Chapter 116: Rushing to the aid of Wuchang
After the meeting, the three of them set a temporary strategy, that is, to invite the real power figures of various provinces to Jiangning to hold a meeting to form a joint **, and the three of them jointly sent a telegram to Mr. Sun Wen who was far away in Europe, asking Mr. Sun Wen to return to China as soon as possible to lead the joint **.
After the meeting, Chen Xuan refused the request to spend the night in the governor's palace and returned to the camp outside the city on the grounds that he had military affairs to deal with.
After the outbreak of the Wuchang Uprising, the top leaders of the Nanyang Baath Party were also extremely excited, and they asked to return to the country to participate in the revolution, and now they have arrived at the camp outside the city.
After Chen Xuan thought about it carefully, he sent 1,000 graduates of the Nanyang Army Academy to return to China to support, and after Han Sanlin took Fujian, Yan Fu, who happened to be in Fujian, was also driven by Han Sanlin to the shelves, and was directly pushed to the position of governor of Fujian.
But it's no wonder that Yan Fu himself is an international student at the Royal Naval College in Greenwich, England, but he has not been in the army by mistake, this time Han Sanlin took Fujian and incorporated most of the navy in Fujian.
Chen Xuan had no choice, and it was useless to ask the teacher Ma Xiangbo to dissuade him, so he had to ask Yan Fu to temporarily serve as the governor of Fujian, and when Chen Xuan transferred Chen Jiageng in Nanyang to Fujian, Yan Lao returned to the navy as the naval governor, and Wang Xuefu was the deputy.
This time, the Jiangning Battle Instructor also suffered heavy casualties, but because he was the first to enter Nanjing, the Beiyang New Army that surrendered was also the largest, with more than 6,000 people, all of whom had Chen Xuan's total strength.
This also made this war not only not weaken Chen Xuan's strength, but also greatly increased, the new army is not the old soldiers of the green battalion, many of them are educated and ambitious young people.
With the graduates of the military academy who came back from Nanyang, Chen Xuan's most troublesome problem of serious shortage of grass-roots officers was also solved, according to Chen Xuan's practice, all of them were broken up and reorganized, and these Beiyang troops were assigned to Chen Xuan's 200 graduates, and they were mixed with the instructor to form three divisions, and the three regiment commanders who taught the instructor before were also promoted to the position of division commander.
The officers who had just laid down their arms and surrendered did not expect that they would not only not be punished, but also assigned to a well-known instructor, and they also knew that the instructor was the place where Chen Xuan trained officers, and as long as there was a battle, there was no chance of promotion.
Dong Jian, the commander of the guard regiment, was also transferred to the instructor as the division commander, and some of the company and platoon commanders of the guard battalion who had made meritorious contributions in this battle were transferred to serve as regimental and battalion commanders, and the vacancy was filled by the outstanding soldiers of the original instructor.
Chen Ruiqing, the commander of the pro-guard battalion, could have been transferred to the instructor as the regiment commander, but he refused, saying that he wanted to learn more things by Chen Xuan's side.
Chen Ruiqing is the brother of Chen Xuan's Wuxing hometown, he was also born in martial arts when he was young, and his kung fu is not bad, it is said that he is a registered disciple of Chen Changtai, the king of eagle claws, and he has joined the guard team since the establishment of the guard, and Chen Ruiqing's set of capture kung fu has made a lot of effort, it can be said that he has grown up with Chen Xuan, with his ability, being a regiment leader is definitely more than enough.
After Chen Xuan came to this world, he found that kung fu really existed, and opening the monument with one hand is by no means an exaggeration in literature, Chen Xuan has seen Sun Hongye discount the trees of the thickness of the rice bowl with one punch, according to Sun Hongye, the inner fist is even more exaggerated, but he has seen it when he traveled with his master in his early years.
It's just that these masters have long looked down on fame and fortune, and they are all Shenlong who can't see the end of the head, and they don't even want people to know their names, and it's even more impossible to find them, according to Sun Hongye, the Taoist priest he saw in his early years can penetrate the five-inch back plank with one finger without any injury to his fingers.
Sun Hongye's little kung fu is just a child's play in the eyes of those masters.
"Report to the instructor, Mr. Huang Commander Keqiang visited overnight."
Chen Xuan was in the reverie of a martial arts master, and was interrupted by Chen Ruiqing's voice.
"Please, no, I'll greet you!"
"Yiyang is not more polite, I have already come."
Chen Xuan was about to get up to greet him, but he never thought that Huang Xing had already pushed the door in.
"Visiting late at night, Yiyang won't blame Keqiang for not being rude, right?"
"Brother Keqiang is too worried, please take a seat."
"It's not that I want to disturb Yiyang's rest, it's really a last resort!"
"What's so difficult about Brother Keqiang?"
Huang Xing sighed and said to Chen Xuan with a guilty face:
"I'm really embarrassed to speak, but the situation is too urgent, so I have to turn to the Yiyang brothers, now after I left Wuchang, Yuan Shikai sent Yin Chang, Feng Guozhang, Zai Shou to form the three towns of the Beiyang Army and Sa Zhenbing's 15 warships to counterattack Wuchang, now Wuchang is in danger, Song Qing brother (Li Yuanhong) to many calls for help, if Wuchang is a hit, then the revolutionary situation is likely to be ruined, but the joint ** conference is about to be held, for the brother must stay in Jiangning to preside over the meeting, really can't get rid of it, think about it for the brother, Only the Yiyang brothers and the elite under their command are enough to take on this heavy responsibility, I implore Yiyang not to shirk, Yiyang since the uprising, all day and day, has made great contributions to the revolution, and now I want to force Yiyang to go west for reinforcements, I feel very guilty for my brother! ”
Saying that, Huang Xing bowed to Chen Xuan in shame, how dare Chen Xuan accept the courtesy of this revolutionary father, and hurriedly supported Huang Xing.
"Where did Brother Keqiang say, my generation of revolutionary soldiers, death is not filmed, and how can I be afraid of hard work, Wuchang is the first righteousness of the revolution, now the situation is worrying, how can I sit idly by, Brother Keqiang is the precursor of the revolution, Mr. Zhongshan has not yet returned to the country, how can the joint ** meeting be without Brother Keqiang's presiding, Brother Keqiang and relax, early tomorrow morning, I will camp westward! It's just that now the Yangtze River is still under the control of the Qing court, and our revolutionary army has no warships to escort it, so I'm afraid that the waterway will not be able to go! ”
"Yes! Sa Zhenbing's warships are rampant on the river, Yiyang can only take the land route, Yiyang, give you a bottom for your brother, for my brother I dare not expect Wuchang to be able to hold, if Wuchang is lost, I implore Yiyang to hold Jiangxi and block the Beiyang Army, otherwise, the good situation will be ruined. ”
"Brother Keqiang and relieved, tomorrow our army will march westward, some sections of the road can be marched by train, to Wuxue at the junction of Hubei and Jiangxi, I will leave part of the army to garrison, if Wuchang is still there, it will go straight to Wuchang, and Song Qinggong will guard Wuchang together!"
"So please Yiyang!"
Huang Xing gave another deep salute, Chen Xuan didn't dare to quit this time, accepting this gift is equivalent to a promise, promising to at least keep Jiangxi.
"Yiyang is overjoyed!"
As soon as Huang Xing left, Han Xu excitedly said hello to Chen Xuan.
"Brother Yuanru, how can you be happy?"
"Yiyang and look, now almost all the south of the Yangtze River has fallen into the hands of the revolutionary party, and the north is also rumoring, although Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Army has a combat power that cannot be underestimated, but with hundreds of thousands of Beiyang Army wants to level the south of the Yangtze River, how can it be so easy, where does the massive military expenditure come from? How can it be done in a while and a half, and Yuan is not stupid, he has not experienced the experience of rabbit death and dog cooking, if he really let him quell the revolution, what a great merit it should be, now Yuan is already a big tail, how can the Manchu Qing tolerate Yuan to monopolize his merits, how can the Manchus raise merit at that time? Do you want the little emperor to abdicate to him? ”
"So I predict that this north-south war can't be fought, even if it is fought, it won't be a big fight, and all the way to the west, you can recruit rebels to strengthen your strength, if you operate it properly, it is not impossible to take Jiangxi, and in this way, our previous Northern Expedition can also be explained, how can you not like such a march in one fell swoop?!"
"Mr. is really talented in the ovary, and he has Mr. to help, and Chen is lucky!"
Under Han Xu's explanation, Chen Xuan suddenly opened up the situation, and under the excitement, he had already called Mr. Han Xu, and gave a deep salute, and Han Xu also returned the salute.
"Yiyang said that it is Yiyang's luck to have a certain help, but I don't know that this is not Han's luck, Han has been hesitant for half his life, and he has to meet Yiyang, and he has seen what the Baxing Party has done in recent years, and this ambition can be shown, and it is Han who is Xie Yiyang!"
The two glanced at each other, laughing, and feeling like a confidant.
Chen Xuan presided over the military meeting again, and the generals were a little dissatisfied with being sent to Hubei at this time, because everyone knew that the joint ** meeting was held, and this was the time to share the benefits.
Fortunately, Chen Xuan's power is now strong, and at his insistence, the generals were ordered to prepare, and during this period, Huang Xing sent people to send 1.5 million taels of silver and a large number of arms and food and other materials to take Jiangning, Chen Xuan should be the first to take the credit, which is also the proper meaning of the question, and Chen Xuan has to fight for a long time, it is impossible not to give benefits, so Chen Xuan also smiled.
There were countless belongings in the city, and although Han Xu finally asked for a division to help, he still couldn't empty it, so he arranged a battalion to be stationed here, as Chen Xuan's Jiangning office, and arranged all the family conditions of the officers and soldiers in Jiangning who were not very good into Mancheng, and Mancheng had essentially become Chen Xuan's private property.
And those captured Manchurian Qingzhuang were escorted to Suzhou by Qi Baicheng's officers and soldiers who stayed behind to serve in labor to repair roads, and those old and weak women and children escaped a lot during the escort process because of the 'negligence' of Qi Baicheng's subordinates.
These old and young people don't look at the property being seized, but the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and if they want to return to the warm embrace of the little emperor of Xuantong, they can take something from their bodies and sell it, and it is effortless to buy a ferry ticket.
Therefore, Chen Xuan invisibly got rid of this big burden again, and he was not more worried about infamy.