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It's not that he is afraid of besieging Jingshi University and offending Sun Yuanqi and others. There is a cloud in the "Book of Songs": "Under the whole world, it is not the king's land; On the shore of the land, it is not the king's minister. "The twenty-two provinces of Kyushu in this world are all the land of the Aixin Jueluo family, not to mention a broken school outside the capital? He is the minister of the Military Advisory Office, the second brother is the late Emperor Dezongjing, the fifth brother is the regent, and the nephew is the current saint. And why be afraid of a thief Sichuan governor?

What he worries about is that he will get entangled with the foreigners in the school, and once he doesn't handle it well, it will be a big trouble. If you really want to cause trouble, it is estimated that the fifth brother Zaifeng will not be able to protect himself. Don't forget that after the Gengzi Kingdom changed ten years ago, in order to appease the anger of foreigners, the Empress Dowager Xiaoqin gave Prince Zhuang Zaixun to death, Duanjun Wang Zaiyi, and Fuguo Gong Zailan were sent to Xinjiang, and the eldest brother Pujun was deposed from the palace. These people are all nobles!

Shimada Han seemed to know what Zaitao was worried about, patted his chest and promised: "Tao Belle doesn't have to worry, if there is really a conflict with the international students and a diplomatic dispute arises, I, the Imperial Japanese Empire, will be responsible for mediating to ensure that nothing goes wrong." ”

Zaitao hesitated: "I'm just afraid that there is no evidence." ”

Shimada Han understood what Zaitao meant: "I will give 50,000 yen as a guarantee tomorrow, what does Tao Belle think?" ”

"Do you really just want those bone-piece and torn rolls?" Zaitao still didn't believe it.

Shimada Han smiled and asked, "School, apart from these, what else can be valuable?" ”

"That's just as well!" In Zaitao's view, the cow bones and tortoise shells dug up underground and the tattered paper rolls transported from the northwest are not rare at all. What is Baby? The Western Jin Dynasty Lu Ji's "Pingfu Post", the Eastern Jin Dynasty Wang Xizhi's "Sunny Post When the Snow is Fast", Tang Feng Chengsu's facsimile "Lanting Collection Preface", and the Northern Song Dynasty Zhang Zeduan's "Qingming Riverside Map" are treasures, and these things are hidden in the Forbidden City!

Shimada Han nodded again and again, but he was very disdainful of Zaitao in his heart: Idiot, what do you know! The oracle bones of Yin Shang, the Dunhuang testament, the rare books of the Song and Yuan dynasties, and the scientific research achievements are all priceless treasures, how can they be measured by money? Even if you measure it in money, how can you get it for 200,000 yen? Not to mention, the University of Kinyo has invested millions of dollars in research on new cars alone, and the profits generated in the future will be at least ten times greater! There are such scum among those in power. It is the great misfortune of the country and the nation! - Of course, it is too good news for the Yamato nation, and the results of the research in the laboratories of the University of Kyoto will allow the Empire of Japan to advance in certain fields of science and technology for at least twenty years!

Shimada Han was very obedient and sent someone to deliver a check early the next morning. Exactly 50,000 yen. Zaitao was in a good mood immediately, and immediately drafted a military order, stamped it with the seal of the Military Advisory Office, and ordered someone to send it to the First Association of the Praetorian Guard.

At this time, the Praetorian Guard had a total of 2 infantry teams and 4 standards, 1 horse team and 1 artillery team, and 1 team of engineering, baggage, machine guns, military music, and police, with a total of more than 12,000 people. The first co-ordinator Liangbi is a descendant of the royal family. In the twenty-fifth year of Guangxu (1899), he went to Japan to study, entered Chengcheng School, and later studied in the second phase of the Infantry Department of the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School.

Because Liangbi is from the royal family, the so-called Zaitao is quite at ease with him. After going back and forth, the relationship between the two is very harmonious. Matters like this, which have not been approved by the cabinet, are obviously more appropriate to be handled by his First Association. The military order reads:

The first target of the Praetorian Guard is hereby ordered to occupy Jingshi University and the surrounding area before October 20, 1911 in the third year of Xuantong (December 10, 1911 in the Western calendar). Note that no shots are allowed during the operation, the use of heavy weapons is strictly prohibited, and it is strictly forbidden to attack foreigners.

This order.

October 15 of the third year of Xuantong.

Liangbi frowned when he saw this military order: Sun Yuanqi, the founding president of Jingshi University, is the Minister of Students in the Cabinet. How could this military order be passed in the Cabinet? It is clear that not only was the operation not approved by the Cabinet, but the Cabinet was not aware of it at all. It's okay if nothing happens, once something goes wrong, Zaitao will definitely deny that he has ever issued this military order, and then he will become a scapegoat!

Even putting aside the question of who is responsible for the accident, this military order is difficult to enforce.

Jingshi University has always been known for its many foreign devils, and the ghosts of Jingshi University were once called "the four big ones in Beijing" together with the Beizi of Shichahai, the eunuchs of Caihuying, and the officials of Bada Hutong. According to statistics, the foreigners inside come from more than 10 countries around the world, and the total number is more than 1,000. "Attack on foreigners" is prohibited in the military order. So how do you occupy Jingshi University? When officers and men encounter resistance from foreign devils, won't they fight back and scold back?

Most of the Praetorian Guard officers came from the first town of the New Army, which was dominated by Manchus, and the soldiers were mainly the children of the Eight Banners stationed in Beijing, a small number of Mongolian cavalry, and peasant Zhuang men from Zhili and Shandong. The muscles and bones of this group of Eight Banners disciples have long been smoked soft by the wind and snow of the Beijing Division, and there is no longer the ruthlessness of the ancestors Ru Mao drinking blood and lying in the snow and biting the ice with the skin of wild boars to fight the world in their veins. It is said that drinking tea and walking birds, listening to operas and playing horns, visiting kilns, and smoking big cigarettes. They are connoisseurs; If you want to talk about arranging troops and marching to fight, they will immediately become a stall of slugs.

Don't look at the skills of this group of old soldiers, each of them is smaller, but their temper is bigger than the other. In particular, the first association of Liangbi is a collection of all kinds of wonders. provoked them, whether you are the captain and battalion commander, or the standard commander, first beat them up! You can't be in a hurry with them, maybe it is the little cousin of a certain Fujin who punches you, the brother-in-law who slaps you is the brother-in-law of a certain Baylor, and the one who kicks you seems to be lonely, maybe he will uncover his military uniform and have a yellow coat underneath!

With the arrogance of these old soldiers "heaven first, me second", if they don't take the initiative to cause trouble, Liangbi should burn high incense. Do you still expect them to fight back and scold back?

The reason why the Praetorian Guard can have its own place in the sequence of the Great Fresh Army is because of the political status of the banner man, and the second is because of his weaponry. Whenever the Qing Dynasty imported weapons and equipment, they had to let the Praetorian Guards pick them first, and then they could pick the rest before it was the turn of the other towns. For example, the only 18 150mm field heavy guns in China and Asia at that time were exclusively owned by the Praetorian Guard.

The tactics of the Praetorian Guards are also very simple, that is, artillery bombardment, and then heavy machine guns and rifle strafing, and then see if the other side has retreated. If there is no retreat, then artillery bombardment, heavy machine guns, rifle strafing. If there's still movement, repeat it again...... And so on. If you can't hold back the firepower of the Praetorian Guard, then there is only one way to retreat; If you can manage to exhaust the Praetorian Guard's ammo, you can win without a fight.

However, in this military order, the Praetorian Guards were explicitly forbidden to use heavy weapons, and even required that they should not shoot at will. How can you fight a war if you are so self-tied? Do you want this group of old soldiers to fight bayonets with others? They don't have this urine!

Although Liangbi was worried about this, Zaitao's military orders did not dare to disobey. After thinking about it again and again, he decided to send his subordinates to the first target with slightly stronger combat power, and pressed the whole army with the posture of a lion fighting a rabbit, and strive to win the Jingshi University in one fell swoop, so as not to have too many dreams at night.

It is said that after Cheng Ziyin entered Niangzi Pass, Zhang Huizan also led his subordinates to quickly evacuate Baoding, abandon his baggage, break it into pieces, and sneak back to Jingshi University in batches. Baoding is only 300 miles away from Jingshi University, and it takes only five or six days to walk normally. When he returned to the school, Zhang Huizan did not care about resting, and immediately reorganized the soldiers and school security guards into a 1,200-strong force, which was called the "Jingshi University Security Team" externally, and still used the number "The First Battalion of the 88th Standard of the 44th Mixed Infantry Association" internally.

However, the first battalion was obviously different from all the armies of the Qing Dynasty in terms of appearance and equipment. For example, they wore camouflage steel helmets on their heads, instead of the large-brimmed hats unified by the New Army; They wore green camouflage uniforms instead of the gray uniforms of Beiyang; In their hands were newly developed and shaped Zhonggong (China Industrial Machinery Company abbreviation) 1911 rifles from the Beiping Iron Works, not Hanyang-made.

In normal times, the soldiers of the first battalion were trained in the school playground, and only a small number were released by Zhang Huizan to build fortifications and investigate the enemy's situation. Most of these soldiers were young men under the age of 20, and they did not know how to write the word "afraid" at all, and they rode outside Beijing every once in a while, and even ran as far as Changping, Fengtai, and Lugou Bridge.

There are 1,600 people in the First Association of the Praetorian Guard, and they don't want to hide their actions. This dispatch is like the butt of a firefly, it's hard to see it! The detective immediately reported the news to Zhang Huizan. By the time the first mark of the Praetorian Guards was still 30 miles away from Jingshi University, Zhang Huizan could already conclude that they were coming for him.

Zhang Huizan immediately stopped the training of the soldiers and ordered the first team of the first battalion to quickly build a field position four miles south of Jingshi Town to block the invading enemy; The second team, together with the school workers, transported 1.5 base ammunition to the positions, and the third team acted as a reserve and rested in the dormitory.

Subsequently, Zhang Huizan sent people to invite Fu Zengxiang, president of Jingshi University, Yan Fu, vice president, Rutherford and others to discuss how to deal with the crisis. Hearing the news of the Praetorian Guards' attack, Fu Zengxiang and the others were both shocked and angry, although they had more or less thought that the school would receive some implications because of Sun Yuanqi, but they did not expect that the Qing government would use such extreme means to deal with Jingshi University.

Rutherford waved his fists and shouted hoarsely, "Attacking a prestigious institution of great repute by force is a merciless trampling on knowledge and civilization!" This is a great shame for a country and a nation! I thought that this kind of thing would only appear in the dark Middle Ages, but I didn't expect it to appear in China, which is known as an ancient civilization and a country of etiquette. We would like to appeal to the intellectuals and civilized nations of the world to put pressure on this rotten and dark government to stop this barbaric act immediately! ”

Fu Zengxiang nodded: "What Mr. Rutherford said is extremely true!" But Shihou, have you informed Lord Sun of the news? ”

Zhang Huizan replied: "As soon as I judged the motive of the Praetorian Guards, I sent a telegram to Mr. Sun. ”

Fu Zengxiang said: "Since this is the case, I'm afraid that Lord Sun's call back will be coming." (To be continued.) )

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