Chapter Seventy-Seven: Armistice between the North and the South
However, what Lin Shuqing didn't expect was that the reinforcements sent by the Republic of China government had already arrived behind him, but they did not come to meet Lin Shuqing's department or defend the position with Lin Shuqing, but used the time Lin Shuqing bought to rearrange the defense line from Shiguanzhen to Datang and Longshan behind Lin Shuqing.
In other words, at this time, the southern government had already abandoned the defensive front of Lin Shuqing's department, and for Lin Shuqing's department, for the sake of the overall situation, he could only say sorry.
On February 1, Lin Shuqing's troops, who had been ordered to hold on for a day and a half, finally held out to the last moment after paying a heavy price, but what was waiting for them was not reinforcements, but a more fierce enemy attack!
Therefore, Lin Shuqing's department, which had fallen into despair, finally began to collapse because of more than half of the casualties of the troops, and on the evening of February 1, Duan Qirui officially broke through the position of Lin Shuqing's department, and this cruel, battlefield with thousands of casualties, after six days, finally came to an end.
Lin Shuqing's number one general, Tao Baojun, who had been following him, also died in the final breakthrough to cover the retreat of the main force, which made Lin Shuqing even more grief-stricken, until Lin Shuqing retreated with the remnants of less than a thousand soldiers, but he didn't know the truth.
Facing the low comfort of Li Liejun, the governor of Jiangxi, who was in charge of the general war, and Xu Guqing, the governor of Jiangsu, and looking at the blood and confusion in the eyes of his subordinates, he remembered that Tao Baojun persuaded himself to leave before, and he was still naïve waiting for reinforcements, but in the end he killed his good subordinates and good brothers, and he was suddenly full of sadness.
Regarding what Li and Xu said about letting them go back to Nanjing to rectify, they couldn't raise the mood to listen to these anymore, so they just hugged their fists to the two of them, and laughed a little desolately: "Let's go home by ourselves, and we won't trouble the government~"
Then he shouted loudly to the soldiers who were looking at him: "Brothers, let's go home!" ”
Then, ignoring Li and Xu, who were embarrassed next to them, more than a thousand people turned around and left silently.
In this way, in the eyes of tens of thousands of troops, more than 1,000 soldiers silently carried their wounded comrades and the corpses they had snatched back, and their figures gradually disappeared.
Li and Xu looked at the blood-stained soldiers who walked by, and sighed in unison, seeing these soldiers, they knew how tragic the battle had been in the past few days, so the two respectfully saluted this group of heroes who had fought for six days to show their respect. This group of injured people, whether they were physically or psychologically injured, no one paid attention to the two of them, looked at them indifferently and left.
Xu Guqing saw the indifference of this group of soldiers and Lin Shuqing's disobedience, and felt that the other party always came out of Jiangsu by himself, and his face was not good-looking, so he unconsciously said: "This is too..."
"Okay, we can also understand Brother Xu's feelings, after all, it's a matter like this, and no one is comfortable." Without waiting for Xu Guqing to continue, Li Liejun interrupted the other party's words.
Xu Guqing also reacted, but there were some things that he couldn't say, but fortunately he didn't say it.
"How can this disobedience be explained to the president and ministers?" Xu Guqing thought of this, he didn't know what was in his heart, and couldn't help but ask.
"Let him go, we won't have the face to see Brother Lin in the future." Li Liejun had no choice but to reply.
Li Liejun knows Xu Guqing's thoughts, Lin Shuqing has his own strength, and he is a revolutionary Jiangsu veteran, he has a lot of popularity in Jiangsu, and the other party's strength is damaged, Xu Guqing is more conducive to the consolidation of his position in Jiangsu, and he is happy.
However, Li Liejun thought of the order issued by the War Department, but he was also helpless, both the north and the south were thinking of promoting peace by fighting, and naturally they did not want to lose both.
On February 3, 1912, Duan Qirui's troops, who had rested for a day, finally walked out of Xuzhou City fully armed and launched an attack on the revolutionary coalition forces in various provinces led by Li Liejun and Xu Guqing.
Both sides know that both sides of this battle have already mobilized their generals, and they want to decide the outcome in this battle, which is the most critical battle in the north-south game, and there is no attempt to attack these actions!
At the end of the day, the casualties on both sides were nearly 3,000 soldiers, but after all, the old Beiyang Army was stronger, with only about 1,000 casualties.
The casualties are so great that if the stalemate continues, I don't know how many people will have to die to fill this war machine.
Therefore, just when outsiders thought that the north-south battle would continue to be a tragic tug-of-war on the second day, but the strange thing was that both sides stopped very tacitly on the second day, and only at the junction of the two armies remembered a burst of gunfire from time to time, and the whole battlefield gradually subsided, as if yesterday's tragedy did not happen, if you don't look at the stumps on the battlefield and the unfinished gunpowder smoke.
In this war, the South saw the strength of the North, and the North saw the determination of the South, and in this unbelievable and natural situation, the two sides stopped fighting like child's play.
In 1912, after a dark game between the North and the South, the first Civil War ended.
In the Nanjing Presidential Palace, Sun Yat-sen, Huang Xing and others discussed the war again, and behind them stood their proud disciple Wang Jingwei.
Sun Yat-sen was still very happy that the war could end, at least the south did not lose much this time, and the north and south returned to the negotiating table.
After several people agreed on the details of the negotiation, but no one went to negotiate on behalf of the south, Wu Tingfang took the initiative to stay in Shanghai last time and was unwilling to come back, but this time he didn't know what the other party meant, whether he could go out of the mountain to represent the south to carry out this crucial negotiation, Wu Tingfang was stable and conscientious, which still made a few people very relieved.
In the end, Huang Xing had no choice but to say that he had written to the other party again to tell him about it, and that he would invite him over anyway, and it would be better for these professionals to negotiate such a thing.
After talking about this matter, when talking about the people who made the greatest contribution to this war, there was a little silence for a while, and the fact that the North was able to agree to negotiate again with that side this time undoubtedly played a great role in the earlier North-South battle.
In this way, this Lin Shuqing has become a natural hero, if it were not for the Lin Department to carry more than 30,000 people on the front line to attack, persisted for five or six days, let the north see the bloody nature of the south, I don't know if this war will end so soon.
But after all, this matter is a disgraceful thing for the government, and it has the meaning of selfish use, which almost forced Lin Shuqing to a dead end, and he almost couldn't survive, these bigwigs also know it, how not to be embarrassed.
And now Lin Shuqing, the biggest hero this time, was finally disheartened and left in a negative mood, this kind of behavior is undoubtedly a slap in the face of the southern government, several bigwigs sitting here, I don't know how many people hope that Lin Shuqing might as well die on the battlefield, so the government will not be in such an embarrassing situation this time.
Xu Guqing accused Lin Shuqing of being arrogant in his work, and his dissatisfaction with the government jumped on his face, slandering the government's battle plan and other matters, but Li Liejun was just the opposite, and he didn't say anything about Lin Shuqing's arrogance, just that the other party couldn't figure it out for a while, made some emotions, and wanted to go back to rest and rest.
But both of them talked about the tragic situation of Lin Shuqing's troops, and even Xu Guqing did not speak with a clear conscience at this point, after all, the bloody facts were there.
Sun Yat-sen always believed that the revolution was to be sacrificed, and the soldiers gave their lives on the battlefield, but they were also for the country and the people, so he was a little dissatisfied with Lin Shuqing's negative departure.
But considering that the other party is also a veteran of the revolution, and he is the first to respond to this war, and besides, what the government has done in this matter is indeed a bit selfish, and it is quite a bit impossible to take action, so it is difficult to say anything.
Huang Xing looked around and no one was willing to express his opinion on this, so he had no choice but to take the initiative to take on this black cauldron, who made himself the Minister of the Army, can he still let the government publicly apologize to Lin Shuqing for this matter? can only give the other party some compensation in secret.
In the end, Huang Xing had no choice but to bite the bullet and say his thoughts, that is, to suppress Lin Shuqing's matter first, and no one should mention it, as for things like awards, he can do what he should do, and he can find other reasons to give Lin Shuqing some other compensation afterwards.
After all, if Yuan Shikai becomes president in the future, these compensation will not be thought of, so this promise is as empty as the moon in the glasses in the water.
But no one in the few people present pointed out this, since Huang Xing proposed it, someone took the lead, this matter is easy to do, Sun Yat-sen knows everyone's thoughts, and he can only sigh in his heart, and the matter is settled, the party is not there, no one to offend people to raise objections, and no one has raised objections to this practice.
If Lin Shuqing knew about this, I don't know how he would feel, how other powerful people would feel, and would he feel sad about the death of a rabbit and a fox? Perhaps it was precisely because of this time that no one responded to the second revolution initiated by Sun Yat-sen.
And Yuan Shikai in the north also began to frequently contact foreign ambassadors and the like, thanking the other party for their support and seeking further help in this war, working hard to make preparations for the negotiations and his own position, and even more to prepare for the abdication of the Qing court at any time, thinking about how to deal with the future situation and other things, even busier than the south
But no matter whether it is the south or the north, no one will pay attention to the fact that in the vortex river valley, a small warlord who has just wanted to take shape is working hard to develop his own strength, and strive to fight a blue sky in the troubled times.
Han Zheng is also very busy now, he is really busy, he doesn't know if he doesn't investigate this place, and he is shocked when he investigates.
Even agriculture in this place is in a semi-withered state due to the chaos of the place, fortunately, the people here have a strong sense of locality, and they believe in the truth that people leave their hometowns and are cheap, and they have not lost much population, which makes Han Zheng somewhat comforted, as for these people, there are even more literate people, which is even more gratifying, even if it is just to know a few words, this is also the inheritance of Lao Tzu's hometown.
And except for the fact that there is almost nothing in these counties, the county government treasury is even cleaner, and the group of water bandits have robbed it a few times before, and the rats in the treasury look much thinner than those in other places.
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