Chapter 332: The old man is promising

Because Huang Xing repeatedly caused trouble and disrupted Yuan Shikai's plans, the Governor of Yuan ordered an attack on Hanyang, where Huang Xing and his henchmen were located, to teach him some lessons. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info and Huang Xing's main force was the Hunan army of his fellow villagers. His subordinates detected that the Beiyang Army did not defend Hankou with heavy troops, so he sent the First Association of the Hunan Army and the Second Association of the Hunan Army, the Fifth Association of the Hubei Army Infantry and the death squad to attack Hankou in three ways.

At that time, it was rainy and rainy, and although the soldiers of the Beiyang Army hid in their houses and did not stand guard, the rebel army was cold enough when they arrived in Hankou. Seeing this, the Beiyang Army was also unceremonious, and immediately adopted encirclement tactics against the Second Association of the Hunan Army on the left flank, and the Second Association of the Hunan Army retreated in panic, and scattered the Eleventh Standard of the Fifth Association of the Hubei Army behind the Second Association, and the other roads also retreated one after another.

This sneak attack organized by Huang Xing really lost his wife and his troops, and he himself attributed this failure to the incompetence of the leading officer, so he immediately beheaded Yang Xuanqing, the 11th standard commander of the Fifth Association of the Hubei Army. Yang Xuanqing is a native of Hubei, just got married a few days before the uprising, and was on marriage leave at home, but when he heard about the Wuhan uprising, he immediately participated in the revolution, but he didn't expect to break up his team because of the retreat of the Hunan army, but he was beheaded by Huang Xing and hung on a telephone pole, saying that if there was anyone else who commanded unfavorably, he would end up in this way.

However, Huang Xing's warning caused discontent in the army, it was your henchman Huang who broke up our Hubei army, and you killed our Hubei officers, and many Hubei rebels chose to secretly leave the army and go home to farm. Huang Xing saw that the morale of the Hubei army had plummeted, and he thought that the Hubei people were not good at fighting, but he also knew that he had killed Yang Xuanqing but not killed the second standard commander who dispersed Yang Xuanqing, which was really unreasonable, so he killed Gan Xingdian, the second assistant commander of the Hunan army, with tears.

Although Gan Xingdian, the general of the Hunan army, was killed, it did not give the Hubei New Army the slightest gratitude, and the morale of the rebel army stationed in Hankou plummeted.

When the weather was fine, the Beiyang Army launched an attack on the Huangxing troops in Hankou, and the first attack point of the Qing army was the Sanyan Bridge where the Hubei army was stationed. At the same time, another part of the Beiyang Army launched an attack on Qinduankou, and the first association of the Hunan army stationed at Qinduankou was Huang Xing's henchman, and it took only an hour for the Beiyang Army to occupy Qinduankou, and the first association of the Hunan army ran away.

Subsequently, the Beiyang Army stormed the Sanyan Bridge, but the defenders were extremely tenacious, and the two sides fought repeatedly, and the commander of the Hubei army, Zhou Detie, was seriously injured and could not get out of the line of fire. Huang Xing thought that the Hubei army would inevitably escape, but he didn't expect that it was his henchmen who fled, so he ordered the Hunan army to immediately return to help and be sure to defend the Sanyan Bridge. Li Yuanhong also knew the importance of the Sanyan Bridge, and immediately sent the Second Association of the Hubei Army to support.

After the two sides fought a bloody battle at the Sanyan Bridge for three days and three nights, and Liu Yutang, the assistant commander of the Hunan army, was killed by a shell, the Hunan army felt that it could not defeat the Beiyang army, and then fled without authorization. Although Huang Xing set an example, even standing on the front line with a rifle and a command knife to command the battle, it was a pity that the Beiyang Army became more and more brave and better in battle, and the rebel army suffered heavy casualties and had to withdraw from Hanyang.

Hankou has been lost, Hanyang has been lost again, and now only Wuchang, where the Hubei army is located, is left in the three towns of Wuhan.

The defeated army gathered in Wuchang to hold a meeting to analyze the reasons for the defeat, Huang Xing, as the commander, naturally spoke first, he believed that the officers were not good, the soldiers were not good, and the munitions were not good, and suggested that Wuchang be abandoned and attack Nanjing.

The people in Hubei were immediately furious, Zhang Zhenwu got up and scolded: "Wuchang is our first righteous place, we should live and die with Wuchang, and we can't give up no matter what." If a person says to give up Wuchang, he should be beheaded immediately. Then he drew his pistol and placed it on the table with a clatter, his eyes wide and glaring at the members of the League.

Huang Xing saw that everyone pointed the contradiction at him, so he had to ask Li Yuanhong to privately say that he was willing to go to Shanghi to ask for reinforcements, and if he could conquer Nanjing, he would definitely lead troops to aid Hubei, and then left in embarrassment that night, never to add chaos to the Hubei revolution again.

Although later generations spoke highly of Huang Xing, believing that he was a revolutionary leader, that he relied on a strong will to fight continuously, and that he was the banner of the revolution, in terms of military command, his ability could only command one squad. The predecessor of the Kuomintang, the League, was a party that fought internally and fought outside, and the means of squeezing out colleagues emerged one after another, but there was no way to face the Beiyang Army. Later historians once defended Huang Xing by saying that the enemies faced by Huang Xing were all very powerful enemies, but this seemed to forget that all the Chinese generals in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression faced the Japanese army were powerful enemies, and these generals were still able to fight with the Japanese army, and Commander Huang was also a kind of ability to bring a better revolutionary situation into a mess.

As soon as Huang Xing left, the people in Hubei were re-elected, and Li Yuanhong appointed Jiang Yiwu as the commander of the front, and sent generals to collect the stragglers, and at the same time sent a telegram to the whole country asking for reinforcements from all provinces to rescue the revolution. At that time, revolutionaries or military governments in Jiangxi, Sichuan, Shaanxi and other provinces sent reinforcements one after another, and the rebel army reorganized its morale.

After occupying Hanyang, Yuan Shikai believed that his goal of deterring the revolutionary party had been achieved, so he ordered the army to take the Yangtze River as the boundary and not to attack Wuchang. The next day, Yuan Shikai entrusted the British minister Zhu Erdian to communicate with Li Yuanhong of Wuchang City, and re-proposed a truce between the two armies and bury the bones.

Li Yuanhong was naturally willing, so the two sides decided to temporarily cease fighting, and sent volunteers or medical soldiers into Hanyang to collect the corpses, or bury or burn them. After simple statistics, in the first battle of Hanyang, the Hunan army and the Hubei army lost more than 4,000 people, while the Beiyang army lost only a few hundred people, and the combat effectiveness of the two sides was high.

Yuan Shikai, who had secretly made peace with the revolutionary party, then took a train back to Beijing, and he was ready to start pressing the palace to the Qing court.

At this time, Wang Yongan's escort army also arrived in Nagasaki, Japan, originally just to rest, but suddenly received an invitation from the Japanese government, in July this year, Japan's Meiji Emperor died of illness, and his son Jiaren succeeded to the throne. The funeral of Emperor Meiji took place for three months, and countless memorial ceremonies were held, and finally on this snowy day, the enthronement ceremony of Kahito officially began.

Although Wang Yongan was a Chinese, he was quite famous abroad, so he received an invitation to attend the enthronement ceremony of Emperor Kahito, also known as Emperor Taisho.

Wang Yongan accepted the invitation considering that there would be no conflict with China for the time being, considering that there would be no conflict with China for the time being, and that his participation in the enthronement ceremony of Emperor Taisho would not cause criticism. The Overseas Chinese Protector stayed in Nagasaki for the time being, while the cruiser Kai Kei carried Wang Yongan to Tokyo Bay and participated in the enthronement ceremony of Emperor Taisho en masse.

In this Taisho Emperor enthronement ceremony, the Japanese government invited many foreign celebrities, including Wang Yongan, including Sun Yat-sen, but because the domestic revolutionary situation was in full swing, Sun Yat-sen could not care about having good relations with the Japanese, and the most important thing for him now was to return to China to lead the revolution, so he rejected the Japanese. In addition to Wang Yongan, there was also a celebrity who was also invited to participate, there was the famous royalist constitutional leader Kang Youwei, that Kang Youwei knew that Wang Yongan also came to participate, he was immediately very excited, and visited Wang Yongan overnight, the first thing he said made Wang Yongan's jaw drop, Kang Youwei appealed loudly: "General, what do you think about the merger of China and Japan into one country?" ”

What do I think? Look at your sister! Wang Yongan was furious, and saw Kang Youwei chattering endlessly and began to sell his concept of merging China and Japan into an Asian yellow empire, and couldn't help shouting: "Guard, fork this old puppet down for me, get out!" ”

Kang Youwei said angrily: "Wang Jingyun, I respect you as the cloud captain, how can you do this to me?" ”

Wang Yongan sneered: "The merger of China and Japan is a loss for you to tell!" If China and Japan merge, who is the emperor? Is it Emperor Kahito of Japan, or Emperor Puyi of the Great Qing Kingdom? ”

"My Great Qing Kingdom is naturally the Emperor of the Great Qing Dynasty, and Japan is the Emperor of Japan, and we can implement the dual emperor system to unify the army, finance, and politics." Kang Youwei said excitedly, "The emperor is just a national symbol, for show, the two countries implement constitutional monarchies and follow the example of Austria-Hungary, what do you think?" ”

"Fuck off!" Wang Yongan scolded, "If it weren't for your age, I would have let people beat you out a long time ago, get out!" ”

Kang Youwei left angrily and shouted: "You can't teach your son." ”