Chapter 13: Thunder in the South
Tian Jinfu's simple introduction caused a commotion in this small winery, and some people were too excited to break a wine jar, and suddenly a room full of wine.
"Anqing Rebel Army!"
Everyone stood up and looked at the three soldiers in amazement.
"You are the rebel army of Anqing? There is no basis for words. Yang Wangpeng kept a lot of thoughts.
Tian Jinfu smiled slightly, put the blanket he was carrying on the table, and poured it gently.
"Bang Bang ......"
With a dull crash, dozens of shiny rifle bullets rolled down from the blanket onto the table, making everyone's eyes light up.
"Bullets!" Deng Gang stretched out his hand, picked up a rifle bullet, stuffed the bullet into his mouth, bit it with his teeth, twisted it hard, unscrewed the bullet off, and the bullet case slammed into the table, and the flake fire fell down.
"This bullet works! Feel relieved. Tian Jinfu patted Deng Gang's shoulder, took out a revolver from his waist, put it on the table, and said: "We mixed into the camp this morning, but we didn't find you, so we used the day's work to bring more than 5,000 bullets one after another, in addition, there are more than 50 earth bombs, although the ammunition is less, it can't fight, but it is enough to launch an uprising, when our Anqing New Army launched an uprising, the average soldier only had a few bullets." ”
"Not only that, they also have two rapid-fire mountain guns, which are set up on the hill and can fire at this side at any time." Zhang Licheng, the commander of the 21st Mixed Association, continued.
"Mountain artillery? How many of you came? Can you directly attack the Qincha Xingyuan? Yang Wangpeng asked eagerly.
Tian Jinfu shook his head and said: "We have more than 500 people, but half of them are recruits, and we can't launch an attack head-on, so we can only respond on the periphery and provide you with fire cover. When the Anqing Uprising was the day before yesterday, if it weren't for our vanguard officer who made a decisive attack in the city and rushed left and right, I'm afraid we wouldn't even be able to take down the city gate, and we wouldn't be able to recover Anqing. This time, it is the vanguard officer who led us to contact your department, and with him, I am confident that our uprising will not fail. ”
"What's your detailed plan?" Yang Wangpeng asked, while distributing ammunition to everyone, with these bullets, everyone's courage immediately increased a lot, and the differences just now naturally disappeared, and now they have only one thought in their hearts, that is, to put these bullets into the chamber of the gun, into the chest of the officer, to avenge the death of the comrades.
"First, the first shot of the uprising is fired by you, once launched, you must first attack the Qing army's central army, kill or capture the Qing army commander alive, and make sure that the Qing army falls into a situation where the dragons are leaderless; Second, the baggage ships anchored in the harbor are to be captured or destroyed by our Anqing side, and if they can be successfully captured, you will immediately send reliable troops to take over and distribute guns and ammunition; Thirdly, immediately after the uprising, the wires of the battalions must be cut and their deployment must be disrupted; Fourth, you should immediately send out the comrades who have been exposed, but not to Anqing, but to return to Wuchang, to contact the troops of the 8th Town of the Hubei New Army who remained in Wuchang City, and prepare to respond to the uprising and let the flames of revolution burn everywhere......"
Tian Jinfu relayed the details of Zhao Bei's instructions, and added some of his own opinions, Yang Wangpeng and others listened carefully, and then put forward a few suggestions for improvement, Tian Jinfu agreed to go back to discuss with Zhao Bei, considering the convenience of contact between the two sides, the first thing to do during the uprising should be to set up a field telephone line, and control the iron bridge over the river, and lead the wire from the Qing army camp to the opposite hill, and Zhao Bei commanded the overall situation from a high position.
"Please be sure to convey our thanks to Chief Zhao, if the uprising is successful, Chief Zhao is indeed the first hero." Yang Wangpeng stood outside the door, stood up and saluted, and said to Tian Jinfu respectfully.
Tian Jinfu returned the salute, handed his revolver to Yang Wangpeng, and said: "Remember the agreed signal, five gunshots rang out, and our department immediately bombarded the Qing army." This pistol will be given to you, anti-Qing revolution, the creation of a republic, this is our long-cherished wish, Brother Yang does not have to be polite, he will succeed in the revolution in the future, Tian will toast with Brother Yang! ”
Subsequently, Tian Jinfu and others took advantage of the cover of night to quickly find out Huangnigang Town, and returned to the hill on the other side of the river from the upstream, and reported the contact situation to Zhao Beiyu.
"Comrades." Yang Wangpeng closed the door and placed the revolver on the table with a serious expression. "The revolution is now! Now I have decided that, except for the comrades who have been clearly exposed, the rest of the people should immediately return to their headquarters and distribute the bullets to the soldiers who are willing to make a revolution, and the soldiers who are usually friendly with you or who have conflicts with the officers are all our potential comrades. Those officers who dared to resist the revolutionary tide were to be killed, but not indiscriminately. Did you hear it all? ”
"Hear me clearly!" Everyone responded in unison.
"To the table! It's 7:05 p.m. At about half past nine, I came to release the gun, and after five shots, immediately launched an uprising! Then, as just said, they went their separate ways, and I led the brigade to attack the Chinese army. Yang Wangpeng took out the wall watch.
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Just when the revolutionaries of the Qunzhi Society were plotting against the Qing Revolution, far away on the Yangtze River outside Anqing City, a Qing gunboat flying the dragon flag had completed the installation of the antenna, and a spark wireless telegraph machine borrowed from the British ** ship had also been erected. Established contact with the radio station of the Beiyang Telegraph School in Tianjin. Nowadays, wireless telegraphs do not communicate far distances, and in order to communicate over long distances, it is necessary to relay them with the help of several telegraphs.
"Tick tock...... Tick-tock...... "The blonde British telegraph officer was engrossed in tapping the telegraph contact code.
A copywriter from the Anhui governor's yamen, accompanied by the gunboat's pipe belt, stood in front of the telegraph, holding a telegram personally drawn up by Zhu Jiabao, the governor of Anhui, and dictating the contents of the telegram to the telegraph operator with the help of an interpreter, who translated it into a special cipher, and then the telegraph operator photographed it out.
The criminal minister Zhu Jiabao kowtowed. Late at night the day before yesterday, a new army stationed in Mashan outside the city of Anqing suddenly mutinied, brazenly bombarded the city gate, a cannon was about to blow up the north gate, the rebels swarmed into the city with thousands of people, seized the fire yao warehouse, and put a column of cannons in front of the library, bombarded the military barracks in the city, huge bullets flew sideways in the city, the military and civilian jade in the city were not distinguished, the minister's office was also blown up, the official money bureau, the supervision and training office and other places were also burned by the rebels, all turned into ashes.
The criminal minister led the troops to fight with it for a long time, how could the support be insufficient, the ammunition was lost, the army's heart was shaken, and the battle ended the next day, the criminal minister was created twice, and had to withdraw from Anqing at dawn the next day, seize the boat and cross the river, set up a Jiangnan camp on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and confront the rebels across the river, and informed the naval commander Chen Congzhou to lead the gunboats to hold the river, and burned thousands of large and small civilian boats on the riverside to prevent the rebels from crossing the river, and sent cadres to sneak across the Jiangbei and raise the remnants of the Jiangbei army, but the Jiangbei armies were weak and weak, and they were broken by the rebels yesterday, or died or scattered, None of them came to the south of the Yangtze River, and there was a big earthquake on both sides of Anqing, the party was ready to move, the gentry and the people were panicked, and the Jiangnan camp of the criminal ministers was also almost affected and dispersed.
On the occasion of this great change, the criminal ministers knew the laws of the country, and did not dare to say that they had been derelict in their duties, but the rebels had uprooted all the electric poles inside and outside the city, and the telegram could not be transmitted in time.
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The criminal knew that he had mishandled it, and he could not escape the blame, and he wanted to die to do the king's business, but he remembered the trust of the court, so he could only bear the guilt and let the court fall.
In the current situation, in addition to dispatching the horse team to fight the rebels at night, the most important thing is to send sailors and gunboats to bombard the rebels in the city with huge cannons, but this matter is very important, the merchants and people in Anqing City live together, and there are foreigner merchants, the criminal minister did not dare to order the bombardment of the city, in case of accidental injury to the gentry and merchants in the city, the criminal minister is not only worthy of the emperor's grace, if he is a triumphant class teacher in the future, and he has no shame to the Jiangdong father. In addition, the combat strength of the new army in Taihu Qiucao is considerable, and it seems that Anqing should be quickly adjusted to flank the rebels.
Where to go, only to follow the clear order.
The criminal minister Zhu Jiabao. Raise. ”
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Soon, Anhui Governor Zhu Jiabao's "Yangdian" was sent by wireless telegraphy, as the most powerful direct evidence of the uprising of the Anqing New Army to the Forbidden City of the Qing Empire, and then, through a number of different channels, it quickly spread throughout the streets and alleys of Beijing, whether it was a dignitary or a peddler pawn, they all knew what was happening in that city in the south, and the rumors of the previous two days had become a fact, and the news of Anqing's recovery was like a thunderclap, which exploded and disrupted everyone's normal life.
The backwater of the ancient empire finally had a glimmer of relief, and people of all stripes were looking south, eager to know how far this upheaval would go, and what impact it would have on their fate.
Whether one likes to admit it or not, an era of revolution has arrived.
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