To tell the truth, Lin Daxin's telegram to send the Dingbei Army to Fujian Province to quell the rebellion really frightened the Qing people, the Empress Dowager Cixi, the Guangxu Emperor and Prince Gong Yixin combined, although a telegram from Li Hongzhang dissuaded Lin Daxin and told him not to meddle in the affairs of Fujian Province, but in order to prevent long nights and dreams, it was necessary to solve the rebellion in Fujian Province.

So Emperor Guangxu issued an order to increase the size of the counterinsurgency army, so that the third town of the Wuwei army also joined the counterinsurgency army, so that the counterinsurgency army reached 4 towns, and the commander of the Wuwei army, Yiketanga, personally served as the commander-in-chief of the counterinsurgency army.

And the southern provinces also received the news of Lin Daxin's telegram, which suddenly startled the two governors around Fujian Province, if Lin Daxin's evil star entered Fujian Province, with Lin Daxin's greedy appearance, he would definitely stay in Fujian Province and would not leave, thinking about having Lin Daxin as a neighbor, Liu Kunyi, the governor of Liangjiang, and Cen Chunxuan, the governor of Liangguang, suddenly felt cold.

Liu Kun, the governor of Liangjiang, immediately sent a telegram to the imperial court, the rebels in Fujian Province were perverse, how could he, the governor of Liu, who was so loyal to the imperial court, sit idly by, and he was willing to send the main force of the new army of Liangjiang to cooperate with the imperial court to suppress the rebels and enter Fujian Province to exterminate the rebels.

Cen Chunxuan, the governor of Liangguang, also sent a telegram to the imperial court, meaning that although the 22nd town of Guangdong suffered heavy losses due to the riot of the Xingzhonghui, he Cen Chunxuan had a heart to serve the country with a fist, and was willing to smear the liver and brain of the imperial court, even if the loss of the 22nd town was great, he Cen Chunxuan would also send a new army of considerable size to the border between Guangdong and Fujian, ready to cooperate with the imperial court to suppress the rebellion of the Xingzhonghui in Fujian Province.

Emperor Guangxu looked at the telegrams of the two governors before and after, sighed helplessly, and knew that he would directly send a telegram to Liu Kunyi, the governor of Liangjiang, and Cen Chunxuan, the governor of Liangguang, saying that Lin Daxin wanted to enter Fujian Province to quell the rebellion, maybe the new army of Liangjiang and Liangguang entered Fujian Province before the rebels in Fujian Province did not grow, and quelled the rebellion, and now they can only let the counterinsurgency army of the imperial court go.

It turned out that after the Fujian ** Army of the Xingzhong Association accepted the arms given by the Japanese on the pole, it immediately swelled up like a snowball, not only replacing all the more than 30,000 troops equipped with cold weapons in the Fujian ** Army with rifles, but also continuing to expand the army on a large scale, especially absorbing all the members of the Hui Party who had rushed over from Guangdong Province and Jiangxi Province into the Fujian ** Army, and in less than 10 days, the Fujian ** Army expanded to three more towns.

As a result, the Fujian ** army suddenly became more than 100,000 troops in 6 towns, which also made it difficult for the Qing Dynasty to quell this uprising in Fujian Province by relying only on the new army of Liangjiang and Liangguang, and only waited for the 4 towns from the north to quell the rebellion.

However, the war situation in Fujian Province did not wait for the 3rd and 4th towns of the Wuwei Army, the 10th town of the Beiyang Army and the 13th town of the Dingwu Army to enter Fujian, and there were new changes.

On April 4, Yongtai County, the gateway of Fuzhou, was captured by the Fujian ** Army, and the 16th town of the Jiangxi New Army, the 19th town of the Fujian New Army and the officers and soldiers of the Fujian patrol battalion retreated to Fuzhou City, and then the Fujian ** Army began to storm the city wall of Fuzhou City day and night, but the Qing army in Fuzhou City was after the offensive and defensive battle in Yongtai County. There are still nearly 12,000 people, except for some of the officers and soldiers of the patrol battalion in Fuzhou and surrounding counties, most of them are officers and soldiers of the Jiangxi New Army and the Fujian New Army, and the combat effectiveness is still relatively strong, plus the 20 mountain artillery with a caliber of 75 mm owned by the 16th town of the Jiangxi New Army that came to the aid, so that after the onslaught of the Fujian ** Army for 3 consecutive days and nights, more than 10,000 casualties were inflicted, and the fortifications of Fuzhou were not breached.

The turning point of the war in Fuzhou was on April 7, the members of the Hui Party in Fuzhou City contacted the Hui Dang and Xingzhong Hui in the 16th town of the Jiangxi New Army, and gathered more than 500 armed men to launch a surprise attack on the south gate from Fuzhou City in the middle of the night, although the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang Xu Yingqi was also prepared, but the 3-day offensive and defensive battle, so that the Qing army defending the city was very tired, caught off guard, the south gate of Fuzhou City was opened, and then the Fujian ** Army that had been waiting outside the city for a long time took the opportunity to attack Fuzhou City, And the next day completely occupied the city of Fuzhou.

Some of the Qing troops in Fuzhou City were killed in street battles, some of them laid down their arms and surrendered to the Fujian ** Army, and nearly 2,800 people protected Xu Yingqi, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, who broke through from Fuzhou City and fled in the direction of Ningde City to the north.

Fujian's ** army is unforgiving, commander-in-chief Wang Heshun left a part of the officers and soldiers to clean up the mess of Fuzhou City, and he continued to attack north with nearly 40,000 troops, on April 6, Ningde City was defeated by the Fujian ** Army, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, Xu Yingqi, with the Qing army that escaped from Fuzhou City, has not yet recovered from the panic of Fuzhou City being breached, there is no morale resistance at all in Ningde City, Fujian ** Army has not yet arrived in Ningde City, Xu Yingqi took nearly 2800 people Jiangxi New Army and Fujian New Army abandoned the city and fled, Only a few hundred patrol battalions in Ningde City fired a burst of guns on the vanguard of the Fujian ** Army, but when Wang Heshun arrived at Ningde City with the main force of the Fujian ** Army, hundreds of patrol battalions dispersed.

Xu Yingqi, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, fled all the way north with the remnants of the army, until he withdrew from the boundary of Fujian Province and arrived at the area of South Yandang Mountain in Zhejiang Province, and the only remaining 1 association of the 20th town of the Zhejiang New Army was combined together, so he stopped and built fortifications in the area of South Yandang Mountain to prevent the Fujian ** Army from continuing to march to the hinterland of Zhejiang Province.

The Fujian ** army almost effortlessly, the remaining half of Fujian Province into the bag, but at this time the Xingzhong Association has been sent by the Qing court has sent 4 towns of new troops, straight to Fujian Province to come to the news, these 4 towns of the new army is the earliest established new army troops, each town has about 30,000, well-trained, well-armed equipment, if you are not careful, the current good situation will be ruined. Therefore, Sun Wen and Wang Heshun and other leaders of the Xingzhong Society discussed and decided to temporarily stop marching outside Fujian Province, and the entire Fujian ** Army began to reorganize and fight against the Qing army.

The Qing court was very shocked that the city of Fuzhou was lost so quickly, if it weren't for the fact that Xu Yingqi, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, still had military power in his hands and had retreated to the area of Yandang Mountain in southern Zhejiang Province to build fortifications, Emperor Guangxu would have wanted to directly put him in prison for questioning.

How did you say that you promised to be the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang? The new army that was organized and trained allowed the Xingzhong Hui and the party to install a large number of personnel, so that the rebels successfully launched a mutiny in Zhangzhou, and then more than 8,000 people from the 20th town and 2 associations of the Zhejiang New Army were suppressed, and because of the battlefield uprising of some of the members of the Xingzhong Hui and the party, the 20th town and 2 associations were almost wiped out, and in the end only less than 200 people escaped. Now that you have lost the city of Fuzhou, you have lost most of Fujian Province, which was still in charge of the rebels, so that the rebels have now completely occupied Fujian Province, so that the counterinsurgency army sent by the imperial court will bring more trouble, and this governor of Fujian and Zhejiang has made you Xu Yingqi too unsuccessful.

Xu Yingqi is actually quite depressed, he has long known that there are people from the Xingzhong Association and the Party in the new army he has trained, and there are still a lot of them, which is not preparing to purge them, and he also took advantage of the opportunity of Li Hongzhang, the governor of Zhili, to pass through Fuzhou, and borrowed 1 town from the Beiyang Army, just in case, I didn't expect that the Beiyang Army was still in Shandong and did not set off, and the 2nd Association in Zhangzhou was reversed, where did he go to reason, and the loss of Fuzhou City was also because the Xingzhong Association and the party elements in the Jiangxi New Army opened the city gate at night, Otherwise, the rebels in Fujian will not want to capture Fuzhou City for a while.

This is also why Xu Yingqi did not borrow troops from his old friend Liu Kunyi, the governor of Liangjiang, to purge the new army he established.

The loss of Fuzhou City and even the entire Fujian Province made the Qing court a little anxious, and while urgently ordering Yi Ketanga to lead the counterinsurgency army of 4 towns to Jiangxi Province as much as possible, preparing to enter Fujian from Jiangxi Province, while sending a telegram to Liu Kunyi, the governor of Liangjiang, asking Liu Kunyi to send a new army to support the area of South Yandang Mountain in Zhejiang Province anyway, the troops in the hands of Xu Yingqi, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, are really not much, if the rebels continue to go north and break through the fortifications of the Qing army in the area of South Yandang Mountain, then the whole Zhejiang will fall into erosion, You must know that Zhejiang is a big tax province, and if Zhejiang Province is in chaos, it will have a great impact on the Qing court!

There are indeed not many troops in Xu Yingqi's hands, only more than 4,000 people in the 20th town and 1 association, more than 2,100 people left in the Jiangxi New Army, the last 700 people left in the Fujian New Army, plus more than 5,000 people in the patrol battalions in various places. Zhejiang Province in the south of Yandang Mountain also only concentrated about 12,000 Qing troops, and the heavy firepower is the lack of artillery, when Fuzhou City broke through, the Jiangxi New Army's 20 caliber 75 mm mountain artillery were lost, and now only the 20th town has 12 75 mm caliber mountain artillery, which is much worse than the artillery of the Fujian ** Army at this time.

Liu Kunyi, the governor of Liangjiang, received the will of the imperial court this time, and received a telegram from his old friend Xu Yingqi asking for help, but he didn't dare to slack off, first, there was the threat that Lin Daxin would send troops to Fujian, and if the rebels continued to attack and really occupied Zhejiang Province, then the three provinces under the jurisdiction of the governor of Liangjiang would all border the territory controlled by the rebels, and the rebels could launch an attack on any province of Liangjiang, which would be really unguardable.

So Liu Kunyi made a real move this time, and ordered nearly 7,000 officers and soldiers of the 15th town of the new army in Anhui Province stationed in Huizhou to immediately enter Zhejiang and join the Qing army there in the area of South Yandang Mountain, in addition to Liu Kunyi also mobilized the patrol battalions of various counties in southeastern Anhui Province and organized more than 8,000 people, all of whom were sent to the area of South Yandang Mountain in Zhejiang Province. A part of the new army in Jiangsu Province also gathered in the area around Suzhou, ready to enter Zhejiang Province at any time.

In addition, Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Huguang, sent nearly 7,000 officers and soldiers from the 18th town of the new army from Hunan, also passed through Jiangxi Province and entered Zhejiang Province, and according to the request of Xu Yingqi, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, he also came to the area of Yandang Mountain to increase the number of troops here.

Cen Chunxuan, the governor of Liangguang, was not idle, and he sent most of the troops of the 22nd Town of the New Army in Guangdong, about 18,000 people, and 12,000 officers and soldiers of the patrol battalion in the northern counties of Guangdong, to the border area between Guangdong Province and Fujian Province, on the one hand, to prevent the rebels from Fujian from attacking Guangdong, and on the other hand, to prepare for the army to cooperate with the imperial court to enter Fujian Province to quell the rebellion.

With the 22,000 troops sent by Anhui Province and Hunan Province, especially the new army with 2 associations, these 2 associations have 7,000 elites, so that Xu Yingqi, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, finally breathed a sigh of relief, but Xu Yingqi still felt that the troops were insufficient, especially the army he actually controlled was a little small.

This is really not impossible, you must know that since the imperial court in order to deal with the threat of Lin Daxin, the imperial court has made a stupid move to allow the governors to train new armies in the provinces, so that these governors can control the financial power at the same time, and also master the military power, which is equivalent to making these governors suddenly become the same as the feudal towns, just like the three feudatories in the early Qing Dynasty, which makes the rulers of the Qing court have regretted it a little in recent years, and plan to take back the military power of the new army established by the governors in various places.

In order to prevent anything like blood, Xu Yingqi had already ordered Liu Danghui, the commander of the 20th town that had suffered defeat in Changtai County, Fujian, to withdraw to Hangzhou with a group of remnants of the defeated army, and use the weapons and equipment stored in Hangzhou to train a new army with 1 association, and if possible, it is best to organize and train 2 associations.

However, Xu Yingqi thought that this was not enough, and that he had to grasp more bargaining chips before the imperial counterinsurgency army entered Fujian Province, not only to cooperate with the imperial counterinsurgency army to exterminate the rebels in Fujian Province, but also to make the imperial army throw a mouse trap and not make any extraneous things, so Xu Yingqi ordered the 21st town of the new army in Taiwan Province to immediately rush from Taiwan to Zhejiang by boat, land in Xiaguan Town, and then rush to the area of Nanyandang Mountain.

The 21st Town of the New Army in Taiwan Province has relatively few troops, with only more than 5,000 officers and men in the town, and only 12 57-mm mountain guns in the entire town, but as long as the 21st Town comes to the area of Nanyandang Mountain, Xu Yingqi will have more than 10,000 officers and soldiers of the New Army and more than 5,000 patrol battalions under his command, and his confidence will be much stronger. R1152