Chapter 270: Pearl Harbor
Beginning in July 1911, the scale of the Sichuan Provincial Baolu Movement became larger and larger, and the rebel army spread throughout Sichuan Province, and the provincial rebel army launched an attack on Chengdu, and collectively referred to as the Sichuan Provincial Baolu Comrade Army, which was as high as more than 200,000 people for a while. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Zhao Erfeng hurriedly sent an urgent telegram to Jingshi asking for help, and the regent Zaifeng discussed with the cabinet ministers, and finally decided to send the new army of Hunan Province, Yunnan Province, Hubei Province, Shaanxi Province, and Guizhou Province to reorganize Sichuan, and remove Zhao Erfeng from the post of governor of Sichuan Province, appoint Cen Chunxuan as the acting governor of Sichuan, and ordered Duan Fang to immediately lead the Hubei New Army to aid Sichuan Province.
The city of Chengdu was tall and strong, and the rebels had a lot of enthusiasm, but they had neither unified command nor combat experience, and when they attacked the city of Chengdu, they could not form an effective attack. Often, thousands of people rushed at each other, and when they saw that others were not charging, they retreated. Therefore, more than 200,000 people besieged the city of Chengdu, except for the first few days, many of them were only besieged but not attacked in the next half month.
At this time, the patrol battalions and the new army in Sichuan Province began to counterattack one after another, and the new army of Yunnan Province, which is closest to Sichuan Province, has entered Sichuan Province from southern Sichuan, and has a fierce battle with Hou Baozhai and Zhou Hongxun of the Southern People's Army of the Baolu Army in Xinjin, between the battles, Hou Baozhai, the leader of the People's Army of the South Road of the Baolu Army, had a fierce dispute with Yang Huchen, the Minister of Quartermaster, and was stabbed to death by Yang Huchen, and the deputy commander Zhou Hongxun led the rest of the People's Army to retreat to southern Sichuan, but was defeated by the Yunnan Army, and Zhou Hongxun was killed.
At this time, the three people's armies of Zhangda in western Sichuan, the people's army of Wu Qingxi in Wenjiang, and the people's army of Sun Zepei in Chongqing rushed to help, and collected the people's army of the South Road to resist the Yunnan army. At this time, the Yunnan army was exhausted from repeated battles, and the logistical supply of the guest army was unfavorable, and the ammunition consumption was serious, so it had to retreat, and the two sides formed a confrontation in southern Sichuan.
What gave the Qing court a headache was that because northern Russia wanted to revise the "Ili Treaty" and its subordinate "Revision of the Overland Trade Treaty," it vainly attempted to seize the right of free trade, tax exemption, land ownership, and extraterritoriality in Xinjiang, Mongolia, Zhangjiakou, and other places, which angered young students and people of insight throughout the country, and under the leadership of the constitutionalists and others, a wave of protests against the border and rejection of Russia was set off throughout the country.
Among them, the Chinese students in Japan were the most radical, and they were ready to organize a sit-in in front of Prince Qing to protest, which originally numbered 48 people, but increased to more than 800 the next day. At home, however, the National Council, organized by the merchants and gentry themselves, was formed in Shanghi, which actively organized anti-Russian activities against the expansion of the border, and detailed in detail the insidious intentions of the expansion of the Russian border in the major newspapers of the country.
At this time, the Russian minister of the Great Qing Dynasty, Kosuovic, sent a note to the Qing court, seriously protesting against the slander of Tsarist Russia by the major newspapers, and expressing concern about the establishment of the Chinese Martial Arts Association, believing that they would trigger the Second Gengzi Rebellion.
The Qing court was helpless, and Zaifeng had only one reply to the Russians, delay!
Yes, Zaifeng has neither the ability to solve the unreasonable demands of foreign countries, nor the ability to quell domestic unrest, so he will only drag it out in one word, drag it out until the contradictions of everything break out, and then continue to drag it out......
At this time, the Qing Dynasty Protector Army was sailing on the surface of the Pacific Ocean, and for the Overseas Chinese Protector Fleet, the days of the wind and the sun made them all unprecedentedly happy, and if there was a storm, everyone would cry and curse God.
In order to pass the boring time, Wang Yongan ordered the officers to think of the law to train the soldiers, and the soldiers to think of the law to confront the officers, so in the boring but interesting confrontation between the officers and the soldiers, sailing for more than half a month, the ship arrived at the sea of Midway, after replenishing some fuel, and finally arrived in Honolulu, Hawaii, the United States.
All the crew members have been asking for a two-day stay in Hawaii because they want to stay on land for two days and never want to float on the surface again. Wang Yongan promised everyone, but asked everyone not to cause trouble and to ensure everyone's safety.
As the largest port in the Pacific Ocean of the United States, Pearl Harbor is also the largest military port in the United States, when the overseas Chinese guards arrived near Pearl Harbor, the US Navy put forward strict requirements for the overseas Chinese guards, and boarded ships to inspect weapons and equipment, and proposed to prohibit the overseas Chinese guards from carrying weapons ashore, prohibit the overseas Chinese guards from fighting and fighting, prohibit the overseas Chinese guards from molesting local girls, and so on. Wang Yongan also accepted the requirements of the US Navy and accepted the supervision and management of the US Navy.
When the Qing Dynasty Overseas Chinese Protector Fleet entered Honolulu Pearl Harbor, people once again found tens of thousands of overseas Chinese flocking to Pearl Harbor to warmly welcome the Overseas Chinese Protector Fleet.
Local Chinese representatives held banners, banged gongs and encouraged lions -- if it weren't for the ban on fireworks around Pearl Harbor, the excited Chinese would have set off firecrackers to greet them. In addition to the Chinese, the audience was more of Hawaiian native and Japanese descent, as well as many black and white people who watched the excitement, they were not interested in the appearance of foreign warships in Pearl Harbor, they were very interested in seeing so many overseas Chinese guards for the first time, especially this group of Qing protectors with big pigtails. Eleven years ago, countries around the world also organized armies to conduct military parades in Beijing, the capital of the Qing Dynasty, and eleven years later, this insulted country actually sent troops to protect overseas Chinese.
Although the Chinese in Honolulu are not as large as the Chinese in San Francisco, Lin Huaijue, the leader of the local Chinese businessmen, still organized almost all the Chinese living in Hawaii and their families to welcome the Overseas Chinese Protector Army. No matter how corrupt the Qing government was internally, it still had the support of the Chinese when it was tough on the outside.
According to the agreement with the United States, the soldiers can rest for two days while wearing military uniforms in Honolulu, but they have no dollars and only silver, and the soldiers can only buy and sell or spend in shops opened by Chinese.
But the power of money is infinite, although foreigners only know the dollar, but it does not mean that they do not recognize silver, and even many taverns and restaurants even posted the Chinese "本店cashier", and the indigenous and black clerks said in Cantonese: "Huang Ying Gong Lin, Huang Ying Gong Lin." The crew members passing by didn't know why, but the comrades in Guangdong Province explained with a smile: "They are saying welcome." "Everyone couldn't help but complain, they would rather listen to Cantonese people speak Mandarin than listen to foreigners speak Cantonese version of Mandarin, that sounds so spicy.
All the people of Hawaii showed great enthusiasm for the Protectors, and even this enthusiasm made the American Navy envious and jealous, and they wanted to provoke it, but the commander of the American Third Fleet stationed at Pearl Harbor, George, forbade it, and there was no conflict between the two sides.