After political, organizational, military, diplomatic and other preparations, at the end of January, Lan Tianwei received a telegram from Huang Xing, the temporary commander of the ** Army:

"The Beijing division is now isolated and helpless, please quickly carry out the northern expedition according to the predetermined plan."

Lan Tianwei immediately ordered the Hairong ship to cover the three transport ships and send the Northern Expeditionary Army to the sea of Huayuankou on the north bank of the Yellow River to prepare for landing.

On the 31st, he himself took the turn of Yongtian 19 to Dalian to personally command. From the night of February 1 to the morning of February 2, Lan Tianwei commanded the main forces of the Northern Expeditionary Army to forcibly land at the same time at Piziwo, Huayuankou, Dagushan, and Andong on the Liaodong Peninsula.

With the close cooperation of the local people's army, the Northern Expeditionary Army and the Qing army fought fiercely, and the Qing army suffered heavy losses, retreated one after another, and routed the Zhuanghe side.

On 4 February, the Qing army tried to counterattack, but was vigorously counterattacked by the civilian army, and the Qing army was defeated and the commander was captured.

Lan Tianwei issued a notice, in response to the Qing court's imposition of harsh taxes on the people, announced the "tax exemption order", ordering that the "land money and grain" accumulated before the first year of the Republic of China will be exempted, and "all land loan taxes in the first year" and "all miscellaneous donations for local use" will also be "exempted".

In the proclamation to the people, he also proclaimed the revolutionary purpose of "establishing a republican form of government, and the people will always be safe and healthy", which expressed the ideal of democracy and produced a powerful social mobilization effect.

On 6 February, the Northern Expeditionary Army occupied Wafangdian, an important town on the Liaodong Peninsula, and the people shouted "Long live the Republic of China!" On 10 February, the Northern Expeditionary Army occupied the city of Zhuangheting, and the flags of the revolutionary army were hung in shops and houses to celebrate the victory.

Lan Tianwei (1878-1921), a military general of the Republic of China, a democratic revolutionary, was born in Wuhan, Hubei. In 1902, at the recommendation of Zhang Zhidong, he went to study at the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School, and was known as the "Three Masters of Beiyang Non-commissioned Officers" with Wu Luzhen and Zhang Shaozeng, who studied at the same time.

After returning to China, Lan Tianwei organized the Changsha Daily Notification to propagate the ideas of the revolutionaries. In April 1907, Lan Tianwei went to Mukden and served under Xu Shichang, the governor of the three eastern provinces. In 1901, at the behest of Xiliang, the governor of the three eastern provinces, he went to Japan to inspect the military and entered the Army University to study. After returning to China, he served as the 2nd Mixed Association Commander and was stationed in the northern camp of Fengtianbei.

In October 1911, he, Zhang Shaozeng, and Wu Luzhen prepared to raise troops in the Yongping Autumn Exercise held in Yongping Mansion in Zhili Province. However, with the outbreak of the Wuchang Uprising, the autumn exercise was suspended and the plan was changed. They launched the Luanzhou military admonition and put forward requirements for the formulation of the constitution and the implementation of the responsible cabinet system to the Qing Dynasty.

Later, Lan Tianwei was elected as the governor of the Guanwai Revolutionary Army, and led the army to plan to expel Zhao Erxun, the governor of the three eastern provinces, and fled to Shanghai. As the governor of the revolutionary army outside the Guanwai, he continued to engage in revolutionary activities.

After the policy of the Sixth Route Northern Expedition was determined, the Ningwan and Huaiyang Second Route Northern Expeditionary Army took the lead in moving north.

Bai Wenwei's Anhui army and Yao Yuping's Guangdong army were the main force, the Soviet army was the right wing, and the Chen cadres were used as the left wing.

On the battlefields of Anhui, Henan, and Hubei, the revolutionary army also won some victories.

However, the Northern Expedition did not continue. Because, although the revolutionary army fought a few beautiful battles locally, it did not have an advantage on the whole, and its record in several battles with the main force of the Beiyang Army was very poor. Victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, and this is not the main thing, and extreme financial difficulties are an insurmountable obstacle for the revolutionary army. No matter how revolutionary the army is, it cannot fight on an empty stomach, hundreds of thousands of troops have to be temporarily supplied, and the consumption of military rations in just one day is already huge, and it takes money to pay for military salaries and buy arms. Although the armies of the provinces gathered in the vicinity of Nanjing in the name of the Northern Expedition, most of them only stretched out their hands to ask for food and salaries from Nanjing**, and did not obey the command of Nanjing**.

When Sun Yat-sen returned to China at the end of 1911, it was rumored that he had brought a huge amount of money. Sun Yat-sen replied: "Those who bring it back are the spiritual ears of the revolution." The revolutionary spirit is precious, but the army has not moved, the grain and grass have not been moved, the military expenditure of the revolution, the operation of the revolutionary power, and so on require huge sums of money, and cannot be solved by the "revolutionary spirit."

The southern provinces that had thrown themselves into the revolutionary party were all in their own hands. Salt taxes and customs duties were in the hands of the imperialist powers, and European and American countries were unwilling to borrow money to support the revolution in the south.

The nascent Republic of China had no source of funds. Nanjing Provisional Government. The limited funds for the operation of the government are still raised by overseas Chinese.

As recorded in "Hu Hanmin's Autobiography", Hu Hanmin was Sun Yat-sen's secretary general at that time, and when the Anhui front was in an emergency, he had no food and no salary, and begged Nanjing to temporarily allocate military salaries. At that time, Provisional President Sun Yat-sen waved his pen and wrote on the instructions that 200,000 silver dollars would be allocated for emergency relief. However, when Hu Hanmin went to the Ministry of Finance to ask for money with the list of instructions, he found that the treasury only had ten silver dollars.

In terms of the army, the armies that revolted in the southern provinces at that time were all backward in equipment, did not have unified management, and their combat effectiveness was lower than that of the Beiyang Army. Nanjing Provisional Government. The government has no control over the provinces in terms of military, finance, administration, and so on. The new armies in the provinces are all fighting in their own ways, and it is difficult to form a united and cohesive force. Foreign forces are also eyeing China and are always looking for excuses to interfere in the situation.

We all know that this war is fought first with money and food, and how can this war be fought without money? Not to mention military spending, this new deal. The people of the government must be paid and supported by their families, right? There's nowhere to come from all this money? The battle can't go on.

The Great Powers condemned and spoke of the New Deal. The government is the main culprit in the sabotage of the talks. promised Yuan Shikai to be the president, and he first occupied the position, and then took the initiative to provoke a war.

Yuan Shikai shouted very loudly, but he didn't make the first move, you were the first shot in the south.

And the greater pressure is from within. The battle can't go on, the main battle faction is silent, and it's the turn of the main peace faction to speak. An important force in the revolution set off by the Wuchang Shouyi came from the constitutionalists.

The constitutionalists represented by Zhang Jian, who had pinned their hopes on Yuan Shikai, were also in Nanjing. The main supporter of the Fuchu peace talks. They represented the gentry and industrialists, and what they feared most was turmoil and war.

If you talk about it well, you need to act in unison, can't you nominate a generalissimo? You have to make a big president and cause trouble, right?

If you want to fight, you think that your arms are thick and strong, and you have the ability to fight, but you can't fight, right?

Their spearhead is clearly in the middle of the main battle. Mr. Mountain.

Mr. Zhang Taiyan, the veteran of the democratic revolution, stood up and spoke: that is, to elect the president, Huang Xing should be Huang Xing in terms of merit, Song Jiaoren should be Song Jiaoren in terms of talent, and Wang Jingwei should be in terms of morality. The implication is that it's not your turn anyway. Mr. Mountain.

Some people say it even harder, isn't it fundraising? What about the money raised? Got it on your own? Bringing back the revolutionary spirit? Do you bring the revolutionary spirit? Without your participation and the revolutionary spirit you brought back, wouldn't the Wuchang Uprising also succeed? Came back in a hurry empty-handed, just to grab the position of the big president, right? Did we shed our blood and sacrifice to be the president for you?

Even in the . Mr. Shan's follower and student Wang Jingwei also came out to speak, and his words were very tactful, but they were also not good. It probably means that revolutionaries should be open-minded, selfless, and not for that person, that family, so many people to revolution, right? Sir doesn't want to be a lone man and a thief and leave a stench for 10,000 years, right? People can push you into the position of the president, and they can also push you down.

This is the ** side of the south.

Yuan Shikai's side was not having a good time, he soon found that his battle line was very long, and there were only more than 100,000 mobile troops, and the morale was not high. It's okay who wants to fight, fight for a declining dynasty. The south is struggling to cope, but the backyard is on fire again, and the morale of the people's army in southern Liaoning is booming.

When it comes to fighting, there is also no money. On the other hand, people have always said that the position of the great president is reserved for him, is it necessary to fight for the Qing Dynasty? Through the investigation of various aspects and channels, it is said that the politics of the south. Fu and Zhong. Mr. Shan is telling the truth.

At this time, the constitutionalists also came to do Yuan Shikai's work, and handed over the truth to Yuan Shikai, as long as he could abdicate the Qing court, the position of the president would definitely be his.

What a national convention! If the conference had decided on a constitutional monarchy, the South would not have accepted it, and the republic was unstoppable.

Besides, what good is it for you to have a constitutional monarchy, at most to be a cabinet premier under the emperor. An uninformed woman, an ignorant child, what reason is there to be a tablet.

Raising a tiger is a problem, and when this child grows up, will he be able to tolerate you? Don't you know that a companion is like a tiger?

Now, the situation in the south is also very complicated, with long nights and many dreams, who knows what will happen if it drags on for a long time? It is more important than anything else to seize the time to oust the Qing court.