Chapter 496: Huanggang Uprising
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Ying Yu left with doubts, leaving behind a large number of factories and some machines, Chen Hao had to arrange for the Whampoa Shipyard to produce warships, and also to restore production in the factory as soon as possible, and he was busy for a while. After serving as the admiral of the Guangdong Navy Division, he occupied two shipyards and more than a dozen factories in Yingyu in one go, and the talents in internal affairs were suddenly insufficient.
In desperation, Chen Hao could only choose the champion among the dwarfs, and instructed Yang Du to send a group of NPCs with so-so internal affairs ability to come to Guangdong and be responsible for managing various factories. In addition, he had to contact Silva to help purchase civil machinery, and Silva had been vague about military machinery, but the famous machine was very happy to help with the purchase.
When a large number of machines arrived in Huangpu, Silva gave Chen Hao a surprise, he bought Krupp's artillery technology and Germany's advanced armor technology. With these two technologies, in addition to the steel that needs to be purchased, Chen Hao can independently produce various models of cruisers.
The construction of a steelmaking plant requires a suitable location, and Chen Hao does not have it yet, but it is not too difficult to import steel. The construction of the four Invincible-class battlecruisers at Cam Ranh Bay Shipyard was completed at the same time, and now most of them have been completed, and after waiting for the first batch of battleships to be delivered to Russia, Chen Hao can immediately build new ships for his fleet.
Chen Hao asked Silva to help buy the blueprints for the dreadnought, but Silva told him that the British were not willing to sell. The Dreadnought-class battleship is a first-class battleship today, and the British are unwilling to leak their technology, so Chen Hao can only find another way. After learning that he was going to buy the dreadnought blueprints, Wang Donglai, who had already arrived in Cam Ranh Bay, asked him to postpone the purchase, thinking that he could use the Invincible-class battleship instead.
Just like Chen Hao remembers, Wang Donglai has an unparalleled talent in warship design, after getting a lot of technical information at the Cam Ranh Bay Shipyard. His ship design skills advanced by leaps and bounds. Due to the similarities between the drawings of the Dreadnought class and the Invincible class, Wang Donglai prepared to directly design a drawing of a super dreadnought ship according to the design drawings of the Invincible class and after consulting the armor technology from Germany.
Players need to design warships to reach a certain level of cultural attributes, and at the same time, there are also requirements for "ship design" life skills, and the "ship design" of designing battleships must be at least at the grandmaster level. Wang Donglai has been obsessed with ships since he entered the game. And he does have a talent for this, and the ship design has reached the master level.
Wang Donglai is confident that he will be able to draw the blueprint of the super-dreadnought in the near future, because his "ship design" is not far from the Grandmaster class. He had already drawn the blueprints of the superdreadnought, but due to the lack of skill, the system would always judge that his drawings had various conflicts and could not build a complete warship.
Once Wang Donglai's "Ship Design" advances to the Grandmaster level, Chen Hao is likely to have the construction blueprints of the Super Dreadnought, but the player is not 100% successful in drawing the drawings, and it will take some luck to do it. Despite the desperate desire to produce dreadnoughts. Chen Hao finally chose to trust Wang Donglai and only built Invincible-class battle cruisers for the time being.
Chen Hao, the industrial zone left by Eagle Feather, is ready to be kept temporarily, as long as he is still serving as the commander of the water master, no one will dare to touch his industry. Most of Huangpu's factories are light industry, and in order for such factories to be profitable, there must be a large market, and there is no suitable place to build a new industrial zone outside Guangdong Chenhao.
When Chen Hao was busy in Huangpu, the revolutionary party held two uprisings in Guangdong, and Cen Chunxuan, the governor of Liangguang, ordered Chen Hao to lead the sailors to suppress it. was pushed by Chen Hao with excuses. After the failure of the Pingliuli uprising, the Qing government demanded that the Japanese government expel Sun Yat-sen from the country. March 4, 1907. Sun Yat-sen was forced to leave Japan for Annam, and immediately after arriving in Hanoi, he set up a general organ to lead the armed uprising in the southwest at No. 61 Ganbida Street, preparing to organize and lead the uprisings in Guangdong, Guangxi, and Yunnan provinces nearby.
Sun Yat-sen once went to Cam Ranh Bay to visit Chen Hao, preparing to let Chen Hao take the lead in the uprising, but unfortunately Chen Hao was not in Cam Ranh Bay. Sun Yat-sen begged Yang Du to help contact Chen Hao and ask if he could support the uprising. Chen Hao refused because the time was not yet ripe. After Sun Yat-sen's repeated persuasion failed, he finally said, "If the Baxian brothers sympathize with the revolution, even if they don't rise up, I hope you don't send troops to suppress the revolutionary comrades."
Sun Yat-sen's request was not excessive, and Chen Hao readily agreed. Anyway, he was at odds with Cen Chunxuan, and if he did not cooperate with the suppression, he would not be suspected of leaning towards revolution. In history, the Huanggang Uprising and the Qinuhu Uprising organized by the revolutionary party were suppressed by the Guangdong Naval Division, even if Sun Yat-sen did not say that Chen Hao did not have the idea of sending troops to suppress the revolution, because he wanted to see how history would change if he did not send troops.
Sun Yat-sen held that Guangdong, Guangxi, and Yunnan provinces are located in the border areas, have a good mass base, are easy to mobilize, and have a wide territory that is convenient for roundabout operations, and is especially conducive to transporting weapons and personnel from abroad. For this reason, Sun Yat-sen decided to revolt at the same time in Qinzhou and Lianzhou in the west of Guangdong, and Chaozhou and Huizhou in the east.
Xu Xueqiu, a revolutionary, was responsible for leading the uprising in the Chaozhou direction, and he did the work of mobilizing and organizing the party through the leaders of the Hui Party, Yu Jicheng, Chen Yongbo, He Ziyuan, Xiao Huichang, and others. Due to the leakage, it aroused the vigilance of Huang Jinfu, the chief soldier of Qingchao Prefecture, and Longxi, the capital of Huanggang. On May 21, Huang Jinfu sent dozens of soldiers to Huanggang Town, and arrested 2 members of the congregation under the pretext of arresting them. The next day, Yu Jicheng and others gathered more than 200 party members to revolt outside Huanggang City.
Players are not fools, and if the story missions are not changed significantly, no one will participate in the uprising of the revolutionary party before the Xinhai year. Although a large number of players did not participate in the Huanggang Uprising launched by the Revolutionary Party, many players secretly provided arms to the Revolutionary Party. The reason why players are so active is that although the uprising failed, a large number of NPCs with good attributes went into exile in Hong Kong. They built good relations in advance, preparing to save the next group of revolutionary party elders when the uprising failed, and if they could be subdued, it would be the best, and if they could not be subdued, they could also gain a lot of benefits after the revolutionary party gained power.
With sufficient arms supplies, the NPC of the Revolutionary Party conquered Huanggang after a night of bloody battles, and established a military government in the old capital Siyamen on the 23rd, with Chen Yongbo as the commander, Yu Jicheng and Zhang Yue as the deputy commanders, and issued a proclamation to the people in the name of "Sun Yat-sen, the governor of the Guangdong National Army."
The rebel army was highly disciplined and innocent, so it was well supported by the masses, and the poor people in the vicinity joined the rebel army, and the number soon grew to 6,000 people. Due to the haste of the uprising, the specific presiding officer did not understand the overall plan, and only after the incident did he send someone to Hong Kong to ask Xu Xueqiu to supervise the rebel army.
The Qing army of the Golden Blessing Department had arrived in Chaozhou, 20 miles away from Huanggang, and the rebel army decided to divide the troops into two routes, one led by Chen Yongbo to Chaozhou and Shantou, with the goal of taking advantage of the Golden Blessing to lead the troops out and capture their lair; One route was led by Yu Jicheng, and went directly to Chaozhou to attack the Golden Fubu.
The two armies set off at the same time, and the rest arrived at Chaozhou at dawn, and the Qing army had already prepared, so the first battle was lost. The rebel army that attacked Chaoshan, learned of the defeat of Chaozhou, changed the plan and transferred to the rest of the rebel army. The two roads will attack the Golden Fuqing Army.
Historically, at this time, the reinforcements led by Li Zhun, the commander of the Guangdong Navy, arrived and attacked the rebel army together with Huang Jinfu, resulting in the rebel army failing to capture Chaozhou. On the 27th, Chen Xueqiu and Yu Jicheng decided to disband their troops and move to Hong Kong, and the uprising was declared a failure.
In the game, Chen Hao served as the commander of the Guangdong Naval Division, and Li Zhun was only his lieutenant, and he had just arrived and was not familiar with the Naval Division, and refused to suppress it under the pretext of not being familiar with the Naval Division. Without a sailor to support the Qing Army's Golden Blessing Department, history took a turn here, and the revolutionary party uprising team defeated Chaozhou. After the defeat of Chaozhou, the revolutionary party gained momentum, the uprising team grew to more than 10,000 people, and many players hiding behind it also became active.
Players are reluctant to participate in the uprising of the Revolutionary Party because they know the outcome of the uprising, but now that history has turned a corner, they can't help but care. If the Huanggang Uprising really succeeded, the Qing Dynasty was overthrown ahead of schedule, and the participants in the uprising would have the identity of a revolutionary party veteran, which would be of great help to future development.
Wang Laochuan is a well-known player in Chaozhou, he built a base on the outskirts of Chaozhou, and he provided NPCs with 200 guns before the outbreak of the Huanggang Uprising. He had been keeping an eye on the NPC's uprising, and after the Revolutionary Party conquered Teochew, he keenly sensed that this was a good opportunity.
Wang Laochuan thought about it seriously for a long time, and he thought that Chen Baxian served as the commander of the Guangdong Navy Division, and it was impossible to send troops to suppress the revolution. Although Chen Baxian has always held an official position in the imperial court, he has been ambiguous with the revolutionary party and has never suppressed the behavior of the revolutionary party. If he was forced by the imperial court to lead the sailor to suppress it this time, then his seven years of hard work in the game would be in vain, and he obviously wouldn't do that.
The Qing Army's Golden Blessing Department has been wiped out by the Revolutionary Party, and the Qing Army's patrol battalion in Guangdong no longer has many troops, and its combat effectiveness is not strong. According to history, an uprising will soon break out at the Seven Girls Lake, and the two rebel armies will really defeat the Yamen of the Governor of Guangdong without the suppression of the water division......
Wang Laochuan's heart was hot, he felt that this was a good opportunity, so he led his two thousand players to join the rebel army. Even if this uprising doesn't really succeed, as long as the city of Guangzhou is conquered, he can gain a high reputation in the game by participating in the uprising, and it will not be a loss.
Wang Laochuan is definitely not the only one who has this kind of thought, and many bosses near Chaoshan have thought about it and have led their players to join.
When the Seven Girls Lake Uprising broke out, some players who tried to take advantage of the opportunistic approached NPCs and received quests to become members of the rebel army.
There are more than 10,000 NPCs in the uprising force, but the player army has swelled to more than 40,000 people, replacing NPCs as the main force of the uprising. Cen Chunxuan, the governor of Liangguang, was shocked, and successively complained to the imperial court, and angrily reprimanded Chen Baxian, the commander of the Guangdong Navy, for not sending troops to suppress the revolution.
Chen Hao now has a new excuse, there are more than 50,000 bandits, and his sailors are only more than 6,000 people, and he is powerless to suppress them. If he had sent troops to suppress it, and the bandits had divided their forces to capture the Whampoa wharf, it would have been a disaster for a large number of ironclad ships to fall into the hands of the revolutionary party. (To be continued......)