Chapter 31: The Behemoth

In the year of 1904, many big things happened in China, which left a deep impression on people, and some of them were even written into the history books. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info First of all, when it was almost the middle of the year, the two evil neighbors next door suddenly started fighting.

Although for those with foresight, the contradictions between Japan and Russia were too great, and war was already inevitable. The war has not broken out until now, and that is too late, not too soon. But where do ordinary people care about this, they just know that the two are so strong that they fight, and the people watching the show are not too lively.

Then, Chinese himself fought.....

And it's not the previous petty fight, but the big battle in which one side claims to be a million army, and the other side has really invested hundreds of thousands of troops. There are not many battles of this scale in the history of China. With the deepening of industrialization, there are more and more full-time soldiers who can be armed.

The scale of the Russo-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War in the northeast is already shocking enough, and when the world is divided into two camps, the big war that breaks out will not be shocking, but numb.

At the end of the year, Li Hongzhang finally failed to survive and died as president. Zhang Zhidong ascended the throne of the president in an inexplicable mood, and the first order was to stop the exchange of fire between the two warring sides and return to their respective stations. Of course, this order was ignored by both sides.

Just kidding, now is the critical time, even if it is a knife in the sky, it must be gritted and resisted. Isn't this a drag afraid of causing a chain reaction? Although the Southern Army had been completely defeated in Shaanxi and had fallen to the upper hand on the battlefield in Henan, Feng Guozhang's main force had invaded Shandong and was now advancing all the way.

Chinese New Year is an ancient custom of the Chinese, and even war cannot change this. Feng Guozhang, who had attacked Shandong all the way, could not change the minds of the soldiers below, so the battle stopped on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve.

At night, the soldiers who had been fighting hard for more than a month were huddled in the cold trenches, gnawing on hard pancakes, drinking cold water, and thinking about their relatives at home, when the strong smell of pork and fish came from the opposite position. This made the soldiers, who often did not have enough to eat, resentful.

The day after the end of the year, when the officers ordered the soldiers to attack again, the soldiers, who had endured hunger and cold, finally broke out.

"We eat less than donkeys, but we are asked to fight with our lives, where in the world is there such a thing!"

One of the soldiers spat on the ground and shouted, "If you want us to die again, you have to feed us!" The ones on the other side are all eating meat! ”

"Bastard!" The officer was furious, he hadn't eaten a few meals of meat himself, and the big-headed soldier wanted to eat meat too? you!

The officer pulled out his pistol and tried to threaten him, only to find that the soldiers around him had pointed their guns at him, intentionally or unintentionally. He hurriedly put away the pistol, put on a bitter face, and said, "Not only did you not have anything to eat, but I also didn't have a good year." ”

"We haven't paid for half a year!"

Things in this world are always when you take a step back, and others will go further. The officer only showed weakness, and the soldiers began to complain.

"This ......," the officer said aggrievedly: "Don't talk about you, I haven't paid my military salary for several months." For...."

While there was a lot of noise here, a landslide and tsunami suddenly sounded on the opposite position, as if something very important had happened. The people who were arguing here listened to it for a while, and they felt the change not far away in disbelief.

The "buzzing" sound came from the sky first, and then it seemed to come from the ground. The sound was small at first, like a bee vibrating its wings. Gradually, the sound became louder and louder. The rolling song sounded in the wilderness, in the valley, on the riverside.

“...................... Your Majesty's life is three thousand frosts, but the song is full of wind and clouds............"

Then came the last sentence of the crowd singing in unison: "Hu no one, Han Daochang!" ”

The singing voice is impassioned, with a high-spirited spirit and pride in all directions. It's just that.... The lyrics feel very inconsistent here.

A large flag was raised in the rear of the show, and slowly began to move towards the front line, and the soldiers chanted "Long live" louder and louder, this kind of big action shocked the soldiers on Feng Guozhang's side.

"What the hell? Are the enemies all going crazy? A young soldier of the Beiyang Army, whose eyebrows were frosted, couldn't help but say: "Now there is no emperor, where is there anything long live?" ”

"Gotta get it...... Gotta get ........"

There was a trembling sound around him, and the young soldier turned his head, only to see the squad leader's upper and lower teeth colliding together.

"Wang Tou'er, what's wrong with you? Is it too cold? ”

"Black ..... Black ......."

"Alas, I know we're cold and hungry now, but you don't need to sneer like that, right?" The young soldier said strangely: "Seeing that you are trembling all over, and you don't forget to sneer, what can people say about this......

"Black.... Black ......", the squad leader glared, and finally wailed: "Black Dragon King! ”

"What?" There was a scream all around. In all these years, they have heard of the terrifying legend of the Black Dragon King. The Black Dragon Society, which rose rapidly, defeated strong enemies one after another, and finally became the most powerful force in the Northland, was a huge stone pressing on the hearts of these remnants of the Beiyang, and it was their lingering nightmare.

However, there was also the bold saying: "What are you afraid of, we have so many people now, even if it can fight the Black Dragon King, can it beat us hundreds of thousands of people?" ”

After saying that, the soldier was still a little proud, and he was proud of his boldness. As a result, as soon as he wanted to laugh out loud, there was no monk left with his mouth wide open.

The others around them also looked at the huge jump-shaped object that slowly flew in the sky as if they had seen a ghost.

The airship equipped with a loudspeaker is like the legendary Kunpeng, which is absolutely cloudy and bears the blue sky, and it does not even need to use the heavy machine guns and bombs used to throw it, which has already made the Beiyang Army on the ground begin to panic.

The terrifying beast with a length of one hundred and seventy meters and a diameter of twenty meters slowly pressed over the sky, and the army on the ground also lost no time in launching a counterattack. This time, Feng Guozhang's soldiers, whose morale had been greatly hit, abandoned their defensive lines and scattered towards the rear.