Chapter 299: The uprising failed

On March 22, 1911, the Iron and Blood Salvation Society issued a statement in the major newspapers, changing the name of the Iron and Blood Salvation Society to the Iron and Blood National Salvation Party, establishing the Central Organizational Committee and the Standing Committee of the Central Organization, and at the same time adjusting the internal structure of the organization, the adjusted organizational structure will be divided according to various administrative levels, the highest decision-making authority is the Central Organization Committee of the Iron and Blood National Salvation Party, and the Standing Committee is the daily acting functional body of the Central Organizational Committee, under which there are a number of directly subordinate organs, and then the provincial organizational committees, the former members of the provincial organizations, counties, towns, and villages are in descending order, and the organizational organs at the next level are responsible to the organizational organs at the next higher level, and the organizational organs at the next higher level have absolute leadership over the organizational organs at the next level.

After this statement was announced, it marked that the Iron and Blood National Salvation Party officially entered the political stage, public opinion turned sideways, and the domestic situation became more complicated, which also made the Qing court feel like a great enemy, and the Qing court spies poured out. But it didn't take long for another major event to attract the nation's attention.

On April 27, the Canton Uprising broke out, leaving the Qing court with no time to care about the Iron Salvation Party. Originally, in November last year, Sun Wen convened a meeting of Zhao Sheng, Huang Xing, Hu Hanmin, Deng Zeru and other important backbones of the Chinese League in Penang, the Malay Peninsula, and decided to gather the elites of the League to prepare for an uprising in Guangzhou. In January of this year, Huang Xing, Zhao Sheng, Hu Hanmin, and others set up a coordination department in Hong Kong for the leading organ of the uprising, and planned the uprising in Hong Kong. At the same time, 38 secret liaison organs were set up in Guangzhou to spy on the enemy's situation and transfer arms. Prepare for the uprising.

It was not until April, a little more than three months later, that preparations for the uprising were largely completed. April 8th. Huang Xing and others held a meeting of the coordination department and decided to set the time for the uprising on April 13. It was planned to attack Guangzhou with a ten-way army: the first route was to attack the sailor Xingtai by a group of men and horses developed by Zhao Sheng from the comrades brought from the ninth town of the New Army, and the second route was to lead the comrades of Nanyang and Fujian to attack the Supervision Office under Huang Xing; Chen Jiongming, the backbone of the Third Route Alliance in Guangzhou and a member of the Advisory Bureau, led Dongjiang athletes to block the Manchurian boundary; The fourth route, Zhu Zhixin, the backbone of the Guangzhou Alliance, led the Shunde team to guard the flag boundary; Xu Weiyang, the head of the Fanhua branch of the Fifth Route Alliance, led the Beijiang death team to attack the supervision office; The sixth route is Huang Xiayi led the Dongguan team members to patrol the police road; The seventh route is led by Mo Jipeng to respond to the two teams of Xu Weiyang and Huang Xiayi; The eighth route was led by Yao Yuping and the army responded; The ninth route sent a team to attack and defend separately at Hongcheng Point; The tenth route was led by Liu Gushan to attack and defend separately.

However, at this time, there was an accident, in the uprising, there was a Nanyang overseas Chinese named Wen Shengcai, who did not listen to the order, acted on his own, and acted alone on the day of the meeting of the coordination committee on April 8, shot the Guangzhou general Fu Qi, and was arrested on the spot, and then this person confessed to Wu Jing, who was transporting explosives from Hong Kong to Guangzhou. The Qing government strengthened martial law precautions and searched the whole city for revolutionaries, and Huang Xing and others immediately carried out evacuation and aftermath work after receiving the news, and the original date of the uprising was also forced to be postponed.

On April 23, Huang Xing and others set up the former enemy headquarters of the uprising at No. 5, Xiaodongying, Yuehua Street, near the Liangguang Governor's Office. He stayed in the Hong Kong Coordination Department as the commander-in-chief, while Huang Xing served as the deputy commander-in-chief and went to the front to command, changing the original ten-way offensive plan to a four-way, and Huang Xing led all the way to attack the governor's yamen; Yao Yuping led the army to attack the small north gate; Chen Jiongming led the team to attack the patrol police training center; Hu Yisheng led the team to guard the south gate.

April 27 at half past five in the afternoon. Huang Xing led 200 daredevils to attack the Yamen of the Governor of Liangguang and Guangzhou, the Xiaobeimen, the Patrol Police Training Institute and the Shounan Gate in four directions. Huang Xing was the first to attack, firing three bullets in succession, and led his team to attack the governor's yamen. It was determined to capture Zhang Mingqi, the governor of Liangguang, alive and force him to order the Qing army of Liangguang to reverse. Unexpectedly, Zhang Mingqi escaped over the wall under the protection of the guards. And quickly rushed to the sailor Xingtai to obtain the command of the Qing army, due to the large number of Qing troops. The uprising contingent was not answered, and some of the new troops and patrol battalions of the Qing government, which had been preparing to respond to the uprising and were the main force of the rebel army, were not taken part in the uprising because they had their weapons confiscated by the Qing government before the uprising, or because they could not be contacted; some of them had misunderstandings because they did not wrap the white cloth as a symbol around their arms during the uprising, and Zhang Mingqi, the governor of Liangguang, had been alert in advance. In addition, Zhou Laisu, a member of the alliance who transported weapons, was afraid of customs inspection, so he went so far as to throw all the more than 70 sophisticated rifles that he had purchased from Japan into the coastal sea, resulting in a shortage of weapons and ammunition. The situation was so grim that most comrades advocated the postponement of the uprising, and among them were cowards who retreated from the battle, such as Hu Yisheng and Yao Yuping. The will to revolt of the people who received the three roads was not strong enough, and they evaded for some reason, resulting in no one leading the three-way selection team, and the soldiers of the three roads could not receive weapons in time and failed to participate in the battle in time, so in fact, only Huang Xing attacked the Qing army, and later the other three-way leaders Chen Jiongming, Hu Yisheng and Yao Yuping still came with the team, but they were not able to respond and support each other in time, although the teams and the Qing army launched fierce street battles, attacked each other all night, but they all failed, Huang Xing was hit by a bullet in this battle, and his two fingers were cut off. Zhao Sheng and Hu Hanmin did not receive the combat weapons in time, so they set off with 200 members of the Xuanfeng team on the 29th, and arrived outside Guangzhou in the early morning of the 30th. In the end, Pan Dawei, a member of the League, took the risk of stepping forward, and in his public capacity as a reporter of the "Civilian Daily", organized more than 100 corpse collectors on May 3 to collect the bones of 72 martyrs who were scattered and decomposed. Sun Wen and others, who were collecting funds for the uprising in San Francisco, USA, were devastated after learning the news that the uprising had failed and that the backbone had been killed.

Although the uprising failed, it was of great significance and hastened the arrival of the national revolutionary upsurge.

After the uprising broke out, major newspapers across the country rushed to report the details, and some ridiculed Huang Xing as a "often defeated general" who had been defeated repeatedly; Some people also say that Huang Xing is a hero who gets on the horse to kill thieves and dismounts the grass; There are also people who say that Huang Xing is just a half-hung military strategist, since he was in charge of the military center, he has almost no service, no service, no defeat, so he eats too much defeat, doesn't he feel ashamed himself?

Xiao Zhenlei saw the ridicule of these people in the newspaper, and his heart was quite angry, and in his capacity as the secretary general of the iron-blooded National Salvation Party, he published an article in the newspaper under the pseudonym of Shuguang, which said that at the beginning of the uprising, Huang Xing knew that this battle could not be done, but he was forced to do it as a last resort because of the continuity of the revolution. These people who ridiculed Huang Xing didn't want to think about what kind of weapons Huang Xing was holding to fight against the Qing army, it was tantamount to fighting a tiger with bare hands, such uprisings again and again, every time it was equivalent to playing with his life, just one time was enough to be admired. After Huang Xing saw Xiao Zhenlei's article, he felt quite a confidant of Xiao Zhenlei, and specially commissioned Song Jiaoren to send a letter with sincere words. Xiao Zhenlei received the letter and immediately wrote a letter back to Song Jiaoren, in which he expressed his hope to meet with Huang Xing. Huang Xing said that he was also very willing to meet Xiao Zhenlei and would do his best to arrange time and itinerary.

However, it was said that Feng Ru had just returned to China from the United States, and after a month of quiet life with his parents, he announced to the outside world that he was going to conduct an air show in the suburbs of Guangzhou, which made the Chinese people very excited at that time, but the Guangzhou Uprising broke out before his air show was held.

As the climax of the revolution was approaching, the Qing government suspected that Feng Ru had something to do with the revolutionary party, and became more and more uneasy about him, they not only canceled Feng Ru's air show plan, but also sent people to monitor Feng Ru's actions and life, the mediocrity and corruption of the reactionary government made Feng Ru very disappointed, he often looked up to the sky and roared, deeply feeling that he was born at the wrong time and had no way to serve the country.

On this day, he sighed at home, and his assistant Zhu Zhuquan came in and said, "Sir, Mr. Zheng is visiting!" ”

"Mr. Zheng? Which Mr. Zheng? Feng Ru was a little surprised, feeling as if she didn't know the gentleman surnamed Zheng.

Zhu Zhuquan said: "It's the Mr. Zheng we asked to see when we came back to Hong Kong for accommodation more than a month ago, the person sent by Xiao Zhenlei of Zhenhua Company!" ”

Feng Ru frowned and said, "Is it him?" So let him in, and I will reject him to his face, and reject his thoughts, lest he come again in the future and be seen by those who are watching. ”

"Yes, sir!"

Soon the gentleman surnamed Zheng was brought in by Zhu Zhuquan, and Feng Ru asked, "Why did the gentleman come again?" Didn't you make it clear to your husband last time? ”

The gentleman surnamed Zheng smiled: "Mr. Feng, this time I am here to save you!" ”

"Help me? I am not sick, there is no disaster, why do I want you to save me? ”

The young man surnamed Zheng took off his politeness and said: "The Qing court already suspects that Mr. is having an affair with the revolutionary party, and now there are spies from the Qing court outside day and night, is it very comfortable for Mr. to live here?" For him, researching airplanes and building more powerful airplanes is his life's goal, and now that you are trapped here, can you accomplish this goal? Time is running out, the planes of the Americans have already taken off and landed on cruisers, and now the great powers and countries have seen the great strategic value of the aircraft, and they are all vigorously developing them, and our country is already lagging behind the great powers in terms of army and navy, and the air force is the only branch of the armed forces that has the opportunity to be on the same running line with the great powers! (To be continued......) R1292