Chapter 401: A Pot of Porridge in Nanjing City
However, now, the Jiangbei Army is blocking the way of Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Army to the south, and the 200,000 troops of the Jiangbei Army are not vegetarians, they are soldiers who have been trained on the real battlefield, and if the Beiyang Army goes south, it will inevitably pass through the Jiangbei region, but the Jiangbei Army is jealous of the Beiyang forces, lest they take the opportunity to annex the Jiangbei Army by falsely destroying the enemy, so the Beiyang Army is stopped alive in the area north of the Huai River. www.biquge.info In this way, Nanjing has almost become the bag of the revolutionary party, but everyone is not in a hurry, first share the spoils, lest everyone in the future do not understand the reason, but as soon as they sit down, the contradictions between the revolutionary parties will erupt, especially the so-called revolutionary party is composed of various anti-Qing forces, including major political factions, township parties, and gangs, for their own interests, Zhang Xun in Nanjing has been forgotten.
Zhang Xun was trembling to defend Nanjing, but he couldn't see the attack of the revolutionary army, and he wondered, didn't the revolutionary army dare to fight?
Where are the revolutionaries not daring to fight Nanjing, but the revolutionaries are about to start fighting themselves. Of course, the culprit is none other than Wang Yongan, who changed history.
The focus of the debate of the revolutionary party is, who will belong to this Nanjing, the revolutionary party in southern Jiangsu naturally has the most right to speak, people have attacked Nanjing several times, although they have not been defeated, but they have sacrificed the most and paid the most, and Nanjing naturally belongs to our people in Suzhou Province. However, the revolutionary party of the Soviet Province was not united, including Lin Shuqing's Zhenjiang Revolutionary Army, as well as the Ninth Town Revolutionary Army of the former Ninth Town under the command of Xu Shaozhen, and some of the Jiangbei Revolutionary Party troops who were preparing to revolt in Jiangbei but fled to Jiangnan because of the shock of the Jiangbei Army.
The slander of Xu Shaozhen not only led to the instability of the Jiangnan Revolutionary Army, the main force attacking Nanjing, but also caused the entire battle of Nanjing to become a confused account. In particular, after Huang Xing came to Nanjing from Wuchang, he was soon elected commander-in-chief of the Southern Revolutionary Army, and seized the command of the attack on Nanjing, which made Xu Shaozhen feel cold and distrusted, and the Jiangnan Revolutionary Army was angry about this.
In addition, the members of the revolutionary party were still arguing endlessly about how to divide the official posts in Nanjing, and the most interesting thing was that everyone thought that Sun Yat-sen must have brought a large amount of military pay when he returned from the United States, so they asked Sun Yat-sen for military pay one after another. As a result, Sun Yat-sen glanced at his hands and said: "Sun returned to China, and he took nothing but a bold vow to overthrow the Manchu government." ”
Sun Yat-sen said it easily, but his subordinates stopped doing it, so everyone pointed to Leader Sun with military salaries to reward the army, but Leader Sun didn't bring back a penny, is this reasonable? Is this still a human thing? As a result, the revolutionary party quarreled under the city of Nanjing, and no one thought about fighting Nanjing, but about how to make a profit.
Sun Yat-sen was anxious enough, seeing that Nanjing was about to be conquered, if Nanjing was defeated, he would definitely be the founding president of the Republic of China, but this group of people actually quarreled by themselves, which was really unforgivable. In addition, the Wuhan side was also very anxious, and continuously sent telegrams demanding that Sun Yat-sen and other Jiangnan revolutionary troops conquer Nanjing as soon as possible to relieve the pressure on Wuhan. Yuan Shikai pacified the vast majority of revolutionary flames in the north, and now there are only two places left, Shaanxi and Shanxi, these two provinces are already barren, and the revolutionary party is hiding in the barren areas of the barren provinces, so Yuan Shikai does not care, he is now focusing his main forces on attacking the city of Wuchang in Wuhan, which is in danger, so Li Yuanhong also has to turn to Sun Yat-sen for help.
At this time, Sun Yat-sen's pressure was very great, and he eagerly hoped that the revolutionary leaders of all parties would obey his command, but even Huang Xing, who was very loyal to him, was powerless against all parties at this time, and even delayed the time to attack Nanjing, giving Zhang Xun in Nanjing a miscalculation.
So when Zhao Mucun told Zhang Xun about Wang Yongan's suggestion, Zhang Xun said disdainfully: "The rebels dare to enter Nanjing, haven't you seen those useless rebels swallowed outside the city for a month?" These are all kings, and when they are in danger, they become turtles with shrunken heads, and I am not afraid of them, and you should not be afraid of them. ”
Zhao Mucun always felt that Wang Yongan's words were reasonable, but the delay of the revolutionary party troops outside the city to attack Nanjing really made people wonder what they meant.
It didn't take long for a telegram from Yuan Shikai to reach Zhang Xun, which strengthened Zhang Xun's determination to defend Nanjing, and Yuan Shikai said that five days later, Wuchang would be conquered, and after Wuchang was conquered, the Beiyang Army would go down the river to extinguish the rebels.
Zhang Xun laughed a lot, but stupidly informed the whole army that there was a revolutionary party that should immediately pass on the news, Sun Yat-sen and others were taken aback, and they didn't care about the quarrel between everyone, and immediately convened a military meeting, announcing: "The Beiyang Army plans to capture Wuchang in five days, and we will not attack Nanjing again, and when the Beiyang Army goes down the river and the Qing army in Nanjing City will attack inside and outside, then the revolution will undoubtedly be defeated. ”
Everyone was taken aback, Huang Xing slapped the table and said angrily: "The revolution is the revolution of the whole country, not the gain or loss of personal interests. Those who remained were those who were truly for the national revolution and for the Chinese revolution. ”
Huang Xing said this, who would dare to leave, although everyone was intriguing for power and profit in private, but at this critical moment, no one could be cautious. Yuan Shikai put too much pressure on everyone, so that the Southern Revolutionary Party, which was originally scattered, united and launched a general attack on Nanjing.
Liu Tong soon conveyed the news of the Nanjing Revolutionary Party's decision to launch a general offensive to Jiangbei, and Jiangbei's spies immediately sent a telegram to Wang Yongan.
After Wang Yongan read the telegram, he couldn't help but have some doubts about Yuan Shikai, and didn't understand why Yuan Shikai wanted to trap Zhang Xun, if Yuan Shikai didn't send this telegram, but secretly Chen Cang stepped up his attack on Wuchang, and then contacted Zhang Xun after Wuchang conquered, then when the Beiyang Army went south, it would be the day of the destruction of the southern revolutionaries.
However, Yuan Shikai informed Zhang Xun in advance, and Zhang Xun, the arrogant and ignorant governor of Jiangnan, actually informed the whole army - it cannot be ruled out that he was raising the morale of the whole army, but this indirectly prompted the Southern Revolutionary Army to make up its mind to eliminate Zhang Xun's Jiangnan Qing army in one fell swoop.
"Is Yuan Shikai intentional or unintentional?" Wang Yongan fell into thought, and three hours later, another secret telegram was sent from the direction of Nanjing, and the general attack of the Southern Revolutionary Army on Nanjing began.