When the First Sino-Japanese War broke out, Gong Zhaoxi and Wei Rucheng fled in panic after a short exchange of fire with the Japanese army, abandoning the army and ignoring it.

In the middle of the battlefield, the commander actually fled, and the whole army was in chaos, which led to the unstable morale of his subordinates, and no one stopped them by robbing military supplies and civilian goods.

After Gong Zhaoxi was defeated and fled, he was arrested and imprisoned by the Qing court and said that he would be beheaded, but because of his "good activities" and "sprinkling money", he was able not to kill, and after the Xinhai Revolution, he was released without any damage.

And this person is still extravagant in prison, and his small life is very comfortable.

When Wang Jingwei attempted to assassinate the regent Zaifeng, he was thrown into prison for questioning, and he later wrote a book called Nanshe Poems, which specifically talked about what he saw and heard in prison, including a record of Gong Zhaoxi's life in prison:

At that time, "there were two kinds of prisons in the Criminal Department: one was an ordinary prison and the other was an official prison. The ordinary prison is damp and filthy, even worse than the dolphin prison. There are all kinds of officials and supervisors, and the top of them are equipped with living rooms, study rooms, bedrooms and kitchens, which are no different from a great rebellion. ”

And Gong Zhaoyu "When he first entered prison, he bribed more than 10,000 gold in prison. Self-management prison lang below and below, all become grateful confidants. Every time he eats, the abbot in front of the table will treat the ordinary prisoners with the surplus.

It is especially terrifying, there are eight concubines in the family, and they take turns to go to prison on the same night. If he is slightly unsatisfactory, he will be whipped. Whoever is divided into three classes, the lightest is to be tartled with a rattan tart, the heavier one is stripped off and his buttocks are answered, and the heaviest one is naked and reversed, so that the horse is whipped with a horse. Every time the jailer heard the woman crying......"

Such defeated and fugitive generals lived in prison as if they were at home, still throwing feasts, playing with concubines, and using prison as a playground. When it was time for the chaos in the year of Gengzi, he was directly released from prison and went home to be his own rich man.

It's a pity that this Gong Zhaoyu died early, if he was still alive now, otherwise after Li Xiake entered the customs, he would be the first to kill!

But in any case, this person still has the courage to return to China, and another general who escaped, Wei Rucheng, really fled, and escaped without a trace, and the Qing court dismissed him at that time, and handed him over to the Criminal Department for punishment, but he was not captured, "but from his family, and then I don't know what happened."

After this person escaped from the battlefield, he disappeared and lurked.

If such deserters on the battlefield are defeated, how can they do it? It is because they do not arrest and kill people that more and more deserters will flee in the future, and it is no wonder that the Qing government will not be destroyed.

Li Xiake is reluctant to meddle in politics, he is just a martial arts thug who wants to "have a good mind" at this time, since he knows that there are people in this world who should be killed, he naturally runs over and kills them.

Although in today's world, in the whole of China, there are many people who should be killed, but Li Xiake is only one person, and it is impossible to kill them all, he only kills those who have a greater impact and have already sealed the coffin in the future.

For example, Liu Yutian, a hardcore traitor, in the era when it became common for later generations to overturn cases, no one overturned the case for him, this person is an unforgivable crime, Li Xiake naturally wants to kill him quickly.

At that moment, he left Beijing and went straight to Tianjin.

The war horse he stole from Lushun can run more than 200 miles a day, which is already a good horse, as for the legendary Maxima, in this world, just think about it, don't take it too seriously.

So by the time Li Xiake entered Tianjin, it was already noon the next day.

And just as he was urging his horse to go, reports about him once again dominated the headlines of newspapers and publications.

"Li Xiake appeared in Beijing and was rejected by the officers and soldiers defending the city!"

It is reported that Li Xiake originally wanted to pull Liu Yutian into the entrance of the Beijing vegetable market to behead him, but because the guards blocked him, he could not make the trip, so he had to behead Liu Yutian outside the city gate. ”

"Where will Li Xiake go next, Tianjin Wei will bear the brunt!"

If Li Xiake had been born 200 years earlier, how could the Manchus occupy the Central Plains? How could China have fallen to such a field!"

"At the beginning, Jing Ke assassinated the King of Qin, and he took the head of General Fan lightly, and I don't know when he will be able to return it! What kind of face does he have to be the first assassin among the assassins? Now Li Xiake went to the East, broke into the palace at night, beheaded the enemy chief in the palace, and killed the prime minister in the capital, this is the first assassin, the first killer, and the first chivalrous warrior in the past and present! Sure enough, he lived up to his name as a chivalrous man!"

For Li Xiake's behavior, the Chinese people have praised a lot, but the government has not expressed its position, does not evaluate the matter, although in the international community to Li Xiake did not regret what Li Xiake did, but in China did not dare to say that Li Xiake is not. After all, killing people to the point of Li Xiake, the impact is too great.

The government also pays attention to public opinion. In particular, Yuan Shikai was in power and never stopped folk speech, which is a rare move in history, so the people have been talking about Li Xiake's affairs recently.

Recently, Wei Guozhong, who lives in the Japanese concession, has been worried, unable to eat, unable to sleep, sighing all day long, and frowning bitterly.

He now has a small family in Tianjin, has opened a few shops, sells Japanese cloth, and can be regarded as a well-known merchant in the cloth shop.

Seeing that he had been frowning for the past few days, the family felt strange, and when the family was eating together today, Mrs. asked, "Master, what's the matter with you lately?" Are you worried all day long, is there a problem in business?"

Wei Guozhong said: "It's not a business matter, if it's a business thing, it's easier to say!"

His voice was choked as he spoke, he sighed for a long time, and his eyes showed great fear: "You don't understand, you don't understand!"

At this moment, a great commotion was heard outside the courtyard, and then the sound of gunfire and screams rang out.

Mrs. Wei Guozhong exclaimed: "What's going on outside? Who dares to make trouble in the foreigner concession?"

Wei Guozhong's face turned pale, and his body trembled: "Here, he's here!"

Seeing that he was so frightened, the family members were a little confused, and the lady asked, "Master, what is wrong with you?"

At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves on the street outside the courtyard sounded in a line, from far to near, and they arrived at their door in an instant, and they did not stop, and went straight into the courtyard.

Everyone looked out in the hall, only to see a knight holding an iron spear, rushing into the courtyard on horseback, looking directly at everyone in the hall, suddenly bursting with spring thunder, and shouting: "Wei Rucheng, don't come out to die!"

When Wei Guozhong heard this, his body trembled, and he fell to the ground on his back.

Wei Guozhong's family was in a mess, only his wife calmed down and looked at the knight outside the door: "Who are you?

The person who came was Li Xiake.

He lived in Tianjin City for half a month, killed a group of green-skinned gangsters, and used some means, which allowed him and them to find out where Wei Rucheng lived now. Unexpectedly, after Wei Rucheng escaped from Lushun, he changed his face and became Wei Guozhong, Master Wei, but became a businessman selling foreign cloth.

After figuring out Wei Rucheng's specific identity, he went straight to the Japanese concession early in the morning and broke into Wei Rucheng's house.

If it were someone else, even if he wanted to kill Wei Rucheng, it would be mostly assassination, and no one would be stupid enough to rush into the concession and kill people.

But Li Xiake is not an ordinary person, he kills people in this world, not only killing people, but most importantly, he wants to play a deterrent role, telling the world that traitors and lackeys, deserters and escapers, he Li Xiake sees one and kills another, no one wants to run!

Therefore, the more sensational the better, the more eye-catching the better, and the higher the key, the better!

That's why he's arrogant and lawless.

"We don't have Wei Rucheng here......! You're looking for the wrong person!"

Seeing Li Xiake's murderous appearance, Wei Guozhong's wife exclaimed: "You are so bold, dare to come to the foreigner's territory to make trouble......

"Lao Tzu is making trouble with foreigners!"

Li Xiake was too lazy to talk nonsense with this girl, turned over and dismounted, walked into the hall in a few steps, bent down and picked up Wei Rucheng by the neck, like a chicken: "Wei Rucheng, you let me find it!"

ps: Is there a tip, is there a recommendation? Is there any? No, I'll go next door and ask!