Wang Huai was commanding the camp gate at this time. When he saw the other party retreating, he hurriedly commanded the army to chase and kill him. At this time, Qiao Yu rushed to the fire exchange site under the protection of many guards.

"How about it, are there any major casualties?"

Wang Huai looked at the injured brothers and immediately looked a little ugly. The two sides had a fire for half an hour, leaving a large number of civilian corpses outside the camp. The First Brigade also suffered a considerable loss, with more than 200 casualties, mainly because they were killed when shooting at each other, highlighting the disadvantages of the Sichuan Army's lack of experience in fighting. However, with the increase in wars, this army will definitely mature quickly!

"Governor General, more than a hundred brothers were killed, and there were many seriously injured people, and the losses were considerable!"

"Well, you have done a good job. The army itself lacks practical tests, so this and that problem will arise. I didn't expect that the civilian army would launch a surprise attack tonight. However, the soldiers were very brave and defeated the civilian army's attempts. But they also had to keep the lesson in mind. Whenever they camp, they had to arrange enough guarding forces. Not only did they have sentries, but they also had to set up complete fortifications. With a certain amount of protection, they would not be so passive!"

Wang Huai nodded quickly and said, "The construction of the army cannot be successful overnight, nor can it be completed by one or two people." Qiao Yu knew very well that what he lacked the most now is a team of officers with high quality to quickly improve the combat effectiveness of the army. However, everything must be done step by step. It is already very good to be able to do it now.

Soon the Sichuan Army took the initiative to pursue and completely defeated the civilian army. More than 600 people were captured in a row, and more than 1,000 people were dispersed. Hundreds of people were beaten to death and injured. Three thousand elite civilian army soldiers were eliminated in one fell swoop. Finally, Wang Tianjie's body was found in the pile of dead people. It turned out that a shell exploded beside Wang Tianjie when he was running away, and dozens of wounds were cut out by shrapnel, and he died on the spot.

After simply cleaning the battlefield, Qiao Yu hurriedly directed his soldiers to rush to Luzhou City. It was only one or two o'clock, and it was only about three o'clock in the morning when he arrived at Luzhou City. Qiao Yu immediately ordered the artillery team to slam the city gate, and the artillery fire suddenly spread across the sky, as if the heaven and earth were shaking.

When Wu Yuzhang was sneak attacking Wang Tianjie in the city, he felt a burst of frightened heart. In the middle of the night, he heard gunfires and cannons sounded continuously. Wu Yuzhang knew that Wang Tianjie did not carry artillery for the sake of sneak attack. The current situation only means that Wang Tianjie's sneak attack failed. As expected, many defeated soldiers fled back to the city soon, and then they received a report of Qiao Yu's army attack attacking Luzhou City. Wu Yuzhang suddenly felt a little unattended.

His troops are still under Wang Tianjie, and the elites in his hands have been taken away by Wang Tianjie. Can these few people in his hands block Qiao Yu's army now? Wu Yuzhang knew very well that this was undoubtedly a way to kill himself. Therefore, when Qiao Yu fired a gun and bombarded Luzhou City, Wu Yuzhang and his confidants fled directly and handed over Luzhou.

As soon as Wu Yuzhang left, the constitutional party in Luzhou City quickly raised the white flag to welcome Qiao Yu's army into the city. As soon as Qiao Yu entered Luzhou, he directly used various public opinion and began to bombard the People's Party with no peace and sincerity. He had promised that everything could be negotiated, and he also promised to give up the position of governor. He sincerely hoped that all walks of life in southern Sichuan could join the new government and serve the people of Sichuan. He even regarded Wang Tianjie and others as real revolutionary heroes. However, Wang Tianjie brazenly launched an attack that night, and hundreds of soldiers died innocently.

The Tongmenghui was undoubtedly splitting Sichuan because of its own selfishness. It completely ignored the welfare of the Sichuan people and completely ignored the overall situation of overthrowing the Qing Dynasty. It was a blasphemy of the revolution and a betrayal of the dead patriots. At the end of his speech, Qiao Yu also suggested that he believed that this was just a wrong practice of a few revolutionary parties. The kind-hearted and ambitious people in the revolutionary party were still sincere in their hearts. Qiao Yu still hoped that Sichuan could end the division and unify it as soon as possible. Moreover, Qiao Yu could also give up the position of governor, and peace was the most important thing...

This remark was soon published in newspapers and spread throughout Sichuan. After seeing this speech, people praised Qiao Yu's selfless attitude, scolded the civilian army for being shameless, and started the war at will. Both the military government and the civilian army were to overthrow the rule of the Qing court. Now is the critical moment, but the civilian army took the initiative to attack friendly forces, which is really despicable.

Of course, there are also people who understand it. No matter how nice it is, it is useless. The military government was established by you, so naturally they have taken the lead. How could they easily give up the power they got? There is nothing wrong with the civilian army choosing to raid. The mistake was just failure. However, ordinary people think very simply. After Qiao Yu announced the abolition of likin and rent and interest restrictions, the people's hearts stood on his side to a large extent. When Qiao Yu took the halo of serving the country and the people, fighting against him would naturally be the enemy of the people. Moreover, the civilian army took action first, which would be even more ulterior motives.

The troops originally attached to the civilian army dispersed one after another, which greatly reduced the power of the civilian army. Moreover, the civilian army's salary has been relatively tense. Many soldiers have been owed for a long time. Now these soldiers are asking for salary, which makes Yang Shu, who is in Rong County, be frustrated.

Zhang Peijue, Zhu Zhihong, Xie Chi and others sat around to discuss solutions to the current dilemma. In fact, everyone knew very well that it was just a shortage of money. In fact, during this period, the civilian army conquered cities and seized a lot of materials and silver, and suppressed a large number of bureaucrats loyal to the Qing Dynasty. Of course, there were also unjust, false and wrong cases, but the civilian army still raised a lot of money.

The key is that almost all the money is used to purchase arms, medicines, food and other supplies. It can be said that a large part of it fell into Qiao Yu's hands. Now the civilian army is naturally extremely distressed. Moreover, Wu Yuzhang fled and Wang Tianjie died in battle not only to lose more than 10,000 civilian soldiers, but more importantly, the subtle changes in people's hearts.

Originally, everyone followed the Democratic Party against the Qing Dynasty, but now another force has risen, and is more combative and more disciplined. Moreover, since the Road Protection Movement, local wealthy merchants have received considerable harassment and suffered heavy losses. They are urgently needed to restore order. It is obvious that abandoning the Democratic Party has become a consensus, and the dilemma of the civilian army is obvious.

Xie Chi first broke the silence and said, "Cangbai, the soldiers cannot pay the money, but they will have to mutiny. Several merchants who had promised to provide our materials have suspended the supply on the pretext of difficulty in transportation and inconvenient turnover. Now the arms, food and money are seriously lacking. If you don't think of a good solution, you will really not be able to maintain it!"

Several people looked at each other. Everyone knew the difficulties that Xie Chi said, but the problem was how to solve it. Zhang Peijue suddenly spoke: "Or why don't we give up southern Sichuan and march directly into Chengdu and seize Chengdu in front of Qiao Yu. Now that the Qing court has lost power, Zhao Erfeng's troops have already shrunk around Chengdu. If we capture Chengdu now, we may be able to gain political advantages. When we fight against Qiao Yu, we will have the capital!"

Yang Shukan shook his head, "The idea is good. The key is that Duanfang's army is still in Zizhou now, and Zhao Erfeng is not easy to deal with. He has no money or arms. I'm afraid that our team will collapse before Chengdu can be done!"

"Cangbai, how do we take action against the Piaohao Money House?" Zhu Zhihong suggested.

The Tongmenghui was discussing a way out, and Qiao Yu was also meeting an important guest, Lu Wanqing's father, Lu Nai, one of the great salt merchants in southern Sichuan. Since Lu Wanqing arrived in Chongqing, Qiao Yu found an opportunity to write a letter to Lu Nai and informed her about the situation. After all, it cannot make the parents worry for nothing.

Since Lu Nai got the news about his daughter, he suddenly felt indescribable. Qiao Yu is a powerful figure in Chongqing, with an army and power. It would be great if such a person could be in good terms. But what is the matter with his own girl just being a secretary for others in such a unclear way? He was influenced by the West and he doesn't care about his daughter going out to work, but what else would others think? Every man can drown you in one mouthful.

I didn’t hear that Qiao Yu had arrived in Luzhou, Lu Nai hurriedly rushed from Fushun’s home to Luzhou and came to pay homage to Qiao Yu!

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Chapter completed!