Now let's turn our attention back to Hubei. No pop-up update fast //()

Li Yuanhong, the unlucky governor who didn't know that he was "relying on misfortune and fortune", saw Li Yidong sign the word "Li" on the notice for him, and all his strength seemed to be drained, and he was immediately paralyzed.

The revolutionaries did not care at all about Li Yuanhong's feelings, and happily took out the proclamation and pasted it. To tell the truth, the revolutionary party did not want Li Yuanhong to be appointed provisional governor because it wanted him to come out to preside over the overall situation and handle government affairs, but only to use his reputation to appease the people in the city and gather officers and soldiers who had fled in hiding. Seeing that Li Yuanhong was quite resistant to the revolution, everyone didn't bother to take the time to persuade him, and after sending him directly to the upper floor of the Advisory Bureau and sending people to guard him strictly, they went their separate ways.

Li Yuanhong sat silently in the room alone, looking depressed. Thinking that 24 hours ago, he was still in charge of more than 4,000 people, a mixed association commander, a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty, and a military and political dignitary of Hubei, who would have thought that after only one day, he would become a prisoner of the Qing Dynasty, a rebel of the Qing Dynasty, and a temporary governor of the revolutionary party? Now that we're done, what's next?

Suicide? He didn't dare.

From the reverse? He didn't want to.

It seems that only by escaping can there be a glimmer of life. But there are dozens of student troops guarding outside, and they don't know who Li Yuanhong is, let alone give themselves half of the face of the former co-commander and current temporary governor!

Just when Li Yuanhong was racking his brains, the heavens seemed to hear his bitter pleading, and gave him a chance to escape cleanly.

This was the first day after the victory of the Wuchang Uprising, and the situation in the city had not yet stabilized, and more than 300 Manchu soldiers of the 30th Standard of the 15th Association of the Eighth Town Infantry Army fled to Snake Mountain to hide.

Why are they hiding? Let's start with the origins of the revolution.

Since the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, the estrangement between the Manchus and the Han Dynasty has been a giant thorn in the heart of the ambitions of the dynasty, and it hurts from time to time. Although the emperors shouted "Manchu and Han family", in actual life, the Manchus enjoyed all kinds of privileges, and the court strictly guarded against the Han people, but everyone saw and heard it with their own eyes. Therefore, every time an uprising breaks out, the slogans are always indispensable in the slogans of "expelling the Tartars" and "opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty". As time passed, this gap did not fade, but grew.

Especially lately. The wave of nationalism swept across China, and under the operation of certain people with ulterior motives, books such as "Ten Diaries of Yangzhou", "Chronicles of the Massacre of the City of Jiading", and "Rumors on the River" depicting the massacre of Han Chinese by the Manchus in the early Qing Dynasty were widely disseminated in China, and young students were filled with righteous indignation after reading them. Just as the patriots are now angry and want to pacify Tokyo and kill all the Japanese slaves, they are also eager to cleanse the country of all the people.

It was from this point that Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary ideas were guided by the situation, and he used the enthusiasm of young people to propagate racism. () Whether it was the Xingzhong Society, which was established in 1894, or the League, which was established in 1905, the first two items of the program were "to drive out the Tatars and restore China." Only then did it turn to "establish a united government" or "establish the Republic of China", which fully shows that the revolution led by Sun Yat-sen was first a national revolution, and then it could be said to be a bourgeois-democratic revolution.

Perhaps Sun Yat-sen had his own difficulties, and the situation forced him to do so. Because he can't raise donations or solicit fellow party members without such radical slogans, he can't accomplish anything without donations and party members, and he can only continue to be a lame doctor. However, blindly preaching racism not only fails to integrate with the international community, but also cannot be distinguished from the previous discredited Heaven and Earth Society, the White Lotus Sect, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, so he relies on his understanding of the systems of European and American countries. A tail was added to "create a united government" and "establish a republic of China, equal land rights".

The group of revolutionaries who led the Wuchang Uprising did not know Sun Yat-sen's suffering, and their eyes were only firmly fixed on the four big characters of "driving out the Tartars". This can be seen from the "Proclamation of the Government of the Republic of China to Governor Li" drawn up by them, such as "It is only because of the dictatorship of foreign races that it is abandoned", "It is necessary to know that the current Manchurian government is not my Han'er", "The thief ate my flesh in the past, and I sleep on the skin of the other today", "The cause of recovering together, the period of the rise of the Han family", "The Shinong, the industrial and commercial people will definitely chase Hu'er together", everywhere revealing the racist atmosphere of the Manchu and Han people.

It is easy for Wuchang to recover, but how to get rid of the Tartars? Do you send them back to the north now, or do you arrest them and detain them later? At all costs. There are practical difficulties. Come to think of it, killing people is undoubtedly the simplest, most brutal and most effective method, and even a small number of anxious ordinary soldiers have begun to carry it out.

Fortunately, the Manchus in Hubei are mainly concentrated in Jingzhou, and there are not many in Wuchang. Among these few Manchus, they were mainly Jingzhou banner soldiers who were sent to the Hubei New Army for training in turn.

In the twentieth year of Kangxi (1681), after Xuanye pacified the three feudatories. Ordered to set up eight banners in Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Jingzhou and other places. In the twenty-second year of Kangxi (1683), the Manchurian Eight Banners and the Mongolian Eight Banners were officially dispatched to Jingzhou, Hubei, and the officers and soldiers were allowed to bring their families, with a total number of about 20,000 people, commonly known as the "Jingzhou Eight Banners". In the thirtieth year of Guangxu (1904), in order to improve the quality of the Eight Banner Soldiers, under the arrangement of the Governor of Huguang and the Jingzhou General, the Jingzhou Banner Soldiers were sent to the Hubei New Army in turn to receive new training. These bannermen were mainly concentrated in the 30th Standard of the 15th Association of the 8th Town Infantry Army, including two teams in the 1st Battalion, one team each in the 2nd and 3rd Battalions, and about one battalion of troops.

Before the Wuchang Uprising, rumors of "killing the full" had been widely circulated among the people. For this rumor, not only many Han people believe it, but also the Manchu people are convinced. Therefore, after the outbreak of the Wuchang Uprising, these Jingzhou banner soldiers saw that the situation was not right, and they were afraid of being slaughtered by the rebellious Han Chinese, so they quickly fled to Snake Mountain to hide.

On the afternoon of October 11, Gao Xiangchen, the 1st battalion of the 30th standard (similar to the battalion commander of later generations), found this group of people in Snake Mountain. He said with a solemn expression: "Ladies and gentlemen, I just saw a proclamation from the bandits on the street, and Li Yuanhong, the 21st Mixed Association Commander, was a dog thief who betrayed the imperial court and had become the temporary governor of the revolutionary party. They are now organizing people to search and kill the banner people, and the four major Manchu families in the city, whether they are women, children, or children, have been killed, and the corpses are piled up all over the streets, and the blood can reach the ankles! ”

Don't look at the fact that these Eight Banners are training in the new army, they have always enjoyed privileges, and they are no exception in the barracks, and they can't talk to other new troops at all. Besides, their commander is also a flag person, everyone is trying to eat for a mixed meal, why bother the flag people to make it difficult for the flag people? So, on eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling. This group of Jingzhou banner soldiers is the overlord; As soon as it comes to marching and fighting, they immediately turn into a puddle of slugs.

Now that they heard that the revolutionary army was coming to search and kill, this group of old soldiers suddenly weakened their hands and feet, their faces were colorless, and they cried and begged with tears: "Gao Guandao." Find us a way to live, we'll listen to you! Back in Jingzhou, the master will never treat you badly! ”

Gao Xiangchen is a strong general in the new army, very ambitious and smart, seeing that he has intimidated these soft-footed shrimps, he began to lure them again: "You are all gentlemen with handles, how can you wash your neck and let the chaotic party cut it?" We don't have burning sticks in our hands. It's a shot and a hole made in Hanyang! I had already reconnoitred before I came, Ruibutang (Ruizi) and Zhang Tongzhi (Zhang Biao) were preparing for a counteroffensive in Jiangbei with nearly 10,000 people, and the main forces of the rebels were also equipped at the city gates and along the river. The dog thief Li Yuanhong is now in the advisory bureau, and there are less than eighty students around who can't shoot, and they would never have imagined that we would give them a black tiger slap at this time! ”

As soon as they heard that they were going to go into battle to kill, the slugs who had just moved a little suddenly softened again.

Gao Xiangchen continued to agitate: "We have three or four hundred people, not only guns, but also mortars. Can't you beat eighty recruits who can't even shoot? As long as we succeed, the rebels will be leaderless. After Ruibutang and Zhang crossed the river, we were the heroes of the Qing Dynasty. It is not a problem to add officials to the knighthood and seal the wife and son! ”

The slugs said timidly: "Gao Guandao, we don't want to be added to the official rank, and we don't want to be crowned as a wife and son, we just want to go back to Jingzhou safely, it's really not good, it's okay to mix out of Wuchang City!" ”

"Yes, Gao Guandao, the soldiers are in danger, can we not fight? Otherwise, let's go and talk to the defenders of the city, and say that we will go back to Jingzhou directly after disarming. Never embarrass them! ”

This proposal was immediately echoed by the majority.

Gao Xiangchen finally understood what it meant that the mud couldn't hold up the wall. He sneered a few times: "The rebellion of the party is to kill all the people, how can you let you live?" After you disarmed, they tied you up one by one! To tell you the truth, there are only two paths in front of you now, either sit back and wait for death, or fight hard! Fight hard. At least six or seven percent of the chances of survival. If you sit back and wait to die, you will be dead! See for yourselves! ”

This is a simple multiple-choice question, and anyone with normal mental development knows how to choose. After hesitating for a long time, a flag man finally spoke up: "Gao Guandao, there are really less than eighty student babies who can't even shoot?" ”

"I vouch for my life!" Gao Xiangchen patted his chest and said.

At four or five o'clock in the afternoon, when the sky was getting dark, Gao Xiangchen led more than 300 people from the right side of Snake Mountain to the consultation bureau cautiously. As Gao Xiangchen said, there were less than 80 defenders in the Advisory Bureau, all of whom were students of the Lianghu Normal School, and they had only touched a gun during military training. Their mission was only to stand guard and defend, and they didn't expect a large army to attack at all. The battle began unexpectedly.

Although this group of Eight Banners usually trains, after all, they have been in the army for so long, and they are much more proficient in guns than the students. And they are also greatly superior in numbers. As the saying goes: "Punch the master to death." "What's more, their opponent is not a master, but a rookie who is just getting started? Almost as soon as the battle began, the students fell into passivity, and could only continue to reduce the number of guards and go all out to fight against the incoming Jingzhou banner soldiers.

So, Li Yuanhong's opportunity to escape came.

Li Yuanhong was admitted to the Tianjin Beiyang Naval Academy in 1883, entered the navy in 1888, participated in the Sino-Japanese First Sino-Japanese Naval War in 1894, and went to Hubei to train the new army after the war. As soon as I heard the sound of gunfire outside, I knew that there was an opportunity. A few minutes later, he tiptoed open the door, easily bypassed the guard's sentry, went down the window to the backyard, climbed over the wall, and ran out into the secluded alley.

Before he could take a few steps, he heard a shout mixed with gunfire in the distance: "Master, work hard, those group of students can't stand it!" We entered the Advisory Bureau, cut off the head of the dog thief Li Yuanhong, and asked Rui Butang and Zhang Tongzhi for credit! When the time comes, we will eat fragrant, drink spicy, smoke the best cloud soil, and prostitute the best top brand! ”

"Enter the Advisory Board and kill the dog thief alive!"

"Work hard to kill thieves and serve the country loyally!"

Li Yuanhong suddenly froze, and his whole body seemed to be covered in cold air. But in a matter of seconds, he came to his senses and ran in the direction of his house. (To be continued.) )