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At the door of the Advisory Bureau in the early morning, Qiu Wenbin stood still with a gun on his back, and the two-month training camp left a deep imprint on him, such as the most basic standing guard, when others were lazily reclining, he always maintained the most standard standing posture ().

"I said Wenbin, there are no outsiders here, let's take a break." The comrade-in-arms of the Eight Towns next to him handed over a cigarette roll, Qiu Wenbin shook his head, and his eyes turned to the wide Yangtze River.

"Look at how big he thinks he is, it makes us be scolded a few times."

"I can't figure it out, I heard that everyone who was kicked back by Commander Yang is like this! Brothers, tell me, they don't work hard over there, what are they doing when they come back to our side? Think we don't know how to stand in a military posture? ”

"Commander Yang is so good to the soldiers, and he started to pay double salaries yesterday! In other words, I would not leave even if I was killed, and even if I could not get the money, I would not be able to do it and watch the brothers bleed. ”

The sarcasm from the side pierced Qiu Wenbin like a needle, and after the battle of Liujiamiao, he and his confined puzzle club partners were all kicked back to Wuchang, but he didn't expect to come back and because he was from the Right Route Army, he was feared by his former colleagues in the society, and was finally assigned to do miscellaneous tasks such as guarding the door and sentry.

What disappointed him the most was that it had been several days since Shouyi, but there was still a mess here, but Yang Qiu not only sorted out the two towns in an orderly manner, but also sent people from the police, civil affairs, and customs to take over early. Every time I think of the former robe on the other side of the river, it is another Liujiamiao and the Little Northern Expedition, and it is in full swing, but I am doing the most basic chores for recruits here, and I always feel unspeakably uncomfortable in my heart.

What if I was still in the 42nd bid?

With a sigh in his heart, the waist rod that had been beaten for two months seemed to gradually soften, and just when he was about to give up, the sound of hurried footsteps suddenly came, and he suddenly cheered up again, and turned his head to look at it only to find that it was Wang Anlan, the former 42 standard clerk.

"Lord Wang, what's wrong? In such a hurry? ”

Wang Anlan recognized Qiu Wenbin, and at this moment he also knew that he was an old man of the Puzzle Society, but unfortunately he also didn't have any love for this kind of person who was kicked back, can a soldier be considered a soldier if he was kicked out by the old army? said in a cold tone: "It's not a big deal, it's just that the Right Route Army won a small victory at Wusheng Pass." ”

Won the battle again?! Qiu Wenbin was excited, but he didn't expect that Liujiamiao had good news in the past two days, and hurriedly asked: "Is it against Beiyang?" ”

"Beiyang?! Do you know how strong Beiyang is? At this time, several soldiers on the side also came over to ask, Wang Anlan changed his face after a sentence at him: "It is a standard of the Henan patrol battalion, He Xi fought well, more than 400 enemies were annihilated, and the remaining more than 1,000 also surrendered, thousands of rifles and cannons were captured, and a train." If you want to see Jiang Qu, a little victory will make a lot of noise, what a system is Chen! ”

Destroyed 400 enemies, captured more than 1,000 prisoners, and captured so many ordnance and baggage ()! This is not a small victory, it is a complete victory! The soldiers didn't care how jealous Wang Anlan's words were, for them, getting stuck in Wusheng Pass meant that Hubei was temporarily safe, so they also cheered. Qiu Wenbin's face was even more sluggish, and he couldn't wait to fly across the river and return to the familiar camp to see the scene of the prisoners over there. Only Wang Anlan saw everyone's happy face, and hurriedly ran to the second floor.

When he went up to the second floor, he saw that Li Yuanhong had shaved his hair, and his head was still shining with blue light, so he forgot his troubles for a while and quipped: "Li Du has cut off his braids, and he really looks like a bodhisattva." ”

"How can the Bodhisattva say that I am shaving my hair and then studying as a monk to sit in bitter meditation." Li Yuanhong touched his head and asked, "Could it be that Jingbo came to persuade me again?" ”

Wang Anlan hurriedly shook his head: "Li Du has already gone to send it, what else am I going to persuade him, but Yang Qiu, you should persuade him." ”

"Yang Qiu? What happened to him? ”

"What? He's about to turn Hankow upside down! Wang Anlan hurriedly repeated the good news of Dazhimen that had just come back, and said: "First Liujiamiao, then Wushengguan, at this moment, he also generously opened the door of the Hankou camp to show the gentry and mud legs the captured baggage ordnance, and the prisoners were even more crowded with the Hanyang camp!" If you wait for his little Northern Expedition to end, I'm afraid that Li Du and you will be overshadowed by him. ”

Li Yuanhong was also a little surprised, but he didn't expect that Yang Qiu would decisively go north to block Wusheng Pass as soon as he took Liujiamiao, and also transferred a standard from Henan to annihilate it, and the speed of the action was really unexpected.

"And there's more." Wang Anlan saw that Li Yuanhong didn't speak, and continued to fan the wind and said: "Last night, news came from Hanchuan, Yue Peng led the team to block the two battalions of the 41st standard that came back, took away most of the soldiers, and also incorporated the more than 1,000 rebels of the Liang brothers over there. At this moment, the troops have been divided into three routes, the first road he personally led the team to Jingshan, Xiangyang, the second road to Xiantao, Qianjiang towards Yuezhou, Hunan, the third road straight to Yichang, Badong! ”

"So fast!"

Hearing these news, Li Yuanhong secretly screamed in his heart, and hurriedly shouted: "Bring the map." ”

Seeing that he finally took the initiative to ask for the first time, several party soldiers in charge of monitoring hurriedly found a map and spread it on the table, and the former also frowned after looking at it carefully for a while. At this time, Wu Zhaolin happened to come in, and when he saw him looking at the map seriously, his face was happy, and he was afraid of disturbing his thoughts, so he also stood on the side and did not speak, and only after a while did Li Yuanhong let out a long breath, leaned on the back of the chair and said, "It's a pity." ”

Wu Zhaolin also saw Li Yuanhong's expression for the first time, and asked curiously: "What is Li Du's pity?" Seeing him coming to his side, Li Yuanhong pushed the map in front of him and said, "You are also a person who knows soldiers, what do you think Yang Qiu wants to do?" ”

Wu Zhaolin is not the kind of party officer who broke out overnight, he came out to serve as a soldier at the age of 16 because of his family's poverty, and he has personally studied everything carefully, not only participated in the autumn dryness of the national new army twice, but also compiled the "Tactical Implementation" and "Staff Travel" which were printed and distributed to all armies for reference, and even Li Yuanhong praised him as a rare staff officer.

Although he is only a team leader and has never commanded a battalion or above the formation of a battle, it does not mean that he has no eyesight. After carefully reading the map, he also sighed and analyzed: "Yang Qiu is indeed a person who knows soldiers and wars, he knows that he can't match Beiyang, so he first hit Liujiamiao to solve the Hankou crisis, and then divided his troops all the way north to block Wusheng Pass, so that the Yinchang army will not be able to enter Hubei quickly."

Yin Chang came one day late, and he had one more day to prepare! Take this opportunity to sweep the north of the Yangtze River, and first exterminate and kill all the unrest in the four fields. You can also take the opportunity to recruit veterans from all over the city to recruit new troops to expand the prestige of the Right Route Army! As long as Wusheng Pass can be guarded for ten days and a half months, I am afraid that all but the south of Wuchang will be in its hands! As long as Xiangyang is taken out and Dahongshan is contained, even if Beiyang breaks through the customs in the end, there are a dozen. ”

Seeing that Li Yuanhong didn't speak, Wang Anlan thought that he was also worried that Yang Qiu would grow too fast and threaten Wuchang, so he hurriedly asked, "Li Du, what you just said was a pity is because of this?" ”

"It's a pity that this person is three years late in our army, and there are too few soldiers he can fight, if the eight towns are all in his hands, Xinyang is afraid that Yinchang will not be able to stay!" Li Yuanhong shook his head, his eyebrows and eyes were almost squeezed together, and his short and fat body paced back and forth in the room, like a big winter melon rolling.

Looking at his fidgeting back, Wu Zhaolin vaguely guessed what he was worried about, Yang Qiu on the other side of the river was expanding too fast!

Although he and Cai Jimin and other old subordinates are supportive, but Sun Wuning is wrapped in gauze and is unwilling to let go of power, all kinds of national electricity are nominally sent by Li Yuanhong, but in fact he has never sent a small building at all, this kind of governor is naturally extremely aggrieved, so he bites his mouth and is unwilling to cooperate ().

But isn't he really a governor? Of course not, the good name of the Governor of Shouyi is too tempting. He is just waiting, waiting for Sun Wu to lose the battle and release power, waiting for the high-level recognition of the party, otherwise it will be boring for this powerless governor to sit down. It's a pity that it backfired, no one expected that there would be a Yang Qiu and quickly solve all the troubles around him, which made Sun Wu and other party members even more able not to rely on him.

But there is still a chance, although Yang Qiu's expansion threatens Wuchang, but Beiyang is not something that can be stopped by a Wusheng Pass, even if Yang Qiu can pull up tens of thousands of horses in the end, if Wuchang does not cooperate, it is undoubtedly a fool's dream to defeat Beiyang who broke through the pass by relying on recruits who can't even hold a gun! It's just that if he is delayed for a few days, even if he sits firmly in the governor's seat, I am afraid he will not be able to move him!

Li Yuanhong was indeed as confused as Wu Zhaolin thought, and began to wonder if it was wrong for him to force the party to relinquish power and then relax. Yang Qiu's rise has become more and more pressing, and the pace is getting faster and faster! But he made a mistake and had to continue to watch, if one day the party suddenly gave up on himself and held him up, where should he go? Do you want to ventilate with the one in Henan?

That is the character who can really be the master of the Manchu Qing and can't hold on! In these troubled times, he will never continue to fish in Yangshouyuan with peace of mind. But would he be willing to see Yang Qiu rise, or would he be willing to see himself at the helm of Hubei? Wuchang has become a big whirlpool, who will have the last laugh? The "fisherman" who holds 100,000 tigers or Yang Qiu, who is rising rapidly, or is he himself who is as immobile as a mountain?

Li Yuanhong walked to the window and looked at Hanyang Turtle Mountain, suddenly smiled, and read softly: "Daze Longfang sting, Central Plains deer is fat." ”

Outside the door, Sun Wu's body shook violently!

These two sentences were written by Yuan Shikai when he was 13 years old!