Just when the news of Ma Jizeng's suicide reached Changsha, Tang Qianming was already in a hurry, and when the First Division of the Hunan Army in Hengyang City telegraphed to announce that he supported the defense of the country and opposed the imperial system, Tang Qianming's eyes were black.

The situation was completely out of control, and Tang Qianming was surprised to find that he had no force to use except for his own Overseer Guard and the police of the Changsha Police Station, and he felt that danger was coming.

At this moment, there are not completely no military liliang that can be mobilized in Hunan, one is Guo Renzhang's mine police force, and the other is Zeng Jiwu's department in Yuezhou. Together, these two armies numbered more than 20,000 men, and they might be able to hold Changsha for themselves, waiting for reinforcements from Beijing to move south.

Tang Qianming's idea is haode, and the action is also very fast, but the results are often unexpected.

Guo Renzhang's character is really not very good, when Sun Wen planned an uprising in Fangchenggang, Guo Renzhang agreed with him to participate in the uprising. As a result, when the time came, Guo Renzhang did not hesitate to issue the order to suppress the revolution. And this time, he was ordered to send the army to aid Changsha, which stimulated the ambition lurking in Guo Renzhang's heart.

On January 24, when Chen Quzhen's 801st Regiment, the vanguard of the Eighth Division under Liu Xing's personal command, was approaching Xiangtan, Guo Renzhang made a move that surprised everyone.

This old boy actually mobilized three battalions to impose martial law on the whole city of Changsha, if it wasn't for Zeng Jiwu entering the city in advance, Guo Renzhang's army would have entered the Overseer's Mansion at that time.

In fact, the title of the Overseer's Mansion is outdated, and Tang Qianming's current position is the general of Jingwu in Hunan and the pacification envoy of the province (Lao Yuan's official name is designed, which is very crossing).

Tang Qianming, who is both a pacifier and a general, is actually not a close confidant of Lao Yuan, and has always been suppressed by Yuan Shikai, so he did not do well as an overseer. However, despite this, during his tenure, the people of Changsha lived in peace and contentment, and it may be a bit exaggerated to not leave the road behind and never close their doors at night, but at that time, if the national civilized city was to be selected, Changsha was really self-sacred.

But now let Guo Renzhang make such a fuss, and before the youth army came over, Changsha became a battlefield. The citizens of Changsha fled one after another, and the situation was completely out of control.

But soon under the mediation of the Japanese consul in Changsha (what is the matter with the Japanese?) In addition, Guo Renzhang and Zeng Jiwu's army are all embroidered pillows, which are useless, so don't look at the earth-shattering sound of guns, in fact, the soldiers below shoot at the head, and no one has the consciousness of selling their lives to the top.

Thanks to the Japanese consul, he still felt that he had great ability, and it took 1 million oceans to put this war to an end, and if he personally went out on the streets to see what the so-called war was like, it is estimated that he would be so angry that he would curse: "Baga, the conscience of the Chinese is greatly broken." ”

Moreover, this act of thinking that he was very successful also caused trouble for himself, and after the Youth Army later entered Changsha City, he used the excuse that Changsha was not a diplomatic and consular area. Moreover, the Japanese consul supported the enemy of the Protector Army, and directly closed the Japanese consulate in Changsha, and the Japanese in Changsha were forcibly driven away. The reaction of the Japanese government was also very unexpected, only protesting to the Beiyang government, first of all, the Japanese are bent on subverting Yuan Shikai's rule and messing up China; Second, Changsha's interests are insignificant compared to Japan's interests in China as a whole; Third, Japan did not carry out military operations in South China, so naturally it was not interested in playing the old trick of using the topic to play.

A year later, however, the Japanese regretted missing this opportunity, and that's a story for another time.

At this moment, the Hunan pacification envoy and general Jingwu, that is, Tang Qianming, the overseer of Hunan, felt the chill of the end. Just a month ago, he was the most powerful man in Hunan, and he was firmly in control of the situation in the province. But less than a month later, as the joke of later generations was, the turtle raped the snail, and when the police questioned the snail, the snail's answer, everything happened too fast at that time.

Tang Qianming felt that he was really tired, he felt that it was pointless to wait for Beijing's reinforcements, and he finally decided to call the whole country, declare the independence of Hunan, and appoint himself as the overseer of Hunan, hoping to ease the pace of the Youth Army's attack on Changsha and buy himself a little time.

After Wang Zhenyu saw Tang Qianming's announcement of independence, he immediately smiled and said to the officials around him: "It seems that Tang Qianming still cares about the position of this overseer, then we are embarrassed to force each other anymore, it is very simple, surround Changsha for me, don't attack, the army in the city will not accept the reorganization for a day, and this siege will not be withdrawn......"

This move is indeed too poisonous, for whoever is surrounded by so many black cannons in the city, and the friendly forces are still enemies who fought not long ago, and the psychological endurance is overdrawn.

Wang Zhixiang, the governor of Guangxi Province at the time, also wrote a letter to his brother-in-law Liu Renjun, through which he persuaded Guo Renzhang to surrender. On February 1, Guo Renzhang led 7,000 troops to surrender. The 8th Division of the Youth Army entered Changsha City, and before that, the 4th Division had already entered Yuezhou Kongcheng. Not to mention that he was trapped in a lonely city, and he also lost his nest, Zeng Jiwu was naturally in a dilemma in the face of such a situation. On February 2, the day after the Youth Army entered Changsha, Zeng Jiwu, who had not even defended the lonely city, could only order the department to accept the reorganization of the Youth Army under the persuasion of Yang Yongtai, and it was false to say that there was no shame in defeating the battle, Zeng Jiwu was disheartened and decided to retire, but was strongly persuaded by his former classmate Liu Xing, and finally agreed to join the Youth Army, and his department and Guo Renzhang's department were merged to form the 10th Division of the Youth Army, Zeng Jiwu served as the division commander, and Liu Zhenhuan was transferred to the chief of staff of the department and the head of the 111th regiment.

However, for the Overseer Tang Qianming, the Youth Army surprisingly did not move him, but the Overseer's order could no longer leave the Overseer's Mansion.

Marked by the entry of the Youth Army into Changsha, the war in Hunan officially ended in the entire Protectorate War, and the 60,000 troops of Beiyang Shili led by Yuan Shikai in Hunan collapsed, and the situation in the country changed.

On the New Year of the fifth year of the Republic of China, Yuan Shikai heard the news of the loss of Hunan, and at this time, a large group of his aunts and wives were still scolding at the dinner table about who was a concubine and who was a concubine. At this moment, Yuan Shikai, who was suffering from uremia, said angrily: "What is the quarrel, this family is going to be over, what else is there to fight for?" ”

The day after the end of the war in Hunan, the war in Guangdong was also successfully declared, and Long Jiguang, the overseer of Guangdong, was not as lucky as in history to flee to Hainan Island, but was forced to go to the wilderness and flee to Hong Kong......

Back on January 23, the third day when the Third Army of the Youth Army and its affiliated Kuomintang Task Force and Security Detachment entered Guangdong, Long Jiguang finally made up his mind to block the Youth Army in the Zhaoqing area, otherwise he really didn't feel that he had much chance of winning in Guangzhou. You must know that compared with the Youth Army, the opposition to Shili in Guangzhou City is his biggest headache, so Long Jiguang almost personally commanded the main force to defeat the Youth Army in Zhaoqing in one fell swoop.

It's a pity that Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi don't seem to have the intention of fighting a decisive battle with him, and for seven or eight days, these two did not launch even one attack on the Zhaoqing defense line carefully constructed by Long Jiguang. The Youth Army was busy seizing territory in western Guangdong, and Li Zongren even personally led the Seventh Division to cooperate with the newly formed Ninth Division of the Youth Army to take Shaoguan.

This day dragged on for a long time, but it was Long Jiguang who was sad, he only left three battalions in Guangzhou, led by his two eldest brothers, but the strength of these three battalions could not withstand the surging rebellion. In these seven or eight days, at least 330 attacks broke out in Guangzhou, although Long Yuguang and others fought hard to suppress them, killing thousands of revolutionaries and dealing a heavy blow to the revolutionary party. However, the instability of the nest directly affected the morale of the army on the front line, and you must know that the officers' families are all in Guangzhou, so the call to return to Guangzhou has gradually become stronger, and Long Jiguang has to pay attention to this.

The test of the strength of an army in this era is not to attack, but to retreat. For the time being, the entire Chinese army, including the Youth Army, is only qualified in the offensive, and can only be described as nonsense on the subject of retreat.

On February 1, Hunan was lost, and Fujian was also captured by Xu Chongzhi, and Long Jiguang suddenly found himself surrounded by the Protector Army. And the officers below also threatened that if they did not withdraw to Guangzhou, the big guys would collectively mutiny. In this situation of internal and external difficulties, Long Jiguang made a decision that he regretted for the rest of his life and launched a retreat in front of the Third Army of the Youth Army.

Relying on the spies lurking in Long Jiguang's army, Li Zongren knew the detailed deployment of the retreat of the Ji army even earlier than the regiment commander under Long Jiguang's head.

In the early morning of February 2, the battle began, and just as Long Jiguang was about to take advantage of the darkness to escape, the largest artillery attack since the formation of the Youth Army began......

It is not unreasonable to say that a person drinks cold water and stuffs his teeth in many cases, at least for Long Jiguang, at this moment, he stuffed his teeth.

Retreat is a very challenging thing to do, and retreating at night is even more difficult, but it's nothing, you can still overcome it by gritting your teeth.

But if there is heavy shelling at this time, it is not fun.

There is always a limit to the number of casualties that can be inflicted by artillery strikes, but the psychological pressure on soldiers caused by the huge roar of mountain artillery is unlimited.

What does such a strong shelling mean? The enemy is about to attack on a large scale.

So what are you waiting for, at this moment, Long Jiguang's army was in disarray, all the people lost their organization, and everyone ran in the direction of Guangzhou like headless flies.

Long Jiguang could no longer command any units except for the guards around him, and he could no longer find other subordinates except his son, and the chaos brought by the dark night lasted until dawn.

Bai Chongxi fought the most beautiful battle he had ever fought in the army, and with less than 100 casualties, he actually defeated nearly 30,000 enemy troops in one fell swoop.

When Long Jiguang fled back to Guangzhou with the guards, there were less than 2,000 people and horses that could be gathered, and it was impossible to escape Qiongya, and it was said that the youth army had already landed on the island in a small wooden boat. Long Jiguang sighed, the only thing he could do was to deposit the wealth he had looted in the British HSBC Bank for three years, and then the family boarded a ship and left Guangdong to ask President Yuan for his guilt.

On February 3, the sixth year of the Republic of China, Guangdong declared independence......