Han Ce followed Huang Xing from Japan to Hong Kong on July 1. This was his first visit to Hong Kong, but he could not appreciate this city under British rule, so he could only hide in a small hotel that party member Deng Ziyu had found for them and wait for news.

Huang Xing wanted to go to Guangdong to save the defeated uprising, and brought two assistants, one of whom was Han Ce, who was extremely interested in military work. After several long talks with Huang Xing in Japan, Huang Xing was deeply impressed by Han Ce's calm mind and Zhuoyuan's insight, and this time he sneaked back to China to command the uprising, and first named Han Ce.

Someone will come to meet them on board today. Along with them, there were also a hundred and ten rifles, ten pistols, and thousands of rounds of ammunition. These weapons, all purchased from Nanyang, were the first to be shipped into Guangdong, and it is said that more firearms will arrive later.

They will cross the Qiongzhou Strait by water and go ashore in the area of Guli Village, the capital of Lianzhou (present-day Beihai, Guangzhou), where someone will answer them.

Han Ce's task was to inspect the quality of the weapons and be responsible for escorting them. Also undertaking the escort task were two comrades from Nanyang.

In Han Ce's view, this is to die. The uprising was facing encirclement and suppression by the Qing army, and perhaps like Huanggang in eastern Guangdong, the uprising failed before the headquarters of the League could make arrangements for support. In this case, it is difficult to guarantee the agreed time, and Huang Xing asked Huang Xing, who said that if there is a change in the plan, it will be a matter of improvisation.

Han Ce thought that the people of the League were more than enthusiastic and not enough hardworking. In particular, planning a job is simply childish and ridiculous, full of loopholes.

When Han Ce was trained in the Mengshan Military Intelligence Department, he especially learned how to formulate a backup plan. An important plan. There must be two, three, or even more sets of spare plans to support it. Otherwise, it is doomed. Every link of the plan must be carefully scrutinized, and we must be prepared to respond to changes in the objective situation. A solo operation (such as a joint) requires such rigor and care, let alone escorting a shipload of munitions. How can you prevaricate with improvisation? Han Ce looked down on Huang Xing, who was famous for a while, and felt that the alliance was too lacking in practical experience.

Now the Fifth Town has been ordered to go south. This confirmed news further pronounced the death sentence of the Chin and Lian uprisings.

But Huang Xing said to Han Ce, "Now the situation in Guangdong is very good, and the people are extremely disgusted with the Qing Dynasty, just like being covered with dry firewood, and only a little fire can ignite a raging fire, so that the Tartars can take care of one thing and lose the other." The prime minister has heard of Guangdong's move and is rushing back. We must seize this opportunity. turned Guangdong upside down.

Did Huang Xing not know that the main force of the Mengshan Army had already moved south to Guangdong, or did he simply ignore this armed force that looked at the country? Han Ce was stunned by Huang Xing's blindly optimistic attitude.

In fact, in Han Ce's view, even if the fifth town does not enter Guangdong. The uprising is over. The uprisings of Guishan and Boro have failed. Huang Gang also lost news. Huang Xing's hopes were placed on another rebel army in western Guangdong, which set off an even more powerful uprising in Qinzhou and Lianzhou. The leader, Wang Heshun, played the title of "Governor of the Southern Army of the Chinese Revolutionary Army" and occupied Lianzhou for a time. Shaking overseas, the Japanese government and the opposition spread rumors of erosion in the two provinces, which made Huang Xing, who presided over the affairs of the headquarters of the League, realize that he had to take command himself.

When he arrived in Hong Kong, the news did rise, Deng Ziyu told Huang Xing that the Qing army had mobilized troops and horses to rush to Lianzhou, and the rebels withdrew from Lianzhou, but they were still fighting, and Wang Heshun had no latest news, but it was certain that the team did not disband on its own like the Boluo rebels. But there was bad news that was confirmed, the whole army of the fifth town of the Qing army, which suppressed the great uprising in Hunan and Jiangxi, went south, and the forward troops entered Guangdong from Yizhang, Hunan, and at this time it should be Lechang in northern Guangdong. Obviously, this extremely vicious Qing army came to revolt in western Guangdong.

This was the second time Han Ce heard the news of the Mengshan Army after he was ordered to return to Japan and infiltrate the headquarters of the Alliance.

When Han Ce returned to Japan, he met with Hu Hanmin, Sun Wen's senior assistant, and reported on the activities organized by the Shandong League, and Hu Hanmin was very satisfied. Han Ce said that the reason why he left Shandong and came to Japan was because he was ordered by Xu Jingxin to study military affairs. Hu Hanmin had no doubt about this, and said to him, it's good to come back, there is a shortage of determined comrades like you here. However, it is not necessary to study military affairs specifically, and we do not have the time. The premier (referring to Sun Wen) already has a big plan and is ready to launch a large-scale armed uprising in Liangguang, and the situation in Liangguang is much better than that in Shandong, so you can stay and work at the headquarters.

Han Ce naturally complied. His mission is to break into the upper echelons of the League, and it seems that this task is not difficult at all. From this, he got to know more giants of the Alliance, but unfortunately, he never met Mr. Sun, he was always outside, Nanyang, Europe, the United States, even if he returned to Japan, he was in a hurry to discuss with the senior leaders, and left in a few days.

However, a Cantonese named Xu Chongzhi, who graduated from the Japanese Lu Shi, came to Han Ce and asked about the situation of the Qing army in Shandong, and asked very carefully about the equipment training of the fifth town.

Han Ce restarted his "hidden" career. No one came to contact him, and he didn't need to pass on the information back to Shandong. Before leaving, Section Chief Li Sancai gave him the task of hiding for a long time, concentrating on working for the Alliance, without any worries, even if the actions of the Alliance would cause harm to the Mengshan Army, all you have to do is to convince them that you are a firm and reliable backbone.

This kind of lurking in the intelligence department has a term called "sleep", when to wake up is a matter of the organization, "sleeping" spies are relatively simple, you can forget your real identity and integrate yourself into the enemy camp. In Han Ce's opinion, the people of the Alliance lack professional training and are too gullible to trust people. Thinking of the training he received in the secret school under the name of the Martial Arts Academy attached to the Intelligence Department, Han Ce looked down on the Alliance a little, feeling that these people were more than enthusiastic and seriously lacking in methods. For the vital counter-espionage work, there is almost a blank slate. Han Ce even suspected that the top level of the Alliance had already had spies from the Intelligence Department.

Han Ce found that the Alliance was actually divided into two major factions, with Huang Xing, Song Jiaoren, and Liu Kuiyi paying more attention to the two lakes and the area, because they were all from Huaxing and were all from Hunan. Hu Hanmin, Wang Zhaoming, and others paid attention to the two Guangzhou. Because they are Cantonese, they have a closer relationship with Sun Wen. As for the following, the personnel are relatively scattered, and there are no plans worth mentioning, and the contact with the country is also intermittent.

Soon, he received news of the riots in Shandong. The news was told to him by Hu Hanmin, saying that a strike broke out against the imperial court in Jinan, which was initiated by Xu Jingxin, but unfortunately the strike quickly subsided and did not cause a greater impact. Xu Jingxin and Liu Fenze were thus exposed. was publicly killed by the Qing court, without going through the judicial process, let alone waiting for the approval of the Qing court's criminal department, and after verifying his identity, he was taken to the downtown area and publicly beheaded.

Xu Jingxin is said to have been tortured before his death. The clamp broke the legs. He was dragged to the execution ground.

Hu Hanmin was clearly not interested in the changes in Shandong. Speaking of Shandong, he was very calm, without any sad look, and did not track down Han Ce. Xu Jingxin and Liu Fenze died. I'll be completely safe, unless the Intelligence Service abandons me.

But for Han Ce, they were two living people, his friends. Although they are not in the same camp as them. Han Ce has always believed that although he and Xu Jingxin are not comrades, they are not enemies, and the real enemy of the Mengshan Army is the Qing Court and Beiyang, but not the Alliance. In a sense, the Alliance will still be comrades-in-arms.

During his short time in Jinan, he had a brief relationship with Xu and Liu, who lived in his home for a while, and he helped them to contact and work, and even discussed together countless times how to develop the organization and carry out propaganda.

But they died! Soon after they left Shandong, they were "dug up" and beheaded, and they were tortured. For what to torture them, of course, it is to dig deep into the organization of the Alliance. He didn't know if they had confessed themselves, but he knew that even if he confessed, it would not affect his family or his younger brother, who was an officer in the patrol army. Because the intelligence department will protect his family and younger brother. In Jinan, it is not the government that has the final say, but the fifth town, which is the Mengshan Army. Even if the fifth town moved south, Jinan was still under the control of the Mengshan army.

With the ability of the government, Xu Jingxin and them could not be found at all. The only one who caused them to be killed was the intelligence department where they worked, and it couldn't be anyone else! But why did the Intelligence Department throw them both out? Do you feel in danger, or do you think they have no value at all? The brutal side of intelligence work is finally revealed, it is one thing for instructors to educate, and quite another when a living friend dies in an intelligence struggle. If there is no one, Xu Jingxin and Liu Fenze should still be alive, right? Every time he thought of this, Han Ce felt a heartache!

"Sir, I think that after the Fifth Town enters Guangdong, there is no hope for the success of the uprising in western Guangdong, and the uprising should be terminated in time and the backbone should be protected to avoid unnecessary sacrifices." Finally couldn't help it, Han Ce said his suggestion to Huang Xing.

"End the uprising?" Huang Xing was studying an English version of a map of Guangdong, and within the League, Huang Xing was known as a soldier, "Because this fifth town that suppressed the Hunan and Jiangxi uprisings entered Guangdong? ”

"Yes, the Fifth Town is really the elite of the imperial court, compared to them who have been trained and well-equipped for a long time, the righteous army is too far behind in terms of numbers and equipment training." Han Ce heard that Wang Heshun's strength was only a few hundred, and the guns and ammunition were even less pitiful

"Han Ce! You have to remember that if you want to wait until the conditions are met, it will be impossible to do anything in ten or twenty years! Moreover, the Tartars will not give us time! If we take into account the strength of our opponents, all the rebellions in history will not occur. Huang Xing did not tell Han Ce the whole situation, that is, the Zhao Sheng Department of the Guangdong Qing Army, which was being transferred to Qinzhou and Lianzhou, had always been inclined to revolution, and it was possible that it would be anyway. Another favorable situation is that the "Ten Thousand People's Association" led by a person named Liu Siyu has already made contact, and this force is said to be very strong, and with their participation, Wang Heshun's move is even more promising.

"However, the Hunan and Jiangxi uprisings are enough to prove that when the Qing court uses the main force of its new army, we should avoid its edge...... Han Ce really doesn't want to see the revolutionary party shed blood.

"Just to avenge Liu Daoyi. Daoyi's sacrifice made the prime minister grieved very much...... "Huang Xing closed the map, "The fifth town is far away from the tired soldiers, and it is a hot summer, the northerners come to the south, the water and soil are not adapted, and the sickness is more and more, just like Cao Cao encountered the red cliff ......"

Can this be compared? The fifth town is the Cao army before the Battle of Chibi, and the revolutionary party can compare to the well-trained Wu army, which occupies a favorable location? I'm afraid that even Liu Bei's remnants can't compare, right?

Han Ce secretly complained. But now, from any side, there is no way back.

Deng Ziyu, who was using business as a cover, came on time, and reported that Huang Xing said that the weapon had arrived, and it was on the ship, and the ship was a Malayan merchant ship, and the inspection of the goods needed to be inspected on the ship.

That night, they got on the boat, and by the dim lantern, Han Ce opened a box and carefully inspected the batch of rifles, Japanese-style, not new, but obviously maintained and buttered to prevent rust.

"Don't look at it, the gun is fine." The boat boss said in Cantonese.

"Alright, let's go. Go to Yuexi and him hard! Huang Xing waved his hand vigorously and motioned to start the boat. (To be continued......)