The arrival of Jiang Baili made Wang Hengyue, the governor of the Chinese Revolutionary Army and Political Axe, like a tiger!

And in the whole country, the era of the vigorous Great Revolution has finally arrived!

In order to extinguish the Sichuan uprising, the Qing court sent the minister Duan Fang to lead part of the Hubei new army into Sichuan to suppress it, which weakened the Qing army's defense in Hubei, and the revolutionaries decided to launch an uprising in Wuchang.

On September 14, 1911, under the impetus of the League, the Commune and the Communist Party established a unified leading organ for the uprising to unite against the Qing Dynasty. and decided to invite Huang Xing, Song Jiaoren or Tan Renfeng to come to Hubei to command the uprising and preside over the plan.

On September 24, the two revolutionary groups held a joint meeting and decided to launch an uprising on October 6. Representatives of the party members of all standard battalions participated, and the "draft personnel" and "uprising plan" were adopted, with Jiang Yiwu as the commander-in-chief, Sun Wu as the chief of staff, and Liu Gong as the prime minister.

At the same time, the Nanhu Artillery Brigade party rioted unsuccessfully. After the artillery incident, the authorities in the northern part of the Qing Dynasty ordered the confiscation of bullets from the new army troops, and at the same time strengthened the military and police forces in the market. The authorities convened a meeting of officials and decided that the army would celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival ahead of schedule and that there would be no holiday on 15 August.

On the 28th, Jiao Dafeng, a member of the Hunan Party, wrote to the Wuchang Uprising Headquarters that on October 6, the preparations for the uprising in Hunan were not sufficient, and the extension period was requested for 10 days. In addition, the important leaders of the League, Huang Xing and Song Jiaoren, failed to arrive in Wuhan. The headquarters of the uprising decided to launch a simultaneous attack in Hunan and Hubei provinces on October 16.

On 9 October, Sun Wu and others accidentally caused an explosion while preparing a bomb in the Russian Concession in Hankow. When the Russian patrol heard of this, they searched the list of revolutionaries, uprising proclamations, flags, etc., and leaked secrets. Liu and six others were arrested, and then exdited to the Hubei authorities. Ruicheng, the governor of Huguang, ordered the closure of the four cities and searched for revolutionaries everywhere. In desperation, the Revolutionary Party decided to immediately launch an uprising at 12 p.m. on October 9. However, the city of Wuchang was heavily guarded, and the revolutionaries of the various standard camps could not get in touch, and the plan for that night fell through. The revolutionaries in the Forces nouvelles contacted themselves and agreed to launch an uprising on the night of October 10 under the pretext of gunfire.

On the evening of October 10, the revolutionaries of the 8th Engineering Battalion of the New Army fired the first shot of the Wuchang Uprising, seizing the Chuwangtai Ordnance Station near Zhonghe Gate, and Wu Zhaolin was elected as the temporary commander-in-chief. Tens of thousands of rifles, dozens of cannons, and hundreds of thousands of bullets were captured, laying the foundation for the victory of the uprising. At this time, the revolutionaries stationed outside Wuchang City, the baggage brigade, the artillery battalion, and the engineering team also launched an uprising under the name of raising fire, and gathered at Chuwangtai. Cai Jimin, the 29th target, and Wu Xinghan, the 30th target, also led some of the rebel soldiers to rush out of the camp gate and rushed to Chuwangtai; Later, the revolutionaries in the standard camps inside and outside Wuchang City also led the people to revolt and rushed to Chuwangtai. The number of people in the uprising amounted to more than 3,000.

At 10:30 p.m. on October 10, the rebels attacked the Governor's Office and the adjacent Eighth Town Headquarters in three directions. He also ordered the 8th Artillery Standard, which had entered the city, to occupy firing positions at Zhonghe Gate and Snake Mountain, and bombard the Superintendent's Office.

At first, the insurgents did not have a strong command, and with insufficient troops, the offensive was thwarted. After 12 o'clock in the evening, the rebels attacked again, broke through the enemy's defensive lines, and set fire to the vicinity of the superintendent's office, marked by the light of the fire, and the artillery near the Snake Mountain and Zhonghe Gate fired artillery bombardment at the light. Ruicheng, the governor of Huguang, broke the back wall of the supervision office and fled by boat from the Yangtze River, and Zhang Biao, the commander of the eighth town, still resisted stubbornly in the headquarters. After repeated attacks, the rebels finally captured the Governor's Office and the town headquarters before dawn. Zhang Biao withdrew from Wuchang, and the whole of Wuchang was under the control of the rebel army.

In the middle of the night of 10 October, He Guanzhong, the sixth brother of He Ziyuan, the sixth brother of He Ziyuan, the main league member of the Jiaying Prefecture League, who was studying at the Military Advisory School in Baoding, and Li Jishen, who was in the same dormitory, and other classmates immediately organized the students of the military academy to take action, and immediately blew up the Caohe Iron Bridge near Baoding, successfully preventing the Qing army from moving south to suppress the revolution, and winning valuable time for the revolutionaries to prepare.

The revolutionaries in Hanyang and Hankou were moved by the wind and regained Hanyang and Hankou on the night of October 11 and October 12 respectively. After the rebel army took control of the three towns of Wuhan, the Hubei military and political axe was established, Li Yuanhong was elected as the governor, changed the name of the country to the Republic of China, and called on the people of all provinces to revolt in response.

The Wuchang Uprising finally broke out, and the lifespan of the Manchu Dynasty was numbered!

Sichuan.

With the great victory of the Chinese army in Chengjiachang and the news of the annihilation of the Duanfang army, the Sichuan rebels were all greatly excited!

In October, most of Sichuan's Banzhou counties were captured by the Baolu Comrade Army, and the Qing army was defeated everywhere and embattled. And with the outbreak of the Wuchang Uprising. Under the blows of the rapid development of the national revolutionary situation, the intensification of the armed struggle in Sichuan, and the deposition of the Qing court, Zhao Erfeng, the governor of Sichuan, was cornered!

To be sure, the centrality of the central government completely dominates the law and reason for the nationalization of the railways and the rejection of unreasonable compensation demands. However, the local officials hoped to ease the contradictions with the participants of the Baolu movement, promote nationalization as much as possible, and defuse the mass movement according to the situation. The Baolu Movement eventually turned into a bloody conflict, which was not only a conflict between revolution and reform, not only a conflict between different interest groups, but also a conflict between the central and local governments.

It's just that Zhao Erfeng didn't expect that the times have changed, the "revolutionary" movement has become the mainstream, and he himself really responded to the phrase "raising tigers to make trouble".

Wang Hengyue was indirectly raised by himself, and eventually led to the biggest "tiger" in Sichuan!

In the end, Zhao Erfeng not only failed to maintain a stable social order, but it is difficult to say whether his life can be saved.

After the "Chengdu tragedy", Zhao Erfeng found himself trapped in a huge black hole. On the one hand, he became the number one enemy of the pro-road movement, and on the other hand, the leaders, such as Duan Fang, who had been accusing him of being too weak, suddenly turned around and accused him of acting rashly and intensifying the contradictions. The Manchu Qing Dynasty successively sent Duan Fang, Cen Chunxuan and others into Sichuan to try to change generals, and at this moment, Zhao Erfeng immediately became an abandoned son, standing in an embarrassing situation where he was not a human being inside and outside.

Consciously or unintentionally promoted by various political forces, the Baolu Movement has evolved into an armed insurrection, and many prefectures and counties in Sichuan have declared their reading power. At this time, a gunshot rang out in Wuchang City. After the revolution, Hubei issued a threat in the name of the governor Li Yuanhong:

If Sichuan does not respond to the reading force, "they will be treated in the same way as they did with the Manchurians." Dai Jitao, a native of Guanghan in Sichuan and a special commissioner of the League, had already set out from Wuchang and entered Sichuan to direct military operations.

There are rebels outside, and political enemies are forcing each other everywhere, and Zhao Erfeng has reached the juncture where he must make a choice.

Under such circumstances, Zhao Erfeng could only release Pu Dianjun and others and hand over power to seek self-preservation.

Zhao Erfeng finally decided to release the arrested leaders of the Baolu movement, who also found that the movement was out of control, and they called for "ending the situation and returning to the peasants", but no one heeded them.

Zhao Erfeng handed over power, although he had the consideration of avoiding trouble, but from a military point of view, he still held a strong army and had the strength to continue fighting. The so-called "comrade army" is a rabble dominated by the robes, who are unable to fight, and "the number of defeats is nine and the number of victories is one".

The city defense army, which is completely loyal to Zhao Erfeng, has more than 20,000 troops and a military salary of more than 6 million yuan, which is enough to fight a protracted war. And there are still more than 10,000 people and a lot of baggage in the new army, and if he wants to continue fighting, it will be difficult for either the Baolu faction or the alliance to compete with it.

Within the political axe, there were also some people who wanted to continue the struggle and suppress the "rebellion", but Zhao Erfeng chose to hand over power peacefully

"Zhao Erfeng's death time has come." When he learned that Zhao Erfeng handed over power, Wang Hengyue's first sentence was like this.

"Zhao Erfeng has handed over power, it's still okay to save his life, right?" The subordinates were a little confused.

Wang Hengyue sneered: "If he doesn't hand over power, there is still a possibility of survival, and once he hands over power, he will inevitably die in the hands of those revolutionary parties!" ”

"Heng Shuai, telegram. A telegram from Dai Dai Ji Tao. ”

Wang Hengyue took it, and on the telegram, Dai Jitao, in the name of the special commissioner of the League and the commander-in-chief of the Sichuan military, ordered Wang Hengyue's army to immediately set off to the front line of Chengdu and wait for the transfer.

"Dog, you actually commanded us?" The subordinates were furious.

Wang Hengyue held the telegram in his hand and sneered: "Okay, okay." Now everyone is a revolutionary, everyone is calling for revolution, and since the League wants to command, I will let them command. Ma Xiao! ”

"Here!"

"Two hundred men were selected from the pistol battalion, and they arrived fifty miles from Chengdu, and they did not move. Ask those people in the city of Chengdu for food, military salaries, and weapons! ”

"Yes!"

"Wu Qianlong!"

"Here!"

"You also lead two hundred people for the second team, stop ten miles away from Ma Xiao, and ask Chengdu for food, military salaries, and weapons!"

"Yes!"

After Wang Hengyue finished ordering these things, he turned his gaze to Jiang Baili: "Chief of Staff, what should we do next?" ”

"Heng Shuai is well arranged, and he takes advance as retreat." Jiang Baili smiled slightly, and then said: "Since Chengdu has changed greatly, the Seventeen Towns are too busy to take care of themselves, so they can be divided into two steps, one step to solve the patrol battalions around us with lightning speed, and immediately seize Yibin again all the way!" ”

"Good!" Wang Hengyue said loudly: "Deng Xia! ”

"Here!"

"Yibin was beaten by us last time, and the defense in the city is empty, you immediately lead the armed guards to seize Yibin, and at the same time, transfer Yang Sen and Wang Zhanxu back to me!"

"Yes!"

Wang Hengyue looked around at his subordinates and said:

"Ladies and gentlemen, my Rong County is the first in the country, and the current situation is in chaos, all departments obey the command and are not allowed to move, whether it is the revolutionary party or anyone, they are not allowed to touch any inch here!"

"Yes!"

(To be continued)