Chapter 183: Group Fight
When the bleak north wind swept over the Great Wall, it also brought a rush of footsteps. A guard in a yellow coat shouted: "Report-" and then panted and quickly ran to Guangxu and knelt down on one knee: "Emperor Qi, an hour ago, thousands of bannermen gathered to live in the hall of the Beijing Normal University, saying that they wanted revenge. Gonggong Kou asked the servants to report to the emperor urgently, asking the emperor to return to Beijing as soon as possible. β
Guangxu frowned: "The flag man wants to make trouble?" Return to Beijing immediately. Guangxu understands that something big is going to happen now. Guangxu turned his head, but saw Yang Zao'er, who had already retreated a few steps back, covering his mouth and looking at him with a frightened expression.
"The emperor isn't that remarkable, is he?" Guangxu smiled slightly.
"You...... You ......"
"I am me, and I can't pretend to be the emperor. But don't say that you just said again, even if it's an acquaintance. If you accidentally spread it...... Guangxu put his hand on his neck and swiped it gently: "I want to kill my head." β
Yang Zao'er just nodded sloppily.
"Alright, go and call them back. Something happened to the school. Then Guangxu approached Yang Zao'er and said cautiously: "Even if I die in battle, I will definitely not run away, believe me, I can do it." β
Perhaps because he was accustomed to seeing the crowded streets of later generations, Guangxu liked to arrange a large square in front of almost all of Beijing's new large buildings. This is true of the Beijing Railway Station, the same is true of the Military Academy, and the same is true of the Beijing Normal University Hall.
Since the school was built in this wasteland and the students came, many people began to slowly gather in this place to open a small shop and start a business. There are more and more shops on both sides of the road, and the goods are becoming more and more abundant. Especially the large square outside this gate. It has long been occupied by stalls that buy all kinds of food, especially those who sell breakfast, often open the tables and chairs before dawn and shout. Although the school has its own cafeteria, there are still many students who are willing to come out to eat. It seems that students' money is easy to make, and it is common in any era.
It's just that at this time, the square of the Beijing Normal University Hall was empty, and the flag-bearers who gathered and shouted for revenge made these businessmen hurry up and move their own businesses, and they didn't dare to speak if the things they had not had time to move were smashed. It's just far away.
These flag men were really arrogant, and they didn't talk to Ben, and a slap was slapped in the face of the porter who came to stop them. Then with a wave of the leader's hand, thousands of bannermen pushed down the iron gate and rushed in. The excited flag people beat people when they saw people, and they kept scolding the Han minions, which completely angered the students who still wanted to be reasonable. As soon as the young man's blood rushed to his head, he fought with the flag people. In the square between the two school buildings inside the gate, the vengeful flag-bearers mingled with the students who had come to stop them.
Rong Lu followed, because the extremely low efficiency of the Qing Dynasty yamen made him have no time to stop him after learning about this. I could only rush over with some officials. But he was still late, and when he arrived, he found that the fight had already started on both sides. On one side is the nobility of the court (although it has declined, it is still considered a nobility in the court). On one side are the students who were given by the emperor to look back. It's not good to help over there. And the sound of him shouting loudly hoping to stop on both sides was also so insignificant in the sound of killing the sky, and Rong Lu did not dare to let these officials from the banner people intervene. can only let the officials stop the crowd watching the excitement first. And the crowd only dared to stand on the road from a distance and watch, and did not dare to make a loud noise, for fear of accidentally angering the officials of the yamen and locking them up.
Just when Rong Lu was at a loss and was about to report back to the capital, the ministers of the military aircraft who came to calm the incident by the order of the empress dowager of the two palaces arrived.
"Lord Rong, why don't you let the servants separate the crowd on both sides?" Li Hongzhang, who had just gotten out of the carriage, angrily reprimanded Rong Lu.
Rong Lu said aggrievedly: "Lord Zhongtang." If you don't want to be lowly and unwilling, you really don't dare. I thought that I only needed to stop it, so the officials I brought were all banner people! β
Li Hongzhang immediately understood that if these banner men and officials were allowed to participate in it, they would only go to fight the students of the university hall together. And these officials are all armed with weapons, if these people are involved. The casualties of that student were huge.
The immediate need is to separate the agitated crowds on both sides. Li Hongzhang didn't care much, and immediately commanded several palace guards to rush into the crowd. And shouted loudly: "The old man is the prime minister of the court." Everyone, stop. Everyone, stopβ"
Wearing a yellow vest is a symbol of status and power, although it is only a guard, although there are only a few, but the yellow coat is a yellow coat, and no one dares to really do anything to them. Li Hongzhang also squeezed into the crowd under the protection of these guards.
Because of the addition of the inner palace guards, the crowd of fierce fighting eased a little. But an arrogant voice came out of the crowd: "Li Hongzhang, what are you, even if you are the first auxiliary military aircraft, you are also a dog of our Manchurians." As soon as these words came out, the people became even more excited, and they all began to push the guards in front of them, wanting to rush into the crowd that was still fighting.
Li Hongzhang, who heard this, was so angry that his face was deformed, this was a contempt for the law of the imperial court, but he couldn't say anything. Since the Qing Dynasty, although there will be two ministers of Manchu and Han, it has always been that the Manchu ministers are greater than the Hanchens. He, Li Hongzhang, is the first minister to stand above the Manchurians.
"This king is Prince Li. Who is talking nonsense just now, stand up! Prince Shiduo, who was still standing on the periphery, hurriedly stepped forward and squeezed into the crowd, although he had always been dissatisfied with the emperor putting Li Hongzhang ahead of him, but he also understood that this was not the time to talk about this.
With the arrival of the Priests, the situation can begin to be slowly controlled. In the end, all efforts were in vain. Although there were always people in the crowd shouting different voices, there were Manchurian military ministers who pressed the scene, and both sides stopped. Until the banner people shouted: Ye is beaten, even if he beats you Han slaves? A steel pipe flew out of the middle of the students and smashed on the head of a flag man, knocking him out on the spot.
"Killed, killed." "The Han minions are going to rebel." "Kill these dog minions."
With the banner people's words "rushing-", the situation can no longer be controlled, and the impulsive crowd can no longer be controlled. The flag-men and students all rushed towards each other, and the guards who stopped in the middle of the crowd became the targets of both sides. The guards who could no longer stop could only protect Li Hongzhang and Shi Duo from the chaotic crowd. But it also came at a considerable cost.
The guards didn't talk about it, Li Hongzhang's official hat alone was gone, his official uniform was also tattered, and there were still many footprints on his body. Shi Duo kept his official hat, but he covered his swollen cheeks and scolded: Who TMD even dares to beat this king.
The scene was completely chaotic, and the students found steel pipes and wooden sticks from nowhere, and broke the heads of the flag-bearers and bled blood. This situation made Rong Lu no longer able to restrain the bannermen, and the bannermen participated in the war.
If one side can achieve an absolute advantage. That would end the fighting very quickly, and that would also significantly reduce the number of casualties. However, although the flagmen are outnumbered, their physical fitness has long been hollowed out by the wine. Although there are few students, they are all strong and strong in the physical education class forced by the emperor. And because the venue can't accommodate thousands of people fighting at the same time, this has become a group fight that gradually adds fuel, and the end of the evenly matched group fight becomes far away, unless one side completely falls.
"It's over, it's over." Look at the situation that is out of control. Li Hongzhang sat on the ground. Regardless of the final outcome here, if this matter is not handled properly, it can completely stimulate the long-standing antagonism between the Manchus and Hans. Then. This incident will truly be the starting point for the disintegration of the Qing Dynasty. Li Hongzhang also regretted it at this time. If you had known that the situation was already so unbearable, you should have brought all the royal guard battalions. All he can hope for now is to have fewer deaths, and in the end, the only one he can count on is the emperor.
"Driving-" Guangxu rushed to the front first, and the four women also followed. They often follow Guangxu to play around, and they are no strangers to horseback riding. And more than a dozen guards had already put on the yellow vests they had prepared on their bodies, like a half-moon to protect them.
The hall of the Beijing Normal University was in front of it, and the noisy fighting and killing sounds became clearly recognizable. At this time, the six guards on the left and the right suddenly accelerated. Squeezed out a passage from the crowd of onlookers, and Guangxu and his party rushed through the passage without slowing down.
Just turned around the crowd of onlookers, and what appeared in front of Guangxu was a tragic scene. Thousands of people shouted to kill the earth-shattering brawl, and Guangxu was shocked by the steel pipes and wooden sticks and the splashes of blood, he never thought that things had become so unbearable. Before the horse stopped. Guangxu swept the audience at a glance and saw that the helpless ministers of military aircraft were shouting weakly.
"All guns fired warning shots." Guangxu, who had not yet dismounted, gave an order. The guards immediately raised their guns in the air. Gunshots rang out.
......The crisp sound of the gunfire woke up the crowd who were fighting, and everyone stopped and looked at the place where the gunshots rang out. What happened?
At this time, Kou Liancai also arrived. He came with a dragon robe at the behest of the Queen Mother. After Kou Liancai saw the angry emperor at a glance, he shouted loudly: "The emperor has arrived-"
The dragon robe was unfolded in Guangxu, Guangxu stretched out his hands and stretched them into his sleeves, and the majestic five-clawed golden dragon flew in the north wind. Kou Liancai took the dragon crown and put it on the emperor's head, and Guangxu did not buckle the front of the dragon robe, so he let the north wind blow it. The audience fell silent instantly, and they stopped moaning even when they were hurt. Only the dragon robe fluttered high in the wind, and the hunting sound was blown.
"Long live my emperor, long live, long live." After the officials knelt down and shouted three times, the onlookers also knelt down. The warring flag men and students looked at each other and knelt down.
Guangxu ignored the kneeling crowd, and just strode towards the school gate, the dragon robe fluttering behind him. Guangxu did not go straight in, but walked in diagonally.
The kneeling ministers of the military aircraft saw that the angry emperor was walking towards them, all of them were shocked, and some of them had begun to tremble involuntarily. There is such a big thing happening in the university hall, no matter how you explain it, this crime of improper handling cannot be escaped. Only Li Hongzhang knelt down steadily. But they were all wrong, the emperor didn't come for them.
As soon as he walked through the school gate, Guangxu leaned on the pillar next to him, turned his head to Kou Liancai who was following behind him and made a very exaggerated move, and said with excited words: "Kou Liancai, you haven't seen it late, the scene of the thousands of people fighting just now is a hot one." I only watched it for a short time and watched it with excitement, and you will know when they fight again in a while, that scene is estimated to be unwatchable in our Great Qing Kingdom except for this time. After speaking, he turned to the crowd and said, "Get up, get up." Go on, go on. β
After speaking, Guangxu leaned against the pillar and looked at the field with an interested expression. In fact, what Guangxu wanted to say was to let them "continue to fight", but they hit the mouth and swallowed it back. He can't say because he's the emperor. If he said "continue to fight" and the two sides really fought again, it would be a fight by order, and the consequences would have to be counted on him Guangxu. Guangxu didn't dare to say it, because he really did this kind of thing a few years ago, and he scolded Cixi for being a bloody dog. Since then, Guangxu has understood a truth, the emperor either doesn't say it, as long as Chrysostom opens, he must fall to the ground and smash a hole.
The banner students all stood up, although they all stared at each other viciously, but no one really dared to make a move. At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves was heard in the distance. The 1st Regiment of the 1st Division, stationed in the Fengtai Battalion, rushed over under the personal leadership of the division commander Duan Qirui after receiving the telegram from the General Staff Department. Guangxu did not mobilize the palace guards, and the large-scale transfer of the palace guards was too shocking to the imperial court, so Guangxu asked people to go to the General Staff to pass the order and directly transfer a regiment to come.
The first regiment came so quickly beyond Guangxu's expectations. This is the credit of Kou Liancai, when he sent a fast horse to inform the emperor, he also sent someone to inform the General Staff, and Wang Shizhen immediately ordered the first regiment of Fengtai to prepare for departure. Therefore, when Guangxu returned from the Great Wall, as soon as the people who went to the General Staff to deliver the message arrived, a telegram was delivered to Duan Qirui, who had been waiting for a long time, and the first regiment that had already been prepared immediately started.
With a wave of Duan Qirui's hand, the troops behind rushed in and surrounded nearly 3,000 people in the field. All the guns were raised flat, and the sound of a bullet being loaded rang out.
With a snap, Duan Qirui, who was standing straight with his feet together and standing together, gave a military salute in front of Guangxu: "Report, the First Regiment of the First Division of the Imperial Army of the Great Qing Dynasty has been ordered to come, please instruct." β
Guangxu returned the salute: "Separate the people on both sides, and shoot them on the spot if they resist." Count the casualties and rescue the wounded immediately. Guangxu's voice was not loud, but it could shake the scene the most. The wolf-like soldiers separated the two sides, and no one dared to resist in the slightest. Because they really dare to shoot. The soldiers carried the wounded aside, and the medical officers of the university hall also rushed forward with medicine boxes on their backs.
"Banish all the flag men who come to make trouble out of the school gate." Guangxu's will caused the anger of the banner people.
"What is the reason why the emperor expels us first without distinguishing between right and wrong?" This sentence from the flag people caused the flag people to be indignant.
"Heh, it's reasonable for you to go to other people's places to make trouble and beat people." Guangxu's eyes glared at the boss: "Speak, stand up." β
No one came out. Guangxu pointed forward, and a group of soldiers rushed in, and some of the flag men just wanted to stand up, but they were smashed to the ground by a burst of gun butts. In the end, he obediently gave way and watched the people be captured.
The Manchus who were escorted out still said unruly: "Your Majesty, the Great Qing Kingdom is our Manchu Great Qing Kingdom, and this world is our Manchu world, not to mention this school." Where can we be full of people's thoughts! The old and young masters said yes. Listening to the echoing voice of the Manchurian, the Manchu turned around decently and waved his hand home.
"You can go wherever you want, right? Do you want to say that my palace is also something you can go to if you want to? Guangxu was furious: "Drag it down, fight." β
The soldier pulled him down and began to smash him with the butt of his rifle in front of everyone. The heart-rending wails continued until the man could no longer speak.
Killed?