147 people's hearts are like a tide

In the yellow village of Miaowan, Xixiang, Huaxi Township, Xiaochang, on the side of a mound in the south of the village bay, there are more than a dozen thick cypress trees standing on the roadside, with luxuriant branches and leaves. Even in winter, they are green. The huge crown coverings extending from the crown, covering an area of several mu. At this moment, under the cover of the cypress tree community, there are people sitting full of people. Many people are still barefoot in early winter, wearing straw shoes, and their legs are covered with mud, as if they came from a long distance. These people are black and thin, and you can tell at a glance that they are all lifelong farmers. There are also a few people wearing green gowns, as if they had read a book. Several peasant women, holding large copper pots, carefully added black tea soup to the clay bowl in everyone's hand. A big pot on the roadside is boiling, and there is the smell of dog meat in the air.

The two characters in new military uniforms look extremely eye-catching in the crowd. It is Li Xiang and Song Que. Li wanted to take Song Que to Xiaochang for the final reconnaissance before the war. Huang Guangzhong also followed him on the way. He was very familiar with this place, and most of the people in Huang Village were surnamed Huang, which was also one of Huang's An Rongtang. Li Xiang also has to admit that in this era, the clan has absolute authority in the countryside. With Huang Guangzhong, he has an absolute home advantage whether he is scouting or fighting.

The result of the reconnaissance made Li realize that the battle would be very difficult. In addition to the objective reasons for the vigilance of the Beiyang Army, there is also a subjective statement that before the campaign is launched, Li Xiang sent a telegram to the whole country to launch a declaration that the revolution will be carried out to the end. Although it did not expose the combat attempt at this stage, it also caused the leakage of secrets and lost the effect of the strange soldiers. According to Huang Guangzhong's report, when the revolutionary army attacked the Beijing-Han Railway, the enemy in the Xiaochang area was already alert, and the strongholds increased their troops one after another, and Xiaochang City alone increased to more than 500 people. They strengthened the fortifications, stored grain bombs, and tightened their vigilance. In the nearby towns, the people who had no time to withdraw were looted by the Beiyang army, and the homeless displaced people gathered into the trend of escape.

The people of dozens of villages around Huaxi are full of hatred for the Beiyang army that burned, killed and looted.

The old man, who is already quite in shape, seems to be the highest in the Huangcun, with wrinkles and old spots on his face, and a small white-haired braid with thick chopsticks on the back of his head. He wants to hold his fist at Li. This etiquette is still meticulous: "Marshal, save us!"

One by one, they cried to Li Xiang and complained about the heinous crimes of the Beiyang Army.

These are the most kind and peaceful people in their lives for decades, with their faces facing the loess, with their backs facing the sky, and eating in the soil. They are all the most kind and peaceful people. They are all in the atrocities of the banner people, under the oppression of the different races of the Manting government, making cows and horses for them from generation to generation! In more than 260 years, they don't know how many disturbances they have experienced, how many hardships, life and death, to survive in this difficult land. From beginning to end, the oppression of the Chinese nation by the Qing Dynasty was only getting deeper and deeper, and the prevention was getting stricter and stricter. They would reject anything that could awaken the spirit of the nation, shut up the country by all means, locked the numb people in the dark room, and spared no effort to implement the policy of fooling the people until they turned the Chinese people into the sick men of East Asia. Turning the country into a big China is so crowded that the nation can't survive.

The damage caused by such oppression and run to the Chinese nation is far from coming to an end even after the Xinhai Revolution. After that, a comprehensive and continuous historical decisive battle between China and Japan took place. This national disaster lasted for a total of eight years. The two sides mobilized more than 100,000 troops to carry out a total of 22 battles. The two sides fought more than 10,000 battles with more than 10,000 troops, and only 10,000 small-scale battles were injured. Only registered Chinese soldiers were injured. 3.6 million people were killed, 35 million Chinese civilians died, and nearly $600 billion of property and countless cultural relics were destroyed and looted by the Japanese army.

Of course, these are all later events, but the disaster of the Chinese nation began long ago when Li wanted to step on this time and space.

Isn't the Beiyang warlords adding bricks and tiles to the disaster of the nation? This group, which inherits the tumor poison of the Qing Dynasty, is feudal, autocratic and rotten. It has the fine traditional nature of the Qing soldiers. It is charming, brave inside, and more timid. After that, the warlords fought in a melee, and the people were not as good as the previous Qing system.

The old people in front of him were complaining to Li with tears and snot. The Beiyang Army did not dare to stand up with the foreigners, but the fish and meat people were rampant in the countryside, which was very difficult.

For the kind people here who have been good people for a lifetime, the perseverance of oppression and exploitation is unparalleled in the world. If it weren't for the fact that they couldn't live, who would be willing to follow Li to "rebellion"?

It was this kind of atrocities of the Beiyang Army that Li Xiang and his revolutionary army were expected to be regarded as saviors.

Li Xiang announced in a high-profile announcement that the revolution would be carried out to the end. The two newly established divisions went to the Beiyang occupied area. The almost desperate people in Hubei seemed to see hope again. In addition, the general reclaimed the Hankou Concession and announced the order to cut rents and interest rates, which was passed on by the people of Hubei. This brand-new pie, they are like seeing the savior.

Some young people shouted to Li Xiang, "That's good. It's time for the turtle's grandson to die. You don't know how many people the Beiyang dog in Huaxi killed us!"

Looking at the old people bowing awe one by one, Li wanted to quickly put down the tea soup, run forward, and put them up one by one. Seeing that Li wanted to stand up, the people sitting under Cooper stood up hummingly and bowed to him.

This needs to be helped one by one. How long will it last? Li thought that he only had the same fist to bow back.

Wait for people to calm down and sit down. Li wanted to glance at the crowd and said loudly, "My compatriots have suffered from the fall of the motherland and moaned under foreign autocracy for 300 years. With the number of forty-thousand descendants of the Yellow Emperor and the number of gods, and humiliating the five million bloody Tatars in the area, it is shameful and sad to laugh for the ancient and today. Who is more than this, everyone who has the blood should rise up, with the deep hatred of this tired world... Forbearance makes the upper country's clothes and become Yidi; lead the heroes of the Central Plains, and return my rivers and mountains!"

In the last two sentences, dozens of people under Cooper followed him hummingly. Everyone looked serious, like a religious ceremony, and even those rural women were full of sacred faces.

At that time, there were many revolutionary publications, but in order to avoid trouble, they were mostly publicized verbally. The propaganda content includes "Yangzhou Ten Days" and "Jiading Three Tu" and so on. The sentence "Tolerance orders the crown of the country, reduced to Yidi; leading the heroes of the Central Plains, returning my rivers and mountains" in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is also often quoted, but it is known to everyone.

"Zi Manchu Qing aliens entered the customs, ten days in Yangzhou and seven days in Jiading. It's really violent and cruel. Now the Beiyang dog raised in Manting once again repeats the brutality of that year. All the things you have worked hard to get in exchange for your blood and sweat have been robbed by these Beiyang robbers. Even if they are not enough, they will casually accuse you, spoil your women, mutilate your bodies, and destroy your homes. I already know all the suffering you have suffered, and I am very sad!" Li Xiang looked like a sacred, professional stick. He looked up to the sky, opened his hands and spoke loudly.

Li Xiang's words hit their headaches, and the crowd buzzed again. An old man looked up and burst into tears. An old man bowed down with his body: "The general knows our suffering!"

Li Xiang's mind was also full of bitterness. Looking at these people who followed the rise and fall of the dynasty and never changed their bitter words, he was speechless. With the strength of the country for a hundred years, even if he is a traveler, he can open his golden finger, and with the help of the prophet of history, he has temporarily gained a little limelight. He is clear about Yuan Shikai's chess game. He is also clear about the beasts of the Beiyang Army. But when it comes to this, he doesn't have many ways. His purpose is to come to the north and south to make trouble. It is to disrupt Yuan Shikai's great plan to steal the country. It is to set off a bloody storm again in Hubei... His strength is far from fighting with the Beiyang Army. Now his usefulness is nothing more than making the current situation more chaotic, which will only add to the people of Hubei. More suffering... Use the infinite blood of the soldiers and civilians in this province to strengthen the determination of the national military and civilians to carry out the revolution to the end, and create the dignity, glory, freedom, democracy and republic of a nation.

Li Xiang's chest is just ups and downs. His arrival does not mean the end of their suffering.

He smiled helplessly, all bitter, but his voice was louder: "The traitors of the Li Dynasty, running for the Qing people in front of the saddle and behind the horse, searching for grain, money, women for them... And those Qing people's clans, except for the safe road. It will also spread to other roads... One day, the whole North Korea will become the land of the Qing people. And we people will become slaves of the Qing people! Now, inside and outside the safe road, tens of thousands of Qing people are the blood-sucking leeches and fierce gods attached to our people! Now even if we farm and water, we have to pay for water! Which Fuzhou, which stores water, was not built by us. Even the corrupt officials of the Li Dynasty never dared to collect water money from us! I can't pay for the water. If you can't afford to grow grain, you can only starve to death!

The bastards of the carcasian have invaded China for more than 200 years. They regard the inexhaustible Han people as his slaves and oxen and horses. They casually oppress and exploit them. With the people's oil of thousands of surnames, they raise those who have been crowned for generations. Some cheap people are stationed in important places in various provinces, try their best to prevent us, and put some corrupt officials to suppress them. In recent years, there have been more Western powers to advance, and the government has reached the extreme. However, he has come to flatter foreigners. He is willing to be slaves with foreigners, to make three layers of slaves to our Han people, and to water the land that our ancestors with blood and glory. Today, he will cut a piece of it to this foreigner, tomorrow. Cut another piece and give it to the foreigner, and the loss of power and humiliation of the country to the extreme... One day, the whole North Korea will become the land of foreigners. And we Han people will completely become slaves of foreigners! This Manchurian barbarians flattered foreigners, and it is even more difficult to double the life and death of our Han people. The old woman Cixi of the Tarantas said, 'Measure the material power of China and make it happy with the country.' If so, the traitors in the imperial court will run for the foreigners and sell out our country! Our Han people's lives and property are really going to be extremely dangerous. They often admit compensation, rent land, give the railway to foreigners, and even give tariffs to foreigners. You see, all kinds of things are becoming more and more expensive, and the livelihoods of ordinary people are becoming more and more difficult day by day! Now, the Beiyang Army, the running dog of Manting, has robbed us of the winter food. Without the winter food, we will starve to death! The Li Yuanhong military government in Wuchang is incompetent. No one dares to be the enemy of the Beiyang Army, but there is still me, Li Xiang, and the revolutionary army behind me!"

The impassioned words immediately aroused the greatest response. Everyone raised their voices. Speaking of how cruel it is for Beiyang tigers and wolves to collect grain and salaries in various places, and how they are desolate **. Tens of thousands of Beiyang troops are stationed in Hankou, Xiaogan and Jinghan lines, which consume a lot, and more supplements are completed on the spot. How cruel this is to the oppression of Hubei.

Under the cypress tree, the crowd is excited. Some villagers talked about the suffering and cried one after another, pointing to the day and swearing to the extreme. The whole yard is like a small volcano.

Zeng Gao and Huang Guangzhong's faces were also full of pain.

When people were most excited, Li Xiang waved his hand fiercely: "Today, we stand here!" Stand on the land of China! Stand on this land that our ancestors poured with blood and dignity! In front of me stood a nation, a nation groaning in humiliation! Those Beiyang soldiers rode on our necks and trampled on our dignity at will and deprived us of our wealth! You tell me, do you choose to be a slave and wait for death, or do you choose not to be a slave and work hard to find a way to live?! We can no longer expect the imperial court and Beiyang to give us a chance to be slaves. We must rise up by ourselves, revolution!"

As soon as this was said, the ground in the yard was like pouring oil on the fire, and he was even more excited. He waved his fist and couldn't wait to do it immediately. Marshal! We all know that if there is no revolution, we can only wait to die!"

They are really simple.

At this point, what else can Li Xiang say? He had no choice but to nod silently.

His power at this moment is too weak. He can only unite all the forces that can be united, form a great union of the people, hoping to create miracles... He has worked hard and done his best and responsibilities to history.

A great man once said: What is the biggest problem in the world? Eating is the biggest problem. What is the strongest? The unity of the people is the strongest. And now he is also united with the strength of the people of Hubei. Can he create miracles?

Zeng Gao and Huang Guang were calm, and their eyes focused on Li Xiang.

Revolution? Li wants not only to expand the war in Hubei, but also mobilize civilians to intervene in the war. They only have hoe and dung forks in their hands, while hundreds of thousands of Beiyang soldiers have foreign guns in their hands!

Finally, Huang Guangzhong's face was heavy, and he gritted his teeth in a low voice and said, "Marshal, the revolution should only be the bloodshed and sacrifice of a few people, not even these ordinary people. Revolution is not to ask for the people's lives and seek happiness for the people! Is it worth this revolution that makes civilians bleed?

Zeng Gao also smiled bitterly and whispered, "It can't be useful... The Beiyang Army has knives and guns..."

Li Xiang gritted his teeth coldly and said, "If it's not a rumbling bomb, it's not enough to shock the wandering soul of his dream; if it's not Huo Huo's knife light, it's not enough to scratch the copper smell of its heart!"

Zeng Gao and Huang Guangzhong were awe-inspiring, but they lowered their heads slightly. This is the extort of Yang Yulin, a Chinese student studying in Japan. He is a member of the Party, and there is nothing he doesn't know.

After saying this, Li Xiang's face softened a little. Looking at the slowly quiet crowd, he said slowly, "The atmosphere of the people is like a tide. What is it impossible for us to follow the trend? Beiyang is not popular with the people, so what are you afraid of?"

Although Li Xiang is also playing drums in his heart for this battle that blocks his future, fate and history, as the commander-in-chief of a army, he can't show a little hesitation, and his face is full of confidence.