The explosion of the two city gates in the north and south woke up half of the people in Hangzhou, but it still could not wake up the Hangzhou general Ruixing, who was not in Hangzhou at this time, but in the prostitution in the Japanese concession of Gongchen Bridge fifteen miles outside the Wulin Gate, only his deputy Hangzhou deputy capital Tong Deji was still in the city. The explosion of Wulin Gate and the sound of gongs and drums made the Zhengbai Banner generals stationed in Manchengping and Haimen suddenly wake up from their sleep, but no one could have guessed that it would be a revolutionary party attacking the city, they only thought that it was there to walk the water.

They were in a daze, only half a cup of tea, then they saw some black shadows touched the door, but at this time it was almost dawn, the sky suddenly sank very much, the flag on the door asked twice as usual, but the city did not respond, suddenly, "Bang... Boom... Spray" a few muffled sounds, a few small fires flew out of the dark, I couldn't see clearly from a distance, and I didn't see a black thing when I flew closer. A loud bang frightened the flagmen on the city tower. One thunderbolt exploded in the air, the other two flew over the city wall, and the other landed on the tower, and after two loud bangs, several flags fell on the tower.

Yu Mengting, the commander of the first battalion, squatted in the distance and only saw the flags on the city tower flying and fluttering, and he couldn't help but feel a little relieved in his heart, he was born as a salt lord, and most of the soldiers in the battalion were water bandits and salt lords, who were often chased and killed by the Qing soldiers in the past, and now they can kill the old nest of the Manchurians, how can this not make him comfortable. At the same time as the thunder on the castle tower exploded, the city gate below was also blown open by sappers. With a terrible whistle, the first battalion took the lead, and the second and third battalions followed. More than 800 people rushed into the city.

Zhejiang's troops were no better than those outside the Guan, there were no grenades, they just made some kerosene Molotov cocktails. As for the shotgun, a sharp weapon for street fighting, it was only urgently transferred seventy shots at the Changxing Coal Mine, and when the rifles were not enough, a lot of red tassel guns were made, which were regarded as sharp weapons for hand-to-hand combat. Pinghai Gate is the gate closest to the west city wall, and the troops did not disperse after rushing into the city, but directly swept the Manchurian military camp inside the gate. After that, he will kill the Hangzhou General's Mansion in the southwest corner.

The explosion outside the Pinghai Gate made the entire banner people in the city know that something was wrong, but most of the pampered old soldiers did not stay in the barracks, but fell asleep at home. After resolving some scattered resistance, the revolutionary army pierced the entire Manchurian military camp like a steel knife cutting a watermelon, and then divided into two companies with a flying thunder cannon each to rush to the Hangzhou General's Mansion in the southwest corner and the Dutong Mansion in the southeast corner.

General Hangzhou is not in the General's Palace. However, the guards of the General's Mansion were still ready to engage the enemy in the General's Mansion. After a black-and-black shooting, countless kerosene bottles were thrown into the general's mansion, and under the fire, there were constantly flag soldiers who were shot and killed. After firing at each other for a while, the flying thunder cannon had been loaded, and with a "bang", the explosive bag flew straight into the house with a turn, and then there was a familiar "boom". The screams inside could only be heard outside the house. When the entire General's Mansion shook with several bullets fired by the Flying Thunder Cannon, an even more violent explosion sounded at the front door of the General's Mansion. In the splash of bricks and tiles, the thick gate of the General's Mansion was blown away without a trace, and when the smoke and dust had not yet dispersed, even the Anhui accent of Chang Xia's pigtails shouted: "Rush!" Rush! Catch the general! Catch the general! With that, he took the lead and rushed in.

General Hangzhou lives in the general's mansion, and Xia Xiaobraid finally grabbed this errand and didn't want to cheapen others, but when he entered the general's mansion with more than a dozen fierce soldiers, he only heard the voice of a panicked woman, and searched the entire general's mansion and did not find half a bird feather in Ruixing. He dragged a man in a flag suit and pulled it aside, shouting, "Where is Ruixing?" What about Ruixing? Where did it go? Did you escape?! ”

The man was estimated to be a tent, and he had long been frightened by the previous explosion, and now he was surrounded by such a group of killing gods, and he couldn't say anything except kowtow, Xia Xiaobraid saw him come forward to mention his braids like this, and only smelled a smell of urine during the man's struggle, and immediately kicked him out of Zhang Yuyuan.

When Xia Xiao's pigtails fell short, the second regiment Wang Jinfa won the jackpot, and the sappers broke through the wall quickly, and when the soldiers rushed to the Futai Yamen, the governor Zhang Zengqi only put the white silk well, and was captured alive before his head was put in. Wang Jinfa looked at him waiting for death, smashed his face with the butt of a gun, and scolded: "Suicide, isn't it faster to find a gun casually, if you don't want to die, just say it." ”

From rushing into Hangzhou City at 4 o'clock to entering the Hangzhou General's Mansion and Futai Yamen at 4:50 o'clock, the whole raid took only 50 minutes to complete the battle, and the large-scale resistance has ended in Hangzhou City, and the rest is to clear all the hidden dangers, especially when a regiment attacked the city, only the Manchurian barracks and the General's Mansion in the west were occupied, and the Manchu residential areas in the east had not been cleared, and there was still the possibility of hiding soldiers in these deep mansion compounds.

Wu Yuanzhi, who was in Futai to greet the revolutionary army, saw Zhong Guanghe, the commander of the second regiment, and said: "The headquarters of the head of the regiment Zhong is really overwhelming." Lan Sun is now wondering, is there something wrong with this new army, or is it that the Japanese have reservations when they teach and do not teach everything? ”

As the general office of the Armed Forces Academy, Wu Yuanzhi hoped that the revolutionary army would win, and on the other hand, he hoped that the new army would not collapse so quickly, but the drill of the new army also condensed his new learning, and more than 900 people just now were dispersed by more than 300 people of Wang Jinfa, which really made him doubt what he had learned.

"Brother Lansun, the Renaissance Army has always been fearless of death when it fights! There is a saying in the army that 'the bayonet is a hero, and the bullet is a fool'; in the street battles in the city, what is fought is courage, and what is fought is life, and the new army will only run away and shoot, and as soon as they enter a few bayonets, they will be instigated; although they have many people, they cannot put away no matter how many people there are, and the maximum number of people that can be used by 900 people is two or three hundred, and when the soldiers in front are instigated, the soldiers in the rear will be in chaos, and there is nothing to fight in this battle. ”

Seeing that it was for the sake of comrades, coupled with the joy of occupying Hangzhou, Zhong Guanghe couldn't help but say a few more words unceremoniously, and then he also felt that after all, he was the general manager of the Martial Arts Academy, and he was much older than himself, so he ran away in disgrace. At this time, the herald came to report that Zhu Shaokang's men had occupied the Ordnance Bureau and the Huancui Building of Chenghuang Mountain.

"Good!" Zhong Guanghe slapped his thigh vigorously, so to speak. The task on my side is completed, and I don't know what happened to the city side. "Give the order to go down and take care of Futai, the Ordnance Bureau, Huancui Tower, and the gates of each city. The captured soldiers did their best to clean up. By the way, how is Zhou Zhaoxian's side, did you touch the cannon? ”

Zhou Zhaoxian was the commander of the third battalion, and he was also an officer sent from Zhejiang to the northeast to participate in the western Liaoning guerrillas the year before last. Then he was like a jackal, and he took people to deal with the more than 1,000 patrols outside the city, and when he went, Zhong Guang told him to keep an eye on the artillery.

"Report the head of the regiment. The patrol had no artillery ...... There is no cannon we want. The herald's face was delighted, and his tongue was knotted when he spoke.

"What do you mean you don't have the cannon we want?" Zhong Guang was puzzled, is there anything else you don't want from the cannon? "No matter what kind of artillery, drag it into the city." He commanded. Without understanding the next move. It is extremely important to ensure the safety of Hangzhou's urban defense first.

The herald shouted yes and went. And Zhong Guanghe spread out the map of Zhejiang and looked at it, although Hangzhou is now down, Jinhua should not be a problem, but after occupying these two places, how to fight next? When he was looking at the picture in a daze, he only heard a "salute" from the guards outside, and after a while, he heard Zhong Mei's voice.

"Haha, you're good. I caught a big official, and I didn't catch anything over there. "Zhong Mei is full of cities, and it is too smooth. Those Eight Banners soldiers were not even as good as the Green Battalion, and when they heard the explosion outside, they did not rush out to defend against the enemy, but hid inside their homes, for fear that the guns and shells would fly over. However, there were one or two old men and children wearing military uniforms of the Eight Banners who wanted to rush out desperately, and they all fell to the ground after a random shot.

"I don't have a Makqin here, why don't we change it?" The brigade commander and political commissar came in, Zhong Guanghe saluted, and said so. The deployment and armament configuration of the Qing army in the city were clearly investigated by the students of the Armed Forces Academy, especially the situation in the full camp was the most important, but after all, the battle plan was arranged to fight all over the city, and Zhong Guanghe couldn't fight there if he wanted to.

"Don't talk about Makqin, you won't have a good temper when you mention it. None of them worked well. Zhong Mei shook his head, "All bunch of losers!" "Although there are six of them, they have never been maintained, and the guns are so rusty that if they can't be repaired, Zhong Mei would want to kill those Manchurian Tartars.

Zhong Mei complained, and Zhang Chengyue, the political commissar next to him, said with a smile: "Bu Jin, don't complain, if it weren't for such a clear army, would we be able to come in so smoothly?" After he said that, he asked Zhong Guanghe again, "How is the second regiment, is the new army strong in combat?" ”

Zhong Guanghe shook his head, "It's better than the patrol team, at least it still has a sense of battle, but once the white blade approaches and kills some of them, then it's all cowardly, and you can't win." They can basically only fight according to the drill code, and it is good that there is enough distance in the field, but street fighting is absolutely not good. They, in my opinion, are equivalent to Japanese divisions that are unfamiliar with the method and have a weak fighting spirit."

The Forces nouvelles will be the main enemy of the Baath Army in the future, and everyone attaches great importance to it. As soon as he heard Zhong Guanghe talk about the new army, Zhong Mei's complaint stopped. After he finished speaking, Zhong Mei, who was still not addicted, said: "That's all? ”

Zhong Guanghe smiled bitterly, "Just fight the bayonet twice, and then they will all collapse." By the way, a few days ago, some people in the New Army said that the New Army was going to rebel, so that this unit was almost about to fall to the Nanxing Bridge, and in the end, although it was not adjusted, only three bullets were fired per person. This is estimated to also have an impact on combat effectiveness. ”

Zhang Chengyue said: "This is what our people do. At that time, it meant that since he couldn't rebel, he would disturb him and make the Manchurians distrust him. If you don't have bullets in your hand, no one has the confidence to fight, and I don't think what you said about white-knuckle combat is accurate when it comes to breaking at the touch of a button. When you go back and write a report, we should all carefully study the conduct and combat habits of the new army. ”

Zhang Chengyue was talking, but there were several middle-aged men at the door of the Futai Yamen who were about to come in. It was already bright at this time, but there were no pedestrians in the streets in the morning light, so as soon as these people came out of the corner, they were spotted by the guards, but when they saw that they were holding up the red eagle flag, the guards lowered their guns. They walked to the Futai Yamen, and then showed a certificate, and the guards checked them one by one when they saw this.

Nearly 200 people came to Hangzhou on a fast boat from Shanghai a few days ago, and they have been lurking everywhere until the gunfire in the city has stopped, and they will only come out to take over the important departments in the city. After checking with the guards, they let them into the Futai Yamen, and only two women and a few students were stopped. It was Qiu Jin and a few others who were stopped, who were brought over by Tao Chengzhang.

Seeing this, Tao Chengzhang pulled Cai Guoqing, the head of the government affairs team. said: "Secretary of State, they are also comrades, how can they ......?"

According to the discipline, the government affairs group cooperated with the revolutionary army to occupy Hangzhou. He directly obeyed the orders of the military political commissar Zhang Chengyue, but Cai Guoqing was Cai Yuanpei's cousin, and this move was led by Cai Yuanpei.

"Huanqing, although I am the leader of the government affairs group. But there is nothing that can be done about these soldiers. Cai Guoqing pursed his lips, the look on his face was a little weird, and he went into the house after saying this. Only threw Tao Chengzhang outside the door. Tao Chengzhang stood outside the door and couldn't advance or retreat, Qiu Jin and the others were actually not exactly full members of the Revival Association, but only reserve members, and he was good at bringing them to Hangzhou.

"Brother Huanqing. You'd better go in. I'll go back there and help first. Contrary to Tao Chengzhang's disgust with the discipline of the Revival Society. Qiu Jin felt that such a revolutionary party was several times better than the League. If a revolution is to have strength, it must have discipline, and if it has discipline, it must have a zài rank. It's just that in the Revival Society, her level is not high.

In this case, Tao Chengzhang can only go in, Hangzhou is occupied, which is something to be happy about, but how to gain a foothold in Hangzhou, that is something that everyone should worry about.

When Tao Chengzhang stayed outside the house. Cai Guoqing has already passed the Yimen and entered the second hall. Zhong Mei and the others, who were discussing the future battle situation, stopped when they saw them coming, and listened to their report on the situation in the city in the Cultural Patrol Hall. The government affairs team introduced the situation to He Xunye, the deputy leader of the group, who was born in the Shaoxing wang family and is a talent.

"The treasury, the treasurer, the grain station, the copper yuan bureau, the gold bureau, the weaving bureau, the telegraph office, the electric light company, the letter delivery bureau, and the Hangzhou newspaper office, these local government affairs groups have all sent people to take over, and the money, silver, and grain in the treasury will be counted before noon; After breakfast, the chief of the city, the chief of the first month, and the chief of the card will be notified to come to the meeting, and the original tax officials and errand officers will also be notified to go to the Futai Yamen for a meeting according to the roster; The morning market, grain stores, vegetable markets, and shops of all kinds have been notified that they will open the market as usual, and must follow the prices of the previous days, and no price increases shall be allowed, and guilds from all walks of life and the Hangzhou Chamber of Commerce have also sent people to make contact; There are only three consulates in Hangzhou, and the US consulates have closed last month, except for Britain and Japan. They were not in the city of Hangzhou, but in the Japanese concession of Gongchenqiao, and they had now sent a note to the consuls of the two countries......"

The occupation of a provincial city involves all aspects, and what He Xunye said are some details that need to be controlled to occupy Hangzhou, and after everyone listened to He Xunye's report, Zhang Chengyue said: "How is the preparation of the temporary court?" ”

I didn't expect Zhang Chengyue to only ask about so many things, He Xunye said: "It's ready." ”

"Then catch a few corrupt officials first, and find out more from the Manchurians; The treasury and grain depot should be very empty, and some people can be arrested; The tax police, patrol police, and government officials will see if there is any anger among the people, and a few will be arrested; and those commanders in the army who drink the blood of soldiers, and some must be arrested; Then there is the city that began to raid the house, and after the raid, they had to put out all the silver taels and extravagant belongings, mark the price, and find some poor people to take a look; In the end, there are those Han people who have been tried, excluding those who are angry with the people, and the others have told them that if they don't put the responsibility on the Manchurians during the public trial, then don't think about having good fruits to eat......"

Cai Guoqing thought that Zhang Chengyue asked what the court was going to do, who knew what he meant, it was to interrogate those leading figures, which of the Manchu officials was innocent, and they were all very black. "Yin Ge, if this is the first trial, then the whole city will be in chaos, those officials and gentry who have just taken refuge in them will inevitably have something to do with those corrupt officials, if they take the lead in this way, I am afraid that other places will not respond, and it will not be good for us to occupy the whole of Zhejiang."

"Brother Guoqing, this Zhejiang is not so easy to occupy." Zhang Chengyue shook his head and said, "Although more than 10,000 rifles have been captured in the city, more than half of them are old rifles, and these stockpiled bullets are very wet, and some of them can't fire. It is not easy to defend Hangzhou, and it is delusional to occupy the whole of Zhejiang. ”

The Ordnance Bureau is a heavy weight, in the morning it was Zhang Chengyue who went to see it in person, after opening the warehouse, there were a lot of guns stored in it, but they were basically Lin Mingdeng's side needle guns, lifting guns, and Martini guns, and the bullets of these guns were stored for too long, and many of them had returned. It's hard to use. As for the guns that could be used, they were only part of the city, the ones outside the city and inside the city, and those in the hands of the new army, but except for the weapons of the new army. The others are not properly maintained, and many of them are unusable.

Although Cai Guoqing was attacked once last night - he figured out that the gentry in Guò City instigated the patrol to rebel, but Zhang Chengyue refused. But in the morning, when he saw that he had taken Hangzhou, he was not very angry, and now Zhang Chengyue suddenly splashed a basin of cold water here, which made him really dumbfounded, although he was shallow and short-minded, but now that Hangzhou is down, it is not far to occupy the whole province of Zhejiang. Who would have thought that this Hangzhou would not be able to occupy it.

"Yes...... Can...... It's not that Wuchang's daily notice will be moved, and... There is also an alliance that will also be ......" Cai Guoqing does not know much about military affairs, but knows that the current trend is civil strife in the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Revolutionary parties everywhere are doing things.

"Brother Guo can have been on the road for the past two days, I don't know the news outside, the Military Intelligence Bureau has notified us last night, and the Japanese notification organization has been cracked by Zhang Zhidong. Liu Jing'an, Zhang Nanxian, Li Yadong and other key backbones were arrested. In the morning, there was news that Zhang Zhidong was already mobilizing the Hubei New Army, and he would send troops to encircle and suppress the rebellious party in Hangzhou on the same day. In the morning, when he saw that the troops had entered the city, Zhong Mei sent a telegram to the General Staff to report that Hangzhou had been taken down -- the soldiers of the first regiment were basically Taihu water bandits, salt lords, and cut bravery, and the soldiers of the second regiment were Shengxian bandits, so he did not believe that these people would not be able to take the city of Hangzhou, and what he was most worried about was the situation in the country, especially now that the Beiyang mutiny had stopped. In the case of worry-free center, Hangzhou is the focus of the whole world.

"What about the Alliance......" Cai Guoqing still didn't give up. Ask again.

"The alliance will not know, but they have not moved, now we are the only ones in the whole world who move, and we occupy a Hangzhou as soon as we move, it looks like the scenery is infinite, in fact, it is ...... "Zhong Mei was born in the guerrillas of Liaoxi game, and what he is most afraid of is that the enemy is dark and I am bright."

"Then we can't do any public trial, especially the public trial of the Han people, we should do our best to win them over, let them occupy our side, and be the first in the revolution." Cai Guoqing was confused for a while, and suddenly grabbed these two words. As soon as he said this, He Xunye and a few others next to him also meant this, thinking that this time it was the Manchu people who would be attacked, and not to expand the scope to the Han people.

"The public trial is mainly Manchurian, and those Han people who are tried are basically treated together with traitors. A revolution is not just a national revolution, but a revolution of the middle and lower classes. As a political commissar, Zhang Chengyue's theoretical knowledge is not bad, there are three hatreds in the revival army, one is the hatred of the great powers, the second is the hatred of foreign races, and the third is the hatred of the rich and poor (civilian officials), without these hatreds, the army will have no morale.

"But the most important thing now is the dispute between the Manchus and the Hans. In order to kill the Han people, this is really inappropriate. Cai Guoqing argued.

"Only by killing those Han people who are powerful and prosperous, will the lower classes of the people think that we are reliable and fight for them. Only then will they believe in us. The gentry were not reliable, and as soon as the Qing soldiers came, they would immediately defect to the Manchus. The most important thing now is to seize the time to go to trial, kill all the people and kill the corrupt officials, so that the people can believe us. In addition, the government affairs team must immediately electrify the world and hold a imperial examination, so that those poor scholars know that we will give them a road to green clouds. ”

Zhong Guanghe's idea is really weird, he actually wants to open the imperial examination, He Xunye said: "But isn't this imperial examination abolished?" ”

"Brother He, you are from a Xiucai background, if the imperial examination is not abolished, will you still participate in the revolution?"

"I..." He Xunye was stunned when he heard this, and said: "But what if no one comes to take the test?" ”

"It's just a statement, how can we have time to wait for scholars from all over the world to come to Hangzhou for the exam." The Revival Society did not want to turn back the clock on history, so in order to win the hearts and minds of the people, this cannon also had to be put in random order. Zhang Chengyue also said: "There are also grains, taxes and cents in various places, which have been abolished. ”

"Ahh This time it was not He Xunye, and even the later Tao Chengzhang was surprised, and he said loudly: "At the beginning of the revolution, it was the time when a large amount of money was needed, how could taxes and cents be canceled?" ”

"Only by canceling these two things will the people feel good about us. There is also the Tongyuan Bureau, which is also to gather the people from all over the world in the near future, and destroy the casting machine in front of them, and the rice shop owner who the people don't like will also knock and knock "Although Mu Xiu Yulin is unfavorable, but the occupation of Hangzhou is equivalent to letting the revival will get a stage that the world pays attention to, in this short advertising time, how to show the best side of the revival will have to be carefully considered, of course, this is just an advertisement, how the real thing is to wait for the people of the world to buy it to know."

In these strategies set by Zhang Chengyue, not to mention killing the Manchurians, killing corrupt officials, canceling grain, and canceling taxes is to please the lower-class people; The abolition of the centigold is to please the foreigners; The opening of the imperial examination is to win over those poor scholars who have no money to study abroad and have no way to become officials. In fact, these things are in line with the revolutionary tactics of the meeting. It's just that his foothold is on the premise that Hangzhou can't hold it, and Cai Guoqing, Tao Chengzhang and others think that if they can't hold Hangzhou, they will continue to fight. (To be continued......)

PS: Note: Due to the needs of the plot and the lack of information, the description of Cai Guoqing will deviate from the real history. In addition, the main historical figures and events described in the book are either real or suspected to be zài (not recognized by the 'brick family'), or they will be zài according to their personalities, thoughts, and positions, and there is no intention of fabricating or smearing them.