Chapter 121: Thunder Night
The night slowly darkened, and the night was destined to bleed.
At 7:30 a.m., some enthusiastic young people were still cheering for their support team on the streets, but most of the people who had been tormented by the chaos for a day returned to their homes exhausted, and the whole city was in a brief silence.
Whether it is those who support Sun Wen or Yuan Shikai, or those who vent their emotions out of dissatisfaction with the current social chaos, they have to eat, and smoke rises in the city of Beijing.
After eating, some people plan to go out for a while, and some people plan to rest at home, depending on their mood and whether they have free time at home. None of them expected that at this time, the commander of the Chinese Navy, Sa Zhenbing, who was supposed to be in Qingdao, quietly entered the city of Beijing with his 8,000 soldiers.
Along the way, Sa Zhenbing blocked the information channels for the troops to contact the outside world, stipulating that all soldiers were not allowed to leak numbers, buy newspapers, and communicate with people they met, which made the hearts of the navy soldiers a little busy, and many people did not know what was going on in Lu Dao, why they wanted to leave the fleet, and why did they want to come to Beijing?
Luo Nailiang wanted to ask clearly, he found Sa Zhenbing several times and asked what the goal of this military operation was, but Sa Zhenbing never gave him an answer. When they arrived in Beijing City, Lao Yuan personally came out to greet them, Luo Nailiang stopped asking.
In our traditional Chinese concept, being a soldier is to protect the family and defend the country. And Yuan Shikai's biggest advantage over Sun Wen is that he is the president, and to a certain extent, Lao Yuan represents China. Yuan Shikai said that there is now a group of rebels in Beijing who want to launch a coup d'Γ©tat and overthrow the Chinese regime, and Yuan Shikai said that the army in Beijing is now in some chaos and can only rely on naval soldiers to quell the rebellion.
Lao Yuan was born in the army, and he knew that these soldiers must have doubts in their hearts now, but it didn't matter. As long as they follow their orders, as long as they do what they command when the first bullet is fired. They'll follow them all the way.
We should pay attention to one word: "Quick!" β
As soon as the navy entered the city, it joined the armed police force, and at eight o'clock, Lao Yuan quickly completed the siege of the prime minister's cabinet office building, and cut off the roads from the various streets approaching it. Martial law was imposed on a number of important streets, and places such as stations, newspapers and radio stations, schools, and squares were controlled.
Then, gunshots rang out. The Prime Minister's Cabinet Office building is on fire!
The people of Beijing only reacted at this time, and the conflict finally happened! Mr. Sun Wen has always believed that he is righteous, and he believes that if Lao Yuan dares to do it. Many people in the city of Beijing will come to support him, just as his own team is always larger than Yuan Shikai's during the march.
However, the development of the matter was beyond Mr. Sun's expectations, the gunshots rang out, and there were more than 10,000 enthusiastic young men and militiamen guarding here during the day. A lot of people obediently stayed at home and didn't come out again.
The troops were progressing very smoothly and did not encounter any effective resistance except for the Prime Minister's Cabinet building. Mr. Sun Wen was really caught off guard, and Yuan Shikai quickly broke through their first line of defense.
Standing at the window now, Sun Wen could already see that the gunfire on the street in front of him was getting closer and closer to him. His footsteps walked back and forth in the room: "Yuan Shikai, bastard! How dare you shoot! Star Terrace, we should take action now! Power up. Send a telegram to let the people of the whole country know about Yuan Shikai's perverse behavior! β
Chen Tianhua glanced at him: "I think the most important thing you should consider now is to accept Yuan Shikai's conditions immediately!" β
Sun Wen was stunned, and Yuan Shikai told them in the afternoon that the condition for stopping the conflict was to dissolve the new party. After the dissolution of the New Party, Lao Yuan said that he would consider restoring the powers of the prime minister's cabinet. But Sun Wen couldn't accept this condition at all, and slowly took two steps back. He was a little surprised by Chen Tianhua's remarks, so that he now compromised with Yuan Shikai? This is unacceptable.
"How can you say such a thing? Is that prime minister important to you? β
Chen Tianhua stood up suddenly: "I don't want to see the hot-blooded young people who support us outside drain their blood!" Yixian, you can't fight Yuan Shikai! β
Chen Tianhua slowed down his tone a little: "I said that I would accompany you to hold on to the last moment." But this is the last moment when Yuan Shikai makes a move, don't have an armed conflict with him, they have been in Beiyang for decades, he is the president, we can't use the strength that has just developed to collide with him. β
Sun Wen didn't think for long, he shook his head lightly: "No! We have a chance, Wu Zhaolin's troops are just outside the city of Beijing, maybe he is entering the city now. Even if he doesn't participate, as long as we can hold on until tomorrow morning, people in the whole world will know what Yuan Shikai did! We'll get your back! Xingtai, you have to believe that your career is righteous, and you must believe that she will succeed. β
Chen Tianhua knew that he couldn't convince Sun Wen in the end, and he finally understood why Yang Xiaolin and Sun Wen couldn't be friends. Sun Wen believes in justice, while Yang Xiaolin believes in guns.
"Well, no matter what decision you make, I'll be with you."
Sun Wen had a smile on his face, and when he was about to say a few more words of encouragement, the door was slammed open by Huang Xing.
Huang Daxia's arm was injured, and half of his body was red with blood: "Yixian, hurry up, I can't stand it!" β
Sun Wen was a little incredulous: "For what? Doesn't that mean you can at least make it until tomorrow morning? β
Huang Xing gasped and said: "Lao Yuan is here with the army, we are facing a group of troops, not those city defenses!" When they attacked, they all advanced in formation, and the city defense could not fight such a formation. β
Chen Tianhua on the side really didn't know what to say, Lao Yuan was at least right about one thing, Huang Xing was really not suitable for war. was beaten like this only to find out that they were the army, as if the queen mother realized it.
"What troops?"
'I don't know! β
The corners of Sun Wen's lips moved a few times, and he took out the phone on the table and shook it vigorously, but there was no reaction. The telephone bureau has been controlled by Yuan Shikai, and he will not let Sun Wen have any chance of contact with the outside world.
Chen Tianhua walked up again: "Actually, it doesn't matter where this unit comes from, what matters is that they intervened in the battle. If it is Wu Zhaolin's people, then we don't have the slightest hope, even if not, they dare to come, it means that they are not afraid of Wu Zhaolin bringing troops in. Yat-sen, hurry up. β
Sun Wen's expression was very annoyed: "Where to go?" Shall we go out now? β
Huang Xing had a resolute expression on his face: "I'll open a way for you to kill, run to Dongjiaomin Lane, Yixian, there may be protection for us." β
Are those foreigners still willing to protect themselves? Sun Wen really wasn't sure. But as Huang Xing said, this is his only chance.
I really didn't expect that I would lose so quickly.
The northern suburbs of Beijing.
The gunshots in the city have reached the barracks, but the troops of the Fourth Front Army stationed here have no signs of going out, the gate of the barracks is heavily guarded, the command room inside is brightly lit, and Duan Zhigui, the general of Beiyang, is discussing with a group of brothers how to cooperate with Yuan Shikai's actions in the city.
The Beiyang Army did not account for much of the Fourth Front Army, but Lao Yuan made it clear that Duan Zhigui's task was to stop Wu Zhaolin, at least not to let Wu Zhaolin enter Beijing City until things were done tomorrow morning.
The gunfire in the city became more and more intense, and Duan Zhigui looked at the phone in front of him, but it hadn't gone off until now, which really made him a little strange. Wu Zhaolin should have given the order, he even thought of the wording of such a shirk, waiting to say it.
The expressions on the faces of the dozen or so officers at a table were also the same as Duan Zhigui's, confused and nervous. They knew that this was a gamble, betting on the fate of Beiyang and their own fate.
At this time, there was a sudden movement outside, a group of heavily armed soldiers under the command of a black-faced man swooped towards the door of the barracks, the soldier in charge of the guard just picked up the gun, the big man took out a pistol and shot it into the sky: "Don't move!" I don't want to see my brother's blood, you give me honesty! β
The soldiers were stunned to find that many troops were surrounding their side, and indeed as the black-faced man said, these were their brothers who had fought side by side before! For a while, they really didn't know whether they should shoot or not.
Xiong Bingkun didn't talk to them at length, and when these people didn't know what to do, he led people straight to the command room. The door was kicked down with a thud, and the window glass shattered to the ground.
A strong machine gun was set up on the window, and the muzzle of the black hole was aimed at the dozen or so Beiyang officers sitting inside, and more than 30 soldiers rushed in and disarmed Duan Zhigui and the others in the room.
Duan Zhigui was stunned for a moment: "Senior Master Xiong, what are you doing here?" β
Xiong Bingkun smiled: "I'm sorry Lao Duan, you didn't do a good job, Commander Wu invited you to go to the headquarters to taste tea, let's go!" β
Duan Zhigui slowly stood up, and when he wanted to say something more, Xiong Bingkun didn't give him a chance to speak: "Brother is a little sharp, do you want your brother to hurt your feelings?" β
More than a dozen generals of the Beiyang Army slowly stood up.
At eleven o'clock in the evening, the gunfire in the city of Beijing gradually weakened. Everything went very smoothly, and even so smoothly that Yuan Shikai felt a little surprised. He originally thought that he would fight until two or three o'clock in the morning of the second day, but now that the Prime Minister's Cabinet Building has been captured, the troops have begun to clean up the scattered scattered armed forces, and Yuan Keding is arresting people according to Lao Yuan's list.
Before they started, they surrounded this place to death, so those who were named fell into their hands one by one, but what made Lao Yuan not very satisfied was that Sun Wen and Chen Tianhua and a few important people actually ran away and ran into Dongjiaomin Lane.
For this reason, he was very angry, and he also smoked Yuan Keding two sticks. Yuan Keding was also very aggrieved about this, if it wasn't for Yuan Shikai saying that he had to live, how could he let Sun Wen run away? (To be continued......)