In the county government in Ouning City, Xu Jingqing and a group of generals under him gathered together! And each of these people was full of sadness, and the reason was very simple, that is, the Second Brigade of the National Army was about to arrive outside Ouning City.

"Big brother, or let's just descend!" At this time, a young man said this, but as soon as the words fell, he was interrupted by a middle-aged man in a horse coat: "Descend? How to surrender, we have already sent three groups of envoys to the national army to ask for surrender, but as a result, people are still coming to this side non-stop! ”

"If you don't surrender, is it really just like that?" Some people also objected: "We only have more than 2,000 people under our command, and everyone knows what kind of goods and horses we have, are we better than those in Nanping, Funing or Quanzhou?" ”

"Hmph, you don't need to say that!" The middle-aged man said coldly: "Aren't you waiting for the national army to come and take us in?" ”

"Didn't Li Jimin of the National Army say that if the eldest brother is willing to surrender, they are willing to accept soldiers to join the National Army!"

"Bastard! According to your statement, the brothers below were all dragged away by the National Army, and we who were present went back to farming? Immediately, another older general stood up.

Seeing the many chaotic bombardments below, Xu Jingqing was also in a bad mood!

He is not an unreasonable person, as early as when Nanping was taken by the Nationalist Army, he knew that the situation in the south had been decided, but he did not announce the return to the military and political axe, the reason is very simple!

That is, they heard that the Nationalist Army's policy towards the Qing Army was not consistent, especially the officers. For soldiers who are anyway, those who are willing to participate can join the national army. However, the patrol battalion of the army is treated differently from the new army and some old-style training and green battalions, and the best of the new army, and the officers below the rank of team officer will basically accept and immediately assign to various units, and the senior officers will be sent to Fuzhou to be selected first, and then those who are willing to continue to serve in the army according to their personal wishes can enter the staff as advisers and staff officers, or go to the combat units to serve as deputies to the commanders, that is, deputy battalion commanders, deputy regiment commanders, regimental staff officers and other positions, anyway, the national army is expanding the army on a large scale. Don't worry about having no position to arrange them. But it's not so good for patrol battalions and training green battalions and the like, in addition to soldiers and low-level officers, middle- and high-level officers can only be a consultant or something, if you want to command the troops, don't even think about it, this is mainly due to the fact that the generals of the old army such as the patrol battalion are basically out of the rules of war of this era, have not undergone systematic military training, and take into account the loyalty of the generals of the old army.

These conditions are nothing for some old army generals who sincerely surrender and want to be a princess, but they are extremely unfavorable for people like Xu Jingqing who still want to keep their military power and continue to lead the troops. The first time was to try to keep the patrol battalion as a whole, to form a regiment, and the generals to stay in office, this kind of condition Li Jimin would not agree even if he was dizzy, and Li Jimin was driven out before the envoy finished speaking, and when he went the second time, he lowered his requirements, did not ask to keep the patrol battalion as a whole, and only asked Xu Jingqing to be given the establishment of a regiment, and Li Jimin still didn't care about this.

The third time, Xu Jingqing lowered his requirements again, saying that as long as he gave his brothers a bite to eat, they were willing to surrender.

What kind of goods is the patrol battalion Li Jimin knows very well, not to mention that this group of generals wants to continue to lead the troops, those soldiers have to be screened. In the more than 20 days since the uprising, the Nationalist Army has accepted more surrenders from the Qing Army, but they have all surrendered unconditionally or taken the initiative to do so.

So if you want Li Jimin to agree, don't even think about it.

"I've come all the way here, if I still agree to this kind of condition, wouldn't it be in vain to take so many unjust roads!" Li Jimin stood outside Ouning City, and spit on the ground as he spoke.

The northwest of Fujian is mountainous, the road from Nanping to Ouning is called a difficult walk, almost did not make Li Jimin tired, finally arrived in Ouning and saw that Xu Jingqing did not take the initiative to surrender, Li Jimin did not rush to attack, but ordered all departments to rest for half a day, and then sent a small force to start a penetrating attack, and the large army was also slowly pressed on the front.

But Ouning is such a big place, and as soon as Li Jimin's two regiments and five battalions are opened, they almost surround Ouning!

The Qing army in the city has 1,500 patrol battalions, and then there are more than 500 village warriors urgently recruited, that is, more than 2,000 people.

And the prefect of Jianning Mansion beside him turned pale: "General Xu, how good is this!" In the event of a breakdown, I'm afraid the people in the city will ......."

Before he finished speaking, the two old front-loading cannons placed at the head of the city wall were already loaded with gunpowder and a large iron ball, perhaps because the soldiers of the cannons were too nervous, and they lit the fuse without receiving the military order, and with a loud bang, the solid cannonball was fired.

Li Jimin, who was observing the enemy army with a telescope, suddenly heard such a cannon sound, and was stunned for a moment, how could he not know that this patrol battalion in Jianning had artillery! However, when he took the telescope and looked in the direction of the impact point, he found that there was no explosion.

Only then did it become clear that what the Qing army had in its hands was not a mountain artillery or a field gun, but an old-fashioned front-loading gun.

Immediately ordered: "What about our artillery, aren't they ready yet?" ”

The Second Brigade is equipped with six 75-mm mountain guns, although the road from Nanping to Ouning is impassable, but Li Jimin still dragged it over for the sake of insurance, anyway, there are only six guns, and the Second Brigade can carry it even if it resists.

Immediately, one of them replied: "The artillery battery is ready, ready to open fire!" ”

"Then what are you waiting for, fire and fight!" Li Jimin did not hesitate to order an artillery bombardment!

As soon as Li Jimin finished speaking, there were several rumbling noises from the rear position, and then several piercing whistling sounds crossed the sky, and in the next moment, several explosions were heard on the short city wall of Ouning! One of the shells just landed not far from Xu Jingqing and exploded.

Xu Jingqing only felt that after a loud noise, his face felt a little warm, and when he reached out and touched it, he touched a piece of drenched minced meat, and at this time, he saw that a person a few meters away had already blown up his upper body......

looked at the prefect of Jianning Mansion next to him, but he was already frightened and fainted.

Before Xu Jingqing could react, another round of shelling roared, and a group of soldiers from the patrol battalion who had never been subjected to such heavy shelling could still stand, and several people ran backwards at that moment.

At this time, several more officers ran over: "My lord, it's not good, the artillery fire of the national army is too fierce, let's withdraw to the city!" ”

Xu Jingqing did not answer directly, but asked: "How about the casualties of the brothers?" ”

"The first two rounds of artillery just now were too fierce, and the brothers didn't have time to hide, although they all hid in the back, the casualties were very large, there were twenty or thirty dead, and nearly a hundred were injured!"

Hearing this number, Xu Jingqing closed his eyes.

The opponent is so powerful just by shelling, and when they attack themselves with the support of artillery, there will be no way to survive at all!

That's it, that's it, how can you let thousands of brothers die for your own future!

After closing his eyes for a long time, Xu Jingqing opened his eyes and said in a weak tone: "Hit the white flag and surrender!" ”

Xu Jingqing chose to surrender at the last moment, and the second brigade took Ouning without being injured, while the 2,000 patrol battalion under Xu Jingqing suffered more than 100 casualties, all of which were killed and wounded by artillery at the beginning. These surrendered soldiers were dealt with according to the previous rules, those who were willing to join the national army and met the physical conditions and qualities to join the national army, those who were unwilling or did not meet the requirements were all issued a silver dollar and then dismissed, as for the middle and senior officers, they were first detained and then slowly screened.

However, Xu Jingqing strongly asked to see Li Jimin, Li Jimin was busy with the army at that time, and he didn't have time to deal with him, so he sent Xu Jingqing directly to Fuzhou, as for how to deal with him, it was the governor's business.

Not long after the news of the Second Brigade's recovery of Jianning Mansion reached Fuzhou, Shao Wu also sent a telegram!

The telegram said that Xu Chongzhi launched an uprising in Shaowu on the second day after the liberation of Fuzhou, and then it was suppressed by the second battalion of the 40th standard, and Xu Chongzhi was killed that night, but then the second battalion left Shaowu and went all the way to the west of the river, and destroyed the telegraph room before leaving. As a result, Shao Wu did not have news for a long time.

Hearing that Xu Chongzhi failed in the uprising and died, Chen Jingyun was so shocked that he couldn't speak for a long time!

If there is anyone in Fujian who gives him the most headache, it must be Xu Chongzhi. This person's prestige in the Alliance and in the new army is much stronger than him, if he hadn't been sent to Shaowu by Sun Daoren, then the commander-in-chief of the Fujian Rebel Army would definitely be him. Even after the recovery of Fuzhou, Chen Jingyun was always worried that Xu Chongzhi would make a military and political axe in western Fujian to confront him.

Now I heard that he was dead, and he died under the suppression of the Qing army! Chen Jingyun didn't feel happy for the first time, but a deep sympathy, and in addition to sympathy, there was admiration!

Before the Xinhai Revolution, there were many people who fought and shed blood to overthrow the Manchu Qing feudal dynasty, although some of these people had very naïve political beliefs, and sometimes their behavior was not necessarily very glorious, but one thing was undeniable: that is, if they did not use their blood to awaken the country, this nation, maybe China would continue to sink!

This is like Sun Wen, although his mouth is full of cannons, when the princes of the domestic alliance are bloody and hard, he hides abroad, and calls it "fundraising" in the name, and then when he returns to China, he is ashamed to say that he has not brought back a dime, and it is like Huang Xing has been defeated repeatedly, and under his command, thousands of hot-blooded men fell under the guns of the Qing army, but he can always escape at the last moment. It's like Song Jiaoren, who disregards the actual situation in China and pretends to be full of the word "Ming Cook".

But this cannot deny their great contribution to the republic, without them, the people of the country would not know what the word revolution is!

"Mr. Xu was brutally murdered for the cause of China's revolution, which is really the hardship of our nation!" Since the Wuchang Uprising, there have been too many people who have died with republican ideals! There are not only people like Xu Chongzhi, but also people like Jiao Dafeng, and more people are unknown ordinary people, this group of people has middle-blooded students, there are soldiers in the new army, their names are not remembered, but their exploits are known to everyone.

That's what they made the republic!