Chapter 8: The Eve of the Storm
After saying goodbye to his mother, Chen Jingyun went back to the South Campus directly with his own soldiers. As for that marriage, Chen Jingyun has already forgotten about it.
As soon as he returned to the barracks, before Chen Jingyun could sit down and drink a cup of tea, Lin Chengkun hurriedly found Chen Jingyun.
"Is there progress?" Chen Jingyun asked.
But Lin Chengkun shook his head: "No, but someone else found me this morning?" ”
"Oh? What kind of person, don't be stumbling, say something quickly! "Chen Jingyun doesn't like to talk very much, and he doesn't control the initiative when he talks.
Seeing that Chen Jingyun's face was not very good-looking, Lin Chengkun didn't dare to talk too much, so he said it directly: "This morning, I went to find the person surnamed Liu according to your instructions, but the person surnamed Liu is only a lower-level character in their revolutionary party. said that he would wait for him to report the situation to the higher authorities before giving feedback on the situation. But on the way back, I met a person from the Restoration Society! ”
"Restoration?" Chen Jingyun was slightly stunned, but he also remembered that this Restoration Society was also an organization of the Alliance. The League was a loose political alliance whose common goal was to overthrow the Manchu court, but there was great disagreement with other political ideas. The larger subordinate organizations of the alliance are the Gongjin Society, the Guangfu Society, and the Xingzhong Society.
"Well, that person's name is Lin Hao, and he is said to be the head of the Fuzhou branch of the Restoration Society!" Speaking of this Lin Hao, Chen Jingyun actually found the memory of this person in his mind. According to previous memories, this Lin Hao came to woo Chen Jingyun, and when an uprising broke out in Guangzhou at the beginning of the year, Lin Hao secretly came to the door to win over Chen Jingyun, trying to let Chen Jingyun lead the new army to respond to the uprising in Guangzhou. But Chen Jingyun was stunned at the beginning, although he didn't arrest those revolutionaries, but he didn't give Lin Hao a good face, and he was directly blasted out.
Without waiting for Chen Jingyun to ask, Lin Chengkun first explained: "The people of this Restoration Society are also the same as the Communist Association, and they want to pull us into the Revolutionary Party!" ”
"What do you say about the other aspects, and also, how much power do you have in both hands?" Chen Jingyun couldn't figure out the complicated internal relationship of the League for a while, and he didn't care about the surname Suo, anyway, they were all revolutionary parties, and they would just have to cooperate together when the time came. Compared with the battle within the Alliance, Chen Jingyun cared more about how much power they had.
To launch an uprising, Chen Jingyun alone could not do it. Chen Jingyun also controlled a second battalion with a full fight, and this second battalion was only more than 600 people, and it was okay to cause an uprising with these more than 600 people, but if you want to control Fuzhou City, these 600 people are not enough. At that time, as soon as the uprising was launched, it was necessary to control the engineering battalion, the baggage battalion, the artillery battalion and other troops, as well as the 3rd battalion of the 38th standard and the 2nd battalion of the 37th standard, which were about to arrive in Fuzhou City. If you want to control these troops, you must rely on the revolutionaries, after all, Chen Jingyun's concubine can be said to only have the second battalion, although the other two battalions of the 38th standard are also his troops, but Chen Jingyun has controlled the 38th standard for less than a year, and has not been able to completely control the other two battalions.
Therefore, the amount of power that the revolutionaries can control is a very important factor.
Lin Chengkun said: "I don't say how many people they control, but through what they mean, there should be hundreds of people, and the surname Liu said that as long as we take Fuzhou City, then they can instigate several other troops to respond to the uprising." As for that Lin Hao, he even made it clear that they could cooperate with us to take Fuzhou City at the time of the incident. ”
Chen Jingyun touched his chin: "By the way, how much can they take out of the light resonance they said first!" ”
In these years, fighting a war costs money, and the officers may rebel with you for the sake of the future or all kinds of nihilistic ideals, but the ordinary soldiers below do not have such a high consciousness, and there is no silver in vain in front of them, so they don't want to carry guns to fight, let alone rebel. After the establishment of the Nanjing Provisional Political Axe, the Provisional Political Axe was overwhelmed by the noise of the righteous armies from all walks of life, and Chen Jingyun did not want to follow in their footsteps.
Lin Chengkun replied: "They really can't seem to be the master of this money, but I see that they really don't seem to be a rich master in their words, so I think this light is enough to choke!" ”
Chen Jingyun put down his fingers on the table, tapping on the table rhythmically, thinking in his heart, this light resonance is the best, it doesn't hurt if there is no resound, anyway, when the time comes, the uprising will copy the treasury in Fuzhou City, and then copy the homes of a few high-ranking officials and banner nobles, not to mention much, but millions should be available, and the salary should not be a big problem.
"You go talk to them again, well, the Liberation Society. The Communist Party will talk about it, and there is no need to be obsessed with the sound of the light, and try to let them arrange meetings with real power figures. Chen Jingyun said while thinking: "The current situation is tense, this matter can't be delayed for too long, at most seven days, at least three days, and we will get the progress of the actual surname!" ”
Lin Chengkun was slightly stunned when he heard this, he didn't know why Chen Jingyun was so urgent, and immediately said, "Don't want silver?" And the adults say that you yourself interview them yourself! ”
Chen Jingyun nodded: "Money, how much you want, if they really can't give it, it doesn't matter." As for the meeting, it is natural to meet in person! ”
In fact, there is not much room for discussion on this matter, after all, this is not a commercial cooperation, but an uprising. The process of talking is nothing more than that I test you, you test me, for fear that I will be sold by the other party if I am not careful, and after I have the foundation of integrity, there is nothing to talk about in cooperation between the two sides, just make a plan for a joint uprising. As for the pit friendly army, such a thing as preserving strength will not appear among the revolutionaries in a short period of time, after all, although the current revolutionaries are full of factions and many differences, they are still very united in the common goal of overthrowing the Manchus.
After having Chen Jingyun's meaning, Lin Chengkun spent the next two days in a row talking with the people of the Communist Party and the Guangfu Association, and met more core members of the revolutionaries. Because Chen Jingyun was more proactive than in the previous few days, the talks went extremely smoothly, and in just three days, he had already made contact with the high-level leaders of the Communist Party and the Liberation Association.
In less than 36 hours, the Hubei People's Army had already occupied the three towns of Wuhan, and at the same time recruited troops on a large scale, more than doubling its number of troops within a few days. At the same time, the Qing court was not slow to react, the second day of the Wuchang uprising, that is, on October 12, Yinchang was ordered to lead the army, and Sa Zhenbing led the navy to Hubei to suppress the uprising, and two days later Yuan Shikai was appointed as the governor of Huguang to preside over the suppression of the Hubei rebellion, but Yuan Shikai said that his foot disease had not healed and refused to go to his post, and the second and fourth towns sent by the War Department had arrived north of Hankou by train, preparing to gather troops to capture Hankou.
The 15th revolutionary launched an uprising in Xinyang in an attempt to respond to the revolution, but was successfully suppressed by the Qing army.
At this time, the Qing army had completed the initial assembly on the outskirts of Hankou, from the fall of Wuchang on the 11th to the 15th, and in just four days, the Qing court relied on the railway to mobilize nearly 10,000 troops from other provinces.
In the following days, the Qing army and the people's army had their own offensive and defensive forces, and repeatedly tug-of-war in the area from Hukou to Liujiamiao, and on the 18th, the consulates of various countries in Hankou declared neutrality, saying that the Wuchang Uprising was a civil war in China and that all countries would not interfere. will be "strictly neutral".
While the situation in Hubei was chaotic, other provinces in China were also in turmoil, and small-scale turmoil broke out in various places, but because the situation in Hubei was not clear, the real power figures in various places were still in the wait-and-see period, and it was calm for a while, at least the provinces responded to the uprising much later than Chen Jingyun expected.
Of course, the newspapers everywhere just couldn't calm down, and all kinds of news were full of them, one would say that the Qing army had been defeated, the other would say that the people's army had been defeated, and there was all kinds of messy news.
Fujian, like the southern provinces, has remained largely calm, with an unknown undercurrent flowing below. Under Chen Jingyun's instructions, Lin Chengkun had frequent contact with the revolutionaries, and after the two sides understood the preliminary intentions, Chen Jingyun also met Li Hao and Liu Tong, the two contacts of the revolutionary party. Later, Chen Jingyun found out that when they had left each other and talked to him alone, Chen Jingyun thought for a long time but decided to meet with the core people of the Liberation Association and the Fellowship at the same time.
Originally, Chen Jingyun had no intention of taking care of the internal turmoil among the revolutionaries, but now if Chen Jingyun plans to unite with the revolutionaries to launch an uprising, then he cannot allow the revolutionaries to still do their own thing, and if he can unite the forces of the Restoration Society, the Communist Association, and the Xingzhong Society, then the uprising will have a greater chance of victory. It is also very important to unite these people that they can take advantage of the contradictions within the revolutionaries and achieve what they want: the dominance of leading the uprising!
On the evening of the 18th, after Chen Jingyun inspected the barracks, he did not rest in his clothes as usual for a few days, but changed into regular clothes, and then quietly left the barracks with Lin Chengkun, without even bringing his own soldiers.
The two walked all the way at night, and then stopped in a small alley, after Chen Jingyun glanced at Lin Chengkun, Lin Chengkun slowly walked into the alley, and then knocked on the door of one of the small courtyards, and after a while, the courtyard door was opened, and a man in a suit came out.
When this person came out, he saw Lin Chengkun and Chen Jingyun, and after showing joy on his face, he said, "Come in!" ”
After the two entered, the man stretched out his head and glanced at the alley outside, and quickly closed the door after finding that there was no one else, and then brought Chen Jingyun and Lin Chengkun into the main hall.
As soon as he entered the main hall, Chen Jingyun had already found that there were many people in the main hall, about seven or eight people, and more importantly, he knew four of these seven or eight people! These four people are Lin Wenying, the commander of the engineering battalion, Xiao Qibin, the commander of the artillery battalion, Lin Zhaomin, the commander of the 40th standard, Huang Anyuan, the officer of the horse team, and Yu Shaoying, the commander of the military police battalion.