After the news of Shanghai's liberation reached Zhejiang on the night of November 3 and the next day, the military and the people of Hangzhou were so excited that the revolutionaries immediately decided to launch an uprising at 12 o'clock that day and night, and separately and urgently notified the revolutionary comrades in various units.

Due to the protracted mobilization of the Liberation Society in Zhejiang, the revolutionary mass grassroots level is relatively good, and in addition to the large number of operations and activities of the Iron and Blood National Salvation Party, the revolutionary forces have penetrated deep into the army, industry and commerce, educational circles, and the party. Even the students of the patrol battalion, the guard of the Fu Bureau, the gendarmerie battalion, and the army elementary school were mostly in favor of the revolution.

According to the plan, the slogan of the uprising was "independence", and all soldiers and other personnel of the participating New Army were to wear a white cloth on their left arm, with Cai Guodong, the commander of the 21st Town, as the commander-in-chief of the uprising, and the 21st Town Headquarters as the headquarters of the uprising.

On the night of November 4th, Cai Guodong summoned all the officers and soldiers in the town, declared an uprising, and distributed sufficient ammunition, Xiao Xingyuan and others of the 41st Association learned that Cai Guodong launched an uprising and fled in a hurry, Cai Guodong immediately ordered Cai Chengxun, an officer who saved the country with iron and blood, to take over the position of the 41st Association Commander, and ordered Zhou Chengyan, the 81st Standard Commander, to lead his troops from Nanxing Bridge to Hangzhou City, and ordered Han Zhaoji, the 82nd Standard Commander, to lead his troops from Jianqiao and advance to Hangzhou. He also ordered Zhou Chuandong, the commander of the 42nd Association, to lead his troops to march separately to other parts of Zhejiang and seize power as quickly as possible.

The officers and men of the engineering battalion and the gendarmerie brigade stationed in the city quickly opened the Genshan Gate and the Wangjiangmen New City Gate to welcome the 81st and 82nd Bid Uprising.

Eighty-one Biao received Cai Guodong's order soon after entering the city, and immediately ordered the second battalion to occupy Wulin Gate, Qiantang Gate, Yongjin Gate, Downtown Entrance, Guanxiangkou, Zhong'an Bridge and other places along the main road leading from the downtown entrance to Wulin Gate, and surrounded the Qing Bingqi Battalion. The third battalion quickly rushed to the Ordnance Bureau located at Baoguo Temple. An attack was launched against the Ordnance Bureau, but the Qing patrol battalion stationed at the Ordnance Bureau surrendered without resistance. After the three battalions occupied the Ordnance Bureau, they immediately divided their troops and launched an attack on the Qing Banner Battalion.

After the soldiers of the 82nd Biao Uprising entered the city from the new city gate of Wangjiangmen. The third battalion led the officers and men of the whole battalion under the guidance of the revolutionary Gu Naibin to attack the governor's yamen, and the first and second battalions occupied the weaving department, the feudal domain, the provincial yamen, and the banks of Daqing and Zhejiang. Defend all parts of the southern part of the city. Zhang Boqi, a revolutionary, and Jiang Zhiqing, a member of the League, led a death squad to cooperate with the 3rd Battalion of rebels to attack the Fu Bureau. Since Cai Guodong presided over the overall situation in the new army, the Alliance, the Liberation Society, and others did not have much power in the new army, and they could only organize this death squad of more than 100 people by relying on some members of the party who had been recruited from all over the country.

At this time, the revolutionary Wang Jinfa also led the death squad to participate in the battle. Wang Jinfa and Zhang Boqi took the lead, broke into the guard room of the Fu Bureau, killed the captain of the guard, and then threw a signal flare to send out an attack signal. In the process of attacking the Fuya. Only the Guards instructor fired a machine gun and blocked the attack, but was immediately taken away by the Guards soldiers. The rebel soldiers stormed the second hall of the Fu Office. Zhefu Zengyun escaped over the back wall, but was soon captured by the soldiers of the 82nd Banner Uprising. Wang Jinfa commanded the death squad to burn down the Fu Office, but was stopped by the new officers and soldiers of the uprising.

Jiang Zhiqing wanted to go through the crime of Zengyun in public, and he wanted to correct Zengyun on the spot to boost the morale of the army and deter other resisting Qing troops, just when he was about to kill Zengyun. Cai Guodong, the commander-in-chief of the rebel army, rode a tall horse and rushed over to stop the execution under the escort of the guard battalion.

"Stop, keep people under the knife!" Cai Guodong let out a loud shout and jumped off the war horse and walked towards the governor's yamen.

The executioner stopped cutting off his head, and Jiang Zhiqing stepped forward with his face and said, "Commander-in-chief." Why don't you kill Zeng Yun? After killing him, the morale of the Qing troops who resist everywhere will plummet, which will help us to quickly occupy all places! ”

Cai Guodong raised his hand to stop him from continuing, and walked over to help Zeng Yun up. Uncovered the rope that bound him and said, "Your Excellency has been wronged, please go and rest for a while." I'll take care of this side and go over, someone. Help the governor to go in and rest! ”

Zeng Yun, who was extremely wolf, glanced at Cai Guodong gratefully, and soon several soldiers came over to take Zeng Yun away. Cai Guodong then turned to Jiang Zhiqing and said: "I know that what Comrade Jiang of the League just said has a certain truth, killing him can certainly make us recover all parts of Zhejiang faster, but it also increases the obstacles to building our hometown after the recovery. How many of China's 40,000,000 people are literate? How many people understand the truth of the revolution? In our China, the literate scholar class still occupies the vast majority of intellectuals, and the minds of these people have not turned a corner for a while, and we need us to propagate the revolutionary truth to them, so that they can follow us to stand up and revolutionize, so that we can catch up with the great powers in China faster, and Zeng Yun is the representative of these intellectuals, and persuade him to join us, which has an important role and significance for our revolutionary cause, I hope you will think about it, What is the purpose of the revolution when we pin our heads to the waistbands of our trousers? Is it just about killing? Does killing solve the problem? Revolution is not just about destruction, it's about construction! The ultimate goal of our revolution is to build a brand-new and powerful country, so that the broad masses of the people can have enough food and clothing, have a surplus at home, and live a happy life, so that we will no longer be oppressed, exploited, or bullied by foreign powers, so that China will stand tall among the world's great powers! ”

Cai Guodong's words entered the hearts of all the rebel soldiers, and they had never heard such an inspiring truth, and these words pointed out the direction of the revolution for everyone and gave them full motivation. Even Jiang Zhiqing, the backbone of the alliance and the liberation, couldn't help but burst into tears.

"Well said!"

"That's so good, I feel like I've opened a door in my heart!"

At dawn on the second day, except for the Hubin Banner Camp where the flag soldiers were stationed, the whole city of Hangzhou was occupied by the rebel soldiers. In the streets and alleys of the city, white flags are displayed, and security is as usual. After Cai Guodong discussed with Zeng Yunzhi, he asked Zeng Yun to send a letter to the Hangzhou general Deji, asking him to descend quickly to avoid his death. After receiving the letter, Deji was so angry that he scolded Zeng Yun for being disloyal and unfilial, and refused to surrender. Therefore, Zhang Guowei, commander of the 81st Standard Artillery Battalion, led the artillery team to Wushan, set up artillery to bombard the flag battalion, and hit the general's yamen. Zhou Chenghua, the commander of the 81st standard, came forward to accept Guilin's request, and in the evening of the same day, sent troops to search the flag camp and collect the guns. At this point, the whole city of Hangzhou was declared recovered.

After the liberation of Hangzhou, Cai Guodong sent people to contact the League of Citizens in the city, the Liberation Society, the Constitutionalists and representatives of the industrial and commercial gentlemen to the governor's yamen to discuss the establishment of a military government.

After discussions with various parties, it was proposed to establish the Zhejiang Military Government, and Tang Shouqian, a well-known industrialist, political activist, and leader of the constitutionalist faction, was elected as the governor of the Zhejiang Military Government, Cai Guodong was elected as the deputy governor and concurrently served as the minister of military affairs, Chu Fu became the minister of political affairs, Wang Manfeng became the minister of civil affairs, Gao Zibai served as the minister of finance, Tang Erhe served as the minister of foreign affairs, Fu Xiuling served as the minister of transportation, and Chen Liangqing served as the chief of general affairs. The other revolutionary organizations had their own appointments, but a few key positions were held by members of the Iron and Blood Salvation Party.

After the establishment of the Zhejiang Military Government, it immediately sent a message to all the provinces of the province to be attached, and under the oppression of the revolutionary army, the provinces changed the Yellow Dragon Banner at the head of the city one after another, and replaced it with the republican flag.

Under the instructions of Xiao Zhenlei, Cai Guodong reorganized the Zhejiang Army into two armies with four divisions, an independent division and a mixed brigade, the first army was reorganized by Cai Chengxun as the commander, Luo Shan as the chief of staff, Han Debiao as the political commissioner, the whole army had a total of 29,000 people and 800 people, under the jurisdiction of the first division and the second division, of which 81 standards were reorganized into the first division of Zhejiang, with Zhou Chengyan as the division commander, Lu Changjin as the chief of staff and director of the political department, and the eighty-two standards were reorganized into the second division of Zhejiang, with Han Zhaoji as the division commander. Lu Kaifang served as chief of staff and director of the political department.

The Second Army was headed by Zhou Chuandong as the commander, Gu Shidong as the chief of staff, Liu Haijiang as the political commissioner, the whole army of 31,000 people, under the jurisdiction of the third division and the fourth division, the eighty-third standard was reorganized into the third division of Zhejiang, by Dong Keqiang as the division commander, Song Zhenghe as the chief of staff and director of the political department, the eighty-fourth standard was reorganized into the fourth division, with Huang Yingjie as the division commander, Yang Yuanliang as the chief of staff and director of the political department.

The Fifth Independent Division was directly under the command of the Ministry of Military Affairs and was reorganized from the former 21st Town Guard Standard, with division commander Sun Mingliang and chief of staff Qian Weixue and director of the Political Affairs Department, with a total of 12,800 men. It has three infantry regiments, an artillery regiment, a barracks battalion, a baggage battalion, a reconnaissance battalion, and a cavalry battalion.

The Zhejiang Army Mixed Association was adapted from the original patrol battalions of various parts of Zhejiang Province and the captured patrol battalions, with Lin Chengyong as the brigade commander and Xie Jianming as the chief of staff and director of the political department, under the jurisdiction of two infantry regiments, an artillery battalion, a baggage battalion, and an engineer battalion, each regiment has three infantry battalions, and the whole brigade has more than 7,200 officers and soldiers. The five main divisions are completely incomparable.

Now these armies are being reorganized, and the total strength of the five main divisions and a mixed association has reached a total of 81,000 troops, but now there are only more than 26,000 troops, that is to say, there is still a shortage of more than 50,000 people, and these people need to be recruited in various parts of the province.

In less than half a month, more than 30,000 people were recruited, of which the Second Army was the first to be replenished for reorganization, because the Second Army wanted to go north to form a Jiangsu-Zhejiang coalition army with Shanghai, Jiangsu, and the Ninth Town of Nanyang to attack Jiangning, so the Second Army was the first to form an army. (To be continued......) R1292