Chapter Seventy-One: Exploiting the Situation
On October 9, 1911, Sun Wu, one of the "Three Warriors of the First Righteousness", suffered severe burns to his face and face due to the failure of dispensing explosives, so he had to go to the hospital with the help of several other members of the Communist Association.
At the same time, because the sound caused by the explosion was too loud, it attracted the attention of many people around, so the members of the Communist Association present were ready to wait for the documents and roster to leave, but the key was not here, and the locker could not be opened at all.
At this time, the Russian patrol arrived at the scene and captured Liu Tong, who had not left, and then handed him over to the Hubei Manchu political axe, along with the roster and documents.
After his arrest, Liu Tong confessed all the revolutionary organs he knew, and then the three leaders of the revolutionary party in Hubei, Liu Fuji, Peng Chufan, and Yang Hongsheng, were arrested one after another. And 15 days ago, at a secret meeting presided over by Rouge Lane in Wuchang, the person who formulated the general plan of action for the uprising was none other than Liu Fuji.
The explosion made it impossible to carry out the original plan, and if it was waiting, it would be too late to regret it when the Manchu government arrested people according to the roster, so the uprising had to be brought forward.
In the early morning of October 10, 1911, Peng Chufan, Liu Fuji, and Yang Hongsheng took office. In the evening, the Wuchang Uprising broke out, and after a night of fierce fighting, the rebel army occupied the whole city of Wuchang.
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Just when the rebel army pulled Li Yuanhong out from under the bed to be the governor, Yan Guang, who was far away in Sichuan, finally got the news of the Wuchang uprising.
"Thankfully, despite all the things that have changed history, at least the most important ones haven't changed." After silently burning incense to Sanqing and Siyu in his heart, Yan Guang looked at several henchmen with an unfathomable expression.
A few henchmen who were originally dissatisfied with Yan Guang who had been waiting were also stunned, Hong Ming and others even suspected that Yan Guang was secretly connected with the revolutionary party in Hubei, although Yan Guang had nothing to do with the League...
"Boss, do we have to wait next?" Yang Shan, who was full of muscles, scratched his head, if he was still a little dissatisfied, he was not dissatisfied at all now.
"Of course we have to wait!" Yan Guang affirmed.
At the beginning of the year, Yan Guang said that he would wait, but he waited for the Baolu Movement, and then the Hubei New Army entered Sichuan Yan Guang said that he would wait, and finally waited for the Wuchang Uprising.
Looking at the appearance of a few henchmen, Yan Guang smiled. "This time, we just need to wait for the actions of several other provinces."
Yan Guang thought very clearly, why did Zhao Erfeng choose to compromise with Pu Dianjun and others from the Chengdu constitutionalism in history, even though he clearly held the patrol battalion and the new army in his hands?
Just look at the form of the uprising, in addition to the Wuchang Uprising, October 22 Hunan Uprising, the same Shaanxi Uprising, October 30 Yunnan Uprising, November 3 Guiyang Uprising, November 7 Guangxi Uprising...
Of the eight provinces of Tibet, Qinghai, Gansu, Shaanxi, Hubei, Hunan, Guizhou, and Yunnan, only Tibet, Qinghai, and Gansu have not yet revolted, and the combined population of these three provinces is less than eight million.
At this time, Zhao Erfeng was already isolated and helpless, just like Duanfang, who was trapped in Zizhou, so he chose to compromise with Pu Dianjun and others...
If Zhao Erfeng still has a little hope, I'm afraid the result will be different.
In the same way, even if Yan Guang can kill Zhang Renjun at the first time, how can he rely on the patrol battalion and the new army afterwards? By the ocean? In that case, people will think that it is faster to use it! At this time, the more wealth is exposed, the faster it will die.
The only way is to take advantage of the situation and rely on a sense of despair to let them know that now the whole south, at least around Sichuan, is already under the control of the revolutionary army, and only the revolution is the only hope, in which case they will choose to accept the reorganization.
So Yan Guang must wait, at least until after the Yunnan uprising...
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Of course, it was said that he had to wait, but Yan Guang was not idle during this time.
"Are your hands hot?" After gesturing twice with the Madsen machine gun in his hand, Yan Guang asked a soldier next to him who responded to his question.
"That's right, boss, this machine gun will burn after a long time, and there is no way to shoot it upright!" A soldier with no less muscles than Yang Shan replied.
"Thisβ" Yan Guang scratched his head.
He didn't buy Madsen to use it as a machine gun like Makqin for fire support, but to let his soldiers charge with it, although the machine gun would be very accurate in that case, but it didn't matter if the accuracy was almost in the street fighting, after all, he just hoped that they could play their best role when taking Chengdu.
Otherwise, he would not have paid for 100 Madsen from a German foreign company, you must know that the price of this machine gun is very expensive, each price is more than 500 silver dollars, and the price of a Maxim is only more than 800 silver dollars...
Thinking of this, Yan Guang put a 30-round magazine on the Madsen machine gun in his hand, and after signaling the people next to him to dodge, he put on a glove and took Madsen to shoot at the target in the distance.
Although Madsen was the lightest machine gun of this era, much lighter than the later Lewis machine guns, the weight of nearly 10 kilograms was still a bit heavy after all, and Yan Guang was standing with a gun to shoot, and he had never used a machine gun before, so except for a few bullets, the rest were all around the target.
"......" as Yan Guang's subordinate, although his results are very embarrassing, Wang Er and the others still hold back and don't make a sound.
However, compared with the embarrassing results, what made Yan Guang frown more was the heat on the barrel.
It's just 30 bullets, and Yan Guang, who is wearing rubber gloves, can already feel a certain amount of heat.
After thinking about it, Yan Guang had two more 30-round magazines, and after all these bullets were used up in one go, the barrel of the machine gun became a little hot.
The structure of Madsen is similar to that of the Czech light machine gun during the Anti-Japanese War, with a long barrel, except that Madsen has one and the Czech one is two, and Madsen's gun carriage is a little behind the muzzle, not in the middle of the Czech barrel, and it cannot be used as Czech, if you want to shoot directly with the barrel with your hand...
Unless it's hands-free!
Holding back the feeling of a soldering iron in his hand, Yan Guang put the machine gun aside.
"What should I do..."
"yes, yes..."
If you can't think of a way, these 100 machine guns can really only be used as fire support ...
In the end, a squad leader came up with a way, since the barrel can't be held directly, then simply make a grip on the barrel...
Although this will be very troublesome when changing the barrel, the role of the machine gun is only to capture Chengdu.
To capture Chengdu, according to Yan Guang's estimate, it will only take one day, and it will be enough to think of one or two barrels in this day.
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