Chapter 43: The Chaos in Guangdong (2)
Feng Qin and the others saw the joy on Chen Jingyun's face, and hurriedly asked, "Dudu, what's the matter?" ”
Chen Jingyun handed them the telegram, Feng Qin, Lin Chengkun and others also showed joy after reading it one after another, Lin Chengkun said: "Huang Xing's telegram is really timely, the governor has just ordered the third brigade to march into Guangdong, and his telegram asking the national army to go out of the province to support the revolution has come!" ”
"Huh! It's a coincidence! Feng Qin also smiled: "But this is just right, originally I was worried that the Third Brigade Division would be unknown, but now it's fine, well, just learn from the famous hall in Hunan, and give the Third Brigade a name to aid the Guangdong Army!" ”
Lin Zhaomin also said: "In this case, there is no need to worry about the Third Brigade and the People's Army in Guangdong!" ”
Chen Jingyun said: "Wait for Feng Qin, you go and send a telegram to Yuan Fang again, tell him about this, and then ask him to come in the name of aiding the revolution in Guangdong Province!" Speaking of this, he paused and continued: "Since Huang Xing asked us to send troops, I am afraid that the main direction is still on the Nanjing side. Now at the critical moment of the revolution, our people's army is naturally not to be left behind, and ordered Ma Cheng to immediately lead the first brigade north to Wenzhou to purge the surrounding Manchu forces! ”
It must be said that it was Huang Xing's telegram that completely dispelled Chen Jingyun's encouragement, before launching the uprising, Chen Jingyun thought about how to succeed in the revolution, control Fuzhou, control the army, and after taking Fuzhou, he set his sights on the whole of Fujian, and now twenty days have passed, his eyes are not only limited to the areas in Fujian Province, he needs more troops to expand his territory, and he needs more taxes to expand the army!
A few days ago, he only sent people to infiltrate Guangdong and Zhejiang on a small scale, but now he has completely sent a large army, and he is still going in the name of assisting the revolutionary cause of brother provinces, and no one can say that he is a warlord in nature, and this move is to expand his territory.
Of course, he thinks he is smart, but others are not stupid, especially Hu Hanmin, who is contacting several people's troops outside Guangzhou City to prepare to capture Guangzhou City!
Guangdong has always been the cradle of the modern revolution, and there are many revolutionaries in the province, so even if a large number of revolutionaries were arrested and killed after the failure of the Guangzhou Uprising not long ago, the power of the League in Guangdong is still not small, but on the eve of Wuchang, the new army was sent out to suppress bandits, so that the revolutionaries could not rely on the new army to launch an uprising in a short time, but there are still many people's troops in Guangdong Province!
The term "People's Army" was generally used in the anti-Qing forces in the provinces after Xinhai, but it had a different meaning in Guangdong, where the People's Army only referred to anti-Qing forces outside the leadership of the revolutionaries. And what are the anti-Qing forces outside this alliance? Basically, they are bandits, street gangsters, and underworld elements, even if these people did not have the Wuchang Uprising, they would have been anti-Qing because of the Qing court's purge, and they were originally not compatible with the revolutionaries. However, after the Wuchang Uprising, it was extremely difficult for the League to recover Guangdong, so it set its sights on these social residues. These bandits also wanted to use the banner of the revolutionary party to their advantage, so they gathered together under the banner of revolution while harming the people.
Then several bandit armies rose up one after another from Huizhou and other places, and then slowly gathered under the city of Guangzhou! And among the members of the alliance who like to contact the bandit green forest the most, the most important is Hu Hanmin.
However, Hu Hanmin did not control the real power, he was only a communication tool, and he could not restrain the bandits at all, although the bandits held the banner of revolution, but in fact they did not listen to orders, harassed businessmen and people, dissected corpses to take hearts, and cruelty to thieves. Among them, in the case of An Yong at the end of Duobao Street, Yi Sheng divided more than 120 people, boasting about people's hearts along the street...... His younger brother Shi Jinchun, who is only more than ten years old, has a particularly fierce surname and has the most people.
Of course, these things are not worth mentioning to the revolutionaries who have a revolution in their hearts, and I don't know how many martyrs have shed their blood for the revolution, and a few people have been dug out of their livers and hearts to take their hearts, which is considered to be their sacrifice for the revolution!
When Hu Hanmin was contacting the People's Army to capture Guangzhou in one fell swoop, he received a telegram from Chen Jingyun, saying that Fujian cherished the revolutionary cause of the fraternal provinces, and for the sake of the overall revolutionary cause of the whole country, Fujian had sent two armies, one in the south and one in the north, to support the revolution, one of which went north to Zhejiang and prepared to go to Nanjing to support, while the other army went south to Guangdong.
After hearing the news, Hu Hanmin couldn't help but be overjoyed, although he didn't hear much about the name Chen Jingyun and was not familiar with it, but he Chen Jingyun Chen Jingyun joined the League, and the revolution in Fujian was also organized by the League, in other words, he thought that Fujian was the force to which the League belonged, and the army sent was the army of the League.
"It's finally here!" For Hu Hanmin, who did not have a direct subordinate unit under his command, the Fujian army could become their support if it arrived, and it could also contain those bandit people's troops.
Hu Hanmin was not the only one who received Chen Jingyun's telegram, Zhang Mingqi, the governor of Liangguang in Guangzhou, also received it.
If there is anyone in the Qing Dynasty who knows the most about the revolutionary party, Zhang Mingqi will definitely be in the top three! In the face of the uprising launched by the revolutionaries, he never surrendered or compromised, just one word: kill!
In the two years before and after, there were not thousands of revolutionaries who died at his hands, but seven or eight hundred, but the more he killed, the more afraid he became of the revolutionaries! He knew very well that these people were like weeds, and they could not be burned inexhaustibly, and that there would be an uprising every once in a while. However, he is very confident in his own ability, and it is not a big problem to keep Guangdong from chaos.
However, after the Wuchang Uprising, it quickly triggered a nationwide uprising, and such a large-scale uprising was no longer under his control, and Guangdong was slowly chaotic. Even so, with the powerful means at hand, he still controlled Guangzhou, making Guangdong the only province in the south that has not yet recovered
However, as the situation in the whole country became more and more chaotic, and more and more people surrounded Guangzhou, dozens of gentry and wealthy businessmen in the city jointly asked Zhang Mingqi to announce that anyway, these are all gentry and rich businessmen with great prestige, not those revolutionary bandits who have killed dozens or hundreds of people and have nothing to do. Zhang Mingqi persuaded them to leave after saying and persuading. But the next day, I received a call from Chen Jingyun!
"This Chen Jingyun, he is so idle that he has nothing to do to come to Guangdong!" Zhang Mingqi wanted to scold, but at this time he was too lazy to scold, the situation was so corrupt that it was no longer something he could stop alone.
It's just that he has killed so many revolutionaries in the past few years, and he will still have a way to live after they take power? No, we have to get out of here!
So half an hour after receiving Chen Jingyun's telegram, Zhang Mingqi had already asked his family to take the fine soft to the Shamian Concession, and he himself held Chen Jingyun's telegram in his hand to gather the gentry and wealthy businessmen in the city.
"To this day, Qi doesn't dare to go against the general trend of the world, so he decided, Guangdong Reading Power!" After saying this, Zhang Mingqi's heart was empty, and he felt that his efforts to strangle the bandits and the revolutionary party over the years had been in vain: "Alas, where is Guangdong going, let the monarchs decide for themselves!" ”
After that, he retreated into the back hall, and the gentry and wealthy businessmen below reacted, and then didn't care about the others, and immediately organized the glow to restore electricity, and discussed the truce with the people's army outside the city, and also went to invite Hu Hanmin and other people from the alliance to prepare to form a military and political axe, and the people soon came, and then the gentry unanimously decided to elect Zhang Mingqi as the governor, but at this time people found out that Zhang Mingqi had already left the governor's mansion.
It wasn't until the next day that they found out that Zhang Mingqi had fled into the Shamian Concession, and as for the governor, he didn't have the courage to be the governor, so he had to elect Hu Hanmin as the governor.
When Chen Jingyun, who was far away in Fuzhou, learned the news of Guangdong's liberation, he was surprised for a long time and didn't come back to his senses!
What's going on, I just decided to march into Guangdong, Huang Xing also sent a pillow, and I also sent a telegram to get the name of sending troops, but this day didn't arrive, Guangdong was recovered?
This made Chen Jingyun depressed for half an hour, and he didn't even want to say a word, which made Luo Li next to him look a little worried.
In the end, he gritted his teeth, even if Guangzhou was taken by the revolutionaries, but they would not have time to take the eastern part of Guangdong, since the Third Brigade had already sent troops, there was absolutely no reason to retreat halfway, and it was impossible to take the whole of Guangdong, so Chaozhou was fine! Anyway, he won't give up until he gets something back.
Therefore, with his ruthless heart, he ordered: "Order Yuan Fang to march according to the original plan, and must rush to Chaozhou within three days!" ”
Feng Qin asked with some concern: "What if I encounter the army on the side of the Guangdong military and political axe?" ”
Chen Jingyun said: "If you can win over, you can win over, if you can't pull in, you will fight, and if you can't fight, you will withdraw!" What else can be done about this! Report to Yuan Fang, let him handle it properly, if Chaozhou is taken down, I will promote him to colonel! ”
After receiving Chen Jingyun's telegram, Yuan Fang was afraid and happy, afraid that after going to Chaozhou, he would meet the army in Guangdong, if it was the Qing army, it would be good to fight directly, if it was the army that had already done it anyway, it would be difficult to deal with it, and if it was not done well, it would be a dispute between the two provinces, and if it was done well, it would be the title of a colonel!
You must know that in the three brigades that were previously trained, Ma Cheng and Li Jimin were promoted to colonels one after another, and when they went south to Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, because the enemy surrendered on their own initiative, they did not fight any battles, and they naturally could not be promoted to the rank of military without any military merits. Although he still has the rank of lieutenant colonel with thousands of people in the Third Brigade, what people want is face, Ma Cheng and Li Jimin have been promoted to colonels, and he still holds the rank of lieutenant colonel, isn't it a shame!
Now that Chen Jingyun has promised himself the rank of colonel, it is up to him whether he can get his hands on it.
As soon as he gritted his teeth, Yuan Fang was also ruthless, and immediately ordered the troops to speed up, and arranged for a forward battalion to advance lightly! Be sure to rush to Chaozhou as soon as possible.
"If anyone doesn't block the way, they will kill Lao Tzu all the way!"
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ps: Canvassing, canvassing...... On a rainy day, I'm looking at the new book list on the home page now! None of the historical categories on the homepage of the new book list make me embarrassed to wait for history writers!!!!