After Song Jiaoren's assassination, when the Shanghai side organized a special court to try Song Jiaoren's assassination case, it encountered considerable difficulties!

The first is that the murderer Wu Shiying has been a violent pawn for no reason; the second is that Hong Shuzu has fled to the German concession in Qingdao and cannot be arrested; Third, Zhao Bingjun, the premier involved in the case, claimed that he was sick and hid in the hospital, and in response to Shanghai's request for him to appear in court, Zhao Bingjun could only produce the doctor's diagnosis report, and although he sent several telegrams to defend himself, he refused to appear in court, and Sun Yat-sen was in court; after learning the news, he immediately returned to China on 25 March, and immediately held a meeting at Huang Xing's residence in Shanghai to discuss the next step.

Sun Yat-sen was extremely sad and indignant when he learned of the course of the case, and at the meeting he strongly advocated raising troops to fight Yuan, almost forgetting all about the happy conversation with Yuan Shikai last year. However, most of the senior Kuomintang cadres who participated in the meeting did not agree with Sun Yat-sen's opinion that he should use force. In particular, Huang Xing, the No. 2 leader, believes that the current trial of the case is beneficial to the Kuomintang side, and that a legal solution should be considered first, and that the war should not be lightly discussed until the last step.

Sun Yat-sen was extremely angry after hearing this, and he had already decided in his heart that Yuan Shikai was hopeless and would inevitably engage in [***] restoration; Instead of waiting for him to show his fox tail, it would be better to do it now. Sun Yat-sen claimed that as long as I was given two divisions of troops now, I would personally lead the way to ask Yuan Shikai for his guilt.

But the problem was that at that time the Kuomintang did not even have two divisions of troops. But then again, even if there are two divisions, I am afraid that as Huang Xing said, they will not be able to defeat Yuan Shikai's well-trained Beiyang Army. Sun Yat-sen had never fought with them, but Huang Xing knew that they were powerful.

In fact, at that time, the Song case had not yet been fully clarified, and even if the Kuomintang had a thousand reasons to suspect Yuan Shikai, it was not appropriate to directly identify Yuan Shikai as the culprit behind the scenes. Therefore, when Sun Yat-sen's telegram demanding the use of force against Yuan Shikai was sent, the three powerful governors of the Kuomintang, Li Liejun, the governor of Jiangxi, Bai Wenwei, the governor of Anhui, and Hu Hanmin, the governor of Guangdong, immediately replied that they had absolutely no strength to read.

At that time, Sun Yat-sen also had another way, that is, to go to the country to seek assistance, but he probably forgot that before the North-South talks, he had also traveled around Europe, the United States, and the countries of Japan, but he did not ask for a penny, and returned empty-handed. Although those great powers wear civilized hats, they are all mercenary snobbery, and they are still unwilling to bet on Sun Yat-sen when Yuan Shikai did not become president, and now that Yuan Shikai has become the president, how can they support Sun Yat-sen again?

After the aftermath of the big loan, Yuan Shikai, who had money, simply tore off his face, he not only ignored the protests of the Kuomintang parliamentarians, but rebuked Sun Yat-sen, Huang Xing and other Kuomintang people with great momentum, saying:

"I've seen it through now. Sun Wen and these people are also troublemakers on the left and on the right, and they have no other skills except for trouble. Listen, what Sun Wen said, 'There is no other way than to resign', and what is 'I must oppose the determination of the monarch and the public one in the past, and I will not hesitate', fuck, Sun Wen still wants to make up his mind to do it with Lao Tzu! You can tell the Kuomintang that I, Yuan Shikai, cannot listen to others to make trouble, and if he Sun Wen dares to use guns and artillery, or organize another political axe, I will send troops to conquer, and there will be absolutely no room for appeasement and annihilation."

Liang Shiyi, secretary general of the presidential office, was a little worried: "President, this is too direct, right?" ”

Yuan Shikai replied angrily: "Just say what I said, I am responsible for this!" ”

In addition, in order to alleviate the pressure of the Southern Kuomintang to ask Premier Zhao Bingjun to appear in court, Yuan Shikai sent people to create the so-called "bloody light group assassination case" in Zhili as a counterattack. At that time, a woman who claimed to be the "head of the women's assassination group" surrendered to the Yanjing District Procuratorate, claiming to have come to Yanjing to carry out assassination on the orders of Huang Xing, the head of the "Blood Light Regiment", and the Yanjing Military and Political Law Enforcement Department arrested Senate member Xie Zhi in the name of "Blood Light Regiment Member" the next day. As a result, the Yanjing District Procuratorate took advantage of the situation to plant false accusations, and in turn issued a summons to ask Huang Xing to confront the case, which also made the Song case more confusing and dramatic. Not only that, Yuan Shikai then ordered the revocation of Huang Xing's rank of army general, and offered a reward for the arrest of Huang Xing and Chen Qimei, who were "anti-party".

Things have come to this point, and the two sides can only meet each other in arms!

On June 9, Yuan Shikai made the first move, ordered Li Liejun to be removed from the post of governor of Jiangxi, and appointed Li Yuanhong as the governor of Jiangxi; 14 Said, and dismissed Hu Hanmin, the governor of Guangdong; On the 30th, Bai Wenwei, the governor of Anhui, was also dismissed. As a result, the three governors of the Kuomintang were all dismissed by Yuan Shikai in the name of "incompetent" and "undesirable", of course, the fundamental reason was "disobedience to the central government"!

At this point, the Kuomintang in the south could only abandon the illusion of peace and rise up to fight. Li Liejun, the governor of Jiangxi, was originally a native of Wuning, Jiangxi, with a solid family, and was chivalrous and righteous at a young age, and was later selected by the Jiangxi Wubei Academy to study at the Non-commissioned Officer School, and secretly joined the League during the period. After returning to China, Li Liejun successively served in the new army in Jiangxi and Yunnan, and served as the governor of Jiangxi after the Wuchang Uprising.

After Li Liejun was dismissed by Yuan Shikai, he did not immediately raise troops to fight Yuan, but first telegraphed to go to the wilderness, and left Nanchang for Shanghai on June 15. After arriving in Shanghai, Li Liejun met Sun Yat-sen, Huang Xing, Chen Qimei and others, and after repeated consultations, they thought that Yuan Shikai was difficult to influence, and the only way now was to raise troops to resist, and perhaps there was a glimmer of life.

On July 7, after Li Liejun returned to Jiangxi from Shanghai, he secretly summoned the old troops and occupied the Hukou Fort on July 12. The next day, Li Liejun established Jiangxi to discuss Yuan Jun and issued a document to discuss Yuan, announcing Jiangxi's reading power.

As a result, the "Second Revolution" officially broke out, and after Li Liejun announced his reading power, Huang Xing, Chen Qimei and others then acted separately and prepared to respond. On July 14, Huang Xing rushed to Nanjing, organized a campaign against Yuan on the basis of the 1st and 8th Divisions stationed in Nanjing, and planned to coerce Cheng Dequan, the governor of Jiangsu, to announce his reading power. That night, Huang Xing and others led soldiers to rush into the Governor's Office, Cheng Dequan panicked, had to pretend to agree, and then Huang Xing telegraphed Jiangsu Reading Power in the name of Cheng Dequan.

Second, Cheng Dequan expected that there would be a big war in Nanjing, and he had no right or soldiers, so why bother to cause such trouble, so he quietly left with his family. When he arrived in Shanghai, Cheng Dequan hurriedly sent a telegram to Yuan Shikai, claiming that the "Nanjing Reading Power" was done by Huang Xing and others, and that he had been washed away. After Huang Xing and others learned that Cheng Dequan had escaped, they didn't pay attention to it, but moved the headquarters to the Air Supervision Office, and continued to arrange troops to meet the strong enemy.

As early as before the Wuchang Uprising, the revolutionary party had made a good impression in Hunan, so the governor of Hunan, Tan Yanmin, also announced his reading power under pressure from all sides, and sent troops to Jiangxi to support Li Liejun. However, Tan Yanmin's move was cunning, and in the name of "supporting Jiangxi," he transferred those troops controlled by the revolutionary party out of Changsha, the provincial capital, which not only satisfied the demands of the revolutionary party, but also consolidated his own rule.

Like Li Liejun, Bai Wenwei, the governor of Anhui, also went to the field after being dismissed, and then went to Nanjing to live. After Li Liejun announced his reading power, he also returned to Anhui and announced his reading power on July 17, forming a horn trend with Nanjing and Jiangxi.

In the former Qing Dynasty, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, and Anhui were originally under the jurisdiction of the governors of Liangjiang, and in this revolution and the Beiyang Army can be said to bear the brunt, which is equivalent to completing the north-south war that had not yet been carried out at the time of the Wuchang Uprising.

In the rear of the revolution, Sun Daoren, the governor of Fujian, was originally on the sidelines, but his division commander Xu Chongzhi first declared an uprising and then led troops to coerce, and Sun Daoren had to reluctantly join the camp of Yuan, like Cheng Dequan. Zhu Rui, the governor of Zhejiang, was originally a member of the revolutionary team, but after the Wuchang Uprising, he formed a bond with the people of the League, and this time he disregarded the revolutionary righteousness, not only did he not participate in the fight against Yuan, but finally sent troops to attack Shanghai.

Guangdong had always been the stronghold of the revolution, and Hu Hanmin, who had been dismissed, and Chen Jiongming, the new governor, had no plans to get into Yuan Shikai's discord, and on July 18 they united to declare their reading. Hu and Chen originally planned to send troops to aid Jiangxi, but because Lu Rongting, the governor of Guangxi, and Long Jiguang, the patrol commander stationed in northern Guangdong, were bribed by Yuan Shikai, both sides of Guangdong were threatened, and the plan to send troops had to be put on hold.

In the southwest, Lu Rongting, the governor of Guangxi, had already thrown himself to the side of Yuan Shikai, and Cai Jie, the governor of Yunnan, was a disciple of Liang Qichao, but he did not approve of the "second revolution", so he declared neutrality, while Tang Jiyao, the governor of Guizhou, was originally a subordinate of Cai Yi, and this time he also followed the old leader to declare neutrality.

As for the Sichuan side, there has been no peace since the end of the Wuchang Uprising! The only two people on whom the revolutionary party pinned high hopes on being able to read were Xiong Kewu and Wang Hengyue.

What is quite lamentable is that although the revolutionary party in the south has raised the slogan of "revolution," it has basically fought its own battles, and moreover, the quality of the army is uneven, and the internal ideology is not unified, and there have been frequent defections by officers to the enemy and mutinies in the army, and its combat effectiveness is really doubtful.

On the other hand, on Yuan Shikai's side, the Beiyang Army is neatly organized, and recently got a huge amount of money, with plenty of money and strong soldiers, it is a good time to fight. What's even worse is that Yuan Shikai at this time is not only politically justified and diplomatically supported by the powers, but also the common people are also determined and do not want war.

The "Second Revolution" has begun!

In Sichuan, General Xiong Kewu reorganized the 5th Division into 4 infantry regiments, 1 cavalry regiment, 1 artillery regiment, and 1 engineer battalion, and incorporated Liu Bocheng, Zheng Jingwu, Zhang Zhifang, and Gao Jianxun, outstanding graduates of the Shu Army's General Benxue School's crash course, into the 5th Division to strengthen the strength of middle and lower-level officers.

The "revolution" in Sichuan also broke out in an instant!

And at this time, Wang Hengyue was watching everything with a cold eye!

(To be continued)