Chapter 157: Electrified, Energized!
On December 29, 1911, the seventeen southern provinces elected Sun Wen as the first provisional president of the Republic of China!
On January 1, 1912, the founding of the Republic of China was announced in Nanjing, and Sun Wen took office.
However, the battlefield situation at that time was seriously unfavorable to the revolutionary party. Under the fierce offensive of the Beiyang Army, the revolutionary party was defeated and retreated, and the three towns of Wuhan had been captured by Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Army.
In order to end the confrontation between the north and the south, on January 25, Yuan Shikai and various Beiyang generals sent a telegram to support the republic. On February 12, Yuan Shikai forced the Qing Emperor to abdicate, and the Empress Dowager Longyu accepted the preferential conditions, and the Qing Dynasty's rule over China was terminated.
For this moment, ignoring the people with lofty ideals, they went forward and forgot to die, and this day has finally come!
The humiliating history of the Chinese nation under foreign domination for more than 260 years has come to an end at this moment!
On February 15, the Nanjing Senate officially elected Yuan Shikai as the provisional president. According to the provisional constitution of the Republic of China, the presidential system was changed to a cabinet system, which greatly reduced Yuan Shikai's power, but Yuan Shikai insisted on taking office in Yanjing on March 10.
But in the three southwestern provinces, the situation has taken a sharp turn for the worse!
Guizhou.
The political situation here was very chaotic, with confrontations between the Confederacy, the Autonomous Society, and the constitutionalists of the Constitutional Preparatory Council. Therefore, Liu Xianshi, Ren Kecheng and others of the constitutionalist faction invited Dai Jian to Yunnan to discuss with Cai Jie, hoping that the Northern Expeditionary Army would divert Guizhou and support them in controlling the Guizhou regime, which was agreed by Cai Yi and Tang Jiyao. Cai's original intention was to let the Dian army transit through Guizhou and not prepare to stay.
Zhong Changzuo, the leader of the Guizhou Autonomous Society, arrived in Kunming from Nanjing and advised Cai Ye not to intervene in the internal dispute in Guizhou. As a result, Cai immediately instructed Tang Jiyao to support Shaanxi through Sichuan, and told him that the Nanjing War Department was also ready to appoint him as commander-in-chief of the Northern Expedition. However, Tang Jiyao, instigated by Dai Jian and others, decided to send troops to Guizhou to seize power. Under Tang's repeated requests, Cai Ye had no choice but to let Tang Jiyao act cheaply. Tang Jiyao suddenly attacked and captured Guiyang, and slaughtered the captured Guizhou troops, regardless of officers and soldiers, and imposed a reign of terror.
Sichuan.
The contradictions between the Sichuan army and the Sichuan army escalated, and the conflict was further intensified.
Wang Hengyue, deputy governor of the "Han Sichuan Military and Political Axe" and commander of the Reading Power Mixed Division, opened a posture in Yibin to prepare for a big fight. Artillery, machine guns all into position! The main forces of the two regiments were also spread out from the two wings, putting on a posture of encircling and reinforcing the Sichuan army.
Chengdu constantly issued telegrams, and while supporting Wang Hengyue's "defense of the revolution," it also constantly accused Yucheng and Yunnan of trying to provoke a war.
Yucheng also sent telegrams one after another, accusing Chengdu of being a "pseudo-revolution and a fake revolution", and at the same time calling on Wang Hengyue, the "first hero of the revolution", to understand the general situation, support the real revolutionary political axe, stop armed confrontation, strike a counterattack, defeat Chengdu, and make new contributions to the revolution.
In short, the two sides are one telegram after another, telegrams are flying all over the sky, and saliva is flying all over the sky!
The focus is on Wang Hengyue!
Although Wang Hengyue has only one division in his hands, if he supports Yucheng, he can wave his troops to take the subdues, and join forces with the Yucheng army, the Guizhou army, and the Dian army, and Chengdu can be broken overnight.
If you support Chengdu, you can storm the opposite side to aid the Sichuan army and take advantage of the situation to force Yucheng!
However, Wang Hengyue, who has always been known as the "general of electricity", seemed to have become a gourd with a sawed mouth at this time, and he did not express any opinions.
His reading power mixed division, it looks like he is preparing for a big fight, mobilize today, divide the troops tomorrow, just wait and wait, Wang Hengyue just doesn't fire a shot.
What calculations Wang Hengyue is making in his heart, no one can figure it out!
It was at this time that an accident happened.
After the Wuchang Uprising, Huang Fang, a member of the League, was released from prison. At that time, Chengdu, Chongqing, and Lu all established the Governor's Office, and he believed that "in case of competition, the Sichuan situation would be in danger", and volunteered to Lu to serve as the commander-in-chief of the southern Sichuan military and political axe. After taking office, he strengthened public security and sent troops to clear the township. Only the former Qing County of Hejiang ordered Huang Bingxie to stick to the city and not accept the leadership of the southern Sichuan military and political axe. At the right time, the Yunnan army moved south, in a vain attempt to get into the wealth of southern Sichuan, and the vanguard troops had already arrived at Hejiang, and the masses were very indignant at what the Yunnan army had done, and a conflict would break out.
Huang Fang carefully analyzed the situation, and on January 17, 1912, he led 300 troops to Hejiang to mediate.
Later, on January 21, on the way back to Lu, he was suddenly ambushed by Ma Weilin, head of the Xie Ruyi detachment of the Yunnan Army, Huang Yucheng, the leader of the Yunnan Army, and Huang Zihe of the Li Hongxiang Division of the Second Echelon Regiment of the Yunnan Army.
In order to protect the troops, Huang Fang took the risk of mediating, but the Dian army did not mediate and did not interrogate, and actually killed him and more than 100 accompanying officials.
Huang Fang's subordinates Su Jun and Dong Hanqing escaped; The rear team escaped by crossing the river through Baisha when they heard about the change, but only a few people escaped, and the rest were all captured and killed, and only one revolutionary party knew Huang Yucheng, the leader of the Yunnan army, and shouted "The revolutionary party does not kill the revolutionary party" on the killing field, and the people who scolded Huang Yucheng were released.
Huang Fang was killed, shaking the whole Sichuan!
In addition, the Qing army entered Tongguan again and threatened Sichuan, and several things were added together, and the people of Sichuan were in turmoil.
On the second day of Huang Fang's murder, Wang Hengyue, the deputy governor of the "Sichuan Military and Political Axe of the Han Dynasty" and the commander of the Reading Power Mixed Division, suddenly burst into tears, sincere and sincere, but with stern wording:
"The murder of Commander-in-Chief Huang is really the pain of the whole Sichuan, the whole country, and the revolution! Thinking of Yu Ci, Hengyue can't eat day and night, mourning the loss of Sichuan, the loss of the whole country, and the loss of the revolution! Commander-in-Chief Huang is immortal!
The success of the revolution is imminent, and the division of Sichuan is still there! Chengdu and Chongqing are separated, the political power of the two armies is not unified, the finances cannot be sorted out, and the Yunnan army is arrogant, the elder brother is vertical and horizontal, and the long-term delay is indecisive, and the Sichuan people will suffer deeply.
If we want to seek the reunification of the whole country, we must first seek the reunification of one province. It is advisable to set up a military and political axe in Chengdu, and Yucheng and Tibetan provinces each set up sub-prefectures, and place a unified capital, all of which are under the control of the future military and political axe. Hengyue is a soldier who also understands the overall situation, and calls on Chengdu and Chongqing to take into account the overall situation, make overall plans, and eliminate opinions in order to seek reunification!
Today, Sichuan is in danger, and in the long run, the people's livelihood is suffering, all industries are withering, and the place is ruined, and this Sichuan disaster is also!
If Chengyu insists on refusing to negotiate peace, then although Hengyue is only one division of the people, the few soldiers are weak, but for the sake of Sichuan, he is willing to raise the officers and soldiers of the whole division and fight to the death! Attacking the Yunnan army, breaking the Guizhou army, attacking Chengdu, and fighting Chongqing, although there is no possibility of success, Hengyue has no regrets! Horse leather shroud, the duty of a soldier, why be afraid? I only wish that I would be wrapped in a white cloth behind my body and get the book 'Wang Hengyue who died for the whole Sichuan', and my wish is enough!
Hengyue wept blood and lamented, Sichuan was broken, and disaster was in front of you! Chengdu and Chongqing are concentric, then Sichuan can be vibrate; Chengyu centrifugation, then everything is over! Power up the whole Sichuan to show the mood! ”
The last signature was "Wang Hengyue, a pawn before the revolutionary horse".
This telegram is really "blood and tears", which makes everyone who hears it moved.
Especially the sentence "Wang Hengyue died for the whole Sichuan", which simply made people cry for Wang Hengyue's bitterness for Sichuan.
The Reading Power Mixed Division also put on a posture and was divided into four teams, and it was really going to fight to the death with the Guizhou Army, the Dian Army, Chengdu, and Yucheng as a lonely army!
As soon as the telegram came out, all Sichuan supported the "pawn Wang Hengyue" and loudly called for Chengdu-Chongqing negotiations to end the civil strife as soon as possible.
Wang Hengyue's telegram came out at the right time, and the people of Sichuan remembered this Wang Hengyue and remembered everything he did for Sichuan.
"Heng Shuai's telegram is better than 100,000 soldiers, and the hearts of Sichuan people are all on Heng Shuai's side." After the power was sent, Jiang Baili said with a smile.
"My heart is a sincere heart." Wang Hengyue laughed evilly: "Let a few regiment commanders give Lao Tzu a little back, just put on a show, don't be too protruding, it's self-defeating if you really fight!" ”
Jiang Baili smiled and shook his head: "If you put on a show, others have to take it seriously." It is still our strength that is not enough, otherwise the soldiers will directly unify the whole Sichuan, why bother so much! ”
"Yes, the strength is still not enough." Wang Hengyue nodded: "The recruitment points in several places are quite good, but this soldier has been summoned, and he can't be put into the army immediately." You have to train, you have to have weapons. And the lack of officers, which really gives me a headache. ”
Jiang Baili thought for a moment: "The first batch of students of the Army Academy is also about to graduate, I think they can be filled into the army as officers, and by the way, they can also learn more experience and learn how to lead soldiers to fight!" ”
"I'm going to move the Army Academy to Leshan, Rong County is not a big place after all." Wang Hengyue said: "At the same time, I am going to change the 'Rongxian Army Academy' to the 'Leshan Military Academy', not only the army, but also the navy. ”
Originally, I wanted to talk about the Air Force, but now it's too early to say. I thought of Feng Ru who I asked Kleiman to find, but I don't know why Feng Ru hasn't come yet.
Last year, Kleiman sent a telegram to himself in Guangzhou, saying that he had found Feng Ru and showed Feng Ru the strange drawing drawn by Wang Hengyue.
It is time to count Feng Ru and arrive.
Thinking left and right, he was not at ease, and he had already sent his subordinates to pick up Feng Ru along the route into Sichuan.
"Heng Shuai is high-minded, and he doesn't just focus on the army, so good." Jiang Baili's words interrupted Wang Hengyue's train of thought:
"When you look at a military power, it's not just the army, it's the navy that's just as important. I think of a person who once joined the Xingzhong Society, and successively served as the warship manager, the director of the Harbour Master's Department, and the commander of the cruiser fleet. He also visited Cuba, Mexico and other places, threatened with artillery force, forced the local people to no longer discriminate against our Chinese, and even forced the Cuban president, Mexican political axe, etc. to apologize, but now living in Shanghai, this person is called "
Before Jiang Baili's words fell, Wang Hengyue had already called out first:
"Cheng Biguang!"
(To be continued)