Survey the rebellion

In the early hours of the morning, as soon as the besieging New Army had breakfast, an officer of the Cantonese Army walked in, claiming to be Chen Jiongming's messenger, and had a letter to be handed over to the Minister of War Huang Ke personally.

When Yang Yibing heard this, he immediately led him to Huang Ke's command post. The man looked around and said, "May I ask which one is Commander Huang, our chief has a letter for me to hand over to you." ”

When he heard this, Huang Ke was discussing the next battle plan with several officers, and after hearing someone shouting to him, Huang Ke raised his head and glanced at the man.

"Chen Jiongming really came to ask for peace letters? Haha, it seems that Commander Chen is also in a hurry. After some ridicule, Huang Ke asked the man to bring the letter, but the man shook his head and said, "Commander Huang, the chief has already ordered before he came, and you must be alone before you can open it in person." ”

As soon as these words came out, Huang Ke felt a burst of anger in his heart: "Get out! Where is all this nonsense, Fourteen boys, bring the letters from him. ”

The man was about to react, when Fourteen walked forward quickly, grabbed the man's hand, and then broke it with all his might, and took out the letter that was in his jacket pocket.

After handing it to Huang Ke, the officer who delivered the letter looked embarrassed, and after Huang Ke opened it, the paper only wrote "Xinghua my brother" at the beginning, and only wrote a word in his Chen Jiongming, "Brother actually remains", but not a word was written in the middle, it was completely a blank piece of paper.

Huang Ke frowned after reading it, and after turning around, he tore up the piece of paper and threw it on the officer's face, and he scolded loudly: "Tell Chen Jiongming, don't do this with Lao Tzu." I have already issued a military order to the president in the navy, and he Chen Jiongming is waiting to be arrested. You just tell him word for word, do you hear that? ”

The officer's face was embarrassed, but he held back the anger in his chest and did not dare to flare up. Fourteen boys, who were wearing cowhide boots, kicked the man in the ass, and scolded: "Why don't you get out of here? ”

The officer left with humiliation and resentment, and after watching the man walk away, Huang Ke turned his head and said to Wang Maocai and the others: "Inform the troops, launch a general attack on the rebels in two hours!" ”

"Yes!" All the officers leaned on their heels and began to get busy.

When the officer who delivered the letter returned to Chen Jiongming's command post, he immediately reported his experience to Chen Jiongming. He said with a hint of resentment: "Sir, that Huang Ke has an arrogant attitude, and he also tore up the letter written by you and is still on my face......"

The officer looked aggrieved, Chen Jiongming closed his eyes and said, "Did he say anything?" ”

"He said, 'Tell Chen Jiongming, don't do this with Lao Tzu. I have already made a military order to the president in the navy, and he Chen Jiongming is waiting to be captured.'" The officer passed on all these words to Chen Jiongming word for word.

After hearing this, Chen Jiongming not only did not get angry, but smiled at the corner of his mouth: "Quick, everyone has changed into civilian clothes and is ready to evacuate, Huang Ke has already released water for us." ”

The officers below were inexplicable after hearing this, Huang Ke obviously said that he was going to come over and capture them alive, why did it become a release of water?

Chen Jiongming said with a smile: "He said to report to the president on the sea, didn't he already say it to us?" Meaning let's go from the sea, we now pack our things and go to Hong Kong. Since Sun insisted on the Northern Expedition, let's go to Hong Kong and establish a democratic party. ”

After packing up his things, the attack led by Huang Ke had already begun. Hundreds of elite troops lined up in a skirmish line, constantly leaping forward under the cover of light and heavy weapons, and the rebels who were guarding were quickly routed.

When Huang Ke rushed forward, two slow barges sailed out of the port, and when the officers and soldiers below were about to open artillery bombardment, Huang Ke shook his head and stopped them.

Yang Yibing came over to inquire about the situation, and Huang Ke said lightly: "He did this because he went astray for a while, his essence is not bad, but his thinking and understanding are different, there is no need to kill him!" ”

Yang Yibing still didn't understand, he asked puzzledly: "Commander, what kind of person is considered an essentially bad person?" ”

If this sentence was asked by someone else, Huang Ke would definitely regard this sentence as hostility, but Yang Yibing's straightforward personality Huang Ke understood it in his heart.

He turned his head and glanced at all the officers below and said, "Traitors are people who are inherently bad, and they deserve to be killed the most!" ”

As soon as Huang Ke said this, everyone nodded after hearing this, not knowing whether this nod was because they felt that what he said made sense, or because they were subservient to his identity.

On the bow of the barge, a man in a robe and a top hat waved his hand in the direction of Huang Ke, and Huang Ke also responded after seeing it, the two sides did not look like enemies who had just experienced a fight, but like two old friends who saw each other off.

In the process of surveying Chen Jiongming's rebellion, Huang Ke also took the opportunity to incorporate some Cantonese troops. Therefore, after the battle was fought, his original total strength of more than 5,000 troops not only did not decrease, but on the contrary, he fought more and more, and the total number of troops collected from all walks of life reached tens of thousands, and the armament of weapons also changed from the original single light weapon to another artillery battalion and a cavalry battalion under the army.

With these family backgrounds, Huang Ke's waist is much tougher, the situation in the south is almost settled, and it seems that the next step is to actively prepare for the Northern Expedition.

Thinking of this, Huang Ke couldn't help laughing, history made a joke to put him on the political stage, he really has to work hard, otherwise I'm really sorry for his ambition.

Tens of thousands of new troops to be reorganized, Huang Ke clearly realized that now the ranks are chaotic and discipline is lax, the main reason is that the upper and lower levels are not clear, for this reason, Huang Ke formulated a set of military rank system, imitating the Western military rank system, he divided the officers into generals, colonels, lieutenants and other three levels of nine levels, in addition, Huang Ke also set up a modern non-commissioned officer system.

After drawing up a draft of the military rank system, Huang Ke asked his subordinates to draw up a book of these things, ready to submit them to the president for approval. President Sun was in Shanghai and returned from there soon after, where he continued to serve as president. At that time, Huang Ke will also organize the army to prepare for the Northern Expedition.

Before President Sun returned, Huang Ke was busy preparing to reorganize the armament, although he recruited a lot of new soldiers these days, but there were many people and many things, and there were thousands of mouths at once, and everything had to be doubled. If you don't die for a day, you have to eat, and if you don't die for two days, you have to wear, and the treasury is not enough a few days ago, so Huang Ke was cheeky and asked his brother-in-law Zhao Tinghui and his old friend Fu Wangshan and others to raise some.

Fortunately, Guangzhou City is now under the management of Huang Ke, and the relationship between the merchant group and Huang Ke is not bad, so when he asked for money, the other party also gave enough face, plus the soldiers came to the city, so in less than a week, Huang Ke raised tens of thousands of silver dollars, enough for the team to eat and drink for a few days, and then talk about this period of time.

After Huang Ke got the money in his hands, he called the people from the quartermaster department and asked them to distribute it as needed. Huang Ke, who had been busy for a few days, felt that he could finally take a rest, and he was going to leave the barracks at night to go to Xiguan's residence, but he didn't see Zhao Xiaowan for several days, but he missed it a little.

Reminiscing about the water-like warmth, Huang Ke couldn't help but show a lewd smile. He beckoned Fourteen to prepare his horse and said that he was going back in the evening.

Fourteen Tsai prepared two horses at once, Huang Ke asked what he was doing with so much, and Fourteen Tsai replied that he was his personal guard and should follow him at all times.

"You don't have to follow today, you just stay here." Huang Ke didn't want to let the large-sized light bulb of Fourteen Tsai be in front of him, delaying the good things he had done before the moon.

Fourteen scratched his head and said, "Commander, don't worry, I won't go upstairs." ”

Huang Ke smiled: "Go aside, you will stay in the barracks today." ”

After speaking, Huang Ke changed into cowhide riding boots and prepared to go out, and when he just walked to the stable in front of the barracks, there was a noisy sound from the military camp opposite. Huang Keli leaned over there on his horse, and seeing so many people surrounding the barracks, he couldn't help but ask Fourteen Tsai, "What are you doing over there?" ”

Fourteen Tsai took a look, but didn't see anything: "Commander, why don't I go over and take a look." ”

"Well, you go and see, come back soon." After Fourteen Tsai went, Huang Ke looked over there, could it be that this group of people were gambling money? Let's see that we need to put military discipline in order.

After a while, Fourteen Tsai ran back, he shook his hand and said, "Commander, it's not a big deal, it's a soldier who has been punished, and the squad leader is teaching him a lesson." Nothing to look at. ”

Huang Ke frowned: "What's the matter?" ”

Fourteen Tsai smiled and said: "That soldier was too bold to dare to beat the squad leader, so the squad leader punished him for standing at the door and spanking." Haha, a half-grown kid was stripped of his pants. ”

Speaking of this, Fourteen couldn't help but laugh. But Huang Ke's face was grim, it was normal for recruits to beat the squad leader, and it was normal for the squad leader to punish the recruits, but this way of starting was actually built on the way of humiliating people, and the perversion and dehumanization of the old military camp could not appear in his barracks.

Huang Ke immediately dismounted and walked up to the man, and when he pushed through the crowd, he saw a squad leader standing up on the ground with a bayonet, and then asked the recruit to take off his pants and sit on it. This requires good concentration, and if you are not careful, the bayonet will pierce the buttocks.

This way of starting actually won a burst of laughter from the people around him, as a comrade-in-arms who was born and died, it was hard for Huang Ke to imagine that there was this kind of feeling between them, what would happen to the battlefield in the future?

"Get up!" Huang Ke roared angrily, the young soldier stood up, and when the others saw that it was Huang Ke, they all suppressed their smiles and didn't dare to say anything more.

"Say, for what reason did you physically punish him? Why corporal punishment! Huang Ke yelled at the bearded class leader.

Seeing that the squad leader with a bearded face didn't speak, Huang Ke said to the fourteenth boy next to him: "Go and call Wang Maocai, I will tell him how to punish people." ”