The Republic of Heroes

The city of Beijing was in a state of desolation, and the people had no intention of setting up stalls or going out. Regardless of whether they were rich or poor, everyone in the city packed up their things and prepared to go out of the city to seek refuge with relatives.The evil deeds of the Eight-Power Allied Forces entering Beijing more than ten years ago were once again remembered by the people of the imperial capital.

Now, the soldiers from the East are approaching the city, and the bigwigs from Beiyang are arguing again in the Congress. After a few days, there is still no result.However, a shocking news spread in Congress.A month ago, Wu Xiaoliang of Suidong fought with the Japanese army and won two major victories, capturing one battleship and sinking one, and captured more than a thousand Japanese officers at all levels below the major general.

What kind of record is this? It has been more than half a century since the Qing Dynasty was knocked down. This is the first sea-land joint victory, and it is the first time that four Japanese battleships have been destroyed in a sea battle. It is unprecedented. No one came after.

Everyone was stunned by Wu Xiaoliang and his Suidong Army. There was no one speaking for a long while, and the venue was so quiet that the sound of a needle falling could be heard. Xu Shuzheng, who had finished reading the telegram, looked at everyone with satisfaction and complacency. Dumbfounded performance.

An extremely discordant voice broke the silence of the venue, "After a long time of trouble, the Japanese attacked us in Beijing to avenge Suidong's losses! This is not acceptable, why should we carry the basket that he Wu Xiaoliang made?" ?”

The first one to jump out was Premier Qian Nengxun. He had already completely torn face with Duan Qirui anyway, so of course he didn't care about stepping on it a few times.After she made such a call, someone immediately responded.

"That Wu Weizhong is a troubled mother and son, who always makes noises wherever he goes. Now that he has caused such a catastrophe, he is as tall as a mountain and the emperor is far away, but we want us to suffer for him."

"Who said it wasn't? In my opinion, his military service medal was taken away, and he was handed over to the Japanese to vent his anger. We will naturally get out of the siege!"

When someone put forward this opinion, they immediately got a response from the big guys. The members of the council were all emotional and scolded Wu Xiaoliang, as if all the crimes were caused by him. If you don't deal with him, you will get angry.

Seeing that his advice had worked, Qian Nengxun secretly sighed: If you don't live up to expectations, I will avenge you for my father!He learned of the misfortune caused by his son Qian Mingjun a month ago, and his sudden disappearance, which made him suspect that Qian Mingjun had been secretly executed by Wu Xiaoliang, so now he hated Wu Xiaoliang deeply, and seized every opportunity Hit him.Judging from the current situation, it should be easy for him to be charged with instigating the crime of starting a war, but he still needs to be jealous.

"According to reliable information, this little thief Wu Weizhong has now proclaimed himself the commander, and he has expanded his army to three divisions. He expanded his army without permission. Is he trying to separate himself? Suidong is indeed far away from the emperor, and there is another bandit Zhang beard, Do you think our central government can't rule him?"

Qian Nengxun's words were high-sounding and filled with righteous indignation.After Xu Shuzheng heard this, his forehead was full of anger, but this time he learned a good lesson and didn't quarrel with them in this congress. In the end, the military appointment and removal of Wu Xiaoliang was not to be passed through his Ministry of War, but to rely on the recovery of Suidong It is not an exaggeration to promote him to an admiral for his achievements in defeating the Japanese army and navy.It's so annoying that these idiots who eat vegetarian meals with corpses openly discuss self-destruction of the Great Wall in Congress for their own self-interest.

Thinking of this, Xu Shuzheng slapped the table and walked away, ignoring the idiots behind him.

Soon the Prime Minister and a bunch of idiots came up with a plan to deal with the Japanese: First, hand over Wu Xiaoliang and let him dispose of him.Second, the squadron withdrew from Siberia.Third, compensation can be paid...

When Xu Shuzheng saw such negotiation terms from Duan Qirui, he was furious, and his seven orifices were full of smoke. He was able to do such a quick thing for relatives and enemies, and Qian Nengxun was able to do it. Indemnification and cession of land, Lafayette Lafayette of the former Qing Dynasty was not so useless. In the thousands of years of Chinese history, the only one who can compare with Qian Nengxun is the treacherous official Qin Hui. Contemporary Song Gaozong.

However, Qian Nengxun's plan was quickly aborted. The Japanese army representative sent someone to bring a message. They only talked with Duan Zhishuai, and the rest of the cats and dogs were not qualified. Otherwise, the city of Beijing will be bombarded.

Dongjiaomin Alley suddenly became lively, with high-level officials negotiating and delivering letters. The United States and Britain had lodged serious protests against Japan’s military actions in China, but they were too tired to cope with the European War and had no extra energy to take care of this matter. If the protesters can't come up with any way to blackmail Japan, they will be powerless to deal with the current situation in Beijing.

Therefore, the Japanese are very confident. Now is not the era when the Three Kingdoms interfered and returned the Liao Dynasty. Looking around the world, who else can do this for China?

At the same time, a total of six divisions of the Zhili and Anhui divisions began to approach the Beijing-Tianjin area in order to deter the Japanese army from further military operations.In fact, after the Japanese army occupied Tianjin, not necessarily Beijing, all military operations were indeed very measured.From this point of view, their pure will to fight is not strong. Xu Shuzheng thinks that to catch the Japanese... Of course Xu Shuzheng's wish is good, but he still doesn't know how big the Japanese ambitions are.

Under strong pressure from all parties, Prime Minister Qian Nengxun finally took the blame and resigned with great reluctance.At the same time, Congress once again nominated Duan Qirui as the Prime Minister. At this critical time, Duan did not follow the practice of three requests and three pushes, but agreed without hesitation.And he has received wind that the rebels in the south have begun to move around again.This dispute must be resolved as quickly as possible.

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Wu Xiaoliang arrived in Vladivostok with the Second Division of the Suidong Army and the Cavalry Regiment. The time had already entered October [-], the seventh year of the Republic of China.Liang Yuchun was eventually left in Temple Street by him, and he divided the second division into two regiments as the main force to form the Temple Street Security Corps, mainly to deal with the remnants of the Japanese Muto brigade in the north and Malinov who fled to the upper reaches of Heilongjiang. ski.

However, just when everything was ready, just one day before the expedition, Beijing sent a telegram stating that the Japanese troops in the Beijing-Tianjin area had withdrawn from the siege.This news immediately made Wu Xiaoliang a little puzzled. The withdrawal of the Japanese army must be a result of their will, but what did the Beiyang government use to fill up their greedy and bottomless desires?

Then Sun Jiayu sent a telegram that solved all of Wu Xiaoliang's doubts, but after reading the content of the telegram, he angrily tore the telegram to pieces, and slammed his fist on the table.

"Traitor! Coward! Six divisions assembled and dare not fight to the death with a Japanese brigade!"

From this moment, Wu Xiaoliang has completely lost hope in this incompetent and cowardly Beiyang government!