The roar of 261 people Next

The suppression of imperialism continued under the secret instructions of senior officials of the foreigner group. Armed sailors and armed patrols were constantly arresting people, and they waved batons and beat the masses in an attempt to disperse the demonstrators. Instead of dispersing, the demonstrators gathered more and more, and launched a counterattack against the perpetrators, and the Chinese roared louder and louder.

British Consulate in Hankou. Consul General Gefu stood on the exotic balcony, staring at the black smoke rising everywhere in the whole Hankou Concession, as well as the roar and killing sounds from the area.

There is a blue and white porcelain teacup in Jingdezhen, China, on the mahogany tea table, and the heat rises. The beautiful patterns on the wall of the cup are more elegant and expensive than those used by the British royal family, and there is such a luxurious life only in China.

The footsteps behind him came, and the military-like pace. Consul Goff had no need to look back, and he also knew that it was O'Neal, the commander of the British fleet.

"This is a gamble..." Goff said softly. Li Xiang is a strong soldier, rising like Napoleon. Although Li Xiang failed to recover the concession for the first time in Hankou, it does not mean that he does not dare to take back Hankou again. Will their decision be too impruous?

Commander O'Neill stood beside him with his mouth and said quietly, "Everything is always balanced. This is also for the long-term stability of Her Majesty's territory... There is no need to indulge the anti-imperial rage of the Chinese people, otherwise it will be out of control, and the strongest means must be taken. If necessary, they can even form an Eight-Nation Alliance again to repair Li Xiang, a madman. Only in this way, will the Chinese people always remember this day and never dare to resist our rule..."

Goff smiled faintly and was slightly bitter: "Now the situation in Europe, it is no longer allowed to form an eight-nation coalition..."

He waved his hand, and an Indian servant silently held the plate on the mahogany tea table, with a steaming cup of tea on it.

Ge Fu took the teacup, gently blew the floating tea foam, took a shallow sip, and said, "Where is Marshal Li of the revolutionary army? And what about their revolutionary army?

O'Neill looked at the distance and said, "Li Xiang has returned to his Liu Yuan, and the revolutionary army has not entered the concession. In the concession, there are at least 700 to 800 people in Britain alone on their guard. Our navy has also begun to take action. Two British warships in Hankou have been stationed on the river. After the last failure, Li Xiang has no courage.

"I hope so." Ge Fu took another sip of tea, looked into the distance with blank eyes, and said hopelessly, "If Li Xiang is still as strong as ever, we will face the fate of failure again. Maybe my name will be left on the next humiliating treaty... We didn't expect that the Chinese people would wake up so quickly! Those unwilling Japanese think what benefits can be obtained in this way!"

Looking at Gefu's depression, O'Neill looked into the distance, pointed to the smoke rising in the distance, and said, "But if we don't act, let this trend get bigger and bigger, our colonial career in the concession will also end. Sir, in that case, why don't you gamble? Anyway, there is still a cruel beauty in this scene, isn't it?

Bang! Pa! Pa! A burst of rapid gunfire suddenly came to mind, adding beauty to the cruelty in front of him.

Originally, they just looked at the consular officer and the commander in front of him with their own thoughts and trembled.

Goff was puzzled and turned his ear again, and then another sound of gunfire came.

That's right, it's the sound of a rifle!

Goff stood up suddenly, looked into the distance as hard as he can, and stared back at Commander O'Neill and said, "Are our people shooting?" Or did the revolutionary army enter the concession?

O'Neal also looked nervous and said, "Our sailors and armed police officers have fired very few bullets, and they are strictly forbidden to shoot!" After all, there are a lot of revolutionary troops stationed outside the concession, and we are just provoking and dispersing the marching people entering the concession... As for the sailors and police in other countries, I can't guarantee it.

Seeing that Commander O'Neal was resolute, Goff turned his head. The gunfire still came from the area along the river boulevard, sometimes dense, sometimes sparse, but it was ringing all the time. Sometimes it's a row, but sometimes it's sporadically.

The blue veins on Gefu's forehead jumped, and he suddenly understood it. He turned his head and shouted, "It's those little dwarfs and Japanese who have expanded the situation again!" Completely out of control! A complete failure! No matter where the gunshots come from, it will only cause greater riots! The madman Li will definitely take the opportunity to enter the concession openly, and may have entered the concession!"

O'Neal's face was full of sweat. Perhaps it was really the Japanese with ulterior motives. This time, in response to Li's action to subdue the concession, the powers of the concession countries arranged this "limited" provocation, and more the Japanese threaded through the needles.

However, I didn't expect that the sudden street demonstrations by Chinese youths would cause a greater rebound from foreign adults who have always been superiors in Hankou. As soon as Pandora's box was opened, the scale expanded in a larger direction. If that's the case, there is nothing to be afraid of for the colonial authorities in the concession of the great powers. In China, foreigners rely on strong and domineering to gain a foothold. Foreigners have to pull up their ancestral graves without a hair.

However, there are tens of thousands of revolutionary troops outside the concession, with guns and cannons, and a Li madman as the leader! Now there is a gunshot! Whether it is the gunshot of Little Japan or the shooting of the revolutionary army, Li Xiangran will not let go of the wonderful excuse to enter Hankou to maintain order. This is what scares them the most!

But what about now? With more than a thousand sailors to fight with more than 10,000 revolutionary troops controlled by Li Xiang, Li Xiang's revolutionary army is not a Boxer of the Boxers of the Boxers of the Yihe Regiment, nor the officers and soldiers of the Green Battalion in the Qing Dynasty. It is an army that has been trained in modern times like the same as the British sailors and has modern equipment! This thousand people are too weak. Even if the armed forces of the five-nation concessions are mixed together, he does not have the courage to fight with the madman Li.

Thinking of these aspects, both of them turned their eyes to the road along the river, and the roar of the Chinese people gradually became louder and louder...

The revolutionary army soldiers drove away the most fierce little Eastern devils. When the hot-blooded young people saw this solid backer, they decided to resume the once-interrupted street lecture parade in the chaos.

A student wiped the blood stains on his face and encouraged the students: "In the Warring States Period, Tian Heng led 500 people to die together, leaving a sad page in history. We have tens of thousands of people now. Can't we follow the heroic sacrifices of our predecessors and inherit the fine traditions of our nation!"

Everyone straightened their chests and amplified their voices. The demonstration showed a kind of momentum in full swing.

They stood on the road and began to passionately promote patrioticism. The strength of the youth is beyond the expectation of Li Xiping and the expectation of every soldier of the revolutionary army. The cruel suppression by the concession authorities and the bloody scene, the rescued students immediately recovered and continued to speak passionately. Their fearless patriotic ** is admirable, which makes these revolutionary soldiers who have experienced life and death admired!

Li Xiping hurriedly declared emergency martial law and dispatched a large number of revolutionary army soldiers to protect these hot-blooded young students along the way. Revolutionary army soldiers used bayonets and buttstocks to disperse the coveting foreign devils.

The students who did not give in went out with their backpacks again, with major injuries and minor injuries all over their body. They shouted all kinds of patriotic slogans. The citizens along the way saw them off with tears in their eyes and scolded the foreign devils for having no heart.

The students' sad and angry speech made the masses very moved. Some said to the students, "You walk for dozens of miles in the cold and speak loudly for the safety of the country. We also have a conscience. How can we bear to sit idly by?"

Promoted by students, more people joined the parade. Outside the barber shop, the words "National affairs are like this, I don't want to have plastic surgery, please don't patronize". The clerks and apprentices saved a few articles from the limited monthly snacks and monthly rules. They bought white bamboo cloth model couplets and flags, hanging high at the intersection of the street, expressing their sincere patriotism. Some clerks also bit their fingers and wrote the words "Restore the Concession" and joined the parade.

When a large number of students rushed to the British Consulate in Marlboro and prepared to protest to the British government, thousands of citizens automatically followed them and converged into an angry crowd.

At this time, the military police waiting outside the British consulate dared to use their usual prestige, and they all retreated aside with con's face. There was nothing I could do. The revolutionary soldier with the bayonet with blood escorted the team tightly! I didn't see the group of British sailors who usually went crazy when they went ashore. They ran with their tails in front of the revolutionary army. It's better for them not to provoke them!

Seeing that the concession military police, who usually showed off their power, had become sick cats, the arrogance of the masses was even higher. They raised their proud chests and shouted the slogans of protest. The voices resounded through the sky, and the military police became more and more pale.

At this june, an emergency order to disarm came from the consulate, and the military and police withdrew their tents with relief and hurriedly left this frightening dangerous zone.

The people in the procession rolled up the torrent and moved forward. When they saw the sign "Dogs and Chinese are not allowed to enter" hanging at the gate of the foreign trade racecourse of the five countries, they were suddenly furious. Several young people rushed up at the same time and smashed the sign.

The patrol guard at the gate of the park usually show off his power, and then he was so scared that he shrank aside.

In the afternoon, all the students from all the schools in the three towns of Wuhan were dispatched, and the workers' propaganda teams of many factories also set out one after another to join this huge demonstration.

Thousands of people flocked to the streets and converged into a vast anti-imperialist army. Anti-imperialist propaganda can be seen everywhere in Hankou. The concession is particularly concentrated on the riverside avenue. On the criss-crossed Hankou Street, there is a propaganda team every dozen stores. The listening crowd can't let the propaganda team out, and many clerks stop business and run out to listen to the lecture.

The propaganda team also distributed leaflets and posted slogans. On the windows, on the telephone poles, and on the human-powered rickshaws, there are eye-catching slogans everywhere. Leaflets are flying all over the sky, and the slogans echo. The new barbaric acts of imperialism ignited the anger that had been suppressed in the hearts of the people for a long time, and the anti-imperialist demonstrations rolled in like a tide.

In the face of the angry roar of the Chinese people, the anti-imperialist anger of the people in the three towns of Wuhan, the strong armed intervention of the revolutionary army, and the imperialists disarmed the Hankou Concession.