After laughing, Sun Wen waved his hand again and said: "Comrades, although we have experienced defeat after failure, we are still persisting in the revolution, which is the most commendable. We don't have money, we don't have guns, we don't have artillery, but we all have a lot of indomitable comrades who look at death as if they were home. With so many comrades who can die for the revolution at any time, what is there to fear of defeat? Our situation now is much better than it was 16 years ago when I formed the Xingzhong Society in Honolulu, comrades! Compared to before, I am 100 times more optimistic about the present!

Now that the revolutionary tide has begun to flourish, and everyone knows that the end of the Manchu Qing Dynasty is coming, in order to prevent the revival from stealing the fruits of the revolution and erecting the former Ming Emperor again, we must make full preparations for this move in Guangzhou, and we can only succeed and not fail. Only by occupying Guangzhou can we raise the banner of the Northern Expedition, and when the time comes, the party will be able to go straight to Beijing and drive down the Manchu people who have enslaved us for hundreds of years, and even more abolish the imperial system of more than 2,000 years, so that everyone in China can enjoy freedom and ......democracy."

Sun Wen's words became louder and louder, and the atmosphere in the venue became more and more hot, and by the end of his speech, Hu Hanmin and Wang Zhaoming had already taken the lead in shouting the slogan "Long live China." It was only after this hearty slogan was shouted that the meeting entered the normal process -- to discuss the specific details of the Canton uprising.

"I think that Guo Renzhang of the patrol battalion can contact one or two more now, he is now the commander of the Guangzhou patrol battalion, and there are six battalions of troops under his hands...... Huang Xing was the first to speak, Guangxi and Guangdong He has been very familiar with it in recent years. I still want to do Guo Renzhang's work.

"Still looking for Guo Renzhang?!" Hu Hanmin sneered contemptuously, "Keqiang, you won't forget what happened in Guangxi, at that time, he Guo Renzhang broke his trust several times." With such a character, why do you want to win over? ”

"But now if you want to start an incident in Guangzhou, you can only win over Guo Renzhang!" Huang Xing argued, "Although Guo Renzhang was discredited, he did not hunt and kill many of our comrades, but it was Li Zhun who killed many of us. Although there are now many soldiers in the Navy Battalion who are inclined to revolution. But these words are not to be believed, and they want nothing more than our silver. ”

The matter between the two Guangxi was originally entrusted to Huang Xing and Hu Hanmin, but now the two have a conflict in strategy. Sun Wen interjected: "Keqiang, Hanmin, this time we don't want to put the hope of success on Guo Renzhang, nor do we want to put hope on the sailor battalion, this time we will send 500 candidates ourselves." The patrol battalion and the sailor battalion were only in response. It is best if they can make a revolution, and if they can't make a revolution, we will occupy the governor's yamen, and then send a telegram to the whole country to declare the victory of the revolution in Guangdong. ”

As soon as Sun Wen said that there were 500 candidates, Huang Xing said: "Yixian, the people from Qingshan School also participated in the Guangzhou event this time?" ”

"Yes. Raise soldiers for a thousand days, and use them for a while. Sun Wen nodded and said, "Those one hundred and thirty-five people are the most elite backbone of our alliance." Now there are riots all over the country. It is good for the revolution not to take this opportunity to occupy a province. I'm afraid ...... in the future."

Sun Wen didn't finish his words, but the meaning in them was very clear. Now the Revival Society in the revolutionary party has strong troops, resisting the Manchu Qing Dynasty's five encirclements and suppressions without falling, and even opening a new base in Yizhou, so if this continues, and when the sixth encirclement and suppression of the Manchus is defeated, I am afraid that most of the people in this world will be their people, and although the revolution will succeed at that time, there will be no alliance to do anything, and the blood of the martyrs will be shed in vain.

"It is said that this time the Manchu Qing will transfer new troops from fourteen towns, and 100,000 patrol battalions will encircle and suppress the Yanzhou base area of the Fuxing Society, can they win this time?" Everyone was silent, Li Zhongshi thought of the general trend of the world, and couldn't help but deviate from the main purpose of the parliament and asked such a question.

Among the people, Huang Xing knows the military best, and when he heard the words, he said, "There is an arsenal in Yanzhou, and now it occupies Huizhou and other places in southern Anhui, food and ammunition are not a problem, and the soldiers have been trained after many years of actual combat, it is said that the old people and children in Yanzhou will lay mines, even if the Qing army has 14 towns and 100,000 patrol battalions, I am afraid it will be difficult to win." However, I judge that after this battle, the Revival Society will also be greatly damaged, and the Northern Expedition should be a year or two later. ”

Speaking of this, Huang Xing said euphemistically: "Yixian, in fact, we still have to send some people to Huang Mingtang in Qinzhou." In this way, even if it can't develop to the scale of Yanzhou, at least we have a place to train our troops. ”

The revolutionaries in Sichuan, Hunan, Hubei, and Zhejiang all hoped to launch an uprising in the Yangtze River area, while Sun Wen was a native of Guangdong, and had the secret assistance of France earlier, and then because of overseas Chinese, the place of the uprising was always chosen in Liangguang. Huang Xing was a native of Hunan, but he had always looked forward to Sun Wen's horse, and he also agreed with the Liangguang Uprising, but the revival society would rise, and they established a certain armed division in the remote mountainous areas, which could be regarded as the emergence of another revolutionary road. The strength of the alliance is weak, and at the same time, the general environment in the first two years is not suitable and cannot be imitated, but now it is different, there are large and small rebellions in more than 20 provinces across the country, and many of these rebellions have established base areas, and now in order to encircle and suppress the Fuxing Society, the new troops all over the country have been transferred by the War Department, and this is a good time to establish a base area, so Huang Xing wants to expand the base area of 100,000 mountains to prevent the Guangzhou uprising from failing again, and it is good to have the capital to make a comeback.

"Keqiang, is it too late to build a base now?" Hu Hanmin asked, he and Huang Xing are one scholar and one martial artist, and the two of them did everything together, and they are very familiar with military affairs. "Although the Manchu Qing Dynasty mobilized the whole country to encircle and suppress the Revival Society, I think the result will be no different from the previous times. Yanzhou is said to have 50,000 regular troops, more than 100,000 militiamen, so many troops, just like you just said, they are going to win this time, that is the Northern Expedition. ”

"It won't be so fast!" Huang Xing shook his head and said, "After the war, recuperate the soldiers, replenish the ammunition, and purge the various departments, sit down for this matter, I am afraid that the northern expedition will not be until the winter of next year, when the northern rivers will freeze, so it is convenient to march." In this way, we still have at least a year and a half, and if there is money and guns in the 100,000 mountains, plus those backbones of the Qingshan School. It is not difficult to train a unit with a target of 2,000 men.

With these 2,000 men, when the Fuxing Society goes north to fight with the Manchus under the city of Beijing, we can take the opportunity to incorporate the Manchu patrol battalion in Liangguang. Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Jiangxi, Fujian, and Yunnan-Guichuan, these are all places that have been neglected by the Fuxing Society, and it is not surprising that we should be able to occupy Liangguang and Hunan, and those other places that we just can't occupy, and we can unite them on our side. After the fall of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. If the Revival Society really establishes an imperial system, then we can mobilize the whole army to crusade against them. ”

A desperate gamble, or is it slowly developing from small to large from the base? This is a problem. Although the Revival Society is strong. What can be taken is the road from small to large, and the Alliance, because of its weak strength, chooses the all-or-nothing road. This may be due to condition, but it is more of a leader. Huang Xing did not sweep Sun Wen's face. It is only said that the development of the Qinzhou base is a preparation for the uprising in Guangzhou. This also made Sun Wen unhappy for a while. He thought that only he knew what a revolution was, and that only he could save the country that was about to be destroyed, but suddenly this great task was snatched away by someone else, which really made him angry.

When Sun Wen was silent, Deng Zeru, the person in charge of Nanyang, said: "What Keqiang said may not be unreasonable." Now this world is considered the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The Fuxing Hui Yang Jingcheng is Sun Quan of Eastern Wu, Guangxu of the Manchu Qing Dynasty is Cao Cao of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and we are Shu Han. Now Dongwu is powerful, and it will not unite with our Shu Han. Then we will develop ourselves. Guangzhou is one for righteousness, and the base area of Qinzhou should also be developed. Guangzhou did not take Qinzhou; It would be better for Guangzhou to take it, and we could occupy both Guangzhou. When Sun Quan and Cao Cao fought a bloody battle, our Shu Han occupied all the southern provinces, and we will have one of the two parts of the world in the future. ”

Deng Zeru did not read but only read the Three Kingdoms, and his words were brisk and only described the prospects of the revolution as incomparably beautiful, everyone was amused by what he said, and finally Wang Zhaoming said: "What Zegong said is too good. We in Guangxi and Guangdong will all be launched, Guangdong is the uprising in Guangzhou, Guangxi is the 100,000 mountains in Qinzhou, and after occupying the two Guangzhous, we will go north and up to occupy Hunan and Jiangxi, and when the revival will come back, then the situation in the south will be a foregone conclusion. ”

Wang Zhaoming agreed, Li Zhongshi, Hu Hanmin and others also agreed, seeing that everyone reacted like this, Sun Wen had no choice but to say: "Then we will divide the army into two roads, one is Guangzhou to raise affairs, and the other is 100,000 mountains." But in this way, the money will increase by more than 30,000 or 40,000 yuan, Zegong, this matter still has to count on you. ”

Deng Zeru was originally an overseas Chinese, and since he joined the Alliance, he has been responsible for fundraising, and he is not ambiguous when he hears it, "Yixian can rest assured." The fundraising was all over for me. That is, the situation on the other side of Zhejiang must be well controlled, and there will soon be a big war between the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the revival, and what will be the situation of the war, we still have to send people to follow up in a timely manner, and then the revival will be won or defeated? Or is it that after they win, they will be north and then south, but south and then north? That is extremely important, the shape of the world in the future will depend on the victory or defeat of the Revival Society and the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the decision after the Revival Society wins. ”

Deng Zeru was familiar with the Three Kingdoms, used the Three Kingdoms to solve the affairs of the world, and built a foundation for Sun Wen to pay attention to the situation in the world, which was deeply approved by Sun Wen and the people of the Alliance. In addition to the fact that when the League decided to pay close attention to the Sixth Encirclement and Suppression Campaign, Anyang, Henan Province, thousands of miles away, there were also people who were also deliberately concerned about the Yanzhou Encirclement and Suppression Battle, which was about to start.

Wang Shizhen pointed to the simple sand table in the room and introduced to Yuan Shikai: "At this time, the encirclement and suppression are extraordinary, and the imperial court has used all the troops that can be used. Now there are four towns in the north of Yanzhou, the 7th, 9th, 12th, and 16th; To the west there are two towns, the 8th and 11th; In the east, there are the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th towns of the Manchurian and Mongolian New Army; To the south, the 25th and 26th towns of Liangguang plus the 5th and 14th towns of the second province also have four towns, so that there are a total of 14 new army towns, as well as about 100,000 patrol battalions, plus 15,000 sailors, for a total strength of 300,000 troops.

On the side of the Fuxing Society, during the last encirclement and suppression, I heard that there were about 80,000 soldiers with guns in Yanzhou, and there were also those militiamen who could only play with red tassel guns, bury mines, and throw explosives, and the total strength would not exceed 150,000. As for artillery, there will be a lot of wooden artillery revival, but these wooden cannons may not be useful for the turtle formation of the new army, if you only count the mountain artillery and field artillery, from the number of captured by the previous new army, I am afraid that the total number will not exceed a hundred. In general, if Lin Zhouji (Lin Wenqian) didn't deal with it well, it would be annihilated. ”

Seeing that Wang Shizhen said things so strictly. Yuan Shikai smiled and said: "This court is only 300,000 people, if Lin Zhouji is really so easy to deal with, he will not carry it in Yanzhou for so long." In the past, when did he not win more with less? I look ......," Yuan Shikai said and stood up. "This battle is still a big loss for the imperial court. By the way, Pingqing, didn't you say that the revolutionary army was supplied by airships, why didn't anyone see where the airships were? If we want to use that thing, it's not expensive, and we can buy a few to play with. ”

The news of the revival airship was spread by the Germans, but no one saw it. Wang Shizhen smiled: "How do you know that it is not the Germans who are bragging?" Think about being able to transport tens of thousands of pounds of things, and you can fly in the sky, and walk thousands of miles in a day. Who believes? Even after Yin Chang saw the German bid, he didn't dare to buy it, and the airship said that it cost more than two million marks, 800,000 taels of silver, and the money to buy the airship could build a town. ”

Wang Shizhen objected to Yuan Shikai buying that kind of unrealistic, expensive and scary thing in terms of price and use. In fact, Yuan Shikai is just a novelty. 800,000 taels of ships, one can carry 30,000 catties of things, it is said that the Fuxing Society bought several ships, no wonder the Fuxing Society's ammunition can never be finished, it turned out that there was an airship transporting.

Wang Shizhen saw Yuan Shikai thinking about the airship, and only said: "Gong Bao, I think the recent rebellions in various places are also quite strange, you see." Since ancient times, there has been no such rebellion, a nest of people in the east and a nest in the west. If you rebel, you won't wander, and one by one the local people will occupy the mountains and set up camp for the king, isn't this just a routine with revival? Yang Jingcheng is going to lay out the whole country. ”

Seeing that Wang Shizhen suspected that the revival would lay out the whole country, Yuan Shikai stroked the top of his head with one hand, touched and touched again, and said: "Although there are rebellions in various places now, they may not all be launched by the revival society. The patrol team passed two rescues themselves and dispersed. I think it should be Yang Jingcheng who saw that the imperial army was all pressed in Yanzhou, and he had to make a decision, only by agitating everywhere could the imperial court troops be dispersed, and once the troops were dispersed, the pressure on Yanzhou would be reduced. He still doesn't understand what kind of person the current emperor is. ”

As soon as Yuan Shikai talked about Guangxu, Wang Shizhen said: "Gong Bao, how should we be good?" ”

"We?" Yuan Shikai then touched his head and said with a smile: "Now this appearance is the best, in addition to the first town in Beiyang, there are four towns, now the second, third, and fourth, one is in Machang, two is in Shandong, and then there are those in the 6th town, and now a small half is in the Shandong Mixed Association, and a small half is in the Zhili Mixed Association, and this Zhili Mixed Association will be the 27th town next year." These soldiers were stationed in Shandong Zhili under the pretext of preventing the rebellion in Yizhou, and only the 5th town could not be transferred, so it could only be in Yanzhou. In this way, even if the 300,000 people in Yanzhou are wiped out, then we can still have four towns and one association, more than 50,000 people. This is our capital in the future. ”

"Is the fifth town ......" Although there are four towns and one association, Wang Shizhen is still unwilling, and only thinks that he can snatch back all the five towns in Beiyang.

"The current commander of the fifth town is Cai Yi, do you know who Cai Yi is?" Yuan Shikai asked himself and replied, "It's Liang Zhuoru's person, Liang Zhuoru is now Guangxu's person." Zaitao in other towns can be transferred as long as he has money, but this fifth town is in the hands of Cai Yi, and it has been transferred to Yanzhou, but there is no excuse for transferring. It's hard! ”

Yuan Shikai was only satisfied with being able to keep the scattered towns of Beiyang plus a single association, in fact, the more important reason was that he was running out of money, in order to keep these towns of Beiyang soldiers, he spent a lot of money in Zaitao. And Sheng Xuanhuai, in order to avenge the revenge of the two bureaus of the mail ship that he had taken away from him before, vigorously checked the accounts of the railway company as soon as he came to power, and Liang Shiyi and others were so rectified that they did not dare to mess around, and the money on the railway has now been completely returned to the household department, and it is afraid that it will not be possible to make money from it again.

Wang Shizhen didn't know Yuan Shikai's difficulties, but he felt that it was very distressing for the Fifth Town to be lost in Yanzhou like this, and then saw the situation in the Beiyang system, he only said: "Gong Bao, now I don't understand this situation, you said that if the imperial court is also defeated this time, will the revival society go on a northern expedition, once they go on a northern expedition, then what should we do?" ”

"What else? Let's take it one step at a time. Yuan Shikai said that he thought of the matter that Yang Shiqi told him at the end of last year, and the plan he conspired with others was to take advantage of this defeat, first imprison Guangxu in Beijing, and then establish Pu Wei as the emperor, and finally before the Fuxing Society did not have the Northern Expedition, he pulled the foreigners to negotiate peace with him, and equipped to divide the river and rule. This thing sounds very good, not to mention that Shanqi, who planned this matter, has been robbed of the rights of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and the patrol police can't command it, so when the matter is really done, will Fuxing agree? If the imperial court is defeated this time, the Revival Society will be the strongest army in the country. At that time, the more than 50,000 people who were recuperating in Shandong Zhili, plus those defeated troops in Yanzhou, could they withstand this hundred battles of heroes?

When Yuan Shikai thought of this, he only felt that his scalp was itchy, and the hand that was touching his head suddenly grabbed it, and only after scratching it did he say: "Hireqing, where do you say this revival army is strong?" Why can't it be defeated? I remember that you didn't take a few staff officers to analyze them, and if you want to defeat them, what should you do? ”

The Baxing Army has been the object of study by various countries, and now not only the Germans, but also the military attaches of Britain, France, and Japan have gone to the Yanzhou front line to watch the battle. After the military attache of the British Legation went to the front line of Yanzhou, he lamented to the newspaper that it was fortunate that South Africa was not Yanzhou, and that if the British Army came to destroy the rebels, it would take about 500,000 men and 100,000 casualties. After the British finished speaking, the French did not gnaw, and the Germans were ashamed to say that if the German army put down the rebellion, 200,000 troops would be enough, and the casualties would not exceed 30,000; Since Germany said this, Japan was embarrassed to say anything more, but some people in Japanese newspapers had predicted that if the Japanese army went to Yanzhou, it would only take 150,000 men and 20,000 casualties to destroy the rebels.

The foreigners are simpler than the other, but Wang Shizhen, who has studied the revival army, does not see it that way, and when he saw the original Kai asked, he said: "Gong Bao, let's not be stunned by the foreigners, this army fights, one is firepower, then the troops, and finally whether the grain, grass and ammunition can be helped." Now the revival army is nested in the ravine, and it is fighting on the inside line, completely occupying the geographical advantage and these two advantages, without that geographical advantage, they will not be able to fight those ambush battles, and the wooden cannon we have also equipped, which is nothing more than a range of several hundred meters, which is not good at all when put on the plain. Besides, if it weren't for those ordinary people to give them a message, would they have been able to see the seams and concentrate their forces to disperse our forces? Wang Shizhen said, very loudly,

"In the final analysis, mountain warfare can only be fought in familiar mountains, as soon as we go in, we get dizzy, but they turn more and more slippery, the more they fight, the more comfortable they become, the wooden cannons, mines, hand-thrown explosives, are all used in mountain warfare, once out of the mountains, how good is that thing compared to the Krupp field artillery? When the time comes, all 36 field guns and 18 mountain guns in a town will be lined up, and the shells will be brushed over, and they will still die the same, and they will shrink in the trenches to eat soil. The 80,000 people in Yanzhou, that is, they are bolder than the ordinary soldiers of the New Army, and their legs and feet are just sharper, if they really drive to Shandong, with their artillery fire, then the five Beiyang Towns can suppress them. ”

Wang Shizhen said, Yuan Shikai felt that it was right or wrong, but the firepower of the war is indeed extremely important, not to mention the wild artillery in Yanzhou, even the hundreds of pounds of mountain artillery are difficult to fiddle with, many times the cannon is not loaded, and the wooden cannon of the revival army is coming, in the final analysis, it is still the new army that has no firepower but cannot play. However, in addition to this, the fighting spirit of the revival army is still extremely strong, during the encirclement and annihilation war, the strength of one of their battalions can often withstand the strength of a target of the new army, and then calmly eat the new army in the encirclement, and then retreat with a big grin, although there are dangerous factors in the mountains, but the soldiers are not made of flesh and blood at all, but made of special materials, this army, alas! (To be continued......)