Chapter 155: Falling Apart (II)

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Inside the barracks, the air freezes ().

In the center of the playground, there were seven cold corpses, and the military doctor was also bandaging the remaining four wounded soldiers, surrounded by soldiers of the Second Brigade with red eyes and clenched fists, and the sound of grinding teeth could be heard from afar. In the corner of the crowd, Huang Keqiang, Jiang Zuobin and other officials of the Nanjing Political Fu War Department who came in a hurry were expressionless, both wanting to appease and fearing that the matter would become bigger ().

More than a dozen Chinese and foreign reporters who came to hear the news kept pressing the shutter, and more and more officers from all over the country also rushed here, carefully holding their breath and looking at this unit that was already on the verge of rage. In the city of Nanjing, a greater mobilization has begun, one cannon after another has been dragged out, and the soldiers who have been urgently assembled hide behind the sandbags and stretch out the barrels of their guns, looking at the shops and houses that have been burned down because of the riots, looking around blankly, and asking who the enemy is this time.

Behind a window on the second floor of the Presidential Palace, a figure quietly looked at the Second Brigade in the distance, was he happy or worried at this moment? Do you want the outright turmoil to continue your political life, or do you want the crisis to be resolved as soon as possible? Nobody knows.

All eyes focused on Yu Dehai, he slowly let go of the hand of the sacrificial company commander, wiped the blood stains on the black skull badge on his chest and placed it neatly. The soldiers around them had tears in their eyes, and an hour ago they were still jumping around, grabbing their cigarette rolls, telling meat jokes, and judging the character of every woman who passed by, but an hour later, they were already separated by heaven and earth. They were all battle heroes, who should have died on the battlefield, but now! But he died under the guns of those who kept calling themselves revolutionary comrades!!

Yu Dehai stood up, his eyes slowly swept over the surrounding soldiers and then stopped on the faces of Huang Keqiang and others, and his bloodshot eyes made several timid officials subconsciously take two steps back. The voice whimpered, like a beast licking its wounds alone after being wounded: "From the night of the uprising, we have been brothers!" Hit Liujiamiao, he rushed to the front, and went north with me to recover Hubei! Wusheng is closed, and we will fight side by side for seven days! He personally killed more than a dozen Beiyang soldiers, and he dragged the Beiyang footsteps with us and defeated the Fourth Town with us! Let Beiyang defeat and retreat, and buy time for the victory of the revolution. ”

"Which of you will tell me! Why is he lying here! Why! The hoarse roar was terrifying, and if it hadn't been for the two officers on the side, he would have rushed into the middle of the officers and beaten them up.

The words aroused the anger of the soldiers, who waved their fists and roared, and more young officers stood up: "Since the uprising, our national defense army has been fighting in Ansan Town, recovering the whole territory, fighting bloody battles in Wushengguan, Xiaogan defense battles, Xiaocang Mountain annihilating the enemy in Hunan, and fighting in Sichuan!" We dragged tens of thousands of Beiyang elites, so that they could not free up their hands to go south, and we paid the price of 16,000 soldiers and civilians killed and wounded ()! Their blood can stain the red river, and their white bones have not been collected yet! Would you be where you are today without us? Can Nanjing be recovered without us? Can you sit here and talk? Will the Manchu government abdicate so soon?

We got the order, and the starry night rushed to support the Northern Expedition! We don't want you to provide rations, we don't want your salaries! We brought machine guns and artillery, but what did you do! What did we do wrong by sending people to kill our commander, robbing us of our rations, and now killing our robes?!! ”

No sooner had the officer finished his roar than another young officer stood in the center again. The Chinese and foreign reporters who arrived all pointed their cameras at him. "We shed blood and threw our heads, in order to overthrow the Manchu Qing Dynasty and build New China, we have no regrets! Even if you put a gun at our head, you won't frown! But what did you do? It's been two months, the government is still in chaos, the newspapers are fighting every day, people's livelihood is withering, factories are suspended, and more than half of the ships coming and going from Nanjing Wharf are missing!

We know that those brothers who robbed things have been forced to live, so we don't hate us and only blame ourselves for being blind! Because the temporary government is simply playing with us! Don't you have any money? No! You've all fished them out! You mortgaged the railroad to the Japanese in exchange for loans, and you issued military tickets and forced the people to subscribe at gunpoint! In the end, I actually wanted to mortgage our Han Yeping in Hubei to the Japanese! You are betraying the country!

Before the shame of the First Sino-Japanese War is washed away, you are ready to sell all the lifeblood of the country to Japan! What's even more infuriating is that what about the money from selling these things? What about the money! Nearly 10 million money in my hand, why not pay, why not food? To the end! You still ignore the soldiers who fought for you and died, and want to betray the south to Yuan Shikai's careerist! Knowing this, what are we still fighting with Beiyang? That's a whole sixteen,000 lives, our brothers, sisters and loved ones! ”

"They died too unjustly!" The young officer shouted, let the tears flow, and finally could no longer support it and slowly fell to his knees, many soldiers knew that his brother fell under the Beiyang cannon in the bloody battle of Wushengguan. The grief and indignation were so sad that the foreign reporters were in tears, and only two Japanese reporters had gloomy expressions, and the tips of their pens were recording something, but at this time no one dared to provoke the soldiers.

The officers who rushed to the reinforcements from all over the country when they heard the news collectively lost their voices (). Some wept, some gritted their teeth, and many more shook their heads, sighed and silently watched one Wehrmacht soldier and officer after another come out, scolding, scolding, and finally crying.

Huang Keqiang's mouth was slightly open, his body trembled, and the officers of the War Department such as Jiang Zuobin and Li Shucheng hung their heads one after another, as for those civilian officials, they had begun to turn pale, and they saw that something else was breeding, spreading wildly in shouting, accusations and crying. The scolding and passionate words made them tremble, and they couldn't let the cannon blow up this place, but who would dare? The dense sound of pulling bolts passed by everyone's ears like the roar of the devil, and some people even began to retreat to find a place to hide, who could stop these angry soldiers? More than 4,000 elite soldiers who have gone through bloody battles and can cripple the fourth town of Beiyang are enough to overturn the entire city of Nanjing!

Unbearable, scared, worried! But no one has anything to do but let the sound spread to all directions, let the reporters add fuel to the description, everyone knows that after these words are reported tomorrow, the Nanjing government will collapse, and the whole of South China will fall apart and be out of control.

With tears in his eyes, Yu Dehai walked to the center and raised his right arm high: "Brothers, do you remember the oath we made to the military flag when we put on our military uniforms? The commander is leading the people of the three provinces to build a new home, and tens of millions of people still need us to protect them in Guizhou! In the southwest, there is also our robe Ze under the command of the commander to fight to the end for the country! Our hope is not here, we go home! Go home and work with everyone to build the three provinces and build the southwest! ”

"Go home!"

"Don't do it for these traitors who keep dogs!"

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Yu Dehai's eyes were locked, and a cold breath was bubbling between his teeth: "This is our last forbearance, from this moment on!" We're not going to suffer from this kind of shit, and if you deal with us, I'll swear I'll get a bullet in your asshole!" Please tell the President that the Manchu Qing Dynasty has fallen, the Northern Expedition has ended, and the Northern Expedition Pioneer Brigade has requested to evacuate. With that, he raised his arm.

The remains were slowly loaded into the coffin, the top of which was covered with the red and hideous Flying Tiger Battle Flag, and dozens of soldiers walked out, carrying the coffin on their shoulders and walking towards the transport ship that had not left the dock. The soldiers of the 2nd Brigade began to set off, preferring to stay on the pier and wait for the ship than to stay here any longer.

When the ships urgently recruited from Jiangxi and other places arrived the next day, the 1st Division and 2nd Brigade of the National Defense Army and the Northern Expedition Pioneer Brigade left with anger and disappointment in Nanjing. Their departure made the troops who continued to stay here more and more chaotic, more and more soldiers quietly embarked on the return journey with guns, and some soldiers who did not receive severance pay even set fire to the plunder, wanton robbery, Nanjing City suddenly became a place of disgust to everyone.

With the publication of this news in the newspapers, the whole of China was in an uproar again, and everyone had just experienced a sudden riot in the city of Beijing, but they did not think that Nanjing would not be spared, and the newspapers of Britain, France, and the United States in China even poked out the speeches of the young officers and soldiers of the Second Brigade, and the image of the Nanjing Political and Peace Conference members completely collapsed, and all kinds of corruption and fraud cases were also unearthed by the reporters. In the last years of the Provisional Government of Nanjing, the people went from worship, joy, and admiration to spitting and cursing, and finally collapsed.

The famous New York Times reporter sent back this comment: We have witnessed the birth of the world's largest democracy for the past four months, but it collapsed in just one morning. I think every American who lives and works on this land should recognize that some people are no longer trustworthy.

With the exception of Japan, when the officers and men of the Second Brigade accused Nanjing of being a traitor and selling the country to Japan, and repeatedly mentioned the shameful remarks of the First Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese government immediately accused Yang Qiu of deliberately undermining Sino-Japanese friendship and demanded that the Wehrmacht apologize to Japan.

On March 10, at the same time that Yuan Shikai was sworn in as interim president in Beijing, Yang Qiu, who had returned to Wuchang, immediately met with the officers and men of the Second Brigade, and in addition to saying that every sacrificed soldier would be helped according to the martyr's standard, he also said that the three provinces and the national defense force would not give up their dreams. When a foreign reporter asked him how he felt about the current situation in Nanjing, his face turned pale.

"It's a betrayal." ……

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