China's material conditions are very backward, and of course we must place high hopes on Germany's economic mutual assistance and scientific guidance. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Similarly, the surplus capital in Germany is also eager to find a channel for catharsis. Moreover, the understanding of the huge cheap labor force of a backward country like China and the capitalists who pursue the maximization of profits is clearer and deeper.

Chen Wenqiang did not expect to realize all his hopes through a single meeting, but he succeeded in laying the groundwork. Of course, he also reaped considerable benefits and achieved considerable results.

This has already achieved his intended purpose, and it is a little too taken for granted and some unrealistic. He had already convinced Wilhelm that he was representing the Qing court, or at least the local power in China, and that strengthening cooperation would not only be a commercial benefit for Germany, but would also have extraordinary political and military significance in the long run.

The industrialization of synthetic ammonia is completed, which means that in Germany, the industrial manufacturing level and experimental facilities are top-notch, if in China, Chen Wenqiang feels that if he does not do it for a year and a half, there will definitely be no hope of success.

Cooperation with German industrial and commercial enterprises has been expanded and deepened again, and meetings and conversations with Kaiser Wilhelm II have also made progress.

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The bell of the 1907 New Year has been ringing, and a war between the old and new forces is going on in the southwestern border of the land of China, and it is becoming more and more intense.

First of all, the dragon detachment, after the great victory of attacking the estuary, went north to Liankeba River, Tianfang, Anding, Xinjie, Wanhe and other places, and penetrated into the hinterland of Yunnan for more than 200 miles. Qingyungui Governor Xiliang heard the alarm. On the one hand, the emergency dispatch department of Mengzi Guandao thickened and the 10 battalions of the general army of Kaiguang Town, Baijinzhu, went south to encircle and suppress, and on the other hand, the Qing court was in an emergency.

And just after the Qing court sent Liu Chunlin to Yunnan to help with military affairs, and just after he left Beijing, the Long detachment won another great victory. First, he ambushed the Qing army from Meng to the south in the Laofanzhai area, and then marched more than 100 miles to attack and defeat the five-battalion patrol team led by Bai Jinzhu, the general soldier of Kaiguang Town.

So far. The mobile strength of the Qing army in southern Yunnan was completely lost, and it was no longer able to stop the vertical and horizontal attack of the Long detachment. Railway (Yunnan-Vietnam Railway) workers, peasant children, plus selected and absorbed stragglers, surrendered troops and generals, the Long detachment quickly expanded to more than 2,300 people. Subsequently, the Long Detachment turned to expand to the east, and successively recovered the four counties of Maguan, Malipo, Xichou, and Napo, which were weakly defended, and the headquarters of the Revolutionary Army based in Gao Ping, Vietnam, also dispatched at the right time to recover the four counties of Jingxi, Debao, Tian, and Funing, and successfully joined forces with the Long Detachment. The territory is also connected.

The second was the Lu (Lu Rongting) detachment, after advancing into the Baise area, it successively recovered the three counties of Tianyang, Tiandong and Bama, and the troops expanded to 3,200, and continued to move north, approaching Guizhou Province.

Wang (Wang Heshun) detachment relied on 100,000 mountains to attack one after another in Shangsi, Qinbei, Lingshan, and Fusui, not only forcing the Qing army to garrison troops in Nanning, Qinzhou, Fangcheng and other places to defend. From time to time, the road links between these states and counties were cut off, and most of the Qing troops reinforced from Guangdong were restrained.

The first phase of the revolutionary army's combat operations was very rapid. Training, morale, and equipment were very advantageous, and the low combat effectiveness of the Qing army was also an important reason.

The reason for this was the mistake of the Qing court. The so-called patrol battalion and patrol team are all rooted in the green battalion. Since the beginning of Tongzhi, it has become the object of large-scale layoffs. In the 30 years from the second year of Tongzhi to the 19th year of Guangxu (1863-1893), more than 173,000 people were laid off, and by 1900. After the provinces began to train new troops, the Qing court finally no longer had the slightest attachment to the Green Battalion, and in 1906, it issued an order to completely eliminate the Green Battalion within eight years.

So, Green Camp. Or renamed the patrol battalion, the second son adopted by Fujin has become the object of hatred, and it is also annoying to give one more son. The provinces have also done everything possible to reduce the number of dollars in order to save money and support the new army, which is a gold-swallowing beast.

Originally, the Qing court was able to maintain a standing army to maintain domestic order at a very small cost, and it was also a counterweight to the new army. As a result, under the mentality of mistakenly believing that he had mastered the new army and was eager to change the backward military forces, he hastily launched military reforms.

The pessimism about the future, the resentment of the arrears of wages, and the bad habits of the old-style army made the patrol battalion generally lack the ability to fight. Not to mention the fact that it was facing a well-equipped and high-morale revolutionary army, that is, the estuary uprising launched by the Historical Alliance, which was originally only more than 200 people, and under the call of "anyone who brings a gun to surrender to the city will give a silver dollar", the estuary, which was guarded by four patrol battalions, was captured in less than two hours.

However, it was precisely because of the lack of food and salary that although the rebel army had expanded dramatically to more than 3,000 people, the Qing soldiers who surrendered complained one by one and refused to advance, and some of them surrendered again, and finally dispersed in a hurry.

The mutineers who "revolutionize" for the sake of money naturally cannot be relied on; And the Jianghu Hui Party, which is bribed with money, is also unreliable.

Therefore, the revolutionary army attacked and plundered with great momentum, but the speed of expansion was deliberately controlled, and the standard of recruiting soldiers was not lowered. This allows weapons, ammunition, and food supplies to be distributed to relatively reliable soldiers, without excessive waste, and at the maximum possible end.

"Each person needs three cents a day for food, and the whole detachment has nearly 3,000 people, and the daily expenditure on food alone exceeds 1,000 yuan; Combined with the military salary of two yuan per person per month, as well as some miscellaneous expenses, nearly 40,000 yuan per month is required...... And that's not even counting the ammunition and supplies consumed in battle, as well as the pensions for the disabled and killed soldiers. ”

If you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are, you don't know how expensive they are Qiu J is the deputy detachment leader, and she can't do it if she doesn't want to take care of the detachment's financial situation. At this time, she truly understood how difficult it was to make a revolution, to make the revolutionary banner stand without falling, and to persist for a long time.

This is only a detachment, the entire revolutionary army has approached 10,000 people, the members of the Revival Society are still coming from all over the world, and the expansion of the army is far from over. How much support do you need? There are a lot of seizures, and Vietnam's Huang Hua Tan and other anti-French forces can also supply some (weapons for supplies), but in the end it is not a long-term solution. Rations and salaries are an important issue that the revolutionary army needs to consider and solve in the long run.

"According to the size of the current revolutionary army, according to the current daily expenditure, if you don't count foreign aid. Our finances will only last for another month. Zhao Sheng, deputy commander-in-chief of the revolutionary army, paused and continued: "Of course, the headquarters is making every effort to raise funds, and another month can be guaranteed. But we can't rely entirely on foreign aid, we have to base ourselves on ourselves and find ways to find ways. Troubleshooting. ”

"I have to admit that I was full of enthusiasm for the revolution before, but I really didn't expect it to be such a complex and advanced work." Zhao Sheng smiled bitterly and said: "According to the current situation, there is no need for the enemy to fight, as long as it is surrounded for a few months, this army will also starve." ”

"The ancient art of war: the soldiers and horses have not moved, and the grain and grass go first. This is indeed the golden rule, and it has nothing to do with the firmness of the mind. No matter how revolutionary an army is, it can't fight on an empty stomach! Zhao Sheng turned his gaze to Ge Zhichu, chief of the General Staff. Nodding slightly, he finished his speech.

"Commander-in-Chief Zhao has made it very clear that we must take a long-term view and solve the problem of food and salary, at least about half of it, plus the support of the headquarters, we can persist for a long time." Ge Zhichu took out a telegram paper and shook it at everyone. said: "The Qing court is sending troops to extinguish us. Both to repel the enemy's counterattack. We have to raise food and raise salaries, and the situation is grim! And if we want to accomplish both tasks, we must take the initiative to attack, and we cannot wait here to waste food and food, and wait for the enemy to complete the arrangement of encirclement and blockade. The battle plan has been drawn up and approved by the headquarters. The units must immediately take action and strive to completely crush the enemy's siege within a month or two, and then they can seize the time and concentrate on the second task......"

In the face of the successive victories of the revolutionary army, the Qing court was very frightened and sent Liu Chunlin to assist in the border defense affairs of Yunnan. Huguang dispatched the First Battalion of the New Army, Yunnan dispatched the Third Battalion of the Appeasement New Army, the First Artillery Battalion, and the 10 th Battalion of the Patrol Force, and Guangdong dispatched the First Standard of the New Army and eight battalions of the Patrol Battalion to encircle and suppress. The Qing court also ordered Duanfang, the governor of Liangjiang, and Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Huguang, to receive money and weapons, and Sichuan and Guizhou also sent troops to assist. Coupled with the local troops assembled in Guangxi, the total strength of the Qing army was as high as 30,000.

"There is no time for intensive training, three-point training, seven-point battle, in addition to seizing all free time to improve the skills of soldiers, it is necessary to exercise in actual combat." Ge Zhichu continued to arrange, "Concentrate the troops, first the weak and then the strong, and break them one by one." The General Staff decided to strike first at the Qing army in Yunnan Province, so as to isolate the enemy who had come from afar in Sichuan and Guizhou. Then, return to the division to break the Qing army of Liangguang and ......"

In terms of the number of troops, the Long Detachment, plus the men and horses dispatched by the headquarters, is similar to the Qing army in Yunnan Province, but in terms of equipment and morale, except for the Huguang New Army, the revolutionary army is already confident of defeating a comparable number of Qing soldiers. Although the new army of appeasement in Yunnan Province has the name of the new army, it does not have the reality of the new army. Moreover, the plan drawn up by the General Staff was not a hard attack, but a more complete strategy.

"The dragon detachment is organized into two parts, one is to lure the enemy's forward, with a strength of 1,500 men, set off immediately, feint to attack the old, Mengzi, take what can be taken, if the city is strong, sweep the periphery, and create momentum; the other part departs one day later, or supports, or responds; There are more than 2,000 people in the headquarters, and they will set off one day later......"

If the enemy is strong, retreat and lure, or ambush, or flank, or join forces to counterattack. If the enemy did not fall into the plan, but only relied on Jiancheng and waited for backup, the revolutionary army marched west along the Yuancheng River, bypassed Jiancheng and then went north, attacked Shiping, peeped at Yuxi, and threatened Kunming.

In short, the revolutionary army tried not to attack the fortifications, but tried by all means to mobilize the Qing army and strive to annihilate it in the field. In order to cope with the military operations in Yunnan Province, the Wang detachment, the Lu detachment, and the men and horses left behind by the headquarters will carry out feints to contain them, making it difficult for the Qing army to judge the main movements of the revolutionary army.

As soon as the military meeting was over, the ministries began to regroup. Qiu J personally led the forward back to southern Yunnan, marched to the old and Mengzi, and followed by two armies to respond and cover, and the battle of southern Yunnan slowly kicked off.

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Interaction, this new term was invented and first used by Chen Wenqiang. But all along, there is no personal understanding. If interaction is just competition, just digging into each other's corners and competing for the limelight, then what is the positive meaning?

However, just when the Qing troops in Hunan, Hubei, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guizhou, Guangdong, and other provinces mobilized one after another and drove towards the liberation area of the revolutionary army, the interaction finally took place, and it was in Chao and Huizhou in Guangdong Province.

Xu Xueqiu, who lived in Singapore in his early years, practiced martial arts, was hospitable, and was known as "Little Meng's taste". In 1902, he became acquainted with Huang Naishang, and under the influence of Huang, he was inclined to oppose the Qing Revolution. Later, Xu Xueqiu invited Huang Naishang and others to return to China, and gathered with He Ziyuan, the leader of the Chaomei Society, and others to discuss the incident. Everyone was appointed commander of the revolutionary army, and they were ready to take advantage of the opportunity of building the Chaoshan Railway to recruit workers and launch an uprising. The incident was leaked, Xu Xueqiu went to Chaozhou Mansion alone to defend himself, and was released because of his old acquaintance with Daotai. Xuan returned to Nanyang to raise funds and waited for another opportunity.

In November 1906, Beichen went to Singapore to raise funds and plan an uprising, and Xu Xueqiu became acquainted with Beichen and joined the League, describing his early years of launching the Chaozhou Uprising and its potential forces in various places. Beichen was deeply commended, that is, he was appointed as the governor of the Eastern Army of the Chinese National Army, and was ordered to hold a position in eastern Guangdong.

After Xu Xueqiu received the order, he took two assistants to actively operate, and contacted the leaders of the party Yu Jicheng, Chen Yongbo, He Ziyuan, Xiao Huichang and others to do the organization and mobilization work. He also raised his own funds to purchase 100 long guns, 200 short guns, and a number of bullets, which were smuggled to Shanwei by a Japanese steamer, a Japanese commander who was an adviser to the Alliance, and were taken over by the party and hidden.

Selfless revolution, both money and connections, what a cadre! Beichen was overjoyed, and sent Xuanye Changzhi to Japan to purchase arms, and handed over the 26,000 funds raised to Xu Xueqiu, telling him to take advantage of the weakness of the Qing army in Guangdong to step up the trouble.

No one would have thought that Xu Xueqiu was introduced by Xu Zhuangshi in 1904 and joined the Revival Association. Two of his aides were military talents sent from Qiongzhou. Behind the active planning, selfless donations, and courageous actions, in the end, it was for the overall interests of the Revival Society and the interests of the revolutionary army.

On January 6, 1907, Xu Xueqiu's contact was completed and the Huanggang Uprising was launched. The uprising was a perfectly planned uprising, and the target of the uprising was the capital city of Chaozhou. Huanggang, Fushanbu and Jieyang side of the party jointly launched, the troops were divided into three routes, in addition to the traffic arteries have brothers ambushed, even the Jieyang Fort is taken into account.

As the so-called call for a hundred responses, more than 1,000 Hui Party brothers gathered on the mass grave three miles away from Huanggang, each person hung a white cloth, printed with the eagle ball emblem, after taking the oath in unison, Xu Xueqiu and announced the nineteen articles of military law, and then the soldiers were divided into four ways to kill Huanggang City.

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