Chapter 184 Panic in the South and the North

The singing is difficult to suppress the thick smoke. Compared with Shanghai and other places, Jiangning, an important town in the south of the Yangtze River, is still rumbling from midnight to the sun. The rolling smoke of gunpowder covers the sky of Jiangning. There are blood-stained heads hanging on the high walls of the standing army and the new army barracks inside and outside Jiangning City. This The flag soldiers in each department who were beheaded and executed by the righteous standing army and new officers were suspended in the public as usual practice.

The battle in the outer city ended with the capture of the Jingkou Flag Camp. The Liangjiang Governor's Mansion in Jiangning City was conquered in the first time, but the real battle was the Mancheng in it. The Mancheng in the east of the city was originally the old city of the Ming Dynasty Palace. The walls were extremely strong and the fortifications were complete. After half of the world's Taiping army fell into Jiangning, the flag camp of Mancheng was slaughtered, and Mancheng was destroyed after the recovery of Zeng Guofan. After the Qing army recovered, the garrison camp and the city wall were rebuilt on the original site.

At this time, there were nearly 10,000 households in Jiangning. After the battle in the outer city, General Kuifang of Jiangning, in addition to ordering the flag to go to the wall, fired cannons at the outer wall and sand to block the wall. In addition, he also recruited men from 60 to 14 households in the flag camp to defend the wall.

Near Lingming, Jiangning's fierce battle in the city became more and more fierce. At dawn, the women and children of the flag camp also went to the city wall to treat the wounded, and even some women picked up guns and shot at the outer city. The Guangfu Army, located in the artillery camp on Zijinshan Mountain, Tianbao City and Fuguishan Fort, continued to bombard the whole city condescendingly. Although the arsenal had been blown up as early as night, the battle continued until dawn.

Compared with the small shells fired in the city, the attacking Guangfu army did not directly climb the city wall. When they continued to use mortars to shell the inner city, they also used field artillery to bombard the city wall in order to blow up gaps in the city walls.

Tianbao City is on Xifeng Mountain, built on the cliff, overlooking the whole city. After the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was built in Nanjing, on the top of Tianbao Peak at an altitude of 267 meters above sea level and the neck of the dragon in the northwest of the peak, the two military fortresses of Tianbao City and the Bunker City were built with strong walls with local hard tiger skin stones. As a strategic point of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, it controlled Yaohua Gate in the northeast, the fork in the fork in the northeast and the southeast direction of Kirin. Gate, Shangfang Gate and other invading enemies. In the later period of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Taiping Army fought against the Xiang Army, and the Xiang Army first captured Tianbao City before capturing Nanjing.

The five main fortresses in Jiangning are Wulong Mountain, Shofu Mountain, Yuhuatai, Lion Mountain and Fugui Mountain Fortress. In last night's uprising, there was no hard battle of the Hunan army in those years. Most of the artillery soldiers were Han soldiers, and they have long been influenced by the Honghan Club. More accurately, they were affected by the monthly military pay of 6 taels, almost at the same time as the city.

At this time, Tianbao City, the general headquarters of the Jiangning Uprising, raised the binoculars, and Xiao Jian's eyebrows frowned. After an hour of shelling, every brick and stones on the wall of the city were clearly visible. Most of them had been bombed and mottled, but the wall was still standing there, which was eager for him and him. The last obstacle between what you want.

"The dog said, if not..."

Thinking about the casualties that the strong attack would cause, Xiao Qian's helpless sighed. As the commander of the first division, he clearly knew that the future task of the first division, the first division would be the main force to block the enemy's Huaibei, which was obviously useless to attack the whole city.

When I put down the telescope, I looked at the small cannon on the castle that day. Although Tianbao City was a Tianbao fortress, there were only a dozen small cannons. During the period when Liu Kun was in control of the two rivers, when he constructed the "river control fort" in the Oolong Mountain and the shogunate mountain, he moved the only Krup cannon in Tianbao City to Shogunate Mountain.

"There is no cannon!"

Thinking that the telegram mentioned two 260mm shells in Guangzhou, that is, the whole city of Guangzhou, Xiao Yanren couldn't help feeling a little annoyed and sighed at Cai Songpo's luck. The artillery on the shogunate mountain and Yushan fort could not point to Jiangning City.

In the future, the shell will still be the key point. 88mm is too light! Thinking about it, Xiao Yanren asked a staff officer beside him again.

"How's the tunnel digging?"

"Your Sir, according to the current progress, at least until the evening!"

There are no heavy artillery to bombard the city, so they can only use blasting operations. Among the restoration army engineers, there are many excavators from iron mines and coal mines. What they are best at digging tunnels.

"Is there any news from Hangzhou?"

In the 8,000 scroll building in Hangzhou, a young woman-like girl was hiding in the second floor scroll room with a baby who was just one month old. This is an old-style wooden building on the second floor. Through the branches of plum trees in the yard and through the gap between the collapsed buildings outside, you can see a section of the city. The gap is like a The appearance of the front teeth of the mouth after falling out.

After a while, the pale young woman held a baby and stood in front of the window in the 8,000-thousand-roll building for a few hours, staring at the fireworks all over the city. Listening to the sound of gunfire that had faded there, the rebellious Han army blew up the gates of the city last night, and the sound of gunfire and explosions were loud in the city. After a night, she was holding the child in her own man and escaping from the hanging blue with a rope... At this time... The gunshot slowly went out, and even the sparse gunshot stopped. The black smoke from the city made her face bloodless. He knew what it meant when the gunfire stopped.

Just as she looked at the baby in her arms with tears in her eyes, she looked at the exploded gate cave in front of her, and a group of people came out of the city under the care of the rioters with guns.

The women holding the crying babies, the children of grandpa and grandma, and the soldiers who were ragged and covered with blood-stained gauze on their faces, with simple luggage, converged into a huge torrent of refuge and rolled forward along the road.

This is... Gradually, the crowd is approaching. Isn't it Qing Liuer? Isn't it Yan Wu who is on crutches? That... One acquaintance after another appeared on the street. Aren't they dead?

At this time, the door in the book building was suddenly pushed open, and a happy lady came over. This was Mrs. Ding of the 8,000-thousand-roll building, and she saved the two of them.

"That lady! Don't hide!"

Mrs. Ding said with a smile, holding an Anmin notice in her hand.

"This governor's axe is still reasonable, and he didn't kill people!"

Sure enough, on the Anmin notice held by Mrs. Nading, the girl saw the words "No to Kill".

"Madam... Then they are..."

Mrs. Ding's face changed slightly.

"This has changed the world, naturally... You know, the whole city used to be... The house was not bought by yourself, of course, leaving is not..."

Mrs. Ding said, but the young woman's face showed some joy. It's good that she didn't kill indiscriminately. I don't know if her own man is okay... "Guangzhou General Chunlu, Mongolia is a yellow flag. Last night, when he saw that the Guangfu Han army was strong, he accepted the adaptation as a flag soldier and promised to pay according to the salary. After the adaptation, his weapons were confiscated by Chief Cai, and all of them were disbanded. Chunlu asked to disband the salary, and the commander-in-chief Cai was not ambiguous. He agreed according to the approval, but he took the salary, waved a big pen, and wrote the three words "Big Grave Qiu". The flag soldiers were afraid, and they all dispersed.

"The governor of Fujian and Zhejiang agreed to see that the general trend had gone and swallowed gold and committed suicide. Pu Shou, the general of Fuzhou, learned of the defeat and fled to Mingyu's home in the Mongolian camp in Dongmen. Honghan will track and search and escort him alive in Fuzhou, and the whole territory of Fuzhou..." Listening to the content mentioned in the staff telegram, Chen Moran just smiled. The restoration of this place sounds like a play. Except for Jiang Ning, the war in various places has stopped, and the process is thrilling and ridiculous.

"Jiangjingkou Flag Camp, Jiangning Portal Town, with the support of four Krupp guns, six motor boats and two gunboats, was defended by the camp. After a night of heavy fighting, the upper and even the deputy capital carried Mu. Thousands of flag soldiers in the lower battalion were killed and injured. Most of the flag camps burned their rooms with fire, and most of the families were killed by fire. Most of the flag camp was destroyed by fire. The wounded prisoners and surrendered were even more dragged by the standing army and the new army of the uprising to the riverside to behead them to vent their hatred..."

Listening to the news, Chen Moran just raised his eyebrows slightly and didn't say anything. There were always some inevitable things in the process of national restoration, and he had been very restrained, just like Hangzhou had released all the flag battalion soldiers and their families.

"The Guangdong Branch of the Alliance set up a patrol camp at the mouth of the river. During the inspection process, the pedestrians were caught and beheaded on the spot. After the flag soldiers were captured, they did not speak until they died. The more you say, the more you will be killed by the flag soldiers.

"... The turbulent people with knives and guns set up checkpoints in various places. When the number of people in the past is counted to "six", those who read "six" are beheaded..."

In the Dongnuan Pavilion with a gauze yellow curtain hanging, accompanied by the sound of a porcelain cup breaking, the princes and ministers hurriedly lowered their heads. From the sky to light up, the capital was in chaos. The princes and ministers were shocked by the change in the south of the Yangtze River. More than a million flags in the city and the five provinces were stunned. .

Originally, I wanted to block the news, but in the early morning, leaflets were posted all over the street. As soon as the news spread, the grain price in the capital was more than 60%. The original Hunan officials muttered in their hearts, and now officials from all over the south of the Yangtze River also muttered.

Everyone knows that the temporary political axe made a Han anniction tablet. In some places in Hunan, some people's names have been engraved. Although they are all from the time of Master Shunzhi, the dead "sever forget the sect, and the Qing and Han annihi anniction", but as long as you think about the name is engraved on the stele of the government, county and township for the "admiration" of the people. "No one doesn't feel that his scalp is numb.

In case... Everyone thinks of the word "what if" in their hearts, thinking about the county magistrates and magistrates in the southern provinces who are forced to be helpless or sincere. They have atone for their sins, but they sighed in their hearts. It has been more than 20 days since they fought in Hunan Province. Overnight, the Qing Dynasty There is no half of the country, why doesn't it make people sigh.

The most fearful thing here is not the big knife of the Guangfu army and the chaotic people who cut down the flag people, but the stone tablet of "Shu Dian Wangzong". As long as you look for this, if it is serious, maybe the world is "all trapped", at that time, his name is really engraved on the tablet, which is hundreds of years of years of swearing, than that It is still very good to write about the history book.

"Ext.! That squee is really amazing!"

He was calm about Li Shengduo, the minister of Taichang Temple, who had just mastered the sacrifice of the clan temple, but sighed in his heart that Chen's slumber was sycophants. Everything forced by his "Han annihilation tablet" seemed to have lost his soul. He looked forward and saw Lord Ge Baohua Ge, the minister of the Ministry of Household. At this time, he was sweating on his head and his face was yellow. What blood color, Lord Ge is in Shanyin, Zhejiang, Shanyin... Well, it seems that the county magistrate has rebeled.

Looking at Xu Yu, the minister of the Ministry of Ceremonies over there, he also looked depressed. His family is in Jiading, Jiangsu Province, and he is also in a rebellious place. When the Empress Dowager was talking to those princes and slaves, Li Shengduo seemed to be looking for the "difficult brothers" who were also fallen from the world. Almost half of the people in the Dongnuan Pavilion were depressed and in a trance.

That's right! The generals of the north and the ministers of the south have been from the south of the Yangtze River since ancient times. The civil and military ministers in the capital are not in the flag. Of the ten to sixty-seven people come from the provinces in the south of the Yangtze River. Now it's good. Suddenly, the family let the "thief" take over, and the "thief" also made a "Han anni.

The name on the tablet, or Qin Hui's treatment, makes people panic. It's a thousand-year-old name. It's not just that they bear the name of scolding, but even the clan can't raise their heads. This monument immediately goes to the prefectures and townships. Maybe it will have to be written in the history book. This thousand-year-old scolding... Thinking about it makes people feel the backbone. There is a cold inside, which is more powerful than putting it on the neck of the elders in the family, forcing them to rebel. Even if they put it on the neck of their parents, they can also say "loyalty and filial piety are not perfect". Maybe they can get it into the record of loyal ministers, but a stone tablet is a curse that has been settled for thousands of years.

With his heart so tight, Li Shengduo still swept his eyes on the face.

Oh! Why does Lord Zhang's face look better than the previous days? ... Thinking that Zhang Baixi's nationality is Changsha, Hunan Province, which is the first place of rebellion. It is said that after the "Han anniversal tablet" came out at that time, Lord Zhang was almost bedridden, especially when it was said that "Hunan people did not revolutionize, so they dug his ancestral graves", he almost spit out a few mouthfuls of blood, in the county, in the countryside or Maybe the emperor is far away, but it's Changsha... But Lord Zhang, why does he still look like he is still in his mind? That face is much better than that of more than ten days ago. Is it possible that he cares about the curse behind him and the ancestral graves in his family?

There must be something strange here. Is it possible... Thinking of the words "being in Caoying, my heart is in Han", Li Shengduo's heart moved, thinking that he is also from Hunan. In case... I'd better visit Lord Zhang later to see if I can find any good recipe.

Suddenly, after the curtain, Cixi, who was angry, cried again, and the ministers quickly knelt down. Cixi sobbed and waved her hands. The ministers did not kneel, nor did they kneel, looking at each other in the face.

As Cixi stopped her grief, the ministers slowly returned to their positions.

Cixi, who was sitting behind the curtain, said there.

"I remembered what happened when I just left Beijing. I was chased by the Eight-Nation Alliance. The emperor and I could only sleep in the ruined temple and have nightmares every day! I dreamed that the coalition army was chasing our mother and two children, and I was so scared that I woke up several times in one night. Now, the matter of foreigners has just been smoothed down, but there is trouble in the south!"

Thinking about the past few years, Cixi was first angry and panicked. She couldn't help bursting into tears and anger.

"The chaos in the south has been going on for more than 20 days. The troops that should be transferred have been transferred, and the silver that should come out has come out. But now, the south is in chaos. Every ordinary people are shouting the word of loyalty, but now, where is the loyal minister and righteous son? The magistrate and the county magistrate scrambled to follow the rebellion first, and the one who did not reverse actually ran away!"

Thinking about the content of this telegram, the Empress Dowager Cixi's face turned pale and looked angrily at the princes and ministers standing there. When she saw those uneasy Han officials, there was no reason that the fire surged, but when it was sent out, the fire was still put down.

After all, we still have to rely on these ministers to work together to get through this. At this moment, a small eunuch took another electric newspaper and handed it to the eunuch standing in the Dongnuan Pavilion.

"...According to the report of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, at the Shanghai consular group meeting, the British and American consuls vetoed the interference proposed by the German and Japanese consular consulars. The Shanghai consular group said that the powers should be neutral, and the Beijing legation also agreed with the decision of the Shanghai consular group..."

The telegram read by the little eunuch only shocked the Dongnuan Pavilion from the Empress Dowager to the princes and ministers. When he was surprised, another eunuch came in and handed over another telegram.

"The traitor Chen Moran sent a diplomatic note to the countries:

For all friendly countries, in order to maintain world peace and enhance human happiness, all the actions of the restoration army to the outside world are specially taken to avoid misunderstanding. I. All treaties concluded with various countries before the Qing Dynasty shall continue to be valid. II. Compensation for foreign debt shall be held as usual, and shall still be paid off by the provinces on schedule. 3. The property of the people of all countries in the area occupied by the temporary government axe of residence will be protected. 4. The vested rights of all countries are also protected as one. V. The treaty between the Qingzheng Axe and the various countries, the rights granted, and the borrowed treasury bonds were established in this case according to the latter, and the temporary political axe will not be recognized. VI. If all countries help to clear the political axe to hinder the temporary political axe, they shall treat it as the enemy. VII. If there are items in various countries that can be used for war, the searchers will be confiscated. ......"

Two messages in a row only made everyone take a breath of cold. The attitude of the powers is neutral. In other words, they don't ask, and then the note of the rebels is not the weakness of the powers. Those foreigners have always been mercenary, and now there is no need to take the trouble to help.

Just when everyone was shocked, Li Shengduo saw that Zhang Baixi stood up sideways and knelt on the ground.

"I think that the soldiers gathered in Hubei should not move rashly, and naval ships should block Wuhu from sinking ships. Nowadays, we should gather the momentum of the navy and the power of the army to protect Hubei. The minister recommended Yuan Shikai, the minister of Beiyang and the governor of Zhili, as the commander-in-chief, and commanded the new army of the two towns around Beiyang. With the power of the new army of the two towns, he went south to Jiangsu to rebelle!"

Finally, someone said something reasonable, and Cixi nodded when she heard this.

"Xuan Yuan Shikai's advice!"

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(to be continued)