The Jingshan County Commander fled directly, and most of the more than 1,000 merchants in Jingshan County walked, and the entire county seat was empty. Sun Jing, who had just returned from Japan, organized the citizens to maintain order in the upper realm, so when Zhou Rong entered the county with his troops, it almost didn't take a shot. Sun Jing was appointed acting county magistrate of Jingshan County.

Zhou Rong raided the Song River, but the new Jingshan County commander fled too quickly, and the strength of the three regiments only bit one regiment, which was the result of Zhao Dinggang's outflanking from Cao Wu. The regiment did not resist at all and surrendered directly.

Like Cao Wu, the soldiers who were less than sixteen years old were left behind, and all the rest were handed over to Chen Xiongyuan. Chen Xiongyuan gathered 5,000 troops in this way, and his momentum soared, and he took Yingcheng and Yunmeng and the southern part of Anlu, and the defenders of Anlu Mansion had to shrink their forces. Chen Xiongyuan's army grew to about 10,000, but he also knew that he had to rely on Zhang Chun to make a difference. did not obey Sun Yat-sen's command to attack Wuchang.

Similar to Jingshan County, Qianjiang also has no defenders, perhaps Li Mingyi knew that it would be useless, he finally showed up and transferred to Tianmen with the return to the hometown regiment and some landlord arms, and went directly to Hanchuan after meeting the local defenders in Tianmen, in fact, the early retreat of the Jingshan County Decree will also be the news he transmitted. However, he did not choose to serve in Li Yuanhong's army, but chose to study in the United States.

He didn't even reply to Liu Ying's letter to him.

Gu Ming occupied Qianjiang County, and Zhang Linyue occupied Tianmen County. But none of them went any further. Instead, under the coordination of Liu Ying, Zhang Zhigong, a member of the Chinese Revolutionary, supported Zhang Zhigong, a member of the Chinese Revolutionary, and Zhang Zhigong, who got weapons and men, ransacked the rich families of Tianmen all the way to obtain guns and funds. It joins Chen Xiong in the far north of Tianmen.

At this time, the uprising of the revolutionaries in Wuhan had completely failed, and Chen Xiongyuan and Zhang Zhigong lost the significance of reinforcing Wuchang. had to be reorganized in Yingcheng.

Wang Zhanyuan sent Wang Ruxian's troops to suppress central Hubei, but Wang Ruxian was raided by Zhang Linyue and suffered heavy losses, so he had to retreat to Hanchuan County. However, Zhang Linyue was ordered to withdraw to Tianmen County. handed over the northern part of Tianmen and most of Hanchuan that had been taken to Zhang Zhigong.

Wang Zhanyuan increased his troops in Hanchuan and formed a confrontation with the powerful Chen Xiongyuan and Zhang Zhigong's troops.

Tianmen County and Qianjiang County were under military control.

Zhang Yang was transferred to Baima to serve as the mayor of Baima Town, and he has been trained in the past few years.

Chen Jizu took a group of student soldiers to Caowu, where he received nearly 500 captives handed over to him by Zhou Rong and Zhang Linyue, and began training. Preparations were made for the formation of the 4th Regiment of the Separate Division.

Due to Gu Ming's soldiers coming to the city, Shi Xingchuan rushed back to Jingzhou overnight and announced his opposition to Yuan Shikai's proclamation of emperor and Jingzhou's autonomy.

On January 10, Zhou Rong blitzed Zhong Xiang and faced Li Tiancai's department across the river. In fact, Li Tiancai could have attacked Shen Ji and Sha Yang, but he didn't make any moves. Neither Shi Xingchuan nor Zhang Chun were struck, and of course autonomy was not declared. A vague policy was adopted.

Zhou Rong's second regiment was stationed in Zaoyang County.

The county magistrate was Peng Yangguang, who had escaped from Wuhan, a former member of the Japanese Notification Society and a key member of Sun Yat-sen's Wuhan branch of the Chinese Revolutionary Party. The area of Zaoyang Suixian was already made rotten by Bai Lang. Zhou Rong didn't go any further.

Subsequently, all sides declared that the Spring Festival was approaching and that there was a truce with each other.

Peng Yangguang came as Sun Yat-sen's liaison, and Liu Ying was still the governor of the revolutionary army, although Liu Ying had called to resign, but Sun Yat-sen did not agree.

Liu Ying supported Chen Xiongyuan and Zhang Zhigong, and instigated Shixingchuan local autonomy, which can be regarded as fulfilling the duties of the governor. It is impossible for Peng Yangguang, who persuaded Liu Ying to no avail, to leave for a while, and Zhong Xiang is Peng Yangguang's hometown, so Peng Yangguang temporarily acted as the county magistrate.

Sun Yat-sen called and asked Liu Ying to reorganize the army in central Hubei and attack Wuhan. Liu Ying resigned again, and you can imagine Sun Yat-sen's anger.

Hubei Zhujun, if Huang Xing returns, there may still be hope. But Huang Xing and Sun Yat-sen fell out. Although Huang Xing is still raising military funds for Cai Yi's Hu **. Relations with Sun Yat-sen are also easing, but they refuse to return in the United States.

In fact, Cai Ye will not listen to Sun Yat-sen.

Cai is also a student of Liang Qichao. Although Liang Qichao had announced his resignation from the Progressive Party, Cai still called Liang Qichao to ask him to go to Yunnan. Liang Qichao said that since he returned to China, he has made running a newspaper and running a school for the purpose of his life. Zhang Chun'e Zhong announced autonomy and had the responsibility of defending Xinmin University, and Mr. Cai Yuanpei and I were here, and all parties also threw rat traps. Xinmin University is the hope of the nation and cannot be given up halfway.

In fact, even if Zhang Chun declared autonomy and took the initiative to go to war, he still had room to go. It's just an announcement of an attitude.

Compared with Zhang Chun, Cai Ye and Tang Jiyao, who had already declared the independence of Yunnan, organized the protection of the country, and launched the war to protect the country, were Yuan Shikai's henchmen. Cai Yi served as the commander-in-chief of the First Army, Li Junlie was the commander of the Second Army, and Tang Jiyao was the commander of the Third Army. Although there were only two divisions of soldiers in Yunnan who could fight at this time, Yunnan had enough time to recruit soldiers.

Yuan Shikai had ordered all the places that had declared autonomy to be put on hold for the time being, and the Hunan and Hubei armies were to prepare to go south to exterminate the rebels.

Cai Ye formed a protector, and Li Yuanhong, who was already vice president, sat on the mountain to watch the tiger fight, which is also the reason why Wang Zhanyuan and Li Tiancai didn't want to fight at all.

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Xinyuan.

Liu Ying lived downstairs in Zhang Chun's residence. The Operations Office is temporarily located here.

The communications corps came and went a little farther away, but it was the safest place.

Liang Qichao also moved to Xinyuan in the past few days, because the National Defense War was actually initiated by members of the Progressive Party. Liang Qichao is only behind Li Yuanhong in the Progressive Party.

"It wasn't what I wanted to do to form the Progressive Party in the first place, because these people weren't all the way, they were put together for personal gain. Heqing is dedicated to the country, but Tang Jiyao and Li Junlie may only share weal and bene, not wealth and prosperity. Li Yuanhong is waiting to be president, whether the revolution is revolutionary or not, he can reap the benefits. What is it for me to be embarrassed? ”

Liang Qichao looked up to the sky and sighed.

"Although they are all revolutions, General Cai is different from Mr. Sun, and Mr. Sun wants to establish a real Republic of China, not just overthrow the imperial system."

Liu Ying sorted out the information sent by the staff officer.

"Sun Yat-sen wants to unify the League, Huang Xing went to the United States in anger, the Chinese Revolutionary Party is not much better than the Progressive Party, the Progressive Party will not tear its face, and the League will kill Song Jiaoren by itself." Liang Qichao glanced at Zhang Chun, who was silently looking at the information: "Have you ever thought about establishing a party for the people?" ”

Zhang Chun smiled: "I didn't think about it, maybe the time has not come." Mr. Sun Yat-sen is much better than Li Yuanhong, at least he has one aim, which is the Three People's Principles, and as a party, it is very important to have an ideal, and the Chinese Revolutionary Party has met this condition. I don't, maybe our students will find a path that suits China and put forward a lofty ideal. ”

Liang Qichao smiled: "It's possible, I've been reading a lot of students' papers lately, and they're really looking for such a path." But for the people really didn't think about it? ”

Zhang Chun raised his head and thought about it carefully, shook his head and said, "I thought about it, but I didn't figure it out." Now I just want to do a little more practical things and accumulate a little more strength for the country. ”

Liu Ying smiled: "Empty talk misleads the country, but hard work prospers the country." This sentence is still good. ”

Zhang Chun smiled: "Of course. ”

Zhang Chun pointed to the suggestions made by the staff officers on the intelligence: "The troops gathered by Hanchuan are a bit beyond the capacity that can be carried in depth, you see if you agree with them to fight a dozen." ”

Liu Ying frowned and said, "I don't think so, if we use rocket artillery." Why don't you lure them out and annihilate one, with the cooperation of Zhang Zhigong, it is not impossible to take Hanchuan. This kind of piecemeal work will not solve the problem. ”

Zhang Chun was stunned for a moment, and then shook his head: "Civil war, Zhou Rong is in Caowu, and he has not used rockets yet, and more than a thousand people have died." The use of rockets, with the size of Hanchuan's troops, casualties are difficult to estimate. They are all Chinese. ”

Liu Ying and Liang Qichao glanced at each other and said, "For the people, you are a woman's benevolence." If you don't get it right, you will suffer from it. ”

Zhang Chun smiled: "If you can bear it, just bear it." This Wang Zhanyuan doesn't know if Mr. Liang is familiar with it. ”

"Greedy for money and unkind, but this man can make money." Liang Qichao said disdainfully.

"Li Yuanhong is greedy for power, and Wang Zhanyuan is greedy for money. So I don't think the two of them will make any big noise in Hubei. After the Spring Festival, if there is any abnormal movement, according to what the staff officers said, let's fight a dozen. ”