124 mountains and rivers (lower c)

Under the night, there was a fire in the direction of Liu's temple. The wolf smoke rolled, and the flames of the fire reflected half of the sky, and the crackling explosion sounded in the fire was like thunder. The thatched hut was burned, and the rising ashes hovered and fell in the air. Some people who couldn't escape were burned to death, emitting a strong burning stench.

Sun Wu withdrew his eyes looking at Liu Jiamiao, touched the sweat on his face, braved the dense gunfire of the Beiyang Army, and walked to Xie Yuankai with a limping. He said helplessly, "Liu Jiamiao Station has been occupied by the Beiyang Army. We are already in a dangerous situation of being attacked by the Beiyang Army. Now we can only withdraw from the three The front position of the bridge. He sighed again, "Zhang Jingliang must have defected. Maybe he has colluded with Feng Guozhang a long time ago."

Xie Yuankai looked emptyly at the fire in the Liu Family Temple. The previous speculation had no choice but to become a terrible reality. This change comes too fast to give them any spare time to deal with.

At this time, Feng Guozhang was looking into the distance. He crossed the three bridges that were full of war and saw the burning fire behind the civilian army illuminating half of the night sky, which was the direction of the Liujia Temple. Zhang Jingliang was leading the loyal and righteous men of the Qing Dynasty to destroy the Liujia Temple behind the bandit party.

"Tell Zhang Lianfen to launch a general attack. Before dawn, we must take down Hankou and eliminate the main force of the Hankou Bandit Party. Feng Guozhang's eight-character eyebrows stretched, a slight sneer at the corners of his mouth, and ordered the adjutant behind him.

Then, the fire of the Beiyang Army on the north side of the Sandao Bridge flashed, and then there was a sound of dense machine guns, earth-shaking cannons, and covered attacks, and a squambling shrill cut through the air and rushed to the position of the civilian army. Zhang Lianfen launched a wave of attack again. The Beiyang soldiers crossed the iron bridge on the Lu River like a tide embankment and roared at the front position of Xie Yuankai. The meteor-like shells first landed on the position of the civilian army, and the bullets spewed by the machine gun were woven into a dense net.

Xie Yuankai turned a blind eye to the streamers flying through his cheeks and the violently exploding shells around him. He just looked at the Liujia Temple behind him. The fire burned brightly and dyed half of the night sky red. Sun Wu said something eagerly in his ear, and he couldn't hear a word. This fierce general who was shuttling through the war-torn battlefield also had to walk with a straight waist. From the fierce general who was afraid, at this time, facing the firelight that almost illuminated the night sky in the distant Liujia Temple, was a twitch in his heart. He was heartbroken for the tens of millions of soldiers who bravely died under the artillery fire of the Beiyang Army. He had a spy on his side and wanted to give up the barracks occupied by the bloodshed of the Hankou army and civilians for nothing.

Under the cover of the firelight, the overwhelming scarlet was shocking; the body lying on the ground, which had long been completely unknown, died with the Beiyang soldiers on the verge of death, and the entangled bodies could not be separated; the hand held the flowing internal organs, and the blue-gray intestines sliding from the wound on the belly were covered. The blood and sand, the desperate groaning wounded; and the body that was blown into pieces by the artillery of the Beiyang Army, scattered in every corner of the battlefield and could no longer be human. The tragic scene, all the time, does not hurt everyone's visual nerves. After making such a huge sacrifice, in the end, we still have to give up the three bridges. The despair and unwillingness in the hearts of the civilian soldiers can no longer be described in words.

"Retreat!" Xie Yuankai roared and said the last order he wanted to give, and his heart was dripping blood.

The black rolling on the iron bridge is like a huge monster in the dark. It is the frenzy rolled up by the Beiyang Army. The sound of guns resounded through the sky, and the fierce battle still continues. The Beiyang army is attacking crazily, vowing to bite this civilian army to death here. The civilian soldiers were in a trance and couldn't believe Xie Yuankai's order to retreat for a moment. A pair of eyes looked back at the Liujia Temple that burned through half of the sky, and looked at the black trend of the Beiyang army. How much revolutionary blood has been poured by the civilian army and how many youthful lives have been left behind. Obviously, it has withststst the crazy attack of the Beiyang Army, but it is the result of retreat, which no one can accept.

"Daily, it has come to this point, and a bird has retreated. It's just a fight to the death. It's just like the pleasure of not being unable to fight outside Xiaogan City.

"I'm just fighting with the Beiyang soldiers, and I'm afraid of these garlic-flavored beasts. The land of Hubei has been ruined by them! Behind us is Hankou, which is our last home. Can we still retreat? We won't retreat, we won't retreat."

Xie Yuankai suddenly roared, suppressed the fierce and noisy battlefield, and shouted with the chaotic voices of the soldiers, "Zhang Jingliang defected in the battle. We have been tricked. Now it's useless to say more. The brother who is not afraid of death will come with me and block the Beiyang army here. The rest of the injured brothers, brothers who did not want to fight again, returned to Hankou City with Minister Sun.

"We are willing to fight, willing to fight, willing to fight." The scarred revolutionary soldiers on the battlefield responded, and they would rather fill the remaining half of their lives in the three bridges.

Xie Yuankai was so excited that he lingered around his mouth for a while before shouting, "I swear not to be a dog slave!" Kill the Beiyang dog!"

"Vow not to be a dog slave! Kill the Beiyang dog!" Everyone shouted bravely, roared out the anger in their hearts, and threw away the fear of death. They cherish life, but they don't want to be full slaves and live in the world. They would rather not be full slaves and die on the three bridges.

The mountain tsunami swept through the battlefield. Feng Guozhang, who was watching the battle here, was also frightened to hear it. He sat down as a general and was moved by the tenacious desperate army. Perhaps when he thought of the fate that this terrible army was about to die, he looked a little better.

At present, a already scarred death squad has been organized, with Xie Yuankai as the commander. Sun Wu, who was injured, led the wounded soldiers who could not join the battlefield to withdraw from the three bridges.

Xie Yuankai was lying in a shallow trench that had been blown up, and the mud on the ground had covered every inch of his body. After venting his excitement, he stared coldly at the approaching Beiyang Army, and the artillery also fell sparsely. In Xiaogan, the revolutionaries in Hubei did not fight to the death, which led to today's bad results. In such a cowardly battle, the unparalleled honors of the revolutionaries who initiated Xinhai's first righteousness have all become other people's jokes. Several people in the whole Wuchang Advisory Bureau are working hard for the revolution, and they are also bleeding for the revolution. Why do they have to divide a faction? Look at my jokes, I see your jokes, and finally bury all the good opportunities of the revolution. Today, there is no way to retreat. No matter what kind of faction and what kind of fight the Hubei revolutionary party has, Xie Yuankai will no longer care about it anymore, so he will be buried in the three bridges. Let the people of the whole country see that the revolutionary party members of Shouyi are not proud and complacent, and are still guarding the fruits of the revolution with blood. The shame written in Xiaogan, today, they wash it with blood.

The black Beiyang army rolled up the tide and poured from the iron bridge. At the moment when the Beiyang Army walked out of the iron bridge, the machine gunners of the Beiyang Army stopped shooting and suppressed it. Xie Yuankai took back his chaotic thoughts in an instant and jumped out of the trench. His tired body squeezed out the last remaining strength, burst out the bravery of the Jedi counterattack, met the black tide of the Beiyang army, and rushed up without hesitation. At this time, the civilian soldiers no longer needed him to issue any instructions. They jumped out of the trenches and rushed to the Beiyang Army. The two sides were hanged together on the three bridges, with long guns and knives, close flesh and blood flying. In a day's battle, the exhausted body, almost desperately attacked, and squeezed out the last power of life, just to slow down the progress of the Beiyang army a little, because the Beiyang army was not only well-equipped and well-trained, but also a continuous flow of new forces into the battlefield.

At this moment, life is rapidly withering, but it blooms like a summer flower.

Under the night, the brigade was tired and disabled. Sun Wu, supported by a soldier, limped on the mud road, full of scarred and exhausted soldiers. What kind of emotion is it that they can't say a word. The team is just stuffy, like walking corpses walking. The fierce battle that the three bridges were still beating fiercely on their hearts. They kept looking back at the fierce war in the rear, or turned their heads in the direction of Liujia Temple and burned through half of the sky from the horizon. Unwilling, no one will be willing... Never despair and frustration, never thought, forget the savior... Come quickly!

Sun Wu and others did not dare to return to Liujia Temple along the railway, but chose to make a detour to the north in the Dongcheng Circle of Hankou, and entered Hankou City from the side of the Xishang Racecourse, with Dazhimen Station as the second defensive fortress.

On the battlefield of the three bridges, the last two sides had a primitive hand-to-hand fight. The scene was very tragic, like returning to the battlefield of the era of cold weapons. In a position of only a few hundred meters, there were as many as four or five hundred corpses of the People's Army and the Beiyang Army. The broken guns, the bent bloody bayonet, the ground was in a mess, and the two sides died. Soldiers, the body lies all over this square inch, and the earth is full of blood. The night wind blew coldly, and the diffuse smoke and strong smell of blood stayed here. The battle of the three bridges is fierce and unspeakable.

A pair of long-term military boots stepped on this blood-sucking land, and the three bridges were finally taken down. The sacrifices of the Beiyang army far exceeded expectations. This army, which did not dared to fight to the death in Xiaogan, broke out such an amazing combat effectiveness on the three bridges, which was completely different from before. The strong smell of blood, mixed with gunpowder smoke, and the strange posture of Beiyang soldiers and civilian soldiers wrestled to death. The people of the Beiyang Army who cleaned up the battlefield were trying to separate these bodies, and often broke their fingers and could not be separated. Feng Guozhang frowned slightly when he saw everything in his eyes. In front of him, there was a row of Beiyang soldiers passing by. These proud soldiers and tough generals across the north, the faces of the northern people also showed strange emotions. This was an emotion that Beiyang soldiers had never had on the battlefield. In Hubei, they met enemies who were more fiercer than the Beiyang army one after another. It actually made them have an inexplicable fear in the bottom of their hearts.

It is such a terrible enemy, but it is so fierce that it has just been established, and it is even more to put them out in their infuries. At this time, Feng Guozhang had to admire Yuan Shikai's foresight. The purpose of this battle in Hankou was to eliminate the main force of the revolutionary army.

At the same time, Yuan Shikai was indeed angry at Li Yuanhong's ignorant praise, as Zeng Gao expected. Later, not only did Li Yuanhong have a tough attitude, but Huang Xing also changed his previous attitude of persuasion. After arriving in Shanghai, he made public remarks, refuted Liu Chengen's constitutional monarchy, and told the soldiers and civilians in Wuhan not to be moved by Yuan Shikai and expose his bad intentions.

After Yuan Shikai learned about the attitude of the revolutionary party, he was happy and angry. The happy thing is that the bottom line of the revolutionary party has been found, and the angry thing is that these people are still so unconvinced after losing.

Therefore, he agreed with the offensive plan of Feng Guozhang and other radical Beiyang people, and put forward the general policy of eliminating the main force of the revolutionary army of the Wuchang Group.

"If it is not frustrated with its sharpness, there is no hope for peace, and the remaining half of his prestige will also be in the ass!" Yuan Shikai wrote in his book to his brother Yuan Shitong.

Before Feng Guozhang came to Qikou, Yuan Shikai had formulated a strategy for the Beiyang Army to divide the troops into two directions. On the one hand, Yuan Shikai, who is in the capital, controls Feng Guozhang, who has strategic Liujiamiao's stronghold, and advances from the northeastern suburbs of Hankou to the urban area of Hankou along the railway, with the intention of seeking a decisive battle with the main force of the civilian army and eliminating the most combative civilian army group in the thirteen southern provinces. On the other hand, he ordered Duan Qirui, who is stationed in Xiaogan, to lead the second army to make every effort to maintain the entry from Xinyang, Henan. In Hubei, he went straight to the railway lifeline of Xiaogan, and then accompanied by a small mobile cavalry to cooperate with the battle of Feng Guozhang's first army. He was ready to enter Hanyang from Caidian, attack from east to west, capture Hanyang and Hankou, and then deter Wuchang.

Naturally, the recovery of the three towns and the suppression of the Wuchang Uprising cannot be the ultimate goal of Yuan Shikai. The larger and more far-reaching plot is yet to come. The military attack on the Hubei Revolutionary Army is just a crucial move in Yuan Shikai's layout. Yuan Shikai's foresight and ambition is not that no one can see it, but what can he do? After Yuan Shikai forced everyone to a dead end, everyone could only put hope on Yuan Shikai, which could only exist in impossible fantasy.

Feng Guozhang's confused thoughts and unconsciously entered the Liu Family Temple. At this time, the leading troops of the Beiyang Army had begun to attack Dazhimen, with artillery fire lifting the sky and infantry rushing forward.

Feng Guozhang stood in the front command post of the temporary newly built Liujia Temple, listening to the battlefield in the direction of Dazhimen in the distance, the shocking shouts of hundreds of soldiers came clearly from afar. Feng Guozhang did not divert his cold eyes for a moment. There were scorched black rubble and unburned fires around the Liu's temple. Through the flames that destroyed everything, his eyes went deep into the darkness. Although the night made his eyes blind, the sound that hit the eardrums made him feel the cruelty and bloodless all the time. Everything is making this opponent who has never really paid attention to him... The vulnerable peasant army in his eyes... The famous Beiyang general feels deep cold, and the coldness of the late autumn night wind is not as cold as the cold in his heart, so that every drop of sweat flowing from his back is dripping cold sweat.

Every inch of land under Feng Guozhang's feet is covered with blood. For the civilian soldiers who have suffered heavy casualties, exhausted and are almost on the verge of collapse due to continuous fighting, they can always be miraculously refreshed at the edge of collapse. The immeasurable and infinite spiritual power that broke out in the excitement. These ordinary and ordinary revolutionary soldiers fought to the last moment of their lives. Why? Spirit or mission? It is a belief and ideal that Feng Guozhang can't understand. It seems that they can see the meaning of their lives and their own value from the illusory ideals. Often, the revolutionaries shouted, a bad slogan, the strongholds of various positions, the ordinary soldiers of the people's army in the trenches, suddenly burst into a burst of love, cheers, and the low morale rose again.

Feng Guozhang thought with sweat that such a crazy enemy was too terrible. "For such a strong enemy, the only thing we can do except respect is to destroy them physically." Maybe he said it to Zhang Lianfen and others, or maybe he was talking to himself. He looked back at the battlefield of the three bridges he had just taken down. There was a flash of fire in the dark night sky, and the smoke had not dissipated. Since entering Hubei, the revolutionaries he met have become more and more crazy. He muttered, "The elimination of such a brave and crazy enemy and let them be destroyed physically and forever is undoubtedly the best blow to the resistance of the banditarian people's army against the Beiyang Army, which will make them lose their so-called spirit. Yang, ideal, make them completely disappointed and desperate.

"Yes! What Lord Yuan wants is to decapture the revolutionary spirit of Wuchang, and at the same time to deter the revolutionaries in the south. Zhang Lianfen nodded and answered that Yuan Shikai personally remotely controlled the Hankou war. They also felt Yuan Shikai's pulse, but they could not say what happened next.

When he said this, Zhang Lianfen was also panicked. Perhaps all all contempt, disdain, ridicule and sarcasm have become a thing of the past. This newly washed mud-legged civilian army reminds them of the head-on collision between Li Dian and Li Xiangbu. The madness of the revolutionaries is that they can't understand.

Dazhimen Station is full of smoke and the war is fierce. Ma Rong led the reinforcements out of the thick fireworks and entered the fierce battlefield of Dazhimen Station. Burning firelight everywhere, charred black rubble, collapsed beams, and ambush corpses everywhere that I couldn't bear to see. The firelight kept shining, and the unique coarse ore faces of the northerners of the approaching Beiyang Army were clearly visible. There are few soldiers left in the civilian army stationed at Dazhimen, all of whom are scarred, but they still stubbornly resist the fierce attack of the Beiyang army and stick to Dazhimen step by step. Even the civilian soldiers who fell to the ground did not forget to fight. They held bayonets with difficulty and greeted the Beiyang soldiers. The civilian garrison has collapsed on the verge of collapse, and there is still a thin layer left in the position of the Beiyang Army. Everyone is full of fatigue and scars. As long as the Beiyang Army rushes again, the position of Dazhimen will be broken.

"Brothers, we're here. Let's leave the next thing to us. Please step back." Ma Rong's blood was boiling, and he roared forward and secretly called in time. The soldiers behind him also roared, followed him and rushed up, crossed his exhausted comrades-in-arms, and collated fiercely with the Beiyang army, stirring up flying blood. The bayonet made a sour sound, and the blood was stained with the blade shining with cold light. The Beiyang army retreated after being hit, and more Beiyang soldiers poured in from behind, and stabilized their positions.

The civilian soldiers, who have been exhausted, still rushed forward bravely, and people kept shouting, "Remove, where can we retreat?" Behind us is our home, and we can no longer be burned to ashes by the Beiyang army like Xiaogan. We swear not to retreat!"

"No return! I will never be a full-man dog slave anymore, just die here with Beiyang soldiers. We haven't failed yet. There will always be someone who will inherit our ideals and continue our unfinished battle until the ideals are realized and the revolution succeed. Beiyang dog, there are thousands of Chinese revolutionaries, and you have killed them clean again? These scarred soldiers leaned against each other to form a human wall, on the way of the Beiyang army.

The Beiyang Army is rampant in the north. What wind and waves have not lied? What strong enemy didn't meet? Even the Boxer Rebels and religious fanatic groups that swept Zhili and Shandong were still killed all over the field, killing them as easily as cutting melons and cutting vegetables. It is such a strong army that is invincible from the north. It goes south to calm down the chaos. I thought it was an extremely easy little thing. As soon as the Beiyang army arrives, the mud legs of the Hubei bandit party are not the wind. However, since entering Hubei, it has never been easy to fight against the bandit party. Which war is not a bloody battle? Which battle is not full of death and injury? However, the pride of the Beiyang Army cannot be easily scared by the madness of the bandit party. The generals and soldiers of the Beiyang Army had the same red eyes, shouted frantically, and rushed forward fearlessly with bayonets, fighting with the civilian army.

"Brothers, kill these bandits and get rewards. Lord Yuan will not treat us badly.

"Hankou is full of gold and silver, copied these old nests, and took out all the gold door to door."

Hubei is rich, which is what these eight masters of Beidiqiu did not expect. They have only killed Xiaogan, and they are all rich. This is going to enter Hankou and rob Hankou. This Jiangnan gold powder is bustling international metropolis second to Shanghai. In this life, you don't have to worry about the money of eating, drinking and playing. You can learn to be an apartment when you go home. The Beiyang soldiers' eyes were shining, and their fighting spirit was instantly full of state. They were more excited than beating chicken blood and eating Qiyin and shouting away. They filled into the battlefield of Dazhimen with high fighting spirit.

I don't know how many times I have killed. Ma Rong is covered with blood. I don't know how many people have been killed, and his fierce eyes fell on the next target. The targeted Beiyang soldiers are tall and big, but they can't be strong in front of Ma Rong. They are even more timid for the first time and want to retreat. Ma Rong had already jumped on it, raised the knife and split it straight down. The knife was fierce with the power of thunder. The Beiyang soldier raised a big blade that he didn't know where he got from and blocked Ma Rong's thunderbolt. However, the man was split and retreated repeatedly, which made the Beiyang army behind him unstable and retreated into an open space. Ma Rong took the opportunity to rush up. The civilian army behind him seemed to find a flood of gaps, quickly filling the gaps emptied by the Beiyang Army, and tightly forced the Beiyang Army.

The desperate determination of the people's army once again launched a close-range meat game, and formed the Great Wall with flesh and blood, forcing the forward troops of the Beiyang Army to take a step forward. In such a bitter battle, even the strong Beiyang Army has woken up from the encouragement of infatuation with wealth, and has been exhausted and scared. A Beiyang soldier who fought back and forth, full of blood, gasped like a cow, and looked at the bandits in the fire under the night with a complicated look. They were also tired. The civilian army, which was about to collapse, miraculously resisted the offensive of the Beiyang Army again and again. Is this just because they were crazy? At this moment, I think that the gold and silver everywhere in Hankou are not easy to take. There are layers of corpses lying on the battlefield of Dazhimen, among which Beiyang soldiers are no less than the civilian army.

After the setback, the Beiyang Army retreated and rested. The People's Army finally got a little time to breathe, but this was only a moment of breathing. The battle situation of Dazhimen was still extremely unfavorable to the revolutionary army. The same is true of Hankou. Feng Guozhang's Beiyang First Army went south, opened the three bridges and entered the Liujia Temple in order to destroy the main force of the Hubei People's Army in one fell swoop. Feng Guozhang said that he took Hankou before dawn.

After losing its commander-in-chief Zhang Jingliang, the Hankou People's Army spontaneously organized defense, and one unit gathered at the battlefield of Dazhimen. In the battle situation of Dazhimen, the two sides could not hold each other for a while. At the beginning of the war, the Hubei military government repeatedly decided to expand the strength of the Hankou people's army. Ma Rong was the first batch of dispatched troops. Li Yuanhong followed him to send people to various inns in Wuchang overnight to send invitations to military school students returning from other provinces. That night, Xu Yuanquan, as a representative, attended the military and political conference held by the Red Mansion of the Governor of Wuchang, and spoke generously to serve the revolution. After the meeting, more than 300 students were called on to serve as captains and crossed the river to Hankou overnight. After Ma Rong, they came to Dazhimen Railway Station and immediately fought fiercely with the Beiyang Army.

On the battlefield of Dazhimen, he finally joined a special combat group that had not received any military training before. In order to protect their homes, in order to protect their homes, in order to keep the harsh taxes reduced by the revolution, in order to get rid of the harsh government of the Qing Dynasty, in order to no longer be a slave, for freedom, for the sake of equality, they picked up Weapons. The citizens of Hankou participated in the war and officially became the enemy of the imperial court.

In the temporary headquarters of Liujiamiao, the kerosene lamps in the marching tent are not as bright as the continuous fire outside. Feng Guozhang's slender eyes were also full of blood. Looking at the direction of Dazhimen, there was a dazzling firelight shining in the darkness from time to time. The crazy resistance of these bandit parties has made him really angry. These bandits have been defeated again and again, but they are more tenacious and crazy. The battle for Dazhimen entered a stalemate, and the two armies fought with white blades and entwined together. The advanced machine guns, cannons and other weapons of the Beiyang Army are also useless.

Zhang Lianfen lowered her head on the map and pointed out and said, "Our army should now take a fan attack, from Liujiamiao along the railway line to the west to Dazhimen Station; from Gusaoshu, Daijiashan and Xishang Racecourse to the southwest, and march towards the center of Hankou."

Feng Guozhang turned around, and a trace of fierceness flashed in his eyes. He gritted his teeth and said, "A group of damn bandits, why is it so troublesome? Just order the artillery to avoid the concession. Lord Yuan means that the Hankou Concession will definitely be returned to the foreigners intact, even if it doesn't matter if it is more for them. Therefore, as long as the concession in Hankou is not destroyed, it doesn't matter if Hankou turns into ashes and rubble. Tell the brothers to let go and do it.

After burning Xiaogan City, Feng Guozhang said harsh words again. The generals were also in an uproar. Some people said, "With such a fierce and fierce means, the catastrophe in Hubei has expanded again, which can be said to have completely offended the whole Hubei. In the future, Hubei people's hatred for the Beiyang army will no longer change. Who else can guard this prosperous place of golden fans?

"The total population of the three towns and cities in Wuhan is more than 800,000. In addition, there are no more than one million of the exiles who fled from the north. My lord, Hankou is not filial piety. The result of indulging the army is the loss of millions of creatures. We can't afford such sins.

Feng Guozhang's sharp eyes looked at the generals, forcing everyone to bow their heads and said, "Are you afraid that the stinky imperial historian in the court will impeach us to kill innocent people indiscriminately, or are you afraid that the revolutionaries will use this to create public opinion?"

Zhang Lianfen knew that what he was referring to was not them, but she smiled and said, "We also know that we are not in charge of the army. It is understandable that we will do whatever we can to win on the battlefield. Millions of people in the three towns of Wuhan have all died, and I'm not afraid. What can the stinky imperial historian in the court and the revolutionaries in the south do to us? The revolutionaries are the object of our suppression. What's more, we only listen to Lord Yuan's instructions. Who can dictate us? At this time, what we should consider is Lord Yuan's big plan... If the people of the three towns of Wuhan are poisoned by you and me, they will die with the revolutionaries, Li Yuanhong and others. It's a big plan for Lord Yuan to suppress it. That's what I'm worried about.

Yuan Shikai wanted to make peace with the revolutionaries. Liu Cheng'en and Jiang Ting, who had been secretly dispatched before, entered Wuchang. It's a secret, but it's almost something that the generals of the Beiyang Army know. No one has said it in their hearts. Yuan Shikai is raising the enemy's self-respect, or has a bigger plan. They dare not discuss these things publicly. Everyone just silently calculates in their hearts and secretly cooperates with Yuan Shikai's every move. At this time, listening to Zhang Lianfen's bold argument, Feng Guozhang couldn't help but sink and said slowly, "I act like this for the Qing Dynasty and Lord Yuan. You have also witnessed the tenacity and madness of the Hankou Bandit Party. How can you suppress this thunderous and bloody method? Hankou bandits are simply a family. It's not too much to kill them together. If Lord Yuan is investigated, I will shoulder the responsibility.

Zhang Lianfen shook her head. Feng Guozhang's tone was so serious and resolute that they had nothing to say.

The Beiyang cannon turned its muzzle and bombarded the Chinese residential area. The shell roared and fell like rain. The explosion sound of Lianzhu spread all over the three towns in Wuhan. The sound roared like the thunder falling like electricity. The watchdogs raised in residential houses were so scared that they hid in the corner of the wall with their tails and did not dare to make a sound. The shaking of the mountain in Hankou was like an earthquake. The ordinary houses with black tiles and white walls shook, shaking off the dust of the years. The shining fire lit up the night sky, and the low and thick clouds were dyed red.

The place near Dazhimen was bombed by the artillery of the Beiyang Army. On the side of the station, the strong reinforced concrete small foreign buildings were also blown up in pieces. The old houses with black tiles and white walls and civil structures were blown up to pieces, leaving no tiles. A large number of people came to the streets crying, wailing to cover up the roaring explosion and helplessly avoiding the flames of war. But how many are there? The shells exploded beside them, and the crowd was blown up to the flesh and blood, and the blood flowed into the open space of the river.

Ma Rong saw the unscrupulously spread of war in this rich and prosperous place, burning all the vitality. Here, except for death, the rest is destruction. The unarmed people are surging in the streets, but they don't know where to escape is the happy land. The rise and fall of the sad shouting tide, people trample on people, people squeeze people, not killed by the artillery fire of the Beiyang Army, but also be overwhelmed by the turbulent crowds. The shocking tragedy is like the end of the world.

There is no need to defend Dazhimen, leaving only the shells of the Beiyang Army with life, which is the meaning of death, not the meaning of revolution. The Beiyang Army has fired madly at residential houses, which is also the strategy that has been used since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, suppressing all enemies who dare to resist with the bloody hands of the Jedi. They did this when the Qing soldiers entered the customs, and they did the same during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Now they are also not afraid to risk the world. In the country and mountains sitting on the Qing Dynasty, the bones and blood of the Han people are no less than the Wuhu chaos, and the destruction of the Song Dynasty in Mongolia. It's just that the ancient emperor Kangxi has some means. Those the least backbone literati helped him cover up the harmony. They almost turned Chinese Han people into Manchurian slaves, more loyal and praiseful slaves than dogs.

Ma Rong shouted in his heart, but he wanted to see the tyranny of the Qing Dynasty, and how could he maintain the shaky dynasty? Even if millions of soldiers and civilians in Hankou are killed, 40,000 compatriots of our country will continue the road of revolution. Even if the fire of the revolution in Hubei is extinguished, the thirteen in the south are independent. Can the Beiyang dog legs be extinguished one by one? Even if Hubei destroys the three towns in Wuhan, there is also Li Xiang who set off the revolution in the year of 1911 outside the three towns. He will always carry out the revolution he started in the year of 1911 to the end.

Ma Rong, who was crowded in the crowd, couldn't help stepping around. The cannonball fell on the crowd behind him and exploded. He was overturned to the ground by the air wave and fell on the bluestone road. His bones were about to fall off. The severe pain stimulated the nerves and finally came to his senses. The sound of the tide came into his ears, and many eager feet in the dark stepped on him. He stood up and got up with the instinctive skills of fighting on the battlefield. Looking at the panicked crowd squeezing through him to avoid gunfire, he raised his arms and shouted, "Don't be messy! The revolutionary army tried their best to escort everyone to evacuate Dazhimen safely.

Ma Rong squeezed hard to the broken wall, pulled out a soldier scattered in the crowd, and said, "Organize the soldiers to escort the people to withdraw from the Dazhi Gate."

The huge explosion sounded constantly sounded, filling everyone's ears, making the eardrum tingling and deafening. The hot white fire flashed like thunder, and the color of the white walls and black tiles can be faintly seen in the pieces of blue smoke. You can see how prosperous it used to be here. The shells of the Beiyang Army continued to fall like rain, and the few intact houses could not escape this disaster. In an instant, the only thing left was the broken walls and ruins all over the ground, as well as the corpses all over the ground.

Ma Rong, who finally withdrew, saw that Zhang Zhidong opened two rivers and was engaged in foreign affairs. After many years of construction, the prosperity of Hankou's gold powder has become such a doomsday scene in a blink of an eye. In addition to rubble, it is rubble. Even in Hankou, which is second only to Shanghai, it is difficult to avoid the great destruction of war. This destruction was done by the Beiyang Army, and the depression and hatred in Ma Rong's heart churd like a tide. The war has touched this suffering country again, which is the pain of civilization that must be experienced for the revolution. But such a painful revolution will experience the fate of failure again. Is our country so unlucky? The revolutionaries, for the sake of this country, are not afraid of sacrifice and death, but they can't afford the depletion of the country's vitality in such a war. How much suffering do they have to bear to launch such a war? How can the depression in their hearts be calmed? Every time there is a battle with the Beiyang Army, the whole city and blocks are also flattened by artillery fire, and the whole Hubei is stuck in the quagmire of war. Even if these Hubei harassment and damage are all from the Beiyang army, there is no doubt about the damage they have caused to Hubei, and there is no doubt about the damage to the vitality of the country.

The revolutionary army and citizens were killed and injured, and Dazhimen Station was blown into ruins. The Beiyang army occupied Dazhimen, and the revolutionary army retreated to Xunlimen and then to Xinsheng Road. They used the shops and houses on the street as a barrier to prepare to start a street battle with the Beiyang Army.

In the dark night, the gunfire is rumbling, and the cold weather is still raining from time to time. The war in Hankou became more fierce, and the wave of refugees in Hankou naturally formed. They dragged their families and continued to rush to the Four Officials Hall and the Dragon King Temple. The civilian army tried its best to keep refugees crossing the Han River and fleeing to Hanyang.

The Beiyang army blew up Dazhimen and had no intention to stop the bombing. The bomb continued to roar over Hankou, and the Chinese urban area of Hankou turned into ruins in the loud explosion.

The Beiyang Army crossed the Dazhi Gate and forced into the Xunli Gate. This is one of the eight major castles in the northern part of Hankou in the Qing Dynasty. From here, the Jinghan Railway passes to Yudaimen Station to turn around. Xinsheng Road intersects with the Jinghan Line here. From the south of Xinsheng Road, it is the downtown area of Hankou, crossing the Chengma Road, to the south is the commercial area by the Yangtze River, and to the west is the Liudu Bridge Chinese residential area and the commercial area. The Xunli Gate in 1911 is already an important military stronghold in Hankou and the northern gateway to the Hankou city circle.

However, the revolutionary army no longer has the strength to participate in the war. Since the Battle of Dazhimen, the revolutionary army has no commander-in-chief, and nearly 3,000 officers and soldiers have been killed. There are not many regular soldiers left in the Hubei New Army who crossed the river to Hankou. After the Beiyang army bombarded Hankou, the remaining Hankou garrison was scattered and the equipment was lost. Without the commander-in-chief, it was too late to reorganize. Li Yuanhong of the Wuchang government sent artillery reinforcements, but it was also a drop in the bucket. The strength of the Beiyang Army was really too strong, and the methods of the Beiyang Army were too fierce and fierce. The two armies are fighting. The first is strength, and the second is command. No soldiers can do without generals, and no generals can't do without orders. The soldiers and people of Hankou now fight for themselves with their own blood and spiritual people, but they can't withstand the muzzle of the Beiyang Army and can no longer save the overall situation of the overthrow of the Hankou revolution.

Feng Guozhang of Liujiamiao was dispatched and vowed to seize Hankou before dawn. The Beiyang Army was ordered to press down from the east and north towards the center of Hankou. In addition to a armed force following the retreating revolutionary army along the Xinsheng Road, there is also a large army surrounding the northern suburbs of Hankou, from the sister-in-law tree to the west, through the Chinese business horse racing farm, and then to the south, with Yudaimen Station as the fortress, to the old city of Hankou to the Yangtze River and Hanshui. The area is advancing in a piece, trying to block the last escape route of the soldiers and civilians in Hankou, with the ultimate goal of eliminating the main force of the Hankou revolutionary army.

Yudaimen, like Dazhimen and Limen, is also one of the eight major castles in the northern suburbs of Hankou at the end of the Qing Dynasty. In 1898, the construction of the Jinghan Railway at the southern end of Yudaimen and the Lugou Bridge at the northern end. In 1906, the Yudaimen Station and Dazhimen Station were completed in the same year. It is the terminal station of the southern section of the Beijing-Han Railway, surrounded by the Hankou tea distribution market.

The Beiyang army swept over, and Mark Qin weaved a dense bullet net to open the road, and the Xunlimen was almost opened by the Beiyang army until it had been lost. The Beiyang Army captured Xunlimen, and a revolutionary army retreated south and retreated to the commercial and residential area of Huabu, Hankou. The Qing army crossed the railway track and chased along the street, searching for every house and every roadway. The street battle began from the Xinsheng Road south of the Jinghan Railway. The revolutionary army hid into the streets and secretly opened fire on the Qing army, especially the Hankou People's Army, which was well-known and well-known. It crossed the streets and alleys. The chasing Beiyang Army circled around the old Hankou urban area, retreated from Xinsheng Road to Houcheng Road, and retreated from Houcheng Road to behind Hualou Street. The streets are crisscrossed, connecting Xinsheng Road and Baoshun Road, crossing the whole old city of Hankou, Huangpi Street, Wangjia Lane, Siguan Hall, and retreating in the direction of the Dragon King Temple.

Another part of the revolutionary army retreated to Yudaimen Station along the railway, hoping to defend the last fortress in the north city circle of Hankou. However, like the previous stations, the railway was smooth, and the Qing army came faster from east to west, and a large number of Qing troops from Wansongyuan and Huashang Racecourse. Pretaught up, from today's Hankou Gymnasium straight into the jade belt door, the remnants of the revolutionary army retreated south and took refuge in residential areas from Hualou Street to Manchun Street.

Feng Guozhang led his troops to occupy the three major stations in Hankou, Liujiamiao, Dazhimen and Yudaimen, and control the entrance and exit of Hankou, which can not only prevent other provinces and cities from supporting the Hubei Military Government, but also directly transport the Beiyang Army to the downtown area of Hankou. From Yudaimen Station to the south is Hanshui, which will become the Beiyang Army. Attack the military base in Hanyang. Feng Guozhang, who graduated from Beiyang Military Academy, showed his superb combat strategy in one fell swoop.

There were few enemies, and the revolutionary army fought and retreated. It moved to the intersection of Han River and the Yangtze River. A ┙-shaped retreat route, from the Xun Limen in the north of Hankou to the Longwang Temple in the southwest corner of Hankou, a road to live on the death, was forced to escape. After the fall of the Xun Limen, the revolutionary army was scattered and weak, and there was no Hankou. Under the guidance of the civilian army, it is impossible for the revolutionary army to cross the whole urban area from north to south and from east to west to the banks of the Han River.

The old city of Hankou is like a huge hidden maze. If you can go in, you may not get out. The streets and alleys are tortuous, crisscross, and you can't distinguish between southeast and northwest. There is no southeast and northwest. The houses are dense and the layers are repeated. You can't see the front and back. The revolutionary army retreated into the streets and alleys, like swimming fish into the water, which is protected by the citizens of Hankou. Get up.

In the retreating crowd, Zhao Chengwu stood and looked north. He once helped Li Xiang restore Hankou. Now what he wants to see most is that Li Xiang can appear miraculously and create a revolutionary miracle in Hankou, but... this miracle can only be a fantasy.

Zhao Chengwu shouted, "Our home has been reduced to war. Where are we going to escape? Do we have to be the Shunmin of the Qing Dynasty again? I'm afraid that the Beiyang Army will not let us go. Haven't you seen the riot of the Beiyang Army clearly? Is there still a happy land of peace in Hubei? Our lives have always been taken seriously in the Manchu Qing Dynasty. After escaping from Hankou, I don't know what tragic fate is waiting for us. There is no way out. It's better to follow me, kill back, take back our homeland, take back the glory of our revolutionary army, and take back everything that should belong to us.

Yes, the mountains and rivers are exhausted, and there is no way to escape. The crowd who fled in panic slowly stopped and shouted desperately, "Kill back!" Kill it back! Kill it back!" The sound of a tsunami in the mountains helped the sky.

At the moment of death, the retreating revolutionary army spontaneously organized and gathered a counterattack. It once reached the Jade Gate, but retreated to Liudu Bridge and Qiaokou under the strong firepower of the Qing army. The strength of the two sides is very different. No matter who it is, it is difficult to reverse the overall situation of the battle of Hankou at this moment. In this way, the revolutionary army's counterattack against the current is even more tragic. Pieces of corpses lay all over the broken walls, and the blood of the revolutionary army was spread into a bright red carpet for the Beiyang Army to move forward.

The Beiyang Army bombarded a large street market from the south of Houcheng Road to He Street. Feng Guozhang's command swept all the way from Xunlimen and Yudaimen. After crossing the Chengma Road to Hualou Street and Liudu Bridge, he was dumbfounded. The northerners who grew up on the plain and the cobweb-like Hankou streets and alleys made him dizzy, and the new military training was also There is no such troublesome topic as the professor, but they are not worried at all. Such a situation has been encountered once in Xiaogan, and they have long received the password of Feng Guozhang to let go. There is no need to ask Feng Guozhang again. One word, burn! And there are words: to prevent the "bandit party" from hiding in the market; there is no difference between the Hankou people and the bandit family; burn it all, let's see where these "bandits" who commit the rebellion can hide?

Outside the former concession of the five countries in Hankou, along the Yangtze River, along the river, the gathering area of Chinese commercial ports since the late Qing Dynasty, the market is prosperous, the residential buildings are crowded, China's inland gold wharf, tea, cotton, tung oil, medicinal materials, raw paint and other eight major business gangs, merchants from the east, west, north and south are all The commercial port transfer business was set up along the Yangtze River - a fire of the Beiyang Army, from the Siguan Hall to the Dragon King Temple, the fire soared in the air, and the momentum was even greater than in the Liujia Temple. The wind swept the fire, really like a huge fire dragon soaring into the sky, and the deep dark clouds were burned red, as if they were about to melt.

Li Yuanhong, who could no longer sit in the Red Tower in Wuchang, boarded the Wenchang Gate Tower in Wuchang. Looking at the burning fire, he reflected the vast Yangtze River and illuminated the whole three towns of Wuhan. It seemed to burn out all the golden powder prosperity of Hankou and the desperate resistance of the revolutionary army, and burned out the only trace of hope and Fantasy, the vastness and darkness of the burned out of Chu Tian until it made the world darker, and burned out the achievements of all the bloody sacrifices of the revolutionary cause. Li Yuanhong's face could no longer stop turning pale. The dilapidation of the situation in Hubei was far beyond his imagination, which was not the result he wanted. His thick lips were tight, and he couldn't say a word.

Behind Li Yuanhong, a group of trembling old people in the consultation bureau were even more afraid to stand still. The general trend is gone! I didn't expect that Wuchang's elite soldiers and generals would be defeated so quickly. Who else can I rely on to make the Great Wall? We are rebeling and being defeated. We are going to raid the family and destroy the family.

"Li Du, we are exhausted, and it's time to consider making peace with Yuan Shikai." Some people even made such suggestions, but they were immediately seconded by a group of old people in the Consultative Bureau.

In the alliance under the city, Li Yuanhong still didn't say a word, and his heart sank to the bottom of the Yangtze River. What a humiliation!