When Zhou Zhaoxian was about to order the entire battalion to attack the enemy's formation, the sound of artillery sounded out of place. This was not the kind of cannon just now. Judging from the mud blown out, it should be 75mm caliber shells. Looking at the shells mainly landed on the front side of the Qing army's position, not near his own trenches, Zhou Zhaoxian roughly guessed that this should be the mountain artillery battalion of the tenth town firing. This was expected, but what made him wonder was why the artillery fire on the other side was fired so quickly, and it was so accurate that it just protected the frontier positions of the Qing army?

"Relieve the combat mission." With the mountain cannon battalion, Zhou Zhaoxian's plan failed, but he still said: "Let the people in front check it out to see how this Qing army contacted the other side of the river, find it out and destroy him!"

The sound of cannons roaring on the river bank, but Cai Yuanpei in the Hangzhou General's Mansion was not alarmed. He pressed Sun Wen's two telegrams sent last night and this morning with one hand, and the other hand was hanging in the air, and was about to write a reply, but he really wrote it out-Sun Wen's two telegrams were all good news. Last night, it was around 9:00 to 11:00 local time in Los Angeles. Sun Wen met W.W. Allen from New York to Los Angeles. Both sides had a very pleasant conversation. Sun Wen said in the telegram that Allen

He and the great figures behind him want to do their part for the Chinese revolution. For this reason, Allen was preparing to lend 10 million US dollars to the Revolutionary Party. At the same time, he would persuade the US president and many American parliamentarians, and prompt the US to send ten warships to China. Considering the difficulty of replenishing firearms and ammunition in the Revolutionary Army, he specially allocated 100,000 rifles, 1,000 artillery, and corresponding ammunition from the American Army's arsenal. These arms will arrive in Hangzhou with the US fleet.

Sun Wen's enthusiastic telegram shocked Cai Yuanpei, who was worried about the situation, after reading. He walked three times in the room before suppressing this joy. Money was not what the revival would want. Arms and diplomatic support are the most urgent things for the military government now, especially now that Hangzhou is in danger. Even if it is surrendered to the Ninth Town, it cannot change the situation where Hangzhou is enemies on all sides.

After Cai Yuanpei was excited, he read the following text of the telegram. Sun Wen said that in addition to requesting appropriate returns, Alan had two other things that were most urgently needed: one was the merger of the two sessions.

Although forced by the situation, Sun Wen lied that the Revival Society and the Tongmenghui were the same organization. However, Allen only hoped to negotiate with a revolutionary organization. For this reason, the merger of the Revival Society and the Tongmenghui was inevitable. Considering that the word "Alliance" means uniting all revolutionaries, Sun Wen suggested that the organization after the merger should be called the Tongmenghui. At the same time, the word "Alliance" is also the key to Sun Wen introducing to Allen that the Revival Society and the Tongmenghui are the same organization. Therefore, in order not to rebel in front of Allen and avoid unnecessary explanations, Sun Wen believed that the name of the new organization after the merger was still the most appropriate.

If the two sessions merge, the name is one, the head is two, and the organization is three. After the name is determined, it is the candidate for the prime minister. Considering the achievements of the first rebellion of the Revival Association, Sun Wen believes that Cai Yuanpei should be the Prime Minister of the New Tongmenghui. He is the Vice Premier; as for the internal organization of the New Tongmenghui, Sun Wen suggested that it should be based on the structure of the separation of powers of the old Tongmenghui. The establishment of the Executive Department, the Review Department, the Ministry of Justice, and the various departments check and balance each other. The Prime Minister of the Executive Department is Cai Yuanpei, and the heads of the Review Department and the Ministry of Justice will discuss the public.

In addition to the merger of the Two Sessions, another thing is Hangzhou City. From the actual perspective, it will take at least twenty days for the US fleet to set off from the US to Hangzhou. If Hangzhou is lost within these twenty days, then the US arms will not be able to support the revolutionary army even if it arrives in Hangzhou. Therefore, not only considering the momentum of the revolution, but also considering the arms aid, the revolutionary army should also ensure that Hangzhou will not be lost between the US fleet.

The merger of the two sessions and defending Hangzhou is a necessary prerequisite for gaining support from the Americans. To sum up, Sun Wen’s two telegrams meant this. Given the seven-member committee system of the Revival Association, Cai Yuanpei may not be able to decide the fate of the Revival Association alone, Sun Wen seemed to have expected this situation, so the second telegram he sent suggested that Cai Yuanpei be in a hurry to take power, first announce the merger of the Two Sessions, and then build a new Tongmenghui organization, otherwise the merger of the Two Sessions will not be achieved in a short period of time; at the same time, it is also considered that it is not easy to defend Hangzhou. Sun Wen

It is recommended that Cai Yuanpei and the military government withdraw from Hangzhou first, so that the revolutionary heads will not go to danger with their own life. It can be said that Sun Wen basically took all the factors that can be considered, and the most important thing is that he willingly let Cai Yuanpei, that is, the people from the Revival Society, become the prime minister of the new Tongmenghui. Such a move reminded Cai Yuanpei of the Japanese author Miyazaki Taotian's evaluation of Sun Wen: "The aspirations are clean and the heart is bright, and there is almost no one in the East and West today."

Should I be in a hurry to take power or report to the committees to discuss the merger? Can Zhao Sheng say that he surrendered to Xu Shaozhen? If not, how can he defend Hangzhou? Cai Yuanpei held his pen and couldn't fall down for a long time. After a while, he asked Shao Lizi to go to Zhong Mei to inquire about the situation of the battle, but Shao Lizi went out and said that Zhong Mei was out.

Zhong Mei did not go out, but was taken away by Xie Zhangtai. Xie Zhang Tai was originally in charge of foreign affairs and was considered the Minister of Foreign Affairs. In the premise that the great powers did not support the revolution, he, as an external minister, could only accompany foreign journalists. However, there were many banners hanging in Hangzhou city of "President Cai and Hangzhou City to live and die" and articles on the Hangzhou newspaper that were very puzzled. As the Minister of Foreign Affairs, he knew the plan of the military government, but now the propaganda does not cooperate with the overall plan. After careful investigation, he realized that it was done by the people of the Tongmenghui. Since it was a member of the Tongmenghui, it was Sun Dapao's person. He talked to Zhong Mei specifically for this. Zhong Mei thought he was going to talk about foreign affairs, but Xie Zhangtai did not mention foreign affairs at all, but asked directly: "Is something wrong with the president?"

In the internal publicity of the Revival Society, in order not to shake morale, it was only said that Yang Rui went to Europe to seek support from the great powers, and he did not say that he was injured and disappeared. Xie Zhangtai and Yang Rui talked several times in detail, and knew that if Yang Rui had nothing to do, he would definitely come to Hangzhou, but now, the matter has been in almost a month, but there has been no one yet. Then something must have happened.

"Nothing. Sir is in Europe now," Zhong Mei's eyes twitched, but he still answered calmly.

However, Xie Zhangtai has been revolutionizing for many years and has a lot of experience. He can see that Zhong Mei is lying at once. So he said, "I know the discipline in the association, but if something happens to the president, I think it is the victim of the Qing officials, then..." Xie Zhangtai said nothing more, and he smiled bitterly. Then he turned around and went out.

When Zhong Mei heard something in his words, she couldn't help but reach out and stopped him, saying, "Mr. Chong'an...you..., let's talk inside." Yang Rui's incident has always been a thorn in Zhong Mei's heart. It hurts whenever she thinks of him. Now when he sees Xie Zhangtai, he seems to know something, and he can't help but pull him away.

When Xie Zhangtai saw Zhong Mei asking him to talk inside, his face turned pale. What he expected was real. He waited for him to say two things in a row before calming down and following Zhong Mei into the inner study room.

"Mr. Chong'an, something happened to him, but now... now... he was just injured and disappeared when he was arrested by the Ministry of Industry and the Qing Dynasty." Zhong Mei didn't know how to explain this matter. He could only describe it by disappearance. "Mr. Chong'an said that Mr. Chong'an was not killed by the Qing officials, who would it be?"

Hearing that it was just missing, Xie Zhangtai's sad face finally showed a hint of joy. When he saw Zhong Mei asked, "It's Tongmenghui! Or Sun Wen!"

Xie Zhangtai's answer surprised Zhong Mei, but while he was surprised, he felt that Xie Zhangtai was too arbitrary to say this, so he had to say, "Mr. Chong'an, you haven't even heard of the incident. You think it's Mr. Shanghai..."

"It's Tongmenghui! It's Sun Wen's work!" Xie Zhangtai interrupted Zhong Mei without waiting for him to finish speaking. He seemed to have determined that Sun Wen was not a good person.

Seeing Xie Zhangtai’s unfounded speech, Zhong Mei asked back: “Mr. Chong'an, what is the basis?”

"Don't make it! It's Sun Wen's work!" Xie Zhangtai said again.

"But...but there is no evidence to say this." If Xie Zhangtai had not given Zhong Mei a great impression, Zhong Mei would have doubted whether he was crazy about gaining and losing his heart.

"No evidence is needed!" Xie Zhangtai shook his head stubbornly, "Evidence is just a trick to deceive fools. He obviously killed someone, but destroyed the evidence. In the end, he could not be convicted. This is just to prevent the government from abuse of power. But for a specific matter and a certain person, the evidence is not reliable, and it is even more undesirable. The evidence is not used for conviction, but for fooling people."

Xie Zhangtai was a little excited when he was studying in Western languages. He was very familiar with the Western legal system. In his opinion, logic is actually a stupid person's method. Smart people already know the whole story when things happen or before they happen. This is actually like fighting. The sixth sense is the first priority. You can't prove why the enemy did this, because you have no evidence. If you really wait for the evidence, the matter is irreversible. The stupidest person should be a lawyer. This is Xie Zhangtai's perception.

Xie Zhangtai seemed to feel his tone was a little heavy. He was silent for a moment, and then said, "For example, intuition, many things cannot be said. I can only make up some things that can be said to you now."

Zhong Mei was actually infected by his words. He is a soldier. Although the soldier is rational, the Chief of Staff Leo has always emphasized talent. In fact, this talent is a natural intuition. In the position of the company platoon leader, there is not much difference between being talented and not being talented. Just follow the execution according to the Taoist script. However, at the level of the brigade teacher, the difference that talent brings to everyone is very big. He believes that Xie Zhangtai is talking about this intuition.

"Actually, I always felt that the president of Cheng Cheng was very similar to Mr. Yang Quyun, the first president of the Xingzhonghui. They both studied Western learning and thought that the Qing Dynasty must be overthrown, and the revolution was down-to-earth, never bragging or taking advantage of opportunities. They were upright and did things right. They were heroes, but they were definitely not heroes. However, revolution actually needed heroes more than heroes. But even if they knew this, people like them could still make you trust with your life." In the closed study, Xie Zhangtai spoke deeply, staring at a place where Zhong Mei could not see, as if he was telling and as if he was recalling.

"Accident?" Zhong Mei seemed to think of something and asked, "Did Mr. Chong'an say he should guard Hangzhou?"

"That's true!" Xie Zhangtai nodded and said, "Now in Hangzhou, the newspapers of Hangzhou newspapers say "Mr. Cai and Hangzhou live and die together." Although there is a motivating morale, don't you think this is too much? If Mr. Cai is unable to let go of the forefront and insists on living and die together with Hangzhou, it is not only Mr. Cai will suffer heavy losses, but also the entire Fuxing Army will suffer heavy losses. If the two sessions merged before and Mr. Cai is gone, Sun Wen will naturally become the leader of the Fuxing Society. Isn't this just occupying the nest? Even if Mr. Cai is still there after the war, his prestige will be damaged after the loss of Hangzhou. At that time, Sun Wen used the backbone of the association to make trouble and ask Mr. Cai to resign and let the virtuous. Do you think, with Mr. Cai's temperament, will he not resign?"

What Xie Zhangtai said was a vicious conspiracy. Although the Tongmenghui was not liked by Zhong Mei, he had to think of a revolutionary leader who was widely praised by everyone. Zhong Mei felt that he could not accept it. However, when he wanted to defend Hangzhou, it was really caused by the Tongmenghui people. At first, he posted big-character banners everywhere and spread them in the newspapers. Then he made a surrender, which made the original retreat plan interrupted halfway. Zhong Mei was silent for a moment. Finally, he said: "If the Revival Society and the Tongmenghui did not merge, then this conspiracy would not be realized?"

Seeing Zhong Mei finally believed her words, Xie Zhangtai smiled bitterly and said, "You can't ask me this. Go and ask Mr. Cai. Bu Jin, after the war in Hangzhou is over, I will go to Shanghai."

"Go to Shanghai?"

"Yes. I want to find the real thing. The Revival will not be able to do without him!" Xie Zhangtai said this and had already stood up. He believed that as long as he did not see the corpse, Yang Rui would be alive.

The morning conversation ended soon. Zhong Mei, who learned about the conspiracy, felt very upset for a long time. He only knew that there was a conflict between the Tongmenghui and the Fuxinghui in Tokyo, and then the Fuxinghui was often criticized by the Tongmenghui for the pseudo-constitutionalization. As for Sun Wen, when he was in Shanghai, he heard that this person had been against the Qing Dynasty for more than ten or twenty years, and he felt that it was difficult and admired him very much, but he really had a revolution. He knew that the revolution was a path to no return. Once he got on, he could only go all the way to the dark, which had nothing to do with the firm will or not.

While Zhong Mei was standing on the city tower thinking about this, Zhang Chengyue came over and said, "There is no news in the ninth town!"

"Well, I sent someone to ask, but there is no news yet!" Zhong Mei frowned even more when she thought of this bad thing. "I also sent a group of people to follow her, why would there be no news?"

"It is very likely that they were all detained or killed by the Qing army." Zhang Chengyue said. He thought about the problem from the worst.

"Wait. Now there are one or two thousand Qing soldiers surrounding Qianjiang. If you want to retreat, you must confuse them first. We are recruits. If they are chasing them, it will inevitably lead to chaos in the whole army." Zhong Mei said helplessly. When the war comes, it is like a chess game, and it is not up to him to decide what to do. After he said that, he said to the adjutant beside him: "Go, tell the guard company and send a few more people to the north to find people."

The Qing army was in a big way, and there was no soldiers to be sent to the Governor's Office. Even the guard company was drawn by Zhong Mei to the front line. The city was supported by Baojia personnel. However, the revolutionary army was strict in military discipline and did not violate the people. At the beginning, the gangsters in Hangzhou were incorporated into the army. Therefore, Hangzhou City is still as stable as usual, and only those rich families looked for excuses to leave the city early.

Zhong Mei sent someone out of the city to find someone, but Zhao Guang, who went to the ninth town with Zhao Sheng, was in the Tongmenghui military camp stationed in the north of the city. Hu Hanmin was asking him about surrender last night.

"So, it wasn't Xu Shaozhen who detained you, it was Yu Dahong who arrested you?" After Zhao Guang said that, Hu Hanmin asked aimlessly. In fact, he was distracted. Zhao Sheng could say that he had never believed in surrendering to the ninth town. The cunning officials were not so easy to deal with. The result was exactly as expected. But how could I keep the Revival in Hangzhou in this case? Last night, the telegram from Zhongshan said that negotiations with the Americans were difficult, and told him to stabilize Revival and defend Hangzhou, otherwise the negotiations would be wasted.

Zhao Guang, who escaped, didn't know what Hu Hanmin was thinking. When Hu Hanmin asked, he just said, "Brother Boxian and I were in the Ninth Town before, they had a grudge against Yu Dahong. Once he took over the position of Boxian's supervisor, but Boxian's soldiers were incited to beat him seriously. Everyone made enemies like this. This time, Marshal Xu let us go out of the camp. Who would have expected that Yu Dahong was ambushing halfway and arrested us. If I hadn't run away because of Xiao Jie, I would have been unable to escape."

After Zhao Guang finished talking about the whole story, Wang Kaicheng, the deputy company commander next to him, said anxiously: "Where is Brother Boxian? Is it already an accident?"

Zhao Guang did not answer, but Hu Hanmin said, "No. If you want to kill someone, why should you arrest someone? I think Yu Dahong wants to arrest Boxian and others and force him to confess. Fortunately, Duan Fang sued Xu Shaozhen. Boxian's life is safe for a while." After Hu Hanmin meditated just now, he had a certain plan in his mind, "Bxian is urgent, but now the city defense in Hangzhou is even more urgent. Now we can't let Fuxing abandon Hangzhou and not defend it. We have to stop them."

Hu Hanmin raised the topic to the overall situation, which made Wang Kaicheng, who originally wanted to rescue Zhao Sheng, suddenly turned his mind to the war. He said: "Now, it is said that he cannot surrender, these thousands of people cannot defend against the Qing army..."

"Kaicheng's words are wrong." Wang Ruqi, a native of Huzhou, interrupted his words, "We retreated before the Qing army arrived. It was a joke to go out. People like the Revival Society were originally surrendered, and this was just a coincidence. Now we must drag them to fight the Qing Dynasty in Hangzhou City to the death!"

"Yes! That's the reason." Hu Hanmin glanced at Wang Ruqi with appreciation, only to think that the Chen Qimei Sect was very smart. He looked at Wang Kaicheng and Zhao Guang again. Wang Kaicheng was originally from Hangzhou and joined the Tongmenghui at the Zhenwu School in Tokyo. He was the deputy company commander of the Tongmenghui Company, and Zhao Guang was Zhao Sheng's cousin. "Whether from the perspective of revolutionary justice or Boxian's safety, Hangzhou must be kept. As long as you defend Hangzhou, there will be hope for the revolution!"

Hu Hanmin said here, and after a glance at Wang Ruqi, he stopped talking. Wang Ruqi had already received Chen Qimei's advice before coming to Hangzhou, so he continued: "So it is impossible to say that surrender at this time. I can only say that Xu Shaozhen has nodded in agreement, but there are many loyalists in the Qing army. Only after the war can they be transferred on the ground, and only after the morale of the army is frustrated after the bloody war can they revolt..."

Looking at Wang Ruqi's two thin lips, she turned on her mind and said this idea. Wang Kaicheng and Zhao Guang were both stunned. Zhao Guang said, "This... Then, will Brother Boxian not save him?"

"Save! Of course, you have to save it! Only when Xu Shaozhen is hit by the attack, Yu Dahong will feel that he can defeat him. If Xu Shaozhen successfully occupy the city of Hangzhou, even if Yu Dahong sues him for rebellion, do you think Duan Fang will pursue it? Only when Xu Shaozhen attacks the city of the city is unfavorable, and then Yu Dahong secretly reports him to rebellion, Xu Shaozhen will step down. In this way, Yu Dahong will leave Boxian and others as witnesses. In order to win the trust of Duan Fang, Boxian will definitely be sent to Duan Fang in Shanghai. After going all the way, it will be not difficult to save people." Wang Ruqi is worthy of being a literati, which made Zhao Guang stunned. "So for the current plan, after you enter the city, you must tell everyone that the surrender has been completed. Boxian stayed in the ninth town in order to urge Xu Shaozhen, but he was afraid that Hangzhou would worry, so he sent you back to report the news first."

Wang Ruqi said this, and the folding fan he was holding was put together again. He looked at Hu Hanmin and others and asked, "Have the people from this Revival Society seen Bo Xian's handwriting?"

Hu Hanmin understood what he meant, and after thinking about it, he said, "No one has seen it before. Bo Xian has been in the army all the time, and he has no handwriting at all."

"That's good!" Wang Ruqi's folding fan opened again, and the word "Renie" on it was particularly conspicuous. He slapped twice and said, "I'd better write two books. I'll take them to the city to present them to Cai Yuanpei later." After that, he went to find the pen and ink. Fortunately, there were many literati from Tongmenghui. After a while, the two letters were written, and they were slightly dried and handed over to Zhao Guang.
Chapter completed!