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After the success of the Wuchang uprising, the revolutionaries launched another uprising in Sichuan, this time the competition was much more fierce than in Wuchang, with heavy casualties among the Qing and rebel armies, and a large number of innocent civilian casualties. In the end, the revolutionaries still took Chengdu, an important town, and Sichuan immediately announced its accession to the "Chinese Federation".

The actions of the revolutionaries were carried out in the provinces, but in varying degrees, scales and breadth. What made the Tang people feel even more headache was that at this time, a large number of speculators appeared, and many people felt that it was time to seek personal interests.

Within a week of the Wuchang uprising, Guangxi, Yunnan, Hunan, Jiangxi, and Fujian declared their independence from the Qing government and joined the "Chinese Federation." The revolutionary party even extended its hand to Guangdong, where the Tang Dynasty had a relatively large influence, and hundreds of revolutionaries attempted to launch an uprising in Guangzhou, and even assassinated the governor of Guangdong Province. However, the Tang army was stationed in Nanhai County, not far from Guangzhou Prefecture, and after the chaos in Guangzhou, the Tang army immediately marched into the city, and the revolutionaries tried to block the Tang army from entering the city, and the two sides exchanged fire. It was no surprise that the revolutionary party could not defeat the Tang army, and in the end the Tang army successfully took control of the city of Guangzhou.

After all, the strength of the revolutionary party is relatively weak and cannot compete with the Tang Dynasty, but the revolutionaries are more pragmatic and planned than the other party. Mr. Sun, the leader who had secretly returned to the country, conveyed his operational program to the branches, and the revolutionary party had the primary purpose of winning over and taking over the Qing army, and to build up the revolutionary party's own armed forces as soon as possible.

Due to the suddenness of the incident, and the parallel mutiny and assassination throughout the process, the revolutionary party achieved many successes in a while, usurping the command of tens of thousands of Qing troops, and it was through this command that they were able to control many southern provinces as they wished.

The Tang Dynasty firmly controlled the provinces of Guangdong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui, all of which were garrisoned by the Tang Army and the Wuwei Army, and even if the Revolutionary Party usurped military power, it would soon be defeated by the Tang Army, so it was impossible to establish control at all. In most of the northern provinces, the strength of the revolutionary party was relatively weak, and the provincial government did not buy the revolutionaries.

The only exception was Shanxi, where a major general of the Qing army, who was in charge of Shanxi's military administration, also led his troops to revolt after hearing about the Wuchang uprising. This man did not declare his membership in the "Chinese Federation" because he was not a revolutionary party himself, but he drove out the governor of Shanxi Province and established a new Shanxi provincial government in Taiyuan, which seemed to have an independent heart.

However, this guy is also very shrewd, the first brigade of the Tang Army has just defeated the Janissaries in northern Jin, only a stone's throw away from Taiyuan, this guy uses the rhetoric to maintain law and order in Shanxi, and put on a posture that he can cooperate with the Tang people, and does not want to fight hard with the Tang people, but hopes that the Tang people can recognize his status in Shanxi.

It's a pity that Datang doesn't accept any warlords in this land. The Tang army quickly issued an ultimatum to the self-appointed new governor of Shanxi, demanding that he surrender unconditionally to the Tang army and stop illegally occupying the Shanxi provincial government.

In the past, the Tang people in the Central Plains put on a posture that it didn't matter who was in charge of things, the first thing was to maintain local tranquility, everyone felt that the Tang people just wanted to have a stable environment to do business and immigration, but the ambition of the Tang people was not simply here. This time, Datang is going to take over the homeland of China in an all-round way, and it is impossible to compromise with any force.

As soon as the Shanxi New Army heard that the Tang people were going to attack, they were in chaos first. This Shanxi warlord leader, who had just been in office for a few days, could not restrain his army at all, ran thousands of people in three days, and finally had no choice, secretly put on makeup and carried a large amount of property and left Taiyuan overnight. The Tang army then occupied the city of Taiyuan and incorporated the new army in Shanxi.

In the rest of the northern provinces, Zhili is still in turmoil, but it is also under the control of the Tang army. In Shandong, Henan, Shaanxi, and Gansu provinces, the provincial governors all expressed their willingness to obey the instructions of the provisional committees set up by the Tang Dynasty and to guard against the revolutionary party. There are no people in the three northeastern provinces outside the Guanxi, and they are basically under the control of the Tang people.

However, there are still many troubles.

After news of Jiaqing's death spread across the country, the adverse effects were also expanding.

Mongolia, which had the closest relationship with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, declared its independence at this time, and dozens of Mongol princes from Inner Mongolia and Outer Mongolia held an alliance at the time of the great chaos in the world, saying that Mongolia would no longer obey the Qing government and establish a loose Mongol alliance.

Chang Bin immediately dispatched the First Brigade of the Tang Army in Shanxi, plus the First Brigade of the Armed Guards and the original Qing Army, with a total size of more than 20,000 people, to the north to quell the Mongol rebellion.

As soon as the Tang army entered the steppe, the Mongolian princes panicked, and some advocated falsely claiming to be vassals to the Tang people, nominally surrendering to the Tang people, in fact, continuing to maintain control of Mongolia, and some advocated withdrawing from the tribe to the north, and the Tang people would not occupy the Mongolian steppe with no stronghold for a long time, and they would go back when the Tang people left. Anyway, none of the Mongol princes proposed to fight the Tang army.

In this era, the descendants of Genghis Khan have long lost their sharpness. The strength of the armored corps of the Don Army already let the peoples on horseback know that they could not resist such an enemy. All they can take advantage of is the vast depth and their mobility, but this obviously has a loss for them. Abandoning their pastures and moving would weaken the power of the tribe, and few families were willing to do so.

As a result, wherever the Tang army went, all the Mongol princes surrendered, with only a small amount of resistance. The troops of the Mongol princes lacked weapons, and even if they escaped, they could not outrun the tanks and armored vehicles of the Tang army, and the defeat was neat.

The Tang army killed all the way from the Horqin steppe to Kulen (Ulaanbaatar), arrested the local princes everywhere they went, and the cattle, sheep and property belonging to the princes were distributed to the ordinary Mongols, which made the ordinary Mongolian compatriots who were oppressed in peacetime soon choose to stand on the same front as the Tang people, and when the first brigade occupied Kulen, there were already seven or eight thousand Mongolian rebels following the action.

Mongolia has a vast territory but a small population, which is also an area that Datang must not give up. Chang Bin had to temporarily leave two regiments of the Tang Army in Mongolia, and at the same time, the Tang government also sent personnel to Mongolia to deal with the aftermath. The Tang Dynasty had already planned to deal with Mongolia, and in line with the principle of grassroots democracy, after defeating the Mongolian aristocracy, it would unite ordinary Mongolian compatriots and make them self-governing. After the whole country is stabilized, we will gradually establish some stable cities in Mongolia and provide education, medical and other services to the local people, so as to effectively improve the living standards of the local people. (To be continued.) )