For ordinary people, wars always come unexpectedly, whether they want to or not, these torrents of wars only engulf them away, and the final result, even God can't count. Looking deeper, this is more of a gamble than a war, and it requires everyone to take all the bucks and fight hard. However, some people have nothing to bet on except for their lives, but some people are different, they can bet on a lot of things, so they should weigh carefully before placing bets.

The ancestral hall of the Xu family in Dongziguan is full of people at this time, the Xu family has multiplied here for more than 1,100 years, and the ups and downs of changing the dynasty have experienced a lot, but the ancestors have long passed away, and there are some things under the filial piety heirloom that cannot be said clearly, so every time the "catastrophe" is the time of the family can only be waved by the head of the family.

"What the hell is going on with this revolutionary party?" Xu Binglu, the owner of the ninth room of the tenth room of the Xu family, asked heavily to his nephew and Xu Zhengshen of the fifth room. Two years ago, the uprising in Hangzhou was very popular, but he never understood what this revolution was, and then the rebel army retreated to Yanzhou like a chaotic party, which made him believe that this was another Hongyang rebellion, especially the leader of the revolutionary party was surnamed Yang. The war on Yanzhou's side did not do any harm to the Xu family who lived in Dongziguan, but had many benefits, especially the food and clothing of the Qing army on the front line, which was sent to Yanzhou by ship, and Changkou was one of the ports, and it prospered a lot under the war. However, after only a year of such transactions, I heard that the Qing army had been defeated, and then retreated to the entrance of the field, and then today, in the morning, there was a burst of artillery, and I heard the report of the Qing army's defeat, and the rout was scattered. When instructing the family to take care of the door. The betting meeting of the Xu family's ten rooms was held at this time.

Mr. Cheng said...... "Xu Zhengshen, who has never been treated well by the clan, was very excited to see that he would be questioned by the most famous Jiu Ah Tai in the clan, and wanted to introduce that set of revolutionary theories in a big way." But I don't want to. As soon as the words "Mr. Chengcheng" came out, his father Xu Bingshi coughed heavily. He had no choice but to restrain the joy on his face, and said in a proper manner: "The revolutionary party is the team that opposes the Qing Dynasty and restores the Han Dynasty, and the Manchu Qing ......" There was a heavy cough next to him, and he had to change his words: "Kill all those corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and then let the people sit in the world, work hard to govern the country, and promote the quintessence of the country." Revive my brilliant China. ”

Xu Zhengshen obviously didn't answer the question, and only said the set of propaganda slogans of the Revival Association, when his father was about to soar. Xu Binglu of the ninth room hurriedly stopped him and asked curiously: "What does it mean that the people sit in the world?" Rebellions have always been the emperor's ......"

Hearing Uncle Jiu's questioning, Xu Zhengshen rushed to say: "This is the revolution, and the rebellion is for the honor of one family and one surname." Revolution, on the other hand, is for the well-being of the people of the world. Later the revolution succeeded. There will be no more emperors in the world......"

"I'll kill you!" Seeing that his son was talking nonsense again, Xu Bingshi finally couldn't help it, and the feather dusters around him pumped it down vigorously. While beating and scolding: "I don't read good books, but I follow those prodigal people to learn badly, and the last time I went to Shanghai, it was like sticking to leprosy, and I couldn't change it no matter how I taught." What is the use of me raising you! What is the use of me raising you! ”

Xu Bingshi was beaten, and the few rooms next to him wanted to see jokes. But the revolutionaries have already come in, and this is really not the time to see the jokes. had to step forward one by one to persuade them, especially Xu Binglu in the ninth room and Xu Bingyu in the sixth room, they had great prestige in the clan, and as soon as they persuaded Xu Bingshi, who could only open a store, he stopped him.

"The Manchu Tartars have enslaved our Han people for more than 200 years, how bloody and cruel is the three massacres of ten people in Yangzhou, and how mediocre and pathetic is the defeat of Gengzi in the First Sino-Japanese War! Why are there so many donations and so many taxes now, it is because the Tartars have become puppets of foreigners, and we have become slaves of slaves. Xu Zhengshen had a few blood marks on his face, but the pain angered him, and more rebellious words came out, which surprised all the uncles in the ancestral hall.

"O iniquity! O iniquity! O iniquity! Xu Bingshi had already been persuaded by everyone, but he didn't want to rebel against his son and make another big rebellious remark, and after lamenting, he ignored everyone to stop him, just raised the chair and was about to smash it.

"Come on! Kill me! Even if I am killed, I will go to the revolution! Xu Zhengshen was suddenly not afraid, and stood there straight and waited for his father to smash over.

The uncles were all stunned by what he had just said, and only a few servants who were waiting on the side were busy coming over to stop the fifth master. When Xu Bingshi was about to drink back from others, Xu Binglu drank him back, "Fifth brother, don't make trouble." Now that the revolutionary party is on its doorstep, let's get down to business first. ”

Xu Binglu was born in Gongsheng, and he is also shrewd and capable, as soon as he said this, the rest of the rooms also said: "Yes, yes." The revolutionary party has already arrived at the doorstep, and it will be too late to discuss it any longer......"

Xu Binglu's words were very approved by the ancestral hall, but they made Xu Zhengshen disgusted. Under the influence of revolutionary literature, he was already very disgusted with his family and family, and now the purpose of Jiu'atai's deliberations was not for the revolution, but to keep his family business, which made him very despised. The reason why he is like this is completely due to the influence of revolutionary literature, which is supposed to tear apart the inherent social relations, making everyone isolated and helpless, and finally being used by the revolution, the elders of the big family in the revolutionary literature of later generations are all written as flies and dogs, obscene and vicious, all for this reason, and under the three outlines and five constants of Confucianism, etiquette and religion are as painful as a woman's feet, and if she has a soft temperament and a fierce temperament, she must rebel against the family and join the revolution. Xu Zhengshen is a person with a fierce temperament, although he was beaten by his father, he still looks like only he understands the truth, looking at the uncle in the ancestral hall, snorting, brushing his sleeves away.

Seeing that Xu Zhengshen couldn't stop him and left, Xu Binglu just shook his head, but shaking his head was also to open the meeting, he cleared his throat and said: "Since the revolutionary party is here, it doesn't matter if they want to be the emperor or not, anyway, this place is occupied by them, since the court is defeated, then there is no hope, for the sake of today, it is still necessary to make friends with it, even if it is not good with it, it can't provoke them." lest there be a catastrophe of extermination. ”

The gentry on the Yanzhou side were killed and fired, and the rumors were everywhere, and everyone here also heard about it. As soon as they heard Xu Binglu mention the scourge of exterminating the clan, everyone suddenly fell silent, but Xu Bingyu, who was a member of the sixth room who understood the policy of the base area, said: "As soon as this revolutionary party comes, it wants to reduce rent and interest, and there is a lot of land in our clan, if we want to reduce rent, then this year's harvest will be ......."

"Yes. I have also heard that the revolutionary party levied grain and silver taels, and only paid receipts, although we were not rich among our people. But there are not a few copper coins accumulated over the years, and if they take it, then ......" Xu Bingfen of the third room also said, since o4 years, the first-line shipping of the Fuchun River in the Qiantang River has been opened. He also bought two wooden boats. started the shipping business, he didn't think about money, but he didn't want the Qing army to encircle and suppress Yanzhou the year before last, and his fleet added more than 20 ships, he was worried that this ship would be requisitioned by the revolutionary party, but he couldn't talk about his own ship, and only pulled everyone's copper money.

"Yes! Oh, yes! As soon as the revolutionary party came to expropriate, there was nothing. "Three bedrooms, six bedrooms, one opening. The other rooms were all talking, and there was a commotion in the ancestral hall for a while. Xu Binglu, who was only noisy, had a pain in his head.

"Don't make any noise! Don't make any noise! After a long time, I just waited for everything I wanted to say to be almost finished, Xu Binglu, who presided over the meeting, drank twice before suppressing everyone's voices, "The revolutionary party has come, and the boats and grain placed outside are all things that can be seen, and they want to expropriate them, can they stop them?" Rent reduction and interest reduction are always rent and interest reductions, this field is still ours, and when the imperial court comes, it is not too late for us to increase rent and interest rates. When Hongyang was in turmoil, the momentum was even greater than this, but it was not wiped out in less than ten years, and we would only suffer for ten years at most. ”

Xu Binglu said words of relief, only to make the panicked people settle down, but Xu Bingfen said: "I think the revolutionary party does not have gunboats, and the waterways are immortal. ”

Sanfang has been reluctant to keep his fleet, and even wants to drum up for each room to withdraw to Shanghai, Xu Binglu said angrily: "Third brother, don't forget, if you can run, the monk can't run the temple, and the ancestral hall of the Xu family ancestral tomb is here, even if you run to the edge of the sky, you still have to come back." As soon as you leave, what will happen to the rest of you? Besides, there are three festivals a year, where do you go to worship your ancestors? ”

Xu Binglu directly attacked the weakness of the three-room discussion, only dispelled everyone's worries about leaving, and then said: "I'll just say a few, one of them, the safest thing now is what the revolutionary party says, we will do anything, the family property and money are gone, as long as the person is okay." The Xu family does not say that it is in Fuyang, but it is also a prestigious family in Zhejiang, and under the prestige, they dare not dare to do anything too out of the ordinary if the revolutionary party wants to; Second, all rooms, especially those subordinates, should be well controlled, and never make any trouble; Third, the foreign guns that were bought earlier to take care of the family and nursing homes were stored in the ancestral hall at night, and how to use them in the future were discussed; Fourth, find someone in the side room, kill ten fat pigs, get a hundred loads of brown rice, beat gongs and drums and send it to the revolutionary party, which has nothing to do with the Xu family on the surface, but the person who went has to explain it, tell the adults of the revolutionary party, this is the ...... sent by our Xu family."

Xu Binglu is worthy of reading well, and the arrangements are in good order, especially to let the side house go to give gifts, although everyone is distressed, but it is a wonderful note, the beginning of the end of the time will be open until the beginning of the day, at this time the revolutionary army has already all opened to the field, just waiting for the order to sound, the sixth town all down the river.

There was a sea of people around the entrance, but the revolutionary army had not yet attacked. Lu Arong, the second battalion of the second regiment that ran in the front just now, was smoked by the poisonous smoke of the Qing soldiers for a while, and after the chaos of the formation, he wanted to counterattack, but was stopped by the regiment commander Xu Shunda, he saw the yellow-green smoke that exploded after the shells hit the ground in the telescope, and he sighed in his heart at that time, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was already cornered, they dared to garrison in this small place, it must be held, the most difficult narrow stream has come, he didn't want to capsize in this gutter, it was because he ordered the front-line soldiers to start civil engineering operations, At the same time waiting for the order of the brigade headquarters.

Xu Shunda is cautious, there are good and bad, the Qing army is in turmoil at this time, give them a chance to breathe, and the military heart is likely to be persuaded by the officers to calm down. However, fighting against the water is not something that any army can do, especially when the river is not completely blocked by the gunboats of the revolutionary army, many people in the patrol team looked at the docks and wooden boats taken over by the sixth town, and immediately exploded, thinking that these northern Yankees in the sixth town were going to escape first, and Zhao Guoxian's machine guns were dragged to the dock under the commotion. It took the killing of a dozen people to put the riot down temporarily, of course, only temporarily.

"Hurry up and report it to the military governor. However, "Zhang Gong saw that the Manchu Qing Dynasty actually had a poisonous gas bomb, and he hated it in his heart, so he only gritted his teeth and said: "Dig a fucking trench for me, surround all the Tartar soldiers for me, and Lao Tzu will throw them into the river one by one to plant lotus roots." ”

The company commander reported the incident to the regiment commander. The regiment commander reported to the brigade commander, and the brigade commander reported to the military governor Lin Wenqian, in the slightly empty war room. Zhou Sizheng pointed to the sand table and said to Lin Wenqian: "The gas bomb is difficult to fight!" Now the entire entrance is surrounded by us, including Tianzhong Mountain, the only retreat route on the enemy's 6, which is also occupied by a regiment and a battalion, as well as a waterway. It was also blocked. Two of the Qing gunboats have already been sunk by us. The rest ran away......"

Zhou Sixu said this, Lin Wen hurriedly asked, "Did the Golden Ou ship sink?" "The gunboats sent by the Manchu Qing Dynasty are all old-style mosquito boats, and several of them are wooden-hulled boats that I don't know where to find, and the breech guns on them have long been useless, and only the machine guns can be scary, but this Jinou ship is ironclad, and it is also equipped with a 17omm Krupp breech gun, which is the ship of the entire river patrol fleet.

"Jin Ou did not patrol the night. Seeing that the situation was not good, he took the lead and ran, and the other few remaining wooden boats followed. Zhou Si shook his head. I don't understand why this Golden Ou ship escaped. In fact, this ship has been built for more than 30 years, it is extremely old, and when patrolling the river before, only the machine guns on the ship were used, and the Krupp cannon did not prepare shells at all.

"That's very bad," Lin Wenqian frowned and said: "As soon as it goes, the news of the attack will be known immediately in Hangzhou, and if it goes to Shanghai again, then Shanghai will know the day after tomorrow." ”

"How could it possibly go to Shanghai?" Zhou Sixu said: "I think he must be looking for reinforcements from other gunboats, this Jinou is still a small ship, if that kind of gunboat comes, it will be difficult to do." ”

"Report!" The staff officer at the door shouted, "The artillery regiment is in a hurry." ”

When Zhou Sixu heard the emergency telegram, he turned around and took the telegram, and after reading it, he was overjoyed and said: "Chengyuan said that he could attack!" With that, he handed the telegram to Lin Wenqian.

In the morning, when the revolutionary army approached the entrance of the field, the Qing army urgently fired a poison gas bomb, others did not know what it was, Li Chengyuan knew, is this a chlorine gas shell, the foreigners used it in Tianjin in the year of Gengzi, he saw this and wanted to immediately notify the staff to let the infantry stop attacking, but when he saw that the infantry themselves stopped, he was relieved. Since the Qing army had chlorine bombs, it was still a little difficult to eat them, but they forgot one thing, that is, except for Linjiang, the Qing army was everywhere. In the past, the place where the revolutionary army attacked was downwind, but if it attacked in a different direction, then the Manchu Qing Dynasty would be downwind, so Li Chengyuan's telegram was to establish a revolutionary army to change the direction of attack, not to attack from the south, but from the north. Temperature, air pressure, wind direction, wind, and humidity are all things that the artillery should pay attention to; when Li Chengyuan came to Zhejiang, the northeast was already setting up a meteorological team subordinate to the artillery. Now that the offensive of the revolutionary army is blocked, it is a question of how to resist poison gas in the eyes of others, but in his eyes it is a question of the direction of the wind.

"Good! He immediately telegraphed to Zhang Gong that his situation had changed and that the direction of the attack should be changed to the north. Lin Wenqian didn't want to wait any longer, and immediately changed the battle plan, and then felt that it was inappropriate, and said again: "Give Li Chengyuan another telegram and tell him, and the artillery will immediately reformulate the plan to support a regiment to attack the Qing army from the north." ”

The revolutionary party was stopped by the green gas bomb, and the Qing army was all celebrating with bullets, and Ma Liang, the standard commander of the artillery team who was not welcomed by everyone before, was praised by everyone, and these praises only made Ma Liang feel a little more angry when he walked. But behind closed doors, he knew bitterly, the green gas cannon is forbidden in a civilized country, so he uses it, only externally, never internally, but now he is using it ......on his own people, he doesn't dare to think about the revolutionary party taking the world, that is, he didn't take the world, his reputation is also stinky, and his name in the newspaper is no longer Ma Liang, but a horse butcher, a horse executioner, and the like.

"My lord, it is difficult to succeed by relying on green gas shells, now our army is in turmoil, the enemy army is in full swing, and the gunboats on the river have been sunk by the revolutionary party,......" In Zhao Guoxian's study, after everyone else retreated, Ma Liang finally said what he held in his heart. It's just that Zhao Guoxian stroked his beard and was very unhappy.

"The chaotic party is at most 10,000 people, and our army is ready for battle, how can it be defeated?" Zhao Guoxian's eyes widened. looked like he was about to eat Ma Liang, and only interrupted his later words, "I read that you have made a contribution to repelling the rebellious party today." If you dare to say goodbye, you will be dealt with by military law! ”

Although Zhao Guoxian is old, this sixth town is indeed what he has always carried, and under the prestige, Ma Liang was so panicked that his braids were about to be cocked, and he immediately knelt on the ground. Words promised. Zhao Guoxian didn't want to pay attention to him anymore, but just waved his hand and beat him. As soon as he left, Zhao Guoxian sat down on the chair in a gloomy manner. Seeing this, the house slave on the side hurried over and helped the master rub his head, and the master who was waiting outside came in. He bowed down and whispered, "Dong Weng." ”

"Hmm." Zhao Guoxian raised his left hand. only let the people next to him go down, and then got up and closed the door in person before saying: "The old man is a horse, and it is a blessing to die on the battlefield, Mr. Li, have I Zhao Guoxian treated you badly in the past ten years?" ”

As soon as Master Li heard Dong Weng say death and asked if there was any disadvantage, he immediately staggered to his knees and said urgently: "Master, you can't ......" He only said half a sentence before he heard Zhao Guoxian snort. So he had no choice but to say: "Dong Weng owes me a lot from me, but Li often feels that he owes Dong Weng a lot." I just feel like I can't repay it. ”

"Haha!" Zhao Guoxian laughed, and after laughing, he let out a long sigh, and his words were sad: "I, Zhao Guoxian, have been fighting horses all my life, and I didn't die in such a dangerous way as North Korea in my early years, but I didn't expect to die here today." But it's also good, the mountains and rivers here are beautiful, and it is just a bedroom. ”

Dong Weng said life and death again, Master Li was at a loss, and only said: "Master, didn't this chaotic party stop it?" ”

"Stopped?" Zhao Guoxian sneered contemptuously, "Is the chaos of the party that we people can stop right now?" When he said this, he only took out a few things from his arms, and said: "This is the last excerpt I gave to the emperor, you must take it, this one is for Yuan Weiting, you have taken it well, and this is for the family...... Before the war has started, you should go to the river right now, and a dinghy will take you to Hangzhou. ”

Master Li couldn't imagine that Dong Weng asked him to come just to explain the future, and he didn't want to take the fold but was forced into his hand by Zhao Guoxian, and finally listened to him again: "I have an old bone, and I can still contribute to the emperor when I die, it's really a blessing for three lives, you go, don't delay things." After he said this, Master Li was still panicked, and Zhao Guoxian had no choice but to say again: "The so-called three are missing one, and the chaotic party will let go of the waterway." There you go! Then let the soldiers take Master Li out.

The final explanation has ended, Zhao Guoxian's spirit suddenly improved, he asked people to help him put on the brand-new commander dress, when he put it on, he only saw the gray head in the mirror, Zhao Guoxian couldn't help but sigh.

This time, the attack of the rebels was too ferocious, and there was no warning, and when the cannon sounded, the rebels had already rushed to the front. Zhao Guoxian didn't want to withdraw, at first he said that he would fight to the death, nothing more than to stabilize the morale of the army, in fact, he wanted to arrange for the troops to withdraw to Fuyang City on the other side of the river, so as to join forces with the tenth town, but in the end, he saw that his gunboat was sunk by the rebel party, and the Jinou ship equipped with the ironclad ship ran away again, which completely cut off his last line of life, although it was said that the big ironclad gunboat on the other side of Hangzhou would come, but according to the offensive momentum of the chaotic party, when the gunboat came, he was already cold.

Zhao Guoxian, who was dressed in a commander's dress, appeared in the conference hall, everyone was shocked when they saw him so solemn, Zhao Guoxian didn't care about everyone's surprise, and said to himself: "It's all here, and the old man has nothing to hide." Now that Tianzhong Mountain has been occupied by the chaotic party, and there are rebel gunboats on the river, we have no way to retreat! Now the only chance is to wait for the Jiang Yuan ship on the Hangzhou side to go north to disperse the gunboats of the rebellious party, so that there is a glimmer of life. Whether you are loyal to the imperial court or survive for yourself, you must hold your positions and wait for our gunboats to come back to help. Okay, there's nothing to discuss, let's all go back, it's up to you to live or die. ”

After Zhao Guoxian finished speaking, the generals' faces changed suddenly but they opened their mouths, they were still counting on the waterway to escape, but they didn't want the waterway to be blocked, everyone panicked, and a pipe band who knew that the Jinou ship had escaped shouted loudly, "Those sailors only care about their own lives, but they leave us in such a place of death, it is simply unreasonable!" ”

How could it be reasonable to only ignite everyone's anger, under the turbulence of the public opinion, the hall was a mess, Zhao Guoxian looked at these righteous indignant chest tube belts and commanders, slapped them on the table, and drank: "What are you yelling at, can you save your life by yelling?" Get the hell out of here! With a wave of his sleeve, he only let the pro-soldiers beat these people out.

He was angry, and Chief of Staff Jin Yunpeng also said: "Everyone, hurry back, I will wait for a decisive battle to have a chance of survival!" (To be continued......)

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