In the midst of intense training, planning, and inspections, half a month passed. In mid-September, Nanjing finally ushered in the real coolness of autumn.
September 15th is a special day for Xiang Xiaoqiang. First, it is Xiu Xiu’s birthday. Second, this morning, the last batch of 1,509 Ming Army prisoners of war boarded the ship at Dagu Port and sailed out of the Bohai Sea.
, escorted by two Ming heavy cruisers and six destroyers, sailed south to the Daming waters.
These two things are extremely important to Xiang Xiaoqiang. Especially the second one, Xiang Xiaoqiang has been waiting for a long time. As of this time, the days when the Ming Dynasty "thrown a rat weapon" against the Northern Qing Dynasty are gone forever.
Basically you can throw your arms away and do whatever you want.
Xiang Xiaoqiang originally planned to take Xiuxiu, mother-in-law and brother-in-law together on Xiuxiu's birthday to have fun as a family. Last time on Qiu Qiu's birthday, he got a seaplane and flew to the East China Sea. This time, he couldn't say anything.
Don't be careless. A bowl of water must be level.
But I didn’t expect that the Beiqing’s arrangement for repatriating the last batch of prisoners of war was actually placed on Xiuxiu’s birthday. This is really uncoordinated. It’s not that it’s not a good thing to take back Ming soldiers and soldiers, but according to the plan, on this day
It will be very busy, and there will be bloody incidents. Not only will there be no time to celebrate my wife's birthday, but it will also be very unlucky.
According to the plan, when the last batch of Ming army officers and soldiers confirm that many of them have boarded the ship and have rendezvoused with the Ming army warships to ensure safety, a press conference will be held immediately in Nanjing, and Ming Dynasty officials will officially acknowledge the rumors that have been going on for a month.
: That is to say, the number of captured Ming soldiers was more than 8,000 instead of 6,000. About 2,000 Ming prisoners of war were tortured to death in the Beiqing Dynasty.
A month ago, after the first batch of prisoners of war returned, rumors about the tragic conditions in the prisoner-of-war camps of the Northern Qing Dynasty and the torture and death of a large number of Ming army prisoners of war leaked out in large numbers and appeared in many newspapers. But neither the Ming government nor the
The military avoided talking about this rumor. The Ming army also ordered the prisoners of war who had returned not to talk to reporters about the situation in the Beiqing prison camp. In short, the impression given to the outside world was that the Ming officials tried their best to cover up this matter.
Various accusations against the Ming Dynasty officials occasionally appeared in the newspapers, but there were very few, and there were no large-scale protests. This time the public was also unusual. It seemed that they did not react as fiercely as usual, and did not immediately jump out to accuse the government of suppressing speech.
-On freedom. Although the government did not openly prohibit newspapers from publishing relevant rumors, the press was surprisingly self-conscious. Those articles that stimulated the Beiqing were not even published once.
The government and the people have reached a tacit agreement that everything will wait until all the prisoners of war have returned a month later. Now there is only one thing to do: endure.
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But now, September 15th, this day has arrived, and there is no need to endure it any longer.
The moment the last batch of Ming prisoners of war left Peking by boat, many reporters and people gathered early in front of the top military and political units in Nanjing. They surrounded every official who came in and out, wanting to be the first to hear the official confirmation.
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At a press conference held by the Ministry of War, the presiding Secretary of the Army, Li Gaoting, put on his reading glasses under the spotlight, then held the manuscript and read calmly:
"Given that our last 1,509 officers and soldiers are now on Ming's cruise ship and have sailed out of the Bohai Sea, surrounded by the protection of two heavy cruisers and six destroyers, and have achieved absolute safety, then, the Ming government believes that now is the time
It’s time to reveal the truth.”
He raised his eyes, looked around at the reporter through his reading glasses, and continued:
"Based on the testimony of General Xiang Xiaoqiang and Princess Leping, the Ming representative of the Treaty of Lushun, and the testimony of the three batches of Ming prisoners of war who have returned this month, and after a series of rigorous and detailed analysis and comparison, we have concluded that
came to a relatively conservative conclusion: In the battle to defend Nanjing at the beginning of the year, I newly organized the 74th Army
The number of infantry divisions captured by the Sixth Division of the Eight Banners of the Qing Army is between 8,400 and 8,500. The number of people who have returned to the Ming Dynasty and are returning to the Ming Dynasty is 6,311. In other words, we have enough reasons to believe that there are 2,089-8,500 people.
—2,189 prisoners of war died in Beiqing prisoner-of-war camps."
After a few slow and powerful words were finished, another burst of spotlights flashed in the hall.
It has been a month, and now the Ming Dynasty official has finally said this officially.
As the press conference progressed, the typesetting and printing rooms of major newspapers in Nanjing were already roaring. Before the press conference ended, the streets and alleys were already filled with newsboys' shouts of "Extra number! Extra number!"
There is a feeling throughout Nanjing and Ming Dynasty: this matter has finally been revealed, and a month of depression has finally been vented. Now everyone is staring at the official authorities to see what they will do next after they reveal it.
.Is it a condemnation or something like that?
While the press conference of the Ministry of War was going on, a series of intensive arrangements were going on in the office of the commander of the People's Guard Security Force. The radio station in the confidential room continued to send out commands in code, and received reports constantly, sending them to a stomachache.
The desk came up. Xiuxiu was also sitting on the sofa in the office, talking on the phone, coordinating various aspects.
This matter did not involve Shi Shi Ge Ge. Although Shi Shi Ge Ge knew about it, he did not actively ask to participate. Xiang Xiaoqiang had already asked Xiu Xiu to communicate with Shi Shi Ge Ge. This was not because he did not trust her, but because it involved moral values.
Question. Maybe Shi Shi Ge Ge is indifferent, but Xiang Xiaoqiang doesn’t want her to be indifferent. That would destroy Shi Shi Ge Ge’s image in his mind.
Moreover, Xiang Xiaoqiang discovered that Xiuxiu was no worse than Shi Shigege when it came to doing this kind of thing.
What's going on?...The long-awaited thing.
Now we are waiting for the Ministry of War to send the "go" signal to you at the press conference.
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At the press conference of the Ministry of the Army, Minister Li Gaoting had finished speaking about Zhang Liansheng, and dozens of Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers present at the time also appeared one after another to testify. Under the flash of spotlights, Xiang Xiaoqiang appeared in military uniform and sword.
Xiang Xiaoqiang stood in front of the table and only said a few words to the reporter:
"More than two thousand blood debts, and more than two thousand prisoners of war who laid down their weapons were tortured to death. This is a serious challenge to human conscience and the rules of international civilization. If the murderer is allowed to remain free, then people will no longer believe that there is justice in the world. This case
There are two types of criminals in crimes, one is the principal criminal, and the other is the accessory criminal, that is, the specific execution criminal. Yes, there is nothing we can do about the principal criminal now. But if those execution criminals also think they can get away with it, then they have underestimated our Ming Dynasty.
It’s bloody.”
Xiang Xiaoqiang took out two documents and showed them to the reporters. One was Zhang Liansheng's death certificate, and the other was Zhang Liansheng's diagnosis certificate. There were sixteen signatures on them.
"These are the 16 responsible officials from the Chifeng Labor Camp who were directly involved in the murder of Zhang Liansheng and the cover-up of the truth afterwards, and were directly responsible for the torture to death of more than 2,000 Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers. Now, they have been sentenced to death, and now begins
implement."
In the crazy flash of light, he leaned down, took a red pen, and put a red cross on the sixteen names.
Then, he picked up these sixteen blood-red names and showed them to the reporters.
There was a sensation in the venue. Many reporter assistants grabbed the manuscript and rushed out to publish the latest issue for their own newspapers.
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In the office of the People's Guard Security Team, Xiu Xiu put down the phone and said about her stomachache:
"Master Du, your Excellency has pronounced the sentence!"
Stomachache glanced at the clock on the wall, waved his hand and said:
"Give an order!"
The adjutant, who had a stomachache, immediately ran to the confidential room. A coded signal representing "the operation is proceeding as planned" was sent out along with the radio waves and was transmitted through the air to the distant Chifeng of Inner Mongolia.
An hour later, at 11:20 noon, in the toilet of a casino in Chifeng County, a Qing army captain was strangled to death beside a manhole.
Almost at the same time, in a restaurant in the county town, a major was hacked to death by a cook with a kitchen knife, and the cook fled.
At 11:35, the bodies of two military doctors were found in the Chifeng Labor Camp Clinic. One had his throat slit with a medical blade, and the other had his brains smashed out by an oxygen bottle.
At 12:00, in a luxurious villa on the outskirts of Chifeng, an official committed suicide by swallowing a large amount of opium.
At 12:10, a captain was hit to death with a brick from behind on the road.
At 12:30, in a puffer fish restaurant in Chifeng County, a major and another official were drinking and eating puffer fish in a private room. Before they finished the bowl of puffer fish, the two began to vomit and have diarrhea, and their pupils were dilated before they were sent to the hospital.
, both died.
At 13:00, on the mining road of the Chifeng Copper Mine, a captain's car overturned in a roadside ditch. A captain in the car was shot five times and lay slumped in his seat.
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By this time, the press conference in Nanjing had been over for an hour and a half, and the extras from major newspapers had been out for almost an hour. At this time, the first Peking spy in Nanjing saw the extras, reacted, and hurriedly rode
He drove towards his residence in the car and wanted to send a report to the north.
But he was pulled down by a man on the way. The man held him and refused to let him go, because he must have said that the bicycle he was riding was stolen by him. The spy couldn't argue, and he couldn't leave even if he wanted the bicycle. The two sides kept pulling.
Come to the police.
After the police asked about the situation of both parties, they said that it was difficult to handle and that both parties needed to go to the police station for investigation...
The spy became anxious, pushed the policeman away, and ran away. The policeman was not a vegetarian either, so he took out his siren and blew it loudly. Immediately, several policemen rushed out from different directions, pinned him down, and handcuffed him.
This time he was both a thief and a thief, so he was taken back to the police station and detained temporarily.
An hour and a half later, at 14:30, the second Beiqing spy saw the outside number and immediately became anxious and rushed to his residence. However, this spy was better at it and drove his own car to his residence.
I drove to an intersection and hit a red light, so I had to stop.
At this time, someone knocked on the car window. He turned around and saw a young girl pleading with pain on her face, looking like a female college student:
"Sir, sir... please do me a favor, I have a stomachache and want to go to the hospital, but I can't find a car here... Sir, please do me a favor and give me a ride to the hospital in front... Shi Ren Tang Hospital, just in front.
We are just two intersections away... I really can't walk anymore, and there are no rickshaws here... Sir..."
The spy was anxious and hesitated for a moment with a frown on his face. It was true that Shi Ren Tang Hospital was just two intersections ahead, but he had to turn right half a street first.
He wanted to shake his head and refuse, but the red light in front of him never turned green. If he could go around to Shirentang Hospital, he could turn right and bypass the red light, which might be faster.
He pushed open the car door:
"Okay, okay, come up quickly! Say it first, and get off the bus when you get to the front."
The female college student came up with a lot of thanks. Without saying anything, she first took out a Mingyang bill and put it on her seat:
"Sir, don't worry, I won't let you do it for nothing..."
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So, when we arrived at the entrance of Shi Rentang Hospital in front, the female college student suddenly pulled the handbrake, pulled out the car key, and then the spy was dragged out of the car by several arms...
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In this way, by 15:30 in the afternoon, 8 of the 16 people on the list had died. Although there was panic in Chifeng County and the mines, they still didn't know what was going on, let alone take any preventive measures.
It wasn't until the third Peking spy heard the newsboy hawking on the street from his own window and called the boy to deliver the newspaper that he telegraphed the news back to Pukou Sticky Post.
The report was reported from Pukou Niangan to the Beijing General Administration, and then the Beijing General Administration studied it and asked the emperor to make a decision... Emperor Guangwu didn't know what was going on when he took the report. He didn't know whether it was to express harsh words to Xiaoqiang or to make harsh remarks to Xiaoqiang.
Play it real. If you play it real, when will you take action?
In this way, until that night, when the number of people assassinated in Chifeng had risen to 13, the Chifeng local government and the local military could no longer bear it and reported it to Beijing.
After receiving the report, the relevant departments in Beijing conducted further research and held meetings. At this time, the report from Sticky Branch and the report from Chifeng finally came together.
This was terrible, Nan Ming was serious. He immediately reported it to Emperor Guangwu. When Guangwu saw the two reports, he was so furious that he almost vomited blood. He immediately picked up the phone and issued an order directly to Chifeng, ordering the local government to take measures.
Measures must be taken to prevent Nan Ming's assassination plan from succeeding again.
However, it seemed to be too late at this time. From the phone call, I learned that 15 of the 16 people on the list had already died. The last one was left, and that was Moore, the top commander of the prisoner of war camp.
"Pass my decree!" Guangwu yelled on the phone, "Moer'e, the top commander of the Chifeng Labor Camp, will come to Beijing immediately! The accompanying security will be arranged according to the standards of a lieutenant general!"
"嗻!"
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At around eight o'clock in the evening, the frightened Moer carefully boarded the train under heavy escort and headed towards Beijing.
However, as soon as the train left the Chifeng mining area, the train driver was horrified to find that a rail had been removed dozens of meters ahead by the light of the car lights!
Under the sudden brake, the whole train dragged the sparks all over the rails and rushed forward with a sharp and strange sound, but it was useless. It was discovered too late. The distance of tens of meters was not enough for the train to stop.
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As a result, the whole train rolled down the roadbed one by one like dominoes and hit several trees before stopping.
Fortunately, the speed was not fast, and most of the guards on the car were slightly injured, and some had broken legs and arms. But no one died.
Just... except one person.
After the guards crawled out one after another, howling like ghosts, they counted for a long time and found that Lord Mor'er had not come out yet.
Now everyone panicked and quickly climbed into the carriage to see if Mr. Mo was safe.
However, the bloody situation made everyone dumbfounded.
Moore was lying on his berth, vomiting blood and half-opening his eyes. The box was full of broken glass, one of which cut into his throat, and another... actually cut into his temple.
What's even more strange is that the two pieces of glass actually went in from different directions.