90003983 Chapter 42 ends dramatically

The weather is bright. Visibility is good. The sun has shifted to the west. The Pearl River was rolling southward, and the surface of the river was sparkling, and above the Yingying River, two large gray warships were slowly sailing downstream with several gunboats.

These two large warships are the "Haishen" and the "Haichou". It was also the main force of the task force sent to Guangdong by the center in order to quell the "Guangdong Incident". As for the small gunboats that led the way in front of the front. It is the warship of the Guangdong Naval Division, which has now been incorporated into the task force and is under the command of Cheng Biguang, the commander of the fleet.

Cheng Biguang served in the Guangdong Navy Division in his early years, but now this, the "Guangdong Water Division" is no longer the Guangdong Navy Division he served in that year, after the First Sino-Japanese War, the Qing court rebuilt the Water Division, but due to financial constraints, the fleet size is limited, so it had to pull the old ships in the Guangdong Navy Division to make up the number, Ye Zujia Admiral Guangdong Navy Division, simply merged the North and South Ocean Naval Division, after that, the Guangdong Navy Division basically existed in name only, the late Qing Dynasty "Guangdong Navy Commander." In fact, the ships that can be commanded are all small boats and old ships, and although they are not competent in sea operations, it is difficult to crack down on smuggling and bandits.

After Zhang Renjun became the governor of Guangdong, with the assistance of the British, he ordered a few small gunboats from the Hong Kong dockyard, and the strength of the Guangdong naval division was strengthened a little, and now it is a "sea scout." The small gunboats led the way by the two ships of the "Sea Chip" were shoddy products, and even the machines were purchased old machines in order to pursue the construction period.

However, even such a fleet is enough to dwarf the rebels, and the current Guangdong rebels, whether it is the Gui army or the League of People's Army, do not have any decent water force, and the armed fishing boats mobilized cannot even do anything against the small gunboats of the Guangdong Naval Division, let alone the cruisers of the "Sea Deep Sea Chip".

At this moment, the "Hai Saucer" and "Hai Chip" were sailing towards the waters of Baietan, which was closer to the rebels' former enemy headquarters. If fired at the maximum range of the ship's main guns, it would be possible to bombard the rebels' front enemy headquarters, and although it was impossible to be accurate at this distance, the panic caused was enough to deal a fatal blow to the rebels.

However, shortly after sailing to Baietan, before the cobalt was shut down, a machine board carried several Britons onto Cheng Biguang's flagship "Hai Chip", one of whom was also the British consul in the Shamian Public Concession in Guangzhou.

These people came here to protest against Cheng Biguang, because this Baietan, which is a "treaty port" stipulated in the Sino-foreign merchant agreement, and the Chinese ships sailed into this water area to fire at the belligerents, which seems to be contrary to the concession side."

Although there is no explicit provision that a treaty port cannot moor warships and fire cannons; But out of prudence, Cheng Biguang still ordered the warship to move a little to avoid giving Britain and France the pretext of interference, and after stopping the cobalt, Cheng Biguang gave an order, and the four main guns of the two cruisers raised their muzzles and rotated their muzzles according to the direction of the target transmitted from the shore.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

With a few cannon shots, four shells flew out of the muzzle, swept across the wilderness, and flew far behind.

Soon after, the former enemy headquarters of the "Guangdong Rebel Revolutionary Army" in Dongji Village heard the explosion of artillery shells.

Although the four shells fell far away and exploded, almost a mile away from the railway station that served as the command headquarters, Chen Qimei, as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, was still taken aback, he never thought that there would be shells here, if the location of the former enemy headquarters was exposed, then perhaps the headquarters must be transferred immediately.

Thinking of this, Chen Qimei hurriedly summoned his subordinates to discuss, and just as they were discussing where it should be safer to set up the former enemy headquarters, several more shells flew over, and one of them even landed on the roadbed of the railway, which forced everyone to immediately make up their minds to transfer the headquarters.

"Let's go to Yantang. It's been a long time since the field phone called, and I'm also a little worried about Yantang, it's the most appropriate place to go. ”

Chen Qimei pointed to the military map, Yantang is not only a military camp for the "Aid to the Yuezhu Army", but also the general headquarters of Long Jiguang. There is heavily defended, and it is far away from the Pearl River, to the south is the Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway, to the north is the mountainous area, whether you enter or retreat, Yantang's position is very

Sharp.

The commander-in-chief of the former enemy gave the order, and everyone obeyed it awe-inspiringly, hurriedly packed up their belongings, and left the village with large bags and small bags. Or on foot, or by car, to the north of Yantang.

But when Chen Qimei arrived at the Yantang barracks in an ox cart, what he saw was a bleak scene, a huge barracks had become empty, and he didn't even see the people standing guard.

Chen Qimei looked at each other with his subordinates, and hurriedly went to find the field phone, but he shook it around, but he couldn't shake it through, as if all the positions had fallen.

They wanted to find someone to ask what was going on, but they couldn't find a single Gui Junqi in the barracks except for the old ones who had rushed from the former enemy headquarters" In the end, relying on a telegram transcript picked up in the telegraph room, Chen Qimei figured out why the Yantang barracks was empty.

It turned out that just an hour earlier, the telegram room of the Yantang Barracks had received a telegram from Fujian, and the reporter was a revolutionary army of the League in Fujian, and they reported that the troops of the Xijiang United Front had already occupied Fuzhou and were continuing to advance to southern Fujian under the leadership of Xu Chongzhi, commander-in-chief of the parade.

This telegram may be the main reason why the Yantang barracks became empty, perhaps, after Long Jiguang received the telegram, he panicked, since the reinforcements are not coming, then, with the army of more than 10,000 people, it will not be able to gnaw down on Guangzhou City no matter what, and just this morning, news also came from Guangxi, because Wang Zhixiang, the acting governor of Guangxi, seized a large number of logistics materials and people, the Gui army that originally planned to reinforce Long Jiguang from Guangxi also stayed in the Guidong area. I don't know when I will be able to continue to advance eastward, so the reinforcements from Guangxi can't be counted on at present, whether they can take Guangzhou City, perhaps, it depends on Long Jiguang's own ability.

No matter how great Long Jiguang's ability is, he doesn't have the spell to sprinkle beans into soldiers, since the Min army and the Gui army loyal to the alliance can't come over, then, he Commander Long can only lead the troops to retreat.

Long Jiguang ran away, and ran away with thousands of his troops without saying hello, which made Chen Qimei very shocked, the Gui Army aiding Guangdong was the main military force of the "Second Revolution in Guangdong", and this army fled, then. What reason does Chen Qimei have to stay in Yantang?

So, Chen Qimei made a decision. He immediately announced to his subordinates the failure of the "Second Revolution in Guangdong" and advised everyone to disperse and break through.

"Breakout" exaggerates a bit. In fact, just a few hours after Chen Qimei and others fled to the Shamian Concession in Guangzhou to take refuge, the Cantonese army in Guangzhou found that the enemy army besieging the city had been dispersed, and one part fled to the mountainous area north of the city, and the other announced that they had gone to Ge and joined the Cantonese army.

When the governor of Guangdong sent someone to inform Cheng Biguang that the shelling could be stopped, Cheng Biguang was also very surprised, the naval task force arrived in Guangzhou only a day, and the artillery shells were only 100, this armed rebellion was actually quelled like this, which is indeed a little ironic, but considering that most of the actions in the anti-Qing uprising launched by the League in the past were also such dramatic endings, Cheng Biguang did not feel strange.

Moreover, now Cheng Biguang has more important things to do, so naturally he can't bother to think about how Chen Qimei and Long Jiguang will arrange their future.

When Zhang Renjun, the governor of Guangdong, sent someone to inform Cheng Biguang to stop the shelling, he also brought a piece of information, which was obtained by the Guangdong army during the interrogation of the captured prisoners of the Gui army, and the intelligence showed that a Japanese merchant ship flying the British flag would soon sail to the river near Guangzhou, and the ship was loaded with a large amount of ordnance and ammunition, all of which were Japanese arms to support the rebels in Guangdong.

This information is not trivial, so. After receiving the information, Zhang Renjun immediately sent people to send a telegram to the Beijing Presidential Office and the War Department. And the president quickly gave orders to the Admiralty.

The president's order was very simple: seize the ship, arrest the man!

This order needs to be carried out by the naval task force, so now Cheng Biguang's task is to seize the Japanese merchant ship and arrest those "international arms smugglers".

In fact, this task is not complicated, now the situation in Guangdong is chaotic, there are few foreign merchant ships that dare to come to Guangzhou City, it didn't take much effort, the naval task force found the Japanese merchant ship that was sneakily sailing upstream along the Pearl River, and then, the warship leaned up, and the sailors pointed at their guns, and the Japanese captain honestly stopped the ship, lowered the anchor, and then. More than two dozen crew members and several "passengers" with special status. and a shipload full of munitions and supplies were detained by the Chinese Navy

"Send a ship to tell the Guangzhou side that they will immediately send a telegram to the center, saying that the ship has been detained, and the arms smugglers have also been arrested.

Looking at those Japanese sailors, Cheng Biguang frowned and gave an order to an adjutant standing beside him.

Indeed, the rest of the matter is not something that he, a soldier, can handle, and this is a matter of foreign affairs, I'm afraid that the Minister General Tang of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs should have a headache again.

Cheng Biguang pondered playfully, turned his head to look at the sky, but saw that the sun was sinking in the west, and the sunset reflected the red river.

The country is picturesque, and heroes are hard to find.

Heroes are needed in this era. This era also creates heroes, and one of the temperaments of heroes is courage.