When Chen Qimei and Long Jiguang were violently attacked by long-range large-caliber artillery for the Gui army, Zhang Renjun, as the other protagonist of Guangzhou's offensive and defensive battle, Zhang Renjun, the governor of Guangdong and the commander of Guangzhou's urban defense, was smiling and almost dancing.

It's not easy, it's not easy, under the siege of the Gui army and the people's army of the Alliance, he Zhang Dudu may be able to barely be counted, and now, the sea reinforcements have rushed to the city of Guangzhou, then, this uproar "Guangdong Incident." Maybe it will settle down soon.

At this moment, Zhang Renjun was sitting upright in the lobby of the military government, discussing the counterattack with several cronies, although the navy had come, but if we wanted to really eliminate the rebels who committed rebellion, we had to rely on this army and the Cantonese army in the city of Guangzhou.

But before the real counterattack. Zhang Renjun still decided to wait, because he still did not know which admiral was the one who led the warship to the Pearl River in Guangzhou, and whether the other party was willing to cooperate with the counterattack of the Guangdong army

Weak.

Now, Zhang Renjun and his staff are waiting, waiting for the person who went to contact him to come back.

Since the "Canton Incident", the city of Guangzhou has been largely surrounded by rebels, except for the south side facing the Pearl River. The other three were blocked by the rebels with artillery fire, only the traffic in the south was relatively smooth, and it was precisely because of this passage that Zhang Renjun and his staff were able to calmly sit in Guangzhou and command the battle, once the war was unfavorable, they could escape from the south city, as for the means of transportation, it was a small steamer with a British flag, with that British flag, and the army did not dare to pursue, let alone fire.

But now, now that the naval fleet sent by the center has arrived under the city of Guangzhou, Zhang Renjun can not only continue to sit in Guangzhou to command the battle. Moreover, it can be used to deter the Gui troops outside the city, and see if they can force some of them to defect, so as to make up for the losses of the Cantonese army in the battle of Guangzhou and stabilize Zhang Renjun's position as the governor of Guangdong.

Therefore, Zhang Renjun not only sent a liaison officer to the Pearl River to contact the fleet commander just now, but also sent several lobbyists who could speak well. Go to the Gui army position outside the city to plot against some weak-willed generals, this benefit is also enough, the fleet commander's side, is 50,000 taels of silver on the side of the small Gui army, according to the size of the official position, it is also 10,000 taels to 1,000 taels of silver, of course, this money cannot be Zhang Renjun Dudu Governor himself out of pocket. After all, as long as this battle is fought for one more day, the people in the city will suffer one more day's losses, and the battle of the previous few days has turned the prosperous Xiguan business district into ruins, and the merchants and the people do not want to fight this battle again

Finish.

The person sent by Zhang Renjun to contact the commander of the fleet on the Pearl River was his staff Wang Xuan Wang Junben, who was regarded as Zhang Renjun's right-hand man in the literati without delaying his work at all, and received the order of the governor, so he took a few guards from the governor's mansion out of the city, rushed out of the city from the small east gate in the south of the city, rushed to the Tianzi wharf, and got on a fishing boat from there. Go to the main channel of the Pearl River.

Now the Pearl River is in the autumn flood season, the river is full of water, there are quite a few warships on the river, most of them are small gunboats of Britain and France, compared with these small gunboats, those two large warships stationed on the main channel are particularly eye-catching. And those two warships. It was the warships that the Central Center ordered the Admiralty to dispatch to assist in counterinsurgency, at this moment. It was these two warships that bombarded the Gui Army's position outside Guangzhou with their main guns.

Both Chinese warships were cruisers. One "sea deep" and one "sea chip." "It belongs to the cruiser fleet, and it is numbered as the first fleet, and the commander of the fleet is Rear Admiral Cheng Biguang.

Cheng Biguang, the word Hengqi, the number Yutang. A native of Xiangshan County, Guangdong, his father had done business in the Americas, Honolulu and other places, Cheng Biguang's father died of illness when he was ten years old, and his family was in the middle. At that time, Lu Yunshan was serving as a pipe band in the Qing court naval division, under the recommendation of his brother-in-law, Cheng Biguang applied for the Fuzhou Ship Master School, when he was only 14 years old, after graduating from Fuzhou Ship Master Xuezhuo, Cheng Biguang successively served as the "Chaowu Yuankai" and other gunboat pipe belts, before the outbreak of the First Sino-Japanese War, Cheng Biguang was the pipe band of the Guangdong Navy Division "Guang Bing" torpedo clipper, not only led the ship to participate in the naval parade held that year, but also led the ship to participate in the subsequent Sino-Japanese Dadonggou naval battle, and was wounded in the battle.

After the Battle of Weihaiwei, it was this Cheng Biguang who was ordered to submit the surrender of the Beiyang Naval Division to the Japanese Combined Fleet.

As a high-ranking naval officer, there is no shame as handing over a letter of surrender to the enemy naval commander, and Cheng Biguang has always been angry about this, and even did not hesitate to embark on the road of rebellion against the Qing court, because he believed that the First Sino-Japanese War. The navy was not defeated, it was the army that was defeated, it was the Manchu dynasty that was extremely decayed.

Cheng Biguang is a native of Xiangshan, Guangdong, and Sun Wen, the founder of the Alliance, is also a Guangdong Xianggong. people, the two are fellow villagers, and it is precisely because of this relationship that Cheng Biguang finally got on the line with Mr. Sun and joined Mr. Sun's anti-Qing organization, but the Tsukishi Alliance had not yet been established, and Cheng Biguang joined the Xingzhong Society, and the place of membership was Guangzhou.

The Xingzhong Society originally wanted to take advantage of the chaos after the First Sino-Japanese War to launch an anti-Qing uprising in Guangzhou, but because the plan was leaked, the uprising was abandoned halfway, and it faced a frenzied arrest. A large number of Xingzhong members hated going abroad, and Cheng Bi was able to get it. Maomen was busy with Langyu and lived in seclusion there. This stay is half a year, and then Li Hongzhang returned from a visit to Russia, passing through Penang, Cheng Biguang heard that the old boss arrived, hurriedly went to meet, and Li Hongzhang discussed for a long time, what the two talked about no one knows, but after Li Hongzhang returned to China, Cheng Biguang also returned to China, the Qing court rebuilt the navy, under the recommendation of Li Hongzhang, Cheng Biguang finally returned to the navy, continued to serve, until the "Wushen Revolution" broke out.

At the time of the outbreak of the revolution, Cheng Biguang was serving in the Shipping Department of the Admiralty, and in this position, it was impossible for him to make a difference in the revolution. It wasn't until Yuan Shikai came to power and replaced the captain of the flag man in large numbers that Cheng Biguang was able to take over the post of captain of the "Haichou" ship, so for Yuan Shikai. He was grateful.

After the death of Yuan Shikai, Cheng Biguang was not optimistic about the president Xu Shichang, when the cruiser "Hai Zhe" announced an uprising at the mouth of the Yangtze River and fell to the United Front, Cheng Biguang originally planned to respond, but at that time, the "Haichou" was stationed in Nanjing, under the command of Liu Guanxiong, assisted in the southeast patrol to make Meng Enyuan bomb the ground, so this response to the uprising was impossible to talk about, until the impeachment of the president broke out in Congress, Liu Guanxiong's position of "chief of the navy" was replaced by Tang Xiangming, and the cruiser fleet of the Republic of China once again unified the military order. As a result, Cheng Biguang was appointed commander of the First Fleet.

It is precisely for this reason that when the "Guangdong Incident" broke out, Cheng Biguang's First Squadron became the vanguard of the central task to quell the chaos in Guangdong, because at that time, the First Squadron was resting in Shanghai, and the "Sea Deep Sea Chip" at that time were also the two large warships in the cruiser fleet closest to Guangdong.

After receiving an order from the Admiralty. Cheng Biguang did not dare to slack off, and immediately after replenishing supplies, he led the cruisers "Haidi" and "Haichou" to leave the Huangpu River, and rushed to Guangdong, in order to avoid being slowed down, he deliberately left a few small warships and gunboats at the Shanghai anchorage, and the Guangdong Navy only had a few small warships, even if they fell into the hands of the rebels, they would not threaten the cruisers, which was another reason why Cheng Biguang did not bring more warships.

After several days of sailing at full speed, Cheng Biguang finally led this Admiralty task force to the surface of the Pearl River and Guangzhou. And entered the battle in time, using the 1 field mm main gun on the warship to fiercely bombard the besieging rebel positions, quickly suppressing their morale.

"Sea Deep" and "Sea Chip." It is a sister ship, the armament of the two ships is basically the same, each ship has three main guns of 1 falling millimeter, two in the front and one in the rear, and the two ships have a total of six main guns of 1 falling millimeter, but due to the arrangement of gun emplacements, only four main guns can give full play to the advantage of firepower at this moment, and this is still the firepower configuration obtained in the case of the side of the ship facing the city of Guangzhou.

It is to use these four main guns. Cheng Biguang inflicted heavy casualties on the rebels outside the city of Guangzhou and demoralized them to the extreme.

Let's be honest. Cheng Biguang knew very well in his heart that the mastermind behind the rebellion was the Alliance, although he had never been a member of the Alliance, but after all, he had joined the Xingzhong Society in his early years, and the Xingzhong Society was not only one of the main sources of the basic strength of the Alliance, but also its leader was also the pioneer of the revolution, Mr. Sun, with such a relationship, Cheng Biguang had every reason to stay out of the matter, and even resign.

But Cheng Biguang didn't do that. Because he also knew very well in his heart that the reason why the Admiralty sent him to lead the fleet to Guangzhou first this time was completely out of Mr. President's insistence, as for why the president did this, Cheng Biguang could guess a few points, now the navy's reading force is too strong, and the president urgently needs to balance the power of the Fujian faction in the navy, Cheng Biguang is a Cantonese. Naturally, he is not a Fujian faction, he is the same as Na Shichang who drove a ship to ram the Japanese ship "Yoshino" during the First Sino-Japanese War, he is a minority in the navy, and he has always belonged to an isolated group of people.

But now, the president has revealed that he wants to cut the mountain in the navy, then. Cheng Biguang naturally will not let the president fight alone. He knew very well how much the factional struggle in the Beiyang Navy Division had damaged the combat effectiveness, and he did not want the Republic of China Navy to repeat the mistakes of the past, so he went to Guangdong and opened fire on the revolutionary comrades of the past.

Cheng Biguang is a pragmatic person. In his opinion. Now that the Manchus have been overthrown, it seems that there is no need for a "second revolution." It is better to build a republic in a solid manner, and it is the revolutionaries who are now in power. The president himself is a revolutionary with a firm position, if Beiyang is on the stage, then Cheng Biguang may still fight side by side with the League, but now, where is the reason for the revolutionary party to add chaos to the revolutionary party? Therefore, Chen Qimei, Long Jiguang and others who launched the "Guangdong Incident" were rebels, and everyone was punished for it, and this had nothing to do with the League and Mr. Sun, but only with national interests.

In this regard, Cheng Biguang is duty-bound, of course, to stand on the front line of the central counterinsurgency.

At present, Cheng Biguang is standing on the flagship "Hai Chip" and directing the ship's artillery to bombard the shore targets; since he has not yet made contact with the defenders in the city, this shell basically falls within visual distance, so as not to cause unnecessary accidental injury.

However, now that Zhang Renjun sent Wang Xuan over, then, maybe soon. The navy's artillery can extend its firepower into the distance.