Huang Xing really had a good fortune, he boarded the ship from Hong Kong and went west along the coastline, the wind and waves were calm, and the voyage of 550 nautical miles did not have any turmoil. Along the way, Han Ce had enough time to chat with Huang Xing and Ma Han (another member of the Cantonese League who had returned from Japan to participate in the uprising), and after a dozen days, Han Ce could basically understand Ma Han's Cantonese.

Landing from Wudao Village (12 kilometers east of Guli Village), I successfully found a connector in Guli Village.

From the joint population, Huang Xing finally learned the latest situation of the Lianzhou uprising.

After Wang Heshun withdrew from Lianzhou, he turned west to Qinzhou, defeated the patrol battalion on the way, seized a batch of guns and ammunition, attacked and occupied the defense city, and after joining forces with Liu Siyu's 10,000 people, he went north to defeat Qinzhou, which was guarded by only a few Qing soldiers. The rebels originally wanted to go north to capture Lingshan before the arrival of the official army, causing more momentum, but unfortunately they did not succeed. Lost a lot of backbones. Now the team has returned to the area around Fangcheng, Qinzhou......"

The joint person was short and sharp-beaked, but he had a clear mind, and he explained the situation clearly in a few words, as if he had received regular military training, and Han Ce, who was listening on the sidelines, pondered in his heart.

"Finally, there was no mistake, and I finally caught up." Huang Xing let out a sigh. What he was most afraid of was hearing the news of the failure of the uprising, and he didn't care if he didn't take Lingshan. Then he asked, "How many people are there in the rebels?" Is it Liu Siyu or Wang Heshun commanding? ”

"At the moment there are about 1,500 people, but there are few guns and ammunition, nominally commanded by Wang Heshun. However, Liu Siyu's subordinates were a little unconvinced. ”

"We'll go to Qinzhou right away." Huang Xing rubbed his hands excitedly. "Is Zhao Sheng's troops coming?"

The connector glanced at Han Ce and Ma Han.

"They are all reliable comrades who came back from Japan with me, his name is Ma Han, a native of Zhaoqing. That one is called Han Ce, a native of Jinan, Shandong. ”

"Not yet, Zhao Sheng's first standard of the Guangdong New Army is said to have already been on the road, and he has not yet been contacted." Lao Li said in a low voice.

"Who is Zhao Sheng?" Han Ce interjected.

"The new army standard commander of Guangdong, who has just taken over. It was our comrade, and when he went to Japan, you happened to be back in Shandong. Mahan whispered. Of course, he couldn't have imagined that Han Ce was lurking undercover in the Alliance, but he was not an undercover agent in the Qing court.

"Has Guangdong formed a new army? It's the first time I've heard of it. Han Ce asked.

"At the moment there are only two targets. But. The second bid is just an empty shelf. Can't pull it out at all. Zhao Sheng was a staunch revolutionary comrade, and he was ready to go to Hunan and Jiangxi last year to command the uprising, but unfortunately he did not have time. This time, if he brings the first standard anyway, we can completely occupy Lianzhou Mansion. It is not impossible to move west to Nanning. "Huang Xing knows much more about the situation between the two Guangxi than Han Ce." Old and strong. You immediately send someone to unload the goods and prepare the means of transportation, and I will escort the weapons to Qinzhou to take over the command. But don't go, your task is to contact Zhao Sheng, which is the most important. ”

"It's good." The connector Lao Li agreed, "This road is safe." Wang Heshun had already sent someone to answer him. But the day before yesterday, I heard a news, I don't know if Lu Dao is true, I heard that the fifth town in Shandong, which suppressed the Hunan and Jiangxi uprisings, has come to Guangdong......"

"It's true! This Tartar eagle dog has a blood feud with us! It doesn't matter, they are far away, and they are not satisfied, so there is no need to be afraid. Huang Xing was full of confidence, and he had long thought about fighting with the Manchu Qing Dynasty with real knives and guns, and Huang Xing was arrogant at the moment.

"Mr. Huang......" Lao Li seemed to have something to say.

"My surname is Lin now." Huang Xing smiled. In the past two years, he has always changed his name when he returns to China.

Lao Li nodded, "The Fifth Town of Tartar is one of the six towns in Beiyang, and it is said that it is said that in Zhangde Qiucao, even Yuan Shikai's soldiers are not opponents. They are a town, there are more than 10,000 people, even if Zhao Sheng's team is added, our army is only three or four thousand people, I am afraid that they are not the opponents of the Tartars......" Lao Li hesitated a little, "The fifth town is obviously here to deal with us, if we disappear temporarily, maybe they will soon return to Shandong." When the time comes, I will do it again and grasp it more. ”

"It's not easy." Han Ce thought in his heart, but Huang Xing wouldn't agree.

Sure enough...... "You can't think like that." Huang Xing glanced at Han Ce, because Han Ce had made a similar suggestion, "Counting the uprisings we instigated, there have been six or seven times. In addition, the two recent uprisings in Huanggang and Boluo have not succeeded. If our uprising in Lianzhou is dissolved by itself, it will certainly dampen the morale of the comrades, and it will be very detrimental to the Prime Minister's fundraising overseas, and the overseas Chinese who are bent on supporting the revolution will be even more disappointed...... If we eliminate the strengths of the other, the great cause of the revolution will be even more difficult. Needless to say, do as I say, Ma Han, you are familiar with the terrain, you stay to assist Lao Li to contact Zhao Sheng, Han Ce, you escort weapons to Qinzhou with me. Huang Xing made the last decision.

The next day, Huang Xing and Han Ce escorted eight pack horses on the road, along with the four men sent by Wang Heshun to receive weapons, all of whom were not young. The thick dialect made it impossible for Han Ce to hear what they were saying at all.

The cause of the Qinlian uprising was the protest of the local people against the government's levy of sugar donations and the increase in the price of grain, and Liu Siyu's 10,000-person association took advantage of this opportunity, and the league only seized the opportunity. Han Ce was very worried about the safety of the mountain road from Guli Village to the city defense of 200 miles, but he didn't expect it to be smooth and abnormal, and there was not even a sentry post, and later he learned that due to the uprising, the sporadic sporadic sentry points were withdrawn, and the patrol battalion shrank into the city, and he did not dare to divide his troops to go out.

Without saying a word all the way, Huang Xing and Han Ce safely delivered the weapons and ammunition they bought from overseas to the rebels on July 18, and were naturally warmly welcomed by Wang Heshun and Liu Siyu.

In the Guangdong Hui Party that responded to the call of the League, Sun Wen's appeal was naturally the greatest, but Huang Xing's reputation was not low, as if he was the second in command of the League, such a big man came to the army with a large number of weapons, whether it was Wang Heshun or Liu Siyu, Huang Xing was regarded as the commander-in-chief.

"It's good that Mr. Huang is here, we don't know what to do." Wang Heshun said.

"Alright, let's fight the Tartars to the end this time!" The leaders of the alliance are good at agitation, although Huang Xing is not as good as Sun Wen, but he is also a good player in this, "The news of your troubles in Lianzhou Mansion has spread overseas. The overseas Chinese who support the revolution are very excited, and soon, Premier Sun will personally escort a large number of silver dollars and weapons to come, and we will fight a few more victories and occupy a few more cities before Premier Sun arrives! I have good news for you, the first standard of the new army that came from Guangzhou to suppress us is the people of our alliance! When we get in touch, we will cooperate left and right to turn Yuexi upside down! ”

"Good, good!" Liu Siyu applauded. "I didn't know Mr. Huang was here. How many taels of silver did you bring? The brothers are waiting for a share of the money. ”

This is the embarrassment of the League's actions, getting rid of a very small number of comrades with firm beliefs, relying on the Association with the idea of rebelling and making a fortune.

What is a meeting party? In later generations, it is an underworld organization that has been severely cracked down on and banned by the government. Since the establishment of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Han Chinese, who were dissatisfied with foreign rule, formed countless Hui Parties. It is especially famous for its Hongmen. However, there are generally no stricter seniority and hall rules like Hongmen. Most of the members are people living in extreme poverty. Forced by life to take risks, eating meat and drinking wine in large bowls is their realistic goal, if it is a long-term goal. It's just a small amount of money. For several years, Sun Wen instigated uprisings, all of which opened the way with money, without which no one would have done anything with him, and he would not have gained leadership.

Of course, weapons are also money.

Han Ce despised it in his heart, feeling that relying on these people to fight was a joke, and his sympathy for the revolutionary party due to Xu Jingxin's sacrifice was a little weaker, overthrowing the Manchu Qing? I'm afraid that it will still rely on the Mengshan Army led by Commander Long.

Huang Xing's way of dealing with these people is no less than Sun Wen, in a sense, Huang Xing's bones are more chivalrous, "Brothers, guns, Huang brought a lot, and there are more bullets." But there is no silver, I am not afraid of your jokes, this time I returned from Japan, and the entanglement was made up by the comrades of the Alliance. However, there will be money! Huang just said that Premier Sun is coming, and the money is on him. In addition, the treasury of the government has silver! Let's take a few more cities, and the brothers are worried about what will happen to the money. Ha Lu Ha. ”

The Qing Dynasty of Lianzhou Prefecture belonged to Guangdong and was very barren. Since Wang Heshun's uprising, from Lianzhou to Qinzhou, three cities have been opened, but they have gained very little, which has greatly disappointed the righteous army.

Without silver, getting a hundred rifles and thousands of rounds of ammunition still made Wang Heshun and Liu Siyu very happy, and immediately expressed their willingness to accept Huang Xing's command, and Huang Xing successfully obtained the military command.

The first thing, of course, is to count the strength of the rebels. There is no roster, no arms register, and all figures are estimates. At present, there are about 450 people in Wang Heshun's department, and Liu Siyu's department is a little more numerous, about 1,200 people. There are very few guns and ammunition, and the statistics are inaccurate, there are about 200 long and short guns in total, and each gun is equipped with no more than 20 rounds.

Huang Xing waited for news from Zhao Sheng, and began to reorganize the rebel army. After consulting with Wang and Liu, it was decided that he would serve as the governor of the capital, with Wang and Liu as the deputy governors, and the whole army should be organized into three brigades, each of which would be composed of three squadrons, with Wang Heshun concurrently serving as the commander of the first brigade (mainly Wang Heshun), and Liu Siyu and a leader surnamed Cai under him as the commander of the second and third brigades respectively. Han Ce stayed in the Governor's Mansion of the Righteous Army as a staff officer.

The army was nervously organized here, and there was finally news of Zhao Sheng over there.

Zhao Shengzi Boxian, a native of Dantu (now Zhenjiang), Jiangsu, was born in 1881. In 1901, he was admitted to the Jiangnan Naval Academy with the first place, and in 1903, he served as a teacher of Liangjiang Normal School and composed "Anthem of Protecting the Country". In 1904, he went north to vote for Yuan Shikai, who knew that he was a revolutionary party, entrusted with a clerical position, and secretly monitored. Shi Jiangnan created a new army and joined the Ninth Town Supervision and Training Office as a staff officer. Later, he followed Guo Renzhang into Guangxi and served as a pipe belt. Soon Huining served as the commander of the 33rd Standard 2nd Battalion of the 9th Town of the New Army, and was later promoted to the standard commander, and joined the League the following year. Xu Shaozhen, the commander of the Ninth Town, admired him very much, and said that now he is the only one who fights to the death in the village. Because he led his troops to pay tribute to Zhu Yuanzhang and declared his opposition to the Qing Dynasty, he was known to the governor of Liangjiang, Duanfang, and because Xu Shaozhen tried to protect it, he was only exempted from office.

Pingliu uprising, Zhao Sheng wanted to go to help, but he was defeated before he could do it, so he went to Guangdong and served as the second standard pipe and standard commander of the new army. Following Guo Renzhang, the commander of the Guangdong patrol battalion, led the first standard of the Guangdong New Army to Lianzhou Mansion to suppress the uprising.

Zhao Sheng has very few firm comrades in the League, and after he became the first standard, the League sent him three people, but none of them were engaged in military affairs, and due to Guo Renzhang's interference, Zhao Sheng could not be entrusted with the position of leading the army, so he could only be his staff officer. Zhao Sheng was good at propaganda and mobilization, and after taking over the first standard, Zhao Sheng vigorously propagandized the revolution and gathered a group of officers and soldiers sympathetic to the revolution in the new army. Because of his undisguised propaganda, Guo Renzhang heard some rumors and sternly warned Zhao Sheng, but he didn't take it too seriously. Guo Renzhang's father is Guo Songlin, a minister of the imperial court, and he belongs to the second generation of authentic officials, so naturally he will not go deep into the grassroots to mobilize the masses like Zhao Sheng, drink and enjoy all day long, and his prestige in the army is not high.

The first standard started from Guangzhou, and drove all the way to Hengshan Fort west of Suixi, and finally connected with the old Li Mahan, Zhao Sheng was afraid of long nights and dreams, so he decided to launch in advance, arrest Guo Renzhang, and then bring the troops over to meet Huang Xing. But there is no secret, Zhao Sheng's arrangement was secretly reported to Guo Renzhang by a team officer he trusted, and the team officer belonged to the battle against the water, and originally promised to revolt, but he regretted it at the end. Guo Renzhang was shocked, and decided to kill Zhao Sheng and take the troops over in the name of a meeting.

Zhao Sheng sensed that the atmosphere was wrong, so he made a preemptive strike, gathered one of his most reliable infantry teams, and launched first, preparing to take Guo Renzhang hostage by force.

As a result, there was a civil strife in Hengshan Fort in the first standard, and the troops who supported Guo Renzhang and the troops who decided to rebel with Zhao Sheng fought, killing more than a dozen people, and the two sides were clearly divided into camps, and the fight became a confrontation. Zhao Sheng couldn't eat Guo Renzhang, so he had to leave Hengshan Fort with a team of about 900 people, and under the leadership of Lao Li Mahan and others, he moved to Qinzhou, the base camp of the righteous army.

Lao Li naturally did not forget to tell Zhao Sheng the news that the fifth town had entered Guangdong. Zhao Sheng didn't agree with Lao Li's suggestion to avoid his edge at all, he didn't take the fifth town in his eyes, he was more concerned about the half of the new army in Guo Renzhang's hands, and decided to turn around and march east after uniting the main force of Huang Xing's righteous army, eliminate Guo Renzhang, and bring back this well-equipped new army.

The troops led by Zhao Sheng fought a battle with the intercepted patrol battalion north of Lianzhou Mansion, repelled the interception of the patrol battalion, followed Lao Li's advice, and did not go south to attack Lianzhou, but went west to Qinzhou, and returned to the division with Huang Xing's troops in Pingyindu and Huangxing east of Qinzhou.

Huang Xingzhi was so excited that he immediately appointed Zhao Sheng as the former enemy commander of the Western Guangdong Revolutionary Army. Zhao Sheng's department was organized into the fourth brigade, and Zhao Sheng was also the commander. Huang Xing, like Zhao Sheng, felt that since the armed rebellion against the Qing Dynasty, there had never been such a good situation, and with thousands of people and more than 1,000 rifles in his hands, it was enough to do a lot of work.

The next step, naturally, was to discuss the direction of action of the troops. Since Guo Renzhang had returned to Lianzhou, Huang Xing vetoed Zhao Sheng's suggestion to go east to fight Guo Renzhang, and decided to go north out of Lingshan and open the door for the troops to advance. To the west of Qinzhou is the famous 100,000 mountains, the roads are rugged, sparsely populated, not conducive to the survival of the army, can only go east or north, considering that the eastward advance will inevitably encounter the main force of the Qing army, Huang Xing's opinion was accepted by Zhao Sheng.

If you go north, you will have to control Lingshan. Considering that Zhao Sheng's weapons and training were the best of the rebels, Huang Xing ordered Zhao Sheng to take the Fourth Brigade as the vanguard, go north out of Lingshan, and open the northward passage for the rebels. Zhao Sheng happily accepted the order, and after resting for two days, he led the fourth brigade to the north.

Huang Xing ordered Han Ce Mahan to follow Zhao Sheng and praise the military aircraft with the army. (To be continued......)