On November 12, Feng Guozhang, who had been ordered by Yuan Shikai to exert pressure on the Hubei People's Army, sent one to cross the Han River from Caidian, intending to attack the Hanyang People's Army from the flank and behind, and another to bypass Huangpi and prepare to contain the Wuchang side.

Regarding the deployment of the Qing army, Huang Xing pondered on the map for a long time, but he couldn't find any way to crack it! On the one hand, this is because the strength of the people's army in the three towns of Wuhan is far weaker than that of the Qing army, and on the other hand, it is also related to Huang Xing's command ability. Huang Xing didn't know what professional officers were, and some of his limited military knowledge was obtained from many small-scale riots, in fact, the vast majority of professional officers in the Hubei People's Army who were born in the New Army at the end of the Qing Dynasty were stronger than him, if Huang Xing was not the leader of the League, he would have his turn to command this battle!

But this Huang Xing has no self-knowledge, and he has been defeated repeatedly and still clings to military power and does not let go.

The Hubei People's Army has such a commander-in-chief, but the opposite is Feng Guozhang, who is known as the Three Heroes of Beiyang, and there are many famous Beiyang generals under Feng Guozhang's account, many of whom are famous generals in the warlord melee in the next few decades. I have to say that it is not easy for the Hubei People's Army to hold out until now.

Huang Xing faced Feng Guozhang's two-way attack, and after thinking hard all night, he sent a civilian army to cross the river and try to attack the Qing army, but the difference in combat effectiveness between the two was too great, and the civilian army collapsed as soon as it came into contact, and less than half of them fled back to Wuchang.

Although the battle on the Hubei front was unfavorable for the Southern People's Army, a major event happened on the 13th!

That's Shandong Reading Power!

A few days earlier, Xu Jingxin, the head of the Shandong League, contacted people from all walks of life in Shandong to hold a meeting, and put forward an extremely fierce outline of reading, not only to sever ties with the Qing government, but also to advocate that all Han people have the obligation to take revenge on the Manchus, but refused to recognize all treaties on Shandong, that is, not to recognize the treaties signed by the Manchus and the foreign powers. Sure enough, as soon as this outline was proposed, it was violently criticized by the gentry from all walks of life in Shandong, so that in the later meetings, Xu Jingxin's words were not paid attention to at all, and the influence of the League also declined sharply.

Later, after repeated negotiations, the real power faction of the Shandong gentry put forward eight demands to the governor of Shandong: these eight articles said a lot, but in the final analysis, it was the autonomy of Shandong, and they casually talked about the peace talks between the north and the south! But the focus is on Shandong's autonomy. If the Qing court agreed, then Shandong would be a state within a state, and the legislative, military, and financial affairs would all be separated from the central system, which can be said to be a concrete example of the real power factions in modern China in order to control the real power, and then promote the autonomy of the provinces.

If the revolution in the southern provinces is for the republic, then the revolution in Shandong is for the sake of reading, which is not the same as recovery!

Therefore, Shandong's reading power is not directly related to the Xinhai Revolution itself, and it is completely different from the reading power of the southern provinces, but the representatives of the gentry in Shandong are eager to gain greater power through the turmoil of the Xinhai Revolution.

Of course, these treaties, which were harsher than the unequal treaties of any of the great powers, were unforgivable in the eyes of the Qing court and Yuan Shikai.

The Qing court opposed the simplicity of nature and the sake of domination. Yuan Shikai, who had just returned to Yanjing and officially assumed the post of prime minister, was extremely angry because Shandong was not a southern province, it was where he started, but his old nest, where the revolutionary party could be allowed to spread wild, not to mention those messy reading conditions.

Immediately, Yuan Shikai made a quick response, on the one hand, he temporarily agreed to most of the conditions to delay time, and on the other hand, he ordered the Fifth Town to suspend its southward movement and turn around and return to Shandong, and on the other hand, he ordered the Zhili Mixed Association to go south to Shandong.

Although Yuan Shikai gave Shandong a reply in just two days, the members of the League in Shandong did not care about this, they wanted recovery, not the autonomy that the gentry wanted.

Therefore, Sun Baoqi called Yuan Shikai on the side, "This move is a helpless move!" "On the one hand, he was forced by the people of the League to issue the Liberation Electric, and the abacus advocated by the gentry of 'self-government, actual reading power' came to naught in an instant.

When Yuan Shikai heard that Shandong had released the Liberation Electric, not only did he not panic, but he calmly ordered the Fifth Town of Shandong and the Zhili Mixed Association to speed up to Jinan to completely extinguish the revolutionary chaos in Shandong, well, and the group of gentry and rich businessmen who wanted to take advantage of the fire to rob and plot against them!

The news of the chaos in Shandong also spread quickly throughout the country, and people from all walks of life are paying attention to the movements of this important northern province. The newspaper also discussed the various deeds related to the recovery of Shandong, as well as the impact of various possible surnames on the north and south.

Almost on the same day, Chen Qimei, the governor of Shanghai, Tang Shouqian, the governor of Zhejiang, Cheng Dequan, the governor of Jiangsu, Li Xiehe, the commander-in-chief of the Wusong Guangfu Army, Lin Shuqing, the governor of Zhenjiang, and Chen Jingyun, the governor of Fujian, all expressed their support for Xu Shaozhen, the commander of the ninth town, and then formally formed the Southern Coalition Army, and all departments sent troops to encircle Nanjing from all directions.

The main purpose of the Southern Coalition at this stage is to capture Nanjing, and the chaos in Shandong has led to a pullback in the fifth town, which means that there will be no reinforcements in Nanjing in a short time! Such a favorable situation for the Southern Coalition Army appeared for the first time after the Wuchang Uprising.

People with a little military vision can see that the Southern Coalition Army will have a great strategic advantage in the area around Nanjing in a short period of time!

After hearing this, Chen Jingyun of Fujian Province soon received a telegram from Chen Qimei and others in Shanghai to form a coalition army, and Chen Jingyun originally did not care about the formation of a coalition army, because his first brigade was still on the way to Wenzhou, and it was estimated that it would not be able to reach the city of Nanjing in a short time, but in order to let the first brigade obtain a name for settling in Zhejiang, he still agreed!

Although the chaos in Shandong and the war in Nanjing were chaotic, they did not affect Chen Jingyun's regular work, and after dealing with the matter of forming a coalition army, Chen Jingyun went to the Fuzhou South Campus according to the predetermined plan, and this time he went to the South Campus to inspect the military camp, and more importantly, to preside over the opening ceremony of the first crash course of the Fuzhou Military Academy next to the South Campus.

Fuzhou Military Academy was originally the Fujian Military Academy, in 1906 it was changed to the Fujian Army Primary School, after Xinhai, the Nationalist Army took over the only military school in Fujian, and changed to Fuzhou Military Academy, Chen Jingyun served as the principal, as for the instructors and the like, most of the original instructors were retained, some were rotated from the middle and senior officers of the army, and the remaining part was recruited foreign instructors.

When Fujian's internal organization stabilized, Chen Jingyun also took the military academy to heart. Although the current national army is expanding rapidly, there is an extreme shortage of qualified officers, and many company and platoon-level officers used to be the main and deputy officers, and the middle-level officers of the battalion, regiment and brigade used to be the highest pipe band, such as Ma Cheng, Li Jimin and Yuan Fang used to be pipe bands. In general, the current national army lacks enough middle and lower-level officers, let alone senior officers.

In order to train a large number of qualified officers in a short period of time, Chen Jingyun had long ordered the original cadets of the Fuzhou Military Academy to speed up their training, and after only half a month, they were enriched to the Fourth Brigade, and then recruited young students with a certain cultural foundation from the society to carry out a short-term training course of about three months, and in addition, selected middle and lower-ranking officers with a certain cultural foundation from the active military units to start a one-and-a-half-month crash course training.

For example, on the night of the uprising, the dozens of students from Fuzhou Middle School who joined Chen Jingyun's personal army were sent by Chen Jingyun to participate in a short-term training course, except for a few who took the initiative to leave and go back to school. As for those crash course students, most of them are promoted temporarily, have a certain military foundation, and are mainly soldiers, but basically have not received systematic military training.

The combination of these two academic systems is expected to provide the National Army with a large number of qualified lower-level officers within half a year! As for the training of middle and high-ranking officers, it is still being planned, and it will not be seen in a short time.

Chen Jingyun stood on the podium of the auditorium, looking at the group of students wearing brown and green military uniforms below, and felt some emotion in his heart, a few days ago he had presided over the ceremony of the first short-term training course, at that time he was facing some students, mainly students from Fuzhou Middle School, and the faces of those young people were full of passion and excitement. However, today's group of active-duty officer cadets have more vicissitudes on their faces, and perhaps a little sense of responsibility.

"Those who can sit here today are the elites of various units, and they are all soldiers with outstanding military achievements. Maybe you think that coming here will be a waste of your time, that it will hinder your chances of making a difference, or that it will be uncomfortable for you to sit here and your brothers are fighting the enemy on the front lines. But I tell you, the reason why you are here is to learn better military literacy......"

Chen Jingyun's speech is decent, he is a calm person, although he has gone through several speeches, but he has never learned the kind of incendiary speech of a professional politician, and even speaks without much passion, plain as water.

But the students below listened very carefully.

"I hope you can study hard, learn better, learn more! Because what you have learned today will not only be able to defeat the enemy in the future, but also save your own lives and the lives of your comrades! What's more, you'll use what you've learned to save the country! This nation! Chen Jingyun took a deep breath: "Always remember that your study is not only for yourself, but for this country, this nation, whether the country can create a republic in the future, whether it can rise in the forest of the world, it depends on you!" ”