In the town of Wating on the north bank of the Han River, a rider quickly crossed the Qing army's alert and entered a brightly lit camp in the town. There were already many Qing army generals waiting there!

"Report, sir. The fourth battalion of the Navy has sneaked to the south bank. The general manager came to report the news and asked if he started building a floating bridge!"

The cavalry holding a pass token entered the camp and immediately flew off the horse with neat steps. He didn't care about his horse, and put one hand on the steel knife at his waist and quickly ran to the Central Army camp with the flag marked as the commander's flag.

"Oh? What did Zou Hongming say?"

The military tent was full of Qing generals gathered in Nanyang this time. The cavalry hurriedly glanced over the sudden feeling before coming in. At this moment, he saw a cooperative commander and five generals. He was really shining with stars, shaking his eyes. He even dared not underestimate the old man with a white beard sitting in the tent and reading quietly under the crowd of generals and officials, and answered honestly.

"Sir, Lord Biao Tong asked the young man to tell the adult that he had sent me a battalion of water ghosts in Henan to cross the river and catch the water first. This area is not suitable for building a floating bridge. And he sent someone to find out two days ago, but it seems that our movement has been too loud in the past few days, which has attracted the attention of the south side. Therefore, there have been a navy patrol in recent nights. But Lord, please let go, Lord Co-Con has ordered the water ghosts to clear it with all their might, so it is not for the Nanban Rebellion to discover the plan of our army to go south in advance!"

"Oh"

The old man sitting on the handsome throne in the tent chuckled, put down the book in his hand, gently filtered the beautiful beard with his right hand, nodded and said, "This Zou Hongming is still the same. I have known him for many years and still remember the little things that happened back then. Forget it, since he doesn't want to come to see me, I will meet each other and bring me paper and pen."

"Yes, Lord Admiral!"

The nearby servants responded, and the cavalry who came to pass the order did not dare to look up and knelt respectfully waiting for him to finish writing.

"Take it to your master and ask him to supervise the front line, Zilu, Rencheng, Bai Kun, you three will go back and raise troops immediately and cooperate with Zou Xietong to go south to suppress the bandits!"

"Yes, the low-ranking class will receive the order!"

After the old man opened his mouth, three men in military uniforms in the military uniforms gave a half-kneeling salute. After receiving his nod, the close servant handed the letter from him to the cavalry. Then the old man waved his hand to signal the few people to go out.

"You should take the lead. I have to wait, and then supervise the army to set off!"

"Yes, Lord Admiral!"

After the few people surrendered, there were only a few people left in the military tent. I heard the old man sigh and said, "Is it true that the troublesome autumn is right? He felt that the rule of the Luo family is really time to perish?"

The demon poem he mentioned was the nursery rhyme that is now spread throughout the country. "No need to pinch, no need to count, Xuantong only lasts three and a half years. This year, pigs eat sheep, and farm without paying food!"

I don’t know who wrote this demon poem, nor where it first appeared. I only know that it started to spread in the third year of Xuantong (1911). At first, because the court identified him as an anti-poetry, once it was discovered and spread, it would be a serious crime of raiding the house and holding it accountable, which stopped its spread.

However, since the revolution broke out in Hubei in October, in just under a month, even outside the Forbidden City under the feet of the emperor, he could hear a ignorant child humming this nursery rhyme every day.

But at this moment, the court, whose foundation was already unstable, was in arousing public anger, and he did not dare to do the previous suppression methods, so he had to endure the fear in his heart.

Even if he is so aware of this, he dare not say it directly in front of everyone. Therefore, others can only see his mouth moving, but they don’t know what he is saying, and they still think he is just muttering to himself!

"Sir, look at it"

"Don't be reserved, you guys have been with me for many years. That false and polite calculation!"

"Yes, Lord Admiral!"

Seeing that although the few people in the tent responded, the etiquette in their mouths was not bad at all, the old man sighed. It was hard to say how long he had left. The so-called old subordinates of the past had a lot of heart to him.

After sighing, the old man remembered the news from Xinyang that he had just received, and his face became more and more gloomy.

This old man is nothing else, but the former Gansu Admiral Zhang Huaizhi!

Speaking of Zhang Huaizhi, he was really a strange man in the late Qing Dynasty. He was born in poverty and only received a few years of private school education when he was young. Later, he dropped out of school due to his family decline and went to work. He wandered on the streets during the day and boarded in temples at night. However, he gradually reached a high position through hard work. In the 21st year of Guangxu (1895), Yuan Shikai trained the new army in Xiaozhan. He was the first batch of officers. Although he was only the lowest sergeant commander, he was promoted to the second few years afterwards. He was the leader of the Shanyao Team and the leader of the commander of the Shanyao Team. Later, he was promoted to the fourth bidding commander of the Beiyang Standing Army's Zuo Town Infantry Team due to his contribution to the Guardians in the Gengzi Rebellion. Then, the Beiyang Standing Army's Zuo Town Infantry Coordination, the commander of the Shanhaiguan Defense Battalion, and the commander of the Second Town of the Army.

In the first year of Xuantong, the Regent tried hard to stumble on Yuan Shikai, in order to appease the generals of various towns in Beiyang, he successively granted him the position of the commander of the First Town of the Beiyang Standing Army and the commander of the fifth Town of Beiyang. At the beginning of this year, the Regent saw that the Yuan Party had basically surrendered, and the rest were swept out of the six towns in Beiyang, and ordered him to be transferred to Zhili as the commander of the Zhili Mixed Association.

It was not until September this year that Sichuan's road protection movement was in great momentum and the province gradually became ineffective, so he was transferred to Gansu as the admiral and ordered him to command the Gansu army to enter Sichuan to calm the war.

The Sichuan Lu Bao movement was quickly suppressed, but what the Qing court did not expect was that a larger Hubei uprising broke out at this time, and in just half a month it affected several provinces, and it seemed that it was much more powerful than the Lu Bao movement.

Although the disaster in Shaanxi was not over at this time, in the face of the lack of guns and bullets, the Qing court was even more troubled by the fact that there were soldiers and guns and cannons in Hubei. Seeing that most of the ten Hubei prefectures had fallen into the hands of the rebellion, the gang of Jueluo family members in the Forbidden City had to choose to compromise. First, they appointed Yuan Shikai as the imperial envoy, and even because of his contribution to the suppression of bandits in Sichuan, he was transferred from Gansu, which was all "poor mountains and remote people" to the admiral of Hubei, which was known as one of the world's granaries, but he took over Zhang Biao, who was now in a state of failure, and cooperated with several towns of Beiyang New Army to attack the "Ezhong Branch Military Government" that was in full swing from Hubei from the north.

Unfortunately, the day after he arrived in Henan, today, from the dispatch station of the Qing army south to Xinyang, his old friend Wang Shizhen sent him a very bad information.

Just in the early morning this morning, Yan Xishan, the 85th New Army of Shanxi, used the excuse that he was about to go to the battlefield in Shaanxi. He did not dare to make decisions if there were military affairs. He hoped that Lu Guangxi (son of Shanxi Governor Lu Zhongqi), who was also one of the congregations of the Tongmenghui, would recommend him to Governor Lu. However, he ordered his subordinates to enter the city and besiege the Governor's Yamen. As a result, after Lu Guangxi found his father, he suddenly attacked and controlled the entire Governor's Yamen and ordered Lu Zhongqi to establish the Shanxi military government where he had prepared.

The contract was signed and said he would like to elect him as the chief governor of the military government. After Lu Zhongqi just scolded the two but disagreed, he was secretly angry and shot Lu Zhongqi to death. Lu Guangxi was furious and argued with him and was also shot to death. Then he used the governor's yamen as the governor's office to order the 85th yard of the Shanxi New Army entering the city to take over the city's defense and control several important places in the city. Finally, the uprising was successful and the Shanxi Prefecture, which was next to the capital, was included in the revolutionary camp.

It is reported that at noon today, he threatened the participants to change the votes to raise their hands. Yan Xishan was elected as the Grand Governor and ordered all the constitutional consultants to sign together to announce the establishment of the "Shanxi Military Government", which completely shocked Longting and caused ordinary Jueluo in the Forbidden City to feel as if the doomsday had come. The busy orders had already been concentrated in the Zhili Mixed Association in Nanyang, and the Shandong two Qing troops heading north to guard the capital. It was heard that the court still intends to appoint Wu Luzhen, the former commander of the Sixth Town of Beiyang, as the new governor of Shanxi, and lead the troops to Shanxi to suppress the bandits.

It’s ridiculous that the group of Juelu in the Forbidden City were completely panicked at that time, and they couldn’t tell the difference between the matter. As long as the situation in Hubei is certain, the world will be half calmed down. If you use any more methods, you can heal the national tragedy at most half a year.

This was the consensus reached between the two when Zhang Huaizhi exchanged letters with Wang Shizhen again.

It’s ridiculous that the royal family members were panicked and started to command indiscriminately. Now he had to take one step at a time and prayed that he could delay for a few more days so that more than 10,000 troops in his hands could cross the border between Henan and Hubei and take down the chaos in Hubei and calm down!
Chapter completed!