At night, more than 2,000 brothers in the Zhenzi battalion went their separate ways after a full meal, Xiao Yimin handed over the camp to the co-leader Zongyi, rode to the governor's mansion, reported the defense situation to the teacher Zhao Erfeng, and then pulled up Zhao Erfeng's chief of guard, Tao Zekun, to check the defense post in the courtyard of the governor's mansion.

It was late at night when Xiao Yimin dragged his tired legs back home, and his sister, who was frightened by all kinds of turmoil, was still waiting for him, and was suddenly startled when she saw his messy short hair, Sister Yi hurriedly grabbed him, and asked again and again how did it get like this?

Knowing that all the officers and soldiers of the Zhenzi battalion had cut off their long hair, Sister Yi breathed a sigh of relief, and ordered a few little guys to bring hot water, wash Xiao Yimin's hair in person, and then find scissors and razors, and slowly trim Xiao Yimin's dog-like hair.

Only halfway through the cut, Xiao Yimin fell asleep, Sister Yi thought about it and asked Xiao Yimin out loud if he wanted to get a middle part that foreign students liked very much? This question frightened Xiao Yimin into drowsiness, and hurriedly instructed his sister how to cut it down, how much to cut her hair and feet, and how much to leave on it.

At four o'clock in the morning, the reconnaissance captain who was in charge of investigating the movements of all parties outside the city came urgently to report:

"Tens of thousands of people in the southern Sichuan Baolu Army have arrived in the southern suburbs, and it seems that they are stationed in the same place, most of them hold long knives in their hands, carry iron rods and forks on their shoulders, and even carry Daguan knives, only a few old-fashioned guns and old sleeves in Hanyang, because the sky is too dark, the brothers in this team and the brothers in the south cannot come up with accurate numbers."

Xiao Yimin gave a few words of encouragement, ordered to continue monitoring, and then took the guards, rode to the west gate, which was the most uneasy, and climbed the city tower with the Manmeng guards on duty at night, set up binoculars, and observed all parts of the suburbs for a long time, and finally put his mind at ease.

In the next three days, the army of all walks of life came to Chengdu one after another, and the black pressure of more than 100,000 people frightened the important members of the new political axe, and the leaders of all walks of life finally stabilized the team under the warm reception of the new political axe officials, and each of them poured into the temporary government of Chengdu with a team of guards, and began to bargain with a group of governors and directors.

The heroes of all walks of life asked for food, the other demanded military salaries and weapons, and the Hongmen robes and brothers in more than a dozen counties shouted that they would take their brothers into the city to sleep peacefully, and the newly established Han political leaders were dizzy and frightened, and on the one hand, they secretly ordered the new army and the Zhenzi battalion not to open the city gates, and on the other hand, they opened all the warehouses and granaries, mobilized the members of the alliance and the wealthy merchants in the city to contribute money and grain to support the revolution, and sent the new army baggage battalion to be responsible for transporting food and materials, and went to the various departments outside the city to distribute them one by one. I have to fill the stomachs of hundreds of thousands of friendly troops who have come from afar.

At the pleading of Governor Pu Dianjun, the 66th Standard of the New Army was reluctant to give up the camp in the eastern suburbs, and the 2,000 patrol troops originally stationed in the camp in the eastern suburbs also moved into the barracks at the east gate of the city, and crowded together with more than 1,000 officers and soldiers of the city defense in Chengdu, which again attracted many complaints and conflicts.

The New Deal Axe and a group of big men in the parliament continue to entangle heroes from all walks of life, and make official wishes to the leaders who come from afar, but the main positions such as the Civil Affairs Department, the Finance Department, the Taxation Bureau, the Salt and Iron Bureau, the Police Department, and the Transportation Department have long been divided up by the revolutionary fathers who are close to the water, and the remaining posts of a few district and county magistrates can satisfy the heroes of the road protection in various places?

As a result, the council hall quarreled every day and scolded her mother every day, and finally survived for five or six consecutive days, but everyone's patience was also boiled to the critical point of collapse.

On the morning of 6 December, more than 3,000 patrol troops crowded into the city defense camp in the east of the city suddenly made a commotion, and hundreds of officers and men ran to the front of the parliament building and shouted, "I want money, food, and food." The two governors and the first cadre and minister who were grinding their tongues in the hall were shocked, but fortunately, Zhu Qinglan reacted quickly, and immediately transferred more than 1,000 officers and men of the 64th standard of the new army to the east school field to surround them, and then went out with Governor Pu Dianjun to appease them.

Hundreds of soldiers and ruffians saw that the governor was soft, and they became more energetic, and put forward requests from meals to repaid military salaries to ask for guns and ammunition, and if they did not agree, they cried and cried about the bitter history of not covering their bodies and not eating for several months, and when it came to the emotional place, hundreds of people cried and lay on the ground and could not get up, forcing the two governors to be at a loss and sweating profusely, and finally at the suggestion of Yin Changheng, the minister of military affairs who came urgently, agreed to pay two months' arrears to the three thousand patrol troops, but they must all gather in the east school field, After the instruction is made, the rules can be set before it can be distributed.

Hundreds of patrol troops returned to the barracks in disbelief, and after discussing with each other for a moment to reach a consensus, 3,000 people, old and new, carrying five or six hundred broken guns, rushed to the east school field under the stunned gaze of the people all over the street.

On the way, a patrol policeman took advantage of the chaos to stuff a note into the hand of Li Guanghua, the leader of the patrol force, and disappeared into the crowd of onlookers in a blink of an eye.

Li Guanghua opened the note and read it carefully, crumpled it into a ball and threw it into his mouth, chewed it a few times and swallowed it into his stomach, looked around and tightened his belt, carried a rifle and shouted in his throat:

"Brothers, go away, Lord Governor is going to pay us personally!"

It was past noon when the 3,000 patrol troops came to the east school field to assemble, and after a morning of trouble, everyone was already exhausted and weak, and when they saw the new officers and men with loaded guns and ammunition on all sides, and the Governor who had promised to come to pay the salary in person was still nowhere to be seen, the patrol troops began to shout regardless of it, and I don't know who shouted "I'm afraid they are going to kill us," and suddenly frightened more than 3,000 people.

At the critical moment, the carriage of the two Governors finally arrived, followed by more than 200 new officers and soldiers, and behind the carriage of the two Governors was a carriage containing six large boxes, which seemed to be really coming to pay their salaries.

Zhu Qinglan, who is still the deputy governor of the 17th town of the new army, began to lecture, and talked about military discipline and extraordinary moments, but he did not open the six big boxes.

The nearly 8,000 new troops and patrol troops standing neatly in the audience waited until their necks were long, and Zhu Qinglan invited Governor Pu Dianjun out, and Pu Dianjun continued to lecture.

The 3,000 patrol troops in the audience quit, and the boos and scolding suddenly rang out, and it was too late for a group of new army officers on the stage to discover that the situation was wrong, and the "crackling" gunfire rang out in the chaotic patrol ranks, and the whistling bullets knocked down seven or eight officers on the stage in a blink of an eye, and the whole audience suddenly exclaimed like a hornet's nest that had been stabbed off.

Then there was an earth-shattering wail: "They have deceived us to kill us, brothers, and they have copied the guys—"

"Kill—"

"Kill Pu Dianjun—"

"Kill Zhu Qinglan—"

Roars and gunshots rang out, many officers on the stage took the lead in fleeing for their lives, six large boxes were opened in a blink of an eye, and the silver dollars of white flowers triggered a robbery, and those who could not grab them raised their guns and beat people when they saw them, and the sound of scolding and the whistling of projectiles was non-stop.

The 5,000 new officers and soldiers around him had just completed their training, when had they ever seen such a scene? Some of the new officers and men who were still bold, and soon joined the ranks of the mutiny, rushing out of the East Campus with the flow of people amid the shouts and shouts, and rushing to the rich treasury, salt and railway yamen, large and small money houses, and banks in the city.

What's even worse is that more than 100 patrol troops who stayed at the east gate also gave up guarding the city gate and joined the ranks of robbery and arson, and the sound of gunshots, exclamations, and shouts alarmed the tens of thousands of local road protection troops stationed in the east camp, and nearly 100,000 rabble, mostly composed of green forest heroes and peasants, were turned away for several days, and they were full of resentment for not having enough food and clothing.

Nearly 100,000 rebel troops, led by a group of reactive leaders, soon let out an earth-shattering cry and slaughtered into the city, joining the ranks of burning, killing and looting.

All of a sudden, screams and cries in the city came and went, innocent people fell on the streets, houses were kicked open, and flames rose into the sky.

Xiao Yimin, who was patrolling the tower of the North Gate, was taken aback, and immediately ordered the horse team to rush into the city, and ordered the herald to lead a small team of cavalry to rush into the governor's palace at all costs to assist in the defense, and the rest of the teams made every effort to stop the rebels from burning, killing and looting, and save innocent civilians and children; ordered the three infantry units to occupy the junction of Heonheong Road and Han River as soon as possible, set up barricades, set up machine guns and stand by to kill anyone who dared to attack with weapons in hand; The artillery company in the concealed battalion was ordered to drag the artillery up the west and north city walls as quickly as possible, aiming at the two city gates in the north and south and at the two crossroads in the north of the imperial city, and making all preparations for artillery bombardment.

In less than half an hour, the smoke was billowing in the east of the city, the flames were everywhere, Xiao Yimin on the city tower held his glasses in his hand, his heart was like a knife, and he saw Ma Gang and Fan Chunlin running to the city and shouting as if they were dead, Xiao Yimin immediately rushed down the city tower, grabbed Ma Gang and Fan Chunlin's hands and whispered, Ma Gang and Fan Chunlin gasped and kept nodding.

The clever adjutant Zheng Changze had already brought four war horses, and Ma Gang and Fan Chunlin didn't say a word, flew on their horses, and divided into two groups and hurried to the west and east of the city.

Outside the gate of the north city, the three counties of Baolu army from northern Sichuan shouted to open the door, Xiao Yimin leaned out to report the situation, more than 10,000 heroes in the three counties were suddenly frightened, thinking of the enthusiastic care of the officers and soldiers of the Zhenzi battalion, and then seeing the artillery just erected on the city wall and a row of black holes in the muzzle of heavy machine guns, no one dared to shout anymore.

Several leaders discussed a little, and promised Xiao Yimin loudly under the city: "The Northern Sichuan Righteous Army will never enter the city, and we will never do anything that harms our fathers and villagers." ”

Xiao Yimin suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, stood on the city tower and thanked him loudly, and then hurriedly ran to the south of the city tower to look into the distance: in the continuous gunshots, the ancient city of Chengdu was already filled with smoke and fire, and the houses near the east school field and the east gate were engulfed by fire one after another...... Suddenly, there were dense gunshots in the direction of Zhenxing Road and Hanjiang Road intersection in the right front, Xiao Yimin's face was blue and he was furious, and ordered the officers on duty to seal the north gate tightly, and rushed down the city tower with Wu San and Xiao Fei, and rushed to the direction of the battle.

(To be continued)