New Era 1912189_New Era 1912 full text free reading_Chapter 189 The night of chaos comes from

In the fifth year of the Republic of China, on the afternoon of November 9, 1916, Beijing was covered with clouds, which was a foregone conclusion. Yesterday's heavy snow had already covered the whole city thickly, and it seemed that it was about to fall. It had fallen more than two inches the night before yesterday, and undoubtedly the heavy snow this year seemed to be more than in previous years.

Although Beijing is covered with silver, the capital of China has been changing step by step in the past decade. Perhaps it is an old capital of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and the city is filled with a large number of Ming and Qing style buildings. However, in the past decade, with the completion of some Western style buildings, it still looks almost both Western and Eastern.

For China in the fifth year of the Republic of China, China has abandoned many of its traditional things in the past and became the second country in Asia to rapidly become Westernization. This westernization may be reflected in the architecture of cities. After the signing of the Treaty of Xin Chou fifteen years ago, between the buildings of the Ming and Qing dynasties, Western-style buildings appeared in this ancient oriental city.

Especially after the Republic of China, outside the ancient city walls and moats in Beijing, a large number of new buildings with east-west walls began to appear. Tall new buildings and spacious streets seemed to be a brand new China. The city separated by a wall was traditional China, narrow stone streets and low blue brick Chinese-style houses. This seemed to be a traditional China.

Calm, Beijing in November seems very calm, but Beijing, which looks quiet, is brewing a storm, a storm that is about to rush to the snow-covered streets, sweeping across the city.

In the military camp of the First Corps of the Interior Forces in the south suburbs of Beijing, the atmosphere seemed a little nervous at this time. The arsenal was opened, and trucks loaded with ammunition drove out of the armory and transported the ammunition to the battalions. The soldiers lined up to collect ammunition from the non-commissioned officers. For the soldiers, the only thing they needed was to obey orders, and for the officers, today would be a day that would determine the fate of the country.

In the evening, three trucks loaded with ammunition drove away from the Internal Affairs Army barracks and drove directly along the highway towards the Nanyuan barracks. There, there were also more than 3,000 young officers preparing for their actions tonight. However, unlike the Internal Affairs Army, their ammunition depots cannot be opened, so they need to replenish ammunition from the Internal Affairs Army. Fortunately, all this has been prepared and everything is going on in an orderly manner.

While nearly 10,000 soldiers were preparing for the evening movements, the people who were seeking pleasure were wandering in the dark streets and alleys, and in the famous Eight Hutongs, it was also an evening of singing and dancing. The prostitutes with polished faces and dressed in various costumes began to enjoy the old guests, and the guests were seeking pleasure among the prostitutes.

Compared with Lianyungang and other cities, the street lights in Beijing appear dim, scattering soft lights. Under the dim street lights, the police patrolled the city as they did in the past. In some banks and money shops, patrolling soldiers of the interior security forces can also be seen. This is a night shift post set up to avoid night robbery. In order to strengthen the security maintenance force in the city, two squadrons of interior security forces entered the inner city and outer city of Beijing for public security maintenance.

At nine o'clock in the evening, snowflakes were once again falling from the sky, which had just been clear for a few minutes. Among these snowflakes, soldiers stood in line in front of each camp in front of the army of the First Corps of the Interior Forces, and officers stood in front of the team.

Looking at the soldiers standing in the snow, the young company commander Li Chengqian looked serious and excited.

"Soldiers!"

The voice paused slightly, and Li Chengqian's tone was a little sad.

"You are all from peasants. Now, what the country looks like? You have a deeper understanding than me. Corrupt officials in the local area are rampant and the people are suffering. The same is true for your family? The soldiers fighting for the country on the French front have to sell their sisters to human traffickers in order to have a full meal. The food your family grows cannot be eaten by themselves. The people are hungry and bullied by corrupt officials..."

As he spoke, many soldiers showed a look of sorrow on their faces. For these soldiers from the countryside, they had a deep understanding of what the superior said:

"Everyone hears me, the Prime Minister will never want the people to suffer so much. Since the Prime Minister took over the State Council, the Prime Minister has been eager to reform, but the corrupt officials around the President colluded with local officials to conceal the suffering of the people and conceal the true national conditions. Although the Prime Minister intends to reform, he is trapped by the situation and the people suffer more. How can soldiers sit there? Now is the time for soldiers to stand up for the country!"

After a moment of speech, Li Chengqian continued to say, looking at the soldiers who had thought they were just conducting a "normal exercise".

"I want you to follow me, stand up for the country and the people, clear away the corrupt officials in the country, and restore the Chinese to a clean sky!" The chief's speech only surprised the soldiers, but they immediately replied:

"Yes, sir."

For soldiers, the commanders must be absolutely obeyed and must not be disobeyed at all. At this time, these soldiers have realized that a major event is happening.

On November 9, at 10 o'clock in the evening, there was heavy snow on the sky. At the gate of Nanyuan Military Camp, a car was parked on the side of the road. Several young officers looked at each other and finally saluted slowly.

"Please! Be sure to tell the Prime Minister why we are fighting!"

When the ceremony was over, a young officer looked at his colleagues and said, "The young officers will go to Tianjin to find the Prime Minister, and then tell the Prime Minister that they will capture the capital and ask the Prime Minister to do it immediately."

When the car drove away from the Nanyuan Military Camp, there were already 2,453 young officers who were willing to participate in the operation in the Nanyuan Military Camp, except for more than 100 trained officers who were left too much in the military camp and guarded the trainees on duty in the military camp.

In the auditorium of Nanyuan Military Camp, dozens of instructors on duty and thousands of officers who were unwilling to participate in the operation looked at the students and classmates holding guns with complicated expressions. Why is this happening?

"You are making big mistakes!"

Looking at these students, Jiang Baili, the leader of the model troupe scolded again. While scolding him, he tried to walk out of the auditorium.

"Sorry, sir!"

The young officer holding the rifle straddled the rifle and looked very serious.

"Please stop!"

"I am the leader of the model troupe, and I'm still anxious to stop now!"

Until now, he still wants to stop the rebellion. Now, he even regrets why he hasn't seen that these young officers wanted to launch a military revolution. Since the song started singing, he should have realized that they would make a big mistake today!

"Sir, there is no hurry to come. The internal affairs and some police officers have begun to take action!"

What!

The heavy snow drifted from the sky outside Xizhimen. More than a dozen policemen and the internal affairs troops on duty guarded the city gate. At this time, trucks loaded with soldiers drove into the outer city of Beijing one by one. At the same time, almost at every city gate, the internal affairs soldiers were continuously entering the city by car.

For the Ministry of Education officials who had just returned home, Zhou Shuren was often woken up by the faint riots outside his house. Because of this, he had been planning to buy a quieter property at night. Today, just as Zhou Shuren was lying on the table writing an article, he heard a uniform sound of footsteps, which were different from ordinary footsteps, and the sound of military boots!

"How come there is a sound of military boots?"

Thinking in his heart, Zhou Shuren gently opened the window and through the snowy morning light, he saw hundreds of soldiers lined up on the road, carrying rifles, and moving forward. The sound of uniform military boots was exactly what they made.

At this time, the pedestrians on the roadside were standing on the side of the road in a daze, and some policemen were panicking, but they were immediately disarmed at the guns of soldiers.

What's going on?

Zhou Shuren seemed a little confused about all this. Why did the army enter the city? Why were the police disarmed?

At this moment, a burst of rapid gunfire suddenly came from the air, and even explosions. It was obvious that a fierce battle occurred somewhere. Listening to the gunfire and explosion, two words immediately appeared in Zhou Shuren's mind - rebellion!

"Has there been a military change?"

Thinking of this, he immediately called the Beijing Procuratorate.

“We just received the report,”

Answered on the phone,

"A row of people has already been on the road and has been reported. Now the reinforcements have just set off."

This answer made him feel relieved. When he hung up the phone, the giggles of leather boots stomping on snowflakes sounded on the street. He looked out the window and wanted to know whether the person coming was a police reinforcement or an army unit that specifically protected government officials. But only a gunshot was heard. He saw a policeman fall down in response, and the other police retreated in a hurry. Then a group of soldiers appeared, with bayonets shining. With the light, he saw clearly that the soldiers who shot at the police were the internal affairs forces.

A gunshot - as if it were rifles and machine guns - so at this time, Zhou Shuren finally understood that the internal affairs forces were having a fierce battle with the police. He hurriedly put on his clothes so that he could go out to figure out what was going on. When he rushed to the street, he heard gunshots ringing around. As soon as he came out, soldiers from the internal affairs forces shouted, waving rifles, rushing forward, "Come in the house! Fast in the house!"

After being rushed into the house by soldiers from the Internal Affairs Force, Zhou Shuren, who had no choice but to pace back and forth indoors. What happened to the Army and Police Reinforcements?

Could it be that the internal affairs force itself is part of the rebels?

Thinking of this, Zhou Shuren called the Police Department again.

“We are the rebel forces,”

A voice on the phone replied.

What? The rebel force? What happened to this...?

If Zhou Shuren was surprised, then, facing the gun of the internal affairs force, Liu Guanxiong, the chief of the Navy, felt unprecedented anger at this time. After the sound of the official residence, he had just put on his clothes. In a moment, he was surrounded by more than twenty bayonets. Before he could even figure out what was going on, a second lieutenant officer took a step forward. The second lieutenant salute first and then asked politely:

"Are you the President Liu?"

Liu Guanxiong, who calmed down, nodded.

"Yes, it's me!"

At the same time, he raised his hand to ask everyone to be quiet. The official residence was filled with the crying of the women and the roars of the soldiers.

"You must have a reason for doing this. Tell me what the reason is."

What do they want to do? Liu Guanxiong still has too many questions in his mind. Judging from their military uniforms and identifiers, they are the model corps officers who are being trained in Nanyuan.

But no one answered. So Liu Guanxiong asked again.

"Tell me, what do you want to do? Who ordered you to do this?"

But there was still silence. When he asked for the third time, a lieutenant with a pistol said impatiently:

"There's no time. We're going to shoot."

They acted on the orders of their superiors, and they didn't know why.

"Then there is nothing to do,"

Sighing, Liu Guanxiong, who couldn't figure out the reason, looked at the officers in front of him and said calmly,

"Then let me put on military uniform!"

Since that's the case, just die like a soldier! Minutes later, Liu Guanxiong, who was dressed in military uniform, stood in the room, looking at the officers in front of him.

"Let's shoot."

After saying that, he held his head up and his chest out, as if facing a firing squad.

"Please go on the road, General!"

While an officer bowed, three pistols fired at the same time.

"stand at attention!"

After being sentenced, an officer ordered his subordinates to raise a gun to pay tribute to the naval chief, as if a soldier was seeing off his soldiers.

"Stand up! Let's go!"

The captain who ordered the shooting ordered his subordinates to leave, and then he turned around and asked Liu Guanxiong's wife.

"Are you Mrs. Liu?"

The lady who witnessed her husband's death nodded in a daze.

"Madam, I feel particularly regretful about this." Then, after explaining, he said to the lady again.

"We don't have any disgust towards the general himself, but our view on how to achieve prosperity and strength in China is different from that of the General, and we don't plan to do it together as the saying goes. Therefore, we have to do this."

In fact? The reason for killing Liu Guanxiong was to control the navy. Liu Guanxiong was Yuan Shikai's "loyal minister". Although the current navy was not afraid, for these uprisingers, they would never want to see which side initiated any action after this "uprising". If Liu Guanxiong was allowed to live, it would be an unstable factor for the future situation in China. Therefore, in order to ensure the success of the operation, according to the plan, the military chief loyal to Yuan Shikai was executed to avoid hidden dangers!

While the Navy Chief Liu Guanyou was beaten to death by the soldiers, in a courtyard of only a few streets, a young general looked at the soldiers in front of him with an indignation. Humiliation, for Xiao Xiao, the commander-in-chief of the Internal Affairs Force, at this time, the behavior of the Internal Affairs Force was undoubtedly equivalent to slapping him hard in the face.

At first, when he saw soldiers from the Model Officer's Corps break into his home, he thought it was Yuan Shikai's coup. Now, when he saw the officers and soldiers in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, especially when he heard the song "Youth China Song" coming from the street, he immediately realized what was going on.

"You are abusing the power of soldiers. A coup is by no means patriotism, a rebellion, or a betrayal of your oath."
To be continued...