40 Our Pursuit

"Do you really want to involve the Ezhou government in a war?" Ding Wenjiang looked at the remaining people, shook his head and sighed, "Maybe if the North-South peace talks are successful, Tibet and Mongolia will not be independent. This war may be avoided."

"Just maybe?" Li Xiping immediately said, "The broom doesn't work, and the dust won't run away by itself as usual. If we don't go west, will the head of Outer Mongolia give up independence? Will the Dalai Lama in Tibet give up independence?

Without a broom, the dust will not run away by itself as usual - everyone understands, but only Li wants to make it philosophical. As soon as he said this, everyone immediately nodded in support.

"A war is not an invitation to dinner. Yuan Shikai wants the position of the president. The main position of the foreign Mongolian emperor is the foreign emperor. If the Tibetan Dalai is the position of the Tibetan emperor, some people in the south want the position of the governor." Lixiang sneered again, "What we pursue is a great ideal."

Hearing this, Ding Wenjiang and Li Siguang, who had just come to Wuhan, frowned and looked thoughtful. They are sensible people, and they also come to Wuhan in pursuit of their ideals. They know what Li Xiang means.

"It's true." Zeng Gao smiled bitterly. He was originally a war-hate, but in the face of such an era, he had to take up arms to fight.

"My Ezhou government has the guns and olive branches of revolutionary soldiers." Li wanted to squint his eyes. Although he only looked at the ceiling, he looked far away. "No one should let the olive branch slip out of my hand." With me, the stupid pigs who are divided and want to invade are looking for death.

Li didn't know how domineering he was when he said this.

"What are our chances of winning?" Li Siguang suddenly asked.

"This time the layout comes first, and in the great trend of national restoration, the Western Expedition is simply a sweeping battle sweeping the northwest. There is no need for strategy, and there is a great chance of winning." When it comes to the war situation, Zeng Gao's face showed a scheme. "The fighting will of the Ezhou Revolutionary Army is very high, and the equipment is much more advanced than that of the miscellaneous army in the northwest. The supply is sufficient, and the hardware and software are much better than that of Zuo Zhongtang's Western Expedition. Our victory is very high!"

"What about the field battle of the Grand Army?" Lixiang said proudly, "An armored chariot and a transport vehicle can already resist thousands of troops!"

"Marshal," Li Siguang said awkwardly, "These two new weapons have only produced two samples..."

"What?" Li wants to overestimate the scientific and technological level of Hankou. If his idea is in Europe and the United States, he may be able to build a production line in a month, but China can't.

Ding Wenjiang looked at Li Siguang's injury caused by Li Xiang's eyes and quickly came out to explain: "These two new weapons are unheard of, and Western countries do not have ready-made production lines to buy. We can only buy two tractor site production lines, production sites for cars and armored fighting vehicles, and the rest are available. Independent design, independent production, can make two samples in a month, which has been completed after vomiting blood.

"Thank you for your hard work." Lixiang also knew that he was eager for quick success and said with a smile, "How's the sample performance test?"

"The armored chariot has a full weight of 18.289 tons and an armor thickness of 6 mm. It is equipped with four 7.7 mm "Macqin" machine guns, with an engine power of 77.175 kilowatts, a maximum speed of 3.2 kilometers per hour, a trench of 1.2 meters, and can pass through 0.3 meters of obstacles. . In addition, there is a rotating turret, equipped with a 75mm small-caliber short-bodipped howitzer, which is simply a mobile bunker. If the cannon is the queen of war, then the armored chariot is the king of war. Speaking of these two cross-generational products, the silent Li Xiping couldn't help talking with excitement, and the data was simply countless.

However, after Li Xiping praised, he immediately began to complain: "It's just that the muzzle speed of this kind of artillery is too low to be improved. The tank steering, relying on the clutch and brake system, is not flexible enough. Not to mention that the unit power is too small, the maximum travel is only 35 kilometers, which is not suitable for long-distance attack. The armor should also increase a certain thickness. In a word, due to the limitations of Hankou's current technical level and poor production equipment, the performance of the armored chariot is far from the level described by the marshal. Its firepower can only be used to annihilate the enemy's living forces. The armor can only defend against bullets and shell fragments, and the latest American radio communication equipment and British submarines have not been installed. The boat's optical observation and aiming instrument, the driving is bumpy, the speed is slow, the mechanical failure is frequent, and the working conditions of the crew soldiers are bad, and it is like a steamer (it seems that this rigorous soldier has personally operated the iron armored chariot). The armored chariot can only be used to guide the infantry to complete a tactical breakthrough, and cannot expand the results in depth.

"Don't be insatiable. The level of the armored chariot is enough to cross the northwest!" Li wanted to smile and said, "The technology can be improved slowly."

"If you fight in the northwest, once you underestimate your opponent, failure may be imminent." Zeng Gao poured a basin of cold water on him, "You can never despise your enemies, especially those who have something to do with the great powers."

"That makes sense." Li Shang was stunned, nodded with a solemn face, and remembered the words of the great man: "Tristicically, we should despise the enemy, and tactically, we should pay attention to the enemy."

Unexpectedly, Li Xiang burst out such a philosophical sentence again, which almost attracted everyone to meditate.

Zeng Gao smiled and said, "It's just a miscellaneous army in the northwest. Maybe I'm too careful."

When home and abroad, and even the whole world are paying attention to the north-south peace talks between Nanjing and Beijing, Li Xiang has surpassed the small Nanjing and Beijing. His eyes are flying over time and space, staring at them for a long time. Nanjing and Beijing are just a small pawn on the huge chessboard in Li Xiang's mind. He talked about the Western Expedition, and his tone was as calm as wisps of green smoke from a cigarette in his hand: "On the one hand, the purpose of the Western Expedition is to restore the northwest, and on the other hand, it is to strive to expand the revolutionary base in Ezhou to facilitate the progress of our national revolutionary work, rather than sticking to the stronghold, or to really hope to make peace with the North and the South. When it comes to the North-South peace conference, it really proves that Yuan Shikai supports the republic. Sun Yat-sen gives way. At this time, we should not take it lightly, because we don't know whether Yuan Shikai is a real republic or a fake republic at all. Therefore, after the success of the North-South peace conference, we should not give up the local rule under the rule of Ezhou. Power, the principle of preserving the military strength of the revolutionary army in Ezhou. At the necessary time and certain conditions, we will actively expand the territory of Ezhou under the rule of the law. As a revolutionary base, it is not only forced as a last resort, but also allowed in the revolutionary policy. There is no need to be shocked.

It is indeed rare for people to express their strategic intentions so nakedly.

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Yuan Shikai took advantage of the public opinion to get out of Donghua Gate. The guards supported him and were very guarded. There were soldiers and police on both sides, standing with guns, and some did not dare to make a sound.

Yuan Shikai, who had just scared the Empress Dowager Longyu and cried for his father and mother, left the palace proudly. He didn't know that the Beijing-Tianjin Alliance had found out that he had entered the Qing Palace every day. The guards and a town, and pedestrians also paid great attention to it. After passing through important roads such as Klind Monument, Dongdan Archway, East Chang'an Street, Wangfujing Street, Jinyu Hutong, West Tangzi Hutong Road, among which Dingzi Street is the most important, and Xiangyifang Restaurant can be hidden, from the high throw, the most important place.

Alliance members Yang Yuchang and Yan Qifeng are at the entrance of Dong'an Market. Zhang Xianpei and Huang Zhimeng are located in Xiangyifang Restaurant. Li Chao, Tax Shaosheng, Li Xianwen, Fu Enxun, Li Zhisheng, Xiong Runquan, etc. are distributed in Wangfujing Street and Jinyu Hutong. The parade is divided into several teams of male and female comrades, and the four-way patrol report.

After the first righteousness of Wuchang in 1911, the members of the League in Beijing, Tianjin and Baoding secretly established the Beijing-Tianjin League, which directly belongs to the headquarters of the Nanjing League. Wang Jingwei is the president, and Li Yuying is the vice president. Each department has its own head. At the same time, there is an assassination department. There are more than 20 male and female comrades who are different from other departments because of their actions. Everyone has a direct task and undertakes part of the transactional work. They are strictly guarding each other and guarding secrets. She Wang, Li, In addition to the comrades of this department, there are many people who are ignorant of its content.

In the first month of its establishment, everything has been ready. The required weapons were transported from Shanghai, and comrades went to Beijing Ximentougou, the Ming Tombs and other barren mountains for exercises. The target, method and road of the assassination are discussed and decided, only waiting for Nanjing's order. At that time, there were three people who studied assassination: (1) Yuan Shikai (Prime Minister of the Qing Dynasty), (II) Liangbi (Deputy Minister of the Military Advisory Office), and (III) Zaize (Minister of the Du Branch). The latter two are more capable Manchu members in the center of the Qing Dynasty. But they think that Yuan Shikai is the most important and the first to deal with is Yuan Shikai. This is not only because he is the main figure of the Qing Dynasty government, but also because he is insidious and untrustworthy, he must be killed first.

This is actually what Wang Jingwei said in the declaration of the Beijing-Tianjin Alliance: "It is not easy to do in the north, but the assassination is more certain. Those who oppose the Democratic Party and hinder the republic, such as Yuan Shikai, Yinchang, Feng Guozhang, Zaize, Zai Xun, Zaitao, Liangbi, etc., are all in the hoe. However, many people in the Qing court have no knowledge, and the obstacles are still small. However, Yuan is well-known in the north, and his power is unparalleled. If he works together with the Qing court to resist me, there is nothing to do in the north. The north does not solve it at all. It has become a situation in the north and the south, resulting in the bloodshed of the whole country. When there is no disaster, outsiders take advantage of this to divide up. It is that our country will not die in the Qing Dynasty, but in the revolution. Therefore, I Yuan is the most important goal of the party.

However, Wang Jingwei's attitude later changed dramatically and opposed the assassination of Yuan. When the members of the Northern League knew that Sun had promised to let Yuan, they were indignant and thought that Yuan Shikai was the stalk of the republic. They immediately got rid of Wang Jingwei's remote control and independently organized the assassination.

Yuan Shikai took a double carriage out of Donghuamen, crossed Donghuamen Street, and rushed to the new government gate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Zhang Xianpei saw Yuan's carriage in front of him from the upstairs of the Sanyi tea shop. He threw a bomb and landed very accurately under the carriage. How could he know that Yuan's carriage walked fast, and the bomb broke out after the carriage.

At this time, Yuan's carriage had arrived and ran to the Xiangyifang restaurant. When Huang Zhimeng and Li Xianwen saw it, they rushed out and each shot. One of them finally blew up the carriage, "Boom!" The explosion overturned the fast-running carriage, with a dead coachman on the spot, a guard with Yuan Jin Dart, a guard platoon leader, a personal soldier two, a horse patrol two, a passer-by two, and a horse rider three. The third group of Qian Tieru wandering in Dong'an Market and the fourth group of Wu Ruolong, Luo Mingdian and Zheng Yuxiu, who were in a carriage, heard the sound of bombs, so they threatened the military police standing along the street with pistols and bombs.

A person can't but say that he has fate. Yuan Shikai's period is really a golden age, and when something bad happens, it turns into good luck. Although his carriage was hit, he was only thrown out of the car without any injury. The guards immediately helped Yuan to ride a horse out of the thick smoke of the bomb, and Yuan immediately ordered to fight back and search.

When Comrades Huang and Zhang heard the first sound of bullets in the restaurant on Dingzi Street, they opened the window and waited with bullets. However, because Yuan Che had changed his way and did not get a blow, he was felt by the street police and went upstairs to arrest him. Comrade Yang Yuchang, who was at the gate of Dong'an Market, heard the sound of bullets when he was resting in the venue and ran out with bullets. He was also arrested for revealing his appearance. Only Comrade Yan, who dropped the bomb, took advantage of the voices and the military and police panicked. He retreated into the tea shop, inserted the pistol into the tea barrel, and calmly went out. Huang Zhimeng is a native of Guizhou and a student of Beijing Army Surveying School. Zhang Xianpei is a native of Guiyang, Guizhou and a student of Beijing Guest School. Yang Yuchang is from Ziyang, Sichuan Province, and a teacher of Qinghe Army Middle School in Beijing. After the arrest of the three comrades, they were killed by the law enforcement office of Yuan Zhi's military police. For the ideals they pursued, they were unyielding and awe-inspiring.