Chapter Thirty-Nine: Preparing for a Change of Guard
"How can it be justified, how can it be justified ()!"
Finally it was a little cooler in autumn, and Ruicheng, who had the habit of napping, had just fallen asleep in his wide clothes, when he heard that someone had come to report that something had happened to Nanhu, and he was so frightened that he hurriedly put on his clothes and hated it: "These chaotic parties really deserve to be killed, and they have actually come to the army!" ”
Liao Keyu saw that he was in a hurry and seemed to have a murderous aura between his eyebrows, and reminded him when he buttoned the button: "Don't be in a hurry, now this world is becoming more and more chaotic, you must be careful to deal with the trouble in the army this time, think more about the concubine in case of trouble, kill one less person, and leave yourself one more way in the future." ”
Ruicheng is usually a little afraid of guilt, and when he heard his wife's words, his anger gradually faded, and there have been rumors recently that Sun Wen sent his younger brother to Wuhan to prepare for the Mid-Autumn Festival, although he didn't believe it, but where were those chaotic parties? How powerful is it? If something changes, will you be able to control the situation?
In a series of bad thoughts, Rui Cheng walked into the lobby, and before Zhang Biao could sit down, he hurriedly ran in from outside: "My lord, have you heard about Nanhu?" ”
"It was said that a few soldiers were making trouble, and they also grabbed knives and guns and fled ()."
Seeing that Ruicheng said it lightly, Zhang Biao was willing to let go of this good opportunity, and said hurriedly: "It's not just a soldier making trouble!" Those men snatched their sabers and guns and fled from the camp, and at the end they uttered wild words, saying that the party would rebel in the near future, and that they would seize Wuchang City and kill all our officers. From a humble point of view, today's events are by no means accidental! Although those who made trouble for the leader ran away, there were also a lot of people who followed the commotion, and if the adults did not move the tiger and did not kill a few of them, the arrogance of this chaotic party would get worse day by day, and if it continued like this for a long time, how could it be done?
Besides, in a few days, the Swiss side will bring the remaining troops of the 31st and 32nd bids into Sichuan to suppress the bandits, if the adults do not take this opportunity to eradicate the chaotic party, in case those chaotic parties take advantage of the situation and make trouble, how can this be good? So the adults should give the order quickly! ”
Hearing Zhang Biao say more and more, the more anxious he became, as if Wuchang was about to turn the world upside down, Rui Cheng also had no idea, according to his previous thoughts, he must have started to kill, but the words of his wife Liao Keyu just now made him suddenly become cautious, and asked: "Lord Zhang, if it is strictly investigated, will it cause resistance among the soldiers and make a big mess." ”
Zhang Biao, who was sitting next to Rui Cheng, had a cold glint in his eyes, and hurriedly said: "No, I have led the soldiers for many years, and I can still hold it below, and the officers are all loyal and brave, as long as the adults give an order, I promise to do it cleanly and neatly, and there will be no chaos." ”
Zhang Biao's words were hurried and fast, but it made Ruicheng feel strange, in order to regain military power over the years, the two have clashed a lot, but now he is actually an adult, and he has to give himself an order, what does this mean?
Seeing Zhang Biao's sharp eyes, Rui Cheng suddenly understood, and cold sweat suddenly crawled on his back, this aunt was going to take this opportunity to borrow a knife to kill people and push herself to the crater! Hurriedly pretended to think and shouted: "Go, find Master Zhang, this governor has something important to discuss." ”
Zhang Meisheng, who was already waiting outside, heard the shout and hurriedly walked in: "Zhang Tongzhi is also here, the adults called the students to come, I don't know what instructions there are?" ”
Rui Cheng hurriedly told Nanhu and Zhang Biao about the big purge, Zhang Meisheng had followed him for many years, and immediately understood the meaning of his words after listening to it, and asked first: "Lord Zhang, you have led the army for many years and know a lot about the situation in the army. In your opinion, if something happens, is the team of this town association really reliable? ”
This sudden question caught Zhang Biao a little off guard, and he didn't dare to talk nonsense about the big things at the moment, so he hurriedly said: "The flowers and plants are also ruined, let alone in this army." But the weapons are in the hands of the officers, and they are not afraid. ”
Uh-huh, oh-oh responded a few times, Zhang Meisheng pretended to be thinking seriously, and said after half a sound: "It's right for Lord Zhang to strictly investigate, otherwise you can't eradicate hidden dangers, as the old saying goes, 'Celebrate your father is not dead, and you won't be able to stop it', if you don't kill these chaotic parties, Huguang won't be at peace for a day, but now that the troublemakers have fled, where should I start?" ”
Zhang Biao's face darkened when he heard this, Zhang Meisheng obviously didn't want to give this order to Ruicheng, and said: "What's so difficult, just arrest these people who are often in contact with the ruffians and interrogate them carefully." ”
"Your Excellency is right, but there are many people in the soldiers and battalions, so what if the wrong people are caught and a mutiny is caused?" After Zhang Meisheng asked, Rui Cheng hurriedly nodded and said, "Meisheng said a lot, what do you think should be done at this time?" ”
"In the opinion of the students, since the rebels want to make trouble, they must be in the city, and since those soldiers and ruffians have fled, it will only startle the snake if they are caught, so it is better to send people to search the city carefully, and strive to catch the bandit leader and destroy the center! As for the military. Zhang Meisheng smiled at Rui Cheng: "Your Excellency only needs to order the temporary collection of bullets, and it won't be in the way." ”
Rui Cheng suddenly slapped his thigh: "Mei Sheng's plan is very good, without bullets, the gun is a burning stick." Without waiting for Zhang Biao to react, he shouted: "Someone, pass my order, temporarily collect the ammunition of all standards and battalions and put it into storage, there must be no mistake." ”
After finishing speaking, he deliberately glanced at Zhang Biao and said, "Lord Zhang, the current situation has been chaotic recently, and this superintendent should also strengthen its precautions to prevent accidents." ”
Zhang Biao's face was dark, originally he wanted to take this opportunity to let Rui Cheng order the cleaning of the army, so that he could avoid the trouble of his own knife, and once something happened, he could also put the responsibility on the governor's head, so as to move away the stone in one fell swoop, but he didn't expect the other party to not accept the invitation, so he simply flicked his sleeves and promised to strengthen the defense of the governor's mansion and then turned around and left ().
Such an imperious and domineering appearance was so angry that Rui Cheng scolded and said: "An aunt, who dares to calculate the head of the old man, is really hateful!" ”
"Don't be angry, adults." After Zhang Meisheng finished persuading, he thought about it and said: "Although Zhang Biao's heart can be punished, there is still some truth in his words, during this period of time, there were frequent party activities, and there was such a big incident in Sichuan, and it is not impossible to cause disaster to the three towns." ”
This sentence made Rui Cheng also feel cold in his back, remembered Liao Keyu's words, and hurriedly said: "Mei Sheng, in the past few days, you have packed up everything that should be packed up in the mansion, and the silver and floating wealth should be exchanged for passes to avoid chaos when you get it, by the way, exchange the autumn tax that just came up into silver tickets just in case." ”
When Zhang Meisheng nodded and left the Governor's Palace, Yang Qiu also hurried to the 21st Mixed Association Command Post with He Xi.
When he arrived at the command post, he found that the commanders of all standards and battalions had arrived, not only Liu Wenzhi and Wang Anlan, but even Chen Shanyou and Guo Erxing, who had been forced by him to rest at home for more than half a month after reporting his illness, had arrived.
"When is it, are you still messing around?!" Li Yuanhong put down the phone in front and saw that the three of them were still fighting on the side, and he was also angry and reprimanded: "You two have led the army for many years, don't you know the rules in the army?" Do you want me to teach you myself? ”
Guo Erxing was arrogant, and he didn't dare to talk back at this moment, let alone Chen Shanyou, who was the leader of Vitama, and hurriedly retreated to the side and didn't dare to say anything more. Seeing that everyone closed their mouths, Li Yuanhong said: "Do you know everything about Nanhu? ”
"Got it, sir, tell me what to do." Wang Anlan hurriedly hugged his fists.
In fact, Li Yuanhong is also numb in the scalp, the most taboo in the army is to clean, fortunately, Zhang Biao said on the phone just now that Ruicheng did not agree, only ordered the collection of ammunition, and he was a little relieved, and immediately said: "There was an accident in the artillery battalion, and the guns and bullets were snatched, which is really appalling!" But this incident has given me a wake-up call. Glancing at everyone, he continued: "Due to the arrears of wages for many months, although it is not enough, it is normal for the soldiers to have some resistance, and at this moment you people need to be appeased, and you must not be physically punished and beaten ()!" ”
"The situation is difficult, and as a soldier, I must not get involved, do you understand?" Seeing that everyone nodded in response, Li Yuanhong also breathed a sigh of relief and turned his head to Yang Qiu's side: "Guo Erxing, Chen Shanyou!" Yang Qiu took office for the first time, and Liwei is normal, but the two of you are pipe belts, and you don't want to help and follow the nonsense, what kind of system do you become! Punished for March, he must return to the camp tomorrow, can he be suspicious? ”
Three months' salary is nothing to the two of them, but they can't get over it when they are reprimanded in person, but they don't dare to contradict it, so they can only hold their faces red, and they glared at Yang Qiu before nodding.
"The Governor's Palace has sent a city patrol to collect the ammunition of the battalions...... If there is a conflict, bear with me! Take control of your soldiers, and do not cause me trouble. Li Yuanhong looked a little tired, waved his hand and said, "Yang Qiu stays, and the others go back." ”
Unexpectedly, Li Yuanhong wanted to leave himself alone, Yang Qiu hurriedly asked after seeing that everyone was gone: "My lord, I don't know what you left me for?" ””
Li Yuanhong glared at him and said, "Yang Qiu, you are so bold!" ”
The sudden anger made Yang Qiu inexplicable and a little troublesome at the same time, pretending to be sincerely frightened and deliberately puzzled: "I don't know what is wrong with the first time I lead the troops, and I hope that the adults will give me advice." ”
Seeing that Yang Qiu was frightened by himself, Li Yuanhong narrowed his eyes and asked, "I heard that you brought back two light machine fast guns from the gun factory, but is there such a thing?" ”
It turned out to be this matter, Yang Qiu hurriedly took out the words he had already thought of: "My lord, the mark is just to let the soldiers be more familiar with several firearms, I have already filed this matter in the gun factory, and the machine gun is also bad and cannot be used." ”
"You don't need to say more, you didn't do this properly." Li Yuanhong interrupted his words with a fierce glare: "Although it is broken, I asked the gun factory, if you meet the old master, it can still be repaired, not to mention that the machine gun is a heavy weapon, at this moment, the party is making trouble everywhere, and such a thing happened in Nanhu again, in case you lose it, how can the old man explain it to the governor?" ”
"My lord, I don't know about this Nanhu ()."
Yang Qiu's appearance of spreading his hands and making a bitter face made Li Yuanhong secretly amused, but it was indeed not safe for the machine gun to stay in the barracks, not to mention that it was now this time, so he thought about it and said: "I know you mean well, but now is an eventful time, you better return it for the time being, as for the training, you can let them go to the gun factory every day to learn, but they must not be brought out again, remember?!" ”
Finally did not break the plan to train machine gunners, Yang Qiu breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and as soon as he agreed, Li Yuanhong took an official document from the table and handed it to him, saying: "Your old man has heard about those methods, and the order and obedience are good!" I'm afraid that within the 42 standard now, your military order is already unimpeded. ”
Is the old guy really confused or fake? Deliberately tempting me? Yang Qiu took the official document and didn't read it, and said in fear: "Don't scare the adults, there is no way to do it under the standard, fortunately, I heard about the training method in the German ** when I was in school, and it is not true to learn and sell it now." ”
"Okay, the old man is not blaming you, the army is different from other places, it is indeed necessary to talk about an order to prohibit it, I think I was under the seat of the strict master back then, don't mention it, don't mention it!" Li Yuanhong shook his head, as if he didn't want to mention what he did under Yan Fu and Sa Zhenbing in Beiyang back then, and pointed to the official document and said: "You did a good job with Lord Admiral the day before yesterday, this is an official document just issued by the imperial court, and a battalion of standard 31 and 32 will set off into Sichuan in 10 days, and Lord Rui Fangrui, who is familiar with geography, will lead the army to suppress the bandits.
After they leave, they will inevitably readjust their deployment, and the Admiral has decided that the 30 standards of the 15 Association and the 41 standards of our mixed association will be re-guarded, and your 42 standards will be stationed at Hanyang, Hankou and Liujiamiao stations, is there a problem? ”
Yang Qiu's heart shrank sharply, he had waited for so long, wasn't it just for this order to arrive? It's finally here!
However, he didn't answer immediately, but frowned and said: "My lord, I have three battalions in one standard, but I have to garrison three places, and Hanyang and Hankou are still separated by a big river in the three places, once something happens, I am afraid that I will not be able to take care of it, do you think you can propose to let the 15th Association send a battalion to garrison Liujiamiao, which can also relieve my pressure." ”
"No, ()." Li Yuanhong had no room for negotiation in this matter, and said: "The 15th Association needs to be transferred back to Wuchang, and this matter cannot be discussed." ”
"Obey the mark." After Yang Qiu saluted, he deliberately worried: "My lord, you know that I have only been leading the troops for more than a month, although I have straightened out some recently, but it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no mistakes, not that I am afraid of being treated, but that Hanyang is very important, if it is destroyed, there are a hundred heads under the mark that are not enough to cut off." ”
Li Yuanhong also knew that he was telling the truth, the three battalions were in charge of the three places, which was really stretched, but Wuchang was too important, and he didn't know that he would be able to come back that day after the 31st and 32nd bids entered Sichuan, so he paced a few steps while walking before saying: "In this way, for the time being, the mixed engineering team and the baggage team will be temporarily transferred to Hanyang under your command, and Ma Dabiao's security team will also be temporarily returned to your department, and the two standards will be returned when they come back, how about it?" ”
Mixed into the baggage team of the association?
Yang Qiu was directly stunned, this is the first army to revolt in the real sense! Many history books in later generations always confuse the Eight Towns Baggage Battalion with the Mixed Baggage Brigade that was actually the first uprising, which is actually incorrect, the Eight Towns Baggage Battalion is an independent unit, responsible for the baggage and foster care transportation tasks of the whole army, while the Mixed Baggage Brigade, which belongs to the artillery battalion under the Mixed Association, which is very different.
Isn't it troublesome for such a team to give yourself!
But Yang Qiu didn't dare to disobey, for fear that the old fox would see something, not to mention that he was always happy to add two companies plus a security team equivalent to one battalion, but unfortunately the old guy in the artillery battalion still didn't let go, so he deliberately pretended to be embarrassed and pretended to be embarrassed for a long time before gritting his teeth and agreeing.
After explaining some matters to be paid attention to in the mobilization of the army, Li Yuanhong walked to the backyard, but before he took a step, he suddenly stopped, looked at Yang Qiu and said meaningfully: "Chenhua, I know that you are young and vigorous, and you may be forgiving and forgiving!" In this world, today's life and death are enemies, and tomorrow may be cannibalism. ”
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