"If you see one day on the battlefield, then you pray that God doesn't let you see another day."

- Napoleon

Hu Rui, Sanniang and his entourage, surrounded by Wang Tianzong and Leng Feng, set foot in Yangzhou City, which had just undergone the baptism of banditry. The battle was over, and the 2nd Mixed Brigade, trained in systematic street fighting, had largely occupied the entire city. Coming ashore from the wharf in a motorboat, officers and men of the Second Mixed Brigade were on duty on both sides of the road to maintain order. Even so, Wang Tianda and Leng Jingfeng, who were in charge of the security work, still did not dare to relax in the slightest, after all, there were still some small groups of bandits in the city that had not been cleared. The two tacitly led the team, one in front and one behind, three layers in the outside, surrounded Hu Dashuai and his party to death, and manpower was also arranged on the commanding heights along the way.

In Hu Rui's memory, no matter the changes of time or the change of dynasties, as an important town in the south of the Yangtze River, Yangzhou has always been a prosperous place. Since ancient times, Lianghuai has been a settlement along the line, and the salt merchants on the rich side live a luxurious life that is definitely not inferior to the Son of Heaven of the current dynasty. The Yangzhou Skinny Horse, which has swept the entire modern history of China, is a living example. Demand-driven consumption, coupled with the superior geographical location and hundreds of years of accumulation, Yangzhou has become a prosperous place where businessmen gather and fat powder aromatherapy. But at this moment, walking on the blood-soaked streets, looking around, the prosperity of the past is gone, and some are just full of devastation!

When the salt lord attacked the city, he set fire to it, and the fire continued to spread by the direction of the wind, and half of Yangzhou City was reduced to ruins in the fire. On the bluestone slabs and bricks under the feet of the road, mottled blood stains can be faintly seen. The smell of burnt fire in the air and the smell of blood on the corpses were mixed together. Fill the air. Resist the urge to gag and keep going. There are dead bodies everywhere you see along the way! This group of inhumane brutes is almost to the point of doing all kinds of evil! Door-to-door looting, as long as you encounter resistance, it is a knife! A shot in the chest! As long as you see a woman, no matter how old or young, beautiful or ugly, you don't let go. When he encountered the old woman, the thug disliked to other bodies, and directly slapped the swelling with an iron rod before committing adultery; When you meet a young girl who has not yet fully developed, you can directly and cruelly pick open your lower body with a sharp weapon! If you are slightly disobedient, you will directly pick up the ghost head knife and cut off your head on the street! Then the mob grinned and continued to look for the next ......

Along the way, there were mutilated corpses all over the ground, and the humiliated girl was unclothed. Ignoring any etiquette, he wailed and shouted the names of his relatives among the ruins. Jiang Feng was trembling, and his hoarse voice was particularly helpless and desolate. The wild dog night cat went to heaven in a trance, and went around in groups to gnaw on the already mutilated corpse. There were so many fresh corpses that the brutes began to be picky eaters, eating only fresh sausages and not touching the rest! There was also a young child, whoa wow cried and threw himself on his mother's naked, cold body, with his already stiff head in his mouth. Trying to suck milk......

Hu Rui knew that this was already a scaled-down version. After the 2nd Mixed Brigade basically settled the battle, it began to restore order in the city, and the corpses were also collected as much as possible. It's just that there are so many corpses. So I won't be able to come over for a while.

"Ahh These brutes! ”

Hu Rui clenched his fists, he was not a nationalist. Before the crossing, he lived in a harmonious society and bathed in the spring breeze of modern development. Even after the crossing, there are no people or things. It can make him move the idea of killing them all. But at this moment, Hu Rui really moved to kill. If he could, he really hoped to kill all of these inhumane beasts one by one! This is a blood debt that is difficult to repay, and only by repaying blood can the souls of the victims be comforted! Only then can this group of beasts that exterminate humanity get the punishment they deserve! The devil is destined to hell!

The staff officers who were in the same company were also full of grief and indignation, and Yan Sanniang, who was in her daughter's body, directly trembled and didn't dare to look at it again.

"My lord! Justice, my lord! ”

In the distance, a howl was heard. A woman with a disheveled head and a face covered in blood, holding a young child who was no longer breathing, staggered to her knees in front of the road. Wang Tianda, who opened the road in front, hesitantly glanced back at Hu Rui, and the private school really asked for advice.

"Let her come."

Hu Rui waved his hand and sighed.

"My lord, the women of the people have the courage to ask the adults to uphold justice!"

With permission, the woman crawled on her knees with a wail. The rubble on the street cut her knees, and the woman was in a trance, not feeling pain, and crawled all the way to her knees, leaving a long bloody path behind her. As soon as she arrived, the woman was staggering, and her forehead was bloody.

"Sister-in-law, get up, get up! If you have something to say, speak slowly! ”

There are some things that Hu Dashuai is not suitable for doing it himself and doing it personally, but Sanniang can do it. Without waiting for Hu Rui to react, Sanniang took the first step and stepped forward to try to help the woman up. has been crisscrossing the rivers and lakes for many years, fighting and killing, Sanniang's martial arts are not weak. But that's it, Sanniang was surprised to find that no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't pull the young woman up from the ground.

"My lord, the woman has disturbed the adult's official frame, and the crime deserves death, and the couple dare not get up! The women of the people have the courage to ask the adults to uphold justice! I ask you to uphold justice for the people of Yangzhou! ”

The woman burst into tears, saying that there were three more rings, and Sanniang couldn't pull it up. When the man walked in, Hu Rui found that the young lady was wearing a blouse that had almost become a piece of cloth, most of her full breasts were exposed to the sun, and there was a long wound on her cheek. Blood mixed with dirt and soot, making what should have been a beautiful face look like a desperate ghost.

"Sister-in-law, get up and speak! The salt barons are in rebellion and plague the people, and this account has been written down by the governor! This group of beasts, don't even think about a good death! ”

Hu Rui gritted his teeth and held back the anger and self-blame in his heart. Wen Yan soothed. For the sake of Yangzhou, he postponed the dispatch of troops. Who knew that it was just a small delay, but it brought such a tragic disaster to the innocent people. He blames himself! Now Yangzhou City has been taken, but what he got is not only Yangzhou City, but also half of the burned city and hundreds of thousands of displaced people.

It seems that she senses Hu Rui's deep self-blame and uneasiness, and Sanniang rarely takes the initiative. Standing side by side beside Hu Rui, the slender hand tightly grasped Hu Rui's rough big hand. The two hands were held so tightly, and Sanniang comforted him wordlessly, hoping that he would feel better.

"My lord, the maiden's home is in Jinling, which is across the river, and her husband's family has settled down in Yangzhou to do business. When the Lord led his troops to recover Nanjing. The folk girl happened to go back to her parents' house to save her relatives, and she was fortunate to witness the heroic appearance of the adults. There are tens of thousands of male soldiers under the command of adults, all of whom are the division of tigers and wolves, but the adults are strict in governing the army, and the army did not commit any crimes during the period of stationing in Nanjing, which is really a division of benevolence and righteousness! There are a total of 13 people in the family, including her husband and in-laws, who live at the south gate. When the salt dogs attacked the city, none of the old and weak women and children in the people's family were spared, and the women also stained this group of salt dogs! The women of the people are courageous. I implore the adults to uphold justice for the whole family of the people of Yangzhou and for me! I beg you to kill all those salt dogs! In the next life, they will be cattle and horses, and the women will also repay the kindness of adults! ”

The lady cried and kowtowed, and her head hit the hard bluestone slab with a muffled sound, and the bluestone slab brick gradually became bloody.

"Please do justice for the people of Yangzhou!"

I don't know when. The streets were already filled with ragged people. Whether it is a humiliated woman or an old man, they all kneel and worship on the side of the road. Knock on the head.

"Chief instructor, let's agree! It's hard to disobey this group of salt dogs, they should be killed! When the Eight-Nation Alliance entered the Forbidden City, it was nothing more than that! ”

Wang Tianda quietly leaned over. It also helps to ask for mercy. The sky is watching, and the blood debt owed must always be repaid!

"Old Hu. Say yes~"

Sanniang beside her also quietly attached to Hu Dashuai's ear and whispered. The sushou also slowly increased his strength, and the two hands were more intimately held together.

"Fathers and fellow villagers of Yangzhou, I, Hu Xiaolian, am here to assure you! Heaven is angry and people are resentful, and my Anhui Revolutionary Army will make this group of god-killing beasts pay for their blood debts! This lord, I Hu Xiaolian did! ”

In a pleading and expectant gaze, Hu Rui shouted impassionedly.

"A leopard in the tube, this is just a microcosm of Yangzhou......"

Continuing to move forward, looking at the people behind him who were still kneeling, Hu Rui sighed faintly. Sanniang beside her didn't say anything, but Hu Rui was still holding her like this, and the two were close together.

"Come here."

After the escort walked for a while, Hu Rui beckoned to a second lieutenant standing guard on the side of the road.

"The fourth term of the teaching battalion, the first company and the second platoon of the third battalion of the fourth regiment of the second mixed brigade, the platoon commander Zhu Guoda, have met the chief instructor!"

The second lieutenant snapped and saluted.

"Are you also from the teaching camp? Not bad~ Where did your brigade commander Fang Zong go? ”

Hu Rui returned the salute, shook his hand when he was finished, nodded and asked. The battle in the city is over, as the brigade commander, where will Fang Zong go?

"Report to the chief instructor, Brigade Commander Fang personally led people to arrest Xu Baoshan!"

Among the officers from the training camp, Chief Instructor Hu Rui has always been a god-like existence. Zhu Guoda's face turned red with excitement, straightened his waist, and replied loudly.

"Okay, keep on duty, I'll take a look!"

Hu Rui nodded approvingly, a little stinky fart, in the end, it was a soldier brought out by my Hu someone! Tsk, this is a loud voice! This body is sturdy! This is full of spirit! (Hey, that's enough!) ）

He didn't go far when he saw a herald with a Stern submachine gun and two heralds galloping from far and near on horseback. Seeing Hu Rui and his party halfway through, he immediately turned his horse's head and accelerated towards the team.

"Report to the marshal, Brigade Commander Fang reports, the bandit leader Xu Baoshan and his henchmen and others will be captured! The yamen is being guarded by the salt transportation envoy! ”

The herald was so agitated that he stumbled as he dismounted, barely standing still. A loud salute reported.

"Lead the way, let's go to the Yamen of the Salt Transport Envoy!"

"Yes!"

When Hu Rui and his party arrived at the Yamen of the Salt Transport Envoy, they saw four soldiers angrily raising the butts of their guns and hitting a middle-aged man who was tied like a zongzi. There are also piles of miscellaneous ordnance such as long hair, ghost head knives, singles, Hanyang-made, and old sleeves on the ground.

"Xu Baoshan, are you convinced?! If you want to get the position of governor, forget it, weishenme wants to set fire? Weishenme wants to connive at his subordinates to slaughter the people and harm the innocent?! You're looking into your own sins! ”

Looking at Xu Baoshan, who was still unruly, Hu Rui was angry and scolded on the spot.

"Dashuai!"

Including Fang Zong, everyone present stood up and saluted. I don't know when it began, and these guys from the training camp have united the front. When there are no soldiers or outsiders around, he is called the chief instructor, which makes him seem affectionate. When there are people, they speak in unison, and all of them change their words to be handsome!

"Convincing?! Lao Tzu is not convinced! What a sin Lao Tzu! Lao Tzu was invited by fathers from all walks of life in Yangzhou! Hey, revolutionary revolution! Isn't it all open burning, killing and plunder?! Those people can sit on the throne of the governor in a grand manner, but weishenme and I Xu Baoshan can't?! surnamed Hu, you don't have to be a bitch here to set up an archway! Phew! It's all the way, and you haven't coveted the position of the governor of Yangzhou when you came from Shanghai to work? ! Lao Tzu has no culture, one is one and two, there are not so many vain heads as you! You can't see the light in secret, Lao Tzu is an honest and open robbery! ”

Xu Baoshan also took the opportunity to break free from the restraints, and struggled to stand up with handcuffs and anklets. Hehe sneered and replied.

Hu Rui's head is full of black lines, and this statement is not well-founded. Parallel histories include Chen Qimei, the governor of the Shanghai army (this person is a member of the League and a dead heavy member of Sun. He has a wide range of hobbies, mainly prostitution and cigarette smoking. None of them have clean hands and feet! In the final analysis, it is the Alliance's own flaws, the debts it causes!

Since its establishment, the League has always been a loose organization, with a mixture of three sects and nine streams of members, and a large proportion of those with impure motives (it is said that the corruption of the Jiang Dynasty during the later Republic of China period was rooted in the early years, and for example, the leader of the Alliance, Kaoru Otsuki's mother and daughter are a hard wound that has been deliberately avoided). This, coupled with the severe lack of military liliang, made every uprising organized by the League a failure (except for the Wuchang Uprising, of course).

After repeatedly hitting a wall on the road to the armed seizure of power, the League remembered to start with the army. At the time of the Manchu government's large-scale training of the new army, a large number of foreign talents were urgently needed, so a large number of members of the League began to infiltrate the new army. However, due to problems such as credibility (in the case of the repatriation of salaries, basically all the salvation of the United States was cashed out), every time the new army revolted, the number of officers and soldiers instigated was not large, and it was difficult for the Qing army to achieve a major event in the face of superior forces. Therefore, the party and the various armed forces became the pillars on which the League relied heavily.

It is undeniable that there are many people with lofty ideals who robbed the rich and helped the poor and were bent on overthrowing the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but more of them were bandits and robbers who burned and plundered and did all kinds of evil! After boarding the big ship of the League, all evil deeds can be carried out in a grand manner with the fig leaf of "revolution"! How many evils are prevalent in the name of revolution?!

"Is it all under control on the salt merchant's side? You go and prepare a machine gun chain, take out all the bullets, sandpaper them, and then reload them. ”

Hu Rui snorted coldly, and simply ignored Xu Baoshan, who was yelling. called Fang Zong to the side and asked in a low voice, and the hand holding Sanniang on the other side did not let go from beginning to end.

"Chief Instructor, it's all in control! All the salt merchants and those who do business with them are under control! Two platoons of guards are guarding! Sandpaper sanding, Chief Instructor, you are ......"

Fang Zong couldn't figure it out, why did you use sandpaper to polish the bullets? Shoot it, shoot it, you can't do it so hard.

"Do so, and bring all the guys who lure the wolf into the house! Just invite them to watch a good show! ”

Looking at Yangzhou City, which was still not completely extinguished, Hu Rui replied gloomily. (To be continued......)

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