There were more and more revolutionary troops coming from outside the governor's yamen, and by this time it was almost impossible for Zhu Jiabao and them to leave.

Listening to the news from the soldiers, not only the people in the courtyard trembled, but even Zhu Jiabao's family hugged and cried, everything was like the end of the world.

"Forget it..."Zhilu Dao was no longer possible to rush out of the Dao, Zhu Jiabao sighed lightly. Just let me sit here and wait..."As a staunch royalist, Zhu Jiabao already had the determination to 'die out' at this time.

It's just that he has it, it doesn't mean that other people have it, not to mention the family members who are still crying and the people who are trembling, and even the eyes of the soldiers standing in the courtyard are flickering.

Although Zhu Jiabao treated them well in the past, now they also have to think about their own survival.

After a long time in the sea, Zhu Jiabao naturally saw it, but he just looked at those soldiers with wandering eyes, and other subordinates who had to stay in the courtyard because the revolutionary army outside could not rush out, but he didn't mean to be angry at all.

At this point, even anger is useless...

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Because of the presence of Bairun Mountain, almost all the patrol battalions responsible for blocking along the way were persuaded to surrender, and the remaining obstinate ones were also about to collapse in front of the revolutionary army.

There are many reasons why things will be so easy.

For example, when many provinces have been recovered, the patrol battalion with Han people as the main body is actually unwilling to die for the Qing government, and the history of desperately suppressing the uprising of the new army is only because of the long-standing contradictions between the two sides. The so-called people fight for a breath, and the Buddha fights for a pillar of incense, and they have long been displeasing to the eyes of the new army. Now that you have the opportunity, you should take advantage of it.

Now that it has been learned that it is not the New Army that is causing the incident, their will to fight has become weak.

As for the other reason, it is Yan Shao's name.

Yushi Group may still be a little unfamiliar in several other provinces, but at least in Anhui, it can be said that everyone knows about it, especially after a large number of gentry and celebrities cooperated with Yan Shao to establish nearly 20 parts manufacturing plants.

It is rumored outside that Yan Shao has endless money. How many benefits are there to follow such a boss, even if they don't need others to say it, they know it, not to mention that Yan Shao's reputation in Anhui has always been good...

At this time, coupled with the strong force of the 3000 revolutionary army. It is only natural that they will choose to take refuge.

Therefore, by the time Yan Shao arrived at the governor's yamen with the revolutionary army, even if he excluded the revolutionary army soldiers who went to seize the manufacturing plant and other important organs, he already had a huge army of more than 5,000 people beside him.

When more than 5,000 people surrounded the entire governor yamen in accordance with Yan Shao's order. It didn't even take anyone to persuade him to surrender, and there were already soldiers in charge of the guards who threw down their guns. Hold your head and come out of it and surrender.

"Send some people and take good care of these people..."Looking at the soldiers who had lost the will to resist, Yan Shao did not embarrass them, but just faced the Bairun Mountain Road on the side.

Even if he is just a defeated general, with his efforts along the way, he has been able to get a position by Yan Shao's side.

The soldiers of the patrol battalion who surrendered along the way are now almost all under the jurisdiction of Bairun Mountain—————— which is also a helpless thing, after all, there are more than 3,000 patrol battalion soldiers. If there is no one to manage them, it is easy to get confused.

However, now there are no suitable people under Yan Shao's hands, and Lu Wencheng is quite suitable. However, in Yan Shao's eyes, he was a dead man, and if he was given this opportunity, it would not be so easy to let him die. Now that Lu Wencheng has run away by himself, Yan Shao has no need to do it, but it is equivalent to losing a candidate.

As for others, such as Qin Zhen and others, they didn't have much contact with the patrol battalion in the past, and now these patrol battalions under their command are all from all over Anhui, and it is best to be a person who is familiar with them if they want to integrate them together, so this task fell on Bai Runshan's head.

"Don't worry, sir..."

Hearing Yan Shao's words, Bai Runshan said on the side, and by the way, he called a team of people out of the city to watch the soldiers who surrendered.

After the soldiers who abandoned their guns and surrendered were taken into custody, Yan Shao smiled and said to Elano and Fu Xiuming and the others. "Now, let's go in and meet the governor..."

Nodding, after waving his hand behind him, a group of soldiers soon rushed into the yamen and seized various positions.

After confirming that there was no danger in the yamen, an officer ran out.

"Let's go..."

When Yan Shao and the others walked into the courtyard, Zhu Jiabao, his family, and other officials from Anqing were standing in the center of the courtyard under the supervision of a large group of soldiers.

About a few minutes earlier, the soldiers had broken into Zhu Jiabao's compound and confiscated their guns from soldiers who had lost their will to resist.

Looking at these soldiers in unfamiliar black uniforms, not only Zhu Jiabao, but even other officials were puzzled, not understanding where these people came out of front of them when the new army was still outside the city.

It was at this time that he and the others heard a sound of footsteps.

When I looked at the entrance, I happened to see Yan Shao, Elano and others walking towards the courtyard.

"You are!" Seeing Yan Shao in a suit, Zhu Jiabao showed a shocked expression.

"It's been a long time, Lord Governor...", chuckling, Yan Shao beckoned to him.

However, facing Yan Shao with a smile on his face, Zhu Jiabao said in disbelief. "No, how could it be you!"

Not only him, but also other officials. Although they had made many conjectures, they never thought that it would be Yan Shao.

Seeing Zhu Jiabao and the others like this, the smile on Yan Shao's face was a little more. "Why am you not me? Have you forgotten? I have a lot of people..."

"But you have no reason..."

At least in Zhu Jiabao's opinion, Yan Shao is just a businessman, and there is no reason to do so.

And yet hear his words. Yan Shao shook his head with a smile. "Have you forgotten that I Yan returned to China for the sake of the four words 'industrial power', and it is precisely for these four words. Yan Mou has founded so many industries in Wuhu, if the imperial court was wiser, I may not be opposed, but whether it is the 'imperial cabinet' or the 'railway state-owned' is a first-class unprincipled move, so I understood early on that if the Manchu court was not overthrown, even if more industries were built, it would be useless. It's a matter of course that you'll do that..."

Saying that, Yan Shao looked at Zhu Jiabao. "Your Excellency, don't tell me that you don't have the slightest dissatisfaction with the court..."

Of course Zhu Jiabao has. After all, he is also a minister of the Han people, how could the court not make him feel cold when he does this. It's just that all he has accepted in his life is the idea of loyalty to the monarch, and he is even more desperate for the Qing court, even if he has any dissatisfaction, he will not say it.

So after shaking his head, Zhu Jiabao just said. "So far. It is useless to say more. If you want my head, just take it..."

Grinning, glancing at Zhu Jiabao's shriveled body, Yan Shao shook his head. "What do I want your head to do..."

Yan Shao really didn't have much interest in him, after all, he was different from Zhao Erfeng, Zhao Erfeng was the culprit of the 'Chengdu Bloody Case', so he had to die, what about him? At best, it's a dead-eyed old man. Even if you kill him, it's not much use.

Moreover, at this time, the revolution did not pay attention to the extermination of all people—————— except for the Manchurians.

For example, Li Jingxi, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, is the son of Li Hongzhang's third brother Li Hezhang. After the Chongjiu Uprising in Kunming, Yunnan, he was sent out of the country by Cai Yili.

Unless the other party is full, there is no need to make you live and die at this time.

"Find a room to keep them in custody first, and the rest will be talked about in the future, we have other things to do now..."

"Yes!"

After receiving the order, a soldier soon came out and walked to a courtyard under the instructions of several subordinates.

It was at this time that Zhu Jiabao discovered that even among the subordinates in the mansion, there were Yan Shao's people.

After Zhu Jiabao and the others were escorted away, Yan Shao looked at Li Liang and Fu Xiuming.

"Now, it's time to get down to business..."

"New Army?"

"That's right." Yan Shao nodded. "Although we have the advantage in terms of troops, the combat effectiveness of those new troops is also good, at least much stronger than the patrol battalion, and there are a lot of heavy weapons in our hands, even if we can win the fight, our losses will never be small, so we must deal with them as soon as possible..."

"It's easy...", looking down for a moment, Elainor, who had been standing aside, whispered. The most important thing now is to 'justify the name', the more than 2,000 new troops outside the city cannot all be members of the League, most of them are only because of their antipathy to the Manchus, so they will choose to stand with the League and other revolutionary parties, as long as we can set up a military government one step ahead like Hubei, then the righteousness is equivalent to our side. ”

After saying that, Elaline looked around at the people around her. "And we also belong to the revolutionaries, and the soldiers of the new army who have not joined the League have no reason to help them against us, so that the new army outside is not to be worried, and it is impossible for them to reach a unified opinion, after all...... There's one of us, too..."

"That's right." After listening to Elanon's words, Li Liang agreed. "The most important thing now is to establish a military government as soon as possible before the new army enters the city, as long as there is this righteousness, even if the people of the alliance are dissatisfied, there is nothing to be done without help..."

Now that a consensus has been reached, there is no need to say what needs to be done next.

At this time, it was only more than one hour before Yan Shao and their invasion of Anqing, and it was only less than half an hour before the new army outside the city noticed that something was wrong, so the telephone pole (for telegraphs) outside the city was not cut off, and the contact between Anqing and the outside world was not interrupted.

After understanding this, Yan Shao quickly sent people to the telegraph office to send telegrams to all parts of the country to announce the news of Anqing's recovery, and at the same time, Yan Shao also announced the establishment of the Anhui Military Government and took over the governor of Anhui.

Before sending people to the telegraph office, Yan Shao also asked Bai Runshan to send a battalion of men and horses to rush to the city gate to help the patrol battalion at the city gate to guard the city gate—————— before Yan Shao besieged the governor's yamen, the city gate patrol battalion had already taken refuge in Yan Shao with Bai Runshan's efforts.

And the first order Yan Shao gave them was to keep the people of the new army out of the city gate at all costs. They must not be let in. For the officers and men of the patrol battalion, this order was too intimate, and even when carrying it out, they went all out.

Although there are many new soldiers. There are heavy weapons, and the combat effectiveness is stronger than that of the patrol battalion, but after all, there is a city wall, and it is not easy to rush in without fighting for a day or two, and after having reinforcements from Bairun Mountain, this difficulty has increased by a few points.

At the same time, because of the relationship between being blocked out of the city, the new army at this time did not know that Yan Shao had announced the establishment of the Anhui military government in the city...

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"Brother Song Qing. Do you have any impression of this person named Yan Shao? On October 29, not long after Yan Shao announced the news of Anqing's recovery by telegram, the Hubei Military Governor's Office. It is also located in the original Consultative Bureau building. Huang Xing, who was already the commander-in-chief during the war, rubbed his aching head and asked Li Yuanhong next to him.

Although Huang Xing is a little stubborn, he is also a kind person, and his biggest characteristic is to take care of the overall situation. didn't despise Li Yuanhong, the governor, because he was pulled out from under the bed.

Not to mention after Huang Xing arrived in Wuchang. When Li Yuanhong saw Huang Xing's arrival, he welcomed him very much. He even ordered to make a big flag, with three big characters written on it, and sent people to hold the big flag, ride on horses, and run around Wuchang and Hankou where they were not captured by the Qing army, which naturally made the flattering Huang Xing extremely happy.

Li Yuanhong shook his head after thinking about it. "I seem to have heard this name somewhere, but I just can't remember it..."Li Yuanhong was also a little puzzled when he said it. Where did this Yan Shao come from?

At this time, Song Jiaoren did not instigate Huang Xing to be the governor of Hunan and Hubei in person, and his friendship with Li Yuanhong was acceptable. So Li Yuanhong asked. "At the beginning of the year, do you know the origin of Yan Shao?"

Song Jiaoren also thought about it carefully, and when he saw the message, he always felt that this name was very familiar. "But it's a businessman, it shouldn't be likely..."Thinking of this, Song Jiaoren shook his head again.

At this time, Jiang Yiwu, who was accompanying him, said. "Could it be that Yan Shao?"

Huang Xing and the three of them were stunned for a moment, and hurriedly asked. "Which Yan Shao?"

"It's the one who runs an industry in Anhui!" Unlike Huang Xing, Song Jiaoren and Li Yuanhong, Jiang Yiwu is the president of the Literary Society, and his main task is to engage in propaganda, so he is very concerned about the news in all aspects, although the main task of this Literary Society is only to cover the members of the Literary Society of the Wuhan New Army, but after hearing this name, Jiang Yiwu still remembered the person who caused a sensation some time ago.

"The merchant?" Song Jiaoren frowned, he also knew something about the 'Yushi Group', after all, it was the largest industrial group in the country. And in the past, Wuhu was also one of the largest fundraising areas in the country, and there were even a lot of things some time ago, all of which made him remember it vividly...

But...

"A businessman? Is it possible? ”

This is also the reason why Song Jiaoren did not dare to make a judgment, so that it is not that he despises businessmen, but that it is difficult for businessmen and industrialists to associate with such things as revolution.

"I don't know what to do, but it's called Yan Shao in Anhui, I can only think of such a one..."Jiang Yiwu shook his head with a wry smile, he also felt that it was really impossible for an industrialist to make a revolution, and it was a violent revolution.

"In any case, it is always a good thing that the ranks of the revolution are growing, but let's think about the war in front of us first." When talking about the war, the faces of everyone present sank.

At the same time, Yuan Shikai, who was far away in Beijing, also got the news of Anhui's independence, and he was also taken aback when he heard Yan Shao's name. Unlike Huang Xing, he still had a deep impression of the name Yan Shao, but it didn't take long for him to put this matter behind him.

For Yuan Shikai, the most important task now is to promote peace, not only to hurt the revolutionary party, but also not to beat them down, as for the rest, we must wait for this matter to be reached before consideration.

The Anhui New Army outside the city did not know that Yan Shao had established a military government, and was still trying to find a way to rush in. At this time, through telegraph, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Sichuan, Beijing...... Almost the whole country has already known about the restoration of Anqing, and because of the relationship between Yan Shao and Yushi Group, the impact of Anqing's recovery is far greater than that of other provinces...

In Nantong Dasheng's office, after listening to the report of his subordinates, Zhang Jian, who was standing by the window, became a little melancholy.

In the office of Lihe Foreign Company, Urgat frowned.

However, none of this has anything to do with the new army outside the city walls, there is no radio, no telegram, etc., even if the whole country has already known the news of Anqing's recovery, the new army with backward information is still trying to rush into the city.

It's just that there is a city wall as a barrier, and there are a lot of patrol battalions at the city gate, so the people who rushed the new army many times failed to rush in—————— there is no way, it is really not artillery.

At that time, the Anhui New Army had only one association, that is, more than 4,400 people, but there was only one artillery battalion in the entire mixed association. Because the artillery was not fully staffed, the whole battalion should have 18 guns, but only 6 were —————— this situation was very common at that time, unlike the Beiyang Army, the Southern New Army basically did not have heavy machine guns, and some did not have cavalry battalions. As of 1910, there were only 6 mountain guns in the 25th town of Guizhou and 18 mountain guns in the 24th town of Guangxi.

And the caliber of the artillery is also very small, mountain artillery, 75mm caliber, plus only 6 guns, very weak against the city wall ...

However, just when the new army outside the city became a little impatient, the soldiers of the patrol battalion on the city wall suddenly stopped the gunfire. Immediately after that, the soldiers of the new army who were preparing to rush outside the city saw the city gate opened, and out of it came some officers in black uniforms and a few people from the patrol battalion...

"What's going on?"

Seeing this scene, Wu Yanggu was slightly stunned, but soon a new army soldier ran over and said.

"They claim to be representatives of the Anhui junta and are here to negotiate..."

"What?!" (To be continued......)