Changsha is located in the northeast of Ganhu South. Xiangjiang Donggu is the convenient and lazy traffic artery of Duzhuang, known as "Jingyu lips and teeth, Guangdong throat" has always been a place where soldiers must fight, if you want to control Hunan, you must control Changsha.

After the "Wushen Revolution", the Communist Party of China was in charge of Hunan, and Changsha naturally became the political center of the Communist Party, but with the outbreak of the Hunan coup, the iron-blooded eighteen-star flag fluttering at the head of Changsha City had fallen sadly, and was replaced by a five-sè flag symbolizing the republic, and the owner of the city was also replaced by the Hunan Junxian faction.

After seizing the provincial government, the Hunan Junxian faction immediately organized a small temporary zhèngfǔ, and said to the outside world that the nominal head of the "Xianyou Association" was the acting governor of Hunan, Ben Chūn Mo, but in fact, the person who presided over the Xianyou Association was the speaker Tan Yantian, but neither of these two people could be regarded as the true rulers of Hunan, and Huang Zhonghao, the envoy of the town of Munan, was the current "King of Hunan"

Because Huang Zhonghao has soldiers in his hands, his words have a lot of weight in the Constitutional Friendship Association, that is, the group of representatives in the parliament, and they are all made by Huang Zhenshou to make the horse head is Zhan, as for the acting governor of Hunan Chūn Zhen, he is purely a wooden man, first, he has no foundation, and second, the new Hunan Governor Tang Hualong is on the way to Changsha, Tang Dudu is the genuine Ran Governor, who was officially appointed by the center and President Yuan, not the transitional figure of Ben Chūn Mo.

However, Huang Zhonghao's prestige is rapidly disappearing, and the reason is very simple, because he has suffered defeats in the past two days, the patrol army under his command has suffered heavy losses, more than half of the troops have been lost, morale is low, and the morale of the army is weak, and it is impossible for him to assume the responsibility of defending Hunan Province and defending the Constitutional Friendship Association.

At present, a meeting is being held in the Hunan Provincial Assembly on the topic of impeachment of Huang Zhonghao. And it was none other than the initiator of this impeachment case. It is Speaker Tan Yanhe, in the face of the crisis, the differences hidden under the harmony of the Junxian faction have been completely exposed, and the current situation in Hunan does need a scapeGoat to take responsibility, Huang Zhonghao is a ready-made water dog, Speaker Tan raised his arms and shouted, and the parliamentarians below naturally responded in groups, and the meeting lasted only a few minutes. The House of Representatives has passed the impeachment motion, and it was passed by a large majority.

It is no surprise that Huang Zhonghao, the "King of Hunan", was removed from military power, and he was replaced by Nie Lei, the commander of the patrol army, who was the son of the former governor of Jiangsu, Nie Jiliang, the son of Lord Nie, and the same as Speaker Tan Yantian Tan, he was also a noble son from a family.

In fact, the most suitable candidate to replace Huang Zhonghao as the Hunan town guard should be Zhang Qini, the former deputy commander of the patrol army. He is not only a soldier who knows the army, but also is born on the right path of the imperial examination, can be civil and martial, and has a close personal relationship with Tan Yanchuang, a son of a family, and should be the most qualified general among the commanders of the Hunan army to serve as the town guard. However, because Zhang Qini was injured by a shell in the battle the day before yesterday and was unable to see things, the position of the town guard was cheaper than Nie Lei.

Of course, this is only one of the reasons. There is another reason that no one dares to take over the post of Hunan town guard at present, and the reason is very simple, because the enemy army attacking Changsha this time is the famous republican army, and its commander is Wu Zhenhan, deputy commander-in-chief of the republican army.

It is said that the replacement of the Hunan town guard should be approved by the center and President Yuan, but now the situation is critical, and the Hunan Provincial Assembly can't take care of it so much, not to mention, in the eyes of these monarchs, the constitution is the first, as for the interim president Mr. Yuan Shikai, but he can't override the law, the provincial government of Hunan is decided by the Hunan Zhuzhong himself, and President Yuan has no need to meddle in everything, at most make up the appointment procedures, just go through a procedure, there is no need to stretch his hand too long. The crowd finally drove out a communal meeting. There is no need to get along with yourself anymore, and ask for instructions from the head in everything, what is the difference between this and the previous Qing Dynasty?

Therefore, the Hunan Constitutional Friends Association decided to cut it first and then play it, and after the town guard was replaced, then ask President Yuan Da to make a telegram to confirm the candidate, anyway, Huang Zhonghao was elected in this way, didn't President Yuan Da also approve the candidate afterwards?

Of course, the replacement of the town guard envoy is only one of the topics on the agenda of today's meeting, and the more important topic is how to solve the current crisis.

According to the battle report just now from the front line, the vanguard of the Republican Army has advanced to Qiaotou Town, which is only 50 miles away from Changsha City, and has divided its troops there into two routes, one to continue to assault to the south, and the other to the east.

Changsha is already in danger.

Now there are only two ways in front of the Hunan Constitutional Friendship Association, one is to send people to negotiate with the Republican Army. It is the best policy to end this chaotic "Hunan Change" peacefully and dignifiedly, and the other way is to move the provincial zhèngfǔ and the provincial parliament to Hengyang, southern Xiangnan. and waited for the opportunity to get in touch with Zhang Renjun, the governor of Guangdong. However, this road is not easy to follow, one is that the remnants of the Communist Advancement Association in Yunnan are now marching north, trying to restore their rule over Hunan, and the other is that the Guangdong side has a wait-and-see attitude towards the Hunan Revolution and may not be able to support the Xianyou Association, so it is the next policy to move the provincial constitution to Hengyang.

The faction led by the local Zhuzhong in Changsha resolutely opposed the relocation of the provincial zhèngfǔ and the provincial parliament to Hengyang, because most of their property is near Changsha, although the deposits in foreign banks can be easily transferred to other places, but those real estate and real estate are not said to be taken away, and now in this situation, they can't even sell it, and the Zhushen people never want to see their real estate disappear like this, they would rather stick to Changsha, Wait for the situation to change.

However, the faction of parliamentarians headed by Tan Yantian advocated immediately abandoning Changsha and retreating to Hengyang, and if they could not hold Hengyang, they had even decided to flee to Guangdong and defect to Zhang Renjun, and then turned north to report to the center that the Republican Army had "started a war without authorization" and used legal weapons to maintain "justice"

However, no matter which faction they were, they did not give up hope of peace talks with the IRA, and just before the meeting, they sent two groups of congressional representatives to the north to wait for the forward troops of the IRA. In order to visit the deputy commander of Wu and seek a decent solution to the Hunan change, instead of being eliminated as a "rebel".

The resolution of the Constituent Assembly a few days ago made it clear that the coup d'état in Hunan and Guizhou was a "betrayal of the revolution", and that all those who participated in the coup were "rebellious" and that the rebel army must eliminate them all!

In other words, the borrowers sitting in the Hunan Provincial Assembly are all "rebellious", and according to the resolution of the Constituent Assembly, they are no longer protected by the law, and their property will be confiscated as "reverse property" as punishment for the rebellion of the monarchists.

Of course, the politicians and Shin members of the Constitutional Friendship Association were not reconciled. They also never recognized themselves as "republican rebels", insisting that the Hunan Incident was a "deep revolution" in order to eliminate the theft

The revolution launched by the "bandits" was not mistaken by the fact that they listened to the words of a small number of constituent councillors in the south and passed the resolution in violation of the law when the number of people was insufficient.

In other words. This "war of rebellion" is fundamentally against the constitution, so the Hunan Constitutional Friends Association called this war the "Battle of Hunan-Hubei" and President Yuan Da also held the same view.

However, no matter how much they argue, it is useless, and now the whole country, especially the southern provinces, is shouting and beating, and the revolutionary groups of various factions have jointly formed a rebel army, which is a move to conform to the will of the people and the people, not only is the republican army marching to Changsha, but Yan Xishan and Li Liejun of Jiangxi are also leading their troops to advance to southern Jiangxi and eastern Hunan, and the communist association in Yunnan has even seized the opportunity to launch a large-scale counterattack on Hunan, threatening to pacify the monarchical faction, and as for the Endeavor Association, which is far away in Henan and has almost no relationship with Hunan, it is also quite active and is seeking to take charge of Henan provincial government." It seems that the revolutionaries intend to take this opportunity to seize all power in the southern provinces in one fell swoop and seek an advantage for the upcoming formal presidential election, because each province will send a number of representatives in the official presidential election of the Republic of China, so which faction will control the most provinces. Which faction will decide Yuan's future in the presidential election.

After the Hunan Revolution, in order to show loyalty to President Yuan Da, the Hunan Constitutional Friends Association sent a joint telegram, resolutely supporting Yuan Shikai's inauguration as the official president, hoping to exchange this for the central government's recognition of the Hunan coup.

However, what happened in the next few days frightened the Hunan Constitutional Friends Association, and they never expected that the southern revolutionaries would respond to the Hunan coup d'état with such a tough attitude, let alone that they did not expect it. Commander-in-Chief Zhao Beizhao, who once had a "good impression" of the Hunan constitutionalists, was actually a good hand at changing his face, and after the Hunan Revolution, he actively responded to the call for rebellion, and issued a crusade order against Hunan in the capacity of the commander-in-chief of the rebel army.

In the end, it was still a question of strength, and the Hunan constitutionalists were suffering from the rule of the Communist Advancement Association, and in order to reduce the army and reduce taxes, they decided to launch a coup d'état, drive out the Recommendation Association, and decide the number of Hunan troops by themselves.

But now, the Hunan constitutionalists regretted it. Because they suddenly found that no matter how hard they tried, the number of troops in Hunan was not determined by themselves, but by others, and that as long as the ambitions of the neighboring provinces to covet Hunan were not extinguished, a sufficient number of troops must be maintained in Hunan Province. Military salaries and military expenses are also indispensable.

But since it is certain that so many troops must be maintained. Why did you have to drive the CCP out in the first place? Isn't this taking off your pants and farting?

These days, for this catty. There was no shortage of debates within the Constitutional Friends Association, and now, as the House of Representatives session deepened, the topic was picked up again, and the parliamentarians blamed each other. There was even a big fight, and in the end, there was a lot of commotion in the house, even the speaker and deputy speaker

Beat.

There is no way, seeing that the rebel army is about to kill under the city of Changsha, everyone's net worth is in danger. The "civilization" mask hanging on the face, the "Zhu Shen" vest worn on the body have been taken off and thrown aside, everyone Suo xìng spoke with fists, when the Hunan army for the Qing court to destroy the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, it was relied on fists, fists not only brought them fame, but also brought wealth, many of the Zhu Zhong in the Xianyou Association were the descendants of the generals of the Hunan army back then, the know-how of the ancestors to make a fortune was finally not forgotten, so they could open the posture and practice with others.

Tan Yan also received two punches when he returned to the rack. I don't even know who hit him, but he was calm, didn't fight back indiscriminately, just stood aside and shouted.

"A gentleman doesn't move his hands, a gentleman doesn't move his hands.

Who just hit me? ”

He clenched his fists as he spoke, but before the strong man could get on the registration number, he suddenly heard a muffled sound of "boom", as if it was just above his head.

At this moment, everyone calmed down, and after a moment's pause, they saw a man rushing into the chamber of parliament and shouting.

"The IRA is coming! The Republican Army is coming! ”

This shout was not tight, but everyone was startled, and they couldn't care about the fight at the moment, so they shouted and dispersed, and many old masters fainted on the spot, and were carried out of the Hunan Provincial House by the servants.

Tan Yantian also escaped from the auditorium, and walked to the street to see the high explosion of cannonballs in the sky, and the pieces of paper were flying one after another, like goose feathers and heavy snow, and the ground was sprinkled with colorful pieces of paper.

Tan Yanmu had spent a lot of time in Wuhan, had observed the Republican Army's small military exercises, and knew that these were propaganda shells for the Republican Army to enter the city, so he leaned over and picked up a few propaganda leaflets, but saw that they were written with revolutionary slogans and the content urging the Constitutional Friends to surrender unconditionally, and his tone was stern and his position was clear.

"Speaker Tan. What to do? What to do? It's still too late to get out of the city. ”

The little man drove the two mules over, and asked Tan Yan for advice covered in sweat.

Tan Yantian fixed his eyes, but this person was a member of the Constitutional Friends Association, named Cao Dianqiu, who had studied in Rìben, and was the superintendent of the Industrial School before the revolution. After the revolution, he speculated in the army, was one of the initiators of the Constitutional Friendship Association, and was very close to Tan Yanhui.

"Seed, how do you dress up like this?" Tan Yantian couldn't help frowning when he saw that this person was dressed as a coolie.

Cao Dianqiu raised his sleeve and wiped his sweat, and said, "I firmly support the relocation of the provincial constitution to Hengyang." Speaker Tan, don't be stunned, come out of the city with me, otherwise, when the Republican army surrounds me, you won't be able to run if you want to. ”

Tan snorted coldly: "Run now? It's too late. No matter how fast your mule is, can you outrun the cavalry of the Republican Army? If you want to go, you go, I stay. Thou mule lends me for the work. ”

When he finished, he mounted a mule and headed west of the city, where the sound of the cannon came.

Cao Dianqiu was stunned, stomped his feet, and also rode on a mule, following Tan Yanqiu.

The two walked to the west city, climbed the city wall, and looked at the Xiangjiang River with the rumbling cannons.

However, he saw two small gunboats going upriver along the Xiangjiang River, firing cannons at Changsha City as they went. Most of the propaganda bombs exploded over the city, and leaflets were flown one after another, which was spectacular.

The two gunboats each had an iron-blooded republican flag flying at the stern, and they were shaking in the face of the river wind.

Although these two small gunboats were small, the defenders of Changsha did not dare to fire at them. First, they were afraid of retaliation from the other side, and secondly, because the commander of the city defense had disappeared without a trace, and no one gave orders, and there was a British gunboat and a French merchant ship anchored on the Xiangjiang River, and they were also afraid that the shells would not be long. Accidentally injured a friend.

Seeing that it was not the army units of the republican army that killed the city of Changsha, but the navy troops, Tan Yanhui's hanging heart relaxed a little, and said in his heart: "It's still too late to get out of the city, should you stay in Changsha, or move to Hengyang?" Go? ”

Holding a few leaflets, Tan Yanhui fell into deep thought.