Chapter 53: The Prancing Horse Central Plains (9)

Yang Yulong took out another telegram and reported: "Governor, Shanghai calls back, Wu Tingfang can't come." I had to let Yuan's representative go to Shanghai to talk. When these words came out, Li Yuanhong's face, which was okay, became gloomy.

"Forget it, even if you go to Shanghai to talk, what's the matter? Is it that if the fight continues, the person who can call the shots has not spoken? Hmph, they really did it, and they didn't save it when they were left to dry. As everyone knows, without the nod of someone from Fang, this north-south peace talks will not count. When Li Yuanhong said this, his mood suddenly improved.

Immediately said to Yang Yulong: "Send a report to Anqing, the governors of all provinces have called for peace talks, but Brother Fuguo has not expressed his position." Now that Yuan Zhimi has made Wang Jingwei in Han, whether to negotiate peace, please make a decision as soon as possible and look forward to recovery! ”

Yang Yulong said: "What about Wang Jingwei? ”

Li Yuanhong sneered twice: "Tell him the truth, I don't care where I go." ”

During this period, the meeting of representatives of the Shanghai Governors was very active, and it was also the capital of Nanjing, the election of the generalissimo and the heads of various departments, and the clamoring that the place of the peace talks should be in Shanghai. These people actually collectively lost their memory, forgetting that there was also a Commander Fang who was fighting with Beiyang.

Therefore, when Li Yuanhong sent two telegrams to Fang Jianxiong, Fang Heizhai still admired this Li Bodhisattva a little.

"Li Bodhisattva is Li Bodhisattva, and he is very good at life. But the more people like this, the more I have to guard against him. Fang Jianxiong was deducing the battle situation with Jiang Fangzhen and a group of staff officers, and when he received a telegram, he threw it on the table.

Jiang Fangzhen is not good in this regard, and he has no intention of expressing his opinion. Fang Jianxiong didn't have anyone to talk to. The three major strategists are all in Anqing, and there are too many things over there.

The deduction continued, and after getting the result of the Anhui army's complete victory again, Fang Jianxiong smiled and said, "That's it." After speaking, he grabbed Li Yuanhong's two telegrams and looked at them in a daze. The three words of Wang Jingwei on the telegram made Fang Jianxiong smile slightly.

This big traitor has been in the process of promoting peace talks between the North and the South in history. It still made a big difference. However, if there is no peace talk now, anyone will come in vain, and Lao Yuan will have to send someone to negotiate the conditions. Otherwise. Under the pretext of overthrowing the Qing Dynasty, he continued to shout and kill, anyway, he had to save his senses. To increase the appearance rate.

"Call back, Brother Song Qing's so-called peace talks, no one has come to talk so far, so I don't know anything! The Qing room is still there, how to start? ”

Li Yuanhong, who received the reply, was overjoyed, and couldn't help but gloat at the group of grandsons in Shanghai, and called back and said: "The matter of peace between the north and the south is a resolution of the Governor's Congress, and now Tang Shaoyi, the representative of the north, has led a delegation to the south and will arrive in Han in the near future. Brother is the pillar of the revolution. The whole country knows it. The north and the south negotiate peace, and the lack of brothers is not enough to talk about. Yuan Hong pleaded with his brother to come to Han as soon as possible and sit in charge of the overall situation. ”

Li Yuanhong's telegram arrived in Fang Jianxiong's hands, and it was already late at night. This guy is hard enough, and he finally thought of a big killer move for him! Didn't Wu Tingfang refuse to come to Wuhan for negotiations? It's easy to do. Fang Jianxiong is here, you want to negotiate peacefully, do you want to bypass Fang Jianxiong, the warlord in front, is it realistic? In a hurry, Fang Jianxiong defected to Beiyang and suppressed the revolution in turn. It's not impossible to do it.

Making this decision, Li Yuanhong was secretly proud. As everyone knows, the first step has been taken to lure the wolf into the house.

When Fang Jianxiong received the telegram, he couldn't help laughing three times. In the middle of the night, the laughter was terrifyingly tight. frightened a group of young men from the staff and looked sideways.

"Call back, Brother Song Qing, my brother will go to Han in the next day!"

Leng Yu, this guy took shit luck again, and led his troops to rush to the head of the realm at the speed of a rapid march overnight. Unexpectedly, Ni Sichong was really afraid because the troops did not come back after the break, and ran to Henan with the guards and his son overnight.

Just happened to be preempted by the cold rain and blocked up. Ni Sichong brought only a thousand people, how could he be the opponent of this gang of bandits under Leng Men, and the fierce battle lasted for more than an hour, Ni Sichong was desperately protected by his own soldiers to kill and surround, and his son Ni Youdan was captured.

At the same time as the head of the realm blocked, the battle of Taihe also began. Li Qianyu led his troops to the top of Mount Tai and swept Ni Sichong's department. Without Ni Sichong, the combat effectiveness of these troops plummeted, and Li Qianyu took Taihe County without much effort, and completely annihilated the more than 5,000 people left in Taihe County by Ni Sichong.

After the victory in northern Anhui, the Anhui army telegraphed the whole country, saying that it had carried out a destructive blow to Ni Sichong and Jiang Guidi in northern Anhui. The news spread, and the whole country was shaken.

Fang Jianxiong's name once again made headlines. Some people in the press have questioned the news that Ni Sichong and Jiang Gui's department have been attacked by the devastation, and they feel that the theory of the devastation is inevitably a bit exaggerated.

However, the other side of the parties, Ni Sichong and Jiang Guidi, both pinched their noses and kept silent, and these doubts were easily forgotten. Since the opening of the Shanghai-Nanjing line, Fang Jianxiong has once again stood at the forefront of history, and his momentum is compelling, which makes people can't help but face up to his existence.

The Anhui Army once again telegraphed the whole country, saying: "Our unit will march into Zhoukou, Henan, and threaten the Jinghan Line to cut off the rear route of the Beiyang Army in Wuhan." Another part will be sent north, along the Jinpu Road, to attack Xuzhou. ”

When this telegram came out, the whole country was even more dumbfounded, and the bigwigs who held the military power in their hands were very depressed, where did this Fang Jianxiong get so many soldiers? Or is his silver grown from the earth? Some newspapers have calculated that the Anhui army has at least six infantry divisions, plus local security forces, nearly 100,000 troops.

Although some people still question this news, there is an indisputable fact in front of them, a guy named Fang Jianxiong has emerged on the land of Anhui, and the army he built has been able to confront Yuan Shikai's Beiyang head-on. Although after the objective comparison of strength, the vast majority of people still believe that Beiyang is stronger.

At the end of the Xinhai year, too many major events happened in China. On December 7, the Qing court appointed Yuan Shikai as the minister of peace, and Yuan sent people to the south to negotiate peace. On the 7th, the Shanghai Provincial Governors' Deputies Association heard that Huang Xing and Li Yuanhong were promoted as generalissimos and deputy marshals. After Li Yuanhong telegraphed the governor of the Shanghai army, if there was such a matter, it was hoped that it would be canceled, and it was decided that the representatives of the provinces would go to Nanjing on the 8th. On this day, the Henan Consultative Bureau sent a telegram to the Qing Cabinet, imploring: Recognize the republic and avoid another war!

On the 8th, 8,000 people of the Guangdong Northern Expeditionary Army went north and arrived in Shanghai on the 18th. On the same day, China Merchants in Shanghai signed a contract of 1.5 million taels with the British HSBC Bank, which pledged all the property of the bureau such as port houses and market houses. Among them, 400,000 taels were clearly borrowed by the governor of Shanghai. It's another thing to borrow this one, but it's China Merchants that borrowed the money anyway. Of course, China Merchants can also not borrow! The consequences are not known!

On the 9th, the north and the south again agreed to an armistice on the 15th. Huang Xingdian replied to Wang Jingwei and supported Yuan Shikai as the president. Abbreviation: Xiangcheng (note: Yuan Shikai is a native of Xiangcheng, Henan) is eloquent and strategic, has restored the country's high hope, can take into account the overall situation, and acted in concert with the people's army, quickly overthrowing the Manchu government, so that the general trend of the whole country has been determined early, and outsiders will recognize it as soon as possible. (Well, this telegram has not been released yet, otherwise Fang Jianxiong will definitely be slapped in the face.) ）

On the 9th, Tang Shaoyi led the delegation to the south and arrived in Han on the 11th.

On the 10th, Wu Tingfang sent a telegram to Li Yuanhong, saying: Because of the retention of the representatives in Shanghai, it is difficult to go to Han. On the 12th, Wu Tingfang sent a telegram to Tang Shaoyi to come to Shanghai on the grounds that "the consuls stationed in various countries are extremely eager for peace talks in Shanghai."

On the 11th, Wu Tingfang sent a letter to the US consul in Shanghai, requesting that the US minister be telegraphed to discuss with Yuan Shikai and that Tang Shaoyi go to Shanghai to negotiate peace.

The train slowly entered Hankou Station, and Tang Shaoyi, the representative of the Beiyang delegation, stood in front of the train window, looking at the city destroyed by the war. Due to the unfavorable situation in Hanyang, the KMT's refusal to negotiate peace, which should have appeared, actually went to the opposite side, and the KMT was even more enthusiastic about negotiating peace. This thing is a bit abnormal, not to mention that things have changed decisively, and it was actually after the Great War in Northern Anhui.

As Yuan Shikai's subordinate for many years, Tang Shaoyi has always been highly used. Before leading the team south the next day, Yuan Shikai invited him to his home as a guest and talked for a long time. Yuan Shikai's core topic is that peace can be discussed, but it must be taken by the new government. At the same time, Yuan Shikai, who is very sober-minded, stressed that Fang Jianxiong of Anhui is the key to the success or failure of this peace negotiation. Those people in Shanghai and Nanjing shouted loudly, and in the eyes of the powerful Fang Jianxiong, it was completely useless.

As soon as he got off the train and stayed shortly after staying, Tang Shaoyi ushered in his first visitor. Wang Zhengting, deputy foreign minister of the Southern Provisional Government.

I don't know what those people in Shanghai are in their heads? After Wang Zhengting met, he mentioned in two greetings: "Foreign Minister Wu Tingfang cannot come to Wuhan, and he also invites Shaochuan to go to Shanghai to discuss peace." ”

After thinking about this mentions, Tang Shaoyi thought about it expressionlessly and said: "It is true that Wu Tingfang is the foreign minister of the provisional government, but it seems that it is Li Songqing and Fang Fuguo who are fighting with the Beiyang Army at the moment. Ask a question that I don't like, can Wu Tingfang be their master? This sentence was a bit ugly, Wang Zhengting looked embarrassed and couldn't answer.

After nothing to say, Wang Zhengting got up and said goodbye. Tang Shaoyi was still very polite to send out the door, with a sneer on the corner of his mouth, watching Wang Zhengting staggering away.

Early the next morning, Tang Shaoyi led a regiment across the river and saw the unique green military uniform of the Anhui Army for the first time when he entered Hanyang. Looking at the neat and well-equipped soldiers of the Anhui Revolutionary Army, everyone looked at the delegation with confidence and even a little disdain.

While passing through Hanyang, a little episode occurred. The Anhui army demanded that they take over the responsibility of escorting the delegation. It was Gui Danqi, the commander-in-chief of Hanyang, who came forward to say this. In this regard, the accompanying Beiyang Army was very angry and argued with it. Gui Danqi insisted on this, and finally Tang Shaoyi compromised. This incident made Tang Shaoyi see the strong side of the Anhui Revolutionary Army.

Crossing the river from Hanyang, Tang Shaoyi saw the corresponding Li Yuanhong and the welcoming team on the shore from a distance. (。 If you like this work, () vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. )