The rain stopped at seven o'clock in the morning, and although the sun was not hot, it was also clear and sunny on the already muddy earth. Fan Qingsheng looked at the revolutionary army that was constantly digging forward like rats, and the crooked trenches were getting closer and closer to him, and he only felt very panicked. Although he is the first time he has seen the tricks that the revolutionary army is playing now, he understands the role, and judging by their progress, I am afraid that it will not be until dark, and as soon as the trench reaches the vicinity of the position, more than 1,000 of his own people will have to be explained here.

"Are you all right?" Fan Qingsheng leaned on the command knife he bought at a high price, and asked without looking back

"Report to the commander, it's all right!" Said the attendant beside him, who was waiting for his order.

"Good!" Fan Qingsheng's command knife was pulled up slightly, and he paused heavily, "Inform the mountain artillery battalion to open the cannon, and let the people go out to rush after the cannon." Killing an enemy will be rewarded with five taels of silver, and killing an official will be rewarded with twenty taels of silver! ”

"Huh!" After listening to the order, the attendant got up and went down.

A few minutes later, the stopped artillery rang out again, this time the shells did not fall on the front of the Qing army's position, but fell straight near the trenches that were constantly being dug, and the mud from the shells was splashed everywhere, because it was the second time they were shelled, the recruits were finally not too chaotic, and they hid in the artillery holes under the shouts of the company platoon commanders, and only a few who were lucky to be killed by the guns, or their hands and feet were cut off by the shells, and then they were dragged into the hole by the veterans while screaming.

As soon as the cannon sounded, Lin Wenqian stood at the observation port of the front finger, and in the telescope, he saw that not only the Qijia Gate, but also the Tangtou Street side was also bombarded by artillery, "Oh...... Tartar, this is going to be a Jedi charge? Lin Wenqian held the telescope and said slowly. Did the troops have breakfast? He asked.

"I've eaten it." Zhou Sixu, who was beside him, looked at his watch. That is, it was more than 7:30 o'clock, and breakfast was eaten at about 7 o'clock during the war, and today it was a bitter battle. Also added a meal.

"It's good to have eaten it!" Lin Wenqian still held the binoculars, and said: "Each machine gun in the machine gun team is equipped with a cartridge belt, and it will be gone after the fight." Speaking of this, Lin Wenqian put down the binoculars, returned to the command room, pointed to the location of Tangtou Street on the map and asked, "These are all recruits here." Whoever leads the team, can they hold it? If it is broken through by the Qing army, can the reserves make up for it? ”

"More than 80 veterans came to the city of Hangzhou. This is Bu Jin's guard company. With them as the backbone, I can't afford these 600 people. "The Qing army landed in two places, and because Tangtou Street was upstream, the mines bore the brunt. The losses were extremely heavy. Probably only one battalion of more Qing troops came ashore, and the others were washed away by the river; There were many people coming up from the Qijia Gate, and the three battalions were worse, about 1,500 people. In terms of defense, Tangtou Street is a battalion and a serial staring, while Qijia Gate is staring at two and a half battalions.

"It's hard to say without veterans as support." Lin Wenqian lit a cigarette as he spoke, took a hard breath and spit it out before saying, "These soldiers, hey...... Is. Pass the order down. No one is allowed to take a step back, and those who retreat will be killed. Those who lose their positions will also be killed. ”

"Can't you put it in the second trench?" The Revival Army is generally resilient defense, so Zhou Sixu has this question.

"Can't put it! They are all recruits, and as soon as they retreat, they will run to the city of Hangzhou. "Lin Wenqian started as a company commander, and he is very clear about the psychology of soldiers, recruits, especially recruits who are not fully trained, are irrational on the battlefield, and they are swarmed to do anything, and they are not given severe punishments.

Zhou Zhaoxian watched the artillery stop for several minutes before the Qing soldiers rushed forward, only to feel that the Su zhì of the Manchu army was not high, although the formation of their charge dispersed quickly according to the exercise, but they rushed from 400 meters away, with the physique of the Manchu soldiers, I am afraid that they have not yet rushed to the place.

The charge of the Qing army made all the recruits in the trench panic, and in this inexplicable panic, Zhang Shengquan shouted: "Now ahead!" ”

"Right ahead!" Immediately, there was a voice in response, but the shouts were only from some veterans, and although the recruits had been trained, there were only a few responses.

"Check the chamber!" Zhang Shengquan shouted again.

"Check the chamber." More voices responded.

"Two hundred meters away!" Zhang Shengquan shouted again.

"Two hundred meters away!" This time the voice finally got louder.

Zhang Shengquan was overjoyed when he heard this, and shouted even louder: "Ruler two!" ”

"Ruler two!" This time the voice was finally in order.

"Put!!" Zhang Shengquan dragged the tone and shouted the last password, then pulled the trigger firmly, and with a "bang", when his shoulder shook, he saw that a row of people in front of him was knocked down, and the momentum of the Qing soldiers rushing over was obviously stagnant. After the shooting, Zhang Shengquan did not shout the password again, but just estimated the distance of the enemy while shooting. Just as the Qing soldiers were about to give the order to drop the bomb when the Maxim machine gun in the trench rang out. Hearing the endless "bang... Bang... Bang... bang", Zhang Shengquan breathed a sigh of relief, only to feel that his rehearsal was completely relieved.

The recruits of the Manchu Qing Dynasty are indeed not comparable to the patrol team, after being killed by the machine gun, they did not retreat, but immediately fell into the mud, the distance of more than 100 meters could not be extended to shoot, the Qing soldiers knocked down the machine gunners only to stop shooting, and the machine guns stopped here, and there were Qing soldiers running forward with their bodies half down, but the vision in front of the position had already been cleared, and these Qing soldiers who had just gotten up were immediately swept up by the fire sickle spit out by the machine guns, and then fell to the ground and continued to twitch and roll.

The machine gun fired a few times, and one cartridge belt seemed to be used up in the blink of an eye. The Qing soldiers lying on the ground seemed to feel that Makqin, who had just shot, was out of bullets, so he rushed forward again, and Zhang Shengquan shouted when he saw this: "Ignition, bombing!" The platoon commander took the lead, and countless black powder clay pots were thrown out, but these things were completely shoddy, and although the sound was loud, they only blew up clouds of black smoke in the crowd, knocking down more than a dozen people.

Zhang Shengquan just wanted to shake his head when he saw this effect. However, he didn't have time to shake his head, and the Qing soldiers at the front rushed to him, but before this guy could jump into the trench, he was cut off by a sapper shovel and broke a leg, and Zhang Sheng didn't have time to listen to his wailing. Another kick kicked a soldier who had just jumped down, and then chopped it down, only on the shoulder of the man, and he was about to pull the shovel back, who knew that the bone in the man's shoulder had been broken, and the sapper shovel was stuck.

Zhang Shengquan wore a flower dress with an officer's logo and killed two people in a row. A Qing soldier who had already been watching him took this opportunity to immediately stab at him, and the feeling of the tip of the knife entering the flesh made Zhang Shengquan startled, and in the crisis, he hurriedly twisted his waist to avoid the vital point. But the bayonet grazed his ribs and cut a hole in his waist. The pain was severe to the bone, Zhang Shengquan roared wildly, grabbed the rifle that stabbed him and pulled it forward. At the same time, the tiger pounced again. pressed this sneak attack Qing soldier under him and beat him fiercely.

The trench at the front end is already full of hand-to-hand combat, and the sapper shovel less than one meter is very flexible in the trench, or chopping feet or cutting heads, which completely makes the Qing soldiers unable to parry, especially their rifles can only go forward, once someone behind them attacks, they can't turn around. In white-knuckle battles, life and death are only a fraction of a second, and the Revival Army only kills the enemy with its back. For a time, the Qing army suffered heavy losses, and only when some people climbed out of the trenches in fear and retreated, the slaughter-like white-knuckle battle was over.

Seeing the retreat of the Qing soldiers, Zhang Boqi, the leader of the first squad, held his breath and fired a few shots with a trembling hand, but he did not hit the Qing troops who fled with wolves.

As soon as the Qing soldiers retreated, the medical soldiers behind rushed forward with a stretcher team, and the wounded were quickly classified according to the course of the wounded, all the seriously injured were carried away, and the lightly injured were cleaned on the spot to reduce inflammation and bandage. Zhang Shengquan sat paralyzed in the trench, half of his clothes had been stained red by blood, but he still sat there as if nothing was wrong, lit a cigarette, and only nodded when the last medical soldier asked him, and then turned the injured side sideways.

After the medical soldiers, Zhang Boqi took a notebook and counted the heads in the platoon, and then gave the counted number to the company headquarters, and the company commander Zhang Nanxing took a look at the final number, and blinked a few times before saying: "Send it to the battalion headquarters." "The number of reports layer by layer was only in Lin Wenqian's hands, and it was only in Lin Wenqian's hands that it became a total.

"Two hundred and twenty-three casualties," Lin Wenqian also frowned and read this number, and then read another number: "Kill about three hundred enemies." ”

"The exchange ratio is not bad. At least we won. Zhou Sixu said.

"This is their attack, minus the casualties caused by the machine guns, I think the Qing army has won." Lin Wenqian still picked on the thorns, and then said, "That's good, at least we have beaten the Qing army back, and the morale is mine." The order went down, and immediately after resting, the approaching operation was added, and before dark, the trench must be dug within 200 meters of the Qing army's position! And the artillery, fire ten shells per cannon before the charge, let them aim at the point! ”

After Lin Wenqian's affairs were arranged, he took the guards and rode into the city, just when the two armies were fighting, the military government notified him to go into the city for a meeting, and now the war has stopped for a while, he just took the time to go, what happened to the ninth town? When will you retreat? These are all things he has to figure out. Now that the war has begun, the troops in hand are better than the newly recruited people after this battle, after all, it is better to stay on the battlefield for three months than to stay on the battlefield for one day.

Lin Wenqian, who entered the Hangzhou General's Mansion, was still brought into the war room, and as soon as he entered the door, he felt a sense of joy, he looked at Zhang Chengyue with an inquiry, only to see Zhang Chengyue smile and say: "Hengzang's side ate the two battalions of the Sixth Town in Zhujing." ”

Eating two battalions, that is, more than 1,000 people, Zhang Chengyue was happy not because of the annihilation of the enemy, but because the situation of the first brigade was stabilized after this victory. Because the recruits are homeless, the first brigade from the beginning of the desertion continues, especially when fighting Jiaxing, a night attack because the Qing soldiers are prepared, almost into a tough battle, casualties of nearly 800 people, after this battle more deserters, sometimes one or two hundred soldiers down one night out of thin air, so to Songjiang, the army is only less than 4,000, more people than guns. After a few days in Songjiang, and finally took advantage of the negligence of the sixth town to ambush them a target, although only two battalions were eaten, but the morale of the troops should have come up, and this wind of desertion was probably stopped.

Lin Wenqian understood what Zhang Chengyue meant, he smiled and said, "If you win the battle, the team will be easy to bring." The courage of the soldiers was also strengthened. But Yin Ge, the area around Hangjia Lake really can't stay for a long time, they don't have boats. The logistics are insufficient, so let's come back quickly. ”

Lin Wenqian's construction was also what Zhang Chengyue thought, but before he could speak, Cai Yuanpei picked it up from outside, and he was also full of joy, and as soon as he entered the door, he said: "Boxian said that the surrender was successful." ”

As soon as everyone here heard that the hopeless surrender had actually succeeded, they couldn't help but be overjoyed. Only Zhang Chengyue asked tightly, "Really?" What about Zhao Bo's ancestors? ”

Boxian did not come back, but only sent his brother back with a letter to say that there were too many loyal Manchus in the ninth town. Although Xu Shaozhen, the commander-in-chief, intended to revolt, he still had to find a way to get rid of these people or instruct them to leave, and he was now in the army with revolutionary tendencies. If he really can't revolt, then when the two armies are facing each other. Defeat those troops who refuse to revolt......" Cai Yuanpei believed it after reading the letter. How do you know that this is the calculation of Hu Hanmin and others, and as he spoke, he took the letter from Zhao Sheng and Xu Shaozhen, and everyone felt that there was hope for guarding Hangzhou.

However, Zhang Chengyue was careful, and when he saw Xu Shaozhen's seal that there was no control of the Ninth Town, he began to be suspicious. In particular, there were people he sent in the guards, but none of them came back, why? Cai Yuanpei also asked that Zhao Guang before, and Zhao Guang said that he used to be a soldier in the ninth town. It's a Jiangsu accent again, and it's hard to be noticed when you go in and out of the barracks. And the two guards sent were both from Zhejiang, so it was easy for the Manchus to detect the back and forth. This explanation seems to make sense, but is it really so?

After the meeting, Zhang Chengyue sent another telegram to Yu Ziyi in Shanghai, and the Revival Society was bound to have undercover agents in the ninth town of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but this list was only known to Wang Jitong, and the headquarters was attacked that day, Wang Jitong put all the secret files in an iron box, and Yu Ziyi found the box afterwards, but it could not be opened without a password. In fact, it is actually opened, and the code words written inside are only recognized by Wang Ji and the same person.

Not long after Zhang Chengyue's telegram, Yu Ziyi's telegram came. There is still no way to go undercover, Wang Jitong is still in the patrol room, watched by a group of Indian patrols, the lawyer's visit time and number of times are very short, and he is accompanied by personnel from the Ministry of Industry, in the absence of Yang Rui, Wang Jitong's value is extremely important, especially the source of the arms is what Major Gawin is most interested in - after the peace in South Africa, the Boers have the advantage in parliament, but if Wang Jitong can get evidence from Wang Jitong that the Boers possess arms privately, then it will be of great help to Britain to control South Africa. There is no information about the undercover agent, but Yu Ziyi passed over Zhao Sheng's information, Zhang Chengyue felt a little relieved after reading it, at least from the perspective of experience, Zhao Sheng is a pure revolutionary, and a person like him who is willing to dedicate himself to the revolution will not lie according to reason.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, Lin Wenqian launched an impact on the 37th standard, the rapid and fierce artillery bombardment was completed, the snipers suppressed the machine guns, and the soldiers of the second brigade jumped out of the trench and rushed to the Qing army position 100 meters away, after the fierce white-knuckle battle, more than 1,300 people of the department were completely annihilated, and the 39th side because of the insufficient density of mines, the opposite bank used small boats to continue to pick up the Qing soldiers across the river and return to Xiaoshan, and finally under the protection of two Makqin machine guns, the personnel of the department were basically transported back to Xiaoshan.

The tenth town on the east bank of the Qianjiang River was repulsed, and the rest was the matter of the ninth town, Tangqi to Hangzhou for more than sixty miles, but the ninth town marched along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and the baggage was loaded on the boat, so the march speed was faster than expected, and at five o'clock in the afternoon, they had already crossed the Gongchen Bridge Japanese concession and camped at Bazhangjing. This place is only eight miles away from Hangzhou, and it is already in the warning and defense area.

That night, Zhao Guang went to the Ninth Town again at night, and brought back a letter in the middle of the night, in which Zhao Sheng said that most of the battalions in the Ninth Town had already finished moving, and they were only waiting for the revolt before the battle tomorrow. After Cai Yuanpei read the signal and handed it over to Zhong Mei and others, after a short meeting with the junta people, they all arranged according to the explanation in the letter. When they were just going to sleep, Hu Hanmin and the others who lived in the military camp of the Alliance outside the city got up.

Hu Hanmin was the first to get up, then Wang Ruqi, then Zhu Zhixin, Wang Kaicheng and others, they all went out of the city in the name of strengthening the front line, and some people knew about the subsequent actions, and some people didn't know at all. But none of this matters, Hu Hanmin is not ready to leave with so many people.

Hu Hanmin came together and found Wang Ruqi and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

In the dark, Wang Ruqi couldn't see her expression clearly, but she just sighed. Then he said, "It's done." ”

Hu Hanmin breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, as long as Zhao Guang died, then there would be no loopholes in the whole matter. Even if Zhao Sheng didn't die in the end, he would be speechless about it, the alliance would be cleaned up, as for Wang Kaicheng, Zhao Guang was killed by him, would he dare to tell his ugly things.

"It's four o'clock, and we're going to go right away. If you don't leave, it's too late. Hu Hanmin said.

"I've got it all arranged." It was Wang Kaicheng who spoke, and under the persuasion of Wang Ruqi, he killed Zhao Guang. This can be regarded as a complete entry into the core of the alliance, and although he is not suitable for such a new identity, he is trying to adapt. "Go to Gudang to avoid it first, and when the war is over, we will come out."

When it's slightly brighter. Hu Hanmin and his entourage were not too far from Hangzhou. But at this time, he heard the sound of artillery coming from Hangzhou City, and he couldn't help but be happy in his heart, according to his and Wang Ruqi's calculations, this time the people of the Revival Association will be explained here. He looked in the direction of Hangzhou City, but he couldn't see anything, and he could only imagine out of thin air that the revival meeting and the Qing army would be extremely miserable.

Hu Hanmin imagined the battle in Hangzhou to be very tragic, but the reality was even more tragic than he thought. Because he let go of Zhao Sheng, who said surrender, Xu Shaozhen wanted to prove that he was a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty. In the past two days, the military affairs have been tightly grasped, and once they arrived outside the city of Hangzhou. He focused on the staff to formulate a battle plan, Tao Junbao wanted to delay, but Xu Shaozhen estimated that he was reprimanded by the end side, he was very anxious, and he didn't wait for the plan of the staff department, and hastily arranged a three-way siege, he didn't believe that the seven or eight thousand people in the ninth town would not be able to deal with the four or five thousand people of the revolutionary party. Seeing this, Tao Junbao could only arrange for his own soldiers to go out of the camp to report the news, but he didn't want the whole army to be under martial law as usual on the eve of the war, and at the same time, Yu Dahong's gendarmes squatted around in the middle of the night to arrest the people who reported the news to the revolution, and it was already too late when the information was transmitted.

At four o'clock in the morning, the ninth town began to have breakfast, and the whole army had already left the camp before dawn at half past four o'clock, and before five o'clock, it was aimed at the defense line of the revolutionary army in the north of the city, and then the infantry began to charge in groups. It was not until this time that everyone in the city woke up from a big dream, but at this time, the troops had all been placed in the north of the city according to Zhao Sheng's intentions, and once the defense line in the north of the city was broken, there was no defense line after that. Zhong Mei saw that Hangzhou was not guaranteed, so he wanted to pull Cai Yuanpei outside the general's mansion, wanting to take him out of the city from the west Yongjinmen Water Gate, and then escape from Hangzhou from the West Lake. However, at this time, Cai Yuanpei was already dead-faced, and he was the one who wanted the Hangzhou uprising! It is also him who sticks to Hangzhou! Partial belief in Zhao Sheng is even more him! Now that the whole city is besieged, what face does he have to escape?!

"Sir, the revolution is not a success once or twice, as long as we rush out, we can start all over again, sir, Tonghua is still there! The Northeast is still there! Seeing the former gentleman look like this, and then thinking of the defeat and the city, Zhong Mei's heart was like a knife, and he burst into tears.

Hearing Zhong Mei say that Tonghua was still there, Cai Yuanpei's eyes suddenly flashed a light, but after a while, his eyes dimmed, and he said indifferently: "Bu Cen, you go." The revolution needs a soldier like you, but it doesn't need a literati like me. He said this, his cheeks suddenly trembled a few times, it was because he was gritting his teeth, "Bu Zen, let's go!" Cai Yuanpei said again, after he finished speaking, he didn't look at Zhong Mei who was crying, but just took out a pistol for self-defense from his arms and shot it in the chest.

Zhong Mei, who was hanging his head, suddenly heard a gunshot, but when he looked up, he saw that Cai Yuanpei, who was standing, had fallen backwards, and he shouted and pounced, "Sir! Mr! …… Yes! Yes! Yes!! ”

Zhong Mei howled, but Cai Yuanpei looked calm at this time, he looked at the gradually blurred world, and muttered: "I'm ......"

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After the war, the city of Hangzhou was in chaos, Xu Shaozhen sat in the messy Hangzhou General's Mansion, without any joy, although he took Hangzhou, but his Xu Shaozhen's name will always be connected with the Manchu minions, the Manchu Qing is still alive, if the Manchu Qing falls, then what will he do? When Xu Shaozhen was distracted, Tao Junbao was also distracted, and only Ai Zhongqi, the commander of the 34th standard, was reporting the results with a happy face: "Report to the marshal, our department exterminated more than 1,500 people of the revolutionary party, captured more than 800 people, and also captured dozens of people such as Zhong Mei, the governor of the revolutionary army, Cai Guoqing of the Ministry of Political Affairs, and many of the rebellious parties of the League, including Qiao Yisheng and Fang Chenghan......"

After Ai Zhongqi finished his report, Li Wensheng, the commander of the 35 standards, was also anxious to report his merits, "Report to the commander, our department also exterminated more than 1,000 people of the revolutionary party and captured ......."

"Enough!" Xu Shaozhen suddenly pounded the table vigorously, and Tao Junbao, who was silent next to him, was also shocked, he saw Xu Shaozhen like this, so he cheered up and said to the generals below: "Dashuai is tired today, you go down first." ”

As soon as Tao Junbao said this, the people below all went out, and when he saw Xu Shaozhen, he still closed his eyes and said nothing, and he staggered out of the general's mansion. When the soldiers outside were about to give him an umbrella, he pushed it away, and he actually wanted to get drenched in the rain, so he wanted to see if God was crying......

When Tao Junbao stood in front of the general's mansion and looked up at the sky, the rain was getting heavier and heavier, and he could see the raindrops falling densely from the sky, and then falling to the ground one by one. He cried out in a voice that only he could hear, "Get down! Let's go! It's best to flood this Hangzhou city! ”

End of roll C! (To be continued......)