Chapter 341 The World

The change in the situation in Sichuan is so fast that it is impossible to react at all. Since the newspaper reported on the 22nd, Li Han, who had just announced his inauguration as the chief general of the Sichuan military government in Chongqing, issued a final telegram to the Chengdu military government, ordering Chengdu Yin Changheng to dissolve the "Han Military Government" and to lose Chengdu and merge the two prefectures. Many people in the world with their eyes and eyes could see what the plan was to hide. Yes, facing the chaotic situation in Sichuan, it is not enough to just kill a chicken to warn the monkey.

The forces in shocked the chaos in Sichuan Province. Since the fight broke out, the whole of Sichuan was in chaos for half a year. The troops of the Protective Army, Ge Laohui, local gentry who were unwilling to be mediocre, former Qing court officials, and even local patrol generals, etc., these forces either rose up under the banner of "protecting the road for the people", or used the slogan of "relieving the worries of the court", to expand the armed servants in their own palaces and purchase arms and other weapons! In half a year, many forces have become a climate, and there are many people occupying one prefecture and one county.

Of course, in the eyes of those who are truly concerned about the situation in Sichuan, these forces are just small fish and shrimps. What can really determine the future situation in Sichuan are actually three major forces, namely the Tongmenghui, the Sichuan-Yunnan Army, and the strongest Han Sichuan Military Government, who lie in Chengdu.

Therefore, after Li Han mastered the chaos in Sichuan, the only way that he could quickly calm down the chaos in Sichuan was to "kill the monkey and scare the chicken" after he could control the chaos in Sichuan! He picked three monkeys in a row, first the Tongmenghui, then the Sichuan Military Government of the Han Dynasty, and then the Yunnan Army in Sichuan. They were the three most powerful forces in Sichuan except him before.

If Li Han wanted to unify the chaotic Sichuan, he had to settle these three major forces first. Tongmenghui had been operating in Sichuan for a long time. Wu Yuzhang used Rong County as the foundation to influence Wang Tianjie's troops in the Protective Army. You should know that Wang Tianjie was known as the leader of the Protective Army at the peak. In addition, the Sichuan branch of Tongmenghui also secretly contacted the forces of the Central Committee of the City and Southern Sichuan, as well as the Central Committee of the Sichuan region. It has a strong foundation in Chongqing. Even several newspapers in Sichuan that are inclined to revolution have a connection with Tongmenghui. Among the three major forces that can influence the future situation in Sichuan, although the Sichuan branch of Tongmenghui is the weakest, it has hidden influence.

The biggest one. However, this force is the strongest, but Li Han didn't care about offending the Tongmenghui at all. He had already missed the words through Xiong Bingkun and others before he entered Sichuan himself, but obviously no one took his words seriously. So, He Jin first ambushed Xia Zhishi, the only leader of the Tongmenghui branch of the Tongmenghui branch, and destroyed the Tongmenghui army he controlled. The forced Tongmenghui branch had to seek help from Nanjing, Shanghai and other forces. Finally, with the help of the Prime Minister of the Tongmenghui, he spent hundreds of thousands of Sichuan roads to build funds in Shanghai, and formed two thousand Shu troops with Xiong Kewu, Hu Yuzhen and others as backbones. Unfortunately, before they arrived in Hubei, the situation in Sichuan changed a big picture.

If the power of the Tongmenghui has the widest influence in Sichuan, then the Sichuan military government of Chengdu is the first force in Sichuan except the Hubei army and Li Han is the most afraid of potential. The 33rd New Army has agreed on more than 3,000 soldiers, and there are thousands of patrol troops. In addition, Yin Changheng won over Luo Lun, the power of the protection army indirectly affected by the indirect influence really leaves him with time to develop. Even if the military is not as good as Li Han in the future, over time, Li Han will have to deal with it again, financial and material resources. Therefore, He Jin took action to settle the Sichuan Tongmenghui first. After entering Sichuan, he continued to play chess, and the second goal he chose was the Sichuan military government of the Han.

After successively resolving the two major forces in Sichuan, it was obvious that his strategy of killing monkeys and warning chickens was effective.

Cai E's dream of the southwest king is as rare as today. He has mastered the 37th Association of the New Army of the 19th Town of Yunnan and the Yunnan Military Government, which is most of the 38th Association, has strong power. After taking office as the chief commander of the Yunnan Military Government, Cai E first sent Xie Ruji and Li Hongxiang to Sichuan, carrying the banner of supporting the Sichuan Revolution, in an attempt to seize the salt capital Zigong, and seize this place that contributes one quarter of the world every year and has more salt taxes. At the same time, he ordered Luo Peijin and Kang Enchan to lead an army to fight south; and ordered Li Genyuan to lead an army to the west. At the same time, At the end of November, Hanyang was almost broken, and the Hubei military governor Li Yuanhong sent a telegram to all provinces across the country, hoping that reinforcements would come to support the situation in Hubei. Yang Xiucheng, the chief governor of the Guizhou military government of the Han Dynasty, was the second response after Jiangxi. On November 28, at the suggestion of Deputy Governor Zhao Dequan, he decided to lead the troops north to support Hubei with the title of Chief Governor of the Military Government of a province, and then left Zhao Dequan as the governor of the military government and led the troops north. Subsequently, because the large army in the province went north, the Guizhou constitutional faction and old bureaucratic forces tried to regain the power of Guizhou from Zhao Dequan. On December 9, the Yunnan military government claimed to accept the invitation of Guizhou gentry Ren Kecheng, Liu Xianshi, Dai Kan and others to rehabilitate the rehabilitation. The Yunnan military government, in line with the principle of "Yunxi and Guizhou are not divided", sent Tang Jiyao to lead the army to aid Guizhou. On that day, Zhang Bailin, the Privy Council of the Guizhou Military Government of the Great Han Dynasty, issued a telegram to protest Yunnan's interference in the Guizhou revolution, but Yunnan did not respond. The next day, Tang Jiyao led the Yunnan army into Guizhou, and Zhao Dequan led the troops to fight. At this time, there were few forces in the world who did not know the dream of Cai E's southwest king! Unfortunately, Li Han had been on guard against Yunnan for a long time. Yes, in history, Sichuan will be controlled by military officers from western Yunnan and Guizhou in the next few years. Therefore, after He Jin's third association entered Sichuan, he firmly held salt in the hands of the military government, and stationed heavily in southern Sichuan where the Yunnan army entered Sichuan. After he took action to resolve the other two major forces, facing the powerful Sichuan military government, he was splitting his troops to compete for control of Guizhou. At the same time, Cai E of the foreigners was fighting for southern Yunnan, western Yunnan, and eastern Yunnan, and Cai E of the Yunnan region finally gave up the temptation of Sichuan salt industry on him and announced the withdrawal of troops from Sichuan!

On the second day of entering Sichuan, Li Han announced that he had led his army to capture Chengdu in the Northern Expedition and unified Sichuan. After some professional pens under Li Han's command, he praised it and then perfectly modified it to the newspaper. With the help of the "Voice of China" newspaper, the newspapers laid newspaper sales points covering the entire Sichuan and nearby provinces, and began to fight back against the newspapers that had previously attacked him. On the 24th, 25th, and 26th, almost all the provinces that could be published in China could be heard everywhere. The voice of lively discussing the changes in Sichuan. With the fear of the power of the Sichuan military government, the Yunnan Army announced its withdrawal from Sichuan. Li Han perfectly realized his declaration before entering Sichuan. Relying on powerful force, he conquered the hearts of the 70 million Sichuan people in Sichuan Province who had experienced wars for half a year. With their support and voices, even the forces in Sichuan Province still had some resentment towards him. Unless they chose to fight by force, Sichuan would be no longer a big talk but a fact within one month under the control of Li Han's Sichuan military government.

However, the public's attention to Li Han, the strong governor of Sichuan who even directly fought against the Tongmenghui, quickly decreased, because the situation in the world was turbulent during this period.

Let’s talk about Anhui first. Bai Wenmo, the new general of the Anhui military government, announced that he would lead the army to the Northern Expedition, becoming the second revolutionary party to lead the Northern Expedition after the Hubei Army.

Speaking of Bai Wenwei, it is really not simple. Some people even call him another general who came out of Huizhou after Li Hongzhang. He once entered the Wu Preparation School, followed Wu Luzhen to negotiate with the Yanji issue with ***, and later served as a staff officer in the Jilin New Army Supervisory Office. In the third year of Xuantong, after the outbreak of the Wuchang Uprising, Bai Wenwei was invited by Chen Qimei to go south to Shanghai, and gathered with Huang Xing and others at Chen Qimei's home. He decided that Huang Xing would be responsible for recapturing Wuhan.

Bai Wenmo was in charge of Nanjing. Bai then rushed to Nanjing and discussed the uprising plan with Tongmenghui leaders Ling Yi, Li Huanong and others. After the meeting, Bai rushed back to Shanghai to raise firearms and ammunition. Then he led more than a hundred suicide squadrons, led 1,200 bombs made by Shanghai revolutionaries and 300 pistols, and sneaked back to Nanjing in a third-class car. Bai and Xu Shaozhen, the commander of the Ninth Town of the New Army, decided to revolt at 10 p.m. on the tenth day of the ninth lunar month.

Zhang Renjun, the governor of Liangjiang, found out that Xu Shaozhen was forced to withdraw his troops from Nanjing according to orders, and the uprising was temporarily stranded. At this time, Zhang Xun arranged defenses and captured people in the city. The people of the Ninth Town led by Xu Shaozhen also dispersed. In the end, only Bai Wenmo, Li Huanong and his wife, and Ling Yi were left. Fortunately, the head and deputy head of the Ninth Town came to welcome Bai Wenmo, and then he got rid of danger. Bai Wenmo saw that Xu Shaozhen was very afraid of difficulties.

He patiently persuaded and induced him to explain the revolutionary righteousness, which made Xu firmly determined to revolt. At that time, the town lacked guns and ammunition. Bai Wenmo returned to Shanghai again and collected 100,000 ammunition, 3,000 artillery shells, 2,000 bombs, 500 pistols, 300 rifles, and 200,000 yuan in cash from the headquarters, and transported them to Zhenjiang. He then commanded the battle to attack Nanjing with Lin Shuqing and others, drove Zhang Xun away, and then recovered Nanjing at the end of November.

Some time ago, after the troops led by Bai Wenmo was expanded into the first army of the Revolutionary Army by Huang Xing, Bai Ren was also elected as the commander of Anhui. On December 17, facing the delay in reaching a consensus between the North and South peace talks, Bai Wenmo was furious and saw Huang Xing and other leaders of the Tongmenghui who had arrived in Nanjing. After being refuted by Song Jiaoren, the representatives of various provinces reiterated the second day at the meeting of representatives of various provinces to learn from Hubei and form the Northern Expedition military to use force to transmit the voice of the revolution to the north, and was opposed by representatives of various provinces except for representatives of Shanghai Chen Qimei and Guangdong. On the 19th, Bai Wenmo visited secretly.

The Guangdong representative reached a secret agreement to jointly send troops. The 1,300 Guangdong troops who arrived in Nanjing with the Guangdong representatives were to be commanded by Bai Wenmo. On the 20th, after Sun Wenmo had no reply, on the 21st, Bai Wenmo visited Huang Xing again, borrowing Li Han's words to refute the current general style of compromise and seeking peace in Nanjing, hoping that Huang Xing would agree to his promotion of the Northern Expedition. Huang Xing agreed in his heart, but because the voice of compromise and seeking harmony within the Tongmenghui was very popular, he could only acquiesce to his Northern Expedition. That night, Bai Wenmo cooperated with the Guangdong Army of the Third Battalion and the First Army of the Revolutionary Army under his command, a total of 8,400 people, and swore the Northern Expedition.

The revolutionary army of the Northern Expedition was unstoppable, defeating Ni Sichong and other Qing troops, recapturing more than ten counties in western Anhui and northern Anhui, and reuniting the Jiang Guardian Army of Huai Shang Army in Guzhen. After one day, he defeated Guzhen and killed and injured more than 6,000 Jiang Guardians. On the evening of the 25th, he captured Bengbu, an important town in northern Anhui. Zhang Xun and others retreated and fled to Xuzhou in a panic. Bai Wenmo's successive victory made Yuan Shikai in the north see a bad brow. He was so scheming and well aware that once the south strengthened his intention to fight the Northern Expedition, the temporary president he obtained would not only be unprotected, but also knew that even the foundation of the north would be lost.

So he urged Yang Du to appease Tang Shaoyi, so that he might as well relax his words with the south, and never mention the matter of opposing others to replace his Northern peace representative. On the other hand, he dispatched troops and generals. Even Zhang Xun, who was not against him, had enough strength to guard the gate for him, after cutting off Zhang Xun's supplies for half a month, more than a dozen chariot supplies arrived in Xuzhou to supply Zhang Xun's Jiang Guard. At the same time, he also signaled Yang Du to travel west to appease the newly promoted Sichuan governor. The goal was very clear, and the war in Henan could not continue to be stalemate.

After receiving Yuan Shikai's instructions, the northern peace representatives finally relaxed their voices after a stalemate between the north and the south. They raised several issues in the south, making Sun Wen, who was about to set off for Nanjing, were happy. In addition, Zhang Jian and other celebrities from Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai met with him. During the peace talks, the south launched troops to the north and violated the armistice agreement, which caused the Northern Army to counterattack. However, they still got the benefits and retreated, proposing to withdraw the Northern Expedition Army. Sun Wen asked Chen Qimei to wait and called the General Staff of the Northern Expedition Army to order Bai Wenmo to stop advancing. Bai believed that the Revolutionary Army would not take advantage of the victory.

He chased to the north of the Yellow River and occupied a large military city, and there would never be any initiative at the negotiating table. Therefore, he was ordered to truce the war, but in fact he continued to attack north along the Jinpu line. The Northern Army entered the territory of Xuzhou. It is expected that he would have a severe injury to the Yuanqi and had no soldiers to defend in Xuzhou at the latest. However, the internal leader and compromise faction of the Revolutionary Army had the upper hand. The General Staff Headquarters rebuked Bai Wenmo for "was ordered to truce the war, but he was moving forward continuously, intentionally destroying the peace and orders to refute, so he would not be wrong again." In addition, several major leaders of the Tongmenghui sent him secretly, hoping that he would stop the Northern Expedition immediately.

On the 26th, Bai Wenmo joined two departments of the mainland and summoned him to return to Nanjing immediately. His staff members resisted to prevent accidents, but Bai asked himself that he was not guilty and went south at night and arrived in Shanghai before dark. He visited Sun Yat-sen that night and said, "If my troops in the south are less than the Yellow River, why would he have the strength to negotiate with the north? At that time, he would have no status as before. The Beiyang system is strong. If it cannot be cut off its power at this time, I may not have enough time for two years. Yuan's backhand, and our southern party members have no place to stand. What do the president think?" Sun Yat-sen replied, "One person fell to the ground, holding his hair and holding it up, I know that he must not be able to do it. The people are willing to make peace and do not want to fight again. How can I ask everyone to sacrifice and fight for the president for me? The Northern Expedition is not to do anything, but to the people's hearts, so it cannot be done!"

Bai Wenmo did not dare to argue with him and returned to Nanjing that night. However, at the joint meeting of representatives of each province on the second day, he still insisted on opposing peace talks and made his point of view. Unfortunately, many provincial forces had to work hard to get money during the Northern Expedition but did not get any benefits, and most of them were unwilling to go to the Northern Expedition. In the end, only representatives from Guangdong, Shaanxi, Shanxi and Henan agreed. Among the seventeen provinces, only Sichuan representatives did not express their position, and neither agreed nor opposed. The representatives of Sichuan Province were Wu Yuzhang, a former member of the Tongmenghui. Because the Sichuan military government did not recognize his status, his status at the meeting was very awkward. He could only neither agree nor object, and he sat down without saying a word.

Bai Wenwei's Northern Expedition came to an end. Bai felt guilty that he had not realized the news that the Anhui Revolutionaries and the people had completely expelled the Qing army from the province at the beginning. In shame, he announced that he would resign as the governor of Anhui and be replaced by Zhang Yujun.

On the 25th day of Hubei, Xiong Kewu and Hu Yuzhen's Shu army arrived in Wuchang, Hubei, and learned that Li Han had captured Chengdu. The team stopped in Wuchang with embarrassingly. After a visit to Ju Zheng, after consultation with Xiong Kewu and others, more than 2,000 new recruits from the Shu army stayed in Wuchang temporarily. On the second day, he received the order from the governor of Hubei Li Yuanhong, and two thousand Shu troops were transferred to Hanyang City to assist the defense of the Hubei army. On the same evening, before Li Han entered Sichuan, Ma Rongcheng, the Hanyang garrison commander, who received his secret order, had two days ago, and the first batch of Hanyang

The iron plant dismantled about 24,000 tons of machinery, and left Hanyang Wharf on Austro-Hungarian cargo ship. In addition to the machinery, there were 241 iron plant workers and 903 families. They will arrive in Chongqing, Sichuan, where they will reorganize a new steel factory and family, and receive the promise of the new Sichuan Grand Governor Li Han that they will give equal benefits to all workers in the iron plant, and will be funded by the military government to purchase houses for them in Chongqing. Workers with special skills will receive land rewards ranging from five to twenty acres.

Obviously, after conquering Sichuan, Li Han already felt the danger of Hanyang, and placed the Hanyang Iron Factory and Arsenal that he liked. Perhaps after the Qing army withdrew in January next year, Li Yuanhong could concentrate his efforts to compete with him for control of Hanyang. In order not to cause Hanyang Iron Factory and Arsenal to fall into war, he had to use this method. Moreover, Hanyang Iron Factory was planned to have certain problems in Hanyang. First, he was too far from the iron ore and coal production area, so that raw materials had to be transported by water. The same problem was also needed in Chongqing, but Sichuan Province also has a steel base - Panzhihua. After he freed up his hands, he would start to build highways and railways in Sichuan Province. It is expected that this situation will be completely improved in two years. At that time, steel from Panzhihua and other areas will be sent to Chongqing continuously!

On the afternoon of the 25th, after nearly ten days of hard fighting, the third town of the Qing army captured Luoyang Xiong Pass and died in Nandading. Liu Chunren was shot during the breakout and died bravely soon after. Yang Yuanmao was injured and fled, leading more than 700 remaining soldiers to the southern part of Henan, intending to reunite Wang Tianzong. In this battle, Yang Yuanmao's army suffered almost all losses of only 700 remaining troops. Cao Kun assisted the third town with 1,400 casualties. Due to excessive ammunition and other materials, especially artillery shells, the third town had no high-intensity combat capability to move south in a short period of time. On the second day, Tang Saizhi joined forces with Ji Yulin, Chen Mukun and other troops, and captured Zhoukou, with the troops aimed directly at Xuchang.

On that day, someone saw a hurried convoy of horses and carriages sailing into the Sixth Assistant Zhoukou station. Soon after, the Sixth Assistant police were upgraded to combat. Even though they were rushing to advance, Zhoukou also left a defender guard, which was quite puzzled!

On the 27th, in order to avoid fighting with two Northern Expedition troops in Henan and Anhui at the same time, Wang Shizhen received the order of Yuan Shikai and told Tang Sai Branch and Ji Yulin's troops. Finally, after negotiation, the two sides reached a tacit understanding. On the 28th, the two sides used the current front as the ceasefire line to achieve a ceasefire.

At the same time, as the meeting of representatives of various provinces gathered in Nanjing came to an end, another big event attracted all the attention. On December 29, 1911, representatives of seventeen provinces voted 15, one voted against and one abstention, and elected the Prime Minister of the Tongmenghui Mr. Sun Wen as the interim president of the provisional government, and announced that the Southern Provisional Government would be established on January 1912, and Mr. Sun Wen, who had led the revolution in the country for several years, would also be sworn in as the interim president on the same day. Since the Southern Xinhai period, after five months of turmoil, he has finally achieved his own final results.

On December 30, Mr. Sun Wen, who was elected as the first temporary president of the Republic of China, arrived in Nanjing from Shanghai by train. He did not get off at the train station and directly changed to the front of the small train in the city. He arrived at the former Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Palace, which would serve as the presidential palace, and the Liangjiang Yamen of the Qing Dynasty.
Chapter completed!