After watching Yang Wangu and others walk away, there were only Wang Zhenyu's three people and the deputy officer who was responsible for leading the way in the forest. The deputy officer thought that he would be rewarded and then dismissed, so he kept nodding and bowing to Wang Zhenyu with a smile on his face. Looking at this small role who had no grudges or grievances in the past, Wang Zhenyu also hesitated for a moment, did he really want to kill him to silence him?

  Hesitation only lasted for a breath, and Wang Zhenyu suddenly understood that there was no difference between this life and the next. It's still just a silhouette without a background, if you want to rise up, you can only be more ruthless and more fierce than others, otherwise it's just a Chinese dream.

  This poor little deputy officer, I Wang Zhenyu am a materialist who has received many years of education from the party, he doesn't believe in any afterlife retribution, in his view living well in this life is most important.

  Wang Zhenyu looked at his deputy and smiled: "You tell me, how should I reward you?"

  The official's heart suddenly relaxed: "That is naturally according to your honor's intention, I will make it happen."

  The deputy officer smiled and said, "Haha", Wang Zhenyu looked at Ma Xicheng and also smiled at the deputy officer.

  Ma Xi Cheng, who understood the situation, gave Zhao Dong Sheng a look behind the deputy officer's back, and then Zhao Dong Sheng's large hand covered the deputy officer's mouth from behind his neck.

  The deputy officer suddenly understood everything, his mouth desperately exhaling air, both hands frantically grasping Zhao Dongsheng's large hand, but only managed to utter a faint "uh" sound. Before he could make another sound, the dagger ruthlessly slashed across the deputy officer's throat.

  The deputy's eyes shot out a terrified gaze, staring dead at Wang Zhenyu who was still standing opposite with a smile on his face.

  "Sorry, if this ammunition leaks out, I and my hundreds of brothers will be dead, sorry to trouble you, friend." These were Wang Zhenyu's last words to the deputy officer.

  Zhao Dongsheng also immediately loosened his hand, and the officer fell to the ground like a puddle of mud, shrinking into a ball, with both hands desperately covering his throat that had been cut open, trying to block the fresh blood that was constantly spraying out and making a hissing sound. His eyes were still fixed on Wang Zhenyu's direction, twitching a few times before losing consciousness.

  The whole process took only a dozen seconds, but Wang Zhenyu had some regrets. He shouldn't have stood here watching Zhao Dongsheng take action. Although he had also killed people before, shooting the Northern Army at the train station and killing someone to silence them were two completely different things.

  At the station, killing was because the person being killed was an enemy, and not killing meant being killed. But was killing this deputy in front of him because he was an enemy? Had he really become a ruthless and merciless person driven by self-interest? Wang Zhenyu suddenly felt a twinge of guilt in his heart.

  Wang Zhenyu soon found an excuse for himself, and his self-destructive behavior was entirely for the safety of himself and nearly a thousand brothers under him. Besides, what's there to be afraid of? It's just Niutou Mianmian Ge, not like he hasn't seen them before. If they have the ability, let them come find him, this materialist has an old account to settle with them anyway!

  Thinking of this, Wang Zhenyu seemed to become fearless again.

  Ma Xi Cheng and Zhao Dong Sheng obviously didn't like to think too much, they quickly buried the official's body. The pit was ready-made, only the things inside changed from ammunition to a corpse. After doing all this, the three of them walked out of the forest.

  At dawn the next day, Ma Xicheng, following Wang Zhenyu's orders, woke up Tao Yuke, Song Haomin and other guards from their beds. He said it was an urgent order from Commander-in-Chief Huang to execute several dozen military officers who had defected, including Song Xicheng, as a warning to others. This order was naturally nonsense, because several days ago Huang Xing had already decided to resign and go to Nanjing, and yesterday he had boarded a British ship in Hankou, leaving Wuhan before Wang Longzhong did. Unlike history, this time there was no "glorious" reputation of escaping as a commander-in-chief. Tao Yuke, Song Haomin and others might have had doubts, but they couldn't find the already-resigned Commander-in-Chief Huang. As for why these guards were chosen to carry out the executions, it was purely due to Wang Zhenyu's personal dark psychology, probably similar to some university girls or working women who drag their classmates or colleagues into prostitution in later generations.

  However, this worry proved to be unnecessary, as the guards showed no resistance and did not ask any questions. In this era of revolutionary fervor, killing had become a noble profession.

  When they arrived at the execution ground according to the order, Song Xiquan and others were already tied up with ropes, their mouths stuffed with coarse cloth. Although they struggled desperately, making loud "Wu Wu" sounds, they were still dragged to a remote area and executed by firing squad. Their bodies were buried on the spot. Wang Zhenyu watched the execution process from afar, and only felt at ease when he saw that nothing unexpected had happened.

  During this time, he kept telling himself: "I have no grudges against you, taking your lives is really unavoidable. You can consider yourselves martyrs for the great cause of our nation, after you go down, rest in peace as ghosts, I'll make sure to burn a lot of paper money for you, when you meet Ox-Head and Horse-Face, remember to ask them how I'm doing. Just tell them that when this great villain goes down, there will be accounts to settle." (Ox-Head and Horse-Face suddenly let out a loud sneeze, furious, they said: "You scoundrel, don't threaten the ghostly enforcers like that!")

  With a single breath, he killed all the informed people, and after feeling guilty, Wang Zhenyu still didn't feel half safe. This batch of military supplies was definitely not going to be transported back to Hunan Province. Later in life, he liked to read the biography of Zhang Zuolin, from which he drew a conclusion that warlords loved to surround certain big shots with soldiers and rob them. One famous example is Zhang Zuolin surrounding the dismissed governor of Fengtian, Duan Zhigui, who was returning to Beijing, and almost didn't let Duan Zhigui leave his underwear as a souvenir for the people of Northeast China. The most famous one was not Zhang Zuolin, but Anhui Governor Ni Si-chong, who was extremely ruthless. He directly led his troops to surround the then President Feng Guozhang, who was preparing to return to Nanjing. It's worth noting that Feng Guozhang brought a whole pistol brigade of guards with him on the train when he returned to Nanjing to avoid disaster. As a result, before even getting off the train at the station, they were all blocked in the carriage by Ni Si-chong's men and disarmed. In the end, Feng Guozhang had to return to Beijing with great humiliation to complete his resignation procedures. The once-mighty General Feng was forced to retire from China's political stage, ending his life in despair.

  Wang Zhenyu thinks he is not a big shot, at most, he is just a small role who became famous with one ball. If he were to be surrounded by people, the ending would likely be more miserable than Duan Zhigui and Feng Guozhang, with both his life and wealth being completely destroyed!

  The biggest problem now is that Wang Zhenyu really wants this batch of ammunition, but he can't take it away. What to do?

  To know that for this batch of military supplies, Wang Zhenyu, a semi-materialist and semi-idealist who has received traditional red education and knows that hell really exists, came to kill people with his conscience obscured. If you let him spit out the fat meat he had eaten and give it back to the Hubei Military Government, it would be better for him to die directly.

  Wang Zhenyu was also at a loss for what to do, as he had no acquaintances in Hubei, neither in the underworld nor the legitimate world, and all roads, whether by land or water, were closed to him.

  Days passed one by one and time quickly entered December 1911.

  The war in Hubei had actually ended at this point, and with the signing of a temporary ceasefire agreement, both sides' troops exercised absolute restraint, after all, no one wanted to die here.

  The entire Hubei front line presented a rare peaceful scene, and a happy era arrived.

  The Chinese quarter of Hankou was completely burned down by Feng Guozhang's troops, who didn't want to engage in street fighting with the militia and guerrilla forces. As a result, life for the Northern Expeditionary Army was quite bitter compared to that of the militia. They couldn't even go out to have some fun or change their surroundings by going to a restaurant; they could only sneak into the concession area of Hankou wearing casual clothes.

  As for calling a girl, this higher-level service can only be found in the Japanese concession area, where there are girls from Japan. Everyone is going south to suppress the bandits, and the military pay is fully paid, so there's no problem with money.

  But on the side of the people's army, not everyone was a revolutionary soldier with a strong will and good style. The upper levels might have been better, but many of the lower-level personnel were originally from the Hubei Military Government and had always had lax discipline. By the end of November, after Huang Xing left Hankou to prepare for the recovery of Nanjing, the wartime headquarters was all but defunct, and these people who called themselves revolutionary heroes were even more unmanageable. In Wuchang, because there was a military law enforcement squad, everyone still didn't dare act recklessly.

  As soon as they got some revolutionary wealth, they would all choose to take the ferry to Hankou's concession and splurge. For them, the essence of revolution was still about getting promoted and making a fortune.

  It was then that a discordant scene appeared in the Hankou Concession, perhaps not long ago on the battlefield, two groups of people who were fighting for their lives like water and fire, now they can eat together in the same restaurant, even embracing girls in the same room, what should one say about this?

  As for the concessions, the war did not affect the economic development of the concessions but instead indirectly promoted their abnormal prosperity, which is also a major wonder in modern Chinese history.

  But this doesn't mean everyone who comes to the concession is here to splurge and have a good time, like our classmate Wang Zhenyu.

  Wang Zhenyu and Ma Xicheng, Zhao Dongsheng three people have changed into plain clothes and quietly took a boat from Wuchang to enter the concession area. The concession in Hankou is not large, at least it can't be compared with the Shanghai Concession that Wang Zhenyu is familiar with through film and television works.

  The early concessions were not allowed to enter Chinese people, but later due to the lack of labor force, Chinese people began to flood into the concessions. Ironically, the concessions themselves, which existed as a national shame in history textbooks, provided extremely valuable political protection for the booming development of national industry and commerce for a long period of time. Because the rulers of the Republic of China, no matter how wise and powerful they felt, were not dare to touch the whiskers of foreign devils, even if it was just a little bit. To put it simply, suppose you asked about the old mother of a certain general of the Republic of China in front of him, or even gave him a loud slap in the face. No problem, as long as you could escape into the concession in time, congratulations, this powerful and majestic general could only jump his feet outside the concession but had no way to deal with you. Throughout the history of the Republic of China, only Lu Yongxiang's son Lu Xiaojia was slapped by Huang Jinrong for flirting with an actress, and sent troops into the concession to capture Huang Jinrong, there really wasn't a second person who dared to enter the concession with armed forces. This point even the Japanese people who were arrogant at one time did not dare to do it before they sneak attacked Pearl Harbor, after all, Lu Xiaojia was a kind of guy who could dig out patriotic sentiment and was rare in modern history.

  Wang Zhenyu hastily shook his head, not allowing himself to continue daydreaming after seeing the concession for the first time. His purpose for coming this time was only one thing, to find the foreign firms established in Hankou and see if he could get rid of the batch of military supplies he had just gotten his hands on. Now it seemed that there was no other way.