Chapter 4 third quarter

At this time, Xu Xilin had already negotiated with Qiu Jin of Zhejiang, and in July 1907, Zhejiang and Anhui provinces revolted simultaneously. On the day of Ching Ming Festival, the Restoration Society convened a secret meeting of the party leaders responsible for the uprisings in Zhejiang and Anhui Provinces in Dayu Mausoleum in Shaoxing. At the meeting, it was decided to establish the Restoration Army. Everyone elected Xu Xilin as the leader and Qiu Jin as the co-leader.It was determined at the meeting that on July 8, 1907, when the Anqing Patrol Academy held the graduation ceremony for the students, Xu Xilin led the recovery army to revolt and occupy Anqing City.The Zhejiang Rebel Army, led by Qiu Jin, rose up on the 19th and captured Hangzhou, and then the two armies joined forces to capture Nanjing.

The time of this uprising has been changed again and again due to changes in the situation. Qiu Jin originally planned to start the incident on July 6, but Xu Xilin said that he was not prepared enough, so he changed it to the 8th, which is the graduation ceremony of the Police Academy. Party member Ye Yanggao was arrested accidentally. Ye Yanggao could not bear the torture after being arrested, and poured out the list of party members and other information he knew, so the whole city of Anqing was searched and arrested.Fortunately, Xu Xilin and the others used pseudonyms for all their contacts.

Then the critical moment came: when Enming cracked such a major case, he immediately called Xu Xilin, the police officer he trusted, and asked Xu Huiban to immediately arrest people according to the list; The man "is himself!Xu Xilin, who was trying to be calm, patted his chest to express his determination to catch the chaotic party within two days, while secretly gritted his teeth-the night has long dreams, the sooner the better! En Ming, who was completely kept in the dark, seemed to be considerate of the revolutionaries, and took the initiative to postpone the uprising for two days: it was supposed to be the graduation ceremony of the Police Academy on July 8, but he said that the mother of one of his friends named Zhang Cishan It was his 80th birthday on this day, and he was going to congratulate him, instructing Xu Xilin to advance the graduation ceremony to the 6th.

The date of the uprising has come full circle, and it has returned to the day that Qiu Jin advocated in such a dramatic way. On July 5th, Xu Xilin submitted an invitation to Enming: "The Anhui Patrol Academy has established the first graduate conference on May 28th (lunar calendar). We sincerely invite Master Futai to come and give instructions." On July 6, 1907, the first batch of graduates of the Anhui Patrol Academy lined up at the steps outside the auditorium. Left and right corridors. All students in the school follow the security requirements, and all firearms are empty.Just before En Ming showed up, the relevant personnel deliberately dropped the pistol worn by Xu Xilin.The revolutionaries, however, were ready for this.

At 9 o'clock in the morning, Enming arrived at the school surrounded by several high-ranking officials from Anhui Province, and the uprising was just a few seconds away. The students in the official student class saluted En Ming first, and En Ming replied. Next, the students in the military class saluted. At this moment, Xu Xilin took a step forward, knelt down on one leg, and raised up the student roster with both hands: "Report to the commander, there are revolutionaries rioting today!" The solemn graduation ceremony is going on, and Xu Xilin's sudden appearance is very abrupt and inappropriate-if it's urgent, why don't you report before the ceremony?Now that the ceremony is in progress, can't you wait until the end to report?En Ming was surprised and annoyed, and was about to question, when Xu Xilin suddenly stepped back, while Chen Boping took out the bomb hidden in his body and threw it at En Ming who was standing tall!

It turned out that Xu Xilin's report was the secret signal to do something! The earth-shattering loud noise did not appear, and the bomb did not explode! Time seemed to have stopped. In Xu Xilin's original detailed plan that had been repeatedly finalized, after En Ming was dealt with with one shot, he took out his gun and shot to the left to kill the chief envoy, and then shot to the right to kill the inspector. Various road, government, state and county officials.But Chen Boping threw a bomb that didn't explode, which immediately made everyone at a loss. Xu Xilin, who was sweating profusely, finally came back to his senses from the terrible accident, and immediately bowed his head, pulled out two six-gun pistols from his boots, and fired them at En Ming indiscriminately.

En Ming, who was still in shock, was shot seven times in the body, one in the lip, one in the left palm, one in the right waist, and the rest in the left and right legs. En Ming's whole body blossomed immediately.Wen Xun arrested Lu Yongyi with a strange cry, and rushed forward to cover Enming with his body. The remaining bullets shot into the back of Lu Yongyi, and Lu Yongyi was killed on the spot. Xu Xilin ran out of bullets, and then went into a small room to reload the bullets. The military inspector Che Dewen took the opportunity to carry the seriously injured En Ming on his back and rushed out of the auditorium.In the chaos and screaming, Chen Boping shot Enming fatally from behind. The bullet shot into Enming's anus and pierced his chest.The bearer stuffed the dying En Ming into the sedan chair, dragged his feet outside the sedan chair, and carried him back to the Fu Office in a state of embarrassment.During the rescue, a Western doctor was asked to perform an operation to cut open the stomach and intestines, but no bullets could be found.Open the thigh again, still can't find it.It is said that the bullets are soaked in poison and will melt when they come into contact with blood;This is a folklore, but in fact it can only depend on the medical skills at that time, even though the surgeon was a foreign doctor.

At this point, En Ming suddenly realized, filled with regret, and kept shouting before he died: "Confused, confused!" In the police academy, civil and military officials who had undergone such drastic changes fled one after another.Gu Song, who reported Xu Xilin's hard work, just fled outside the door and jumped into a sewage ditch, and was caught by Ma Zonghan;Then, Xu Xilin shouted to the students: "The governor has been killed by Gu Song, let's go and occupy the ordnance station, and revolution from me!" Xu Xilin, Chen Boping, and Ma Zonghan then led some students to the ordnance station in the west of Anqing City.

The Qing army closed the gate of Anqing City, the liaison officers sent by Xu Xilin could not leave the city, and the new army outside the city could not enter, and the internal and external contacts of the rebel army were interrupted.At this time, the General Office of the Ordnance Institute had already fled through the back door with the key to the warehouse. The ammunition was hidden in the underground warehouse and could not be taken out for a while.The soldiers of the Guangfu Army pulled out a cannon from the warehouse and put it in the back hall of the ordnance station. Chen Boping took a cannonball and loaded it into the barrel, and said to Xu Xilin: "The situation is critical now. Use the cannonball to blow up the Futai Yamen and destroy the enemy. Then they bombarded the north gate tower and opened the gap in the city wall." Xu Xilin saw that the houses in the Futai yamen area were densely populated, and immediately stopped him, saying: "If we do this, we will die together, which is not in line with the purpose of the revolution. We will succeed, and the people will be corrupted." Resolute Don't let the guns be fired.

The gates of the city were closed, and they were unwilling to blast the city wall with artillery. Xu Xilin and his comrades were trapped in the tiny city of Anqing, alone and helpless, with only one dead end. Soon, the arrest battalion and patrol battalion of the Qing army arrived and surrounded the armory.The Restoration Army took advantage of the solid walls of the Ordnance Station, and some climbed onto the roof and shot at the Qing soldiers. At this time, the army of the late Qing Dynasty also conducted an actual battle. The result of the test of combat effectiveness was: more than 100 casualties, and they dared not go forward.When the chief envoy Feng Xu heard the news, he immediately sent Taoist Huang Runjiu and Yiling Lao Zhiqi to supervise the formation, but the Qing army still did not move.Seeing that the long-term attack on the ordnance was not enough, the Qing government began to offer a huge reward for the capture of Xu Xilin.At the beginning, it was 3,000 yuan, which was immediately increased to 7,000 yuan, and later as high as 10,000 yuan, before the Qing army began to attack.The two sides fought each other for nearly five hours.Unfortunately, Chen Boping died.Then, the enemy broke through the door and saw Xu Xilin's military cap and military uniform thrown on the ground, but no one was there.Feng Xu rewarded him again and ordered him to search everywhere.

At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, Xu Xilin, Ma Zonghan and students who were alone and besieged in Anqing City were arrested one after another. This was the famous "Anqing Uprising" before the founding of the Republic of China. It took seven hours from initiation to failure. The most shocking feat was the killing of Enming, a local official in the Qing Dynasty and governor of Anhui Province.