Wen Tinghe and others want to lead several ships of the navy to take refuge in Fuzhou, to be honest, this kind of thing is something Chen Jingyun never thought of before, even when Sa Zhenbing joined the National Army and took up the post of director of the Navy Department, Chen Jingyun at most only thought that with Sa Zhenbing's influence and prestige, he could help him recruit some naval talents, and then help himself establish a preliminary naval system. But at that time, he never imagined that a large number of naval ships would take the initiative to take refuge in him.

Wen Tinghe led the fleet to vote, this is not as simple as a few down-and-out admirals to vote! This small fleet contains almost the best of today's Chinese navy, including the largest battleship, the Haiqi, then one of the three Haizi cruisers, the Haichou, then the only reconnaissance destroyer in the Chinese navy, and then a cutting-edge gunboat, the Fu'an. Together, these four warships account for almost half of the strength of the First Fleet of the Chinese Navy, and not to mention the rest, one Haiqi alone occupies most of the combat strength of the First Fleet.

The sudden arrival of these four warships was unexpected by Chen Jingyun, but although he did not expect this to happen in advance, Chen Jingyun quickly made proper arrangements.

The first is to let Wen Tinghe, who is still off the coast of Fuzhou, keep a low profile as much as possible, and not use sensitive words such as apostasy and refuge in Fuzhou, but come to Fuzhou under the pretext that the Haiqi is out of order and needs to be repaired urgently. In this way, at least trouble was avoided in public opinion, and as for what the Admiralty and Yuan Shikai would think, it was almost impossible for anything to change, because everyone would understand these things after thinking about them a little, and excuses are always excuses, and they can't be hidden from insiders.

Let Wen Tinghe keep a low profile at the same time, Chen Jingyun also asked the Navy Department to prepare for receiving ships, after all, the current Fuzhou Navy Department is very small, and its Fuzhou fleet is only three gunboats, and now there are four large warships at once, and one of them is still more than 4,000 tons, it is not easy to provide maintenance, maintenance, repair and other work for these ships, and relevant technical personnel and machinery and equipment are needed. But fortunately, there is a Mawei shipyard in Fuzhou, although the Mawei shipyard has been in decline for many years, it is still possible to repair and maintain warships, and a British destroyer was repaired at the beginning of the year.

Technically speaking, the Fuzhou side is capable of maintaining the combat capability of these warships.

When the Fuzhou side was preparing to pick up Wen Tinghe and the other four warships, the Admiralty in the north did not know that this small fleet had changed its course and destination, and even sent a telegram to Long Jiguang: "The fleet will arrive without saying it!" It's a pity that Long Jiguang will never be able to wait for the arrival of the four ships such as the Haiqi.

The navy is just a small twist and turn, and the navy during the Republic of China period does not have the ability to affect major situations, so even if Wen Ting and the defection defected to Fuzhou, it did not reduce too much pressure on the national army, on the contrary, if the matter of the navy defection spread, it would bring more pressure to the national army.

Although it is said that the Third Division of the Nationalist Army is now fighting with Long Jiguang's headquarters in the city of Guangzhou, the troops of the two sides are attacking and defending each other. However, on the whole, the Third Division has always had the upper hand by virtue of its training and weapon superiority, and in the first few days, it surrounded Long Jiguang's two regiments, although it was said that these two regiments were finally allowed to escape, but they were almost crippled, which greatly damaged the morale of Long Jiguang's troops. In the ensuing battle, Long Jiguang could only shrink his troops and launch a defensive posture.

However, now the four naval ships heading south to Guangdong have taken refuge in Fuzhou, and Lu Rongtinghe chose to cooperate with Chen Jingyun, sent troops to seize Wuzhou in one fell swoop, and continued to advance eastward along the Pearl River, intending to attack Long Jiguang's troops from the rear. If the plan can be carried out smoothly, then it is only a matter of time before Long Jiguang falls. It's no more than two months, maybe a week, and ten days is over.

However, in the final analysis, the affairs in Guangzhou are not simply Long Jiguang's affairs, but involve all other aspects, especially Yuan Shikai in the north.

A few days ago, Yuan Shikai suddenly transferred Feng Guozhang to serve as the commander of the Second Army, and he had already made clear his attitude that Beiyang would never allow the Nationalist Army to occupy Guangdong after it occupied Zhejiang.

After Feng Guozhang was appointed, he soon went south to Xuzhou, and before the others arrived, the Fifth Division and the Eighth Division had already begun to prepare for war, and Yuan Shikai also attached great importance to this matter, not only transferred Feng Guozhang to the commander of the Second Army, but also prepared sufficient military expenses and combat materials for the Fifth Division and the Eighth Division of the Jinpu Line.

As soon as Feng Guozhang arrived in Xuzhou, a regiment of the Fifth Division had already begun to move south along the Jinpu line, and Zhang Xun's Eighth Division on the Qingjiangpu side also made frequent moves.

This situation made Huang Xing very nervous.

If you say who is the most depressed person after the outbreak of the Guangzhou Rebellion, it is not Hu Hanmin, nor Chen Jiongming, nor Chen Jingyun or Yuan Shikai, but Huang Xing, who stayed in Nanjing.

As a leader in the Kuomintang, he is different from Sun Wen and Song Jiaoren, he Huang Xing has always been in charge of the military, because he has been in charge of the military for a long time, so some of his ideas are very pragmatic, such as the Xinhai Revolution took the initiative to invite Yuan Shikai to negotiate, and even explained that Yuan Shikai supported Yuan Shikai to come to power as long as he pulled the Qing court down, and then during the Nanjing Provisional Political Axe period, he did not talk about politics like Sun Wen and Song Jiaoren, but put his mind on rectifying the military, at that time hundreds of thousands of troops gathered around Nanjing, but he was stunned and did not get out of the control of the Nanjing Provisional Political Axe, and it was in this way that in the follow-up major disarmament, he Huang Xing was able to transfer elites from various departments to reorganize three divisions.

This has to be said that Huang Xing's ability to control the army is still there.

As a political figure in charge of the military, he was more sensitive to the situation, when the war broke out in Hangzhou, when the Nationalist Army and Zhu Rui were fighting in Hangzhou, he had already paid attention to the Nationalist Army, and later through some information collected, he also determined that the combat effectiveness of the Nationalist Army was not weak. At least judging from the superficial strength and weapons, the National Army is no weaker than the Beiyang Army. At that time, he knew that sooner or later, the national army would have to fight with the Beiyang army.

After the Guangzhou Rebellion, Huang Xing sensed that this incident might trigger a large-scale conflict between the Nationalist Army and the Beiyang Army. However, if there is a conflict between the National Army and the Beiyang Army, where will the battle be?

It must be in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, to be precise, it should be in southern Jiangsu. After all, the Nationalist Army is not stupid, and it will not put the Beiyang Army into Zhejiang to fight in a daze, and the Beiyang Army will not stupidly watch the Nationalist Army go north. Under the intersection of the two, then the battlefield is almost certain in southern Jiangsu, especially in Nanjing.

But whose is this southern Jiangsu region, but Huang Xing's territory, don't look at the current Jiangsu governor, but the northern part of Jiangsu is occupied by Beiyang, and the southern part is occupied by Huang Xing, so southern Jiangsu is Huang Xing's territory.

When Chen Jingyun said that he would go north to southern Jiangsu in advance to assist in defense, Huang Xing just refused, and his own territory naturally did not allow outsiders to intervene.

However, if the Nationalist Army really had a military conflict with the Beiyang Army, then Huang Xing, who was caught in the middle, would be a little embarrassed. Huang Xing naturally did not want the Beiyang Army to go south, so Chen Jingyun in the south also said that the Kuomintang people, the Kuomintang still relied on Chen Jingyun's momentum to a certain extent.

Besides, why did Huang Xing and Sun Wen advocate keeping the troops when the political axe of the north and south was handed over, a large part of it was to guard against Yuan Shikai, afraid that Yuan Shikai would come to read or ascend the throne as the emperor or something. If they watched Yuan Shikai destroy all the southern warlords, and no one could prevent him and contain him, Huang Xing and Sun Wen would not be at ease no matter what.

In the final analysis, the ideals of the revolutionaries in these years are very noble, and the things they do are no different from those of Lu Rongting, Long Jiguang and others.

After perceiving the changes in the 5th and 8th Divisions of the Beiyang Army, Huang Xing also quickly made corresponding military adjustments, but in the face of another telegram sent by Fuzhou requesting assistance in defense, Huang Xing still simply refused.

"Huang Xing still hasn't accepted our suggestion!!" Feng Qin reported to Chen Jingyun in a calm voice: "According to our intelligence, the Eighth Division of the Beiyang Army has completed combat preparations, and two regiments of the Fifth Division have already moved south along the railway, and there is also intelligence that Cao Kun has returned to Shandong and is about to lead the Third Division south. ”

Chen Jingyun looked at the report in his hand, his face was a little dark.

First of all, he did not plan to fight with the Beiyang Army in a short period of time, at least within this year, but wanted to delay time, wait for his troops to expand, wait for the assistance of the Americans to arrive, and then wait for the Beiyang side to split. It's best to wait a few years for Yuan Shikai to die before going on the Northern Expedition or something.

But that's how things don't go as planned. The current domestic situation is already different from the historical situation, and Chen Jingyun's arrival has formed a huge military bloc in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, and this military bloc has enough ability to influence the domestic situation.

In this way, many things cannot be referred to with previous history.

Chen Jingyun's plan in his heart was not so urgent, but in reality, he was always not given enough time, for example, before the Hangzhou incident, Chen Jingyun did not even completely control southern Zhejiang in order to conceal his ambition and strength, but after the conflict between Zhu Rui and Jiang Zunwei broke out, it caused changes in Hangzhou, and then the national army was involved, which had to make Chen Jingyun make a choice quickly. In the end, although the Nationalist Army controlled Zhejiang, it exposed Chen Jingyun's ambition and the strength of the Nationalist Army, so that Yuan Shikai regarded Chen Jingyun and Cai Ye as a big trouble, and he did not get rid of the unhappy kind.

Originally, the contradiction between the Nationalist Army and the Beiyang Army after the Hangzhou incident was big enough, but the strength of both sides was not enough for the time being, so they generally maintained restraint, and the domestic situation still maintained a fragile balance.

But the events in Guangzhou completely upset this fragile balance. The contradiction between Hu Hanmin and Chen Jiongming led to the Guangzhou Rebellion.

If Chen Jingyun is allowed to occupy Guangzhou, then the national army without worries about future troubles will be able to put more forces in northern Zhejiang, but after Chen Jingyun gathers Guangdong, Zhejiang, and Fujian provinces, the fiscal revenue will be able to exceed the Beiyang Central Political Axe, and the current national army is enough to give Yuan Shikai a headache, if the national army occupies the three provinces, then Yuan Shikai will not be able to sleep soundly. At the same time, it was also to bury a knife in Guangdong, a knife that could stab the national army to death, so Yuan Shikai vigorously supported Long Jiguang to capture Guangzhou, and even did not hesitate to take out real money to support Long Jiguang's actions.

However, Long Jiguang's eastward march into Guangzhou seriously affected the interests of the Nationalist Army, if when Long Jiguang marched into Guangzhou, Chen Jingyun knew that his actions might cause a great reaction from Yuan Shikai, but he still ordered the Third Division to march into Guangzhou.

If it was only because he was afraid that the North Ocean would go south and did not march into Guangzhou, then after Guangzhou was occupied by Long Jiguang, the living space of the Nationalist Army, which was facing a serious threat in both the south and the north, would be at that time.

And next, Yuan Shikai sent Feng Guozhang south, if you add the matter of naval defection, then it seems that this civil war is about to break out!