For ordinary people, war always comes unexpectedly. Whether they are willing or not, these torrents of war only carry them away, and the final result is something God cannot calculate. Looking deeper, this is not so much a war as a gamble, which requires everyone to make a desperate bet and strive for it. However, some people have no bets except their lives, while others are different. They can bet a lot, so they have to consider it carefully before placing a bet.

The Xu family ancestral hall in Dongziguan, Changkou, was full of people at this time. The Xu family has been reproducing for more than 1,100 years. There have been many storms and waves in the changing dynasties. However, the ancestors have long passed down, and there are some things that cannot be clearly stated under the inheritance of filial piety. So every time you "pass the tribulation", the head of the family can only perform on the spot.

"What's going on with this revolutionary party?" Xu Binglu, the head of the tenth house of the Xu family, asked his nephew, Xu Zhengshen, who was the fifth house. Two years ago, the righteousness in Hangzhou was very powerful, but he never understood what the revolution was. Then the rebel army retreated to Yanzhou like a riot, which made him believe that this Hongyang Rebellion, especially the leader of the revolutionary party, was surnamed Yang. The war in Yanzhou did not have the same situation as the Xu family, who lived in Dongziguan for the past.

There are many benefits, especially the food, clothing and expenses of the Qing army on the front line, which were all shipped to Yanzhou, and Changkou was one of the ports, and it flourished a lot under the war. However, after only one year of this transaction, I heard that the Qing army was defeated and retreated to the Changkou. Today, the morning was filled with cannons, and the Qing army was defeated, and the defeated soldiers were scattered. When I was asking the servants to pay attention to the family, the betting meeting of the tenth house of the Xu family was held.

"Mr. Jingcheng said..." Xu Zhengshen, who had never been favored by the clan, was very excited to see that he would be asked by the most famous Nine Atai in the clan, and wanted to introduce the revolutionary theory greatly. However, he did not expect that as soon as he said the four words "Mr. Jingcheng" were expressed, his father Xu Bingshi coughed heavily. He had to suppress the joy on his face and said in a regular manner: "The revolutionary party is the team that anti-Qing and restored the Han Dynasty, and brought the Qing Dynasty..." There was a heavy cough next to him, and he had to change his words: "Kill all the corrupt officials, and then let the people sit in the world, work hard to govern, carry forward the national treasures, and revitalize my glorious China."

Xu Zhengshen clearly answered the question that he was not right, and only expressed the propaganda slogans of the Revival Society. When his father was about to get angry, Xu Binglu of the Ninth House hurriedly stopped him and asked curiously: "What does the people do to be in the world? All the time has always been the emperor who is in the world..."

After hearing the doubts from Uncle Jiu, Xu Zhengshen snatched the words: "This is revolution. Rebellion is for the honor of one family. The revolution is for the welfare of the people of the world. In the future, the revolution will be successful. There will be no emperor in the world..."

"I will beat you to death, the rioters!" Seeing that his son was talking nonsense again, Xu Bingshi finally couldn't help it. The feather duster around him slapped hard. While beating, he scolded: "I don't read a good book, but I learned bad things from those tycoons. When I went to Shanghai, I felt like I was stuck in leprosy, and I couldn't change it no matter how I taught you. What's the use of me! What's the use of me?"

As soon as Xu Bingshi fought, the couple of rooms next to him wanted to make jokes. But the revolutionary party had already entered, and it was really not the time to make jokes. He had to come forward one by one to persuade him, especially Xu Binglu of the ninth room and Xu Bingyu of the sixth room. They were very prestigious in the clan. As soon as they persuaded him, they stopped Xu Bingshi, who could only open a shop.

"The Qing Tartars enslaved us Han people for more than two hundred years. The three massacres of ten people in Yangzhou, Jiading, and the defeat of the Jiawu period was so bloody and cruel. How foolish and tragic! Why are there so many donations and so many taxes now? It is because the Tartars have become puppets of foreigners and we have become slaves of slaves. Such an imperial court will rebel against it, and even if I beat it to death, I will rebel against it!" Xu Zhengshen's face was a few blood marks, but the pain angered him. More rebellious words came out, which surprised all the uncles and uncles in the ancestral hall.

"It's a sin! It's a sin! It's a sin!" Xu Bingshi had been persuaded by everyone, but he didn't expect the rebellious son to make a rebellious remark. After lamenting, he ignored everyone's stop and just lifted the chair up and was about to smash it.

"Come on! Beat me to death! Even if I beat me to death, I will go to the revolution!" Xu Zhengshen suddenly was not afraid and stood there straight waiting for his father to smash it over.

The uncles and uncles were already shocked by what he said just now, and only a few servants who were serving him were busy coming over to pull the fifth master. When Xu Bingshi was about to drink others, Xu Binglu drank him, "Fifth brother, stop making trouble. Now the revolutionary party is at the doorstep, so it's important for us to talk about the main business first."

Xu Binglu was born and was smart and capable. As soon as he said this, the other couples also said: "Yes, yes. The revolutionary party has arrived at the doorstep. It will be too late to discuss it..."

Xu Binglu's words were very agreed with the ancestral hall, but it made Xu Zhengshen disgusted. Under the influence of revolutionary literature, he was already very disgusted with his family and family. Now the purpose of Jiu Atai's discussion was not for the revolution, but for the purpose of protecting his own family business, which made him very despised. The reason why he was like this was completely caused by revolutionary literature. This revolution was to tear apart the inherent social relations, making everyone isolated and helpless, and finally be used by the revolution. The kind of revolution in later generations

The elders of the big family in literature are all written as "Biggory, Bagua, Bagua, and vicious" and are all for this. Moreover, under the Three Bonds and Five Constant Constitutions, ethics are extremely painful like women's feet binding. They are not as gentle as those of a fierce personality, so they must rebel against the family and join the revolution. Xu Zhengshen is a person with a fierce personality. Although he was beaten by his father, he still looks like he only understands the truth. He looked at his uncle who was Bagua in the ancestral hall, and snorted and left.

Seeing that Xu Zhengshen could not stop him, he left. Xu Binglu just shook his head, but he wanted to keep the meeting open. He cleared his throat and said, "Since the revolutionary party is here, no matter whether they want to be emperors or not, they have occupied this convenience. Since the court has been defeated, they can't count on it. For the sake of the present, we must have a good relationship with him. Even if we don't have good relationship with him, we cannot provoke them. In order to avoid the disaster of extermination of the clan."

The gentry in Yanzhou was killed and fired, and rumors were everywhere, and the people sitting there also heard about it. When they heard Xu Binglu mention the disaster of extermination, everyone suddenly became silent. However, Xu Bingyu, a sixth housekeeper who knew the policies of the base, said: "When the revolutionary party comes, it will reduce rent and interest rates. There is a lot of land in our clan. If we want to reduce rent, then the harvest this year can be achieved..."

"Yes. I also heard that the Revolutionary Party collected grain and silver and only collected the receipt. Although our clan was not rich, there were quite a few copper coins accumulated over the years. If they were taken away by them, then..." Xu Bingfen, a third-party housekeeper, also said that in 2004, the first line of Qiantang River Fuchun River was opened. He also bought two wooden boats and started shipping business. He didn't want to make a fortune, but he didn't expect that the Qing army encircled Yanzhou the next year and added more than 20 boats to his fleet. He was just worried that the ship would be requisitioned by the Revolutionary Party, but he couldn't say his own ship, so he only pulled everyone's copper coins.

"Yes! Yes! As soon as the revolutionary party comes to collect, there will be nothing." As soon as the three and six bedrooms open their mouths, the other rooms are talking, and the ancestral hall is noisy for a while. Xu Binglu's head hurts.

"Don't argue anymore! Don't argue anymore!" After staying for a long time, just waiting for what we were saying, Xu Binglu, who presided over the meeting, shouted twice before suppressing the voices of the people. "The revolutionary party has arrived. The ships and food outside are all things that can be seen. Can they stop them if they want to collect them? Reduce rent and interest rates, and the land is still ours. When the imperial court calls it over, it will not be too late for us to increase the rent and raise interest rates. When the Hongyang chaos, the momentum was even greater than this, but it was not destroyed in less than ten years, and we will only suffer for ten years at most."

Xu Binglu said comforting words, which only calmed the panicked people, but Xu Bingfen said: "I think the revolutionary party has no gunboats and the waterway cannot be sealed. If there are any valuable items in each room, we will still transport them to Hangzhou City after the battle is over. No, we will ship them to Shanghai to insurance."

The third house had been reluctant to leave his fleet, and wanted to clamor for the various houses to retreat to Shanghai. Xu Binglu said angrily: "San brother, don't forget that the monk can run away and the temple. The Xu family's ancestral tomb ancestral hall is here, and even if you run to the horizon, you will still have to come back. What should you do if the remaining people leave? Let's talk about the three festivals of the year, where will you go to worship your ancestors?"

Xu Binglu hit the weak point of the three-bedroom proposal, and only dispelled everyone's worries about leaving, and then said, "I just said a few things. First, the most secure thing now is that we will do whatever the revolutionary party says. If the family property and money are gone, it will be gone. As long as people are gone, it will be done. The Xu family will not say that they are in Fuyang, even in Zhejiang, they are also prominent families. Under the reputation, they dare not do anything too extraordinary. Second, each house, especially the

The servants must be well managed and never cause any trouble. Third, the foreign guns bought earlier in the house guards will be stored in the ancestral hall at night, and we will discuss how to use them in the future. Fourth, find someone in the side room, kill ten fat pigs, get one hundred ducts of brown rice, and send them to the revolutionary party with gongs and drums. It is not related to the Xu family on the surface, but the person who went there must explain it and tell the revolutionary party that this is given by our Xu family..."

Xu Binglu is worthy of studying well, and arranged the matters in an orderly manner, especially when he asked the side room to give gifts. Although everyone felt sorry for him, it was a wonderful thing. The meeting started at the end of Mao and ended until the beginning of Si. At this time, the revolutionary army had already reached the scene, and was waiting to call the order and drive the sixth town down the river.

The entrance of the field was crowded, but the revolutionary army had not yet attacked. The troops of Lu Arong, who had just run in front, were smoked by the poisonous smoke from the Qing soldiers for a while. After the chaos, they wanted to counterattack, but were stopped by the regiment commander Xu Shunda. He just saw the yellow-green smoke that exploded after the shells fell into the ground in the telescope. At that time, his heart was shocked. The Qing Dynasty was already at a loss. They dared to garrison in this narrow place, so they must have some support. The most difficult-to-kill narrow stream came over. He didn't want to capsize in this gutter. So he ordered the frontline soldiers to start civil engineering operations and wait for the orders of the brigade department.

Xu Shunda was cautious, both good and bad. At this time, the morale of the Qing army was in chaos. Give them a chance to breathe, and the morale of the army would probably be persuaded to calm down by the officers. However, a fight against the water is not possible for any army to do, especially when the river is not completely blocked by the revolutionary army gunboats, many people in the patrol team looked at the docks and wooden boats taken over by the Sixth Town, and suddenly became furious. They thought that the northerners in the Sixth Town were going to escape first. In the commotion, Zhao Guoxian dragged the machine guns to the docks. He killed more than a dozen people before temporarily suppressing the riots. Of course, this was only temporary.

"Hurry up and report it to the military governor. However," Zhang Gong felt extremely hatred when he saw that there was a poisonous gas bomb in Manqing. He only gritted his teeth and said, "I'll dig trenches for me and surrounded the Tartar soldiers to death. I want to throw them all into the river to plant lotus roots."

The company commander reported the matter of poison gas bombs to the regiment commander. The regiment commander reported to the brigade commander, and the brigade commander reported to the military commander Lin Wenqian. In the slightly empty combat room, Zhou Sixu pointed to the sand table and said to Lin Wenqian: "Poison gas bombs are difficult to fight! Now the entire entrance of the field is surrounded by us, including Tianzhong Mountain, the only retreat road on the enemy land, which was also occupied by one regiment and one battalion, and also the waterway. It was also blocked. The Qing army's gunboats had been sunk by us. The rest were all run away..."

When Zhou Sixu said this, Lin Wenqian hurriedly asked, "Did that Jinou ship sink?" The gunboats sent by the Qing Dynasty were all old-style mosquito ships. There were several wooden-hulled ships that were found where they were found. The bore guns on them were not easy to use. Only machine guns could scare people, but this Jinou ship was iron-armored. It was found that it was also equipped with a 170mm Krupp breech gun, which was the first ship of the entire river patrol fleet.

"The Golden Bo has not been patrolling the night. Seeing that the situation is not good, he took the lead and ran away. Several other remaining wooden ships also ran away." Zhou Sixu shook his head. He didn't understand why the Golden Bo ship ran away. In fact, this ship has been built for more than 30 years and is extremely old. Moreover, when he was patrolling the river, he used only the machine guns on the ship. The Krupp cannon had no shells at all. Seeing that the revolutionary gunboats were extremely powerful and coming in a fierce manner, the ship waited for the boiler to heat up and headed towards Qiantang River.

"That's bad," Lin Wenqian frowned and said, "When it goes, the news of the attack will be known immediately. If you go to Shanghai again, you will know the Shanghai day after tomorrow."

"How could it go to Shanghai?" Zhou Sixu said: "I think he must be looking for other gunboats to reinforce. This golden bowl is still a small ship. If there is such a gunboat, it will be difficult."

"Report!" shouted the staff officer at the door, "The artillery regiment is in urgent need of electricity."

When Zhou Sixu heard the urgent telegram, he turned around to receive the telegram. After reading it, he was overjoyed and said, "Cheng Yuan said he could attack!" After that, he handed the telegram to Lin Wenqian.

When the Revolutionary Army approached the stadium in the morning, the Qing army urgently fired a poisonous gas bomb. Others didn't know what it was. Li Chengyuan knew, was this a chlorine shell? Foreigners used it in Tianjin during the Gengzi year. Seeing this, he wanted to immediately notify the General Staff to stop the attack, but when he saw that the infantry stopped, he felt relieved. Since the Qing army had chlorine bombs, it was still a bit difficult to eat it, but they forgot one thing, that is, except for Linjiang, the Qing army took over the enemy everywhere.

The place where the army attacked was the lower wind vent, but if it was attacked in another direction, then the Qing Dynasty would be the lower wind vent. Therefore, Li Chengyuan's telegram was to establish a revolutionary army to change the direction of attack, not attacking from the south, but attacking from the north. Temperature, pressure, wind direction, wind speed, humidity, these are all the things that artillery should pay attention to. Li Chengyuan came to Zhejiang and the northeast to form a meteorological team affiliated with artillery. Now the attack of the revolutionary army is blocked, in the eyes of others, how to resist poison gas is the problem of wind direction and wind speed.

"Okay! Then send a telegram to Zhang Gong immediately, telling him that the situation has changed and the direction of the attack should be changed to the north." Lin Wenqian did not want to wait any longer, so he made a quick decision to change the combat plan. Afterwards, he felt that it was inappropriate and said again: "Give Li Chengyuan another power, tell him that the artillery soldiers immediately re-form the plan and support a regiment to attack the Qing army from the north."

The revolutionary party was stopped by the green gas bomb, and the Qing army was all celebrating each other. Ma Liang, the artillery team that was not popular before, was praised by everyone. These praises only made Ma Liang feel a little more angry when walking. However, when he said that the green gas cannon was forbidden by a civilized country, so he used it, and it was only for the outside and never for the inside, but now it was used by him on his own people... The revolutionary party took the world and did not dare to think about it. Even if he did not take the world, his reputation was also bad. His name in the newspaper was no longer Ma Liang, but a horse butcher, a horse tyrant, etc.

"Sir, it's hard to accomplish something with green air shells. Now our army's morale is in chaos and the enemy is in full swing. In addition, the gunboats on the river have been sunk by the revolutionary party..." After everyone else retreated in Zhao Guoxian's study, Ma Liang finally said what he kept in his heart. It was just that Zhao Guoxian was caressing his beard and was very unhappy.

"The rebels are at most 10,000 people. Our army is ready to fight, how can we lose?" Zhao Guoxian stared at his eyes. He looked like he was about to eat Ma Liang, and only interrupted his words later. "Remember that you have made contributions to repel the rebels today. The merits and demerits are offset. If you dare to retreat again, the military law will deal with it!"

Although Zhao Guoxian was old, he had always carried the Sixth Town. With the accumulated power, Ma Liang was so panicked that his braids were about to rise up and immediately fell to the ground. He said voluntarily. Zhao Guoxian didn't want to pay attention to him anymore, but waved his hand to send him away. As soon as he left, Zhao Guoxian sat down dejectedly on the chair. Seeing this, the slave on the side hurried over and helped the master rub his head. The master who was waiting outside came in. He bent and whispered: "Dongweng."

"Yes." Zhao Guoxian raised his left hand and only let the people next to him go down, then stood up and closed the door himself and said, "I am a soldier and a man, and it is also a blessing to die on the battlefield. Mr. Li, have I, Zhao Guoxian, have you treated you badly in the past ten years?"

When Master Li heard Dongweng said he died and asked if he was wronged, he immediately staggered and knelt down on the ground and said anxiously: "Master, you can't..." He said half of this, and then heard Zhao Guoxian snorting. So he had to say: "Dongweng owes me since I am, but Li often feels that he owes Dongwen a lot. He just feels that he can't repay you."

"Haha!" Zhao Guoxian laughed loudly, and after laughing, he sighed again, and said sadly: "I, Zhao Guoxian, have been in the military service for a lifetime. In the year of Guiwei, Korea has not died even in danger. I didn't expect that I would die here today. But it's good that the mountains and rivers are beautiful here, just a bed."

Dongweng talked about life and death again, Master Li was at a loss and said, "Master, hasn't this chaos stopped him?"

"Stop it?" Zhao Guoxian smiled in disguise, "Where can we stop the chaos party at the moment?" He said this, and only took out a few things from his arms and said, "This is my last memorial to the emperor. You must take it. This letter is for Yuan Weiting, you have it, and this is for the family... Before the war has begun, you will go to the riverside immediately, and then a small boat will take you to Hangzhou City."

Master Li didn't expect that Dongweng asked him to come and just explain the funeral. He didn't want to accept the letter but was forced into his hand by Zhao Guoxian. Finally, he listened to him: "I'm such an old bone, and I can still contribute to the emperor until I die. I'm really lucky. You go, don't delay the matter." After he said this, Master Li was still frightened, and Zhao Guoxian had to say again: "The so-called three sieges and one siege, the rebellion will let go. Go!" Then he asked his personal soldiers to take Master Li out.

The final explanation was over, and Zhao Guoxian suddenly became more and more energetic. He asked someone to help him put on the brand new dress of the commander. When he was wearing it, he only saw the gray-bearded head in the mirror. Zhao Guoxian couldn't help but sigh again.

This time the rebels invasion was too fierce, and there was no warning. When the guns were heard, the rebels had already rushed in front of him. Zhao Guoxian didn't want to retreat. At first, he said that the fight to the death was nothing more than to stabilize the morale of the army. In fact, he wanted to arrange troops to retreat to Fuyang City on the other side to join forces with the Thousand Towns. But in the end, he found that his gunboat had been sunk by the rebels, and the Jinou ship equipped with the armored ship ran away again. This completely cut off his last chance. Although the large armored gunboats in Hangzhou would come, according to the offensive momentum of the rebels' attack, when the gunboats came, he had already become cold and cold.

Zhao Guoxian, dressed in the dress of the commander, appeared in the conference hall. Seeing his solemn appearance, everyone was shocked. Zhao Guoxian didn't care about the surprise of everyone and said to himself: "It's all for this, and I have nothing to hide. Now Tianzhong Mountain has been occupied by the rebels, and the rebel gunboats on the river are rebel gunboats, and we have no way to retreat! The only chance of life now is to wait for the Jiangyuan ship in Hangzhou to go north to drive away the rebel gunboats, so that there is a glimmer of life. Whether you are loyal to the court or to survive for yourself, you must keep your positions tightly and wait for our gunboats to return to help. Okay, there is nothing to discuss. Let's go back. Whether you are alive to the court or to survive, it depends on your luck."

After Zhao Guoxian said this, the generals' faces suddenly changed but were speechless. They had been counting on the waterway to escape, but they didn't expect that the waterway would be blocked. Everyone was panicked. A Guandai, who knew that the Jinou ship was escaping, shouted loudly, "Those sailors only care about escaping their own lives, but left us here to die. It's simply outrageous!"

The miserable one of the people only ignited everyone's anger. Under the raging congressional rage, the convention hall was in a mess. Zhao Guoxian looked at the indignation of the righteous indignation and slapped the head on the table and drank: "What are you shouting? Can you save your life by shouting? Get back to me!" With a wave of his sleeve, he only asked his personal soldiers to beat these people out.
Chapter completed!