Although the first session ended hastily, the one-sided situation in the Senate still made Li Yuanhong feel an unprecedented sense of crisis. After receiving the interrogation case from the Senate, he sent several long telegrams in succession, listing Zhang Zhenwu's charges in detail, trying his best to defend himself, and trying to win back some impression points.

However, he knows that although there is chaos in the Senate now, and he is vigorously denouncing himself, the main focus is not here, and the key to the problem is still Yuan Shikai, Sun Yat-sen, Huang Xing, Sun Yuanqi and other four or five people. As long as two or three of these people clearly support themselves, then their position as vice president will be as secure as Mount Tai."

But what is the attitude of these key people?

Let's talk about Yuan Shikai first.

Don't look at Li Yuanhong helping Yuan Shikai resolve the cabinet crisis before, and now Yuan Shikai is helping Li Yuanhong get rid of the big trouble in his heart, looking like you and me, in fact, it is just "knowing that it is not a companion, and accompanying each other in an emergency". Now that the cooperation between the two sides has ended, the mountains are mountains and the water is water, and there is no longer the slightest involvement.

And Yuan Shikai helped kill Zhang Zhenwu, and the intention was not so simple. This move not only dealt a blow to the forces of the Hubei Revolutionary Party, but also drove a wedge between Li Yuanhong and the League, forcing Li Yuanhong to move closer to Yuan Shikai, thus driving a wedge in the territory entrenched by the Southern Revolutionary Party. Moreover, after killing Zhang Zhenwu, Yuan Shikai immediately posted a public announcement and publicly published the secret telegrams exchanged between the two, which made Li Yuanhong fall into the situation pointed out by thousands of people at once, and seriously damaged the reputation of the vice president.

It's a clever plan to kill three birds with one stone!

Now Yuan Shikai also instructed the War Department to telegraph Li Yuanhong. Let him take the responsibility for killing Zhang Zhenwu and ask for punishment. Among them, the smell of conspiracy can be smelled by Li Yuanhong in Wuchang, Hubei, thousands of miles away. Thus. Yuan Shikai is unreliable. Don't say ask him to come forward to support, if he doesn't fall into the ground, Li Yuanhong should burn high incense!

The second said Sun Yat-sen.

Since Sun Yat-sen stepped down as provisional president, he has been traveling around Wuchang, Shanghai, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, and other places, nominally to inspect the construction of railways, but in fact he has given speeches everywhere to promote his Three People's Principles. By the way, brush up on the sense of presence.

Li Yuanhong thought that the relationship with Sun Yat-sen was still relatively close. In April, he invited Sun Yat-sen to Wuchang for inspection, and received him with a high standard throughout the whole process to ensure that Sun Yat-sen and his entourage had a good meal. Before leaving, there are good gifts to give; Sun Yat-sen strongly affirmed Li Yuanhong's meritorious service and praised him as "the first great man of the Republic of China". Both sides have their own place, and the guests and hosts are happy for a while. Moreover, Sun Yat-sen is a typical person who does not pay attention to the dead star, and likes to express his opinions on major domestic political events. There aren't many disciplines per se. This kind of person is best suited for wooing!

I heard that Sun Yat-sen was planning to invite Li Yuanhong and Huang Xing to go north together. He held a meeting with Yuan Shikai and Sun Yuanqi on the current major national policies. At that moment, Li Yuanhong sent people to visit Sun Yat-sen, hoping that he could come forward to "uphold justice".

Let's talk about Huang Xing.

On the surface, Li Yuanhong and Huang Xing were close comrades-in-arms who carried guns together, worked overtime together, and escaped together during the Wuchang uprising, and Huang Xing has always been humble and considerate for the revolution, regardless of fame and fortune, which should belong to Li Yuanhong's united front goal. But Li Yuanhong himself knows his own family affairs, and his relationship with Huang Xing is far from being as harmonious as the legend.

It is said that after the success of the Wuchang Shouyi, Li Yuanhong, who was then the 21st Mixed Association of the Army, was forcibly promoted to the throne of the governor of Hubei. At first, Li Yuanhong was very unhappy, but after sitting on it, he found that the governor was more than a little bit better than the original co-ordinator. I didn't want to move all of a sudden. At this time, Huang Xing came to Hubei to help.

Who is Huang Xing? That was the revolutionary leader of the League who could compete with Sun Yat-sen for a day, and he came. And what is the matter with Li Yuanhong? And on the way to Hubei, Huang Xing discussed with his peers: "Li Songqing is not a revolutionary, and after I arrive in Wuchang, I should replace him and temporarily call him the governor of the two lakes." Li Yuanhong, who tasted the sweetness, naturally refused to give up the throne of the governor, and the literary society and the communist association, which had a heavy regional concept in Hubei and did not have much to deal with the alliance, did not want outsiders to take over, so they planned a farce of "worshipping the generals on stage".

The stage of worshipping the generals recorded in the history books is a ceremony made by Liu Bang in order to enhance the prestige of Han Xin. However, Huang Xing's prestige is outstanding, far above Li Yuanhong, why should he improve by "taking the stage to worship the general"? The real purpose of playing this play is to compare Li Yuanhong to Liu Bang and Huang Xing to Han Xin, and clarify the relationship between the two superiors and subordinates. Of course, Huang Xing also knew this, but for the sake of the overall situation of the revolution, he had to pinch his nose and admit it.

Confessing is admitting, but it doesn't mean that he doesn't have complaints in his heart. When the situation in Hubei was subsided, Sun Yat-sen arrived in Shanghai to prepare for the establishment of a provisional central government, and Huang Xing resolutely left Hubei. Want to win over Huang Xing now? Difficult!

Sure enough, before Li Yuanhong could call Huang Xing, Huang Xing took the initiative to call Yuan Shikai and scolded Li Yuanhong, which roughly means:

Hello President.

When I heard that Zhang Zhenwu was shot a few days ago, I was shocked! Today, I learned on the Internet that the original national security announcement of Zhang Zhenwu's crime was completely reprinted from the vice president's small report.

The crimes mentioned in the post, such as forming cliques and forming cliques and being leaderless, seem to be problems of life style and have nothing to do with counterrevolutionary crimes. In the end, in the final analysis, it is the words "love can neither be loved, but it is also unbearable", what can not be loved and can't bear Zhang Zhenwu, is it the vice president's personal feelings? Or is it an impartial judgment of the laws of the country?

Please give an explanation from the government, so that we, the masses who do not know the truth, can feel the warmth of the country.

Best regards!

Yuan Shikai's handling of this petition letter was to directly transfer it to Li Yuanhong, the client. Li Yuanhong jumped to his feet angrily after reading it: What is the specific situation of shooting Zhang Zhenwu, don't you Yuan Shikai know? What does it mean to forward the letter directly to me? Want me to confess?

Although he was angry, the letter forwarded by Yuan Shikai still had to be replied to seriously. If he doesn't reply, Huang Xing will definitely make trouble. Since he can't be co-opted, at least he can't be stumbled. So Li Yuanhong had no choice but to write a reply letter in a low voice. While reminiscing about the friendship of last year's comrades, he told his feelings as a last resort. After Li Yuanhong finished writing, he was moved to tears.

Finally, Sun Yuanqi.

Li Yuanhong and Sun Yuanqi have only one side. That is, at the beginning of this year, Sun Yuanqi went out of Sichuan and passed through Wuchang. To be honest, Li Yuanhong didn't have much of an impression of Sun Yuanqi, nor did he have a good impression. In his opinion, Sun Yuanqi is very young, very handsome, and very elegant, and he is a typical son of a famous family and a young talent. Edify in the Hanlin Academy, and then go out to experience a few years, and then return to the dynasty to be a squire and a scholar. It's also stylish.

But when is it? Now is the turbulent era of changing the dynasty and competing for the deer, Sun Yuanqi talks about Shen Ji's silent luck, wisdom and bravery, which is not as good as Yuan Shikai; On the measurement of events, the mind is open, not as good as Sun Yat-sen; On hard work and perseverance. not as good as Huang Keqiang; It is said that the generals are good at guarding the soldiers, and treating people with kindness. He can't compare to himself. It's just that he got the land of Sichuan and Shaanxi by luck, and after all, he is a figure like Liu Biao and Liu Zhang, which is not important.

Although the New China Party is now trying its best to defeat Li in the Senate, Li Yuanhong is very confident in convincing Sun Yuanqi, because the Yangtze River Waterway and the Han Yeping Company are in his hands. If he didn't know how to lift, after Hubei was pacified, he wouldn't mind leading the elite soldiers of the eight towns along the river in the name of suppressing bandits. Pacify Bashu and do Liu Bei!

Thinking of this, Li Yuanhong was in a happy mood. He wrote a letter to Sun Yuanqi, in which he mentioned the murder of Zhang Zhenwu, but talked about the relationship between Sichuan and Hubei provinces, and warned Sun Yuanqi in a hidden way. Li Yuanhong believes that as long as Yuan Shikai and Sun Yuanqi remain neutral, even if Huang Xing takes advantage of the danger of others, he is 100% sure that the murder of Zhang Zhenwu will be turned into a major and trivial matter.

In addition to the Zhang Zhenwu case in Beijing, Li Yuanhong is most concerned about whether Xiangyang can be pacified as soon as possible and Zhang Guoquan and Fang Wei can be arrested. The attack on Xiangyang and Yunyang was mainly carried out by the seventh and eighth towns of the Hubei army.

The seventh town of the Hubei army has the jurisdiction of the thirteenth and fourteenth associations, which were originally stationed in Jingzhou, Yichang, and Shinan, because Jingmen Prefecture is close to Xiangyang and is on the way to Fang Wei's escape, so the seventh town was transferred out to pursue Fang Wei's department, but it did not happen, but it caused the emptiness of Yichang Mansion, giving the Sichuan army Liu Mingzhao and Yin Changheng an opportunity.

As for the eighth town of the Hubei army, it was originally planned to be stationed in Xiangyang and Yunyang, but Xiangyang has always been entrenched by Zhang Guoquan, and they have to live in other prefectures and counties. This time to pursue Fang Wei and take the task of leveling Zhang Guoquan's troops, they naturally had to take the lead.

Although these two towns were formed not long ago, and the training was a little hasty, they both had the old foundation of the eighth town of the former Qing Army, and there were tens of thousands of people, and more than half of the weapons were brand-new Hanyang-made, which can be regarded as relatively neat regular troops. On the other hand, looking at the strength of the opponent, although Fang Wei's generals and guards were well-trained and well-equipped, the number of them was only about 2,000; Zhang Guoquan has a lot of subordinates, and he is fully organized into three associations, but he is a farmer with a wooden stick and a kitchen knife, so he is not afraid at all. Therefore, for this battle, Li Yuanhong is confident, and the seventh town is also confident in controlling Tang Xizhi and the eighth town controlling Ji Yulin.

Four days after Fang Wei's troops hurriedly evacuated Xiangyang, the seventh and eighth towns finally met in the Yicheng area, and then went north to approach Xiangyang Mansion. Although Zhang Guoquan hated Fang Wei, who caused trouble, he was unwilling to withdraw from Xiangyang, so he personally led three associations under his command to fortify outside the city, preparing to meet the invading enemy army.

Although Tang Xizhi and Ji Yulin looked down on Zhang Guoquan, the head of the shed (squad leader), they did not dare to take it lightly, after all, there were seven or eight thousand people in the three associations on the other side. Even if there are seven or eight thousand pigs waiting for them to be caught, there will be some damage under the conflict! How much more are seven or eight thousand young men with weapons in hand? The seventh and eighth towns set up camp in accordance with the infantry drills, dug trenches, and properly arranged the positions of infantry and artillery. At six o'clock the next morning, Ji Yulin gave an order, and the two towns concentrated the only dozens of mountain-splitting guns and mortars and began to bombard Zhang Guoquan's position indiscriminately.

At this moment, most of Zhang Guoquan's people have just gotten up, some are getting dressed, some are looking for food everywhere, and some are still dozing off. When the first calibrated shell landed in the camp, everyone was a little confused, and at the same time turned their heads to look in the direction of the explosion. Immediately after that, dozens of shells smashed down on their heads and faces, and everyone suddenly came to their senses, and the shouts, cries, and screams rang out, and many soldiers ran around the position like headless flies until they were torn to pieces by the shells. I don't know who shouted: "Run!" Everyone seemed to hear the order, and at the same time turned around and ran in the direction of Xiangyang.

By the time the Hubei army was ready for 10 minutes to complete the artillery bombardment, only the bombed barracks, the dead and wounded everywhere, and the defeated troops of Zhang Guoquan's troops who were rushing several kilometers away. (To be continued......)

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