Lu Rongting and Chen Jingyun quietly reached a secret cooperation agreement, although it is not known whether this agreement can be realized for the time being, and it is not known how long it can be maintained, but from the current point of view, the cooperation between Lu Rongting and Chen Jingyun should be mutually beneficial.

Long Jiguang didn't know that Lu Rongting behind him was already grinding his fists and preparing to attack Wuzhou, and even prepared to go down the river and attack Chen Jingyun's third division after capturing Wuzhou. However, Long Jiguang had such worries before, and he also took certain precautions. After all, Long Jiguang is not a fool, each of these warlords in the early years of the Republic of China is not stupid, and they can basically think of what they should think of. The only thing Chen Jingyun is stronger than them is that Chen Jingyun knows some general trends in the future, and in addition, Chen Jingyun does not have many advantages over them.

Long Jiguang also guessed that the Gui army might have some trouble-making moves, so while he transferred the main force to Guangzhou, he also left more than 3,000 troops in Wuzhou and organized it into a brigade to stay in Wuzhou. And he himself went to Guangzhou with a main force of nearly 20,000 people. From this arrangement, it can already be seen how much Long Jiguang attaches importance to Guangzhou, on the contrary, Long Jiguang in Wuzhou wants to keep it if he can keep it, and if he can't keep it, he doesn't want it.

When Long Jiguang and the Third Division marched in the direction of Guangzhou like two arrows, public opinion in the country was also boiling because of the turmoil in Guangzhou, and the newspapers waited for news from Guangzhou for three days and two ends, and various forces were also paying close attention to the progress of the Guangzhou incident, and even foreign envoys were also paying close attention.

Long Jiguang's troops, relying on the convenience of river transportation on the Pearl River, finally rushed to the outside of Guangzhou one step ahead of the Third Division, and on that day a vanguard regiment had already begun to advance towards the Xicheng area of Guangzhou in a combat posture and began to clear out the rebellious soldiers who had been in chaos for many days.

As soon as Long Jiguang arrived outside the city of Guangzhou, he could not wait to issue a telegram before entering the city of Guangzhou, saying that his troops had entered the city of Guangzhou and began to clear out the rebels in the city of Guangzhou in accordance with the orders of the Central Political Axe War Department to calm down the situation.

As soon as this telegram came out, it set off another wave. After Yuan Shikai saw this telegram, his heart was very happy, and he immediately ordered Feng Long Jiguang to be the military envoy of Guangzhou, and ordered him to quell the rebellion in Guangzhou as soon as possible.

"Now that Long Jiguang has arrived in Guangzhou City, I want to see what you Chen Jingyun can do?" Yuan Shikai was overjoyed in his heart, because the previous competition between Long Jiguang's troops and the Third Division was completely a competition of marching speed, whoever arrived in Guangzhou City first would occupy the careless position, if Chen Jingyun really insisted on continuing to march into Guangzhou, and even did not hesitate to fight with Long Jiguang, then Yuan Shikai could use the name of the central government to win the greatest support of the people and the powers, and then he would be more successful when he crusaded against Chen Jingyun in the future.

Besides, as long as Long Jiguang controls Guangzhou, with Yuan Shikai's support, it will not be a troublesome thing for Chen Jingyun to drive Long Jiguang out of Guangzhou. After all, Guangzhou can already be connected to the sea, and he Yuan Shikai can send the navy to directly transport the supply of guns and ammunition to Long Jiguang, and even directly transport troops to Guangzhou through the navy.

Based on this, Yuan Shikai sent an order to the Admiralty at night, asking the Navy to cooperate with Long Jiguangzhi to quell the rebellion. According to Yuan Shikai's instructions, Liu Guanxiong then prepared to mobilize the two cruisers Haiqi and Haichou of the First Fleet, as well as the destroyer Flying Eagle and the gunboat Fu'an, to form a fleet and prepare to go to Guangdong to support Long Jiguang in the operation.

However, the order from above was issued, but the officers and men of the navy ships were full of resentment, and the officers and men, including the Haiqi, had not received their salaries for several months, and if they did not receive their salaries, they said that they would go to Guangdong to fight. Immediately, Wen Tinghe of the Haiqi sent a telegram to the Admiralty to apply for the salaries of the officers and men of the Haiqi, saying that the arrears of military funds had reached more than four months, and that when he went to fight in the Guangdong Strait today, even if he did not pay all the arrears, he should allocate one month's expenses first, so as to encourage the bravery of the officers and men and stimulate the morale of the soldiers.

However, the Admiralty really has no money, Liu Guanxiong begged his grandfather to tell his grandmother how much military money he had looted, although Yuan Shikai promised to pay for the final payment of the battleship ordered by the former Qing Dynasty of Britain and Germany, but it was paid for with national bonds, not cash, and there was no direct connection with the Admiralty. Therefore, the Admiralty was still as poor as ever, and in the face of the demands of the officers and men of the Haiqi and other ships, Liu Guanxiong sighed and took out the last trace of inventory in the Admiralty, but this money was only enough for half a month's military salary. It's good that the military salary has not been paid for half a month, but as soon as it is issued, it will make the sky fall out below.

People are like this, if the Admiralty doesn't give anything, maybe the Navy officers and men will continue to wait, hoping that one day the Admiralty will be able to make up all the salaries, but now the Admiralty has dragged on for several months, and now it suddenly gives a little more, but it is only half a month, which makes the Navy officers and men below angry, and instead of boosting the morale of the Navy officers and men, it makes them even more indignant.

"Captain, what's the matter with this situation!" The chief engineer of the Haiqi complained to Wen Tinghe: "The brothers haven't been paid for several months, everyone has a family to support, and now the family is poor and can't open the pot, it's not a way to go on like this!" ”

He hasn't finished complaining yet: "The problem of military pay is like this, and our Haiqi needs to be overhauled after cruising around the world, with the current state of our Haiqi, maybe it can break down at any time while walking, what kind of combat is this!" ”

Wen Tinghe also sighed: "Isn't this also a way, not only our Haiqi is like this, but also the Haiqi and Hairong are all about the same!" ”

However, the captain said, "Captain, didn't you send a telegram to Sa Lao last time, what did you say over there?" ”

Regarding Sa Zhenbing's callback, Wen Tinghe never told his subordinates, because the telegram said that it was okay to ask for money, but he had to come to Fuzhou. And Wen Tinghe didn't dare to dictate this kind of important matter, let alone reveal the news to others, so he dragged it down, and now he heard his subordinates ask, he pondered for a while before saying: "The telegram is back, as for the content!" ”

He took out a telegram from the drawer: "See for yourself! ”

After reading this telegram, the chief engineer's eyes showed light: "Did you really promise to give us military salaries?" Can you really give us the money we owe? And can you overhaul our Haiqi? ”

"What about Chen Jingyun, I don't know, and you don't know much, but what kind of character is Sa Lao, since he said so, it shouldn't be a big problem, it's just ......" Wen Tinghe said and stopped, but he wanted to be a traitor and defect to Fuzhou, he Wen Tinghe was also hesitant!

"Captain, I think this is feasible, now that even Sa Lao has gone to the Fuzhou Navy, and Chen Jingyun is rich, it should be no problem for us to go there!" The chief engineer said: "If the brothers don't get their salaries for two or three months, the officers' families may be able to survive, but the homes of the ordinary soldiers below will not be able to open the pot, and if they delay for a few more months, I am afraid they will starve to death." If that's the case, what's the point of them coming to be in the navy, it's better to go to the dock to carry bags and be coolies! ”

Wen Tinghe: "I know the hard work of my brothers!" At this time, he paused and stood up: "For the sake of the livelihood of my brothers, I Wen Tinghe can't care so much." ”

After Wen Tinghe decided to go to Fuzhou, he acted quickly, first sending a secret telegram to Sa Zhenbing, informing Wen Tinghe of his intention to defect to Fuzhou. At the same time, in order to be valued in the Fuzhou fleet in the future, Wen Tinghe is also ready to bring a few votes, the first one is the Haiqi itself, and in addition, Wen Tinghe is also ready to persuade several other warships to go over together. In short, the more the merrier.

Then he was about to pass through Fuzhou on the way to Guangdong to support Long Jiguang's operation, and suddenly made a mistake and drove directly to Fuzhou.

When Wen Tinghe and other navies conspired to defect on the way to Guangdong, things on land became more and more lively.

Long Jiguang arrived at the city of Guangzhou, a battalion of the 31st Regiment of the Third Division of the National Army also arrived outside the city of Guangzhou, and then quickly occupied a corner of the eastern part of the city, and then did not quickly extend to the city, mainly because he was afraid of encountering Long Jiguang's superior troops, so he planned to hold on to the stronghold of Xicheng and wait for the main force to bring.

At this time, the city of Guangzhou was completely chaotic, and the original more than 20,000 chaotic troops in the city plus tens of thousands of bandits and hooligans were still chaotic.

Last night, one of Long Jiguang's companies was even ambushed by the rebel organization in the process of clearing out the rebels, resulting in heavy casualties. After learning this news, Long Jiguang, who had already arrived in Xicheng District, ordered all troops to be cautious in clearing and avoiding heavy casualties. However, I think the rebels in Guangzhou have also mastered some skills, such as not wearing military uniforms, only wearing the same clothes as ordinary people, taking a gun is a rebel, putting down a gun is a good citizen, facing such a situation makes Long Jiguang very angry.

Even if it is a street fight, it is still impossible to distinguish between the people and the street fights of the rebels, in the face of this situation, Long Jiguang has no good way but to take tough measures, such as shooting and killing all those who do not surrender. This measure is still very effective, the city of Guangzhou is so chaotic, the good people are either fleeing or hiding at home and do not come out, can come out to activities are basically chaotic soldiers or bandits and hooligans, really want to occasionally kill a few civilians by mistake, that is also to kill and kill, this short period of time in Guangzhou City in the chaos of soldiers, bullets flying, countless dead and wounded people, but so far, really no one cares about the life and death of these ordinary people.

Prosperity, the people suffer, death, the people suffer.

On the third day, when Long Jiguang had already controlled most of the urban area of Guangzhou, the other two battalions of the 31st Regiment of the Third Division also arrived, and then the 31st Regiment also quickly expanded the control area to eliminate the rebellious bandits.

On the fourth day, the 32nd Regiment of the 3rd Division arrived in Guangzhou City and joined the clearance, and that night, the 33rd Regiment and Shen Gang's division headquarters also arrived in Guangzhou City.

In the early morning of the next day, the troops of the 31st Regiment and Long Jiguang's troops began to make contact, because both sides had adopted tough measures when they had cleared out the rebels before, and they didn't care what they did when they saw the other side holding guns, and they fought directly, and after more than ten minutes of fighting, the commanders of both sides found out that the other party was not a rebel bandit, but a regular army.

So they tacitly packed up the bodies of their own casualties, and built their own fortifications, and the two sides held each other across such a street.