When the Russian minister, Count Kudashev, walked out of the Xinhua Gate of Zhongnanhai with his entourage, there was a flicker of magnesium lights in front of him, which made his eyes dazzle for a while. Outside the Xinhua Gate in Zhongnanhai, I don't know when a group of journalists gathered, all holding photographic equipment and snapping violently, and a few young men and women came up with notepads and pens, as if they wanted to ask questions, but they were stopped by the bodyguards of the Russian legation.

Seriously, the Russian minister is not in the mood to be interviewed at all! He was troubled by the old man's heart, but he was not the only one who was now distraught in China, and as a Russian minister (Comrade Lenin did not admit it), he was obliged to make a reassuring statement in the newspapers. So he waved his hand and asked the bodyguards to let the reporters come forward and ask questions.

"I am a reporter from Ta Kung Pao in Tianjin, and I would like to ask you, Mr. Minister, what do you think of the ongoing diplomatic negotiations between the Chinese Government and the Russian Soviet Government?"

The first question was a female reporter in her thirties, wearing a long, well-fitting coat, who seemed to be in good shape, probably had never given birth, but her skin was already a little yellow and dark, and she was wearing ugly dark wood-rimmed glasses.

Kudashev smiled reluctantly: "At present, the Soviet government in Russia is only a temporary caretaker government, and the Chinese side is completely unwilling to negotiate with them!" Because wait until next January, after the results of the Constituent Assembly elections come out"

That's all Kudashev's words, because he suddenly saw that the female reporter who asked the question just now didn't know where to take out a blue glowing Mauser ****! The muzzle of the black hole hole is right in his head, and then, uh, no then! At least for him, it's all over!

"Smack! Syllable! Smack"

A few crisp gunshots! This has turned into a female killer, it is Zhen Xiaoru who has put on makeup, this woman has always been ruthless, not only did she shoot the Russian Minister Kudashev, but also the Russian bodyguards and attachés around him. One shot and one is all paid! After the fight, he took out a stack of red leaflets from his coat pocket and threw them vigorously before turning to leave.

At this time, there was already a car that had already driven over. There was also a masked man in the passenger seat of the car, who also held a Mauser **** and shot at the Beiyang soldiers standing guard outside Xinhua Gate! It's not to kill them, it's to suppress them. Those who stood guard were all shelves that had never been on the battlefield, and where had they seen this kind of scene of bullets flying around, they immediately ran to the Xinhua Gate. And the votes of Chinese and foreign reporters at the scene were even more chaotic. screaming and scurrying around, in the chaos, no one paid attention to the female killer who had already gotten into the car and left!

"What's going on? Where to shoot! ”

When the shooting incident occurred outside the Xinhua Gate, Duan Qirui and Cao Rulin were smiling and sending the "Emperor" of several legations outside.

As soon as he heard the gunshot, Premier Duan's face suddenly changed greatly. He is a veteran general who has led the army for many years. As soon as you hear it, you can tell that someone is shooting in the direction of Xinhua Gate! And it was a Mauser from the original German factory, and the gun rang out for a while, and it seemed that more than one gun was shooting!

"Oh no! Oh no! The Russian minister was killed! The Russian minister was assassinated outside the Xinhua Gate! ”

An officer hurriedly rushed into the hall of Huairentang, and before anyone arrived, he was already shouting at the top of his voice to report the assassination that had just taken place outside Xinhua Gate! This major officer was probably in charge of guarding outside the Xinhua Gate, and his face was already bloodless at this time, and when he saw Duan Qirui with a surprised expression, he couldn't help but weaken his legs, and he knelt on the ground with a puff.

There were several gasping sounds in the hall, and Duan Qirui shouted angrily, "Who did it?" Did you catch the murderer? ”

Cao Rulin was so shocked that his face was covered with sweat. My body was a little stiff. He just muttered, "Oh no! Oops! The minister was assassinated, and the disaster of Gengzi Year is just around the corner."

"Yes, yes, it's the Red Brigade!" The officer trembled and took out a red leaflet from his pocket and handed it to both hands: "The murderer is a woman, she has at least two accomplices and a car, but she has not been caught"

"Red Brigade! They, what do they want to do? Do they know what they're doing? Duan Qirui snatched the leaflet and looked at it, and the leaflet clearly declared that this assassination was carried out by the Chinese workers' and peasants' armed forces, the Red Brigade! The aim was to combat the colonial rule of the imperialist powers in China

The faces of the "Emperor Taishang" of several legations were also not good-looking. They had all heard of the name of this red brigade. Originally, I thought it was just another "chaotic party" like another revolutionary party. In their minds, this organization is also a nest. Never dare to provoke foreigners! At best, they shouted anti-imperialist slogans, and there were more such organizations. The more chaotic China is, the more the interests of these powers in China will be protected. Therefore, the diplomats of these great powers not only did not regard the Red Brigade as any threat, but also had some thoughts of wooing.

But after the "Puyi kidnapping incident", the Red Brigade seemed to have suddenly evaporated from the world! Although the Chinese government has been cracking down on the Red Bandits in Shandong for a while with great fanfare, the interrogation of the bandit leaders of all sizes that have been caught can basically determine that the real Red Brigade has left the Yimeng Mountains and is missing.

Unexpectedly, after a few months, the Red Brigade suddenly appeared in Beijing, and regarded the imperialist powers as opponents, and assassinated a Russian minister as soon as it came up!

With the current division and weakening of China and the strength of the great powers in China, it is impossible for the Chinese to challenge the great powers above board! There are even some great powers who are looking forward to such a challenge, which is the best excuse for them to invade China in order to expand their interests in China!

But what about this confrontation that borders on terrorism? The Red Brigade is in the dark, and the Great Powers are in the light! It is impossible for anyone to accurately distinguish who is a member of the Red Brigade from tens of thousands of Chinese, but the armies, factories, banks, foreign banks, and their personnel in China are in a clear place, and they may be attacked by the Red Brigade anytime and anywhere, in other words, this Red Brigade is likely to become the greatest threat to the interests of the Great Powers in China! It must be exterminated as much as possible!

But in the current situation, who can shoulder the heavy responsibility of exterminating the Red Brigade?

In the British Legation in Beijing, in the living room, there were already a few people sitting in a staggered manner. British Minister Zhu Erdian, American Minister Raines, French Minister Leber, and Japanese Minister Hayashi Quansuke used to cry out for wind and rain in China, and they could intimidate a large number of high-ranking Chinese officials by stomping their feet, but at this time they all frowned.

They were after Duan Qirui sent a whole regiment of soldiers to tightly seal the road from Zhongnanhai to Dongjiaomin Lane. I came to the British Legation to discuss countermeasures.

Among these people, only the Japanese minister Hayashi Quansuke showed his composure - the old guy probably lived enough, so he hoped that the killers of the Red Brigade would be killed, so as to give Japan an excuse to send troops to China, right? The British minister, Juerdian, tried his best to hide his fears. The table xiàn is also relatively calm. As for the American minister, the guy who looked like a millionaire but was actually a multimillionaire was frightened when he saw the corpses in the pool of blood outside the Xinhua Gate. I must be thinking about asking Washington to call himself home soon, right? And the French minister Leber prayed all the way, this devout Catholic had wanted to be the first to leave, so that he could go on a date with one of his lovers, and if it hadn't been for the hapless Kudashev who had left early, he would have been shot today! God must be saving him!

As for the ministers of Italy, the Netherlands, and Belgium, who were originally playing soy sauce, they would have already returned to their respective legations by now. Moreover, they have made it clear that they will no longer participate in interfering in the "Sino-Russian New Covenant", because that is obviously a violation of public international law

"Gentlemen! Judging from the current situation, it is likely that the government of China does not have enough capacity to eliminate the extremely dangerous terrorist organization of the Red Brigade! It is necessary for us to send troops directly to China, just like in the year of Gengzi! ”

It was the Japanese minister Hayashi Gonsuke who put forward this opinion, and the old guy looked angry, as if he was some kind of brother in life and death with the dead ghost Kudashev.

Zhu Erdian glanced at the Japanese minister with a cold gaze, and said calmly: "It is the Russian minister who was assassinated, and the Russian Soviet government should also propose to send troops!" ”

American Minister Raines snorted: "How could the Soviet government possibly propose? They also did not recognize Kudashev's ministerial status. And this Red Brigade and the Bolsheviks are mostly in the same group! ”

"But we don't send troops. How could it be possible to wipe out the Red Brigade by the strength of the government of China? The Japanese minister coldly reminded: "Moreover, the main energy of the government of China is still on pacifying the southwest, and most of the cities in the north are empty of troops and lax vigilance, and even ordinary bandits cannot deal with them, let alone a terrorist organization like the Red Brigade?" ”

"But we can't send troops to the Red Brigade!"

The French minister seemed to have finished praying and began to participate in the discussion. He said in a loud voice in French: "Gentlemen, before we deal with the Red Brigade. First of all, you should find out what kind of organization the other party is, right? In my experience, this group is an ultra-radical organization somewhere between nationalism and anarchism. Isn't the current damn world war, which was once plagued by such groups in Europe, also triggered by an assassination campaign organized by anarchists and nationalists?

I have never heard of any country in Europe where such an extremist militant organization has been exterminated by foreign occupation forces! If we really send troops to China to deal with the Red Brigades, I am afraid that not only will we not be able to destroy them, but we will promote their development, right? ”

The American minister also nodded vigorously: "Mr. Loeb is right, China is a big country with more than 10 million square kilometers of land and tens of thousands of people, we cannot have the strength to fully occupy China, once the nationalist passion of the Chinese is aroused, this country will become a huge quagmire that will swallow life!" ”

Lin Quanzhu smiled coldly and asked in fluent English, "Mr. Rains, what should we do then?" How to deal with these dangerous terrorists? We can't let them threaten our interests in China, right? ”

British Minister Zhu Erdian glanced at Lin Quanzhu lightly. Xin said: "Now the British Empire has shed too much blood on the battlefields of Europe!" War weariness in the country is already quite high, and it is simply unrealistic to get the people to support the government to send a large army to Asia to occupy China! And the losses of the French are even greater than those of the British, and of course it is impossible for the United States to send troops, as for Germany, Austria-Hungary is the enemy, and Russia is in greater trouble there than China! Of course, it is impossible to send troops, and at the moment it is simply impossible to make up the "Eight-Nation Alliance".

And the only one who can send troops is Japan, should Japan send troops to monopolize China? If you come up with this kind of construction, Whitehall will probably let itself retire home and pick up your grandson as soon as possible, right? ”

Thinking of this, the corners of Zhu Erdian's mouth moved slightly, and he smiled bitterly: "It seems that only by relying on the Beiyang government, China's problems still have to be solved by the Chinese themselves!" Gentlemen. We will submit a note tomorrow asking the Chinese government to do its utmost to exterminate the Red Brigade in order to protect the interests of the Great Powers in China. ”

"The Red Brigade is in action! Former Russian minister was assassinated outside Xinhua Gate! ”

Probably because the assassination took place right under the noses of reporters from major newspapers in Beijing and Tianjin. So by the afternoon of the same day, the major newspapers had already published the emergency number. The air in the entire Beijing-Tianjin area suddenly became tense, and people couldn't help but think of the "Gengzi National Change" of that year, wasn't that the assassination of the German minister Klinder as the fuse?

The Beiyang Army in various parts of Beijing and Tianjin has also urgently entered a state of alert. The War Department and the General Staff Department of the Beiyang Government also issued an order at the first time to form the Beijing-Tianjin Garrison Command! Xu Shuzheng was appointed commander of the Beijing-Tianjin garrison, martial law was declared in the Beijing-Tianjin area, and all efforts were made to search for the Red Brigade elements, and the reward for the wanted Red Brigade leader Zuo Min was raised to 1 million silver dollars!

However, the Red Brigade elements were not to be outdone. Taking advantage of the darkness of the night, a notice was posted on the main streets of Beijing and Tianjin, declaring that it would "resist the great power from outside and punish the national thieves internally", and named Britain, France, Japan, Russia (Tsarist Russian forces) and other powers that owned leased land in Chinese territory as "great powers", and also pointed out that the Beiyang government was a national thief who betrayed national interests! It was even a reward of one dollar and silver dollars to buy the head of Feng Guozhang, the president of the Beiyang government

On the third day of the "Kudashev assassination case," the major newspapers in the Beijing-Tianjin area published another report on "The Truth About the Sino-Russian Diplomatic Relations Case." According to these newspapers, the reason why the Russian Soviet power agreed to return the Middle East Road and the Russian Concession was the reason for this. Don't pay Gengzi indemnity. The reason for this was that the Red Brigade sent the "Red Army to Russia" to Russia to help the Russian Bolshevik Party launch a revolution and seize power! In the battle for the Winter Palace on November 7, the soldiers of the Red Brigade took the lead and charged in the face of the enemy's bullets.

So this time the so-called "diplomatic victory" of the Beiyang government was completely bought with the blood of the soldiers of the Red Brigade! However, the British, American, French, Japanese and other powers acted perversely, supporting the reactionary forces of Tsarist Russia that had been overthrown by the Russian Revolution, and exerting pressure on the Beiyang government in the name of the legation to organize the Chinese people to recover the rights and interests that belonged to them!

As soon as such a report came out. Public opinion in Beijing and Tianjin was in an uproar, and almost one-sidedly condemned the legations of the great powers for being despicable and shameless. Most of the support and sympathy for the actions of the Red Brigades were expressed. There are even many celebrities who have written to the Beiyang government, asking for the cancellation of Zuo Min's wanted warrant. Stop the hunt for the Red Brigades! The university and middle school students in the Beijing-Tianjin area spontaneously organized several petition marches and shouted slogans outside Zhongnanhai and the Tianjin Municipal Government holding placards in solidarity with the Red Brigade and opposing imperialism.

The envoys of Britain, France, and Japan took the strongest stance and lodged solemn protests with the Beiyang government one after another, demanding that they take immediate action to quell the xenophobic incident and exterminate the terrorists of the Red Brigades.

The entire Beijing-Tianjin area is almost a mess.

And the mastermind behind this turmoil, our Changda warlord or Zuo Min, the No. 1 comrade of the Red Brigade, was in a tavern outside Zhengyangmen in Beijing at this time, picking up the dust for Zhao Zhen, who had just returned to Beijing from Kulun in Outer Mongolia!

This small restaurant is actually Chang Laohu's industry, which was opened by the old man to kill time, and he doesn't care if he makes money or not. So today, Chang Ruiqing wants to borrow this place to feast guests, and the old man will let the restaurant close and not accept outsiders with a word.

However, Chang Ruiqing didn't set up a banquet here, he asked for a box and a banquet, and only Chang Ruiqing, Zhao Zhen, Meng Li, Hu Rolling Blinds and Zhen Xiaoru were present, and Chang Ruiqing's adjutant Yu Liu was responsible for controlling the wind outside the box, and idle people were not allowed to approach.

"Youlin, youlin has suffered a lot in Outer Mongolia during this time, right?" Chang Ruiqing looked at this good brother who had been mixed with him since the beginning of Nanjing Army Primary School, smiled slightly, and said, "What happened to the thing I want you to do?" ”

Zhao Zhen shook his head, with a look of embarrassment: "He's a living Buddha!" Not only did the herdsmen on the grassland worship him as a god, but even Feng Huanzhang and Gao Zaitian also respected him very much, and I really had no way to do it. ”

Chang Ruiqing smiled faintly and waved his hand: "Okay, you don't have to worry about this." Saying that, he glanced at Hu Roller Blind: "Xiao Hu, this matter is entrusted to you, or in the name of the Red Brigade!" ”

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