Beijing, Zhongnanhai Jurentang.

In the study of President Li Yuanhong, several people were sitting with their heads bowed, not saying a word, and their faces were not very good-looking. Li Yuanhong was not in the mood to take care of much official business today, so he just stayed in his study with a few staff, waiting for Zhang Xun and Zhang Dashuai's every move to come from the telephone on the desk. And just over an hour ago, Li Shu, who accompanied Zhang Xun to listen to the play at the Jiangxi Guild Hall, called and reported that someone had come to the palace and invited Zhang Xun into the Forbidden City!

There was a dead silence in the room, and only the sound of Li Yuanhong's heavy and rapid breathing could be heard.

In the end, I only heard a snap, President Li slapped on the mahogany desk, his big face was full of sadness, and he sighed deeply: "I, the president of the Republic of China, asked him not to come, and the little emperor of Xunqing in the palace sent a eunuch to pass on a decree, but he Zhang Shaoxuan ran away without saying a word...... Now is it the Republic of China or the Qing Dynasty! ”

Listening to the president's helpless tone. Jiang Zuobin, Jin Yongyan, and Ha Hanzhang all felt their hearts sink and sighed. They also know that Li Yuanhong has no soldiers in his hands, and this big president is empty, but isn't the empty president also the president? It is the head of state of the Republic of China, and the warlords of all walks of life in the country always recognize it regardless of whether they support it or not! Even the great powers recognize Li Yuanhong's status, why doesn't this Zhang Xun give him any face?

Could it be that he was really ready to defy the world's condemnation and launch a coup d'état in Beijing to restore the Manchu Qing Dynasty? Even if he doesn't care about the Republic of China, doesn't he even care about the system of Beiyang? Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang have no intention of supporting restoration!

Of course, they don't seem to support Li Yuanhong, the president, look at what this means, those two want Zhang Xun and Li Yuanhong to fight in Beijing and lose both, and then go to Beijing to clean up the situation?

Jin Yongyan took a deep breath, leaned forward, and lowered his voice: "President, it seems that you have to plan for the worst!" ”

When Li Yuanhong heard this, he looked up at him in surprise: "Xiaofeng! What do you mean? ”

Jin Yongyan sighed: "President." It seems that we have fallen for Zhang Xun! This guy entered Beijing not to mediate at all, but to launch a coup d'état to restore the Qing Dynasty! We can't sit still, we have to prepare in time to ......"

"Xiaofeng! It's not that far, is it? Zhang Xun misses his old master, which is well known to the world, and he will attack and worship wherever he comes back to Beijing. Jiang Zuobin shook his head and said slowly.

Jin Yongyan's face was almost as blue as Tie Qing, and he said coldly: "I also hope that things don't come to that point, but we can't make any wishful thinking...... We don't have any soldiers in our hands! ”

Li Yuanhong had a gloomy face, he also knew that the current situation was a little weird, but as a president of the Republic of China, he couldn't escape from the presidential palace in Zhongnanhai because of some "rumors"? It's too embarrassing for this to get out! He raised his eyes and looked at Jin Yongyan. Jin Yongyan said eloquently: "Zhang Xun only brought 8,000 pigtail soldiers, but there are two divisions of Beiyang around Beijing, soldiers from the Yamen of the infantry army in the city, and a regiment of Chang Ruiqing in Fengtai County...... There are no less than 30,000 people in total! As long as these armies clearly express their opposition to the restoration, Zhang Xun will not dare to mess around! President, now that Zhang Xun has entered the palace, we might as well invite Wang Pingqing (Wang Shizhen), Li Jincai, Chen Guangyuan, and Jiang Chaozong to the presidential palace, and treat them with great righteousness, I believe they also know the severity. ”

Li Yuanhong nodded and agreed with Jin Yongyan's construction, but did not speak. Those few, except for Wang Shizhen's detached attitude, Jiang Chaozong is a wall-header, and the other two are Duan Qirui's men and horses, and the other is Feng Guozhang's subordinates! The two of them with 25,000 or 6,000 Beiyang soldiers are all well-equipped "new-style army", which is not much stronger than Zhang Xun's "patrol battalion"! But now they are all putting on a posture of "only Xuan Shuai's life is from", and they are all accompanying Zhang Xun to listen to the play in the Jiangxi Hall at this time, how to look at this thing is a bit strange......

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A beautifully made Western carriage rumbled across the streets outside Beijing's Zhengyang Gate. turned to the door of an inconspicuous courtyard house in the alley of the meat market and stopped.

At the door of the house, there were already a few idlers wearing old cotton jackets and folding their sleeves, standing and squatting lazily. When he saw the carriage coming in, he immediately jumped up, scattered, and looked around vigilantly. At the same time, he did not forget to nod to the coachman in the Western carriage. The coachman was dressed up by Chang Ruiqing's guard, Hu Rolling Blind, and I don't know when, his big cart pulled by a mule was replaced by a beautiful Western carriage?

As soon as the door of the Western carriage opened, it was naturally Wu Shi, the deputy head of the model regiment, who came out of it. He was now dressed in a dress, a top hat, and a fake beard like a toothbrush sticking under his nose, and he looked like a clerk at the Japanese legation.

At this time, the door of the courtyard creaked open, and out of it came a short and sturdy young man, wearing a silk robe and a melon skin hat, dressed as a trader, but his body revealed a strong military temperament. He is the platoon commander of the guard company of the model regiment, the one named Liu Peng, who graduated from the third phase of Baoding.

Liu Peng glanced around and didn't find anything abnormal, so he walked up to Wu Shi and said in a low voice: "Deputy head of the regiment, are you going to do it?" ”

Wu Shi looked at this nervous old classmate and nodded heavily: "Yes!" The order has come down! Let's talk inside. So saying, he walked in first.

This courtyard is also crowded with people, all dressed as gangsters or small traders, and their waists are full of bulging bags, and they all seem to be carrying guys! When these people saw Wu Shi walk in, they all stood upright, as if they were still in the barracks...... The temperament of these people is a little stronger than those "fake eunuchs" in the Red Brigade.

Wu Shi nodded slightly at them, and then entered the hall with Liu Peng, and after entering the house, Liu Peng closed the door, and then spread out an accurate map of the street outside Zhengyangmen in Beijing drawn with a pencil on the table.

"Zhang Xun's seventeen battalion leaders were stationed in the Temple of Heaven and the Xiannong Altar. If you want to enter the inner city of Beijing, you must take Zhengyangmen, so the best ambush location is Zhengyangmenwai Street. Liu Peng poked his finger at a building on the east side of Zhengyangmen Outer Street on the map and said: "This is Zhengyang Building, the staff department has booked three private rooms there, facing Qianmen Street, when the time comes, take a water machine gun apart and bring it, set it up in the private room against the window of Qianmen Street, and wait until Zhang Xun's pigtailed soldiers hit the downstairs Tongguò and shoot!" Fuck the fuck and kill it! ”

"Can the machine gun be transported? Are you sure? Wu Shi's face was gloomy, and he seemed to be a little worried.

"No problem!" Liu Peng waved his hand with confidence and grinned: "I have already agreed with the shopkeeper of Zhengyang Building that there are a few boxes of antique treasures to be sent out at the banquet...... This kind of thing happens every day in Zhengyanglou, and people don't suspect it at all. ”

Wu Shi nodded, and said again: "Has the explosives package arrived?" ”

"It's already here, there are twelve in total, except for one that will explode at the door of Dongjiaomin Lane, the others are all used on Zhengyangmen Street!"

Wu Shi was silent for a moment: "Zhang Xun has an artillery battalion, which poses the greatest threat to us, and when the time comes, we will strive to serve the artillery battalion!" ”

"The ministry understands, just wait for the artillery battalion to get started!"

"What about the route of retreat? Are you ready? ”

"Ready! Outside Zhengyang Gate are patches of commercial areas, and the outer city walls have been torn down, so you can escape everywhere...... The brothers who participated in the operation had already been given 20 yuan each and train tickets, and when the time came, they would flee separately, and if the railway station was not blocked, they would take the train directly to Tianjin for refuge. The ministry estimates that most of the brothers will be able to evacuate safely. ”

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