It has been almost half a month since Wang Zhaoming and the others entered Beijing, and they could not find any opportunity to carry out the assassination. It had been determined that Long Qian and his central civil and military officials were living in Xiyuan, and the tall walls, numerous sentry posts, and irregular patrols prevented them from infiltrating Xiyuan. Every night, the precautions in the West Garden seem to be tighter. Yu Peilun and Huang Fusheng's reconnaissance operation was interrogated by the patrol, but fortunately, Yu Peilun was in danger and did not show his horse's feet, confirming that they did not have any dangerous artifacts on them, and the patrol team released them.

In this case, it is difficult to find a secondary target.

They first lived in Shaanxi Lane, near the front door, and temporarily rented two houses, which were a courtyard house, but the south house had collapsed and was full of garbage. The main family lives in the main house, and they live in two west rooms, Yu Peilun and Huang Fusheng live in one, and Wang Zhaoming and Chen Bijun share one. The conditions were very poor, a plate of ondol, no decent furniture, or Huang Fusheng bought raw edge paper and re-pasted the window, so as to block the cold wind through the window at night.

Wang Zhaoming couldn't stand Chen Bijun's fiery request and decided to marry this woman who admired himself to the extreme. After thinking about it, what I did was a deed that fell off my head, and once I took action, my eight achievements in life were gone, so I didn't care what others thought of it? So I lived with Chen Bijun.

This alley is one of the famous Eight Hutongs, which Yu Peilun believes is the most well-informed place, although dirty. Wang Zhaoming was deeply surprised. Yu Peilun and Huang Fusheng dressed up as prostitutes and went out all day to investigate, while Wang Zhaoming and Chen Bijun stayed at home.

They did get a lot of news. Dynasty Dingge. Business in Bada Hutong seems unaffected, and the streets are bustling all day long, with fun-seekers from all over the country bringing all kinds of news: the dragon marshal from Shandong has entered Beijing; Feng Guozhang and Cao Kun became division commanders; Wang Shizhen, the dragon of Beiyang, switched to the new dynasty and became the mayor of Beijing; The imperial family in exile in Baoding is about to return to Beijing, but Long Dashuai insists on not giving the Empress Dowager a decent residence; Long Dashuai's soldiers actually cleaned up the garbage in Sijiu City; The Police Department sealed a teahouse in Dongsi, and the boss was beaten on the head and bled on charges of gathering a crowd to plot a rebellion; Zhang Dashuai, who was loyal to the imperial court, was arrested in Huai'an, and it is said that he was executed by the five horses of the Shandong soldiers, and the Shandong soldiers who defeated Zhang Dashuai had gone to Suzhou; Jiangning was broken by the Mengshan army, with rivers of blood flowing and tens of thousands of dead and wounded; Hangzhou surrendered to the Mengshan Army; The Kuomintang was defeated and retreated to Shanghai; Sun Cannon contacted Dongyang to avenge the imperial court. It is said that the mouth of Dagu is full of Oriental warships......

The people of Jingshi. Or the guest officials who came to Beijing seemed to be interested in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and even the rumors that Sun Wen wanted to borrow troops from the East to avenge the Qing dynasty could be made up, which was ridiculous. In addition to listening to the news brought back by Yu and Huang, Wang Zhaoming mainly studied the current news from the newspaper. After Beiyang was completely integrated by the Mengshan army. Shenzhou is no longer able to stop Long Qian's founding. The newspapers have been full of articles about Long Qian's idea of founding the country. Whether it is the neutral "Ta Kung Pao" or the "Beijing Daily" that is biased towards the Qing court. Or the Japanese-run "Shuntian Times" and the British-run "Times" did not hesitate to praise Long Qian's idea of founding the country, not to mention the "Shandong News", which had already run the newspaper in Beijing. Wang Zhaoming admitted that although Long Qian was born as a martial artist. But he is quite clever in playing politics, at least better than the Kuomintang. Now it seems that the KMT's hasty declaration of the founding of the People's Republic of China in Shanghai is a joke, and the gentleman overestimated the influence of the KMT, and without the backing of a gun, all doctrines are empty......

Chen Bijun persuaded Wang Zhaoming to abandon the operation several times. Although she has a fanaticism about politics that ordinary women don't have, she is a woman after all. After gaining the man you love, you can't help but have the idea of living a safe life with this handsome, talented, and morally noble man. How happy is that? The Kuomintang is doomed, eighty percent of those big people will go into exile overseas, she is not short of money, even if he doesn't do anything, she can support her family. Why bother with this headless business? People hide within the high walls and don't come out, even if you live here for a year or two years, isn't it a waste of time? And it's so dirty here, I can't stand it, every time I hear the laughter from the wall, Chen Bijun is disgusted.

Chen Bijun took a step-by-step approach, and finally persuaded Wang Zhaoming to move, saying that he would not live in this land of fireworks! Wang Zhaoming also had this intention, and saw a rent-seeking notice in the "Shuntian Times" and decided to move his residence to the West Fourth Area. The reason is that Xisi is closer to Xiyuan, so it's easier to start. He sent Yu Peilun to the courtyard of Xisi Toutiao, and the deposit was paid, and just when they decided to move, Yu Peilun inquired about the news that tomorrow, that is, October 24, Long Qian would go to Tongzhou to inspect the troops.

"Reliable information?" Wang Zhaoming became excited.

"Reliable. The man bragged about how good his brother was. You shouldn't be wrong. Yu Peilun said, "If you go to Tongzhou, there is a chance that you will go out of the city from Dongzhimen." I know the terrain well, so it's easy to get started. ”

"Tell me, what does that man's brother do?"

"His brother is a police officer, and he is in the Dongcheng substation. He said that the GIs of the Northern Army were going to return to Guanwai, presumably to confer medals. There's been a lot of news about this in the newspapers lately. ”

Wang Zhaoming decided to give it a go. In the face of Chen Bijun's bitter persuasion, he seemed determined, "Mr. sacrificed his life and forgot to die for more than ten years to overthrow the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but the success of the revolution was shamelessly usurped by Long Qian!" Now the life and death of the Republic of China is on the front line, and the great cause of Mr. Sr's life is in a situation of complete failure. I have to go in person tomorrow, and I can't do it here! ”

The implication is that Chen Bijun understands it. The beloved means that if it doesn't work, he will also count his heart as exhausted.

The next step is to plan the specific plan. The plan that Yu Peilun came up with was immediately approved by Wang Zhaoming: The target was estimated to be in a car, which had been confirmed by the military parade at the front door. Therefore, the method of shooting will not work, it must be used with bombs. There is a grocery market inside Dongzhimen, where people come and go, making it easy to hide. Hide the bomb in a trolley, wait for the target to appear, quickly turn on the fuse, and push the cart into the road. The bomb exploded. There will be chaos at the scene, and we will be able to escape.

That night, Yu Peilun and Huang Fusheng made a bomb out of materials that had already been prepared.

The next day, Huang Fusheng was ordered to buy a trolley and a large bag of cotton at a high price on Qianmen Street. Wang Zhaoming and Yu Peilun went to Dongzhimen to survey the terrain. Then they bought a set of old clothes on the spot, and tried to mix in the crowd as inconspicuous as possible. In the afternoon of the same day, they loaded the cotton-wrapped bombs into a trolley, waiting for the next day to be stabbed.

After preparing all this, Wang Zhaoming decided to go to only two people tomorrow, and he must go. And Yu Peilun and Huang Fusheng also competed to go. During this time, Wang Zhaoming had already noticed that Huang Fusheng was not so resolute. So he said to Huang Fusheng. You and Bijun don't go, and we will part ways to ensure safety. You take her back to Shanghai, if you're lucky enough not to die. Peiren and I then returned. If you are unfortunate enough to fall into the hands of thieves. Please report what happened to the Prime Minister as it is.

Chen Bijun resolutely refused. She threatened. Either act together or denounce it! As long as I shout here, your plan is over!

Wang Zhaoming knew that Chen Bijun was not cowardly. They won't tell the public. But this woman who loves herself deeply is really hysterical, if she doesn't agree to her, maybe she can really do something to denounce - not for Long Qian's safety, but for life and death with herself!

In desperation, Wang Zhaoming agreed to the woman's request: You are looking at the wind.

The information was very accurate, there was indeed a big man going out of the city that morning, a group of soldiers in yellow uniforms who rushed to appear at Dongzhimen, they quickly stood in two rows, from the city to the outside of the city, the city gate hole was covered with loaded sentry posts. A large number of police officers then arrived and moved the stalls that occupied part of the main road in the grocery market, without checking the goods and owners of each stall. It was agreed that Yu Peilun would carry out the assassination, and Yu Peilun, who had occupied the favorable terrain in advance, stood in front of his car and stared at the direction of the city.

About ten o'clock when a troop of cavalry drove by, and they did not stop, and rode out of the city gates. Wang Zhaoming, whose nervous palms were sweating, knew that it must be the guards at Long Qian's front station, and sure enough, two black cars appeared and drove straight towards the city gate. Dozens of cavalrymen were guarding the cars, and the cavalrymen were leaning on their rifles and looking warily at both sides.

Which one is sitting on Long Qian? It was too late for Wang Zhaoming to judge, Yu Peilun had already acted. He struggled to push out the trolley full of cotton! The trolley fell sideways on the road, the car came to an emergency stop, and a violent explosion followed.

It worked! Wang Zhaoming looked excitedly at the rising smoke. Completely ignoring the screaming and screaming crowd around them. He saw a horse fall to the ground and crush the rider under him, while a young officer got out of the car and shouted something.

At this time, Wang Zhaoming thought of running away! He didn't care about looking for Yu Peilun and Huang Fusheng and Chen Bijun who were standing on the other side of the road, so he ran west along the road, tripped over a black lacquer crockpot, got up and continued to run, but was blocked by several soldiers and policemen at the intersection, "Stand still, don't move!" ”

He was not alone, all the buyers and sellers in the grocery market were stopped by the military police who reacted quickly!

This terrain is actually very unfavorable for escape. As soon as the explosion sounded, the cavalry out of the city quickly turned back and blocked the crowd running out. The people inside the city gate ran to the city, and they had to cross a long east-west street to evacuate, and as soon as the explosion sounded, the follow-up guards immediately blocked the intersection.

Jiang Yun scanned the scene that had been cordoned off with a gloomy face. He knew that the Assassins were among them.

"Interrogate them separately in groups of ten." Jiang Yun, who was carrying a pistol, ordered. Dongzhimen already had troops from the 28th Brigade, and when an explosion sounded, the battalion commander on duty of the 83rd Regiment immediately brought the troops over and accepted Jiang Yun's command.

"Who pushed the cart out, let them identify each other. No one is allowed to be let go until the murderer is screened! Jiang Yun pointed to the people who were surrounded by the military and police and said, "I know that they are hiding inside, and it is a man in gray clothes, and it will not be wrong." Jiang Yun was in the car at the head of the car and vaguely saw the figure of the assassin.

The explosion resulted in serious injuries to a cavalry guard and minor injuries to the head guard car, and an innocent passer-by was killed.

Soon, under the identification of the masses, Yu Peilun was arrested.

Long Qian sat in the car, watching through the window a group of panicked people walking by. Finally, he saw a face, "Grab the man in the dark blue robe." He said to Shi Jipeng, who was guarding the car.

Shi Jipeng stepped forward and pulled out the pale-faced man, and the two guards quickly searched his body and shook his head, meaning that there was no weapon.

"Wang Zhaoming? Right? Long Qian said to the man who was dragged over, "Mr. Wang, I really can't think of it, no, I should think of it," Long Qian sneered, "You guys are just these tricks, what other tricks can you use?" ”

Wang Zhaoming couldn't figure out how Long Qian would know him, his heart was horizontal, staring at the longing face in the car window, "Yes, I am Wang Zhaoming!" You can hide today, I don't know how many righteous people are waiting for you behind......" Before he finished speaking, Shi Jipeng, who had a gloomy face, kicked Wang Zhaoming in the stomach and kicked him down.

"Bundle it up and take it away!" Shi Jipeng waved his hand to his subordinates

Originally, there was nothing wrong with Chen Bijun, but when this woman saw Wang Zhaoming arrested, she yelled, which led to the arrest of her and Huang Fusheng.

The Dongzhimen assassination incident was immediately revealed by the media. The incident aggravated the situation in the southeast. Qiu Jin's negotiations with the KMT center in Shanghai broke down immediately, and Wang Mingyuan's 3rd Division and Ye Yanbing's 18th Brigade, who had stayed outside Shanghai to watch the situation, advanced to Shanghai from the north and south. On October 27, after Sun Wen issued a declaration to fight the Mengshan Army to the end, he left Shanghai with Hu Hanmin, Chen Qimei and other backbones and fled to Japan. He did not listen to Chen Qimei's suggestion to hide in the concession first and wait and see the situation, perhaps thinking that the concession was not safe, or thinking that he had nothing to do in the country.

Huang Xing and the others did not leave.

After the Battle of Anqing, the military strength in the hands of the Kuomintang had been exhausted, and Wang Mingyuan and Ye Yanbing's march to Shanghai was basically a march. On October 29, the 8th Brigade of the 3rd Division of the Mengshan Army entered Shanghai, and the next day, the 18th Brigade of the 6th Division also entered Shanghai, and the southeast was pacified.

On October 30, the Military Commission issued the "Letter to the People of the Southeast", announcing the abolition of the government of the Republic of China and declaring that all patriots should unite and negotiate the establishment of the country.

On the same day, Lu Shan, commander of the Northern Army, led the headquarters of the 9th Division and the 25th Brigade to leave Beijing and return to the northeast along its way to the customs.

In the southwest, Lan Xinzhi's 2nd Division has moved north into Sichuan. After Feng Guozhu took office as commander of the Northwest Military Region, he stayed in Beijing for only three days, and then left Beijing for Xi'an. Prior to this, according to the order of the headquarters, Wu Nian had led the 7th Division to the west of Qinzhou (today's Shuishi) in advance.

The troops of the 1st Division, which had withdrawn from the southeastern battlefield, were led by the new division commander Du Sanli, returned to Wuchang by water, and then went north by train in batches, aiming at Xi'an. This main division, which was reorganized from the Fifth Town and the Ninth Association and has the most "pure" bloodline of the Mengshan Army, will advance westward into Xinjiang after a short period of reorganization in Xi'an, completing the military occupation of the vast northwest. (To be continued......)