"There's an Assassin—"

With the shouting of the chief of the guard, there was a mess in front of the Xuan Palace, and in the call of "protect the chairman", Wang Jingwei was immediately pushed into the car by many guards, and Tang Shengzhi, who had just gotten into the car not far in front of him, loudly ordered martial law in the whole city, and then ordered the driver to drive away from this dangerous place quickly.

At the same time, at the gate of the Yueben Marine Corps barracks located in the concession area on the south side of the river, two sentries standing guard fell to the ground after two crisp gunshots, covering their legs that had been pierced by bullets and wailing loudly, and the sound of sirens suddenly resounded throughout the barracks, and more than 300 officers and men of Yueben, who were also celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival, quickly gathered and quickly rushed out of the barracks and headed in all directions.

In the Jiangxi Hall on Wusheng East Street, Zong Xingzhen and Li Fuqiang changed into Taoist robes while laughing in a low voice, both of them accurately hit the key parts under the crotch of the officers and soldiers, Li Fuqiang said with a sly smile that the specially processed warhead will definitely be able to break the gadgets of the two devil soldiers.

Deng Bin and An Jin, who were changing into coolie vests, did not have the slightest smile on their faces, especially Deng Bin, who looked very annoyed, he didn't expect that at the moment of shooting, Liu Shoujiang raised his left hand and lowered his head, only breaking his wrist and failing to get rid of this scum who escaped and killed hundreds of brothers, and it would be much more difficult to assassinate him next time.

Sporadic gunshots came from time to time on the street outside, Li Fuqiang's expression changed, and he hurriedly ordered Deng Bin and the two of them to go to the courtyard to move the heavy pile of cotton yarn to the east warehouse and pile it up.

It didn't take long for more than ten officers and soldiers of the garrison under Tang Shengzhi to rush in after slamming the door open, and left immediately after a hasty search and asked the elder of the hall if he saw any strangers, An Jin and Deng Bin threw down the large bag of cotton yarn on their shoulders, looked at each other and smiled, they both knew that tonight Tang Shengzhi and Wang Jingwei and the army under their command were busy in the face of the furious Yue himself.

…… The news of Wang Jingwei's assassination was like a bomb hanging over the chaotic political arena, and the lethality of the explosion was extremely astonishing, and the area was also very huge.

In addition to reporting that one of Wang Jingwei's inspectors had been mistakenly killed and an attendant officer had been seriously injured, they did not specifically list the names of the dead and wounded, but instead insisted that it was an organized and premeditated heinous murder against the revolutionary leader, and vaguely pointed the finger directly at the Nanjing political axe of Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi.

Tang Shengzhi once again made a public speech, incomparably angrily accusing the murderer of atrocities, and as soon as his voice changed, he immediately violently attacked Li Zongren's Nanjing political axe as an interest group formed by a new warlord and party conspirators without legal reason, and said that he would never succumb to the atrocities of the new warlords, and would not hesitate to meet the Nanjing side for the sake of the future of the party-state, the will of Mr. Zhongshan, and the sacred revolutionary cause.

Tang Shengzhi said that he could do it, and the next day he ordered all the armies under his command to approach Anqing and Wuhu, and the war crisis was imminent.

Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi, who had only sought the unification of government orders and military orders, were very shocked when they received the news of Wang Jingwei's assassination, and the long-awaited legal coalition political axe that had made great progress in the Ninghan confluence would be established after one or two final discussions, but at this critical moment, a sensational assassination incident occurred that caused a sensation throughout the country, which caused Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi, who were originally full of confidence, to have a headache.

Bai Chongxi immediately thought of Chiang Kai-shek, who had been in the wilderness but had always been a thief and had always used despicable and vicious methods, and thought that the current success of the Ning-Han confluence was definitely not what Chiang Kai-shek, who was idle at home, wanted to see, so it was not surprising that he used any despicable means to obstruct and destroy.

After repeated analysis, Li Zongren very much agreed with Bai Chongxi's analysis, and he was unwilling to make any comments on the assassination incident, so as not to give people the pretext that there was no silver 300 taels here, but under the overwhelming pressure of public opinion in Wuhan and Tang Shengzhi's public accusations, news newspapers across the country began to discuss and rumors spread one after another, and the misguided public opinion became more and more unfavorable to Li Zongren's clique, especially several tabloids in Shanghai directly said that he Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi were behind the scenes of this despicable murder in order to clear the way and claim hegemony.

Faced with such a passive situation, Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi gathered all their henchmen to urgently discuss countermeasures, and finally agreed that if they didn't say anything again, it seemed that it was really a tacit acquiescence.

As a result, Li Zongren, who is eloquent and selfless, immediately issued a high-profile public statement and appeal, once again showing his broad-mindedness:

While severely condemning the shameless atrocity of assassinating party leader Wang Ching-wei, he called on General Tang Shengzhi and the entire [***] people to keep their eyes open and not fall prey to the conspiracy and tricks of a handful of shady counterrevolutionary forces.

Reading between the lines of Li Zongren's statement, the spearhead was faintly pointed at Chiang Kai-shek, who had already left the wilderness, and the pro-Chiang newspapers in various parts of Shanghai immediately ridiculed each other, and the reasons were all kinds and very sufficient, telling the people of the world that if Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi really had a clear conscience, why did they remain silent for a long time? It wasn't until the angry Wuhan soldiers pressed the border, and a big war was inevitable, that they hurriedly sophistry and denied it in every possible way, and turned to frame others? If Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi had no ghosts in their hearts, why did they retreat on all fronts and repeatedly seek forgiveness from Wuhan...... For a time, rumors spread throughout China, the Ninghan newspapers attacked each other, the Shanghai media fanned the flames, and the Yanjing, Tianjin, Guangzhou, Nanchang, Xi'an, and other media continued to load a large number of public opinions and reports, and Feng Yuxiang and Yan Xishan, who were fighting to the death with Feng, saw that the situation was not right, and they all stopped to look south.

Chiang Kai-shek, who was in the field, did not open his mouth from beginning to end, and refused any media interviews, it seems that he was really cultivating his family name in Fenghua Xuedou Temple, and he was detached from the world, but secretly he was surrounded by a large number of wise men, and he was nervously studying and judging this confusing and chaotic situation day after night.

Chiang Kai-shek put down the newspaper in his hand, pondered for a while, and then had a heated discussion with Zhang Qun, Chen Bui and other think tanks, but still could not find the initiator, Zhang Qun, Liu Wendao and others insisted that Li Zongren was the most suspicious, but Chen Guofu was full of praise for the assassin's ingenious plan.

Chiang Kai-shek asked with interest: "Where is the subtlety?" ”

Chen Guofu immediately analyzed and summarized little by little: "First of all, the assassin did not choose to attack at the main venue of the party headquarters in the heavily guarded Nanyang Building, but chose to make a move at a fleeting good opportunity before Wang Zhaoming boarded the car after the end of the group worship banquet on Hanjiang Road.

Secondly, the assassin's plan was very thorough, and at the same time he assassinated Wang Zhaoming, he shot the Yue Ben soldiers in the concession, stabbed this hornet's nest and caused chaos in the whole city, so that Wang Zhaoming and Tang Mengxiao's army had to turn most of their energy to Yue himself, who might take the opportunity to cause trouble, so the assassins easily escaped, and threw a chaotic endgame that was likely to cause diplomatic disputes or even local wars to Wang Zhaoming and Tang Mengxiao to deal with it.

Such a shrewd plan, showing the fierceness of the assassin everywhere, and covering all aspects, is really amazing! Not only that, but even the public opinion was boiling, the whole country was in an uproar, Li Delin and Bai Jiansheng were tired of coping, and had to make a statement after a few days of silence, in a vain attempt to divert the attention of the people, but the result became darker and darker, and Tang Mengxiao made full use of public opinion, and sent a large army to the east at this time, taking Wuhu and Anqing lightly. ”

"So, Guofu believes that this assassination was carried out by Li Delin and Bai Jiansheng?" Zhang Qun asked with a smile.

Chen Guofu nodded without hesitation: "The younger brother analyzed it like this, although Wang Zhaoming and Tang Mengxiao look like each other, they also belong to the same camp anyway, at least so far, the two still need to share weal and woe, and except for Li Delin's Gui interest group, who will have this enmity with Wang Zhaoming and have to take his surname?" Let's think about it, after getting rid of Wang Jingwei, who can benefit from it?

I think at least we won't do this, even if we really have a deep hatred with Wang Zhaoming, we won't embarrass him at this time, because Wang Zhaoming, like Tang Mengxiao, has been rejected by Li Delin, who has a heart higher than the sky and is impatient. The accusation of "communism and communism" has been violently attacked, and has resonated with the Shanghai faction and the right faction in the party who are extremely hostile to [***], which is undoubtedly a blow to Wang Zhaoming and Tang Mengxiao.

Therefore, the two of them have tried every possible way to defend themselves in the past half a month, and even become angry, if it weren't for Li Delin's efforts to form a consensus as soon as possible and form a joint political axe, I am afraid that they would still be holding on bitterly.

It is estimated that after the confluence of Ning and Han, the sinister and cunning Li Delin may repeat his old tricks again, forcing Wang Zhaoming, who has no military support, to go into the wilderness, in order to ensure that his stable position is not challenged, after all, Li Delin and Bai Jiansheng's qualifications in the party are too shallow, and now they have the power to kill with heavy troops, but they dare not raise it easily in order to succeed in ascending to the throne, and they are also very tired of living! ”

Everyone smiled when they heard this, and Chiang Kai-shek also nodded with great appreciation: "Yes, it can be seen that Guofu has put a lot of effort into research, and it is very rare to understand Li Delin and Wang Zhaoming's minds more thoroughly!"

It's just that there is one thing you don't see in the middle, that is, Li Delin is already overstretched now, and he wants to be in power, in addition to the support of hundreds of thousands of troops, it is far from enough, and he must also have strong economic strength as a backing, but he Li Delin does not have it, Guangxi is poor and bad, and for several years, he has been reckless in military force, and every year there is no other economic source except for smuggling opium with Guizhou and Yunnan to replenish military funds, so the rich Lianghu area has become a place where Li Delin and Bai Jiansheng are determined to win......

Chiang Kai-shek's words aroused everyone's interest, and they all held their breath and listened carefully, and no sound could be heard in the room except for Chiang Kai-shek's subdued voice.

(To be continued)