Chapter 4 The Longest Night (1)
October 27, 1911 at 10:00 pm.
Yuchen closed the pocket watch in his hand, and he had already changed into the uniform of the new army. The officers were wearing their hats with straight faces and their horse boots were shiny. This time, he really had to fight to the death. He grabbed the inventory of several officers under him and put them on his body, and he would die more arrogantly.
Since he was tricked by fate, he has no concern for his life. But there is a fire in his heart that is getting stronger and stronger. See what I can do in this era! See what impact I can have on history! See if I am still the man who is irresponsible in anything! What I do now is even responsible for history!
He shouted silently in his heart, but finally waved his hand steadily. More than 400 officers and soldiers with white towels quickly rushed out of the cabins of several large ships, first occupied the house, looked at several small committee members and dock workers, and left two squads of a detachment at the dock. Then he divided the troops into two groups. The second detachment went to Nanshi, and the first detachment went to Gaochang Temple.
Nanshi is the oldest urban area in Shanghai and the center of Shanghai's Chinese border. Therefore, the Shanghai Police Bureau is responsible for public security (there is also a Zhabei Patrol Bureau in Zhabei). In addition to the patrols and police stations in various parts of Nanshi, there are also 200 horse-riding patrolmen in the direct office, all of which are made of Mauser rifles from Germany. Speaking of which, Chen Yingshi and the others have done a lot of contact work, and these grassroots police officers are also waiting for an uprising. Xu Hanzhang, the chief officer of the bureau, is from the north and has already communicated with Chen Qimei and the others, promising to be neutral and maintain public security at that time. Chen Qimei also accepted him and continued to stay in office after he was revived. However, he was still worried and still sent five bullets to each police officer, for fear of something happening.
The Second Detachment took advantage of the night to approach the south city under the familiar officers of the Army Middle School, led by several familiar officers from the Army Middle School. Along the way, they encountered some patrol officers, either they had their weapons or spontaneously joined their team. Some brave citizens met them and followed behind them. Some people even pointed out the way for them. All the people in Shanghai knew that it would be a matter of time before Shanghai was liberation, and they were waiting for this day as if they were waiting for a festival.
Later, the Second Detachment had become strangely huge. Wu Cai was so anxious that his face was full of sweat, and he desperately directed the troops to advance. Before he set off, Yuchen only told him one word "Quick!" He also thought that only fast could he be surprised by the enemy, but he did not expect that Yuchen had another meaning, so fast that local snakes like Chen Qimei and Li Pingshu could not react in time, so that they could capture him to Shanghai.
Seeing that he could find the door of the General Police Bureau, several police officers standing guard at the door looked at them as if they were relieved to hand over their guns. Wu Cai commanded the troops to go up the room immediately, put all the rifles up, and rushed into the yard with a series of strodes.
Dozens of horse patrolmen came over in an orderly manner and saluted Wu Cai first: "The sixty left-behind officers and soldiers are all here, waiting for the commander to hand over."
Wu Cai patted his shoulder: "What are you doing?" The police officer waved: "Please come with me."
Xu Hanzhang was standing at the window and watching all this below, and then looking at the dragon flag that was being torn off. The Qing Dynasty finally came to this day. He had been waiting for such a day, but in his heart, he was always afraid of the arrival of this day. Seeing the dragon flag being torn off, a burst of cheers and applause came out in the yard. The door was also knocked open, and two spearmen and a heroic young officer walked in.
Xu Hanzhang smiled self-deprecatingly: "I didn't expect you to come so quickly, where is Brother Yingshi?"
Wu Cai looked at the blue-shaved forehead and smooth braids with a sluggish feeling of disgust: "I don't know what Brother Yingshi, we are the Chinese Suzhou-Shanghai Revolutionary Army! (The name changed by Yuchen) Please explain quickly, I have a lot of things."
Xu Hanzhang was stunned and murmured that he didn't know what to say. He watched several people rummaging over his guards and seals. He touched his scalp: "That red man Chen Yingshi!"
Chen Qimei also jumped into her house: "Where is the red man?"
He didn't go out today. He was very angry at home and was preparing for a big day. He met a guest for a day. He went to bed at 10 o'clock. However, he was only about an hour later and was woken up by several people. His brothers were like Yang Hu, Fu Mozheng, and Jiang Zhiqing all looked angry: "Yingshi, the sky has fallen! I don't know where the people started to stir up trouble first! Our brothers watched them heading to the south city, and now the police station has been killed!"
Chen Qimei immediately fell off the bed and jumped up barefoot: "Are they Li Pingshu and the others?"
Yang Hu was at least calm: "It's not them, they are dressed very well and dressed neatly, like regular soldiers. They are not from our Shanghai." Chen Qimei opened her mouth and cursed a few swear words, and circled around the ground. Suddenly, he ordered: "Go and contact Li Pingshu and ask him to gather the business group! Mo Zheng, go to the Zhabei Patrol General Bureau and pull out Chen Wenqin's guard team! Shanghai is the place of me, Chen, and you always have to give those red guys a good look!" Seeing that these people went one after another, he jumped to the table and rang the bell and called the servants. After pressing it twice, he pushed the table to the ground with red eyes.
Li Pingshu was chatting and laughing with several directors of the Works Department in the house of a foreigner on Riberia Road in the French Concession. Li Xiehe also sat beside him with apologies. Li Ping's calligraphy was very good, and he was slowly talking about the main topic, which was when the consuls of various countries would recognize that the Democratic Party was a formal warring group. The foreign housekeeper walked in with a young man in a jacket. The young man had no time to salute them, so he hurriedly said something to him in Li Pingshu's ear.
Li Pingshu was shocked, and half of the cup of coffee in his hand fell to the ground. He did not care about the strange gazes of foreigners, so he apologized in a hurry and pulled Li Xiehe and left.
Li Xiehe looked at his face ashen, ran down the steps in two steps in three steps, and asked strangely: "Pingshu, what exactly happened?"
Li Pingshu said angrily: "It's all so great! A group of people have rebelled first! I heard that they have occupied the Shanghai Police General Administration! Let's hurry back to the manufacturing bureau and gather the business group quickly!"
Li Xiehe also changed her face and ran with him: "Is it a good thing Chen Yingshi did?"
Chapter completed!