That night, the lights of Mochizuki Pavilion were faintly lit for a night, and they stubbornly persisted until the second watch was extinguished. And the verbal swords in the side hall have never stopped, and the small side hall is filled with gunsmoke, always on the verge of explosion, but fortunately, in the end, everyone is happy. Sanniang did not take over the position of director of the intelligence department, and she never said anything about the Swallow Gang joining the new army. But after all, they agreed to cooperate, and in the future, Mochizuki Pavilion will be a base for the exchange of information between the two sides. The Forces nouvelles provided ordnance and protection, while the Swallow Gang was tasked with using the Jianghu connections to spy on intelligence and incidentally watch out for any movement in the provincial capital of Anqing, with each side taking what they needed. After receiving the ordnance, the cooperation between the two sides also took the first step.

Wang Tianda, who had been standing behind Uncle Shan, finally relaxed his nerves that had been tense all night and let out a sigh of relief. The eight of them didn't leave the handle of the gun on their waists all night, and when Uncle Shan and Sanniang were drinking tea and testing each other in various secret words, they were not idle, they were all staring at each other's every move. Out of the door, Wang Tianda couldn't help but sigh;

"The eye fight is too intense!"

"The wind and snow are forcing each other!" The cold frightening wind behind him, who was unwilling to be lonely, also said.

"Leng Er~"

"Wang Laoba~"

"Let's go back to camp......"

After talking about the details, Uncle Shan said goodbye, Wang Tianda shook off his stiff and sour hands, pushed open the door first, and opened the way in front. Uncle Shan was surrounded out of the Moon Pavilion, was helped into the carriage, and rushed all the way to Wuhu except for the city gate. Sitting in the shaking carriage, Uncle Shan saw a burst of chest tightness and fatigue, and then smiled self-deprecatingly, he was really old.

"Young master, we succeeded, and we are finally fortunate not to be dishonored!"

Uncle Shan took out the German gold-plated pocket watch given by the young master in his arms, and muttered to himself, very excited. It was almost five o'clock in the morning, and Uncle Shan carefully put the pocket watch into his arms and leaned against the carriage to take a nap. The man is old, his spirit is not as good as before, and last night's verbal sword consumed too much of his energy. Wang Tianzong, who was relaxed outside the car window, seemed to have taken an aphrodisiac, and he took the seven people behind him to speed all the way, and he didn't look like staying up late at all. After talking about the Swallow Gang, another good show is about to be staged in Anqing, and they don't want to miss it.

A new patrol battalion was stationed on the outskirts of Anqing.

Hu Rui, who was neatly draped, tightened the button of the gun magazine, and paced back and forth impatiently on the playground with his watch, the dull sound of riding boots echoed in the empty playground in the early morning, and the javelin-like heralds and pistol teams stood behind him waiting silently. After receiving Zhu Jiabao's secret order, Hu Rui did not lead the guard company to escort the military pay back to Wuhu, but stayed at the station of the patrol battalion in the suburbs. The two new patrol battalions had just been formed, and their personnel lacked actual combat experience, and Anqing was more than 200 kilometers away from Wuhu, and it would take more than 20 hours to arrive even if it was a rapid march. So the guard company, which was in the limelight during the day, quietly stayed as the finale.

With a "click", the hour hand finally pointed to five.

"Herald, order the trumpeter to blow the assembly trumpet! All assembled! ”

Hu Rui shook excitedly, and then shouted loudly.

"Tut, toot, toot~"

The silence of the autumn night was broken by the high-pitched assembly call, and the sound of the horn continued to echo over the camp, and the whole camp immediately exploded and boiled like boiling water. The squad leaders were the first to react, turned over and got out of bed, groping for the clothes that should be on the quilt before going to bed, and shouting to the soldiers in the squad to move fast! The training of the new army was very rigorous, and in order to prepare for an emergency assembly, all officers and men were required to cover their clothes under the quilt or put them within reach before going to bed, regardless of the season. The new army lived in Soviet-style barracks that imitated later generations, and the gun rack was at the door, and they could easily get it when they got dressed and rushed out.

"Praise and praise ~"

The sound of neat running began to sound in the camp, and the officers and soldiers pouring out of the various dormitories quickly assembled. After a while, the playground was full. Then the street lamps in the camp looked out, and it was all black and oppressive. The huge playground was silent, only the silent wind echoed.

"Stand upright! Listen to my orders, distribute live ammunition, all guns are loaded, and the target is Anqing! We're going to take over 10 patrol battalions! ”

Time waits for no one, and Hu Rui can't care about mobilization, and the officers from the training battalion are absolutely resolute in the implementation of orders. After the roar, he turned on his horse and set off first with the guard company that had been waiting for a long time. On the playground behind him, he was stunned for a moment and then acted quickly, since the formation of these two patrol battalions, he was not less squeezed out by the pus bags in the city. The quartermaster quickly distributed the ammunition according to the number of heads in each company platoon. Five minutes later, the two patrol battalions of No. 1000 men and horses, loaded with guns and bullets, lined up, and rushed towards Anqing with the guard company in a murderous spirit.

The garrison of the patrol battalion was less than ten miles away from Anqing City, and it could be reached in less than half an hour at the speed of a rapid march. After yesterday's noon incident, Zhu Jiabao immediately blocked Anqing City on the pretext of preventing the infiltration of the chaotic party. Later, in the name of reinforcing the patrol battalion, the city gate that was originally guarded by the patrol battalion was handed over to the patrol police.

"Quick, brothers, keep your feet sharp, speed up the march!"

The members of the life committee of each company walked beside the line, constantly greeting. All the officers of the two patrol battalions, like the vast majority of non-commissioned officers and guard companies, were born in the training battalions, and this will also secretly think about comparison. These two patrol battalions are only half an hour's walk away from Anqing, and they have the advantage of being close to the water, so they have received extra care in terms of equipment. Each squad has two Stern submachine guns and one ZB30 light machine gun, and the equipment is exactly the same as that of the new army. However, several patrol battalions in the five counties around Wuhu can only reach one Stern submachine gun per squad, and the ZB30 can only achieve one platoon. The armament department is not good, but it is far worse than the guard company. Each of them had a Stern submachine gun, and they were also equipped with lightweight Makqin machine guns, and everyone wore big scalp boots and steel helmets, which caused all the officers and men of the patrol battalion to salivate.

"If we can do everything better than the guard company, then the chief instructor can't give us the same equipment? Obediently, it's gone! He only has one reinforced company, and we have two battalions of 1,000 people! ”

With such a thought, he ran fast along the way, biting the guard company.

The patrol guards guarding the city gate heard a sound of "praise" from far and near, and knew that Hu Xietong had brought people here, so he hurriedly opened the city gate. Anqing's old 10 patrol battalions were scattered all over the place, and the nearest one was at the foot of the city wall. After Hu Rui led his troops into the city, he was the first to rush here.

"Smack!" Two gunshots.

"All with their heads in their hands, squatting! Throw all the weapons out! ”

The patrol battalion is used to being lazy, and there was such a big movement yesterday, and there was not a single sentry left in the station, and they still slept separately. When the guard company took the lead and rushed in, he couldn't believe that the chaotic kennel-like shack area was actually the station of the patrol battalion. The people who were awakened by the sound of gunshots were howled by a burst of ghosts with the butts of the guns before they could react, and they squatted down with their heads in their hands in embarrassment.

"Who is the battalion officer?" Hu Rui's face turned pale, and he picked up a clean place and stood still and asked loudly.

"Back to adults, the small ones are ~"

A middle-aged man over forty years old, with an obscene face and a mouth full of yellow teeth, hunched his waist and a smile on his face.

"On the orders of Lord Futai, take over the patrol battalion. Immediately surrender your weapons, and if there is any defense against military law! ”

Hu Rui didn't bother to take care of this, threw down a sentence and hurriedly turned around and left, there are more things to do today. When the middle-aged man heard this, his face quickly changed, and he was about to say something, but he was hit by the butt of a gun, and he shrank back with a wail. Hu Rui left one platoon behind, and the remaining troops quickly divided into several groups and headed for the remaining nine patrol battalions. The patrol officer who followed behind him trembled and pasted the notice on the wall. The same thing happened nine times in a row in Anqing City that day.

What happened in Anqing was only a microcosm of the big picture, and 1909 was destined to be a turbulent year.

On January 1, the Qing court took back the management of the Jinghan Railway.

On the 1st, the Qing court promulgated the regulations for investigating household registration.

On the 2nd, the regent Zaifeng ordered Yuan Shikai, Minister of Military Aircraft and Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to return to his hometown. An earthquake struck Messina, Italy, killing 200,000 people.

On February 1, the second international anti-smoking meeting was held in Shanghai.

On the 17th, the Qing court ordered each province to formally set up a consultative bureau to prepare for the establishment of local autonomy in each prefecture and county, and to set up an autonomous research institute.

On March 6, the Qing government issued an edict on the purpose of "preparing for the constitution and restoring the country".

On the 12th, Sichuan revolutionaries She Ying and Xiong Kewu revolted in Guang'an, and the uprising failed.

In the spring of April, the American Hercules Opiyin went to Shanghai to perform his skills and competed with the Hebei martial artist Huo Yuanjia, which caused a sensation in Shanghai.

On the 30th, Anhui strongly demanded that the Qing court recover the mining rights of Tongguanshan.

On May 7, hundreds of female workers at the Shanghai Yushen Silk Factory crowded to the court, demanding that the wages owed be recovered from the management.

On the 11th, Tibet's Yadong, Gyantse, and Kadike's ports were opened.

On the 11th, there were successive earthquakes in Yiliang and Ami in Yunnan.

On the 15th, Yu Youren founded the "Minhu Daily" in Shanghai, and the site of the museum was in the public concession.

On the 15th, the school department approved the adaptation of the junior high school curriculum and the regulations of the elementary school hall.

On June 6, Ningshao Merchant Shipping Company purchased a new ship from Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau and arrived in Shanghai.

In July, the British businessman Liddell established the "Huaying Coal and Iron Company" in Sichuan, arbitrarily dividing land and inserting benchmarks, arousing public indignation. Eventually, the mines were sold to Jianghe Company.

On August 14, Minhu Daily, which had only been in operation for three months, was forced to suspend publication.

On September 4, China and Japan signed the "Majima Agreement". Japan's interests in China have expanded, and the United States has expressed dissatisfaction.

On the 15th, the Qing court banned the "Beijing State Daily" and the "Central Datong Daily" on charges of leaking secrets and obstructing negotiations.

On the 15th, Fuzhou was hit by a storm and fire, killing and injuring thousands of people.

On the 28th, the Qing court from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs played and built the Youmei Ye Museum in Tsinghua Garden, which was the predecessor of Tsinghua University.

In October ~ November, there was internal strife in the alliance, and Tao Chengzhang and Zhang Taiyan jointly launched the "Recall Sun Wen" movement, laying the groundwork for Tao Chengzhang's assassination in the future.

On October 2, China's self-built Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway was opened to traffic, and the presiding builder was Zhan Tianyou, a railway engineering expert. The total length is 380 miles.

On the 3rd, Yu Youren re-founded the "Minhu Daily".

Zhang Zhidong died on the 4th.

On the 5th, Yuan Shuxun, the governor of Liangguang, and the Japanese consul signed an agreement on Dongsha Island, and Japan recognized the island as Chinese territory.

On the 19th, the gale in Guangzhou caused a disaster, and many people were injured and killed.

On October 26, former Japanese Prime Minister Hirobumi Ito was assassinated.

On the 30th, Sun Yat-sen went to the United States from London to raise funds.

This month, China took its first step toward democracy: the first regular meeting of the provincial consultative bureaus.

On November 13, 19 people, including Liu Yazi, Chen Quzhi, and Gao Xu, founded Nanshe in Suzhou Tiger Hill.

On the 19th, the "Minhu Daily" was closed after only 48 days of publication, causing a sensation in Shanghai.

In December, under the pressure of the people of Shandong, the governor of Shandong redeemed the mining rights of Shandong Minmetals at a price of 340,000 taels of silver.

This month, representatives of the 16 provincial advisory bureaus gathered in Shanghai and decided to go to Beijing to petition on the 30th.

This year, Hubei Province was flooded, and the disaster area covered more than 30 counties, with nearly 3 million people.

This year, the "Shanghai Daily Association" was established.

This year, Huo Yuanjia founded the Jingwu Gymnastics School in Shanghai.