Master Yuan, start!

Yuan Xiangcheng put down the telescope, said something lightly, and then walked into the cabin.

"Go ashore and into the city!"

Chapter 277 Half of the country is in hand!

The Wehrmacht is entering the city!

When the news of the collapse of the northwest section of Jiangning City spread, riots broke out in the city. Both the Hunan Army and the people knew that the outcome was already determined.

Even though Jiangning is a big city with many defensive fortifications built relying on houses and water flow, the city walls that are more than ten meters high could not withstand the National Defense Army, and these things were nothing more than delaying time.

When Chen led his troops and rushed to the Governor's Mansion in the city again, asking Liu Kunyi to move, he was stopped by a personal guard general named Liu Guangcai.

"Get out of the way, I want to see Marshal Xian!" Chen was blocked outside the Governor's Mansion and looked unhappy.

"Chen, you dare to come back!" Liu Guangcai cursed after seeing who was coming: "Where were you when the commander of Taiping Gate was killed?

Everyone says you ran away and allowed the National Defense Army to enter the city. Do you know your crime? "

After he finished speaking, he casually glanced into the courtyard again, his eyes full of flattery.

Liu Guangcai was born in Xinning County, Hunan Province. Compared with those generals who were born in Xiangxiang County, Hunan Province, he was Liu Kunyi's true "fellow townsman".

Therefore, as Liu Kunyi's chess piece to balance the power of the Hunan Army, Liu Guangcai was highly valued by him. Relying on this trust, he often had conflicts with the old Hunan Army.

When defending the city, Liu Guangcai was ordered to lead a part of the troops to guard the city.

However, after Yu Lianyuan and Chen proposed that "Hunan and Huai are one family", Liu Kunyi instinctively thought that the old Hunan Army was going to break away from his control and set up another faction.

So he urgently transferred Liu Guangcai to the Governor's Mansion to protect his own safety.

Liu Guangcai also took this opportunity to slander Chen in front of Liu Kunyi, claiming that Chen was treacherous and should not be reused.

So, when Chen arrived at the Governor's Mansion again and wanted to persuade Liu Kunyi to move, he didn't even see him.

"General Xian, General Xian, when Taiping Gate fell, I did not help. But I, but I also did it for the future of our Hunan Army!"

"General Xian, now that things have come to this, why bother arguing about right and wrong? If you don't leave now, you'll never be able to leave!"

Chen thought he really had no intention of betraying Liu Kunyi, but when disaster strikes, people always have to think about themselves, right?

The city is definitely not defendable.

In this case, isn’t it a better choice to preserve our vitality for the future?

"Bah! You dare to talk about the future of the Hunan Army? You are a coward. Marshal Xian is really blind to promote you!" Liu Guangcai looked at Chen with disdain and continued to make noise on the side.

In the original time and space, Liu Guangcai served as the general of Datong Town. When the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China, he boasted that he had blocked the Eight-Nation Alliance at Niangzi Pass.

However, in reality, Liu Guangcai's army collapsed at the first touch and could not even hold out for half a day.

However, because the Qing army was so weak at that time, the Manchus needed a great victory to inspire people, so they actually acknowledged Liu Guangcai's bragging and publicized it widely.

Although Liu Guangcai in this time and space did not fight against the Eight-Nation Alliance, he did not forget his ability to brag.

He said that after the fall of Xuzhou, he fought a desperate battle with the National Defense Army for a whole night, but was defeated and finally went south.

Even when he was fleeing, Liu Guangcai did not forget to flatter himself, claiming that he fled south and killed the National Defense Army scouts along the way.

Most of the generals in the Hunan Army had heard him bragging about these things, but because Liu Guanglu was born in Xinning County and was a fellow townsman of General Xian, they did not expose the truth and allowed him to be valued and promoted step by step to the position of deputy general defending Jiangning City.

"You!" Chen glared at Liu Guangcai.

villain!

Chen was furious. He first glared at Liu Guangcai fiercely, then without bothering to argue, he knelt on his knees and planned to shout again to the mansion.

At this moment, Liu Kunyi's voice came from the hall.

"Needless to say, there is no such person as you in my Hunan Army as a traitor.

Since the beginning of the Hunan Army's recruitment, all of them have been from the same hometown, clan, and school. When has there ever been such a disregard for the lives of allies?"

What Liu Kunyi was talking about was the way the old Hunan Army started their uprising, but since the training of the new Jiangnan Army, the "comradeship" within the Hunan Army has faded a lot.

This is inevitable. As any group continues to expand, its sense of belonging will become weaker, and it may even be replaced by a smaller group with a stronger sense of belonging.

It’s like in later China, if a Han Chinese guy meets another Han Chinese guy while traveling, he may not necessarily feel friendly towards him.

Because the Han population is so large, so large that they hardly ever see strangers and have almost no sense of being "of the same race".

On the contrary, the ethnic identity of ethnic minorities is much stronger because they are smaller in number.

For the Han people, the more obvious thing is the regional consciousness. If a guy from Anhui meets another guy from Anhui while traveling, the two of them might even chat for a while.

People can always find the group that they feel most at home with.

Originally, the Hunan Army had few soldiers, so they were all as close as brothers. After the Jiangnan New Army expanded its conscription, the concept of "Hunan people" in the army was replaced by a more specific concept of people from a certain county.

Liu Kunyi reprimanded Chen for this, accusing him of disregarding the lives of his comrades, but he did not realize it.

When he made use of Liu Guangliucai and Tao Senjia, who were from the same Wu County, he himself had already fallen into this kind of thinking.

"I will leave, but I will never follow a traitor like you!" Liu Kunyi's voice sounded again.

"Get lost! Didn't you hear me?" Liu Guangcai drew his sword and threatened Chen in front of him, "Marshal Xian's safety is now my responsibility. He doesn't trust you, a bunch of villains!"

Seeing that Liu Kunyi was unwilling to leave with him and the situation was urgent, Chen did not bother to expose Liu Guangcai.

He knelt down again, kowtowed three times, then said goodbye and broke through with his soldiers.

Once Chen left, Liu Guangcai was the only general left in the Governor's Office.

Although Liu Guangcai deliberately wanted to embarrass Chen, he knew that Chen was right and that they had no choice but to leave the current situation, so he also persuaded Liu Kunyi to leave the city.

After drinking away the treacherous man, 65-year-old Liu Kunyi changed into the National Defense Army uniform that Liu Guangcai had prepared in advance. After changing clothes, he planned to escape from the city in the dark while the sun was setting.

It has to be said that in history, Liu Guang was able to escape from the attack of the Eight-Nation Alliance and even boast about the Eight-Nation Alliance's withdrawal, proving that he was quite capable of escaping.

Along the way, relying on their tattered and obviously used blue uniforms of the National Defense Force, Liu Kunyi and others actually avoided many soldiers entering the city.

Old clothes are actually more useful than new clothes.

However, despite all his calculations, Liu Guang had not anticipated that the National Defense Army's street fighting organization was a special arrangement.

After entering the city, the national defense forces of each town were organized into tent squads, with each group consisting of 15 people, and each group was further divided into small groups of 5 people.

Under the leadership of military commanders, political instructors and soldiers' committee members, they searched house to house for hiding Hunan troops.

Although Liu Guangcai had disbanded the team, he was still leading Liu Kun and his party forward, and he still had dozens of guards around him.

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Although it was already night and the specific situation could not be seen clearly, such a team with many people always gathered together still aroused the suspicion of Bai Lang who was searching for the Hunan Army nearby.

After discovering something was wrong, Bai Lang quickly reported it. The captain Wang San quickly ordered someone to follow the fish without alerting the enemy and see if they could catch some big fish.

Liu Guangcai is such a talented runner that he can immediately spot someone following him.

However, he did not tell Liu Kunyi beside him. Instead, he first found a private house and placed Liu Kunyi and a group of guards in the house under the pretext of searching for a way out. He said that he would come back to lead the team to break out after gathering intelligence.

Liu Kunyi didn't suspect anything and dragged his breathless body to a private house to rest.

However, dozens of minutes later, gunshots suddenly rang out outside the wall, followed by shouts and cries of killing.

Liu Kunyi was just feeling confused and uncertain when the door of the house was kicked open. Bai Lang led his ambush troops into the yard. Hundreds of them lit torches, illuminating the yard and catching Liu Kunyi who was resting there.

Standing behind Bai Lang were Yuan Shikai, Duan Qirui and others.

However, when Liu Kun saw a figure at the end of the team, he widened his eyes in disbelief.

The person at the end is not Liu Kunyi’s fellow villager Liu Guangcai from Xinning, so who is it?

"you!"

When Liu Kun saw this, he knew he had been betrayed. He was so angry that he stood up tremblingly and pointed at Liu Guangcai and said angrily: "I have treated you well, why are you betraying me today!"

"General Xian, that's not right, Liu Ni!" Liu Guangcai first looked at Bai Lang with a flattering face, then said to Liu Kunyi: "It is the will of heaven that the National Defense Army unifies the world. You disobeyed orders, how can you have the face to blame me?"

Even though Yuan Xiangcheng was well prepared, he was still secretly shocked when he heard Liu Guangcai's words behind him turning the tables.

4 If it weren't for this man's meritorious service, Yuan Shikai would have wanted to beat him up on the spot.

"Come here, take a seat!"

Yuan Xiangcheng ordered someone to find two chairs, and slowly sat down facing Liu Kunyi, saying with emotion:

"Sir Liu, you have served as Governor of Jiangnan for several years, ensuring the people's livelihood and prosperity, and diligently building a modern army and navy. To be honest, as a modern person, I admire you very much."

The phoenix sat hunched on the chair, but remained silent and said nothing.

3. In his opinion, being captured in battle is nothing more than humiliation, and the more you talk about it, the greater the humiliation you will suffer.

0What admiration? Huh, now that your national defense forces have arrived by land and sea, you are praising the Hunan Army instead?

Liu Kunyi thought that Yuan Xiangcheng's words just now were a mockery of him.

If Yuan Xiangcheng knew what Liu Kunyi was thinking, he would definitely cry out in injustice, because he sincerely thought Liu Kunyi did a good job.

I have the foresight and foresight of a time traveler, so I can make plans in advance and form a team, but Liu Kunyi is not like that.

Not only Liu Kunyi, but Yuan Xiangcheng also felt that Li Hongzhang did much better than in the original time and space.

However, there can only be one person who can dominate the world. In this era of great changes that has not been seen in 3000 years, Yuan Xiangcheng does not trust anyone else to be the one to carry the throne.

"The Hunan Army was not defeated by weapons and equipment, but by the people's hearts." Yuan Xiangcheng said something incoherent. Seeing that Liu Kunyi did not respond, he immediately clapped his hands and brought someone up.

"Guards, bring Chen up!"

"List?!"

Upon hearing this name, not only did Liu Kunyi sit up straight, but even Liu Guangcai who was standing next to him widened his eyes.

"Tie up this traitor Liu Guangcai as well!"

Yuan Xiangcheng pointed his hand, and someone immediately grabbed Liu Guangcai's hands and feet and tied him up in no time.

"Master Yuan, Master Yuan, what are you going to do?" Liu Guang realized that something was wrong and begged for mercy, "This humble official is the one who is doing this. Master Yuan, it was this humble official who pointed out where Liu Kunyi was hiding, Master Yuan!"

"Shut his mouth!" Yuan Xiangcheng looked at the noisy Liu Guangcai in front of him, had someone stuff a rag into his mouth, and said disdainfully:

"The National Defense Force has been keeping an eye on you for a long time, Liu Guangcai. Do you think your informing is useful?"

"Wuwu... Wuwu... Wuwu" Liu Guangcai tried his best to defend himself, but he could only make sobbing sounds and could not utter a word.

Chen and Liu Guangcai were both kneeling on the ground, neither speaking, except that one had his mouth blocked; the other had multiple wounds on his body, looked listless and didn't want to talk.

Yuan Xiangcheng stood up, walked around the two kneeling people, and said: