Before Dong Yuntang could recover from the excitement of conquering Nanjing, he was poured cold water on his head.
On November 23, the Jiangsu-Zhejiang-Shanghai coalition forces under the command of Xu Shaozhen captured Nanjing. Now they were in power. However, the already ambitious Prime Minister Yuan Shikai refused to send reinforcements from the Beiyang Army to Jiangning, allowing this most important city in the south of the Yangtze River to be destroyed.
It was captured by the civilian army. Zhang Renjun, the governor of Liangjiang, was captured. Zhang Xun, the admiral of Jiangnan who was loyal to the Manchu Qing court, fled to Xuzhou with more than 2,000 remaining soldiers.
The restoration of Nanjing actually announced the end of Manchu rule.
Now it is the turn of the game between the Beiyang Army and the Southern People's Army. The North-South peace talks have begun, and the Manchu court has actually been eliminated.
Li Chengen arrived in Nanjing with Tang Shaoyi's peace negotiation delegation.
The most important thing for the people's army now is to organize a unified provisional government. In order to compete for the position of generalissimo of the revolutionary army and the seat of the provisional government, the Hubei revolutionaries headed by Li Yuanhong and the Tongmenghui were incompatible with each other and were in trouble.
Tang Shaoyi's peace negotiation delegation arrived in Wuchang first, but Wu Tingfang, the peace negotiation representative recommended by the Southern People's Government, stayed in Shanghai and refused to go to Hankou no matter what, instigated by Shanghai Governor Chen Qimei.
Tang Shaoyi and others had no choice but to take a boat from Wuchang to Shanghai.
In this round of competition, the Alliance temporarily had the upper hand.
Although Chen Qimei was a man of food, drink, prostitution and gambling, he was extremely experienced and capable in political struggles. Under his insistence, the final location of the North-South peace talks was set in Shanghai, and he did not play an important role in the Revolution of 1911.
The alliance finally took a dominant position.
Li Chengen disembarked at Xiaguan Pier in Nanjing. After arriving at the Zhejiang Army Headquarters, he handed Lin Shuo's autographed letter to Dong Yuntang, the commander-in-chief of the Zhejiang People's Army.
Lin Shuo criticized Dong Yuntang's move to abandon Zhejiang in his letter.
He has been operating in the south of the Yangtze River for many years, and Zhejiang and Fujian are the strongest. In Fujian, Lin Rong, Shen Gang, Li Hanming and others at least control the leadership of the civilian army. In Zhejiang, Dong Yuntang led troops to Nanjing and
Having taken away most of the backbone of the Guangfuhui, the Alliance took advantage of the situation and moved in. Chen Qimei, the governor of Shanghai, was determined not to give up until he captured the governor of Zhejiang.
If you can't regain the position of governor of Zhejiang Province, you won't come to see me, and I won't recognize you as a student!
Lin Shuo's harsh tone made Dong Yuntang feel like he had been hit in the head with a stick.
Zhuang Yi led the Wuhu People's Army into Nanjing, and took a few guards to the Zhejiang Army Headquarters to talk to Dong Yuntang and others about old times, "Old classmate, I'm glad to say that you, the Commander-in-Chief of the Zhejiang Army, are very prosperous!"
Zhuang Yi joked when they met.
"Congratulations, I just got scolded by my husband!" Dong Yuntang smiled bitterly, "What is that guy Li Zhiliang doing? Why didn't he come to Nanjing?"
"That boy?" Zhuang Yi curled his lips and said with a smile: "Now he is busy grabbing land like a rich man, occupying Jingdezhen and De'an, and Jiangxi Governor Ma Yubao is in a lawsuit with him. What can you do now?
Be careful, he is planning on Huzhou Prefecture."
"Grab the territory?" Dong Yuntang's heart moved, and he pressed Zhuang Yi on the chair, "Tell me carefully, how did he do it?" Why does Sir want me to learn from Li Zhiliang? Dong Yuntang knows it clearly. He has been a lieutenant general for many years.
The director-general of the Taiwan Society for International Students in Japan is indeed outstanding in ability.
The purpose of the gentleman is simply to enable them to control the situation on one side. Thinking of this, Dong Yuntang felt much more relaxed. He had more than 12,000 Zhejiang troops under his command. It would be easy to take back the Zhejiang Governor.
After Sun Wen arrived in Shanghai from abroad on December 25, the Tongmenghui gradually took control of the situation in the south, the Nanjing Provisional Government was established, and representatives from each province elected Sun Wen as the provisional president of the government of the Republic of China.
Among the members of the Nanjing Provisional Government, although only the chief ministers of the Army, Foreign Affairs, and Education Ministries were members of the Tongmenghui, the power was actually in the hands of the deputy ministers of the ministries controlled by the Tongmenghui. The Guangfuhui made great sacrifices and contributions to overthrowing the Manchu regime.
and Hubei revolutionaries were excluded from the Nanjing Provisional Government.
The narrow-mindedness of the Tongmenghui Party members made the Hubei revolutionaries headed by Li Yuanhong gradually turn to Yuan Shikai's side, while the Guangfu Hui specifically opposed the Nanjing Provisional Government.
Zhang Taiyan, the leader of the Liberation Association, first launched an attack and reorganized the United Party with Zhang Jian and other constitutionalists to fight against the Tongmenghui. Later, the Zhejiang Army led by Dong Yuntang once again made noise and strongly opposed Huang Xing's appointment as Army Chief.
The Zhejiang Army now has more than 15,000 people, making it the largest armed force in Nanjing. Their disturbance caused difficulties for the Minister of War of the Nanjing Provisional Government.
President Sun had no choice but to send Zhang Ji, Li Shucheng and Yu Youren to find Dong Yuntang and persuade them not to cause trouble again.
"What do you mean by excluding the Liberation Association from the government? You don't have to let us cause trouble. You can give us the designations of the First Army and the Three Divisions. In addition, we will pay back the Liberation Salary owed to the Zhejiang Army. We will return to Hangzhou immediately." Dong Yuntang.
Without saying a word, Zhejiang Army Chief of Staff Lu Gongwang answered for him.
There is a reason why Dong Yuntang wants to return to Hangzhou. Tang Shouqian, the governor of Zhejiang Province, has been appointed as the director of transportation of the Nanjing Provisional Government. The post of governor of Zhejiang is vacant. Chen Qimei of the Tongmenghui is trying to seize the post of governor of Zhejiang as ordered by his husband.
Especially after Tao Chengzhang, the leader of the Guangfuhui Association, was assassinated, it was even more necessary for the Zhejiang army to return to the province to stabilize the political situation.
Jiang Dengxuan has been lamenting his bad luck.
After graduating from the Japanese Military Academy, he was recruited by Zhao Erxun into the Sichuan Army. Zhu Qinglan, the general director of the Sichuan Armed Forces Academy, was kind to him. Unfortunately, this Sichuan Province's most righteous hero was squeezed out of Sichuan by the Sichuan people, and he had to leave Chengdu.
, he joined his apprentice Yang Wicheng, the governor of Guizhou, as chief of staff of the Guizhou Army.
Wuchang was in emergency. Yang Fucheng led the Guizhou army north to support Hubei Province. Unexpectedly, there was a fire in the backyard. Guo Chongguang, Ren Kecheng, Dai Kan and others led the Yunnan army into Guizhou. It was originally a false expedition to Guizhou. Unexpectedly, as soon as the Yunnan army entered Guiyang, they suddenly attacked the Guizhou Governor's Mansion.
and the Qian army staying in Guiyang launched an attack, and the power of Qian Province fell into the hands of Tang Jiyao, the Yunnan army.
Tang Jiyao appointed himself the governor of Guizhou Province and massacred members of the Autonomous Society and the former Guizhou New Army, patrol battalion officers and soldiers, students from the Army Primary School and the Political and Legal School. Guiyang was a bloody storm, and thousands of revolutionary M party members were killed.
The troops of the Northern Expedition to Guizhou were stranded in Changde and became rootless duckweeds.
Yang Wicheng ran to Nanjing to find Sun Wen for support. Mr. Sun was also in trouble internally and externally at this time. He gave Yang Wicheng the designation of the 42nd Army Brigade and 150,000 military pay, and asked him to lead the Guizhou army back to Guizhou.
On the first day of the lunar month, two governors came out of Qian Province.
Yang Wicheng was in a dilemma. The Guizhou military government he presided over had been overthrown. Moreover, Tang Jiyao had united with Guo Chongguang, Liu Xianshi and others to train the armed forces, plus more than 6,000 Yunnan troops. It was no longer what he could handle with the more than 3,000 Guizhou troops in his hands.
If they return to Guizhou with their troops to resist, they will definitely be cut off by the ruthless Tang Jiyao. But if they stay in Changde for a long time, they will be a guest army after all, and there will be no one to support them with food and salary, and chaos will surely break out over time.
Tang Jiyao was also a little panicked. After all, as the governor of Guizhou, he had a somewhat dishonest reputation, and he relied on bloody massacres to stabilize the situation. This caused fierce reactions from the surrounding provinces of Sichuan, Hunan, and Guangxi, accusing him of treating comrades worse than before.
During the Xi'an Uprising, Ge Laohui was even more cruel to the Manchus.
Guo Chongguang and Ren Kecheng gave him an idea and asked him to quickly show his favor to Yuan Shikai in Beijing.
Sure enough, with the help of the senators from Beijing and Guizhou Provinces, Yuan Shikai officially appointed Tang Jiyao as acting governor of Guizhou at the end of April, and transferred Yang Wicheng to the Ministry of War in Beijing for additional appointments.
As the chief of staff of the Guizhou Army, how could Jiang Dengxuan not worry?
At this time Li Yunlong came to the door.
"You shouldn't have gone to Nanjing, but Tang Jiyao took advantage of it!" Li Yunlong told the truth when they met. We are all classmates, so there is no need to be polite. "There are only two ways in front of us now. One is to return to Guizhou and fight with Tang Jiyao.
The other is to be under my control, and I will provide food and salary, so you can tolerate it for the time being and wait for the opportunity to return to Guizhou and drive the Tang Dynasty."
Yang Wancheng remained silent. Li Yunlong was appointed as the garrison envoy to western Hunan by Beijing through some unknown relationship, which made Tan Weisan quite uncomfortable. After a long silence, he finally said: "I will go to Beijing and the troops will be handed over to you!"
"Okay, smart man, but I advise you to go to the northwest. Marshal Lin is using troops in Mengdi. It is the time to recruit people. Maybe you have a better future there!" Li Yunlong smiled and said, "Brother, where do you want to go? The northwest or the northwest.
Do you want to join me here?" He turned to Jiang Dengxuan and asked.
Jiang Dengxuan hesitated for a moment, "I'd better hang out with you. My old classmate can take care of me anyway."
Yang Wancheng resigned and went to Beijing, handing over the 42nd Brigade to Li Yunlong. The troops were temporarily stationed in Hongjiang and Yuanling, and their food and salary were provided by Xiangxi.
Yuan Shikai wanted to extend his hand to the south, but Lin Shuo took this opportunity to bury nails inside.
In August 1912, Zhang Zhenwu, one of the "Three Warriors" of the Wuchang Uprising, was killed in Beijing on the charge of conspiracy.
The director of this incident was Li Yuanhong, the Vice President of the Republic of China, but the person directly responsible was the current President of the Republic of China Yuan Shikai. Yuan Li teamed up to kill Zhang, and the whole country was shocked.
Li Yuanhong eradicated dissidents in Hubei, and his position has become increasingly stable, and there is a faint tendency to become the third force besides Beiyang and the Democratic Party.
But Li Yuanhong's rule in Hubei was not without worries, and Zhang Zhenwu was the biggest threat to him.
Zhang Zhenwu was unruly and domineering, and he had such armed forces as the "General School Corps" in his hands, which made Li Yuanhong feel like he was stuck in his throat, and he was eager to get rid of him.
Out of the need to win over Li Yuanhong, Yuan Shikai decided to help him and called Zhang Zhenwu to take up a post in the north to discuss state affairs with a very sincere attitude. Li Yuanhong also presented travel expenses of 4,000 yuan, which was enough to cover the four months of office expenses that the other party had previously requested.
Thanks to Yuan and Li's coaxing, Zhang Zhenwu went north again in August, accompanied by 13 people including Fang Wei, the head of the Hubei General School League.
After Zhang Zhenwu entered Beijing, he was led by Lu Jianzhang and escorted to the Military Justice Department of the Army Ministry, where he and Fang Wei, the leader of the "General School Regiment", were secretly executed overnight.
As soon as the incident broke out, the whole country was in an uproar, and public opinion overwhelmingly condemned Yuan Shikai. Even members of the Senate, House of Representatives, and House of Representatives issued letters of inquiry, asking President Yuan to explain clearly the reasons for killing Zhang.
Yuan Shikai took his time and published all the telegrams sent by Li Yuanhong urging Zhang Zhenwu to be killed in the past few days. When he received Li Yuanhong's previous telegram, he made a special call to confirm. Li Yuanhong's reply was in an impatient tone, urging Yuan Shikai
Hurry up and eradicate Zhang Zhenwu.
As soon as these telegrams were released, all accusations and attacks were directed at the Vice President of the Republic of China and the Governor of Hubei.
Li Yuanhong was greatly fooled by Yuan Shikai, and under the attack of the Democratic Party, he could only fall into the arms of Lao Yuan.
Hanyang Tiechang Hospital, Li Hanjun held a basket of fruits in his own hands and entered the special care ward.
Here lived the wife of Zhang Tingfu, commander of the Fifth Division.
"Oh, brother, why did you bring something here again? I'm already so tidy." A typical northern woman under thirty years old was packing her things and greeted him quickly when she saw him coming in.
"Sister-in-law, you can be discharged from the hospital today. I'm here to take you back to your new home!" Li Hanjun said, putting the fruit blue on the bedside table. In May, the "Red Gun Club Incident" occurred in Wuchang, and Zhang Tingfu's home was attacked
Rioters attacked, and Mrs. Zhang who opened the door was shot and wounded by the rebels. Fortunately, Li Hanjun brought guards to discuss matters at Zhang's house that day, otherwise Zhang Tingfu, the most famous general, would most likely die under the gunfire of the rebels.
Li Hanjun was instructed by Lin Shuo to win over the original generals of the literary society. Li Yuanhong excluded dissidents, and Sun Wu, Zhang Zhenwu and others were domineering. In the end, most of the members of the literary society who had no support fell to Lin Shuo's side.
Zhang Tingfu was smoking on the balcony. Li Hanjun walked over and said, "Marshal Lin's opinion is that it is useless to use Zhang Zhenwu's incident to bring down Li Yuanhong. We should hide our capabilities and bide our time now and lead our troops away from Wuchang, a place of right and wrong. Otherwise, the troops in our hands will
It is very likely that he will be dismissed by the Li family." He said softly.
"I want to take people to Mengdi! Defending the country and killing the enemy is a matter within my generation." Zhang Tingfu said.
"That's not necessary. The war in Montenegro will not involve too many troops, and the Russians have joined in. We are now completely unable to fight against the Russian army. We can only negotiate with them. It is estimated that Cullen will implement autonomy."
"Alas, despite the national crisis, this group of people is still busy fighting for power and profit!" Zhang Tingfu sighed.
"Ji Yulin led his troops back to Wuchang to visit the muddy waters. The commander-in-chief instructed us to go to western Hubei and develop Xu Tu."
"The land in western Hubei is barren and the people are poor. How can we raise an army?"
"Don't worry about this, just train your troops well!"
In August, Zhang Tingfu met Li Yuanhong and said that he was willing to take the Fifth Division to the west of Hubei to take up his post. Li Yuanhong, who was in a state of distress, couldn't ask for more. The stationing of the Fifth Division in Hankou was a big worry for him, so he immediately appointed Zhang Tingfu as the garrison envoy of Yunxiang.
The Fifth Division of the Hubei Army was relocated to Xiangfan and Yunyang, and was eventually retained.