Chapter 29 The "Like Resistance" of Fuzhou Banner Camp in 1911

The Eight Banners garrison system is an ancestral system established after the Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains to monitor the Han people and control the Quartet.Although it is said that this system, together with the Eight Banners soldiers stationed outside, could not look down on the world for a long time, but until the Qing Dynasty swallowed its last breath, this system was still maintained.During this period, many reforms were carried out, trying to revive the garrison of the Eight Banners, spending a lot of money to buy foreign guns and cannons, and hiring foreign coaches to train them, but most of them were useless.After becoming a ruling group, the Eight Banners, regardless of whether they are high or low, rich or poor, have become idlers plus useless people.

However, this group of idlers got into big trouble during the Revolution of 1911.The revolution of the revolutionaries was full at the beginning.During the propaganda, there was a murderous look, as if he wanted to eat all the meat, sleep all over the skin, and report Yangzhou's ten days and Jiading's three massacres.When the revolution came, it was rumored in the market that the revolutionary party, with white helmets and white armor, wore mourning for Emperor Chongzhen and wanted to kill all the Manchus.Therefore, the places where the Eight Banners are garrisoned, especially those located in the city, can't help but panic.You can't let people kill it like a chicken, right?So, resist.So, set up guns, pull cannons, and go to work.Some even stepped up training to enrich officers.It's a pity that the veteran soldiers of the Eight Banners have been idlers for more than two hundred years.Fortunately, even the Revolutionary Party doesn't have that much hatred for the Manchus, and the propaganda is just propaganda.As long as the Manchus do not resist, almost no insurgents like to kill people.However, at that moment of turmoil, neither side had a clue.Although most of the bannermen in the Manchu cities, such as Hangzhou, Guangzhou, and Nanjing, did not resist, the Manchus were largely unharmed.There are also cities such as Xi'an, where real resistance took place throughout the city. Of course, more bannermen were killed and injured.In other places, such as Fuzhou, the generals stationed in the garrison wanted to fight to the death, and it seemed that they really fought, but it was just that the two sides fired some empty artillery, and basically no one died.Only one general, because of his stubborn mind and too strong "fighting spirit" at the time, lost his life after the bannermen surrendered.This kind of resistance can only be regarded as "like resistance".

The general in Fuzhou was named Pu Shou, a Manchu with a yellow banner, and he was born in the imperial examination. He sat in this position in the 33rd year of Guangxu (1907) and waited until the revolution.There is a biography in Pu Shou's Qing History Draft. Regarding this resistance, the "Qing History Draft" said quite tragically: "In the third year of Xuantong, the provincial city militia rose up, (Pu Shou) led the defense army to fight, the firearms were sharp, and the people The army was almost out of support. Although the civilian army was created, it was always recruited at any time. Because of the fierce fighting, the defense army suffered many casualties and was defeated. Pu Shou was arrested, humiliated, and unyielding, so he was dismembered and his body was abandoned at the foot of the mountain. The most fierce cloud." Of course, this Banner General is indeed very stubborn and serious.Probably the only one among the Eight Banners generals stationed in other places who has the intention to do something.It is said that the people under the banner were very kind. After the Huanghuagang uprising in the year of 1911, the officialdom in the whole south was in turmoil. The government in Fuzhou also received threatening letters of assassination one after another. It was about to fall off, thinking that the assassination group was coming, it was easy to be shocked, and found out that it was my guard who had gone off the rails, in a rage, he ordered the stick to punish this daredevil, just after the order was issued, he changed his mind and thought it was wrong, he should not offend people like this, Immediately canceled again, saving the ass of the rash guard.As soon as the Wuchang Uprising broke out, he began to reorganize the banner battalion, enrich officers, and strengthen training.Every man over the age of thirteen holds a foreign gun with 300 rounds of ammunition, and every woman a small knife, vowing to fight the Han people to a decisive battle.It's a pity that the general's hard work is a little late. The banner camp in Fuzhou, like other banner camps, has too many shortages. Even if all of them are employed, most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled. will use.As soon as the cannons of the uprising new army outside the city were fired, this side collapsed without a fight, and even the general's office was empty, blinding the general's ambition to serve the country in vain.In fact, on the side of the new army, the artillery was fired in a mess and aimlessly.But banner people are afraid of cannons, and they have always been like this. When the cannons are fired, people are gone.After a while, the white flag of Qiying was hung out.The general, who was full of pride at the beginning of the war, now has no electricity, lying on a chair, without saying a word, allowing his subordinates to disarm and surrender.According to the memories of the flag soldiers who were present that day, on the white flag of surrender, there were also four large characters "willing to hand over the arms".After a while, the rebel army sent people in, took Pu Shou away, and killed him, but the deputy governor was released.There is no dismemberment, but Pu Shou's head must have been lost.When it was released, the person had already been packed in the coffin, and the corpse had not been abandoned down the mountain.

The only intense firefight that day took place in a temple on a hill outside the city.The flag soldiers guarding inside dug a lot of gun holes on the temple wall. When they heard that the rebel army was coming to attack, they fired their guns desperately before seeing the figure, but the rebel army did not attack. Just like the flag soldiers, they just shot at the temple. .Both sides did not go through the battle formation, and neither dared to come to the truth. They just fired their guns with thunderbolts, and no one was injured. The bullets ran out, and the bannermen had to surrender.Obviously, this part of the bannermen was much braver than their colleagues, who all changed into plain clothes and fled as soon as the cannon fired.In a battle, there was no loss to the rebel army, nor to the banner battalion. No one died, but a lot of bullets were wasted.The revolutionaries in Fuzhou are very civilized. All banner soldiers who put down their arms will not be killed.To deal with the bannermen who were too late to leave, a special livelihood preparatory office was set up to distribute grain and rice to them.In this way, those who slipped away in advance sneaked back again to look for food.After all, the north of Fujian is a little far away, and there is a lot of chaos outside, so it's better to stay where you are.

When the revolutionary party is arguing with the constitutionalists, it often emphasizes destruction and advocates chaos.However, firstly, the revolution was actually launched jointly by the Revolutionary Party and the Constitutional Party, and secondly, even the Revolutionary Party members, except for a few people who were born in the Communist Party and bandits, were mostly scholars and had not lost their demeanor of the old gentlemen. Not happy to destroy it either.Therefore, minimizing killings has become the consensus of most insurgents.Before the revolution was successful, the banner of the revolution changed from a row of Manchurians to a "republic of five ethnic groups", with Manchus also mixed in, and it was salty and reformed.In fact, if the Eight Banners garrisoned in various places knew this was the case, even a small number of resistance would not have occurred, and the process of revolution would have been more peaceful.