Under the farewell of Zhang Zuolin and others, and under the joy of the military band, Wang Maoru and his subordinates boarded the train home with great interest.

This is an extension of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway, which was built entirely by Yuan Shikai and completed without any foreign capital intervention, and is one of the few railways that completely belongs to the Chinese. Shepherd boys herding sheep on the side of the road can stand boldly by the railway, waiting for the occasional train passenger to throw things down and pick them up to improve their lives. In those days, trains were slow and the carriages were not well insulated, everyone wore thick winter clothes, and there was a coal stove in the middle of the carriage to heat everyone.

Not long after the train started, Wang Maoru leaned on the side of his seat and closed his eyes, and his right eyelid couldn't stop stirring, which made him feel very uncomfortable. The rest of his men didn't seem happy to see him, and they didn't dare to step forward. Only the new sixth lady, Wu Qiuyue, sat beside him generously and complained: "Why is it colder on the train than on the carriage?" ”

Wang Maoru smiled: "But the train is much faster than the horse-drawn carriage." ”

Wu Qiuyue asked, "How are you going to arrange for me when I go back this time?" ”

"Naturally, you live with me, let's go back to Changchun." Wang Maoru said.

"Okay." Wu Qiuyue had very little thought, and said happily, "By the way, I will also work after I go back." ”

Wang Maoru said with a smile: "What do you do, how can there be a handsome lady who works." By the way, I will marry you because the media is marrying, you see who is suitable to be the main marriage. ”

Wu Qiuyue was happy in her heart, and Wang Maoru explained that the matchmaker was marrying me, which meant that he regarded himself as a concubine, not a maid who married at will. Many warlords in the Republic of China marry a servant girl with a small sedan chair, and in fact, they can be driven out of the house directly after they get bored. But the concubine is different, the husband and wife have a conflict, and the husband can't get rid of the wife and concubine no matter how angry he is, it is said that in the future, the master dies, and the family must also serve his concubine in a regular manner. The children of the wife are the concubines, the children of the concubines are the concubines, and the children born to the maidservants are called the maidservants, and they have no status. Although it is the Republic of China, many old traditions and ideas are still retained. The people who can be married by the Ming media are all wives and concubines, and they have no status at all when they are sold home for money.

Wang Maoru said: "Do you still have relatives in your hometown?" ”

"It's long gone." Wu Qiuyue sighed, and whispered on the side: "Husband, I don't like Zhang Lao Gada very much. This Zhang Lao Gada narrowed his eyes, I think this kind of person is warm and cold, do you think he will make a bad bomb of our train. ”

Hearing Wu Qiuyue's words, Wang Maoru chuckled in his heart and jumped at right speed. As the saying goes, jumping left and right is a disaster in the right eyelid, and it is really not a good thing for the right eyelid to jump at this time. Wang Maoru was able to return to this world. I already felt that there must be a master in this world, so I thought about it and suddenly stood up. I didn't know what to think, so I said, "Get out of the car, let's take an airship." ”

"What's wrong?" Wu Qiuyue said, "Gaha is on an airship? ”

Wang Maoru sneered: "It's not much, I just think it's better to take an airship." Then he said to Ma Liang: "Order, let's take the airship, call the deputy chief of staff Yong and the others, and we will take the airship back." ”

"Yes." Ma Liang said, feeling a little strange in his heart, but he didn't ask too much.

Wu Qiuyue mentioned Zhang Zuolin. Wang Maoru thought of the bombing of the train he was taking, and he always called him Seventh Brother with Zhang Zuolin in the past few days, but he didn't care about Zhang Dashuai. However, it has entered winter, and the weather is cold and not suitable for airships to fly, for safety, many airships are flying empty, and it is extremely dangerous to say that the wind is too strong.

Wu Qiuyue and Ma Liang hurriedly dissuaded, Wang Maoru insisted on taking the airship, and Xiong Bingtao waved his hand and said I don't take the airship. As soon as he took the airship, he was dizzy and vomited, but Yong Xingbao smiled and said You don't sit on me. So at the Baita Station of the Jingsui Railway, Wang Maoru took his wife and adjutant, as well as deputy chiefs of staff Yong Xingbao, He Rufei and others to get off the train, in order to protect his safety. Wang Licheng, the commander of the Guards Regiment, asked Deng Zichao, the commander of the 1st Guards Battalion, to accompany him.

It is also because of the headwind that the speed of the airship is not as fast as that of the train. But it was rare for the wind to stop, which was extremely rare weather outside the mouth, and the airship flew very smoothly. Wang Maoru smiled and said that even God is beautiful to him, and said that he drank a little wine in the airship and talked about the world's major events, and everyone laughed and said yes. He Rufei said that he recently watched the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, why don't I tell you a paragraph of the Three Kingdoms, Wang Maoru said that it is really a blessing to see the Chief Military Minister commenting on the book. He Rufei was thirty-five years old and became a general of the Republic of China, and it was when he was in high spirits, and he didn't care about laughing and saying that Xiong Bingtao would not have this blessing, and we would give him three glasses of wine after we went back.

When the train transporting the headquarters of the National Defense Forces ran to Guo Leizhuang, which was less than 20 kilometers away from Zhangyuan City, the capital of Chahar Province, there was a sudden explosion, and the flames soared into the sky. Xiong Bingtao, deputy chief of staff, Mi Zhenbiao, deputy commander of the guard team, Chang Guochun, deputy chief of the general staff, Zhu Huailong, deputy director of the general security department, Fan Chongxiao, staff officer, Qi Dian, director of the Surveying and Mapping Division, Li Qiangguo, commander of the second guard battalion, Li Jing, adjutant, and 132 guards were killed in the bombing, and four of the 200 dead soldiers were injured.

On December 16, 1919, in Guo Leizhuang, west of Guisui, there was a conspiracy and bombing against Vice Minister of the Army Wang Maoru that shocked the whole country, but Wang Maoru was not assassinated because he left in advance by airship.

At the time of the explosion, Wang Licheng, the head of the Guards Regiment, was patrolling among the first few carriages of the train, and after an explosion, the train was lifted up and fell to the ground, and the front carriage simply did not derail. Wang Licheng ordered the train to stop, and led the soldiers of the 2nd Guards Battalion to get off the train to be on guard, and then the 3rd Guards Battalion on another train immediately made every effort to treat and protect the scene to prevent someone from sneaking up on it for the second time.

The 11th Cavalry Division of the National Defense Army, which was following the train, quickly felt the place of the incident, Zhang Pingwu ordered the soldiers to monitor all the surrounding 20 kilometers, Zhang Pingwu was bloodthirsty but calm, he ordered with red eyes that the suspicious person was caught infertility abuse and was not allowed to be killed, and it must be handed over to the Ministry of Security to find the murderer.

Afterwards, Zhang Jianwu knelt on the ground and cried bitterly, shouting: "Xiushuai, if I find the murderer, I will peel him and cramp him to comfort your soul in the sky!" Wang Licheng hurriedly took Zhang Pingwu's hand and said, "Xiushuai is fine, he is not on this train." Zhang Pingwu suddenly jumped up in surprise, grabbed Wang Licheng's arm and said: "Xiushuai is not dead, hahahaha, Xiushuai is not dead, where is he, he ...... He's really not dead? Don't scold me. ”

Wang Licheng couldn't help but laugh and said: "Xiushuai has already changed to other tools, and now it is estimated that it will be almost in Guisui (now Zhangjiakou, Hebei)." Zhang Zhuwu looked up to the sky and smiled, and ordered the soldiers to shout that Xiushuai is not dead, Xiushuai is not dead, and the hearts of the soldiers finally fell in their hearts, Xiushuai is not dead, and the Wehrmacht will not die.

Li Pinxian's unit of the 1st Division of the National Defense Army, which had already arrived in Guisui, was setting up a battalion commander overnight, and with the assistance of Tian Zhongyu, the commander of Chahar, was preparing to build a simple barracks for the upcoming soldiers of the 7th, 11th, and 15th divisions of the National Defense Army. Li Pinxian said angrily with red eyes: "It must be Tanaka Yu, this son of a bitch, who did it, arrest him for me." ”

Tanaka Yu served as a vanguard officer in the conflict between the Anhui Department and the Northeast Army, but was attacked by Mao Ziping, who was known as the ghost general, and returned to Chahar in defeat and did not dare to come out. This reception Wang Maoru did his best when the army returned, and the soldiers were strong and strong, and they could pinch themselves to death with a single thumb, how dare they do this. Poor Tanaka Yu, a veteran in his fifties, was arrested by Li Pinxian, and the three mixed brigades of Chahar under his command were directly disarmed by the First Division, and they were all arrested. Li Pinxian threatened that if Xiushuai was killed by Tanaka Yu, he would let Tanaka Yu and his three mixed brigades accompany him to the funeral, and ordered dozens of mass graves to be dug overnight, which frightened Tanaka Yu and his men, once it was found, it was nearly 10,000 people buried alive.

At the same time, Ren Yuanxing's subordinate of the White Tiger Legion, who was far away in Almaty in the Western Regions, also learned of Wang Maoru's assassination for the first time, and Ren Yuanxing immediately discussed with Zhu Yongquan what to do if Xiushuai was assassinated. Zhu Yongquan said: "Everyone in this army is finally handsome, if there is no Xiushuai, we will be distracted, we will stay in the Western Regions is also a rootless weed, sooner or later it will be eaten by the Russians, it is better to go back as soon as possible." ”

Ren Yuanxing said: "It's just how to plan in the future?" ”

Zhu Yongquan said: "Ask each soldier, who are they loyal to? Ren Yuanxing said: "Then it goes without saying, naturally Xiushuai is alone." ”

Zhu Yongquan said: "Isn't that it, Xiushuai is gone, isn't there still the eldest son of Zongding?" ”

Ren Yuanxing thought about it, thinking that no matter what, the national defense force could not be dispersed, so he nodded and said, "I understand." Then he gathered everyone and said: "Xiushuai is our root, if Xiushuai is gone, our tree will not be able to live in the desert, so the whole army is ready, and after a few days we don't get any news, we will kill back to the country and kill the Anhui government." Serving the eldest prince Wang Zongding, do you have any objections? "Everyone naturally knows about the assassination of Wang Maoru, although they don't know what the final result of the assassination of Chahar Guo Leizhuang was, but there is no objection to loyalty to Yu Xiushuai, so no one has any objection to the fact that the commander of the army will withdraw the army and return to China, and Feng Zongding's eldest son will be the young master.

But fortunately, the next day, everyone learned that Wang Maoru had not had an accident, and Ren Yuanxing breathed a sigh of relief and ordered the army to be rewarded, and the whole army was happy. And Li Pinxian also breathed a sigh of relief, digging a mass grave was just a momentary anger and impulsive brain, it did not mean that he really wanted to bury the prisoners of war alive, so he ordered the prisoners of war to bury the mass grave. But the prisoners of war didn't know it, and thought that they were going to be killed, and they suddenly cried so much that they could not move on the ground, and the Wehrmacht had to fill the pit themselves.

After the Wehrmacht filled the pit, he left, but the people of Guisui did not believe that they just filled in the pit, so there were local rumors that someone had assassinated General Shangwu, and Li Pinxian, a subordinate of General Shangwu, buried 100,000 enemy troops alive for revenge, Li Pinxian was nicknamed by the people of Guisui, and the people of Guisui liked to give people nicknames, they gave Mao Ziping a nickname called Ghost General, and the nickname given to Li Pinxian was King Yama. This is wronged Li Pinxian, he is far inferior to Zhang Pingwu, the bloodthirsty king, and even inferior to Ren Yuanxinggong Xiaoqi and others, just because of this misunderstanding, he was given such an ugly nickname, and later spread to the world.