing uprising.

As early as more than a year ago, a small-scale anti-Qing uprising broke out in the city of Anqing, the city's patrol police office, Taoist, and member of the Guangfu Society, Xu Xilin, took advantage of the opportunity of the graduation ceremony of the Anhui Patrol Police Academy, led the patrol police students to launch an uprising, and stabbed to death the Anhui Governor Enming, who participated in the ceremony, although the uprising was declared a failure after a few hours, but the flame of the revolution was not extinguished, it was just hidden in the ground, as long as the time came, it could turn into a fire and rush to the ground, sweeping away the old decay.

The uprising was only a small part of the surging revolutionary wave at the end of the Qing Dynasty, with the further expansion of the power of the great powers, the land of China was full of devastation, coupled with the decay and hopelessness of the Manchu officialdom of the crazy oppression, the grass people have long been unable to live, the homeless people, bandits, and the Hui Party have become the main force of the rebellion, this land of China has been full of beacons, wolf smoke everywhere, the Manchu Dynasty this dilapidated house in the wind and rain creaking, crumbling.

A few days ago, news came from the capital that the Empress Dowager Cixi, who had been in charge of the Qing Empire for more than 40 years, had died on November 15, and the day before her death, the puppet in her hands, the nominal emperor Guangxu of the Qing Empire had also died suddenly in Yingtai house arrest, but in just two days, the political scene of the Qing Empire changed abruptly, and the three-year-old Huangkou child Puyi inherited the unification, changed the Yuan "Xuantong", and became the emperor of the Qing Empire. The revolutionaries, led by the Liberation Society, decided to rise up again and fire the first shot of the New Army uprising in Anqing City, awakening the sleeping people with their actions.

In the past, most revolutionaries relied on the Hui Party to raise incidents, but after Lian suffered a crushing defeat, they realized that the Hui Party's discipline was lax and could not be trusted, so they began to turn their attention to the New Army and instigated an uprising of the New Army.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the formation and training of the new army, which began in 1894 in the Sino-Japanese War, in view of the fact that the combat effectiveness of the old army at that time was too weak to resist foreign humiliation, the Western-style real power figures represented by Hu Liao, the envoy of Guangxi, and Zhang Zhidong, the acting governor of Liangjiang, wrote to the imperial court, suggesting that the new army should be trained according to the military system of the Western powers, so as to maintain the rule of the dynasty Soon after, this army was transferred to Yuan Shikai for training, and since then it has been in his hands, establishing Yuan Shikai's position as the originator of the Beiyang warlords. In 1900, the Eight-Nation Coalition invaded China, although a peace treaty was later signed, but the situation in the whole country was turbulent, and the rule of the Qing court was in jeopardy, in order to save the declining situation, the Qing court accelerated the pace of the new army's formation and training, while sending a large number of students to Japan for further study to improve the quality of officers, while cutting out the old army, saving military expenses to expand the new army, planning to organize and train the new army in 36 towns (divisions) throughout the country, with a total of nearly 400,000 standing troops.

According to this ambitious training plan, Anhui Province should organize and train the New Army and one town, but due to the lack of funds, despite the efforts of several governors, it was only organized and trained into a mixed association, which was to temporarily organize the 31st Mixed Association, which was stationed inside and outside the city of Anqing in the province, and pressed down on the ground.

A month ago, the Qing Army's headquarters held a new army drill in Taihu Lake (note) in Anhui Province according to the original plan to test the combat effectiveness of the new army and familiarize itself with the combat environment and terrain in the south. As the host of the exercise, the Anhui New Army also sent a small number of troops to the exercise site for joint exercises.

(Note: This Taihu Lake is not the Taihu Lake, but the Taihu County under the jurisdiction of Anhui Province, located on the north bank of the Yangtze River in the southwest of Anhui, not far from the eastern boundary of Hubei Province, at the southern foot of the Dabie Mountain.) ）

Not only that, the governor of Anhui also accompanied the minister of Guancao to Taihu County, and also took away a lot of patrol battalion troops originally stationed in Anqing, Yuanyuan, so that the defense of the provincial wall was empty, and the Empress Dowager Cixi died, the revolutionary situation was very good, and the revolutionaries acted decisively to organize the Anqing New Army uprising.

In addition to the members of the Liberation Society, there were still a small number of revolutionaries of the Yuewang Society and the Alliance Society, and the one who was specifically responsible for directing the uprising was Xiong Chengji, a young cadre of the Liberation Society. Since the Ninth Town of the Jiangsu New Army, which participated in the Taihu Autumn Exercise, had already received an edict from the new monarch to take the throne, the Autumn Exercise (military exercise) had ended ahead of schedule, and the Ninth Town was about to return to Jiangning (Nanjing) to bomb the ground, and the Hubei New Army, which was going to exercise with it, would also return to Wuchang, and the Anhui governor who was watching the exercise had rushed back to the provincial wall a few days ago. Now that time was pressing, the uprising headquarters decided to revolt in advance that night, and after capturing Anqing City to obtain ammunition supplies, it advanced eastward in one go, and smashed the defense-empty Nanjing before the autumn exercise troops rushed back, causing a sensational effect, causing the whole world to respond and overthrow the Manchus in one fell swoop.

According to the plan of the uprising, after the artillery battalion and horse battalion stationed outside the city started up, they would first capture the ammunition depot at Linghuzui in the north of the city and obtain rifle bullets, and then the rebel troops would drag their artillery back to the south and attack Anqing City. Due to the lack of artillery shells for the rebel troops, and Anqing is a wall in Anhui Province, the city defense is strong, and there are a large number of old army patrol teams to defend, ammunition and weapons are sufficient, and it is not easy to attack head-on, therefore, the uprising headquarters contacted one of the infantry battalions of the new army stationed in the city in advance, and ordered Xue Zhe, a cadre of the Yue Wanghui and the new army manager, to lead a team to lurk in the area of the north city, waiting for an opportunity to capture the north gate and welcome the rebel troops outside the city into the city.

Now, the new army outside the city has been launched as promised, and with the help of Neiying, the soldiers have bloodlessly seized the ammunition magazine outside the city, and have assembled the whole team, quietly driving outside the city to lurk, just waiting for the guns of the infantry battalion in the city to go off.

When he led his subordinates who lacked bullets to the north gate, he found that the city gate guards were twice as many as in the past, all of them were patrol soldiers with sufficient ammunition, and a machine gun was also set up on the city gate.

If the troops inside the city are unable to raise troops to respond within the agreed time, then the rebel forces outside the city will have to storm it.

Time and patience passed in Xue Zhe's hesitation, just when the soldiers of this infantry team lost their courage, Zhao Bei rolled down the street from the eaves on the side of the street, and then threw the copycat mobile phone out, impartially, the self-detonated mobile phone just fell into the city gate hole more than fifty meters away, shattering the closed city gate, and at the same time scared the patrol soldiers who were defending the city gate to scatter and flee, and the residents living nearby were also startled by the sudden explosion, But they didn't dare to go out to find out.

The rebel officers and soldiers huddled on the street corner, and saw Zhao Bei's action of throwing his mobile phone clearly by the light, knowing that it was this young man without braids who threw a "bomb" and blew up the city gate, of course, because they were squatting on the street corner, they couldn't see the situation on the roof at all, so they didn't know where Zhao Bei came from, they only knew that this was an anti-Qing righteous man, and like Xu Xilin back then, he was not afraid of death, and he was dedicated to opposing the Qing Dynasty and Xinghan, otherwise, he would not carry such a powerful one with him." bomb".

In fact, just before Zhao Bei threw out his mobile phone, he had already been exposed, and the pleasant ringtone of the mobile phone not only attracted the attention of the rebel soldiers hiding on the street corner, but also attracted the attention of the patrol team defending the city gate, after all, the place where he was standing was very close to the city gate, just at the entrance of this street facing the city gate, next to him was a shop, and there were lanterns hanging under the eaves, in this silent night, the mobile phone ringtone could be transmitted far away, and the patrol team saw a person standing at the street entrance, and was about to send someone over to check, But before he could take a few steps, the mobile phone flew over and blasted the city gate into the sky along with the pipe belt.

Neither the soldiers of the Forces nouvelles nor the soldiers of the patrol had ever seen such a violent explosion. The power of the explosion of the mobile phone was really amazing, not only blowing up the city gate, but also blowing up a section of the city wall, if it were not for the fact that Zhao Bei was "his own person", the soldiers of the new army would probably scatter in a hurry.

"Tick Tick —————— Tick Tick ——————"

"Woo—————— woo ——————"

A loud trumpet sounded outside the city, and the sound of trumpets rang out at the same time, and the sight of the explosion at the city gate also shook the rebel troops lurking outside the city, so that it was a full half a minute after the explosion that the trumpet of the attack sounded.

"Smack! Syllable! ”

"Bang! Bang! ”

Suddenly, the gunshots and shouts outside the north gate rang out together, the bullets crossed the night sky "whoosh" sound endlessly, the rebel troops outside the city launched an attack as promised, a moment later, the feint troops outside the east gate of the city also launched an attack, at the same time, several buildings outside the city were also ignited by the rebel troops, the sky-high fire was burning, reflecting half of the sky, Anqing City was suddenly shrouded in a panic.

Zhao Bei, who had never been on the battlefield, was taken aback by this sudden battle, while the rebel soldiers who took over the troops outside the city became excited.

"This scene is the soldiers from outside the city! Brothers, take them on! ”

"Xue Guandao, don't wait, give the order! Xue pipe belt! Xue pipe belt! …… Where have the people gone? ”

"That kid surnamed Xue ran away!"

"Lao Tzu has long said that the surname Xue is a soft egg! Unreliable. Officials can't be trusted! ”

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The officers and soldiers of the infantry battalion who responded to the uprising found that their immediate boss Xue Zhe was gone, and without the commander of the uprising, the more than 100 rebel soldiers suddenly lost their backbone.

In fact, Xue Zhe ran away before the explosion, and when Zhao Bei rolled from the eaves to the street, he was startled, for fear that someone would discover his hidden team, and when the mobile phone rang, Xue Zhe's last trace of psychological defense collapsed. He led his subordinates to lurk a stone's throw away from the city gate, and he was already restless, and the melodious mobile phone ringtone sounded like a thunderbolt to him, which shocked him, although he didn't know what it was, but he immediately realized that the patrol team would send someone to check, and their hiding place would be exposed immediately, so he didn't think about it, and immediately fled along the alley behind him, without even bringing a horse, and when the city gate exploded into the sky, he was already hundreds of steps away.

"Don't panic, everyone!" A junior officer stood up, drew his command knife, slashed forward, and shouted, "Xue Zhe ran away!" Let's not panic! The 'election striker' of the People's Party is still here, since he can blow up the city gate, then he can also lead us to rush and kill! Everyone follows the 'selection of fronts'! ”

So, under the leadership of this officer, the soldiers shouldered their rifles, took off the lanterns of the shops on the street, and rushed forward, and the stars surrounded Zhao Bei.

At this time, Zhao Bei had already stood up, and the low-ranking officer walked in front of him and saluted him with a sword.

"The Anhui New Army is temporarily organized into the 31st Mixed Association, and all the soldiers of the front team of the 62nd Standard 2nd Battalion are assembled! Please 'choose the front' to give the order, capture the city gates, and meet the rebel troops outside the city! ”

Zhao Bei looked at the other party in confusion, glanced at these soldiers carrying rifles, under the light of the lantern, every face was tense, and it was full of "perseverance" and "decisiveness", and there was a burning fire in his eyes.

"1908", "Anqing City", "Anhui New Army", "Rebel Army" and many words collided with Zhao Bei's memory, and in a vague way, he seemed to have caught something.

"I remembered!" Zhao Beimeng raised his head, he remembered what was going on. As a pseudo-history fan and pseudo-military fan, he is not unfamiliar with the history of the New Army at the end of the Qing Dynasty, in fact, just a few days before the crossing, he had just bought a book on the study of the New Army at the end of the Qing Dynasty, so now a few words from this officer reminded him of the well-known "Anqing Horse Artillery Battalion Uprising" in history.

The reason why it is famous is because this is the first New Army uprising planned by the revolutionaries, since then, the revolutionaries have further strengthened their belief in instigating the new army, from the liaison party to join the army, many revolutionary officers in the "Wuchang Uprising" are after the pen from Rong, it can be said that it was the Anqing New Army uprising inspired and encouraged them, so that they realized that the new army was the backbone of the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty, so just three years later, the Manchu Dynasty collapsed in the guns of the rebel soldiers of the new army in Hubei; The reason why this uprising is "famous" is because the uprising was not successful, and the sensational effect caused was not very great, so that it is all mentioned in history textbooks, far less famous than the Wuchang New Army Uprising that led to the "Xinhai Revolution", and because the uprising was led by the Guangfuhui that existed for a very short time, not the famous alliance, so it is rarely noticed, and if you are not a historical military fan, you will not know this almost annihilated history.

In the absence of shells, the siege troops outside the city could not enter the city at all, and could not seize the ammunition in the city, and because the infantry battalion of the new army in the city that had promised to respond to the uprising in advance retreated, failed to seize the city gate, but was brought back to the barracks by the officers, which further weakened the strength of the rebel troops, led to the failure of the siege, so that the Qing army in the city could calmly respond to the battle, and the two sides fought fiercely under the city wall for a day and a night, and the rebel troops suffered heavy casualties, In addition, the ammunition was exhausted, and the position was bombarded by enemy ships in the Yangtze River, and the Qing troops who participated in the Taihu Lake Autumn Exercise also heard the news and rushed to attack the rebels, which eventually led to the failure of the uprising, and the rebel troops could only retreat to the north, originally planned to attack and occupy Luzhou as a base, but unexpectedly went to the middle of the troop to make noise, the commander-in-chief of the uprising, Xiong Chengji, was shot with a black gun, wounded and fled overnight, and the troops disintegrated. Some of them have fallen into the trap.

Zhao Bei clearly remembered this history, and, judging from the words of the low-ranking officer, the soldiers surrounding him should be the new officers and soldiers in the city who had planned to respond to the uprising outside the city, but for some reason, their commander ran away.

Now it seems that because of the copycat mobile phone, the trajectory of history seems to have undergone a slight deflection, the originally impregnable city gate was blown to pieces, the patrol battalion also fled, and the passage into the city for the rebel troops outside the city has been opened, and these infantry battalion fighters who responded to the uprising obviously did not disperse because of the retreat of the senior officers, everything seems to be going according to the plan of the uprising, and what is missing seems to be only a commander.

A commander, just a commander...... Sometimes, history does need such a key figure.

Thinking of this, Zhao Bei suddenly realized, he desperately suppressed the impulse in his heart, and finally held back the few slogans that were about to be shouted in his heart.

"Long live the cottage! Long live the crossing! Long live the new army! ”