On 15 October, after many preparations, Chen Jingyun led the Nationalist Army Headquarters and his guards with several hundred people, as well as more than 4,000 people from a reinforced guard division accompanying him, to leave Fuzhou for Hangzhou on a number of rented foreign ships.

In order to ensure Chen Jingyun's safety, Sa Zhenbing, the chief of the naval department, personally led the Haiqi, Haichip, Feiying, and Fu'an to escort these thousands of people.

And Chen Jingyun and a group of senior generals of the Nationalist Army stayed on this American cruiser Angelina, although it was a bit embarrassing for a big warlord to go out and make a foreign [***] ship to ensure safety, but don't say whether Chen Jingyun dares or not, anyway, so many people in the Nationalist Army are unwilling to let Chen Jingyun take an ordinary passenger ferry or simply a warship of the Fuzhou fleet.

To put it bluntly, according to the current system of the National Army, as long as Chen Jingyun dies, then the National Army will immediately collapse. The generals of the Nationalist Army naturally didn't want Chen Jingyun to die, and the Americans didn't want Chen Jingyun to die, so this is why Chen Jingyun took the US [***] ship.

One reinforced regiment of the Guards Division went by boat, while the other two regiments rushed to Zhejiang by land. This guard division is gone, but Fujian's military strength is not weak, and now there is a fifth division, then an eighth division in training, a ninth division in the process of being formed, and garrison regiments in various places, and these troops are enough to ensure the safety of Fujian. Besides, there is no external threat to Fujian now, among the three provinces adjacent to Fujian, Zhejiang and Guangdong are already under the control of the Nationalist Army, and the rest of Jiangxi is under the control of Li Junlie, and Li Junlie is a Kuomintang, and to some extent he and Chen Jingyun are allies.

On the day Chen Jingyun left, although there was no deliberate publicity, and even concealed it to a certain extent in order to keep a low profile, how could thousands of people board the ship and not hide it, as soon as Chen Jingyun boarded the Angelina, the news that Chen Jingyun was going to Zhejiang was already flying all over the sky.

A few days ago, Chen Jingyun had publicly announced that he would go to Zhejiang for inspection in the near future, but he did not make it clear when he would go, whether he would go by land or by navy, and looking at the tense situation in northern Zhejiang and southern Jiangsu, everyone also knew that Chen Jingyun's visit to Zhejiang this time would never be a simple inspection, but was mixed with many military and political trends.

The reason why Chen Jingyun wants to be so tough is because he can't be weak, he can't be weak. If Chen Jingyun expresses weakness, then many people and forces who are optimistic about and rely on Chen Jingyun will have other thoughts, and they can even abandon Chen Jingyun and switch to other forces. Therefore, in the face of the pressure of Beiyang Yuan Shikai step by step, Chen Jingyun did not express weakness, and even-for-tat, he also increased his troops in Beiyang. Now even I have gone north to Hangzhou in person.

Now the competition is an attitude, it depends on who can't help it first, see who can't hold on first, and of course, it is possible that one accidentally wipes the gun.

Chen Jingyun didn't care whether the follow-up was peace talks or what, but this military preparation had to be made first, so he did not hesitate to go to Hangzhou and brought the guard division.

After the news of Chen Jingyun's trip to the north spread, almost all the newspapers on the same day added extra prints, and the sensational effect in public opinion was no less than that of the Wuchang Uprising and the success of the North-South peace talks.

After Yunnan Cai Ye learned the news, he didn't say anything, just sighed, and then showed perseverance on his face, and sent a telegram to Yuan Shikai that day, saying that he would go north on time on November 1, and proposed that Tang Jirao succeed him as the governor of Yunnan.

After Huang Xing from Nanjing knew that Chen Jingyun was going to Hangzhou, he pondered for a long time, and finally sighed: "It seems that this is really going to fight!" ”

Sun Wen said: "The situation is difficult, the country is already republic, it is the time to build a large number of civil projects and build an industrial power to enrich the people, why can't it be quiet!" ”

Song Jiaoren on the side was a little angry and said: "This Chen Jingyun is too ignorant, not to mention the two wars in Hangzhou and Guangzhou, and now he is planning to fight with Beiyang, if this fights, when will this congress be opened, and when will the election be held!" ”

Under his leadership, the Kuomintang has become the largest party in the country, and it is already preparing to take control of the congress election for a while, and then form a cabinet, and he does not want to see a large-scale civil war in the country now.

Sun Wendao: "Brother Huang, if you see that the Beiyang Army really goes south, can we stop Nanjing?" ”

Huang Xing cried with a sad face: "Difficult, now there are three divisions of the Beiyang Army here on the Jinpu Line, and there are several divisions still going south, if we want to hold Nanjing, it is estimated that there is no hope!" ”

In fact, a contradiction broke out between Chen Jingyun and Yuan Shikai, and the most depressed was Huang Xing. Whether the Beiyang Army wants to go south or the National Army wants to go north, they all have to pass through southern Jiangsu and Nanjing, and whoever let Huang Xing and him be separated between the two sides. If the fight starts, the Beiyang Army will definitely occupy Nanjing to ensure the back road if it wants to go south, and it is impossible to let Huang Xing's three divisions dangle in the rear, so if Beiyang wants to go south, he Huang Xing will have to fight if he doesn't fight, and he will have to fight. Of course, there is another choice, that is, Huang Xing chose to abandon Nanjing and southern Jiangsu, and then took three divisions into Anhui or Jiangxi.

Sun Wen also knew this situation, he had always been uneasy about Yuan Shikai, otherwise he would not have vigorously supported Li Junlie and Bai Wenwei to become the governors of Jiangxi and Anhui respectively, in order to preserve his strength and intend to go backwards.

Although Sun Wen, Huang Xing and other revolutionaries have different ways of doing things and purposes than Chen Jingyun, these people currently have the same purpose, that is, to oppose Yuan.

This is also the fundamental reason why Sun Wen and Huang Xing supported Chen Jingyun to take Guangzhou.

To some extent, the two groups remain in a fragile alliance.

"Why don't we go and persuade them to avoid a fight?" Song Jiaoren gave a proposal, as soon as the two of them said this proposal, Sun Wen and Huang Xing's eyes lit up, yes, why didn't they think of this, why did they keep thinking about letting them fight, couldn't they calm the war?

After having this thought in his heart, Sun Wen also said: "He, Chen Jingyun, is not going to Hangzhou, then okay, I will go to Hangzhou to meet him and show him the benefits." ”

Huang Xing couldn't wait for the two parties to keep peace, so as not to let him be caught in it, he immediately said: "I will also send a message to Feng Guozhang, let them exercise restraint first!" ”

When Song Jiaoren heard the words of these two people, he knew that they agreed with his words, and immediately said: "Okay, in that case, I will also contact Li Yuanhong or some people from the Republican Party, and this person will carry more weight to say!" ”

These three people did not want the Nationalist Army and the Beiyang Army to fight, at least not for now, so they were actively preparing to act as mediators, intending to prevent this war between the Nationalist Army and the Beiyang Army.

However, Yuan Shikai, who was one of the parties involved, was also frowning at this time, he knew Chen Jingyun's ambitions, and he also knew Chen Jingyun's strength, but he didn't expect Chen Jingyun to be so unscrupulous, and he didn't wait for Fuzhou, and he went to Hangzhou at this critical moment, isn't this just to make it clear that he wants to slap him Yuan Shikai's face, if the Beiyang Central Political Axe doesn't do something, I'm afraid that the central government is afraid of Chen Jingyun, a local warlord.

"Give the Seventh Division an order and let them also get ready to go to Jiangsu!" Yuan Shikai said that this force of the Beiyang Army is much more than the National Army, even if in addition to the troops to be used in other places, Yuan Shikai can concentrate four or five divisions of troops on the Jinpu Line at any time, and can concentrate more troops in an emergency.

But Duan Qirui on the side didn't say yes immediately, but snorted, Yuan Shikai frowned when he heard it, "What? ”

Duan Qirui said at this time: "When the Seventh Division moved to Shandong, the opening fee had not been paid, and some time ago, in order to ensure the military expenses of the Fifth Division and the Fifth Division, the War Department had no money here, and the Third Division was transferred south to Xuzhou to ask for another sum, so this money!" ”

Hearing that there was no money, Lao Yuan was so angry that he almost vomited blood, but his patience was still home, although his face turned red, he didn't show it, he just waved his hand and said, "Move some of it from other places first!" ”

Duan Qirui returned with a sad face: "Some time ago, the military expenses of the Third Division have been moved from other places, and now there is nowhere to move!" ”

At this time, Yuan Shikai finally couldn't bear it, and his hands were heavily lined up on the table: "A huge central political axe, can't you even take out a million?" ”

After saying this, Yuan Shikai also realized that his attitude was a little excessive, and immediately took a few deep breaths before calming down and said: "Since you don't have any money, let's slow down first!" ”

Speaking of which, Yuan Shikai is actually much more aggrieved than Chen Jingyun, although he is the central political axe, but the financial revenue is only limited to a few northern provinces, and he has to raise a central political axe and hundreds of thousands of troops, according to the normal financial revenue, he can't raise it at all, so he can only rely on borrowing. But now this big loan has not yet been completed, and the negotiation with the five-nation banking group has been negotiated, and the other party's price is getting higher and higher, and then he has yielded to the other party's asking price again and again, but he has just succumbed, and the five-nation banking group has increased in price, and the personnel of the finance department who have gone to negotiate have been changed several batches, but they have not been able to get it successfully.

Yuan Shikai, who has no money in his pocket now, is calculating how many cents he still has, and at the same time calculating what scale of battle these few cents can fight.