Although Li Zhigao decided to follow Zhao Changtian's suggestion to attack Nanjing, his idea was more about expanding the strategic space, and he didn't want to move his nest to Nanjing now, let alone immediately electrify the uprising, and go to be the first bird too early, which was different from Zhao Changtian's original intention.

Zhao Changtian's meaning was to let Li Zhigao rebel against the Qing Dynasty, take the initiative, and then seize the initiative against the Qing Dynasty, and then command the heroes to destroy the Manchu Qing Dynasty in one go, and finally seize the world. As a young intellectual in the late Qing Dynasty, it is understandable for him to think so, and he still follows the old path of peasant uprising.

But Li Zhigao is different, as a modern person, his knowledge is broader and broader, and he thinks more, he thinks not only about military comparison, but also about other aspects, such as influence, such as talent reserves, such as control capabilities, etc.

To be precise, what Li Zhigao was thinking about was how to better consolidate the fruits of his victories and how to obtain a complete and powerful country, instead of superficially getting the national political power but actually getting a mess.

As an admirer of farming flow, Li Zhigao has always liked to fight steadily, lay down a place, consolidate a place, and dislike the fast attack flow, because although the fast attack flow is very cool, the foundation is unstable, and it is easy to be beaten back by someone if you are not careful.

As a pseudo-history lover, Li Zhigao also knows very well that difficult technical work like rebellion is never as simple as inviting guests to dinner, and you can't just look at military strength, but also look at other forces, such as talent reserves, such as capital reserves. Industrial capacity and so on and so forth.

In other words, Li Zhigao believes that all those who have successfully rebelled throughout the ages and sat firmly in the country must have four prerequisites, that is, there are money, people, soldiers, and territory!

Li Zhigao now relies on cheating methods. It's just that there are money, soldiers, and territory, but there are people, and it's not enough. This person is mainly a loyal person, especially those who are relatively honest and loyal, and can firmly hold the local political power for Li Zhigao.

Why did the Kuomintang finally lose to our party after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War? Although there are many reasons, in the final analysis, it is not because the internal officials are too powerful? Why did Li Zhigao reorganize the Liberation Society. Do you want to specialize in anti-corruption institutions? It's to try to eliminate ** from the beginning.

Not to mention the distance, just look at the different endings of our party and Chairman Chiang.

Although our party was criticized by many people for its various internal party purges, to be honest, it purified the organization, strengthened the leadership, and allowed our party to maintain a high enough level of integrity and efficiency for a long time, so that despite poverty. However, the administrative control is very strong, and the ability to organize the people is also very strong.

On the other hand, the Kuomintang of that year. Although there is a strong army, but the internal is completely thorough, and in the end, the people are lost, and there is no army, but it has become the captain of the transportation brigade, and finally let our party turn the tables!

So. The story of Chairman Chiang's defeat told Li Zhigao that in order to achieve ultimate success in the rebellion, we must not be too eager, nor should we be obsessed with the army alone, but must also have an honest and efficient organization and government team. If you want to benefit the people and win the hearts and minds of the people, you must not only make the army completely obey you, but also let the people under your rule also turn to you.

Those who win the hearts of the people win the world, this is not nonsense, you have to be the real boss, not only to convince people, but also to convince people with virtue. Needless to say, this virtue is not a virtue such as personal ethics, but a clean and efficient administrative team, and these all have to rely on talents, relying on talents who are loyal to themselves!

In short, Li Zhigao's time in this world is too short, the foundation is not stable, and there is still a lack of administrative personnel who can manage local civil affairs, and master local resources for themselves, so they can't expand too fast.

Everything is like this, at the beginning, prevent the slightest, form a system, and it will be easy to develop in the future, if it is not pure at the beginning, it will only get worse and worse in the future!

Therefore, Li Zhigao does not seek the fastest, but only the most stable! In order to buy time for oneself to train qualified and loyal political work cadres, these things cannot be rushed, and it does not mean that they can be trained with weapons for a few months.

If those considerations are a bit far away, then it would be more practical to go back and talk about them.

From a military point of view, it is easy to conquer a territory such as Nanjing, but what about after it is conquered? How is it governed? Who will govern? It's all a problem.

Li Zhigao's soldiers and horses are very strong now, but there are not enough of them, there is no problem in taking Nanjing, and it is estimated that it is not a big problem to hold Nanjing, but that will involve a lot of his own energy, and the biggest problem is those Kuomintang parties.

To put it bluntly, once they take Nanjing, those Kuomintang elements will inevitably rush over to seize power like sharks that smell fishy, and if you let them come, they will disgust you to death, and if they don't let them come, they will spit on Xingzi and say that you are dead, and then it will take all the energy to just rip off the skin, so Li Zhigao plans to continue to put his nest in the Taiping Mansion, continue to build a high wall, and slowly claim the throne, and only use Nanjing as a strategic buffer, or as a bait and a strategic meat grinder, to attract the attention of all parties.

The specific method is to continue to learn the plan of the patrol battalion that he started by himself, take Nanjing in the name of the New Army of the Ninth Town, and continue to electrify the uprising in the name of the New Army of the Ninth Town! He continues to hide behind his back to make real profits.

This is actually not difficult, the current leader of the Ninth Town is Xu Shaozhen, this guy was originally very sympathetic to the Revolutionary Party, and the Ninth Town has always been in an unstable situation.

The patrol battalion led by Zhang Xun, the governor of Jiangnan, in Nanjing, was mainly to guard against the Ninth Town, and in this operation, the Ninth Town was placed in front and the patrol battalion was placed in the back, which originally meant to supervise the war. Who knows, Zhao Changtian did not fight the new army first, but bypassed the new army and attacked the patrol battalion first, which disrupted all the deployments.

Now, Xu Shaozhen has become a prisoner, naturally what Li Zhigao says, he has to listen to what he says, and besides, there is no video these years, but if the electricity is only telegraphed in the name of Xu Shaozhen, it is still very simple.

Do what you say! Li Zhigao quickly put the troops of a regiment into the uniforms of the New Army, and then took Xu Shaozhen and other main backbones of the New Army. Taking advantage of the fact that everyone was still unclear about the situation here, led by Zhao Changtian, without artillery, all lightly armed, and quickly raided Nanjing by car.

The troops set out overnight and walked along the official road. It took only one night to rush by car, and it was just dawn to arrive at the city of Nanjing.

After arriving in Nanjing City, seeing that the sky had just dawned, Zhao Changtian immediately made a decision, so that the main regiment dressed in the uniforms of the new army no longer rested, but directly escorted Xu Shaozhen and others to stand in the open space outside the city, sent people to shout to open the city gate in the name of urging supplies, and then swaggered into Nanjing City.

As soon as the troops entered the city. Immediately, the officers and men of the patrol battalion who remained were disarmed, and some men were sent to defend the various city gates, while the other main forces continued to assault and directly attacked the camp of the patrol battalion.

Because it was a large rear area and the time was early in the morning, many of the officers and men of the patrol battalion who remained in the camp did not get up, and as a result, they were captured and disarmed by the heavily armed main regiment at once.

In this way, Nanjing, a famous city, is strong. After not many fierce battles, it was fully captured in less than half a day.

After the fall of Nanjing. Li Zhigao telegraphed the whole country in the name of Xu Shaozhen, which meant that the Ninth Town of the New Army led his troops to revolt and establish a revolutionary regime in Nanjing, and Xu Shaozhen recognized himself as the governor of Nanjing, and called on the people of the whole country to rise up against the Qing Dynasty, and Nanjing was the territory of the revolutionary army from then on!

this event. In later generations, it was called the Nanjing Uprising, and due to the special situation in Nanjing, this first electrification had a stronger shock effect than the Wuchang Uprising in later generations, and the impact was more serious.

And after that. The details of the Ninth Town Uprising of the New Army were publicized by Li Zhigao's propagandists through telegrams and newspapers, and everyone soon learned the details of the Nanjing Uprising.

The new story, or the history that has been recorded in the formal history books, goes like this:

The officers and soldiers of the Ninth Town of the New Army, who had long been yearning for revolution, were forced by Zhang Xun to lead their troops westward to attack the Taiping Mansion, which was becoming more and more centrifugal although it did not rebel.

However, Zhang Xun was a small person, and treated the patrol battalion differently from the ninth town of the new army, and when the troops were marching and arranging, he let the ninth town of the new army be cannon fodder in the front, while the patrol battalion supervised the battle in the rear, and the military materials and other aspects were also in the hands of the patrol battalion, and often withheld the materials of the ninth town, so that the soldiers of the ninth town of the new army were in a state of half-starvation and half-fullness.

Later, at an operational meeting, Xu Shaozhen was dissatisfied with Zhang Xun's differential treatment and contempt, so he simply led his troops to revolt that night, directly detained Zhang Xun, who presided over the combat meeting, and then took advantage of the situation to exterminate the patrol battalion.

After destroying the patrol battalion, Xu Shaozhen's recruits from the Ninth Town returned to Nanjing, conquered Nanjing in one fell swoop, and then led the people to revolt and set up a revolutionary government in Nanjing.

That is to say, in the new version of the story, the protagonist of the Nanjing Uprising became the ninth town of the New Army, Xu Shaozhen became a star, and Li Zhigao's troops became a supporting role, even a supporting role that did not appear much, only after the Nanjing Uprising, Li Zhigao followed the telegram to express his support, and appointed himself as the governor of Anhui, which belonged to the second telegram uprising.

At this moment, it can be regarded as a hornet's nest, and the Qing court, which did not know the truth, was furious, thinking that it was really the ninth town of the new army that started an uprising, and immediately thought of sending troops to exterminate it, and the first thing to be eliminated was naturally the "culprit" of the ninth town of the Nanjing New Army.

However, while the Qing court was still discussing how to send troops and who to send to exterminate them, bad news came one after another!

Since Li Zhigao wants to expand his strategic space, grasp the strategic initiative, and do not intend to use Nanjing as a base, he naturally does not care about Nanjing's gains and losses, so after taking Nanjing, he will not stop there, and it is even more impossible to wait for the Qing court to send troops over with peace of mind.

In fact, after taking Nanjing, in order to further weaken the power of the Qing court and make more trouble for the Qing court, and at the same time, in order to let the Kuomintang elements on all sides find more things to do and less trouble for themselves, Li Zhigao divided the main force into two and began the policy of dividing troops.

One of the troops was led by Zhao Changtian, who led a fully manned infantry regiment, two flying squadrons, plus the officers and soldiers of the Ninth Town of the New Army who had been captured anyway, and sat in Nanjing on the spot, became the town guard of Nanjing, and became the actual armed commander-in-chief of Nanjing City, whose purpose was to watch Nanjing and monitor the surrounding dynamics.

As for Li Zhigao, he personally led the other main forces and continued to wave his army to the east, starting his revolutionary locust mobile warfare! (To be continued......)