Wang Yaqiao and his entourage set off from Prince Qing's Mansion and took the carriage of Prince Qing's Mansion. At this time, although Beijing had a curfew rule, it was mainly aimed at the common people, and it seems that the powerful have never been subject to this restriction.

As for the patrol officers patrolling the streets at night, firstly, the carriages of the palace did not dare to stop, and secondly, most of the officers who led the team were secretly stuffed with benefits, and everyone was happy to turn a blind eye.

Yixuan was still in a coma, and Zai Zhen was also very cooperative, not daring to move indiscriminately, let alone shouting for help.

In this way, several carriages swayed all the way to Chaoyangmen.

In fact, the erosion of the Beiyang Army did not begin after Yuan Shikai's death, but began to rot after Yuan Shikai forced the Qing Emperor to abdicate. The so-called righteous name, most of the officers in the six towns of Beiyang are intellectuals, even if they are not talented, they are 100% children, and there is basically no illiterate. The so-called intellectuals in this era did not receive any kind of red revolutionary education, but feudal etiquette, and Yuan Shikai's practice of forcing the Qing emperor to abdicate the throne was committed in the minds of these people who were full of famous religion and righteousness. Therefore, the officers have a lot of opinions about Lao Yuan, and the reason why they did not openly oppose it, but it is not how firmly Lao Yuan's military power is grasped, but that everyone can't find a second choice, looking at the world, except for Lao Yuan, there is really no one to follow, and the big guy can't follow Sun Cannon, right? And so the days were about to pass.

But the problem has not been solved, and it is still where it is, and it erupts from time to time. For example, this is the case of the Beijing Mutiny mentioned before, if it weren't for Lu Jianzhang's impatience, it is estimated that that that night, the first person to be unlucky was Yuan Shikai. History textbooks say that Yuan Shikai instructed Cao Kun to launch a mutiny, which completely ignores the most basic fact, Cao Kun still has some control over the Third Town of Beiyang, which has not received military salaries for half a year. Historically, Cao Kun was often mutinied, and once his subordinates used artillery to directly bombard his marshal's mansion, but fortunately Cao Kun went to the thatched house, and it was his aunt and wife who were killed. Of course, a mutiny in Zuihou directly led to the collapse of the direct line, and this famous mutiny was personally launched by our Comrade Feng Yuxiang.

And a recent example is that Feng Guozhang sat in Nanjing to form a de facto separation, and he relied on what he relied on, relying on the extreme dissatisfaction of middle- and lower-level officers with Lao Yuan.

In Beijing, many of the soldiers in Lao Liuzhen are still banner people, and these people can be called the backbone of the anti-Yuan Liliang. It's a pity that the bannermen at this time have long become scattered, and due to the lack of political status and future guarantees, the larger and larger bannermen began to seek to get out of the Beiyang Army, which is also a reason for Yuan Shikai to train the Five Towns Army.

Coincidentally, there were a total of twenty soldiers in the platoon responsible for guarding Chaoyang Gate that night, and all of them were banner men. These twenty men have been planning to leave the team for a long time.

"Second Brother Tie, I heard that the left team ran three more flag men yesterday?" A younger flag man said in the cave of the city gate.

The man who was the second brother of Tie was very tall, he glanced at the trainee officer standing dozens of meters away, and after confirming that the other party didn't hear it, he said: "Be quiet, if you are heard, you kid will have to eat a stick." ”

After a while, Second Brother Tie said again: "Can you not run?" There are old and young people in the family, and now our flag people are not as good as the Qing Dynasty, and our flag people are given priority to promote what they are, but now they are suppressed everywhere, just our first town, how long has it been since we promoted flag man officers. Not to mention that there is no future, our salary is still in arrears. Although it is said that the government of the Republic of China is in financial difficulties, but other troops are still giving out three or four percent, our first town is because there are many flag people, not even a big son, and you see no, this deserter has not been chased, no one has been arrested. ”

"I found out a long time ago, isn't the Gui Wu who escaped from the front team living in Zhuangzi on the outskirts of Beijing? Who went to arrest him? They wish we had escaped, not only did they not have to pay back their salaries, but they also saved their severance expenses. The other short man pointed out the essence of the problem straightforwardly, and it was such a piece of.

Second Brother Tie nodded very approvingly: "Brothers, brother, I took over a deal for you today, and it was done, fifty yuan per person, and it will be dawn for us to hand over the post today, and this bullshit barracks Lao Tzu will not return." Immediately go out of the city, divide the ocean money, take off this bullshit, and go home to live your own life. ”

The others didn't want to think about it: "Cheng, let's all listen to Second Brother Tie, this dogskin brother doesn't want to approve it for a long time, Second Brother Tie, what do you say?" ”

Second Brother Tie was a little proud and angry, he coughed and said: "I have a distant relative who is listening to an errand in Qingwangfu, tonight, the prince has something to hit our Chaoyang Gate, when the time comes, we just need to open the door, and then pretend that we didn't hear anything, we didn't see anything, and fifty oceans will start......"

The crowd applauded in a low voice, but the short man from before raised a question: "We twenty brothers are good to say, we have all been eating in the same pot all these years." But what about the midshipman? The platoon commander went out to eat and drink tonight, and he was the one in charge. If he refuses to open this Chaoyang Gate, we can't kill anyone, if he really kills someone, then this matter will be different......"

Second Brother Tie immediately frowned and glanced at the trainee officer standing outside the city gate, and felt annoyed......

The handsome and upright midshipman officer was none other than Wang Zhenyu's fourth brother, Wang Zhenbang.

The graduation time of the first phase of Baoding is November of the third year of the Republic of China, but in February, all the first phase of the students will go to the army to practice and lead the soldiers. In fact, the biggest difference between the Baoding Military Academy and the later Whampoa Military Academy is that they do not include distribution. In other words, they are only responsible for cultivating military talents, and are not responsible for the fate of these trained military talents.

This is also a portrayal of the serious bureaucratic phenomenon of the Beiyang government, which is also an inevitable phenomenon of the bureaucratic system developing to its peak, no longer paying attention to the absorption of talents, and all work can be turned into an important project of power rent-seeking and a source of extra money for officials. You have to pay for everything, you pay for your own study, you pay for a place by yourself, and you don't have to talk about it if you don't have money anyway. The officers trained under this model are basically only allowed to follow the old path, after all, there is still a return on investment.

Wang Zhenpeng is now facing this problem, graduation is imminent, but his destination has not been decided. According to the principle of going back and forth from where he went, Wang Zhenpeng naturally wanted to return to Hunan, but the Hunan army had been dismantled on a large scale before and after the Second Revolution, and now there are tens of thousands of officers waiting to be resettled.

As for Xiangxi, the third brother Wang Zhenyu has been in Beijing for more than two months, except for when Wang Zhenyu went to the Baoding Military Academy, the two brothers met once, and the two never saw each other again. In the final analysis, Wang Zhenpeng is still not convinced by the third brother in his bones, in his memory, the third brother in his childhood is the one who can't do anything, he doesn't talk about his studies, and he always suffers when he fights. Zuihou had no choice, so he sent Wang Longzhong to do an errand, but it turned out to be a success. This put a lot of pressure on Wang Zhenpeng, who was only more than a year younger than Wang Zhenyu, and he vaguely felt that no matter how hard he tried, he might not be able to surpass his third brother. So over time, in his subconscious, he had a rejection of Wang Zhenyu, so he never went to see his third brother, always thinking that he would go better than him.

The life of the apprenticeship is very boring, especially when it is assigned to the original first town of Beiyang, and the current apprenticeship of the Gong Guard, which is completely boring to the extreme. The whole army is in a state of demoralization and demoralization, and this situation has been going on for a long time. Li Jincai, the commander of the Gong Guard, seemed to ignore this, and whenever there was a vacancy, he would fill it with the men and horses of his hometown in Xuzhou, especially the officers. Wang Zhenpeng knew that it was impossible for him to serve as an officer in this unit, so he fell into deep thought again.

At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves and the ensemble of wheels squeezing the gravel road woke Wang Zhenbang up, and he didn't notice the excited expressions of the twenty banner soldiers behind him. All he had in his mind was the curfew and the death order not to open the city at night, so he stretched out his right hand, five fingers pointing up, palm facing the direction of the oncoming car, and shouted: "Stop......"

Wang Yaqiao looked coldly at the very calm little officer more than ten meters away, that meticulous and businesslike appearance, if it weren't for Wang Zhenyu saying that there was no problem, Wang Yaqiao would definitely rush down and kill a bloody path with an axe, out of this door, the jihua of his own people would be done, how can you let him not be in a hurry? ……

The two groups of people stood under the Chaoyang Gate, and they both wanted to open the door, but in the middle of the two groups of people, a lonely figure stood there, and the Chaoyang Gate just couldn't be opened.

At this time, a carriage came along the corridor at the root of the city wall, and then it was no one else who jumped out of the car, it was Wang Chenhao, the adjutant of his third brother, whom he had seen last time, and the other party beckoned him to go over.

Wang Zhenbang hesitated for a moment, and said to Tie Er and the others behind him, who had already moved the killing machine: "You pay attention, no one is allowed to open the Chaoyang Gate without my order." ”

After speaking, Wang Zhenbang walked towards the carriage, took a closer look, and sure enough, it was his third brother: "Third brother, it's so late, what are you doing here at Chaoyangmen?" ”

Wang Zhenyu nodded with a smile: "Fourth, it's windy outside, get in the carriage and talk." ”

Wang Zhenpeng didn't want to have him, so he got into the carriage, but as soon as he sat down, he heard the surprised voice of Tie Er outside: "Open the door, hurry up, open the door......"

Wang Zhenpeng was surprised and immediately got up and wanted to get out of the car, but his head was on the canopy, and he was grabbed by his left wrist by the third brother Wang Zhenyu. Wang Zhenpeng said in a panic: "Third brother, this Chaoyang Gate can't be opened!" ”

Wang Zhenyu smiled and said, "Fourth, do you know how the third brother became this lieutenant general?" ”

When Wang Zhenpeng heard this, he was stunned. Wang Zhenyu shook it hard and said, "That's because your third brother and I opened a city gate at the right time......"