Chapter 43 Chapter 11

The 30th flag soldier brothers suffered catastrophe and were killed in the Revolution of 1911. There is really no way out. At the beginning of the party's uprising, they slaughtered the family members of the banner soldiers, old and young, who lived near Chuwangtai, and slaughtered them clean.For some murderers, they have already killed their parents, wives and children, and the next step is of course to kill the grass and roots, leaving no one behind. Regarding the bloody massacre of the banner soldiers by the revolutionaries, Wan Yecai, the main soldier of the 31st and 2nd Battalion of the Eighth Town of the New Army, once gave a brief account:

... At that time, the revolutionaries did not have a policy of giving preferential treatment to prisoners, and the policy of surrendering their guns and not killing them.As long as the banner soldiers were caught, they were either killed on the spot or sent to the military government to be shot. Few survived.After some bannermen were captured, they did not speak until their death, and the more silent they were, the more they proved to be bannermen.Some students learned from the Hubei cavity to deal with interrogation and tried to pass the customs in a foolish way. The revolutionaries came up with an ingenious method. Anyone who entered and exited the city gate had to read six hundred and sixty-six before entering and exiting.The Hubei pronunciation of 666 is Lu Bai Lu Si Lu, and it is not easy for people who are not born and raised in Wuhan to learn exactly the same.In this way, the banner soldiers cannot get out of the city.It wasn't until three days after the Shouyi's success that the military government issued an order that the hunting and killing stopped...

The narration of the old man Wan Yecai reveals to us a clear message: the hunting and killing of the party members in the city is not limited to the banner people, but the indiscriminate killing by the unknown. It turned out that most of the 30 flag soldiers were transferred from the three northeastern provinces, and the party members were identified only by the northeast accent, which would inevitably kill many people from the northeast and even other regions in vain.In fact, except for the local people in Wuhan who can proficiently pronounce the accent of "Lu Bai Lu Si Lu", it is impossible for people from other regions to pronounce it, so they have to be killed.

The old man Wan Yecai explained: ...Maybe some people use a modern perspective to blame the revolutionaries of the year for killing people indiscriminately.This is mainly due to the fact that the Han soldiers and the general public had suffered from the cruel oppression and discrimination of the feudal rule of the Qing Dynasty for a long time, and had accumulated too much hatred.At the time of the first righteousness, things were done hastily, and there was no perfect organizational leadership.The banner soldiers who were killed were nothing more than funerary objects and scapegoats for the feudal rulers.For this, the revolutionaries have no historical responsibility...

Here, the old man Wan Yecai said that the Revolutionary Party "did not have a perfect organizational leadership" when it started the uprising, which is a good idea. In fact, the command system of the rebel army was destroyed by the Qing court, Sun Wu was injured and hospitalized, and Jiang Yiwu fled. If Xiong Bingkun hadn't caught Wu Zhaolin as the commander-in-chief of the uprising, the outcome of the uprising would be extremely unpredictable. At that time, Wu Zhaolin ordered Chu Wangtai and the artillery marks on Snake Mountain to aim the cannons at the 30 standard soldiers and bombard them fiercely, only to cause the standard soldiers to cry and howl and flee in all directions. Many standard soldiers fled into Changsha with bare feet and shorts Hide among the reeds in the lake.But the insurgents came after them with guns, searched along the long lake, or shot into the dense reeds, and the people hiding inside were forced to crawl out. If the accent is wrong, shoot and kill immediately.

Some students did not dare to shoot and kill, so they escorted the captured flag soldiers to Chu Wangtai. Therefore, the constant gunshots on Chu Wangtai at that time were the sounds of shooting these captives. During the tragic killing, a person suddenly came to Chuwangtai, but it was Li Yuanhong's orderly of the 20th Confederate Association.After saying this, Liu Guoxiang turned his head and left.This situation aroused Xiong Bingkun's suspicion, so he immediately arrested Liu Guoxiang and interrogated him in detail. Xiong Bingkun asked Liu Guoxiang: Li Yuanhong is coming, is he coming to surrender to our revolutionary army, or is he going to lead troops to fight against us?

Liu Guoxiang shook his head: Li Yuantong asked me to convey this order, I don't know about other things. Xiong Bingkun said: Then you go back right away, and come back and tell us after you have asked clearly. Liu Guoxiang was gone, but Wu Zhaolin's military power was also restricted.Now he can only command the Eighth Battalion of the Engineering Battalion, which is Xiong Bingkun's own troops, but the rest of the troops are all acting on their own and fighting on their own-in fact, they are all hiding aside to watch the battle. No matter who wins, they will end up with who Walk.

Just at this juncture, Zhang Biao, the leader of the capital, led an army to kill in a diagonal stab. Zhang Biao, he finally came.