Seeing that twenty or thirty thousand Beiyang powerhouses followed the White Wolf Army into Anhui, the most anxious was naturally Bai Wenwei, the governor of Anhui. He was like a mirror in his heart, knowing that the Beiyang Army was not good at coming, and as soon as the Beiyang Army came, it was estimated that he should leave.

At this critical moment, he first sent his henchmen to northern Anhui to contact Bai Lang, hoping that the White Wolf Bandit Army would accept the change as soon as possible and eliminate the excuse for the Beiyang Army to invade Anhui from the root. He also repeatedly called the Grand Presidential Palace, saying that Anhui Province has the ability to deal with the white wolf bandits, and there is no need for the central government to act on its behalf. In addition, he also made preparations with both hands, actively reorganized the army in Anqing, Hefei and other places, and prepared to raise troops to the north to meet the invading Beiyang Army. Of course, in the end, is it to use force to confront it? If it is to use force, when will it be used? These issues are not something that Bai Wenwei can decide, and must be decided by Sun Yat-sen, Huang Xing and others.

After receiving Bai Wenwei's request, Sun Yat-sen was also a little hesitant. Don't look at how much he shouted before, but the disparity in strength between the north and the south cannot be made up for by having a loud voice and a high tone, not to mention that Yuan Shikai is still in the name of "Congress-authorized suppression of bandits" when he sends troops into Anhui? However, Anhui, which is now facing a critical situation, cannot sit idly by, after all, it is one of the only four provinces in the hands of the Kuomintang, and if Anhui is not saved today, it is very likely that it will be Jiangxi, Hunan, and Guangdong tomorrow.

However, it is not an easy task to oppose Yuan. Although Sun Yat-sen and others had been planning and operating for a long time before, they found that there were still thousands of things to deal with when things came to an end. After several days of exchanging telegrams with the governors of Anhui, Jiangxi, Hunan and Guangdong, it was finally agreed to cooperate with Yuan.

Soon. The governors of the four provinces jointly issued a telegram accusing Yuan Shikai of acting recklessly and arbitrarily since he assumed the post of provisional president. brutalized Zhongliang and protected the murderer, the tragic death of Zhang Zhenwu and the murder of Song Jiaoren later, resulting in the deceased still being wronged; Flouting Parliament, interfering with the Constitution, and borrowing as much as 25 million pounds privately. Plague the country and the people...... In the telegram, Yuan Shikai listed dozens of major crimes and demanded that he immediately announce his resignation. You can also blame the past. If the power of the love stack is obsessed, the four provinces of Anhui, Jiangxi, Hunan and Guangdong will unite the governors of all provinces and the people of all parts of the country to march north, in an attempt to fight against the thieves and eliminate the stubbornness. Guarantee the republic. If you don't get rid of the Yuan family, you swear not to survive!

Yuan Shikai worked hard and waited for this moment. Immediately after receiving the telegram, a government decree was issued, saying that Bai Wenwei, Li Liejun, and others were guilty of the crimes of plotting rebellion, subverting the government, interfering in state affairs, and sabotaging the republic, and that they should have been sentenced to capital punishment. If the four of them are evil, they will not be afraid. The government will punish severely!

Speaking of which, there is no room for maneuver between the north and the south.

The day after Yuan Shikai issued the decree. The four provinces of Anhui, Jiangxi, Hunan, and Guangdong successively declared their independence and issued telegrams to openly denounce Yuan. Huang Xing immediately rushed to Wuhu, Anhui Province to set up the General Headquarters of the Yuan Army, appointed himself as the commander-in-chief, appointed Bai Liewu as the commander-in-chief of the Anhui Yuan Army, and ordered the army to lead the Northern Expedition; Li Liejun and Tan Yanmin were appointed as commanders-in-chief of the Yuan army in Jiangxi and Hunan, and ordered the two provinces to divide their armies to go north to respond to the military operations in Anhui Province; Hu Hanmin was the commander-in-chief of the Yuan army in Guangdong Province and served as a backup for the armies of the Northern Expedition.

Without waiting for Yuan Jun and the Beiyang Army to fire the first shot of the Second Revolution, Sun Yuanqi immediately ordered Liu Mingzhao and Yin Changheng to lead the Second Division of the Hubei Army to cross the border between Hunan and Hubei and rush straight to Hunan on the opposite side.

Speaking of Hunan, we can't fail to talk about Tan Yanhong, the governor of Hunan.

For ordinary people now, the name Tan Yanmin seems relatively unfamiliar, and among the few people who know the word "Tan Yanhong", seventy or eighty percent of them are known because of calligraphy, and most of the rest are born in history classes or history enthusiasts. In fact, Tan Yanmin was a powerful and famous figure in Huxiang at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, so much so that when Chiang Kai-shek and Song Meiling got married, they had to ask him to be an introducer. During his 50-year career, he served as the Governor of Liangguang and Guangzhou, the Governor of Hunan (Governor of Hunan Province, Commander-in-Chief of the Hunan Army), and later the Chairman of the Nationalist Government of Nanjing and President of the Executive Yuan.

Why is Tan Yanmin so bullish? First of all, thanks to having a good father. His father was Tan Zhonglin, an important minister in the late Qing Dynasty, who successively served as the governor of Shaanxi, Zhejiang, Shaanxi and Gansu, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, the governor of Sichuan, the governor of Liangguang, the governor of Zhili and the minister of Beiyang. Although Tan Yanmin is the third son of the concubine, he is talented and has been valued by Tan Zhonglin.

In addition to his illustrious family background, he is also extraordinary. As early as his youth, he was quite hopeful, and Chen Sanli (a famous poet in the late Qing Dynasty, the son of Chen Baozhen, the governor of Hunan, and the father of the famous scholar Chen Yinke), Tan Sitong (an important figure in the Hundred Days Restoration, the son of Tan Jixun, the governor of Hubei), and called "the third son of Huxiang". He was raised in the twenty-eighth year of Guangxu (1902) at the age of twenty-two; In the thirtieth year of Guangxu, he became the only Huiyuan among the Hunan scholars in the entire Qing Dynasty, causing a sensation in Hunan Shilin.

In particular, it is worth mentioning his calligraphy attainments, known as "the master of modern calligraphy". It is said that when he was more than ten years old, Weng Tongyong, a famous calligrapher in the late Qing Dynasty and an equally profound face, praised his works when he saw him, saying that he "has the power of the pen to carry the tripod". Now the huge stone tablet in the stele pavilion halfway up the mountain of the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum "The Chinese Kuomintang buries Premier Mr. Sun here" two lines of huge golden characters, which are Tan Yanmin's handwriting.

With a good family background, his own ability, and talent, such a person is afraid that he will not be able to do it! Therefore, when the Hunan Provincial Advisory Bureau was formally established, he was elected by the gentry as the speaker and became the head of the Hunan Constitutionalists; During the Xinhai Revolution, after Jiao Dafeng and Chen Zuoxin, the chief and deputy governors of Hunan Province, were killed by the constitutionalists, he was elected as the governor of Hunan by the Consultative Bureau.

Tan Yanmin is not a bad person, he is tolerant of rest, mediocre, not agitated, and later generations are called "licorice in medicine". Although he seems to be Yongyong Mumu and kind to others, he is not ignorant of the world, but a dumb man who eats dumplings - he knows it in his heart, so he is also known as the eight-sided exquisite "crystal ball". Therefore, after the assassination of Song Jiaoren and the aftermath of the large-scale loan case, Tan Yanhong, who was the head of the Hunan Provincial Branch of the Kuomintang, strongly advocated a solution through legal means, and cited a series of reasons for the temporary impossibility of using troops, in fact, he was waiting and seeing.

It turns out that in these turbulent times. It's hard for a good old man to survive. For example, the four governors of the Kuomintang sent a telegram to reprimand Yuan Shikai and Sun Yuanqi, which seemed to be led by Tan Yanhong, but in fact he did not agree at all. Rather, several other governors and radicals in the Kuomintang knew that he would not agree, and they stole his name by cutting him first and then playing it. But how can Tan Yanmin refute this?

Subsequently, the situation between the north and the south became increasingly tense, and Shanghai successively sent people to Hunan to contact and discuss the matter of raising troops to discuss the matter of raising troops to discuss Yuan. Tan Yanmin knew that the revolutionary party was not Yuan Shikai's opponent at all, and he did not want to be an enemy of Yuan Shikai, so he delayed the anti-Yuan matter in every way. As a result, he was soon threatened by the radical wing of the Kuomintang: if Tan Yanmin dared to covet personal profits, he would go against the will of the people in Hunan to support the republic, and make peace with Yuan Shikai and Sun Yuanqi. Assassinate him!

Tan Yanmin thought about it again and again, so he had to reluctantly agree to join the anti-Yuan camp.

However, anti-Yuan is not just a matter of shouting a few slogans and sending a few telegrams, but in the end it needs to be achieved through a bloody war. However, in the summer of 1913, Hunan was extremely poor. In April and May. Heavy rain fell in Hunan, and the water level of the Xiangjiang River soared by 30 or 40 feet, flooding the river, and all counties in the upper and lower reaches were flooded. The idyllic houses were completely washed away. As a result, all the spring seedlings were withered, the price of rice was high, and the people had no way to eat, so they had to go to the city to beg for a living. Who knew that after the flood, the provincial capital of Changsha rained and hailed for five days in a row, followed by strong winds to cool down, and the weather was extremely cold, which was tantamount to a harsh winter. As a result, countless people froze to death in the city. The severity of the disaster has been rare in recent decades.

Moreover, Hunan's military forces are also relatively weak. In the course of the previous Xinhai Revolution, Hunan was also in trouble. But the scale was not large, and the province did not expand its army aggressively. After Tan Yanmin took over the power, he carried out a major disarmament according to the orders of the central government, leaving only the first division of the Hunan Army led by Zhao Hengti, with a total of less than 10,000 people. And the enemy in front of him is not only Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Force, but also the Second Division of the Hubei Army under Sun Yuanqi should not be underestimated, not to mention the help of aircraft?

It is said that the Hunan gentry had long seen the majesty of the Northwest Army planes in the newspapers, and it is said that after thousands of heavily armed Outer Mongolian rebels were bombed by the planes, less than 100 survived; After the famous cities of Uriya Sutai and Kobdo were bombed by planes, they turned into a scorched earth, leaving only ruins and broken walls; Even the murderous Tsarist army was powerless in the face of the bombing of the planes, and after suffering a loss, they did not dare to play tricks at all, so they could only send a minister to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to protest against the claims. If the plane bombs Changsha, what will be the consequences?

A month ago, the No. 1 Brigade of the Northwest Air Force in Shaanxi and the No. 2 Brigade of the Southwest Air Force in Sichuan were transferred to temporary airfields in Yichang, Shinan, and Youyang, and then sent reconnaissance planes to conduct pre-war reconnaissance in Changsha. When the plane lowered its altitude and circled over Changsha, the people of the city were so frightened that they ran around like headless flies. According to later statistics, dozens of people died from panic, including scared to death, trampled to death, and drowned.

And that's just the plane flapping its wings, and if it really dropped bombs, how many people would have to die! Thinking of this problem, Tan Yanmin, who has a reputation as a gourmet, can't get down chopsticks in front of the delicacies of the mountains and seas. But life still has to be passed, and the war still has to be fought. Under pressure, Tan Yanmin set up three infantry regiments and an artillery battalion in June, July, and August in spite of financial constraints, so as to reduce the threat posed by the fierce enemy in the north.

However, soon Tan Yanmin experienced the combat power of the aircraft.

It was the morning of the second day after Huang Xing appointed him commander-in-chief of the Hunan Yuan Army, and several planes again came over Changsha. Although the people of Changsha have lost their initial fear of airplanes, they still subconsciously raise their heads. Someone soon discovered that today's planes were different from the past, in addition to the skinny planes of the past, there was also a fat big man.

Just when everyone was amazed, the thin plane was leading, and the fat man went straight to the military uniform bureau in the lotus pond. After circling over the Bureau of Military Uniform for a week, the fat man dropped a 500-kilogram bomb from a height of three or four hundred meters. I saw a large puff of black smoke rising up into the sky, and then the earth trembled violently, and the rumbling sound was endless, as if the end of the landslide was coming.

When Tan Yanmin heard the explosion, he immediately fell to the ground: There are more than 10,000 rifles and more than 3 million rounds of ammunition in the Military Uniform Bureau, which is almost the entire family of the Hunan Army. Now that the losses are gone, and the army is basically in the point of being bare-handed, how can this battle be fought? (To be continued.) )

PS: I wish all book friends a quiet and beautiful life in the new year, and a good show! We continue asking for tickets for "2013 Best Work of the Year"!