Chapter 172 The Change of the River Ore (2)

Mr. Cheng smiled and looked at the people in front of him. In the past few days, Hubei suddenly exerted its efforts to shock the heroes in the world.

First, the Liu Wenyu tribe who went south was solved and captured many generals and officers of the Liu tribe alive. Then, the revolutionary army in the middle of Hubei had not stopped and went south to Hubei. The two provinces of Hubei were junction and swept away the resistance in the south. Then they rushed straight to Jingzhou. After a day and night of crazy artillery bombardment, they finally paid more than a thousand casualties and took down Jingzhou, which was almost bombed into ruins when they were about to turn dark yesterday. Jingzhou General Lian Kui and others were helpless and jumped into a well and committed suicide. There were less than five thousand people left in the city.

After Ma Rongcheng's troops quickly captured Jingmen on the middle road, they joined forces with He Jin on the north road, and continued to capture all the counties and towns around Xiangyang, and surrounded the Xiangyang city, which was only less than 800 defenders in the city. Cao Yunyuan, the prefect of Xiangyang, was resisted by officials in the prefecture because he was not from Hubei. Seeing that the world was clear, he sent people to go out of the city to privately visit He and Ma, who are now commanding the siege outside the city. After receiving the affirmative guarantee from the Revolutionary Army, Xiangyang City must be destroyed within two days.

At this time when the military advance of the Hubei Central Military Government was in full swing, it was no wonder that they rushed over after sending people to inform them. I believe that I had already seen the Hubei Central Military Government in my heart that I could not reach here!

"really……"

Several people turned their heads and whispered, and a hint of joy flashed across their faces, among which Zhang Guoquan and Li Xiu'ang were the most profound, especially Zhang Guoquan. He was kicked out of the new army several times due to his personality problems. He dreamed of becoming a general in the leading position, but now he has to get along with a group of people from the world. He has long had the heart to rebel and create some achievements in his heart. Therefore, among these people, he is the one who is most concerned about the Hubei military government.

The rest of you were still thinking in your heart, but he stood up and smiled: "Mr. Cheng is hiding us deeply. Who doesn't know the name of Li Shuai and the Hubei military government today? I just don't know what the Hubei military government means? Mr. Wang cannot not know. After the Wuchang Uprising, the court ordered the confiscation of the guns of the new troops from all over the country. After the Qing army was besieged in Xiangyang, the Qing army sent someone to notify the horse team to take charge of Sun Changling to strictly control the weapons of the new troops and strictly ordered the patrol battalion to supervise the movements of the new troops. Now we are short of guns and bullets, and it is probably difficult to make a difference!"

Li Xiuang nodded, but his eyes dodged slightly: "The situation of the horse team is basically as Brother Zhang said. If the trouble with guns cannot be solved, there are Sun Changling and the patrol battalion. It is really difficult for my new army without guns to play any role!"

A few days ago, they felt that Mr. Cheng might be very difficult, so they pointed indirectly, hoping that he could help solve the gun problem. However, Mr. Cheng kept saying that the time has not come, and it is no wonder that he is going to talk about it now.

"What's the problem? If it's just that the weapon is cut off, after Brother Li mentioned this to me a few days ago, I sent someone to notify the Hubei-zhong area that it was shipped. Now it happened to be delivered, and it's just right for use!"

Mr. Cheng smiled and clapped his palms. The guard outside the house immediately left with understanding. Soon after, he heard a few slightly heavier footsteps following him, and then a squeaking door, and several men with huge bodies walked in, carrying a load of dry firewood or carrying a bag of rice.

"Mr. Cheng is..."

Song Tao took a look in surprise, and then saw Mr. Cheng wave his hand. Several strong men who came in carrying firewood took out a sharp bayonet from their waists, cut it on the rope tied with firewood, and disassembled the firewood tied to one time, and immediately exposed the 700 to 80% new spears inside.

"Hiss! Good gun!"

Zhang Guoquan is a gun lover. When he saw that a weapon was exposed, he immediately surrounded him and pulled out a weapon to play with it.

"Well, is it a good gun? Foreign goods?"

Song Tao was like him, and he also picked up a gun and put it in his hand and started playing with it carefully. Suddenly, he saw a row of foreign characters on the stock, which was not the English he was familiar with. This type of gun was obviously not made in China. However, after pulling the bolt, he soon frowned: "Why don't there be bullets?"

Mr. Cheng's eyes signaled to those people, and then he saw them piercing the rice bag with a thud, revealing the white rice inside and carefully sewn cloth bags hidden in the rice. Someone handed over two packs to Zhang Guoquan and Song Tao. When they opened it, they found that it was all full of bullets.

Seeing that both of them were satisfied, he spoke and continued: "A total of fifty guns and one thousand bullets! The Qing army naval army was too strict to investigate, and no matter how many, it would be impossible to send in. Everyone... Time is not waiting for anyone. I have received news from Xiangyang that my revolutionary army will capture Xiangyang City in the next two days. How can we revolutionary righteous men waste our years here? We will build a new China ten years later and let the descendants laugh at you!"

During this period, Mr. Cheng had basically figured out their personalities. Except for Song Tao, he was basically not a pure revolutionary. Even Zhang and Li were introduced several times because they were too good at causing trouble. The Tongmenghui failed. Now one of them is in decline and has been mixed with a group of old martial arts. The other is also forced to hide his identity because he was a young man. He changed his identities several times. He didn't know how much he had left in his early years.

Sure enough, Li Xiu'ang understood what he said very obscurely. After looking at Zhang Guoquan, he frowned and asked, "I would like to ask Mr. Cheng to teach me, what does Li Shuai mean?"

"Northern Hubei!"

Without thinking, Mr. Cheng answered the group.

"The movement is going fast, and the general has received bad news. Because the war in the past two days is probably going south, the Qing army, which was stopped in Xinyang, Henan, is about to move south. Therefore, the general hopes to sweep northern Hubei as soon as possible to fight against the Sixth Town of Beiyang that went south."

"The Sixth Town is coming?"

Song Tao's hand shook slightly, and his face changed slightly and asked.

Although a group of people were all from the new army, he was the only one who had truly seen the Beiyang Army's military front. In his early years, he became a new army officer in Fengtian and had the honor of seeing the army fronts of several towns in Beiyang, so he was naturally on the front line than Hubei.

Seeing Mr. Cheng nodding and affirming, he sighed and raised his head and said, "Everyone, it seems that we have to speed up the uprising. Li Shuai's idea is right. I have seen the military power of the army in the six towns of Beiyang in my early years. It is not an exaggeration for the Taurus court to call it the "Defense Force". It is a new type of armed force specially trained to deal with foreigners. If the military government has already obtained the news that the Sixth Town of Henan is about to go south, it is justified to integrate the military strength of the whole province as soon as possible. Hubei is not like the three towns of Wuchang, and there is no danger to defend. However, once a war begins, I am afraid that half of Hubei will give up in the early stage..."

Although this was said unpleasantly, Mr. Cheng and others only smiled lightly but had no other expressions. Zhang Guoquan, who had been paying attention to him, felt relieved, but he made a decision!

He placed the spear on the table and asked, "I would like to ask Mr. Cheng to tell us the instructions of the military government. Now is the time for great changes in the world. We dare not abide by Li Shuai's orders!"

His words were expressed as he followed the command of the Hubei military government and obeyed Li Shuai's orders.

Li Xiu'ang was stunned for a moment, and then stood up to express his opinion. After he and the two prestigious people agreed, Song Tao hesitated whether to take a telegram from Wuchang to ask for instructions, but he still did not speak in the end. Li Xiu'ang had a life-saving grace with him, so he really couldn't refute, so he had to follow the public.

Seeing that no one refuted, Mr. Cheng felt relieved and a smile appeared on his face: "It's so good, so the military government has also instructed to appoint Brother Li as the Dan (Danjiang) Han (Hanshui) expedition envoy, Brother Zhang as the guerrilla general on the northern route, and Brother Song as the general staff officer of the accompanying army. If our righteousness is successful, we will recruit troops here to form the Fifth Association of the Hubei-China Revolutionary Army. At that time, you will be the generals who lead the troops!"

He took out a few telegrams and read them all, and immediately saw Zhang and Li and the other two showed joy on their faces, and they couldn't even hide them. They quickly stood up and shouted, "Let's take the order!"

After making the arrangements, Mr. Cheng looked at the time and said, "I hope you will go back and prepare immediately later. I heard that at 9 o'clock this morning, Huang Renyan, the magistrate of Guanghua, Zhou Xiangqian, the magistrate of the Navy Battalion, Chen Wei, the police chief Xu, the president of the Baoyuan Bureau, Li Shouting, the 8th Gang, the 3rd Dian, and the 4th Regiment were all invited to the 4th Gang, and the 4th Regiment to discuss the problem of the 4th Bank of the State Council to prevent the issue of the 4th Bank of the State Council from being injected into the 4th Bank of China, and to discuss plans to support Xiangyang. We agreed to revolt at this time. We would use white cloth as a sign to attack the 4th Bureau of the State Council to force them to surrender, and we would definitely catch them off guard!"

Everyone had no objection. After carefully packing up their weapons and ammunition, they left this hidden place one after another and returned to their residences to prepare to go!

After nine o'clock in the morning, a group of brothers who had been arranged to follow the officials and money bureaus reported to the group of people. As expected, after entering the bureau for a meeting as planned, Zhang, Li and others knew that the opportunity was not missed, so they quickly organized a team, wrapped their arms in white cloth as a vocal. Since the horse team pulled more than a dozen fast horses, they shouted revolutionary slogans. Other soldiers and responders followed him and quickly took over all the important places in the county, while the two led the team to the official bureau in person.

At that time, the bureau was holding a meeting. Huang Renyan, the magistrate of Guanghua, Zhou Xiangqian, the commander of the Navy Battalion, Chen Wei, the chief of the police officer, Xu, the president of the Baoyuan Bureau, Li Shouting, the 8th Gang, Sandian, and the heads of the Fourth Regiment were all present. Zhang Guoquan and Li Xiu'ang led 20 cavalry to rush into the venue and announced in public: "I was ordered by Li Shuai, the military government of the Hubei Central Revolutionary Army, and have revolted together with all the garrisons." He immediately presented the letter of uprising, and ordered all the attendees to sign and respond. Huang Renyan and others saw that he had a gun in his hand and dared not resist, so they could only sign and agree in order. Only Zhou Xiangqian, the patrol battalion manager, escaped from the venue while the chaos, rode out of the city, and prepared to mobilize troops to counterattack. Li Xiu'ang led his troops to Lujiaxiang and shot him to death.

By noon, representatives of various troops, Jianghu Association and local officials and gentry gathered together to hold a meeting of the Qian Bureau to establish the Guanghua Branch Military Government in Hubei Province, and elected Huang Renyan, the former magistrate of Guanghua County, as the presidential officer, and Li Xiu'ang was the Minister of Military Affairs. While shooting the telegram to the Hubei Central Military Government Office, the military government informed the people of the Central Military Government, and posted a notice to recruit soldiers and recruit three thousand soldiers. Song Tao was responsible for combining all the troops in Guanghe into 10 battalions, totaling more than 600 people. He Yimao, Song Caiwa, Cui Yimao, Zhou Zhiwa, and Gan Guodong, the backbone of the secret activities of the former Jianghu Association, served as the supervisor and team officials respectively, forming the fifth association of the Guanghua Revolutionary Army. The five recommended by Mr. Cheng won the seat of the first battalion without any objection. He was preparing to attack the counties in northern Hubei according to the instructions of Hubei Central.

On October 25, Zhang Guoquan and Li Xiu'ang led more than 600 troops to fight to Fang County, Danjiang and other places.

On the 26th, Danjiang and Fang County fell, and the surrounding prefectures and counties were afraid and expressed their willingness to accept the control of the central Hubei military government.
Chapter completed!