Before leaving, Hu Chuyuan had already discussed every detail with Lu Guangquan and Duan Qirui in the telegram, and the whole process was of course the most beneficial to Hu Chuyuan, Duan Qirui didn't care about the whole process, and Lu Guangquan was a little unhappy.

Although, the idea of mutiny was basically the first to be put forward by Lu Guangquan, and he was also in the middle.

That's the struggle.

The number one and the second-in-command will always suffer, and Lu Guangquan is the number two person in the army in the new army system except for Hu Chuyuan.

Since you proposed it, and you are the person who is most likely to stabilize the situation besides Hu Chuyuan, then you have to go.

Duan Qirui had three divisions in the Zhili area, and the main work of the rebellion was basically done by him, but on the surface, he accepted Lu Guangquan's wisdom, at least he could only be regarded as Lu Guangquan's right-hand man.

Hu Chuyuan pushed it all away.

It is impossible for him to be on the front line of the mutiny, which does him no good at all.

People, it is also necessary to be insidious when it is appropriate, and to engage in such an honorable thing as a mutiny is not to be given to others.

After all, the gap between Lu Guangquan and Hu Chuyuan is still very far, and it is impossible to become the leader of the new army by relying on a single uprising.

The army is very realizable.

Originally born in a radical revolutionary land system, but now it has gradually turned into a pragmatic faction in charge of the Hu family, and Li Kaiye is a good proof of this.

…… From Liaocheng to the north, the Jinghan railway has been destroyed in a bad way, at first, the sappers also got off the train to repair the railway, and finally, Hu Chuyuan Suo ordered the whole army to suspend the construction of the road, gather on the spot, hold the railway from Kaifeng to Dezhou, wait for the arrival of the Jianghuai Eighth Division, and march north together.

The 12th Jianghuai Division stationed in Dezhou had already begun to move, and a regiment was sent south to meet the situation, and the 6th Jianghuai Division was working together to repair the railway.

On the afternoon of March 19, the Jianghuai Eighth Division arrived in Gaotang County, and the troops of the three divisions turned together towards Dezhou.

Because it did not receive Hu Chuyuan's direct order, the 12th Division did not act and attack without authorization, but only cleared the Boxers in Dezhou City, and then concentrated all its efforts on repairing the railway.

Entering Dezhou City, all Hu Chuyuan could see was a mess, leaving a large number of corpses on the ground that had not had time to be burned, including Yihequan, soldiers, and even more innocent people.

When we got to the church, the corpses were even more frightening and terrifying.

Because it was the time of the assembly for prayer, the Boxer seized the opportunity to rush in and kill everyone in the church, including the old and weak, women and children.

In fact, the majority of religious believers are women.

This is a very common fact in the history of Chinese missionary work, you could say that they are ignorant, but they are only victims of violence and oppression, and they want to seek a kind of spiritual solace and protection.

Walking in Texas City, Hu Chuyuan only felt that he had come to hell.

Walking, watching, with blood dripping from my heart.

He knew that he would never forgive himself in his life, nor would he forgive Lu Guangquan and Chen Shanyuan.

He couldn't stand it anymore, and was about to ask about the current main movements of the Yihequan, when Li Cunyi suddenly ran over to tell him, saying that tens of thousands of Yihequan suddenly appeared outside the city, preparing to attack the city, and also prepared siege equipment.

Hu Chuyuan was slightly surprised, and wondered, didn't they see that the new army had entered the city.

He hurried back to the city walls.

The boxers were concentrated on the west side of the city, and they had been hiding in the area of Xiazhuang Town before, but now they suddenly emerged, and the scale of more than 20,000 people pounced like ants.

Because a regiment of the 6th and 12th Jianghuai Divisions was rushing to repair the railway, the new army concentrated near the city happened to be close to 20,000 men...... The number of people is not the point, as long as the new army is really released, a thousand people can deal with tens of thousands of bandits.

Duan Qirui was still quite nervous, and had already mobilized the troops of two regiments to dig trenches in front of the city, and hundreds of machine guns had been set up and ready to shoot at any time.

On the side of the Forces nouvelles, the atmosphere was unprecedentedly tense and silent.

On the other side, the Boxers looked extremely excited, wielding broadswords, shovels, hoes, and banners of various colors, some of which were written with the words "Oppose the Qing Dynasty and Destroy the Foreigners", and some with words such as "Advise and teach" and "Helping Heaven".

Looking at them from afar, witnessing their madness and arrogance, Hu Chuyuan only had countless confusions in his heart.

He didn't understand why people could be so crazy.

Is this called fearlessness of the ignorant?

Duan Qirui also climbed the city wall, and Hu Chuyuan lowered his head and asked, "My lord, do you want to shoot a warning?" ”

Hu Chuyuan thought carefully for a moment, sighed, and said, "No need, all crimes are capital crimes, shoot when you get closer." ”

Duan Qirui nodded silently and said, "Then, I'll arrange it." ”

Hu Chuyuan snorted, and said, "Arrange it according to your assumptions, I'll just wait for the result." ”

After saying this, he walked down from the city wall, not wanting to see the final result.

He had a bench prepared behind the city wall and sat in silence.

During the long wait, the shouts in the distance were getting closer and closer, and the Boxers continued to shout terrifying voices, preaching the protection of the gods, and preaching the slogans of foreigners and all the things of foreigners that made the gods angry, as if they were really possessed by gods and invulnerable.

It seemed that they were only a few hundred meters away from the city wall.

Suddenly, a gunshot rang out outside the city walls.

At this moment, all the machine guns suddenly exploded, and a large number of bullets erupted, and the sounds were mixed together, as if the whole world was about to be torn apart.

The small-caliber howitzers began to roar, and one shell after another was vented on the battlefield, but those boxers seemed to have gone crazy and rushed over faster.

Someone rushed too fast, and was hit by a machine gun, and his body seemed to be torn apart by some invisible devil's claw in an instant, and the moment his body was hit, he was suspended in the air, not trembling as he imagined, but tearing apart in an instant.

The result of hundreds of machine guns was extremely cruel, tens of thousands of civilian boxers were killed and injured in just a few tens of seconds, at this time, the people behind wanted to escape, and it was too late to run, the troops were still shooting rapidly, like killing machines that could not be stopped.

Many more were killed, and in the Charge, thousands of soldiers rushed out mercilessly and brutally, with bayonets on their guns, stabbing all the way, killing and shooting.

The Boxers' plan to take over the city collapsed in almost a matter of minutes, leaving behind more than 10,000 corpses, corpses strewn across the field, and blood stained the entire battlefield.

Hu Chuyuan didn't see it, but he could imagine it.

He has seen similar scenes before.

The Buddha said that in the cycle of cause and effect, if you do something wrong, you will eventually be punished, and if you kill someone, you will naturally be killed.

The destructive power of the legend of the Boxer, in the final analysis, was caused by the indulgence of the Qing court, and it was actually not amazing, and it could not be compared with the Twist Army at all, and the new army at this time was far from being comparable to the Hunan and Huai armies of that year.

The bandits in the Texas capital were wiped out almost in a few days, and more bandits were forced to flee to Jizhou and Cangzhou.

Hu Chuyuan carried out the mobilization of various armies through telegrams, and began to clear and suppress from Tianjin, Baoding, and Dezhou, and the three-way army encircled the center, compressing the boxers and bandits to the Cangzhou area.

He had six divisions that could be mobilized, and although the number was less than 1/3 of that of the Boxers, the actual combat effectiveness was the difference between heaven and earth.

In April, the Third Route Army had already completed its respective clearances and began to force the boxers to Cangzhou, and the Third Route Army also squeezed towards Cangzhou.

Cangzhou City has been stubbornly defended, mainly relying on the strength of the people in the city themselves, plus thousands of rifles from the Cangzhou Green Battalion.

On May 17, Hu Chuyuan completed the final encirclement in Cangzhou, and more than 170,000 Boxers were routed in Dalangdian Township.

Hu Chuyuan himself couldn't bear to watch this scene, but he also knew that he had to deal a severe blow in order to continue to maintain peace in the country, and he really had to crack down on the pedantic forces in the country, so that the "Enlightenment Movement" would start a bigger prelude from then on.

He remained in Texas and relied on the telegraph network to command armies of all stripes.

He was not a soldier once, but now he can be counted, and he is very good at conducting such large-scale dispatches, perhaps because of his background as a businessman, he is very good at considering the whole picture, taking into account the terrain, supplies, transportation, etc., and considering all the options of the opponent.

From the day he made the plan, he knew that there were only three final places to encircle, and among them was Dalangdian.

Those who participated in the war, and even all the named commanders of the 31 new army divisions in the entire country, were cultivated and appointed by him, from the time they began to appear to be cultivated, to the time they were pushed to study abroad, and when they returned to China, they were arranged and promoted one by one.

Hu Chuyuan personally asked about all this.

Hu Chuyuan is the commander-in-chief, and they will definitely complete the task to the letter.

On the night of receiving the successful encirclement and suppression, Duan Qirui, who still had blood stains on his body, came to find Hu Chuyuan, and Hu Chuyuan was sitting in the big office of the Texas prefect.

This prefect, Hu Chuyuan has some vague memories, he was originally a member of his Hu party, but he hasn't made much progress in recent years, anyway, he has been guarding this Texas prefect for seven or eight years.

The results weren't bad, but they weren't very good.

As a result, as soon as the Boxer came, he ran first.

Two days ago, the prefect ran back to find Hu Chuyuan, thinking that he was born in the lineage, and that he might be exempted from a capital crime, and he could be demoted to the magistrate of the county after dozens of boards, but he was thrown into prison and shot together with other important criminals in a few days.

Hu Chuyuan is not brutal, and he is also very sympathetic to his subordinates, but unfortunately, there are too many officials who can be used under him, everyone is grabbing positions, and if they don't perform well, they always have to give up their positions, and they will definitely not cover up if they make such a big mistake.

Pragmatist, pragmatist.

You are pragmatic, Hu Chuyuan is more pragmatic.

In the past few days, Hu Chuyuan has temporarily become the prefect of Texas to deal with the affairs of Texas.

At night, when he was reading the newspaper, Duan Qirui walked in, and Li Cunyi did not stop him at the door.

Entering the gate, Duan Qirui stepped forward to see and said, "My lord, everything is ready, wait a while, we will enter Beijing...... You, you really don't go along? ”

Hu Chuyuan put down the report in his hand, nodded and said, "I won't go, you can do it!" ”

"...... this?"

Duan Qirui was still a little unconvinced, and he said again: "Then let Lu Guangquan do this, in case he takes all the good things, should I deal with him?" ”

Hu Chuyuan thought for a moment and said, "National affairs...... shouldn't have been taken for granted, but Lu Guangquan is not the kind of unreasonable person. He, he knows it in his heart. He wanted revolution, and I could have fulfilled him, but the enlightenment movement did not produce much good results, and it also provoked a Boxer Fist, and he should have understood very well the difference in the foundation of the revolution. I estimate that there must be a lot of repetition in this matter, so I might as well let Lu Guangquan go first, and if something happens, I will come out and clean up the mess! ”

Duan Qirui thought for a while and said, "Then I'...... We said we had put you under house arrest? ”

Hu Chuyuan nodded and said, "You can say anything!" ”

Duan Qirui said: "This is a bit difficult to do, if the commanders of each division know the truth, I am afraid that the news will leak out, if everyone is not clear, in case it is true, I really think that a few of us have eaten leopard gall and actually put you under house arrest...... If we lead the army to kill together, we really can't eat and walk around! ”

Hu Chuyuan thought about it, and originally really discussed that in the name of "house arrest", let him stay in Texas temporarily and wait for the situation to change.

He pondered for a moment and said, "Okay, I'll leave for Laiwu, Shandong tonight to inspect." When I get to Laiwu, you can move according to the situation! At that time, I was a little far away from Zhili, and the distant water couldn't save the near fire, so it was normal to watch the situation for the time being. ”

Duan Qirui nodded slightly, and said with a sigh of relief: "It's much better this way, and I have a score in my heart." As for Lu Guangquan, I guess he won't be too out of line, if he is out of line, my troops here will also be superior, Li Kaiye is in the northwest, Zhang Shiying is in the south, and he can't save the fire from far water! ”

Hu Chuyuan snorted.

What to do, Hu Chuyuan actually didn't want to ask too much detail.

What's more, such a thing as a mutiny is originally a matter of taking one step at a time, and where the gun is fired, it counts as a matter of place, and the changes are very great.

The key is to prevent Rong Lu's Northeast Corps from going south, Jinzhou must be well guarded, as long as Jinzhou is guarded well, the Northeast Corps can't come down, and Lu Guangquan and Duan Qirui have the final say...... That's enough.

The various divisions that participated in the mutiny, from their superiors to their subordinates, from division commanders to platoon commanders, all made ideological mobilization and organized a major movement to advance to Yanjing around the Huameng.

When Duan Qirui left, Li Cunyi, who was guarding the door, seemed to sigh slightly.

Naturally, there is no need to tell him about the mutiny, but Li Cunyi's reputation in the army is not low, and he is also an old officer with connections, so he already understands it in his heart.

Looking up at the moon, Li Cunyi had an inseparable feeling in his heart.

He couldn't imagine that the Qing Dynasty was really over like this.

Although he also hated the Manchurians, but the Qing Dynasty was really about to end like this, but he was a little reluctant in his heart, how could he suffer, he had also been a person of the Great Qing Dynasty for more than 50 years, so in the blink of an eye, it would be gone.

What kind of country is this?

Is this right or wrong?

Li Cunyi couldn't say clearly.

Even he can't say clearly, how many people in this Great Qing Kingdom can say clearly?

Revolution?

In today's China, there is no future at all!

Seriously, if Emperor Guangxu Zaiyan is a Han Chinese, Hu Chuyuan's estimation will end here, and Lu Guangquan's estimation will be the same, so will everyone forget it, anyway, the constitution will be established.

In fact, it is not a bad thing to have a constitutional monarchy in China.

Not to mention China, it's almost the same in the whole of Asia, and it's not a good thing to be too radical.

But how can the gang of people in the Ming Dynasty be soft, and they actually let the Manchurians enter the customs and cause such a thing?

Tinkered with the Manchu Qing and became the emperor himself?

Hu Chuyuan said that he really didn't have this idea, and it wasn't completely absent, and he really didn't dare to bet.

He can't afford to gamble.

He can do nothing now, but once he gambles on his emperor's life, he is the emperor under the constitutional monarchy, if he doesn't do it well, all the achievements in his life will be ignored, and the money he has earned with great difficulty will be confiscated and confiscated.

Why bother?

If you don't do it, you have to go to a gray-tailed wolf?

Just do what you want?

Hu Chuyuan didn't think much about it.

(To be continued)