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In the Leshou Hall of the Summer Palace in Beijing, Yi Xuan presented a photo of Cen Chunxuan and Liang Qichao to Cixi. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Cixi looked at it carefully, her face was gloomy, and she said, "What's going on?" ”

"Back to Lafayette, this was sent by the people below. There are also some remarks about them, they say that Cen Chunxuan swore that Lafayette in the palace is not in good health, and now in the Qing Dynasty, he has the final say! Yi Liang said.

Yuan Shikai said: "Lafayette, Cen Chunxuan once said that he has the ability to overturn the case for the Wuxu Change. ”

Cixi scolded angrily: "Cen Chunxuan, a villain who will take revenge, this palace treats him like this, he actually did such a thing!" Come on! ……”

The great eunuch Li Lianying said: "Lafayette is angry, let's deal with it tomorrow, you are already very tired today." ”

Cixi glanced at Yixuan and Yuan Shikai, and said, "The palace is tired, you go back first, and then discuss it later." ”

After Prince Qing Yixuan and Yuan Shikai left Leshoutang, Cixi asked, "Little Lizi, why are you stopping this palace?" Is it because you and Cen Chunxuan are close? ”

Li Lianying hurriedly knelt in front of Cixi and said, "Lafayette is angry, the slave just wants to give Lafayette a wake-up call, how can Lord Cen betray Lafayette?" Lafayette, the slave heard about the photo of the Westerner, and he can use some means to put two people who don't want to do it on one photo, according to the slave, is this someone trying to frame Lord Cen? ”

Cixi pondered for a moment and said, "Then let Cen Chunxuan go to Liangguang to serve as the governor." ”

At this point, Cen Chunxuan was delegated to be the governor of Liangguang for the second time.

When Cen Chunxuan passed through Shanghai, he suddenly said that he was ill and did not go to Guangzhou to take up a job, he thought that Cixi would change his mind, but the Empress Dowager Cixi finally suspected that Cen Chunxuan had the intention of rebellion, and immediately issued an order to vacate him.

After Cen Chunxuan was expelled from the central power center, Yixuan and Yuan Shikai vigorously encouraged Cixi to encircle and suppress Hainan and eliminate Hainan's power in the country.

Cixi had been hesitant because she felt that her time was running out and she was worried that the battle would be out of control.

Chen Zhong learned that after Cen Chunxuan was fired. Qu Hongji was also squeezed out of the central agency as a result. At present, the Qing court is actually in the hands of Yixuan and Yuan Shikai. He was well aware that a civil war was imminent.

Chen Zhong immediately sent a telegram to the whole army, and the various armies in Hainan entered a state of combat readiness, and after nearly a year of rest, the size of the army in the Hainan army has expanded to a total strength of 2.3 million. The time was also relatively ripe for war with the Qing court.

Japan has always been suspicious of the occupation of the Liaodong Peninsula and the northern part of Korea by the Hainan army. Japan negotiated secretly with Russia, and signed the "Russo-Japanese Agreement" in Petersburg, Russia, on June 21, the 33rd year of Guangxu.

Its main content is to divide the three northeastern provinces of China into two parts, South Manchuria and North Manchuria, which are under the sphere of influence of Japan and Russia

The two countries have agreed not to seek privileges in each other's spheres of influence, nor to hinder each other from seeking privileges in their respective spheres of influence.

Russia recognizes Japan's existing political relations in Korea and "does not hinder the continued development of such relations";

Japan recognized Russia's "special interests" in China's Outer Mongolia and did not interfere in any way. The annex demarcates the dividing line between South Manchuria and North Manchuria. The line starts from the northwest end of the border between Russia and North Korea, connects Hunchun, the extreme north end of Jingpo Lake and Xiushui Dianzi in a straight line, and then follows the Songhua River to the mouth of the Nenjiang River, and traces the Nenjiang River to the upper reaches of the Taoer River and the intersection of 122 degrees east longitude.

The First Secret Treaty between Japan and Russia was the first step in the collusion between Japan and Russia, according to which Japan and Russia effectively carved up Northeast China, Outer Mongolia and Korea.

After learning of the thief's intentions of the secret collusion between Japan and Russia, Chen Zhong immediately announced that the Seventh Army stationed in Korea was marching towards the south of Korea.

At the same time, the Bohai Fleet stationed in Port Arthur was ordered to anchor at the Port of Shanghai, and the Hainan Fleet was sent to the Taiwan Strait.

Zhang Renjun, the governor of Liangguang, saw that the army of Hainan was fierce, and on the one hand organized the new army in Guangzhou to resist, and on the other hand, he hurriedly reported to the capital.

After Cixi learned that Chen Zhong had raised troops in Guangzhou, she asked Zhang Renjun to organize an army to defend Guangzhou, and on the other hand, she urgently ordered Songshou, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, to mobilize Jiangxi and Fujian garrisons to come for reinforcements.

Hainan's Qigang army had already occupied a certain strategic point in Guangzhou and Jiangxi, and Qigang divided its troops into three routes, and the first army was attacked by Li Yunlong's Fourth Army of the Guangzhou Group Army and Wang Guangkai's Sixth Army to Nanchang and Ganzhou respectively.

Liu Yongfu's Ninth Army and Liu Yongfu's adopted son Liu Chengliang's Nineteenth Army marched to Xiamen and Fuzhou in Fujian.

The battle of the city of Guangzhou was personally commanded by Qi Gang. Zhang Renjun, the governor of Liangguang, set up three lines of defense outside the city of Guangzhou, and gave the most tenacious sniper attack on the Hainan army.

The governor of Liangguang mobilized more than 50,000 new troops in the four towns. More than 20,000 infantry members, more than 3,000 horses, and seven artillery battalions participated in the Battle of Guangzhou.

Qi Gang's First and Second Armies fought bloody battles with the Qing army outside Guangzhou.

Qi Gang directly commanded the First Army to carry out a forced siege of Guangzhou. Hu Liben's Second Army also launched an offensive against Shantou in Guangdong.

Qi Gang's First Army, with three artillery regiments and nearly two hundred heavy guns, carried out an artillery bombardment of the city of Guangzhou that lasted nearly three hours.

Zhang Renjun ordered four artillery battalions to engage in a fierce artillery battle with Qi Gang's army at the first line of defense 80 kilometers outside the city of Guangzhou.

The new army of the Qing court was extremely combative, and Qi Gang's army met with the most stubborn resistance, and entered a stalemate for a while.

Zhang Renjun ordered the cavalry battalion, under the cover of heavy artillery fire, to make a strong impact on the artillery position of Qigang.

The artillery position of the First Army of Qi Gang was attacked three times by the cavalry battalion of the new army of the Qing court, and it was defeated and suffered heavy losses.

Qi Gang referred to the method of Li Chuang's Northeast Army to deal with the cavalry brigade of the Japanese Manchurian Army, and switched to a machine gun company to deal with these new army horse teams.

The heavy machine guns of the six machine-gun companies opened fire fiercely in the direction of the cavalry of the New Army, and the strange soldiers were hit by the dense bullets of the machine guns, and in less than half an hour, these cavalry battalions of the New Army were beaten to the ground.

Qi Gang's First Army finally broke through the first line of defense in Guangzhou, and on the second line of defense in the city of Guangzhou, the infantry of the new Qing army used bombs and rifle machine guns to carry out the most stubborn resistance against the infantry attacking Qi Gang's First Army.

Qi Gang transferred more than a dozen machine-gun companies from the whole army and began to violently attack the second line of defense of the Qing army outside Guangzhou.

The firepower of both sides was extremely intensive, and Zhang Renjun saw that the reinforcements from Fujian and Zhejiang were intercepted by the Hainan army in Jiangxi, and he felt that the city of Guangzhou was already in danger.

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