Chapter 104: The Rebellion

On a midsummer night, the sky of the Sand River is dotted with sparkling stars, like a Milky Way paved with fine quicksand, reclining on the blue sky. The earth was already asleep, and there was silence except for the gentle and gusting of the breeze, and the occasional barking of a dog or two in the distance.

"Brigadier Commander, you're back!" After a night of pulling skin with Xie Renjun, it was midnight when he returned to the dormitory, and Li Dazhu came out coldly.

"Dazhu, why haven't you slept yet? It's not your job today! Seeing Li Dazhu guarding the door from afar, Tang Zhidao said in surprise.

"Brigade commander, you haven't come back yet, how dare I sleep!" Li Dazhu pointed to Tang Zhidao's room and said, "Besides, the Dongfang girl hasn't slept yet, I'm afraid she has something to order!" ”

"You little devil, you're getting more and more flamboyant." Tang Zhidao smiled: "Now that I'm back, you can go to sleep!" ”

"Okay, you're done!" Li Dazhu said, yawned and walked back.

Brigade Commander Tang suddenly thought of something again, and shouted in a low voice: "Wait! ”

Li Dazhu hurriedly trotted back and asked, "What else does the brigade commander command?" Why don't I go to the cafeteria and get two more dishes for you? ”

"Do you guard platoon have a place to sleep? I want to squeeze in with you! Tang Zhidao hesitated for a moment and said in a low voice.

"The Brigadier wouldn't be there, would he? There is such a ......" Li Dazhu said with a wicked smile: "Brigade commander, you should also find a ......"

"Stinky boy my heart!" Tang Zhidao scolded with a smile: "Tell you seriously, don't divert the topic!" ”

"Brigade commander, you don't know that dozens of people in our guard platoon are crowded ......" Li Dazhu said embarrassedly: "Plus there are a few boys in the platoon who sleep and snore, grind their teeth, and talk in their sleep......"

"Forget it, I'll go to Yupu later, and squeeze on their side!" Tang Zhidao waved his hand helplessly and said, there are relatively few adjutants, so he should still be able to squeeze it.

Li Dazhu was relieved when he heard this, and hurriedly trotted away.

"This girl is really hard at work!" Looking at the room where the oil lamp was still on, Tang Zhidao said to himself as he walked.

"I said, I fell asleep!" Gently pushing open the door, Brigade Commander Tang found Dongfang Yu lying asleep on his desk, with today's interview script next to him.

"Anti-imperialist vanguard, young commander!" Looking at the small paragraph of text written in front of the little girl, Brigade Commander Tang couldn't help laughing and said, "This little girl is really a set of bragging rights." ”

Putting down the press release, Tang Zhidao leaned down and patted the little girl's shoulder, trying to wake her up and let her go to bed, but the little girl slept soundly and didn't wake up.

"I guess I'm tired!" Tang Zhidao secretly said in his heart, and in desperation, he reluctantly carried the little girl to his small marching bed, and helped her take off the peaked cap on her head and take off the canvas shoes under her feet.

"Who!" Just as Brigade Commander Tang picked up his military uniform and covered Dongfang Yu's body, the little girl suddenly woke up, and in a daze, it seemed that a figure was about to pounce on her.

"It's me!" Tang Zhidao grabbed the tender hand that the little girl fanned over, and laughed in a low voice: "I slept well just now, but now I'm alert!" ”

"Brother Tang, why did you come back so late?" Seeing that she was lying on Tang Zhidao's marching bed, covered with his military uniform, the little girl blushed and asked, "Why did I sleep on the bed?" ”

"Go to bed early, I'll send someone to send you back to Tianjin at dawn tomorrow." Tang Zhidao didn't answer her question, just gave a simple order, closed the door of the room from the outside, and left quickly, leaving Dongfang Yu with an embarrassed face.

"Why does it smell so much, this habit is not very good!" Smelling the military uniform covering his body, Dongfang Yu muttered to himself, but his heart was beautiful.

There was nothing to say that night, and the next morning, after several days of silence in the capital, the inside and outside finally ushered in great changes. After a few days of movement, the rebel army concentrated on Lugou Bridge on the west road, and marched to Huangcun on the east route to Langfang, and the two armies formed a flanking attack on the pigtail army on the front line of Fengtai.

In a hurry, Zhang Pigtail Shuai ordered the Braided Army to destroy the Fengtai Railway to stop the advance of the rebel army, but this caused protests from the diplomatic corps, and they sent foreign troops to protect the railway, repair the tracks, and resume the opening of traffic according to the reason that "the Beijing-Tianjin Railway shall not be interrupted" in the "Xinchou Treaty". This time, the situation is even more unfavorable for the pigtail army.

By 7 July, the rebel armies from the east and west began to attack Fengtai, and Zhang Dashuai, who was seriously understaffed, had no choice but to take the lead of the non-pigtail army, while the pigtail army postponed the battle. The "Fengtai Victory", which was called the key battle of the rebellion by the rebel armies of the East and West, was actually just a small outpost battle, and the casualties on both sides were only in double digits, which was much inferior to the "Shahe Victory".

At the same time, the 11th Division Li Kuiyuan Brigade and the 12th Division Liu Peirong Brigade stationed in Nanyuan also took advantage of the situation to point their guns at the pigtail army. Chen Guangyuan, the puppet commander of Zhili and the commander of the 12th Division, also sneaked out of the Forbidden City and returned to his 12th Division headquarters.

The planes of the Beiyang Air Force stationed in Nanyuan also flew to Fengtai to drop bombs on the positions of the Braided Army, and at the same time dropped bombs on the Qianqing Hall and the Zhongzheng Hall of the Qing Palace, killing a man and a dog in the palace, which can be regarded as a precedent for the use of air force bombing in the civil war.

Faced with an extremely unfavorable situation, on July 8, the pigtailed army received Zhang Xun's order to retreat into the inner city of Beijing, concentrating on the Temple of Heaven, the Forbidden City, and the three areas of Zhangzhai along the Nanhe River. He ordered the infantry to lead the Jiang Dynasty to send troops to defend the city gates, and Zhang Xiyuan, who was originally stationed outside Beijing, took advantage of the situation to attack the Chaoyang Gate. As a result, street fighting may break out in Beijing, and the situation will suddenly become tense. Wu Bingxiang, the chief of the Beijing police, hurriedly called on Brigade Commander Zhang and demanded that Brigade Zhang withdraw, on the grounds that the gates of Beijing had been taken over by a neutral infantry commander.

In this way, after Zhang Xun's pigtailed army retreated into the inner city, Beijing became a triple sphere of influence, and the pigtailed soldiers stationed in the inner city were still flying the five-clawed yellow dragon flag. In the middle is a "neutral zone" without flags, and Jiang Chaozong's troops are stationed at each city gate, and Jiang Chaozong still uses the pseudonym of the post-restoration Jiumen Admiral to issue a proclamation to the people. It is neither called the "Republic of China" nor the "Qing Empire", and the proclamation is followed by two kinds of calendars. Outside the city, there were rebel armies, who flew the five-color flag (the national flag of the time).

At this time, the gates of Beijing were covered with half-moon-shaped sandbags, machine guns were set up outside the gate of Zhang's house in Nanchizi, the shops in the urban area were closed, and the common people were panicked, because they were afraid that the braided soldiers would repeat the scene of the ransacking of Nanjing in the second year of the Republic of China, but this time Zhang Xun was very smart, he knew that the foreigners in Beijing were very harmful, so the pigtailed soldiers were not at all like in Nanjing when they burned, killed and looted, and they did not take a single grass and tree from the people.

As the Northern Route Army of the rebel army, the Tang Daoist Department did not receive an order until the 8th, allowing it to go south to occupy Beiyuan and enter Deshengmen. This was just a piece of cake for the 3rd Mixed Brigade, which had been prepared for a long time, but it arrived at Beiyuan in two or three hours, joined forces with the 13th Division, which had just changed its flag and banner, and occupied various strategic points in the northern and northwestern suburbs of the Beijing Division.

As soon as they arrived on the outskirts of Beijing, they received a second telegram, asking the Northern Route Army not to attack the city for the time being, and to stop outside the city to wait for further orders. Of course, this is not that the old Duan Xiaoxu sent Tang Zhidao to grab the credit again, but that all parties were afraid that the ancient city of Beijing would be destroyed by artillery fire after the street battle, so Duan Qirui planned to solve everything through diplomatic channels. On the afternoon of July 8, Duan Qirui sent Wang Daxie and Liu Chongjie into the city to contact the ministers of various countries, asking them to convey Zhang Xun and propose the following four armistice treaties: (1) abolish the imperial system, (2) disarm the braided army, (3) preserve Zhang Xun's life, and (4) maintain the preferential conditions of the Qing family. At the same time, Fu Liangzuo and Qu Tongfeng were sent into the city to handle the dismissal of the pigtail army.

The ministers of various countries pushed the Dutch minister (chief minister) as the representative, conveyed the conditions of the rebel army to Zhang Xun's puppet Ministry of Foreign Affairs, strongly persuaded Zhang Xun to accept it, and expressed the willingness of all countries to recognize Zhang Xun as a state criminal and protect him.

And our Zhang Dashuai doesn't seem to appreciate it too much, seeing that he can't be the regent of the Qing Dynasty, he still wants to take thousands of pigtailed soldiers back to Xu Hai's lair to continue to be his own overlord. Therefore, in response to Lao Duan's four-stop treaty, Zhang Pigtail replied with four ballads: "I will not leave the soldiers, the soldiers will not leave the weapons, where do I come from, and where do I go." ”

At this time, he had forgotten the little emperor he had set up, and someone asked him how to give an explanation to the Qing family, and he said loudly: "I am so stupid, everyone is very smart, restoration is not my own idea, nor is it my own wish, everyone enjoys the success of the restoration, and now I am guilty of it." This matter had nothing to do with the Qing Dynasty, but it was done, and the little emperor sat in the Dragon Court, failed, and I suffered alone. ”

Since Zhang Braided was holding on, Lao Duan Xiaoxu didn't plan to be polite to him anymore, and ordered all the departments of the rebel army to unite with the Beiyang Army anyway, and the troops came to the city of Beijing. The 3rd Division was outside Andingmen, Guangqumen, and Chaoyangmen, the 13th Division was outside Xizhimen and Deshengmen, part of the 11th Division was outside Yongdingmen, 16th Mixed Brigade and 12th Division were outside Zhangyimen, and the other part of the 11th and 12th Divisions was in Xiyuan.

"When will Commander Tang start the siege of the city!" Outside the Desheng Gate, the commander of the 13th Division, Lieutenant General Li Jincai, followed behind Tang Zhidao, the colonel of the 3rd Mixed Brigade of Zhili, and asked cautiously. Although he was very dissatisfied with the small brigade commander in front of him who swallowed more than 20 cannons and more than one regiment, after all, he grabbed the handle in the hands of others, so Li Jin had no choice but to lower his posture.

"Wait for the order from above." Brigade Commander Tang said casually, in fact, the Desheng Gate in front of him was unguarded at all, according to the original intention of Lao Duan Xiaoxu and others, he still decided to talk to Braided Shuai again, after all, if it really caused a street battle and destroyed Beijing City, it would be too bad to look good. Besides, whether or not the city can be attacked depends on whether the diplomatic corps in Dongjiaomin Lane agrees.

"Commander Tang, there are a lot of good words after the war!" Li Jincai saw that there was no one around, and quietly stuffed a Zhuang ticket of the Four Great Hengs into the pocket of Brigade Commander Tang. At present, although he was appointed as the deputy commander of the Northern Route Army of the rebel army under the strong recommendation of Brigade Commander Tang, how to deal with the "imperial criminals" after the war, Brigade Commander Tang's words are also crucial.

"Well said, well said!" Brigade Commander Tang glanced at the 20,000 yuan ticket, and couldn't help but feel good, turned around and smiled at Division Commander Li: "Division Commander Li, you are an old-timer in the military circles, this bit of wind and waves is nothing to you, and I will take care of Division Commander Li in the future!" ”

"Commander Tang is polite, you have made great contributions this time, and you are deeply valued by Premier Duan and Secretary General Xu, and your future is more than a brigade commander and division commander. I'm a lot of people who rely on you! "Li Jincai, this is not completely polite, anyone with a discerning eye can see that Brigade Commander Tang is about to soar into the sky.

"I'm here again in the capital!" This time, Brigade Commander Tang did not be polite again, turned around again and picked up the binoculars to look at the Desheng Gate with the dragon flag fluttering. However, in just over ten months, the second-class member of the War Department, who had no choice but to become a battalion commander in the 13th Division, could easily trample the commander of the 13th Division under his feet at this moment.

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