Chapter 47: Chain Reaction
Nanjing, 16 January 19o7.
Under the instigation of the Shanghai branch of Xingke Group, the ninth town revolted in the early hours of this morning!
The Ninth Town is the first new army unit of the Qing court to implement the conscription system, and many young people with revolutionary ideological tendencies signed up for the army during conscription, such as Zhao Sheng, the author of "Baoguo Anthem", the famous revolutionary, is now serving as the 33rd standard commander, and there are also famous revolutionary parties such as Bai Wenwei, Ni Yingdian, Xiong Chengji, Lin Zhixia, Lin Shuqing, Tao Junbao, and Leng Shu (Leng Yuqiu).
With so many revolutionary parties, the Ninth Town can be said to have the strongest revolutionary atmosphere in the New Army troops, but these revolutionaries are not all one family, there are fans of Sun Wen, fans of Huang Xing, and of course supporters of the Restoration Society. Well, at least nominally, they are all alliances, and Zhao Sheng is the leader of the "Yangtze River Basin Alliance".
The Si Guxin, who stabbed the high-ranking officials of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, was the 33rd target, Zhao Sheng's direct subordinate. He is a native of Wujin County, Jiangnan, a son of a middle peasant, who has been admitted to Xiucai, and after the abolition of the imperial examination by the Qing court, he joined the ninth town of the Nanyang New Army as a soldier, and successively served as the 33rd Infantry Biaozheng (squad leader), deputy shed commander, shed commander (platoon commander), and finally served as the former team officer (company commander) of the second battalion (battalion commander Leng Yuqiu).
He was deeply influenced by the anti-Manchu propaganda of the revolutionary party in the army, and was also influenced by the idea of "Materialist China" recommended by friends of the Liberation Society, and he was dissatisfied with the Manchus for a long time. This action to quell the "bandits" made him extremely resistant. So he took advantage of the swearing-in meeting to suddenly pull out a gun and shoot the high-ranking officials of the banner people who came to the meeting.
Although Sgushin was taken down on the spot, he planned to be beheaded three days later. But his assassination was a trigger, and the officials in Nanking were so frightened that after martial law was imposed on the whole city, they ordered the Ninth Town to conduct a comprehensive search for the Revolutionary Party. The high-ranking officials of the banner people felt that the Ninth Town could no longer be trusted, so they asked the Ninth Town to disarm and wait for investigation, and asked Jiangning General Qingrui to mobilize the garrison of the Eight Banners and patrol battalions to surround the New Army garrison and "assist in the investigation" of the revolutionaries.
Well, the Qing court's idea is good, after purging those trouble-making revolutionary parties, the rest are still good classmates.
But the question is, does the Revolutionary Party in the Ninth Town still need to be investigated?
You must know that at least two-thirds of the people in this town are revolutionaries and their sympathizers, and the revolutionary party organizations are already semi-open. Even Xu Shaozhen, the commander of the system, was a sympathizer of the revolutionary party, and he always turned a blind eye to the propaganda and organization of the revolutionary party in the army, pretending not to know, and even helping to cover up. Duanfang, the governor of Liangjiang, was aware of it, so he was suspicious of Xu Shaozhen and his new army's ninth town.
If it is really investigated, even Xu Shaozhen will not be able to escape.
At the same time, a rumor began to circulate in the New Army: all revolutionaries and those who had dealings with revolutionaries would be executed and their families would be implicated. This rumor has eyebrows and eyes, and even who said it, when it said it, who the planner is, and who the executor is, it is clear. Coupled with General Jiang Ning's sharp actions, this rumor was immediately confirmed.
"Nima, the Qing court is going to tear their faces! If you really want to let them get started, can everyone still live?" The officers and soldiers of the Ninth Town suddenly couldn't sit still.
"Damn, since the Qing court is going to do something to us, we can't sit still and just turn around!"
"Yes, we respond to the Kyodo News Agency in Hubei!"
On the night of the 15th, Zhao Sheng and other members of the alliance discussed it briefly and soon decided to start an uprising at 3 o'clock in the morning tomorrow.
At this time, several members of the Restoration Society, who were usually inconspicuous, took out a large number of grenades and ammunition from an abandoned warehouse and distributed them to everyone. According to them, this was saved in the previous preparations for the uprising. As for why those grenades are exactly the same as Kyodosha's O6 type (original space-time 67 type), everyone didn't pay attention to it when they were excited.
Now, because most of the bullets were confiscated, the problem of lack of ammunition was solved.
Moreover, these people also provided a very detailed battle plan and map, where to control first, how to distribute personnel, where to be more important, and so on. Naturally, these things are also left over from the "past", uh, you said that the ink on those plans doesn't seem to be dry, ahem, don't care about such trivial things......
There was not the slightest suspense in the course of the uprising, since most of the ammunition of the Forces nouvelles had been collected in advance, and the garrison of the Eight Banners and the patrol battalions had little defense. Coupled with the fact that their combat strength was only five, they were far worse than the new army, and after the new army came with a grenade and bayonet charge, they knelt. Almost all of the patrol battalions surrendered, Jiangning General Qingrui was killed by a grenade, and the garrison of the Eight Banners fled into the city to defend.
The New Army of the Uprising quickly followed the plan and took control of various important locations in Nanjing, and rescued Xu Shaozhen, the commander who was detained in the Governor's Palace. The righteous soldier Sgusin, who assassinated Liangbi and Duanfang, was also rescued from prison by the rebels.
By nine o'clock in the morning, all of Nanjing, except for Mancheng, had been controlled by the rebel army. At this time, a fleet of ships from Shanghai docked at the Nanjing wharf. This is a group of international friends, well, they claim to be a multinational foreign firm, this foreign firm has never heard of it, what is called "Amalgan", Chinese means "amalgam".
It doesn't matter, though. This group of international friends claims to be an international humanitarian organization that provides all kinds of humanitarian assistance to the liberation movements of oppressed peoples around the world. The uprising in the Ninth Town was in line with their philosophy, so they sent a special batch of aid.
There were 6 ships of munitions, 1oo 7mm Makqin machine guns, 15ooo Chuntian MK1 rifles and matching ammunition, as well as 30,000 grenades and 5o explosive projectiles, which were the regular versions of the "unconscionable guns", as well as a large number of explosives, with detailed manuals.
Of course, these things are not given away for nothing, they accept all kinds of hard currency. At this time, the rebel army was not short of money, and they not only took the treasury, but also raided the homes of the city officials, and collected a lot of silver dollars, gold, silver and jewelry. What they are most lacking now is ammunition, the amount of ammunition provided by the Liberation Society is limited, and they can fight two more battles at most, and the grenades are almost used. It is not easy to buy a large number of weapons and ammunition in a short time, and the "amalgam" has solved this problem.
With plenty of weapons and ammunition, Ninth Town began to deal with the final nail of the city. The explosives fired by the "conscienceless cannon" quickly destroyed the city wall, but the garrison Eight Banners feared their retaliation, so instead of surrendering, they desperately resisted, and the bannermen joined in. After turning to street fighting, the casualties of the rebels began to rise, so the rebels who killed the red eyes moved the "conscienceless cannon" and heavy machine guns into the city and ran over inch by inch.
At seven o'clock in the evening, the last resistance of the bannermen in the vice-capital was destroyed by two explosive packets, and at this time, almost all the bannermen in the city were killed. As many as 6oo casualties made the rebels red-eyed, and the new army was not a pLa that treated prisoners preferentially. So they began to kill the prisoners with a vengeance, starting with the young men...... By the time Xu Shaozhen heard the news, there were more than 3oo women and children left in the entire city.
At this point, Xu Shaozhen also knew that he was on a thief ship, and if he didn't fight back, he would have to go back. So after Zhao Sheng and other members of the alliance persuaded him, he finally made up his mind to participate in the uprising.
At 3 p.m. on the 16th, Xu Shaozhen telegraphed the whole country in the name of the ninth town and announced the uprising. After all, Xu Shaozhen was a high-ranking officer with rich experience, and while he reorganized the troops, maintained order in the city, and organized the cleaning of the battlefield in the city, he sent troops to seize important strongholds near Nanjing.
The content of the telegram in the ninth town is almost exactly the same as that of Kyodo She, which is also to demand that the Qing court abdicate and Yuan Shikai preside over the transitional government. As soon as the power came out, the world was shocked.
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The uprising in the ninth town became a chain reaction. On January 17, Zhu Rui, the 81st standard commander of the 41st Association of the 21st Town of Hangzhou, and Zhou Chenghua, the 82nd standard commander, led their subordinates to revolt. The 21st Town was also a new army unit with a high concentration of revolution, and the middle and lower rank officers and key non-commissioned officers were basically infiltrated by the revolutionary party. Zhu Rui and Zhou Chenghua were in trouble, and the entire twenty-first town responded.
Several high-ranking officers such as Xiao Xingyuan were reluctant to participate, but they could not stop it, so they had to abscond out of the city. Zhang Zengyang, the governor of Zhejiang, was a hardcore of the Qing court and was ready to defend the governor's yamen, but a group of officials were unwilling to bury him, so they secretly opened it and let the rebels in. In the end, the governor was "self-immolated".
The banner camp in Hangzhou knew each other a lot, and Dutong Deji saw that the momentum was not right, and immediately prepared to surrender. Only a die-hard nobleman named Guilin was unwilling to surrender, and was ready to slaughter the Han people in Hangzhou in retaliation, which was of course a shameful failure, and the 2oo multi-banner people death squad he organized had just left the city, and was beaten into a sieve by Makqin, who had been waiting for a long time. Subsequently, Hangzhou opened the city without blood, and Dutong Deji surrendered to the rebel army.
On January 18, Zhu Rui sent a telegram to the whole country on behalf of the 21st Town, announcing the uprising.
By the way, before the uprising in the 21st Town, Zhu Rui and other revolutionary parties also received "humanitarian relief materials" from a group of "international friends......
On January 21, at the instigation of the Yue Wang Society, the 31st Mixed Association revolted in Anqing. Because the revolutionary foundation of the 31st Mixed Association was not good, the revolution was not considered a success. After a day of fighting in Anqing, the rebels withdrew from Anqing City due to lack of ammunition, at which time the "Amalgam" arrived, aided a batch of weapons and ammunition, and built a temporary transfer to Jiangnan Zhan. Afterwards, they helped them cross the Yangtze River and captured the Chizhou capital. Subsequently, the rebel army in Anhui took control of half of Anhui in the south of the Yangtze River and confronted the Qing army in the north of the Yangtze River.
After learning about the relevant information, the regional leaders of Xingke Group said:, Sister Cromy, you are so talented! Even the "amalgam" has come out. Do you think we're going to have a "Decepticon" or "Nord Brotherhood" or something?
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Spurred on by a series of uprisings, Kyodo in Hanyang could not sit still. After many discussions with Wen Desi, President Rosie finally came up with a killer weapon - the "Dragon Tooth" special forces.
This is the second appearance in history of the "Dragon's Tooth" special forces of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, in fact, this unit was formed in September last year, and it has been conducting various hellish training for the past year and has not participated in the war. Comrade Rosie really couldn't stand the constraints of the Hubei fleet, and Wuchang City was poked in front of his eyes, which was too much of an eyesore, and he finally asked to use this trump card.
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