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Chapter 101 Dingchangsha

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During the period from the end of October to the beginning of November in the Western calendar, the eyes of the whole of China were attracted by the battle of Xiaogan, and the news that Yuan Gongbao personally sat in charge of the battle of Wushengguan made many people unable to sleep at night. From Beijing to Shanghai, from Wuchang to Guangzhou, almost every newspaper reprinted the actions of the northern giant, and the legation headed by Zhu Erdian, the four-nation banking group, Japan and Russia all sketched their dream plans on the map.

The eyes of the whole of China and even the entire Far East began to turn to Hubei, to the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, the thoroughfare of the nine provinces, and as one region after another declared independence, both the Manchus and the Communists regarded this place as the center of the Jiāo front, on the one hand, the Beiyang sword that coveted the middle reaches of the Yangtze River in an attempt to seize political capital for the man behind them, and on the other hand, nearly 40,000 armed people who swore to defend the new regime.

The arrival of Yuan Shikai made the battle tend to be white-hot, Xiaogan has been completely wrenched on the 3rd, Feng Huafu personally led the main force of the Sanxie to arrive in Weidian Town, after three days of hard fighting, both sides paid a heavy price, Yang Qiu took the initiative to order the troops to retreat to Xiaogan to continue to hold on, and at the same time ordered the third division to enter Xiaogan, and began to deploy a new defensive line at Hukou and Sandaoqiao ().

Beiyang also suffered a lot of losses, and in the face of the situation that the Wushengguan railway was cut off, and the supply was difficult and morale was low, the old man Feng Guozhang had no choice but to order a temporary rest, and the whole day was mainly based on sporadic scattered artillery and small forces to test the situation.

Just when the battle of Xiaogan was in full swing, the whole of China was also surging, with dark cháo one after another, and all kinds of characters competing to appear.

First of all, Taiyuan in the north declared independence, Yan Xishan served as the governor, Wu Luzhen and Lan Tianwei, who were known as the three heroes of non-commissioned officers, began to run in all directions, trying to attack Beijing directly, and then Jiangxi and Yunnan declared independence, and before the end of the three thunderstorms in the north, Xu Shao in Nanjing led the ninth town to retreat to Zhenjiang in failure, and on the evening of the 3rd, Chen Qimei in Shanghai led a group of green-skinned hooligans to raise an incident.

The exciting news overseas is that Mr. Sun in the United States began to detour to Europe to return to China, and Cai Yuanpei and others also raised money to buy arms to speed up their return to China**. However, in this turmoil, the core is still Hubei, which is in full swing, and everyone knows that if Beiyang cannot be blocked, the person in the north will inevitably be greatly strengthened, and if it is blocked, then the south will have room for bargaining.

It was at this critical moment that the most unexpected scene occurred

First of all, the British newspaper took the lead in poking out the contradictions within the Hubei military and political fu on the republican issue, Huang Keqiang tried to use Yuan Shikai as the president of the Republic of China to compromise in exchange for a truce between the north and the south, and jointly overthrow the Manchu Qing government, and Yang Qiu, who has been inseparable from Beiyang, is faintly known as the first young marshal of the first young marshal, but he expressed his position as the commander-in-chief of the national defense forces, and the president can only be served by Mr. Sun Wen, who is returning to China. On one side there is a hard-line Wehrmacht, and on the other side there are party members who are swaying from side to side, so that everyone can smell the conflict in it.

Before everyone could figure out the flavor from these two articles, the news of the assassination of Jiao Dafeng and Chen Zuoxin, the heroes of the Hunan uprising and the new governor of Hunan, caused an uproar among the southern party.

Just when they were helpless, one of the toughest voices suddenly came from the front line of Xiaogan.

On November 2, Yang Qiu, commander-in-chief of the Hubei National Defense Forces, said in an interview with a reporter from the French newspaper Figaro in the sound of artillery on the front line in Xiaogan that as a leading army, he would never sit idly by and watch his siblings be innocently killed, and had ordered three gunboats and two battalions of the Navy to go to Changsha to arrest the suspects, but at the same time said that he would not change the decision made by the people of Hunan. As soon as this remark came out, the southern Jijin faction, especially the young people, applauded one after another, thinking that this was the new atmosphere, but the conservatives in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Lianghu accused him of not doing his job, and the great enemy was still chou to take care of Hunan with precious troops, ignoring the life and death of Hankou and even the whole of Hubei.

In the shouting, scolding and uneasiness, the Miluo River Qu Zi Ancestral Hall attracted dozens of white sails, and the locals who heard the news and rushed to see the excitement on the river bank almost crowded the ancestral temple dedicated to Qu Yuan's shrine, and they watched blankly as a group of young soldiers jumped off the boat and began to form a team under the command of the officer. A brand-new sand yellow sè khaki military uniform, armed belts, small tie tui, water bottles, and marching pouches straddled across the waist, and there were two "small wooden sticks" beside them, and the bullet belts were even more bulging, and many of them still carried machine guns on their shoulders.

"Report to the regiment commander, the second battalion is ready." The young recruit battalion commander saluted Hang Zhi, who was getting off the ship, this battalion commander was promoted after the northern attack on Xiangyang, Xiaogan has been waiting for the order after opening it, and the order made him wait, but let his battalion enter Hunan to arrest the murderers of Jiao Dafeng and Chen Zuoxin. 4∴8065

The killing of the two by the Luàn army angered the soldiers, especially the recruits who were waiting to go to the front line, and everyone was very resentful of this kind of nonsense in Hunan, if it weren't for this incident, they might have been transferred to the front line with the third division to see the Beiyang soldiers who were very powerful in the mouths of the veterans.

After Hang Zhi returned the salute, he asked, "Where are the first battalion and the naval battalion?" ”

"The first battalion has crossed the Miluo River, and is going south to bypass the Xiangyin fortress in the direction of Qingshan, and it will be able to reach Changsha City in the afternoon at the latest." The intern staff officer pinched the map, drew the advance route of the first battalion, and continued: "The naval battalion is still staring in front of the Xiangyin Fortress. ”

"Did you encounter resistance?"

"The Xiangyin fortress fired a warning shot, and the first battalion also encountered a patrol team, and they withdrew after firing a shot at the sky." The intern staff officer said dutifully: "The Xiangyi Association has arrived in Wuchang yesterday, and Changsha currently claims to have 60,000 horses in four towns, but most of them are recruits and temporary recruits. ”

Hearing that he was not intercepted, Hang Zhi breathed a sigh of relief, although he was promoted to the commander of the regiment in this merger, but in fact there were only two battalions, one of which was the old foundation of the original three battalions, and many veterans were recruited in the north, in fact, the establishment has exceeded the first battalion to eight hundred, and the combat effectiveness can be completely guaranteed, but the newly transferred second battalion is only a recruit who has only received twenty days of training except for the officers, and the naval battalion has to face the blockage of the Xiangyin fortress, and it is even more impossible for the commander to send out a single soldier. So if these Hunan Yankees try their best to fight, it will be quite difficult.

It's not that he's afraid of the Hunan army, although Jiao Dafeng and Chen Zuoxin advertised that 60,000 people were recruited in just a few days, known as the four towns, but in fact, only the previous twenty-five years were barely able to get by, he was just worried about the order, because the order only said that the person who killed Jiao Zuofeng was captured, and it did not say that Changsha would be taken, as one of the backbones of the Right Route Army, he saw Yang Qiu's mind in this order, which was to deter Changsha, but not to destroy the relationship between the two places, this kind of battle was the most difficult to fight.

What should I do if Changsha doesn't cooperate?

At the same time that Hang Zhi led the new battalion to make a slight adjustment, bypassing the Hunan Yin fortress and rushing to Changsha, the news that the two battalions of Haohao dàngdàng drove into Hunan made Changsha fall into anxiety and uneasiness, and the streets and alleys were full of so-called Hunan Four Towns soldiers wearing white máo scarves, some of these people were made in Hanyang, some used Japanese gold hook rifles, and more were firearms and spears. The hundreds of soldiers who followed Jiao Chen and the others in the uprising were guarded by the henchmen sent by Mei Xin and were not allowed to leave.

This luàn elephant also spread to the Consultative Council, and there was a tense atmosphere in the conference room, outside the big mén. The parliamentarians are also divided into two factions, one faction is in favor of fighting, the other faction believes that it should not be fought but Hubei cannot be allowed to occupy the dominant power, as for the willingness to obey, there are almost none, after all, in their opinion, the death of Jiao Chen and the others helped them in disguise, so they must not overturn the case before the power is stabilized ().

In the quiet room on the second floor, Tan Yanmin gently swept the rice paper and began to pick up the pen to write, this is a habit he has developed for many years, whenever he has something upset, he writes a few strokes to calm his mind, but today his hand is very unstable, and the last stroke actually trembled slightly, causing the whole word to be abandoned, so he had to sigh gloomily and put down his pen, walked to the window and looked at the gradually falling sunset, secretly anxious, could it be that he has only been the governor for a few days and is about to come to an end?

He knew that Mei Xin killed Jiao Chen and the others that day, and the run on Hefeng Match Company was also his secret promoter behind it, otherwise how could Hefeng, who had such a good reputation, have a run all of a sudden, at that time he was afraid that after Jiao Chen and the two took power, they would have no chance for these constitutionalists, but he didn't expect to cause such a big movement, and even Yang Qiu said in a high-profile manner that he wanted to capture the murderer When he thought of the young man who had only seen him twice, he was a little stunned for no reason. The baggage soldiers before March, the commander-in-chief of the National Defense Forces after March, also ousted the party member Sun Wu from power, and Li Yuanhong personally gave the post of commander to send a national telegram, and took eighty percent of the land in Hubei into his pocket and then fought in Beiyang in front of Wusheng Pass, and killed thousands of Beiyang Jing Rui in one move, and still confronted the old and spicy Feng Huafu undefeated, this person is really too dangerous

What's even more panicked is that he actually knew that he would become the governor of Hunan a few months ago, and now that his soldiers are coming, they are unobstructed, swaggering, and they have sent three gunboats, what should he do? Is it to let the soldiers in the four towns who don't even have guns fight a dozen, or to take Mei Xin Jiāo out? But if Mei Xin bites out herself, won't she be ruined?

When Tan Yanmin's heart was numb, the sound of knocking suddenly sounded, and when he opened it, he saw his henchman Zuo Xueqian and Liu Yutang, who was preparing to lead the three associations to support Hubei. Behind him stood two young men, one of whom seemed to have seen somewhere. When the young man saw him, he immediately bowed his hand: "Tan Du, have you forgotten the three elementary schools in Lord Zhang's mansion?" ”

"You are Zhang Biao's personal guard, Chen Xiaosan?" Seeing that Tan Yanmin, who had had met several times, remembered himself, Chen Haohui smiled and nodded: "Chen Xiaosan is in the past, and now my brother is the deputy captain of the guard company directly under the National Defense Force Headquarters." ”

It's Yang Qiu's person" Tan Yanmin was afraid of hearing this name now, so he was so frightened that he hurriedly took a few steps back and took out a pistol from the chou drawer, but before he could pull out the gun, the guard next to Chen Haohui took the first step and pulled out two guns and aimed them at him ().

Zuo Xueqian and Liu Yutang were so frightened that their faces changed, Chen Haohui first pressed the muzzle of his assistant's gun, turned around and closed the mén before arching his hand and said: "Du Du, I didn't come to Xingshi to ask for guilt today." ”

Seeing that Chen Haohui took the initiative to put away the gun and continued to call him the governor, Tan Yanmin breathed a sigh of relief and asked in surprise: "Did Yang Qiu ask you to come to me?" Go back and tell him that we Hunan people will solve the Hunan matter, and it is not his turn to come to the mouth, let him concentrate on dealing with Beiyang first, and don't harm tens of thousands of Hubei brothers."

Chen Haohui smiled and waited for him to finish the prison sāo, and then said: "Thank you Governor for caring about our brothers, the front-line battle is naturally decided by the commander, he said that he will fight wherever the brothers fight, and it is a big deal to lose his life." But I'm afraid the governor's chair hasn't been heated yet, has it? Do you really want to accompany some people all the way to the dark? ”

"What a way to the dark, I don't know what you're talking about." Tan Yanmin rubbed a handful of rice paper to hide his nervousness and uneasiness. But how could he hide Chen Haohui from these small actions, he has been by Zhang Biao's side for so many years, and it has long been commonplace to observe words and views, and he immediately said: "The governor doesn't need to explain, why Mei Xin killed Jiao Chen and the others You know better than us." As for the run on the Hefeng Match Factory, I heard that the last few sums of money they went through the road of Jin merchant ticket numbers, doesn't the governor know that now our Lord Shen Shukai, director of the Finance and Taxation Department of the Yangxia Branch, was the manager of Hesheng Yuan before? ”

In just a few words, Tan Yanmin's face turned white, Mei Xin's killing of Jiao Chen and the others was still a secret, until the person in this matter counted all the slaps and he secretly sent people to Hefeng Match Factory to think that he was very secretive, but he didn't expect to be broken by others as soon as they met, but he imagined how big a blow he would be. Zuo Xueqian and Liu Yutang are both Tan Yanmin's henchmen, the former stayed in Japan for many years and immediately contributed to the uprising, and the latter was the internal aid to Hubei and the three associations, and they also knew a little about the killing of Jiao Chen and the others, so Chen Haohui's words also made the two of them nervous, you must know that Yang Qiu announced in a high-profile manner that he wanted to catch the murderer, and they were all involved in this matter.

Is it really going to fight?

"Governor, Commander, let me remind you that Mei Xin's generation is extremely ambitious, and the matter of Jiao Chen and the others falls into his hands, what should you do if you threaten Governor Du with this matter in the future? He now holds military power, and many officers of the new army are encircled by him, how can he be restrained in the future? Chen Haohui saw a few people in the town, and continued: "The commander also said that he respected Li Du because Hubei needed Li Du, he couldn't do that kind of negative thing for Siyu, and he also believed that Hunan also needed Tan Du Finally, he also asked me to bring you a sentence No matter how good the gun is, you have to give it to those who can use it, and those who can't use it Even if their hearts are good, I'm afraid the result can only be luàn on luàn."

Tan Yanmin's heart slammed, this was the second time he had heard this, the first time was on Hanyang's ship, and now he asked someone to bring it, obviously telling himself not to be greedy for military power and could it be that Yang Qiu knew about today's events that day in Hanyang? This is really terrible, now Chen Haohui is a governor, and he also takes Li Yuanhong as an example, that is, he clearly tells himself that he can keep his rights and follow the example of Hubei to supervise civil affairs, otherwise he will forcibly attack Changsha, and then his relationship with Mei Xin will be in broad light and completely ruined

He wants to struggle, no one wants to be coerced, but at this moment, almost all the troops in the city are Mei Xin's people, Wang Longzhong can fight at most after taking away the first association, and the maximum number that can be fought after Wang Longzhong takes away the first association is about 2,000, as for Jiao Dafeng, the 60,000 horses in the four towns they said, in fact, there are only more than 40,000, many of them are only the party and unemployed vagrants who can only add luàn, and they don't even have a few guns, how can it be that they can face to face with Beiyang, thinking of this, he knew that he had no way to retreat this time, so he had to force the nervousness in his heart and asked: " I don't know what Commander Yang is going to do with Tan? ”

Chen Haohui waited for this sentence, and said: "It's very simple, the governor only needs to order someone to open the city and let me come in, as for the rest of the matter, you don't have to worry about the rest As for our two brothers, we will always be by your side tonight to ensure safety (). ”

Liu Zuo Xueqian asked: "That Mei Xin them." ”

Chen Haohui smiled slightly, pulled out two Han Yuan-style pistols and pushed them into the chamber suddenly, and said coldly: "Tan Du is still Tan Du, Councilor or Councillor, as for the secret dead, they will not speak."

At one o'clock in the morning, the city of Changsha was quiet, and the air was full of tension and unease.

The lights in the 25th Chengxie camp of the original new army were bright, and Mei Xin, who had just assassinated Jiao Chen and the others, and was appointed by Tan Yanmin as the commander of the first town in Hunan, and several henchmen sat under the lamp and looked uneasy, as long as they thought of the Hubei military camp stationed outside the city at this moment, their hearts always felt like a thorn.

The dull and depressing atmosphere made Gan Xingdian unable to sit still, slapped the table and said: "Simply, I will take the second association to the mo camp tonight, and I don't believe that a single association can not do him Yang Qiu's one battalion."

"Yes, Lao Tzu will pull all the four towns on if he can't get out of the way."

"To the bullshit Wehrmacht who went to him, just kill all the old immortals in the Advisory Bureau, and then concentrate on training recruits, and when the Beiyang and Hubei armies are out of temper, we will take it again, and Hubei will also occupy it"

"I think it's better to contact the north, as long as we have a little bit of clarity, Yuan Gongbao will definitely be willing to recruit him, I don't believe him Yang Qiu is not afraid of us being caught in front and back."

Gan Xingdian's words provoked a burst of clamoring from the officers, and Mei Xin's face sank into speech. After all, he is the original twenty-five huncheng assistant management belt, and he has also participated in the Taihu Autumn Cào, and his eyesight is much higher than these people. Although there is only one battalion outside for the time being, the investigation found that it is actually equipped with a German Saidian machine gun that is only available in Beiyang, as well as five or six light machine fast guns, and the soldiers are all new German-made rifles, which is obviously the core descendant of Yang Qiu, and now there is no light machine fast artillery here in Changsha, and the troops with serious shortage of guns and ammunition, not to mention one association, even if it is two associations, it may not be able to take it down, not to mention that there is also a battalion that is advancing at the top of the ranks. There are also a lot of soldiers in the city who sympathize with Jiao Chen and the others, and if the city is opened, it will be really doomed.

And what worries him the most is Tan Yanmin, this Hunan "Li Bodhisattva" has no voice at such a critical moment, obviously wants to get rid of this matter, and if he really wants to fight, it is estimated that he would like to die by himself to cover up the secret, so he must not be given such a chance.

Just as he was thinking about finding a countermeasure, there was a sudden faint sound of noisy footsteps in the distance, and before he could understand something, several fireballs flashed at the mouth of the big camp, and then a violent explosion sounded.

"Catch Mei Xin and avenge my ** hero"

"Catch the murderer, defend **"

A shout suddenly rang out from all directions, and as the new army camp took the lead in the sound of explosions, the entire Changsha city was in a mess, screams, whistles and machine guns came and went, and in the end no one could tell what was happening.

Mei Xin, Gan Xingdian and the others were born as soldiers, and they immediately guessed that someone must have let Yang Qiu's troops into the city, and hurriedly blew the copper whistle and led the soldiers to rush out of the camp, but before they reached the mouth of the mén to make their eyes crack, they saw that several Wehrmacht soldiers quickly pulled a Makqin machine gun with a small wheel, and began to sweep the barracks violently.

The bullets rained through the ranks of the Hunan soldiers, and in just a few minutes, the entire colonel field was full of corpses, and Gan Xingdian and the others who ran at the front were directly killed, so frightened that Mei Xin hurriedly took a few henchmen to prepare to climb the wall and escape. But as soon as he jumped out of the wall, dozens of guns were pointed at his brain, and he only heard the sentence "Kill my heroes, and you will be punished." "Seventeen or eighteen holes were opened in his body.

Flames and explosions began to spread from the barracks to the surrounding areas, shops, mansions and many other places were affected, if anyone who is careful at this moment will find that these places where the sound of gunfire comes out are all places of activity for diehards and conservatives without exception, and the tens of thousands of recruits recruited are completely at a loss, and many of them forgot their responsibilities and fled out of the city overnight. Standing at the window on the second floor of the Advisory Bureau, Tan Yanmin's whole body was trembling, this is aimed at Mei Xin, it is simply a long-planned purge, but what can he do now? Now that he has led the wolf into the room, he can only grit his teeth to support it.

In the early morning of November 4, with the arrival of the second battalion led by Hang Zhi to Changsha, the city of Changsha finally settled down a little after a night. At 10 o'clock in the morning, Tan Yanmin in the Consultative Bureau announced in front of many reporters and parliamentarians that Mei Xin, Gan Xingdian, and other military officers and some legislator diehards colluded with each other to assassinate Jiao Chen, tried to overthrow the military and government, and colluded with Beiyang to attack Hubei before and after, and also publicly showed several letters that were said to have been found in Mei Xin's home. At the same time, he also said that Yang Qiu's dispatch of troops was actually his invitation to escort the new policy, and vowed to guarantee that Hunan would fully support the cause, and at the same time announced that 20,000 Jingrui would be selected from the original conscription of the soldiers in the four towns to form the fourth division of the Hunan National Defense Force, and rushed to Yueyang to accept the reorganization and be ready to enter Hubei at any time to support