"Its momentum has been achieved, its wings have been abundant, and it has gradually soared and dominated, and it is not subject to supervision and central control......"

Within the Qing court, Chen Wenqiang, a powerful local faction in Liangguang and Guangzhou, was evaluated in this way. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

If we look at the political situation in China as a whole, the same can be said about the revolutionary military government in the southwest. The influence has reached the territory of the two provinces, and the political, economic, and military structures have been basically completed, and an independent government has been formed. At least in the eyes of many foreigners, the rebels are no longer enough to describe the revolutionary army.

In such a revolutionary situation, even if the Chinese Revolutionary Party picks up the old signboard of the League, its influence will be irretrievable, and it will be even more difficult to compete with the Revolutionary United Front.

Regardless of the tendency to become inflammatory, if the revolution has the same goal and there is a thriving and hopeful revolutionary work, why should it have to start from scratch and start from scratch with great difficulty?

As for the revolutionary strategy and theory, not to mention who is superior and who is inferior, just looking at the revolutionary achievements of the united front is a very realistic proof of this.

What's more, the revolutionary leader is not one, in terms of propaganda, momentum, achievements, influence, etc., Song Fuhua seems to have surpassed Beichen. The so-called rising tide lifts all boats, and the strength of the revolutionary front has also further highlighted Song Fuhua's nobility and correctness.

If it is fairly evaluated, although Beichen is a pioneer of the revolution, its influence in China is not as exaggerated as in the history books. It's just that he had a good student and became the head of China, and after continuous beautification, he made the image of Beichen perfect.

Of course, it is appropriate to define Beichen as a "revolutionary pioneer". But is the forerunner absolutely right, and is it to be supported by everyone? Obviously, even judging from the historical events of the alliance at that time, it was not the case.

Chen Qimei is a figure in history, but it is a pity that he was born at the wrong time, and he dreamed of exerting his strength and establishing a revolutionary base in Shanghai. But he didn't know that Shanghai Tang was basically Chen Wenqiang's world and had become a solid revolutionary base.

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The Chinese Revolutionary Party, or rather, renamed the League, continued to carry out the revolutionary movement in accordance with Beichen's strategy. There is no need to think about it in the southwest, and the Huidang and Lvlin in Liangguang have also been suppressed by Chen Wenqiang, and they can only focus on the Yangtze River basin again.

And the work of the Chinese Revolutionary Party has just begun. Far from seeing results, the Southwest Revolutionary Army launched another offensive and burned the flames of revolution to Sichuan, the land of abundance.

On January 23, 1908, the revolutionary army dispatched its entire line and took the initiative to attack from the east, west, and south, giving the illusion of besieging Kunming, an important town.

With the replenishment of weapons and equipment, the training of soldiers and the training of officers, the combat strength of the entire revolutionary army has been markedly enhanced. The results achieved are also difficult to suspect that they were feints.

More than 20,000 revolutionary troops, with brigades as units, carried out key strikes and breakthroughs on the Qing army's defense line, and the counties of Ashan, Tonghai, Huaning, Quang Nam, Xilin, and Qiubei were recovered one after another within a few days.

Just as Xiliang saw the deployment of the Qing army on the map, he once predicted very pessimistically that to prevent and block success, "unless the Great Wall of Ten Thousand Miles". It was almost impossible for the Qing army to divide the siege and hold on to the long and complex defensive line. In terms of total strength. The Qing army was several times the size of the revolutionary army, but it was in any pass and important place. The troops, however, could not withstand the onslaught of the revolutionary army.

Moreover, the Qing army, which maintained the defensive line, wanted to form a defense in depth, but was constrained by a shortage of troops and food. This creates a danger that once a little bit is breached, the entire line of defense will collapse and collapse.

It was precisely by taking advantage of this that the revolutionary army formed a local superiority in strength and concentrated its forces for surprise attacks. Break through a little and then detour the backs of other Qing troops, so as to shake and destroy the entire defense line of the Qing army.

lost, defeated; Lost, defeated...... Xiliang was so overwhelmed by the news that he had to personally lead the new army and thousands of patrol battalions from Hubei out of Kunming. Rushed to Maitreya to supervise the battle.

In fact, the Qing army collapsed and disintegrated very quickly, which can only show that the Qing army's will to fight was weak, and they abandoned and fled at the slightest disadvantage. It is precisely because of this that the results of the revolutionary army's breakthrough and outflanking the enemy were not as expected. The Qing army was really running too fast, and it had just broken through here, and it had already retreated there. However, the impact of the recovered territory is very great, and it has also achieved the purpose of feint attack and containment.

On 8 February, the western Yunnan Military Region, the main direction of attack, finally made its efforts. Its main force confronted the Qing army in Nanhua and Yao'an, and the more than 5,000 troops entering Sichuan set out from Lijiang, crossed the Jinsha River in the east, broke the Qing army's defenders along the river, and advanced straight in, recovering Yongsheng and Huaping one after another, entering the Sichuan border, and easily recovering the three counties of Yanbian, Miyi, and Huili, and initially achieved the strategic goal of entering Sichuan and seizing the base.

On February 24, the troops in Sichuan marched south with 3,000 men and horses, and the weakness of the Qing army's defense line was exposed, and a small number of Qing troops in Renhe and Yongren either surrendered or fled.

At this point, as long as Chu Xiong pulls out the last nail, the Yunnan and Sichuan Guangfu regions will be united, and the strategic initiative will be completely grasped.

At this time, Xiliang woke up like a dream and realized that he had made a mistake in judgment, and the main direction of attack of the revolutionary army was in the west and northwest. But it was too late, the entire line of defense was facing a crumble, and regrouping the troops was not a task that could be accomplished in a short time. However, the revolutionary armies in the west and east directions still maintained pressure on the Qing army, making it difficult to mobilize.

In desperation, Xiliang could only urgently call the governor of Sichuan, asking him to mobilize the Sichuan Qing army to the south to intercept it, and ordered the Kunming defenders to draw out a part to reinforce Chuxiong; He stepped up his efforts to rectify the defeated troops who had retreated from the first line of defense, and carried out a contraction defense, taking the initiative to abandon Yuxi and Maitreya, and arranging a new defense line around Kunming with Yimen, Puning, Chengjiang, Shilin, and Yiliang as the focus.

On 9 March, the Western Yunnan Revolutionary Army divided its troops and attacked around and conquered Shuangbai County, a barrier to the south of Chuxiong, forming a situation of encirclement on three sides against the Qing army in Chuxiong.

On 10 March, the troops in Sichuan marched eastward from Yuanmou and attacked and occupied Wuding, directly threatening Kunming, which was already empty.

On March 11, Xiliang led the Hubei New Army back to Kunming to strengthen the defense; At the same time, in order to prevent the Qing army of Chuxiong from being surrounded and annihilated, he ordered to abandon Chuxiong, retreat to Lufeng, and dispatch men and horses to counterattack Wuding together with Kunming troops and relieve the threat of the northwest of Kunming.

The battle came to an end around 15 March, when the revolutionary army broke through the Qing army's defense line, recovered more than 10 county seats, and annihilated more than 20,000 enemies. The most important thing is to open up the passage into Sichuan, so that the western Yunnan and southern Sichuan Guangfu regions are united, and another large province is involved in the war group.

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