Chapter 80, the darkest
The thoughts were unified, and the battle plan was quickly released. After everyone's discussion, it was decided to send Chen Yulin, Xu Wannian, and Ai Liangchen out of the city to announce the order to the Nanhu Artillery Brigade stationed outside the city; Yang Shengli, Chen Lei, and others were sent to inform the Eighth Battalion and the Engineering Battalion in the city. The baggage camp stationed at Tangjiao.
All year round, the days are the shortest in October.
At five o'clock in the afternoon, the lanterns were on at Parrot Island.
Because No. 1 Baoshanli had just been burned by fire, the house was dark. Compared with the coming and going of people in the previous days, it was like deathly silence at this time.
At this time, a boy of sixteen or seventeen years old came with a young woman at dusk. After wandering for a while at No. 1 Baoshanli, the boy was about to reach out and push the door open when several figures suddenly jumped out of the darkness. The force of the ear pushed the two of them to the ground, and then they disappeared into the dusk like ghosts.
As dusk deepened, the air in No. 8 Xiaochao Street, Jiangcheng seemed to have solidified, and everyone present looked solemn.
The door opened, and the person who came was Peng Xiangchu, the chief officer of the military police camp.
Peng Xiangchu was one of the few revolutionary comrades who had the dual identities of "Literary Society" and "Common Advancement Society". The "Literary Society" and the "Gongjinhui" jointly initiated this joint uprising, and Peng Xiangchu Hanxuan strongly contributed to it.
Since Peng Xiangchu had a gendarmerie status as a cover, he was elected as the gendarmerie battalion representative responsible for liaison and picketing during this uprising.
"What's going on outside?" Lu Xuemin couldn't wait to ask as soon as he saw Peng Xiangchu.
"There is a lot of noise outside. The military police camp has received orders from above and no one is allowed to leave the camp. It took me a lot of effort to get out," Peng Xiangchu said.
"The military police have been banned. Something is wrong. Did the news leak out again?" Liu Fusheng asked in surprise.
Gendarmerie Inspector Sergeant, according to common practice, whenever a major event occurs in the military, the Gendarmerie Battalion is prohibited from asking for leave or going out. Thinking that the people involved in the uprising were all soldiers, Liu Fusheng and other representatives felt a little uneasy.
Lu Xuemin looked at his watch and said in a deep voice: "It's not yet the scheduled time for the incident, so please be patient."
Peng Xiangchu felt that the atmosphere in the room was heavy, so he took out a bag of cash from his bag, put it on the table with a smile and said: "I still have dozens of dollars here, let everyone share one point, and I'm afraid there will be another fight later." No one is giving us military pay anymore, so let’s use this little money to buy some sesame seed cakes to satisfy our hunger.”
After Peng Xiangchu made such a joke, the tense atmosphere in the room finally eased a little.
The waiting time was extremely long, and every minute and second that passed seemed like millions of years had passed.
Lu Xuemin turned on the gramophone, and a beautiful melody sounded. It was as if an invisible wall had been built in No. 8 Xiaochao Street, keeping darkness and fear out of the house.
"Chen Yulin, please don't let anything happen to you!"
Lu Xuemin closed his eyes and prayed secretly in his heart.
Nothing happened to Chen Yulin. At this time, he was discussing the uprising with revolutionary representatives in the stable of the Nanhu Artillery Team.
Chen Yulin, Xu Wannian, and Ai Liangchen left No. 8 Xiaochao Street around 4 p.m. The three of them felt that it was still early, so they walked around the city first and notified all the comrades they thought should be notified. Again. Unexpectedly, after walking around, it was already 10 o'clock in the evening. When the three people left the city from Wenchang Gate and rushed to the Nanhu Artillery Team, it was already late at night and the agreed time for the uprising had passed.
"We arrived too late. All the comrades in the barracks were already asleep and immediately revolted. The time was too hasty and we carried out the attack in the dark. The possibility of success in the chaos is extremely slim." Xu Wannian, a representative of the hand camp of the Nanhu Artillery Team, was very embarrassed. typical.
"Yeah, why did you come so late? We are not prepared at all. Besides, the artillery shells have been collected, so you can't fire even if you want!" Meng Huachen of the Nanhu Artillery Team also said.
"But the comrades in the city are still waiting for the sound of our cannons. What should we do?" Chen Yulin finally realized that he had made a big mistake.
"There is no other way. We can only wait until dawn tomorrow. We will return to the headquarters and renegotiate the time of the uprising with Commander-in-Chief Lu." Xu Wannian said.
Dreaming is the oldest aesthetic activity.
But tonight, many people are destined to miss it.
Lu Xuemin was anxiously waiting for the sound of gunfire from the Nanhu Artillery Team.
Chen Yulin was waiting nervously for dawn.
Shen Chengwu is tormented by deep regret.
Governor He Loushuo of Yunmengze also had no sleep tonight, because a few hours ago, they learned from a seventeen-year-old boy named Liu Tong that a group of people at No. 8 Xiaochao Street were planning to revolutionize his life.
He Loushuo, who was fasting and chanting Buddha's name, was so angry that he sent out a large army of military police, like monsters that chose people to devour, and quietly marched towards Xiaochao Street.
It had been a long time since the time hand ticked across the 12 o'clock direction. After all, the anticipated sound of the cannon did not sound. The film on the gramophone came to an end, and the room at No. 8 Xiaochao Street was filled with dead silence.
Lu Xuemin went to the second floor in the dark and looked out the window. It was very quiet outside, with only raindrops beating on the window lattice.
Suddenly there was a slightly hasty knock on the door.
"Who?" Lu Xuemin asked.
"I..." The voice of the visitor was a little strange.
"What?" Lu Xuemin asked again.
"I'm looking for someone!" the person replied.
"Who are you?"
"I'm here to see your boss. Open the door first and then talk..."
This was not a code for a connection. Lu Xuemin and others were shocked and started looking for bombs with guns.
When everyone was in panic, the door was suddenly smashed open, and a large number of military police with big hats and pigtails rushed in.
Liu Fusheng, with quick eyes and quick hands, threw a bomb at the military police. The soldiers and police panicked and fled backwards.
The bomb didn't go off.
"Fake bomb!" someone from the military police shouted, and they rushed forward.
At this time, Liu Fusheng had retreated to the middle of the stairs. Seeing the fierce attack of the military and police, he took out a bomb and threw it at his feet, hoping to die with the enemy.
The bomb still didn't go off.
It turned out that after hearing that Shen Chengwu was injured, for safety reasons, people from the "Literary Club" removed the bolts of the bomb. At this time, Liu Fusheng was in a panic as he hurriedly responded to the challenge and forgot to put back the bomb bolt.
If the bomb has no bolt, of course it won't explode.
The military police didn't know the secret and saw that Liu Fusheng didn't even throw two bombs. They thought he was pretending to be a ghost, so they swarmed up, pushed Liu Fusheng to the ground, and tied him up.
After Liu Fusheng stopped him, the revolutionary comrades in the house had time to retreat to the second floor. They climbed to the roof from the window, jumped into the neighbor's yard, and escaped each other.
As soon as Chen Honggao, the political organizer representing the "Common Progress Association" landed on the ground, he was held down. When Chen Honggao looked back, he saw that the military policeman holding him down was an acquaintance, so he pretended to be surprised and said: "Hey, don't you go and arrest him?" Revolutionary Party, why are you holding me down?"
Chen Honggao's father worked in the patrol road. The military police also knew that Chen Honggao was a revolutionary party. Due to their acquaintance, they whispered: "You are shouting behind me, pretending that you are here to arrest the rebels, and find an opportunity to leave."
After Lu Xuemin jumped into a neighboring courtyard, he was held down by the military police guarding the wall as soon as he climbed over the wall. Lu Xuemin shouted: "I...I came to see the fun, why did you catch me...for what?"
When the military policeman saw that Lu Xuemin looked rustic, had long braids, was wearing a shabby cotton robe, and stuttered when he spoke, he looked like a "country bumpkin". He secretly screamed bad luck, raised his hand and gave him a stick and a kick. On his butt, he cursed: "Get out!"
Lu Xuemin ran away as if he had been granted amnesty.
The military policeman never dreamed that the "country bumpkin" he let go was the military commander-in-chief of this uprising.
Peng Xiangchu, wearing a military police uniform, also took advantage of the chaos and left No. 8 Xiaochao Street. Perhaps relying on the military police uniform, Peng Xiangchu returned to the scene by mistake, hoping to take the opportunity to rescue the arrested Liu Fusheng.
"Stop, what are you doing here?" A police officer stopped Peng Xiangchu and asked.
"Handling the case, I'm here to handle the case." Peng Xiangchu replied carelessly. Little did he know that he made a fatal mistake by answering casually.
The gendarmerie supervises the army, and the patrol police are generally responsible for such tasks as local security and catching rioters. If Peng Xiangchu said he was passing by, maybe the police officer would let him go, but he said he was working on a case, which immediately aroused the police officer's suspicion.
"You are from the military police camp, what case are you handling? No one asked you to participate in today's operation!" The police officer waved his hand, and several armed policemen came over immediately, disarmed Peng Xiangchu, and escorted him back to the patrol road.
In He Loushuo's arrest operation, in addition to those arrested at No. 8 Xiaochao Street, there was also Yang Shengli who went to the Eighth Engineering Battalion and the Baggage Battalion to issue orders.
The story of Yang Shengli's arrest was unlucky for him.
It turned out that Yang Chenggong had sent the order for the uprising to the Eighth Engineering Battalion and the Supply Battalion as planned, and had discussed with Xiong Jiancheng, the uprising representative of the Eighth Engineering Battalion, and others about the secret code for the uprising and the signs to distinguish between enemy and friendly soldiers.
Since all the bullets of the New Army soldiers were turned over and sealed in the South Observatory, Yang Shengli made another trip back and forth and delivered two boxes of bullets to the Eighth Engineering Battalion. When he returned to the 8th Engineering Battalion for the third time to deliver bombs again, Huang Kunrong, the right team officer of the 8th Engineering Battalion, noticed something unusual and had to flee back to his residence for shelter.
Yang Shengli's misfortune was that the landlord of the residence he rented was a member of the family of Li Xianglin, the commander of the Metropolitan Guard. Seeing Yang Shengli's mysterious whereabouts on weekdays, the house owner suspected that he was a revolutionary party and reported him to Li Xianlin.
It happened that martial law had been enforced in the city for the past few days. After receiving the report, Li Xianglin immediately sent troops to arrest Yang Shengli who was returning home.
At this time, Yang Shengli was holding a basket full of bombs in his hands. When he saw the military police, he panicked and turned around and ran away. In panic, he casually threw a bomb at the military police.
Because the bolts were not installed in time, the bomb did not go off. Yang Shengli hurriedly loaded a bomb and threw it out. This time the bomb went off, but none of the military police exploded. Instead, he was hit by shrapnel in the leg and fell to the ground.
When Yang Shengli was about to throw the third bomb, the military police rushed up and captured him alive.
The entire arrest operation did not end until three or four o'clock in the morning. He Loushuo, who had rebelled against the party, was rarely efficient this time. He sent his trusted military counselor overnight to supervise the general office of the training station, Tiezhong, Qingchuan prefect Shuangshou, and Jiangcheng prefect. Chen Shuping was examined by three courts.
For a long time, the Daqing Dynasty has been conducting "public trials" for major rebellion cases, aiming to shock the public.
Although it was midnight, I heard that a revolutionary party was going to be interrogated, and countless people came to the Taitai Yamen to watch the excitement.
