Chen Jiongming is okay, although his two divisions have defected, but there are still hundreds of personal guards in his hands, there is no need to worry about security, but Hu Hanmin is miserable, he did not control the troops, at that time even the guards of the Governor's Mansion were Chen Jiongming's men, two days ago, the rebels stormed the Governor's Mansion, and then smashed the Governor's Mansion, Hu Hanmin, who had no guards around him at that time, could only escape from the Governor's Mansion with a few relatives, at first he planned to go out of the city, and converge with the third division of the National Army on the road in the direction of Chaozhou, However, the way out of the city was blocked by the rebels, and Hu Hanmin had no choice but to hide in a foreigner hospital, and then contacted the French embassy in the Shamian concession through the relationship of the foreigner doctor.

Originally, the consuls of the Shamian Concession had completely lost control because of the riots in Guangzhou, and in order to protect the overseas Chinese of various countries, they formed a temporary joint force and tried to enter the city of Guangzhou to rescue the overseas Chinese of various countries. However, this act of sending troops has already involved the violation of China's sovereignty, and for this reason, the ministers of various countries in Yanjing asked Yuan Shikai to control the situation in Guangzhou, and if the Chinese side could not control the situation, then asked for permission to form a joint force to enter the city of Guangzhou to rescue the foreign nationals of various countries.

However, Yuan Shikai dared to agree to this kind of matter involving sovereignty, if he agreed, then the Chinese people would think that this was the outbreak of a new round of Gengzi incident, so he called Long Jiguang while dragging it, asking him to speed up his journey to Guangzhou and quickly quell the riots in Guangzhou.

At this time, the Shamian Concession contacted Hu Hanmin, and when the Shamian Concession said that it could send someone to pick up Hu Hanmin and provide relevant protection in the concession, Hu Hanmin agreed to the joint force formed by the consulates of various countries in the Shamian Concession to enter Guangzhou to rescue the overseas Chinese from various countries.

After getting the permission of Hu Hanmin, the governor of Guangdong, the countries didn't care what Yuan Shikai thought, and directly sent a joint force that had been prepared a day ago, this force was not much, basically composed of escorts from the consulates of various countries, and then there was a company that was urgently transported from Hong Kong by British warship, the total number was about four or five hundred, and then this small force rushed into the city of Guangzhou, which had been in chaos under the cover of the gunfire of the warships stationed in the Pearl River.

After receiving Yuan Shikai's urging telegram, Long Jiguang was also depressed. His troops set off from Wuzhou, and originally expected to rely on the Pearl River to transport them, and they would be able to reach the city of Guangzhou in a few days, but when the matter came to the end, they found that things were not as simple as they imagined, and the first thing was that the troops were mobilized. Generally speaking, in these years, the troops do not include food and drink during non-combat periods, and the money for food and drink of soldiers has to be deducted from their ranks, and some troops even have to deduct military salaries for military uniforms and shoes, and the money that soldiers can get is about fifty or sixty percent. Except for Chen Jingyun, who spared no expense to pay the soldiers' food and drink and paid full salaries for the sake of the combat effectiveness of the troops, the others, including the Beiyang Army, did not include food and drink, and in this way, in order to let the troops go to the war zone and even ordinary transfers, they had to pay additional money to make up for various expenses such as military salaries, that is, the so-called promotion fees.

When Long Jiguang was transferred from Guangzhou to Wuzhou, Hu Hanmin and Chen Jiongming wished he had gone far, so they generously gave Long Jiguang's opening fee enough for one time.

However, this time Long Jiguang wanted to mobilize troops to return to Guangzhou, and the promotion fee was a little troublesome. Although Long Jiguang occupies Wuzhou, but there is no oil and water at all in such a little territory, it is not enough to feed him, usually Long Jiguang has spent a lot of effort for military expenses, and even the landlords and rich businessmen in Wuzhou City have been blackmailed by him two or three times. It's hard to maintain it in normal times, and there is no money saved at all, and now if the troops want to pay for the promotion, Long Jiguang has nothing else in his hand except for the 300,000 yuan remitted by Yuan Shikai.

But Long Jiguang was still counting on the 300,000 yuan to support the war in Guangzhou, so Long Jiguang, who was seriously short of money, aimed at the landlords and wealthy businessmen in Wuzhou.

"Anyway, Lao Tzu is going to Guangzhou, and this Wuzhou won't come, so just don't do it!" Long Jiguang is a warlord after all, and he can do anything for the army under his command. At this time, he was ruthless, that is, he ordered the troops to directly kill the landlords and rich businessmen in various Wuzhou cities, and there was not much nonsense, he directly pointed a gun at him and asked for money, the rich family's house cost thousands of yuan, and some of them had to come forward, and then some of them were hundreds.

After tossing like this for two days, Long Jiguang got hundreds of thousands of yuan as an opening fee. After the opening fee was paid, the large army began to march along the Pearl River to Guangzhou.

Then when he marched on the road, Long Jiguang was so depressed that he almost vomited blood, first of all, when several big ships were almost in the vicinity of Guangzhou, because there was no clear banner, and Long Jiguang's troops were the same as the military uniforms of Guangzhou before, Long Jiguang raised more than 20,000 people to eat and drink enough for a headache, and he had no money or heart to change military uniforms, and even epaulettes and the like had not changed. What's more, there was no one in this battalion who could speak foreign languages, and at that time, the French gunboat was ordered to support the joint forces rescuing expatriates from various countries in the city. It's a pity that the commander of a battalion leading this forward battalion, in addition to being Long Jiguang's cousin, is still a dumbfounder, and he can't even read a single big character, and when he saw a gunboat aiming its gun at himself, he didn't know if it was two or because he was so bold, he actually ordered the soldiers to fire at the warship.

Well, now it's a hornet's nest, and the French captain dances his beard and cries out like a rooster: "They are declaring war on the great French Republic!" ”

The next thing was very simple, the French gunboats fired a few shots at several large wooden ships carried by the Long Jiguang Forward Battalion, and every minute, one was sunk. Only then did the stunned battalion commander come to his senses, and hurriedly said: "Fly the white flag, surrender, surrender......"

The guard next to him turned around, but didn't find a white strip of cloth: "Battalion commander, no white cloth!" ”

The stunned battalion commander kicked the guard off the boat, and then dragged the officer's coat on his body, revealing a white shirt and continued to take it off, and then shook the white shirt......

The French captain saw the white flag waving on the opposite side, turned around with a smile, then poured a glass of wine brought from France, took a sip and said, "Two more shots, and then prepare to accept the prisoners!" ”

Then he said: "Send electricity to the Shamian Concession, and say that our ship has captured the enemy......" Speaking of this, he asked a lieutenant next to him: "By the way, how many people are left in those chaotic troops?" ”

The lieutenant replied respectfully: "About four hundred!" ”

"Well, then let's say that our ship captured four hundred rebels!" Speaking of this, he laughed: "This is a rare case where a 400-ton gunboat can capture 400 troops!" ”

Knowing that the forward battalion was inexplicably regarded as a chaotic army, and then captured by an equally stupid French captain, Long Jiguang almost fainted on the spot, on the one hand, he urgently contacted the foreigners, and on the other hand, he urgently urged the troops to continue to Guangzhou City. However, he has always been dissatisfied with the marching speed of the troops, and this Long Jiguang's troops are not the volunteer troops of later generations that can quickly maneuver and intersperse with their legs, and this marching speed is quite good if they can walk dozens of miles a day.

So when Yuan Shikai's telegram came, Long Jiguang's army was still some distance away from Guangzhou, and at the same time, the third division of the national army had also entered the boundary of Huizhou and was rapidly marching in the direction of Guangzhou. However, the marching conditions of the two are not the same, Long Jiguang has the river transport of the Pearl River but does not use it, and the troops are grinding and slow, so it is slow, and the record and training of the third division is that the marching speed is better than that of Long Jiguang's troops, but because the third division is on the way to Guangzhou, it is all mountainous land, the road is not easy to walk, plus the troops have a lot of baggage, and they have to consider the follow-up supply line problem, so it is not a matter of one or two days to reach Guangzhou City.

When both forces were heading towards Canton. However, the domestic political situation has once again become chaotic because of the riots in Guangzhou.

When Long Jiguang led his troops to Guangzhou, Fuzhou also took out Hu Hanmin's telegram inviting troops, and then announced that it would send the Third Division to Guangzhou to maintain the continuous suppression of the rebels.

When Chen Jingyun announced that he would send the Third Division to Guangzhou, the north publicly condemned Chen Jingyun's move as completely violating the military orders of the War Department, which had already dispatched Long Jiguang's troops to Guangzhou, and Chen Jingyun's private transfer of troops to Guangzhou was a blatant violation of military orders.

Yuan Shikai's opposition to Chen Jingyun was expected, but even if Yuan Shikai was against it, he would have to send the third division to Guangzhou, and he would never tolerate Long Jiguang occupying Guangzhou and thus controlling Guangdong. Hu Hanmin and Chen Jiongming have no problem controlling Guangdong, and they will not pose much threat to the Nationalist Army, but if they are replaced by Long Jiguang, I am afraid that Chen Jingyun will have to deploy heavy troops in the southern direction of Chaozhou and Fujian to prevent Long Jiguang from poking the chrysanthemum.

Yuan Shikai is opposing, but Sun Wen, Huang Xing and others have publicly issued statements in support of Chen Jingyun's march into Guangzhou this time, the reason is very simple, that is, Chen Jingyun is a warlord, but Chen Jingyun has joined the League before, and is now also a director of the Kuomintang, so to a certain extent, Fujian and Zhejiang provinces are also regarded by many Chinese people as the Kuomintang's sphere of influence, which is also the purpose of Hu Hanmin's invitation to Chen Jingyun to send troops to Guangzhou. As for Long Jiguang, the Kuomintang openly opposed him, and Sun Wen and Hu Hanmin strongly opposed Chen Jiongming's idea of inter-provincial autonomy.

Some of the other warlords are different.