61 Don't ask about the future

On this battlefield of death, people are constantly swept out by the waves like snowflakes in the exploding smoke clouds. The wounded, who lacked arms, legs and bloodshot, struggled.

Countless shells splashed steel rain crazily. After a while, the Qing army troops, which had just been repulsed, rushed up again like crazy reorganizing the formation, and immediately reorganized the attack front line and howled a new round of charge.

At the same time, the main force of the regular army of the Anxi Army detoured the enemy's side and went straight to the three gates. With the support of the artillery, it cooperated with the militia wing to launch a fierce attack on the enemy. Desperately pouring fire on the Qing army front. The firepower of the light and heavy organs swept over like a whirlwind and smashed the front of the Qing army's defense line. Countless revolutionary soldiers staggered in the mud all over the ground and howled and rushed up.

In the artillery position responsible for covering, all the 75mm artillery has fired several sharp shots. The yellow cancanned shell retreated from the gun room with hot air, and a new shell was immediately pushed in.

A cannonball hit the Qing army's defense line like raindrops, "Boom!" He beat the earth hard like a drum, setting off bursts of wind and blood, and raised a high column of smoke. It looks like an oil painting sprinkled with steel and blood in a snowy night.

The Zhang Yunshan militia unit, which rushed to the front, braved heavy rain-like bullets, captured the enemy's front position, and bravely went deep into the enemy, and went straight to the main peak south of Watting.

This main peak is an important commanding height at the Sanguankou. It is located in the deep hinterland of the enemy's position. It was not used to deploy troops here. With the loss of the front positions of Taibai Mountain and Sanguankou, it has become the focus of competition between the two sides. If one side of the enemy and us occupies the main peak first and is condescending, it will pose a great threat to the other side.

The soldiers of the militia unit led by Zhang Yunshan struggled to climb to the main peak. The steep mountain wall was covered with a layer of snow. If they were not careful, they would slide down the cliff. They all relied on grabbing the scorpion grass on the wall, but the grass made a string of blisters on people's arms, and the sharp rocks broke their knees. Blood was sprinkled... Climbing halfway up the mountain, suddenly there were bursts of shouts from behind the mountain, mixed with the sound of the butt impact. It turned out that when they climbed to the main peak, the enemy also sent troops to climb up vigorously from behind the side of the main peak.

"Fight!" Zhang Yunshan greeted his comrades-in-arms without hesitation, without stopping at all, regardless of the stones hurting his heels, regardless of sweat and soaked clothes, and took them straight to the peak.

Time is victory. Finally, the enemy seized the main peak south of Watting in five minutes.

At this time, the Anxi army launched another fierce attack from the side.

The dawn of victory was in front of him, and Li wanted to send out the last heavy battle call.

Boom! Boom! Boom! ... The large-caliber shells carried by the Anxi Army, which were only a few heavy cannons, roared down, and countless fragments and steel splashed out, and swept out like a wind. The sound of successive explosions mixed with the reluctant struggle and howling of the dying. There was a smoky fire on the whole Sanguankou front.

There was a storm of bombing, and shells roared down from the snow curtain all over the sky, blowing up a ball of fire rolling red and black smoke clouds. If the sea of silver is overturned, the pearl foil is scattered, and the scales of the white jade dragon are falling all over the sky.

After the bullet screen slowly entered, hundreds of Anxi soldiers pulled open the attack line and pressed it aggressively. The sparse loose line like a broken line was faintly in the night, and a red flag soaked with blood fluttered vigorously in the cold wind.

With the last round of cover gunfire intensively hit the enemy's defense line, bursts of smoke and clouds. The soldiers of the Western Army who attacked Di'an said, "Forward!" The cheers, pulled up the charge, rolled into a wave like a storm, and rolled up.

Under the attack of both sides of the Anxi army, some surrendered, and some kowtowed. After four hours of fierce fighting, the Anxi army completely controlled the main peaks south and east of Watting: more than 3,000 enemies were captured, and countless people were killed.

The lifeline of the Northwest Qing army finally contacted the Beijing Qing court, and it was completely cut off.

Li wanted to look up. The bright moon quietly hid in a dark cloud and secretly looked at a bloody battlefield. The countless remnants of war were like stars falling on the ground. Looking from the sky, it was a dazzling and continuous light belt.

The Anxi Army captured Liupanshan, a strategic place, overnight.

So far, all the armies of the Anxi army have gone straight to the hinterland of Gansu, and the pursuit of Longdong has ended successfully. For the Ezhou Revolutionary Army, although the strategic goal of annihilating the main force of the Qing army in the Pingliang area could not be achieved, the Qing army lost the favorable decisive position in the Pingliang area, exposing Lanzhou to the attack of the Anxi army and trapped in an unprecedented disadvantageous situation.

On the edge of Tianshui City, on the north slope, an ancient temple that has been forgotten stands proudly, overlooking the traffic in the city at the foot of the mountain... The temple, called the Taishan Temple, is a temple built to worship the Emperor of Dongyue. Tianshui is located to the west of Xiyue Huashan Mountain. If it is also worshipped as Xiyue Huashan Mountain, why is Dongyue Emperor worshipped here? What secrets are hidden behind an ordinary temple?

Follow a cement path next to Tianshui Beiguan Market. The road is more than one meter wide. At first, it was covered by the building and was very unnoticed. Entering the alley, the hustle and bustle of the city was instantly separated. There were few pedestrians on the path. I walked 30 or 40 meters and turned right into the mountain. Stepping up the cement, walking a step with the word "zhi", to the platform halfway up the mountain, the mountain gate is right in front of you.

Standing on the platform and looking at the sky and water under the mountain, the overlapping tall buildings can no longer see any soil. Behind him, the small temple was even more silent. The mountain gate is a little shabby, far less majestic than the Fuxi Temple, and not as thick as the Tianshui Confucian Temple. It feels more thin and deserted. A vertical plaque with gold characters on a blue background hangs above the mountain gate, and it is written "Taishan Temple".

Entering the mountain gate, it is a small yard, which is very clean and gives people a taste of sweeping the court. On the east and west sides of the yard are corridors, which are shaped by the ten halls of the king of the night. At this moment, the silent temple and ferocious ghosts make the people who see it a little worried.

Opposite the mountain gate is the hall, and two giant dragons hover on the pillars on both sides of the gate of the hall. The doors and windows of the hall are mottled with paint, showing a shabby color. The plaque above the lintel says "Dai Yue is towering". In the hall, the Holy Emperor of Dongyue and his generals, Cui, Lei, Zhu and Zhang, are worshipped.

The temple is narrow. Although there is a group of profound sculptures supporting the facade, it still can't hide the narrowness and crampedness of the temple. Looking up, there is a thousand-year-old cypress behind the hall. The cypress tree is so thick that it is difficult for one person to hold it. Although the bark has dried up and cracked into pieces, exuding the smell of vicissitudes, and the needle-shaped leaves at the end of the branches are still very lush.

Behind the hall, it is empty. There is nothing but some dilapidated building materials, wooden sticks and stone foundations. At this time, there are several people who are mysteriously discussing something.

In the general military council of Gansu Supervision and Training Office, Huang Yue, a fellow villager from Huang Xing, said, "Ningxia has been restored, and Marshal Li led the Anxi army to go straight to Lanzhou..."

Qinzhou is now Tianshui, Gansu. In the Qing Dynasty, it was one of the "three prefectures and eight prefectures" belonging to Gansu, and was known as the "Gateway of Gannan". Entering Sichuan in the south and Shaanxi in the east, the economy and culture are relatively developed. Under the inspiration of Chen Yangyuan, a participant in the Wuxu Transformation Movement, the idea of democratic revolution was introduced to Qinzhou earlier, and some young people were deeply in the revolution**. After the restoration of Xi'an, Chang Geng, the governor of Gansu, organized the counter-revolutionary expeditionary army to Longdong and Longnan in order to block the Shaanxi rebel army and prevent the revolution from breaking out in Gansu. Seeing that the revolutionary trend in the southeast and southeastern provinces is increasing, the influence of the revolution in the northwest is weak. I am afraid that once the uprising breaks out, the northwest will not be able to respond in time. Huang Yue resolutely came from Hunan to Lanzhou at the beginning of 1911. Because Chang Geng and Huang's father were old, he was quite trusted by Chang Geng. At the beginning of August of 1911, Huang Yue was appointed as the General Office of the Military Preparedness Office, and was later recommended as the general council of the Military Supervisory Office.

Huang Yue used these favorable conditions as a cover to organize a meeting with Tan Qiqi and Shunyi secret merchants in Sichuan to contact comrades and develop revolutionary forces. When Peng Yingjia and Zhao Weixi, the patrol police of the General Administration of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce and Mines, encouraged Chang Geng to send troops to attack Shaanxi, confiscate the equipment of the new army, and adapt the battalion system, Huang Yue and others wanted to take the opportunity to contact the new army anyway, in order to thwart Peng and Zhao's plan to attack Shaanxi. However, because Huang Yue served as the military counselor, the comprehensive military reserve was relatively short and the prestige was insufficient. In addition, the new army stationed in Gansu is still immature. Although it has been widely mobilized by Li Zhaomei and Luo Ruiqi, the results are not good. Huang Yu then directly advised Chang Geng, secretly pointed out the interests of current affairs, and advised him to protect the situation and the people. However, after Peng and Zhao learned about it, they threatened Chang Geng and attacked Shaanxi, and implied that Huang Yue was a revolutionary party, and it was not appropriate to hold military power and live in the provincial capital for a long time. At this time, Changgeng took Qinzhou as an important hub, and he must be guarded by people and ordered Huang Yue to garrison. Therefore, Huang Yue led about 500 people in the name of the commander of the Xiaorui Army to station in Qinzhou, the southern gateway of Shaanxi, Lanzhou.

I saw the semi-paralyzed Huang Yue sitting on the ground. He looked at it for a long time and said slowly, "After the restoration of Xi'an, while the revolutionary people were stepping up the preparations for the uprising, the feudal stubborn forces in Gansu, represented by Chang Geng, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu. It also strengthened the suppression of revolutionary forces to save the lingering Qing Dynasty. Chang Geng, Yuan Dahua, the governor of Xinjiang, and General Zhirui Yili planned that in case the Qing court was in danger, they contacted Xin, Gan and Inner Mongolia as one, supported the western migration, temporarily plotted for partial peace, and Xu Tu recovered. In order to realize this conspiracy and prevent revolutions from breaking out in various parts of Gansu, they organized counter-revolutionary forces and marched to Shaanxi in three routes; all the 13th Battalion of the "Zhuangkai Army" of Guyuan Admiral Zhang Zhixing came out of Fengxiang; all the way, the 14th Battalion of the "Elite Western Army" of the former Gansu Admiral Ma Anliang and the "Zhenwu Army" of Lu Hongtao went out. Changwu; all the way, Cui Noon and I were sent to lead Ma and Buwu Battalion to Qinzhou; and Peng Yingjia, the former enemy battalion office, was directly led by Sheng Yun to attack Shaanxi. On the one hand, the prefectures and counties affiliated to Gansu were strictly guarded and strengthened the suppression. However, the revolution** has been formed, and the reaction of the Qing court cannot be stopped. In view of the intensified efforts of the Qing court, under the precarious situation of Shaanxi, the revolutionaries restrained the strength of the Western army to attack Shaanxi, cut off the only northwest traffic of the Qing court, and the restoration of Lingzhou shocked the Qing Dynasty's rule in Ningxia.

"Who shocked the Qing court?" Zhou Kun couldn't help laughing and said, "I think it's Marshal Li!"

Li Zhaomei, Lu Bingzhou and others nodded together and agreed.

Huang Yue quietly glanced at Zhou Kun and said, "Master Zhou is talking about it. Without Marshal Li, Ningxia's righteousness would have failed... After the Ningxia Uprising, the big white flag of [China Revolutionary Marshal Sun] fluttered high above the bell and drum tower in the center of the city. In an instant, the triangular flag with the word [Shunnan] was planted in the heads of various families in the urban and rural areas of Ningxia to show their support for the revolution launched and led by Mr. Zhongshan in the south. In order to celebrate the victory, military and civilians from all over the country gathered grandly. The prisoners released from prison by the civilian army in Pingluo County were held in shackles and lined up to shout. The rebels opened the warehouse, helped the poor, and armed the people. The people are happy and orderly. The elder brother's association, which played an important role in the uprising, developed greatly at this time, not only the Han people, but also the Hui people. There are more than 3,000 people in Lingzhou alone. The Ningxia Military Government set up a grand marshal, a camp office, a government affairs office, a school promotion office, a branch office, a consultation office, a Mongolian flag office and other institutions to engrave the large seal for the exercise of power, and immediately promulgated the [New Policy Outline] and [Temporary Political Plan]. Publicize the revolutionary significance and declare that all ethnic groups [are robes, regardless of nobles and lowly]; it is a metaphor that the civilian army shall not search and harass the people; the sales of large and small stores are fair, business as usual, and shall not disturb the social order, and violators shall be punished according to the military law. While promulgating various decrees, the military government took the opportunity to deal with some outlaws who took the opportunity to raid, cheat property and leak military and political secrets from the people. At this time, during the winter irrigation period of Ningxia, the military government immediately ordered the general gentry of the Hexi Han, the Fu, Hui and Qing canals to lead the water conservancy personnel to supervise the winter irrigation, so as to lay a good foundation for the summer grain harvest in the first year of the Republic of China. All this shows that the uprising is in line with the wishes of the people of all ethnic groups and has received the warm support and support of the people of all ethnic groups.

First, Xi'an Guangfu cut off the south road from the Qing court to the northwest. The Ningxia uprising was successful, and the only north road traffic at that time was cut off, which effectively shook the Qing government's rule in Gansu. Chang Geng, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, said in a telegram asking for help from the Qing court: Ningxia fell, and Gansu "the treasury has only been paid for one month, and there is no emergency." If you don't get the support of the court, "the salary will be exhausted, and the soldiers will not be discouraged, and you will also be afraid that the troops will collapse"; "If you set up Gansu, you will try to recover it again in the future, and pay for the expenses, and you will stop it!" Peng Yingjia, the secretary of Ganfan, also sent the same message saying: "If you don't get help quickly, there will be no trouble, and the Gan will be worse than Shaanxi." "If there is no Gan, it will be new, and if it is not guaranteed." At this time, the Qing court was teetering, and it was impossible to give any assistance to Chang Geng. From these facts, it can be seen that the reactionaries were very empty and panicked at that time, and the situation was very favorable to the revolution. However, after the Ningxia revolutionaries won the victory of the Ningxia uprising, on the issue of establishing a new regime, although the revolutionaries overthrew the regime of the Qing Dynasty in Ningxia by correct means, they did not understand that the fundamental problem of the revolution was the importance of state power, and did not strictly distinguish the two. Different class fronts trusted the upper-level bureaucrats of the Qing Dynasty more than the people, in an attempt to consolidate the regime with the help of the feudal bureaucrats. The Lingzhou military government hired Yu Jian, the former general of Dong Fuxiang of the Qing army, as a consultant, and did what he said in terms of military and political measures. The Ningxia Military Government blindly sought cooperation with the old forces, and took the former Ningxia Dao Yin Sun Tingshou to the throne of the Grand Marshal of [China Ningxia Military Government]. Zhang Fang, the former general gentry of Hexi Water Conservancy, became the speaker of the Military Government's Council. In the military government, although the military factual power was controlled by the revolutionaries Liu Xianzhi and Liu Huatang, Zhang Shaotang, a former official of Ningshuo County, was elected as the city guard and commander to control the affairs of the civilian army. Hu Baosen, who once served as a military copywriter, became the general copywriter for handling military affairs, and so on. These facts show that the Ningxia military government has been a coalition government of the revolutionaries and the old bureaucrats of the Qing court from the beginning. It is a product of compromise and is doomed that the revolution will inevitably be aborted.

For Huang Yue Kan Kan, he is well-founded and upright. Zhou Kun, Li Zhaomei, Lu Bingzhou and others couldn't help but turn pale and sighed without squeaking.

"Brother Huang," although Li Zhaomei came late, seeing this Qingjing, it was expected that they had discussed the matter of righteousness. Because of a smile, he said, "Brother, it's a broken jar anyway, and it has been fallen by them for a long time. If I eat a nail, even if I fail, I will reverse it. If you and your brother hesitate and discuss it slowly, how about it? After saying that, he pulled out and left. Zhou Kun shouted anxiously, "Come back! Brother Huang didn't mention it. Now it's also Marshal Li. The situation is completely different. The revolution may not fail. Although the foreign newspapers tried to brag about the Qing court, Long Dong chased it all the way. Who can see that the Qing court was in a mess.

Huang Yue smiled and said, "Master Li, don't be impatient. I just advise you to be cautious when things happen. As the saying goes, don't ask about the future if you do good things, then the future will naturally be good. What's more, we revolutionize, let alone ask about the future, just move forward bravely.

Li Zhaomei felt a little comfortable after this comfort, so he smiled and said, "This is a famous saying. What are we still sbling about! What are you afraid of? After saying that, he said to Huang Yue, "Let's go, let's do justice tomorrow!" Open the south gate of Chang Geng in Lanzhou and welcome Marshal Li!"