The next day, Liu Ting came to the office of the office early in the morning, didn't care about cleaning, first hung up a phone to the telegraph room, asked if there was a telegram from Shanghai, the answer was no, she couldn't help but worry, maybe Chen Zikun had left Shanghai, and returning at this time was tantamount to a moth to a fire.

She was walking back and forth in the office, frowning, and suddenly the phone rang, and she hurriedly grabbed it: "Hey, is there a telegram?" ”

"Secretary Liu, it's me." Zheng Zeru's deep voice came from the earpiece.

"Oh, I'm waiting for news from the telegraph room." Liu Ting's tone was a little disappointed.

"Commander-in-Chief Chen may not be happy in Shanghai, it is the same whether he comes or not, Secretary Liu, you leave early after work today, don't stay in the office." Zheng Zeru hung up the phone directly after speaking.

"Hey, hey, hey." Liu Ting patted the plug spring, convinced that the other party had hung up, thought for a moment, and picked up the microphone again: "Telephone Bureau, I'm the Commander's Office, let me check where the call just now is." ”

The telephone bureau was all manual operators, and someone was in charge of the office affairs, and soon found the other party's number: "It's from the Army School Office." ”

Liu Ting was faintly uneasy in her heart, hung up the phone, pondered for a while, according to the meaning of Zheng Zeru's words, ** tonight, the office will be their main target, there is only one guard company equipped with light weapons, and it will definitely not be able to hold up if it really fights.

Chen Zikun has the grace of knowing the Liu family, and he is even more generous and benevolent to the people of Jiangdong Province.

After the April 12 tragedy, the central government quickly adjusted the right-leaning line and removed Zheng Zeru from the post of secretary of the special committee, and it was Mai Ping who replaced him. Liu Ting didn't dare to think about it.

After thinking about it, she finally took out a stack of blank official notes from the drawer, wrote a few sheets in a row, then changed to a fountain pen, took a deep breath, signed the name of "Chen Zikun" at the checkout, and finally took out the Guanfang of the commander-in-chief of the Jiangdong Provincial National Revolutionary Army, and carefully covered it.

After doing all this, Liu Ting's back was soaked, and she felt cold and swishing on her body, and when she looked back, the window was not closed, so she quickly looked at it and made sure that no one was peeping outside, and after closing the window, she thought about it and felt that she wanted to cover it, so she opened it again, put those orders into envelopes, rang the bell to call the herald in, and asked him to send these envelopes to the garrison headquarters, the Marine Police Corps, and the arsenal.

……

Today is a good day for the Jiangdong Provincial Police Director Mai Zilong to marry a concubine, Director Mai posted a heroic post, and invited the province's military and political officials to a banquet.

In addition to the formal wedding banquet, dozens of tables of wine and food were arranged for the guards to enjoy, and the pig's head meat and knives were vigorously made.

After three rounds of drinking, Mai Zilong found an opportunity to come out, summoned the four police captains under his command in the study, took out his pocket watch and looked at it, and said resolutely: "Start on time at half past nine, it's half past five now, everyone is on the following table." ”

The captain in charge of the main attack office asked, "Director, what should Chen Zikun's family do?" ”

Mai Zilong hesitated for a moment and said, "Don't hurt them, send them to Shanghai afterwards." ”

After the captains went out, Mai Ping turned out from behind the screen: "Uncle, you can't be merciful in the revolution, or leave no room for the roots." ”

Mai Zilong nodded: "If you are terrible, Uncle knows, you can go busily, it's almost time." ”

Mai Ping walked out of the study, left Mai Mansion through the back door, looked at the pocket watch, the hour hand pointed to six o'clock, there were obviously more patrolmen on the street, and in another three and a half hours, the horn of the attack would sound, and Jiangdong Province would become a red world, thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel his heart surge.

Zheng Zeru and others gathered on the playground of the army school, and originally contacted 500 people, but only more than 100 people were present, and Mai Ping was very dissatisfied and rebuked those who did not come as opportunists.

"Can we do this?" Someone asked worriedly.

"There are not many soldiers in the elite, a hundred tigers are worth a thousand rabble, act on time!" Mai Ping looked forward to his own self-pride, and his calm attitude gave everyone confidence, but Zheng Zeru secretly shook his head, pulled Mai Ping aside and said, "I always feel that something is wrong......

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Mai Ping: "Comrade Zheng Zeru! Ready to shoot and have to be sent, what do you mean by retreating now! Is it to sabotage the operation? ”

The sharp questioning made Zheng Zeru speechless, so he had to compromise.

Mai Ping personally commanded the firing pistol, and the National Police Agency supported them with 300 old sleeves, the rifling was smoothed, and the bullets were not as many as promised, only the poor Baba's 3,000 rounds, but the soldiers were still very excited to fiddle with their weapons, pull the bolts, and look forward to their heroic performance in battle.

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At half past nine o'clock in the evening, the guests of the Mai family's mansion have been drinking, but the host is still persuading the wine, on the stage in the courtyard, the gongs and drums are still being staged, and there are hundreds of empty wine jars in the corner, and even the air is filled with the fragrance of wine and meat.

Mai Zilong took out his pocket watch every few minutes to look at it, and when it was finally time, he glanced at the captain of the guard, and the two hundred armed policemen hiding in the wing room rushed out, and arrested all the military and political officials at the wine table without much effort, and their accompanying guards were also disarmed, and the whole operation was quite successful without firing a shot.

In the center of the provincial city, a red signal flare rose into the sky, and the policemen who had already been in place poured out of the ambush like a black tide, rushing to the telegraph room, telephone office, radio station, newspaper office, garrison headquarters, barracks, docks, warehouses and other key departments.

Seeing the flare lifted into the air, Mai Ping shouted: "Comrades, come with me!" Holding a shell gun in his hand, he took the lead in the forefront, followed by more than 100 armed young men in military cadet uniforms and student uniforms, each with a white towel tied to his right arm, as a means of identifying friend or foe.

The provincial capital is not Shanghai, and at half past nine the citizens have fallen asleep, and the sudden gunfire woke up the people, dogs barking everywhere, shouting everywhere, and the provincial capital was in chaos.

Yao Yilei, who was asleep, was awakened by the sound of gunshots, pulled the lamp, and came out in pajamas, just as she saw Jian Bing also standing in the corridor in a nightdress with a blank face, Yan'er was also woken up, crying wow, and the nurse was shaking the cradle and singing nursery rhymes, no matter how to coax.

The gunshots became more and more intense, and Yao Yilei immediately decided: "Shoot!" ”

Since Chen Zikun was the envoy of the Jiangbei Protector, a rule has been formed at home, every family member must be able to operate firearms, even the maid mother can not be an exception, organize a target shooting once a week, and there are rewards for good results, and the family has stored a large number of weapons and ammunition, from pistols to rifles, from shotguns to light machine guns, and even a mortar.

There are more than 30 servants, cooks, coachmen, maids, etc. in the back house, all of whom were recruited by Chen Zikun from Nantai.

The housekeeper opened the gun magazine and distributed weapons, the men used rifles, and the women used hand-held machine guns, this thing is quick to use, does not need precise aiming, and the firepower is fierce, and the women like it.

There is a 150-strong guard company in the office, equipped with the most advanced automatic firearms, each of whom is a two-gun general, a new 20-round fully automatic box gun made in Spain is standard, and then various hand-held machine guns, automatic rifles, and light machine guns are armed to the teeth.

Mai Zilong sent a police brigade to attack the office, a total of 300 policemen, armed with pistols and rifles, saw the signal flares in the air and swarmed, at night there were only two guards at the entrance of the office, seeing the brigade of policemen rushing to hurriedly fire warning shots, suddenly dozens of bullets came over, splashed sparks on the big iron gate, two guards were killed on the spot, eight guards in the guard room inside the gate rushed out and fired fiercely with Thompson's hand-held machine guns, and the rain of bullets instantly suppressed the police.

The battle at the gate was in full swing, Yao Yilei came with a team of servants to reinforce, the old mother's army was extremely brave, shooting indiscriminately with her eyes closed, it was like splashing bullets, but this kind of disorderly fighting completely shocked the police, this firepower was too fierce, there were still dozens of steps away from the gate of the office, and more than 20 brothers were hung.

This battle can't be fought.

However, the rest of the battlefields went smoothly, the police occupied the telephone office, the telegraph room, and the radio station, the officers of the garrison headquarters were detained in Maifu, and the only group of soldiers was leaderless, and the police were disarmed in their sleep.

The good news from all walks of life reached Mai Zhai, and Mai Zilong laughed: "God does not live up to me." ”

……

The student pickets led by Mai Ping occupied the arsenal after a modest battle, and when the heavy iron door was opened, the students were dumbfounded, there were only a few dozen wooden boxes in the empty warehouse, and those legendary cannons did not exist at all.

The angry student arrested the guards of the arsenal and interrogated them, and the guards stammered: "Today there is an order from above, to load the cannons and shells and send them to the front." ”

Mai Ping pointed to the boxes: "What is that?" ”

"Those are rifles."

Unable to capture the cannons, and hundreds of rifles were better than nothing, Macping commanded his men to pry open the boxes and bring out brand-new rifles, but found that there were no bolts.

"Where's the bolt?" Mai Ping's eyes turned red.

The guard said with trepidation: "There is also an order from the office for us to remove all the bolts and send them over." ”

"Where's the order?"

got an order and saw Chen Zikun's signature at the place below, Mai Ping gasped: "Not good!" Hit the plan. ”