"In 1892, the year of Renchen. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

In the modern history of the Orient, this was a year that decided the development of history, and in this year there were too many major events in the Orient -- the "Battle of Kanto," which decided the fate of a nation, and dragged a nation into darkness. There is also the "Battle of Renchen", which decided the fate of China, which made a nation see the dawn of hope.

Just like the "Renchen Year" 400 years ago, the fate of the East was once again determined by the "Renchen Year", and among the many major events of the "Renchen", there were too many small things that were selectively ignored by history. In other words, it is directly submerged in the long river of history, in which the truth cannot be clearly explained even if it is the case.

Perhaps, the truth has never mattered. ”

"Essentials of Oriental History", Kuwabara Collection

In the early hours of the morning, when the smoke finally cleared, the city of Hangzhou was devastated, full of broken walls, collapsed walls, collapsed houses, or reduced to ashes in the flames - for the past three days, the Beiyang Fleet's naval guns have bombarded the city, thus reducing this city of righteousness to ruins.

On the collapsed city gate, a blue background of the sun and moon flag is still fluttering in the wind, as in the past, this sun and moon flag seems to be a symbol of the indomitable nation of this nation, a symbol of coexistence with the sun and the moon, but under the city wall, there are tired, dazed and even a little frightened faces.

Defeated!

The once huge uprising was suppressed under the attack of dozens of battalions of the Huai Army and the elite of the training army, and the Taiwan New Army, which landed in a town from Ningbo, became the last straw that broke the camel's back. More brave and good at fighting.

In the case of an enemy on all sides. Li Qinyu, a former military adviser who was ordered to take over the command of the Zhejiang Han People's Army. It had to be outnumbered, all the way to the fierce battle, but all the way to the defeat and retreat, the Zhejiang People's Army, known as 100,000, suffered extremely heavy casualties! In the pouring rain and mud all over the ground, the remnants of the army with guns on their backs braved the wind and rain to fight and retreat all the way to Hangzhou.

Among these tens of thousands of troops, many of them had their hands broken, their legs amputated, and their faces shaved. Wounded soldiers with white gauze on their heads, slaughterers with babies in their arms and faltering refugees, while what awaited them in Hangzhou was the shelling of the Beiyang Fleet. And after three days of shelling, a piece of news came out last night -- in Hangzhou Bay, there was a fleet waiting for them, as long as they got on the boat, they could withdraw to Kanto, where not many people knew, but for many. It was probably the only place where people could live. At least for those young men who cut off their braids, it will save their lives.

People are all walking in one direction. 100,000 soldiers and civilians were walking in one direction -- the wharf, dozens of merchant ships were waiting in Hangzhou Bay, the wind was blowing, the clouds were moving, and the sea was surging.

In the church outside Hangzhou, the foreign priest wrote down this one by one, without a trace of emotion.

"The fleet of refugees was waiting off the bay of Hangzhou, and according to the current information, the Beiyang Fleet seemed to have no intention of stopping them, perhaps powerless, to prevent them from escaping to the northeast - the fleet had exhausted its last shells in the bombardment of the city of Hangzhou, and they had returned to Wusong last night to replenish the shells.

Although many people fled Hangzhou, in the city of Hangzhou, the sun and moon flag still did not fall! Whether or not Tamtuk will retreat with the refugees seems to be the most curious question at the moment. ”

When the priest in the church outside the city recorded this passage in a curious voice, in the former governor yamen of Hangzhou, and now in the "Great Han Governor's Mansion", Tan Sitong, who was full of fatigue, once again looked at this Governor's Mansion with affectionate eyes, what he missed was not the glory of the Governor's Mansion, but the pride of being a Han people.

"Mr. Tan, it's time to leave Hangzhou......

Fukushima Shiro, who was wearing a suit, looked at Tan Sitong and said solemnly, this retreat from Hangzhou, thanks to the agreement reached between the Unified Supervision Office and Li Hongzhang, using the Beiyang Fleet to replenish ammunition in Shanghai, using merchant ships to evacuate the heroes and their families who evacuated Hangzhou to the northeast, Fukushima, as an adviser to the Governor's Office, is now more concerned about whether Tan Sitong can successfully withdraw from Hangzhou, as for the others, he doesn't care at all, his task is very simple, to ensure the success of the uprising, to evaluate the effect of the uprising, and finally, is to ensure that Tan Sitong can survive after the failure of the uprising.

"Leave?"

Tan Sitong coldly interrupted Fukushima's words, and didn't even look at him.

"I have asked you to come here not to ask you to help me get out of Hangzhou, although I am grateful to Ziran for his help and to help you in times of crisis. But I'm not going to go. I'm here today just to give Mr. Fukushima a bag of things to take out......"

"But, Mr. Tan!"

Hearing that Tan Sitong was reluctant to leave, Fukushima looked at him in surprise and asked loudly.

"How can you stay? Staying is a senseless sacrifice and a dead end! ”

Yes, even if the Unified Supervision Office has fought for a way out for the people in Hangzhou in the name of "cherishing talents for the country", if Tan Sitong stays, it will be difficult for even adults to protect him at that time.

"Of course I do."

Tan Sitong nodded, and said with a firm expression,

"And I very much agree with you leaving Hangzhou, and I also agree with other comrades leaving Hangzhou, revolution is a kind of division of labor and cooperation, although the goal is the same, but each comrade stands in a different position, some charge in the front, some in the rear, some contribute money, some contribute, some blood, some sweat. I feel that today's situation is suitable for me to stay, and I must stay, and everyone else must leave, go outside, go to the northeast, and come back to make a comeback for our cause. ”

"Alas, Mr. Tan! Why are you so stubborn! How much positive is it to stay? How useful is it to stay as a sacrifice? No, no, you have to go with us, you can't sacrifice like this! ”

Fukushima hurriedly persuaded that one of his tasks was to ensure Tan Sitong's safety, and for adults, the person in front of him was undoubtedly extremely important, and he had to protect it.

"Fukushima, how can you think that sacrifice is not positive? You remember the story of Gongsun Pestle, the one who does not leave, the one who sacrifices. It is also doing things, doing positive things; He who goes, and he who does not die first. It's also at the expense. It's just a long-term, unknowable sacrifice. Therefore, according to Gongsun Ningjiu's statement, those who do not leave, those who sacrifice first, do it easy; Those who go, those who do not sacrifice first, do more difficult. Gongsun Pestle put out the two paths, picked the easy one himself, didn't go, and sacrificed first. I want to do the same today. I left the difficult ones to Ziran and other comrades to do, and the road ahead will be very long, and it will be even more difficult. I think...... I thought and thought about it, and decided that I would stay. ”

A wry smile appeared on Tan Sitong's face.

"Mr. Tan, how can this be! Gongsun Pestle and Cheng Ying live in a different era from us, how can they generalize! ”

"It's no different, it's pretty much the same. Like Gongsun and Cheng Ying, we are all faced with an enemy who wants to kill us completely, and we all need the sacrifices of some comrades to inform the compatriots and the masses with sacrifices, and use sacrifices to encourage other comrades to continue to do long-term struggle. ”

Tan Sitong looked at Fukushima, and his face was full of sadness and helplessness.

"Besides, 70,000 comrades are under siege because of my missteps. The blood of tens of thousands of comrades! Teach me how to deal with it? ”

When mentioning "70,000 comrades", Tan Sitong's face was full of pathos. The reason why the 70,000 comrades were besieged was precisely because he insisted on going his own way -- after Tang Ziran sent troops, he immediately adjusted his strategy of uprising, changed the plan of recovering the whole province of Zhejiang to the recovering of Jiangning, and the 50,000 lone troops went deep into Jiangsu, intending to recover Jiangning; when the 50,000 people's army was blocked in Zhenjiang, in the face of the retreat suggestions put forward by many advisers, he still insisted on what he had seen, rejected their suggestions, and even sent troops to reinforce him many times.

At that time, he completely forgot the so-called people's army, which was completely a group of people who were deficient compared to the stragglers, they fought smoothly, and they couldn't fight tough battles at all, and in the face of the town army of 10,000 Qing troops, the people's army had not conquered it for a month. In fact, this had already declared the defeat of the Zhejiang People's Army -- Yuan Shikai's new army from Taiwan had landed in Ningbo, and the 50 battalions of the Liangjiang Governor's Mansion and the training troops of Jiangxi and Anhui provinces had also been transferred to Nanjing.

Because of this, Tan Sitong did not think that Tang Haoran's compromise with the Manchu Qing led to the failure of the uprising, when the 60,000 regiments of the training army appeared under Zhenjiang City, and Yuan Shikai's Taiwan New Army landed in Ningbo, the Hangzhou Uprising was doomed to failure, and as for the withdrawal of the new army stationed in North Korea to Guanwai, it was just to free up the land and water division in Beiyang, so that it could mobilize troops in Shanghai to attack Zhejiang and cut off the retreat of the Zhenjiang People's Army.

Even if Ziran did not withdraw the army, it would be a matter of time before the Zhejiang People's Army was defeated and retreated, and Li Hongzhang used Beiyang to send troops to Yuan Shikai, the former governor of Taiwan, to find a difference for the governor of Zhejiang. Thinking of this, Tan Sitong seemed to understand why the peasants who revolted in all dynasties and dynasties were never the first righteous people in the end, and the first righteous ones were just disrupting the order.

"Leave ......"

Shaking his head, Tan Sitong said in a firm tone,

"The cloth bag I brought today is the hammer of my "Renxue", I think, this may be what I should keep, as for myself, I ......"

Looking at Fukushima beside him, Tan Sitong said seriously.

"I know, Zi Ran must have told me to leave Hangzhou alive, you tell Zi Ran, when Hangzhou fell, if we were not in Hangzhou, then how would the people of the world view us and other revolutionaries?"

After this rhetorical question, Tan Sitong walked in this yamen with heavy steps, and at this time he seemed to see that when the sun was restored, hundreds of young people were here to talk passionately about the scene of the national recovery, but now, most of them died in Zhenjiang.

"If we all flee overseas with the great righteousness of the nation, and now that the uprising has failed, will we not be ridiculed by the world?"

shook his head vigorously, Tan Sitong's tone became more and more low, and his expression was also solemn, and there was a trace of pain and self-blame hidden in the solemnity.

"So, I'm going to stay here, I'm going to be here to tell the world that the revolutionary party is not a coward!"

"The Revolutionary Party is not a coward, and Mr. Tan is not a coward either!"

Just when Tan Sitong's words fell, a voice suddenly came from behind him, and what walked in was an officer wearing a navy blue Western-style military uniform, his military uniform looked very dirty, with a lot of dust, and a little gauze was exposed under the brim of the hat, and even along with his cheeks and ears, there were some dried blood scabs, and there were blood stains on the collar of the white shirt in the military uniform.

No one will be unfamiliar with this officer in the Governor's Mansion, he is Li Qinyu, who was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the Han People's Army.

"Does Mr. Tan think that if he dies here, he is not a coward?"

His eyes stared at Tan Sitong, and Li Qinyu asked loudly.

Facing Li Qinyu's questioning, Tan Sitong couldn't help but be dumbfounded, thinking of the tens of thousands of people's troops who died tragically because of his stubbornness, as well as this good situation that had come to naught, his expression couldn't help but stagnate, and he muttered.

"Tan, Tan......"

"Death is the real coward!"

With a roar, Li Qinyu continued.

"At the beginning of the year, 2,000 revolutionary comrades at home and abroad raised their righteousness in Hangzhou, seized the city in one fell swoop, and the banner of righteousness swept through Hangzhou, although they hated the city of Zhenjiang, they all did not know that our righteous deeds have shaken the whole country and awakened the people only today, if Mr. coexists with the city today, and is willing to die in the revolution, how can Mr. be worthy of the blood of 100,000 revolutionary comrades!"

The unceremonious questioning made Tan Sitong suddenly ashamed and embarrassed, the reason why he wanted to die in this city was because he was ashamed of the blood of revolutionary comrades, but now Li Qinyu's words completely put him in the "coward", how could he bear it.

"Qinming, I, I ......"

Tan Sitong, who looked pained, originally wanted to defend himself, but the words stopped between his lips, he didn't know how to defend himself at all, or rather, he didn't want to defend himself at all.

"Mr. Tan,"

Fukushima on the side hurriedly persuaded.

"Now that the people have been awakened by the blood of our revolutionary comrades, if Mr. Tan is killed by the Qing army, the news will inevitably lead to a trauma to the people's hearts, and the blood of the comrades will not be shed in vain. Please also think twice! ”

In the persuasion of Fukushima, Tang Caichang and others on the side also persuaded them to withdraw from Hangzhou, in any case, for them, Tan Sitong was the governor of the Han Dynasty in Zhejiang, and they were all symbols of the revolutionary comrades in Zhejiang, and Tang Ziran would not despise them when they arrived in the northeast.

The persuasion of everyone only made Tan Si feel entangled in the bottom of his heart, didn't he know that death could not solve the problem, in contrast, only the living need to take on more responsibility, but can he bear this responsibility? The fiasco in Zhenjiang only made his whole person disheartened, but ...... In the end, Tan Sitong set his eyes on Li Qinyu.

"Qin Ming, let's, how many troops do we have now?"

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