Chapter 141: Two Heroes Fight for the Southwest (2)

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February 1, 1912, Kunming ().

At this time, the north is still covered in silver, but Kunming does not feel a trace of cold, the green trees and new willows on the shore of Dianchi Lake are swaying, and the herons and birds that come to winter are chirping noisily, which makes Tang Jiyao irritable to hear, beckoning and just wanted to take a rifle from the hands of the guards to drive two away, but was stopped by Cai Yi, and said with a smile: "What happened to Bei Geng (Tang Jiyao's character) today?" I don't usually see you so impatient (). ”

Huang Yuying took the lead and smiled: "I think it's because I'm hungry and want to get a few wild games to try." ”

Liu Cunhou next to him knew his thoughts, and said: "Governor, it's not that I said you, if you don't enter Sichuan, why don't you enter Guizhou?" Now there is a mess over there, and even the Brotherhood is fighting back and forth without stopping, so it still looks a bit revolutionary. ”

Seeing that Tang Jiyao and Liu Cunhou both began to talk about Guizhou, Huang Yuying chose to keep his mouth shut, although someone nominated him to be the governor after Chongjiu, but in fact, he knew that Cai Ye had to sit firmly as the governor of Yunnan, and the reason was because of these two people, he couldn't hold it back! So he was willing to become a staff officer of the Yunnan army. Tang Jiyao naturally looked down on him now, and took the opportunity to say: "Yes, if we continue to make trouble like this, sooner or later it will cause disaster to us in Yunnan, so in my opinion, it is better to take precautions as soon as possible." ”

Cai Yi looked at the two of them meaningfully, and replied, "How is Nanjing now?" ”

Seeing that Cai Yi didn't answer again, Tang Jiyao was a little annoyed, but now Yunnan is not in charge, Cai Songpo has a great reputation, and even the top leaders in the party must rely on him to stabilize the southwest, so he can only sprinkle all his anger on Nanjing Zhengfu, and hatefully said: "It's not like that!" In order to win over Yang Qiu, not only did he agree to the position of the patrol envoy of the three provinces, but he actually shot Sun Wu and Zhang Zhenwu, the heroes of the first righteousness! It's really sick in the head, doesn't this chill everyone's hearts?! also forced Tang Hualong and his younger brother Tang Qianming to go overseas, and gave him the sailors of Shanghai for nothing. That's not all, Li Bodhisattva was transferred to Nanjing again! Now he has taken Hubei but is not satisfied, and he has come up with tax reform and free education to win the hearts of the people in Hunan and Sichuan, and has also issued an ultimatum that he will start to purge the three provinces from tomorrow, and now the gentry in Hunan and Sichuan are all frightened, and they all hope that someone will stand up and speak.

But Nanjing was bent on stammering with Yang Qiu and trying to pull him on the Northern Expedition, how could he talk about him. However, they themselves could not come up with a plan for the Northern Expedition for a long time, but they sent telegrams one after another asking the provinces to pay taxes to fund military salaries. In the first battle of Xuzhou, because of the lack of ordnance and insufficient military salary, Beiyang was beaten back hundreds of miles, losing more than 5,000 people, and even Lin Shuqing returned to his hometown angrily to complain of illness. Yuan Shikai in the north is self-respecting, and he will not care about the affairs of the three provinces before he gets the position of president. The blue sky in the Northeast is also a waste! It is only a few hundred miles away from Beijing, and not even a single hair of Beiyang has been torn off. and Jiang Baili, who likes to talk on paper, not only did he have any evil energy, but he actually promised Yang Qiu to be the president of Hubei Army University, and now he is training officers for Yang Qiu (). In my opinion, if this continues, instead of Nanjing and Beijing fighting, it will become Wuchang and Beijing fighting. ”

Liu Cunhou also fanned the flames next to him: "The news in Hunan is that in the past few days, many people have stood up to express their dissatisfaction and demanded that Yang Qiu revoke the new policy, and it is said that demonstrations have broken out in Changsha and Xiangtan and other places. The Hanchuan Railway has been decided, and the new line will take the Zunyi Mansion detour into Chongqing! This is another poisonous plan of Yang Qiu, he now controls Sichuan, half of his foot has reached into our southwest, if he is allowed to build this railway, I am afraid that Guizhou and Yunnan will not be able to keep it. ”

Cai Ye didn't seem to hear the words of the two, and replied to the question: "In the first battle of Xuzhou, who led the troops in Beiyang?" ”

"The eleventh standard pipe belt Wu Peifu, I heard that it is the most capable standard system under Cao Kun." As soon as Huang Yuying finished speaking, Cai Yi was surprised and recalled: "Is it him? When I was in the Baoding Army Academy, I heard that Xiucai was born and had a withdrawn temperament, but I didn't expect to have a hand in the war. ”

Seeing that Cai Yi couldn't get to the point, Tang Jiyao was a little anxious: "Cai Du, you can give me a word." Luo Yuan sent another telegram this morning: The situation in Guizhou is about to erupt, and the contradictions between the Constitutional Council and the military and government are deepening, and it is very likely that a fire will break out. What's more, Yang Qiu has already shown signs of becoming a king on his own, and only by seizing Guizhou can he border Hunan, and if necessary, cooperate with Nanjing to conquer him. ”

After he finished speaking, Cai Ye still didn't say anything, and glanced at Liu Cunhou: "Jizhi (Liu Cunhou), what do you mean?" ”

"I think the same thing as Bei Geng."

"Zihe (Huang Yuying) You can talk about it." Cai Ye turned to Huang Yuying again, the latter understood that he didn't want to speak, and originally wanted to simply avoid the important and perfunctory, but before he could speak, Tang Jiyao and Liu Cunhou looked at him coldly, knowing that they couldn't dodge, so they gritted their teeth: "Cai Du has to make up his mind about this matter, but if you do it, now is the best time!" ”

Since he said it, he simply let go of his words and analyzed it thoughtfully: "The equipment of the Guizhou army is very poor, and it is not the opponent of our Yunnan army, the only thing to worry about is whether Yang Qiu will interfere (). Looking at this person's means, meddling is certain, but at the time of his weakest! The self-tying of their hands and feet to carry out tax reform led to instability in Hunan and Sichuan, and they were forced to pull out three divisions and two brigades to stabilize the two places, and the remaining two divisions had to take care of the Northern Expedition and Wushengguan, and only one or two brigades could be transferred at most within three months. His national defense force can fight with Beiyang, relying on equipment and morale, but the equipment is not very effective in Guizhou, especially the seven and five major cannons and heavy machine guns in his hands, and it will be very difficult to ensure supplies over the rolling mountains. On the other hand, our army, after making a few deals with the French, has sufficient ordnance, has bought more than 50 machine guns of various types, has sufficient ammunition, and the soldiers have been training for more than three months after weighing nine, and we are closer to Guiyang, and the people of the two places are also closer! The advantage of taking Guizhou is that it borders Hunan, and once there is something, you can join forces with Li Liejun in Jiangxi and Chen Jiongming in Guangdong, and maybe Lu Rongting in Guangxi is also willing to intervene. The downside is! Although Yang Qiu is trapped in internal affairs, it will never last long, and he will be able to recover in two or three months at most, I heard that he has a good relationship with Germany, and has already bought a large amount of military equipment, and the financial resources of the three provinces will definitely be much stronger than ours, and it will be difficult to deal with it if he retaliates. ”

"We also have the financial resources of the two provinces to take Guizhou, although it is not as good as Sichuan and Hubei, but as long as there is a conflict, Nanjing or the north will be willing to see him weakened, what are you afraid of him doing?" Tang Jiyao muttered on the side.

Cai Ye didn't say anything immediately, turned his head to look at the blue Dianchi Lake next to him, he listened to the words of the three of them, but he didn't listen to them either, because he was a little worried. It's not that I'm worried about Guizhou, but these people around me, especially Tang Jiyao and Liu Cunhou! In fact, he had already seen that these two people were extremely ambitious, and they had not been suppressed before the revolution, but now that the successful nature of the revolution was gradually revealed, they were unwilling to lie dormant for a long time. After the recovery of Yunnan, Liu Cunhou proposed to bring troops into Sichuan to support the Comrades Association, nominally to go back to his hometown to help the Sichuan Comrade Army, but in fact, he wanted to get rid of his own self-reliance. Tang Jiyao has been in constant contact with Liu Xianshi and others in Guizhou recently, and secretly sent people to send a lot of guns and ammunition in the name of support, just to take the opportunity to take Guizhou and become the governor himself.

Of course, there is a more important reason in addition to these, and that is Yang Qiu!

Liang Qichao has sent secret letters many times hoping that he can erect the banner of constitutionalism, but constitutionalism is no longer feasible, and he is unwilling to support Yuan Shikai, so he can only continue to rely on Nanjing Zhengfu, but Nanjing Zhengfu is not the central power that does big things at first glance, and the whole country has not yet been unified.

So Yang Qiu did seize a good opportunity, as long as he can settle the matter of this new deal, he will definitely be able to build the three provinces into an iron plate, and even rise to become a third force, should he test him? Thinking of this, Cai Ye seemed to have made up his mind, turned his head and said softly: "Let the troops prepare, if something really happens in Guizhou, we will enter Guizhou to pacify!" ”

Tang Jiyao's eyes suddenly brightened, and he nodded vigorously a few times.

The horse's hooves are rattling, echoing in Guiyang City at night, looking out through the carriage window, the city after the hustle and bustle disappears is a little more palpitating, Qiu Wenbin's eyelids are jumping vigorously, he has been here for almost two days, he always feels that something is wrong, but he can't say it, this feeling makes him very uncomfortable.

"What is Wen Bin looking at?" Huang Zelin, who was sitting next to him, was very curious about why this old friend, who had been promoted to Yang Qiu's guard, was looking out so hard, so he asked.

"Nothing." Qiu Wenbin hesitated for a moment and shook his head, then turned his head and asked, "Brother Huang, has Yang Du had an answer?" ”

"Governor Yang is willing to let you enter Guibei to protect the railway, and Zhang Bailin, the president of the Privy Council, is also quite interested, but those people from the constitutional party." Huang Zelin flattened his mouth like a child and spread his hands and made a helpless gesture, which made Qiu Wenbin frown.

Huang Zelin was two years older than him, when the Autonomous Society had just been established, he and his cadres came to Guizhou to congratulate him, and contacted the armed overthrow of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and other matters, and the two almost became brothers because of their similar personalities. Later, he joined the Eight Towns of the Hubei Army, and Huang Zelin joined the Guizhou New Army, and was promoted to the team leader because of his good performance. Soon after the Wuchang Revolution, Guizhou rebelled one after another, and Huang Zelin was appointed as the presidential leader of the Guizhou patrol and defense green and training battalions because he was an officer and the backbone of the Autonomous Society, and his outstanding merits were appointed, that is, the commander-in-chief of the Guizhou army.

The 29-year-old commander of a provincial army is not too unusual in this year. The patrol envoy of the three provinces and the commander-in-chief of the National Defense Forces are not even 23 years old, but the problem is that Guizhou is also the same as Hubei at that time, and the officers elected are not too young and lack experience, and they can't suppress the veterans and old officers at all, and he can't even talk about decent feats like Yang Qiu, plus this kid's temper () Thinking of the guns of the Qianjun when he entered the city that day, Qiu Wenbin shook his head secretly again, and said: "Brother Huang, you are now the president of the Qianjun, isn't it useless to talk?" ”

Huang Zelin didn't realize his problem yet, crossed his hands behind his head and said with a smile: "I am an officer, and the Privy Council and the Governor's Office have the final say in government affairs." But I support it, the Hanchuan Railway can connect our Guizhou with the three provinces of Hunan, Hunan, and Sichuan at the same time, and if we can build a branch line south to Guiyang and even Yunnan, then our southwestern provinces can be regarded as concentric. ”

Qiu Wenbin said: "Your idea is very similar to the commander, what he means is to build the Hanchuan Road first, and after two years of money, Guiyang and Kunming will be linked, and it is best to be able to contact Guangxi and Guangdong, so that our southern provinces can also take the lead in uniting, and there is no need to be afraid of the north as now." ”

"North? Didn't you all defeat Beiyang? Why do you still say such things? Huang Zelin asked.

Probably only he dared to say this kind of thing, defeating once does not mean that he can be defeated all the time, not to mention that Beiyang will definitely do his best to fight next time after suffering this loss, and said: "Brother Huang, don't underestimate Beiyang, we can win the battle by the commander who began to deploy in advance, and blew up Wusheng to shut down his grain route, even if this is the price, it has paid the price of more than 16,000 civilian soldiers killed and wounded, and Lao Bazhen is killed and injured nearly half, all of which are piled up by human lives." ”

Huang Zelin didn't seem to understand the meaning of the words, and said with a smile: "It's a pity that we didn't catch up, the Governor's Mansion ordered 5,000 soldiers and horses to support you at that time, and just as we were about to set off, there was a great victory in Kokura Mountain, if our Qianjun army was here, maybe we would have started the Northern Expedition." ”

Qiu Wenbin laughed dumbly, secretly laughing that this old friend was too "confident", and now even Xu Shaozhen, who is known as the strongest in Lianghuai and fought in Nanjing City with real swords and real guns, did not dare to boast of this kind of mouth, and hurriedly warned: "Brother Huang, don't underestimate Beiyang." ”

Seeing his face of comfort, Huang Zelin suddenly laughed: "I'm joking with Wen Bin!" You have a fight with Beiyang, and you still don't want me to be jealous and jealous? I don't know how much strength our army has? Not to mention that compared with your national defense forces, even the Dian army and the Gui army are stronger than us. Especially after Governor Cai took office, I heard that he bought a lot of arms with the French, and there were dozens of machine guns, and in my opinion, only the Dian army in the south could compare with you. ”

"You guy, I'm worried. Okay, I'm here too, remember to help me talk to the governor tomorrow, brother can't go back empty-handed when he comes back. Qiu Wenbin smiled, punched him, and saw that the post house had arrived, and immediately lifted the curtain and jumped out of the carriage. But as soon as he got out of the car, the feeling of uneasiness surfaced again, and he glanced around and found that the street seemed to be exceptionally quiet, so he turned his head and asked, "Brother Huang, have you lifted the military control order?" Who patrols this road at night? ”

"Military order, no? Recently, Guiyang has been a little unpeaceful, how can I lift it. Huang Zelin stretched out his head to look ahead, and found that the two guards in charge of guarding the post house in the distance were actually nowhere to be seen, and his face immediately darkened and scolded: "These soldiers in the East Road Patrol Battalion are really too unreasonable!" Why don't you even send people to guard this place? I'm going to ask Huang Canzhang what the hell is going on! ”

It's a shame that he just said that the Northern Expedition of the Guizhou Army even escaped from his post at night. Losing face in front of his brother, he was so angry that he immediately asked the coachman to beat his horse and prepare to go to the city patrol camp for inspection. Seeing that he was still so impatient, Qiu Wenbin shook his head and smiled bitterly twice and walked into the post house, but when he stepped into the door with one foot, a violent explosion suddenly came from behind him.

Rumble.

The familiar voice made him who had guarded Wusheng Pass, attacked Chenjiaao at night, and fought to the death in Xiaocang Mountain and the Fourth Town of Beiyang, and suddenly rolled on the spot, and pulled out his pistol casually. At this time, the soldiers of the guard squad in the post house were also alarmed, and rushed out with a gun quickly, and when he leaned out to check, his eyes suddenly became blood-red!

I saw that Huang Zelin's carriage had been blown apart and ignited a raging fire, and in the firelight, hundreds of soldiers dressed in the uniforms of the Guizhou Army rushed towards this side like hornets that had been stabbed in their nests.

"Enemy attack!"

The mournful shout suddenly enveloped the entire Guiyang City......

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