Back to the Republic of China as a commander

Wang Zhenyu swore secretly, martyrs, I will definitely avenge you.

The first person in the Gan army system to respond to Li Liejun was Ouyang Wu, the commander of the third division of the Gan army and the guardian envoy of Ganzhou. This buddy was put together by Yuan Shikai during the Second Revolution, so he had the least worries about this rebellion. , Naturally, the army is the most active.The other two division commanders are still on the sidelines because they defected and betrayed Li Liejun during the Second Revolution.

It's a pity that neither Tao Zhiyue's third assault group nor Cheng Qian's fourth assault group planned to give them a chance to continue to wait and see. In the early morning of February [-]th, the [-] youth army launched an attack on Jiangxi, and Long Yunfei personally He commanded [-] cavalry to be the first to break through the fragile border and enter Jiangxi. . .

Chapter 232 The Great March ([-])

In Nanjing, Feng Guozhang’s mansion had just changed the door and hung the signboard of the Tour Envoy of the Five Provinces. Feng Guozhang and Wang Shizhen, who stayed to help, did not speak. Both of them looked at the big map on the table with solemn faces.The news that the youth army launched an attack on Hubei and Jiangxi at the same time reached Nanjing by telegram this morning, which made Feng Guozhang, who was still mobilizing the army, very passive.

"Hua Fu, I'm afraid this battle will be difficult. Hubei and Jiangxi don't have the kind of army that can survive to the end. The youth army is now in full swing. I'm afraid we won't be able to stop it." The tone of voice said such a fact.

Feng Guozhang nodded and said: "Wang Zhanyuan sent me a telegram a few days ago, saying that Hubei can't hold it, so it's better to withdraw the second division as soon as possible, so that at least we can save a little spare energy for the future. Fortunately, I didn't agree to him right away, and now it seems that the strength of a division close to their second division will not be able to defend Wuhan. But if Wuhan is easily lost, I will not be able to explain it to the President."

Wang Shizhen shook his head and said: "The battle has reached this point, it is not a matter of gains and losses for one city and one place at all. Huafu, Jiangsu and Zhejiang are the big heads of taxation, and they are the lifeblood of my Beiyang. As long as we hold here, What is lost now, we can still regain it. So for the Second Division, let them go by water and withdraw as soon as possible. As for the army in Hubei, it is the right way to give them more benefits and let them stick to it."

As soon as Feng Guozhang heard it, he knew what Wang Shizhen was up to. He wanted to use the Hubei army to consume the energy of the youth army and buy some time for his side.

Feng Guozhang nodded and said: "At present, it seems that this is the only way to go. The President has to ask Brother Qing to explain. In addition, please transfer the First Division and Zhang Xun's Dingwu Army as soon as possible. As for the [-]th Division and the [-]th Division In my opinion, it is better to stay in Xuzhou. In this war, the more soldiers the better, the more troops come, the greater the demand for various materials.”

Wang Shizhen did not speak, but nodded in agreement.

At this time in Anjiang, something Feng Guozhang and Wang Shizhen didn't know about was happening. If they knew the inside story, they wouldn't have let the Second Division withdraw from Wuhan so quickly.

"I've heard about the name of Marshal Wang for a long time, and now I see him today to know what it means to be young and promising. He's going to transform himself into a dragon, and his name is Jiwu." A middle-aged man who is over forty, not tall, and with a goatee greets us very politely. Wang Zhenyu's classmate.

"So it's Chairman Tang, I've admired him for a long time!" Wang Zhenyu naturally knew who Tang Hualong was, so he naturally greeted him politely.

"There is still a speaker there, even the Congress is gone, Tang is just a commoner now, no, he came here to seek advice from Marshal Wang." Tang Hualong's self-familiar personality really suits Wang Zhenyu's taste.

"Mr. Tang is the founding father of [-]. It is also an honor for Wang to receive Mr. Wang. I hope Mr. Wang does not need to be too humble." Wang Zhenyu is not in a hurry to talk about things, so let's go around slowly. This is also his experience after dealing with many politicians in this era.

Tang Hualong was also a well-known figure in the Republic of China, the leading figure of the constitutionalists, before he was assassinated and killed by the Kuomintang, this man was not left behind in almost all major political events in the Republic of China.During the Revolution of [-], it was Tang Hualong who pushed Li Yuanhong to be the governor of the Hubei military government. After Hanyang fell, he went to Shanghai with Huang Xing, and naturally participated in the formation of the Nanjing Provisional Government.After the North-South peace talks, he was in it again. Before the second revolution, he and Liang Qichao tossed a Progressive Party, and he was at odds with Yuan Shikai.During the second revolution, he sent a telegram to oppose the violent revolution. Of course, it was not because he supported Yuan Shikai, but because he felt that the revolutionaries had made a mistake.Facts have proved that if the revolutionary party did not engage in a second revolution and directly intensified the contradictions, Yuan Shikai would not have dared to dissolve the Congress and abolish the provisional agreement so recklessly.

After the Second Revolution, Tang Hualong also took advantage of the east wind of the war to actively expand the Hubei family, not only won the territory of Hunan, but also won some power for the central government.It's a pity that Yuan Shikai played a trick to draw salary from the bottom of the pot, and then Zhang Zhenwu's case tricked Li Yuanhong into Beijing to become a nominal vice president, and then the Beiyang army occupied Hubei and stationed troops in Hunan.The Hubei department, which was originally full of vitality, was immediately brutally suppressed, but Tang Hualong did not feel depressed.When Yuan Shikai decided to proclaim himself emperor, Tang Hualong felt that his chance had come.

He, Liang Qichao and Xiong Xiling had been hiding in the concession in Tianjin before, discussing the changes in the situation in secret.Don't look at the banner of the National Socialist Party on Wang Zhenyu's side, but in fact, in the north, the name of the Progressive Party is getting bigger and bigger.Cai E was a student of Liang Qichao, and Wang Zhenyu's uncle and nephew were also under the name of Xiong Xiling, so the two were also regarded as the main leaders of this war to protect the country for a while.In particular, Liang Qichao personally drafted and released the provocative document on Yuan in Tianjin. From the perspective of politicians in Beijing and Tianjin, the Progressive Party is the general backstage of this war.

Compared with Liang Qichao and Xiong Xiling, Tang Hualong doesn't have many cards to play.However, people from Hubei are famous for their nine-headed bird. What they are best at is fighting landlords, and what they play is to use small things to make big gains.And in Tang Hualong's hand, there is also a little king, which is an easy card to play.

Once the war starts, it means that various political forces will reshuffle their positions.Tang Hualong was no exception. He quickly negotiated with Xiong Xiling and Liang Qichao. Once Yuan was forced to step down, he would support Li Yuanhong as president, Xiong Xiling as prime minister, Liang Qichao as finance minister, and himself as interior minister or speaker.Now that an agreement has been reached on the distribution of benefits after the war, the next question is easy to discuss. Everyone's goal is how to bring Yuan Shikai down as soon as possible.

There is a sentence in Clausewitz's "On War" that is absolutely correct. Military is just a continuation of politics. Tang Hualong's mind revived again when he saw his strength.He changed his original plan, no longer through Xiong Xiling, but went to Wang Zhenyu to discuss cooperation in person.So he came to Xiangxi and Anjiang at great risk.At this time, Li Yuanhong had already begun to flee south to Hankou.

Since he wanted something from others, Tang Hualong decided to go straight to the point after going around for a while: "Marshal Wang, this fight against Yuan is a battle of justice, and your Excellency has contributed a lot, but I don't know what will happen after the war or after overthrowing the Yuan thief. What plan."

Okay, let’s get to the point, Wang Zhenyu said with a light smile: “Then what long-term plan can we have? We lead troops, that is, to defend a country to appease the people, to defend justice and peace, and have no other ideas? That’s all for big shots. matter."

Tang Hualong rolled his eyes in his heart, he is lying, he has raised no less than 20 troops, and even created a National Socialist Party to serve as its own leader. If you only want to defend justice and peace, it is a joke.But on the surface, he said without any fluctuations: "Tang is very impressed by Marshal Wang's love for the people, but Marshal Wang also knows that Mr. Li Yuanhong, the vice president, does not approve of the monarchy, and he is also adamant about the prince named by Yuan Thief." Since Yuan Thief is not worthy of the position of president, according to the provisional agreement of that day, the vice president should naturally be appointed."

Wang Zhenyu squinted at Tang Hualong's goatee, wondering if it would be difficult to clean up such a beard?

Damn, distracted, Wang Zhenyu quickly came back to his senses and said: "Yes, yes, Mr. Tang is indeed the chairman of the parliament, and he is very familiar with this method. This is not like a big bastard like me. But Mr. Tang, let me tell you something To be honest, I don't care who is the president, because it won't be my turn to be Wang, and I am more concerned about the things in front of me."

These words are not rough, Tang Hualong is happy after pondering carefully and aftertaste, this is equivalent to directly negotiating terms.

"Indeed, what is Marshal Wang most concerned about right now? I hope that Marshal Wang will tell the truth for the sake of trustworthiness of Tang, a commoner," Tang Hualong said with a smile.

"To be honest, I always feel unsafe and unsafe here in Hunan, and I can't serve the people wholeheartedly. Why? I've thought about it, and it's because the neighboring provinces of Hubei and Jiangxi are Lao Yuan's reactionary army, so now I What I am most concerned about is to take Hubei and Jiangxi and wipe out the reactionary army here." Seeing the other party going on the road like this, Wang Zhenyu naturally acted unceremoniously.

Tang Hualong was angry and funny at the moment: "The affairs in Hubei are easy to handle. Many of the generals there are old subordinates of Vice President Li. It is just a matter of saying to ask them to rebel against Yuan. I just don't know what happened afterwards. Set them up."

Wang Zhenyu waved his hand: "Don't worry, Mr. Tang, this matter is simple. Isn't our Vice President Li the President after this is over? What's the use of these troops loyal to the President staying in Hubei? Of course, they will go to Beijing to protect the President together." It’s hard to understand that it’s not enough to let the president be the emperor? As for the military salary, we don’t have to worry about it. We also need someone to take care of us at the local level, and we will pay taxes to the central government every year according to the rules.”

Speaking of this, Tang Hualong understood what Wang Zhenyu meant:

First, he supports Li Yuanhong to replace Yuan Shikai as president, but the condition is that he wants Hubei territory;

Second, if the first point is satisfied, then after Li Yuanhong becomes president, he will support the central government financially, but in terms of affiliation, he will listen to the tune and not listen to the announcement.

Tang Hualong is also acceptable to this point, after all, this phenomenon has already existed, and the only way to solve it is to gradually figure it out after mastering the center.

Tang Hualong felt that his purpose of this trip had been achieved, but he still asked the last question curiously: "There is something unknown about Tang, I wonder where Dashuai Wang will go to in the end?"

Wang Zhenyu smiled slightly: "If our Vice President Li becomes the President, I will withdraw troops. Mr. Tang, is this statement acceptable?"

Tang Hualong was taken aback for a moment, then nodded knowingly to express his approval.

Chapter 233 The Great March ([-])

Under the city of Jingzhou, Zhao Dongsheng, the commander of the Fifth Division and the former commander of the enemy, is waiting for the reply from Xia Douyin, the guardian of Western Hubei.At dawn, the defenders found the youth army, and Xia Douyin was stunned immediately, but this kid is indeed a famous general with a leather bag in history (yes, it is a leather bag, not a foreskin. In history, this kid picked it up on the way to escape) A big leather box, and then raised the flag to recruit troops and became a general), the first reaction was to send negotiators out before the youth army attacked the city, expressing their willingness to cooperate, but it took time to convince their subordinates.Zhao Dongsheng also seldom went into battle, he believed it was true, and thought it would be best not to fight, so he ordered the siege to be suspended.

Next, Xia Douyin quickly mobilized his troops and entered the fighting state.

Zhao Dongsheng waited for four hours at a stretch. Seeing that it was approaching noon, even the Sixth Division had rushed to the city of Jingzhou, and Xia Douyin hadn't responded yet, so he had to send a staff officer to ask, but the staff officer was shot dead before he entered the city wall. .This incident later made Zhao Dongsheng feel guilty all his life. He was furious on the spot and ordered to open fire.

Fifty divisional heavy artillery pieces, thirty regimental artillery pieces, and a total of five hundred mortars were thrown down towards Jingzhou City unceremoniously.The city wall of Jingzhou City has a long history. Although it is not tall, it has a high cultural value.As a result, Zhao Dongsheng was so chaotic that more than a dozen places collapsed in just a few minutes. Both sides were dumbfounded.

The youth army was dumbfounded because the attacking troops had already made preparations, and they just waited for a gap in the artillery strike and rushed forward according to the training requirements.But the problem now is that Jingzhou's city wall is obviously unqualified (Wang Zhenya broke through it once during the [-] Revolution), and there are more than a dozen gaps popping up at once. Now the company platoon leaders who were ordered to lead the charge Dumbfounded, which one should we go for?

Xia Douyin's dumbfoundedness is even simpler. Although he has been wearing military uniform for some years, it is really the first time he has seen such ferocious firepower. several places.Many firepower points and soldiers whom Xia Douyin regarded as the elite all collapsed along with the city wall, dead or alive.The morale of the officers and soldiers of Xia Douyin's troops dropped to the lowest point after these few minutes of shelling.

After such a ferocious shelling, the battlefield entered a strange atmosphere, and both sides chose to be in a daze. . .

In the end, the reaction of the youth army was quicker. Seeing that the assault troops they had organized did not charge as agreed, the battalion leaders suddenly ran away, almost punching and kicking, yelling and forcing the company to charge.

At this time, the young army officers and soldiers in charge of the charge also reacted to the scolding of the chief. It is unknown who was the first to shout out the charge slogan: "Long live the youth army, long live Wang Shuai", and the attack began.

Jingzhou City is a typical city surrounded by water. To hit the city wall, you must pass through the artificially dug moat. This is a very difficult thing for the attacker.But this can't stop our youth army. The brothers of the engineering corps have already carried the assault canoe and the door panel, and the ladder rushed in front of the infantry, and then rushed into the moat with the canoe, and their feet were still out of reach. end.It didn't matter, soon the door panels and ladders were laid on the surface of the boat, and the soldiers with good water skills were connected by the small wooden boats with iron cables.The whole process didn't even exceed 3 minutes, and the defenders on the top of the city were still in shock at this moment, and they didn't even have the idea of ​​firing bullets to interfere.

When the brigade of youths in blue-gray uniforms poured in from the gap, the defenders realized that they should stop them, but it was too late to open fire at this time.

It stands to reason that Xia Douyin has at least [-] horses, so if he really wanted to fight, it would not be a big problem if it took a few days.Another way of thinking, even if you have to kill [-] pigs for a while, you won't be able to kill them all.

But at this moment, the performance of Xia Douyin's troops really complied with the sentence that the army was defeated like a mountain. Based on the principle of honesty and trustworthiness, Xia Douyin put his most capable troops on the front line of the city, pointing to their ability to hold on for a while , to boost morale.

Most of the other troops were newly recruited, and Xia Douyin knew how much he had.But I didn't expect that the youth army was so rich, and the shells were thrown down like they didn't need money. My dear, even if they took this Jingzhou City, their tax revenue for a year would not be able to buy so many shells just now.

In fact, Zhao Dongsheng was also reprimanded by Xu Yuanquan after the incident. No matter how angry he was, he would not be such a prodigal. Half of the base was thrown out, and Zhao Dongsheng was ordered to write a [-]-word self-criticism on the spot.

However, the effect of such a ferocious firepower strike was astonishing. In the entire city of Jingzhou, more than 1 officers and soldiers of the Fifth Brigade of the Hubei Army all grew their mouths, and then made the same choice, fleeing.

The quality of an army is most easily reflected in the process of escaping. At this moment, all the people have forgotten the theory of the establishment, and are running towards the direction they think is safe. When they bump into each other, they will decide that this direction is not safe, then turn around and continue running like headless chickens.As a result, the entire Jingzhou city was in chaos. Some rebels who could not find their way out broke into the people's homes with weapons to grab some first. The Chinese are the group that lacks the love of their compatriots the most.

However, the chaos only lasted less than an hour. When the youth army entered the city, Zhao Dongsheng saw the random thoughts and immediately sent out the troops. He searched for the rioters block by block, and when he found any looters, he was shot immediately.At this moment, the person Zhao Dongsheng most wanted to catch was none other than Xia Douyin who had teased him.Thinking about myself being a prominent figure in the youth army system, if I let everyone know that I actually believed in such a rascal, it wouldn't be a joke if it got out.

The division commander gave an order, and naturally there was a full-scale search, but he still failed to catch this Xia Douyin.

Where did Xia Douyin go?It turned out that at the moment the city was broken, Xia Douyin suddenly felt that all his previous glory and wealth had turned into clouds at this moment.He knew what the general situation was all over, even if he fled back to Yichang, he was just dying.So instead of fleeing back to the city to gather up the remnants, he chose to run away alone without even bringing his guards.He ran to the pier ten miles outside the city in one breath, rented a small fishing boat and went to Wuhan.Originally, he had thought of going to Wang Zhanyuan to make a comeback, but when he arrived in Wuhan, he found that Wang Zhanyuan was about to run away. With no hope of refuge, he simply hid in the British Concession in Hankou, earning a living by carrying bags on the wharf and selling coolies (see Wang Zhenyu forced people to do so), and later the concession was taken back by the Chinese government. Xia Douyin, who was afraid of being discovered, got on the train again, fled south to Hong Kong, and eventually died of illness in Indonesia. "Don't lie, my whole life is..."