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The vast surface of the Yangtze River in Hankou seems to be calm. Only when you are in it can you know that the waves under the surface are turbulent and the vast river wind has passed. There is no commercial ship on the water. This golden waterway has never seen such a cold scene. Even during the tense period before and after the Wuchang Uprising, the Yangtze River Channel in Hankou was still full of competition.

The docks in Hankou are full of commercial ships, and the goods are piled up like mountains at the docks, but the commercial ships can't sail. The dockers are also jobless. They gather together and play with money in boredom. The wharf is not as lively as usual.

All the docks and merchants received a ban signed by the foreign consul of the concession, and learned that 16 foreign warships formed a coalition and held a joint military exercise on the Yangtze River today. Many merchants are worried about wandering around the dock, meeting acquaintances, and getting together to discuss the situation in Hankou.

The thin old man in a green gown stood in front of the two-height goods, and the goods were covered by a wide oil cloth. The old man's eyes were looking at the mountain of goods, but he was obviously absent-minded.

"Master Zhao, what a coincidence, you are also here."

The voice came from behind the old man, which also shocked the old man to come to his senses and turned around leisurely. Li Ziyun came straight in a suit. He was a new big businessman in Hankou. He put 100,000 yuan at Liu Yuan and flattered Li Xiang. The old man, Mr. Zhao, is in the business of the traditional eight major business gangs. He has no good impression on Li Ziyun, who started selling earth cream and specializes in speculation and drilling, and there is no business. When the two met, they both nodded their friendship. Today, Li Ziyun suddenly talked to him, which made his heart a little alert.

Master Zhao nodded and turned his eyes to the surging river. "Recently, the situation in Hankou has been unstable and he was in a hurry to transport the goods out. Unexpectedly, the foreigners suddenly blocked the waterway. I was so anxious that I came to the dock to have a look. By the way, I also want to see how foreigners want to show off their power in China, and also want to see how the fierce Hankou revolutionary military government has responded in the past few days.

Master Zhao's words are polite. The current situation in Hankou is all caused by Li Xiang. If foreigners continue to block the Yangtze River waterway, Hankou Chinese businessmen will have to wait to die. Chinese businessmen did not dare to take what happened to foreigners, so they had to sprinkle their resentment on Li Xiang. Li Ziyun could still hear the resentment in Master Zhao's tone.

Li Ziyun smiled and agreed to stare at the rolling Yangtze River. If Hankou is unstable, Li Shuai will definitely not sit idly by. After all, he needs Hankou's Caiyuan to support the revolutionary army. Now that the revolutionary army has grown, how can a Xinhua consortium support it? Only the stability of Hankou can become the financial resources of the revolutionary army. My nephew, I always feel that the general is not so unwise, and this move must have a deep meaning. It's just that we are stupid, but we can't guess the wisdom of the general as deep as the sea. I don't know if Mr. Zhao can give me some advice?"

Master Zhao nodded his white beard and trembled gently. There was a burst of contempt in his heart, and he was another person who asked him about the inside information. Just after the news came out that his son was a small regiment leader in the Li Xiang Revolutionary Army, as long as he met someone he knew, who was either bright, dark, or roundabout, they would ask him for the so-called inside information. In fact, he knew some inside information. After his son came to Hankou, he only went home once, and he dragged him home.

Master Zhao turned his head and glanced at Li Ziyun. "After Liu Yuan's night banquet, the virtuous nephew and Liu Xinsheng have a good relationship, and they still need my advice. What's more, with the wisdom of a virtuous nephew, no one can guide him, and he can make the current situation smooth.

Li Ziyun's mind was broken by Master Zhao. He immediately turned out the Pegasus cigarette as if nothing had happened. After lighting it, he took a deep breath, spit out a thick smoke, and was blown away by the river wind in an instant. I guessed a little, but I was scared into a cold sweat for my bold nonsense, and I didn't dare to guess randomly anymore.

Li Ziyun stared at Master Zhao with burning eyes and did not let go of any change in his expression. When Master Zhao heard about it, he just smiled gently with wrinkles on his face. I just came to the dock for a walk, and I really couldn't figure out the general's intention. Didn't you say that the general will not see the situation in Hankou get out of control, which is also not good for him.

Li Ziyun took a few sips from the cigarette butt. Listening to Master Zhao's tone, his guess seemed to be far from the truth. If that's the case, then Li Xiang's adventurous spirit is better than that of Li Ziyun. If you are successful, you will be a prince, and if you are defeated, you will die without a place to be buried. He was worried about whether the 100,000 yuan invested in Li Xiang would be wasted, and he was going to beat Master Zhao.

Master Zhao suddenly stretched out his finger to the river in the distance, "The foreigner's fleet is coming."

Li Ziyun's eyes looked in the direction he pointed. On the horizontal line of the vast river, he first jumped out of a small oriental rouge plaster flag.

The Japanese warship ** Maru broke the waves against the current, and Ryojiro Kawashima enthusiastically boarded the open-air command platform of the ship bridge. At the intersection of the Han River and the Yangtze River, it is full of vicissitudes of water, and its wide water surface makes Kawashima Lingjiro feel like he is in the sea. In Japan, even the largest river cannot sail warships, let alone the fear of the ocean in the face of rivers.

Such magnificent rivers and mountains, the Chinese people do not deserve it. Only the excellent Yamato nation deserves it. Even if the Chinese own it, they are already the sick men of East Asia, and they are unable to protect it. Only the excellent Yamato nation can protect and build this beautiful and rich land.

Kawashima Reijiro was in high spirits and turned his telescope to look at the towering turtle mountain. He could clearly see that the black hole in the turret of the Guishan Fort was emitting faint light, but it was purely a sign. The cowardice of the East Asian sick man did not dare to run away in any case.

Kawashima Rejiro's sneer at the corners of his mouth became more and more complacent, and he issued an order: "The fleet will enter the Han River."

The flag came, and 16 foreign warships swaggered into the Han River. He didn't organize any defensive arrays. He just wanted to play well in front of the timid and cowardly Chinese people with a huge fleet. In the hearts of every foreigner, the Chinese people's resistance to the foreigner has been exhausted as early as the Eight-nation Alliance invaded China, and all that's left is the fear of the foreigner. Foreign adults never believe that today's Li Xiang still has the courage to shoot at them.

Rejiro Kawashima's face was full of complacency, and he kept saying, "Yuxi, Yuxi, Yuxi..."

The foreign warship passed under the eyes of the revolutionary soldiers of the Guishan Fort, and the foreign captain was extremely arrogant and tried his best to pull the sound of the flute long and loud. Those arrogant foreign sailors climbed up the deck, raised their middle finger at the Guishan Fort in the distance, and jumped samba. The laughter full of disdain, arrogance and greed spread far to the top of Guishan Mountain.

"A group of turtle grandchildren, I'll send you to feed the bastards later." A strong man rudely piled up a box of shells on his shoulder. The three rows of buttons on his military uniform were open, revealing a few sparse chest hairs and chest muscles that could clamp a pencil; his sleeves were rolled up high, and he couldn't wait to show off his biceps.

Zhang Zheng with a cigarette in his mouth, ah! Spit out the remaining cigarette butts with a sound, and the rubber scalp shoes put out the cigarette butts hard. Be careful with me. This is ammunition. You should handle it gently. Big guy, if you smash the ammunition here and the foreigners haven't fed the bastards, we will be honored first.

The big man smiled and gently patted the ammunition box. "Fam, you have been burning smoke here for a long time. How dare you say it's me."

Zhang Zheng just lit a new cigarette, spit out a smoke ring and said with a smile, "Go to work quickly. You dare to question me, your regiment leader."

The big man who was scolded by Zhang Zheng ran away like ammunition. Instead of being unhappy at all, he was more energetic. There is no other reason. None of the officers of the Hankou Revolutionary Army climbed up with nepotism, nor did they continue to use the former officers of the Hubei New Army. They were all promoted from the grassroots level by virtue of their military achievements in previous battles, and the soldiers were convinced. For this reason, the soldiers are also more and more fierce when they fight. Because the promotion of the Hankou Revolutionary Army is simple, it is nothing more than military meritorious service. They don't have to worry about the complicated network of relationships winding around the Yuan Manchu Qing Dynasty. Revolution is like this. It gives everyone a fair and just stage, and everything depends on a person's true ability.

Zhang Zheng's habit of smoking is also derived from the power of role models, which is infected by Li Xiang. At the thought of looking for foreigners, Zhang Zheng was excited about the adrenaline hormone, which was much more powerful than beating the Qing army, and he couldn't help smoking one cigarette after another.

Zhang Zheng held a cigarette in his mouth and took a telescope to look at it. The Guishan Fort where he is located is condescending. The three towns in Wuhan are all within the range of his gunfire. In the farthest distance, it can bombard the Snake Mountain Fort. The foreigner's warships were entering the narrow Hanshui in turn. Zhang Zheng said vaguely with the mouth of a cigarette in his mouth, "The plaster flag, the rice flag, the star-triped flag... Sixteen ships, no more, no less, all entered the Han River."

The foreigners were so arrogant that they deliberately passed under the skin of the Guishan Fort and entered the narrow Hanshui Channel, which was measured that the revolutionary army did not dare to fire at them. It was a provocation of Chiguoguo. The place where foreigners choose to practice live ammunition is near the Longwang Temple, which is the most concentrated wharf of the eight major commercial gangs in Hankou. The foreigners deliberately wanted to show off their force in front of the Chinese, which was a strong counterattack against the recent Hankou student demonstration.

There was a ferocious smile in Zhang Zheng's heart, laughing at the brain-damaged behavior of foreigners. Sixteen warships squeezed into the narrow Hanshui waterway, but it was majestic and tight, but it was also a dead end. Foreigners are really used to showing off their power in China. They have been subjected to any decent resistance in China for a hundred years. This kind of pride has also paralyzed them.

What Zhang Zheng doesn't know is that the brain-damaged behavior of foreigners, in addition to the pride and arrogance cultivated over the past hundred years, there is also the hard insultice of Sadao Matsumura. Xiao Dongyang's ghost has its sinister intentions, but its purpose at this stage is the same as that of Li Xiang. In the extremely inflated self-confidence, the foreign adults were brought into the enemy's trap by Xiao Dongyang.

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