Episode 12 No more slaves

Jiang Meilu held her forehead and closed her eyes. The fatigue and worries of the whole day seemed to have gathered together at this moment.

In the past two months, it has become increasingly difficult to control the Heaven and Earth Association in the north. In the past, the branches of the Heaven and Earth Association in the north were nominally led by the general helmsman of the Nanming Earth Association, but in fact they were in the hands of Dongchang. Dongchang used

In the name of the general helmsman of the Tiandihui, he controlled the underground organizations of the Tiandihui in the Northern Qing Dynasty, supported them, provided them with funds, training, etc. Therefore, although the Tiandihui in the Southern Ming Dynasty did not do business all day long and acted as a gangster, the Ming government turned a blind eye.

However, after getting the People's Guard from that annoying Xiang Xiaoqiang, they are trying to seize control of the Northern Tiandi Society. The contact information of each branch in the north is at the East Factory, and the other is at the Nanjing General Helms.

Xiaoqiang is my uncle, so catching him is easy.

But for a period of time, he had little success. On the one hand, the People's Guard had not been established for a long time, and it had many complicated things to do. Moreover, it was also fighting wars, and Xiang Xiaoqiang was too busy, so he just gave it a try.

But in the past two or three months, it has been no longer possible. After the war, the People's Guard has also flourished and grown in strength. Xiang Xiaoqiang has officially married the daughter of the chief rudder of the Tiandihui, and has become a veritable uncle of the Tiandihui. In the past, Nanmingdihui was all

Dongchang was covered, and now he had his uncle's People's Guard as his new backer. Under his uncle's instigation, Qiu Laohu began to try to control the Northern Tiandi Society on his own.

More than two months ago, Xiang Xiaoqiang went to Europe again. Being away from Ming Dynasty for a long time seemed to be very disadvantageous to him, but he made a clever move and left the whole mess to the care of Princess Liaoyang. This was not possible.

The results are better than Xiang Xiaoqiang's own care. Princess Liaoyang is a good hand, and her working ability is much better than Xiang Xiaoqiang's. In the two months since Xiang Xiaoqiang left, the People's Guard has developed vigorously, and everyone from top to bottom has taken good care of her.

.Princess Liaoyang continued to win over Miss Zheng on behalf of Xiang Xiaoqiang, and then maintained a close relationship with the palace.

What's even worse is that with the support of Princess Liaoyang, the "stomachache" began to issue orders to the branches of the Beiqing in the name of the general helmsman of the Tiandihui. What's annoying is that the branches of the Beiqing were willing to listen to them.

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In this way, the underground organization in the north has two bosses: Dongchang and the People's Guard Security Team.

Jiang Meilu thought, maybe it was the People's Guard who instigated the Baoding sub-rudder to make such a big move this time.

What exactly does Xiang Xiaoqiang want to do?

...Why is this Xiang Xiaoqiang so annoying!

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"Okay! Okay!" In the commander's residence, Xiang Xiaoqiang pounded the table excitedly and read the telegram, "There's a riot in Baoding! There's a riot in Baoding!!"

Tumache and Xiuxiu across from each other looked at each other and smiled slightly. They didn't quite understand why Xiang Xiaoqiang was so excited when another riot broke out in the rear of Beiqing.

What's more, Xiang Xiaoqiang was not the one who planned the big riot at the Baoding Arsenal. He just asked the Baoding branch to "do something big" to expand its influence, but he didn't expect to cause a riot.

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Just two hours ago, the workers' dormitory area of ​​Baoding Arsenal was surrounded by military police, who searched house to house. Originally, the search was nothing. People in Beiqing were often searched, searched, and checked for letters. But this time it was completely different. Not only were they searched house to house,

, and almost went door to door to arrest people. The crime was that they found "World of Light" in their homes.

Although ordinary people in the Northern Qing Dynasty will definitely hide "Bright World" carefully or destroy it after reading it. Although "Bright World" only has one octavo page and is easy to hide, the Baoding military police searched every one this time.

Yes, as soon as you enter the door, you will definitely be "searched out" within a minute, and then arrested. And the people arrested this time are all workers who have families, but not the bachelors.

This is obviously a large-scale frame-up, and the purpose is clear: to collect money. The reason why only those workers who have married families are arrested is because their families will try their best to raise money to be released quickly, or to be released with less time.

They were mistreated. It was useless to arrest those bachelors. If they were arrested, no one would give them money.

In less than an hour, more than 200 people had been arrested. At this time, only more than 300 households had been searched, leaving thousands of households unsearched. This kind of "carpet-like" arrests frightened the entire dormitory area.

, a theory began to spread quickly: This time the government has the biggest appetite. Not only will everyone be arrested, but all the family property will be extorted, and no trace will be left.

As more and more people were taken away and the cries got closer and closer, people in the entire dormitory area entered a state of madness. Many people packed up their things and started to flee, but they were beaten and beaten by the surrounding military police.

Many people were arrested and killed. People began to rush out in groups, and the military and police opened fire, killing more people.

Stimulated by gunfire, blood, and the desire of thousands of workers to escape, the situation got out of control. The anger that people had suppressed for too long finally burst out, and the entire Baoding Arsenal suddenly became an erupting volcano. People who usually behave like sheep, now

They turned into countless lions, and the hundreds of soldiers and police turned into bloody corpses in an instant, and their guns also fell into the hands of the crazy workers.

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In the sea of ​​​​people in the dormitory area and factory area, as if carefully planned in advance, there are people in every area encouraging, directing, and leading everyone towards several important goals.

First of all, the telephone bus leading from the factory to the outside was cut off. Almost at the same time, the telegraph room was also occupied. The Baoding Arsenal was in the outer suburbs of Baoding, close to Mancheng County. There was no village in front and no store in the back, so the phone was cut off.

The bus, the arsenal and the outside world are no longer connected, and they become an isolated island.

Immediately afterwards, several more people led several hundred workers, surrounded the residential area of ​​the factory officials, rushed into their houses, and without stopping, beheaded all the dozen or so officials from Niu Zhongqing on down.

He was dead. Mu Long was so frightened that his feces almost came out. He kept shouting, "I am an imperial envoy of the imperial court." No one listened to him at all, and he was also hacked to death. Those officials who are usually hated the most

The body was thrown down from the window. Mu Long'e was also thrown down.

The corpses of these people were quickly stripped naked, their flesh and blood were torn apart by the angry people, and they were thrown against the wall.

The largest group of workers, about four to five thousand people, led by several others, opened all the finished product warehouses in the arsenal, took out guns and ammunition, and quickly armed everyone. These were workers in the arsenal, and they usually played with these weapons.

The soldiers are still skilled, and now thousands of workers have turned into thousands of soldiers in an instant.

Among the tens of thousands of workers, most of them are bachelors. Most of these people are young and energetic young men who make the most noises. They kill corrupt officials and steal weapons. Most of them are responsible for this. But the few workers with families are starting to make troubles.

Dominated by anger, they followed, but they soon woke up. If they followed these bachelor boys, what would they do to their wives, children, and children?

At first, the members of the Tiandihui were hiding among the workers, just secretly encouraging and commanding, but now they have come forward. They stood in their respective groups, climbed to high places, and shouted loudly:

"Brothers! Before tonight, it was the corrupt officials who made the decision. Now, it's our turn!"

There was cheering all around.

They continued to shout:

"Brothers!... Starting from today, we will no longer swallow our anger!!!... We took weapons and fought against those corrupt officials!!! We will kill all those beasts that eat people without spitting out their bones!"

!!...From now on, we will no longer be slaves!!!

"oh!!!…………"

"From now on, we would rather die standing than live on our knees!!!"

"oh!!!…………"

The whole factory burst into crazy cheers. They had a feeling: they had been holding their breath since they were born, and today they could finally stop holding their breath, and they could finally spit out rainbows from their chests, and stand like a real human being.

...I have never felt this way before, it is so enjoyable! Even if I die the next day, it is worth it!

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The stock of light weapons in the Baoding Arsenal is enough to arm several divisions. Now they have been taken out, opened in boxes, and piled on the ground. The workers are quickly distributing them. These weapons are all produced by themselves. They

They know more about weapons than their wives. They happily pick and choose what suits them best.

Although the workers at the Baoding Arsenal are just ordinary people, at this moment, their individual equipment is more luxurious than that of the most elite Eight Banners Division. Each person has a steel helmet, a rifle with a bayonet, and a light machine gun for every three or four people.

, a Ruger pistol for each person, a belt with hand grenades, and a bullet chain hanging diagonally on the chest, like Rambo.

There are two main types of standard light machine guns in Beiqing. One is a Soviet-style rotary machine gun, and the other is a Czech type that is imitated all over the world. One is 7.9 mm, the other is 7.62 mm. There are also rifles.

There are two main types, one is an imitation Mauser 98 rifle, and the other is an imitation Japanese 38 rifle. One is 7.9 mm, and the other is 6.5 mm. Therefore, the Qing army is famous for its miscellaneous weapons and chaotic calibers.

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People from the Tiandihui directed the workers to choose appropriate weapons and shouted:

"Brothers! Use the Czech type for the light machine gun! Use the Mauser 98 for the rifle!...Brothers! Use the Czech type for the light machine gun! Use the Mauser 98 for the rifle!..."

Soon, all the experienced workers understood that they would have to work with the imperial court in the future, and supplies would definitely be difficult, so unifying the caliber and ensuring universal ammunition was the most important!

So, those who originally had the turntable machine gun and the 38-meter cover quickly threw them down and went back to the weapons pile to get the correct ones.

Boys all know that light machine guns have strong firepower, and they all like to hold light machine guns rather than rifles. But light machine guns are very heavy and require two people to operate them, so the number of people holding machine guns is limited to about a quarter. That’s it.

In this way, they are still far higher than any army in the world. In terms of light weapons firepower alone, they even surpass the People's Guard.

The warehouse storing 7.9mm bullets was also opened, and the large number of steel bullets and cast iron bullet boxes were directly pushed down by the workers and scattered aside. Those boxes of pure copper bullets were picked out with familiarity. These were all

It was specially supplied to the Eight Banners Division. Now all the copper bullets have been moved out. Except for the more than 3,000 workers who have families and are unwilling to follow the work, the other more than 6,000 workers have loaded as many bullets as possible, and several temporary groups have been formed.

Logistics teams, each team has several tricycles loaded with bullets, grenades, mortars and artillery shells.

The Tiandihui people then directed the workers to carry food, and the food in the canteen was completely empty. In addition to two days of rations for each person, each tricycle was also filled with food.

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"Brothers!! Act quickly! Hurry up!! The army is coming!! We have to go to Taihang Mountain before them!!!"

Cheers echoed throughout the factory:
Chapter completed!