Chapter 312 Zizhou Military Change

Let’s talk about the war in Sichuan at this time.

The turbulent revolutionary trend in the past month has begun in the road protection movement in Sichuan. "The world has not been chaotic before Shu has been chaotic, and the world has been governed by Shu has not been governed." The ancients' summary is really insightful.

Although Sichuan is located in the southwest corner, its strategic position is unique and has always been a place that military strategists must fight for. The land of Bashu is easy to defend but difficult to attack, and there is sufficient food and grass. Therefore, whenever the unified dynasty collapses, the uprisings and separatist areas here are heard and flags are raised to declare independence and autonomy have entered anarchy. When the world is settled and the smoke of gunpowder has disappeared, this basin nested in the mountains has not yet been included in the unified territory, and the rulers have to do their last efforts to recover it. Because the road to Bashu is very steep, it is usually to pacify this place when the overall situation is settled.

The situation over the past month has confirmed this point to the world. The Sichuan Lu Bao Movement was earlier than before the Wuchang Uprising. Although it had insufficient influence in Wuchang, in fact, it is not an exaggeration to call it before the Xinhai Revolution. There is even many scholars in later generations who have controversially included the Sichuan Lu Bao Movement in the Xinhai Revolution, calling it the first shot of the armed overthrow of the Qing rule!

Originally, before the Wuchang Uprising, after more than a month of dispatching troops by the Qing court, the originally massive protection movement in Sichuan Province had basically been suppressed. However, with the changes in the revolutionary situation in the world, gradually, the ups and downs of other provinces affected the uprising of the Comrades of the Protective Army, which had already fallen into a low tide. The Tongmenghui and Gelaohui in Sichuan took advantage of the situation and mixed into the revolutionary ranks, and the situation in Sichuan immediately became chaotic again.

November 22, Zizhou City!

Duan Fangzheng, the newly appointed governor of Sichuan, sat in the former Zizhou Prefectural Prefecture Office with a sad face and sighed. It turned out that on the second day of Chongqing was captured by the revolutionary army from Hubei, he received the news that the establishment of the Eastern Sichuan Military Government was. But after he had been informed for a few days, just yesterday, he found that the morale of the army was unstable. After sending several confidants to inquire, the soldiers under his command had already known the news that Chongqing had made righteousness. When he heard that it was also a new army from Hubei, he had already arrived in Sichuan, and many soldiers were obviously very excited... This made him very uneasy.

"Brother...Brother, why are you in a hurry to invite me?"

The person who came was Duan Jin, who was Duan Fang's brother. When he saw him coming, Duan Fang smiled bitterly on his face, and hurriedly waved his hand to disperse the servants around him, leaned on the chair but smiled bitterly and didn't say anything.

Compared to his brother, Duan Jin has lived a happy life recently. Duan Jin is Duan Fang's younger brother. One of his daughters adopted Duan Fang. Later, Duan Fang married the woman to Yuan Shikai's son. Therefore, not only Duan Fang and Yuan Shikai are in-laws, Duan Jin should also be considered. Moreover, his woman is closest to him and still cares about her family. In the early years, due to this relationship, Duan Jin and Duan Fang brothers were also implicated when Yuan Shikai fell and were deposed and returned to their hometown to think about their mistakes. But now that Yuan Shikai returns and is ranked high as the Prime Minister of the Cabinet, the two of them are also different because of this in-laws!

Now, although Sichuan is still in chaos, his elder brother Duanfang is always worried that the unrest will come. However, Duan Jin sent someone to the capital to contact Yuan Shikai in the few days after Yuan Shikai's comeback. Now, he has already obtained the promise of Old Yuan. In the future, he will go to the Shaanxi-Gansu area due to the Sichuan chaos. Yuan Shikai will protect him and become the governor of Shaanxi-Gansu.

He also has the fourth battalion of new troops, which is not comparable to those chaotic troops formed by ordinary people who only know how to play tricks. Therefore, what Duan Jin needs to do now is to convince his brother Duan Fang to leave the chaotic place of Sichuan as soon as possible!

Duan Fang was silent for a while before he raised his head and smiled bitterly: "You said you can still laugh, but you are really in a disaster. You are about to lose your life, and you can still laugh!"

Duan Jin was shocked and asked quickly: "Brother, brother, but what happened? Tell me quickly!"

"Uncle, if I had known today, I would regret not not obeying your advice and come to this muddy water!" Duan Fang sighed many times, leaning on the chair with a depressed face, and sighed.

Three years have passed since Puyi ascended the throne and Zaifeng ascended the throne, and Duan Fang was dismissed from his post and returned home in a blink of an eye. But how could Duan Fang, who was used to being a rank-in official, bear loneliness and therefore has been working hard to make a comeback.

With the Sichuan Road trend, Regent Zaifeng really couldn't find a suitable candidate among the current officials and went to handle railway matters. He had to use the proposal of Sheng Xuanhuai, Minister of Posts and Communications Department, to regain Duanfang, who was idle at home, and serve as the "Supervisor of Guangdong-Han and Sichuan-Han Railway Minister".

Duan Fang was not unaware that Sheng Xuanhuai's proposal contained ill-intentions. The Sichuan-road trend was caused by Sheng Xuanhuai's "state-owned railway" policy. The reason why Sheng Xuanhuai had the "state-owned railway" strategy was completely a matter of the regent and other incompetent people who were not engaging in state affairs. As a result, this country has lost the extravagance and extravagance of the Empress Dowager Cialis Lafayette for several years, but the national treasury was more powerful than that when it came. In the end, there was a mistake in railway state-owned railway.

The trouble happened, and the cunning Sheng Xuanhuai couldn't tell him about it, but recommended himself to "support the tank". Duan Fang is not a fool, so why is the situation unclear?

When he wanted to come back, he wanted to compete for the position of governor of Huguang, but he didn't want Ruicheng, who was not taken seriously before, used Zhang Zhidong's shadow to make some achievements in operating Hubei, but he did not compete for him in the end. In addition, the opportunity for a comeback was rare, and Duan Fang at that time thought that as long as the court handled it appropriately, it would not be difficult to calm the trend. He never expected that the situation would develop to an irreversible level in a few months. Therefore, Duan Fang hesitated and gave up half the effort, and finally took over the imperial appointment and took the order to enter Sichuan to quell the rebellion!

In a blink of an eye, several months passed, and Duan Fang, who was trapped in Zizhou City, finally felt extremely regretful for his decision to come back. He was only fifty years old this year, and he was far from old. However, his exhaustion after entering Sichuan had already made him look like he was aging.

"Brother, it's time to come, and regret is useless. What should I think about now is what to do next? I have already known Gong Bao. He promised that after my brothers arrived in Shaanxi and Gansu, they would fight for the position of governor of Shaanxi and Gansu for us. Although Shaanxi and Gansu are poor, the disaster is no more than the country of Tianfu. They left this chaotic place early!" Duan Jin, who stood beside him, looked at his formerly energetic elder brother, and seemed to have become more aged in his teenage years in the past month, and felt very uncomfortable. He originally followed his elder brother south to use his professional knowledge to make some use of his own railway affairs. But he didn't want to get it. What he learned had no place to use it.

As he spoke, another servant responded and led two generals in robes in, Duan Jin immediately met.

"Ru Xiang, Futian, are you two here?"

The person who came was not someone else, but the commander of the army. Deng Chengba, the 16th Council of the Hubei New Army, and Zeng Guangda, the 31st Council of the Piaobiao. After they came in, they did not kneel down. They nodded with Duan Jin in their faces, and then stood silently, not knowing what they were thinking about.

"Brother Ruxiang is here?"

When Duan Fang heard that Deng Chengba had come, he immediately became energetic and quickly raised his head and looked at him expectantly.

"Brother, how are you doing? Can your 16th Assistant Soldier still comfort you now?"

Deng Chengba looked depressed and said, "If you say goodbye to me, I have done my best. However, the morale of the army is unstable. Most of the soldiers from Hubei have the intention to return home. I can still persuade them to live a few days ago. Now, Chongqing has been occupied by the revolutionary army in Hubei Province and Sichuan, and there are often people in the army who talk about righteousness loudly. Because there are too many soldiers involved, it will arouse the military changes. I not only act rashly, but also ask for forgiveness from my elders!"

Duan Fang smiled bitterly. This time, tears really came from his face. He suddenly fell from the chair and cried, "Can I do something that hurts the sky and makes sense, but I want to destroy me... I want to destroy me..."

Duan Jin did not want to let outsiders have a joke, so he hurried forward to help him, but he pushed him away and sat on the ground and cried.

Taking advantage of the two brothers' inattention, the 31st Biaobiao Tong Zeng Guangdaming used a color with Deng Chengba, but he nodded first, then suddenly frowned and shook his head slightly.

"Sir, you are in Hubei and along the way since entering Sichuan, you have been very kind to your brothers. As long as you give your orders, you will obey all your brothers!"

Duan Fang sat on the ground and cried bitterly, not wanting to get up, and cried so sadly. In the end, there was nothing he could do, Deng and Zeng also advised!

To be honest, the chief officials in the border area were really the only one in the Qing Dynasty. Since entering Sichuan, Duanfang has been fighting against the people and soldiers all the way. He only had white rice and pickles every time. The houses he lived along the way were nothing more than "raising pigs and manure". Whenever he went there, he would order the soldiers to yell the gong to gather, declare the "morality" of the court, and persuade the Sichuan people not to join the "***". He was even more intimate about the accompanying officers and soldiers. He was able to even give up the emperor's honor and become sworn soldiers with those officers and platoons. On the way, some soldiers complained that their feet were painful and could not march, so he immediately hired people to carry these soldiers on the road. Whenever soldiers were sick, Duanfang ordered his younger brother Duanjin to go to the camp and serve medicine.

Although this is the technique of winning over the Duanfang brothers, Duanfang, who is the governor, is willing to do so, and has indeed won over a lot of military morale. At least, if Deng Chengba did not want to protect his life, he would not be willing to face him!

However, the two of them were unsure whether the revolutionaries among the soldiers were dependent on Duan Fang's trick. The new army of Hubei who followed Duan Fang into Sichuan, from Ruizheng, the former governor of Huguang, was very clear that there were many party members in the new army, so they were transferred from Wuchang to avoid any disturbances in Hubei. Now, news of the Wuchang Uprising response has been heard from all over the country, and Duan Fang's troops are trapped in Zicheng, with rebels in front, back and left and right, and a "mutine" may occur at any time. Deng Chengba himself has even heard the news that the revolutionaries in the army are plotting an uprising. As soon as the time comes, the army will immediately rebel.

These four camps of Hubei New Army were all veterans that Deng Chengba had led for several years, so he had many confidants in the army, and it was difficult to hide any abnormal movements in the army. Yesterday, a confidant from his past came to him and said vaguely that his brothers might have actions recently, hoping that he would keep a distance from Duan Fang to avoid being affected. Deng Chengba immediately knew that these four camps of Hubei New Army probably had the intention to rebel, and even his former confidants were gradually alienating him.

Deng Chengba asked himself that he was not a very courageous person and he could not ask him to take the lead in "rebellion", but if his subordinates wanted to rebel and he wanted him to fight against his subordinates, he would not dare.

In addition, after someone secretly visited the two of them today, they finally made up their minds.

That's right, two generals led by Duan Fang, who are now known as their confidant, Deng Chengba, and Zeng Guangda have indeed become interested in killing him.

Just because the two of them had already received the promise of Li Han, the governor of Jingchu, killed the Duanfang brothers, welcomed the Revolutionary Army in Sichuan and central Hubei to Zizhou, and ensured that they were both worried and could join the military government as generals.

It turned out that after sending several lobbyists to Zizhou in advance, the Hubei-China Intelligence Department had already contacted some revolutionary soldiers in the army and secretly discussed the matter of justice.

However, the Intelligence Department soon found out that the two brothers who entered Sichuan by Duanfang were related to the military government. Although Deng Chengba, the 16th Association, was not as famous as Li Yuanhong in Wuchang, he had a general who now served as the military government, namely the Henan Mixed Association, Sun Guoan; and a subordinate who Zeng Guangda valued in his early years, is now in a prosperous military government, namely the Sixth Association, Ji Yulin. Zeng Guangda and Ji Yulin had life-saving grace. Therefore, after the intelligence personnel asked Li Han, he agreed that Sun and Ji would write a letter in person.

The whip was sent to Zizhou and today they were sent to him and the two of them... Duan Fang cried so much that they were sad, and they soon claimed the crime with Duan Jin and left the prefect's office and stopped in an alley not far outside the prefect's office. Here, there were several more armed soldiers waiting there. The leading officer was named Liu Yifeng, and the dozens of soldiers brought were all Deng Chengba's confidants. As early as when the two entered the prefect's office, the team of soldiers quietly surrounded him and had already surrounded the prefect's office!

When the two of them came out, a group of subordinates they brought were talking. Before they approached, Deng Chengba suddenly heard a conversation.

"Brothers, it would be great if we stayed in Wuchang, so that we could be the heroes of the first righteousness!"

"Yes, if we hadn't followed the old thief Duanfang into Sichuan, we might be a general who is a great general in the military government... Do you know that Zhang Bingqian from the Hubei branch military government? Well, he is the current Jingzhou garrison... We had been trained with him before, but they participated in the revolution and now they have become the general manager... Not to mention thousands of people under our jurisdiction, they are still managing Jingzhou Prefecture. My mother, I wouldn't have entered Sichuan if I had known it. It would be great to stay in Wuchang!"

"Yes, yes, it's so miserable now. Follow Duan Fang's husband to this unlucky place. He is unable to advance or retreat. He is still hostile to the people of Sichuan everywhere. Fortunately, the Lord wants to do something, so brothers must seize this good opportunity!"

"It's right, it's too late for brothers to not revolt. Haven't you seen the southern provinces proclaim righteousness? Now all provinces are independent. Li Shuai is so talented and has a strong mind. His desire to compete for Sichuan is known today. I heard that the Yunnan Grand Governor only sent less than 2,000 Yunnan troops into Sichuan, and Li Shuai mobilized nearly 10,000 people... Oh my God, although we were a little late, it was not too late, and we were just able to catch up!"

"That's all, we have to kill Duan Fang and use his head to open the way for us. Let's go to Chongqing to welcome the revolutionary army. At that time, if we participate in the revolution, the achievements of this uprising will be indispensable. We don't have to be as nervous as we are now, and we are even afraid of sleeping!"

"Yeah yeah……"

Deng Chengba and the other two looked at each other with a ugliness of fear, and only then did they realize that they were their confidants, and now they all had a revolutionary spirit. I am afraid that if they had not acted now, they would have had two more souls when they were righteous!

When Liu Yifeng saw the two of them leaving the mansion, she immediately coughed, and the soldiers who were still talking saw that they came out and stopped talking and surrounded him.

"Sir, brothers are all ready, just waiting for your order. Do you see if you let your brothers kill you and deal with the old thief Duanfang!"

Liu Yifeng stepped forward and walked forward, but was eager to urge the two to give orders quickly.

Zeng Guangda hesitated and said, "That's not good. Lord Duan has always treated his brothers well. Can he save his life?"

"Duan Fang treats our brothers well, but that is a private favor. Today's business is to avenge the country! The Wuchang Uprising, the Han people in the world should be in line with each other. If we don't kill Duan Fang, the brothers in Hubei and the revolutionaries in Sichuan will regard us as enemies!" Liu Yifeng said with great righteousness, and there were even a group of soldiers who agreed!

"It's right, sir. Since we want to promote righteousness, we naturally have to use the top of the old thief Duanfang to tell the world that we are revolutionaries, soldiers who are righteous, not blind followers!"

Seeing that Zeng Guangda stopped talking, Deng Chengba had not yet expressed his opinion. Liu Yifeng, who was covered in ferocious expression on the face, suddenly stepped forward and said to Deng Chengba with a grim voice: "If you can't do it, let Biaoxia take you to raise your sword... Biaoxia has the ability to take your life with a warrior!"

Then he turned around and shouted, "Lu Baoqing!"

"Tagged below!"

A soldier walked out of the team, and he was indeed a tiger-backed and bear-bearing waist. He was carrying a large ring knife on his back, looking fierce.

"The two lords are kind-hearted people, and they don't want to make things difficult for brothers Duan Fang. But these two people must be killed. Do you dare to be the pioneer and lead troops to kill Duan Fang's husband!"

The man opened his eyes wide open and smiled: "I am good at using a knife, and I can only kill you with one knife. I dare not obey my orders!"

Liu Yifeng nodded with satisfaction, turned around and had a pair of red eyes, unspeakable ferociousness! He stepped forward and said, "I beg you two lords to order!"

Deng Chengba saw this attitude and knew that if he had to stop him, he might have to deal with the two of them before the revolutionaries in the army would have to deal with the two of them first, so he nodded quickly.

After Liu Yifeng got the order, she waved her hand, and a team of dozens of soldiers rushed out without saying a word and rushed straight to the prefect's office not far away.

Not long after, there was a noise in the mansion. Soon, the screams of the two provinces came.

In the alley, Deng Chengba showed a hint of sadness on his face. If it weren't for life-threatening, he would have been closer to the Qing court.

Zeng Guangda was the same. Seeing that there was no one around, he whispered: "Sir, the soldiers in the city are already crazy. They will be in danger of their lives in the future. Let's take the opportunity to escape..."

Deng Chengba was nervous for a while, and after he was not paying attention to the left and right, he replied: "Slowly, I don't dare to be sure how many confidant soldiers there are in this city now. Forget it, the party members are not on the same journey as me. You prepare for it and choose a time to abandon the city later!"

"yes!"

It's ridiculous that the two of them devoted themselves to the court, but they gave up a great opportunity and couldn't help but sigh in the future.

On November 22, the new army entered the Fourth Battalion of Sichuan and Hubei Province and claimed to have received the order of Li Han, the "Jingchu Guardian" and killed the Duanfang brothers in Zizhou anyway. Anyway, they wanted to pronounce Deng Chengba, the former Sixteenth Association General, as the commander-in-chief of the rebel army, and welcomed the army in eastern Sichuan to take over Zizhou. That night, Deng Chengba, Zeng Guangda and other Qing generals abandoned their troops and left.

On the 23rd, after He Jin, the garrison commander of eastern Sichuan, asked Bai Chongxi to lead a battalion to Zizhou to take over the city defense of Zizhou. At the same time, Liu Yifeng was appointed as the leader of the rebel army. Li Jinbiao, Chen Rongzhong and Xiao Guobin, and Bai Chongxi selected three of them from the three battalions to make up for it... The capture of Zizhou can be said to have swallowed a huge piece of cake for the military government of eastern Sichuan. Before the Yunnan Army had arrived in southern Sichuan, it quickly annexed dozens of counties and towns near Zizhou. It was only more than 200 miles north of Chengdu, and twenty miles north of Zigong, a thousand-year-old salt capital, and it occupied about 40% of Sichuan's territory and became the strongest force in Sichuan Province.

At the same time, under the leadership of Li Xiu'ang, the Twelve Biao also captured cities and land in northern Sichuan, occupying more than a dozen county towns. Seeing that the new army entering central Hubei was about to become... At this time, Li Han finally breathed a sigh of relief, left Jingzhou, where he had been staying for more than ten days, and returned to Yingcheng, the temporary location of the Hubei branch military government.
Chapter completed!