The situation in Guangdong has not been calm since the Wuchang Uprising, at the beginning of the more than 100,000 people army troubled the city of Guangzhou, making the merchants and people of Guangzhou miserable, mixed with the contradictions between Long Jiguang and Hu Hanmin and Chen Jiongming, the triangular relationship between the three people was so complicated that outsiders could not see through. On the one hand, Long Jiguang and Chen Jiongming were both members of the League and both revolutionaries, but their different views on the revolutionary road and the domestic political situation made them go further and further, even to the point of incompatibility.

And what about Long Jiguang, a genuine former general of the Qing Army, the original republic was because of the general trend of the country, and Zhang Mingqi, the governor of Liangguang at that time, also took the initiative to hand over power, so Long Jiguang simply raised the anti-flag and cooperated with the people's army to announce the recovery of Guangdong. However, in his heart, Long Jiguang still didn't regard himself as a revolutionary, and he was not the same path as those revolutionary parties.

At the end of last year, Hu Hanmin followed Sun Wen to the north, and then served in the Nanjing Provisional Political Axe, and then Chen Jiongming, the acting governor of Guangdong, took the opportunity to reconcile with Long Jiguang, and finally used Long Jiguang's old army and Chen Jiongming's self-training of the new army as a solution. However, when Hu Hanmin left Guangdong, the contradiction between Chen Jiongming and Long Jiguang also became intense. Even the armies of the two had several skirmishes in the city of Canton.

After a few months, after the dissolution of the Nanjing Provisional Political Axe and Yuan Shikai assumed the post of governor, the situation in Guangdong changed again, and Hu Hanmin, with the support of Sun Wen, returned to Guangdong and took up the post of governor of Guangdong. Hu Hanmin and Chen Jiongming cooperated again, which was to drive Long Jiguang out.

Long Jiguang is not stupid, when he was excluded by Hu Hanmin and Chen Jiongming in Guangzhou, he also got in touch with Yuan Shikai, but Yuan Shikai personally ordered Long Jiguang's troops to move to Wuzhou, the border of Guangdong and Guangxi. On the one hand, it is to give Wuzhou to Long Jiguang to raise troops, and it can weaken the strength of Lu Rongting in Guangxi, and on the other hand, if Long Jiguang is arranged in Wuzhou, a sharp blade can be arranged under the nose of Guangzhou, as long as there is wind and grass in Guangzhou, Long Jiguang's more than 20,000 men and horses can advance eastward along the Pearl River, and it will not take a few days to reach the city of Guangzhou.

After squeezing Long Jiguang away, the contradiction between Hu Hanmin and Chen Jiongming broke out again, Hu Hanmin tried to rein in the first and second divisions of Guangdong established by Chen Jiongming with the authority of the governor, this move just caused chaos in Guangzhou, and the troops supporting Hu Hanmin and Chen Jiongming attacked each other, all of them scolded each other for betraying the country or something like that, in short, there was nothing good to say.

At first, they were still punching and kicking, but after a few days, both sides picked up guns and began to shoot at each other, and when the rebel army gradually spread throughout the 1st and 2nd Divisions of Guangdong, the problem of the revolutionaries' weak control over the Guangdong army was completely exposed.

Since the 1st and 2nd Divisions of Guangdong were all organized and trained by Chen Jiongming, and most of the original soldiers were demobilized bandits, and a small part were newly recruited soldiers, the destructive power of this army transformed from bandits can be imagined, and Guangzhou in September became almost the same as Guangzhou a year ago, full of chaotic soldiers, and there were burning, killing and looting everywhere. One day ago, the matter had changed from the initial attack by both sides to the burning and looting of the whole city, and the people of Guangzhou once again suffered great pain from the soldiers and bandits, and the people suffered heavy casualties.

In just four or five days, Hu Hanmin and Chen Jiongming were completely unable to control the situation. At this time, the actions taken by the two men were quite the same but different, and Hu Hanmin sent a secret telegram directly to Chen Jingyun in Fuzhou, asking Chen Jingyun to send the 3rd Division of the Nationalist Army from Chaozhou to Guangzhou to quell the rebellion. Although he knew that Chen Jingyun and ordinary revolutionaries were not on the right path, so far Chen Jingyun was still a member of the League, that is, the reorganized Kuomintang cadre director, and to some extent was much better than Long Jiguang, so Hu Hanmin would rather invite the Nationalist Army to come to Guangzhou than let Long Jiguang come back.

However, Chen Jiongming made the opposite choice to Hu Hanmin, he chose Long Jiguang. In his opinion, even if Long Jiguang has ambitions, he is just an ordinary soldier, Chen Jiongming believes that he has the ability to control him, but Chen Jingyun is different, that Chen Jingyun is not an ordinary soldier, but a serious warlord, judging from his occupation of Fujian and Zhejiang, if the national army enters Guangzhou City and then occupies Guangdong, then Guangdong will become the same as Zhejiang in the future, dependent on Fujian, and obey Chen Jingyun's orders.

As an absolute supporter of federalism, Chen Jiongming was very disgusted with Chen Jingyun's set of warlords, especially against Chen Jingyun's control of Zhejiang, for him it was simply unacceptable for him to make Guangdong a province under Chen Jingyun's jurisdiction, and he took 10,000 steps back and said, even if Long Jiguang controlled Guangdong, as long as Guangdong's autonomy could be guaranteed, even if Long Jiguang could control Guangzhou and control the political situation in Guangdong.

People are sometimes willing to believe in their own ways, and they are dissatisfied and unbelieving in what others are doing. As for who is right and who is wrong, it depends on who is right.

When Long Jiguang received Chen Jiongming's telegram, he did not immediately move his army eastward, but watched very cautiously at the news of the warlords around him who had rebelled against the city of Guangzhou, such as Lu Rongting in Guangxi, Tan Yanmin in Hunan, Li Junlie in Jiangxi, and most importantly Chen Jingyun in Fujian. The situation in China today, especially the military and political situation in the south, invariably leads to the struggle of various forces. Although Long Jiguang is 100,000 willing in his heart, he wants to wave his army into Guangzhou City, but he must know whether he will cause a series of reactions if he does this, such as whether Lu Rongting will send troops to occupy Wuzhou when his main force is moving eastward, and whether Hunan and Jiangxi will also intervene, and what will be the reaction of Chen Jingyun's side, especially the Third Division of the National Army arranged in Chaozhou, this is what Long Jiguang must consider.

In the face of the chaos around Guangzhou, Long Jiguang did not react immediately, but learned that before Chen Jingyun marched into northern Zhejiang last time, he first called Yuan Shikai in Yanjing to ask Yuan Shikai's attitude towards it.

Yuan Shikai originally didn't have much feeling about the military chaos in Guangzhou, after all, as far as he knew, there was chaos in the south every day, either mutiny or war, and there was no stop after Xinhai, but when he learned the details of Guangzhou City, he looked at the map of the south for most of the day, and then immediately said to Yang Du beside him: "I knew that the south would be chaotic, but I didn't expect it to be chaotic so quickly!" ”

After saying that, he continued: "Let the War Department send an order to promote Long Jiguang to the rank of major general and lieutenant general of the army, and order him to go to the town of Guangzhou immediately to suppress the rebels and calm the situation." ”

After finishing speaking, he probably felt that it was not enough, so he added: "In addition, I will send him another 300,000 military expenses." ”

After Yuan Shikai finished speaking, he was almost about to make it clear that he supported Long Jiguang's army in Guangdong, and Yang Du on the side said: "President, now Long Jiguang is the envoy of Wuzhou, and if he orders him to go to Guangzhou rashly, I am afraid that it will attract the attention of several governors in the south, especially Chen Jingyun's side, in case he uses this excuse to wave his troops into Guangzhou......"

Yuan Shikai knew what Yang Du and the others were worried about, but Yuan Shikai naturally had his insights and means to be the president.

"Haven't you seen through the situation in the south, let's just look at this superficial thing. Do you think that since Chen Jiongming was able to invite Long Jiguang to send troops to Guangzhou, wouldn't Hu Hanmin invite Chen Jingyun or Li Junlie to send troops to Guangzhou, this Hu Hanmin and Li Junlie are Chen Jingyun, but they are both people in the alliance, well, that is, the current Kuomintang. Yuan Shikai continued: "Since they have all reached this point, it depends on who arrives in Guangzhou first!" ”

Yang Du said again: "If Chen Jingyun really enters Guangzhou, as soon as he integrates Guangdong, he will have the three southeastern provinces and Guangdong and Zhejiang are both rich provinces, and the situation of our army will be quite unfavorable in the long run!" ”

This is basically understood by everyone, so Yuan Shikai would have said before that he supported Long Jiguang to send troops to Guangzhou, if it were not for the opposition of the Kuomintang, he would have wanted to directly appoint Long Jiguang as the governor of Guangdong, with Long Jiguang staying in Guangzhou, it would be impossible for Chen Jingyun to integrate the three southeastern provinces.

After Long Jiguang got Yuan Shikai's reply, the whole person was excited, although he had contact with Yuan Shikai before, he had never pulled any strong support, and even Long Jiguang was quite dissatisfied with Yuan Shikai's transfer from Guangzhou to Wuzhou, but now Yuan Shikai not only promoted his rank, but also directly ordered him to go to Guangzhou to quell the rebellion, which is completely the central government's support for him to take Guangzhou City. not only has a righteous reputation, but also sent him 300,000 military expenses, this batch of military expenses Yuan Shikai really gave him cash, and he didn't owe any arrears.

With Yuan Shikai's strong support, Long Jiguang quickly concentrated his forces, and the next day sent an advance regiment to Guangzhou.

Long Jiguang and Yuan Shikai acted like this on the Guangzhou chaos, and the warlords around them naturally had various reactions, Lu Rongting, Li Junlie and others didn't talk about it first, at least there was no matter about them for a while, but Chen Jingyun was different.

Last year, Chen Jingyun formulated a strategy of going south and north, and successively sent troops to Wenzhou and Chaozhou, but then the attention of the national army has been focused on Zhejiang, the main reason is that although Guangdong is also chaotic, but it is not easy for the national army to take, in the middle of the year, Zhejiang because of the contradiction between Zhu Rui and Jiang Zunwei let him seize the opportunity to march into northern Zhejiang in one fell swoop, completely control Zhejiang at the same time contain a large number of main forces of the national army, and now the national army has arranged five divisions in Zhejiang (the first division, the second division, the fourth division, the sixth division, Seventh Division), and the Nationalist Army now has a total of eight regular divisions, the remaining two divisions are in Fujian and one in Guangdong, so judging from Chen Jingyun's troop deployment, it will be found that Chen Jingyun has no intention of annexing Guangdong at least in the short term. At least not this year.

If the domestic situation can be followed by Chen Jingyun's strategic plan, then Chen Jingyun will be able to unify China while sleeping.