Chapter 201 Count me

Outside the city of Cangzhou, there are many saline and alkaline land. Looking from afar, the saline and alkali beaches as white as snow are endless, and occasionally there are large areas of wild grass in the snow. There is no village, only sparkling water shining in the sun. From time to time, a strong wind swept by, and pieces of white dust and fog came from the salt and alkaline water beach oozing from the vast expanse of grass, with a sense of horror.

In the saline and alkali field full of shrubs and weeds such as dwarfs and thorns, a group of young people are sweating and desperately digging a big pit. Every ten feet on the hard-line soil, there is a group of people digging a pit, but around the pit are Beiyang New Army standing with live ammunition.

Today's Beiyang New Army seems to be different from the past. The neck-length hair behind the military cap seems to mean a little ominous. These new officers and soldiers have cut off their braids, while the people who are sweating and digging the pit in the pit have braids. Their sweaty faces are afraid, but they dare not stop. And dozens of corpses at the edge of the pit seem to be reminding something.

"Brother Ziyu, brother... Brother, there are old people in the family, and the hands are small. Please ask Brother Ziyu to fart the brother as a fart!"

People kneeling on the ground kowtowed from time to time, kowtowed their heads with salt and alkali, and blood came out of their foreheads from time to time.

"That brother, it's not that Pepford doesn't want to let you go!"

Wu Peifu sighed and shook his head.

"It's really difficult for the military order!"

With that, Wu Peifu turned his head and looked elsewhere. He ignored the crying and complaining about the Lijie. The commander-in-chief ordered 1,264 flagmen in Zuo Town to be killed. Not only that, all the flagmen in the two towns of Beiyang were killed.

Deswer the name!

With a sigh, Wu Peifu said to the soldiers next to him.

"Let them take a breath and smoke a bag of cigarettes!"

And in front of a pile of weeds not far away, there were several officers who were tied up. Some of them were Wu Peifu's superiors and some of them were his colleagues, but now they are all "traps". As soon as the leggings blocking their mouths were removed, one of them shouted.

"Wu Ziyu, the court is waiting for you. Why did you rebel!"

"You are full, I am Han, the grace of the court is just personal kindness, Peifu needs to keep the national righteousness!"

There was no pause in the righteous answer. As he spoke, Wu Peifu walked over to the man. He looked at Rickha sitting on the ground. Rickha looked straight at him. There was no anger in his eyes, only calmness in his eyes. Both of them had entered Kanto to spy on Russia in the past and supported each other along the way. And now... "Now you will kill me!"

"Brother Rui, please forgive me!"

"Can you let the brothers go?"

Wu Peifu shook his head.

"If you want to enter the restoration army, you need to use the head of my flag as a name!"

"No need!"

"Does the rebel court need my flag to sacrifice the flag again!"

"No need!"

"Then why don't you want to let the brothers go?"

"Marshal's military order!"

"Why did the commander kill us!"

"You are full, I'm Han!"

"Man... Han Man is just a family. How can you kill him!"

"The number of people is calculated by the people, and the number of people who are full of people is one hundred, and the number of those who serve as officials is equal to me. There is no such thing as the injustice between heaven and earth! What's more, the husband's excuse is that he does not distinguish between Manchu and Han, and holds the important position, which belongs to the selfishness of the other clan.

Wu Peifu's cold voice countered the topic on the Guangfu Newspaper, and then his voice sank.

"It's not that we want to kill you, and it's not that the Han people want to be killed..."

"It's just that the general needs to cast a name!"

Following Wu Peifu's words, Rick sighed bitterly and stopped talking, while a sergeant passed by the report.

"S sir, the pit has been dug!"

Wu Peifu turned around and walked towards a carriage, which was full of wine jars. He took a large bowl and walked to Rickha.

"A bowl of water and wine, please have a good journey!"

After drinking a bowl of wine, Wu Peifu, who had not said anything, blushed and stared at him, and his eyes, which seemed to be calm, showed a little blood.

"Brother Ziyu, if he says that when you are trapped in the capital, please..."

"Brother Rui, don't worry, as long as Ziyu goes to the capital, he will take care of Brother Rui's family!"

"Please transfer Ziyu to the master of control. There are also millions of people who are loyal to the country in the flag. Please ask him to show mercy with a knife!"

"This is natural!"

After taking another bowl of wine, Wu Peifu and Rickha drank a bowl of wine. With a wave of their hands, they were pushed to the big hole dug over there. Some people walked like Rickha, but some people had already collapsed, and even their legs were already wet. Who wants to die?

"Fand!"

With the officer's command, the sound of gunfire sounded in the wilderness outside Texas. Hundreds of flag soldiers standing on the edge of the pit who had been stripped of their military uniforms fell down with the sound of guns, and were kicked into the pit by soldiers who had cut off their braids before falling into the pit.

A team of people had just finished their execution, and another group of people were dragged and pushed towards the big earth pit. Some of them stood on the edge of the pit and knelt there and cried, while others looked righteous and awe-inspiring.

"Frease your gun!"

"Aim!"

"Shooting"

The sound of gunfire sounded in rows of saline ground. The ownerless bodies were lying in the pit, but the sky was sunny. Finally, the gunfire stopped. Looking at the bodies in more than a dozen large pits, Wu Peifu shook his head helplessly and sighed. Although he did not want to kill his colleagues, all this was inevitable.

In Baoding City, Beiyang guards with live ammunition patrolled the street. On the high platform on the street, ordinary people were cutting their braids in full view of the public. After the braids were cut off, the students in the new school next to them shaved the man's hair with a shaved pusher. Most of these people had about half an inch of hair on their foreheads. This is to save money. Most of the students in charge of shaving their heads will cut them into half an inch long and short hair, which looks somewhat similar to the Guangfu Army in the south.

"The braids go away, the big man's face, a bowl of noodles, as a reward!"

The guard next to

shouted there with a braid in his hand. The people who cut off the braids immediately went to the side and lay on the table to eat a big bowl of noodles. More people were watching in the crowd, while an old man in a helpless official uniform in the crowd scolded.

"How can the law of the ancestors be lost? Heaven will kill the Yuan thief!"

When he fled with his face covered, he was suddenly pulled by the patrol guard.

"Long of the shed, there is a full legacy..."

"Cut his braids and see what else he does!"

The director of the shed shouted, and the people next to him, whether they would like to cut it or not, but now they were watching the hustle and bustle, and the Chinese people loved to watch the hustle and bustle.

"I don't cut my hair! I don't cut my braids..."

The old man, who was forcibly dragged to the stage by the soldiers, shouted loudly with his hands protecting his braids. Seeing that it was troublesome to drag, the shed chief pulled out a bayonet.

"Hold it down for me!"

The old man was forcibly pressed in front of the stage by the two people, and the bayonet cut hard along the root of the braids. Except for the braids, the old man who was originally struggling could not struggle. His lips trembled gently and there was no blood on his face, but the students on the stage jumped down and soon pushed off the remnants of the back of his head. After shaving his head, he was loosened. The old man suddenly collapsed to the ground, but there were old tears on his face, and no one could hear what he was saying.

In the end, the old man even struggled to get up and kowtowed to the north, asking for sin in his mouth and old tears on his face.

The young students on the stage looked at the old man who kowtowed in the direction of the capital under the stage, and their eyes were full of contempt, and finally said something.

"A scum who is not enough to be a slave!"

"It doesn't taste like cutting off the braids to change from a slave to sincerity!"

In the governor's mansion, Yuan Shikai, who was wearing a German military uniform, sighed helplessly. Today, he issued a military order to use military methods to braid his hair. All provinces cut their braids. Cutting braids is a symbol of the restoration. Even if he followed Jiang Ning, he naturally had to cut his braids. But it was his turn, but he couldn't help hesitating. Some.

Yang Shiqi, who had cut off his braids by himself last night, said with a smile.

"Marshal, cutting off the braids doesn't change from a slave to sincerity, but if you keep the braids, don't you want to continue to be a slave!"

Listening to his advice, Yuan Shikai had no choice but to hold the braids that had been cut off, and his face was full of expressions of reluctance. Although this braid was not a good thing, he was really reluctant to cut it.

Although there are all kinds of reluctance, this braid still needs to be cut. Compared with this braid, Yuan Shikai is more worried about another thing.

"Xingcheng, do you think..."

Before he finished speaking, Yang Shiqi received a sentence first.

"Marshal, are you worried about the general in the south!"

Yang Shiqi shook his head.

"Marshal, when we discussed it last night, it was already mentioned that the commander is doing everything at the beginning, and nothing is more important to him than to restore China quickly. Now the commander-in-chief, you are the first person in China to rise up to respond to the restoration. If the government treats you, I'm afraid that it must be a long-lasting war. I'm afraid this is not what the government wants to see.

Although he nodded, Yuan Shikaiyi still frowned. Although he didn't know much about Chen's rule, he also knew that those who achieved great things were all men, non-toxic and non-husbands. He thought that an official from the governor's office came in in a hurry.

"Congratulations to the general, congratulations to the general!"

With that, the man held a telegram in his hands, but the telegram was the appointment of Jiang Ning's temporary political axe.

As soon as he received the telegram, Yuan Shikai's face changed and became extremely difficult to look at.

"Vice Chairman of the Provisional Political Axe Military Commission!"

Chen Moran said and laughed in a relatively plain tone about the official position given to Yuan Shikai. The Provisional Political Axe Military Committee was a false institution from the beginning. For the Guangfu Army, there was the Guangfu Army Command and the Staff Headquarters, and for the ruling axe, there was an unestablished Minister of the Army, but this member of the Military Committee However, he is also in charge of himself. As for the vice chairman, Yuan Shikai is the first person.

"Under one person, above tens of thousands of people!"

Chen Moran said and laughed. On the surface, the military committee seems to have a lot of responsibility, but in fact? Thinking of this, Chen Moran sneered in his heart.

Jiang Fangzhen did not show much emotion for the virtual institution made by the commander-in-chief. With his understanding of the commander-in-chief, he vaguely guessed that the biggest concern in the commander-chief was the army. In order to maintain his control of the army, the reuse of Huangpu students is the biggest feature of the commander-in-chief. Even the Huangpu students are divided into school students and branch students. Of course, these are not what he is thinking about.

"The Beiyang standing army trained by Yuan Shikai is a Beiyang system centered on Yuan. Therefore, the important generals of each town were selected by him himself. The first town was successively controlled by Fengshan. According to Yuan Shikai's telegram, Fengshan, like other flag officers, Fengshan has been executed and is now ruled by Wang Shizhen; the second town is controlled by Wang Yingkai, and the third town The command is Duan Qirui, and Lei Zhenchun, Chen Guangyuan and Li Chun are the military. Those who serve as standard are Wang Zhanyuan, Lu Yongxiang, Bao Guiqing, Wang Huaiqing, Tian Zhongyu, Yang Shande, Meng Enyuan, Tang Tianxi, Wang Zhenji, Zhao Yuke, Wang Tongyu, etc.; those who serve as battalion management are He Fenglin, Lu Jin, Li Changtai, Li Houji, Shi Congbin, Yan Xiangwen, etc., and almost all of them are from small stations. Yuan knows about him. "En!"

Chen Moran nodded and naturally knew that the Beiyang Army was the direct line of Yuan Shikai. The reason why Yuan Shikai succeeded in stealing the country in seven years in history was that he relied on the six towns of the Beiyang Army.

"The Beiyang Standing Army has four new armies, uh-huh! To remove the Beijing flag standing army, this Beijing flag standing army is the last support of the Qing Dynasty. Um, the Beiyang standing army has the first town and the second town, plus the third town just formed by the northern section of the patrol camp as the backbone and adding new recruits. The new army of these three towns is all the horses of Yuan Shikai!"

Chen Moran meditated and looked at the executed flag man in the army mentioned in Yuan Shikai's telegram. Yuan Shikai took these 3,000 people as a name! Even if more than one city was trapped during the restoration period, the flag man who was executed by the restoration army has not exceeded this number. This old man is really cruel.

"Lao Yuan has been training soldiers for several years, and this soldier is also good!"

"Marshal, the combat strength of the Beiyang Standing Army can be the best of the Qing army!"

As a lieutenant colonel of the staff, Chen Qicai nodded and said. Like the vast majority of Lu Shi graduates, Chen Qicai also served in the staff. The chief of the army is Huangpusheng, which is a common phenomenon in the restoration army. After all, the president of the Huangpu Military Academy is the commander in front of him, and the director of the professor's office is Xiao Jianren, the commander of the First Army, who said that he It's not too much to be a student of heaven. Even if you are a student of heaven, you have the power of a born student.

"Didn't we have organized the 25th, 26th and 27th divisions in northern Anhui and northern Jiangsu? The unpreseen first army was ordered to advance to Henan and Shandong, and these three new divisions followed up at the same time, uh-huh! After convergating with the first, second and third towns of Beiyang, the three towns of Beiyang were mainly composed of Beiyang, and ordered the governors of Anhui and Jiangsu to recruit 30,000 people. With the First Division and the Beiyang Standing Army as the backbone, they were organized into the First, Second and Third Armies of the Guangfu Army.

Thinking of a series of ideas of "adding sand" came out of Chen Moran's mouth. He had 50,000 people in three towns, so he added 130,000 people and organized the Beiyang Army in three towns into three armies.

The commander's words made Jiang Fangzhen frown. He had already heard of Yuan Shikai's old annivers. With Yuan Shikai's old annivers, how could he not see that he was taking his military power behind the whole.

"Marshal, the plan is good, but Yuan Shikai is not a party. The party can be mixed with sand to supplement officers, but these people..."

"Yuan Shikai will never be willing!"

Chen Moran looked up and smiled.

"Baili, I dare to say that Yuan Shikai will definitely find an excuse not to come to Jiang Ning to serve as the vice chairman of the military committee!"

Jiang Fangzhen, Chen Qicai, Wu Yuanze, Zhang Xian, Wu Maojie and others all looked at the commander in front of them, that is, Yuan Shikai could not perform this position. Why did the commander... Everyone's doubts fell into Chen Moran's eyes, and he just shook his head gently.

"You only see that Yuan Shikai will not perform his duties, but you don't see anything. What will Yuan Shikai use as an excuse!"

"Excuse?"

"That's right, with Yuan Shikai's old annipery, Xu Shichang first saved him, sent Xu Shichang to Jiangning, and reached an agreement with us, and then took the risk of killing the head to slow down. For the heart of An Cixi, he stayed in the settlement and planned. When the Qingniwa incident happened, it was originally the time of his uprising, but he didn't do so! But he also used the secret code we gave him to buy a secret telegram of a crime, saying that it was not that he didn't want to, but that the matter was important. Fengshan, the flag man, was a town's control. In order to ensure success overnight, the time of the accident could be postponed. At this time, it's not easy to do this!"

Thinking of Yuan Shikai, Chen Moran couldn't help sighing.

"If I hadn't informed him before I broke off diplomatic relations, how could he have revolted so easily? Even if there was an uprising, how could he not have a trace of selfishness? Yuan Shikai's ambition is far greater than you and I imagined. For him, Jiangning is undoubtedly in the mouth of the tiger, and the army is his only support. How can he easily hand over his military power and let me mix sand and stones? He always asks for a few ways to protect himself!"

Jiang Fangzhen and others listened and kept nodding and saying yes. After a while, Chen Moran said with emotion.

"People in the world often believe that they are smart, but they are often smart but are mistaken by cleverness. Slow justice is self-protecting, and righteousness is self-protecting. After justice, in order to stay in the north and live in the army, what is the way to protect yourself?

"Hmm!"

Jiang Fangzhen frowned and thought for a moment.

"Marshal, if he wants to protect himself, he will use the excuse that the ropes have not been destroyed, and then transfer the first and second towns to the north to attack the ropes. According to the capital, one can protect himself, and the other can show his name. After seeking the capital, Yuan Shikai will definitely get the name of the first general. At that time..."

"Reputation is a weapon! At that time, with the three provinces of Henan, Shandong and Hebei, and the achievements of recovering from the capital, Yuan Shikai will protect himself!"

As he spoke, Chen Moran laughed, but his mood was a little faster than before.

"The standing army of the two towns of Beiyang, if it goes north, it must be transferred to the third town to guard Henan and Shandong, based on the land. If he really does this, he will order the first army to go north to support Yuan Shikai! According to Jinan and Luoyang, we need to control the cities in addition to the two places, send officials and reorganize the political axe. He is fighting in front, and we are behind to stabilize the two provinces of Henan and Shandong.

"But it's the capital!"

"Hundred miles, the anti-Russian army has been outside the customs for almost a year!"

The commander's question made Jiang Baili understand why he laughed. Yuan Shikai was indeed mistaken for being smart.

"Report, Yuan Shikai sent a telegram to the staff. In order to quickly pursue the captives, he ordered the first and second towns in Beiyang to return from the north of Cangzhou..."

At this time, the staff officer's report made laughter sound from the war room of the ruling axe staff, and Chen Moran raised his eyebrows proudly and turned his head to look at everyone.

"Okay, the big deal has been decided!"

(to be continued)