Li Jinglin sighed, he usually doesn't smoke or drink, he took out a cigarette from his arms, but he couldn't open the match several times, he was annoyed, Wang Maoru walked over, lit a cigarette for him with a kerosene lighter, and said: "Brother Fang Chen, what is the role of soldiers and warriors?" Is it the end of the war, or the blade of chaos? ”

Li Jinglin smoked a cigarette, coughed, and said dejectedly: "Xiushuai, Xiushuai, let's tell you the truth, Zhishuai doesn't want to fight anymore, and if he continues to fight, it will only increase the casualties of the people in Hei Province." As soon as Li Jinglin's words were finished, Wang Maoru's generals cheered. Li Jinglin said: "Zhi Shuai has several conditions, as long as Xiu Shuai agrees, Zhi Shuai will immediately announce his departure." ”

"Speak." Wang Maoru said.

Li Jinglin said at this time: "Zhishuai has three conditions, and he is not embarrassed to show his handsomeness. ”

"Speak."

"First, after the Xiushuai army enters the city, it is not allowed to harm and plunder the people and disturb the lives of the people."

"It's nature." Wang Maoru said seriously.

"Second, in the war, there are no eyes for swords and guns, each is its own master, Zhi Shuai's subordinates just obey the commander's orders to resist, Xiu Shuai can't settle accounts after the autumn, if Zhi Shuai's generals are unwilling to serve Xiu Shuai, Xiu Shuai can let them go."

"No problem."

"Third, ensure the integrity and safety of Zhishuai's family and property."

Wang Maoru clapped his hands and said: "Okay, I fully accept the above three articles, you go and report to Zhishuai, go out of the city and surrender." ”

Suddenly, Wang Maoru's subordinates shouted: "They surrendered, they surrendered, we won." We won! "Soon. More people shouted, "Won!" We've won! ”

"Long live Xiushuai, long live Xiushuai!"

"Victory!"

The cheers of more than 10,000 people in victory soon returned to Qiqihar City, and the people in the city heard the word "surrender" and exhaled a long breath. The thoughts of the people are naturally the thoughts of the soldiers defending the city, they hurriedly asked Chen Fugui, Chen Fugui sighed, and said to his subordinates: "Let's shoot down." No fighting, no fighting. Immediately, it also drew cheers from the soldiers defending the city.

After the negotiation was completed, Wang Maoru was a little strange and asked, "Brother Fang Chen." The younger brother has something unclear, and he asked Brother Fang Chen to solve his doubts. ”

Li Jinglin saw that the expressions of the soldiers on both sides were relaxed, and he also sighed in his heart, and when he heard Wang Maoru ask him, he said, "Xiushuai, please speak." ”

Wang Maoru said: "Isn't Zhishuai backed by the Russian railway? And I heard from my intelligence officers that the Russians were ready to send troops to support Zhi Shuai, and that Zhi Shuai could get a steady stream of munitions. It was sarcastic that Xu Lanzhou had taken refuge in the Russians, if it weren't for the support of the Russians, how could Xu Lanzhou have expanded his troops by 10,000 at once, Li Jinglin naturally knew the inside story of this matter. He is the chief of staff of Xu Lanzhou, and he wrote the expansion plan.

Li Jinglin blushed, sighed, and said: "The army has no will to fight, and it will have no will to fight. If it continues to fight, it will only add a few more groups of lonely graves to the wasteland. There is another reason that Li Jinglin just learned, that is, Xu Lanzhou really has no money in the army, not only does he have no money. If he supports it for another three days, even if it is three days, it will be troublesome, because the army has no money to buy food. And the Russians took the opportunity to blackmail and demanded the expansion of the concession. He also asked Xu Lanzhou to use Hulun and Zhaoyuan as collateral and give Xu Lanzhou a lease for 99 years. The annual rent is one million rubles, and it is also proposed that the rent be negotiated every five years, and the rent for five years will be paid in a lump sum. It can be said that these five million rubles are 500,000 oceans, and if Xu Lanzhou takes this Wu Bai Wan rubles, it is really impossible to say what the situation of this battle will be.

But Xu Lanzhou just thought about it, then sent the Russian envoy and the check gift back, and said to his subordinates and descendants: "I, Xu Zhitian, am a Chinese ** person, even if I can't defend the rivers and mountains to recover the territory, it's just that, if I am the ** person who cuts the land and betrays the country, my descendants will be scolded for generations, and I will not have the face to see the ancestors of the Xu family." ”

Wang Maoru naturally didn't know about Xu Lanzhou, but only later learned about it, and couldn't help but sigh that the bottom line adhered to by the Beiyang warlords, if they relied on the great powers to make a difference, it was right, but if they wanted to cede land and betray the country, they would not be killed, Xu Shuzheng, Wu Peifu, Duan Qirui, Zhang Zuolin, all heroic figures, have never lost an inch of land to foreign countries in their hands, even if the warlord is really a peerless countryman.

Wang Maoru's subordinates Li Pinxian, Li Delin, Zhu Yongquan and others were excited when they heard the news that the other party had surrendered to the wilderness, but they weren't very happy for a long time. Don't fight? I haven't had a good time playing it yet. That Gong Xiaoqi was even more breathless, and immediately jumped out, and said: "Dashuai, you see this is a trouble, we just came back, and it's over?" Either...... Fight a little longer? ”

"Hit!" Wang Maoru said.

Everyone was taken aback, what a fight?

"Hit your uncle!" Wang Maoru kicked Gong Xiaoqi to the side and scolded: "I finally got peace, and I almost let your two-stirring sticks mess up the yellow." ”

After Li Jinglin returned, on the same day, June 17, 1916, Xu Lanzhou announced an armistice.

Early the next morning, Xu Lanzhou announced that he would go to the field, release the prisoners of war, release the captured soldiers, collect and gather weapons, and prepare to surrender.

On the third day, under the leadership of Chief of Staff Li Jinglin, all the soldiers of Xu Lanzhou (except for the security police) went out in groups and walked to the city gate to surrender. Wang Maoru sent Liu Zhida's Second Guard Regiment into the city to guard, responsible for the security of Qiqihar, and eliminated the rebels and thugs to take advantage of the opportunity to cause chaos, but Zhang Fugui's independent regiment cooperated well and arrested those who would cause trouble first, and the Second Guard Regiment easily took over the silver treasury, munitions depot, prison, government, fire department, water police and other departments. After a few days of nervousness, the people were able to go to the street to buy vegetables, of course, there were also some lawbreakers who took the opportunity to smash it, and after being arrested by Liu Zhida, they asked to assassinate the public at the entrance of the western vegetable market in Qiqihar City. This assassination is generally carried out by recruits, and there are more recruits in the guard regiment, who have practiced assassination, but have not practiced such assassination of living people, which has also caused a mess in the assassination performance at Caishikou, and some criminals have been stabbed seven or eight times and have not died. This didn't go into the city. Wang Maoru's murderous reputation has already spread all over Qiqihar. Bei Shangwu really lives up to its name, and none of it is a fuel-efficient lamp.

At the same time, Wang Maoru and the people and the law have three chapters, one does not take a stitch from the people, the other does not move the people a penny, and the third is with the people to recuperate without raising taxes and reducing taxes. After the third chapter of the covenant, Xu Lanzhou sighed in the mansion and said, "This kid is the master of the world, and I will lose to him." It's worth it. ”

Li Jinglin led Xu Lanzhou's First Infantry Brigade Commander Chen Fugui, Independent Regiment Commander Zhang Fugui, Artillery Regiment Commander Wei Chenglin, and City Defense Commander Xue Xinghua. Guard battalion commander Xu Jialu, cavalry battalion commander Hu Yunshan, broadsword captain Zhang Paiwu and other officers went out of the city and surrendered.

Xu Lanzhou felt faceless to see Wang Maoru, so he took his family and his subordinates, Li Shuwen and others at home. Wang Maoru led the army into the city, and after accepting Qiqihar City, he counted the surrender troops. At this time, there were still 1,700 people in the First Infantry Brigade under Chen Fugui after they let go of the arresting Ding, Zhang Fugui of the Independent Regiment still had more than 300 people, the patrol battalion under Xue Xinghua, the commander of the city guard, still had more than 1,100 people due to the temporary expansion, and the guard battalion and artillery regiment combined were only more than 600 people, but there were many broadsword teams. There are more than 300 people, all of whom are good fighters trained by Li Shuwen. The number of remaining soldiers in the subordinate department of the general Ren Guodong is the largest, and there are more than 1,700 people.

Wang Mao ordered all the soldiers and officers and the temporarily captured soldiers not to be held accountable after they were released and returned home, which calmed the hearts of the people of Qiqihar.

Subsequently, Wang Maoru combined a total of 3,000 people from Chen Fugui, Zhang Fugui and Xue Xinghua's department to form a brigade, with Chen Fugui temporarily serving as the brigade commander. Ren Guodong's headquarters, Xu Jialu's guard battalion, and Zhang Zhuwu's broadsword team were merged into a brigade, with Ren Guodong temporarily serving as the brigade commander, and still retaining the titles of Heilongjiang First Infantry Brigade and Second Infantry Brigade. The cavalry was scattered to the cavalry brigade of Gong Xiaoqi, and the artillery was dispersed to the Liu Jian artillery brigade.

The whole army rested in Qiqihar City for three days to treat the wounded. Wang Maoru also met with Xu Nailin and other politicians in Heilongjiang Province on this day, and reassured everyone that everyone would be in their original positions in the future, and Wang Mou was not guilty of anything in the past, and everyone praised him. The civil affairs, military and political affairs of the black province are decided.

Subsequently, Wang Mao ordered Li Pinxian's brigade to garrison Qiqihar City. He personally led the Li Delin Brigade, the Gong Xiaoqi Cavalry Brigade, the Chen Fugui Brigade, and the Ren Guodong Brigade to the east into Qinggang, and forced the Qinggang Yingshun Cavalry Brigade.

Na Yingshun was originally a person who was greedy for life and afraid of death, and when he saw this, he immediately sent someone to hand out a letter of surrender, announcing that he would support Wang Maoru as an overseer, and all the more than 1,000 strange soldiers in his department would be under the jurisdiction of Wang Maoru.

Wang Maoru did not spend a single shot, recovered Qinggang, and took over the Yingshun Independent Cavalry Brigade. Next, he continued to Hailun in the north, and at this time Hailun faced off inside and outside the city, outside the city was Zhang Kuiwu's supplementary brigade, and inside the city was Ba Ying's third cavalry brigade.

The city of Helen is not large, there are only more than 20,000 people in the city, and a single artillery fire can reach the north of the city from the south of the city, and the residents are panicked. Bi Guifang was in the city, telling the heavens and the earth to be unspiritual, and no one around him listened to his command except Chen Ning. Ba Ying'er even sent troops to surround him, in the name of protecting the safety of the Overseers, but in fact he was under house arrest. Ba Ying'er discussed with his subordinates and thought that it was impossible to act against the sky, so he immediately sent someone out to tell Wang Maoru that he was willing to lead the whole army anyway and capture Bi Guifang alive. Wang Maoru said to the envoy, there is no need to capture alive, please come here to overseer Lord Bi Guifang, as for Ba Ying'e, he will still be the brigade commander in the future. Naba Ying'er was overjoyed when she heard Wang Maoru's promise.

When Bi Guifang came to Wang Maoru, Bi Guifang was almost ten years older than when she saw her the year before, and her hair was already gray, Wang Maoru said respectfully: "Bi Dujun, don't come unharmed, I didn't expect us to meet again, it was such a scene." ”

Bi Guifang sighed and said, "The assassination at the train station was not done by Xu Lanzhou, and I had no clue after I checked it." ”

Wang Maoru said with a smile: "Forget it, it's about the old grain, don't mention it." If you want to stay in your hometown and develop, I will let you be the governor of the province, only in charge of administration and construction, if Bi Overseer wants to go to the central government, I will give it to the adults. ”

Bi Guifang knew that if he ran back to Beijing, it would be difficult to get ahead in the future, so he said: "I am willing to stay in Hei Province and do some practical things and some benefits for the people." ”

"Okay, Master Bi, you will be my right-hand man in the future, but you will rule a good people's livelihood for Heilongjiang." Wang Maoru laughed.

On June 24, 1916, Bi Guifang issued a telegram, announcing that he would go into the field and resign from the post of Heilongjiang Provincial Supervisor, and then, the political and military circles of Heilongjiang Province have been asking the Beijing government to appoint Wang Maoru, the commander of the Second Division of Heilongjiang Province and the Hulunbuir Protector, as the Governor of Heilongjiang Province.