On the 23rd, the second day of the uprising of the Shaanxi revolutionaries, the Jiujiang New Army revolted. Occupied the two fortresses of Hukou and Madang.

On the 25th, Yuan Shikai was compromised in the "Ten Articles of Secret Chen Guanjian" that year, and was denounced as "not from a school, and has never been in a war." …… Talent is not outstanding, knowledge is not outstanding, there is no prestige at all, there is no full number of merits, even on his military camp reading, it is very shallow...... "In short, Fengshan, who is useless in Yuan Shikai's opinion, has become a general in Guangzhou.

It was only on this day that he was blown up by the revolutionaries.

Before the Xinhai Revolution, the Qing Dynasty had heavy troops in Jiujiang, and there were garrison forts in Madang, Hukou, Tianjiazhen, Jinjipo and Yueshimen along the river, which could quickly block the east, west, north and south exchanges when necessary.

At that time, there were three battalions of the 53rd standard of the 27th Jiangxi Mixed Association and the second battalion of the 55th standard of the army stationed around the Jiujiang urban area, plus more than three people from the standing army and patrol police, which was almost half of Jiangxi's military strength.

When the Central General Assembly of the China League decided to transfer the center of the revolution to the Yangtze River valley in an attempt to use the eight provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, and Shaanxi as its territory of activity, Jiujiang began to be valued by the revolutionaries.

In 1909, Lin Sen, a member of the League, was transferred from Shanghai to Jiujiang Customs to work at the Jiujiang Customs, and together with Wu Tiecheng and others, he established the "Xunyang Reading Book and Newspaper Agency", with the purpose of "vigorously advocating the reform of social atmosphere", and the deeper purpose was to propagate the republic.

Lin Sen's original name was Lin Tianbo, the word Changren, the number Zichao, in his later years, he called himself Qingzhi Old Man, alias Baidong Mountain People, Xiaoyulu Master, Fenggang Fisherman, Tiger Cave Laoqiao, Fujian Min County (now Fujian Minhou) people, modern politicians.

Lin Sen lived in Fuzhou at a young age, entered the Yinghua School, was expelled for opposing the Qing Dynasty, and later participated in the struggle against the cession of Taiwan and joined the Xingzhong Society; When the China Alliance was established, it would join the Association.

Lin Sen used the Xunyang Reading Book and Newspaper Office to recruit businessmen, educators, gentry, new military chiefs, and foreign bank staff members from among the readers, and developed the revolutionary forces into all fields of Jiujiang society. In fact, it became a secret organ for the bourgeois revolutionaries to liaise with comrades, train cadres, propagate ideas, and brew uprisings.

Lin Sen also used his working relationship to establish a good relationship with the Jiujiang business community. He first organized a military training course in the business circles, and invited the officers of the 53rd standard to be instructors to be in charge of military training.

After the students graduated, Lin Sen decided to immediately set up the Jiujiang Business Group in order to respond to the anti-Qing actions in the Yangtze River basin in a timely manner. The external name of the "business group" is to protect the factory and protect the production. With this legitimate reason, Lin Sen set up an armed force in the nature of an army in the name of a "merchant group" to conduct more formal military training.

At that time, Li Liejun, the commander of the Jiangxi New Army, who was in other places, also used the relationship between his classmates and colleagues to frequently contact and instigate rebellion in the 53rd bid.

When the news of the Wuchang uprising reached Jiujiang, Lin Sen immediately sent someone to paste the Wuchang newspaper at the door of the "Xunyang Reading Book and Newspaper Office" and framed out the news of the revolutionary army's uprising, the rejection of the Manchu and Han Dynasty, and the establishment of a democratic state. It was through these newspapers that the people of Jiujiang learned the details of the Wuchang Uprising.

Li Liejun, the word Xiaru, the number Xia Huang, is a native of Luoxi Pingyuan Village, Wuning County, Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province.

Since childhood, he has learned literature and martial arts, loves fencing, and especially likes calligraphy. Slightly longer, wide friends, uninhibited.

In the twenty-sixth year of Guangxu (1900), after Wang Jundao, the new magistrate of Wuning County, took office, he extorted the villagers to pay the old arrears of land over the years, and the people of the county complained. Fierce Jun was indignant and gathered the crowd to discuss and drive the king.

One day, when the king returned to the palace, he led the crowd to flock up, beat the guards, and smashed the official sedan chair. After returning to the palace, the king immediately dispatched troops to arrest the perpetrators. aroused the anger of the people of the county, and the group of solidarity finally drove this Wang Jun Daozhi County away.

In the twenty-seventh year of Guangxu, Li Liejun was admitted to the Jiangxi Wubei School by Wuning Peng County, and became Wu Jiezhang's protégé.

After passing the qualification, he was selected by the Beijing Military Training Department to go to Japan to study the army, first entered the 12th Non-commissioned Officer Wing for one year of internship, and then entered the sixth phase of the Artillery Department of the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School for one year. While studying in Japan, he and Huang Xing and others jointly organized the "White Fighting Group" with the aim of opposing Western imperialist aggression.

In August of the 31st year of Guangxu, Sun Yat-sen arrived in Tokyo, and Huang Xing and others introduced Li Liejun to meet Sun Yat-sen for the first time.

In the thirty-third year of Guangxu, he was introduced by Zhang Duan and Wang Kan to join the Alliance. In the 34th year of Guangxu, Li Liejun returned from Japan and served as the first battalion of the 54th standard of the Jiangxi Mixed Association.

Because of his revolutionary activities in the new army, he was ordered to be arrested, but fortunately, Wang Ruihong, who was the general office of the Jiangxi Military Academy, secretly communicated with the news and funded the passage expenses, and fled to Shanghai.

Through the introduction of Feng Guozhang and Li Jingyi, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, he went to Kunming in the spring of the first year of Xuantong (1909) to serve as an instructor of the Yunnan Lecture Martial Arts Hall and a military reserve. Soon after, he took over as the general office (principal) of the army primary school, and secretly assisted Li Gengen, the head of the Yunnan branch of the League, to propagate anti-Qing and carry out revolutionary activities in the school and the army.

At about 10 o'clock in the evening of 13 October, the Jiujiang revolutionaries heard that Hunan had responded to the Wuchang uprising, and Chen Tingxun fired three cannons at the Jinjipo Fort outside the gate of the Jiujiang Yue Division, followed by a volley of gunfire, and the Jiujiang New Army began to revolt.

The guards of the provincial administration in Jiujiang City knew that it was a signal of uprising, so they lit a fire to respond and opened the city gate. The revolutionary troops inside and outside the city were all loaded with guns and ammunition, and the white cloth printed with the words "work together" around their arms attacked the provincial office.

Jiujiang Daotai Baoheng hurriedly hid in the concession and fled for his life, and then fled to Shanghai. At midnight, the revolutionary army surrounded the Jiujiang Prefecture Office, and the Jiujiang prefect Puliang was captured.

After the victory of the Jiujiang Uprising, the Revolutionary Army changed the Jiujiang Provincial Administration into a military and political sub-government, and promoted Ma Yubao, the commander of the 53rd standard, as the governor and Lin Sen as the minister of civil affairs. Two days later, Li Liejun rushed to Jiujiang and was publicly promoted to chief of the general staff. Li Liejun, Lin Sen, Wu Tiecheng and others later became important military and political figures during the Republic of China.

The Qing army under the command of Yin Chang made no progress on the front line, and he continued to implement Yuan Shikai's strategic deployment.

After staying at home and taking office as the governor of Huguang, Yuan Shikai was afraid that Yin Chang would make a mistake, so he clearly telegraphed him: "The front line is not finished, and it is advisable to gather in a suitable place, consolidate the situation, and make preparations to improve and then try to forge ahead." ”

Now Yuan Shikai's telegram to Yin Chang is no longer a suggestion, but an order, because Yin Chang has received an edict to be controlled by Yuan Shikai.

On the 23rd, the right-hand man Feng Guozhang arrived in Zhangde.

Yuan Shikai gave a face-to-face lecture: "The chaotic party is quite knowledgeable, which is very different from the situation of ordinary bandits. And the occupation of Wuhan is a negative trend, and the factory has not stopped, the firearms are endless, and the power is so great that there are people who cannot be underestimated. However, our army's salaries and weapons have not yet arrived, the personnel have not been completed, and the order to leave the division is too sudden, and if there is an occasional defeat, it has a bearing on the overall situation, and it is really not shallow. The right and wrong preparations are thorough, the calculation is perfect, and it is difficult to supervise the attack. Feng Guozhang was instructed to "walk slowly and wait and see".

If Wuhan is really to be recovered, it is necessary to take advantage of the fact that the revolutionaries are not firmly on the ground and march quickly. All localities should also take advantage of the fact that they are not united as one, and if they want to break through each other, they should also be able to fight quickly. Why did Yuan Shikai stand still?

On the one hand, he wanted to use the power of the revolutionary party to oppress the Qing court and make more concessions in his favor. On the other hand, and most importantly, although others are in Huanshang and do not leave their homes, he is well aware of the situation in various places through telegraph and other channels. He kept thinking about Yang Du's words, seeing that the Qing Dynasty was dying, could he make a funeral sacrifice for this hopeless dynasty?

The so-called "the world receives the grace of the country", that is to say to others, he worked hard to do things, but he almost lost his life, and he was dismissed and went home, and his stomach of grievances had nowhere to vent.

For this dynasty that treats him so unfairly, he does not have any favors to repay, but has a deep grudge. In these troubled times, if you want to make a difference, you must have strength, how can he be willing to use the capital in his hands to work for this dying dynasty?

Feng Guozhang is a person who leads troops to fight, of course he doesn't know Yuan Shikai's intentions. Although he did not have a comprehensive understanding of the entire battle situation as Yuan Shikai, he still had a view of the overall situation, and he put forward his own opinion, believing that today's plan should be a quick victory.

Yuan Shikai naturally couldn't say what he really thought, but he was afraid that Feng Guozhang would ruin his own affairs. told Feng Guozhang very seriously that he had a comprehensive consideration and asked him to just implement and implement his strategic intentions to the letter.

Soldiers regard obedience to orders as their duty, not to mention orders from their respected commanders, Feng Guozhang of course obeys his words.

For Yuan Shikai, the most important thing is to hold the money bag tightly, that is, to hold the army in his hands. On the 24th and 25th, Yuan Shikai sent two telegrams to the cabinet on his behalf, saying that the revolutionary party was powerful and should not be underestimated. The morale of the Qing army was low, and the morale of the soldiers was not solid. At present, the most important issue is to reassure the morale of the troops. At the same time, Feng Guozhang was invited to lead the First Army, and Duan Qirui was invited to lead the Second Army, and they were successively marched to the area of Xinyang, Henan.

Still afraid that Yin Chang would spoil his business, on the 26th, Yuan Shikai called Yin Chang again: "Wang Shi should be perfect, a slight defeat, the overall situation is in danger." It is necessary to make complete preparations, gather troops, know each other and confide, and fight in one go. ”

Yin Chang listened to Yuan Shikai's words, and has been "fixing the situation to wait for preparation", waiting for the reinforcements led by Feng Guozhang to come to converge.

Feng Guozhang was not very far away, but he was slow to act. There are always a lot of reasons to call and urge. It was really difficult for Yin Chang to make a difference, so he could only stand still.