Huang Xing and others fled east overnight regardless of the Wuhan war situation, causing a great bad impact, the original Hubei People's Army in Hanyang in the face of Feng Guozhang's command of the Beiyang First Army onslaught can not be supported, Huang Xing and others fled overnight is a blow to the morale of the Hubei People's Army, the next day before the day is completely bright, the Beiyang Army launched a general attack on the last few units of the People's Army entrenched in Hanyang, the day of the large-scale collapse of the Hubei People's Army entrenched in Hanyang, Hanyang has been occupied by the Beiyang Army at night.

Early the next morning, Feng Guozhang sent a telegram to Yanjing!

On the morning of the 27th, the news of the loss of Hanyang had been reported by many newspapers, and almost all people in China learned the news as soon as possible.

"Feng Guozhang is good, he deserves to be a fierce general!" Zaifeng, who received the telegram of the victory, was full of joy, and even without discussing with others, he immediately issued an order in the name of the regent, making Feng Guozhang a viscount, and giving a large number of rewards such as a yellow coat.

However, Yuan Shikai, who is Feng Guozhang's actual secretary, received Feng Guozhang's telegram, but his face was extremely gloomy: "Is there still me in his eyes!" ”

The layout of Yuan Shikai's mind was no secret in the eyes of several high-ranking people in Beiyang, that is, to abandon Nanjing, create pressure and panic on the Qing court, put pressure on the revolutionary party in the direction of Hubei, and at the same time prepare heavy troops in the direction of Xuzhou to prevent the southern coalition army in Jiangsu from moving north along the Jinpu line. The ultimate goal was to force the Qing court to negotiate with the Southern Party and become the president himself.

Before Feng Guozhang took Hanyang, the situation had always been in accordance with Yuan Shikai's layout, but he didn't expect Feng Guozhang to ignore his hint of Yuan someone, and he took Hanyang, and the telegram said that the army was ready to march in the direction of Wuchang, and completely wiped out the Hubei People's Army without asking the moon.

This made Yuan Shikai angry and couldn't suppress the anger in his heart after drinking three cups of tea in a row, and then he was ruthless in his heart, and he didn't care that Feng Guozhang was his right-hand man, and he wanted to save face for him.

immediately said to Duan Qirui beside him: "You go to Hubei to replace Feng Guozhang." I don't need to go into more detail about how to do it! ”

Hearing Yuan Shikai suddenly say that he would replace Feng Guozhang, Duan Qirui was shocked and secretly happy in his heart. Originally, he thought that Yuan Shikai would reprimand Feng Guozhang at most, but he didn't expect that the old man would take Feng Guozhang down directly and let him serve as the president of the First Army, which is a real surprise.

You must know that after the Wuchang incident, the Beiyang Army was divided into three armies, and the first army went to the Hubei front, with Feng Guozhang as the presidential officer. The Second Army was prepared to be used on the Jinpu line, and it was originally scheduled to let Duan Qirui be the president, but after the Shandong Disaster and Yuan Shikai's decision to abandon Nanjing, the Second Army became an empty shelf. The Third Army, the Praetorian Guard of the Gyeonggi region, was responsible for complimenting Gyeonggi, and the old man of the Third Army, the president of the Third Army, did not give it to others, but remained vacant.

In other words, in the current Beiyang Army system, only the president of the First Army is a real power position, and many famous generals in Beiyang are staring at it, and Duan Qirui is naturally no exception.

Immediately, Duan Qirui said: "Don't worry, my lord, I know how to act!" Never mess with the layout of adults! ”

Speaking of this, he said again: "I'm afraid it's not appropriate for Brother Feng to come back like this!" ”

Yuan Shikai knew the meaning of his words, it was nothing more than being afraid of Feng Guozhang's refusal to hand over power smoothly, and immediately said: "I will transfer him back to be the president of the Praetorian Guard, and he will guard Gyeonggi, presumably he is willing!" ”

"You leave today, you have to pay attention to proportions after you go, you have to save face for Hubei, but you can't let people look down on you!" Yuan Shikai is still very concerned about Hubei, and he is afraid that if the Beiyang Army accidentally defeats Wuchang, it will not end well.

Yuan Shikai was angry because Feng Guozhang took Hanyang, and the party members in the south were also a little panicked because of the loss of Hanyang, needless to say in Hubei, a group of revolutionary parties led by Huang Xing had long since disappeared, and Li Yuanhong also moved out of Wuchang City to avoid the shelling of the Beiyang Army.

The Southern Coalition Army is also panicked!

Because from the perspective of the Southern Alliance, if Feng Guozhang takes Wuchang, then the next step is naturally to mobilize troops to concentrate on the Jinpu line, and then the Nanjing battle situation will be corrupted to the point that it cannot be cleaned up. In the final analysis, they still don't have the confidence to fight against Beiyang, and they don't know that Yuan Shikai doesn't want to fight them at all, and he is bent on letting the two sides negotiate and then become the president himself.

Yuan Shikai's thoughts, the party members in the south naturally don't know, like Chen Jingyun, a few people who know a little bit of the truth, don't want to go around saying it, so many senior generals of the Southern Coalition Army are anxious, and Xu Shaozhen even moved the headquarters to the front line to encourage morale.

In order to compete for time, more than 20,000 southern coalition troops around Nanjing formed a joint encirclement, and several units of the vanguard had already begun a siege war against Nanjing.

The Southern Coalition Army was struggling to attack the city, and Ma Chengbu, the First Brigade of the National Army, also received Xu Shaozhen's order to accelerate the march.

Since the first brigade arrived in Wenzhou, did not rush to the road but rested on the spot for several days, Ma Cheng even in accordance with Chen Jingyun's instructions, the original patrol battalion and a small number of new troops in Wenzhou were incorporated, organized into two garrison battalions, after many days of grinding and grinding before the first brigade officially started, along the road through Taizhou Mansion, Ma Cheng in accordance with the old rules, although it is not good to move the local military and political axe on the surface, but with the strong army force to the local old patrol battalion and other troops to be integrated, using the name of the Southern Alliance.

At the beginning, when Chen Jingyun, Chen Qimei, Tang Shouqian, and several other southern governors formed the Southern Coalition Army, they organized several parts according to the organization of each unit, and the First Brigade of the Fujian National Army was naturally organized separately.

The reason why Ma Cheng dared to do this, in addition to staring at the name of the Southern Coalition Army, was also related to the fact that the 21st Town, the main military force in Zhejiang, was not in the province, and now most of the 21st Town was around Nanjing, and there were some patrol battalions and other old armies left in Zhejiang Province, and the revolutionaries had always been uneasy about these old armies, and if they were not afraid of their rebellion, they would have disbanded these old armies long ago.

Under such circumstances, Ma Cheng did not encounter any obstacles in the process of integrating these old armies.

After these old armies were absorbed, they were mixed with the old units of the First Brigade, and then set up separate infantry battalions, and so on, and so on, and when they went all the way down, when they went to Shaoxing, they actually reorganized more than half of the old army in Zhejiang, and organized them into six garrison battalions.

And when Ma Cheng's first brigade walked to Shaoxing, it stopped, and on the surface, it naturally said that the soldiers were tired after walking for so long and needed to rest, but the actual reason was that if you want to continue to move forward, the next step is Hangzhou. Hangzhou is the provincial capital of Zhejiang, and the revolutionaries, gentry, and wealthy merchants in the city are huge, so it is not so easy to go. If you don't pay attention to Hangzhou, then you have to enter the boundary of Jiangsu if you continue to the north.

To tell the truth, the place was too far away and too dangerous, and Chen Jingyun was worried that his first brigade would not be able to come back, so he ordered Ma Chengcheng to station.

Although Ma Cheng's 1st Brigade marched northward, although it was said that it did not clean up all the political axes in various places along the way and bring them under the jurisdiction of the Fuzhou Military and Political Axes, Ma Cheng incorporated all the old armies along the way, and purely from a military point of view, most of the southern coastal areas of Zhejiang had fallen under the control of the Nationalist Army.

This kind of behavior of actually occupying territory in the name of the revolution was the only one who did so naked in the early stage of the Xinhai Revolution!

"Is it a little thinner in Zhejiang now!" In the Fuzhou General Staff, Feng Qin was discussing Zhejiang's strategic plan with Chen Jingyun and a few other senior officers. Feng Qin pointed to the map and continued: "Now the main force of the first brigade is stationed in Shaoxing, which is only a hundred miles away from Hangzhou, and it is understood that the strength in Hangzhou is not small, and the military force composed of a small number of troops in 21 towns and the old army in the city has been expanded, and it has now reached the scale of more than 10,000 people. ”

Feng Qin's words were obviously regarded as enemies with the army in Hangzhou City! He has such an idea also thanks to Chen Jingyun, since the establishment of the military and political axe, Chen Jingyun commanded the troops to recover the province, and quickly advanced in the direction of Guangdong and Zhejiang, and looking at what Yuan Fang did in Chaozhou and Ma Cheng in Zhejiang, it is not difficult to see Chen Jingyun's desire to occupy territory. For his own thoughts, Chen Jingyun did not hide it from Feng Qin, Lin Chengkun, Ma Cheng and other senior generals, otherwise Ma Cheng would not have absorbed the old army in southern Zhejiang according to Chen Jingyun's instructions.

Feng Qin continued: "Moreover, Shaoxing is already close to Jiangsu, and the battle situation in Nanjing is currently deadlocked. ”

Lin Chengkun on the side also nodded and said: "Chief of Staff Feng's words are good, although our national army has the first brigade and two garrison regiments in Zhejiang, but those two garrison regiments have just been recruited, and the guns are all old goods, even if the combat effectiveness is better than that of the recruits, it is also extremely limited, not to mention that these two regiments are scattered in Taizhou, Wenzhou, and Ningbo. ”

Regarding the lack of troops on the Zhejiang side, Chen Jingyun was clear in his heart. However, as the commander-in-chief of the National Army, he did not only see Zhejiang, but also the situation in Fujian Province, Guangdong, and Jiangxi. Fujian originally did not have many troops, and having to take care of so many directions naturally led to a shortage of troops.

Chen Jingyun didn't know if things would really be the same as in his previous life, the southern coalition army successfully captured the city of Nanjing, and then the north and south negotiated peace. But since he has appeared here, the historical Jiangsu and Zhejiang coalition forces have become the southern coalition army, and the national army under his command has not only recovered Fujian, but also sent troops to Guangdong and Zhejiang, which has caused too many variables, and it is difficult for him to grasp how the future strategic situation will develop for a while.

After pondering for a moment at the map, he said, "How are the garrison battalions in the province organized!" ”