On November 27, after a relatively hard battle, the Sixth Army defeated the Qing army in front of it, successfully joined forces with the Fourth Army, and completed the encirclement of Chengdu. There were more than 20,000 Qing soldiers, the last military force of the Manchu Qing in Sichuan, and under the leadership of Cen Chunxuan, the fortifications of Chengdu looked quite perfect to the Manchu generals, but they still could not resist the attack of the Zhenguo army.

At one o'clock in the afternoon of the 27th, the Zhenguo army launched a general attack on Chengdu, more than 300 cannons shot out all the only shells, the Qing army's position shook, and the disgraced and scarred Qing army had a large-scale rout, Cen Chunxuan ordered the city of Chengdu to be closed tightly, and the defeated Qing army was not allowed to enter the city, which allowed the Zhenguo army to harvest more than 4,000 Qing prisoners.

The resistance at the head of Chengdu made the Zhenguo army realize that the Qing army had no intention of surrendering, but Chengdu had a large population, which was not comparable to a small city like Yibin. A statistic can illustrate the problem, when in Yibin, the Zhenguo army only took an hour and fifteen minutes to complete the street fighting, and the civilian casualties were seventy-two, while the population of Chengdu was more than ten times that of Yibin, and the conceivable civilian casualties were beyond the Zhenguo army to bear.

In the Northern Expedition War, Zhen **** faced the masonry city wall, and often resolutely destroyed it, never considering the loss of ancient cultural relics. This was because the General Staff, or Lü Liang, believed that the city wall would hinder the development of the city in the next stage of construction, and that demolition was inevitable.

For thousands of years, there is a city that has a wall, and even the palace has a palace wall, a garden has a garden wall, a school has a school wall, and the state-owned Great Wall, even if there is no brick wall or stone wall in the courtyard of the people, there are also earthen walls and fence walls. The "wall plot" of the Chinese people is either tight or loose, and the civilization form created by the inland civilization has made the Chinese people's sense of barrier protection positive, resulting in distrust between people, local barriers, social circulation, the mentality of closing the country to the outside world, and the lack of enterprising spirit and sense of security. The city wall has both protection and restriction functions, and now that both functions have lost their usefulness, why keep them!

The Chengdu city wall was also brutally treated by the Zhenguo army, and was bombarded by artillery to open five gaps, and the Chengdu city government used these gaps as nodes to demolish all the nearby city walls during the post-war construction, leaving only a little wall that did not hinder traffic as a ruin.

The opening of the gap completely destroyed the Qing army's will to resist, and in order to minimize civilian casualties, the Zhenguo army began to persuade the surrender after the gap was opened, and did not attack at the first time. The protective psychology brought by the city wall collapsed, and the fear brought by the Zhenguo army entering the city made the Qing army in the city make crazy moves, led by some middle-level officers, part of the Qing army began to attack the Qing army that refused to surrender, and launched an attack on the governor's palace where Cen Chunxuan was located.

The city suddenly fell into a scuffle, and this situation was quickly noticed by the Zhenguo army outside the city, such a situation was not expected, and it was also what the Zhenguo army did not want to see. In such a chaotic situation, civilian casualties will increase several times, and even the Qing army used artillery, soldiers killed each other, and rebellious soldiers and bandits took the opportunity to attack merchants and civilians.

When the Zhenguo army entered Chengdu to quell the civil strife, the Governor's Mansion had been breached by the rebels, and Cen Chunxuan's body was found in the Governor's Palace, with more than a dozen bullet holes and knife wounds found on the body. The Zhenguo army arrested and killed thousands of soldiers and bandits in the city to calm the chaos, but many houses and shops were destroyed, and dead bodies were everywhere, like hell.

From the city wall was broken to the Zhenguo army entered the city, in just half an hour, Chengdu City suffered a heavy blow, and the damage of the war to civilians can be seen, especially the civil war, all the dead and injured are Chinese. After Lu Liang learned the news, he could not let go of his feelings -- there is still half of China that has not been recovered, and I don't know how many wars and deaths we will have to experience!

Before Chengdu was breached, on the morning of the 27th, Nanjing surrendered, Wei Guangtao, the governor of Liangjiang, committed suicide, and most of the remaining officials and generals crossed the Yangtze River and fled to the north. There were so many Qing officials and generals who fled from the south that the court could not hold them accountable. There was a vacuum in the upper echelons of Nanjing's rule, Wei Guangtao stuck to his post, but unfortunately his orders could not even be sent out of the governor's palace, and the subordinates had already fled, and no one would stay on this explosive bag and wait for death.

More than 30,000 Qing soldiers gathered in Nanjing surrendered, including more than 23,000 green battalions who were drunk and dreamed of death, and they were the greatest help for the Zhenguo army to recover the entire south of the Yangtze River. Not only did the Green Battalion soldiers have no will to resist, but they sometimes coerce local officials to surrender, and many officials who wanted to be loyal to the Manchus had to surrender under the threat of the Green Battalion.

At this point, the large-scale fighting in the entire south of the Yangtze River was over, the armed forces of the great powers in the Shanghai concession area also realized that the intervention had failed, and the large-caliber artillery positions of the Zhenguo Army were found along the Huangpu River and the Yangtze River, and the warships that flaunted their might did not dare to go deep into the inland river. Having lost the navy, the biggest reliance, and the leased land was cut off from water and food, the great powers finally couldn't help but send a request for negotiation to the Zhenguo Army.

Now is not the time to turn his face, Lü Liang had to endure his inner dissatisfaction and send someone to negotiate with him, Lü Liang asked to focus the negotiations on the previous treaties signed between the Great Powers and the Manchus. Of course, Lü Liang would not be naïve enough to think that the great powers would give up their rights in the area south of the Yangtze River, which provided them with a large amount of wealth every year and was an important part of the entire colonial system.

The attitude of the revolutionary government was very resolute, not recognizing all the unequal treaties signed between the Manchus and the foreign powers, and recovering the customs rights, but the leased territories of the foreign powers could be temporarily retained, the ceded territories could also be negotiated, the treaty ports would not be closed, but would be further increased, of course, the so-called most-favored-nation treatment would never continue to exist, and the setting of tax rates would be decided by the revolutionary government itself.

The negotiations could not succeed, but the intransigence of the revolutionary government had already encouraged the countrymen, and in fact the revolutionary government had begun to withdraw the privileges of the great powers and strike at the influence of foreigners in the interior. The revolutionary and tough military power of the new government determined that they would inevitably make great changes, and this change was a trend, a tide that the Great Powers could not stop, and unless there was a large-scale military intervention on the ground, the Great Powers were doomed to lose their enormous interests in the Far East.

The revolutionary government is not destined to be welcomed by the great powers, on the contrary, most of the great powers regard the revolutionary government as the greatest unstable factor in the Far East, and the appearance of a great power with a unified and positive government will definitely cause turmoil in the world political situation, especially Japan and Russia, where they are extremely disgusted with the revolutionary government with great ambitions, but at present, the two countries are still competing for the interests of the northeast and do not have much energy to interfere in the south.

Even after several years of leapfrog development, only Guangdong has a relatively good industrial base within the entire revolutionary government, but a complete industrial system is not simply established, there is still a lack of many high-end industrial products, and there are only thousands of enterprises in the Huizhou heavy industry base in the final analysis, how can it meet all the industrial needs?

Huizhou's heavy industry base has been unable to continue to expand, and the concentration of the heavy industry base is not as good as possible, which will bring heavy logistical pressure and industrial pollution. Although many heavy industry factories have been built in Guangxi and Fujian, these places are not very suitable for the development of heavy industry. Coupled with the massive demand for mechanical products in the newly recovered areas, there was a considerable gap in high-end industrial products within the revolutionary government.

In order to fill this gap, and to open up a diplomatic situation among the great powers, a delegation set out from Canton for Germany. Although this country has caused us great harm, and its essence is no different from that of Britain and other powers, in the position of Lüliang, it is really not possible to use personal feelings as a criterion for the conduct of the state, and the present stage of interaction with Germany has great interests, and interests are the only criterion for measuring the interaction between countries. The so-called deep historical feelings between a certain country and a certain country are nothing more than diplomatic rhetoric like covering their ears and stealing bells, and whoever will believe it is a complete fool.

The delegation went to Germany mainly to seek the purchase of machinery and equipment, and the budget worth 30 million pounds completely detonated Germany, making the delegation a guest of honor from all walks of life in Germany, and the cocktail party was non-stop every day, and everyone was asking the delegation about their purchase intentions and recommending their own products. In fact, the most talked about topic is why this nascent regime has such a huge wealth, that is 30 million pounds, how many battleships can be built! Even Kaiser Wilhelm II had the idea of invading that regime to gain great wealth, but he was dissuaded by his staff from dissuading the idea that the regime clearly had a favorable opinion of Germany compared to the huge cost of looting, and the purchase would not be limited to this one, which would not only bring huge orders to the enterprises, but also allow Germany to gain an ally in the Far East, which would be very beneficial to German interests in the Far East.

Sure enough, the delegation expressed goodwill towards Germany in the negotiations with the German government, hoping to continue to deepen the cooperation between the two countries, to which Kaiser Wilhelm II was overjoyed, knowing that the regime was a nascent regime and that he would be their greatest supporter. Such a harvest made Wilhelm II voluntarily give up German interests and privileges in the south, and Germany did not have much interest there anyway, and the value of those orders was enough to get German industry up and running for several years!

In addition to industrial orders, the delegation also proposed to introduce excellent German talents, including educational talents, skilled workers, etc., but unfortunately, this batch of orders has allowed German factories to run at full capacity, and even there is a shortage of workers. The delegation's intentions were frustrated, but a proposal was accepted by the Germans, which was to relocate students and workers from within the country to Germany.