"Make the cake bigger?" Xie Zhangtai turned to Yang Rui's statement and made Bai Laile slightly stunned. Then he laughed knowingly again. He looked at Pu Lande and said, "Oh, this is really a novel saying. I like you like this."

Pu Lande next to him was silent. In fact, he had the most dealings with the Fuxing Society among the British. He started to contact Cai Yuanpei, Zhang Taiyan and others in the Soviet newspaper case. He could be said to have been protecting these people before - and even protecting the majesty of the Concession Bureau of the Work Department. However, last year, the Zou Rong case brought him to the opposite side of the Fuxing Society. His actions indirectly caused a "Shanghai blood case". Then he himself was forced to resign from the position of the General Office of the Work Department and become a full-time special correspondent of the Times in southern China. As a result, he had some good feelings for Fuxing Society and even more resentful. He hoped that the Fuxing Society would do some huge things in the past, but also hoped that the people who were protected by him would fail after their success.

"Mr. Xie, now all newspapers are accusing you of destroying China's peace. In such a situation, will Revival still insist on war?" Puland suddenly asked a sharp question. Because of the change of the situation, Revival would seem to have changed from a hero to a disruptor, an unwelcome gentry.

"There is a saying in Chinese that is, 'If the scar is healed, forget the pain'. Those who oppose the Revival Society have forgotten how the Qing Dynasty compromise came about. If we are defeated by the Qing government in one day in the future and we revolutionaries are all beheaded, then the worry-free Qing Dynasty will still be as brutal as before. Only checks and balances can rights not be abused. If you want to check and balance, you cannot forget to carry a rifle behind you. We are the rifles of the people. Now, because the brutal rulers have changed their faces and said a few good words, they will throw their guns away. This is the sadness of the Chinese!" Xie Zhangtai knew what foreigners could understand, but he could not be sure whether what he said was what foreigners wanted to hear.

"Then the Revival Society will fight the government army to the end, right?" Pu Lande said nothing, but quickly wrote down Xie Zhangtai's words, and then asked another question.

"We will fight to the last person!" Xie Zhangtai said firmly: "Although our strength is very weak, we must pay a huge price to eliminate the Qing Dynasty, and even the entire government will collapse because of this war."

Puland looked at Xie Zhangtai with a serious expression and nodded unconsciously. After writing down his words, he marked the words "fight to the last person" and "the government collapsed due to war". He asked again: "What kind of purpose will the revival achieve to stop the war, or what will revival want to do?"

"Guangxu must abdicate!" Xie Zhangtai said. Purande didn't hear it very clearly. When he asked again, Xie Zhangtai said again: "Guangxu must abdicate! All rights are taken back to the Congress, and then the government will be reorganized according to the wishes of citizens; at the same time, we must pay off all the government debts."

Xie Zhangtai said it very clearly this time. Pu Lande shook his head while writing quickly. However, considering the nature of the revolutionaries, he could understand their ideas very well.

The daytime visit ended soon. When he was sorting out his notes at his residence in Hangzhou in the evening, Bai Laile came to him, "Pu Lande, are you free?"

Pu Lande knew Bai Laile's identity and understood that he wanted to know something about Hangzhou when he just came, so he put the manuscript aside and put the pen aside and said, "Well, George. Come in."

"I want to..." Bai Laile is actually not familiar with Pu Lande. When he was about to find something, Pu Lande said: "I want to know Hangzhou and learn about the revolutionary organization called the Revival Society? Yes, I knew all of them very early, their current leader Cai, Zhang who was locked in prison, and the unlucky Zou... They are really a group of enthusiastic revolutionaries! Just like the French people a hundred years ago, very naive..."

"Oh, then are they killing people? I'm talking about Manchus. When I came, many people were discussing that the Manchus here had been killed and buried in the West Lake." Bai Laile made a beheading action. Originally, his itinerary was to go to Gansu and Xinjiang to investigate the situation of the Qing army, but the matter in Hangzhou made Zhu Erdian send him here - nothing better than war to test the combat effectiveness of a unit. He was here today.

"I arrived on the third day of the uprising. I didn't hear any news of the murder of Manchus. They were just locked up in a military camp, and all illegal property was confiscated. They also formed a court and then tried those who suspected guilty, and the most crime was to accept bribes." Pulande came early and saw many interesting things, "They tried according to the existing laws of the Qing Dynasty. Those who received bribes of more than 120 taels were hanged; those who embezzled more than 1,000 taels were beheaded. Every time an official beheaded, the people went to watch. You know, the Qing people liked to watch beheads, especially those corrupt officials who were beheaded and they all watched. It was such a barbaric nation!"

Hanging was an acceptable method of execution for Pulander, but he could not accept the beheading. He felt that it was too cruel to cut off his head like that. However, after all, Bai Laile was a soldier and did not feel anything wrong with it. He didn't want to know what was going on in Hangzhou. He just wanted to know about the matter of the rebel army. He said: "So how many troops do they have, how many of them were recruited urgently during this period? How many of their weapons are the Remington rifles we watched in the afternoon?"

"Most of them are Remington rifles." Puland said. In fact, his news came from a staff member of Hangzhou General Ruixing who was hiding in the Gongchen Bridge Concession. He had been dismissed by the emperor for losing Hangzhou. "It is certain that there will be no more than 5,000 active military rifles, and there will be insufficient ammunition. The others are Remington rifles and Henry Horseshoe Rifles, as well as some imitation Manlisha rifles imitated by the Qing Dynasty. However, these guns are said to be very difficult to use... I don't know how many troops they have, but in terms of scale, they should not exceed 10,000 people. About half of the people have been recruited in the past half month and have not been trained sufficiently. Even I suspect that their officers will not train soldiers-they have not conducted queue training..."

"Terminal training is no longer important in combat. Now for the rebel army, the most important thing is to teach soldiers to shoot." Bai Laile corrected Puland. The era of queuing and shooting has passed. A soldier who can only queue up is just a bunch of flowers. "And their afternoon digging training is also very important. Have you seen it? They have a unified shovel, and this shovel is very small and easy to carry, which will improve their survival on the battlefield. This army has indeed participated in the Russo-Japanese War. Perhaps the Qing government troops will suffer."

The difference in the evaluation of the rebel army made Puland happy, and it was not entirely because he provided information to Bo Laile. Bo Laile was a very experienced military officer, and his views were much more accurate than ordinary people, which was what the Times needed.

"So, then, do you mean that as long as there is enough time, they can defeat the continuous rifle with a single-shot rifle?" Puland asked.

"I didn't say that. The rebels had almost no artillery, and from the training of the shooting range this afternoon, the bullets they used were not fired at high rates." Although it was far apart, Bolai Le still noticed some small places very keenly. "The government forces may suffer in some cases. But they will eventually win. As Misterche said, to eliminate this rebel army, the government forces must pay a great price."

When Puland and Bai Laile were talking about the war, they had already moved to the Military and Political Department of the General's Mancheng Hangzhou. A pre-war meeting was being held. Zhou Sixu, a staff member who had just arrived from the northeast, and stood in front of a large map, introduced: "In the direction of Jiaxing, the morning information said that the vanguard of the Sixth Town from Beiyang had already reached the shore in Zhapu. The commander was a Manchu, named Yinchang. Once the sixth town arrived, then the original Hangzhou-Jiahu patrol battalion would be more than 20,000 enemy troops in this direction; the new army in Jiangsu was also very soon, most of them had passed Suzhou, and a small part had arrived in Huzhou. The ninth town we had previously speculated was Xu Shaozhen; and the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang Ding Zhenduo transferred the tenth town that had not been trained this time, and the commander who led the team was Sun Daoren."

Zhou Sixu said, and the documents next to him marked the locations of the three towns. "Except for the Sixth Town that did not arrive in Qi, the Ninth Town had already arrived in Pingwang Town. The vanguard did not go south but turned west to Huzhou, with the intention of preventing us from rushing north into Xuanzhou; the Shaoxing side was also the same. Ding Zhenduo's main force had retreated from Shangyu to Yuyao, and was probably waiting for the Sixth Town. News from Tianjin said that Liangxi, the governor of Beiyang Zhili and Minister of Beiyang, rented Japanese merchant ships on a large scale. Beiyang Sixth Town boarded the ship yesterday and arrived in Zhapu four days later."

After Zhou Sixu introduced the enemy situation, he looked around and was always the old man from the Fuxing Army. He was not anxious and was waiting for him to say the following. He couldn't help but smile and said, "The General Staff meant that it would be better to take the initiative than to sit and wait for death. Now the first batch of new recruits was about to end. At the same time, there were many people supporting us in the Hangzhou-Jia-Huzhou area. Therefore, while the sixth town in Beiyang was not yet stable, the large army let go of Hangzhou and went straight to Jiaxing, and then the new recruits passed Jiashan and took Songjiang. Shanghai was a place in the concession and a key place in finance and taxation. Once there was a loss, it would involve the appearance of China and foreign countries. This was a must-rescue place for the Qing Dynasty. At that time, Pingwang, the ninth town in Huzhou and the sixth town in Zhapu would have to rescue Shanghai. Once they moved, we would have the chance to ambush or take their nests, which depends on the situation at that time."

After talking about Jiaxing, Songjiang, Zhou Sixu talked about Shaoxing again. "The large army left Hangzhou, and Ding Zhenduo, who was in Yuyao, received the news, was very likely to take advantage of the empty Hangzhou city and advance west from Yuyao. For the Tenth Town, the General Staff meant to let them go to Shaoxing County and wait for the Tenth Town to cross the Qiantang River before taking action. One was to disturb the Shaoxing militia that had withdrawn from the county town, the second was to block the enemy on the west bank of Qianjiang River, and the third was to the repaired mines of the Military Instrument Bureau released along the river during the war, so that the Qing army that landed on the shore had no support..."

"Does there be mines in the Military Couplet Bureau?" Zhang Chengyue generally did not speak at the meeting of the chief officials, but when he hit Hangzhou, he went to the Military Couplet Bureau and did not see any mines.

"There are no mines in the Military Costume Bureau, but the Machine Factory has one." Zhou Sixu said: "The Machine Factory was run by Liu Bingzhang, the governor of Zhejiang in the 11th year of Guangxu. It could not be handled until the 18th year of Guangxu. But in the past seven years, a lot of things were made, and in addition to rifles and bullets, there were also many mines. Although these mines were rust very strong, the military industry said that as long as the fire fuse was replaced, it would still be useful."

Zhou Sixu quickly introduced the entire combat plan. When everyone was thinking about it, Colonel Lin Wenqian, who had just arrived from the northeast, said: "I went straight into Songjiang to mobilize the ninth and the sixth towns to the east. But what if I go to the ninth town in Huzhou, or the sixth town does not transfer east but goes south, or most of the towns to the east and a small part goes south, what should I do in Hangzhou?"

"We don't know how many soldiers in Huzhou are in the ninth town. If the Qing army has more than one army troops to go south, then Hangzhou cannot defend it and can only evacuate. If a small army goes south, it depends on whether it has cooperation with the tenth town. If the time between the two sides is inconsistent, then we can solve the enemy on one side first and then solve the other side. Or, as long as the Qing army goes south, there is no more than one army troops to go south, then Hangzhou can still defend it." Zhou Sixu was very fond of the General Staff's plan, and understood the key points of this layout. He was right.

"Then are those troops left behind in Hangzhou?" Zhong Mei asked.

"The veterans left one battalion of the Second Regiment, and the rest, including the new army and the patrol battalion who surrendered, all went to Jiaxing. As for the new recruits behind, there were three thousand people left. In this way, plus the first battalion of the Second Regiment, there were a total of four thousand people." Zhou Sixu took out a piece of paper and looked at the data on it and said.
Chapter completed!