In a secret room in Fuzhou City, Sun Wen looked at Wang Heshun of the Fujian Revolutionary Army and hesitated for a moment and said: "Dexin, there is one thing that should be told to you, I did not think carefully about signing the secret treaty with the seven countries this time, but for the sake of our Xingzhong Association, this matter of signing the secret treaty will be taken responsibility by Comrade He Kuan, vice president of the secret treaty, and Comrade Liu Xiang, vice president of the secret treaty. ”

Wang Heshun frowned and looked at Sun Wen, not knowing what he meant.

Sun Wen blushed a little and continued: "And I will secretly leave Fuzhou immediately on the grounds of illness, take a ship to Hawaii, after arriving in Hawaii, I will claim that I have already left Fuzhou because of illness, I don't know about the secret covenant at all, and I will disagree with the secret covenant, so although I can't reverse the adverse impact of the secret covenant on Xingzhong, but I, the president, did not participate in the secret covenant, which will be somewhat beneficial to our Xingzhong." ”

When Wang Heshun heard it, didn't this mean to let the two vice presidents of the Xingzhong Association carry the black pot? You must know that signing a secret treaty with 7 countries was finally decided by Sun Wen, and now you Sun Wen is out of the matter, but Wang Heshun will not say what he thinks in his heart, although Sun Wen is not thoughtful in the top of the secret agreement, but Sun Wen is the president of the Xingzhong Association after all, and it is natural to protect his reputation.

Sun Wen continued: "This method was discussed between me and He Kuan and Liu Xiang, and in addition, you and most of the high-level leaders of the Xingzhong Association will also be excluded from the secret agreement, and He Kuan and Liu Xiang will take the responsibility on themselves, which is also a way out of the way, alas, it is all to blame for the fact that my decision is too light, so that Comrade He Kuan and Comrade Liu Xiang bear my infamy." ”

Wang Heshun sighed and said, "President, don't be too upset. After all, you are also for the revolution, to overthrow the rule of the Manchus, so that the common people of China will no longer be oppressed by the Manchus. ”

Sun Wen smiled bitterly and said: "If it weren't for the revolution, I, Sun someone, would never agree to such harsh conditions from foreign countries, alas-"

Wang Heshun nodded helplessly and asked, "President." What about the rest of the mess in Fujian Province? ”

Sun Wen's eyes flashed with a gleam and said: "After the secret agreement was announced by the Qing court, Japan decided to send a group of instructors into Fujian Province again, and Britain, Germany, France, Russia, Italy, and the United States also decided to increase the size of the instructor group. After the Qing army suffered heavy losses under the blows of instructor corps from several countries, it was the day when our Fujian Revolutionary Army would resume its conquest, and we would not only reoccupy the entire Fujian Province at that time. It is necessary to march into Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Guangdong provinces, and even to other southern provinces, when the revolution will really usher in, and a little burden of forbearance and humiliation will not be in vain! ”

Sun Wen's decision to leave Fuzhou was also considering that he could attack and retreat, and if the situation was as he expected, and the revolution ushered in, he, the president of the Xingzhong Society, would naturally benefit the most. If the situation is contrary to what he expected, he will still have a chance to make a comeback because he can stay out of the secret matter. No matter what, he was invincible.

is to call the illness a time difference, Sun Wen has also been prepared, he has not shown up since the beginning of the negotiation, and after signing the secret agreement, he did not appear in people's sight.

Sun Wen patted Wang Heshun on the shoulder and said, "Dexin, I have to leave Fuzhou for Hawaii soon." The matter of the Fujian Revolutionary Army's training in Fuzhou will be left to you, and this Fujian Revolutionary Army is the foundation of the most important task of the revolution. It's all up to you. ”

On the night of May 4, Sun Wen secretly left Fuzhou. got on a freighter bound for Hawaii, and the captain's record of this freighter would change the time of departure from Fuzhou to before the signing of the secret treaty, so that Sun Wen could prove that he had left Fuzhou before the signing of the secret treaty and went to Hawaii for medical treatment.

And just the day before Sun Wen left, that is, on May 3, Yi Ketanga led the 4 towns of the new army has come to the outside of Nanping City, Fujian Province, at this time the 4 towns of the new army after 2 battles, the loss is not big, defeated the Fujian Revolutionary Army 3 towns, the 4 towns of the counterinsurgency army lost less than 8,000 people, the average casualties of the 4 towns did not have much impact on the combat effectiveness at all.

At more than 2 o'clock in the afternoon, Iketanga led a large group of subordinates, on a hill, and used a telescope to see the Japanese flag and the Japanese army flag erected on the position in the north outside Nanping City. The old man will let the artillery of the other 3 towns support the 3rd town, and strive to take all the positions in the north outside Nanping City to the old man today, cough cough! ”

Liangbi nodded and said, "Rest assured, Lord Commander, the 3rd Town will get a good start for the whole army!" ”

Soon after, more than 200 75 mm caliber artillery of the 4 town new army poured down to the Japanese position in the north outside Nanping City, but the artillery of the 4 town new army did not succeed for long, and the artillery of the Japanese 6th Division immediately returned the color, and the entire 6th Division had a total of 84 mountain guns and field guns with a caliber of 75 mm, and 12 mountain guns with a caliber of 100 mm.

However, it seems that the two sides will not be able to distinguish the winner in a short period of time, the new army of the 4 towns has more artillery, and the Japanese army has higher artillery technology than the other side, plus the Japanese army has 12 mountain guns with a caliber of 100 mm that can suppress the artillery of the new army of the 4 towns, and the two sides are basically on a par.

The commander of the 3rd town, Liangbi, saw that the artillery could not completely suppress the firepower of the Japanese army, so he did not send a large force to attack, but sent a battalion of troops to launch a tentative attack, but after the tentative attack, Liangbi's brows furrowed, and the Japanese army was equipped with a large number of machine guns on the position, so that the troops of the 1st battalion had not yet approached the Japanese forward position 100 meters, and had been killed and wounded by the Japanese machine guns under nearly half of the strafing fire, and had to retreat.

Then Liangbi sent troops to launch several battalion-scale charges, but even the Japanese forward position could not get close, so he retreated, Liangbi gritted his teeth and launched a standard-scale charge, the result was still in vain, the standard of this charge was also disabled at once, Liangbi also wanted to continue to send troops to attack, was decisively stopped by Iktanga, in the face of a position equipped with a large number of machine guns, in the absence of the advantage of artillery, the hard attack can be filled with human lives, and in the end it may not be able to capture the position.

Iktang Ake did not want the new army that had been built up so hard to be depleted without much meaning, so he stopped today's attack and let the troops retreat, and the artillery of the new army in the 4th town was also separated from the Japanese artillery battle.

However, on the position of the Japanese army in the north outside Nanping City, there were cheers of the Japanese army, and the new army of the Qing Dynasty and the Japanese army fought for the first time, and the Japanese army had the upper hand.

The commander of the 3rd town, Liangbi, returned to Iktanga's side and said with a curse: "Lord Commander, there are too many machine guns on the Japanese position, and without artillery support, the brothers can't rush forward at all. ”

Liangbi was followed by the 3 co-commanders of the 3rd town, at this time there was an assistant commander with a very bad face, just now the standard scale of the charge, is his troops, the entire standard of more than 3,000 people are now alive less than 1,500 people, and the officer loss is Yan zhòng, several of the officers who died are people from the northeast, and they have been in the Qing Dynasty New Army with themselves for 5 or 6 years.

It turned out that this co-commander was an undercover agent sent to the new army in the northeast, and he was subordinate to the supernumerary personnel of the Military Intelligence Bureau, and people like him did not account for a minority in the first 13 towns of the new army, and all of them were officers, and the most important was the position of an officer, after all, these people joined the new army at the beginning of the establishment of the new army of the imperial court, and if Lin Daxin really wanted to do something to the Manchu court, nearly half of the new army in the first 13 towns would immediately turn against the water.

Iktanga said with a calm face: "It seems that such a hard attack is not possible, your 3rd town has suffered a lot of losses just now, take a rest first, and the 10th town will be responsible for the attack early tomorrow morning, the old man will let the artillery even out a part of it, specifically suppress the machine guns in the Japanese position, is there a problem with the Wang's control?" ”

Wang Yingkai, the commander of the 10th town, nodded and said: "Old general, there is no problem with my Beiyang Army, and tomorrow we will definitely go all out to attack the Japanese positions outside the city." ”

The next day, that is, the day when Sun Wen secretly left, the 10th town finally captured most of the Japanese positions in the north outside Nanping at more than 2 o'clock in the afternoon at the cost of nearly 5,000 casualties, but at this time, the Japanese troops in the city launched a counterattack, and at once all the positions occupied by the 10th town were taken back, so that Wang Yingkai, the commander of the 10th town, stomped his feet angrily and ordered the troops to recapture the position, and the tug-of-war began outside Nanping City.

And just today, the second batch of so-called instructor regiments of the Japanese Army, which has two divisions and 40,000 people, landed in Fuzhou, namely the 11th Division and the 12th Division.

The 11th Division immediately advanced to Nanping City to support the 6th Division, while the 12th Division was divided into two and moved closer to Zhangzhou City and Fuding County, preparing to resist the Qing army in Guangdong Province and Zhejiang Province respectively.

The Fujian Revolutionary Army, which was originally in the area of Zhangzhou City and Fuding County to resist the Qing army, was demoralized to the bottom because of the secret agreement, and after holding on for a period of time, it was almost unanimously defeated, and the defeated troops in the two directions were fleeing to Fuzhou City, while Zhangzhou City and Fuding County had been occupied by the Qing army. (To be continued)

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