Chapter 40 Escape from battle!
Wang Shizhen was nicknamed "Dragon" in Beiyang.
Wang Shizhen, who was ordered to join Qiu Cao, received information early on, and had abnormal movements from the Southern Revolutionary Party. Before leaving, he was worried that the Revolutionary Party would take the opportunity to cause trouble, so he prepared early.
He asked someone to prepare dozens of large boxes, with the words "cake bait" and "lead-free arrows" posted on the boxes. The officers under his command didn't know what the box was in. However, when the news of the Revolutionary Army's uprising in Anqing came, the two palaces passed away one after another. In the chaos of the army, Wang Shizhen hurriedly ordered people to open the box. The inside was filled with white silver and oceans. The heavy silver and oceans were distributed to every soldier, and everyone was happy and firm in the army!
The revolutionary army took Anqing City in one fell swoop, and the momentum was greatly boosted. Without the orders of the court, Wang Shizhen and his troops had to temporarily avoid the revolutionary army's edge and retreat to Hubei. In the following months, they had been fighting fire with the revolutionary party that appeared from time to time in Hubei, and at the same time, they acted as a barrier at the junction of Hubei and Anhui to prevent the Anhui Revolutionary Army from infiltration into Hubei.
In Hubei, he watched the battle between the Qing army and the revolutionary army in Anhui Province, Wang Shizhen was always preparing for a counterattack. When there was a problem within the revolutionary army and Anhui Governor Zhu Jiabao asked the court to send troops to cooperate, he finally got this great opportunity to make contributions. When the court's order came, his commander rushed straight to the revolutionary army opposite like a tiger coming out of the mountain. He fought and won consecutive victories along the way, and forced a submission to the Tongcheng Revolutionary Army in one fell swoop. His glory was unparalleled...
Faced with the fierce attacks of the Qing army, the situation of the Anqing Revolutionary Army was extremely bad. The front-line positions were lost one after another, and the front-line troops were defeated again and again. The morale of the revolutionary army soldiers was extremely low. Seeing that the Qing army's encirclement was about to be completed, if they didn't want to make a way out, there was only a dead end!
At the headquarters of the Anqing Revolutionary Army, the big guys gathered again. Looking at the few empty seats in the conference room, everyone couldn't help feeling sad. They no longer had the previous energy, but only had silence in depression. Everyone can understand the current situation. If they don't think of a way out, who knows how long they can exist in this world?
Xiong Chengji glanced at everyone, and said in a deep voice with a solemn expression: "No need to say more nonsense. What should we do next? Everyone will talk about their opinions." There was a hint of sadness and despair in his tone. The current situation was not what made him the most sad. What made him feel most unacceptable was that the Anqing Revolutionary Army fought life and death in Anhui and the Qing army, which attracted most of the attention of the Qing court. However, except for the revolutionary comrades in Hubei who actively responded and made specific actions, although the propaganda slogans were shouting loudly, the actual actions were nothing.
How can this prevent him from being discouraged and heartbroken...
"What else can I discuss? Fight with those Qing dogs!" "Yes, fight with those Qing dogs..." "How to fight, whether it is outside the city or inside the city, we need to have a distinction between the primary and secondary..." "Is this a matter of course, it is in the city. We do not have any advantage in the field fighting outside the city, we only fight in the streets in the city..." "This is hard to say..."
For a moment, the conference room was full of riots, and everything was said. Of course, what satisfied Xiong Chengji the most was that none of them were willing to retreat on the surface, and each showed the determination and courage to join forces to join forces to do a big fight. The mixed party in Tongcheng didn't want to think of this, his fists couldn't help but tightly put them together...
"No, we must not fight in the city. Not to mention that we have no chance of winning internally. At that time, the Qing army will not destroy Anqing City, how many ordinary people will have to die? What is the purpose of our revolution? Isn't it just to let the people have better days? Why is it that everyone wants the people in the entire Anqing City to give us a custody?" Fan Chuanjia said excitedly, looking at some people in the conference room, and his eyes became extremely fierce.
"Then what do you think you should do?" Unexpectedly, Xue Zhe was the first to jump out to target him. He also shouted wildly with red eyes: "What should we do? You can't wait for the enemy's artillery bombardment outside the city, that's too unfair to die. No, just put your back on it. I will never let Qinggou live even if I die!"
"You..." Fan Chuanjia pointed at his past friend, and the veins on his forehead were so angry that his forehead was jumping, obviously extremely angry. He had nothing to say about this former friend who was greedy for life and fear of death. Since he retreated and ran out to pick peaches when he attacked An Qing, he had seen the other party's true face clearly, but he didn't expect that he would be such a person!
"Okay, OK, when is it now? I still have the time to fight?" Xiong Chengji waved his hand impatiently, and a look of disgust flashed in his eyes. He had nothing to say to his previous friend Xue Zhe. He looked at Bai Wenmo, who had a solemn look on his face, and understood the meaning of the other party's eyes. So he made up his final decision: "Comrades, in the name of the commander-in-chief of the Revolutionary Army, we will go out of the city to dig trenches and be a ferocious person with the Qing army! This discussion does not need to be discussed anymore, just decide. Everyone should go back and prepare, and we will go out of the city to arrange a defense line immediately!"
After everyone was exposed, Xiong Chengjiye, Bai Wenmo and Fan Chuanjia stayed. Of course, my younger brothers would do the things that led the revolutionary army to arrange defenses outside the city. They also discussed the revolutionary army's retreat. Yes, it was the retreat. They never thought of defending Anqing to the end. If they had just won Anqing, they would have defended themselves to boost the revolutionary morale of the whole country. But now, staying useful to continue the revolutionary cause is the right choice!
It’s not that they are afraid of death, but that they have understood it recently. It is the stupidest choice to count on others and rely on themselves for everything. The reason why they did not talk about this in the meeting just now was that they were afraid of leaking the news and were informed by the spies from the Qing court, and the second was that they were afraid of affecting morale and unable to achieve the goal of slashing the spirit of the Qing army first.
But before they could discuss the way to retreat, an officer who had set up a defense line outside the city rushed in panic and reported: "The commander-in-chief is not easy to pull, General Xue Zhe and his brothers ran away, and several other generals also followed suit and could not stop him..."
"What?" Xiong Chengji and others' faces changed wildly, their eyes were about to break and their eyes were staring at the officer who reported the news. Their ferocious teeth were chewed and their eyes were so fire-breathing that they seemed to want to swallow the officer who reported the news...
Chapter completed!