Chapter 387: Sun Yat-sen dies

"When is the thing..."

After getting out of the car and walking into the presidential palace, Yan Guang asked the oncoming Xu Shichang.

Because of Sun Yat-sen's affairs, Yan Guang originally had some other things to do in the military base, but now he had to rush back.

Hearing Yan Guang's words, Xu Shichang, who is still the prime minister, hurriedly replied.

"The news from the Military Intelligence Agency and the embassy in Japan was about three hours ago..."

"So..."

Yan Guang nodded, handed over the coat on his body to Yue Chang, and walked into the office with Xu Shichang and the others.

The year 1923 was definitely a good year for the Kuomintang, because of its efforts in the First World War, the Kuomintang's government not only gained great benefits, but also established China's position as the third most powerful country in the world after the war.

In particular, the development of oil fields in the Middle East has given the current national government wings.

After all, Kolchak's more than 1,000 tons of gold will eventually run out, but three oil fields in the Middle East can bring China at least a hundred years of benefits.

However, 1923 was a dark year for the Kuomintang compared to the Kuomintang.

Because in this year, after the death of Huang Xing in 1916, another leader of the Kuomintang, and the last leader, Sun Yat-sen, died...

Since the defeat of the Kuomintang and its withdrawal from the mainland, the Kuomintang has always relied on two leaders, Huang Xing and Sun Yat-sen, to maintain, and a few years after retreating to Japan, with the efforts of the two people, the Kuomintang has gradually improved.

However, it was at this time, on October 31, 1916, that Huang Xing died at the Kuomintang headquarters in Tokyo.

Huang Xing's death undoubtedly dealt a great blow to the Kuomintang, because the Kuomintang has always been led by Huang Xing and Sun Yat-sen. Moreover, within the Kuomintang, there were also Huang factions and Sun factions—————— unlike Sun Yat-sen, who was overly deified in later generations, Sun Yat-sen was only one of the leaders in the Kuomintang at this time, but not the only leader.

Therefore, Huang Xing's death undoubtedly plunged the Huang faction into chaos.

Originally, after the death of Huang Xing in history, the Huang faction should also be led by Sun Yat-sen, after all, Sun Yat-sen was already the only leader at that time.

However, due to Sun Yat-sen's retreat to Japan and the fact that many Kuomintang members remained on the mainland, there was a great division within the Kuomintang. Under these circumstances, Li Shucheng and others, who originally belonged to the Huang faction, defected to the Kuomintang Socialist Party, and of course Li Shucheng and others did not quit the Kuomintang, but they did not listen to the orders of the Japanese headquarters very much in many cases.

And this was the first major blow to the Kuomintang after it retreated to Japan.

It's just that the Kuomintang was not directly split at that time, so there were no big problems, especially after some of the Huang faction also gathered under Sun Yat-sen's banner, the cohesion of the Kuomintang was improved to a certain extent.

But now, Sun Yat-sen, the last leader of the Kuomintang, finally passed away as well...

"What will the KMT end up looking like..."

Looking at the sky, which had been obscured by dark clouds, a Kuomintang man stood in front of the gate of the headquarters and muttered.

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Unlike the Kuomintang people who were at a loss, after the news of Sun Yat-sen's death came back to China, many people grieved, attached importance to it, and sighed at the news, but there were also many people who didn't pay much attention to it at all.

After all, Sun Yat-sen is no longer China's only savior, or no longer China's savior, everything he has done has become a thing of the past after ten years.

As far as the group of people behind Yan Guang is concerned, at this moment, the group of admirals behind Yan Guang are still discussing the role of the new Gatling cannon after learning the news ......of Sun Yat-sen's death.

Unlike Yan Guang, who only thinks about using cannons as anti-aircraft weapons, the admirals of the navy who belong to this era obviously have other uses in their hearts...

“……… It is best to design it as a high-level dual-use system, so that it can deal with threats not only in the air, but also on the sea. ”

"That's right, a rate of fire of 5000 rounds per minute, plus a caliber of 30mm, is absolutely effective against torpedo boats or submarines that have surfaced..."

That's right, this is the new use that the Admirals came up with for the cannon after seeing the power of the Gatling cannon.

Unlike the harsh light from later generations, who only focused on air threats, including anti-ship missiles, for the navy, the threat posed by torpedoes and torpedo boats was also what they needed to face.

Moreover, in this era when the air threat is not yet a climate, in the eyes of the Navy, the threat of torpedo boats and submarines may be greater, after all, the aircraft in this period can still only be described as rudimentary, and as for aircraft carriers or anything, there are no actual combat examples.

At the same time, the small, flexible but powerful torpedo boat can be said to be the favorite of the navy of a small country, because even a small torpedo boat has enough threat to the battleship.

In fact, the Wehrmacht Navy was also equipped with a certain number of torpedo boats, and during the Shandong Campaign, the Navy even thought about letting torpedo boat units fight, but at that time Longkou Bay was still within the strike range of the Air Force, so they were not used. As for the later battle of Sakhalin, it was because the distance was too far for them to pass ...

However, even so, the Navy still attaches importance to the role of torpedoes and torpedoes.

However, the main anti-torpedo (torpedo boats) of this period were not many, and the few ones that were realized were the use of equipment such as mesh grilles, or the use of artillery to directly attack the torpedo carrier.

A type of grille is called blocking protection, that is, a barrier is set up to block an incoming torpedo.

For example, the lightning protection net used by the ship at anchor, the so-called "lightning protection guard" or the protective towing line used by the ship in motion is a multi-section hollow tube structure, which is strung together with steel cables. When not in use, fold and put it on the deck, when entering the dangerous sea area, put the cloth into the water, use the unfolder to unfold the tow line to a certain distance from the side of the side, and drag forward. Each hollow tube is filled with explosives and can also be fitted with a proximity fuse. Direct torpedoes are usually attacked from the side position, and this kind of towing line protection equipment can play a more effective role in blocking.

The other is to use artillery to directly attack torpedo boats carrying torpedoes.

For example, the dozens of secondary guns equipped with battleships are specially designed for this.

In fact, in the face of dozens of secondary guns, there are very few torpedo boats that can still break through and enter the attack range, but this does not mean that torpedo boats are not a threat.

First, in addition to the battleships, the remaining ships such as cruisers or destroyers have less displacement, and the number of secondary guns naturally decreases, plus the caliber of the main guns of many destroyers or cruisers is about the same as the caliber of the secondary guns of battleships, so you can imagine how big the caliber of the secondary guns equipped by these ships will be...

Furthermore, if there is a secondary artillery to intercept during the day, it is naturally no problem, but what if it is night? This is one of the reasons why battleships and other ships are equipped with a large number of searchlights, in order to prevent sneak attacks at night, but even this is still not guaranteed to be foolproof...

This is the reason why the Navy would consider attaching Gatling guns to warships.

Torpedo boats in this period usually had a displacement of only a few tons or dozens of tons, the largest was only more than 100 tons, and the range of torpedoes was less than 3 kilometers.

And this distance is precisely the optimal range of the Gatling gun. ..., (British MK8 torpedo, 457 mm diameter, range 1371.6 m/41 knots, or 2275 m/29 knots.) At the same time, during this period, they were all direct-sailing torpedoes, and if they were far away, they would not hit at all, and as for self-guided torpedoes and wire-guided torpedoes, they only appeared in the late stage of World War II)

Although the caliber of the Gatling gun was only 30mm, the rate of fire reached 5,000 rounds per minute, and most torpedo boats of this period were wooden, so as long as they were pointed at the muzzle, the final result was absolutely dead and disabled.

Therefore, it is indeed a good choice to use the Gatling cannon as an anti-aircraft and anti-torpedo (boat) weapon. As for why Yan Guang didn't think of this, it was because in the world he came from, in addition to the air force and anti-ship missiles, the rest of the navy had to face submarine forces.

As for torpedo boats? Although this type of ship was once in the limelight for a while, but in the era of Yan Guang, all that was left was the evolved version of the torpedo boat missile boat...

Similarly, the Navy is also considering using Gatling guns with a high rate of fire as anti-torpedo weapons, because the torpedoes of this period were all direct torpedoes sailing close to the water, and if the reaction is fast enough, it is not impossible for the Navy to destroy the torpedo with an ultra-high rate of fire of 5,000 rounds per minute.

However, in Yan Guang's era, he had never heard of the close defense artillery and this task, so Yan Guang could only shake his head and smile bitterly about whether the navy could succeed.

"But the volume is also a problem, the volume of the cannon itself alone is about the same as a 150 gun, plus the rotating turret or something..."

"And the consumption of ammunition, the rate of fire of 5,000 rounds per minute is really amazing, but the consumption is also amazing, if each gun is equipped with two magazines of 1,000 rounds and several spare magazines, the destroyer does not have to think about it, even a 5,000-ton light cruiser may not be able to fit a few..."

Indeed, although the performance of the Gatling gun is amazing, the consumption of ammunition is also amazing, and counting its own size and number of operators, etc., the Gatling gun as an anti-aircraft weapon may not be inferior to the 150mm or 210mm caliber secondary gun...

Fortunately, the Navy has never thought of replacing anti-aircraft guns or anti-aircraft machine guns on warships with Gatling cannons, twin 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine guns or 75mm anti-aircraft guns and 30mm machine guns are still essential equipment on all types of warships, 30mm six-barreled Gatling guns are only one on a 2,000-ton destroyer, two or three on a 5,000-ton light cruiser, and seventy, eighty or ninety on a battleship of more than 40,000 tons...

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Hearing that the people in the navy were still talking behind their backs, Yan Guang and Xu Shichang both shook their heads.

But it is no wonder that after all, Sun Yat-sen went to Japan after the Second Revolution, and there was no time to leave his influence in the former Fujian Navy, and now, when the National Defense Navy has become the third largest navy in the world, it is really difficult to expect the Navy to be as it is in history.

In fact, this is not only the case for the navy, but also for most of the other military and political personnel in the government.

I am afraid that there are only a few people like Xu Shichang or Yan Guang who will still pay attention to Sun Yat-sen's death.

Xu Shichang will pay attention to it because Sun Yat-sen was the biggest enemy of Beiyang during the Yuan Shikai period, as for Yan Guang? This reason does not need to be mentioned further.

On the one hand, in later generations, both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party deified Sun Yat-sen himself, so that future generations could no longer know the true face of Sun Yat-sen.

On the other hand, some traces left by Sun Yat-sen himself in history are also in stark contrast to the image of Sun Yat-sen himself after being deified.

For Yan Guang, there is nothing to be ashamed of things like washing dishes in the United States, labor is glorious, and Yan Guang didn't want to be a coolie when he first arrived in the United States. ..., but for Sun Yat-sen's private life...

For example, Kaoru Otsuki, who was favored by Sun Yat-sen when she was a young girl at the age of eleven, and then proposed to Kaoru Otsuki's father, Kaoru Otsuki, at the age of fifteen.

Well, there's nothing shameful about lolicon if you have to say it, after all, everyone has their own unique hobbies.

However, if he ran out of the revolution not long after getting married, and ran back not long after the revolution, leaving his wife with a child, and continuing to run out of the revolution, and since then there is no trace, leaving only his wife and a child, at least in Yan Guang's opinion, it is still a very excessive thing.

In addition to Da Yue Xun, there are also Sun Yat-sen's original partner Lu Muzhen and concubine Chen Cuifen.

The former married Sun Yat-sen at the age of 18, and the latter was introduced to Sun Yat-sen by Chen Shaobai in 1892. Out of admiration for Sun Yat-sen, he voluntarily followed Sun Yat-sen to run the revolution, took care of Sun Yat-sen's daily life and diet, served as a nurse and a guard, and lived with Sun Yat-sen for more than 10 years without regrets, living a life of exile and fear.

Before the Wuchang Uprising in Xinhai, she used the name of his wife to cover Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary activities. In Yokohama, her home with Sun Yat-sen was also the base of revolutionary activities, and she received and arranged for all those who came to discuss revolutionary work with Sun Yat-sen, including Hu Hanmin, Liao Zhongkai, and Chiang Kai-shek. Before the Huizhou Uprising, she was almost always responsible for the secret transportation of arms and weapons, liaison and communication, and the transmission of intelligence. In the 33rd year of Guangxu, Sun Yat-sen planned 4 armed uprisings, and she was with him.

However, in 1915, the former had to divorce Sun Yat-sen due to the opposition of the elders of the League because of Sun Yat-sen's strong request.

At that time, Lu Muzhen was still in front of everyone and said: "Mr. Sun went overseas for the revolution, wandered everywhere, and was physically and mentally exhausted, since the existing people are willing to take care of his life, I am willing to fulfill it and divorce Mr. Sun." ”

By the way, in October of the same year, a month after Sun Yat-sen and Lu Muzhen divorced, after learning that Sun Yat-sen had divorced his ex-wife, the twenty-two-year-old Song Qingling immediately went to Tokyo to marry Sun Yat-sen...

As for Chen Cuifen, she "retired after success" in 1914...

However, on October 17, 1918, Sun Yat-sen, in a letter to his British mentor Conderley, confessed the reason for his divorce from Mrs. Lo Mo-ching: "My former wife did not like to go out, so she did not accompany me abroad during my days of exile. She needed to settle down with my old mother, and always persuaded me to marry another side house according to the old Chinese customs. But the woman I love is not willing to accept such a status, and I can't do without her. In this way, there is no other way than to divorce my ex-wife by mutual agreement. ”

The woman she loves, she is not accompanied by her abroad...

Sun Yat-sen had a total of one son and three daughters, one of whom and two daughters were born to Lu Muzhen, and the last Japanese one was born to Kaoru Otsuki...

These words were said after seeing Song Qingling, which is really some...

And if Lu Muzhen is more or less eligible as a result of an arranged marriage, then why did Chen Cuifen "retire after success" in the end? Is it because she's no longer young...

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Although Yan Guang has always looked down on Sun Yat-sen because of his private life, this does not deny that Sun Yat-sen is a sign of the times, although the Wuchang Uprising actually has little to do with him...

Although there are various reasons, Yan Guang still has to pay attention to Sun Yat-sen's death.

"Send a telegram to the Japanese side and ask them to send someone to the Kuomintang headquarters to mourn..."

Regardless of Yan Guang's sense of Sun Yat-sen himself, this was a must-do.

After hearing Yan Guang's words, Xu Shichang also nodded. ..., "I'll do it..."

It didn't take long for a telegram to reach the Chinese embassy in Tokyo.

"Mourning..."

Looking at the telegram that had just arrived at the embassy, Tong Kong smiled bitterly.

As China's chief diplomat to Japan, the so-called embassy ambassador, Tong Kong's situation in Japan is as awkward as the Japanese ambassador's time in China.

After all, after the Battle of Shandong and the Battle of Sakhalin, the relationship between China and Japan is really not good, although almost five years have passed since the Battle of Sakhalin, and the atmosphere between China and Japan has eased a lot thanks to the efforts of China and Japan, but even so, whenever the embassy with the Chinese flag of the car driving on the streets of Tokyo, there are still strange eyes on both sides of the road from time to time...

Fortunately, China at this time is no longer the China of the past, and even people with malicious intentions do not dare to act rashly. Of course, in Japan, a country where people often get hot-headed...

However, considering that Japan is the most hostile country to China, the security force of the embassy in Japan has always been the strongest among all embassies abroad, so Tong Kong has been in danger for so many years.

"Forget it, it's an order from above, after all."

After shaking his head and instructing the counselor, Tong Kong boarded a car under the protection of more than a dozen soldiers who had just retired from the expeditionary force.

To be honest, Tong Kong really didn't want to go to the Kuomintang headquarters.

Although it is not clear how Sun Yat-sen lived for 25 years in history, Tong Kong always felt that Sun Yat-sen might have lived longer if he had not retreated to Japan. Therefore, it is not easy to go to the Kuomintang headquarters at this time to get a good face.

"But there's no way, who called it an order from above..."

As the embassy motorcade drove through the streets of Tokyo, as usual, a large number of Japanese people looked at the embassy motorcade with strange eyes, as well as the Chinese flag hanging on the front of the car.

However, in recent years, especially after the defeat of the Battle of Shandong and the Battle of Sakhalin, there have been many hot-headed Japanese who have gone to find trouble with the embassy in Japan, and many people have even tried to storm the embassy with a katana...

Needless to say, the final fate of these people is needless to say, the lighter ones are just losing their hands and feet, and the heavier ones are even losing their lives. (At that time, the embassy people did not think about seizing it and handing it over to the Japanese government, after all, at that time, even if it was handed over to the Japanese government, it was estimated that it would not be long before it was released.)

So now, it is rare in Tokyo for stupid people who are unprepared and still want to storm the embassy and the embassy convoy...

"It's okay, at least I didn't run into anything boring today..."

After tidying up the belt pinned to an 11.43mm caliber Browning pistol, Tong Kong took out a pack of cigarettes and said softly.

Although the embassy and the Kuomintang people always tried to avoid touching each other, the distance between the embassy and the Kuomintang headquarters was not very far, so it was only a little more than ten minutes later that the embassy motorcade had already arrived at the Kuomintang headquarters.

When Tong Kong arrived at the Kuomintang headquarters, it was different from the appearance of retreating to Japan's back door, and the front gate of the Kuomintang headquarters was almost overcrowded.

At this time, needless to say, the Black Dragon Society, which had a very friendly relationship with the Kuomintang, and other people who had nothing to do with the Kuomintang, also ran to the gate of the Kuomintang headquarters to join in the fun.

"Let's go..."

"Yes!"

The Kuomintang and others who came to mourn Tong Kong's arrival were a little surprised, after all, although the relationship between the Kuomintang and the Kuomintang was not as bad as in 1913, it was by no means a good word.

However, he was a guest, not to mention at such a time, so the Kuomintang still received Tong Kong.

After mourning Sun Yat-sen, Tong Kong also met Sun Yat-sen's widows Song Qingling and Da Yue Xun, and of course Sun Yat-sen's children.

Sun Ke, Sun Yan, Sun Wan and Miyagawa Fumiko...

After meeting his widow and children, Tong Kong did not stay long before leaving.

And not long after Tong Kong left, domestic newspapers also published the news of Sun Yat-sen's death...

Although Sun Yat-sen's influence in China has been extremely weak over the years, his death still represents the end of an era...

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Author's words: It's hard to say anything else, but I really can't get used to this kind of behavior towards my wife and daughter...

The so-called wife, is it thrown away when she is old?

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