Section 252 The Great Tide of Revolution Rises in Three Towns
At a time when the revolution was raging in Sichuan and Hubei, fierce infighting was taking place within the Kyushu Revolutionary Party in Japan. Because of the large amount of donations received from the Japanese government and businessmen, and the funds left for the headquarters to run the newspaper were quite small, it finally aroused the resistance within the revolutionary party, and Zhang Taiyan, Zhang Ji and others demanded that Qiao Fu resign from the post of prime minister of the revolutionary party and appoint Huang Kedi as prime minister. Song Dunchu supported the proposition of Zhang Taiyan and others. Later, due to Huang Kedi and Liu Kuiyi's strong dissuasion, for the sake of the overall situation, Song Dunchu changed his attitude. However, a split in the revolutionary camp had emerged, which made Song Dunchu worried. On February 28 of that year, when he heard that Qiao Fu and Huang Ke were in a dispute over the national flag (Qiao insisted on using the blue sky and white sun flag, Huang thought that the flag was similar to the Japanese flag and could not be used. Joe refuses to budge, and Huang offers to resign) is also somewhat skeptical of Joe's leadership. In February, after the defeat of the New Army in Canton, pessimism and disappointment enveloped the entire revolutionary camp, and the confidence and morale of the revolutionaries were greatly weakened, and Jof, as the sole leader of the revolutionary party, did not care about the work of the party. In order to save the revolution, in May of that year, on the occasion of Qiaofu's arrival in Japan, Song Dunchu, Tan Renfeng and others asked Qiaofu to reform the affairs of the conference, expand democracy, and reduce decision-making errors. However, Qiao Fu was resentful of Song's support for Zhang Taiyan, and his attitude was very arrogant and extremely irresponsible. He said coldly to Song Dunchu: "The revolutionary party has split, and the powerful ones can make a difference. ”
In order to prevent the revolution from giving up halfway, Song Dunchu, Tan Renfeng and others decided in Tokyo in June of that year to set up the Central Headquarters of the Revolutionary Party to adjust the revolutionary strategy and reorganize the revolutionary ranks, with a view to the early success of the revolution. At the meeting, Song Dunchu, with the courage of a politician, completely repudiated Qiaofu's piecemeal suicidal party strategy in the coastal areas of Guangzhou. After the establishment of the Central Headquarters of the Revolutionary Party in Shanghai, Song Dunchu, as the soul of the Central Headquarters of the Revolutionary Party, led the revolutionaries to take the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River as the center of gravity of the revolution, strengthened ties and alliances with various revolutionary groups, and formulated a strategic plan for the simultaneous uprising in Lianghu and Jiangxi from the first year of Xuantong to the third year of Xuantong. Compared with the repeated defeats and battles of Jof's classmates in the uprising, it is already a great progress. After the success of the Taizhou Uprising that year, they did not know how to develop the revolutionary forces in the next step, and the leaders only knew how to stick to the isolated city, put up notices, and allowed the inefficient Qing court to slowly mobilize troops to strangle the revolutionary forces. In the eyes of the staff officers of the Wuyi New Army, "those revolutionary leaders should be shot ten times one by one, and they have seen stupid and stupid people, but the strange commander who is so stupid as to insult a pig with his IQ is really the first time to see it." (General Counselor Duan's original words)
In the last years of Guangxu, all the standard battalions of the Wuhan New Army had already established the organization of literary societies. The Communist Association mainly focuses on the development of members of the 16th Association and the 32nd Bid of the Eight Towns of the New Army. At the time of the Wuchang Uprising, more than 5,000 soldiers had joined the Literary Society and the Communist Association, accounting for about one-third of the total number of recruits. The Literary Society and the Communist Association are the revolutionary organizations of the emerging intellectual class, and the soldiers of the New Army are the potential force to launch the revolution. Wu Chenxuan is not boasting at this point, there is hardly any domestic armed force that can be like the Wuyi New Army without the slightest infiltration of revolutionary forces and Huidaomen, if it is a revolutionary party, it can still be sent to a situation, if it is a believer of Huidaomen, they have already been humanhumanely destroyed in the training base of the Intelligence Department and the Coordination Office, and they are so dead that there is not even a scum left. It is precisely because of this that whether it is the revolutionary party, the Qing court or foreign intelligence organizations, the understanding of the Wuyi New Army is the strength deliberately displayed by the Wuyi New Army, and it is difficult for them to understand the whole picture under the iceberg, unless it is like the iron guy surnamed Tai, who is invulnerable, and a guy hits the iceberg to understand what death is.
In the middle of June of the first year of Xuantong, the four provinces of Lusu, Anhui, and Zhejiang were immersed in economic development, and there was a peaceful atmosphere, when the Sichuan Baolu Movement was upgraded, and the newly inaugurated Zaifeng was the emperor and his father, and his son's country always had to be thoughtful. This incident had a great impact on Hubei, and the troops of the Hubei New Army who went to Sichuan were the 32nd standard of the New Army, which was dominated by revolutionaries, but they refused to go to Sichuan and prepared to kill the Hubei governor on the way to Jingzhou and Yichang, but Ju Zheng stopped them because the time was not ripe.
On September 14, the first year of Xuantong, Sun Wu, Liu Fuji, Liu Gong, Jiang Yiwu, Wang Xianxian, Ju Zheng, and other leaders of the two revolutionary groups of the Hubei Communist Advancement Association and the Literary Society gathered at Liu's apartment at No. 10 Xiongchulou, thinking that after the main force of the Hubei New Army was transferred, Wuchang was empty and had to be ready to attack. In view of the consensus on the situation, Liu Fuji suggested that if an uprising was launched at this moment, the names of the Communist Party and the Literary Society should be put aside for the time being, and everyone should use the name of the Wuchang revolutionaries to cooperate. It seems to be a big gamble with the life of the family, but the gambling luck of the revolutionary party has always been unreliable, and this time it is also full of loopholes and jokes, so that the agents of the mood and the coordination are regarded as after-dinner fun.
On September 23, after a series of consultations, the two most influential revolutionary organizations in Hubei, the Communist Party and the Literary Society, finally announced their merger, and they decided that they would no longer be separated from each other in the future, and that they would all be collectively referred to as "Wuchang revolutionaries." The next day, a meeting of cadres was held and the leading body of the uprising, the General Headquarters of the Uprising, was formed. Jiang Yiwu, the head of the Literary Society, was elected commander-in-chief, and Sun Wu, the head of the Communist Advancement Association, was elected chief of staff. The uprising began on 6 October, but was postponed to 16 October due to lack of preparation. On September 24, I don't know if these guys didn't have the consciousness to do underground work at all, but they actually convened a joint meeting of more than 100 representatives of various units. After discussing in detail the framework and candidates of the provisional government after the military operation, and determining the action plan and contact information of the various participating troops, so many mouths knew the detailed plan of the uprising, and the Qing court spies should know the general situation of the uprising even if they were waste firewood from teahouses all day long. It is said that when Yu Jian of the Unified Coordination Office heard that Jiang and Sun had convened a meeting of more than 100 people 20 days in advance to discuss all aspects of the uprising in a very democratic manner, he was so surprised that he almost dislocated his jaw: "That's okay, buddy, if your revolution can succeed, we who do intelligence can simply feed pigs and sheep", but what was even more strange than Jiang and Sun, who were regarded as strange by him, was when the Qing court learned that more than 100 new troops participated in the revolutionary gathering to discuss how to reform their dogs' lives. These Manchurians chose to use amnesty to influence these revolutionary parties without blood, alas, I really don't know which Bodhisattva they believed, and the whole idea of being kicked by a donkey.
However, the burlesque that happened in the three towns of Wuhan has not yet reached its climax, and soon on the evening of October 8, Jiang Yiwu was very politely invited by the Qing court to drink tea, and by the way, to discuss the work of social security and mass prevention and control, Jiang classmate got rid of the guards and jumped out of the wall of the patrol police station without appreciation, it is said that the Qing soldiers on duty actually thought he was taking a nap, and they were not embarrassed to disturb him, and only realized that there was no familiar snoring sound in the house, and then dragged on for most of the day to mobilize the soldiers and horses of the patrol battalion to find the missing child Jiang Yiwu, Nothing, of course.
The strange events of the Qing court did not end, and the revolutionary party was not willing to be lonely on stage. On October 9, when Sun Wu secretly made a bomb at No. 14 Baoshanli, the Russian Concession in Hankou, a little brother of the revolutionary party was handsome with a cigarette in his mouth. The Russian patrol came to search after hearing the news, and Sun Wu and others escaped, but the documents and flags of the uprising were all searched. When the governor of Huguang heard about this, Rui Cheng, ordered martial law throughout the city to arrest the revolutionaries. Peng Chupan, Liu Fuji, and Yang Hongsheng were also invited to Yamen for tea. This time, the Qing court finally found out that they were in a different place, so they didn't worry about them saying goodbye, so the three of them became martyrs that afternoon. This incident has made the mood of the Wuhan Revolutionary Party already on the bow, think about it, it is also the case, if Ruicheng announced the closure of the case after a large-scale search, perhaps most of the revolutionary parties will think that they are slipping through the net, and they will know to do things in a different place. But Ruicheng made the wrong choice not to trigger it, in fact, from the later treatment, the governor of Huguang, Ruicheng, did not want to expand the situation. On October 10, Ruizi immediately reported the incident to the central government and asked for credit. Ruihan even took the advice of many of the New Army officers who supported the government, and prepared to destroy the captured rosters and not investigate the revolutionaries in the army. It should be said that the method of dealing with the situation is consistent with the spirit of the edict of 19 October, and he can be regarded as a good comrade who maintains a high degree of consistency with the Central Committee, but it is a pity that he is so impatient in grasping the psychology of the revolutionary party that no information has been revealed to reassure the revolutionaries, so that all the new troops who have been involved with the revolutionary party are in a panic all day long, and people are either arguing or breaking out under such circumstances. Apparently the New Army revolutionaries with guns in their hands were not going to be caught, and the uprising was already their only way out, at least from what they knew.
On the morning of October 10, Mei Baoji went to the engineering battalion of the New Army and told the revolutionary party of the engineering battalion that Peng, Yang, and Liu had taken up righteousness, and falsely claimed that the revolutionary party register had been searched, the gate of Wuchang was closed, and Ruizi would arrest the revolutionary party according to the list. At this time, it was rumored in the army that "the Qing government was arresting revolutionaries with or without long braids", because the three revolutionaries who were killed, Peng, Liu, and Yang, had all cut off their long braids. On the same day, Zhang Tingfu, the leader of the 30th platoon who had also cut his braids, was arrested, which further confirmed the authenticity of the rumors. Some say officials are compiling a roster of all Han soldiers and will arrest and punish all Han soldiers of the Hubei New Army on charges of revolutionaries. At that time, the return telegram of the government office was full of the saying that "people's hearts are fluctuating". Stimulated by all kinds of true and false news, the entire three towns of Wuhan have been "panicked and the price of rice has skyrocketed", and people have gone to the banks to run and cash out, so that "cash must be traded in the market".
Xiong Bingkun and others in the rear of the engineering battalion of the new army decided to revolt early, and brought in Wu Zhaolin, an officer of the team, as the temporary commander-in-chief of the rebel army, and Xiong Bingkun as the chief of staff. The revolutionaries decided to launch a military mutiny in the barracks on the night of the 10th when they first assembled for roll call. At that time, they only had 20 bullets, and the weapons they needed were to seize the Chuwangtai armory. In the evening, the revolutionary soldiers in the battalion anxiously waited for the artillery team outside the city to fire in order to start an incident, but they never heard the signal of the artillery. However, the Qing officers tightened their vigilance and controlled the soldiers very strictly, and the atmosphere was extremely tense. "Solstice sunset" Xiong Bingkun was arranging a "waiting move" for Tao Qiyuan and other revolutionary comrades in the upper row of dormitories on the upper floor of the barracks, when he suddenly heard a commotion in the second row of dormitories. Cheng Zhengying, a member of the Communist Party, responded to Jin Zhaolong's call to "do it" and fired at the platoon commander Tao Qisheng, the platoon commander, and then shot at the team officer Huang Kunrong, the secretary of the division, and the battalion owner Ruan Rongfa, firing the "first righteous gunfire".
Although history is reincarnated, it was still the gunfire in Wuchang that sounded the horn of anti-Qing this time, and the revolution still came.