Chapter 54: The "Battle" Outside Zhengyang Gate

"Hurry up! Move fast! Liu Peng, the platoon commander of the second platoon of the guard company of the model regiment, wore a robe and a horse coat, dressed as a businessman, but brandished a shell gun in his hand, and commanded several of his subordinates to set up a water-cooled machine gun made in Gongxian County in the private room on the second floor of Zhengyang Building near Zhengyangmen Street! The feeding chain filled with yellow bullets was also removed from the wooden box, and several explosive packets were placed on the table.

His chest heaved violently, knowing whether it was nervousness or excitement, and seeing that the machine gun was finally in place, he took another deep breath, pushed open the window, and poked his head out to look in the direction of the south.

It was now more than 6 o'clock in the morning on January 18, 1917, and the sky was gradually brightening, but the street outside Zhengyangmen was still deserted, and there were few pedestrians. On both sides of the street, every dozen meters, there were soldiers with loaded guns standing there - these soldiers did not have braids behind their heads, and they should have been sent by the Yamen, the commander of the Beijing infantry army, to maintain order. Because it won't be long before Zhang Xun's 17th battalion of pigtails will enter Beijing from Zhengyangmen!

At this moment, there was a sound of stairs rattling, and Liu Peng turned to look at the door of the private room, and the shell gun in his hand was also loaded.

"Knock, knock, knock." There were three knocks outside the door, which was the agreed code, indicating that it was his own person. Then a soldier dressed as a student opened the door, and it was Zhong Zhijie, a midshipman in the second platoon, who entered.

"Platoon commander, Zhang Xun's pigtailed soldiers have already come, and they can enter the range of machine guns in five minutes at most!" Zhong Zhijie's facial features were also tense. Although he participated in the north-south war after the Xinhai Revolution and the second revolution later, like today, it took less than 30 people to raid thousands of troops, let alone participate, or even heard of it! Of course, Chang Ruiqing didn't let them do it in vain, not only the settling-in allowance of 1,000 oceans per person, but also the big cake of official promotion to the third level! And what attracted Zhong Zhijie was that this company was promoted to three levels, he is now a second lieutenant midshipman, one level is a lieutenant platoon commander, two levels is a deputy company commander, and the third level is a captain company commander! For him, who is not a graduate of Baoding or a graduate of the Army Preparatory School in Chang Ruiqing's inner circle, what other shortcuts are there to develop besides seeking wealth and danger?

Liu Peng's face was not much calm, he smiled at Zhong Zhijie reluctantly, and pointed to the explosive bag on the table: "Zhijie, you have great strength, you will throw the first explosive package, listen to my password, you must throw it accurately!" ”

"Okay, platoon commander, just take a look!" Zhong Zhijie picked up an explosive bag and hugged it in his arms, then squatted next to the window, and also poked out half of his head to look out.

After a while, the sound of footsteps was faintly heard, and then I saw pigtailed soldiers in columns, wearing blue-gray military uniforms and carrying rifles, swaggering over. The pigtail soldiers are not the Qing Dynasty's "new training army" background, but the foundation of the patrol battalion, in the second revolution defeated Jiangsu's Yuan army, was praised as "the first strong soldier in the southeast", how strong it is on the battlefield is not to say, but bullying the common people, it is famous! Dominate the king on Jinpu Road, and even foreign devils have been beaten! It is also the first in the Republic of China...... For such ruffians, Zhang Xun didn't dare to be too restrained, so he could only rely on their temperament.

It's still the same sentence, as long as you can get by on face. For example, today, Zhang Xun gave an order to let the pigtailed soldiers enter the city before two o'clock in the morning, and it was already past six o'clock, so it was too late...... It took less than four hours to get up, eat breakfast, smoke a lot of cigarettes, and set off as a team, and I can still explain the past. Therefore, Zhang Xun's chief soldier Bai Baoshan was still very satisfied, sitting in the sedan chair while humming a small song, shaking his head and fantasizing about the glory and wealth after the restoration of the Qing Dynasty. As soon as the Qing Dynasty returned, his master Zhang Xun was the Minister of Beiyang and the Governor of Zhili, the Chief Minister of Parliament! And he Bai Baoshan, a governor's errand can't run away after all, and he won't make a few million taels when the time comes......

Right now. "Boom!" A deafening loud bang came from nowhere, shattering Bai Baoshan's dream at once.

Assassination! Bai Baoshan's first thought was not an enemy attack, but an assassination! Throwing homemade bombs on the streets to the carriages or palanquins of Manchu officials was very popular at the end of the Qing Dynasty! Now that the Qing Dynasty has been restored, those Kuomintang who are unwilling to withdraw from the stage of history will of course use unsightly assassinations to deal with the court officials! And isn't he, the future governor, their goal?

Thinking of this, Bai Baoshan immediately opened the sedan curtain, and rolled out with a bone, and there was already a mess outside, with machine guns, rifles, and pistols crackling and crackling, and rumbling explosions sounded from time to time! The braided soldiers who were originally advancing in the whole team also scattered with a hula, each holding a rifle and placing it indiscriminately, and many of them directly smashed open the shops on both sides of the street and rushed in, I don't know whether to occupy the position or to grab something? I guess it's a bit of both, right? As for the infantry troops on the side of the road who were sent out by the Yamen, the commander of the infantry army, to maintain order, where have they seen such a scene? Even the Xinhai Revolution didn't stage a full martial arts in Beijing at that time, did it? One by one, they all lost their rifles, hid in a few corners, closed their eyes, and recited the names of the gods and Buddhas in their mouths, compared with them, Zhang Xun's pigtailed soldiers were really elite!

And Bai Baoshan's own guards are the elite of the elite, the explosion and the gunfire came together, and they automatically surrounded the city in a circle, surrounding Bai Baoshan's sedan chair in the middle, Bai Baoshan's guard captain saw the master roll out, so he went up to help the master, and reported to him loudly: "My lord, it is fighting from behind, it is estimated that the artillery camp has been bombed, and the other party has at least one machine gun!" ”

"What? There are also machine guns in the rebels! Bai Baoshan's face turned pale with a brush, and this posture didn't look like an assassination, but like an ambush! Those chaotic parties in the south can make their own bombs or something, and machine guns will never be able to get into the city of Beijing! The only person who can set up a machine gun on the street outside Zhengyangmen in Beijing is the Beiyang Army stationed in Beijing!

Thinking of this, he shouted: "Pass the order, and all battalions occupy the commanding heights!" Defend in place! The artillery battalion was transferred to a safe area...... Send someone to report to the marshal, and say that we are in ambush outside Zhengyangmen! The enemy army probably has one, no, two regiments! Now there's a fierce battle! After the order, he escorted a henchman guard into Quanjude, which was at the mouth of the alley of the meat market, and set up his temporary headquarters there.

More than a dozen battalions of braided soldiers who received orders also spread out on both sides of the street outside Zhengyangmen, focusing on the "strategic points" in the Dashilar area, such as Tongrentang, Zhang Yiyuan, Neiliansheng, Ruifuxiang, Buyingzhai, Ma Juyuan, Daguanlou, and so on, all poured into the braided soldiers of the brigade, and near the "main battlefield" Zhengyanglou, there were not many braided soldiers killed, only a few cannons that were damaged by explosives bags, and dead bodies all over the place, all of which were officers and soldiers of the braided artillery battalion.

Liu Peng, the platoon commander of the model regiment who was in charge of directing the attack, saw that most of the pigtailed soldiers had scattered to the shops everywhere to establish positions, and hurriedly shouted while putting down his guns: "Retreat, hurry!" Keep up, walk from behind, and go out and run separately! ”

Zhong Zhijie pulled an explosive bag and threw it on the side of the machine gun, while shouting at the top of his voice: "Platoon commander, this ticket is well done!" Blown up four cannons! Killed dozens of pigtail soldiers, and that's the fucking No. 1 soldier in the Southeast. With that, he dragged Liu Peng out of the private room and ran in the direction of the back kitchen downstairs...... It didn't take long to see that the second floor of the good Beijing Zhengyang Building was bombed, and a big gap was blown up!

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