At night, Guangzhou is not as prosperous as it was in later generations, but compared to the rest of Guangdong, it is prosperous. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Even compared with Shanghai, Beiping, and Guangzhou, are not lagging behind.

There is a seaport here, and it is the southernmost gate of China, and the international merchants who come and go always like to stay here, and only some more powerful businessmen will choose to continue to go north and go to Shanghai and Tianjin to do business.

But after dark, Guangzhou is not much different from other places, the same silence, and the streets are still empty.

Coupled with the recent turmoil in Guangzhou, even in broad daylight, the flow of people on the streets is much lower than before.

The competition between all parties has made the local people in Guangzhou even more bitter.

In an inconspicuous courtyard, Zhang Rang sat on a bench a little tired, there were not many people in the courtyard, and with Zhang Rang, there were only five people.

And around this courtyard, there are dozens of people secretly protecting this place, once there are officers and soldiers coming, even if they fight to die, they have to cover those people in the courtyard to leave.

They are the most loyal fighters in the cause, they have the highest faith, and they ignore everything.

"How's the uprising going? Are the ministries in place? Zhang Rang asked two questions one after another, and it was obvious that Zhang Rang had high expectations for this uprising.

This is not just an ordinary uprising, if it can be successful, they will have the merit of dedicating the city, and in this way, there will be more bargaining chips in the future.

Of course, Zhang Rang also knows very well that if they fail, they will completely lose their bargaining chips, and they will not even be qualified to be at the negotiating table.

It was precisely because of the importance of this uprising that Zhang Rang personally came to Guangzhou from Hong Kong.

Along the way, Zhang Rang can be said to have suffered a lot, the original 100-kilometer journey, it took four days to reach Guangzhou, and it took some twists and turns when entering the city.

This time, he wants to lead it personally, but now Zhang Rang thinks of his friend Liu Xuexun, a friend who has helped him too much, but unfortunately the other party has been dead for several years.

For the sake of those comrades who sacrificed, and for the sake of regret for those who chose to leave, and for their own future, this time we must win.

"All are already in place, as soon as the gentleman gives the order, our comrades will immediately launch an uprising." One spoke.

In fact, this uprising was not as simple as it seemed.

These people are not popular in this country.

They did not have the courage to gain the support of the common people, because they were afraid that they would let the Qing court, or Wang Sirui's spies, get involved.

And the remnants of the Qing court did not want to see them, long before Wang Sirui got up, their gang kept revolting and making trouble, and the Qing court was very depressed.

And what about Wang Sirui? Although I don't say it, I have told them in action that there is no area of your activity in my territory.

For the sake of this uprising, they almost poured out of their nests, and more than 80 percent of the people who were able to contact and rush to Guangzhou before the uprising came.

These people are not limited to army soldiers, officers, but also some government officials, as well as ordinary civilians. These are all people who have followed them in their careers for several years, and there is no problem in terms of loyalty.

But then the problem is that if they fail, they will suffer a catastrophe, and they will never even be able to make a comeback.

"Success or failure is here!" Zhang Rang encouraged everyone, and immediately took out his pocket watch and looked at the time, "It's ten fifty, ten minutes later, full action." ”

"Yes!" Several people echoed in a low voice.

"Yuan Tong, you are responsible for leading people to capture the arsenal and arm our team with lightning speed."

"Min Qun, you are responsible for leading people to attack the Governor's Mansion, if you are not sure to attack it, you will temporarily hide it, and after the defenders in the Governor's Mansion come out, you will take advantage of the weakness to enter."

"Ji Qiu, you are responsible for leading people to occupy the city gate, and try to persuade those Han soldiers to use them for my use."

"Yes!" Several people echoed again.

There are only more than 1,000 of them, and it is absolutely impossible for them to completely control the whole of Guangzhou.

Therefore, they must rely on the Han defenders to help them, and it would be great if they could persuade them to surrender, so that they could successfully occupy Guangzhou.

But what if you can't persuade them? Let's talk about this again, this time they invested so much manpower, and even brought dozens of long and short guns, plus it was another surprise attack, there was no reason to fail at all.

I have to say that in this era, the minds of these people who are engaged in careers are still relatively simple.

The failure of the uprising in the early stage did not attract their attention or cause them to reflect. On the contrary, after failure, they always look for some extremely ridiculous reasons.

For example, being betrayed by traitors made the Qing army prepare in advance, so that they hit the stone with an egg, just in front of the enemy's ambush circle.

Another example is that some comrades were not strong-willed, and chose to escape and survive at a critical time, and it was precisely because these comrades were not firm in their will that they led to the failure of the uprising.

They don't face up to their problems, and they don't know what the problem is. So, for several years, their uprisings have always ended in failure.

And the price paid for this is that countless hot-blooded young people are like puppets, lining up to meet the enemy's slaughter.

Historically, it was not until the late Qing Dynasty that they really realized this problem in the last two or three years, so that the fundamental change occurred, so in the last few years, the success rate of the uprising was greatly improved.

But now, who are the so-called 'elites'?

Most of them are composed of overseas students, and some of these international students have developed after returning to China, and there are mainly cultural people.

These people are even more empty-hearted, but they have no way to deal with it. It's okay for them to go and reason with people, but as for the uprising, it's not for them at all.

What makes people speechless is that these people are still stunned and relish, and they can't enjoy each other.

Although Zhang Rang personally led the uprising this time, and they had made a lot of coping strategies before that, there was one point that could not be ignored.

That is the lack of experience in the uprising, as well as the assessment of one's own strength, and the degree of knowledge of the enemy.

Zhang Rang made several plans, but the retreat plan was almost not done, and he wanted to tell everyone in this way that this uprising would not fail.

In fact, this move did greatly stimulate the hot-blooded young people under him, but it also left a disaster for him.

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"Stop, what are you doing?" Guangzhou Arsenal, the two Qing soldiers guarding the gate of the arsenal were drowsy, and suddenly heard movement not far away, and couldn't help cheering up, took off the rifle on the shoulder, and asked the other party.

"you...... Comrades, take the arsenal and occupy Canton! A young man in the lead first cursed, and then shouted loudly.

'Smack......'

After a gunshot, the young man who shouted loudly went limp, his face showed a deep sense of unwillingness, and his body fell heavily to the ground.

At the same time, the Qing soldier couldn't help but scold in his heart: '****, why is the cause party still so brainless? Don't you know that Lao Tzu has a gun in his hand? ’

"Comrades, rush up and kill them all, and avenge the sacrifice......" The young man fell, and the other stood up, as if they were fearless of death, and as soon as someone fell, someone else would immediately stand up.

In their view, the faith of the cause cannot be extinguished by a sword or gun.

The cause of the uprising took a step forward and rushed forward quickly, while the two Qing soldiers retreated while fighting, anyway, there were so many enemies in front of them, even if they didn't aim, they could hit people.

When the two Qing soldiers retreated to the gate, there were already five or six people from the cause party lying on the ground.

And the sound of gunfire also attracted the attention of the defenders inside the arsenal, but they just opened the door of the arsenal and wanted to come out to support, but they saw a figure of black pressure and instantly drowned it.

And the first two Qing soldiers, after the weapons were snatched away, they didn't know who pushed them to the ground, and then they were trampled half to death by the people behind, and the whole person was dying.

The cause party easily broke through the defense of the arsenal gate, and the number of Qing troops stationed in the arsenal on weekdays was not much, only a few dozen, and they also had weapons in their hands, plus they had just grabbed two rifles, and the armed forces in their hands were stronger, so they became even more fearless.

At the same time, gunfire was also heard in several other places in the city, and for a time, gunfire broke out in the whole of Guangzhou, and there was chaos.

"It's gone, it's gone! Sir, this time we are going to be developed. A middle-aged man returned to the courtyard with excitement on his face, and although it had been nearly half an hour since he got the news, he still could not hide his excitement.

"Oh? Could it be that something good has been found in the arsenal? Zhang Rangmeng was excited and hurriedly asked.

"But don't you, you would never have imagined that there are tens of thousands of rifles in the arsenal, and there are a lot of new guns in the warehouse, all of which are still with gun oil, and there are countless bullets. Twenty heavy machine guns were also found there, and quite a few bullets were also found. Yuan Tong said with dancing hands.

'Buzz! ’

Zhang Rang's mind was suddenly blank, and the whole person unconsciously took a step back, and his whole body was about to fall to the ground, and the henchmen around him hurriedly reached out to support Zhang Rang.

"How can there be so many weapons?" Zhang Rang couldn't understand, how could there be so many weapons in the arsenal? Originally, according to Zhang Rang's idea, it would be good to have a few hundred rifles in the arsenal, after all, he still knew the virtues of those officials and gentlemen.

Besides, there are so many weapons and equipment in the arsenal, how did they break through? How can you say that the arsenal must also have a battalion of troops to garrison?

However, since Yuan Tong had already returned to report on the situation of the arsenal, it also proved that they had occupied the arsenal, and suddenly they had obtained so much equipment, and the plan of the uprising had to be changed.

"Quick, notify everyone, immediately assemble at the arsenal, we use the arsenal as a base camp to attract the enemy to come and besiege, we will kill them all with powerful firepower......" Zhang Rang, who was a little sober, hurriedly ordered. (To be continued.) )