Chapter 21: Crazy Expansion (3)

Chen Fu and they also started to act after receiving Qin Yu's notice, Chen Fu immediately began to clean up those die-hard elements in the new army, and then led the army to arrest the county order of Xuzhou, and while cleaning up the remaining Qing army, he arranged soldiers to take care of the landlords and merchants in Xuzhou, and could not let them cause trouble for themselves.

Since ancient times, Xuzhou has been the key to the north, the gateway to the south, the place where soldiers must fight and the center of businessmen, and its important process can be known to be unusual, in order to defend the Beiyang Army to the south, Xuzhou is indispensable.

Chen Fu took the troops to the south of Shandong without stopping after getting Xuzhou, and it took three days to open up Zaozhuang to Rizhao, and then Chen Fu began to dig trenches there to establish a front, and just comforted the landlord families and local people who occupied the land, Chen Fu received a telegram from Qin San in Shangqiu, which said that the obstacles to Xuzhou and Zaozhuang had been cleared, and now they were on the way to Zhumadian, and now they were meeting the resistance of the Beiyang Army near Zhoukou. At this time, the intelligence department sent an order from Qin Yu that there were a large number of Beiyang troops on the way to Shangqiu, and Qin Sanfen could not have too many troops to protect it, and he needed to quickly support Shangqiu.

After Chen Fu saw this, he immediately ordered the army in Xuzhou to set off and rush to Shangqiu before the arrival of the Beiyang army.

It turned out that Qin San began to move west after controlling Shangqiu, clearing the obstacles to Zaozhuang, and then returned to Shangqiu to the south to join Li Dahai, but met the Beiyang Army near Zhoukou who was preparing to go to Wuhan, the Beiyang Army saw Qin San, their plain heads, and immediately thought that it was the revolutionary army to fight without saying a word, and Qin San saw them attacking and began to meet them in a short battle, the Beiyang Army here has as many as two towns, and the army led by Qin San is only more than one division.

At the position of the Beiyang Army, a soldier said loudly to an officer: "Commander, the vitality of the revolutionary army on the opposite side is too strong, I can't imagine that they will have so many heavy machine guns, we can't get close to their positions at all, and the soldiers are constantly suffering casualties, asking for the support of the artillery battalion." ”

The officer ordered: "Listen to my order to immediately mobilize artillery for me to bombard them, Zhoukou must not be lost in my hands, don't be afraid, hit me." ”

It turned out that Qin San found out that the number was not superior and that it was still the Beiyang Army, so he immediately ordered the Beiyang Army to be bombarded with heavy machine guns, and at the same time ordered the artillery bombardment to be prepared. At the same time, both armies issued artillery bombardments, and the positions on both sides lit up, most of the artillery of the Beiyang Army were old cannons, and the range was not very far, and they couldn't hit Qin San's position at all, and Qin San's artillery was heavy artillery and mortars, and the range was much farther than those old artillery, I didn't know how much farther, I saw Qin San's shells fall on the positions of the Beiyang Army one by one, and after a few rounds, the artillery battalions of the Beiyang Army were blown up. This was when the Beiyang Army knew that the "revolutionary army" on the other side was so perverted, and immediately telegraphed to the headquarters asking for support.

After a night of hard fighting, the soldiers of Shangqiu finally beat the Beiyang Army, which had not received support, and the Beiyang Army soon surrendered, and after cleaning up the main battlefield, Qin San waited for Li Dahai's arrival at Zhoukou.

The headquarters of the Beiyang Army immediately found Yuan Shikai to ask for support after receiving the telegram of Zhoukou's support, and Yuan Shikai immediately sent the Beiyang Army in Luohe to support, and also sent a telegram to order the Beiyang Army in Henan What was going on, only then did he know that Shangqiu had been occupied by unknown forces, and the enemy of Zhoukou was coming from the direction of Shangqiu. Yuan Shikai finally knew that the enemy was Shangqiu's, and immediately sent people to lead troops to recover Shangqiu. However, as soon as his telegram reached Luohe, Li Dahai rushed to Luohe with his army and opened fire with the Beiyang army, and soon Yuan Shikai received that the army in Zhoukou had not received support and was annihilated, and he was furious on the spot and scolded the intelligence department for being incompetent and the defenders of Zhoukou being incompetent.

It turned out that Qin Yu received a report from the intelligence department that Qin San was fighting in Zhoukou and the two towns of the Beiyang Army, and there was still a town of Beiyang Army in Luohe, and he was worried that Luohe would go to support Zhoukou, so he ordered Li Dahai, who was running towards Zhoukou, to urgently change the direction of movement and advance to Luohe to solve the Beiyang Army in Luohe, and learned that the Beiyang Army in a town in Kaifeng was going straight to Shangqiu, so he immediately ordered Chen Fu to send Xuzhou's army to Shangqiu to support.

Fortunately, Li Dahai came in time, the Beiyang Army in Luohe had not yet gone to Zhoukou and encountered Li Dahai's attack at the door of his home, after seven or eight hours of fighting, Li Dahai finally annihilated the Beiyang Army in Luohe, and after resting for a few hours, he began to advance in the direction of Zhoukou, and finally successfully joined forces with Qin San at Zhoukou at noon the next day.

After Han Ming in Xinyang took control of Xinyang, he sent 3,000 soldiers north to Zhumadian to join his brothers in Zhumadian, while he himself took 15,000 troops south to Huangshi. On the way south, Han Ming encountered a small group of revolutionary rebels who were fighting against the Qing army in Hong'an County, but the revolutionary army immediately told Han Ming that Hong'an County was already a revolutionary army after seeing Han Ming, and Han Ming asked Han Ming to take a detour, and Han Ming directly invited them out, originally they didn't want to leave, but when Han Ming's army surrounded them, they finally left with reluctance, and those Qing troops surrendered as soon as they saw Han Ming's formation.

Han Ming also encountered a small group of revolutionary troops in Tuanfeng County and invited them away, and soon Han Ming arrived in Ezhou City, and saw that Wang Li's army was engaged in street fighting with the revolutionary army, so without saying a word, he led the troops to help, and soon cleaned up the revolutionary army.

It turned out that Wang Li's army happened to besiege Ezhou at that time, but the revolutionaries in the Ezhou New Army took the opportunity to capture the county government of Ezhou, and said to Wang Li that Ezhou was already the Hubei Military Government, and the revolutionary army thought that it would be easy to get Ezhou, but Wang Li ignored this order to shell Ezhou, let the rear enter Ezhou, and the revolutionary army could only engage in street fighting with Wang Li's army, and it happened that Han Ming was still clearing the remaining revolutionary army.

At this point, the super protection line built by Qin Yu has finally completed the first step, and the rest is to carry out in-depth protection in important places.

Before the Beiyang Army in Kaifeng reached Shangqiu, Chen Fu's reinforcements finally arrived in Shangqiu, and soon after the Beiyang Army finally arrived, and then the war began, and the Beiyang Army was quickly defeated under the cooperation of Shangqiu and Chen Fu's army, and the Shangqiu crisis was resolved.

Yuan Shikai, who was far away in Beijing, finally vomited a mouthful of blood after learning that his four towns had been annihilated, and the people around him immediately sent him to emergency treatment.

Almost at the same time, Chen Fu and they telegraphed the independence of Xinyang and other places across the country, and they were ready to listen to the dispatch of Qin Yu, the governor of the four provinces, and these telegrams shocked the whole country again, and the revolutionary army in Wuhan once again scolded Qin Yu for stealing the revolutionary achievements, and attacked the revolutionary army in Hong'an and Ezhou regardless of the righteousness, this time they completely hated Qin Yu.

Yuan Shikai, who woke up, also scolded Qin Yu for killing his four town troops after seeing these calls, and immediately wanted to personally lead the troops to fight with Qin Yu, but in the end it was a group of his subordinates who stopped him, and now the Beiyang Army can no longer withstand another big battle.

The newspapers across the country continue to frantically print Qin Yu's allegiance to so many places, now Qin Yu is their god of wealth, you don't see the newspaper as soon as it comes out, people are crazy to rob it, and now the newspaper is still working overtime to print the last newspaper, this time it is here again, they really want to send a red flag to Qin Yu now. Qin Yu's name once again resounded throughout China, and even blinded many people's eyes, and for a while, the provinces that were not yet independent were all changing, and a large number of careerists who were unwilling to be lonely also began to act.

On October 22, 1911, the Hunan League led the Hunan New Army to respond to the Wuchang Revolution to occupy Changsha, and the Revolutionary Party elected Jiao Dafeng as the governor and Chen Zuoxin as the deputy governor, and established the Hunan Military Government of the Republic of China to declare the independence of Hunan by telegram; On the same day, Zhang Fengxiang of the Shaanxi League revolted in Xi'an in response to the Wuhan Revolution; For a time, all provinces in the country began to become independent, and in December, all the provinces of Guannai were independent except for the four provinces of Gansu, Henan, Zhili, and Shandong, which were loyal to the Manchus.