Chapter 13 Chapter Thirteen

It has almost become an iron law that a great man must always be ridiculed by the mortal before he becomes great. Later, Yifu Bian thought about it more than once, why did this happen?Why can't many mortals see the greatness in the great man before the great man is great?Isn't this the short-sightedness of the Chinese people? Short-sighted people only see that the foreign knife is carried in the wrong direction, only that the binoculars are hanging around the neck of the other is unseemly, and they even make up book songs to ridicule, saying, "The general is very powerful, and the foreign knife is on the right side. Hanging a root around the neck. X, look like a fool."

These mortal things with naked eyes can't see the innate heroism of others! When the old fort in the south of the city was fighting so fiercely, no one thought of giving the order to fire! The three iron cannons of the West Second Route Militia Army did not seem to fire at all that day. When Yifu Bian rode his horse and jumped over the Huilong Bridge, he saw through the binoculars that three cannons were pointed at the old north gate, which seemed to be the case, but there was no one around the cannons. When I got closer and looked again, I found that more than a dozen brothers who were in charge of the cannon were hiding behind a big tree and playing dice to gamble. The words also revealed that no matter who wins or loses, they will settle the bill after going to the city to wash the streets.

Standing on the towering mound, you can see it without a telescope, and there is a mess everywhere. Some of the brothers on Xi’er Road basked in the sun in groups of three or four in the open field, catching lice; Thinking about something. This scene made Yifu Bian very angry: Aunt Xia is now leading her brothers to storm the old fort with all her might. There are no casualties, even Tianhe is dead. This side is fine, it doesn't look like a war at all!I don't know if Li Erye is dead or not, but I have seen it with my own eyes. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, it would be hard to believe.

It was only then that Yifu Bian realized that it was really wise for Xia Gu to ask him to command the troops of the West Second Route.Then, he realized his responsibility to Aunt Xia. Immediately, Wang Sanshun called Ren Daquan, the deputy commander of Xi'er Road, and asked Ren Daquan what was going on here? Ren Daquan arrived unhurriedly and said, "Mr. Bian, don't worry! It's not that we don't want to fight, but the money management belt in the city doesn't want to fight! As soon as we got to the bottom of the city, the insider inside said, As long as we don’t fight, everything is easy to discuss. Li Erye and I thought, since we can discuss it, it’s also good not to fight. Mr. Bian, think about it, we are now a civilian army, not a bandit, so why should we fight hard? We will enter the city in the future , maybe you will have to work with Qian Guandai, so if you don’t fight, you will make fewer grudges and hurt others!"

Yifu Bian said: "You don't make grudges here, you don't hurt others, and Aunt Xia in the south will suffer a lot from the Green Camp!" Ren Daquan said: "You can't say who will suffer, it's good to use both soft and hard measures. Grandma Xia is hard-pressed, so we will enter the city from the south gate; It can be said to complement each other!" Pausing for a while, he added: "Li Erye is currently negotiating, and I think there is still hope for a peaceful settlement on the old Beimen side." Bian Yifu thought that both Ren Daquan and Li Erye were suspected of defrauding Aunt Xia, and he didn't want to talk too much with Ren Daquan, so he drew the command knife hanging on the right side of his body and said, "Peace is a fart! Let me explain clearly: Xia My aunt has an order, and I'm in charge of this journey, with only one word: fight!"

Ren Daquan was taken aback, as if he didn't quite believe it. He looked Yifu Bian up and down and asked, "Grandma Xia really asked you to command us? You, Mr. Bian...can also fight?" Bian Yifu said: "Whether I can fight or not, you will know right away! Even...even if I can't fight, I have to fight! It's better than you not doing nothing!" Wang Sanshun also confirmed from the side: "Master Ren, Aunt Xia got impatient and gave the order to die. We need to move immediately!" Only then did Ren Daquan say: "Just... we want to fight, we... we have to wait for Li Erye to come back from negotiations! If we fight now, I'm afraid we will ruin Li Erye!"

Bian Yifu said: "I can't wait! Even if you destroy Second Master Li, you still have to fight!" Ren Daquan quit and said: "If I want to beat you, I...I can't fight, I can't break my promise to Qian Guandai and Li Erye..." Yifu Bian said angrily: "Okay! I will beat you! If I dare not beat you, I won't come!" Ren Daquan retreated to the side, but still taunted Yifu Bian: "Sir, you are quite courageous, but you have to carry a knife with your shoulders. Don't let people make fun of you. Mr. Commands a militia all the way, and you don't know how to carry a knife!"

Right now, Yifu Bian couldn't care less about bickering with Ren Daquan, so he yelled "go" to Wang Sanshun, rushed to the open field where many brothers gathered, brandished a knife and shouted at the brothers, asking them to Immediately, they returned to the sheds, three sheds and one team, and the whole team assembled to attack the city after the gunfire. However, Yifu Bian broke out in sweat, and the brothers remained motionless. Almost no one believed that the man in front of him with a foreign knife on his right side and a telescope hanging from his slender neck would be their new commander. .

Wang Sanshun tried his best to confirm that the brothers still didn't believe it, and even pointed at Yifu Bian and joked. Yifu Bian was furious, but he had no choice but to ask Wang Sanshun to call Ren Daquan again. When Ren Daquan came, he didn't confirm Yifu Bian's command status to the brothers, but only said that according to Yifu Bian, he was ordered by Aunt Xia to command the West Second Route People's Army. The brothers became even more presumptuous, and a one-eyed thick man actually stepped forward, stretching out a pair of black and dirty hands, wanting to re-sheath the foreign knife for Yifu Bian.

Yifu Bian was really mad with anger, the blood all over his body rushed to his forehead, he didn't know what was going on at that time, he suddenly raised the gleaming foreign knife, and with a "swipe" knife, he chopped the one-eyed thick man Fell to the ground, and then roared: "I'm not here to amuse you! I'm your new commander of Xi'er Road, and anyone who dares to act presumptuously will... all end up like this!" This was the first person Yifu Bian killed. When killing, he is not afraid at all because of anger, and he doesn't care about the consequences.Thinking about it later, I broke out in a cold sweat.

At that time, if someone jumped up and stabbed him, or shot him from a distance, he would be finished, and he would no longer have the greatness and glory that he had later. Greatness will be wiped out on that day, history will be rewritten, and a person named Yifu Bian is doomed to be only one of the little people among all living beings, and will never be extraordinary. However, this knife did not cause any trouble, but instead produced an unexpected obedience. The first one to submit was Ren Daquan. After Ren Yifu yelled at Bian Yifu, he suddenly changed his attitude for some reason, and stood next to the one-eyed brother's body and yelled, saying to the brothers: "We are now the militia, not bandits. Just tight, it’s impossible not to fight here, and it’s even more impossible not to obey Mr. Bian’s military orders!” Ren Daquan asked the brothers to obey Bian Yifu's command. Then Yifu Bian waved the bloody big foreign knife again, and repeated the order just now. The brothers stood up and listened, and after listening, immediately assembled the whole team under the leadership of the captain and shed chief. Looking at the figures of the brothers hurriedly forming a team, and seeing the one-eyed man covered in blood under his feet, Yifu Bian felt afraid, and only then did he think about the issue of Li Erye's settlement with him after the battle. Bian Yifu forced himself to be calm, and asked Ren Daquan, the deputy commander who had subdued him, "Who is this person?" Ren Daquan said: "It's a bodyguard of Li Erye's, named Xu Congxi." Bian Yifu wanted to ask: What is the relationship between Xu Congxi and Li Erye?But he didn't dare to ask, afraid that if he asked, Ren Daquan, who had just obeyed, would see his cowardice, so he said: "You, the deputy commander, saw it with your own eyes, I have to kill this Xu Congxi, I don't want to kill this battle There is no way to fight!" Ren Daquan nodded and said, "Yes!" Yifu Bian thought again: Xu Congxi's death is considered unjust, this man just played a joke on him, and he actually killed someone, it's really... really too much. I couldn't help feeling a little regretful in my heart, and said to Ren Daquan again: "It's finally my brother, and Xu Congxi's family members in the future, I... I want to take care of them." Ren Daquan said again: "Mr. Bian is kind-hearted." Afterwards, Bian Yifu really paid for Xu Congxi's family for twenty years, and he was both guilty and grateful.Yifu Bian became more and more aware that it was this little man named Xu Congxi who used his own head to help him establish authority when he needed it the most, which made him famous in Xinhong City in the year of 1911. heroic nature. This is the solemn moment for Bian Yifu to change the history of Xinhong: at 10:35 am on November 11 in the third year of Xuantong. At this solemn moment, Yifu Bian walked to the side of the three cannons facing the old north gate of Xinhong in a historic way. Ren Daquan stood on the left side of his body, and Wang Sanshun stood on the right side of his body. A bright arc was drawn in the air, and he shouted in a loud voice: "Fire!" The three iron cannons roared at the same time, and the pig iron eggs, which were used as shrapnel, rushed towards the city in an instant in the smoke and fire, smashing the cunning and hypocritical peace of the Qianguan belt, and creating the first wave of terror for the West Second Route People's Army. man's prestige. With the prestige created by the iron cannon, the brothers began to attack the city. The flag of the West Second Road and the 18-star iron-blooded flag of the Revolutionary Party were held in the hands of the two brothers on horseback, and they floated down the city vividly. The fast guns in the hands of the brothers also rang out, and the sound of gunfire and shouts of killing was like thunder resounding across the wilderness. The momentum of this situation is really moving. What is the grandeur, Yifu Bian really felt it at the old Beimen city that day. Because of that feeling, the command knife in Bian Yifu's hand drew a second arc in the air, and shouted again: "Fire!" The iron cannon rang again, and the gunpowder smoke around the cannon was like clouds and fog. Amidst the rising smoke, Yifu Bian raised the binoculars under his neck and looked towards the top of the city, but saw nothing. What he saw now was only a blank white. When the firing was ordered for the third time, two white coats had already been raised by the patrol battalion at the head of the city, but Yifu Bian didn't see it, so he gave the order anyway. When I saw it through the binoculars, two cannons had fired, the patrol battalion had opened the city gate wide open, and the brothers who had attacked the city were rushing in... In this way, Yifu Bian became the famous "Three Cannons" General. Later, those who praised him said that these three cannons decided history.It was precisely because of Bian Yifu's order to fire three times that Xinhongcheng was able to recover. Those who decried him said that the three cannonballs were really absurd and unnecessary in the first place. Li Shuangyin had a good talk with Qian Guandai on the top of the city, and the patrol battalion was ready to fight for righteousness, but he was still messing around here. However, historians have another opinion in "Xinhai Xinhong Restoration Notes" compiled by Yifu Bian a hundred years later. It is said that when Yifu Bian ordered the firing, the news of the independence of the provincial capital happened to come out, and Qian Guandai followed the trend and attached himself to the revolution. .