240 new dawn

An amazing news, the legendary story of Marshal Li entering Hankou, like a spring thunder blowing in the air, rumbling across the land of China, even the world can feel its tremor. This spring thunder cut through the thick haze over China and sprinkled a glimmer of hope on the dark earth.

When Marshal Li entered Hankou and completed the triumphant ceremony of the revolutionary army. After the dry Hankou was slightly silent, Marshal Li proudly announced to the outside world that the Hubei Revolutionary Army restored Hankou again! The revolutionary army hit the elite of the Beiyang Army in Hubei!

When the radio waves of the Hubei Grand Victory spread in all directions, the Chinese people swept away the dullness that had been suppressed for too long. Everyone was ecstatic, and the whole country jumped into a cheer. Chinese people have been silent for too long, and they have been depressed for too long. On this day, the negative, depressed and pessimistic atmosphere in the hearts of the Chinese people was swept away, and a long-pressed evil breath was spit out.

In fact, from the perspective of the battle itself, although Li Xiang's revolutionary army annihilated more than 10,000 enemies, his own casualties were also about 10,000. In fact, it was a war of attrition to annihilate 800 enemies and self-damaged 1,000. But as the saying goes, defeat is like a mountain. Just in the situation where the revolutionary army fled in Xiaogan and Hankou in panic and failed one after another, in the invincible voice of the Beiyang Army, and when the sound of peace and compromise in the south was very loud, Li Xiang actually hit a blow with a mourning soldier, just like a small man forced into the corner by a giant man in the boxing ring. When he was unable to fight, he suddenly The fist turned the giant man to the ground, which was a miracle in itself.

With such a legendary change and such an amazing battle, it is no wonder that this punch can make the Chinese people, who are famous for their numbness and ignorance, boil their feelings and cheers. The audience has always sympathized with the weak, and the vast majority of the audience in this competition is like the little fan. Naturally, they hope that he can completely turn the arrogant and unruly giant to the ground. Therefore, the small punch is ten times or a hundred times more than the applause won by the giant man who knocked down the small ten times.

The three towns in Wuhan jumped into a carnival.

Since the Beiyang Army entered Hankou, it has unscrupulously destroyed this beautiful city in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. What the Beiyang Army brings is the destruction of stability, the horror of beautiful death and pessimism. The people of Hankou spend every day in panic. But today is different. The news that the "revolutionary army annihilated the northern robbers" seemed to have wings, and quickly spread to the streets and alleys of Wuhan, like snow falling from the sky, covering every corner of Wuhan.

When Li Xiang's People's Daily, Shanghai's newly opened "T Kung Pao", Central Daily and other major newspapers spread to the north and south of the Han River, their excited hearts reached the boiling peak.

In the three towns of Wuhan, the Yangtze River water flowing through it is stirred up by the crazy enthusiasm of the people, and even the wind and snow invaded by the cold current will be melted by the blood.

The young people couldn't stay any longer. They ran out of the house, walked happily on Ruixue, and rushed to buy almost the same newspapers, but in their opinion, they were extremely different. They cheered and hugged the same excited but unknown passers-by, and enjoyed this rare joy and joy; the elders closed their doors with the subtlety and depth unique to the Orientals. In the middle, he chewed the sweetness and joy between the lines, and let the happy tears flow all over his face and soaked the newspaper in his hands; the children were also infected by the ecstatic mood of the adults, like a cheerful bird, and as the adults were injected into the happy torrent of people on the street. There is a wave of celebration everywhere.

All the residents in the three towns of Wuhan rushed to the streets. The melody of the revolutionary army's military song "Revolutionary March" came from the radio loudspeaker. The brass band composed of those hot-blooded young students marched all the way against the wind and snow and played the exciting "Blood-stained demeanor" all the way. People in revolutionary military uniforms are all regarded as national heroes, and fanatical crowds surround them and hold them high.

Countless bloody five-star red flags of silk, cloth and paper made a "bang" sound, just like a tsunami. Some old men take to the streets regardless of their old age...

At night, in a building in Liu Yuan, Li Yuanhong stood silently under the window of the office. The room was dark, and he didn't want to turn on the light. There are bright lights on the street in front of the building, the snow-white world and the glazed world. The procession of the lantern parade filled the alley like a swimming dragon. The children carried a colorful lantern in each hand and played through the sea of people. Li Yuanhong's eardrum was faintly hurt by the huge sound of "Hang Live the Republic of China". Somehow, the corners of his eyes were slightly moist.

On this night, Wuhan, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chongqing and other restored Chinese metropolises had hundreds of thousands of happy people carrying lanterns, igniting the city brightly.

On this snowy night, on both sides of the Yangtze River that run through Wuhan, there was even more noise and fire dragons flying. Everyone's eyebrows were flying, talking, laughing and shouting happily. Exaggerated and even gimmicking news is spreading very quickly in the most primitive way. At this time, people seem to believe that all this is true.

Even the eight-character flag of "congratulating the independence of the Republic of China" was raised outside the government of the foreign lord of the Hankou Concession. Whether in the Chinese world or the concession, shops along the street hung a four-character white flag with the book "New Han Ten Thousand Years" and set off a burst of firecrackers to celebrate.

"Do you know that General Li's troops have driven the Beiyang Army to Wusheng Pass. If the Beiyang Army does not escape from Hubei quickly this time, it will be eliminated by General Li!"

"I heard that Marshal Li is ready to lead the troops to counterattack. It seems that the day has come for the revolutionary army to defeat the Beiyang Army."

"Oh, that's great. Wuhan is safe."

"Of course, Wuhan is safe. I heard that all the people in Beijing are busy preparing to go to the Tianjin Concession. You see, the day of China's full recovery is far away.

At this moment, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, even the peddlers on the street and the idle tea customers in the restaurants began to talk loudly.

"The Ming Dynasty has only been more than 200 years, and the Qing Dynasty has been more than 200 years now. Isn't it still dead?"

"Xuantong is only two and a half years! I wrote it down on the back map.

Needless to say, any dynasty will be destroyed, but under the popular consensus that the Qing Dynasty was about to die, this last feudal dynasty was the most peaceful.

"The number of energy is exhausted" is a kind of mysterious and elusive social psychology. The most inexplicable thing is that the lower society is, the more likely it is to spread the apronouncement similar to "the unification is only two and a half years". With the spread of this cursed statement, the legitimacy of the authorities is also constantly lost in imperceptibly. There will be an inexplicable change-seeking restlessness in the whole society, and the prestige of those traditional "imperial power, official power, gentry power" will fall again and again in the minds of the grass people. Once this day really comes, the dynasty will collapse in an instant. Like destruction and decay, it is really like a state of "no sound and color, like earth and dust".

Since the signing of the Xinchou Treaty, Chinese society is in a huge change and a profound crisis. The development and deepening of various contradictions has long been pregnant with an earth-shaking revolution. Li wanted to guide him and finally burst into a power that no one could be!

At this time, there was a sudden ** on both sides of the Yangtze River, but hundreds of large and small boats in the river suddenly opened colorful lights and shuttled on the river in the sound of gongs and drums. The reflection of the river makes the colorful lights all over the river, like stars twinkling in the sky. The roaring sound, the earth-shocking sound of gongs and drums, and the deafening sound of firecrackers make Wuhan like a boiling pot.

People in the three towns of Wuhan are intoxicated! Chinese people are intoxicated! In this magnificent historical picture, Li wants to set off an irresistible trend of the revolutionary movement, and there is a faint power to guide the direction of the times.

In this era, Chinese society has experienced unprecedented great shocks and changes. National capitalism is in the initial development, the national crisis continues to deepen, and the class contradictions are unprecedentedly sharp. The mass struggle and the patriotic movement should have been like this.

A small village in Qianjialing, which used to be extremely inconspicuous, became a temple in the hearts of countless hot-blooded young people overnight, emitting the light of hope for national rejuvenation. The Chinese, who tend to be numb, seem to wake up this night.

The withdrawal of Duan Qirui of the Beiyang army from Hankou also made the Western powers have their own ideas, but they were puzzled. Over the past few days, military attachutons, military observers and journalists from various countries in China have flocked to Hankou and Hubei to see the demeanor of Marshal Li, who has made the Beiyang Army suffer a lot. Of course, they want to know more about the actual combat effectiveness of Li Xiang's revolutionary army.

It is no wonder that the troops of the Southern Democratic Party have been defeated in a row, losing thousands of miles of land, and the first land is in danger. But Li Xiang in the rural area of Anlu, the revolutionary army's poorly equipped miscellaneous troops can create miracles, and the annihilation is the latest army trained by the most elite and fierce introduction of the modernization of the German army by the Beiyang Army. The equipment of the Beiyang Army is the elite agreed with the German Wehrmacht. They have to think it is incredible. . In their view, the actual combat effectiveness of Li Xiang's revolutionary army is as mysterious as that of China, a thousand-year-old country. But one thing is that the Confederate Army can also defeat the Northern Army.

On a boiling night, there was a light in the window on the second floor of a Marlboro Road in Hankou British Concession. Under the light, Ge Fu, the Consul General of the British Embassy in Hankou, is writing a report that will be sent to China. In the report, he has been traveling for many days, and he has seen a conclusion after the triumph of Li Xiang's revolutionary army during the day: the revolutionary army has the best soldiers. In the long run, the revolutionary army will definitely defeat the Beiyang army. What I need more is that I have a hunch that an oriental "Napoleon" is about to be born.

At this time, Gofu, just like Wadsey, the commander of the Eight-Nation Alliance, after experiencing the lesson of the Boxer Rebel Patriotic Movement, he had to admit that the Chinese people "still contain infinite vitality" and "no matter Europe, the United States and Japan do not have this brain and strength to rule a quarter of the world's creatures." " Therefore, it is the worst policy to divide up one thing." When he wrote the report, his mood was as heavy as that of Wadsey.

At the same time, the great powers competed fiercely in China. They were pregnant and constrained each other and could not reach an agreement on the issue of partition. After Wadesi's report returned to Europe, the great powers had to take "preservationism" as the basic principle of diplomacy to China. "Preservationism" is just a change in the invasion of China by the great powers, which does not mean that they have changed their aggressive nature.

Now, in the face of Li Xiang's strength, can the great powers still maintain their aggressive nature? And Li Xiang, can he change the aggressive nature of the great powers?

In the dark night, the snow is silent and the sky is long. The Chinese revolution has finally seen a new glimmer of light, even the slightest hope.