Zaifeng was over there, seeing that there were uprisings in various places, but there was no progress on his side; The situation is getting worse and worse day by day, and we are becoming more and more helpless. Calling every day should not be ignored, shouting and ignoring, not doing two endlessly, simply betting the treasure on Yuan Shikai. His idea was that instead of letting the revolutionaries gain power and the temple fall, it would be better to meet Yuan Shikai's request, or there might be a glimmer of life. Like a gambler who has lost everything, he wants to bet it all on again.

Now Yuan Shikai's invitation is to be requested and responded, which can be described as obedient to his words.

According to Yuan Shikai, Feng Guozhang was appointed to command the First Army of the front line, and Duan Qirui was appointed to command the Second Army; All belong to Yuan Shikai.

Allocate Zhili, weapons and equipment in the two provinces of Fengtian, and recruit new soldiers.

Although the finances were tight, they also tried their best to meet Yuan Shikai's demands.

On October 27, he recalled Yinchang and appointed Yuan Shikai as the minister of the Qin Mission.

ordered all the naval and army forces that went to help, the Yangtze River Naval Division and the various armies sent this time to be controlled and dispatched by Yuan Shikai. At the same time, the governors of neighboring provinces are required to cooperate in the preparation at any time.

In particular, he emphasized: "The military situation is changing rapidly, and this time in Hubei's military affairs, the Military Advisory Office and the Military Department are not remotely controlled, and they are expected to succeed quickly with the power of one thing." ”

And Yuan Shikai: "Encourage the soldiers, the camera responds, if there is a weak general, allow them to be removed at any time, and if there is incitement, wait-and-see and disobedience to the order, and if the former is not retreated, it will be done in accordance with military law." There is no room for accommodation. ”

This is exactly what Yuan Shikai wanted, and in addition to calling back to thank him, he made a high-profile confession: "Do your best to be sincere, and try to report it", saying some empty words of "serving the frontier" and "quelling the rebels", people are still "fishing for the wind".

When the goal is achieved, he can't act rashly, he has to see the situation more clearly.

What he didn't expect was that it didn't matter if he waited, something bigger was waiting for him.

Because, at this time, two major events occurred in the rear of the Qing court.

The first is that on October 27, the twentieth town commanded Zhang Shaozeng to Luanzhou, and united with the second mixed association to lead Lan Tianwei, Lu Yongxiang, Wu Xiangzhen, and Pan Juying. The Qing court strongly demanded that the Diet be convened quickly, the constitution should be revised, and a responsible cabinet should be organized. It is proposed that the royal family can never serve as the head of the cabinet. Minister of State and Minister of State; 12 requirements for political prisoners, such as an amnesty for party members.

Immediately afterwards, Zhang Shao had detained a column of arms that the Qing court had transported to the front line in Hubei. and called Li Yuanhong and Huang Xing, saying that he would never supervise the division to go south, fight against the people's army, sacrifice the lives of compatriots, and help become a prostitution.

Zhang Shaozeng, the word respects public opinion, and is directly affiliated with Dacheng people. He was born on the 5th day of the ninth month of the fifth year of Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty (October 19, 1879). In the twenty-second year of Guangxu (1896), he was admitted to the Beiyang Military Academy. After graduating from Guangxu in the 25th year (1899), Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Huguang, was sent to Japan at official expense and entered the first artillery section of the army non-commissioned officer school.

He was interested in the ideas of the revolutionaries headed by Sun Yat-sen and the constitutionalists headed by Liang Qichao, and was dissatisfied with the corruption, incompetence, loss of power and humiliation of the Qing Dynasty's autocratic regime, and believed that reform was necessary.

In the twenty-seventh year of Guangxu (1901), Zhang Shaozeng graduated and returned to China in the spring of the following year. At the time when Yuan Shikai was training in Baoding, a training battalion was set up to train junior officers, and Zhang was assigned as an artillery officer.

In the twenty-ninth year of Guangxu (1903), Yuan Shikai appointed him as the commander of the fifth standard of the second town of the Beiyang Standing Army with the title of "the first thousand generals".

In the thirtieth year of Guangxu (1904), he was transferred to the General Staff Office of the Beiyang Supervision and Training Office, and the following year he was transferred to the Fifth Town of the Army as a chief staff officer, and was soon promoted to the fifth standard commander of the artillery.

In the 32nd year of Guangxu (1906), the New Army conducted the Zhangde Autumn Exercise, and he was assigned as a staff officer of the Fifth Mixed Brigade of the Northern Army.

At the beginning of the following year, Wu Luzhen and Lan Tianwei, classmates of the non-commissioned officer school, were transferred to the Fengtian military circle by Xu Shichang, the new governor of the three eastern provinces.

Because the three of them are full of revolutionary ideas, like-minded interests, and close friends, they are all graduates of the Japanese non-commissioned officer school, and they are known as the "three masters of non-commissioned officers".

In the name of establishing industry, Song Jiaoren came to the Northeast to develop the Alliance, and established the Liaodong branch of the League in Fengtian. Zhang Shaozeng, Wu and Lan Jun secretly joined the League and became the main person in charge of the branch.

In the first year of Xuantong (1909), Zhang Shao accompanied Liangbi, the first assistant commander of the Qing Army's Praetorian Guard, to inspect the Beiyang Army.

In the second year of Xuantong (1910), the War Department asked the Qing court to confer on him the rank of adjutant general and "general soldier". Na Jin, the right attendant of the Ministry of War and the general office of the Army Noble Academy, went to the three eastern provinces to inspect the army, with Zhang Shaozeng as the general counselor.

On February 16, 1911, the governor of the three eastern provinces, Xiliang, was appointed by the governor of the three eastern provinces, and Zhang was appointed as the commander of the twentieth town of the army, stationed in Fengtian and Xinmin. On April 7191, the Qing court rewarded him with the title of deputy capital.

Qing ** planned to hold an autumn exercise in Yongping (now Lulong, Hebei) in September in Zhili, and Zhang Shaozeng, Wu Luzhen, the commander of the Sixth Town, and Lan Tianwei, the commander of the Second Mixed Association, were all ordered to lead their troops to participate in the autumn exercises. Zhang, Wu, and Lan "secretly decided to take advantage of participating in the autumn exercises to secretly carry bullets and revolt on cameras."

When Zhang Bu had just arrived in Changli, the Wuchang Uprising broke out, and the Qing court ordered the autumn exercise to be stopped, and ordered him to lead his troops to Luanzhou, and then go south to suppress the uprising. Zhang returned to Mukden on October 13 and gathered Lu Yongxiang, the commander of the Fifth Association of the Third Town, and Lan Tianwei, the commander of the Second Mixed Association, to discuss countermeasures.

On 27 October, Zhang Shaozeng and others returned to Luan from Fengtian and immediately announced to all the officers and men: "The Wuchang Revolution is justified in name and is not in line with people's feelings...... All armies, not advancing. ”

On the 29th, he sent a joint telegram to the Qing court on the 12 articles of the proposed constitutional program, demanding that the National Assembly be convened quickly, the constitution should be decided, and a responsible cabinet should be organized, advocating the implementation of a constitutional monarchy on the premise of preserving the Qing Dynasty.

The second fire burned in the backyard of the Qing court, the Taiyuan New Army in Shanxi Province revolted, killed the governor Lu Zhongqi, and elected Yan Xishan as the military governor.

After the Wuchang Uprising on October 10, 1911, the Shanxi branch of the League immediately responded and actively planned to launch an armed uprising in Taiyuan, preparing to stand by for the attack.

The Qing officials in Shanxi headed by Lu Zhongqi also hurriedly planned countermeasures, and decided to transfer the two standards of the New Army out of Taiyuan and to Puzhou and Daizhou respectively to disperse the revolutionary forces concentrated in Taiyuan, and at the same time transfer the patrol teams stationed in various parts of the north and south back to Taiyuan to take over the defense, so as to stabilize the provincial capital.

On October 28, 1911, the governor of Shanxi ordered Huang Guoliang's 85 bids to set off first. Because they were afraid that they would set off as a team, there would be changes on the way, and they would attack Taiyuan back. Then he ordered Huang Guoliang, the commander of the standard, to lead all the staff of the standard department, and only set off with a team of the advance infantry team, and the other battalions of the standard were on standby. No bullets will be issued before departure.

In order to deal with this sudden situation, in the afternoon of the same day, Yan Xishan, Wen Shouquan, Huang Guoliang, Zhang Yu, Qiao Xu, Nan Guixin, and other members of the League and the main leaders of the uprising held an emergency meeting at No. 32 Wufu'an to study countermeasures.

The conference made three decisions: (1) to hold an uprising in the provincial capital, because the revolution in the capital had a great impact.

(2) In order to prevent accidents, the uprising was carried out as early as the morning of the 29th.

(3) Because Huang Guoliang's 85th Bid lower-level Officers and Soldiers League had a large number of members and strong revolutionary demands, it was first launched at the 85th Standard. After the 1st and 2nd battalions received the bullets, they could revolt. Yan Xishan's eighty-six bids were then corresponding.

On that day, the members of the League unanimously elected Yao Yiyuan, who was courageous, capable of commanding, and proficient in military disciplines, as the commander of the rebel army, and Yao replied: "Although I am weak in virtue and incompetent, in this critical period of the revolution, I can only do what I can."

That night, Yao drafted a military plan in the name of the commander of the rebel army, and then led the battalions back to the garrison to assemble and stand by.

After the New Army received its ammunition, the League revolutionaries Yan Xishan, Wen Shouquan, and Zhao Daiwen launched an uprising on October 29 as planned.

After the soldiers of the new army rushed into the city of Taiyuan, they quickly occupied the ammunition depot and obtained a large amount of military supplies.

When marching into the city, he was met with stubborn resistance from the city's banner soldiers.

Seeing that the rebels could not attack for a long time, they dragged in artillery and bombarded the city. After a few cannon shots, Zengxi, the defender of the city, raised a white flag and surrendered.

The Yamen of the governor of Shanxi was also quickly captured, and the governor Lu Zhongqi was shot and killed indiscriminately.

On the day of the victory of the uprising, the leaders of the revolutionary party, important figures who participated in the Taiyuan Xinhai Uprising, and members of the Consultative Bureau discussed the establishment of the Shanxi Military Government at the Shanxi Consultative Bureau. Prefecture. The Chairman of the Advisory Council, Leong Sian Chay, wanted to steal the fruits of the victory, but was stopped by the revolutionaries. In the end, Yan Xishan, the assistant commander of the new army, was elected as the governor, and the governor's yamen was changed to the governor's office.

Soon after the Taiyuan Uprising, the Datong Uprising and the recovery of southern Jin soon occurred in Shanxi, and the flames of revolution spread throughout the province.

Shanxi was the first province north of the Yellow River to revolt, and its recovery seriously threatened Beijing, the capital of the Qing Dynasty. After the news of the Shanxi uprising reached Beijing, the government and the opposition were shaken, and the princes and nobles fled from Beijing one after another. Shanxi's righteous deeds have made special contributions to the Xinhai Revolution.

On the morning of September 19, 1912, Mr. Sun Yat-sen concluded in his speech at the welcoming meeting of thousands of people from all walks of life in Shanxi University Hall: "...... Guangdong, the first province of the revolution, failed repeatedly. The Qing ** defense is very strict, and it cannot be used slightly, and the rest can be imagined. made the non-Shanxi uprising, cut off the north-south communication, and the world is unknown." Mr. Sun Yat-sen praised Shanxi's historical achievements in responding to the southern uprising and containing the Qing army's southward advance, and affirmed the historical position of the Taiyuan Uprising in the history of the Xinhai Revolution.

That's an afterword.

The fire in the rear was too terrible, and the Empress Dowager Yulong and Zaifeng were overwhelmed with fear after hearing the news, and prepared to flee to Rehe with Pu Yi for refuge.

When Yuan Shikai heard about it, he was pleasantly surprised. It was surprising that there was such a crisis in the hinterland of Qing rule, and it was good that the Qing court could be forced to hand over more power.

Hearing that the Empress Dowager Longyu and the little emperor were going to take refuge in Rehe, Yuan Shikai couldn't stay in Huanshang.

For him, the Qing court was also useful. At least, all his current power and resources are still from the Qing court. He can't let the Qing court end up so quickly, he needs to give the Qing court a little confidence, and he needs to give the Qing court a shot in the arm.

On the 30th, he set off for Hubei.

On the 31st, Yuan Shikai arrived in Xinyang and handled the handover with Yinchang.

Yin Chang was relieved and went back to Beijing to resume his life.

On 1 November, Yuan Shikai arrived at Xiaojiagang in Xiaogan, Hubei, where he set up a former enemy headquarters.

The logistical supplies were already in place, and some military salaries were owed before, and he made up for them after he arrived, which greatly improved morale.

He and his subordinates were planning how to deal with the current situation, and on the 30th, he received news of the uprising of the new army in Kunming, Yunnan, and the new army in Nanchang, Jiangxi.