The ammunition was destroyed, and the inventory of the Wuhuasan Ordnance Bureau was very limited -- because of the increase in the price of European arms, the year before last the year, under the pretext of Russia's order needs, it bought 6 million rounds of ammunition from Yunnan at a high price, so that the original stock of 1,000 rounds of ammunition for each gun is now only 500 rounds. Now that the revolutionary army has suddenly expanded to four armies (in fact, divisions, called armies for the sake of pulling the banner), there are only more than 100 rounds of bullets per bar on average, and even if some remnants of unexploded bullets can be found in the arsenal in the city, whether this kind of bullets that have been roasted by fire can only be used can only be said separately.

The disheartened people, after returning to the Eight Provincial Consulates, asked Major General Madahan to transport arms to Kunming again, but Madahan gave an extremely disappointing answer, that is, the matter must be reported to Petersburg before it can be implemented, because now the French are threatened by China to blow up the Yunnan Railway, and they have become timid, and they must exert diplomatic pressure. In addition, the source of arms in the past was actually products produced in China but sold to Russia. After this incident, even if the Chinese will still conduct arms transactions with Russia, they will monitor the entire process of arms transportation, and it can be said that even if the next batch of arms can arrive, it will never be Chinese goods, but probably American goods.

As soon as Major General Madahan's inference came out, everyone was dumbfounded. At present, all the guns and shells of the revolutionary army are made in China, and even if they are not domestic goods, they are also German, Austro-Hungarian, or Japanese.

"Then immediately send someone to the United States to buy guns and ammunition!" The situation is so unoptimistic, Sun Wen immediately said.

"Your Excellency, all the arms of the United States are supplied to Britain, France and other countries. Even if they could be asked to give up some of their orders, it would take at least a month to ship to Annam. "Madahan Road." Other than that. The price of arms is now high, ten times higher than before the war. The guns and ammunition of the four corps (divisions) should all be equipped with and ammunition should be sufficient. A minimum of 60 million rubles is needed ......"

"Mr. Madahan, maybe we can sell these arms without ammunition and recoup at least half of the cost." When Chen Qimei heard that the costume change would cost 60 million rubles, she was worried that the Russians might not be willing to pay this money, so she came up with another idea.

"If these guns are shipped out, what will happen to Yunnan?" Cai Yi, who was still immersed in the scene of the destruction of the munitions, suddenly asked. He was in a very bad mood now, he knew the use of the plane, and he didn't want the plane to blow up the arsenal in just ten minutes. He had just heard from the soldiers that the planes were dropping bombs vertically. So throw one on the spot.

"Brother Songpa, we can't just count guns, we should also count bullets. After the U.S. arms are shipped, we can sell the inventory in our hands, so that all we really want to give out is ammunition money. Chen Qimei said. In this way, you don't need 60 million rubles, 30 million is enough. ”

"I agree with this approach." When Madahan heard that the amount to be applied for had been halved, he immediately agreed. In fact, these guns and artillery can be handed over to the Russian army for use, and the newly purchased American guns will be handed over to Yunnan for use.

Since the Russians agreed, the matter was thus determined. After the matter was discussed, the whole military plan was adjusted and the discussion continued to talk about the night. Soon after the meeting, Cai Yi, who was full of heavy faces, returned home, Liang Qichao came to him, and he closed the door with his backhand when he entered. Said: "Songpo, the ammunition is destroyed now, how will the headquarters be determined next?" ”

"Teacher. Now there is not enough ammunition, and we can only wait for the order of ammunition to replace the ordnance before sending troops to the Northern Expedition. Cai said.

"Hey! Have you been able to fight? Liang Qichao asked. At this time, he was still in the aftermath of being bombed, and he said, "Have you ever thought about it? Then the hidden ammunition depot can be found by the Fuxing Army planes, but what about us who were meeting in the eight provincial halls at that time? If a plane does not go to the bomb depot, but drops a bomb on the hall facing the room where we are meeting, then we ....... Songpo, Yunnan's foundation is too poor, Russia's support for Yunnan has now been exposed by Yang Jingcheng, the whole country must be a crusade, we have no chance of winning this battle, let's go, let Sun Wen get it, success or failure has nothing to do with us. ”

"Teacher ......" didn't expect Liang Qichao to close the door and say this, although Cai Yi understood his hard work, but psychologically it was still difficult to accept the escape, he said, "...... Ahem.... Teacher, the matter has come to this, so I'm afraid it's not appropriate to leave at this time. ”

"Hey! Songpo, with my understanding of Sun Wen, he can't go on a northern expedition at this time, so he must want to take this Yunnan as his own. When Liang Qichao talked about Sun Wen, he was no longer afraid, but disdainful: "Why did he want to go out to fight Guangxi's Fourth Army, isn't this just to send all the original Yunnan troops to death?" When the time comes, these people will die on the front line, whether they want soldiers or not, whether they want guns or not, and it will not be Sun Wen's final say in Yunnan in the future. He has been dealing with Sun Wen for more than ten years, and he still knows how he is. ”

After Liang Qichao finished retreating, and then said that Sun Wen wanted to take Yunnan for himself, Cai Yi was even more sad, he seemed to be a little distressed, and only said: "Teacher, since everyone is raising the flag against Yang together, then we must first unite sincerely, how can we... How can you start intrigue now? I also agreed to send Bei Geng's Fourth Army out, because his troops were the strongest, and if he was not sent out, how could he talk about the Northern Expedition? ”

"What is solidarity? We and Sun Wen only have the possibility of sincere unity when we are in a qiēshun lì, once the goal of the Northern Expedition is achieved or in adversity, then sincere unity is only a cover for infighting. It's not something you can do if you don't do it, it's something they will do if you don't do it. Liang Qichao said bitterly, I am afraid that this disciple will be burned by the righteousness of democracy and republic. What protects the law and protects the constitution, what democracy and republic, it's all bullshit! As a person who has come before, he can completely determine that this kind of thing is just a reason borrowed by those who have political ambitions but cannot get to power, and when the revolution succeeds and really comes to power, whether it should be a dictatorship or a dictatorship, whether it should be an autocracy or an autocracy, this democratic revolution is nothing more than to scare everyone.

Of course, the reason why he thought this way was more because his political future was completely buried in the calculations of this stupid disciple and Sun Wen and others, with resentment towards Sun Wen and others. He didn't want to stay in Yunnan for a moment.

After Liang Qichao finished speaking, Cai Ye was silent for a long time, Mr. Sun Wen is a revolutionary. Just as he didn't believe that Yang Jingcheng was calculated by Sun Wen before, and he didn't believe that Huang Keqiang was assassinated by Chen Qimei, he didn't believe that Mr. Sun Wen would do it to him at all. Especially at this difficult time. The predecessor of the 39th Division was the 19th Town of the Former Qing Dynasty, and most of them were Yunnan locals.

"Teacher, it's late at night, so please go back and rest." Cai Ye was speechless, so he had to send off the guests gently.

"Matsupo!" Liang Qichao was very helpless when he saw that his disciples didn't listen to him. He had no choice but to say, "The pledge meeting here has ended. I have no use value for Sun Wen, you can talk to him, and I will leave Kunming tomorrow. ”

"Teacher......" Cai Yi said, he wanted to persuade Liang Qichao, but thinking that he didn't want to come to Yunnan, he had to say: "It's better to leave after the New Year." ”

"Nope! I'll leave tomorrow, and I won't be able to leave after the New Year. Liang Qichao looked at Cai Ye and smiled bitterly,

Liang Qichao was going to leave, and Sun Wen knew about it early the next day, and pretended to persuade him several times. But seeing that Liang Qichao insisted on leaving, he personally sent him to the last train from Yunnan to Annam at the end of the year. Perhaps satisfied with his departure, Sun Wen not only came to see him off in person, but also presented Cheng Yi with 30,000 silver dollars. So much money is enough for Liang Qichao to use abroad for a long time, but Liang Qichao is not happy about it. Before getting into the car, he only grabbed Cai Yi's hand and asked him to take care of himself with great worry.

The teacher's untrustworthiness of Mr. Sun was understandable in Cai's view, after all, there were frequent battles between the Xingzhong Society and the royalists at the beginning. And he believed that Mr. Sun was a revolutionary plan. We will unite sincerely with all the people of Yunnan. But his scholarly imagination was shattered on the third day of the Lunar New Year, at noon on this day. Adjutant He Pengxiang quickly came to report that the Guangdong Army and the Fourth Army were fighting in Wuhua Mountain.

The Guangdong army is the army that the Chinese Revolutionary Party brought with it to Kunming. The officers in the army were all Japanese-style officers who had been carefully trained in Japan a few years earlier, while the soldiers were mostly victims of the Liangguang disaster, because the French in Annam provided the space, and these troops were quite well trained, but their numbers were small, only about 2,000 people. As soon as this team entered Kunming, they all lived in the city, saying that they wanted to protect the revolutionary leaders, but the revolutionary leaders only lived in Haixinting (now Cuihu), and the work was not far from the Eight Provincial Halls, and Wuhua Mountain was further southeast - because it was the Ordnance Bureau, it was the storage place of the entire Yunnan munitions, so it was heavily guarded, and now the Guangdong Army and the Fourth Army were clashing in Wuhua Mountain, didn't it mean that the Guangdong Army wanted to seize the arsenal?

Cai Yi was worried in his heart, and before he arrived at the Ordnance Bureau, he heard a few gunshots, and his heart was even more anxious, and when he arrived outside the Wuhua Mountain Armory, he saw hundreds of Cantonese troops and Tang Jiyao's henchman Long Yun fighting hand-to-hand in front of the door, while Tang Jiyao himself sat on the high wall of the Ordnance Bureau, ignoring the chaos and corpses below.

"Cai Du has arrived! Cai Du Du arrived!! Seeing that the two sides were fighting fiercely, He Pengxiang couldn't help but pull out the curved ruler pistol, fired several shots in the air, and then shouted Cai Yi's name for righteousness in Xinhai. Sure enough, with so many shots and shouts, the two armies gradually separated.

"Please Cai Dudu call the shots for us!" I don't know if the wicked person sued first, as soon as the two armies got out of the way, Long Yun, who was half covered in blood but not injured at all, ran to Cai Ye and knelt down and shouted loudly.

Relatively speaking, Jiang Zhiqing, the leader of the Cantonese army, did not do this, he ran to Cai Ye and saluted solemnly, and then said: "Report to Commander Cai, the subordinate is under the order of the General Headquarters of the Revolutionary Army, take over the Ordnance Bureau and transfer ammunition, in case it is bombed by the Fuxing Army planes again, but the Fourth Army has seized the Ordnance Bureau, and it is ......" Jiang Zhiqing took out an order with saliva, obviously, he spit out when he showed the order to Tang Jiyao just now.

"The Ordnance Bureau and ammunition belong to the 39th Division, why do they say they will occupy it, and they will move it when they say it." Long Yun had already been instructed by Tang Jiyao, so what he said was justified.

The ammunition transported that day was bombed, and when Sun Wen was still discussing with Ma Dahan what to do, Tang Jiyao moved to live in the Ordnance Bureau. In troubled times, there is a gun that is the king, but if there is a gun that is not played, it is just a burning stick, so he has to take a good look at the remaining 6 million bullets. Today, the Yue army took out a piece of paper and wanted to take these ammunition for himself, and he, Tang Jiyao, would not agree.

"What the 39th Division!" Jiang Zhiqing spoke with a Jiangsu-Zhejiang accent, because a few people died, and he was beaten by the fighting master Long Yun just now, and his balls were almost shattered by his gossip palm, so he was quite excited at this time. "There is no such establishment now! Now there is only the revolutionary army! Military supplies for the entire Yunnan are allocated by the headquarters in a unified manner. What are you ...... Niang Xipi! The arsenal will be blown up because there are spies among you. You must have been bought by Yang Jingcheng to occupy the arms......"

"Enough!" Cai Ye shouted. It is okay to say that Tang Jiyao does not respect military orders. However, on the grounds that the arsenal was bombed, it was said that the Dian army had been bought by Yang Jingcheng, which was unacceptable to Cai Yi. He forcibly held back his cough and said, "If you go back and sue the headquarters, just say that it was me Cai Ye who said it, and this ammunition is stored here, and I, Cai Jie, are also here, and if the Renaissance Army wants to bomb it again, then I will live and die with the ammunition." ”

What is Cai Ye's identity in the revolutionary army, Jiang Zhiqing knows. When he saw Cai Ye say this at this time, he didn't say anything more, and took someone to carry the body back to the Eight Provincial Hall to find Sun Wen to administer justice, and was waiting for news outside the Eight Provincial Halls, but saw Chen Qimei, who came back with a blue nose and swollen face, slapped his thigh angrily and shouted: "Where's the bullet?!" ”

"Cai Songpo came, he said that he would ensure that the ammunition was foolproof, and he also said that he would live and die with the ammunition." Jiang Zhiqing looked at Chen Qimei's angry face. I can't hear half a word of comfort, and I can't tell the grievances.

"What the fuck are you ......" Chen Qimei was furious, "He Cai Songpo is the oldest!" We used to ask for him, but now we are all in Yunnan. Look at his face and what he does! He said that he slapped Jiang Zhiqing in the face, which was still not enough to slap him with a backhand, and the two slaps were so crisp. But after beating Chen Qimei, tears were about to fall, and he grabbed Jiang Zhiqing's shoulder with a crying voice and shook it violently: "Do you know? Now the arms are all in the hands of Tang Beigeng. If he listens to the words of the Revival Society, you, me, and sir. And all the comrades will die without a place to bury! Do you know! Do you fucking know?! ”

"I'm ......" Jiang Zhiqing suddenly felt thunderbolted, Chen Qimei didn't say anything before he went, he only asked him to occupy the armory and seize the ammunition. He originally thought that the purpose of controlling the arms was to control the military power in Yunnan, but he never thought that if he couldn't seize the ammunition, then he would most likely die without a place to be buried. He no longer cared about the burning pain on his face, and said loudly: "Big brother, what should I do now?" If you sue me, I will do it even if I die. ”

"Go and take your wounded brother to rest first, and I'll call you again if there's something!" Chen Qimei was no longer excited at this time, and returned to the strict and witty appearance of the past.

Chen Qimei sent Jiang Zhiqing here, and hurriedly went to Sun Wen and others in Haixin Pavilion to discuss, not wanting that as soon as he arrived at the door of Sun Wen's apartment, Hu Yisheng told him that Cai Yi was discussing with Mr. inside. He was shocked at the moment, and he didn't know what Cai Ye was doing here. I wanted to eavesdrop again, but Hu Yisheng was beside me, so I could only hold back. Half an hour later, after Cai Ye left, Sun Wen summoned him in.

"Ince, it's not as bad as you think." Sun Wen sat at Nanmu's desk and asked his wife to help him write a letter in English. "I just discussed with Songpo and I about what happened just now, and the settlement fee for those dead soldiers was all paid by Tang Bei, five hundred yuan per person; As for the wounded, they also compensated for the medical expenses, two hundred yuan each; Finally, there was ammunition, and Songpa also felt that it was inappropriate to concentrate ammunition in one place, so after he persuaded Tang Beigeng, he was willing to hand over two million rounds of ammunition to us for safekeeping. Now you should rest assured. ”

"Sir!" The two million rounds of ammunition made Chen Qimei slightly stunned, but he was not moved by the two million bullets, he said: "Sir, what if we give us two million rounds of bullets, they don't give us a single shell." There were also Maxim machine gun bullets, which they also did not give a single shot. Artillery and machine guns are both offensive and defensive, and even if they don't give them shells, they should give them some bullets. ”

Chen Qimei said in detail, Sun Wen's already stretched brows furrowed again, and while Sun Wen was contemplating and thinking, Chen Qimei said again: "Sir, on the day of the New Year, we caught a spy, and under torture, he couldn't stay up last night and had already recruited, he said that Tang Geng's adjutant Zou Ruoheng was from Dongchang, and was plotting with Tang Jiyao to catch us all." ”

"What!" Hearing that Tang Jiyao's adjutant was from the Security Bureau, Sun Wen suddenly stood up from his chair, "How is this possible!" ”

"Sir, the Post-Xinhai Revival Association has infiltrated Yunnan for many years, and the 39th Division itself has many factional contradictions, so it is not surprising that the Security Bureau can arrange people to Tang Beigeng's side, otherwise how could the plane be bombed so accurately one day? In addition, Cai Yi's adjutant He Pengxiang, he is also very likely to be a spy of the Security Bureau......" Chen Qimei said.

"It can't be!" Hearing that there are so many spies, Sun Wen and the women were frightened, and yesterday they felt that Kunming City was as warm as spring. At this time, it suddenly became cold.

"It's true!" Chen Qimei said seriously. Although Yang Jingcheng transferred his trusted Xie Ruyi away, there were not a few officers and soldiers who were pro-Yang in Kunming. This time, Yang Jingcheng wanted to use Yunnan's independence as an excuse. In order to expel the Russians from the Russian Far East, the Russians there can be expelled in a few months at most. When things happen over there, the revival army should attack Yunnan in a big way, and we must make preparations as soon as possible! ”

Several days have passed since Yunnan's independence against Yang, and Chen Qimei is clear about what card Chen Qimei is playing. It was precisely because of this that he felt that he should take advantage of these rare months to thoroughly rectify the interior of Yunnan, purge all those officers and soldiers who had different intentions, and then learn from the practice of the Fuxing Society in Yanzhou, so as to turn Yunnan into Yanzhou. Of course. With the strength and skill of the Revival Society, this base may not last long, but in Chen Qimei's view, as long as it can hold out until the war in Europe, then this base will be alive.

To be honest, under the current circumstances, Chen Qimei's idea should be the most reasonable, even if it can't hold most of Yunnan. That would also hold some of the places of refuge, and there was a possibility of gaining support from Britain and France. But the problem is that the revolutionary leader is simply a man of lofty ambitions, he sits in Kunming, but his head has reached the capital. This kind of non-initiative. The idea of only a corner will definitely be criticized by the great leader, and you must know that the president must be the president of the eighteen provinces of Kannai. It's just the president of this Yunnan half province, so what else does it mean?

After instructing his wife to go down. Leave Nanmu's desk, and then spend a long time in the house. Only then did Sun Wen turn his head to look at Chen Qimei, "Ince, then in your opinion, what should I do?" ”

*

The New Year always passes faster than other months, the rich and noble people eat and drink and the days come to the Lantern Festival, and the poor people in Kunming City have a good year under the warm care of the great leader; More than 10 days ago, the Yunnan and Guangdong armies, which had a fighting and killed and injured more than a dozen people, also deliberately forgot about the incident under the suppression of the high-level leaders of both sides.

On the day of the Lantern Festival, the General Headquarters of the Revolutionary Army, like Chinese New Year's Eve, ordered the officers and men of the Fourth Army to be rewarded. Although they could eat meat in the army before, they must not eat meat to their heart's content, drink until they get drunk, and they can take a few sips after they are full of wine and meat, fluttering like a fairy. This kind of enjoyment made the big-headed soldiers, who were still a little worried about Yunnan's independence earlier, suddenly forgetful.

The soldiers ate and drank unscrupulously, and the banquet of the generals and commanders was to be more elegant after all, and they invited the best troupes in Yunnan and even Liangguang and Nanyang at a high price, and then went to the Qinglou to find some women to accompany them to eat and serve, babbling and singing, and the generals and commanders, whether they understood or not, had to make friends in unison.

Cai Yi's health is getting worse and worse, but the Chinese people have always had a tradition of using wine to turn into fighting, and he held his breath at the dinner that day and drank three glasses with the generals of the Guangdong army, and then endured the discomfort and waited for a few plays to finish before leaving the table with the generals of the Yunnan army.

The night was getting deeper and deeper, and when he returned to the apartment to serve Cai Ye and fell asleep, He Pengxiang went out to sleep in the next room. But in the middle of the night, when he was sleeping in a daze, he suddenly heard a strange noise next door, worried that something was wrong with Cai Ye, he hurriedly got up and ran to the next door, but the scene he saw made him burn inside: at this time, Cai Ye was falling to the ground and rolling left and right, his eyes were bursting, the corners of his mouth were bleeding, and the constant coughing not only made him speechless, but also splashed the blood on his chest. seemed to see the person standing at the door, Cai Yi stretched out one hand and wanted to grab He Pengxiang, but after a few scratches, he finally put it down weakly.

He Pengxiang stood stunned for a while, and only came back to his senses when Cai Ye coughed violently again, he shouted to save people, and while picking up Cai Ye and rushing out to the French hospital.

He Pengxiang went to the hospital here, and some other soldiers hurriedly went to inform Sun Wen of Haixin Pavilion and Tang Jiyao of the Ordnance Bureau. Tang Jiyao, who was awakened in a daze, suddenly heard that Cai Yi was in a hurry, and heard that the person had been sent to the French hospital at this time, so he hurriedly dressed and prepared the car to go out, but he didn't want the adjutant Zou Ruoheng to grab him, and said uneasily: "Sir, Cai Dudu is so late that he is suddenly ill, it is likely to be a plan!" ”

"Fart! Matsupo's health is not good, and it is normal for him to be ill suddenly. Tang Jiyao checked the magazine in Bai Langlin's curved ruler pistol and shouted. What about the plan, let Long Zhizhou bring more people, I don't believe that in Kunming, he Sun Cannon dares to come really! (To be continued......)