"This person named Yan Guang is really too presumptuous, he actually used force to attack a revolutionary political axe without authorization, he is simply a warlord!" In the Governor's Mansion of the Hubei Army, Huang Xing slapped the table and said angrily.

Waving his hand, after waiting for the idle people to go down, Song Jiaoren stepped forward to persuade him. "Keqiang, don't be too angry, even if that Yan Guang is really a warlord, we can't do anything about him, let's think about the current war first..."

November 26 was the day when the Sichuan army entered Yucheng, the day when Yan Guang announced the reunification of Sichuan, and the day when Hanyang was lost. When Huang Xing returned to Wuchang from Hanyang, he happened to see Yan Guang's announcement of capturing Yucheng, and when the two were combined, it was conceivable why Huang Xing was so angry.

"Alas..."Hearing Song Jiaoren talk about the current war, Huang Xing sighed lightly. Now that Hanyang and Hankou have been lost, I'm afraid that Wuchang won't be able to hold on for long, so I think it's better to turn to Nanjing. ”

"Nanjing?" Song Jiaoren nodded at first, then shook his head with a wry smile. "The current governor of Liangjiang, Zhao Erfeng, is a very powerful person, and if he moves to Nanjing, I'm afraid that the local comrades will not agree." Indeed, almost all of the revolutionary troops in Hubei are locals, and although they have lost two places in a row, they have not yet reached the point of exhaustion, so how can they abandon Hubei in this case.

"I know, but I'd like to give it a try, if it doesn't work..."

"Let's go to Shanghai first?"

"That's right, the Jiangsu-Zhejiang coalition army is preparing to attack Nanjing, if it really doesn't work, I want to go there to see..."Huang Xing nodded and said, Hanyang and Hankou have fallen one after another, and Huang Xing, who was once regarded as a savior, is now also a great drop in prestige, although Huang Xing's surname is upright, but some things are also perceived...

For example, the change in attitude of some of the revolutionaries around me...

It is normal for people to pin their hopes on Huang Xing when they first came to Hankou when the Hubei army and the Beiyang army were fighting fiercely, and the Hubei army was already in a disadvantageous situation at that time, so they pinned their hopes on Huang Xing to turn the tide, but what they didn't expect was that Huang Xing was lost in Hankou a few days after he arrived.

Of course, Huang Xing only had a total of five days from his arrival to the fall, considering that Huang Xing had just arrived in Hankou and did not understand the situation, and the situation at that time was already quite unfavorable, it was indeed a bit difficult for Huang Xing to turn the tide in five days, so after the fall of Hankou, the people of the revolutionary army still had great expectations for Huang Xing, after all, Huang Xing's reputation at that time was there.

After returning to Wuchang from Hankou, Li Yuanhong took the stage to worship Huang Xing as the commander-in-chief during the war. This time, the revolutionaries had high hopes for Huang Xing, and Huang Xing and others then went to Hanyang to establish the wartime headquarters. On November 16, the revolutionary army stationed in Hanyang bypassed the Qing army's defense on the south bank, crossed the Han River by pontoon bridge from the Qinduankou, and ambushed the north bank of the Han River.

At that time, the western suburbs of Hankou were wild and flat, sparsely populated, and there were large swamps, so Huang Xing led his troops to cross the river and was not discovered by the Beiyang Army. On the 17th, Huang Xing personally led the counteroffensive troops to launch a counteroffensive against Hankou, but because Huang Xing himself did not know much about military affairs, and the way of launching the attack was too hasty, he was attacked by the new Beiyang army that rushed in...

The army was defeated, and after losing more than 600 men, it retreated the same day when it launched a counteroffensive.

Of course, Huang Xing returned to Hanyang with the Beiyang New Army. Under the attack of the Beiyang New Army, Hanyang fell after less than 10 days, and the reinforcements from Hunan also retreated on their own and returned to Hunan via Dongting Lake. And seeing that the situation was so erosive, even Huang Xing himself almost jumped the Yangtze River.

In this case, although many revolutionaries still respect Huang Xing, it is impossible to compare it with when Huang Xing first arrived in Hubei.

Because of the conversation just now, Huang Xing's mood calmed down a lot, so he said to Song Jiaoren. "Dunchu, what kind of person do you say this Yan Guang is?"

"What kind of people?" Song Jiaoren shook his head. "I haven't had any contact with him, so it's really hard to say, but since he is willing to stand up against Qing Zhengaxe, at least it's not our opposite."

"Not the opposite?" Huang Xing snorted. "It's not the opposite, why do you want to attack Zhang Peijue's Shu military political axe?"

Song Jiaoren smiled. "Hasn't Yan Guang already said the reason?"

"Can't he just wait a while? When the matter in Hubei is resolved, I can personally go over and mediate. ”

When announcing the requisition of the Shu military political axe, Yan Guang once announced all the things going on, although this reason seemed too far-fetched to many people, but at least some people chose to accept it.

"Anyway, since Yucheng has fallen into the hands of that Yan Guang, it's too late for us to say anything. Keqiang, let's think about what I should say tomorrow first. Having said that, Song Jiaoren could already predict the reaction of the Hubei revolutionaries tomorrow.

The next day, when the upper echelons of the Hubei military and political axes held a meeting, Huang Xing stood up to everyone. "Hanyang has fallen, Wuchang may not be able to hold it, my personal opinion, why don't you follow me down the river and capture Nanjing?" The implication is to give up Wuchang.

However, just as Song Jiaoren expected, the revolutionaries present opposed this opinion, and the respect in the eyes of many people turned into anger. "The head can be broken, but Wuchang cannot be lost." This is the answer of the Hubei revolutionaries.

Huang Xing also knew that it was useless to talk more in this situation, so he left Hubei with Song Jiaoren and others in the afternoon of the same day and took a boat to Shanghai.

After Huang Xing left, Li Yuanhong appointed Jiang Yiwu as the commander-in-chief of the war, and made it. "Stick to Wuchang, the city is in the people, and the city is dead." decision.

It's just that beyond everyone's imagination, at this time, Yuan Shikai did not give the order to continue the attack, but signaled Feng Guozhang to stop and wait for his order. That's right, from the very beginning, Yuan Shikai never thought of eliminating the revolutionary party in Wuchang, and if it was eliminated, what else would he do to force the Qing court to abdicate?

"But Huafu, you have to pay more attention to this young man named Yan Guang in the future." Flicked the message in his hand, Yuan Shikai said to Feng Guozhang.

Hearing Yuan Shikai say this, Feng Guozhang thought about it and said in confusion. "Why does the palace guard value this person so much?"

"Why?" Yuan Shikai grinned. "Now the revolutionary party in the southern provinces is a group of poor flowers, who do you think I don't value him?"

Hearing Yuan Shikai say this, Feng Guozhang also nodded and smiled. "That's right."

Since the training of the small station, Yuan Shikai has a deep understanding of money. Money may not be able to solve everything, but it can definitely solve most of the things in this world, and the army costs money, and without money, you can't build an army at all.

"But don't pay too much attention to this Yan Guang, first built a road, and then announced this tax exemption policy, even if this Yan Guang is rich, I'm afraid there won't be much left now." As he spoke, Yuan Shikai threw the message in his hand on the table. "This group of revolutionaries is, after all, just a group of idealists, with good intentions, but they don't know what is the most realistic."

It's no wonder that Yuan Shikai thinks so, after all, the annual income of more than 100 million is too exaggerated...

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