120 mountains and rivers are exhausted

The sky is still covered with dark clouds. The heavy rain just now has finally stopped. The weather is cool and cold. No matter how poetic the literati are, they can't say that it's a cool autumn, and they just hate that their bodies are thin.

Avoiding the heavy rain, Li wanted to lead the troops to move on. Drowning on the road, the war horse can no longer run long distance, so he can only walk and stop with the rein.

Li wants to hit the horse and walk to a high place to look far away. The low and thick clouds drifted south. In the middle, you can see the low farmhouses and cattle and sheep in the fields. In the distance, there are still clouds after the rainstorm on the forest, which is like a fairy realm, and the taste of isolation from the world is full of the countryside. Only from the prosperous modern times of golden fans to the turbulent times a hundred years ago, struggling in the battlefield of wolves and flames in troubled times, Li Xiang has a wonderful and messy time-travel life, and he is even more attached to this peaceful and ordinary world. The war has not spread here, but it will happen sooner or later.

Li Xiang looked at the drooping lead cloud attentively and suddenly said, "When Feng Guozhang knew that we came to rescue Huang Xing, what would the two of them feel and express? Mr. Zeng."

"I can't afford to be the general." Zeng Gao drove forward and said with a smile, "Their eyeballs may fall all over the ground." Such an exaggerated word is still learned from Li, but it is the best description.

"Your modesty is pride." Li wanted to laugh and scold, "If it's really as you expected, counting the time, the people sent by Huang Xing should also be connected with us. Huang Xing is an old revolutionary and an old comrade. I feel that it is very difficult to imagine that Huang Xing sent someone to ask me for help at the end of the mountain. You should know that a hundred years ago, Li Xiang visited Huang Xing's former residence with the mood of pilgrimage.

Zeng Gao appreciated the pastoral scenery along the way and smiled, "The marshal rises like a comet. Compared with Mr. Sun Huang, what is worse is only seniority. The real power is beyond their reach. You are proud of your modesty. He sent this original sentence to Li Xiang again.

"Power?" Li wanted to whisper, "Yuan Shikai is the real power faction. As long as the Beiyang Army is in his hands for a day, he will be the first person among the foreign population to save the situation in China. Whether we admit it or not, he is an established fact. Who said that our fists are not as hard as him?

Zeng frowned and gritted his teeth and said, "Revolution is the power of the weak against the strong, not to mention that I have never really seen you afraid of Yuan Shikai. Now it is a necessary process for the revolution to launch a war and realize the revolutionary ideal with violence. I hate war, but for the sake of the future of the Chinese nation, I dare to provoke war, even if it is bloody.

Only then did Li Xiang know that Zeng Gao, who was tired of war, had such a determination. Li thought that he was not really afraid of Yuan Shikai, because he knew that Yuan Shikai was an old man with half a leg in the coffin, and he had not lived for several years. The only headache is the Beiyang warlords who have been in chaos for 30 years after Yuan Shikai's death.

Li Xiang shook his head and said, "This trip may really be a river of blood. It turned out that I hoped to complete a process of training soldiers through strategic defense, and achieve the purpose of supporting the war with war, so as to reserve a regular army for the future turmoil. In today's situation, if Feng Guozhang meets with Duan Qirui, he will have the strength to encircle and suppress us on a large scale. I really want to know if Huang Xing is still in Xiaogan. I just hate that I can't know this for the time being.

Zeng Gao's eyes flashed with a profound meaning. He thought about Li's intention to say this and said, "Commander Huang has been waiting for too long on the day we arrive. I'm afraid that Feng Guozhang will not let him wait for the day we arrive. We hurried to Xiaogan, but gave Feng Guozhang a chance to defeat us again. So what we are going to play with Feng Guozhang is a death game, and the title is nine deaths.

Li Xiang laughed dumbly. Zeng Gao also learned humor. He wanted to cheat Li Xiang's plan from the bottom of his heart and said, "If there is a war, there will be death. It is not certain who will die. Beiyang Group does not have the unity we imagine. It is because of Yuan Shikai that we have the current situation. Feng Guozhang may not be willing to play with me.

Zeng Gao finally couldn't help asking, "What's the plan, commander? Why don't you say it?"

At this time, a strange noise came from the front, interrupting their conversation, as well as the soldiers resting. Li wanted to listen carefully and hear more clearly. It turned out to be the wheels, footsteps and human voices.

When Li Xiang and Zeng Gao looked at me, a large group of people dressed as farmers dragged men and women to help the old and the young. The ox cart and mule carried the house, walked hard on the muddy road, crying and shouting, turning out from the corner of the intersection, all of them looked extremely in a hurry. The refugees who are fleeing their homes and avoiding other people have no homeland, no support, and everything is destroyed and the flames of war. Suddenly, the refugees rested a lot of civilian troops on both sides of the official road. They were so scared that they thought that the Beiyang army was chasing them. They dared not walk in front of them. They squeezed forward in the back. The official road was full of thousands of people who had fled into a pot of porridge.

Li wanted to get off his horse and walk to the official road. He grabbed one of them casually and asked, "What's going on?"

The man replied, "The sense of filial piety is lost! The defeated general has been defeated!"

Li Xiang and Zeng Gao looked at each other and saw the shock in the other party's eyes. Huang Xing also lost too quickly.

After saying that, the man was about to run. He grabbed Zeng Gao and asked, "What are you going to avoid?" Didn't you see that we were the revolutionary army?

The other party saw that he was upright and a little at ease. He said, "I have seen a lot of revolutionary troops. You can't win the Beiyang Army. The blossoms of the Beiyang Army fell down, and the roof of the Confucian Temple was lifted off. The wall of Xiaogan has collapsed, and the city of Xiaogan has also been burned clean by the Beiyang army. Wherever the Beiyang army goes, chickens and dogs are restless. You'd better look back.

Li Xiang asked blankly, "Are you going to escape there?" It's not safer to go south to Hankou. Why go north? You should know that the Beiyang Army is coming from the north.

The man sighed and replied, "Go south to Hankou? Those revolutionary troops are used for food and will be destroyed by the revolutionary army sooner or later. Only to the north, I heard that Marshal Li went to the north. Only Marshal Li can protect us.

Li Xiangyi said, "What?"

The other party took care of him when he had leisure. Knowing that they were revolutionary troops, he was no longer afraid. The refugee team hurried before it rained.

Zeng Gao looked at the end of the refugee team and said with a smile, "It seems that the general has won the hearts of the people in Hubei, which makes the hearts of the people."

Li Xiang said happily and proudly, "This people's heart is not a responsibility. If I can't protect them and give them a happy and healthy life, I am ashamed of their trust and love."

Tang Yuewan suddenly drove forward, couldn't help looking back at the refugees who avoided the war, and said quietly, "I'm a little afraid to go forward."

Li Xiangyi's face was gloomy and nodded and said, "You are afraid of seeing the northern military traitor'** a terrible scene of plundering and suffering from life."

Tang Yuewan had a strong sadness in his eyebrows and nodded slowly.

The action of the revolutionary army was not terminated because of Tang Yuewan, but accelerated the journey. When the war comes to the current situation, if you join the battlefield earlier, you can understand the situation earlier.

Li Xiang suddenly strangled his horse with a "huh", waved his hand to stop behind, pointed to the distant sky and said, "What is that?"

Zeng Gao took out his telescope and looked up at the horse. Seeing the red light shining, he changed his color in horror and said, "Fire! There was a big fire in the village! Damn, someone set the village on fire.

Li Xiang almost jumped up and shouted, "Let's go!"

Li wanted to lead the cavalry, and the hoofs rolled, splashing mud all the way to the fire. Li thought of several generals, relying on his handsome horse strength, and rushed into the town first beyond the team.

When I got here, the whole town had been burned, and all the houses were burned to the top, and the ground was covered with black and broken tiles and bricks. The corpses inside and outside the town are full of human and animal corpses, partly turned into recognizable coke, and the humid air is full of dead fragrance. In addition to the thick smoke everywhere and the houses that are still burning, this town, which was supposed to be lively and prosperous, has become a dead ghostland, and the survivors should escape far away. Some corpses were still dry blood stains, and the murderers were cruelly disposed of regardless of men, women and children. Li thought that several people burst into tears, but his heart was as cold as ice.

Song Que roared, "Is this a good thing for Feng Guozhang's Beiyang beast? What these beasts do is far worse than beasts.

There are faint voices of chariots and horses in the southeast of the town, but they gradually fade away.

Li Xiang roared, "When you see us coming, you want to escape and chase! Don't let one go."

Zeng Gaogang wanted to stop him and waited for the army to follow up. Unexpectedly, Li Xiang and Song Que had already whipped their horses, and the war horse flew away and rushed out far away. He suddenly gritted his teeth and chased after him. Tang Yuewan's face turned pale. He didn't dare to look at the miserable scene again and chased after him.

Li Xiang and Song Que first passed through the ruined town, and they were immediately stunned.

I only saw that the official road to the south was full of Beiyang soldiers, and the tail dragged behind his head could not be faked. The banner was crooked, and obviously he also noticed that Li wanted their approach and retreated. At the end of the team are countless mule cars. Due to the relationship between the road and the load of the car after the rain, they got rid of the team and struggled to support this journey like an 80-year-old old lady. Feng Guozhang was disturbed by Li Xiang's hard wall on the Jinghan Railway. Especially after going south, the reserve militia frantically destroyed the Jinghan Railway, and Feng Guozhang's food began to be in short supply. Feng Guozhang's Beiyang soldiers have relied on robbing people's money to boost morale, but now they need to rob them.

In the distance, I only heard a ferocious laughter of a man from the fallen mule car, and then a red fruit woman was thrown out of the car with blood. "Peng!" He fell on the road of drowning in the mud, and his hands and feet twitched once or twice, and he was out of breath.

The Beiyang soldier driving in front of him laughed loudly and said, "Lao Yuan, good guy, you are really good."

Li Xiang and Song Que saw such a beast walk and rushed to the crown angrily. They could still hold back and ran up desperately.

The Beiyang soldier who had just raped and killed the innocent village girl in the car raised his head and suddenly saw the two of them running furiously. At a glance, he saw that it was the clothing of the Hubei People's Army. He smiled gistrately and said, "Is it your mother who did it for me? I just was killed by us in Xiaogan, and now I dare to come back to die.

The two flew up almost at the same time, jumped off the horse's back, and rushed to the Beiyang soldiers. The Beiyang soldier was shocked to see that the two were a family. He called his accomplices who were driving back to help. At the same time, he didn't have time to pull out his gun and push the bullets. He didn't know that he pulled out a knife and swept out in order to prevent them from jumping on the car.

Li wanted to bear the brunt of it, only to find that his hands were empty-handed and there was no blocking weapon. He was shocked to shout, "My life is over", but he heard a snatching sound behind him. The Beiyang soldiers fluttered and let go of their sabers and got out of the carriage. Li wanted to fall on the carriage. When he was shocked, he didn't forget to look back. Zeng Gao and Tang Yuewan also rode after him. Tang Yuewan still held the Bo Langning left wheel in his hand. The sound of the blade breaking the wind sounded, and the Beiyang soldiers driving in front of him picked up their bayonets and arrived by mistake. At this time, at the edge of the railing of Song, he crossed the bayonet of the Beiyang soldier and bent his knees and hit the head of the Beiyang soldier. The Beiyang soldier was not even too late. His neck was broken, fell backwards and killed on the spot. Li wanted to jump on the throne and stop the old horse of the trailer.

The Beiyang army, which was retreating, divided more than a dozen horses and covered them back. Finally, there were only four civilian vanguards who attacked and harassed the rear of the Beiyang Army. All of them were the vanguards of the civilian army in civilian costumes, and there was also a female child. The brave Hunan army was killed by them in Xiaogan, and the Beiyang soldiers did not pay attention to the four civilian troops. More than a dozen Beiyang soldiers gradually slowed down, and finally stopped outside the four people. The horse couldn't help kicking. Immediately, the Beiyang soldiers kept looking at the four of them, and finally their eyes were all focused on Tang Yuewan.

"Look at her big feet. It's really ugly. There is a man who dares to take it." A Beiyang soldier who didn't dare to be flattering opened his mouth first.

"Now women in the south are more wild than women in the north, and it has become a trend not to wrap their feet. Look, her head is higher than that of a man. She must be a shrew in the future. Some Beiyang soldiers came to such a conclusion.

"I don't want a big-footed woman upside down, and I don't have any sexuality to play." This Beiyang soldier made his position clear first.

The rumors spread into Tang Yuewan's ears, and his white smiling face rose purple in an instant. Returning to the horse, Li Xiang reached out and held her little hand, which was holding her white and trembling knuckles.

Li Xiang glanced at the large number of Beiyang soldiers and smiled calmly and said, "The revolutionary army does not kill prisoners. You put down your weapons now and surrender immediately. I will give you a chance for labor reform."

The head of the army in front of the Beiyang soldiers opened their eyes angrily and shouted, "He Fang boy, you are so arrogant. Report it, Grandpa won't die under the knife.

The Beiyang soldiers pulled out their sabers one after another. Of course, killing people is better than shooting with knives. What's more, the civilian army is only four people, three men and one woman.

"Retight back!" Li Xiang whispered in Tang Yuewan's ear, and then pulled out the waist knife hanging on the horse. He looked up to the sky and laughed, "I won't change my surname or change my name. Li Xiang, the leader of the Hubei bandit party, is also. This big head is worth a lot of money. It depends on whether you have the ability to get it.

The Beiyang soldiers and horses have all changed. Since the Wuchang uprising, the two biggest defeats of the Qing army have been in Hubei, and the two wars with the most dead, both of which were presided over by Li Xiang. The number of people who died in Li Xiang's hands increased, and his prestige rose.

The head of Beiyang soldiers exchanged a few eyes with his men and saw that everyone was timid. He turned his face and looked at Li Xiang carefully, trying to distinguish the true from the false. Li wants to look feminine in the eyes of these big men in the north, but the newly healed scar extending from the front of the big brim hat adds a lot of masculinity to him. In addition, he has led the army to fight these days, and the battlefield has also died once, and the general's temperament on his body has begun to take shape. In this way, he immediately stood up. In the face of Beiyang soldiers who were more than himself, he still talked and laughed freely.

Beiyang soldiers coughed dryly and shouted, "It's time to die, and you dare to talk nonsense. Who doesn't know that the infighting of the Wuhan revolutionaries pushed Li Xiang out of Hankou, and Li wanted to retreat to Ande Mansion. This is the realm of Xiaogan. Why did Li think he came here? You are obviously lying and want to scare me. You are too young. I had a good time today. I don't care about your children, so I'll let you go. Brothers, withdraw."

In fact, Li Xiang has believed 80% of his words for a long time, otherwise he would not turn his head and want to turn around and leave.

Song Que shouted, "slow down!"

The head of the Beiyang army did not dare to act rashly and shouted calmly, "Are you looking for death?"

Song Que pulled out his saber, snorted coldly and said, "Do you want to escape? It's not that easy. You have only two ways, surrender or die.

At this time, the sound of hooves sounded like muffled thunder, passing through from the burnt town, like the flood of the Yellow River bursting the embankment. The iron hooves splashed with the old sewage mud beads on the roadside, and more than a thousand horses galloped at full speed. It was Li Xiang's civilian cavalry.

The head of the Beiyang army could no longer stand the superficial bluff and said in horror, "We are just collecting food and fodder from the people by the order of the presidential official. General Li, please spare my life!" Already timid, they knew that there was no way to escape, so they disarmed and surrendered one after another.

Li Xiang said angrily, "What is the collection of grain and grass? The whole town has been burned to ashes, which is simply the three lights of the dog. Who is the president?"

The head of the Beiyang Army whispered in a low voice: "The president of the Beiyang First Army is Lord Feng Guozhang."

"Grandma, what a bullshit military rank." Li wanted to shout at his subordinates who galloped behind him, "Send someone to take good care of them for me. The rest of the people will catch up with me and kill those bitches."

There are still dark clouds in the sky, and the wind and rain are brewing. More than a thousand pure cavalry of the civilian army exerted their strong mobility and besieged the single Beiyang Army. The arrogant and good-fighting Beiyang Army entered the desperate situation on all sides. With the determination to die, it collides with the people's army with anger and hatred.

Zeng Gao's command on the top of the hill is as stable as a mountain. Such a meticulous temporary dispatch command on the battlefield is not something that Li wants to play through half a tune like this. Li wants to learn some military theories based on the explosive information of the modern Internet. If Li wants to go online, he can learn to command the battle, which is very painful.

"Unfortunately, there is no artillery. If there is an artillery regiment, or at least an artillery battalion, it can simply give a devastating blow to the Beiyang army in front of us." Zeng Gao sighed and felt a little regret. From the top of the mountain, the activities of the Beiyang Army are vivid in my mind, such as the temporary defense positions built, the transportation fleet for food grabbing, and the tents.

The command post, the wounded and rescue center, etc. are within sight. Zeng Gao looked at the seductive target at the foot of the mountain and drooled, and his fists sweated profusely.

Li Xiang also sighed. At this time, if there is an artillery, the civilian cavalry is bound to rush down, like a lion and a rabbit. A bird and beast of the Beiyang Army will be scattered, and the Beiyang army in front of him will be destroyed. He said in a calm tone, "Revolutionaries never lack iron and blood, but material power cannot be replaced by blood... At least it cannot be completely replaced. The ship is strong and the cannon is strong, and the country is strong. The Chinese people have sacrificed for half a century for this goal, but only Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Army has become the biggest obstacle to the Chinese revolution. If half of the revolutionary army in the south had the same equipment as the Beiyang Army, Huang Xing would not have experienced the successive failures of Zhennan Pass, Hekou and Huanghuagang, and failed again in Xiaogan, the situation in Hubei may be exchanged. The Liupingli Uprising in Hunan would not have ended miserably after a huge momentum that shook the whole country. The revolution may It has been successful for a long time, and there is no need to delay until the year of 1911.

But Li Xiang's hypothesis is ultimately yy, which is more dreamy and unreal as time travel. If it really becomes a fact, there must be a traveler who is opening the golden finger. If Li wants to be able to make a golden finger under the weak industrial foundation and the rule of stubborn feudal forces, there will be no battle of the 1911 Revolution, nor a series of uprisings before the Wuchang Uprising. I'm afraid that Li Xiang's ambition will also expand to the point of shame.

The battle between the two sides unfolded fiercely, and the Beiyang Army was obviously subdued to the weak, but this Beiyang Army officer was still roaring on the battlefield: "Each unit commander

Biqing personally urged his troops to build fortifications, and at all sacrifices, he would live and die with the position!" Then he braved the flying bullets, looked for the fortification position that was being built, and roared murderously, "We have to defend the position,

This is our coffin! The dog's army is a living servant who came to bury us.

There are no weak soldiers under the strong generals. Feng Guozhang's soldiers have always retained the tough style of governing the Beiyang army, hard-working and daring to fight with a white blade. The Beiyang Army deserves to be the most powerful army in China in this era.

Song lacked the power of nine cattle and two tigers to break through the simple peripheral position of the Beiyang Army, but was fiercely blocked by the Beiyang Army.

The two sides formed a saw-and-saw competition, and they were in and out of each other.

In view of the strong frontal resistance, Zeng Gao changed its tactics and continued to attack the front with some troops. The main force of the cavalry regiment detoured to the south and west to raid the remnants of the Beiyang army.

Zeng looked up at the smoke of war at the foot of the mountain, shook his head and sighed, "This Beiyang army is really over. Although I don't like what they have done, it is indeed a strong army that can fight well."

Li Xiang nodded and shook his head and said, "It's a pity that the weapon of the country, which is in the hands of feudal bureaucrats like Yuan Shikai, has become a tool to harm the country and the nation. If the Beiyang army had turned its gun and dealt with the Eastern and Western powers, and the national sovereignty would have been recovered long ago. Yuan Shikai is working hard to govern. Do we still need our revolution?

Zeng laughed and said, "Yuan Shikai may have had such thoughts, but the officialdom of the Qing Dynasty has been rotten to the extreme. After stepping in, he can only share the light. You should know that Yuan Shikai also cheered up when he was in North Korea, but this court, this feudal society, will not allow him to cheer up.

The simple position built by the Beiyang Army was torn apart by the people's army, and the people's army kept pouring in. The Beiyang Army organized the death squads to fight back against the breakthrough. The Beiyang Army, which was on the verge of death, resisted desperately. One fell down, and one fell again and rushed up again, just like the tide of Qiantang. All available soldiers of the Beiyang Army, including cooks, stretchers, health soldiers, etc., formed death squads to fight.

A strong Hebei man in the Beiyang soldiers stood up with a gun and confronted Song Que, who was holding a saber. The bayonet of the Hebei Dahan rifle flashed with cold light, and his eyes stared at Song Que like a wolf. The bayonet shook on the left and right in the air, trying to find the opportunity to pierce Song Que's chest and abdomen. Song Que's expression was also solemn and nervous. The enemy's bayonet smelled like a big gun in Hebei, and he had to deal with it carefully. The two of them neither shouted nor shouted, only heavy gasps and footsteps in circles. Suddenly, the two burst out a long "ah" at the same time, and the Hebei Dahan stabbed Song Que's chest. The Mauser Type 79 rifle standardly equipped by the Beiyang Army is long. When the tip of the bayonet cuts the front of Song Que's chest, when the tip of Song Que's enemy's bayonet is still an inch away from him, his body shape changes in the impossibility. He can avoid the bayonet of the Beiyang soldiers and clip the bayonet of the Beiyang soldiers under his ribs. The Beiyang soldiers collected their guns reflexively, and they felt that the powerful force from Song Que had tightened the rifle. Song Que actually rushed to the Beiyang soldiers with all his strength in a short time. The Beiyang soldiers let go and retreated in amaz. Song Que took advantage of this momentum and rushed up. With a knife from the bottom to the top, the Beiyang soldiers fell to the sky on their back, a big opening in their chest and abdomen, and their green and yellow intestines flowed to the ground, and there was a kind of muddle-headedness in his dying eyes.

Song Que solved this brave Beiyang soldier and rushed in from the breakthrough. It is the officers and soldiers of the Beiyang Army who use flesh and corpses to stop this revolutionary trend. The Beiyang army in the encirclement suddenly turned into turtles in the urn, and they were eaten by the civilian army one by one.

At dusk after the bloody battle, the twilight was dark, and Li wanted to stand on the top of the hill with a sword. The wind on the mountain is stronger than the bottom of the mountain, and the strong smell of blood blows in the wind. Li Xiang is used to this smell. The rain and fog, which was slanted by the wind, was woven into a huge curtain with the twilight, making the layers of peaks in front of it blurred. The valley where the people's night stay at night was already dark, and the unpredictable murder was emitted. In the wind and rain, Li Xiang wrapped his clothes and his body trembled slightly. Whether the body is afraid of cold or the heart is cold, maybe there are both. The war in this turbulent era, the darkness of society, the light splash of human life, and the people at the bottom live a life without any sense of security, which is a fear that people born in peacetime can never understand. Having seen the refugees fleeing the war and the town burned down by the Beiyang Army, Li Xiang has cooled down the fanatical war pride, but it is a simple revolutionary determination.

It was not until it was dark and nightfall that Li Xiang walked down the hill. He never said a word. A large pile of bonfires ignited, reflecting the night sky around the valley. Li wanted to stand at the entrance of the tent and stared at the chaotic camp outside. The soldiers gathered around the fire to keep warm, constantly throwing cut pine branches into the fire. From time to time, Mars splashed and fell on the soldiers, adding a few more holes to the already dilapidated military uniforms stained with mud and blood. The soldiers didn't care. They just played with long wooden sticks.

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