Just after eight o'clock in the middle of the night, more than ten foaming horses carrying more than ten officers and soldiers rushed into Chengdu West Gate Tonghui Gate, the light from the newly installed large wattage lighting at the top of the city gate was quickly blocked by the bursts of dust and smoke rolled up by the fast horses, except for the officers and soldiers of the Zhenzi battalion guarding the city gate, no one could see the horseman's touch clearly, and the rapid hoofs of the galloping war horse came from near and far, and finally disappeared in the direction of the north school field.

The houses in the west of the city near Tonghui Gate were lit up one after another, and the people who were waiting in horror seemed to have a premonition from the sound of horses' hooves, and the doors of each house were opened one after another, and the neighbors gathered together to discuss nervously, speculating that a disaster comparable to the Chengdu Mutiny that had just passed would soon befall them.

I don't know if someone was informing, or if the New Army sent secret agents to monitor the West Gate discovered the crisis, and it didn't take long for the New Army to rush out of the South Campus and East Campus Barracks, rush onto the streets, and begin to control every street corner.

Since the Huaxi Power Plant, the largest power plant in Chengdu, began this morning and stopped supplying electricity to all urban areas except the northwest district, the new troops who hurried to the streets could only hold torches aloft for lighting.

The frightened residents could clearly see the frightened faces of the new officers and soldiers under the torches through the cracks in the windows and doors, and the panic was once again exacerbated by the sight.

What happened suddenly seemed to confirm the fears of the people, and the whole city was soon lit up, and the lights were shining in the houses, and torches were planted in the corners, and one by one the lights opened the heavy night that hung over the ancient city, illuminating everything brightly.

This kind of unprecedented light of the whole city suddenly awakened the whole city, but this light did not bring people a sense of security, but was full of suffocating panic and depression. Countless people and all the new officers and soldiers were on high nervous strain, and hundreds of thousands of people were terrified and shivering in the cold winter night, and spent a sleepless night that will never be forgotten.

The lights were bright in the dirty and narrow old barracks inside the east gate, and Governor Yin Changheng pretended to be calm in the face of more than 20 new army generals and colonels who came in a hurry, and loudly cheered up his frightened subordinates and said:

"Xiao Yimin will never dare to risk the world's condemnation and do something that angers the heavens and people for his own selfishness, otherwise he will become a murderer who is scolded by thousands of people!"

But the generals and colonels present know very well in their hearts that both the east and south campuses have become the targets of the Krupp artillery set up by the officers and soldiers of the Zhenzi Battalion on the west and north city walls, and there are more than eight artillery aimed at the Mingyuan Tower of the Imperial City. Why don't you dare to go to the East Campus and the North Campus where the New Army is stationed? Why did you urgently summon us to this cramped, filthy, and smelly barracks where the city defense army was stationed?

The Luo Mansion on Shuyuan Road was even more panicked, the owner of the mansion, Luo Lun, originally had the identity of the boss of the Hongmen robe in Xichong County, but since Zhao Erfeng was cut off his head, the Luo Mansion in the city suddenly became crowded, and a large number of celebrities and Hongmen scoops from all over the country disappeared without a trace, as if the air was blown away by the wind.

Chengdu Hongmen, who has a good relationship with Luo Lun, has made several scoops even better, and they all returned Luo Lun's greetings and gifts in the afternoon, and no one in Chengdu wants to have anything to do with the well-known deputy governor of Sichuan.

What a cold night, what a long night!

Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians were struggling in panic and waiting, and finally survived until the dawn rose on the horizon, and the highly tense soldiers and civilians in the houses and at the street entrances could just take a breath, and the rumbling sound of horses' hooves rolled from south to north like muffled thunder, and the yellow dust in the southern sky rolled all over the sky, like the sound of horses' hooves galloping from thousands of troops and horses shook the windows in the city, and the air flow over the ancient city accelerated and surged, and thousands of branches and trees made a "brush-pull" swaying sound.

The thunderous sound of horses' hooves was getting closer and closer, and just as the people in the city were shouting in terror, the sound of horses' hooves stopped abruptly in the direction of the south gate, and all the sounds seemed to freeze with it, and only the dust flying in the sky evaporated from the direction of the south gate.

The hearts contracted tightly in the terrifying silence, and the horns of the border army were heard again in the south, north and west of the city, and the long and sad horn sound was quickly connected and echoed in the sky over Chengdu for a long time.

After a few minutes, the formidable sound of the horn gradually stopped, and the sound of neat and heavy footsteps followed.

More than 4,000 officers and men wearing the new-style military uniforms of the Zhenzi Battalion ran from the north and west of Chengdu to the south of the city; they ran forward with steel guns in their hands all over their bodies, and their faces full of grief and indignation; under the guidance of many officers, they shouted in unison the majestic slogan of "indomitable," and unscrupulously broke through the defense lines set up by the new army, shocking the new officers and men in a hurry and retreating, and no one dared to try their edge.

Lu Yixuan, the commander of the 66th Standard 1st Battalion of the New Army, who led his troops to guard the south gate, suddenly blew the assembly whistle, and more than 100 officers and soldiers led by team officer Ma Zhaoming quickly gathered, and in Lu Yixuan's roar, they all threw away the hats on their heads, removed all the barricades that lay across the city gate, and quickly opened the heavy city gate.

More than 300 dusty cavalry immediately poured into the city gate, regardless of the fact that they went straight to the imperial city, followed by Xiao Yimin, who rode into the city, hurriedly raised his hand to Lu Yixuan, Ma Zhaoming and other brothers, and rushed north surrounded by thousands of brothers from the border army.

The entire imperial city has been surrounded by 4,000 officers and soldiers of the Zhenzi battalion, a new army left in the city has been ruthlessly disarmed, a brand-new German water-cooled heavy machine gun mounted on the four city towers, more than 5,000 people wearing military uniforms and holding long knives rushed to the city, and in a blink of an eye, all the streets in front of the imperial city were occupied, and they were neatly arranged on both sides of the street to welcome Xiao Yimin's arrival.

The more than 300 cavalry who entered the city first had already taken off Zhao Erfeng's head hanging on the Mingyuan Tower, carefully wrapped it with Zhao Erfeng's Qinglong battle flag of the border army, and waited in a neat line.

Xiao Yimin came to the front of Mingyuan Tower, turned over and dismounted, ran two steps, and fell to the ground with weak legs, he didn't wait for the guards behind him to help him get up quickly, went up to take the head of the Qinglong Battle Flag package and slowly opened it, and then hugged it tightly in his arms, knelt down with his legs, and fell to the ground choking.

The brothers of the nearly 10,000 border army around the imperial city and above and below the city could no longer bear the sadness in their hearts, and the sound of crying and angry scolding rang out in one piece, and a huge and sad wave of anger shook the sky, and it instantly spread ten miles away.

Wu San and others had moved Zhao Erfeng's body from under the tethered horse pile, and more than a dozen border army generals pulled up the black and white cloth that had been prepared, and soon surrounded the body of Xiao Yimin and Zhao Erfeng, who was in pain, and Qi Luo, the leader of the "Tai'an Battalion" who was full of tears and described as haggard, and the two elder co-leaders got into the cloth enclosure, opened two tiger skins and spread them on the ground, took out a set of half-new and old first-class military attache court clothes, and began to change clothes for Zhao Erfeng.

Xiao Yimin took the needle and thread handed by Zheng Changze, and while weeping, he sewed Zhao Erfeng's neck and body together, and threw himself on the corpse with excessive grief several times.

At this moment, the crackling sound of firecrackers sounded in the south, and the silent eyes followed the sound, only to see eight neatly dressed policemen, carrying a black coffin.

The first two were Ma Gang and Fan Chunlin, followed by nearly 100 Chengdu policemen holding high white clans and paper men and paper horses, and closely followed by more than 100 monks and nuns wearing robes and blowing and beating, followed by more than 5,000 Hongmen disciples led by the boss of Chengdu Hongmen.

After the teams of all parties were assembled, Zou Wenhan, the chief priest who came in a hurry, gave an order, and thousands of Hongmen disciples quickly built a mourning hall under the guidance of the monks, and the two hundred sappers of the Zhenzi battalion waved their pickaxes around the mourning hall and erected slender and thick bamboo poles, and sixty-four border army battle flags and the flying leopard flags of the Zhenzi battalion hunted and displayed in the air.

The chief priest Zou Wenhan climbed the Mingyuan Tower, overlooking the overlook, as far as the eye could see, there was no shadow of the new army, the horses and sandbags at the corners of the street all disappeared, and all the officers and soldiers of the Zhenzi Battalion wearing olive military uniforms and the border officers and soldiers in yellow military uniforms were all around, and the people of Chengdu who understood the situation began to pour from all directions, standing outside the area controlled by the army in black pressure, leading their necks to watch.

The cold wind blew stronger and stronger, Zou Wenhan looked at the huge mourning hall that was gradually taking shape, and sighed faintly, according to his original intention, he was unwilling to be the chief priest, but in exchange for Xiao Yimin's promise that he would not fight against the war, he was willing to stand up and preside over the memorial ceremony for Zhao Erfeng, but he never expected that Xiao Yimin, who was gentle on the outside and resolute in his heart, would set up the mourning hall in front of Mingyuan Tower, and pay tribute to his teacher with great grandeur.

Zou Wenhan was both helpless and deeply moved, helpless because he didn't expect Xiao Yimin to be so tough and so-for-tat, Xiao Yimin's every move after arriving in Chengdu was like a solid slap, fiercely incited Yin Changheng and all the conspirators in the face, one after another resounding slaps, beating hundreds of thousands of people in Chengdu lonely, beating all the officials of the Han Dynasty and the political axe disappeared, and beating more than 7,000 new officers and soldiers to retreat in a hurry, and they still dare not show their faces.

Zou Wenhan was moved by Xiao Yimin's pure heart, Zou Wenhan knew Xiao Yimin, and knew that Xiao Yimin had great differences with his teacher Zhao Erfeng in terms of political ideas, but these differences did not affect Xiao Yimin's deep feelings for Zhao Erfeng at all, and did not affect Xiao Yimin's respect and love for his teacher.

On the other hand, Zhao Erfeng did not reprimand and punish Xiao Yimin, a disciple of the closed door, because of the difference in political ideas, the relationship between the master and apprentice is very close and harmonious, mutual understanding and mutual help, this rare teacher-student relationship has always made Zou Wenhan envious, and he can't wait to have a disciple like Xiao Yimin.

In fact, not only Zou Wenhan, but no one in Chengdu expected that Xiao Yimin's influence was so huge and his strength was so strong; No one expected that Xiao Yimin would be able to mobilize thousands of people from the black and white provinces and the border army to his use in just one day and one night, and he did it so quickly and efficiently, so united and hated the enemy, and the powerful momentum and huge deterrent formed were enough to move the heavens and the earth and make everyone change their colors.

At ten o'clock in the morning, the mourning hall was built, the imperial city was full of cigarette smoke, flags were like a forest, Xiao Yimin, who wore linen and filial piety, under the auspices of Zou Wenhan, led more than 100 generals to start the sacrifice together with Zhao Erfeng's henchman Xu Weiyue.

There are no memorials, no ornate memorials, all suppressed cries and heartbreaking kowtows......

(To be continued)