1082908 Far Eastern madman

The decisive battle between the Beiyang Army and the revolutionary armed forces of the United Front in southern Henan ended. Yesterday's Battle... Hao is jaw-dropping, the Second Army of the Beiyang Southward Advance, known as the "Tiger Ben", was annihilated in southern Henan, the four division commanders were either killed or captured, and the commander of the Second Beiyang Army and the southwest patrol made Feng Guozhang "unaccounted for" in the battle This decisive battle, Beiyang was completely defeated.

The Beiyang clique, which had dominated the political situation for decades, was so strong and powerful that it was shocking to be so strong and capable of doing things from outside, and not only the Chinese people in Beiyang and foreign observers were surprised, but even the revolutionary camp in the south was stunned by the news of the victory that came from the battlefield in southern Henan.

"I don't understand, I don't understand. Feng Guoji, known as the "Beiyang Hero", would have been defeated, if it weren't for the commander-in-chief personally taking a secret message, I'm afraid I would be as suspicious as those people. ”

Li Yuanhong straightened up, sighed, took the tea brought by a servant, moistened his throat, handed the teacup back, and then picked up small scissors and continued to trim the bonsai.

Rao Hanxiang, who was standing behind Li Yuanhong, smiled. said: "This is also the chairman's command. If someone else had been in command of the United Front's troops, the victory might still have been won, but I am afraid that it would not have been so neat. ”

"Yes, at the beginning, the commander-in-chief advocated war, but Song Yuchu and they disagreed, but now it seems. It is still the commander-in-chief who sees it accurately, knowing that the Beiyang Army is a strong foreign force and a middle cadre, and the silver-like wax spear head that is not used in the middle of the war, waiting for Song Duchu and them to come back. I see what else they have to say. ”

Li Yuanhong also smiled and straightened up. He placed the copper scissors on the windowsill, then turned around, took the teacup and took a few sips. Holding a teacup, he walked over to the calligraphy and paintings hanging on the wall. After a moment's hesitation, he gave a few orders to several servants.

"Take down these calligraphy and paintings, and put them in a box. Without my permission. No one can take it out. ”

"Li Gong, why is this? These calligraphy and paintings are all the handwriting of Xu Shuai of the East China Sea; It's only been a few days since it was hung up, why did you take it off again? ”

Seeing Li Yuanhong's actions, Rao Hanxiang was a little puzzled, those calligraphy and paintings were sent to Shanghai by Xu Shichang, the governor of the three eastern provinces a few days ago, and gave them to Li Yuanhong by name.

Li Yuanhong waved his hand, and the servants took off the calligraphy and paintings and exited the study, and closed the door as well! Rao Hanxiang walked to Li Yuanhong's side and sat side by side with him on a row of Taishi chairs.

"Xu Juren is a Beiyang veteran, he sent calligraphy and paintings, we don't want to accept them, but yet, but now the north and the south are in a state of hostility, the calligraphy and paintings of the Beiyang elders are indeed not suitable to be hung in a conspicuous place, I ordered these calligraphy and paintings to be taken down, and also out of caution."

Li Yuanhong's words made Rao Hanxiang a little disapproving, he shook his head and said: "Li Gong is too cautious, Xu Shichang is Xu Shichang, Beiyang is Beiyang, not to mention, although these calligraphy and paintings are gifts to Li Gong, but this is purely a personal relationship." Others can't use this as an excuse to attack Li Gong. ”

"The times are chaotic, or be cautious"

Li Yuanhong didn't want to continue the topic, so he changed the conversation and said, "Hong Seng, according to your opinion." Will the pattern of the North Ocean change after this war? ”

Rao Hanxiang hesitated and said, "It's hard to say. In the near future, Yuan Shikai can still master Beiyang, but it will be difficult to say in the future, this battle in southern Henan. Defeated the four divisions in Beiyang, but the division commander and brigade commander were Yuan Shikai's old people, after this battle, Yuan Shikai's prestige will definitely fall, when the Qing court and Japan went to war, the First Sino-Japanese Battle was also a very miserable defeat. The main force of the Qing army was also the Huai army and the training army in Beiyang. After the defeat, Li Hongzhang, the head of the Beiyang family, sat on the cold bench, although it was mainly because the Empress Dowager of the West and Qingliu were looking for scapegoats, but it may not be the reason why Beiyang's own people fell into the ground. Beiyang is not monolithic, and now that southern Henan is defeated, the essence of Beiyang has been hit hard, and I think that Yuan Shikai may not be able to suppress those political enemies.

"But now Yuan Shikai is the provisional president of the Republic of China, and the Beiyang Army is expanded from the new army of Xiaozhan Station, which is his lineage and his reliance, and the military power is in hand, who can pull him in Beiyang? In Beiyang, there are not no people with higher qualifications than him, but they have no power in their hands, and they are helpless. Li Yuanhong shook his head and furrowed his brows.

"But Beiyang is divided into two factions, one is the martial faction. One faction is the Wen faction, and Yuan Shikai can suppress the Wu faction, but he may not be able to suppress the Wen faction. Rao Hanxiang said.

"Sharp? Those civil servants? Monk Hong, what are you kidding? Where can civil officials fight martial arts? ”

Li Yuanhong smiled bitterly, fighting between civil and military, who can win in the end, he Li Huangling Li Speaker has the most right to speak.

Rao Hanxiang shook his head and said, "Li Gong." It's impossible to get rid of the literary faction in Beiyang, they not only have civil officials, but also a group of gods of wealth. Without those God of Wealth, the Beiyang martial arts faction couldn't play, and the Beiyang Army had to collapse. ”

"You mean Sheng Xuanhuai's gang of officials and businessmen?"

Li Yuanhong was woken up by Rao Hanxiang's words, couldn't help nodding again and again, and said: "You are like this, it reminds me of this, last night, Sheng Xuanhuai sent a housekeeper to send me a post, inviting me to the public concession for a banquet tonight." Some time ago, Sheng Xuanhuai was like a retreat, living in a simple place, and now he suddenly came to invite me again, I am afraid that it has nothing to do with the new defeat of Beiyang. ”

"Oh? What does Sheng Xuanhuai want to do? A few years ago, he didn't deal with Yuan Shikai, which was true, but since the republic, I heard that Yuan Shikai wanted to ask him to go out of the mountains to help sort out the industry, and the two are not like political enemies now. Rao Hanxiang groaned, figuring out the traces of his sister revealed in this matter.

"It's hard to say, Sheng Xuanhuai is a clever person. Won't you fail to see that Henan suffered a big loss in the battle of Beiyang, maybe his mind is alive again? Want to do something out of the mountains? Some time ago, I heard that someone Jianyuan slandered the most beheading children's day, and said that he was shy, and said that the old Jijia was officially running for president, but he did not agree with "Sheng Xuanhuai transferred the shares of the Han Yeping Company under his name to the republican military government free of charge. It is said that he should be the great hero of the republic, why did he not promote him after the republic? Both the republican junta and the Beiyang side seem to have forgotten him. Rao Hanxiang doesn't know the inside story of the transfer of shares of Han Yeping Company, so it's no wonder that he can't figure it out.

Li Yuanhong knows the ins and outs of this. also knows the commander-in-chief's superb skills in "pulling fat pigs", but he doesn't want to dwell on this matter, after all, his identity as a "revolutionary hero" also has some problems, and the inside story of the "uprising anyway" in Hanyang cannot be revealed, otherwise, his handle will be grasped.

"Rong Seng, let's not care about Sheng Xuanhuai's affairs first, let's discuss the opening of the parliament now, now our united front has won a big victory in southern Henan, the parliamentarians are all emotional, they all want to convene the congress as soon as possible, Zhang Jilao and their members who have submitted their resignations are also privileged to take the same position, they asked me to draw up a charter, I don't have that foundation, so ah, this charter is still up to you, the content is in the vernacular, and the inscription is in the style you are good at."

Li Yuanhong said the last few words, put down the teacup, and looked at Rao Hanxiang, but found that he was yawning, knowing that he was addicted to smoking, so he smiled and reprimanded a few words.

"Monk, although the commander-in-chief has now reluctantly agreed to supplement the treasury with a ban on opium, there is a time limit, and after five years, if you don't quit this big smoking addiction, there will be no place to buy tobacco cream

Rao Hanxiang smiled bitterly and said, "How can this thing be so easy to quit?" It's easy to say that this addiction is hard to stop. Not really. I'll buy more cigarette paste and store it, so that even if I completely ban smoking, I won't roll all over the floor. ”

"You, let me tell you what's good? Now that the commander-in-chief is advocating a new culture, your addiction to cigarettes is a bad habit, and it is not allowed by the New Culture Movement. Listen to my advice and quit early.

saw Rao Hanxiang yawning. Li Yuanhong couldn't help but yawn, during the Southern Henan Campaign, the people who couldn't sleep were not only Zhao Bei, Lan Tianwei and their front-line generals, but many people in the rear also couldn't sleep well, especially the members of the General Affairs Committee of the United Front. Even Zhang Han and his former committee members who handed in their resignations couldn't sleep well, and they were worried that they would be retaliated against by the Beiyang side after losing the battle, but now that the good news of victory came, everyone still couldn't sleep, but it was not because of worry, but because of excitement.

yes, excited. After this battle, this united front can be regarded as truly sitting in the country. The parliamentarians not only retained their seats in the National Assembly, but also laid a good foundation for the future development of the political circles. Now, maybe Zhang Jilao and the others are regretting submitting their resignations.

"Monk Rong, since you are addicted to smoking, then go down, come back in the afternoon, let's discuss Sheng Xuanhuai's invitation to my banquet."

Li Yuanhong nodded, Rao Hanxiang walked out of the study quickly, and bumped into a person inside the door, but it was Huang Xing, another member of the General Affairs Committee of the United Front.

Seeing that Rao Hanxiang's tears and snot were a little unbearable, Huang Xing frowned and hurriedly dodged away, Rao Hanxiang didn't care about saying hello, and disappeared as soon as he slipped through the smoke.

"Keqiang, why are you here?" Li Yuan had no accidents, and Huang Xing rarely interacted with him. The two don't have much friendship either.

Huang Xing raised his finger and pointed to the telephone on the desk, and said, "Shake your phone, but it can't be shaken." I had to come by myself. ”

"What?"

"The General Committee of the United Front decided to convene a meeting at once and convene the members to attend the meeting, and now there are only eleven members living in Shanghai, and in any case, Huang Ling will go to the meeting

”。

"Meeting? Didn't we have a meeting yesterday? Li Yuan was not a little strange.

"Today's meeting is no small event. Just now. Tang Xiangming, the acting naval chief of the Republic of China, sent a telegram at the Jiangyin fortress, announcing the naval uprising, joining the United Front Revolutionary Wuxi Force, defending the National Assembly, and defending the Constitution. No, as soon as the news was received, the General Affairs Committee immediately decided to convene a meeting to discuss the matter. ”

"Oh? Tang Xiangming is a clever person. ”

Although he was ordered by Yuan Shikai to lead the river defense fleet to be stationed in Pukou to respond to the actions of the Beiyang Army in Nanjing, the actions of the river defense fleet have been very cautious, which may explain Tang Xiangming's position.

Now, the news of the annihilation of the Second Army of the Beiyang Southward Advance has reached Tang Xiangming, who has seen the situation clearly and has decided to abandon the darkness and defect to the United Front; if the Jiangfang Fleet can successfully reach Shanghai, then the revolutionary armed forces of the United Front can completely dispatch the main force from Hangzhou under the cover of naval gunboats to advance northward, sweep away the First Army of the Beiyang Southward Advance deployed on the front line of Nanjing and Shanghai, capture Nanjing and Shanghai, and put the southeastern wealth in the hands of the United Front.

If Shanghai is not occupied, even the National Assembly can only work in the concession, and Li Yuanhong and Huang Xing can only live in the concession.

"In that case, I'll go right away. Now that Tang Xiangming has revolted, then, Jiang Gui in Anhui should have also expressed something, right? ”

Li Yuanhong looked at the window and felt a lot of emotion in his heart.

In the past, the north was strong and the south was weak, but after the battle of southern Henan, I am afraid that the south was strong and the north was weak.

This situation was forced by the commander-in-chief.

In other words, there has been a subtle change in the hearts and minds of the people.