readx;??? The Qing court issued an order to recapture Nanchang, and the Minister of War Yin Chang led two armies of the Beiyang Army from the Jiujiang River to Nanchang in the south. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

More than a dozen warships led by Navy commander Sa Zhenbing were intercepted by Hainan military ships at Poyang Lake.

Chen Zhong received an urgent telegram from Chen Fangzheng that the fleet of Hainan had confronted the Beiyang Navy led by the Qing Dynasty Sa Zhenbing at Poyang Lake.

Chen Fangzheng stated that Sa Zhenbing was a patriotic general. He was different from other diehards in the Qing court. Sa Zhenbing was also one of the first batch of naval talents to study in Britain in the Qing Dynasty.

Therefore, Chen Fangzheng hoped that he and Xu Chunsheng would come forward to persuade Sa Zhenbing to return to Hainan.

Chen Zhong agreed with Chen Fangzheng's opinion and ordered the Hainan warships docked at Poyang Lake to intercept Sa Zhenbing's fleet, besiege it but not attack, and force it to submit.

Chen Fangzheng immediately rushed from Hainan to Poyang Lake overnight, and jointly wrote a letter with Xu Chunsheng to send to Sa Zhenbing's command, persuading him to defect before the battle and do his part for the prosperity and strength of the Chinese nation.

Chen Fangzheng said in his letter that the Qing court was already a edifice that was about to collapse, and that the Qing government had betrayed the country to seek glory and pushed our thousands of years of Chinese civilization under the iron hooves of the Western powers for its own selfish desires, allowing them to ravage and trample on them.

Each of us Chinese men should not stick to the idea of loyalty for the sake of our so-called foolish loyalty. Instead, it should rise up to overthrow this decadent dynasty and fight for the revitalization of China.

The Hainan army was built specifically to revitalize China and expel the foreign powers.

This time, the Hainan army launched the Northern Expedition in order to smash this old dynasty, unify China, drive the foreign powers out of China, and revive our great Chinese nation.

Therefore, the king of Hainan has a special appreciation for the Sa Zhenbing system, and hopes that the Sa system can fight side by side with us for the strength and rise of the Chinese nation.

After Sa Zhenbing received the joint letter from Chen Fangzheng and Xu Chunsheng, he was silent for a long time.

The engineers of the "Chu Youjian" also talked about the incompetence and decay of the Qing court many times in private, and they were full of praise for the feats of the Hainan Fleet and the Bohai Fleet led by the King of Hainan in defeating the Japanese army on several occasions and deterring the fleets of Britain, France, the United States, and other countries.

They all said that if one day their fleet could fight to the fullest with the Western powers or the Japanese fleet like the Hainan fleet, it would be in vain. If they were still under the rule of the Qing court, their fleet would have died in their pockets.

After Sa Zhenbing's subordinates learned of the attitude of the Hainan Fleet, many of them were in favor of surrendering to the Hainan army.

The officers and men of the fleet pushed Tang Qianming to Sa Zhenbing and asked for righteousness. However, Sa Zhenbing is under pressure from all sides, including the United Kingdom.

He did not want to rebel against the Qing Dynasty, but he did not want to be the enemy of the Hainan Palace, and after careful consideration, he decided to quietly leave the fleet.

Sa Zhenbing claimed that he was unwell when he left the fleet, and asked the captains to deal with the situation on their own.

When Sa Zhenbing was leaving, he said sincerely to his subordinates: "Now that I am old, I can't bear to see innocent people ruined, and if it is delayed for a long time, there will be no way to deal with the court." The gentlemen are all young people, and they are eager and enthusiastic for the country, and I am favored by the Qing court and cannot be echoed. Now with the fleet to pay the king, attached to the south and the north are not asked, but please return my body for the rest of my life. He used a lantern to indicate to the warships and mineboats anchored in Poyang Lake: "I will go, and in the future, the military will wait for all ships to do their own thing." "In fact, it is to allow his subordinates to change the flag and revolt.

After the Qing court learned of Sa Zhenbing's departure and the navy's uprising, the government and the opposition were shaken a lot. Sa Zhenbing's choice at the critical moment had a great impact on the current situation.

Sa Zhenbing arrived in Jiujiang, where he spent the night at the British Consulate, and the next morning he disguised himself as a merchant and went to Shanghai on a merchant ship of the British company Swire Pacific.

The British Minister to China, Juerdian, wrote to the Foreign Secretary, Gray, saying: "The entire fleet under Admiral Sa Zhenbing has now been definitively returned to the Hainan Palace. Let's wait and see. ”

Yinchang received an order from the Qing court to conquer Nanchang, and this battle was of great significance

As a result, Yinchang joined the Praetorian Guard and Qing reinforcements from several nearby provinces, including artillery, infantry, and cavalry, totaling more than 30,000 people, to prepare for a decisive battle with the Hainan army in Nanchang.

Qi Gang issued an order to resolutely block the offensive of the Qing army moving south.

The Beiyang Navy and the Hainan fleet, which had defected before the battle, blocked the Qing army from Jiujiang on Poyang Lake.

The Qing army's army only made a detour to Lushan and Jingdezhen, and began to attack the Hainan army from the left and right sides of Nanchang City.

After a day and a half of rest, the Hainan defenders of Nanchang City prepared enough ammunition and set up two outer defensive lines outside the city. Nearly 200 heavy artillery pieces were placed outside the north gate of Nanchang City.

The Qing army launched five attacks successively, and the battle was very hard, and the two sides held each other desperately, because the battleships on Poyang Lake under the personal command of Xu Chunsheng shelled the rear road of the Qing army from the river, and the Fourth Army in Nanchang City flanked the Qing army back and forth.

The firepower of the infantry corps such as the Janissaries of the Qing court and the new army of several provinces was very strong, and the city of Nanchang was attacked by the Qing army most fiercely, and it was almost lost several times, and the defenders of Nanchang fought extremely hard.

That night, the Qing army advanced to the southeast and again attacked the city of Nanchang.

The fierce shelling on Poyang Lake restrained the powerful offensive of the Qing army. Eventually, the Qing army on the eastern route was routed.

The Qing army, which was in charge of the offensive on the western route, began to attack Nanchang under the leadership of Ruiliang, the governor of Jiangxi. Ruiliang saw the retreat of the Qing army on the east road, felt that the general trend had gone, and ordered the Qing army on the west road to flee to Hunan.

That night, Qi Gang decided to take advantage of the victory and launched an attack on Yueyang, Hunan.

At this time, the reinforcements of the Qing army in the north began to gather in Nanchang again, but the personnel, weapons and equipment could not be compared with the Hainan army at all.

The battle of Nanchang City entered the second stage, and the Janissaries of the Qing army came to the forward position of Nanchang, and their leaders did not make any combat arrangements, and after looking around, the people disappeared. On the same day, Yin Chang heard that the commander-in-chief of the Nanchang front was missing, so he directly gave the order to continue the attack.

On the morning of the second day, the Qing army, under the leadership of Meng Chang, attacked Nanchang again, and the combat force was mainly the regular army of the new army of the Janissary Army, and they used artillery bombardment with the Hainan army.

The first line of defense outside Nanchang City, which was massed more and more, was most stubbornly blocked by the Hainan army, and the Qing court reinforcements in the north could not break through the first line of defense outside Nanchang City.

However, in the defense of Nanchang, both sides suffered heavy casualties. In the afternoon, the Hainan army outside the city of Nanchang began a counteroffensive.

The Qing army retreated, building fortifications about a hundred miles outside Nanchang to block the counterattacking Fourth Army of the Guangdong Military Region.

In the evening, the fighting outside Nanchang entered a stalemate.

Qi Gang sent another division to Nanchang, where they would arrive the next morning.

At that time, outside the city of Nanchang, the army of Hainan will surely start a fierce battle with the Qing army again.

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