Chapter 57: The First Snow in Beijing

Since Han Chenxu took office as the head of the Ministry of Supervision, the political situation in Fujian has been turbulent, and the newspapers have released big news from time to time, saying that a certain official has resigned, and such and such an official has been prosecuted by the Ministry of Supervision. Zheng Zuyin, Lin Wenying, and Chen Jingyun are using the resources in their hands to engage in a secret political game, and it is difficult to say who will win and who will lose for a while, but on the surface, Chen Jingyun will benefit the most.

Through the fall of Kui Linyang, Chen Jingyun successfully pushed Han Chenxu out, although so far Han Chenxu has not revealed his intention to take refuge in him, but judging from what Han Chenxu is doing now, it is still extremely beneficial to Chen Jingyun. Because of the high-pressure investigation by the Ministry of Supervision, a large number of middle and high-ranking officials in the military and political axe have either resigned or been dismissed, or even imprisoned.

Almost the same as Fujian's military and political axes, there are also fierce contradictions in the military and political axes of the provinces, and the main parties are also contradictions between the gentry and wealthy businessmen and the powerful figures in the army and the revolutionaries, the most fierce and obvious example of which is the assassination of Jiao Dafeng in Hunan.

The case of Hunan is almost the best representation of the contradiction between the revolutionaries and the gentry and wealthy merchants! After the revolutionaries joined forces with the gentry, wealthy businessmen, and powerful figures in the army, all sides began to fight for power. In some places, the revolutionaries won, such as the Jiangxi side. In some places, the gentry won, such as Hunan, while in others the power fell into the hands of the senior generals of the army, such as Fujian, such as Guangxi.

Some are still fighting, such as Zhejiang, Guangdong and other places.

Among them, the struggle in Guangdong was the most intense, and the contradictions between Long Jiguang and Hu Hanmin and the leaders of the people's army became more and more intense, and at the same time, it also led to chaos in the city of Guangzhou, which was full of people's troops who were doing evil, and burning, killing and looting could be seen everywhere, and on November 21 alone, more than 50 people were killed by the people's army in the city, including a family of more than 20 people, old and young, who were tragically wiped out, and even three-year-old children were not spared. You must know that there are more than 100,000 bandits of the people's army of various names in Guangzhou, and these people all claim to be revolutionary heroes, and at the same time that the leaders of the people's army and the people's army are also lions with big mouths, and they are hundreds of thousands and millions of people who open their mouths, and Hu Hanmin can get so much money.

There is no money to settle these people's army bandits, so people naturally burn and loot in the city.

However, Long Jiguang, the only one who had the ability to maintain law and order in Guangzhou and expel the militia bandits, did not move, and the reason was simple, that is, Long Jiguang wanted to control all the military power in Guangdong, and learned from Chen Jingyun, who was close to Fujian. Hu Hanmin was willing to let Long Jiguang control the military and political axe, not only did he grasp Qian Gen tightly, but even the position of the chief of the military affairs department has been grasping.

While these three parties continue to consume, the war on the front line in Hubei and Jiangsu continues! The various units of the Southern Coalition Army led by Xu Shaozhen have been concentrated in the direction of Nanjing from all directions, and there have been small-scale exchanges of fire on the front line, and according to the current situation of development, in less than three or five days, the Southern Coalition Army will be able to concentrate about 25,000 troops in Nanjing, and more than 20,000 people are not new soldiers, but all of them are the original new troops in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and other places, and their combat effectiveness is much stronger than that of the civilian army in Hubei.

In fact, whether Zhang Xun can hold Nanjing or not, to a large extent, depends on Yuan Shikai's intentions, if Yuan Shikai is determined to defend Nanjing, there is no need to bother, and a mixed association from the fifth town will go south to Nanjing along the Jinpu line to assist Zhang Xun It is enough to hold Nanjing, but the problem is that Yuan Shikai does not want to defend Nanjing.

A few days later, the strikers of the fifth town just returned to Jinan Sun Baoqi announced the cancellation of reading, and at the same time, the fifth town was ordered by Yuan Shikai to search for revolutionaries, and at the same time, a group of gentry and wealthy businessmen who advocated reading power some time ago were also resolutely suppressed. Under the strong suppression of the Fifth Town, the recovery of Shandong lasted less than five days before it was declared a failure, and a large number of revolutionaries were arrested and killed, and a few fled to various parts of Shandong, but in the overall situation there was no concern.

The turmoil in Shandong made Yuan Shikai also cautious, and began to severely suppress the revolutionaries in the northern provinces, and the main forces also postponed their southward movement to prevent the unrest in the north. Under such circumstances, most of the Fifth Town could only be stationed in Shandong, and only a standard of troops was sent to Xuzhou to prevent the situation in Jiangsu from being corrupt and out of control. As for Nanjing, Yuan Shikai had already made up his mind to give up, and even secretly gave Zhang Xun a secret order, saying that if he couldn't hold Nanjing, he would retreat to Xuzhou.

The postponement of the fifth town to the south also gave Xu Shaozhen an extremely important strategic opportunity period, so during this time, Xu Shaozhen transferred troops and sent generals, intending to take Nanjing before the fifth town of Shandong went south, so as to politically lay the foundation for the coalition forces of the southern provinces.

Although Yuan Shikai's secret order to Feng Guozhang hinted that Feng Guozhang should pay attention to grasping the proportions, not only to make the southern party realize the strong pressure brought by the Beiyang Army, but also not to really take down all the three towns of Wuhan, but Feng Guozhang just got the title of reward from the imperial court, and he thought about reimbursing the imperial court at the same time he did not understand Yuan Shikai's delaying strategy.

According to his opinion, it must be to concentrate forces in one fell swoop, and it is said that the chaos in the south should be pacified, for this reason, although he got Yuan Shikai's hint that Yuan Shikai could not mobilize troops to attack on a large scale because of Yuan Shikai's reasons, but secretly did not relax the pace of the attack, and launched a fierce attack on Hanyang after taking Hankou, the situation in Hankou was critical, and it was already at the last moment of the fall.

On November 24th, the Hunan aid army arrived in Hanyang, the Hubei People's Army got this support force but was not able to recover the strategic decline of defeat and defeat, and lost the strategic place of Hanyang on the same day, and the Hubei People's Army had a large-scale rout, which was even worse than the aid of the Hubei army.

On the 25th, seeing that the fall of Hanyang was imminent, a large number of high-level leaders of the Hubei People's Army, such as Huang Xing and Song Jiaoren, began an emergency meeting, preparing to abandon Hanyang and defend Wuchang with all their might. During the meeting, Li Yuanhong and a large number of high-ranking officials of the Wuchang military and political axes were extremely dissatisfied with Huang Xing's command and operation in the early stage, and they had the responsibility for the loss of Hankou and Hanyang on Huang Xing.

At this time, Huang Xing had a mouth and couldn't argue. If Huang Xing is all responsible for the loss of Hankou and Hanyang, it is naturally inappropriate, but if Huang Xing has no responsibility at all, it must be a lie.

Huang Xing, who was extremely depressed, didn't say a few words when he held a meeting, and after the meeting was dispersed, he pondered alone for a long time, and finally sent another telegram in his personal name, and this telegram was very similar to the last time Chen Jingyun sent a telegram to support Yuan Tong, which is nothing more than that if Yuan Shikai is willing to join the republic, he Huang Xing is willing to support Yuan Shikai as the president.

Although Huang Xing's military literacy is not good, he also knows that according to the current situation, the defeat of the Hubei People's Army will be a matter of time, and if peace talks are not held, according to the current strength of the southern armies, the Beiyang Army will not be able to stop at all, so peace talks are necessary.

After sending this telegram, Huang Xing immediately resigned from the post of commander-in-chief of the Hubei People's Army, and then fled along the Jiangdong with Song Jiaoren and others overnight, preparing to go to Nanjing.

According to Huang Xing's meaning, it is natural that regardless of whether there are peace talks or not, the three towns of Wuhan no longer have the capital to continue fighting, and the future center of the revolution is no longer in Wuhan, but in the Southern Coalition Army that is besieging Nanjing, and he is ready to command the troops to capture Nanjing. However, his idea is just wishful thinking, the Southern Coalition Army is a military alliance jointly initiated by several real governors of Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Fujian, and Shanghai, and the basic troops under them are regular troops, and the commander-in-chief Xu Shaozhen was originally under the control of a town, and if Huang Xing wants to take over the command there, it is estimated that few people will agree.

In fact, so far, in the eyes of the governors of the real power faction in various places, Sun Wen is okay, at least his name is loud enough, and he can recruit many hot-blooded young people to work for him with his name. But Huang Xing, Song Jiaoren and others are much weaker, and it is natural to work with them, but if they really want to seize power, it is estimated that they will have to turn their faces immediately.

Therefore, if Huang Xing wants to come to Nanjing to take over the command of the Southern Coalition Army, no one else will support him except Chen Qimei! Let's not talk about the issue of power, even if we don't take these into account, the Southern Coalition Army is all the original New Army troops, and the professional senior generals have a lot of them, unlike the dragons in Hubei who have no leader, and the only senior officer Li Yuanhong is still forced to be the governor of the capital, and it is not his turn to command them Huang Xing.

Huang Xing once again threw away the soldiers who were fighting bloodily and fled, but the telegram he sent before fleeing east played a big role.

After Yuan Shikai saw this telegram, he pondered in his heart.

It is not the first time that Nanfang said that he wants to support him as the president, the last time it was also this Huang Xing, and then Chen Jingyun, and later several other powerful governors sent similar telegrams, but Yuan Shikai has never received clear news. This time, when he saw Huang Xing's power call, he was relieved: it seemed that the party members in the south were really ready to make me the president.

Yang Du also congratulated: "Yuan Gong, what Huang Xing said this time, I'm afraid it's not far from ten!" ”

Duan Qirui, who had just arrived in Yanjing yesterday, also said: "According to the current situation, those people in the south have to talk, although the situation in Nanjing is unstable, but in the first battle of Hubei, they must also know the difference between the superior and inferior sides, and it is just futile to continue to resist stubbornly!" ”

Yuan Shikai put down the telegram in his hand, walked to the window, saw the snowflakes fluttering outside the window, and pondered and didn't know what to think. The first snow in Yanjing this year came very early, and it began to snow just after the light snow.

It was a full half hour before he turned around: "It's been so long!" It's not always the right way to keep fighting like this! After that, he glanced at Yang Du: "Zhezi, if you work harder, go to the south and see what those party members mean." ”

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