107841908 Far Eastern madman

The end of summer in the year of the Butterfly. In the strange atmosphere between the North and the South, the first republican parliamentary election came to an end, and the political alliance "United Front" composed of the League and the Liberation Association and other small parties came to an end. It won a resounding victory, with a total of 500 members in the Senate and House of Representatives. Of these, 395 members are members of the "United Front," which, according to the Constitution, will own nearly eighty percent of the seats in the National Assembly, and full control of the National Assembly will no longer be a problem, as long as the United Front wishes. They can veto the list of cabinets nominated by the president if they wish, and after two vetoes, the cabinet list will be drawn up by the Senate.

Theoretically speaking, the "United Front" can realize the de facto political party responsibility cabinet through the Congress, effectively limiting the power of the President of the Republic of China.

Therefore, Yuan Shikai is in a hurry, although he is only a "temporary president" now, and the election of the official president must wait until after the establishment of the National Assembly. However, even the "interim president" Yuan Shikai could not tolerate any forces that could step on his head and dictate him.

As a result, President Yuan gave an order, and the war machine of the Beiyang Army was running at full speed, and the murderous spirit rushed to the south.

On the day of July of that year, the First Mixed Brigade of the Beiyang Army stationed in the northern suburbs of Xi'an City advanced eastward under the command of brigade commander Wu Guangxin, and joined the Lu Chengwu Department of the Shaanxi Independent Infantry Regiment of the Army in Weinan. Cut off the northern passage between the Shaanxi troops of the Endeavor Society and the Henan troops.

Endeavor immediately returned the favor and not only expelled all the officers of the Beiyang Liaison Office in Xi'an. Moreover, he sent troops to take over Huayin County, which was abandoned by the Beiyang Army, and sent a force to push forward to Jigongtan north of Huangguan, and confronted the Beiyang troops stationed in Fenglingdu across the Yellow River.

Subsequently, Endeavour announced that all Endeavor troops would join the "United Front" joint arms. Yang Wangpeng, the leader of Endeavor Association, also serves as a senior counselor of the Joint Armed Forces Joint Command.

In July, the first Beiyang Division stationed in Xuzhou left the garrison and marched along the canal by land and water to Yangzhou. In response to the bandit suppression force of the Fifth Division of the Beiyang Army, which was heading south from northern Jiangsu, he ordered Tang Xiangming, acting chief of the Admiralty, to lead the naval fleet to Pukou to cover the southward movement of the Beiyang Army and enhance the strength of Beiyang in Jiangsu.

On the same day, the Second Division of the Beiyang Army stationed in the Beijing-Tianjin area sailed to Dagu, preparing to sail south from there to reinforce Shanghai. Under the guise of blatant interference in China's internal affairs.

On July Ugly, Yuan Shikai issued a presidential decree in his capacity as commander-in-chief of the Chinese army, navy, and navy. Zhang Zuoshuang and Feng Delin were officially awarded the Beiyang number, and Zhang was the 16th Division of the Beiyang Army. Feng Bu was the 17th Division of the Beiyang Army, and ordered the two divisions to rush to Shanhaiguan, where they received weapons and ammunition that had been urgently loaded by Japanese warships. At the same time, Wu Junsheng's division, which remained in Mukden, was also reorganized into the Second Cavalry Brigade of the Beiyang Army and was ready to go south.

Same day. Wang Shizhen, the "Dragon of the Beiyang" sitting in Shanghai, was appointed by Yuan Shikai as the southeast patrol envoy to unify the command of the Beiyang Army's troops south to Jiangsu. "Dog of the North Seas" Feng Guozhang also received an order. Left Beijing that night, took a train along the Jinghan Railway to the south, intending to go to Zhengzhou, and served as a southwest patrol envoy, known as the "Beiyang Tiger." At the same time, the Third Division of the Beiyang Army also drove from the Beijing-Tianjin area to Zhengzhou, under the direct command of Feng Guozhang.

The Beiyang Army is in the deployment of troops, and the "United Front" in the South is money. is also in the strength of the soldiers.

On the same day that Cao Stick led the Third Division of the Beiyang Army to board a train at the Tianjin Railway Station, Zhao Bei, "Commander-in-Chief of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of the United Front," issued an order announcing that all revolutionary armies in the south had entered a state of readiness and were preparing to carry out a large-scale cross-regional joint military exercise

The day after the order was issued, the "First Division of the United Front, the Third Division of the United Front, and the Fourth Division of the United Front," which had been reorganized by the Republican Army, assembled in Wuhan one after another, and the "Fifth Division of the United Front" stationed in Hunan also left its garrison and was transferred to Yuezhou in northern Hunan Province, while the original garrison was handed over to the "26th Independent Division of the United Front" under the command of Gong Chuntai.

At the same time, the Zhanghan Brigade of the "Second Division of the United Front" stationed in Chengdu and Chongqing was also ordered to advance northward from northern Sichuan to southern Shaanxi in order to reinforce Shaanxi. The division commander was concurrently served by Ji Yushuang, the commander of the second division, and he personally led the sixth division to act. The 2nd Division's Brigade acted as the vanguard and walked in the front.

In addition to the actions of the Republican Army, the revolutionary armies of the provinces also began to act almost simultaneously.

The "16th Division of the United Front" and the 17th Division of the United Front were formed by the reorganization of the troops of the Communist Advancement Association. The pledge meeting was held in southern Hunan and northern Yunnan. Subsequently, the 16th Division marched towards Wuhan and announced that it would go to Hubei to participate in the "Dawn of the South." military exercises, while the 17th Division continued to stay in northern Yunnan. Look at Lu Rongting's department entrenched in southern Yunnan.

The same task as the 17th Division was the "19th Division of the United Front" in Guangxi. The division was reorganized from the former Confederacy troops, and because the party component was heavy and its combat effectiveness was limited, it stayed in Guangxi with the "21st Division of the United Front" reorganized from the Guangfuhui troops, and jointly watched over Yunnan and Guangdong, so as to prevent Lu Rongting and Zhang Renjun from taking advantage of the fire to loot.

The "18th Division of the United Front" sent a brigade to the north of the Xijiang River to fight fiercely. Under the pretext of "Dawn in the South," they prepared to join forces with the "20th Division of the United Front" of the Xijiang Liberation Society to jointly defend Hangzhou, prepare to meet the possible offensive of the Beiyang Army, and at the same time implement strategic deterrence in the direction of Shanghai and Nanjing.

At the same time, two infantry brigades of Jiangxi's Li Liejun's "Ninth Division of the United Front" and one infantry brigade and one cavalry regiment of Yan Xishan's "Eighth Division of the United Front" were also moving in the direction of Hangzhou. Together with the troops of Xijiang and Fujian, they will defend Hangzhou and watch over Nanjing.

Both the North and the South are racing against time to make strategic deployments, and the "centrists" of Congress are in the middle of the day. The appeals for peace were perfunctory, and everyone was nervously watching the situation develop, the smell of gunpowder in the air was getting stronger and stronger, and the pace of war was getting closer and closer.

Could a congressional election lead to a war between the North and the South? Knowing that things would develop to the point of taking off their pants and farting, why did the lawmakers bother to hold this parliamentary election? The members of Congress feel more and more like those pants.

But no matter how worn out these pants are, they are also pants, and it may be a bit outrageous to rely on them to keep warm. But at least it can cover up the shame, now whether it is the powerful faction in the south or the powerful faction in the north. I don't even plan to ask for a fig leaf, which makes the parliamentarians and politicians in the northern and southern provinces embarrassed.

For the future of China and peace in the Far East. For the sake of the face of the congressmen and the money bags in their pockets, the "centrist" congressmen in the parliament can be regarded as having let go, and the "centrist members of the Congress" headed by Zhang Xiao and Li Yuanhong, representatives of the constitutionalist faction, have begun to actively run between the north and the south. The two seemingly incompatible military blocs mediated and inquired about the terms of their concessions, but because they themselves were members of the United Front, they were not well received in the North.

What makes these centrist parliamentarians even more strange is that both the Beiyang side and the United Front side. They refused to admit that they were preparing for war, and they all insisted on the term "military exercises" as if they had not seen the mountains of military supplies of the other side.

Could it be that the parliamentarians are nervous?

Just when the parliamentarians were in doubt. The British Minister, Mr. Jurdian, stood up and cited the scriptures as proof of the "United Front" of the South. The "Racing Method" is "unjust and unfair. The British minister "strongly suggests" a new parliamentary election, and this time, the United Front should participate in the parliamentary elections as independent parties after the dissolution, rather than being united and divided as the party recommends.

No one believed that this was the opinion of the British minister himself. Most people believe that this is actually a request from the Beiyang side.

Time "United Front" is somewhat at a loss. If it is dissolved, there will be no seat for parliamentarians. If it is not dissolved, there will be a big war between the north and the south, and the revolutionary party will not be enough, anyway, they are people who lick blood on the knife edge, but those speculators who planned to fish in troubled waters have never thought of using blood to defend the dignity of the constitution, they are actually pulled onto the thief ship and tied to the chariot by the League and the Liberation Society, if the "United Front" wins the war, it is good to say, but if it loses this war, its members will definitely be retaliated against by Beiyang, that is, what foreigners call "state criminals", and it is better to say that there are countries to take them in, However, if there is no state to take him in, even if he flees to the concession, he may not be extradited to the Beiyang government.

As soon as the British minister's "proposal" came out, some people in the "United Front" were panicked, and some parliamentarians were about to issue a statement announcing their withdrawal from the United Front, but when the nests of several of them were bombed, they immediately dispelled this idea, and what the British minister said really had some truth. This "united front" is really a party faction, and it is allowed to enter but not to leave, when it first attracted people to join the gang. Why didn't they warn them?

It's too late to say anything, and now that you're a member of the United Front, you have to be prepared to be a ghost of the United Front, otherwise, do you think that the hat of the "Congressman" is worn for nothing?

In the panic of the congressmen, "at the beginning of August of this year, the troops of the north and the south basically completed their respective strategic deployments.

The Beiyang Army was divided into two routes, with the first line of Shanghai and Nanjing as its strategic base, and was called "the first army to march south." "Wang Shizhen, the southeast patrol envoy, served as the commander of the army to guard against the enemy in the direction of Hangzhou; In addition, the first line of Zhengzhou Xiaokaifeng is a strategic base. It is said that the "Second Army of the Southward March" is headed by Feng Guojiao, the envoy of the southwest patrol, and the main direction of attack is planned to be Xinyang, Henan.

The troops of the "United Front" were also divided into two routes, east and west, and the troops of the East Route were assembled in the vicinity of Hangzhou to guard against the enemy in Nanjing and Shanghai, and Xu Chongzhi, commander-in-chief of the Fujian Army, who was born in the "East Route Column" Alliance, served as the commander of the column, and Xiong Chengji, who was born in the Liberation Society, served as the chief of staff of the column; The troops of the West Route were assembled in Xiaogan, Hubei Province, and used it as a base for their advance. The main direction of attack is Zhengzhou, Henan, called "West Road Column." Zhao Bei, chairman and commander-in-chief of the United Front, served as the commander of the column, and Lan Tianwei, who was born in the Alliance, served as the chief of staff of the column.

The Beiyang Group and the United Front are in tension. In the Yangtze River Delta and central Henan respectively, a north-south war is about to break out, and foreign military attaches stationed in China have begun to seriously deduce which predetermined battlefield to fight.

In the face of the dire situation, all of them held their breath.