Chapter 155: Decomposition (Part 2)

In the military camp, the air solidified.

In the middle of the playground, there were seven cold bodies, and the military doctors were bandaging the remaining four injured soldiers. The soldiers of the Second Brigade with red eyes and clenched their fists, and the sound of teeth polishing can be heard from a distance. In a corner of the crowd, Huang Keqiang and Jiang Zuobin and other officials of the Nanjing Political and Military Department who rushed over were expressionless, wanting to comfort themselves but fearing that the bigger the matter would be.

More than a dozen Chinese and foreign journalists who came from the news kept pressing the shutter, and more and more officers from reinforcements from all over the country also arrived here. They held their breath carefully and looked at the troops that were already on the verge of furiousness. In Nanjing City, a larger mobilization had begun. A cannon was dragged out. The soldiers who were urgently summoned hid behind the sandbags and stretched out their gun barrels. Looking at the shops and houses that were burned due to the riot, they looked around in a daze and asked who the enemy was 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. At this moment, was he happy or worried? Do he hoped that the complete unrest will continue his political life, or hope that the crisis would be resolved as soon as possible? No one knew.

All eyes were concentrated on Yu Dehai. He slowly let go of the sacrificed company commander's hand, wiped the blood on the black skeleton badge on his chest and arranged it neatly. The soldiers around him were tearful in their eyes. An hour ago, they were still lively, snatching their cigarettes, saying dirty jokes, and judging each woman who passed by, but an hour later, they were already separated by heaven and earth. They were all fighting heroes, and they should have died on the battlefield, but now! They died under the guns of those who claimed to be revolutionary comrades!!

Yu Dehai stood up, his eyes slowly swept across the soldiers around him and stayed on the faces of Huang Keqiang and others. The blood-filled eyes made the timid officials subconsciously take two steps back. The voice was sobbing, like a beast licking his wounds alone after being injured: "Since the night of the uprising, we are brothers! He rushed to the front to fight Liu Jiamiao and revive Hubei with me! We fought side by side for seven days at Wusheng Pass! He killed more than a dozen Beiyang soldiers with his own hands. He held Beiyang's footsteps with us and defeated the Fourth Town with us! He let Beiyang retreat heavily and win time for the victory of the revolution...."

"Who will tell me! Why is he lying here? Why!" The roar of hoarseness made people scary. If the two officers next to him hadn't been held back, he would have rushed into the officials and beat those people up.

The words aroused the anger of the soldiers, and they waved their fists and roared. Young officers even stood up: "Since the uprising, our National Welfare Army has been annexed, fighting the entire territory, fighting for Wusheng Pass, defending Xiaogan, annihilated the enemy... Determined Hunan and fought in Sichuan...! We delayed tens of thousands of elite Beiyang forces, so that they could not make a move south. We paid the price of 16,000 casualties in the military and civilians! Their blood can dye the red river water, and their bones can not be collected yet! Without us, can you be today? Without us... Can Nanjing be restored? Can you sit here and talk about it? Will the Qing Dynasty abdicate so quickly?

We received orders and rushed to support the Northern Expedition at night! We don’t want you to provide military rations, and we don’t want your military pay! We brought machine guns and cannons, but what did you do! Send people to kill our commander, and then rob our military rations. Now... we also killed our robes. What did we do wrong?!!"

As soon as the officer roared, another young officer stood in the center again. All Chinese and foreign journalists who arrived pointed their cameras at him. "We shed our blood and sacrificed our lives. In order to overthrow the Qing Dynasty and build a new China, we have no regrets! Even if we point a gun at our head, we will not frown! But what have you done? Two months ago, the government is still in chaos. There are quarrels in the newspapers every day, people's livelihoods withered, factories are stopped, and more than half of the ships traveling to and from Nanjing Wharf!

We know that those brothers who robbed things were forced to live, so we have no hatred... We just blame ourselves for being blind! Because the temporary government is just playing with us! Are you no money? No! You have all been saved! You mortgaged the railway to the Japanese for loans, and you issued military tickets and forced the people to subscribe with guns! In the end, they actually wanted to mortgage our Hanyeping from Hubei to the Japanese! You are selling your country!

Before the shame of Sino-Japanese War was washed away, you were going to sell all the lifelines of the country to Japan! What’s even more annoying is that what’s the money for selling these things? What’s the money! Nearly tens of millions of dollars are in your hands, why don’t you pay for the salary and why don’t you pay for food?... In the end, you still ignored the soldiers who fought for you and wanted to sell the South to Yuan Shikai’s ambitious family! If we had known this, what would we fight with Beiyang? That was a total of 16,000 lives... our brothers, sisters and relatives!"

"They died... it's so unfair!" The young officer shouted, letting tears pour down, and finally he could no longer hold on to his knees. Many soldiers knew that his brother fell under the guns of Beiyang in the bloody battle of Wushengguan. His sadness and grief and anger made the foreign journalists cry. Only two Japanese journalists looked gloomy and recorded something, but no one dared to anger the soldiers at this time.

The officers from reinforcements from all over the country who rushed to hear the news were collectively lost their voices. Some people were crying, some gritted their teeth, and more people shook their heads and sighed... Silently watching one National Defense Army soldier and officers walk out, scolding, scolding, and finally crying.

Huang Keqiang opened his mouth slightly, his body trembled, and his feet staggered. Jiang Zuobin and Li Shucheng and other officers of the Army Department lowered their heads one after another. As for the civil servants, they had already begun to look pale. They saw another thing breeding, shouting, accusing and crying wildly. The screams and passionate words made them frightened, wishing they could let the cannons flatten the place... But who dared? The dense sound of pulling the slings passed by everyone's ears like the roar of a devil. Some people even began to retreat and prepared to find a place to hide. Who could still block these furious soldiers? More than 4,000 elite soldiers who had been trampled on the Fourth Town of Beiyang after more than 4,000 years of bloody battles were enough to overturn the entire Nanjing city!

Unbearable, afraid, and worried! But no one can do anything to let the voice spread to all directions and let the reporters add fuel to the air. Everyone knows that when these words tomorrow, after these things are reported, the Nanjing government will collapse and the entire South China will fall apart and become out of control.

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

"go home!"

"I won't be fucked by these traitors who raise their mothers for these dogs!"

“…….”

Yu Dehai's eyes were tightly locked, and there was a chill in his teeth: "This is our last tolerance. From now on, we will no longer be so cowardly. If... you deal with us, I swear to put the bullet into your asshole! Please tell the President that the Qing Dynasty fell, the Northern Expedition was terminated, and the Northern Expedition Pioneer Brigade would evacuate itself." After saying that, he raised his arm.

The remains were slowly loaded into the coffin, and the top was covered with Que Hong's hideous flying tiger battle flag. Dozens of soldiers walked out and carried the coffin on their shoulders toward the transport ship that had not left the pier. The soldiers of the Second Brigade began to set off. They would rather live on the pier and wait for the boat than stay here again.

The next day, the ships recruited from Jiangxi and other places arrived, the 1st Division 2 Brigade of the National Defense Forces and the Northern Expedition Pioneer Brigade left with anger and disappointed with Nanjing. Their departure made the troops that remained here even more chaotic. More and more soldiers quietly embarked on the return journey with guns, and some soldiers who did not receive the severance payment even set fire to rob and rob. Nanjing City suddenly became a place that everyone disliked.

As the newspaper published this news, the whole of China was in an uproar again. Everyone had just experienced a sudden riot in Beijing, but they did not expect that Nanjing would not be spared. The newspapers in China such as Britain, France, the United States and other countries even revealed the speeches of young officers and soldiers of the Second Brigade. The images of Nanjing political and Hui party members completely collapsed, and various cases of corruption and fraud were also discovered by reporters. In the last years of Nanjing temporary political affairs, the people changed from worship, happiness, and looking up to spit and curse, and finally collapsed.

A famous New York Times reporter sent back a 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 on this land should realize that some people are no longer trustworthy.

With only Japan's exception, when the soldiers of the Second Brigade accused Nanjing of being a traitor, sold the country to Japan, and repeatedly made remarks about avenging the shame of the Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese political fu immediately accused Yang Qiu of deliberately undermining Sino-Japanese friendship and demanded that the National Defense Force apologize to Japan.

On March 10, at the same time when Yuan Shikai swore to take over as interim president in Beijing, Yang Qiu, who returned to Wuchang, immediately met the soldiers of the Second Brigade. In addition to saying that each sacrificed soldier was assisted according to the standards of martyrs, he also said that the three provinces and the National Defense Forces would not give up their dreams. When a foreign reporter asked him what he thought about the current situation in Nanjing, his face turned pale.

"This is betrayal."

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