On the main road between Xuzhou and Bengbu, thousands of soldiers wearing the uniforms of the Yuan army were walking in the direction of Bengbu, and one of the soldiers looked up at the sun hanging in the sky, and after wiping the sweat from his forehead due to the fierce voice, he looked at the fellow soldiers around him and thought with a wry smile.

"I don't know if we have a chance to go back to Nanjing alive..."

These thousands of soldiers who were heading towards Bengbu were the defeated troops of the Lengshu Division of the Ninth Division of the Yuan Army.

At this time, the soldiers of the 9th Division of the Yuan Army were embarrassed one by one, and most of them only had one gun left in their hands, some of them didn't even have guns, and even lost their clothes...

"Ugh..."

Just when Li Liejun's Jiangxi army was still fighting fiercely with the Beiyang Army at Hukou, Huang Xing also sent Liu Jianfan, the commander of the cavalry regiment of the Eighth Division of the Yuan Army, to lead the cavalry regiment of his department to the north and join the Northern Expedition with the commander of the Ninth Division, Leng Shu.

It's just that the day before Liu Jianfan's cavalry regiment went north, the Leng Shu Department that was attacking Hanzhuang by Li Guoyi was repelled by Zhang Xun's troops stationed in Yanzhou at the next time.

On the 28th, the Leng Shu Department and Liu Jianfan's troops who rushed to support retreated to Xuzhou, and on the 29th, the Hongchengdian Division of the Seventh Division arrived at Linhuai Pass after crossing the river and stayed in place to garrison. Liu Jianfan's division of the Eighth Division's cavalry regiment stationed in Xuzhou was also controlled by the Hongchengdian Department nearby.

At the same time, Yuan Shikai appointed Zhang Xun as the envoy of Jiangbei Xuanfu, and Zhang Xun led the army south from Yanzhou. Two days later, Yuan Shikai appointed Feng Guozhang, the governor of Zhili, and Jianghuai Xuanfu envoy, and led troops south from Tianjin. Feng Guozhang commanded the Beiyang Second Army, which was composed of a brigade of the Fourth Division of the Beiyang Army, the entire Fifth Division, and the Fengtian Mixed Brigade and the Zhili Mixed Brigade.

Yuan Shikai will let Feng Guozhang command the Beiyang Second Army, in addition to Feng Guozhang's extraordinary ability, there is also the fact that he is the father-in-law of Chen Zhiji, the commander of the Eighth Division of the Yuan Army, and if he comes forward, it will have a certain softening effect on the Yuan army in Nanjing.

After holding on to Xuzhou for five days, the Ninth Division was defeated, the division commander Leng Shu fled, and the remnants of the thousands of defeated soldiers retreated along the avenue in the direction of Nanjing. The Hongchengdian Division of the Seventh Division and Liu Jianfan of the Cavalry Regiment of the Eighth Division, which were stationed at Linhuai Pass, also held out for several days, retreated to the area of Liuhe and Guazhou, and then made a detour back to Nanjing.

At this time, Huang Xing, who stayed in Nanjing, saw the defeat of Jiangbei, and Yan Guang of Sichuan was unwilling to send troops to help, and it was too late to send troops to help. So on 8 August, Zhang Zi, commander of the 1st Division of the Association, and Hong Chengdian, commander of the 7th Division, took the warship and left for Shanghai after leaving behind many officers and men in Nanjing...

After Huang Xing and others retreated to Shanghai, the position of governor was temporarily held by Cai Yin.

On August 9, Cai Yin, who was temporarily serving as the governor, invited Chen Zhiji, commander of the 8th Division, Zhou Yingshi, the new commander of the 1st Division, Ma Jinchun, commander of the fortress, Mao Naifeng, commander of the gendarmerie, and Wu Zhongxin, director of the police department. ), county governor Lu Weiji and others discussed and decided to cancel the reading power.

At the same time, he also decided to ask Cheng Dequan to come back to the position of acting governor, but Cheng Dequan was not willing to return to the fire pit of Nanjing at all.

At this time, Zhang Xun's department and Feng Guozhang's department had also arrived in Yangzhou from the south of the Qing River, which was not very far from Nanjing.

On 13 August, He Haiming, who had taken a passenger ferry from Zhenjiang to Nanjing with Han Hui, led more than 100 soldiers to capture the Governor's Mansion and declared that he would elect Chen Zhiji as the Governor to restore his reading ability. It's just that Chen Zhiji had been softened by Yuan Shikai and his father-in-law Feng Guozhang at that time, and it was the Eighth Division that maintained order in Nanjing at that time, so not long after He Haiming announced the second reading, he was arrested by Chen Zhiji and announced the cancellation of the second revolution.

However, two days later, on August 15, the 1st and 8th Divisions, also stationed in Nanjing, clashed, and in the confusion, the 1st Division hijacked He Haiming from the headquarters of the 8th Division. After being robbed, He Haiming announced his reading power again, and appointed Tang Chen as the governor and Liu Jie as the police chief.

At this time, Chen Zhiji had already contacted his father-in-law, so after hearing the news, he took a small number of attachés to Shanghai on a passenger ferry.

After Chen Zhiji left Nanjing, He Haiming disarmed the 30th Regiment of the 8th Division, which was unwilling to read, and Bai Wenwei also retreated from Anhui to Nanjing.

Two days later, Zhang Xun, Feng Guozhang and Xu Baozhen's troops began to besiege Nanjing, and during these two days, He Haiming first gave up the position of governor to Zhang Yaoqing, and then Zhang Yaoqing gave up the position of governor to Bai Wenwei. However, after waiting for a week, because Zhang Xun and Feng Guozhang were too eager to attack the city, Bai Wenwei led the guards out of the south gate and left, and took a passenger ferry to Shanghai under the escort of Yue himself, and then went from Shanghai to Yueben...

After Bai Wenwei left Nanjing, the position of governor was held by Han Hui, but after five days, Chaoyangmen was blown open by Zhang Xun's troops, and after Zhang Xun invaded Nanjing, He Haiming and Han Hui retreated to Wuhu under the protection of more than 3,000 remnants of the Eighth Division, and more than 5,000 people were stopped by Feng Guozhang's troops and ordered to disarm and dismiss when they retreated to Shangxinhe.

On September 4, after Zhang Xun's troops completely captured Nanjing, Yuan Shikai appointed Zhang Xun as the governor of Jiangsu, and the Nanjing campaign ended completely.

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In early August, in the wartime headquarters secretly established in Chengdu, a group of young officers who had just graduated from the army academy were busy sorting out various materials, and a group of officers were analyzing the current situation for Yan Guang and others in front of a huge map...

Standing in front of the map, Yan Guang listened calmly to the analysis of the young officers, while Wang Yaowu and others stood beside him to accompany him.

In the wartime headquarters, no one would ask Yan Guang why he still did not come forward to provide substantial assistance even though the Yuan army was defeated and retreated, because as early as the beginning of the Second Revolution, Yan Guang had already told Wang Yaowu and others his decision, that is, this revolution had to be done alone.

Although they are very confident in the strength of the current Kuomintang Socialist Party, when they learned that Yan Guang was preparing to face Beiyang alone, Wang Yaowu and others still felt that they should join Yuan Jun to act together, after all, Beiyang is the largest and strongest military group in China. It's just that after watching Yuan Jun's performance in the Second Revolution, Wang Yaowu and others suddenly felt that instead of cooperating with such teammates, it was better to go it alone...

"I'm not afraid of god-like opponents, I'm only afraid of pig-like teammates..."

This sentence has certainly not appeared in the Republic of China, but the reason is the same, just like the Nymph in World War II, the Nymph who dragged Germany back...

"But if I knew that the group of guys who were fighting Yuan Jun hadn't even lasted enough for two months, I wouldn't have supported them with five million silver dollars and those 1888 Committee rifles. I thought that with the support, they would be able to perform even better than they did historically..."

Listening to the analysis of the battle situation by the staff officers trained in the military academy, Yan Guang couldn't help but think in his heart.

About half an hour later, after several staff officers had analyzed the current battle situation between the Yuan Army and the Beiyang Army, two officers also walked up with a pile of materials.

"Commander, the new five infantry divisions have been recruited, and they are currently being trained in Guiyang and Chengdu, and at the same time, after the backbone of an artillery battalion has been drawn out from the first to the sixth divisions, the shelves of the new three artillery brigades have also been built, and there is also a change of weapons, because the arsenal is working there all night, and now the existing ten infantry divisions have been replaced with Mauser G98 rifles, and the Maxim machine guns and Madsen machine guns have also been fully equipped. The artillery regiments of the main forces such as the 1st to 5th Divisions are also partially equipped with cannons and howitzers of 105 and 120 caliber ...

Two officers reported on the expansion of the National Socialist Party unit and the rearmament of the equipment. Today's Beiyang has 200,000 troops, of course, a large part of them are newly formed, many of which are even inferior to Yan Guang's 6th to 10th Infantry Divisions, but if you count the patrol battalions that still exist in Beiyang, as well as Zhang Zuolin's department in the northeast, Beiyang now has more than 300,000 troops.

Although Yan Guang had some confidence in the combat effectiveness of the ten infantry divisions he had, he still felt a little weak after all when he used the strength of ten infantry divisions to deal with Yuan Shikai's twelve infantry divisions and nineteen mixed brigades.

So in June, when it was clear that the conflict between the Kuomintang and Beiyang could not be stopped, Yan Guang announced the expansion of the army by five divisions. The reason is also very easy to find, that is, the domestic situation is urgent, and the two provinces of Sichuan and Guizhou are expanding their troops to protect themselves.

At that time, the Kuomintang was making the final preparations for the second revolution, and Yuan Shikai's Beiyang was also troubled by the assassinations of the Kuomintang one after another. Because by the time these five infantry divisions form combat effectiveness, perhaps the conflict between Beiyang and the Kuomintang will be over.

However, Yan Guang never thought of being like Beiyang, and solved the power of the Kuomintang in less than two months, and in Yan Guang's view, as long as he could unify the whole country before World War I.

And now the five newly built infantry divisions will be ready for use by next spring......... In fact, in fact, by the time of this winter, these five infantry divisions may be ready for use.

Although the expansion of five infantry divisions is blatant, the formation of three artillery brigades is secretive, after all, such units as artillery brigades are somewhat too exciting for China today. You must know that an artillery brigade contains 144 guns, and all of them have calibers of 75 or more, and the highest even reaches 210 calibers. If Yan Guang's troops were also blocked by Tang Qianming's fleet when they went north, they would not need all three artillery brigades, only one of them would be needed to break Tang Qianming's fleet into a stopper...

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Before opening the code, I thought that the second revolution could make me waste tens of thousands of words. However, after consulting the materials of the Second Revolution, I found that the fate of the Yuan army at that time was almost defeat, defeat, and retreat, and in the end, all the leaders were defeated and retreated

It can be said that, in terms of intensity alone, the entire Second Revolution was not even as fierce as the battle to defend Yangxia

The historical significance of the Second Revolution is also more like helping Yuan Shikai control the whole country

So in the end, I will use less than 6,000 words to describe the Second Revolution, anyway, after the defeat of the Second Revolution in Jiangsu and Jiangxi, even if it is over, there is no need to waste words in the battles in other regions.

(To be continued)