Chapter 230: The 11th and 9th Massacre
In order to shorten the time of military management as much as possible, the time of the short-term cadre training course was compressed to one month. Therefore, Liang Cheng is facing a very heavy learning task, including laws, administrative regulations, institutional operation, cultural learning, processing processes, etc., which cannot be accessed in the old era, and it is also unimaginable. But Liang Cheng enjoyed it, and when he was less than forty years old, he felt the passion he had not felt for a long time, and the atmosphere here gave Liang Cheng a sense of rebirth.
On November 5, in Shanghai, Sheng Xuanhuai felt more and more nervous as the sound of gunfire approached, and the moving work of the factory was very slow, even though there were a large number of ships to provide transportation, but it would take time to demolish and move. Many very important heavy machinery cannot be carried at all, and these are precisely the most critical equipment, and there are a large number of wealthy businessmen and officials waiting for merchant ships to leave Shanghai, they squeeze a lot of shipping resources, Sheng Xuanhuai can't say anything about this, high-ranking officials, banner people, rich businessmen, all have hands and eyes, and the relationship is complicated, even Yuan Shikai doesn't want to provoke.
There were tens of thousands of people gathered in Shanghai waiting to leave by boat, they all escaped from Jiangxi, Zhejiang and other places, carrying a large number of families, goods, and treasures, which made the dock a mess, Sheng Xuanhuai even had the idea of stopping the transportation, his telegram had been sent to Yuan Shikai, but he had not yet received a reply. The most reluctant to these factories is Sheng Xuanhuai, most of these are his hard work, known as the "God of Wealth", he relies on these factories and the steamship China Merchants Bureau, how can he be willing to give up?
However, even if it is blown up, it is better than leaving it to the chaotic party, this is Sheng Xuanhuai's final decision, a large number of explosives have been planted, just waiting for the day when the chaotic party enters Shanghai. In fact, Sheng Xuanhuai didn't have to be like this at all, he regarded the mechanical equipment as a treasure, Lu Liang didn't pay attention to it at all, and those equipment were not compatible with the industrial system under the revolutionary government at all, and they were very backward. What Lu Liang values is actually those workers, but the nearly 100,000 workers in Shanghai's large and small factories are ignored at all! These are Shanghai's greatest wealth.
Unfortunately, Lü Liang's negligence, or the indifference of the high-level genetic people of the revolutionary government, caused a major loss, which made Lü Liang regret it, and began to reform the high-level government, hoping to introduce more social talents and change the old-fashioned work style of the high-level.
Chen Tianhua was the head of the party branch of the Zhenguo Party in Shanghai, which was the place where revolutionary activities were most active and one of the places where the headquarters of the Zhenguo Party attached the most importance to it, and invested a lot of human and financial resources.
Thanks to these excellent conditions, as well as Chen Tianhua's social fame, his work was carried out very smoothly, and by October 1903 the Shanghai Zhenguo Party Branch had 500 full party members, all of whom were staunch revolutionaries who carried out large-scale propaganda activities and intelligence gathering activities after a brief training.
Before the attack on Shanghai, the branch received an order from its superiors to cooperate with the Investigation Bureau to find out the specific situation of the Qing army and the armed forces of the foreign powers, including the number of people, branches, fortifications, and so on. Chen Tianhua believed that this was the best opportunity for the Shanghai party branch, and the revolutionary wave swept the south, and the excellent revolutionary situation made Chen Tianhua very excited, and even a little excessive. How can it not be exciting that the wish has been fulfilled, the Manchu Qing is about to be overthrown, and China will usher in a new life?
Chen Tianhua believes that the Shanghai party branch should play a greater role in this battle, not just collect intelligence. The party members of the branch are all iron-clad men, willing to shed blood for the revolution, and the branch also has some weapons and equipment in its hands, has a broad revolutionary base among the people in Shanghai, and has many supporters, why not launch an armed uprising to defeat the rotten rule of the Manchu Qing in Shanghai from within? After this idea arose, Chen Tianhua immediately convened the high-level of the branch to discuss, and received a response from most of the people. In fact, these high-level leaders are enthusiastic young people, and how can mere paper work and lip service satisfy their revolutionary enthusiasm? Therefore, the Shanghai party branch decided to launch an armed uprising and did not report it to higher levels. It is difficult to say why Chen Tianhua did not report to his superiors, perhaps because his brain was burned by the fiery revolutionary enthusiasm.
The party branch is composed of ordinary people, and the investigation bureau is controlled by genetic people, so when the investigation bureau learned of this matter, it was very slow to deal with it, and the person in charge of the Shanghai Regional Investigation Bureau thought that this was a unified action of the superiors, and did not interfere, but only focused on intelligence collection, which is also an important reason why Chen Tianhua was able to do this.
Preparations for an armed uprising were basically ready, and Chen Tianhua and others gathered more than 3,000 able-bodied men to organize the action by Zhenguo Party members, most of whom were workers who had awakened their revolutionary consciousness earlier. Chen Tianhua named it the "Shanghai Volunteer Corps" and asked the members to wear red silk on their left arms to distinguish their identities. They also divided their members into groups, distributed weapons and ammunition, and arranged attacks on various places. Such armed uprisings were very common in the original world, revolutionaries threw their heads and spilled blood, the Guangzhou Uprising and the Wuchang Uprising were all well-known actions of the world, but in fact, there were many unknown actions.
It's just that such an uprising was blind, a hasty action launched in insufficient objective conditions, and the number of successes was very small. The thinking of Chen Tianhua and others was still stuck in the old era, and they had not been baptized by the revolutionary government, and they did not realize that this uprising was fundamentally unnecessary.
What is even worse is that such a large-scale organization is very eye-catching in Shanghai, where the atmosphere is extremely tense, and all kinds of forces in the city have eyes and ears. Before they launched the uprising, the last high-level discussion was held in a warehouse on the outskirts of Shanghai, and what they did not know was that the Qing army's Shanghai garrison, the concession patrol house, and the foreign gun team temporarily organized by the foreign powers had been united, and their goal was precisely this uprising.
On the evening of November 5, Chen Tianhua gathered 30 high-ranking people who participated in the armed uprising in this warehouse to discuss specific plans for tomorrow's uprising. In fact, the crowd did not spend much time discussing the details of the plan and the operation, and most of the time was spent enthusiastically discussing the imagination after the success of the revolution and sharing the joy of the revolution.
In the north wind, the enemy gradually surrounded the warehouse, and more than 300 Qing troops slowly approached the warehouse, and the vague black shadows could still be distinguished, but unfortunately the sentry personnel arranged by the revolutionaries also joined the discussion. The Qing army approached the warehouse gate without incident, and when it was finally discovered, a battle broke out.
More than 30 revolutionaries were taken by surprise and did not even have time to draw their weapons, and the influx of Qing troops showed no mercy in the face of the unarmed revolutionaries, and the sound of gunfire resounded through the warehouse. This was a massacre, Chen Tianhua and many high-ranking party members in Shanghai were shot and killed by the Qing army, and no one survived.
At the same time as the battle for the warehouse began, the insurgents scattered throughout Shanghai were simultaneously attacked by the Qing army, patrols, and foreign guns, and there were battles in the city, suburbs, and concessions. The insurgents had already issued weapons and ammunition in advance, so that they would not be left defenseless, but the fighting was still one-sided.
The weapons of the Shanghai party branch were all from the Qing army weapons captured by the Zhenguo army in the previous battle, and the party department obtained a batch and distributed it to all party branches in China, among which the Shanghai side received 500 long guns, 40 short guns, 50,000 rounds of ammunition, and a batch of explosives used to make bombs. According to the plan, the weapons will be seized after the capture of the arsenal to make up for the shortfall. So, the insurgents had more than 500 guns and the resistance was fierce.
After the sound of gunfire all night, the people in downtown Shanghai felt the atmosphere of the battle in advance, and only more than 600 of the more than 3,000 insurgents managed to escape, and the rest were all killed. The revolutionary forces in Shanghai were completely lost in this battle, and they were the backbone, core, and pillar of the revolution. Moreover, Shanghai is the region with the greatest concentration of revolutionary forces in the whole country, and it is a great pity that the revolutionaries composed of advanced intellectuals are rare talents, and if they do not suffer the next difficulty, they will play a decisive role in all fields of New China.
The Bureau then reported the incident, but they realized that it was too late, that the insurgents had been wiped out overnight, and that the Bureau had little armed force to prevent it from happening, and that they could only do their best to assist the revolutionaries in hiding afterwards.
Lu Liang was furious, this was the most angry he had ever crossed. There was not only anger against the Manchus and the foreign powers, but also self-blame for their own shortcomings. The Manchus and the Great Powers were the culprits of this incident, and there is no doubt that sooner or later, they will recover this blood debt. But after calming down, with the deepening of the investigation, Lu Liang found that the matter could be completely avoided, and looked for the reasons, the party department's insufficient supervision of various branches and branches, Chen Tianhua's self-assertion, and the investigation bureau's indifference were all reasons. In fact, the most important point is only clear to Lu Liang himself, that is, there are many high-level genetic people who are rigid in their thinking, and it is impossible to cover everything.