Chapter 315: Jiangbei moves to clear the danger
Zaifeng was taken aback, and wondered in his heart, Huang Bo took the opportunity to say: "The Jiangbei army is entrenched in Jianghuai, and it has become a big and difficult situation, and it should be cut off as soon as possible for my Qing Dynasty." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info If the Jiangbei Army wins, it will definitely lose its troops and generals, and I can slowly draw it in the future of the Qing Dynasty. If the Jiangbei army is defeated, you can take the opportunity to cut it off. ”
"Wonderful, wonderful." Zaifeng laughed, "Or are you familiar with the Jiangbei Army, do you know the weakness of the Jiangbei Army?" ”
Huang Bo thought for a while and said: "When the Jiangbei Army was weakest, the Wang brothers were centrifuged, and only when the two brothers fought each other, they could be moved. ”
"How can you separate these two?" Zaifeng asked again.
Huang Bo said: "When Wang Yongan returned to Jiangbei, it was a time of separation. ”
"Wonderful!" Zaifeng laughed, Wang Yongtai, the current commander of the Jiangbei Army, was the vanguard of the famous "revolutionary party" to kill the "revolutionary party", and if he came forward, he would definitely be able to get twice the result with half the effort.
After rewarding Huang Bo, Zaifeng immediately found Yixuan and Xu Shichang and said the idea. Everyone looked at each other, mobilized the Jiangbei Army to attack Wuchang, so don't you want Yuan Shikai to do anything?
Yixuan is the most old-fashioned, he knows that it is the general trend to invite Yuan Shikai out of the mountain, if the front-line soldiers see that it is not Yuan Shikai but Wang Yongtai, it is strange not to mess up the camp. And Wang Yongtai was originally a side branch in the Beiyang system, but in the past three years, because of a resourceful younger brother Wang Yongan who gave him advice, he has been planning his current position step by step, but you let Wang Yongtai command Feng Guozhang and Ma Longbiao, the two Beiyang bigwigs, and then you have to fight first.
Perhaps, the Beiyang Army felt that the imperial court was insulting them, but it was unknown that they had voted for the rebellious party.
Yixuan suddenly scolded angrily: "Who the hell gave you such a bad idea!" Let the Jiangbei Army go to the front line, do you know that Wang Yongtai can mobilize Feng Guozhang or command Ma Longbiao? Moreover, if the Jiangbei Army is easily transferred, and Jiangbei rebels and rebels again, who will put down the rebellion? ”
"The last time Zhang Xun said that all parts of Jiangnan have responded, and he has frequently mobilized the army, and has already transferred the two new troops out of Nanjing." Xu Shichang said that he was ostensibly loyal to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but in fact he was Yuan Shikai's nail, so he said: "If Jiangnan is in chaos, the Jiangbei Army can rescue as soon as possible, but the Jiangbei Army is gone, not only will Jiangnan be in chaos and have no time to take care of it, but even Jiangbei will be in danger." If Jiangbei is lost, the bandits will be able to attack the Beijing division and endanger the Qing Dynasty! ”
Zaifeng didn't think about this problem, he was stunned for a while, and Yixuan said bitterly: "It has to be Yuan Shikai." After Zaifeng thought about it again, especially after receiving urgent telegrams from the towns of the Beiyang New Army, requesting the reuse of Yuan Shikai, he had to sigh, the Qing Dynasty was about to end, the army of the Qing Dynasty only listened to one Han person, what should I do with this country, what should I do with this court?
On the second day of the Wuchang Uprising, the Four Nations Bank, on behalf of the American Si Dai de and the Frenchman Jasner, sent a note to the imperial court, demanding that the Qing court must have a strong person like Yuan Shikai to ensure the stability of the government, otherwise the Four Nations Bank would not lend to the Qing court again.
The British minister Zhu Erdian and the American minister Jia Leheng also repeatedly proposed to the regent Zaifeng that only Yuan Shikai could lead the Qing Kingdom back to the right path.
For the mobilization of the Jiangbei Army, the Empress Dowager Longyu, who has not come forward for a long time, after listening to the analysis of many royal families, this attracted Zaifeng and said: "I heard that if you want to mobilize the Jiangbei Army, Jiangbei is the place of four wars. If Jiangbei is in chaos and the world is in danger, our Qing Dynasty will definitely not be protected, and Jiangbei cannot be chaotic. ”
Jiangbei moves to clear the danger! Zaifeng sighed, and then gave up his plan to mobilize the Jiangbei Army to send troops.
Under multiple pressures, Zaifeng decided to use Yuan Shikai, and said to Yixuan: "Since you advocate like this, I will do it, but if there is any accident, you can't shirk the responsibility." He had a strong sense of crisis in his heart, believing that the Qing Dynasty would undergo major changes under Yuan Shikai's hands, but the reality was that he was powerless to prevent Yuan Shikai's reuse.
On October 14, the Qing government had no choice but to appoint Yuan Shikai as the governor of Huguang.
Yuan Shikai originally thought that since the imperial court had entrusted him with an important task, but he received Zaifeng's request, Yuan Shikai could only command the Qing army in Hubei Province, not the Beiyang New Army and the navy.
Zaifeng deeply felt that Yuan Shikai was huge, especially in terms of foreign relations, foreign ministers only recognized Yuan Shikai and did not recognize the Manchu princes, as if this world was Yuan Shikai's, so he secretly anxious about the royal family and said to everyone: "If Yuan Shikai is defeated, he will take the opportunity to kill him; If Yuan Shikai defeats the rebellious party, he will find an excuse to remove the military power and kill him. ”
Although the soldiers of the Beiyang New Army on the front line applauded and cheered after learning that the imperial court had enabled Yuan Shikai, the governor of Huguang with shackles, Yuan Shikai held the letter written to him by Yixuan himself in his hand, but he hesitated in his heart.
Yang Du immediately objected: "The high merit cannot cover the master, the deceased of the previous dynasty is vivid, and the same Han people cannot tolerate people, let alone the Manchu and Han aliens." Strategists Wang Xitong and Yuan Keding immediately expressed their support for Yang Du's attitude, while Ruan Zhongshu hoped that Yuan Shikai would go out of the mountain and grasp the military power first.
Yuan Shikai knew that Zaifeng's reuse of himself was just an expedient measure, so he called Zaifeng back and said that his foot disease had not healed, and it was inconvenient for him to take office, so he asked someone else. Zaifeng was so angry that he used the excuse that Yuan Shikai had not healed his foot disease, and now Yuan Shikai prevaricated himself with his foot disease, which really made him unable to swallow this breath - but he had to swallow it in his stomach if he couldn't swallow this breath, the first town of the Beiyang New Army on the Hankou front line and the second town of the Beiyang New Army that had just arrived in Hubei stopped, and Yin Chang could not command the Beiyang Army, seeing that revolutionaries from all over the country had gathered support to the three towns of Wuhan, Zaifeng had no choice but to give in and ask Yuan Shikai how to get out of the mountain.
At this time, Wang Yongan also received an urgent telegram, if it weren't for the fact that the place in San Lucas was too remote, and the telegram had been using the telegram on the ship, which caused the telegraph to be ineffective and the signal was very poor, he should have received the sound of the domestic uprising a long time ago.
Looking at the four big characters of the Wuchang Uprising, Wang Yong'an gathered in all kinds of flavors, both the happy feeling of overthrowing the corrupt Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the sad feeling that the country was caught in the warlord melee, a good country, if it was not for the corruption and incompetence of the Manchu Qing court, how could it be repeatedly invaded by foreign powers? But when this imperial court was there, the people could still live, and the Beiyang warlords were fighting, resulting in the displacement of the people, and when the Beiyang warlords stopped fighting, Japan invaded China, allowing the Chinese to guard against the invasion of war.
But after the Qing Dynasty is over, his own Qing Dynasty Protector Army will be unknown, and it may also attract Mexico's retaliation - thinking of this, Wang Yongxin fought a cold war and immediately thought of a terrible scene.
"The Great Qing Kingdom is over, and I can't leave St. Lucas, his grandmother's." Wang Yongan muttered to himself.
Yu Yadong, who was sorting out the information for him, hurriedly asked: "Commander, aren't you leaving?" ”
"I can't go." Wang Yongan sighed, "If I leave San Lucas with my troops, I am afraid that the Mexicans will retaliate against us." ”
"But there is chaos in the court, and this is a good time for you to make a contribution." Yu Yadong said anxiously.
Wang Yongan said: "I don't know, but if I leave, what will you do?" ”
Yu Yadong thought about it, but there was no way, the army really had to stay.
Wang Yongan immediately blocked the news and imposed martial law on Cape San Lucas, and ordered all officers to attend an emergency meeting to discuss the domestic situation. Even the military group wedding, which was originally to be held, had to be suspended, and everyone was surprised and inquired about the news.
After Li Zhun, Cheng Biguang and other officers came to the conference room, they saw Wang Yongan's face was as pale as iron, and no one in the entire conference room said a word or joked, and everyone sat in their seats very seriously.
Li Zhun's heart sank, could it be that something big had happened in the country, could it be that the imperial court wanted to kill Wang Yongan, a general with high achievements? He looked at Cheng Biguang, Cheng Biguang was also confused, and looked at him with a wry smile.
"Ladies and gentlemen, please listen to the telegram, this is the news of the past seven days in China." When Wang Yongan saw that everyone was here, he immediately announced.
Yu Yadong stood up and read out: "On October 10, the New Army of Wuhan Three Towns rebelled, and on October 11, the rebels conquered Wuhan and announced the establishment of the Republic of China; A day later, the new army of Hunan Province launched an uprising, followed by ......"
Everyone listened to Yu Yadong's telegram with wide eyes, and after listening to the domestic news, everyone looked at each other, not expecting that the domestic situation would be so grim and the whole country would riot.
Everyone could see that this was obviously not a planned and organized uprising, because although Hubei Province was also an active revolutionary province, it had little contact with each other because the ideas of the Hubei Provincial Revolutionary Party Communist Association, the Literary Association, and the League led by Sun Yat-sen were very different. However, the fire of the Wuchang uprising burned the whole country, and the new army in almost all the southern provinces spontaneously rioted, and after years of brewing, and then after a small fire in Sichuan Province and a fire in Wuchang, the Qing Dynasty was completely in crisis.
At this time, Wang Yongan got up and said: "The domestic uprising and riot are like stormy waves, and we should make plans as soon as possible." ”
At this time, Zhang Tie immediately said: "Commander, what do you say?" You can do what you say, I will wait for the wind to come and go in the rain, and I will only listen to you alone. ”
Fang Xianwu also immediately expressed his attitude and said, "We will obey the commander's dispatch in everything. ”
Xia Ming said: "We are willing to listen to the commander's dispatch." ”
Gong Wuyuan didn't speak, he looked at Li Zhun and the other admirals vigilantly, one hand pressed under the table, and there were two self-acquired pistols hidden under the table, if these people had objections, then he would not hesitate to shoot. A number of other army officers also expressed their willingness to follow Wang Yongan's lead.