Chapter 181: Wuchang Uprising
The climate in Wuchang in October is still hot, and the name of the furnace is definitely worthy of the name.
Even though it's autumn now, the temperature here is still above 20 degrees Celsius, which is very different from other places, especially in the north, not to mention the cold climate in the northeast.
The streets were crowded with pedestrians, and there was no autumn gloom at all, and in the crowd a burly young man was looking around, not knowing what he was looking for. At this time, in front of the door of a two-story downstairs building, someone beckoned. "Quick, come in..."
Seeing the person in front of the door, the young man knew that he had found a place, so after looking back to make sure that no one had found him, he hurriedly ran to the door of the building.
"How? Everyone has arrived..."
After entering the door, the young man slapped his body and said to the young man who was closing the door.
"It's all here, just waiting for you!"
After saying that, the young man led the young man inside, and more than a dozen young people who were also young inside had been waiting for a long time.
"I've been waiting for you for a long time, why did you come!"
Seeing the young man come in, another young man in his early 30s said in a dissatisfied tone.
Hearing him say this, the young man who had just come in was a little angry, but he also knew that he was indeed late this time, so he could only explain. "I always felt that something was wrong when I went out, so I took a little detour on the way here," the young man continued after explaining. Commander-in-Chief, Chief of Staff, where is the meeting? β
Although the young man had already explained, the other was still a little dissatisfied. "You didn't come. How does the meeting start?! β
Seeing this scene, a young man spoke. "Well, now that everyone is here. Then let's talk about the uprising..."
After speaking, the young man glanced at the young man who was leading the way just now, and the young man who understood what he meant quickly nodded. "I'm going to go outside and watch the wind...", and walked outside.
When the boy had gone, the room was quiet again.
At the same time, the young man who spoke the last was also a little helpless, Jiang Yiwu, this is the name of the young man.
And the latest young man to come in was Zhang Zhenwu, and the young man in his early 30s was Sun Wuββββββ not the one from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
Sun Wu is the president of the Communist Association, while Zhang Zhenwu is a cadre of the Communist Association. Therefore, Jiang Yiwu is not easy to care about their internal affairs, which is also the reason why he saw Sun Wu's tone so angry at Jiang Yiwu but did not say anything, until he saw that Sun Wu was still making trouble, he opened his mouth to interject and enter.
Wait until the boy is gone. Jiang Yiwu continued. "I believe everyone knows what happened a few days ago, some soldiers in the New Army are about to retire, and as a result, a lot of trouble has happened, and some of our comrades in the New Army wanted to take advantage of the situation to launch it. It turned out to be ...... Now the Qing army is under martial law. It will be a bit difficult to continue the uprising on the 6th, so I came to you this time to discuss whether to continue to launch the uprising according to the original plan, or change the time? β
Speaking of this, Jiang Yiwu smiled slightly bitterly in his heart, because this change completely disrupted their layout, and the reason for the failure was actually such a nonsensical thing as the cannon not having a bolt, no wonder Sun Wu's mood was so bad.
To be honest, this messy incident is really shocking. The governor of Huguang, Ruihan, immediately declared that the whole city would be under martial law on the 15th day of the eighth month of the old calendar, and the officers and soldiers were not allowed to leave the camp. Ammunition is strictly controlled, except for the soldiers on duty, ammunition is stored and managed in a centralized manner, and even the Mid-Autumn Festival party must be held in advance.
Fortunately, out of consideration for stabilizing the morale of the army, Ruihan and Zhang Biao characterized this 'mutiny' as an ordinary incident of soldiers' trouble, and did not track down the masterminds behind the scenes on a large scale. Some people proposed to transfer the new army engineering battalion from the Chuwangtai armory, but Li Yuanhong, the commander of the mixed association, was also opposed and did not pass it, otherwise the matter would have been more troublesome.
On the other hand, for Sun Wu, Jiang Yiwu is the commander-in-chief after all, and he is only the chief of staff, and Jiang Yiwu's face is always unavoidable, so Sun Wu said after a deep groan. "I think it's better to change the time, it's really difficult to start an incident at this time..."
"What time is the right time to change it?"
"This..."
After all, the stakes are high, even if Sun Wu's temper is not very good, he doesn't dare to speak easily on such an issue.
At the beginning, they chose to launch the uprising on October 6 because this day was the 15th day of August in the old calendar, and it was taken from the allusion of the Ming religion of 'killing the Tartars on the 15th of August' in the last year of the Yuan Dynasty.
Now that such a thing has happened, it is obviously impossible to continue to kill the Tartars on August 15.
And after the last failure, Jiang Yiwu's attitude was also a little cautious.
It's just that no matter how cautious it is, the last time still has to be elected, the new army originally stationed in Hubei now has half of the town's troops have been transferred to Sichuan, and the number of troops left in Hubei is only one town, and there are thousands of people who are members of the literary society and the alliance, if Jiang Yiwu and Sun Wu can't seize this opportunity, the most important people will definitely regret it for the rest of their lives, so more than a dozen people in the last room discussed for a long time, and finally decided to start an uprising at this time on October 11.
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In the manor in Wuhu, under the shade of a big tree, Yan Shao was drinking the juice that the maid had just served, and the cold juice made Yan Shao almost groan comfortably, and at this time, Lu Ying suddenly ran over from a distance, still holding a telegram in his hand.
"Master, I just sent a telegram from Hubei..."
"Oh?" Hearing the telegram from Hubei, Yan Shao hurriedly sat up from the grass. "Bring it to me..."
"It's good..."
Saying that, Lu Ying walked to the front and handed the telegram to Yan Shao, but Yan Shao took advantage of the situation to hold her waist and let her sit beside her.
Yan Shao is not a fool after all, not to mention that every man actually has a harem heartββββββ he must not say this in front of his wife and girlfriend.
It is also because of this that he naturally knows Lu Ying's thoughts very well in his heart, so after the last incident, the relationship between the two has also developed greatly. However, due to Elano and Katarina's 'surveillance'. The two can only get together when they're busy...
After motioning for Lu Ying to sit beside him, Yan Shao opened the telegram and read it.
The content of the telegram was very simple, it was about the intention of the Wuchang Revolutionary Army to revolt. There is also a scheduled time for the uprising.
Since he had long known that there would be an uprising on the Wuchang side of the Dao Dao, it was naturally impossible for Yan Shao not to put some people inside. Therefore, after the special affairs department took on a small scale, Yan Shao asked Caterina to send a few people to infiltrate the literary club and the communist association, and two of them even mixed into the high-level.
Yan Shao will do this, mainly to determine the time of the incident.
After all, his arrival has changed too much history, and if Wuchang's side can't start an uprising like in history, then in order to avoid the situation where the Qing court continues to rule China. He could only assume the responsibilities that the Wuchang Revolutionary Army once undertook.
But unless it is absolutely necessary, Yan Shao will never do this.
One is that his strength is too weak, and it is no problem to deal with the Anhui New Army. After all, now the patrol battalion has been bought by him, and he also has a lot of people in the new army in Anhui. As soon as the time came, he could ascend to the heights and completely overthrow the Qing rule in Anhui.
But Yuan Shikai's Beiyang is different. Yan Shao did not have any people in the Beiyang Army. Moreover, the combat effectiveness of the Beiyang Army is not comparable to that of the Anhui New Army.
If Yan Shaozhen was the first to revolt, he would easily be hit by Yuan Shikai.
Historically, Yuan Shikai stopped after capturing Hanyang and Hankou again, the purpose was to use the momentum of the revolutionary army to force the Qing court to step down, otherwise the Wuchang revolutionary army would not be able to hold Wuchang at all.
However, if the attack this time is replaced by Wuhu and Dangtu, Yan Shao doesn't know if Yuan Shikai will be like in history. After all, Yan Shao has set up a lot of family businesses in Wuhu and Dangtu, and even if he gets rid of the automobile factory every year, he can bring Yan Shao tens of millions of yuan in income. Who knows whether Yuan Shikai can stand up in the face of this temptation.
Even if Yuan Shikai was really like in history, he stopped after capturing two more cities. The problem is that Yan Shao's family business is in Wuhu and Dangtu, and it is really fought, it is difficult to say whether these family businesses can be kept, even if nothing else, the textile factory, the iron factory and the automobile factory are Yan Shao's hard work, if it is really broken, it will be a big loss for Yan Shao.
So if something goes wrong in Wuchang, Yan Shao will naturally stand up and take the lead in the uprising, after all, no matter how much he feels sorry for his belongings, he can't let the Qing court continue to ride on everyone's heads, and in order to catch up with the upcoming new era, Yan Shao doesn't have so much time to grind.
But if there is no problem in Wuchang, Yan Shao does not have to rush so much, after all, the industrial development here is also very important, especially the automobile factory.
Li Yin's optimization of automobiles and assembly lines is almost complete, and the parts manufacturing plants in various places are about to be completed, and now is the time for Yan Shao to completely occupy the markets of Europe, America and Japan.
It was also because of this relationship that after seeing that the final time had been determined on the telegram, a smile appeared on the corner of Yan Shao's mouth.
Noticing this, Lu Ying also became happy.
Although she is very beautiful, but she has received traditional education since she was a child, and the concept in her heart is that her husband is a wife, of course, the two of them are not married yet, but Yan Shao usually does something to her, and she almost rolls in the crop field twice, in this case, Lu Ying is naturally desperate for Yan Shao, even if Yan Shao asks her to leave at this time, I am afraid she will not leaveββββββ naturally, Yan Shao will never do this...
At this time, Elaline and Caterina were doing some official business in the office building, which was one of the reasons why Yan Shao dared to hug Lu Ying. But even if the two are not in the manor, it doesn't mean that they don't know what Yan Shao did.
Over the years, the two have planted countless eyeliners in the manor, and even if the two leave, these eyeliners will truthfully repay Yan Shao's situation. So when the two were still working in the office building, they had already received a report from one of the eyeliners.
When Yan Shao and Lu Yingzheng sat together with intimate expressions from the phone, Elaline and Caterina had ugly faces, but neither of them said anything.
Maybe from the time Yan Shao started to make a fortune, they had already guessed that there would be today...
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I don't know what happened in Anhui, but in Wuchang. Sun Wu and the others were busy making preparations, because at this time, there were only 5 days left before the final uprising.
In his residence in the Russian Concession, Sun Wu was preparing explosives to be used in the uprising.
These explosives are used to make bombs. The use of these bombs to start an incident at the time of an incident is definitely not generally good.
Preparing explosives is a meticulous job, so Sun Wu was very careful when preparing it, and he didn't notice that Liu Tongzheng was smoking behind him and watching at the same time.
Seeing that the ashes on Liu Tong's cigarettes were about to fall, Liu Tong's brother Liu Gong hurriedly stepped forward and dragged him back. "You don't want to live anymore, you dare to smoke next to explosives!"
Liu Tong is not a revolutionary, only because he is the younger brother of Liu Gong. That's why I came to such a confidential place. Historically, it was due to his reckless smoking on the side when Sun Wu was making explosives, and as a result, his cigarette ash fell on the explosives, which directly led to an explosion. Not only was Sun Wu himself blown up in the hospital, but the explosion itself attracted the police in the Russian Concession, and Sun Wu and several other revolutionaries had no time to clean up the scene and had to evacuate quickly. That's it. The bomb raw materials in the house, the documents of the Communist Party and the Literary Society, and the roster of revolutionaries were exposed at one time, and they were searched by the Russian patrol house and transferred to the local Qing government...
In addition, the three leaders of the revolutionary party in Hubei, Liu Fuji, Peng Chufan, and Yang Hongsheng, were arrested one after another, especially Liu Fuji, who was the one who carried out the total plan of the uprising, and these three were also killed in the early morning of the 10th.
Historically, it is also for this reason. As a result, the uprising originally scheduled for October 11 was temporarily changed to the 10th.
However, this time, because Liu Gong happened to be next to him, he stopped his younger brother Liu Tong from dying. So Sun Wu was very lucky not to be bombed into the hospital.
After noticing this, Sun Wu also broke out in a cold sweat, although this person's temper was not very good, but as the preparer of explosives, he knew very well the power of these explosives. If he really accidentally ignited, I'm afraid he would have to lie in the hospital for a while.
However, Liu Tong is Liu Gong's younger brother, and Liu Gong is the prime minister appointed by the Wuchang Revolutionaries, and Sun Wu is not too harsh, so he only speaks. "It's nothing, just be careful..."
How could Liu Gong not see that Sun Wu would say this for the sake of his own face. However, Liu Tong was his own brother after all, so Liu Gong didn't want to say too much, but just pulled him aside to reprimand him in private.
If things continue like this, perhaps the Wuchang Uprising will really take place on October 11 as scheduled, and Sun Wu himself will become the governor as originally arranged.
But actually...
On the evening of the 9th, Sun Wu, Jiang Yiwu and others were discussing the details of the uprising in the room of the Russian Concession and how to stabilize the order in Wuchang City after the uprising.
At the same time, others, including Liu Tong, stood outside the house and were responsible for watching the wind.
Taking a hard puff of the cigarette, Liu Tong slowly spit out a smoke ring.
He was not a member of the Literary Society or the Communist Party, but his brother was the leader of the revolutionary party, so he sometimes came here to help. After all, fighting tiger brothers and going into battle as father and son, but the closer he got to the time of the incident, the more nervous he felt, and now he had to use smoking to relieve his mental pressure.
At this moment, there was a sudden sound of footsteps outside, and Liu Tong, who was already very nervous, suddenly tensed, and several other people also gathered to the position of the door and the wall to look out, and after a while, someone whispered. "It's the people who patrol the house..."
"Russians?"
It was clear to those present how difficult the Russians were, so they quickly stopped talking.
Originally, if it went on like this, it would probably be the same as in the past, and the patrol house would pass by the courtyard, and nothing would happen. It's just that at this time, maybe the patrol dog smelled something, or maybe it noticed that there were many people hiding behind the wall, so when it walked around the courtyard, it suddenly barked at the courtyard.
The patrol dogs suddenly became like this, and the Russians seemed to be taken aback. But then they turned their attention to the compound in front of them.
"Go, come and knock on the door...", a bearded Russian patrolled a Chinese. After all, in China, the people who patrol the house will also hire a few Chinese to patrol, which will be more convenient.
Hearing the bearded man's words, the patrolman nodded a little, walked to the wooden door and knocked hard.
"We're the ones who patrol the house, open the door!"
Inside the door, Liu Tong and the others had already taken out their guns. Hearing the words of the patrol, he immediately hesitated, not knowing whether he should let them in. After all, in the room, Sun Wu and they were in a meeting, and...
And there are a lot of bombs and other things piled up in the yard. If these things are discovered by the patrol room, then the matter is...
"You drag here first, and I'll go inside..."
Throwing the half-smoked cigarette on the ground, Liu Tong ran into the house.
Sun Wu, who was having a meeting in the room, was also surprised when they heard that the people patrolling the room were coming, after all, there were a lot of dangerous items piled up in the room now, and if they were discovered, the consequences would be unimaginable. It's just that now the people patrolling the house are outside, and if they don't open the door, they will definitely arouse suspicion. I'm afraid it will be more troublesome then.
"Tell everyone to get ready..."After taking out a pistol from his waist and loading the bullet, Sun Wu turned to the crowd.
At this time, the people patrolling the house knocked on the door for a long time, but no one responded. I have become more and more impatient, and my heart has gradually become suspicious.
Just as they were about to force their way in, the wooden door was finally opened.
I saw two young men standing in the room, and the bearded man at the head pushed them away and rushed in. At the same time shouted loudly. "I just told you to open the door. Are you deaf? β
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."Jiang Yiwu smiled, Sun Wu's temper is not very good, and this kind of work is only suitable for him to do. We were busy in the room just now, so we were a little late in reacting..."After that, he took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, took out one and handed it to the Russian and a few other patrolmen.
After taking the cigarette, the faces of several patrolmen looked better, but they still led the patrol dog and insisted on going to the house to take a look. Understand that forcibly blocking at this time will only make them suspicious. Jiang Yiwu and they didn't stop them, but they just let them into the house at the same time. Quietly get others ready to do it.
Not noticing this, the bearded Russian just let his men feel it at random, and when he saw that nothing had happened, he prepared to go back.
But just when Jiang Yiwu and the others breathed a sigh of relief, the bearded patrol dog they brought suddenly barked at one of the rooms, which immediately made Jiang Yiwu and them nervous.
"What's in there?" the bearded man asked, pausing to leave.
"Nothing...", Jiang Yiwu said with a smile, and there were a few more banknotes in his hand.
However, the banknotes that had been tried and tested in the past did not seem to work this time, and the bearded man insisted on going in and having a look.
Jiang Yiwu tried to stop it twice, but when he saw that he couldn't stop it, the most important thing was that the patrols were already suspicious, so he had to step aside.
Seeing Jiang Yiwu retreat to the side, the bearded man nodded with satisfaction.
But just as he pushed open the door and walked into the house, he suddenly heard several gunshots behind him.
"What's going on?" With a sharp turn of thought, the bearded man looked back sharply and found that his subordinates were already lying on the ground, while Jiang Yiwu and the others, who were laughing with him just now, were holding pistols in their hands.
Seeing this scene, how could the bearded man not know what was going on in Lu Dao, but just as he wanted to pull out the gun, he felt a pain in his chest, and then there was nothing wrong with him...
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Cleaning up his beard, Jiang Yiwu put the pistol back on his waist.
"Quick, pack up your things, let's get out of here immediately..."It's night, the gunshots can be heard far away, Jiang Yiwu knows that someone will come over to check soon, if they don't leave at this time, I'm afraid none of them will be able to leave.
Sun Wu and the others also knew this, so they hurriedly went back to the house, and they didn't want anything else, but the roster and the plan for the incident must be taken away.
It's just that the speed of the Russian patrol house is much faster than they expected, and they have just packed up their things and are about to leave the courtyard, when they bump into the Russian patrol who has arrived.
After a fierce battle, Sun Wu and the others finally broke through, but the price was not small at all, not only Liu Gong, who was designated as the prime minister, died during the breakthrough, but even Sun Wu himself suffered a serious gunshot wound. On top of that, neither the roster nor the plan for the uprising were brought out.
Lying in the hospital, seeing that the cadres of the Literary Society and the Communist Association had arrived, Sun Wu said softly. "Baoshanli is wrecked, all the secrets are leaked, the name is copied, and the officials will be searched and arrested according to the name. Only by doing it right away can you survive the death. β
Although Sun Wu was a bit domineering and arrogant, he still had ability, so after hearing his words, everyone else nodded in agreement.
The matter was urgent, and the rebel army launched an uprising that night, occupied the whole city of Wuchang after a night of fierce fighting, and announced the recovery of Hubei and the establishment of the Hubei military government the next day.
With the establishment of the Hubei Military Government on October 11, 1911, due to Sun Wu's serious injuries, Li Yuanhong was finally elected as the governor, and the Hunan Military Government was also established in the Changsha Uprising 11 days later.
On the same day, Xi'an rebelled, and five days later the Qin Long Fu Han military government was established.
On November 23, the Jiujiang Uprising, and the next day the Jiujiang Military and Government Branch was established.
On November 29, the Taiyuan uprising, Yan Xishan served as the governor of the Shanxi Military Government.
On November 30, Kunming Chongjiu revolted and elected Cai Ye as the governor of the Yunnan Military Government, which was established on November 3.
On November 31, the Nanchang Uprising was held, and on November 1, the Jiangxi Military Government was established.
On November 3, Guiyang rebelled, and the next day the Han Guizhou Military Government was established. On the same day, Chen Qimei and other members of the League launched the Shanghai Uprising, and the Shanghai Military Government was established on the 6th...
At this point, the overall situation of the revolution has been formed...
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Historically, Sun Wu was known as the king of the mountain, and after he became the Minister of Military Affairs, his desire for power swelled, he was arrogant and arrogant, and gradually lost the trust and support of other revolutionaries, and even after 1912, there was even a rebellion against Sun.
Zhang Zhenwu regarded himself as the first righteous hero, proud of his achievements, and his dominance was no less than Sun Wu, and repeatedly threatened Li Yuanhong, who was deeply jealous of Li, and was killed by Li Yuanhong by Yuan Shikai's hand.
Jiang Yiwu was wanted by Yuan after his failure to oppose Yuan Shikai's dictatorship for his participation in the "Second Revolution", and was later killed by the overseer Lu Rongting in Guangxi.
Later generations made a combined comparison of the "three martial arts" and came to the conclusion that Sun Wu was inferior to Zhenwu, and Zhenwu was inferior to Yiwu. This can be regarded as an overall evaluation of the "three martial arts" of Shouyi. (To be continued......)