Shanghai was also the focus of the Beiyang Army's offensive.

When Chen Qimei was planning to discuss Yuan in Shanghai, it coincided with the return of Jiang Zhongzheng and Zhang Qun from Japan to Shanghai, and Chen Daxi immediately met with the two to discuss military affairs. Zhang Qun advocated attacking the navy first, while Chiang took the arsenal as the lifeblood of the army, and the arsenal should be seized first. Chen Qimei agreed with Chiang's plan and actively made arrangements.

Chiang had organized an army when he recovered Shanghai in the Xinhai year, and there were many old troops. Later, due to the investigation abroad, the troops trained by Zhang Qun were handed over to the command, and Zhang then went to Britain to inspect the industry, which was handed over to Chen Qimei.

At this time, the soldiers led by Chen Qimei, that is, Jiang Zhongzheng's trainers, were overjoyed to see the return of the two old masters, Jiang and Zhang, and were willing to accept the command. So Jiang Nai called on the old ministry to support Chen Qimei as the commander-in-chief of the Yuan army in Shanghai.

Yuan Shikai sent Vice Admiral Zheng Rucheng to lead a guard army of 1,300 men to garrison the Gaochangmiao Arsenal, and sent Navy Commander Li Dingxin to lead warships on the Huangpu River to coordinate protection.

Chen Qimei declared independence and repeatedly persuaded Zheng Rucheng to give up the Gaochang Temple Arsenal, but Zheng did not agree. Chen Nai ordered Jiang to lead his troops and Niu Yongjian's regiment to attack separately and hold each other for several days. The Yuan army was defeated because of the lack of bullets. Later, he returned to attack Wusong, but was also outnumbered and failed to win.

After the outbreak of the Second Revolution, Yuan sent troops to the south and issued two general orders (July 2nd year of the Republic of China), the first of which was to announce the intention to the provinces:

"For the rest of my life, I have been lying in bed for a long time, and I have a little pastoral joy, and I have nothing to do to ask myself. This time out of the mountain, the real situation is critical, and I can't bear to see the people trapped in the field of cattle and horse slaves, so I take all kinds of risks and make it very difficult.

"Since the incident, we have always been committed to respecting humanitarianism and adapting to the general trend of the world, and we have been able to maintain peace and never break down lightly, not because of the lack of troops, but because the people are already in extreme hardship and cannot bear the scourge of war again, and the hardships of accommodating the gap over the past year should be forgiven by the people.

"Now that the financial and diplomatic affairs are in danger, and the fate of the country is in danger, all flesh and blood should be in the same boat, as a plan to put on a crown, and will never say anything more about destruction, and bring about their own destruction, but if there is, they will also be two or three unscrupulous people, who are chaotic by nature, and will not be able to win the sympathy of the majority of the people. All the kings will send their own borders, and they will have one heart and be willing to encourage them. ”

The second is a general order for the "Gan Chaos":

"The Republic of China has the people as the main body, and the people's representatives, with the Congress as the organ, is politically bad, and the Congress has the responsibility of supervision.

"The election of the President by the National Assembly is very different from the eternal cause of the descendants of the monarch in the era of the monarch. Today, the National Assembly is open early, the people's deputies are under the command of the people, the constitution has not yet been decided, the covenant law still exists, and without the National Assembly, there is no right to supervise the occurrence of its own affairs, still less the reason to legislate on its own, how can a small number of people rise and fall freely, and how can they cover up the ears and eyes of the people's representatives in the world with the struggle for the rights of the minority.

"The dispatch of troops to Xun this time, after repeated announcements by the president and vice president of the university, is clear, how can he be used as a tool to incite chaos and selfishness.

"Today, when I read the Ouyang Wu telegram, I actually pointed out that the national army was the Yuan army, which had no national concept at all, and was purely tribal thinking. It is also known as ravaging and killing, the tomb is a ruin, etc., Jiujiang is a place where Chinese and foreign people live together, and all eyes are open, and the envoy of inspection is on the way, and there is nothing to hear. Chen Tingxun's urgency, Li and Governor sent troops, each doing his own duty, upright, what is conspiracy? Lone rescue, what is the three-way march.

"That is, Ouyang Wu is thriving with electricity, and Yiyun 'Li Liejun went to Hukou, and Wu Kai two regiments went to attack', etc., and there were traitors entering the fortress, and the central government should supervise the withdrawal of troops and excuse the reason? Could it be that Chen Tingxun and Liu Shijun's electricity in Jiujiang is not enough to rely on, and Ouyang Wuyuan's electricity in Nanchang is enough to be trusted? How could it be that the lives and property of 30 million people in Jiangxi Province are not the people of the Republic of China?

"The two regiments led by Li Chun are not the defense army of Jiangxi and the governor? Ou Yangwu was deficient in protecting the army, and he made himself the governor, and said that he was elected by the provincial capital. The law is there, there is no such clear article, it seems to be this fallacy, it is not enough to bully the three-foot boy, and to bully the people of the world, who believes it! And it is completely inconsistent with the purpose of the president of the congress to eliminate chaos and peace of the people, and the orders of the succession, fabricating and slandering, calling the soldiers obedient, treating the ** as an enemy, treating the congress as a soil, overthrowing the republic, destroying the Republic of China, the public enemy of the whole country, and a sinner for all eternity.

"The innocent and good people alone run away and do not know what to do. The President of the University is heartbroken. The president of the University is over 50 years old, and he is suffering from decay. With the entrustment of 400 trillion people, he has worked hard for more than a year, nothing more than to save the descendants of Li Min from being slaves of cattle and horses. In any such act of sabotage, the President of the General Assembly should sacrifice everything to save the country and save the people. Now that the formal elections are about to be held, they will not be able to use the military to fight for their rights, and they will not have any rights at all.

"The vice-president and the concurrently responsible governor, entrusted by the President of this congress to rebel, is responsible, or regarded as a dispute between Hubei and Jiangxi, especially not a fact, and should still be instructed to quickly quell civil strife, save the people, and the governors of all provinces, etc., and work together to help, and not regard the Republic of China as a matter of one person and one family, and not regard the people's representatives as dispensable, and the lives of our five great clans may not be lost in the hands of the rebels. The telegram of the day before yesterday was sincere, and if the two of them were judged by this telegram, it would be difficult to ensure that it was not held hostage by Jin Ren and pretended to be in the name of it. I will send someone to find out and then carry out the verification. this order".

On the 21st, the following order was issued:

"In order to rectify the discipline and maintain the country's foundation, the mob in Hukou, Xuzhou and other places advocated rebellion, and they had to be determined by military force, and they were successively announced.

"The President of the People's Republic of China has the responsibility to put an end to civil strife, and it is his duty to do so, and this should be forgiven by the people of our country and known to all friendly countries. However, if we do not make a clear announcement that the people of our country will know where the obedience and obedience are, and all foreign businessmen will know how to suppress chaos and violence, how can they appease the people's hearts and show great faith?

"For this reason, the general order is threefold: 1. The thug has stolen the rebels, usurped the land, declared independence without authorization, undermined the unity of the Republic of China, and disturbed local public order. It is to use troops to set the chaos, in order to exercise the right to rule in the law, the Republic of China ** certainly has this responsibility.

"2. The commercial missionary of merchants and people of all nations is set forth in the Treaty. Wherever there is a disturbance, the commander of the place shall protect it according to the agreement, so that the lives and property of all foreigners will not be slightly endangered by the disturbance. Thereafter, if all the lives and property of foreigners in such places are directly damaged as a result of the suppression of chaos, the Republic of China** will be fully responsible.

"3. Collusion everywhere, if there are any contracts made by the natives, and the influence can be extended to the country or a locality, no matter what method is used and what name is used, the Republic of China will never recognize it. The above three ends, after the promulgation of this order, shall be promulgated by the commanders of each place.

"The Minister of Foreign Affairs still sent a letter to the ministers of various countries stationed in Beijing to check the photos, and with the enthusiastic patronage of the vice-friendly countries, he showed the president's intention to eliminate violence and peace. This order. ”

When Yuan used troops in the south, although he had torn his face to the Kuomintang and was full of traitors to the party, he was still very polite to Mr. Sun Yat-sen. However, Sun Yat-sen could not help but express a solemn attitude, which was to send a message to Yuan, the original Dianyun:

"President Yuan Da of Beijing: Wen went north last year, shook hands with the public, and heard that the public earnestly thought of the people's country and took one day in office as a hardship. The text says that the people are expected to be public, not only in the temporary, but within ten years, the president is none other than the public. This is not only to the public, but also to the people.

Since then, although the passionate people have been reproached in the public time, the original intention of the article has not been easy. Since the occurrence of the He Tusong case, the evidence has been announced, and there have been surprises, but unexpectedly, the public words and deeds have been so contrary, and they are both angry and angry; However, the public changed the law by borrowing money, using war expenses, transferring troops for no reason, and fighting quickly to cause trouble, and the dissidents were gone, and the soldiers were still provoked, so that the southeast people's army, Ho Ge, rose up, and everyone resigned, and gathered in the public body.

"At this time, the public will take the pacification as a word, so no matter the military and civilians in the southeast, they have not rebelled against the country, have not disturbed the order, and must not be chaotic; Even if it is said to be chaotic, who is the one who causes it? If it is public in the world, future generations will not be able to explain themselves. The public is trapped in injustice, so that there is today, and at this time, the public must be persuaded to take advantage of this, and the tree is mighty and angry. This is self-calculated, not for the people, but for the public.

"The Qing Emperor resigned, and the public conspired, the Qing Emperor couldn't bear the misery of the people, and the public would rather endure it? If Gongguo wants to succeed in a war, it should be used when he is loyal to the Qing Emperor, and it should not be used at this time. Although the speaker said that although the public wanted to retire, and the subordinates were involved, they could not decide, but everyone had their own difficulties, and the text resigned on the same day, and recommended the public to the people, and the inherent people blamed him, saying that the text knew the meaning of the Northern Army, and did not know the trust of the people of the seventeen provinces.

"The advance and retreat of people is more than enough, if it is said that they are involved in others, they cannot be free, and they are not excuses, that is, they are incompetent, and the public will not do it. Those who are public servants are opposed by the people, and they should be withdrawn, and the people will fight to the death! Kill an innocent person to win the world, you can't do it, and you can't shed the blood of the world to obey your own desires! There is no other way than to resign today;

"In the past, I came to the weight of the world, and today I am going to stop the disasters of the world. The public can do this, and Wen Bi strongly advises the military and civilians in the southeast to turn the sense of disgust into goodwill, so that the public will not have the worry of riding a tiger; If the public will want to cripple the people, he will not be good at words, and he will not bear the people of the southeast who have been trapped in the military revolution for a long time, and he will oppose the determination of the absolute monarchy and oppose the public himself, and he will not hesitate. As a final word of advice, I would like to judge it! ”

Sun Yat-sen sent out a telegram at the same time, slightly cloudy:

"The Beijing Senate, the House of Representatives, the State Council, the governors of all provinces, the chiefs of civil affairs, and the commanders of all armies, divisions, and brigades: Since the Jiangxi incident, all parts of Nanjing have responded with each response and unanimously taken the plea of courting Yuan as their banner...... At this point, the scourge of bloodshed in the whole country is related to the Yuan family, and it is inevitable that the Yuan family will be treated with military strength, regardless of victory or defeat, and the people will be miserable. …… To make Yuan's fruit come out of this is not only the disaster of the Republic of China, but also the laughter of all countries. ……

"It is not appropriate for Yuan to refuse the demands of the people in the southeast under the pretext of the support of his subordinates. When the people are extinct, they hope to put the people's lives first and the national crisis as the urgency, and persuade the Yuan family to resign as soon as possible to stop the war! If the Yuan clan stubbornly refuses to listen, he will want to sacrifice the people of the country to achieve his own business, and he will not tolerate this culprit! At this time, the only way to do this is to follow the people, and not to look back. ”

The Second Revolution was started in Jiangxi, and although the Jiangxi Army fought a beautiful victory at the beginning, after the Beiyang Army was reinforced, it advanced vigorously. After holding each other for more than ten days, Chen Tingxun, the commander of the Hukou Fortress, was bribed by Yuan and secretly communicated with the Northern Army. On the evening of 24 July, he ordered artillery to counterattack the Jiangxi army.

The Jiangxi army was caught off guard, and was attacked by the enemy before and after, so they had to abandon the mouth of the lake. On the 25th, the Northern Army entered Hukou County, and although Li Liejun resisted with all his might, the fortress was lost, the gate was wide open, and Jiangxi was no longer in danger to defend, and Nanchang fell on August 18. Yuan Shikai took Li Chun as the military envoy of Jiangxi, Li Tingyu handled Jiangxi's military affairs, and the brigade commander Ma Jizeng was promoted to the commander of the Sixth Division.