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Obviously, at the moment of absolute superiority, Datang had no reason to agree to the revolutionary party's peace conditions. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 Although further marching into the mainland means that Datang will spend more military spending and send more troops, the Datang top management has already made an overall plan beforehand, and the troops dispatched from North America will soon arrive.

In terms of positioning, Datang is not an aggressor, and even the guest army is not very good. The Tang army advanced inland along the line of communication, and there was no need to worry about the future. The former Qing army was basically subdued, and the people would not go to trouble the Tang people. At this time, the Tang Dynasty was not in a hurry to occupy a place and fully control a place, as long as the key nodes were held and the supply lines were ensured, the Tang army could continue to march inland.

Wuhan, barely defended, was broken by the Tang army. The revolutionary party was already planning to abandon Hubei and Hunan and retreat to the southwest, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack. They transferred their troops to Sichuan, preparing to take advantage of the dangerous terrain to deal with the Tang Dynasty. However, the revolutionaries had a very good plan, but they did not expect that the 20,000 troops who had left Wuhan would arrive in Chongqing with less than 5,000 men left, and three-quarters of the army had deserted and left the revolutionary army in an organized manner.

The officers of the former New Army were not stupid, they boarded the ship of the Revolutionary Army to see if there was a better way out, after all, the situation at that time was very uncertain, and no one knew what things would turn out of. But now that the situation is relatively clear, the Qing court is completely gone, and even the Manchu officials everywhere dare not mention the continuation of the Qing Dynasty or let the Manchus continue to be emperors at this time.

Although Datang did not explicitly annex the Qing Dynasty, it had already raised the signboard of the "Datang Huaxia Provisional Management Committee" in Beijing. For example, in Zhili, Guangdong, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang, provinces where the Tang people had great influence, the original government has begun to be reorganized, and civil servants from the Tang Dynasty have taken office to prepare for the formation of a new government.

At the same time, Datang did not compromise with any force, whether it was the old bureaucracy, the Boxer Rebellion or the revolutionary party, Datang did not tolerate any force splitting China, more precisely, splitting Datang's power. Many people of insight have actually sighed that they had already felt it before this day, and it is not particularly strange that it is really coming now.

And the former Qing officers who had defected to the revolutionary party before knew that the Tang Dynasty intended to control the entire territory of China, and where were they willing to go all the way with the revolutionary party. Losing his official position and career is still a trivial matter, if he is placed on a crime such as a conspiracy rebellion or war crime, if it is serious, he will be shot, and if it is a little lighter, he will be exiled to an overseas territory that does not know which of the Tang Dynasty to pioneer.

The control of the revolutionaries over the army was extremely limited, and only a very small number of troops were led by revolutionary officers, and most of them could not even install a prison guard. As soon as they got out of Wuhan, no one could control these new troops, and after they were pulled, they went in other directions, and then sent people to surrender to the Tang army, waiting for the Tang people to come and take over.

Speaking of which, the influence of the Tang Army in the Qing army should not be underestimated. Before the collapse of the Qing court, there were still military advisers and instructors from the Tang Dynasty who were communicating with the Qing army, so the new army was very familiar with the Tang army, and the officers were able to get involved in a little friendship.

The most important thing is that these former officers of the New Army know that if they vote for the Tang Army, at least the Tang people will not cheat them. Because the Tang Army doesn't look down on their combat effectiveness at all, they won't treat them as cannon fodder. At most, you are pressed in one place and transferred when needed. After waiting for a while, the eight achievements will be split and reorganized, and even some troops will be disbanded directly. Of course, when the time comes, there will be money to take and a place to settle. The meticulousness of the Tang people is what these former Qing officers trusted.

At a time when the situation of the revolutionary party had completely developed towards collapse, the Datang intelligence department, which had been criticized after the Boxer Rebellion, finally made some achievements at this time.

Yang Yuchun, the former southwestern general of the Qing army who announced that he had joined the revolutionary party after the Chengdu uprising, was persuaded by the development of the intelligence department to launch a mutiny in Chengdu, arrest the revolutionaries, destroy the Sichuan provincial government established by the revolutionaries, and plant the banner of the Tang Dynasty in Chengdu. Yang Yuchun was forcibly erected by the revolutionaries during the previous Chengdu uprising, and at that time it was a group of revolutionary soldiers who unexpectedly sealed his general's palace and forced him to comply. However, the revolutionaries did not dare to directly remove Yang Yuchun and take away his military power. Because with the qualifications and prestige of the revolutionaries, there was no way to control the entire Southwest New Army. So they are wooing Yang Yuchun and monitoring at the same time.

Yang Yuchun had no intention of the revolutionary party, and immediately planned the mutiny after the Tang people threw an olive branch. After all, he was a scheming general, and he struck a blow at the vital point of the revolutionaries and quickly overthrew the Sichuan Provincial Government of the revolutionary party. Not only that, but he also immediately sent troops to threaten Chongqing, and now President Sun Da's plan to rely on Sichuan to block the entry of the Tang Dynasty was completely bankrupt.

At the last moment, President Sun Da was desperate and secretly expressed to Datang that he was willing to surrender and serve Datang. However, the Tang side was particularly stubborn, saying that there was no option to surrender to the conspiracy and rebels, and there was only one way to surrender and stand trial.

The revolutionaries were already demoralized, and even many of the old party members left at this time, the army was completely out of control, and an atmosphere of depression permeated the entire group. After understanding that it was impossible to do anything, Mr. Sun hung up his crown and left, and without even saying a word to his so-called executive and legislative presidents, he rolled up a large amount of funds from the puppet federal government, and left Chongqing with his cronies.

If he didn't tell other revolutionary party subordinates, Mr. Sun was worried that these people would betray him if they defected to the Tang people, so it was better to run away and be safe.

On New Year's Day in 1800, the Tang army successfully marched into Chongqing, and then the revolutionaries in Yunnan, Guangxi and other provinces were basically scattered, and the Tang Dynasty controlled the situation in these areas. After the collapse of the Qing Empire, the Tang Dynasty basically controlled the entire land of China, and except for the northwest and Tibetan areas, there were still local autonomy-type forces in the country, and the rest of the territory was basically cleared.

At this time, Bai Nan, the president of the Tang Republic, personally stepped on the plane to China, followed by thousands of civil servants, military officers, managers of state-owned enterprises, and private investors. Bai Nan has no intention of moving the capital, but it needs to move faster and better to make China move from the old feudal and modern society to the modern society of the Tang Dynasty, and it is impossible to control it remotely from the other side of the ocean. In essence, Bai Nam has moved most of the functions of the National Council to his homeland in China. (To be continued.) )