Jiujiang City under the sun is particularly lively, although last night's battle destroyed some shops, but because the Republican Army quickly restored order in the city, so, by the afternoon of the next day, the city has reopened, and the citizens have taken to the streets, rushing to buy food and salt, so as not to close the city and close the market when the war is fought in the future, and there is nowhere to buy.

In addition to the citizens, some men in the prime of life armed with various weapons also came from the four miles and eight towns outside the city, in the morning I heard that Jiujiang had changed the banner of the king, these party armed minds became active, under the leadership of the big and small chiefs, they marched to Jiujiang City, intending to take advantage of the chaos to make a big profit, but when they approached the city, they were stopped by the infantry and cavalry scouts sent by the republican army to the city, after reading out the order of Zhao Bei, the commander-in-chief of the republican army, some of the loose discipline and unwilling to be restrained by the party forces had to return the same way, Others, who were unwilling to return empty-handed, went into the city under the guidance of the soldiers, preparing to join the "Revolutionary Guards" as auxiliary forces in future operations.

In addition to the party, there were also many young students who went to the city to join the army, and most of them were members of Jiangxi's secret revolutionary organization "Yizhishe," and their participation enabled the revolutionary army to have a group of high-quality intellectual youths, most of whom were assigned to the newly established "current affairs propaganda team," and only a small number of young people with better physical fitness were able to join the fighting units and serve as grass-roots officers such as clerks.

However, after all, the intellectual youth who yearn for revolution are limited, and the most rebellious people in this era are those people at the bottom who have no way to live, but in just one day, the "Revolutionary Guards" under the Republican Army have expanded to 10,000 people, and in addition to the party, a large number of idle villagers have also joined the Revolutionary Guards.

Due to the lack of funds now, the "Revolutionary Guards" have no military salaries to take, and they only have three meals a day, and they can only bring their own clothes and weapons for the time being, but even so, the unemployed villagers within a radius of dozens of miles are still marching towards Jiujiang in an endless stream, and sometimes, several cavalry scouts holding banners outside the village can often bring in dozens or hundreds of young and strong men, but there is no way, now there are many harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and the people are getting harder and harder day by day, and those with large families are worried that there is no place to eat. As soon as he heard that he could eat three full meals a day, he immediately followed, and it was said that if he cut his braids, he would receive a few cents of silver a month for shaving his head, so that many ownerless braids were left on both sides of the official roads into the city.

According to Zhao Bei's order, the "Revolutionary Guards" belonged to the paramilitary organization, and were formed according to the establishment of brigades, squadrons, and squads, with one squad of one hundred people, five squadrons for one squadron, and five squadrons for one brigade, with a total number of 2,500 people.

Once members of the "Revolutionary Guards" join the army, they can no longer act on their own, otherwise they will be regarded as deserters and will be subject to military law. In Zhao Bei's view, this paramilitary force is actually a reserve force, and it must be trained according to the requirements of the regular army, and in the future, when the weapons and equipment are abundant, these people will immediately become a member of the regular army.

In addition to the people who planned to join the Revolutionary Guards, there were also some people with shackles on their feet, they were not ordinary prisoners, they were all Manchu officials and yabeetles, some of them refused to surrender, but the officials were too small to be killed, so they stayed to serve hard labor, and although others were willing to surrender, they had no choice but to do a lot of evil, and the people's anger was too great, and it was not easy to release, so they were also sent out to act as coolies to repair the houses and streets damaged in the battle.

After the republican army occupied Jiujiang City, they opened the prison, released most of the prisoners, and seized a large number of shackles, just for these officials and yayles to wear, the two were divided into a pair of shackles, one on the left foot, the other on the right foot, if you want to escape, unless the two cooperate tacitly, otherwise you can't run far will have to be caught back, and then beheaded.

This is not the republican army is scaring these prisoners, since dawn in the morning, the most lively vegetable market in Jiujiang City has become a murderous execution ground, all the pseudo-Qing officials who refuse to surrender, as long as they are on a certain level, they will all be pulled to the entrance of the vegetable market to behead, Daotai, sentenced, magistrate, one by one the heads rolled down, and then hung by the revolutionary army on the city gate tower to show the public, their family property was also confiscated by the revolutionary army as enemy property, and some neighboring prefectures and counties brought many similar heads to make a petition when the party armed into the city, All of a sudden, the whole city of Jiujiang was a sensation, and the people helped the old and the young to rush to see with their own eyes what the high-spirited officials and men looked like now.

In Zhao Bei's words, revolution is murder! Kindness to the enemy is cruelty to comrades! We must use the terror of the revolution to deter all reactionary forces!

In addition to those stubborn court officials, there were also several large grain merchants who were accompanied and tied up, because they hoarded Juqi and refused to obey the orders of Commander-in-Chief Zhao to sell grain at a low price, and they were also confiscated as "diehards". This measure was very effective, the already high food prices in the city were calmed down within half a day, which also made the people feel a lot more at ease, the Republican Army was greatly enhanced, and the commander-in-chief Zhao Bei became the "savior" in the mouths of the people.

The heads were hung on the tower of the city gate, and the headless bodies had to be disposed of as soon as possible, and the errand was handed over to the shackled prisoners, who were to be carried out of the city and buried in the mass graves outside the Great South Gate.

"This official is a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty, and he is a loyal ghost of the Qing Dynasty when he dies! If you wait for the rebellious ministers, everyone will be punished! The iron bucket of the Qing Dynasty is not waiting for the people who jump off the beam......"

There was a burst of scolding from the crowd at the entrance of the vegetable market, but it soon came to an abrupt end.

The crowd of onlookers let out another cheer, apparently, another head with a top pendant fell, and a moment later, two headless bodies were dragged out of the crowd by several soldiers and placed on a wheelbarrow.

In charge of the cart is the former Hubei New Army Eighth Town Commander Zhang Biao and the younger brother Duan Jin, the minister of the Qin Mission, Duan Jin, as the "most heinous" Manchu lackey, the two can not be forgiven, so they are also incorporated into the hard labor team, with labor to atone for their sins, as for when to cut off the head, it has to be decided by Commander-in-Chief Zhao.

"Smack!"

"Let's go!"

A member of the Revolutionary Guards standing next to the car waved a horsewhip in his hand and drove the two forward like cattle, and the red armband on his left arm was particularly eye-catching, with four large characters on it: "Iron and Blood Republic".

Zhang Biao and Duanjin didn't dare to be sloppy, hurriedly pushed the car, and walked towards the city gate with a "creak", but their legs were connected by a shackle, and they limped up, which was extremely difficult.

When they left the city and came to the mass grave, the men of the forced labor team had already dug the pit, and the two men lifted the cart and threw the two headless bodies into the pit.

"It's a pity, Fifth Rank Official." Duan Jin glanced at one of the corpses, and judged the official position of that person from the complement on his chest. I don't know if it was intentional or negligent on the part of the revolutionary army, before cutting off the heads of these court officials, they didn't even strip off the official robes of these people, Duanjin stubbornly believed that this was a deliberate act of the chaotic party, in order to humiliate the court and humiliate the official authority.

"Master Duan, let's go back." Zhang Biao pushed Duanjin, the hardships of the past few days had made him disheartened and much more honest.

"Zhang Biao, look." Duan Jin pointed into the distance.

Zhang Biao looked over, but saw several members of the Revolutionary Guards who were in charge of monitoring them squatting in a circle more than 100 steps away, smoking dry cigarettes, although they had wooden sticks stuck in their belts, but they had obviously relaxed their vigilance.

"Let's run." Duanjin said.

"Run?" Zhang Biao lifted the shackles on his feet. "I can't run far."

Duan Jin pointed to the northwest and said, "Look, what kind of place is that?" ”

Zhang Biao glanced at it a few times, shook his head and said, "Is it a town?" Can not see clearly. It's two or three miles away from us, and even if we run over, we won't be able to hide for long. ”

Duanjin whispered: "That's the British Concession!" Jiujiang is that foreign concession! It's on the edge of the Yangtze River. Let's run over, and no one dares to go in and catch us. ”

"Really?" Zhang Biao was stunned when he heard this.

"Less nonsense! Follow the master. Duan Jin glanced at the members of the Revolutionary Guards, pulled Zhang Biao, and the two rolled down the mass grave, ran along the bottom of the pit to the other side, and then climbed to the edge of the pit.

"I step on my left foot, you step on my right foot. Be consistent. Zhang Biao said.

The two hurriedly ran to the northwest, but before they ran a few steps, Duanjin's steps were out of order, unlike Zhang Biao, he had never practiced the walking posture in the army at all, and he couldn't keep up with Zhang Biao's pace.

"Oops! They saw us. Zhang Biao said hurriedly.

However, I saw that the members of the Revolutionary Guards who had been squatting on the ground and smoking dry tobacco had already stood up, brandished wooden sticks, and rushed towards them in a chaotic manner, although those people did not have guns, but they still had daggers, and it was not difficult to stab two Manchu lackeys to death.