Chapter 7 Chapter 2 An isolated city, Wanren Mountain (3)

The panicked soldiers fell into confusion for a moment. They didn't understand why this foreign gentleman in a suit and leather shoes who had been speaking Oriental dialect suddenly spoke Chinese, and why he suddenly said that he was an assassin, and he was also Chinese.Ouyang Langyun repeated to the surprised soldiers: "There is nothing to believe. I am the assassin you want to catch. I am not Japanese Takano Tozo, I am Chinese Ouyang Langyun. Take me to Meet your Commander Nie." Behind it is a clear and beautiful singing voice.The sky is a peaceful and gorgeous sunset.Ouyang Langyun calmly chose death.He inadvertently picked the perfect scene for himself as he stepped into history.

The janitor on duty in the gatehouse saw this astonishing scene, he chased out from the gate and shouted at the soldiers and the figure who was gone: "Mr. Takano, Mr. Takano..." Ouyang Langyun turned around in the clear singing, raised his hands from the crossed gun barrels and smiled, then turned around again, with an expression on his face as if he was about to go on an outing.Behind that confident back, there are stunned school workers and clear singing voices dyed red by the sunset: the east welcomes the sun at the top of the mountain, the sound of silver water comes from the west, the thousand-year-old city has a new look, Gaotang Huayu my school students... …

While escorting Ouyang Langyun into the cell, Nie Qinxuan immediately led the soldiers with guns on standby and went straight to the Yuren School.Soldiers lined up and ran out of the city from the barracks. In the darkness of the evening, the swords and guns were ferocious, and the footsteps were frightening. Everyone in the city watched with trepidation as the team of one or two hundred men crossed the streets and alleys with a murderous spirit, and went straight to the north. The door goes up and off the bridge.Those who got the news already knew that they were heading for the school, and someone followed far behind the team.

After surrounding the school, Nie Qinxuan first searched Ouyang Langyun's room.At the same time, the Physical Chemistry Laboratory was sealed off.But Nie Qinxuan was in vain, and Ouyang Langyun was obviously prepared. There were no explosives that could be used as evidence in the laboratory. Apart from some personal items in his room, he only found a letter on the table addressed to his home in Hanoi. Letter, there are only a few words of farewell to parents in the letter: Er Langyun bows to parents and adults Wanfu Jinan: My son has not returned for many years since he left home to study, and his parents are always in our hearts during the seven years of cold and heat.However, since ancient times, loyalty and filial piety cannot be combined. Since my son followed Mr. Sun and carried out the revolution to drive out the Tartars, he had already put life and death aside.This assassination of the magistrate was done by me alone, and I vowed to avenge the death of my comrades.When the parents and adults spread the letter, the child is already a dead person!Since then, the spring and soil have been farewell forever, but we will meet each other in a dream.However, if you die for my China, you will die without regret.I sincerely pray that parents and adults will be obedient and mourn.In the mid-autumn moon, when the sky is thousands of miles away, even though my son is in Jiuquan, I will always remember my kindness!

Er Langyun Kneeling to Worship Gengxu Mid-Autumn Festival Night Nie Qinxuan couldn't help feeling under the lamp: What a dead person without regrets.The date of inscription is the night of Mid-Autumn Festival.That is to say, when he and Mr. Yuan were having a drink together under the moonlight, this man named Ouyang Langyun had already left a suicide note and wanted to risk his life to assassinate him.He knew that he was certain to die, but he still wanted to assassinate.He died after thinking about it.These revolutionary parties that were against the Qing Dynasty all regarded death as home.The ants who came here and there all over the place regard death as home.No matter how many heads you cut off, there are still people who want to rebel.Only after beheading people will you understand what it means to say, "The people are not afraid of death, so why should they be afraid of it?" Nie Qinxuan held the suicide note in his hand with a wry smile.Nie Qinxuan didn't expect to find anything in the school, and he didn't even want to really fight these revolutionaries in his heart.As soon as the reinforcements arrive in two days, the riot in Silver City will collapse on its own.Even if this matter is over.When the matter subsides, he can resign his old age and return to his hometown to leave this place of right and wrong.But right now, the protagonist of this scene is only himself, and he still has to be the leader of this patrol battalion.Now, except for the explosive assassination, everything is still under his control.Everything is as expected.This assassin was forced out of the school step by step by himself.The current result just confirmed the suspicion I had at Huixian Teahouse that day.This educational school is obviously the nest of the Yincheng Revolutionary Party, but it is also the favorite sign of Dunmutang Liu Sangong.In Dunmutang, known as the leader in Yincheng Salt Field, there is Liu Sangong, the second-rank man who wears Fujia, but he is not a big tree that his sixth-rank petty official can easily shake.

Soldiers with knives and guns stood everywhere inside and outside the school, the students were sealed in the dormitory, there was no sound of reading in the classroom in the past, the playground was empty as the night was getting dark, and the whole school was silent.In the darkness in the distance came the whimpering of the conch from the upper and lower waters.On the tower opposite the Silver Creek, lights were raised high.In the shadows, the children's eyes and sharp swords flickered in shock in the flickering candlelight. Nie Qinxuan came to the principal's office with the letter, and smiled at Liu Lanting, "Brother Weiru, your teacher Takano Tozo turned himself in to me, saying his real name was Ouyang Langyun, and admitted that he was an impostor." The Japanese admitted that he assassinated Master Yuan Xuemen, the magistrate of Tongjiang. I want to know how many people in your school are revolutionaries who came under the false name?"

All worries, anxieties, and fears finally come true.When things came to an end, Liu Lanting had no choice but to attack by retreating, "Commander Nie, the assassin is in my school. As the principal, I have a duty to do so. Arrest me and go back to camp with you. Don't bother others. Let the students attend self-study classes on time. Bar." Nie Qinxuan still smiled and shook his head, "Where, where, there is no evidence, how dare I arrest Liu Qiye of Dunmutang casually? How can I explain to Liu Sangong? I just don't believe that such a big thing was done by Ouyang Langyun alone .”

Liu Lanting saw the letter in Nie Qinxuan's hand, which he had already read.Upon receiving the news that Ouyang Langyun had surrendered himself, Liu Lanting immediately rushed to his room to check.Ouyang Langyun obviously made careful preparations without leaving any possible loopholes.After reading this letter, Liu Lanting understood Ouyang Langyun's determination.Now he can only follow the pre-agreed principle of "protecting the organization and sacrificing the individual."But such a choice made Liu Lanting feel like a knife piercing his heart.Even after making such a choice, Liu Lanting didn't know whether he could let the school and his comrades escape Nie Qinxuan's capture.Ouyang Langyun's desperate adventure pushed the riot, which needed an adventure, into a precarious corner.The commander-in-chief appointed by Tokyo did not know when he would arrive.If he doesn't come again, I'm afraid everything will be over.Liu Lanting is like a sailor caught in a stormy sea. Right now, abandoning his companions is the only possibility of salvation.He put on a calm expression as much as possible: "Commander Nie, Takano Tozo was recruited by me in the newspaper in Tokyo. All I know is that he graduated from Waseda University. I have seen his diploma. I am the same as you." I didn't know that he was an imposter Japanese, let alone that he was a revolutionary. He told me that his name was Takano Tozo, and that he had a passport document in his hand. I could only believe it, but there was no way to check it. , I can assure you that they are real Japanese. I have visited their homes and met their parents and family members. It is a matter of foreign nationals, and Commander Nie must know better than me. You did not catch The power to arrest them. This matter should be reported to the Japanese Consulate in Chongqing first. I am afraid that it will have to be reported to the Governor’s Office, and the Governor’s Office will report to the Prime Minister’s Office. "

Nie Qinxuan heard the voice behind the words.Of course he knew that it was about foreigners, and he couldn't do anything about it.But Liu Lanting's self-respecting words still angered Nie Qinxuan, he put away his smile and replied: "Of course, of course, if you are really a foreigner, let alone an imposter, even if you kill people and set fires in our country, it is not my sixth-rank patrol. The battalion commander can take care of it. Even the current emperor may not dare to take care of the affairs of foreigners. Brother Wei Ru, think about it for me: the magistrate was killed under my nose, and the revolutionaries are about to riot again. What do you say? What should I do? However, the governor has already given an order: Anyone who riots and disrupts the party will be beheaded on the spot, and he will be killed."

Liu Lanting avoided the conversation, and once again used retreat as an attack, "Commander Nie, it's better to arrest me and return to the camp. My teacher assassinated the magistrate, and I have nothing to say as the principal." Nie Qinxuan also shook his head again, "I, Nie Qinxuan, am not a revolutionary party, so I have to abide by the law and do whatever I want. These chaotic parties are really whimsical. You can kill the prefect of Tongjiang with a bomb, can you also kill the Qing Dynasty? My The reinforcements will be here soon, and the chaos and riots are like moths flying into the flames, self-destructing. If the commander-in-chief of the riots really understands the righteousness, he should surrender himself like Ouyang Langyun, so that our Yincheng will not be destroyed. , how many innocent people died in vain. Although I, Nie Qinxuan, am only a warrior, I don’t enjoy slaughtering. Everyone has the heart of being unbearable. Brother Wei Ru, to tell you the truth, if it wasn’t for Sangong’s favor, I would also I won't talk to you too much, I will definitely arrest you and return you to the camp tonight. I just want to advise you how old you are, riot and rebellion is a serious crime to exterminate the nine races, and when things come to an end, there will always be times when people can't help themselves. Take care of yourself. I will take my leave now." After a few orders, Nie Qinxuan led the soldiers out of the school.Under the pitch-black night, a string of swaying butter lanterns vaguely marked the serpentine procession.The lights on both sides of the Silver Creek are still flickering as in the past, the sound of the babbling is also as soothing and calm as in the past, and the shouts of the cattle drivers come from far and near in the darkness, making people feel indescribably peaceful and peaceful. warmth.It's just that none of these can make Yincheng get rid of the bloody smell that hits his face.

Watching the soldiers walk out of the school in the dark, Liu Lanting suddenly felt extremely absurd.Nie Qinxuan clearly regarded himself as the commander-in-chief of the riot, and he was clearly trying to persuade them to surrender.What Nie Qinxuan said was right, the chance of winning the riot is now almost completely lost.In this failure, the school that he and his father had spent years building was about to vanish into nothingness.Once the teachers are gone, how can the school continue?The ambition to create a new type of education is so vulnerable.Unless a miracle happens in front of your eyes, no one can reverse the defeat.But what if he wins for a while?As long as the Manchu Qing court is still there, there will be troops coming to encircle and suppress. Can you continue to run a school in a besieged isolated city?Could it be that the long-lost commander-in-chief really has the power to recover?Does he have heavenly soldiers and generals in his hand?There are thousands of troops? Yoshiko Hideyama's cry came from a room not far away.When things got to this point, the Xiushan brothers and sisters had to return home as soon as possible.All efforts and successes, all hopes and ideals will be destroyed in my own hands.Liu Lanting couldn't help but sighed: Why bother at the beginning, why bother at the beginning... As soon as the team entered Tongling, their progress slowed down significantly.Although the two Krupp mountain guns each have seven horses, they still struggled to go up the mountain.When I gradually reached the top of the mountain, I felt that Tiangao Road was far away.The mountains and fields are vast, the forests are far away, and the faint mountain mist rises from the dense forest, covering the barren mountains and deep valleys with a layer of misty sadness.The surroundings were unnervingly quiet.The sound of horseshoes, the clash of bayonets and kettles, the heavy boots of the soldiers, the iron wheels of the cannon The sound of collisions on the road, the chirping of birds leisurely from the forest, alternately mixed in the quiet mountains and fields, on the contrary set off the quiet and unfathomable.Soldiers of the 1st Battalion of the 2nd Biao of the 17th Town of the Provisional Army, under the guidance of the military flag, struggled to march on the winding mountain road.Sweat glistened on the bronze-colored faces of the soldiers, and while they were panting heavily, some of them had soaked through their military uniforms.The officer ordered not to talk, pay attention to check.The well-disciplined soldiers all looked dignified and sharp-eyed.From a distance, in the ages, this well-equipped army is like a row of exquisite dolls, walking on the mountain road. Three days ago, Liu Zhenwu, the management representative of the First Battalion of the First Infantry Association of the Seventeenth Town of the Temporary Army, led 540 infantry, 60 cavalry, and two 75mm German Krupp light artillery , six carriages, eighty cooks and porters, with all the supplies and luggage, set off from the provincial capital to reinforce Yincheng, which was in critical condition.This is a well-equipped and majestic army.This is also an army full of foreign spirit.All officers above the platoon leader are equipped with six-shot Mannlicher revolvers and sabers made in Austria.All infantry are equipped with 7.92mm five-sub Mauser guns produced by the German Mauser factory.The cavalry is equipped with Manlysia carbine and saber.Soldiers are all dressed in khaki twill military uniforms, large-brimmed hats, belts, leggings, and leather shoes.Officers wear yellow woolen uniforms, caps and boots.In addition to bullet bags, the infantry is also equipped with bayonets, military water bottles, and raincoats.The battalion flag is at the forefront of the team, and after the battalion flag are the team flags of the front, back, left, and right teams to lead the soldiers of each team.Another twenty-four buglers belonged to the battalion, team, and platoon, and the commander of the division gave unified orders.All these guns, military uniforms, bugles, and sabers are not imitations from the arsenal in the provincial capital, but foreign goods purchased from Europe by the Governor's Office.All the junior officers in this unit graduated from the Provincial Armed Forces School and the Army Crash School.Soldiers carefully selected from various selection and testing institutes have undergone at least three years of rigorous training.If it weren't for the long braid behind the big-brimmed hat, you would hardly be able to tell if they were Chinese troops or not.This western-style army walked out of the yellowed "county annals" and "provincial annals", passed through the ancient fields and villages, and attracted countless curious onlookers along the way, some of them even chased one or two Shililu followed behind the team, just to feast his eyes.But they don't know that this mighty and foreign-looking army is an army that is almost impossible to fight. Before leaving, the Taitai master specially summoned Liu Zhenwu at the Governor's Mansion, and repeatedly told him to be more careful on the road and beware of ambushes and harassment by rebels.Liu Zhenwu, who was in charge of Buying, certainly didn't want to make troubles on the way to reinforcements.In order to be cautious, he sent a platoon of soldiers as the advance team, and kept a distance of five miles from the main force.Then send a shed of fifteen cavalrymen to keep in touch with each other at any time.Liu Zhenwu had to be extra cautious because he led an army with almost no ammunition.Since the officers of the new army in the provincial capital and the cadets of the Army Primary School participated in the riots, the Taiwan makers ordered all the officers and soldiers of the new army to be strictly controlled, and all bullets and shells were returned to the stockpile, and those who kept ammunition for private use were immediately executed.Anyone who needs to use ammunition must be personally approved by the Taiwanese master before they can receive it according to the number.Because of the need to send troops to reinforce Yincheng, Taiwan's military officials specially approved Liu Zhenwu's officers and soldiers to shoot two bullets per person, and two shells per door.All the ammunition needed had to wait until they arrived at Yincheng, and they would be dispatched by Nie Qinxuan, the commander of the Yincheng Patrol Battalion.The most elite troops were ordered in the face of danger, but they were openly suspicious and wary.Liu Zhenwu did not expect that after leaving Yincheng for eight years, he would come back to rescue Yincheng in such a capacity.Tongling's high mountains, deep valleys and endless mountain roads made those doubts and guards heavy and long. Liu Zhenwu didn't ride a horse when he went up the mountain.He would rather share joys and sorrows with the soldiers.After climbing for more than ten miles, my feet covered in leather boots sweated a lot, and the soles of my feet began to slip in the leather boots. The toes on my left foot hurt so much that they must have been worn out.The drenched collar stuck to his neck uncomfortably, Liu Zhenwu unbuttoned his style, frowned slightly, and wiped off the sweat from the brow.The body wrapped in the belt and military uniform was already dripping with sweat.The guard behind hurriedly handed over the towel and water bottle, and Liu Zhenwu took the water bottle and continued to walk forward while drinking the water.Due to years of field training, Liu Zhenwu's complexion is the same as that of the soldiers, a deep bronze color.The neat military uniform and the command knife on his waist made him look confident and majestic.The team walking in front has been blocked behind the mountain, Liu Zhenwu quickened his pace vigilantly, scanning the surrounding "terrain" instinctively.He didn't have any imagination and excitement about "Tongling Hengyan". In Liu Zhenwu's eyes, the mountains with many mountains are hidden objects except commanding heights, open land, and fire distance.His eyes had scoured the suspicious woods since his ascent, and the more suspicious slopes that rose up from the road.Liu Zhenwu has no closeness to this hometown that he vaguely remembers.There are mountains in the vicinity, and mountains in the distance. The misty mountains and haze dye Tongling into a light blue.With the eyes of a professional military officer, Liu Zhenwu turned them into "topography" inch by inch. For Liu Zhenwu, all of this is a bit like a dream, a bit like a dream that even he can't tell the truth from the fake.Seventeen years ago, the boy who had a straw mark planted on his body and was only sold on the street for a thousand tattoos, now leads an army to rescue the city that bought him.Liu Zhenwu no longer remembers what his parents looked like.All the things about his biological parents and hometown were what he heard from Liu Sangong later.Sangong said that his mother died of illness, and his father could not raise so many children, so he sold the younger ones to pay off the debt.Sangong also said that his family was not from Yincheng but from Tongling, and that they came down from the mountain.He only remembered a thick osmanthus flower growing behind the high wall and the gatehouse. At that time, his nose was filled with the fragrance of flowers, and the sweet smell was like some kind of delicious cookie, which made his stomach growl.Kneeling on the slate floor hurts a lot, and she cries again and again to stand up, but her father refuses to agree, and her father's big hand is firmly pressing on her back.I could only kneel on the stone in great pain.All I could see in my eyes was a piece of cold and hard stone road, and some feet back and forth on the stone.I smelled a kind of sweet cake that I had never seen greedily in my nose.In the following years, the impression of Yincheng in his heart has always been a piece of hard and cold stone, and a kind of cookie that he has never seen before.Now, there are occasional villages with their mud walls and thatched roofs exposed along the mountain roads. Chickens, ducks and livestock surround the houses, and the peaceful smoke melts tenderly into the blue sky above the thatched huts.But to Liu Zhenwu, all these are nothing more than some irrelevant and unfamiliar scenery, nothing more than some changing "topography".Liu Zhenwu led his troops on military boots, walking in front of these changing "terrains" indifferently.Just like when he faced those irrelevant stone streets and those unfamiliar feet going back and forth.Two years ago, after Liu Zhenwu graduated from the Japanese Non-commissioned Officer Academy, he was first ordered to return to the provincial capital to serve as an instructor of the Army's Accelerated Academy, and then transferred to the current Infantry Commander.Frequent mobilization and training left him no time to go home and visit his relatives.In the nine years since studying abroad, he can only see everything about Yincheng from letters.The Stone City, where there are many cranes and salt boats, haunts Liu Zhenwu's dreams.In the letter, Sangong said that the marriage that had already been arranged for him should not be delayed again and again.Seventh brother's letter said that his red brick teaching building is the tallest building in Yincheng, and the school will expand next year.Before taking the order to set off, when the master of Taiwan summoned Liu Zhenwu, he specifically instructed that because Liu Zhenwu was familiar with Yincheng, he was specially selected to send him to reinforce.Yincheng is the financial lifeline of the whole province, and there must be no mistakes. The rebellious party must be wiped out and eradicated. It is better to kill more than one by mistake and not let one go.Liu Zhenwu could already smell the bloody smell of Yincheng in the lobby of the governor's office.Everything learned from the textbooks will soon become the determination and military exploits of the soldiers in this bloody atmosphere.All plots and raids and public decisive battles will be carried out in the stone city where there are many cranes and salt ships. Following the shaking of the leader's military flag, the team in front stopped, and the scolding of the flag officer came from afar.Liu Zhenwu hurried over.Before he got to the front, he had already seen the two brothers again.The flag officer angrily pulled the two brothers to the side of the road: "How dare you harass the military affairs! Are you two looking for death?" The two brothers still knelt on the ground and begged bitterly like last time: "Sir, sir, please take my two brothers. We can suffer all kinds of hardships, and we can bear any crime. As long as the sir is willing to accept them, cut off their heads." Get all of them! Brother six cut off two heads and kept four for food at home!" The soldiers passing by laughed.They had already seen this scene yesterday, and they did not expect to see these two brothers again after walking fifty or sixty miles overnight.It seems that they rushed to the mountain ahead of time to wait.The flag officer waved his hand impatiently: "Get out of the way! Get out of the way! I'm not in charge of this kind of thing!" "Oh, sir, thank you, Shuai Qi has followed you, don't you care about it?" Seeing Liu Zhenwu approaching, the soldiers jokingly said, "Here we come, here we come, the man who takes care of you is here." Liu Zhenwu's face darkened: "Who told you to wait here?" "Sir, there's no need to ask anyone else. If you don't go to Yincheng on this road, where else can you go? Sir, take it, we can afford it!" "I lead soldiers to fight, not to take in beggars. First, you don't know how to use guns, second, you don't know how to drill, and third, you don't understand military orders. What use are you for? Since you already know where we are going, you can't go if you want to go now." I can’t go.” Liu Zhenwu turned around and ordered the guards: “You take them to the baggage team, tell them to take care of these two people, let them carry their things, and they can’t let them go until they arrive at Yincheng. Three hundred coins will be dismissed." The two brothers kneeling on the ground wanted to say something, but Liu Zhenwu had already left them and started on their way.After walking a few steps, Liu Zhenwu suddenly turned around and said loudly: "Remember in the future, if you want to be a soldier, you have to go to the selection and examination office to register. You must have a recommendation from the Jiabao to be a guarantee. Only those who are qualified by the selection and examination officer can serve as soldiers. Those who know how to kneel cannot be soldiers." When the team walked down the valley, the vanguard in front sent someone to escort back a few prisoners.After interrogation, Liu Zhenwu learned that Tongling Pass, fifteen miles ahead, had been occupied by the Tianyi Army, and the road to Yincheng had been cut off.These captives were farmers who escaped from the Tianyi Army from Tongling Pass and were about to escape home.Knowing that there were more than a thousand armed peasants occupying Tongling Pass ahead, Liu Zhenwu immediately ordered to stop the advance, and set up tents and camped overnight in an open field by the roadside.And ordered to start the stove before dark, and immediately after the meal to pack up and camp with guns, no noise, and all lights were prohibited.At the same time, an additional row of soldiers was sent to set up a guard with the leading soldiers in front, block the valley, detain all people who came and went, and send them back to the battalion headquarters for interrogation at any time. When the moon rose into the night sky on August 19, the well-trained soldiers had already had their dinner and slept quietly in their tents.The valley is full of silver, shrouded in the cold moonlight.More than 20 large and small military tents are scattered on both sides of the stream, and the tops of the tents are painted into pieces of shining silver white by the moonlight.Qiu Chong screamed in the shadows.The sound of the cuckoo washed by the moonlight came from the deep darkness, and then flowed into the deep darkness with the stream shining under the moonlight.A clear Milky Way flows over the valley and pours into the boundless night sky behind the ridge.There is no wind, and the treetops and grass leaves are still in the dark and deep valley.