On the afternoon of the 20th, almost all the countries that had interests in China sent telegrams of inquiry or questioning to Chen Jingyun, demanding that Chen Jingyun give an explanation of the war in Shanghai and southern Jiangsu.

Among them, the telegram sent by the British Minister to China, Zhu Erdian, was the most strongly worded, saying that Chen Jingyun's military campaign in the Chinese boundary area of Shanghai had seriously affected British interests in China, and demanding that Chen Jingyun stop all acts that hurt the interests of the British Empire in China.

In the face of such diplomatic questioning, Chen Jingyun did not say that he was angry or ruined, but just smiled after reading it, and then let Lin Changming and others of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs deal with it, which is nothing more than to explain to other countries that the actions of the national army are normal military operations, which will never affect the interests of various countries in China, let alone let the war spread to the concession area.

Naturally, such a formulaic guarantee of the Nationalist Army could not reassure the countries, and the guards and small units of the various countries stationed in China quickly organized themselves to defend themselves in the Shanghai Concession, and blocked the communication links between the Concession and the Chinese Concession.

For these people's allergies, Chen Jingyun is also powerless. Since he was in charge of the Nationalist Army, when he became the governor of Fujian, although he repeatedly declared in relevant speeches of the Kuomintang that China must end its current semi-colonial state and must recover all kinds of economic and political sovereignty, he has never said that he wants to recover the concessions or the like, and when someone asks him how he will solve the concession problem in Shanghai and other cities in the future, he said that this is a problem left over from history and must be resolved by China and other countries through consultations.

The current Chen Jingyun did not show a tough attitude towards all countries, and he did not want to force all countries to Yuan Shikai's side.

And in view of Shanghai's special surname, Chen Jingyun did not say that he would send officials or anything after taking Shanghai, but maintained the status quo of Shanghai, and did not dissolve the Shanghai Council Municipal Axe, and those officials of Shanghai Municipal Axe were frightened and found out two days later that they were still the masters of the city of Shanghai, at least on the surface.

After taking control of the city militarily, the Nationalist Army did not leave much military force here, but soon continued northward, preparing to lay out a defensive line on the south bank of the Yangtze River and cover the 12th Regiment marching in the direction of Suzhou and Wuxi.

On the night of the 20th, after Sa Zhenbing integrated the various ships of the navy, the fleet was divided into two parts, among which several warships that could carry out ocean-going operations, such as the Haiqi, the three Haizi ships (Haichou, Hairong, and Haichen), the Feiying, Jiankang, and Yuzhang, were classified as the first fleet, and the remaining large and small gunboats were classified as the second fleet. This division is basically a continuation of the previous division of the Chinese Navy, between the former Qing Dynasty was the cruiser fleet and the Yangtze River fleet, and then the Nanjing Provisional Political Axe period was the left fleet and the right fleet, and the Beiyang political axe period was the first fleet and the second fleet. Now most of China's warships are in the hands of the Fuzhou fleet, so the ships are still those ships, so there is no need to make any effort in this division, and the original sequence is directly followed.

Sa Zhenbing personally led the First Fleet and the Second Fleet to the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, preparing to cut off the north-south connection of the Yangtze River, block the Beiyang Eighth Division from crossing the river from Nantong and Zhenjiang, and at the same time provide artillery support to the army.

Since learning that the Nationalist Army had marched into Shanghai, Liu Guanxiong and others were worried about the fleet on the Shanghai side, and sure enough, on the evening of the 20th, they heard the news that the navy ships had been thrown into Fuzhou, and then they made continuous inquiries, and finally got the confirmed news on the morning of the 21st, and the fleet on the Shanghai side had all been thrown into the Fuzhou fleet. After learning the news, Liu Guanxiong and Tang Qianming were speechless in shock, originally the Haiqi and other ships were thrown into the Fuzhou side was already a major blow to the Admiralty, and now even the remaining ships of the Admiralty have been thrown into the Fuzhou side, which can basically swear that the Admiralty in Yanjing is already an empty shelf.

This situation made Liu Guanxiong and others unacceptable, and Yuan Shikai was furious when he learned that a large number of ships from the navy had been thrown into Fuzhou, and even directly stopped the funds of the Admiralty. Under such circumstances, a number of Admiralty officials submitted their resignations on the same day. What's even funnier is that after these people resigned, they immediately went south to Shanghai, Hangzhou or Fuzhou to find jobs.

Now China's main forces are on the side of the Fuzhou Naval Department, so now it is a very embarrassing situation for China's naval soldiers, staying in Yanjing must be all kinds of anger, and this Admiralty is also an empty shelf, and if you go to Fuzhou, Fuzhou is just a local fleet, and even the name is still the Navy Department, although there is China's main fleet but there is no name.

Therefore, many people choose to stay at home and watch the situation develop, but there are exceptions among these people, such as Admiral Cheng Biguang, who once led the navy on a round-the-world voyage and participated in the coronation of the British king. After he returned to China, he was dismissed by Yuan Shikai, and then he has been idle in Shanghai, when Sa Zhenbing served as the chief of the Fuzhou Navy Department, he also wrote a letter to invite him to go south to Fuzhou, but Cheng Biguang and most of the admirals are not very optimistic about the warlords in Fuzhou, so he did not go, but recently he vaguely knew that Fuzhou and the United States launched a naval cooperation plan, saying that it was to loan tens of millions of dollars to rebuild the fleet, and after Sa Zhenbing led the fleet to Shanghai, he personally went to visit Sa Zhenbing, and knocked on the side. When he learned from Sa Zhenbing that this matter was true, he immediately left all kinds of hesitations in his heart, and then joined the Fuzhou Navy, Sa Zhenbing also valued this person, and as soon as he came, he sent a telegram to Chen Jingyun, requesting the appointment of Cheng Biguang as the commander of the First Fleet.

Chen Jingyun himself did not have many admirals, most of them also took refuge, and based on the special surname of the navy, he did not care much about the appointment of the navy, so when Sa Zhenbing nominated Cheng Biguang as the commander of the First Fleet, he was also approved, and gave Cheng Biguang the rank of rear admiral.

Although the defection of the navy with an almost collective surname made Yuan Shikai very angry, it did not affect his strategic arrangement, from the beginning, he did not expect the navy to make any great efforts, especially after the defection of the Haiqi, he did not even consider the navy. So now that the navy is gone, Yuan Shikai still follows his plan step by step.

On the 21st, Beiyang Political Axe issued a telegram, which did not mention southern Jiangsu and Nanjing, but talked about the matter in Guangzhou, saying that the Nationalist army's march into Guangzhou to occupy eastern Guangdong had destroyed domestic peace, and demanded that Chen Jingyun immediately withdraw his troops from Guangdong. At the same time, it was reiterated that the central government had appointed Lu Rongting as the governor of Guangdong, and asked Lu Rongting to send Gui troops to Guangzhou.

In the face of this call, Chen Jingyun threw it away after reading it, and then asked the secretariat to also send a telegram to refute it. And Lu Rongting, who was one of the parties involved, remained silent at this time, it was okay to let him be the governor of Guangdong, but if he wanted to march to Guangzhou with the Gui army, it wouldn't let him find death.

The current city of Guangzhou is the third division of the Nationalist Army, and there is also a tenth division of the Nationalist Army on the line from Guangzhou to Shaoguan, and then there is a related newly established garrison regiment. Besides, now that Lu Rongting is in the three divisions in western Guangdong, two of them are still playing hide and seek with Long Jiguang in western Guangdong, and they can't spare their hands at all for a while.

Later in the evening, Chen Jingyun also issued a telegram, saying that he had received an invitation from Hu Hanmin, the former governor of Guangdong, to enter Guangzhou, which was reasonable, and then he bit back and said that the central government had left the rebels alone, causing the people of Guangzhou to be harmed by the rebels for half a month.

As soon as Chen Jingyun's telegram was sent, the telegram from Beiyang came again, this time condemning the Nationalist Army's sudden march into Shanghai, which was completely undermining domestic peace and vainly attempting to provoke a civil war, and enumerating many crimes against the Nationalist Army.

Not to be outdone, the Nationalist Army sent out a telegram just an hour later, saying that the Beiyang Army had already moved southward on a large scale, and that the Nationalist Army had no choice but to march into Shanghai in order to protect itself, and that the Beiyang Army was the main culprit in provoking the civil war.

In short, both sides are accusing each other and defending themselves, and this time the power has dazzled outsiders, and they don't know who to believe.

But no matter how much the two sides argue, it is a fact that this war has already come.

On the afternoon of the 22nd, the first regiment of the Fifth Division, which arrived outside Nanjing, quickly advanced to Nanjing, trying to occupy strategic points, and the Soviet army, which had been waiting for the Beiyang Army to come, naturally could not watch the Beiyang Army occupy the strategic points, so Huang Xing gritted his teeth and ordered to fight back and resolutely resist.

The Soviet army and the Beiyang army broke out in a fierce battle outside Nanjing, and at the same time, Huang Xing also sent a telegram, this time Huang Xing was resolute that the Beiyang army rushed south and intended to capture Nanjing.

Judging from the current state, it is said that Huang Xing has reached an alliance with Chen Jingyun militarily, but in fact it is not, Huang Xing has been resolutely opposed to Chen Jingyun's move to march into southern Jiangsu in the past two days, and claimed that if the national army dares to come to Nanjing, he will fight directly.

This is the sadness of being caught between the two ends, although poor Huang Xing tried very hard to maintain the semi-reading state of southern Jiangsu, and wanted to keep himself neutral in the conflict between the Beiyang Army and the Nationalist Army, but neither side gave him a chance to be neutral, because of the important position of Nanjing, Huang Xing had only three choices, one was to throw himself into Beiyang, the other was to surrender to the Nationalist Army, and the last one was to abandon Nanjing and southern Jiangsu and turn into Anhui. If he doesn't choose, then his most likely end is to be completely crushed by the National Army and the Beiyang Army.

Judging from the current domestic situation, Huang Xing's biggest possible surname is to choose to cooperate with the Nationalist Army, and the two will jointly fight against Beiyang and go south. However, the reality is always unexpected by many people, Huang Xing did not defect to the National Army, let alone Beiyang, he chose the third one, that is, to leave! Since he can't maintain neutrality and doesn't want to take refuge in any party, what Huang Xing can do is stay away.

On the morning of the 23rd, when the Fifth Division of the Beiyang Army outside Nanjing was ready for a large-scale siege, it was discovered that Huang Xing had run away, and now there was not a single Soviet army in Nanjing.