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    Chapter 155 Falling apart (Part 2)

    In the military camp, the air was solid.

    In the center of the playground, there were seven cold corpses, and military doctors were bandaging the remaining four injured soldiers. The surroundings were crowded with soldiers from the Second Brigade with red eyes and clenched fists. The sound of grinding teeth could be heard in the distance.  can hear.  In a corner of the crowd, officials from the Nanjing Government and Army Department, including Huang Keqiang and Jiang Zuobin, who hurried over, had expressionless faces. They wanted to appease but were afraid that things would get worse.

    More than a dozen Chinese and foreign reporters who heard the news kept clicking their shutters, and more and more officers from various reinforcements arrived here. They carefully held their breath and looked at this army that was already on the verge of rage.  In the city of Nanjing, greater mobilization has begun. Cannons were dragged out one after another. The soldiers who were summoned urgently hid behind the sandbags and stretched out the barrels of their guns. They looked at the shops and houses that were burned down due to the riots. They looked around blankly and shouted.  Ask who the enemy is this time.

    Behind a window on the second floor of the Presidential Palace, a figure quietly looked at the Second Brigade station in the distance. Is he happy or worried at this moment?  Do you hope that complete turmoil will continue to extend political life, or do you hope to resolve the crisis as soon as possible?  no one knows.

    All eyes were focused on Yu Dehai. He slowly let go of the sacrificial company commander's hand, wiped the blood on the black skull badge on his chest and arranged it neatly.  The soldiers around him had tears in their eyes. An hour ago they were alive and kicking, grabbing their own cigarettes, telling dirty jokes, and commenting on every woman who passed by. But an hour later, they were already separated from each other.  They are all fighting heroes and should have died on the battlefield, but now!  But he died under the gun of those who kept claiming to be revolutionary comrades!  !

    Yu Dehai stood up, his eyes slowly swept over the surrounding soldiers and then rested on the faces of Huang Keqiang and others. His bloodshot eyeballs made several timid officials subconsciously take two steps back.  His voice sobbed, like an injured beast licking its wounds alone: ??"Since the night of the uprising, we have been brothers! He was at the forefront when we attacked the Liujia Temple, and marched north with me to regain Hubei! Wu Shengguan, we fought side by side.  Seven days! He personally killed more than a dozen Beiyang soldiers. Together with us, he held back Beiyang's footsteps and defeated the Fourth Town with us! He made Beiyang retreat after a heavy setback and won the victory for the revolution  time."

    "Tell me, one of you! Why is he lying here! Why!" The hoarse roar was frightening. If the two officers on the side hadn't stopped him, he might have rushed into the officials and beat them up.

    The words aroused the anger of the soldiers, who waved their fists and roared, and even young officers stood up: "Since the uprising, our National Defense Force has restored the whole territory of Ansan Town, the bloody battle of Wusheng Pass, the defense battle of Xiaogan, and the defense of Xiaogang.  Destroy the enemy in the mountainsdefeat Hunan, fight in Sichuan! We held back tens of thousands of Beiyang elites, preventing them from moving south. We paid the price of 16,000 military and civilian casualties! They  Their blood can dye the river red, and their bones have not been collected yet! Without us, could you have today? Without us Can Nanjing be recovered? Can you sit here and talk loudly? The Manchu Qing government  Will he abdicate so soon?

    We got the order, and Xingye came to support the Northern Expedition!  We don¡¯t want your military rations or your military pay!  We brought machine guns and artillery, but what did you do!  They sent people to kill our commander, then came to steal our military rations, and now they also killed our commander. What did we do wrong?  !  !  "

    As soon as the officer finished his roar, another young officer stood in the center again.  The Chinese and foreign reporters who arrived all pointed their cameras at him.  "We shed our blood and our heads to overthrow the Manchu Qing Dynasty and build a new China. We have no regrets! Even if a gun is pointed at our heads, we will not frown! But what have you done? Two months later, the government  There is still chaos, there are quarrels in the newspapers every day, people's livelihood is declining, factories have stopped production, and more than half of the ships coming and going from Nanjing Pier have been reduced!

    We know that those brothers who robbed things have been forced to lose their lives, so we have no regrets We only blame ourselves for being blind!  Because the interim government is simply playing tricks on us!  Don't you have any money?  No!  You've all scooped it up!  You mortgaged the railway to the Japanese in exchange for loans, and you issued military coupons and forced the people to subscribe at gunpoint!  In the end, we actually wanted to mortgage our Han Yeping in Hubei to the Japanese!  You are betraying your country!

    Before the shame of Sino-Japanese War has been washed away, you are ready to sell all the lifeblood of the country to Japan!  What's even more annoying is, where is the money for selling these things?  Where's the money!  With nearly tens of millions of dollars in hand, why not provide wages and food?  to the end!  You actually don't care about us soldiers who fight life and death for you, and want to sell the south to that careerist Yuan Shikai!  If we had known this, why would we fight Beiyang?  That's a full sixteen thousand livesour brothers, sisters and relatives!  "

    "They died so unjustly!" the young officer shouted, letting his tears flow, and finally said goodbyeUnable to hold himself up, he slowly fell to his knees. Many soldiers knew that his brother fell under the muzzle of the Beiyang cannon during the bloody battle at Wusheng Pass.  The foreign reporters were so sad and angry that they shed tears. Only two Japanese reporters looked gloomy and wrote something down with their pen tips. But at this time, no one dared to anger the soldiers.

    After hearing the news, the officers from various places who came for reinforcements collectively lost their voices.  Some people cried with them, some gritted their teeth, and more people shook their heads and sighed silently watching one after another of the National Defense Force soldiers and officers coming out, scolding, yelling, and finally bursting into tears.

    Huang Keqiang opened his mouth slightly, his body trembled and he staggered. Jiang Zuobin, Li Shucheng and other officers from the Army Department lowered their heads. As for the civilian officials, their faces had begun to turn pale. They saw that another thing was growing, and they were shouting and accusing.  and crying madness spreads.  The yelling and passionate words made them tremble with fear, and they wished they could let the cannons blow the place down But who would dare?  The dense sound of pulling bolts passed by everyone's ears like a devil's roar, and some people even began to retreat to find a place to hide. Who can stop these furious soldiers?  More than four thousand elite soldiers who have gone through bloody battles and can cripple the fourth town of Beiyang are enough to overthrow the entire city of Nanjing!

    It¡¯s unbearable, scary, and worrying!  But no one can do anything but let the voice spread to all directions and let the reporters add fuel to the fire. Everyone knows that when these words and these things are published tomorrow, the Nanjing government will collapse and the entire South China will fall apart.  Out of control.

    With tears in his eyes, Yu Dehai walked to the center and raised his right arm high: "Brothers remember the oath we made to the military flag when we put on the military uniforms? The commander is leading the people of the three provinces to build a new home.  , tens of millions of people still need us to protect In Guizhou! In the southwest, we still have our soldiers fighting for the country under the command of the commander! Our hope is not here, we  .Go home! Go home and build the three provinces and southwest together with everyone!"

    "go home!"

    ¡°I won¡¯t work for these traitors anymore!¡±

    ¡°¡­¡±

    Yu Dehai's eyes were locked tightly, and there was a chill in his teeth: "This is our last concession, from now on! We will no longer suffer from this cowardice. Ifyou deal with us, I swear to put the bullets  Hit your assholes! Please tell the President that the Manchu Qing Dynasty has fallen, the Northern Expedition has been terminated, and the Northern Expedition Pioneer Brigade has requested to evacuate." After finishing speaking, he raised his arms.

    The remains were slowly loaded into the coffin, and the top was covered with the ferocious red flying tiger war flag. Dozens of soldiers came out, carried the coffin on their shoulders and walked towards the transport ship that had not yet left the dock.  The soldiers of the 2nd Brigade began to set off. They would rather live on the dock and wait for the ship than stay here any longer.

    When the ships urgently recruited from Jiangxi and other places arrived the next day, the First Division and Second Brigade of the National Defense Forces and the Northern Expedition Pioneer Brigade left with anger and disappointment in Nanjing.  Their departure made the troops who stayed here even more chaotic. More and more soldiers quietly embarked on their return journey with guns, and some soldiers who had not received severance pay even set fire to or looted wantonly. The city of Nanjing suddenly  It has become a place that everyone hates.

    As newspapers published this news, the whole of China was once again in an uproar. Everyone had just experienced a sudden riot in Beijing, but they did not expect that Nanjing would not be immune. Newspapers in China from Britain, France, the United States and other countries even revealed the news.  The speeches of the young officers and soldiers of the Second Brigade completely destroyed the image of the Nanjing government and party members, and various cases of corruption and fraud were unearthed by reporters.  In the last years of the Nanjing Provisional Government, the people suddenly changed from worshiping, being happy, and looking up to them to despising and cursing them, and finally collapsed.

    A well-known New York Times reporter sent back this comment: In the past four months, we have witnessed the birth of the world¡¯s largest democratic system, but in just one morning, it collapsed.  I think every American who lives and works in this land should realize that some people are no longer trustworthy.

    The only exception was Japan. When the soldiers of the Second Brigade accused Nanjing of being a traitor and selling the country to Japan, and repeatedly mentioned the humiliation of Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese government immediately accused Yang Qiu of deliberately destroying Sino-Japanese friendship and demanded that the National Defense Forces apologize to Japan.

    On March 10, at the same time that Yuan Shikai was sworn in to take over as the interim president in Beijing, Yang Qiu, who returned to Wuchang, immediately met with the soldiers of the Second Brigade. In addition to saying that every fallen soldier would receive assistance in accordance with the standards of a martyr, he also said that the three provinces and the National Defense Forces  Will not give up on the dream.  When a foreign reporter asked him what he thought of the current situation in Nanjing, his face turned pale.

    "This is betrayal."

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