The generals of the patrol battalion had no choice, and there was no one among them who would rather be loyal to the Qing court to the death. In the end, they had to accept the suggestions of the negotiators, put down their weapons, and opened the city gate. The soldiers of Zhenguo Army and Zhu Rui's new army made a round in the city, and the two sides finally entered Zhejiang Fuya.

At this time, the Qing soldiers from Shaoxing and Ningbo, who were about to arrive in Hangzhou, were about to arrive at the city and stopped in a hurry. They did not dare to enter the city more than ten miles away from the city. When there was any disturbance, they were ready to escape. The Qing soldiers who came to support from Jinhua and Quzhou also stopped halfway. The generals held emergency meetings to discuss the current situation and discuss the next response.

The Zhenguo Army and the Xinjun then issued an Anmin Announcement in Hangzhou, announcing to the outside world through the media that the Zhenguo Army and the Hangzhou Xinjun had formed a military alliance, and the Hangzhou Xinjun was renamed the Chinese Revolutionary Army. According to the alliance agreement, the Hangzhou city was controlled by the Zhenguo Army. After the situation in Zhejiang stabilized, the new army would immediately retreat to Wenzhou and Lishui areas, and hand over most of Zhejiang to the Zhenguo Army for jurisdiction.

The revolutionaries among the new army in Zhejiang had been active internally for a long time. After learning that the new army uprising in Hangzhou was successful, the crowd was excited and began to plan an immediate uprising response. However, Xiao Xingheng, the Supreme Commander of the New Army in Zhejiang who was far away in Wenzhou, did not support the uprising, but Xiao Xingheng, the commander of the 21st town, immediately expressed his support to the Qing government. Other places were still waiting and watching, and no one made a clear statement.

After the Alliance Army controlled Hangzhou, it immediately issued a notice and sent a telegram to the garrisons in various parts of Zhejiang, urging them to follow the righteousness, move closer to the Alliance Army, and accept the inclusion of the Alliance Army. If there are any resistance, the Alliance Army will command troops to attack the enemy today, giving them only 24 hours of consideration. Twenty-four hours later, all new and old troops in Zhejiang must clearly state whether to support the Alliance Army or continue to be loyal to the Qing government, which is equivalent to issuing an ultimatum.

Subsequently, military generals from all over Zhejiang held emergency meetings to discuss whether to accept the incorporation of the Alliance Army. The generals in various places almost slept all night long. Some areas had a more obvious tendency to accept the incorporation of the Alliance Army. These areas include Ningbo, Shaoxing, Quzhou, Taizhou, and Lishui. Xiao Xingheng, the commander of the new army, was working in Wenzhou. There were 3,000 Qing soldiers stationed in Wenzhou, and the military power was in the hands of Xiao Xingheng. Xiao Xingheng refused to surrender. In addition, there were many differences within the Jinhua defenders, and the generals were divided into two opposing factions. One faction advocated accepting the incorporation, and the other advocated insisting on resisting. At the meeting, there was almost a fire. So far, no agreement was reached, and the Huzhou defenders tended to support the Qing government.

The lobbyists sent by the Xin Army and the Zhenguo Army have already gone deep into various places. They have done a lot of work and won some support. Chen Junsheng also brought people to discuss with the elders of the Zhejiang Provincial Advisory Bureau in Hangzhou. The Advisory Bureau headed by Tang Shouqian and Shen Junru did not originally stand on the side of the Zhenguo Army, but at this time the Zhenguo Army controlled Hangzhou City with lightning speed and joined forces with the Xin Army, which forced them to choose to take a new team under the pressure of the situation.

After Chen Junsheng understood the interests of the interests, officials of the Advisory Bureau were the earliest to issue an announcement, expressing their acceptance of the rule of the Zhenguo Army and ordered the immediate dissolution of the Advisory Bureau. Former officials at all levels of the Advisory Bureau accepted the arrangements of the Zhenguo Army and supplemented them with the upcoming Executive Yuan of the Zhejiang Military Government. According to Li Tiancheng's instructions, Tang Shouqian and Shen Junru will serve as presidents and vice presidents of the Zhejiang Provincial Executive Yuan to manage Zhejiang's civil affairs.

Early the next morning, the first person to stand up and express his opinion was that the general of the Jiaxing garrison, Chen Yishan. Chen Yishan was a person who was changing his ruthlessness. Before the Zhenguo Army went south, he had not moved his troops. At this time, the Zhenguo Army gained power and was sandwiched by the Zhenguo Army, which became a sandwich biscuit. In the future, he had to be beaten. Originally, he only wanted to maintain his status and had no intention of fighting, so he immediately ordered the inclusion of the Zhenguo Army. Then Ma Chaoyun personally led the 3,000 troops from the First Brigade of the Zhenguo Army, and drove into Jiaxing City in a mighty manner and held an inclusion ceremony with Chen Yishan. Jiaxing City was also classified under the name of the Shanghai Military Government without any blood.

After Shen Yishan announced his rebellion, after 9 o'clock in the morning, Ningbo and Shaoxing jointly announced that they would accept the inclusion of Zhenguo Army. The two places were close to the sea and were now blocked by the Alliance Army and could only escape from the sea. Their numbers were not large, and there were less than two thousand people in each place, so they were not very enthusiastic about resistance.

After being stimulated by the three places to declare their rebellion, the generals who were originally hesitant also let go of their doubts. After 3 pm, Taizhou, Lishui and Quzhou announced their rebellion to the Alliance Army. Only Jinhua and Wenzhou, and Huzhou have not yet made any statements.

Just as the Alliance Army was preparing to make preparations and sending together with Jinhua and Wenzhou, the Wenzhou garrison commander Yang Deshan announced the uprising under the joint planning with the revolutionaries. The uprising army was preparing to capture the commander Xiao Xingheng, but Xiao had already received the news in advance and hurriedly led a guard of more than a dozen people to escape from Wenzhou along the mountain path, and then fled to Ningde, Fujian. The Qing soldiers of Wenzhou announced that they would join the Alliance Army.

At this time, only the guards of Jinhua and Huzhou were still gritting their teeth and insisting. Li Tiancheng ordered Ma Chaoyun to immediately send troops to force the defenders of the two places to surrender. When the 24-hour ultimatum time came, the Zhenguo army would arrive outside the two places. If the two places continued to resist at that time, they would attack the city with cannons and quickly pacify the situation in Zhejiang, because there had already begun to move in the north at this time.

The Qing government did not expect that the Hangzhou New Army would form an alliance with the Zhenguo Army. Zhejiang Province encountered almost no resistance and fell into the hands of the Zhenguo Army. It originally wanted to wait until the situation in Sichuan, Hunan and other places were pacified before concentrating their efforts to deal with the Qing court of the Shanghai Military Government. Only then did they realize that the Zhenguo Army was taking too much pace. They almost ignored the situation of the northern soldiers being pressed down and actually rushed south to Hangzhou, and the speed of conquering cities and land was astonishing.

At this time, time was no longer waiting for anyone, and the veteran ministers of the Qing court began to get anxious. If the situation further develops, not only would the Zhenguo Army not be able to stop the continued expansion of its territory, but the civil unrest in various places might become more and more serious and would be out of control at that time.

After an emergency meeting, the Qing court decided to temporarily ignore the unstable situations that may occur in the north and send 30,000 elite troops of the Beiyang Army, equivalent to the forces of the three towns of the Xinjun. They drew troops from Shandong, Henan, Zhili, Anhui and other places, rushed to southern Jiangsu immediately, and passed an emergency procurement case, immediately purchasing 300 Krupp cannons with a range of more than 20 kilometers from abroad to deal with the Zhenguo Army.

At the same time, the Qing court ordered the Qing soldiers stationed in Ningde, Fuzhou and other places in Fujian to go north immediately to attack Wenzhou and other places on the junction of Fujian and Zhejiang, and prepare to work together to attack the Alliance Army. At the same time, the defenders in various parts of Jiangxi should take precautions to prevent the Alliance Army from launching a sudden attack.

In view of the complexity of the situation, Li Tiancheng ordered the Zhenguo Army to advance to the western part of Zhejiang. The first task was to oppress the Qing soldiers in Jinhua to surrender, thereby opening up the gateway to the western part of Zhejiang. When attacked from north to south, they could break out from the western part of the siege from the west as a breakthrough, or even detour to Anhui to attack the Beiyang Army. As long as Jinhua and Huzhou get it, the gateway to the western part of the Zhenguo Army will be completely opened.

Then Ma Chaoyun ordered one battalion's troops to station in Jiaxing City without moving, and another regiment and two battalions immediately entered Huzhou. Since Huzhou was only about fifty kilometers away from Jiaxing, Zhenguo Army began to use howitzers and cannons to attack the Huzhou Patrol Army camp with howitzers and cannons. Then an infantry battalion quickly approached Huzhou under the cover of artillery fire. With such a step-by-step approach, it quickly gradually approached Huzhou city walls. The defenders' artillery range was not enough. After firing a series of artillery shells outside the city, they could not hit the main force of Zhenguo Army. Their main defense ground was completely exposed to the range of howitzers and cannons of Zhenguo Army, and their troops suffered heavy losses.

Then, under a fierce bombardment of artillery fire, the two thousand defenders in Huzhou had to give up their garrison and retreat, leaving the junction of Zhejiang and Anhui provinces, and entering Anhui. At this point, Huzhou fell into the hands of the Zhenguo Army.

In addition, the three battalions allocated by Hu Junyi's brigade stationed in Hangzhou on the way to Jinhua, a mutiny suddenly occurred in the Jinhua defenders. Three battalion-level generals suddenly launched a mutiny, controlling the defender commander Liu Xun, and then threatened Liu Xun to issue an announcement. The Qing soldiers in Jinhua then turned to the Alliance Army. The war in Zhejiang was gradually coming to an end.

The situation in Zhejiang Province developed very quickly. In less than two days, the entire Zhejiang Province fell into the control of the Alliance Army. This was due to the internal and external cooperation between the Zhenguo Army and the New Army, which made the battle that might have been more intense and time-consuming and labor-intensive has become much simpler. It was no less than the situation where the provinces responded after the Wuchang Uprising in history, which caused the Qing court to collapse in an instant.

The situation in Zhejiang changed drastically, which greatly exceeded the expectations of the revolutionaries. They did not expect that most parts of Zhejiang would respond quickly and actively to the uprising, and a few opponents were quickly defeated by the coercion and temptation by the Alliance Army. Except for the two thousand Qing soldiers in Huzhou who fled from the province, Qing soldiers from other places began to accept the inclusion of the Alliance Army.

According to the alliance agreement, the Qing soldiers in the area controlled by the Zhenguo Army were admitted to the Zhenguo Army, and the four thousand Qing soldiers in Wenzhou, Taizhou and Lishui were admitted to the Revolutionary Army.
Chapter completed!