"The march continued to play on the platform, the music resounded in all directions, the trenches were filled with gunsmoke, the soldiers were dressed up to the front, the march accompanied us to conquer Chengdu, and will march with us to Yanjing, the Chinese have stood up, and the march on the road passes forward..."

On the streets of Chengdu, the soldiers of the 1st Guards Division were singing loud military songs and walking through the parade platform with firm steps.

On both sides of the street, although there are countless people waving small flags to see them off, looking at their faces, it can be seen that not many people seem to be optimistic about the National Socialist Party. It is no wonder that, after all, the Yuan army, which owns six provinces, has already been defeated under the military momentum of Beiyang, so how can the National Socialist Party, which has only two provinces, win? However, in this case, there are also many people who consciously understand Yan Guang and understand him.

"At this time, although Yuan Shikai defeated the Yuan army, but the remnants of the Yuan army still have a lot of power in the six southern provinces, and it will take a lot of effort for the Beiyang Army to exterminate them, in this case, if Yan Dudu takes advantage of the opportunity that the Beiyang Army has not yet fully controlled the new territory, at least there is a little chance of victory, but if he does not attack, Yan Dudu can only watch Yuan Shikai, who controls most of China, eat himself..."

As for why Yan Guang didn't attack when Yuan Jun was defeated? Those who thought they knew Yan Guang were defending him again.

"This can't be blamed on Yan Dudu, after all, no one could have expected that the Yuan army, which had hundreds of thousands of troops in six provinces, would be defeated before it lasted more than two months, not to mention Yan Dudu, I'm afraid even Yuan Shikai didn't expect it."

Speaking of this, the middle-aged man who was still defending Yan Guang sighed.

"I just hope that the old man can survive this hurdle, it doesn't matter if he loses, even if he loses and cedes Guizhou, it doesn't matter, as long as he is still the governor of our Sichuan..."

Although Yan Guang was called old without knowing it, after hearing this person's words, the surrounding people all nodded.

After Yan Guang governed Sichuan and Guizhou provinces, not only was the agricultural tax exempted, but the miscellaneous taxes of other walks of life were also reduced a lot, coupled with Yan Guang invested a lot of money in all aspects, it can be said that the people's livelihood in Sichuan and Guizhou has never been so good, and even many people in neighboring provinces have moved to live in Sichuan.

It's just that now the war is going on...

"It's all the revolutionary parties to blame, if it weren't for their unprovoked war..."

In the crowd, I don't know who said that the words aroused the approval of countless people.

Different from the textbooks recorded in later generations, during the Second Revolution period the radical faction of the Kuomintang (at that time the vast majority of the Kuomintang people opposed the use of force, even Huang Xing and Chen Qimei were forced to oppose Yuan) was widely opposed by all sectors of society, and many people accused them of using anti-Yuan as an excuse to carry out power struggles. Some people even scolded them for kidnapping the people of the whole country in the name of revolution, and that the so-called "second revolution" is not worthy of being called revolution at all.

Others, such as Liang Shuming, Xu Xue'er, and Cai Yi, as I said in the past, were also opposed to the use of force at that time.

The failure of the Second Revolution is not difficult to understand when it is still divided within itself.

However, in the eyes of the common people and gentry in Sichuan and Guizhou, the defeat of the Yuan army implicated them.

As I just said, after the reduction and exemption of miscellaneous taxes, the people's livelihood in Sichuan and Guizhou has never been so good, but because of the failure of the Yuan army, now Yuan Shikai can directly target Sichuan and Guizhou. People with a little insight know that in this case, Yan Guang has no other way but to strike first, because even if he does not resist Yuan Shikai, Yuan Shikai will no longer leave Yan Guang in Chuangui, after all, there are few forces that have not yet been attached to Yuan Shikai, and Yan Guang's National Socialist Party is precisely the only force that still has the ability to resist Yuan Shikai. As soon as Yan Guang left, the original benefits of Sichuan and Guizhou provinces were naturally eliminated one by one, after all, these benefits were all based on Yan Guang's personal financial resources...

In this case, as long as they don't want to go back to the life of countless taxes and taxes in the past, the people of Sichuan can only support Yan Guang with all their might, of course, in addition to the benefits that Yan Guang brings to them, the people of Sichuan and Guizhou really don't want to lose him as a good governor who treats the people well...

But to be honest, Yan Guang only has one real idea, that is, to open Wushuang, and then kill Yuan Shikai alone...

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I don't know countless people in Sichuan, although they are not optimistic about their fate, they still choose to fully support themselves. Standing on the parade platform and looking at the 1st Guards Division that was singing military songs and marching forward, Yan Guang said to Wang Yaowu beside him.

"There's no movement over there, right?"

"Don't worry, boss, Yin Changheng's kid is watching the border very closely, and Cai Yi doesn't dare to act rashly."

Although Xiong Kewu also served as a division commander in the Sichuan Army, as in history, he was only a division commander among the ten infantry divisions, and he was also the one at the bottom of the ranks, so he was naturally not qualified to announce [***] at the time of the Second Revolution.

And without [***], there will be no such thing as Cai Yi leading the Yunnan army into Sichuan.

Although Sichuan and Guizhou did not side with Sun Yat-sen in the Second Revolution, and some only secretly provided financial support and small-scale ordnance support, Yuan Shikai still had a lot of vigilance against Yan Guang, so he ordered Cai Ye to arrange troops on the Sichuan-Yunnan border to monitor or contain Yan Guang.

At this time, Yuan Shikai had not revealed his ambition to be the emperor, and in Cai Ye's heart, he was still the only person who could rule China, not to mention that Cai Ye and Yan Guang still had a lot of contradictions, so after receiving Yuan Shikai's order, Cai Ye quickly sent troops from a town to garrison the Sichuan-Yunnan border to monitor and contain Yan Guang.

Although he didn't want to have too many pointless disputes with Cai Yi, after Cai Yi stationed the troops of a town on the Sichuan-Yunnan border, Yan Guang still stationed a division of troops on the Sichuan-Yunnan border as a reaction. After all, Cai Yi's own military ability is absolutely the top in China, although there are only two towns in Yunnan today, and it can't be compared with the National Socialist Party, which has ten infantry divisions and is preparing to build five new infantry divisions and three artillery brigades, Yan Guang is not willing to despise Cai Yi. You must know that in history, it was because of his contempt that Yuan Shikai died of anger.

In order to make Cai Ye dare not act rashly, Yan Guang not only transferred Yin Changheng's Fifth Infantry Division to the Sichuan-Yunnan border, but even sent more than a dozen 150 and 210 large-caliber heavy artillery pieces trial-produced by the arsenal. After all, now the Sichuan-Han Railway has only been partially completed, and if it is to say, it is only repaired not far from the Hubei border, in this case, in order to ensure the mobility of the troops and the supply of ammunition, etc., heavy artillery like 150 and 210 can only be given up although they are powerful.

Fortunately, the power of the 105 and 120 caliber guns is also good, even if it is against Tang Qianming's fleet, it will not suffer, and there are still a lot of 75 caliber guns.

"By the way, where are the troops assembled now?" When the last soldier walked past the parade platform, Yan Guang applauded with the people around him while facing Wang Yaowu.

"Yang Shan and Zhu Qinglan have already taken the second division, the third division, and the seventh and eighth divisions to Kaixian by rail, and Peng Xiu is taking the fourth and tenth divisions to Yucheng through the Sichuan-Guizhou railway, and then go to Kaixian by transfer train..." Boss, wouldn't it be too risky to leave only the Ninth Division in Guizhou? ”

"Don't worry, aren't there still the eleventh and twelfth divisions?"

"But they've just finished their recruit training..."

"It doesn't matter, now that Hunan has just announced the cancellation of reading power, it is impossible for Tan Yanmin to let Duan Qirui into Hunan now, not to mention that their task is only to hold Guizhou, 36,000 people, with the Ninth Division as the pillar, even if Tan Yanmin really lets Duan Qirui into Hunan, there is nothing they can do..."Now in the Kuomintang, even the newly built infantry division is equipped with nearly 500 machine guns (including light machine guns), you must know that France at the end of World War I was only 684 (576 light machine guns), Britain had 400, Germany had 324, and of course, the most exaggerated was the United States, which had only 18 (per division) before the war, and 1,000 after the war...

There are nearly 500 machine guns in each division, all of which add up to more than 1,400, and such a number of machine guns can be used even if they are taken to the Somme, let alone just use them to defend Guizhou? So Yan Guang is not worried about Guizhou's comfort at all, as for Sichuan? Although there are only two combat effective infantry divisions in Sichuan, the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth three newly built infantry divisions, the machine guns of the five divisions add up to almost 2,400 machine guns.

Just as Yan Guang and Wang Yaowu were talking, the normal military parade was over.

The second, third, seventh, and eighth infantry divisions, as well as the fourth and tenth infantry divisions in Guizhou, had already begun to assemble in Kaixian through half of the Sichuan-Han Railway and the completed Sichuan-Guizhou Railway before Sun Yat-sen and others boarded the ship to go to Chengben.

Kaixian County is still a long way from the scheduled Wuxi County, but this is already the limit that Yan Guang can reach after investing a huge amount of money, but even so, this railway, which is only half completed, still brings a lot of convenience to Yan Guang. And because of Yan Guang's investment, Hubei also built a short railway from Hankou, although the whole railway has not yet reached Yichang, but also to Jingzhou.

And after learning the news of the reading power in Sichuan and Guizhou provinces, Yuan Shikai, who knew that Yan Guang was going to do it, sent a telegram to Duan Qirui and asked him to return to Hubei with Li Chunbu and Wang Zhanyuan to assist Li Yuanhong in defense. At the same time, Feng Guozhang, who was still in Nanjing, led Zhang Xun and Ni Sichong to Hubei to support, leaving only Lei Zhenchun's troops in Nanjing to clear the remaining Yuan army.

Fortunately, although Hubei and Nanjing are separated by the whole of Anhui, there is a Yangtze River that can go directly to Hankou, so Yuan Shikai is not worried that Feng Guozhang will not be able to arrive, after all, the Sichuan-Han Railway is only built to Kaixian.

At this time, after seeing the reading power declaration of Sichuan and Guizhou provinces, Sun Yat-sen and others who were on the passenger ship on their way to Yueben were indeed dumbfounded.

"Is he crazy?"

This was the only thought of Sun Yat-sen and those who did not understand the strength of the Kuomintang...

(To be continued)