The Age of Awakening: From the Young Runtu

Chapter 235 Alone
The uprising failed again, and many people escaped.

"What are you doing? What are you doing with the knife? Put the knife down, you can't seek death."

"I don't want to die. I still want to keep this hand to grab the gun. Help me, my hand is broken and infected. This part needs to be chopped off. Isn't it just a defeat? It's not like I have never been defeated."

"Wait, I'll get you medicine."

I brought over a bag of hemostatic powder.

Sprinkle some on your fingers.

After chopping it up, I sprinkled some more.

The effect is very good. After the application, the bleeding stopped and there is still some pain relief effect.

America.

"Gentlemen, today's donation is for the uprising in Guangdong. However, I got the news that the gunfire in Guangdong stopped and the uprising failed. The message said that the uprising failed and all the key members were sacrificed.

You have never seen them. Some of these dead young people were talented, some were from well-off families, and some were newlyweds. Why did they sacrifice their wealth and life and willingly die regardless of the cost and harm?There is only the word faith. "

"What do you say have to do with us?"

"Most of you here are my overseas Chinese compatriots. We have allowed them to suffer so much glare, so much bullying, so much suffering and humiliation. This is because this country has long been decayed. We just let others covet and slaughter us. It is our fate. , precisely to bring happiness to the people and gain dignity for the nation. Ge Ming has always been favored by overseas Chinese."

Jiashan, call the Secret Service over to report the situation.

"The plan for the Guangdong Uprising this time is to use the Guangzhou New Army as the main body and select 800 additional Geming people to form a death squad. They will first occupy Guangzhou, then lead an army into Hunan, lead an army out of Jiangxi, and raise troops in the Yangtze River Basin to respond. , and then joined forces with Nanjin, launched the Northern Expedition, and headed straight for the capital.

A batch of arms was purchased in Jiashan, and a batch of arms was purchased in Japan.

Xiangjiang established a Coordination Department, which consisted of a dispatching office, a reserve section, a transportation section, a secretarial section, an editing section, a cashier section, a general affairs section, and an investigation section to lead the uprising in detail, and secret bases were successively set up in Guangzhou to serve as offices and store weapons. location.

But except for the death squads, no other groups took action.The New Army's bullets have been collected and they have no combat capability.Mr. Huang is the only one fighting alone.

In Sichuan, a vigorous road protection movement was launched to oppose the Qing government's nationalization of the Sichuan-Hankou Railway and the Guangdong-Hankou Railway that were planned to be built by the local government.Prefectures, prefectures and counties have responded one after another and established road protection branches. The number of participants has reached 10, and the number is still growing. I am afraid there are hundreds of thousands.

The Qing court mobilized the Qing army in Hubei and rushed to Sichuan to suppress it.

Many of the troops in Hubei, Hunan, and Jiangsu were active members of the Geming people.Maybe something bigger will happen soon. "

The road protection movement was an organization that refused to allow the imperial court to mortgage the Guangdong-Han and Sichuan-Han railways to foreign powers.

In order to regain the self-management rights of these two railways, the people of the four provinces adopted the method of collecting private shares, and the local governments added rent shares, rice donation shares, salt donation shares, housing donation shares, etc. under taxation to raise funds for road construction. funds.

After several years of fundraising, not only the gentry, merchants and landlords from the four provinces became shareholders, but also some farmers also held shares.The construction of the Guangdong-Hankong Railway has begun, and the construction of the Sichuan-Hankou Railway from Yichang to Wanxian has also begun. Judging from the situation at that time, these two railways can be built independently.

He refused to allow himself to build a railway, so he took advantage of the Qing government's financial difficulties to threaten it, forcing the Qing government to enter into a railway loan contract and announce a railway state-owned policy.

According to the borrowing, the great powers not only controlled the railway rights, but also used the salt taxes of Hunan and Hubei provinces as collateral. Therefore, the so-called state-owned railways not only deprived them of the sovereignty of self-operated railways, but also actually deprived Sichuan-Han and Guangdong-Han of China. The railways were completely auctioned off to the great powers.

In September, the governor of Sichuan shot and killed dozens of petitioners.

In October, there was another uprising in Hankou. The plan was exposed, three people were arrested, and a list of people with special orders was leaked.

"These three people are planning to cause trouble and cannot escape. Today, we will enforce the law on the spot to serve as a warning to others."

"Sir Governor, I have obtained the roster, what should I do?"

"What else can we do? Kill them by name."

"Kill or kill."

"Everyone, please ask your conscience. The imperial court supports you, but you are bewitched by the rebellious party and commit heinous acts."

There are many people on the list.

Many from the New Army.

There are also many people with official positions in the new army.

Start directly controlling people.

Guns and everything else are under control.

"What are you doing if you don't sleep at night?"

"What are you going to do? What are you going to do? Do you really want to rebel?"

"I'm going to rebel. How many more of us are we going to kill? There are so many people on the roster. Are we going to kill them all? You're lucky, you hit the muzzle of my gun."

"Brother, this is no joke."

"If you don't fight now, wait until later."

October [-]th was the first outbreak of violence in Wuhan.

The membership of the New Army has grown to thousands.

There were also people from the artillery battalion who directly led people to bombard the Hubei Governor's Mansion.

The Hubei New Army is relatively good, and is considered relatively strong in the south, because it was carefully trained by Zhang Zhidong.

During the road protection movement, thousands of people were sent to Sichuan.

Wuhan is missing a lot of new troops.There are about 4000 new troops. Among these 1000 new troops, 5000 have joined the Geming organization, [-] are die-hard members of the imperial court, and the remaining [-] are outsiders. Generally speaking, the Geming forces are on the march. Quite an advantage.

In the evening, we directly captured the Governor's Palace.

The whole of Wuchang was captured the next day, which was very smooth.

This time, the plan is not that big, and there is a leader, but the leader does not have enough authority.

Finding a leader became a top priority for the rebels. This leader must be famous enough to mobilize all parts of the country to respond to the Wuchang Uprising and reduce the pressure of the Qing army's counterattack at any time.

Mr. Sun is still in the United States.

The Huanghuagang Uprising a few months ago failed, and Mr. Huang went to Xiangjiang to recuperate.

The target was Li Yuanhong.

Li Yuanhong was a pure soldier. When the uprising broke out, Li Yuanhong, as the second commander, was naturally bound to mobilize troops and generals in an effort to nip the uprising in the bud.But things went counterproductive. Even though Li Yuanhong could be regarded as a famous general in the world, he could not stop the torrent of Ge Ming. The troops he sent to suppress actually turned against him.

During the day the next day, several leaders of the rebel army found him.

"You want me to join you."

"Commander Li, you always treat the sergeants well. As the governor, you will be welcomed by everyone."

"You have so many talents, why don't you let Mr. Sun be your leader?"

"Mr. Sun gave you the opportunity because he was overseas. You must be aware of current affairs."

"You are so ignorant. Although the Governor of Huguang has escaped, once the imperial court counterattacks, you will all be wiped out in a few days."

Finally, Commander Li was dragged to the battlefield.

He was from the Beiyang Navy and had some abilities, so he was involved with the Qing army.

The uprising shocked the entire country.

"Ge Ming succeeded. He captured Wuchang on October 20th, and the governor of Huguang escaped overnight. Wuchang Ge Ming sent people to electrify the whole country and called on all places to respond. The whole world was shocked. Mr. Sun, you return home immediately and take the Pacific Ocean. You can reach there in [-] days Go to the beach.”

"Sure enough, in Wuchang. Send a telegram to Mr. Huang in Xiangjiang and ask him to rush to Hubei immediately to lead Ge Ming. The domestic war situation will be closely related to the loans given to the Qing court by the banks of the four countries. The Qing court's treasury machine is empty, but once they get the money , my life is at stake, go to Europe, book a ticket to Europe." Jiashan.

The telegram came out and everyone here also received it.

Every one of the Jiashan new army was in a daze.

Many of them have also joined some organizations.

"The court won't take action on us, right? And my family."

"When did Commander Zhang listen to the imperial court's orders? I know that the ministers sent by the imperial court were all treated to delicious food and drinks by Commander Zhang. In my opinion, they were put under house arrest."

"What, you want to learn? Make a rebellion against Commander Zhang?"

Runtu called his subordinates, "Send this message to respond to the order and declare Jiashan's independence."

"Sir, are you rebelling?"

"The imperial court is weak and will fall sooner or later. This is the case."

Beijing.

"What's going on? I just received a memorial from the Governor of Huguang, saying that the leader of the rebel party had been killed, but it only took one day."

"The new army is used to being pampered."

"How did this happen?"

"It's obvious that the trouble in Sichuan was exposed and Wuchang soldiers were sent to suppress it. This created a void in the city's defense and gave it an opportunity to take advantage of it."

"Can you tell me something you don't know?"

"We have been in the Qing Dynasty for more than 200 years. We have never seen any storms. If there is some evil fire, just extinguish it."

"Look at this fire, who can you send to put it out?"

"Queen Mother, I recommend the Minister of War. This is his responsibility."

"Yuan Shikai can take on this important responsibility."

"It's better for the Minister of War to do it. It's better for our family to do it."

"Queen Mother, I have something to report. The soldiers and horses have not yet used the food and fodder. We must first promote the loan."

"This matter has been discussed for more than half a year."

"The four-nation bank group feels that our government's attitude is unclear and it has not made a decision. There are also many discussions between the government and the opposition about betraying national sovereignty at this time."

"This is not our business."

"There is still something to be done. Zhang Xietong from Jiashan has announced his rebellion and has sent a telegram to the whole country."

"I remember him. He was valued by the late emperor and the late empress dowager, and deeply favored by the emperor. How could he dare to rebel? What did the governor of Jiangsu and Zhejiang do when he sent troops to kill him?"

The news reached Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

"You asked me to go and kill Zhang Ruosong? Zhang Ruosong has more than 1 new troops, countless equipment, and an arsenal. He asked me to go and kill him. He thought it was to surrender the bandits. How can it be so simple? Others don't know, but I am going After passing Jiashan, there were twenty Maxims placed at the city gate.

Even Maxim knew that firepower.We use non-automatic rifles, and the bullets need to be loaded one by one.The decisive force of victory in the war depends to a large extent on the speed of loading. Many people were inexplicably killed before they had time to load the second bullet.

As for Maxim's machine gun, at the moment of firing, the machine gun and the barrel are buckled together, using the energy of gunpowder gas as power to open the chamber through a set of mechanisms. The bolt continues to recoil, ejecting the empty cartridge case and throwing it out of the gun, and then drives the The ammunition supply mechanism compresses the recoil spring. Under the action of the spring force, the bolt is pushed into position and fired again.In this way, once shooting starts, the machine gun can keep shooting until the bullets on the bullet belt are used up, which can save a lot of reloading time.

We don't have as many machine guns as others. If we are asked to go and kill them, if we don't go, we won't do a loss-making business. "

"Your Majesty, you really don't want to go. This is an order from the court. Do you want to disobey it?"

"What's the opposite? My family is favored by the emperor and I know the emperor's fortune, but I still have to be responsible for the sergeants under my command. I've seen this Zhang Ruosong, and he did very outrageous things, but he has been peacefully together for more than ten years, so what? This is going to be the opposite.”

"The dozens of machine guns on the city wall are indeed incapable of hitting. More than ten years ago, during the Sulusi War, in a battle, a British army of more than 50 people repelled more than 4 troops with only 5000 Maxim heavy machine guns. Dozens of attacks by the Metabilis killed more than 3000 people.

After the success of the Maxim heavy machine gun, many countries have imitated it, and some inventors and designers have improved and developed the principle and structure of the Maxim heavy machine gun.The famous American mechanical designer Browning and the Austrian Army Lieutenant von Oudeklerk invented the earliest gas-guided automatic machine gun that utilizes the energy of gunpowder gas at the same time, which can also make the machine gun lighter.

Twenty Maxims, with enough bullets, can kill tens of thousands of people at once. "

They have also been soldiers and know the power of machine guns.

The court has no money.

They don't have any good weapons.

Back then, Mr. Li bought very little equipment.

He knew Jiashan fairly well and knew that Runtu had abundant funds.

There is a lot of money.

More money means more bullets.

Jiashan was expanded and a new city wall was built.

After more than ten years of development, the city wall in Jiashan has been built to be more than ten meters high and several meters wide.The walls are so thick that bombs can't penetrate them.

Guarded by dozens of Maxim machine guns, it was impossible to penetrate.

It was the First World War that really made Maxim stand out. At that time, the German army was equipped with the MG08 Maxim heavy machine gun. In the battle of the Somme, 60000 British soldiers were killed in one day, becoming the number of deaths in the First World War. most once.Since then, the armies of various countries have been equipped with Maxim heavy machine guns one after another, and Maxim has become a famous murder weapon.

His reputation is not that great now, but he is still famous.

"But you can't disobey the imperial court's orders."

"Arrange 1000 people to clean up a small town in Jiaxin. I mean, just reply to the court."

Decided to perfunctory.

For more than ten years, most of the senior officials in Jiangsu and Zhejiang had been in contact with Runtu and knew Runtu's strength.

That's really strong.

Runtu is relatively low-key.

These high officials all received gifts from Runtu.

Especially some medications.

The effect of the medicine in the space is still very good.

Such gifts were very popular among Jiangsu and Zhejiang officials.

Others gave away money directly, as well as some shares in the Jiashan factory.

All sent away.

Including high-ranking officials sent by the imperial court, they all have shares in some industries in Jiashan.

The Jiashan New Army is very confident.

Very confident in strength and weapons.

There are more than 1 people, but some often go to deal with bandits. After finishing the treatment in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, they go to Guangdong and Guangxi.I have seen other armies, but none are as good as them.

(End of this chapter)