In the year of Xinhai, a revolutionary uprising detonated a wave of excitement throughout China, and it seemed that overnight, "revolution" became the most fashionable and popular word. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 Against this backdrop, the powerful figures in the southern provinces, either actively or passively, inevitably took up the title of revolutionary party and proclaimed themselves governors, and then kept their eyes open to the development of the domestic situation.

On November 13, under pressure from the revolutionaries, Sun Baoqi, the governor of Shandong, declared the independence of Shandong, and on the 24th, he canceled the independence. There is nothing more important than this in the changing world. Shandong's independence also made Yuan Shikai realize that his control over the northern provinces was not as firm as he imagined.

The turmoil in Shandong also caused Yuan Shikai to re-estimate the situation in the provinces, and began to severely suppress the revolutionaries in the northern provinces, and the main forces of the Beiyang Army also postponed their southward movement to guard against any disturbance in the north. For a time, a large number of revolutionaries in the north were arrested and killed, and except for a few who fled to various places, the rest also hibernated.

The fighting on the Hubei and Jiangsu fronts continued, and the various units of the Southern Coalition Army led by Xu Shaozhen were advancing towards Nanjing from all directions. The suspension of the Beiyang Army's southward march objectively also provided an extremely important strategic opportunity for the People's Army to capture Nanjing.

Nanjing was the political and cultural center of the south of the Yangtze River, and after the Wuchang Uprising, Song Jiaoren, the leader of the central part of the League, began to prepare to seize this important town. At the instigation of the members of the League, the lower-level officers and soldiers of the Ninth Town of the New Army joined the revolution one after another, and Xu Shaozhen, who was under control, was forced by the situation and led his troops to revolt. In Shanghai, after consultation between the Central Headquarters of the League and several parties, it was decided to form a joint army of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai to seize Nanjing, and after electing Xu Shaozhen as the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, an operational plan for attacking Nanjing was drawn up.

The battle on the Nanking side was surprisingly smooth, and the situation on the Hubei front was indeed getting worse and worse. Although Yuan Shikai had hinted before leaving, Feng Guozhang should pay attention to a sense of proportion, not only to make the Southern Revolutionary Party realize the strong pressure brought by the Beiyang Army, but also not to really take down all the three towns of Wuhan. However, at this time, Feng Guozhang, because he had just been commended by the imperial court, was full of the idea of adding officials to the knighthood, coupled with his ignorance of Yuan Shikai's intentions, but he did not relax the pace of attacking the Hubei People's Army, and after taking Hankou, he launched a fierce attack on Hanyang, and the situation in Hanyang was critical, and it was only a matter of time before it fell.

Although Hunan's reinforcements arrived in Hanyang one after another, and Hubei's people's army was supported, they were unable to recover their decline from defeat after defeat.

Seeing that the fall of Hanyang was imminent, at this time, the internal turmoil of the Hubei People's Army was again, and the contradictions between the forces headed by Sun Wu of the Hubei Military Government and Huang Xing and others of the League broke out. At the emergency meeting of high-level leaders, in view of the current situation, a large number of high-level officials of the Hubei military government were ready to abandon Hanyang and go all out to defend Wuchang, but at this time, Huang Xing put forward the proposal of abandoning the three towns of Wuhan and marching east along the river to take Nanjing. This can be regarded as the anger of the public, Wuchang is the first place of righteousness, a city of important strategic significance, does that mean that you can give up if you give up? Abandoning Wuchang, not to mention what negative effect it will play in the development of the national revolution, let's just say that these high-ranking leaders of the military government, in this era when they have guns are the king of grass, and they have no territory, how will they deal with themselves in the country in the future.

At this time, the high-level officials in Hubei, who had long been extremely dissatisfied with Huang Xing's command of the operation, even Li Yuanhong couldn't help it, and began to accuse Huang Xing of losing Hankou first and then Hanyang. For these accusations, Huang Xing is really hard to argue, if it is said that all the responsibility for the loss of Hankou and Hanyang is placed on Huang Xing, it is obviously inappropriate, but if Huang Xing does not even have any responsibility, it must be talking nonsense with his eyes open.

Huang Xing, who was criticized and criticized, pondered alone for a long time after the meeting ended. Two days later, Huang Xing officially resigned from his post as commander-in-chief of the Hubei People's Army and sailed to Shanghai. According to Huang Xing's meaning, at this time, the three towns of Wuhan no longer had the capital to continue fighting with the Beiyang Army, and the future center of the revolution was no longer in Wuhan, but in Nanjing, which was besieged by the Jiangsu-Zhejiang coalition army. From this point of view, Huang Xing's military literacy is not good, but his political vision is really good.

Huang Xing left simply, but left a mess for the Hubei military government. Huang Xing's departure regardless of the war situation caused a great bad impact, the original Hubei People's Army was almost unable to hold on under the onslaught of the Beiyang Army, and the resignation of the commander-in-chief hit the morale of the Hubei People's Army, and on the same day, the Beiyang Army occupied Hanyang.

On November 27, the news of the occupation of Hanyang by the Beiyang Army was reported by many domestic newspapers, and public opinion was full for a while.

Since the outbreak of the southern revolution, Yuan Shikai has been practicing the strategy of "raising the emperor and respecting himself", and the vigorous development of the southern revolution is not unrelated to his strategy.

Yuan Shikai's layout is not a secret among the high-ranking people in Beiyang, that is, waiting for the revolutionary party to grow, creating pressure and panic for the Qing court, forcing the Qing court to give Yuan Shikai more important tasks.

Before Feng Guozhang took Hanyang, all the situation was going according to Yuan Shikai's layout, but now there was an accident, Feng Guozhang did not follow his intentions, took Hanyang down, and claimed that the Hubei People's Army could be swept away in ten months. This is good, and while the court breathes a sigh of relief, it also sees hope.

Yuan Shikai drank three cups of tea in a row, but he couldn't suppress the evil fire in his heart, and immediately said to Duan Qirui, who was standing beside him: "You go to Hubei to replace Huafu, after fighting for so long, it's time for him to rest." ”

Hearing Yuan Shikai's words, Duan Qirui, who reacted, couldn't help but feel a burst of joy in his heart, it is better to go to the front line to command tens of thousands of troops than to nest here. But before he could make a statement, when he looked up, he saw Yuan Shikai say with a gloomy face: "How to do it, I don't need to go into more detail!" ”

"Don't worry, my lord, I know how to act, and I will definitely not mess up my lord's layout." Hearing Yuan Shikai's words, Duan Qirui's heart suddenly burst and he hurriedly expressed his position.

"Well, you will leave today, pay attention to proportions after you go, save a little face over there, as the old saying goes, be a man and leave a line, and see each other in the future! I don't know what it will look like in the future. Yuan Shikai was still more at ease with Duan Qirui, but he was also afraid that Duan Qirui would beat Wuchang down like Feng Guozhang like that, and it would not end well at that time. Therefore, what should be entrusted is still to be advised.

Yuan Shikai was angry because Feng Guozhang defeated Hanyang, but the revolutionaries were panicking because of the loss of Hanyang. Needless to say, on the Hubei side, when the Beiyang Army was bombarding Wuchang City across the river, Li Yuanhong, the governor of Hubei Province in a panic, fled from the governor's mansion, if it weren't for Fang Zhenwu, maybe Li Yuanhong would have run to where he would go.

If Feng Guozhang then took Wuchang, wiped out the Hubei People's Army, and mobilized troops to advance along the Jiangdong, then the Jiangsu and Zhejiang coalition forces would be dangerous. Not to mention the strength of the Beiyang Army itself, without the containment of Hubei, Jiangsu and Zhejiang really have little confidence in facing the Beiyang Army alone.

Fortunately, the situation in Hubei did not continue to deteriorate as expected, and under the turnover of the British, Jiang Yiwu and Wu Zhaolin signed an armistice agreement with the Beiyang Army after making the seal of the governor at the moment. Hear this carefully. After calming down and breathing a sigh of relief, the generals of the Jiangsu-Zhejiang coalition army became anxious, and Xu Shaozhen moved the headquarters to the front line to boost morale.

In order to compete for time, more than 20,000 Jiangsu-Zhejiang allied troops around Nanjing formed a joint encirclement, and the forward troops had already begun the siege of Nanjing. Although Zhang Xun, who guarded Nanjing, was extremely stubborn and loyal to the Qing court and its loyalty, in the absence of foreign reinforcements, he could not stop the morale of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Revolutionary Army by relying only on the patrol battalion under his command that had already lost morale and was panicked.

On December 2, Nanjing was successfully recovered by the Jiangsu-Zhejiang coalition forces.