Seeing the soldiers around him pointing at himself with their guns, Zhou Ming did not have the slightest crampedness and nervousness, as if he did not see the muzzles of the soldiers around him, but instead helped the fallen Zhang Shuyuan up, and calmly helped up the fallen Zhang Shuyuan in the eyes of the surrounding eyes.

The surrounding soldiers looked at Zhou Ming in amazement, a trace of uneasiness leaked from their eyes, for Zhou Ming's behavior, after their initial surprise, you reacted quickly, just looked at Zhou Ming with some uncertainty.

At this moment, Zhang Shuyuan, who had fallen down, was picked up around, and then yelled: "Brothers, at this time, do you really want to die?!" At this time, outside the city is a strong enemy of more than 10,000 people in the northern Anhui army, if we surrender now, we may be able to save our lives, everyone has wives and children at home, and the old fathers and mothers and wives and children at home are waiting for us to go back at this time, do you really want to die here? ! Although Master Zhang is kind to me, it doesn't matter if I die, but I don't want my wife and children to wait for death after I die! ”

"At this time, if you are not willing to surrender, you should hurry up and take Master Zhang away now, as for the arsenal, I will not blow it up, I will think about my wife and children at home, everyone will go their own way in the future!"

Zhou Ming's face was flushed, and he gritted his teeth and said these words, but at this time, the momentum was so amazing!

When the surrounding soldiers heard Zhou Ming speak like this, they were stunned for a moment, and unconsciously lowered the muzzle of their guns, yes, everyone may be able to die, but what about the wives and children at home, will they also starve to death? ! I'm just a soldier who eats food, no matter who I follow, it's not just for a bite of food!

As the saying goes, 'It's better to be alive than dead!' As long as there is a chance to live, naturally no one wants to die, and no one wants to die, but at this time, Zhou Ming's words hit everyone's hearts word by word, how can I manage the affairs of those big people, the only thing may be the worthless rotten life in my hands!

Thinking of this, these people unconsciously lowered their guns, although everyone was loyal to the group, but when the group abandoned themselves, the life and death of the individual naturally occupied the first position.

Zhou Ming saw the performance of these people, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl up slightly, hiding a smile that the conspiracy had succeeded.

"We're all connected?" Zhou Ming asked the person next to him softly, obviously this person was also a subordinate of the Civil Affairs Department.

"It's been prepared for a long time, the people we buried here, it is estimated that all the people who can get there are now, and so far, there are more than forty people who have been contacted." The person who was asked stared at the hesitant Zhang Xunbu on the other side, his forehead was full of sweat, staring at the other party's every move.

Zhou Ming smiled, looked at the soldiers in front of him, and said in a low voice: "More than forty people are enough, let them go to the armory to gather now, we simply occupy the armory to prevent others from interfering and causing trouble." At that time, it is estimated that it will be another great achievement, in addition, send two more people to the city gate to pick up the commander, and when the time comes, directly lead the commander to receive the ordnance station! ”

After Zhou Ming gave the order, the henchmen behind him did not hesitate, answered directly, and then took the gun in his hand, turned around and walked out.

"Come back! Why don't you bring a white towel? Don't be killed by your own people when the time comes, if you really be killed by your own people when the time comes, don't say that you are wronged to die! Zhou Ming saw that his two brothers ran out directly, and stopped the two of them in dissatisfaction, and re-explained to his two subordinates.

"Hey, deputy, what is this?" The two little soldiers glanced at each other, then took off their hats, and after taking off the fake braids, the two bright heads shook in front of Zhou Ming's eyes.

Zhou Ming was immediately happy, and waved his hand again and again and said: "Hurry up, hurry up, oh, by the way, if you meet the commander, don't forget to say one, just say that we captured Commander Zhang alive." ”

"Well, don't worry, we're gone." Everyone hurried up, how could this kind of great merit be forgotten, it would be good not to brag about it!

In Han Zheng's heart, he always thought that Zhang Xun should have a certain amount of resistance, if he wanted to receive Xuzhou, there should be a small battle, but in fact it was the opposite, when the people sent by Zhou Ming took Han Zheng's northern army into the city, those chaotic soldiers fled in a hurry, but there was no obstacle at all, if it was too late to escape, it was to hold their hands high and simply surrender.

At this time, the first to enter Xuzhou City was the troops of the First Brigade, they were ordered to stick closely to Zhang Xun's pursuit of the troops, at this time, when Zhou Ming sent someone to pick up the people out of the city, they happened to be with this person.

So, under the leadership of these people, the First Brigade smoothly entered Xuzhou City, and then quickly took over the Xuzhou Armory, the most important place in the city, and at the same time arranged for people to block the railway station.

But because the railroad tracks on the road had been blown up by Zhang Xunbu for a distance, they could not be pursued.

Although there were many soldiers in the First Brigade, it was easy to cause great disturbance and casualties to the receiving troops when they accepted Xuzhou City in chaos.

And because of the limited number of troops, it was impossible to search and arrest the whole city, so they could only block the main locations in the city first, and then slowly expand the search range in Xuzhou City.

Fortunately, after the follow-up troops received the news of the first brigade, the army all accelerated one after another, and when the three-way army gathered in Xuzhou, the entire city of Xuzhou was officially taken over by Han Zhengjun.

Then a large army opened up to each other, and then the troops cooperated with each other, and quickly took over the entire city as a company, many pigtailed troops and local ruffians who took advantage of the chaos to loot were all cleaned up and arrested, and soldiers began to extinguish the fire in several burning places in the city, although at this time the soldiers under his command were exhausted, but no one complained, almost everyone was excited and excited and their faces were red!

When Han Zheng entered the city, the whole city had gradually returned to peace, and the rebels were arrested or shot, but at this time, Han Zheng took over the land as a conqueror.

Under the organization of his soldiers, the Northern Anhui Army held a grand ceremony to enter the city after occupying Xuzhou City, although the sky was just bright, there were still many local prestige people who came out of the bed, no matter what they thought, this place will be in the hands of the young and heroic Northern Anhui patrol envoy in front of them in front of them!

In October 1913, Xuzhou, a strategic place, finally entered the pocket of Han Zheng without any suspense, starting from the first conflict between Huaibei and Xuzhou, until now more than half a month, after many efforts, Xuzhou changed hands!

After Han Zheng entered Xuzhou City, he did not directly enter the Jiangbei Patrol Embassy, but set up a temporary headquarters in a place not far from the center of the city, and Han Zheng was listening to the report on the results of this battle under his command at this time.

"Since the conflict with the pigtail army, just the end of statistics, a total of more than 2,700 enemy troops annihilated, captured more than 3,200 enemy troops, the rest of Zhang Xun's troops have broken and fled, the following is being searched and arrested at the same time, the army from Xuzhou City to obtain countless baggage, 45 cannons, 68 heavy machine guns, 6,800 rifles, countless bullets, as for the Xuzhou armory, there are countless large quantities of baggage and logistics supplies. At this time, the army has just calmed down, but our army's side has suffered extremely limited losses, and due to the excessive number of other types of baggage obtained, the inventory has not been completed for the time being, but at this time recently, it can be determined that we have obtained more than 80,000 yuan of silver dollars that Zhang Xun did not have time to transport away at the railway station, and another 220,000 yuan from receiving the treasury here and raiding Zhang Xun's mansion."

"However, our army also paid a heavy price, with more than 1,800 casualties among soldiers, 132 missing, and a number of firearms lost."

Han Zheng listened to these with some distraction, but his thoughts drifted to the way out that he was going to develop after this battle.

Looking at the bright red flag of the Northern Anhui Army floating on the city wall of Xuzhou in the night sky, the only thing Han Zheng can be sure of is that the road he wants to take in the future is still far, far away

After this battle, Han Zheng quickly regained his mood, and there were many, many things to do next.

Han Zheng's action, it is estimated that it has attracted the attention of President Yuan, I don't know how many people are now staring at their every move, after Han Zheng occupied Xuzhou at this time, it is time to take a good rest for a while, the territory has expanded suddenly, and the local government affairs that were barely supported by it seem to be about to start lacking talents.

All kinds of local things need to be dealt with at all levels, military affairs have also begun to be rectified, and the finances have bottomed out at this time, and Li Yiru has been caught and complained several times, and although there are a lot of seizures here, they are only a drop in the bucket, and there are too many places that need money now.

It seems that in the future, I will start to prepare to make money, otherwise when I need it one day, it is estimated that my financial director will make trouble again.

His thoughts flew farther and farther, and suddenly he thought of his current status, and he was bound to start contacting all kinds of forces in the future, both foreign and domestic, which made Han Zheng, who thought of this, sigh with a headache, he could only take one step at a time in the future, it was really too fast for the forces to develop and lack of talents

However, thinking that he was one step closer to his goal, Han Zheng's mood suddenly improved a lot, no matter what, he has finally come to this point today, how he develops in the future, and how this collective develops, it depends on himself.

The staff officer who reported the results of the battle saw his commander smiling from time to time, and then frowned in distress, feeling a little uneasy, he was a blind admirer of his commander, he didn't know how the young commander in front of him could have such a great ability, but because he didn't understand, he worshiped more and more in his heart, this kind of worship plot is no longer his own, and now most of the young people in the army, especially the people around them, the worship of the commander has almost reached a blind state.

At this time, the young staff officer saw his commander's frowning brows, thinking that he had read something wrong, and his voice gradually became lower and lower, until finally Han Zheng finally breathed a sigh of relief and put a smile on his face again, and then relaxed and continued his work.

It wasn't until the staff officer finished reading it that Han Zheng said: "Very good, put this report here for the time being, notify it, let everyone rest and rest, don't get tired, there will be no big battles to fight for a while in the future." (To be continued.) )