Considering that there were enough trucks, Deputy Chief of the General Staff Guo Bi also wanted to empty the arsenal of operational doctrines, troop establishment, weapons of the three services, and personnel databases, but Xu Jingxi thought that it would be enough to move the original materials, and according to the plan, the whole army should have done a thorough renovation this year, especially the divisions in the Guannai, but it was hindered that the current cabinet did not immediately set up the number. When the last truck closed the door and drove away from the General Staff Headquarters, Xu Jingxi was giving a farewell speech to everyone, and the staff officers were fine, and many of the low-ranking female clerks, typists, and orderlies were weeping.

“…… Speaking of which, there is only one truth in this world: that is, you can only live if you can fight. Thinking about foreigners today, how did they come to prosperity? Is it a thrifty family? Is it more capable than the yellow race? Did it fall from the sky? It's neither, it's all robbed! It's a pity that some people just can't see through this reason, thinking that those foreigners love peace and civilization.

If that were the case, Italy would not have annexed Albania last year; Those colonial ......, India, Annam, Burma, African states, these places should have become independent a long time ago. But there was still an uprising and suppressed once, and it had to be turned into a crop field for foreigners. Looking at the world today, it is the billion-year-old people in the colonies who are feeding the 400 million foreigners supported by the Western civilization; Looking at the world today, only we, Japan, North Korea, and Soviet Russia are the only four countries that support themselves. Why are we allied with Japan? It's just that I don't want to use the people's fat and ointment to worship the foreign adults like the Manchus.

Let's live our own, but foreigners just won't let us. With a population of 600 million, the national strength is getting stronger day by day, and the money is increasing day by day, and they are worried that one day, the world will be smashed to pieces by us, and their crops will become our crops. Their world has become our world, and this is why the East Asian alliance will be dismantled, and this will be the reason for some kind of naval adjudication negotiations. What foreigners themselves don't believe, our side believes more than one another. They think that if they put down their guns, foreigners will also put down their guns, that's a dream! All intelligence indicates that less than two years later. At the latest, when the Americans' new planes enter service, the war will begin.

Some of you joined the army during the revolution, and some of you were after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and at the latest, you were just assigned here after graduating from the military academy last year. Here, I, Xu Jingxi, will not be the chief of the general staff, but will remind you in my personal capacity: Don't forget that it is our people who are taking care of this country, and no matter how big the difficulties and obstacles, we must find ways to do something in the past two years. ”

After saying the short words, Xu Jingxi finished solemnly saluting everyone in the auditorium. Without waiting for everyone to return the gift, he left without looking back. At this time, the fire in the rear database had already burned, and smoke filled everywhere, but no one went to put out the fire.

Out of the military warning area at the gate, Xu Jingxi sat on a fully protected military vehicle under the protection of the soldiers of the motorized infantry battalion, and drove along the temporary iron bridge across the pond, but on a whim, he asked the driver to stop - in Beijing for twenty-six years, he wanted to take another look at this place where he had stayed for twenty-six years.

The smoke in the back room of the General Staff grew louder and louder. Even the students, who were elated to see Xu Jingxi leaving, were a little panicked when they saw this, they thought that the fire was set by their own people; And at the head of Xinjiekou North Street. A silver Chevrolet sedan that had just driven into the city with the permission of the soldiers suddenly braked suddenly, and a young man in a flannel suit and a crooked top hat got out of the car and pointed to the general staff with fire in the smoke in the left front and laughed gloatingly, "Ha! Haha...... this, this is on fire......"

"Second Miss ......" The driver stopped under the orders of the young man, and he didn't want to stop just to watch the fire. He immediately opened the door and went up to dissuade him, "Second Miss, I'm afraid that the master is waiting for the second miss to go back at home, so I can't delay here......"

"Don't scare me!" The second lady, who had a big back like a successful man, glared at the driver, and she turned around to see two soldiers standing in front of the Huitong Temple. One of them was a general dressed in a general's uniform, and the golden certificate was very dazzling, but because it was more than two hundred meters away, she couldn't see the person's appearance clearly.

"This is Xu Jingxi, who ordered the massacre of students, right?" She made her own guess, and after her foot swept away the pug that had followed her out of the car, she pulled out the Browning pistol she had with her, and pointed it at the general.

The second lady started playing with guns at the age of thirteen, and she usually pulled out a gun to scare people, and even heard that she had shot at people. As soon as the driver saw her pull out the gun, his brain was about to explode. Point a gun at the general of the General Staff, that's okay. He hurriedly rushed over to stop the second lady, not wanting to step on the pug in a hurry, the pug will bite if he is in a hurry, and his hand happened to hit the second lady's arm when he stumbled in severe pain, so he ——, a 'horn', and the gun actually went off!

As if synchronized with the gunshot, Xu Jingxi, who was about to get into the car, suddenly felt a numbness in his chest, and his body shook twice and was about to fall, and the adjutant who got out of the car with him also heard the gunshot, he hurriedly held Xu Jingxi, and then shouted for help.

Everything was in chaos, the adjutant shouted for help while pressing Xu Jingxi's bloody chest, and Song Desheng, who was extremely shocked, saw this and then looked at the students on the other side of the pond, and shouted to arrest people. And when everyone in the General Staff heard the news and came with a doctor, Xu Jingxi's half-body uniform was already stained red with blood. Seeing such a tragedy, Guo Bi held his hand tightly with tears, he didn't know what he was talking about, he was already numb.

Guo Bi was chattering, but Xu Jingxi, who was twisting his eyebrows on the stretcher, laboriously reached into the inner pocket of his military uniform, and a blood-stained white paper was stuffed into Guo Bi's hand. Seeing that he wanted to speak, Guo Bi, who was lying down, could only hear him whisper faintly: "...... American... Target... Destiny ......"

"At the beginning of the day! "Even though it was unusually noisy around him, Guo Bi still felt that Xu Jingxi left in an instant the moment he finished speaking....... He lost his mind and shouted, shaking Xu Jingxi's body violently with his hands, but there was no response. It was only when the doctor quietly told him that the admiral had died that he barely regained some composure, but he still held Xu Jingxi's hand tightly and refused to let go.

On the fourth day of the sixth month of the 26th year of Shenwu, General Xu Jingxi, the newly resigned chief of the General Staff, was assassinated on the side of the Huitong Temple in Jishuitan in Beijing. This news swept to the capital like a wind, and then to all parts of the country. Weng Wenhao, who had been happy all morning, was finally a little scared at this time, he called Hu Shi and hurriedly called Hu Shi over, but it was Guo Bingwen and Zhu Jiahua who came.

"We never do it." Guo Bingwen is considered an old man of the Brotherhood, and he can ensure that the assassination was not arranged by himself.

"Really. You promise it wasn't the students who fired the shots? Weng Wenhao didn't believe it, he knew that once the students were agitated, they would become uncontrollable, as evidenced by the fact that they went to burn the Imperial Daily office in the morning.

"Of course it's true." Guo Bingwen was a little dissatisfied with Weng Wenhao's attitude, but after all, the matter was important, and he explained: "At least we don't have such a plan. But it's not hard to buy a gun now. Many students have money at home, how dare the students guarantee it? ”

"So what now?" Weng Wenhao knew that what he said was the truth, and most of the students were just temporarily instigated, because of yesterday's shooting incident by the guards, no one knows what the students are thinking in their hearts today, what if they want to retaliate?

"Prime Minister, this kind of assassination case can be handled in accordance with the law, don't worry, the key is to rescue those students." Zhu Jiahua said. "Besides, we died six students yesterday. They've only died today......"

"Confused!" It was Xu Xinliu, who had just arrived, who had just arrived, and when he saw Zhu Jiahua being so indiscriminate, he immediately reprimanded. "Xu Jingxi is the chief of the General Staff, and today the Inspectorate has just voted to withdraw from the East Asia Alliance. We're walking a tightrope on a cliff right now, and if we're not careful, we're going to be doomed. ”

After Xu Xinliu finished speaking his opinion, he said: "Prime Minister, this matter has to be dealt with." You should go to the General Staff right away to pay your respects. The reaction of those generals at this time is very important, and if you are not appeased, it will definitely cause chaos. ”

"Mr. Situ Leiden's side, the Inspectorate's side, and the Tingwei's Mansion must immediately find someone to stand up and speak out. Let's create a kind of public opinion that is resolved by law......" Wu Jingchao also recovered from the shock just now and began to come up with ideas.

"But what about the students?" Guo Bingwen saw that they were all discussing Xu Jingxi's affairs, and mentioned the students with some anger.

"Hongsheng, when is this, you still said students, maybe now the Northeast Army outside the Guanwai has been assembled and preparing to go south." Jiang Tinghuang, who had just run into the Wenhua Palace, saw that Guo Bingwen was still mentioning those students without knowing the importance of it. At the moment, the bitter and elongated tone describes the worst situation, which is what everyone is most afraid of.

"Prime Minister, Beihai is right, a situation should be created immediately so that the matter can be resolved by law. The second is that we should immediately visit and comfort the generals. Then there are the representatives of the Inspector's Academy, how many can be pulled, the more people the better, let them also go to the General Staff. Jiang Tinghuang immediately said a few methods, all of which were the best choices. And then there are the students. Since the previous purpose has been achieved, these students should be allowed to go home immediately, and they can't make any more trouble, and if they make more trouble, there may be a big incident. ”

"Yes, Prime Minister, that's what I'm going to do right away." Wu Jingchao glanced at Jiang Tinghuang gratefully, what he said was indeed very important.

"Okay, okay." Weng Wenhao finally found the backbone. "I'll go to the pond right away. Mr. Situ Leiden's side will be handed over to the shouzhang, and the Inspector's Court and Tingwei's Mansion will be arranged by Beihai, students, students' side ......" Weng Wenhao looked at Guo Bingwen this time, "The student's affairs will be handed over to Hongsheng, and the students whose school is not in the capital should go back early." ”

Weng Wenhao's words were easy, and Guo Bingwen, who was angry that everyone ignored the students, said angrily when he came: "How can the students just leave? At present, thousands of students have been detained by the army in the name of suspects, and several students who wanted to run because they were afraid were shot and injured by soldiers, which ...... This is simply a warlord! It's grass Kan human life!! He waved his hand, "It's okay to ask the students to go back, but you have to release all the students who are holding them first, at least the vast majority of them, how can those students go home if they don't do this?!" ”

"Then let the students in the capital go back to school first!" Weng Wenhao also knew that what Guo Bingwen said was the truth, but the problem was that the students would be deducted, and if the gang outside the gate was angry, it would be really a big disaster. "Tell them that the government will find a way to properly resolve the matter of the detained students, and let them not march in the streets for the time being."

"I can't do it." Guo Bingwen shook his head violently, he knew before he came that the students who were full of excitement in the morning were all angry when they learned that the students on the other side of Jishuitan were arrested and beaten, which was the reason why Hu Shi did not come. Not to mention that the students are coming back now, those who are in the school will probably not be able to stop them from going to the pond to protest.

"If you can't do it, you have to do it!" Weng Wenhao also began to get angry. "You have to find a way to deal with the aftermath of the troubles you provoked."

"What do you mean by what we provoked?" Guo Bingwen saw Weng Wenhao making such accusations, and his tone became extremely dissatisfied. "Can it pass without these student proposals? Will Xu Jingxi take the initiative to resign? Now that it's done, it's up to us to blame. ”

"Is there anything you've consulted with me?" Weng Wenhao was angry and even more aggrieved, "Did you say that the parade would be very civilized and civilized, but what happened?" Rush into the military cordoned off zone and provoke the guards to shoot! And the matter of the Inspector's Institute, didn't you just shout slogans and demonstrate? As a result, the representative's clothes were torn by the students. They weren't allowed to go in and vote. I'm so ......."

The more Weng Wenhao spoke, the more angry he became, he felt that he had been completely kidnapped by these people, thinking of him, he suddenly grabbed the official hat on his head and threw it away, sat back on the chair and said: "I don't care about this matter, you can do whatever you like, it's a big deal." ”

Before, Weng Wenhao was in a hurry. Now it's his turn to be anxious. Jiang Tinghuang and the others were trying to persuade him, but Wu Jingchao, who understood his temper, glanced at him and said, "Go and invite him to come." ”

"What about the students over there?" It was Zhu Jiahua who asked. Hearing that the soldiers on the other side of the pond had detained the students, he wanted to send hundreds of patrol officers to rescue people, but he was afraid that he would not be able to take the right place, so he came to Wenhua Hall to ask for an idea.

"Since you are suspected of assassination, let's hold it first. When the suspicion is clarified, he will naturally be released. Wu Jingchao glanced at Guo Bingwen and still insisted. You can ask the Patrol Department to find a way to negotiate with the military and see if you can take the case. ”

"Understood." Zhu Jiahua agreed. I took two steps and wanted to turn around and say something, but in the end I left in a hurry.

The fireworks at the General Staff Headquarters have been extinguished, and the area around the pond has been taken over by the army, and the students who had heard that Xu Jingxi had been stabbed and shouted for retribution had already squatted on the ground. It is said that more than 1,000 gendarmes may not be able to control these students, but when a few students who wanted to run were directly shot down by the soldiers, the remaining students no longer had the arrogance they had before, and they all sat on the ground in fear.

The first to come to the General Staff was Wang Jitong, who was reading a Buddhist scripture in the mansion when he received the news. When he heard the news, he hurried in; The second one to arrive was Gong Baoquan from the Inspectorate, and the students had made a lot of trouble in the past two days. In the morning, the students dared to prevent the representatives of the Inspectorate from entering the hospital to vote, and in the afternoon, they were shocked to hear that General Xu Jingxi, chief of the General Staff, had been assassinated.

"Did you catch the murderer?" Gong Baoquan, who had just come in, saw Wang Jitong, Guo Bi and others standing on the side of Xu Jingxi's body, and couldn't help but ask.

"It's all out there!" Wang Ji didn't speak to a few of them, but Shen Honglie from the Navy Office squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth.

Yes, it's all out there. After the gunshot. The gendarmes, the soldiers of the armored regiment, and the residents of this block, most of whom were martyrs and military families who had moved to Beijing earlier, quickly cordoned off the entire area, and ten minutes later, the entire capital was also cordoned off. This is the power of the reserve of those years.

Feeling that his question was very inappropriate, Gong Baoquan immediately fell silent. After about an hour, Zhang Shizhao of Dali Temple came inexplicably, but he was not as knowledgeable as Gong Baoquan, and after a hasty look at Xu Jingxi's remains, he said: "Rank, the deceased has passed away, and it is not a way for those students outside to be detained like this, so it is more appropriate to hand it over to the Patrol Police Department......."

"Get out!" Lieutenant General Huang Zongwei glared at him fiercely, and along with him was a staff officer.

"You ......" I didn't expect the other party to speak viciously as soon as he opened his mouth, Zhang Shizhao seemed to have been punched, and his face turned red. He was indeed entrusted by the Kuomintang to come here as a lobbyist, and he thought that things would be easy to solve, but he didn't want to eat the nails. "Mr. Xiao Xu, why can't this matter just be so stiff? China is a country ruled by law......"

"I think it's a ********!" It was Lieutenant General Pham An, commander of the gendarmerie, who spoke, "Why should the army's case be handed over to the patrol police?" The patrol police and students you mentioned are actually in a gang, and the patrol officers who called the police yesterday did not come at all, and today they simply can't get through to the police. I killed someone and was arrested, and then I started to sing what to rule the country by law! Are we really stupid?! ”

"This ......" Zhang Shizhao also knew that the students had made too much trouble in the past two days, but he still said with the intention of turning big things into small things and small things: "The affairs of students must also be dealt with according to law, not to mention that the army arrests and interrogates people, this result is ...... How do the people believe? ”

"We don't care if people believe it or not!" Guo Bi, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly spoke. "We just have to believe it ourselves."

"How can this work?" Zhang Shizhao looked at Guo Bi in great surprise, and then looked at Wang Jitong. He knew that Yang Rui had always advocated the rule of law, and he didn't want his students to be stimulated by this today, so he didn't care about the law and justice.

"Why can't this work?!" is still Huang Zongwei, who spoke disrespectfully as soon as he opened his mouth, "It's a big deal to be a man." The heads of the people killed by the Manchurians back then are rolling, and there are still people who are loyal today. ”

"Mr. Xiao Xu......" I really can't persuade it. Zhang Shizhao had no choice but to look at Wang Jitong.

"Be strict, don't worry about this matter, this is a military case, and it should be investigated by the military police and tried by a military court." "If a student is sued, they can hire a lawyer. ”

"This ......," Wang Jitong told the truth. However, Zhang Shizhao knew that Xu Jingxi's case involved a struggle between the two parties, and if it was handed over to the army, not to mention whether it was in line with the legal system, if they deliberately bent into a trick in order to let the Kuomintang gain power, the Kuomintang would definitely not accept it, and how could the two sides have a quarrel.

"In order to win the trust of the people, it is better to involve the Inspectorate, and the Inspectorate should also send a few representatives to participate." Gong Baoquan on the side said. "In this way, not only will all parties have an explanation, but public opinion will also believe in the result."

Gong Baoquan's suggestion is not bad. But Wang Jitong hadn't answered, and there was another shout of students outside - after learning that thousands of students in Jishuitan had been arrested, students from all over the city rushed over. They don't care what the law is or not, they just know that the army is persecuting progressive youth. As for the dead Xu Jingxi, it was his retribution for killing his students yesterday.

At the intersection of Deshengmen Street and Sanbulao Hutong, Wang Shizheng's reconnaissance company was stationed here and Li Guangqiao to the east. Only the soldiers on one side warned by telecast: "This is a military control zone, no traffic!" This is a military control zone. Not passable! ”

In the past two days, the radio has been going on too loudly, and there are instructions from above. The students were not afraid of anything, and they did not stop but walked faster when they were warned. Seeing that these people were so stubborn, Wang Shizheng ordered the commander of the chariot who was sticking out of the turret on one side: "Thirty meters in front of the street, fire a shot!" ”

"Yes!" The commander agreed in a low voice. Immediately after the turret rotated and drooped, there was a 'boom', and a three-kilogram 57mm high-explosive bomb hit the street more than 30 meters in front of the car body when the car body vibrate. The violent explosion splashed countless pieces of brick and sand and stones, and smashed them on the houses and tiles on the side of the street, like a hailstone.

Yesterday it was just shooting, but now it is cannons, and the impassioned ranks are immediately in chaos with the sound of cannons. Seeing that they were still not running, Wang Shizheng ordered: "Hit farther and fire two shots!" ”

If you don't take advantage of the situation to break the morale of the students, you may rush over if you are instigated, although the commander does not understand the company commander's intentions, he is still firing two shots in a row according to the order. The first shot was dozens of meters away from him, and everyone was shocked, and some people even encouraged them to say that they did not dare to kill people. Now that the cannon was getting closer and closer, the last shell seemed to explode nearby, and the procession finally collapsed completely, and the students fled for their lives one by one, and after a few minutes, there were only three small craters left in the street, and the banners and slogans that the students threw down as they fled, and the white paper with democracy and freedom written on them was like chicken feathers all over the ground.

"A bunch of fools!" Wang Shizheng saw the scattered students on the street, and immediately relieved his heart. The nearest one was Zhang Shizhao, a peacemaker who was sitting at the General Staff, and when the first cannon was fired, he jumped up and shouted: "How can you fire at the students?" They're just students! ”

Zhang Shizhao's shouting didn't even pay attention to Wang Jitong; The Suspect Academy, Yangxinzhai, and Wenhua Hall also heard the sound of cannons, and the most panicked was Wenhua Palace, Weng Wenhao, who had just picked on his son, put on his official hat after hearing the sound, and he asked Wu Jingchao with a disgraced look: "Who... Who's firing? Is there a fight, is it a fight? Where are the Praetorian Guards? ”

"The Praetorian Guard is in the city!" Wu Jingchao was also uneasy in his heart, he was worried that Fuxing would take over the capital by force, if that was the case, everything would be over. After that, he shook his head again, "It must not be the cannon fired by the Praetorian Guard, it must be the armored regiment." ”

"So what now, are they coming?" It was determined that it was the people of the Revival Society who fired the cannon, Weng Wenhao jumped up from his position violently, walked a few steps and turned back.

"I don't know." Wu Jingchao couldn't be sure, he thought about the current situation, especially the students who were arrested - if the army asked from the students everything they had planned in the past two days, then everything would be over. It was he who hesitated several times before finally saying, "The most likely is a mutiny." Prime Minister, for the sake of safety, let's let the Praetorian Guards take over the whole city, get those students out, and we can't go on like this. (To be continued.) )