On the night of the twelfth day of the first lunar month of the first year of the Republic of China, a mutiny occurred in Beijing, and the slogan of the mutiny was to oppose the garrison commander-in-chief Duan Zhiguike to withhold military salaries. This was originally a fake mutiny designed by Yuan Shikai's advisers, the purpose of which was to give Lao Yuan an excuse not to go to Nanjing to take office, and directly to take office as the provisional president in Beijing. However, at the instigation of the royalists in the army, the mutiny was completely out of control, and the fake became true, and the rebels ransacked most of the shops and houses in Beijing, and even the Yuan Mansion was shot at, thousands of houses were burned, and more than 800 people were shot and killed.

Five rebels broke into the streets along the West River, first robbed the He Ji pawnshop and the Gao Sheng Inn, shot and killed the owner of He Ji who refused to pay the money, and the two shops were looted. Then he aimed at the Weili Hotel. Because most of the houses on the whole street are very dilapidated, only these three shops are relatively well decorated. Many of the rebels passing by looked down on this street, because there were more palatial houses in Beijing than there were here.

The five rebels who broke into the Weili Hotel did not expect that they did not even grab a copper plate, and they also took their lives, they were attacked almost at the same time, and they turned into five corpses in an instant. The guns, ammunition and looted belongings became trophies, and after the things were searched, the five bodies were thrown into the street, and later the heads were cut off by the gendarmerie and taken to ask for merit.

Hong Tianlie proudly fiddled with a captured new Serial-Hair Mauser rifle, and said with a smile: "It's still Boss Di, who actually found out that there will be a mutiny tonight, other merchants have suffered heavy losses, and their families have been destroyed, but our hotel is unscathed, and we have five fast guns and property worth 3,000 yuan." ”

Wu Chunlei also smiled: "With these fast guns, even if the Blue Dragon Society and the Ghost Shadow Gang come to the door, our Xihe Society will be able to fight with them." ”

Du Ma said: "Brother Chunlei has said a little too much, the Blue Dragon Club claims to have more than 5,000 members and 800 thugs, it is the largest gang in the capital, and there is the support of the royalist party in the back, just a few of us, where is the opponent?" ”

Zhang said with a black face: "Ma Pole is right, this time the Beiyang soldiers came less, so we got rid of it, if there are too many, we can only do the second method that Boss Di said: hide in the cellar, the hotel can only let them rob, and the number of Xihe will still be too small." ”

Leng Hanbing said with a gloomy face: "Don't talk nonsense, quickly clean up the blood stains on the ground, put away the guns and belongings, the patrols and gendarmes who quell the chaos will come at any time." ”

After Hong Tianlie got out of the cell that day, he defected to Di Xiong and worshiped him as the boss, he was a straight man, thinking that since Di Xiong saved him, he should die for Di Xiong. So he became the first person to take Di Xiong as the boss, after the Flying Eagle Gang was eradicated, Di Xiong thought that in order to gain a foothold in Beijing, he must set up his own organization, he hoped to establish an organization with ideals and goals, in this organization brainwashed the army, in order to recover the lost territory in the north. However, now the conditions are not ripe, so I can only set up a gang to make a transition, because the hotel is along the street of Xihe, this gang is named Xihe Society, Leng Hanbing was still a little hesitant, and after discussing with Wu Chunlei and Wu Chunfeng, seeing that they strongly advocated Feng Dixiong as the boss, they agreed, so the three of them also joined the Xihe Society. As for Bai Xiuling, he has long regarded himself as Di Xiong's person, not to mention it. They help out in the restaurant in the morning, as buddies or cooks, in the afternoon Di Xiong takes them to practice martial arts and marksmanship, and gives them lessons in the evening, among them, only Bai Xiuling and Leng Hanbing have studied private school, the others are illiterate, Di Xiong thinks they need to learn cultural knowledge. Di Xiong taught them cultural and historical lessons, Wu shopkeeper taught them arithmetic lessons, Di Xiong's history lessons, from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the end of the Qing Dynasty, the content of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, mainly told the story of the Mo family's chivalrous righteousness, the content of the Han Dynasty mainly told the story of Huo Quai's wolf Juxu, Dou Xianyan Ran carved stones, and the story of Ban Chaoping in the Western Regions and Geng Gong guarding the lonely city, so that everyone listened to the blood boiling, and the content of the Qing Dynasty mainly told the history of the Manchu Qing Dynasty's loss of power and humiliation of the country, and the history of the burning and looting of the great powers, so as to stimulate their patriotic enthusiasm and hatred for foreign powers. Leng Hanbing and Bai Xiuling learned very quickly because they had studied private school, Wu Chunlei and Wu Chunfeng learned very seriously, only Hong Tianlie and Zhang Heiyan couldn't learn, but they liked to listen to stories, so they could only learn hard. Because the storytelling is very exciting. Di Xiong added a lot of private goods to the story, and in the process of listening to the story, everyone gradually accepted the ideas of the Mohist doctrine.

When the Xihe Society was founded, there were only six of them, but it soon increased to more than a dozen people, and the informants of Wu Zhang, Zhang Heimian, Du Ma Gong, Wang Shishi, Zhang Kuwa, and Di Xiong also joined in. There are two teams under the Xihe Society, one is the action group, which is responsible for security and attack, Leng Hanbing is the team leader, Wu Chunlei is the deputy team leader, Hong Tianlie, Du Ma Gong and Zhang Hei Face are among them; One is the intelligence group, with Tian Mengxue as the team leader, Wu Chunfeng as the deputy leader, and Li Laoshi, Guan Qier, and Su Baotong are all members of the intelligence group.

Dichon did not participate in the ambush, he was sleeping at home, but the gunfire and shouting outside made him unable to sleep, so he had to get up and write the lecture materials for the next night.

A pair of soft little hands reached out from behind and hugged his neck, Di Xiong smelled a faint fragrance, and knew that it was Bai Xiuling without looking back, Bai Xiuling said: "What is written?" ”

Di Xiong said: "The lyrics of a song, I hope it can become a military song of an army in the future." ”

Bai Xiuling looked at the handwriting on the white paper and read: "The fertile land in the north of Heilongjiang is as much as a million miles, the Manchu Qing Dynasty is incapable of losing sovereignty, and the great rivers and mountains have become Russian land." There are also Lushun and Nanmanchu, 500 villages and forts planted Japanese flags, the remnants of northern Xinjiang tears rippled, and the south looked at Wang Shi for another year. Today, hold high the banner of justice, bravely take the first place to take the lost land, and the successive servants are not afraid of death, and spread loyalty through the ages! ”

Di Xiong sighed: "From the year of Guangxu Gengzi to the present, the northern lands of Vladivostok, Sakhalin, and Temple Street have been occupied by the Tsarists for more than ten years. ”

Bai Xiuling said: "I thought that the eldest brother was just talking casually that day to make everyone admire you, it turns out that the eldest brother is really so ambitious, but it is too difficult to achieve this goal, right?" It is even more difficult to have a lot of money, 100,000 troops, countless weapons and ammunition, and you don't even have an official position now, now that the Qing emperor has abdicated, and it is the business of the Republic of China government to recover the lost territory, can they recover these places? ”

Di Xiong pointed to the guns outside and said: "Just rush the military discipline and combat effectiveness of the Beiyang Army, let alone regain the lost territory, even the existing territory may not be able to be saved." During the Wuchang Uprising, the provinces declared independence, Outer Mongolia also became independent, the independence of the provinces was to oppose the Qing Dynasty, after the establishment of the Republic of China, the provinces have canceled their independence and obeyed the central government, but Outer Mongolia was really independent, the living Buddha Zhebu Zundamba claimed to be Ezhen Khan, with the support of Tsarist Russia, he engaged in an army, equipped with Russian weapons and four cavalry brigades, two infantry brigades, the army was filled with a large number of Russian advisers and instructors, and the Beiyang Army stationed in Kulun had only one patrol regiment, which was difficult to hold once the war began. Yuan Shikai was bent on unifying the south and did not care about Mongolia at all, and he had always been afraid of the two great powers of Japan and Russia. ”

Di Xiong said: "Although it is difficult, someone has to do it, and if everyone doesn't do it, the lost land will be lost forever." So I must do this, even if I lose my life. ”

Bai Xiuling looked at him in surprise and said, "You have such ambitions, I admire you very much." If it were up to you to reclaim the lost territory in the north, you would become a national hero. ”

Di Xiong said: "It doesn't matter if you are not a hero, but the first step is the most difficult, and I don't know what the situation is in the hotel, so let's go and see it later." ”

Bai Xiuling said: "If you really want to recover the Outer Northeast, Leng Hanbing can be your important helper, he is one of the survivors of the Hailan Pao tragedy that year, his parents and grandparents were killed by the Tsars, and he vowed to seek revenge from the Tsars." Three years ago, in order to avenge the second uncle who adopted him, he killed seven Haoqiang and bodyguards in Harbin overnight with only one shotgun. After defecting to the Flying Eagle Gang, he hid his ability because he was not ashamed of Zhang Zongqi's behavior. ”

Di Xiong said: "I can see his skills and abilities, but from the first time I saw him, I found that he was a little hostile to me, and he still has it, although he tried his best to hide it. ”

Bai Xiuling's face turned red and said, "Because he has been pursuing me and has been rejected by me many times, but I chose to be with you, he is a little jealous of you." ”

In the early morning, the troops of the third town grabbed enough property and withdrew from Beijing one after another, and Yuan Shikai began to declare a rebellion, dismissed Duan Zhigui, the commander-in-chief of the garrison who provoked the mutiny, from his post and demoted him to the staff officer of the battalion office, and appointed Jiang Guidi, deputy commander, and Lu Jianzhang, director of the Military and Political Law Enforcement Division, as the commander-in-chief and deputy commander-in-chief of the rebellion. At this time, the rebels had already run out, and some of the looted property was discarded on the streets because it was too heavy, and some beggars and ruffians took the opportunity to pick it up, and as a result, they became victims of the rebel troops, were shot as rebels, and their heads were cut off and hung at the entrance of the vegetable market for public display.

Who knew that Jiang Guidi's Yi army mutinied again the next day, and then the Beiyang army in Tianjin and Baoding also mutinied and looted, because they found that the army of the third town had robbed and made a fortune, especially when they heard that Cao Stick, the commander of the third town, had fished tens of millions of oceans alone, and was not punished. Yuan Shikai lost confidence in the old army, so he had to decide to train the new army, the name of the new army is called the reserve army, which is divided into five roads, of which the commander of the left reserve army is served by Lu Jianzhang, and the left reserve army has five battalions, and Lu Jianzhang appointed five battalion commanders, of which the former battalion commander is Feng Jishan.

At noon that day, as soon as Di Xiong walked into the hotel, the shopkeeper Wu said to him: "Boss! Good news! There is a textile factory to sell in Nankou Town, Changping County, Boss Li who opened a yarn factory wants to buy, but the funds in hand are insufficient, you might as well partner with him to buy a textile factory, Boss Li is an old customer of our restaurant, I know him better, and he will not suffer a loss in partnership. ”

Since the mutiny occurred in the first month of the first month, many businessmen were reluctant to operate in Beijing anymore, and sold their shops at low prices. But what he wanted to buy most was a textile factory, a pharmaceutical factory and an ironware factory, and asked his subordinates to ask people around for a month, but there was no news.

Di Xiong was also very happy, and hurriedly asked, "Where is Boss Li?" ”

Shopkeeper Wu said: "I will arrange him to wait for you in the No. 1 box upstairs......"

Di Xiong found that the shopkeeper Wu stopped halfway through his words, with a frightened look in his eyes, he looked behind Di Xiong, Di Xiong looked back, and there were four Beiyang soldiers in gray military uniforms walking into the restaurant with rifles on their backs, patting the table and asking for wine and food.

Di Xiong's heart moved, and he said to the shopkeeper Wu: "Do you know them?" ”

Shopkeeper Wu trembled a little and said: "They are the soldiers who killed Boss Zhu before, the bearded man who was the leader, I know them all when they were burned to ashes, I didn't expect to dare to come, it's too rampant, do you want to call the police?" ”

Di Xiong said: "There is no evidence, just based on your words, how can the police believe it?" With a wave of his hand, he called over the black face who was beckoning the GIs, and said, "You take them to Box No. 2, and then call Leng Hanbing over." ”

Leng Hanbing was washing vegetables in the kitchen, he walked up to Di Xiong and said, "What does the boss command?" ”

Dichon asked, "Do you still have the sweat medicine you bought on the black market last time?" ”

Leng Hanbing said: "Yes! ”

Di Xiong said: "The four Beiyang soldiers in the No. 2 box are the murderers of the previous Boss Zhu, you put some medicine in their dishes, and after the hemp is turned, each of them will make up for a knife, ask Tianlie to help, and drag it to the backyard to bury." ”

Leng Hanbing said calmly: "Yes! "I walked to the kitchen.