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Running all the way, under the guidance of Tang Yuewan, Li Xiang's equestrian skills became more and more proficient. Li thought that his whole body had bent over the horse's back, and the belt of the big-brimmed hat was tightly fastened to his chin. The wind was clearly heard in his ear, and the scene in front of him pulled back quickly. This is speed and **, the romance that men love, which is really too fucking cool.

Li Xiang just ran to the three bridges when someone suddenly jumped out to stop his road. The handsome horse, who was running at full speed, stood up in shock and finally didn't trample him to death. He was really desperate. Song Que, the guard behind Li Xiangma, and Captain Tang Yuewan also stopped. After receiving Song Que, Li Xiang no longer needed the rest of the guards.

After stopping the horse, Song jumped down and rushed forward with an arrow step. The knife had been put on the neck of the person who scratched Li wanted to mount.

Immediately, several revolutionary army officers guarding the three bridges ran over and shouted, "Marshal, misunderstanding. He was just the master sent by the Huangpi County magistrate to send the surrender letter. He didn't mean to disturb the general.

Li wanted to jump off the horse and said, "Soong Que retreated."

Master Huangpi, who stopped Li Xiangma, was so bold. At this moment, he knelt on the ground, and his head was almost buried in the earth. The back of his head had been cut, holding a fold on the court with both hands and a braid.

"Grassman Bai Siwen knocked to see the marshal. The people were really in a hurry for a moment, so he couldn't do so. He scratched the general and hoped to forgive him. The grass people were entrusted by the magistrate of Huangpi County to lower the table to the marshal. The magistrate of Huangpi County has cut the invention. I hope that the marshal can take the people of Huangpi as his mind, reduce the killing, and accept the decline of the grass people. Bai Siwen quickly read the prepared words, and the corner of his eyes saw a pair of horse boots coming.

Bai Siwen's heart beats. Li Xiang is rumored to be good at fighting in Wuhan, which sounds like a murderous demon king in their ears. Bai Siwen immediately meditated on the Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra and lowered his head again and again. Bai Siwen was about to kiss the earth, but he didn't smell the fragrance of vegetation and the fragrance of the soil. There was only a bloody smell that made Bai Siwen's stomach churning. At this moment, Bai Siwen found that the land at the end of the three bridges was dark red, and he didn't know how much blood was shed here last night to have such a heavy smell of blood. No matter how uncomfortable Bai Siwen's stomach is, he dares not look up. He can only close his eyes and read the heart scriptures a thousand times, and he keeps sighing in his heart that he is really a murderer. The county magistrate's choice was the right choice to surrender, otherwise they would have to go to the wilderness to make fertilizer.

Li wanted to take over the fold and throw back the braids of their county magistrate to Bai Siwen. When I opened the fold, I saw that the specifications were still very high, and I still used all kinds of seals on the emperor. Li wanted to look at it again and threw it to Bai Siwen. Bai Siwen was so scared that he sat on the ground with a pale face. Didn't General Li want to accept the downfall of the county magistrate and want to slaughter Huangpi?

Li wanted to make a straight face and directly recruited a revolutionary army officer guarding the Sandao Bridge. "Bear him to see your Brigadier Li. Your Brigadier knows how to deal with it."

"Yes!" The officer called two soldiers to drag the soft white sven away.

At this time, Lin Tiechang and Liu Jing came up. Lin Tiechang first said, "Huangpi has fallen, which is also the role of the three bridges last night. We saved the trouble of going to Huangpi and rushed directly to Xiaogan. With such a speed of marching, Zhang Xiyuan could be caught off guard, and we were more sure to force him to abandon the city and escape.

"In case the Qing army is just a fraudulent surrender, we will rush straight to Xiaogan, and all our backs will be exposed behind the enemy, and the three bridges are now empty. The troops of Liujia Temple are transferred again, and the defense of Hankou is extremely weak. Marshal, it's too risky to do this." Liu Jing was the loss of being copied on the back road last night, and now he is against it. He also has a lot of timid people, but if the thrilling scene like last night comes twice in a row, no matter how strong his heart is, he can't stand it.

Lin Tiechang still wanted to refute, but Li wanted to immediately raise his hand to interrupt, "As long as you know whether Huangpi is a real surrender or a fake surrender, everything will be easy. This is a matter of the intelligence department, and your judgment will not be determined until the information comes. Lin Tiechang, you go and inform Zhao Youcheng to let his two cavalry be nutritious and ready to set out at any time. Liu Jing, let's go to Lukou first and wait for the information.

Li Xiang has two sets of intelligence networks. One is the Military Unification Bureau adapted from the underground party of the World Conference, which has a wide layout and is spread all over China, but it is not sophisticated enough. The other is the adaptation of the Brother Association, which is spread all over the two lakes, Sichuan and Shaanxi, and has penetrated into every corner of society. The establishment of these two sets of intelligence networks cost Li Xiang a lot of money. The previous use was to steal some business secrets, which provided Xinhua Yanghang with a strong competitive advantage, and there was no other use. Only now can the great benefits of the two intelligence networks really be reflected.

It's also a long way from the three bridges to Lukou. Li thought that it only takes them a quarter of an hour to ride a horse.

Li Xiang and they rode a horse and walked on the old street in Lukou. The hoofs arrived. The old street was actually paved with bluestone roads, and there were drainage ditches on both sides of the street. The low shops on both sides are closed. In the past few days, soldiers and horses come and go here. The people are most afraid of chaos, and they dare to open their doors and do business there. They saw with their own eyes the sound of gunfire at the three bridges last night. In the morning, they saw many miserable Qing soldiers passing by here, and then a large group of revolutionary troops drove over endlessly. Although they all understood the "Three Disciplines and Eight Notes" sung by the revolutionary army, they couldn't help but be afraid when they saw the black hole muzzle and bright bayonet on the shoulders of the revolutionary army soldiers from the crack of the door.

Li wanted to walk forward with the reins, looking for it on the signboards of the shops on both sides of the street. Lixiang suddenly said, "There is an inn, that's where it is."

Li Xiang took the lead in running over. Tang Yuewan and others followed up, and then looked at the inn in front of them. The signboard was fluttering in the wind. Looking carefully, it said "There is an inn", which is really a strange name.

Li wants to get off at the door of an inn, and the door of an inn is also closed. Li wanted to knock on the door and muttered to the shopkeeper that they couldn't understand. Then the shopkeeper came in and called out the shopkeeper.

Of course, the shopkeeper knew Li Xiang. He directly took out a wax pill and handed it to Li Xiang. He also said, "I also just received the information. It has been confirmed, and I haven't had time to send it out."

After Li wanted to take over, he opened the wax pills, unfolded the note inside, and returned it to the shopkeeper after reading it. He said, "No matter who opened the information halfway, it must be recorded and sent back to your boss for the record. I am no exception."

The shopkeeper nodded hurriedly and said, "I know, I know."

Li wanted to walk out of an inn, and immediately jumped on the horse and said to Liu Jing, "The intelligence has confirmed that Huangpi really surrendered. You immediately inform Zhao Youcheng, and let his cavalry battalion rush to Xiaogan and follow the plan. You and Lin Tiechang led the infantry and artillery battalion to come later.

"Yes!" Liu Jing roared, put his horse's belly in his hand, sat down and rushed forward like a handsome horse. His four hooves flew over, and a series of horseshoes sounded on the empty old street.

Li Xiang straightened his big brim hat and saw that the shadow on the ground was short. When the sun was in full swing, he pulled the reins and smiled, "Xiaowan, I'm going to war now. Don't follow me. Go back."

"Are you looking down on women?" Tang Yuewan stopped this matter and immediately questioned Li Xiang. He looked at Li Xiang with pulse eyes, which could definitely melt Li Xiang.

"Well, if you like it, just follow it." Li wanted to sigh helplessly. Song Que, the task of protecting her is handed over to you. If there is any mistake, I will ask you.

"Marshal, he is your woman." Song Que still has a thick Jianghu spirit on his body. If he has anything to say, he will say it directly.

"This is an order!" Li wanted to be too lazy to have mushrooms with him, so he left with a "cross".

Tang Yue Wan followed up and said, "My shooting is very accurate. You don't have to worry about it."

Song Que followed with a whip and whispered, "If it hadn't been for the commander-in-chief's order, I wouldn't have been willing to."

A series of horseshoes sounded, and the old street finally returned to tranquility.

In the middle of the day, Zhang Xiyuan finally walked out of the telegraph room. Under such a warm autumn sun, it was as cold as winter. Zhang Xiyuan is regretting it now. This time it's really a big loss.

Zhang Biao, who stayed outside the telegraph room and refused to leave, saw Zhang Xiyuan coming out, immediately surrounded and asked, "Lord Zhang, when will the reinforcements of the court arrive?"

Zhang Xiyuan was upset when he saw Zhang Biao surrounding him. Next to now, he has not responded to the 200-five imperial envoy minister and the presidential officer of the First Army. Zhang Xiyuan is now isolated and helpless. Not to mention how worried he is, Zhang Biao relies on him to add nausea in front of him.

Zhang Xiyuan waved his hand to his own soldiers in disgust, "Zhang Biao, you are a guilty person, and you dare to spy on the military plane from me. What's your intention? You are also loyal to the court, and I don't care about it. Come on, kick Zhang Biao out of the city.

"Ping!"

Zhang Xiyuan's own soldiers immediately came out to surround Zhang Biao, but they did not mean to do it. It was not to be afraid of Zhang Biao's former official prestige, but to be afraid of Zhang Biao's strong and powerful kung fu.

Zhang Biao's eyes were round, staring at Zhang Xiyuan angrily. His fists were clenched, his muscles were tight, and the blood vessels in his forehead were bulging. He was ready to find Zhang Xiyuan at any time. Zhang Xiyuan was fearless. He looked at Zhang Biao, who fell down in peace with a disdain. His right hand seemed to be unintentionally placed on his waist, and his index finger gently tapped the six revolver hanging around his waist.

Zhang Biao gave up his mind of martial arts after a moment of inner struggle. No matter how fast his fist was, he was not as fast as a bullet. Zhang Biao's shoulder suddenly collapsed. If you go out of the city, you can go out of the city. He is no longer qualified to take care of Hubei affairs. The rivers and mountains of the Qing Dynasty were not destroyed by the revolutionaries, but by the Liangzhu of the Qing Dynasty who only knew how to fight. Zhang Biao had a helpless and dirty robe on his face. He shook his sleeves to the extreme desolately, and turned around and walked along the empty long street to the east gate.

Zhang Xiyuan looked at Zhang Biao's lonely back and let out a long sigh of sadness.

The soldiers beside Zhang Xiyuan asked, "Your Excellency, where are we going now?"

"North Gate." Zhang Xiyuan casually said what he thought.

Zhang Xiyuan climbed the North Gate Building accompanied by his own soldiers and looked north at Guanshan. The mountains and rivers are picturesque, thousands of mu of fertile land and rice are ripe, and the golden grassland in front of us spread to the sky. The Qing army, which was defeated by Sandao Bridge, retreated here and also spread the news of the war. The villagers near Xiaogan City still had the courage to harvest rice.

The train track goes north outside the city, and you can't see a train going south for half a day, just like this train track has been abandoned for many years. Zhang Xiyuan only looked forward to a miracle. He could see a string of white smoke suddenly coming out of the sky, and then a train rolled south, full of well-equipped Beiyang Army.

Zhang Xiyuan stood on the Beichengmen Building and drank the autumn wind for a long time, and finally he was disappointed. Zhang Xiyuan stroked the cold railing with one hand and gritted his teeth and said to the close-in generals behind him, "When it's dark, the reinforcements still haven't come, so we will retreat overnight in the dark and return to our hometown in Henan."

"Your Excellency, what should we do if we retreat without fighting?" The general under Zhang Xiyuan said.

A cronin who had guessed Zhang Xiyuan's thoughts said, "The revolutionary army is so powerful that with us, we have no chance of winning at all. Xia Zhankui and Zhang Biao, two brain-damaged people, are living examples. As long as we have soldiers and guns, we will still drink and eat meat after returning to our hometown in Henan. If today's court is an empty shell, what can we do? If we lose soldiers and generals here and are weakened by the revolutionary army, we will not have a good life when we return to our hometown in Henan. We can only be at the mercy of others.

Zhang Xiyuan and other generals also understand this truth, but Henan is too poor. This time, he went south to Hubei to get some oil and water. How could they actively go south to be the vanguard? Now I just haven't got any oil and water, and I'm a little unwilling to go back empty-handed. Zhang Xiyuan naturally understood this little thought of his subordinates that he was also very unwilling.

A sharp light flash flashed in the corners of Zhang Xiyuan's eyes, and the corners of his mouth said, "Of course I won't let you come for nothing. You have come to filial piety. How can you go back empty-handed? Before we go back, we looted Xiaogan and burned the city to destroy the evidence. I will go to the court. The bandit party will attack the city day and night. The final general will be defeated without help. Before leaving, he will burn the city without leaving a piece of tile and the bandit party.

Zhang Xiyuan's lower part will be in an uproar. In this world, the heart is really dark enough and the hands are poisonous enough to survive and live enough. As long as you grab all the filial piety and return to your hometown in Henan, it will be enough for everyone to spend a while.

Since Zhang Xiyuan made up his mind, he immediately ordered: "Immediately send the brothers of the cavalry battalion to disperse outside the city to investigate the movements of the revolutionary army. The detectives are a little far away."

The subordinates behind Zhang Xiyuan immediately became busy and scattered. Some people went to inquire about the military situation, and some people went to prepare for robbery. Zhang Xiyuan went to the south city along the city wall, and by the way, he faked to check the city defense, which also made the gentry in the city see his determination to defend the city, so that they would not secretly have a ghost and sell him to the revolutionaries.

As soon as Zhang Xiyuan arrived in Nancheng, he saw that the cavalry battalion, which had been wandering outside the city, did not open the intelligence network, but shrank into the city. As pioneers, the two cavalry battalions of the revolutionary army first arrived in Xiaogan. With the consistent fierce fighting style of the revolutionary army, they directly launched a chase with Zhang Xiyuan's cavalry battalion in the wild. Zhang Xiyuan's cavalry battalion was driven into the city like a rabbit. Originally stranded outside Xiaogan City, he was defeated by three bridges at the root of the city wall. When he saw the appearance of the revolutionary cavalry for a moment, he dispersed and went straight to the countryside to escape for his life.

Zhang Xiyuan boarded the city gate, and the soldiers of the revolutionary cavalry battalion swayed their power outside the city, their horses' hoofs flew, and the dust rolled all over the sky. The cavalry of the revolutionary army happened to swim in addition to the old earth cannons on the gate of Xiaogan. These cavalrymen have been veterans for many years and are very experienced. Zhang Xiyuan ordered people to fire guns outside the city. These cannons are not very powerful, but the momentum is absolutely earth-shaking. The smoke on the tower was rolling, and the rumbling sound shook the sky for nine days. It also blew up several large pits in the open space outside the city, and the earth and rocks flew around. But the cavalry of the revolutionary army was fine, which provoked the more rampant ridicule of the revolutionary army.

There are some equestrian masters in the revolutionary army cavalry. The veterans play tricks on the horse. I have to admit that the Chinese are very talented in gymnastics. The saddle horses of these veterans are really beautiful, but Zhang Xiyuan is so angry that he wants to vomit blood.

Zhang Xiyuan's trusted generals surrounded him again, and from time to time nervously turned his head to look at the powerful revolutionary army outside the city. The revolutionary army came too fast, just like Zhang Biao said. Before they had time to implement the opportunity at the North Gate, the revolutionary army had already rushed over. Only now do they believe that what Zhang Biao said is not exaggerated at all. It's really time to prepare early. Now they don't even have any thoughts about fishing for oil and water. They just persuade Zhang Xiyuan to retreat and go back to his hometown in Henan to be the emperor. If they really want to wait for the revolutionary army to surround them, they have no way to escape.

Zhang Xiyuan turned a deaf ear to the words of his cronies, but stared at the powerful revolutionary cavalry outside the city. After a while of thinking, he suddenly made up his mind. Zhang Xiyuan directly issued an order to his subordinates, "The revolutionary army outside the city only has two battalions of cavalry, about 1,000 people. We divide our troops in the city's foreign trade, and it's okay to guard the railway station. Then I'll send a few big houses in the city to clean them up, and the people will also kill me. The action should be fast, and it will be done by me within half an hour.

Zhang Xiyuan looked at a group of subordinates standing here in a frenzily and shouted angrily, "Are they all dead? Hurry up and go!"

Zhang Xiyuan looked at these subordinates running down the city building in a hurry, and a ferocious smile appeared on the corners of his mouth. "I can't run for nothing. What kind of charge should I give you? Well, let's say that you had an affair with the bandit party, which was found by the official in time and punished on the spot, but you still opened the gate of Xiaogan City, so that Xiaogan fell into the hands of the bandit party.