In the face of the chaos in Guangzhou, the tendencies and actions of various forces in China were completely different. Sun Wen and Huang Xing opposed Long Jiguang's march into Guangzhou, and they preferred that Chen Jingyun from Fujian or Li Junlie from Jiangxi would send troops to quell the rebellion in Guangzhou, because these two people were ostensibly high-ranking members of the Kuomintang, and in the eyes of people in China, Chen Jingyun was also a member of the League or the Kuomintang, and ordinary people even included Chen Jingyun's Fujian and Zhejiang provinces into the Kuomintang's sphere of influence. Li Junlie's words are even more veteran of the revolutionary party, and after he took office as the governor of Jiangxi at the beginning of the year, he vigorously rectified Jiangxi, and even launched several small-scale wars against Jiangxi, and it took three months to eradicate the large and small military and government axes in Jiangxi and incorporate many troops. When there was no fund to maintain the Nanjing Provisional Political Axe, Li Junlie was stunned and looted a lot of money in the barren Jiangxi, and then most of it was sent to the Nanjing Provisional Political Axe in addition to raising the army. It can be said that this person is Sun Wen's die-hard subordinate. However, the main forces of Li Junlie's troops in Jiangxi were basically concentrated in the northern part of Jiangxi and the provincial capitals, and there were not many troops deployed at the junction of Jiangxi and Guangdong, so if Li Junlie's troops in Jiangxi were to go to Guangzhou to quell the rebellion, they would not be able to reach it in ten days and half a month, and at the same time, Chen Jingyun's national army had a third division in Chaozhou. With such a comparison, it is very clear why Sun Wen and Huang Xing supported Chen Jingyun to send troops to Guangzhou.

In many cases, the choices made are not too obvious between right and wrong, right and wrong, but more about compromising choices made after balancing various pros and cons.

Sun Wen and Huang Xin are like this, and so is Yuan Shikai.

He not only directly ordered Long Jiguang to march into Guangzhou City, but even gave Long Jiguang hundreds of thousands of yuan in military expenses, which was the first time that Yuan Shikai had paid money from his pocket to raise the army for others. This was categorically unacceptable in the past, but in order to win over Long Jiguang and insert such a knife as Long Jiguang in the southern hinterland of Fujian, Yuan Shikai not only promoted Long Jiguang to a military rank, but even gave Long Jiguang military expenses.

And when Yuan Shikai learned that Chen Jingyun also followed Long Jiguang and sent troops to Guangzhou, he immediately summoned Duan Qirui, Feng Guozhang and several other senior Beiyang generals.

The old man explained the situation in the south and said, "Tell me, how should this matter be solved now?" ”

After Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang thought about it, Duan Qirui said: "President, according to my opinion, that is, first send Chen Jingyun a strongly worded opposition message, if Chen Jingyun is still stubborn, then I think the troops in northern Jiangsu can also move appropriately!" ”

However, Feng Guozhang on the side said: "The troops in northern Jiangsu can't easily move, and the fifth and eighth divisions are both shouldering heavy responsibilities, and they can't tolerate any mistakes." And now there are three divisions of Huang Xing around Nanjing, with these three divisions in front of them, our side is a slight move, and he Chen Jingyun probably won't take a look! ”

Duan Qirui said: "If you don't move, do you let him Chen Jingyun march into Guangzhou?" Can others still see our central political axe in their eyes? ”

"Is it really going to fight?" Feng Guozhang rolled his eyes: "There are rats running in the warehouse of the Ministry of Finance, if we have money, what effort will we waste to get a big loan for the aftermath!" ”

The contradiction between Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang has become bigger and bigger since the Wuchang Uprising, especially after Yuan Shikai withdrew Feng Guozhang from the presidential officer of the First Army and transferred Duan Qirui to serve as the presidential officer of the First Army, Feng Guozhang and Duan Qirui have changed from a secret fight to an open fight, not to mention setting obstacles to each other on issues such as personnel arrangements and the promotion of descendant officers, and even showed it in front of Yuan Shikai.

However, Yuan Shikai did not mean to change this situation, but acquiesced in the growing contradiction between Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang. This is naturally Yuan Shikai's balancing method, since Duan Qirui became the president of the First Army, this Qirui's momentum has risen sharply, Yuan Shikai has already felt that it is necessary to suppress Duan Qirui, otherwise the relationship between Feng Guozhang and Duan Qirui will be out of balance, and it will also make Yuan Shikai's control of the Beiyang Army out of balance.

After a few people discussed it, it was best to decide to send a telegram of protest first, and then talk about it, and as for the future policy, it would depend on the development of Guangzhou.

Therefore, Chen Jingyun only heard the telegram of opposition from Beiyang, but the Beiyang Army in Xuzhou and Qingjiangpu did not make any moves, and they were not even ready for war.

This result relieved a large group of officers of the Nationalist Army, especially the officers and soldiers of the 1st and 2nd Divisions in Zhejiang, and felt that the pressure that could force people to death was eliminated. Since the Guangzhou rebellion, the Nationalist Army Headquarters ordered several divisions in Zhejiang to strengthen combat readiness, and when Chen Jingyun decided to send troops to Guangzhou, the first division and the second division in northern Zhejiang were even more like facing the enemy, from the previous regular stationing to combat readiness duty, all the soldiers canceled their vacations, canceled high-intensity training subjects, and ensured that the soldiers had sufficient physical fitness at all times, and the officers also canceled all the vacations, and the few officers who returned to Fuzhou for vacation were all rushed back to the troops by high-speed passenger ships. Sun Guangliang threatened that if a war really broke out, the military supplies hoarded by the logistics department in northern Zhejiang would be enough to support the operations of the first and second divisions for half a year, and a large number of cattle, horses, donkeys, and mules had been prepared in northern Zhejiang, which could provide supplies for troops carrying out long-distance mobile operations at any time.

As long as the Beiyang Army has a major southward movement, the troops of these two divisions will quickly move north to support Huang Xing's three divisions in accordance with the plan drawn up by the current Operations Division, seize Shanghai, and then rely on Nanjing in southern Jiangsu to carry out blocking operations. The follow-up national army will also go north one after another, such as the seventh division and the fourth division, and the strategic goal is to block the Beiyang Army north of the Yangtze River and prevent the Beiyang Army from entering Zhejiang.

When the 1st and 2nd Divisions of the Nationalist Army in northern Zhejiang were in a state of combat readiness and were ready to meet the Beiyang Army's southward march at any time, Yuan Shikai in the north did not have the intention of going south, and finally only sent a few protest telegrams. This relieved a large number of officers of the National Army.

Don't look at the current national army also has seven or eight divisions, not to mention the total strength of 100,000 troops, there was also a battle in Hangzhou before, that last nearly ten days of war let the national army gain experience in large-scale operations, this war of tens of thousands of people made the national army for the first time experience what war is. Although the casualties of the First Division of the Kuomintang Army after the war were very large, in order to spread the combat experience of the First Division to the whole army, in addition to compiling and training some problems and key points exposed in actual combat, Chen Jingyun also specially transferred a considerable number of officers of the First Division to serve as instructors at the Fuzhou Military Academy, and then transferred a considerable number of officers and even noncommissioned officers to other units to strengthen the combat effectiveness of other units.

But even so, the combat effectiveness of the national army is not how strong it is, in the face of local warlord troops like Zhu Rui, they all feel so difficult, if they are against the Beiyang Army, the strongest army in China, then whether they can fight is a problem, at least the vast majority of the national army officers themselves do not think that the national army can defeat the Beiyang Army with the same strength, let alone attack more with less and so on, when the combat department formulates the strategy, it is 10 to 7, but 10 to 5 to consider, In the various operational plans drawn up by the First and Second Divisions under the subordinate, the concentration of superior forces was also regarded as the first consideration, and any attack must ensure that the strength of the Beiyang Army is twice as large.

In the early years of the Republic of China, the Beiyang Army brought great pressure to many warlords in the country was unimaginable to later generations, especially when Yuan Shikai first became president, the Beiyang Army was still at its peak. This is also the reason why Chen Jingyun has been trying his best to avoid conflict with Yuan Shikai before, and even considered which side to throw against Yuan Shikai at that time. It's just that things change unexpectedly, Chen Jingyun wants to keep a low profile, but he can't keep a low profile, the first battle of Hangzhou in Zhejiang completely exposed the strength of the national army, and even more exposed Chen Jingyun's ambitions.

Now Chen Jingyun, like Cai Yi, is regarded as a big trouble by Yuan Shikai, and he is still the kind of person who does not get rid of unhappiness.

However, at this time, Yuan Shikai, who had no money in his hand and was still waiting for the aftermath to borrow a big loan, still had to endure it first, so in the face of Chen Jingyun's advance in Guangdong, he only issued a telegram to condemn one or two, but did not make corresponding military moves in northern Jiangsu.

However, Yuan Shikai also seemed to be stimulated, and before the Ninth Division of the Beiyang Army deployed in Henan was formed, he couldn't wait to announce the formation of two divisions, the Tenth Division and the Eleventh Division.

These two divisions are different from the previous expansion, the previous new division, the eighth division, and the ninth division were all upgraded from the original troops, at most a considerable number of recruits and ordnance were supplemented, but the main body is still the original troops, for example, the main body of the eighth division is Zhang Xun's Jiangfang Army, the ninth division is the original Henan New Army, and the seventh division is a mixed association of direct subordinates, at best it can only be said to be expanded, but not new.

However, this 10th Division and the 11th Division were different, there was no main force before, but Yuan Shikai drew officers and senior soldiers from the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 16th Divisions to build the skeleton. Moreover, this is not a large-scale division, but at most only the battalion level, so as to avoid the influence of the original troops on the newly formed 10th and 11th divisions, and many grassroots officers are directly drawn out of the Baoding Military Academy.

The reason why Yuan Shikai bothered to form these two divisions was because of the pressure from the south on the one hand, and the relationship within Beiyang on the other hand. Mainly because during this period of time, he found that the troops below seemed to be a little disobedient, and some generals seemed to have become bad after staying outside for a long time.

Yuan Shikai did not react to Chen Jingyun's actions in Guangdong, while Sun Wen supported Chen Jingyun's troops in Guangzhou. Other warlords in the South, however, reacted differently.