Early the next morning, Wang Huaiqing specially sent an attendant official to hurriedly go to the temporary camp of the First Mixed Brigade with a few messages to find Yuan Su. Everyone at the brigade headquarters initially thought it was some sudden bad news, but
After reading the telegram, I realized that it turned out to be Wuhan, and good news came from Nanchang. The first army that went south to suppress the revolutionary army had already taken absolute advantage in Hubei and Jiangxi provinces.
On the day that Fu ordered the dismissal of Li Liejun from the post of governor of Jiangxi, Ouyang Wu, commander of the First Division of the Jiangxi Army, had already deployed troops around Nanchang. Yuan Shikai's order to Ouyang Wu
He served as Jiangxi's military envoy and acting governor, and asked him to quickly control Nanchang and arrest Li Liejun.
However, Ouyang Wu was originally a student selected to study in Japan by Jiangxi Military Bei Academy together with Li Liejun. He was not only a classmate of Li Liejun, but also a revolutionary soldier who supported the Nanjing Provisional Government during the Great Revolution. However, he was in the position of this "second revolution"
He had some doubts, and also hoped to replace Li Liejun in taking charge of Jiangxi, so he did not choose to respond to Sun Yat-sen's call.
But after all, considering the friendship between his former classmates and revolutionary comrades, Ouyang Wu did not immediately order an attack on Nanchang. Instead, he sent a message to urge Li Liejun to leave.
Li Liejun knew that his personal foundation in Nanchang was unstable, so he retreated to Hukou that night and contacted Liu Shijun, commander of the Second Division of the Jiangxi Army, hoping to mobilize him to respond to the revolutionary call.
Although Hukou was temporarily far away from the deterrence range of the Beiyang Army, there were not many soldiers here. Li Liejun made preparations for many days, and urgently transferred a sum of funds from the bourgeoisie in Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas, and then reluctantly organized a "defeat against Yuan Yuan".
"Revolutionary Army". Due to the rush of time, in addition to a small number of local regular troops, most of the "Revolutionary Army to Defeat Yuan" were temporarily mobilized civilians. However, among the so-called "local regular armies", the most "elite backbone" was
It was also the Poyang Lake Navy in the former Qing Dynasty. After the founding of the Republic of China, it was reorganized into the Water Police.
After the uprising was announced in Hukou, Ouyang Wu and Liu Shijun both had a negative attitude and neither responded to the "challenge against Yuan" nor followed the orders of the Beiyang government to carry out the suppression. Therefore, in the first two days, the revolutionary army against Yuan made little progress.
It went very well, and even counterattacked Nanchang, forcing Ouyang Wu to retreat to Wucheng.
There are two revolutionary armies in Jiangxi Province to fight against Yuan. In addition to the team organized by Li Liejun, there is also Lin Hu, Li Liejun's subordinate in the past. Compared with Li Liejun's hastily organized army to fight against Yuan, Lin Hu's group was originally
It was the New Army unit during the Great Revolution. After the founding of the Republic of China, it was planned to be under the command of Li Liejun and led three battalions to be stationed in Yujiang County.
When Li Liejun began to counterattack Nanchang, Lin Hu immediately raised troops from Yujiang County and marched rapidly along the official road with great success, intending to invade Nanchang from the south.
On the twentieth day, troops from two divisions and three brigades of the First Beiyang Army arrived in Hubei and the border areas of Jiangxi and Anhui respectively.
The commander-in-chief of the First Army, Duan Zhigui, dispatched Wang Zhanyuan's 7th Division to attack Hubei and Li Chun's brigades to attack Jiangxi, and later dispatched Zhang Jingyao's 8th Division to attack Hunan. He also contacted the Yangtze River Fleet stationed in Jiujiang, and Tang Enming led the fleet to assist the First Army along the Yangtze River.
Launched the attack. The Yangtze River Fleet first bombarded Li Liejun's troops on the Jiujiang River, curbed Li Liejun's attack on Nanchang, and waited until Li Chun entered Jiangxi before moving up the river to Hubei.
Although the number of Li and Chun's two brigades is about 5,000, although the number is not large, most of them are well-equipped, covered by army artillery, and supported by fleets on the river. At noon on the twentieth day alone, his troops will quickly seize the northwest of Nanchang.
town, and then launched a strong attack on Li Liejun's tribe to the southeast.
By the evening of the 20th, the situation in Jiangxi was immediately reversed.
Under the suppression of strong artillery fire, Li Liejun's troops did not even have the strength to fight back. The defense line collapsed completely and retreated all the way to southern Jiangxi. After withdrawing from the south of Nanchang, they happened to meet up with Lin Hu's troops who had arrived. Li Liejun discussed with Lin Hu
, Nanchang's geography is not conducive to fighting against Yuan's army. It has no heavy fire support and must be suppressed by ships. It is best to move to the south before making plans.
In order to prevent the two-pronged attack on Yuan's army from being encircled by the Beiyang army, Li Liejun and Lin Hu still divided their forces into two groups, one passing through Ji'an to Ganzhou, and the other moving southeast to Fuzhou.
On the same day that Nanchang was defeated, Wuhan also declared its fall. Wang Zhanyuan defeated the Wuchang defenders with almost no effort, then crossed the Yangtze River forcefully without the cover of ships, and captured Hankou and Hanyang. Hubei's army against Yuan continued to retreat all the way.
Only when they retreated into Yangxia did they barely stabilize their position.
Looking at the whole of South China, the revolutionary momentum that had been booming before experienced five or six days of confrontation, and its weakness was suddenly revealed.
After reading the telegrams sent by Wang Zhanyuan, Yuan Su did not make too many comments. He believed that these telegrams were deliberately requested by the superiors to be publicized to show the bravery of the Beiyang Army in combat and the certainty of the war. But in reality
There is still some time before the "Second Revolution" is completely over. At present, we only have the advantage in the overall situation. Facing the revolutionary army that has been broken into pieces and continues to resist stubbornly, it will still take a lot of effort.
In the afternoon of that day, Yuan Su and Chen Wenian followed the plan made last night, and each led a regiment to go south separately.
Yuan Su and the Third Regiment set out first, walking along the official road to the port city, which was expected to take three days. But compared to this, he didn't need to be too anxious, even if the whole war had just arrived in the port city.
When it's over, you can change your route directly to Huai'an, which will save you a lot of trouble.
Chen Wennian and Zhao Jishi waited until five o'clock in the evening before leading the second group to board the prepared train on the Jinpu Line to Suxian. They would get off the train in Suxian, and then begin to gradually arrange the transfer to Huaibei. Of course, they would also
Deploy some soldiers to continue going south by train until they meet up with a battalion of the first regiment heading south.
At the end of May, heavy rains generally fell in East China, and the hot and humid weather became more and more obvious.
Zhao Shanhe led a battalion from Xuzhou to Huai'an late the next night after receiving Yuan Su's order from Jinan.
Of course, before setting off, the message he sent to Huaibei in advance was still in accordance with the instructions issued by the main town, indicating that he was going to Yancheng via Huai'an. Now the war in Nanjing has entered the stage of probing and attacking, and Zhang Xun, who finally couldn't bear the temper, led the
Several Jiang defense battalions of the Wuwei Qianjun took the lead in launching the attack. At present, the Beiyang Army in Jiangsu was focused on Nanjing, and the Third Brigade who stayed in Huai'an did not care much about the men of Zhao Shanhe's battalion.
Because it was already late, Zhao Shanhe was unable to enter Huai'an City, but under the leadership of a logistics detachment sent by the Third Brigade to guide him, he first moved to a small town in the southwest and settled there.
The commander of the Third Brigade, Wang Jinjing, also known as Yaoting, is a veteran who graduated from the Beiyang Arms Academy at the same time as Bao Guiqing. However, compared to Bao Guiqing, Wang Jinjing is still very polite and does not have too much prejudice against the miscellaneous unit of the First Mixed Brigade.
He also specifically ordered the officers responsible for the response to provide as much help as possible whenever Zhao Shanhe needs anything.
After settling the camp affairs, Zhao Shanhe cordially invited the officers of the Third Brigade who came to meet him to stay for a drink according to the plan he had thought up earlier. He took out two bottles of fine aged wine that he had purchased specially when he was in Xuzhou, and said:
I have never been able to find a good opportunity to drink. Today I met a few adults, so I simply opened a bottle to satisfy my craving.
The officers of the third brigade were not high-ranking. They were all very moved when faced with the invitation from a mid-level officer like Zhao Shanhe. Considering that it was still early in the morning and it was still raining heavily outside, they simply stayed here.
Drink some wine and return to the city early tomorrow morning. Anyway, there is nothing important in the city now, and they, the grassroots officers, have nothing to worry about.
Zhao Shanhe invited these people to drink, naturally not just to please or be polite. When he set out from Luanzhou earlier, Yuan Su had already decided to take advantage of this time to go south to occupy Huai'an and Huaibei, so he must make preliminary preparations from now on.
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His main purpose was to obtain local information about Huai'an from these people, as well as the recent movements of the troops stationed in the Third Brigade, which would be of great help to his next actions.
In a temporary tent set up in the camp, he ordered the cooking team to make some side dishes and dried meat. Zhao Shanhe sat around with the people from the third brigade. At first, everyone was very polite. After all, there were different official positions and they were
When we first met, we would naturally be a little reserved. But after three rounds of drinking, everyone was so drunk that they immediately started talking to each other.
Judging from the information revealed by these officers, although there is no railway here in Huai'an, it is one of the four major intersections of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal. It is geographically located in the Jianghuai Plain and has the water source and climate of the Yangtze River Delta. It can be said that it is Northern Jiangsu
The region is a prosperous area, and its economic, agricultural and commercial development is second only to Xuzhou.
Huai'an is also the largest rock salt producer in northern Jiangsu. Sixty percent of the county government's tax revenue comes from salt tax. According to statistics from the Guangxu period in the former Qing Dynasty, Huai'an's salt tax accounted for one-fifth of the salt tax in Jiangsu Province.
One. In other words, as long as you can control Huai'an, you can control one-fifth of the economic sources of Jiangsu Province and most of northern Jiangsu. Everyone knows that most of the wealth in Jiangsu Province comes from salt profits.
As an important water transportation intersection of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, Huai'an's commercial development is also very developed, especially the grain industry.
There are large granaries in many towns along the river, and the amount of grain reserves can almost be counted at the national level. The reason why the second town set up a logistics support point here, in addition to transportation, is that there are ready-made grain reserves here.
, cheap and high-quality, and when necessary, you can save the trouble of labor and transportation from the rear and purchase directly from the local area.
As for the troops of the Third Brigade staying in Huai'an, except for the supply camp, engineering camp and the logistics battalion office directly under the main town, the rest of the troops will all move south to Zhenjiang within the next five days to meet with
The third brigade headquarters will meet. The brigade commander Wang Jinjing will set off south tomorrow afternoon. At that time, the highest ranking military officer in Huai'an will be the dispatch chief of the logistics battalion office directly under the general town. Of course, this dispatch office is just a battalion officer.
Grade officer.
After taking a sip of wine, Zhao Shanhe asked: "What is the origin of this dispatch commander?"
An attendant took a mouthful of food and swallowed it indiscriminately, and said in a drunken voice: "Oh, this person is the cousin of Mr. Zhang, the logistics chief of our Second Army. It is said that he is also a relative of Governor Feng. His name is Chen Lu
Shirt. Speaking privately, Brother Zhao, please don’t make any noise about it. This guy named Chen... Geer... is not a serious person either."
Zhao Shanhe came closer and asked, "How do you say this?"
The attendant said: "It hasn't been long since we arrived in Huai'an. Six days... uh, no, we haven't arrived in five days. This man surnamed Chen resold a lot of military supplies issued by Jinan, and then sold them at low prices.
Purchase local fine grain. Report it to the front line, and they will say that the distribution of materials is slow and they can only buy it locally. In the end, the fine grain purchased at a low price will be reported to the superiors at a high price. This kid, tsk tsk, has made a lot of money out of it.
Oil and water.”
Zhao Shanhe didn't understand the other party's words, which were full of alcohol. However, he didn't pay attention to the speculation. Anyway, he only needed to find out that Chen Lushan was an unclean person.
At this time, another officer also echoed and said: "That's not all. This guy also used his position to run private salt. In the past few days, he sold a lot of private salt to the north."
The attendant seemed to have thought of something again, and quickly added: "Oh, I remember. This Chen Lushan is of the same race as the commander of the 21st Brigade in Nanjing, Chen Shuliang."
Immediately someone said again: "Then isn't Chen Shuliang the son-in-law of Governor Feng?"
Zhao Shanhe was a little strange and asked quickly: "Why, Governor Feng's son-in-law is in Nanjing now?"
"Isn't that right? Governor Feng was very angry about this matter. My father-in-law was ordered to go south to suppress the revolution. This son-in-law was not enlightened at all. He actually blatantly supported the revolution and Sun Yat-sen. No, he is now participating in the defense deployment in Nanjing.
The one who is blocking our Second Army is Chen Shuliang's troops."
"That's it!" Zhao Shanhe didn't say anything more, but nodded slowly and thoughtfully. After a while, he picked up the wine glass again, and shared the glasses with everyone else.
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[Ouyang Wu (1881-1976), courtesy name Nanlei, was born in Linqiao Village, Fengjiang Town, Jishui County, Jiangxi Province. He was born in the seventh year of Guangxu's reign. He was an apprentice in Ji'an since he was a child. He practiced martial arts since childhood and was proficient in Nanquan, swordsmanship and swordsmanship. He was a martial arts master in the Qing Dynasty.
Juren cultivated a large number of people for Jiangxi martial arts circles. On June 9, 1913, Yuan Shikai dismissed Li Liejun, the governor of Jiangxi, and appointed Ouyang Wu as Jiangxi military envoy and acting governor. At the same time, he was awarded Army Lieutenant General and Commander of the First Division of Jiangxi. Military
After consultation, all battalions of the Jiangxi army were transferred to control; on June 20th, he temporarily took over as the governor of Jiangxi, and on July 12th, he was given the title of army general. On the 13th, the Jiangxi Provincial Council met and elected Li Liejun as the commander-in-chief of the Yuan army, Ouyang Wu as the governor, and He Guochang as the commander-in-chief.
The governor of the province, only Ouyang Wu claimed to be ill. Because he was attracted by Yuan Shikai and had a negative attitude towards the anti-Yuan struggle, he was dismissed by Beiyang Zhengfu on August 9th. On August 9th, Ouyang Wu heard that Wucheng had been lost, so he abandoned his post and fled. Two battalions of guards were captured by the military police.
Commander Liao Bolang took control, the "Second Revolution" failed on the 15th, and Ouyang Wu and Li Liejun went to Shanghai together.】dd