After the recovery of Nanjing, because it was Lin Shuqing of the League who led his troops to attack Nanjing first, he did not wait for other troops to enter the city and appointed himself as the governor of Jiangning and took over the power.

After Xiao Zhenlei led his troops into the city, he immediately ordered the suppression of the lawbreakers who took advantage of the fire to rob and arrested a group of people, for this reason, Lin Shuqing thought that Xiao Zhenlei was deliberately targeting him, and was extremely dissatisfied with him, plus he was at odds with other members of the League and the Guangfu Society in Zhenjiang, and was in an isolated situation among the ** party. Within two days, he asked Xiao Zhenlei, commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, to order the Northern Expedition of the Du River.

Xiao Zhenlei had already decided on the Northern Expedition to cross the river, and before the conclusion of the north-south negotiations, he would grab as much territory as he could, and he would never spit it out.

After Xiao Zhenlei led his troops into the city, he took over the power while sending people to stabilize the market, issue a notice to reassure the people, and at the same time send people to recruit troops to supplement the troops that were not yet in charge of the various ministries.

After the recovery of Nanjing, there can be no political power to stabilize the market, but Lin Shuqing was the first to appoint himself as the governor of Jiangning, but no one bought his account, and finally after many mediations, Lin Shuqing voluntarily gave up the position of governor of Jiangning and served as the commander-in-chief of the Northern Expeditionary Army Linhuai, and the governor of Jiangning was temporarily replaced by Xiao Zhenlei.

After the recovery of Nanjing, the war was not over, Zhang Xun and others were still entrenched in Xuzhou, Xiao Zhenlei was ready to lead the army to the Northern Expedition after handling Nanjing's affairs, and let Xu Shaozhen lead a group to stay in Nanjing and receive representatives of various provinces.

Originally, after the liberation of Shanghai, Chen Qimei sent a telegram inviting representatives from various provinces to gather in Shanghai to discuss the establishment of a provisional government, and also sent a telegram to Li Yuanhong, the governor of the Hubei Military Government, to send representatives to Shanghai to participate. Since Wuchang is the first place of righteousness, it should be respected, and the representatives of various provinces have built Wuchang as the seat of the provisional government of the Republic of China, and before the provisional government was formally established, Li Dai was elected to serve as the provisional president, and Wu Tingfang was invited to be the diplomatic representative of the provisional government.

However, the Hubei Military Government insisted that the congress must be held in Wuchang, and the delegates from all provinces in Shanghai decided to send one more person to Wuchang after deliberations, and one person to stay in charge of liaison matters.

On November 30, representatives of the 11 provinces of the ** army, which had declared independence, gathered in Shunchang Yangxing, the British Concession in Hankou, to hold the first meeting of representatives of the first army provinces, and the meeting publicly elected Tan Renfeng, a representative of Hunan, as the speaker.

On December 2, some of the deputies proposed to temporarily vacate the provisional presidency, and if Yuan Shikai agreed to build a republic, Yuan Shikai would be elected interim president after Yuan Shikai was anyway.

On the 3rd, the delegates of the provinces continued their meeting, and in one day they passed the "Outline of the Organization of the Provisional Government", and at the same time, the news of the liberation of Nanjing came, and the delegates of the provinces were elated and decided to take Nanjing as the seat of the provisional government, so the delegates of the provinces moved to Nanjing one after another to hold the meeting.

On 5 December, the congress received a notice from the Qing government that the Qing court had sent Tang Shaoyi as plenipotentiary to Hankou to negotiate with Li Yuanhong on the issue of peace talks between the north and the south.

At this time, Xiao Zhenlei had already led his troops north, and Nanjing was left behind by Xu Shaozhen and assisted by Song Shijie. On the way to the march, he received a telegram from Song Shijie, which said that Sun Wen had already set off from the United States to return to China after hearing the news of the success of the Wuchang uprising, and was now on his way, and Sun Wen's ship would dock in Hong Kong.

After receiving the telegram, Xiao Zhenlei sent a telegram to the navy, asking Sa Zhenbing to send a naval ship to Hong Kong to welcome Sun Wen to Nanjing to discuss the formation of a provisional government. After receiving the order, Sa Zhenbing immediately sent a warship to it.

After Xiao Zhenlei led his troops across the Yangtze River and the Northern Expedition, Chen Qimei of the League discussed with Cheng Dequan, the governor of Jiangsu, Tang Qianshou, the governor of Zhejiang, and the representatives of the provinces in Shanghai to decide that Nanjing was the seat of the provisional government, and elected Huang Xing as the provisional generalissimo and Li Yuanhong as the temporary Fu marshal.

When the provincial delegates in Hankow heard the news, most of them objected, believing that the delegates had violated the resolution of the 24 November joint meeting of the deputies, which decided that the delegates should only be responsible for liaison and had no power to organize the government, and that the election should be null and void.

At the same time, members of the Wuchang ** Party raised objections in private, unwilling to allow Huang Xing to take the name of the generalissimo. The reason is that after the fall of Hanyang, Huang Xing advocated the abandonment of Wuchang, but Sun Wu, the military minister of the military government, and others resolutely opposed it. As a result, Huang Xing became a loner at that meeting, and everyone objected to his opinion of abandoning Wuchang. Because of this suspicion, whether Huang Xing can represent the ** party in power has indeed become a question, Huang Xing himself is also a little discouraged, he listened to the opinions of the Wuchang deputies, and resigned as generalissimo.

As a result, the provincial deputies had no choice but to reconvene the meeting and appoint Li Yuanhong as the chief marshal and Huang Xing as the deputy marshal. At that time, Li Yuanhong himself was still in the north, and he could not come to Nanjing for a while, so the election of the generalissimo was put on hold.

Chen Yingshi held a negative opinion on this, saying: "The deputies do not stay in Shanghai and go to Hubei, and their powers are completely equal. If you have no news from you, how can you see that Shanghai cannot exercise its legitimate power? He urged Huang Xing to come out and take on this responsibility.

In mid-December 1911, representatives of the 15 provinces that had declared independence, namely Lianghu, Liangguang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Fengtian, went to Nanjing.

Then, news came that Tang Shaoyi had said in Hankou: "Yuan Shikai is not against the republic. As a result, many deputies wavered on the issue of electing an interim president.

At the meeting of deputies on 16 December, it was moved that the provisional president should not be elected for the time being, in accordance with the decision of the Hankow meeting on 2 December, pending the return of Yuan Shikai anyway. However, it was also suggested that a provisional military government should be established to act as a provisional authority during the transitional period, and the question of the generalissimo was brought back to the table.

Since Sun Wen was still on his way back to China at this time, the provincial delegates could not wait, and they demanded that the election be held immediately. After the question of organizing the military government was decided, many people hoped that Huang Xing would go to Nanjing to organize the military government as soon as possible, and because he received a telegram from Xiao Zhenlei and learned that Xiao Zhenlei had sent a ship to Hong Kong to meet him, Huang Xing decided to stay in Shanghai to prepare to meet Sun Wen, and then go to Nanjing with Sun Wen.

The Qing court has not yet fallen, ** has just appeared a glimmer of light, ** the party is fighting each other for power, Xiao Zhenlei has long seen these in his eyes, he is too lazy to care about these dirty things, and tells the people of the Iron and Blood Salvation Party to grasp the financial power and control the army, no matter how the ** party is in trouble, he is too lazy to care, as long as it does not infringe on the interests of the Iron and Blood Salvation Party.

Since Zhang Xun retreated from Nanjing, he retreated all the way to Xuzhou, south of Xuzhou, there were basically not many Qing troops in the area north of the Yangtze River, along the way Xiao Zhenlei led the six divisions of the Northern Expeditionary Army, a total of more than 60,000 people, all the prefectures and counties have surrendered, Xiao Zhenlei while collecting the surrendered Qing army patrol battalion, while sending people to take over the local power.

On December 18th, Xiao Zhenlei has led his troops to Xuzhou City, Xuzhou is a military town in the north of Jiangsu, located in the northwest of Jiangsu Province, the southeast of the North China Plain, Jiangsu, Shandong, Henan, Anhui Province bordering areas, the north wing of the Yangtze River Delta, the north of Weishan Lake, the west of Xiao County, the east of Lianyungang, the south of Suqian, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal passes through it, Longhai, Beijing-Shanghai two major railway trunk lines converge in Xuzhou, known as the "thoroughfare of the five provinces", so this is also the place of the four wars, occupy here to attack and retreat can be defended.

The next day, Xiao Zhenlei immediately ordered his troops to launch a fierce attack on Xuzhou City. In order to capture Xuzhou as much as possible, Xiao Zhenlei mobilized two divisions of Wu Shiyou's Jiangsu Second Army this time, and after the training of these two divisions was completed, they were fully manned, and their weapons and equipment were excellent, and after supplementing a large number of mountain artillery and large-caliber field howitzers, they were already on a par with the world powers in terms of firepower.

The combat effectiveness of the Jiangsu Second Army was much stronger than that of other local units participating in the Northern Expedition, and the individual soldiers and combat cooperation, as well as the command level of the officers, far surpassed those of other armies. On the first day of the battle, due to the fierce artillery fire and fierce attack of the attacking troops, Xuzhou, where Zhang Xun was stationed, soon lost all the defensive positions outside the city, and the remnants of the horses had to retreat to the city to use the city wall as a defense.

That night, at the military operations meeting, the division commanders, brigades, and regiment commanders were there, Xiao Zhenlei said: "Now Zhang Xun's department has been cowering in the city, in order to prevent it from stubbornly resisting to the end, I intend to encircle three missing one, from the north gate frontal attack, the east and west gates of the back attack, forcing Zhang Xun to abandon Xuzhou and continue to flee north, in this way, our army can quickly occupy Xuzhou, but also minimize casualties, I have transferred the independent cavalry brigade of the first army, once Zhang Xun abandoned the city and fled, the cavalry brigade immediately pursued along the way, eliminating Zhang Xun's living force, Tomorrow morning, after eating in the morning, we will attack and attack the city, the west gate is in charge of the first division of the Jiangxi army, He Qi's department, and the east gate is in charge of the fourth division of the Shanghai army, Li Yingshi's department. ”

The Huang Ying Department and Jiang Zhiqing of the Shanghai Army have not fought for several days, and they have been following the butt of the army all the way to pick up cheap, which makes many people in the army look down on them, Huang Yin and Jiang Zhiqing and others consciously can't raise their heads, in order to add a little bit of success to themselves and others, after Xiao Zhenlei asked, Huang Ying, the commander of the Fifth Division of the Shanghai Army (Zhang has been transferred to Wuchang, and the division commander is taken over by Huang Yin), immediately stood up and said: "Commander-in-chief, these days, the Fifth Division of our Shanghai Army has not fought a single battle, and the soldiers have been suffocated, and they are all clamoring for me to ask the commander-in-chief for battle, Please Commander-in-Chief let the Fifth Division of our Shanghai Army attack the North Gate! ”

Xiao Zhenlei muttered for a moment and agreed: "Okay, then the Fifth Division of the Shanghai Army will be responsible for the main attack task of the North Gate tomorrow, and order: The whole army will have dinner at six o'clock tomorrow at dawn, and all the artillery and artillery of the whole army will be hit, and at eight o'clock the order will all the artillery hit the fire to bombard the north city wall and city gate of Xuzhou, and after opening a gap for me, the Fifth Division of the Shanghai Army will attack again!" ”

All the officers stood up and shouted in agreement: "Yes! ”

At dawn on December 20, the Northern Expeditionary Army immediately began to prepare for the attack after breakfast, all the artillery was concentrated, the Second Army of Jiangsu originally had an artillery brigade, plus other troops came more or less this time with a few guns, the total number of zero and zero added up to more than 120 cannons, including 36 large-caliber field howitzers of more than 120 mm, so many artillery guns were fired at the same time, Xuzhou was defended by the Qing army on the city wall was suddenly wiped out.

After the shelling lasted for more than half an hour, a section of the city wall collapsed violently, and a gap more than 20 meters wide appeared. ”

"Yes!" Huang Yan agreed, and immediately ordered the Fifth Division of the Shanghai Army to start attacking.

The Fifth Division of the Shanghai Army was formed on the basis of the children of the Qing Gang, most of whom were gang members and had not undergone military training, and the new recruits were all local gangsters and ruffians, and their combat effectiveness was simply weak, and many people joined in to fish in troubled waters. It is a miracle that such a unit can be pulled into the battlefield to fight.

The Fifth Division of the Shanghai Army is not very well equipped, most of them are still holding broadswords and spears, only a few have guns, under the command of Jiang Zhiqing and others, this army launched an attack in the direction of the gap in the city wall, but the forward just rushed to the gap, the Qing soldiers in the city arrived, and the two sides immediately met at the gap position and started to fight.

Zhang Xun under the Qing army there were a lot of fierce generals, Jiang Zhiqing and others commanded those ruffians and hooligans where are those Qing army opponents, just contacted, after dozens of dead and wounded immediately collapsed, many people turned around and ran back, the people behind are impacting, the people in front of the person turned around and just hit a positive arms, the team was in chaos for a while, the Qing army immediately rushed out from the gap to chase and kill, the fifth division was immediately killed crying dad and mother, and fled one after another.

Jiang Zhiqing, Liu Fubiao and others shot several fleeing soldiers in succession but did not stabilize the troops, but their guards were scattered by the rout, and they had no choice but to flee back with the troops, but fortunately, the Qing army chased out a section and killed some of the routs before retreating into the city, and built fortifications behind the gap.

In the command headquarters, Xiao Zhenlei put down the binoculars, looked at Huang Yin with a pale face, and said coldly: "Division Commander Huang, this is your Fifth Division of the Shanghai Army?" Are they at war? Yes? Fortunately, the Qing army was worried that they would not be able to retreat after chasing out, so they did not follow and kill, if they did not care about the pursuit and killing, I am afraid that the command of I, the commander-in-chief of the coalition army, would also have to flee with those routs! ”

Huang Yin was reprimanded by Xiao Zhenlei for a while, his already ugly face instantly turned red, and he was extremely annoyed by the uncompetitive behavior of his subordinates, he gritted his teeth and said: "Commander-in-chief, please give me a chance to reorganize my troops and attack again!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei turned around and said, "Can you do it?" If it doesn't work, you can say it earlier, and I will change people immediately."

Huang Yan was in an extremely embarrassed, ashamed, and embarrassed situation, and didn't know that this was Xiao Zhenlei's radical method, so he opened his mouth and said: "Commander-in-chief, this time I will personally lead the team to attack, if you can't rush into the city within a day, I will come to see you!" ”R1152