The Republic is so violent

Chapter 109 How to Be a Good Bandit (1)
01 Transformation of the revolutionary army into bandits
Human beings are extremely wonderful, capable of influencing and infecting each other.

For example, Song Jiaoren and Tang Shaoyi often held meetings in Xiyintang. After a long time of arguing, Song Jiaoren's thoughts gradually tended to be constitutional and slipped off the track of revolution.But that unlucky Tang Shaoyi, because he got too familiar with these revolutionaries, gradually distanced himself from Yuan Shikai, acting more and more like a revolutionist.

But the alliance would hang around Yuan Shikai, that would be very disturbing.It is manifested in Tang Shaoyi, which is the famous loan from the Four Kingdoms in history.

When it comes to borrowing money, it’s because the fucking Qing government was already bankrupt long before the Xinhai Uprising, and it relied on borrowing money from the big powers to maintain the situation. Now it’s Tang Shaoyi’s turn to wipe the ass of the Qing government, and only then did he know about the prime minister’s job. No one did it.

All in all, the historical task before Tang Shaoyi is to transform the noisy revolutionary army into unemployed people, but this job is not easy to do. Huang Xing is currently staying behind in Nanjing and is responsible for cleaning up the mess for the disbanded Nanjing government. This is an offense. It turned out that outside Huang Xing's gate, assassins swarmed like crucian carp crossing the river, raising their guns and shooting wildly at Huang Xing—just when Tang Shaoyi took office, Huang Xing had already escaped from the assassin's guns twice. By chance, he escaped with his life.

So scary.

Accompanied by the arrival of the assassins, there was chaos among the militia.

What should come, will come anyway.

There are a large number of mobs gathered in the south, all of whom are known as the People's Army. Sun Wen initially wanted to fool these people into the Northern Expedition, but these people are too smart to go to the battlefield to play for real.Since the brothers don't want to go to war, what do they want to do?
They themselves don't know what they want to do, and if they know it, there will be no revolution.It is precisely because my mind is empty and my brain is blunted that I get excited for no reason when I get to a crowded place, so I join the militia with a groan.If you want to get lucky, everyone else will be exhausted, but once you succeed, you will not have to worry about food and drink in this life.

But when these people gathered together, they discovered that the Sun Wen government in Nanjing had no money to feed them, and Yuan Shikai in Beijing did not give them money.At this point, I realized that the most careless person is myself. When I feel angry, it is inevitable that I will explode.

The date of the outbreak was April 1912, 4. At dusk on that day, the No. 12 Seventh and No. 20 regiments of the Jiangxi Army suddenly blew the assembly call, and the soldiers rushed to the playground to line up. They saw a platoon surnamed Chen Long, bring a strange man.Speaking of the strangeness of that person, it was extremely weird. Everyone who looked at this person from a distance could feel that there was a thick beard on his face, but when he looked closely, it was smooth and smooth, with no hair on his face. none.Obviously, his face is clean and smooth, as smooth as a baby's buttocks, but when everyone looks at him, they always feel that he should have a beard on his face.

There should be, why not?

What is the reason for this person to have such a strange appearance?

Everyone couldn't see it clearly at the time, and no one could explain it clearly afterwards. In short, it was weird, so weird that it was hard to explain.

There are different religions: secret killings of serial parties and reintegration of the party, dangerous conflicts and killing soldiers.The so-called Jiangxi soldier riot in Nanjing was shrouded in a mysterious atmosphere from the very beginning.

02 Watching the fun can kill people

In the hazy twilight, I saw the strange man who obviously had no beard on his face, but everyone felt that he had a beard. He stood in front of the line and said in a majestic voice: Brothers, you have worked hard. Now you have a name called People's Army, but you in the past had a louder and more prestigious name.At that time, you were called Jiang Fangjun.And your commander-in-chief is the well-known Zhang Xun in Beiyang.However, during the Battle of Nanjing, you were separated from the commander and drifted here, becoming Sun Wen's troops.But as far as I know, Sun Wen doesn't seem to care about your food and clothing, he just wants to send you to the battlefield as soon as possible, and kill each other with his Beiyang brothers.I know you are not willing, so the Nanjing government came up with a worse solution, sending you home without spending a penny.Think for yourselves, brethren, is this fair to you?
All the soldiers shouted: It's not fair!
The man said: Since it is unfair, what are you going to do?
The soldiers yelled again: I want to take the gun to the street to get justice!

The man clapped his hands: Brothers, well said.Now I order, act immediately, the 37th regiment rushes to the flower archway and walks to Qingliang Temple. The 38th regiment rushed to Xiaguan, took the road to Quanyechang, and then joined forces in the south of the city, fought bloody every step, and returned to our hometown!

The watchword for tonight's action is: Brothers!
All soldiers who take to the streets are prohibited from looting, prostitution and plundering. If any people are harassed, they will be killed without mercy!

We are just going home, we have no intention of killing people.

action!

The soldiers of the two regiments took action immediately, and in an instant, there were loud gunshots in the city of Nanjing.

However, in the city of Nanjing, rumors continued every day. Suddenly someone said that the Shanghai Army Hong Chengdian was going to rebel, and someone said that Guangxi Wang Zhixiang's troops were going to rebel. To and fro.This caused the two people to explain to everyone: I don't want to rebel, I really, really don't want to, I lied to you as a puppy... While explaining, suddenly there were fierce gunshots from Huapailou and Xiaguan.At this point, the two suddenly realized: No wonder people always say that we are going to rebel. It turns out that the rumors were released by Jiangxi soldiers.
So Hong Chengdian of the Shanghai Army raised troops to the Huapailou, while the Guangxi soldiers rushed to Xiaguan. The military police surrounded the rioting Jiangxi soldiers to cut off the communication channel between the two rebels.In an instant, the city of Nanjing became a big battlefield, and the Jiangxi soldiers suffered a great loss in this fight.

Judging from the battle reports at the time, it seems that the 37th and 38th regiments were not the first to instigate the riots, because the organizers of these two regiments issued a strict death order: Prostitution and killing are prohibited.Therefore, the people in Nanjing were not disturbed.For unknown reasons, two armed forces had a fierce exchange of fire at Wuliangxiang Station. The waiters and passengers in the station rushed out excitedly to watch the excitement. As a result, a few stray bullets hit the iron pipes on the wall, bounced back, and killed them on the spot. One passenger, one waiter, and one waiter were injured.

Lesson, watching the fun will kill you.

But these affected people are too stupid.The two armies were fighting, bullets were flying everywhere, what a dangerous place it was, they ran happily to watch the fun, and they collided with stray bullets, who do you think is to blame?

The Jiangxi soldiers who rebelled mainly gathered in the north of the city, and there were no wealthy households in this area at all, only a porcelain shop, which was looted by the rebels.In addition, in front of the silk and satin village, a large number of soldiers gathered, shooting at the heavy gate, and carrying heavy lumber, banging on the door forcefully.Everyone knows that Silk and Satin Village is the richest in the slums in the north of the city. As long as this door is opened, the brothers will get rich.

03 Lack of heart is not a sin
Talking about the silk and satin village in the north of Nanjing, although the door looks inconspicuous, it is made of pig iron.Not only the gate, but also the door bolt, door frame, and walls are all embedded with pig iron, which is impenetrable to bullets.Some soldiers were very shrewd. Seeing that the silk and satin shop was so difficult to attack, they immediately turned around and changed places, looking for a store with not so strong door panels, and went in to grab a handful of bags.

Only those foolish soldiers who were heartless carried the wood, stared strangely, and slammed against the gate of the silk and satin village: one, two, three, bang!One two three, bang bang!One two three, bang bang bang bang bang bang...

Are these heartless soldiers really so strong?It was able to hit continuously.

No, the sound of bang bang bang bang behind was not the sound of wood banging on the door, but the Shanghai soldiers and military police from Hong Cheng's point rushed up and shot at Jiangxi soldiers indiscriminately.

Now Jiangxi soldiers were dumbfounded, so they had to raise their hands obediently.

Groups of Jiangxi soldiers were cornered by gunpoint, and they would be shot and killed immediately if they resisted a little.One by one had no choice but to put on a sad face and resign themselves to fate.At this time, the military police came over and swept their eyes: You, you, you, and you, you guys came out... The one named by the military police was the soldier who just carried the wood and hit the gate of the silk and satin village.

The soldiers were terrified and couldn't help screaming: Don't kill me, please don't kill me, I'm just lack of heart, lack of heart is not a capital crime, right?I beg you... But the military police couldn't bear to listen to their screams, so they couldn't help but dragged them out immediately.

Then the gun went off.

There was a bang, bang, bang, and groups of Jiangxi soldiers were shot and killed, only those who carried the wood and hit the gate of the silk and satin village stood aside dumbfounded.

Staring blankly at the brothers who were with him day and night, the corpses lying in front of him, those Jiangxi soldiers asked weakly: "Old cousin, why didn't you kill us?"

The gendarme was very puzzled: why did they kill you?

Jiangxi soldiers: Aren't you going to kill all our Jiangxi soldiers?
Gendarme: ...Are there any mistakes? We are the gendarmes to maintain order. Regardless of whether you are a Jiangxi soldier or a Jiangdong soldier, as long as you participate in the robbery, we will deny your relatives and kill them all.Look at the people who were killed, everyone was carrying big and small burdens, all of which were robbed from ordinary people's homes.Only a few of you are empty-handed, and you didn't participate in the robbery.Since you didn't rob, we certainly won't kill you either.

A few unscrupulous Jiangxi soldiers were still explaining: It's not that we didn't rob, it's just that the door of the silk and satin village was too strong and couldn't be opened.These dead people are too shrewd, if they can't be smashed, they will go to other places to snatch them, we are the only ones...

Survived by luck, this is the battle in the first half of the night.

In the middle of the night, the Shanghai soldiers, Guangxi soldiers and military police finally turned their eyes red, saying that they wanted to kill all the Jiangxi soldiers, but it actually became a reality.In the middle of the night, all Jiangxi soldiers were ordered to disarm, and those who did not disarm were killed on the spot.Those who were disarmed were dragged by cart after cart to the open space behind the Taiwan Mansion, where they were all shot and killed.

Jiangxi soldiers suffered a great disaster in the Nanjing military chaos.

Dozens of Jiangxi soldiers' heads hang from the Nanjing Daxing Palace, Guyilang to the Bell and Drum Tower.These poor soldiers, the day before they were still passionate revolutionary soldiers who were determined to save the country and the people, after this night, they couldn't even get their bodies, how tragic.

Jiangxi people said: We were wronged, we were wronged to death!
04 Take off the fat boy's head

Zhou Yongneng, a veteran of [-], was originally from Jiangxi. When he talked about the Nanjing Mutiny after a long time, he couldn't help crying and his voice choked up.He said:
The army is most afraid of hearing the word disbandment. If there is no war, wouldn't it be disbanded?This was the basic reason for the Nanjing mutiny on April 4, and I was also present at this mutiny, and I know the details of the mutiny.

... At about 4 o'clock in the evening on April 10, a fire broke out near the third archway. Soldiers from other provinces went to see it. We closed the door of the hotel tightly to prevent the soldiers from going out for fear of accidents.In the middle of the night, the soldiers who took advantage of the fire to loot came back, and our army's morale was a little shaken.When it was dawn, a certain Zhengmu (corporate leader) of the Gan army took a saber and opened the door, and rushed out with the soldiers. They said: why can't we take things?Just at this time, the troops sent by Huang Keqiang (left behind in Nanjing) to suppress also arrived.The ones who were caught were all the Jiangxi troops who had just left, and the Hunan and Zhejiang troops who robbed the most fiercely had already left the scene. Therefore, the Gan army was solely responsible for the mutiny. It is generally believed that the Gan army mutiny is really wronged...

Judging from Mr. Zhou's narration, the Nanjing Mutiny was clearly a conspiracy. Someone took this opportunity to kill all the Jiangxi soldiers. As for the background behind this incident, since no one has ever delved into it, the truth is unknown.

Platoon Leader Chen, who was the first to instigate the mutiny, was randomly shot and killed by the law enforcement team.And the strange man who encouraged the soldiers to rebel, who looked like he had a beard and was clearly beardless, has since disappeared.

Just looking at this person's strange appearance, he is probably Tie Zhong, a close confidant of Rui Li, the former governor of the Qing Dynasty.

Although we don't have any evidence that Tie Zhong came to Nanjing, judging from his course of action at that time, it is extremely possible that the weird person is him.

It is said that Tie Zhong is a man, shrewd and capable, with superior ability.Long before the outbreak of the Wuchang Uprising, he repeatedly asked Governor Rui Li not to delve into it, so as not to anger the party members.Moreover, when the command center of the party members was cracked and the party members Peng Chufan, Liu Fuji and Yang Hongsheng were tried, Tie Zhong tried his best to cover up for the three and wanted to release them.It was only because the three patriots refused to accept his favor and confessed that they were revolutionaries, Tie Zhong had no choice but to order the beheading of the three.

In short, Tie Zhong should not be underestimated. If he had listened to him, the Wuchang Uprising would not have happened.

But the revolution happened after all, and Tie Zhong and his boss Rui Cheng went to the Shanghai Concession and started an apartment from then on.It never occurred to him that Tie Liang, the former general of the Ning and Han Dynasties of the Qing Dynasty, also rushed to Shanghai with his mighty assassins, vowing to kill Rui Cheng to punish him for the crime of dragging down the empire's demise.

Tie Liang was so powerful, Rui Li knew best in his heart, knowing that he really couldn't escape, so he cried and begged his cronies Tie Zhong to intercede, as long as he didn't kill him, he could say anything.

So Tie Zhong went to see Tie Liang, knelt at Tie Liang's feet, and begged for his boss.

Tie Liang didn't want to but said: It's fine not to kill Rui Cheng, but he must give me back the Qing Empire.

Tie Zhong's face was full of despair: This... the court has perished, how can he pay you back.

Tie Liang said: Of course he can't pay it back, but you can!

Tie Zhong: ...you want me to...

Tie Liang: That’s right, unless you agree to join the Clan Socialist Party and go to Wuchang to take Li Ni Yuanhong’s head off, if Li’s family dies, the loyal monarchs in all provinces will surely rise up, and it is not impossible for the imperial court to be restored at that time.

(End of this chapter)