Chapter 298: Undercurrent

When Li Yuanhong led his tired body, blood-red eyes and low morale, the ninth town rushed to the outskirts of Anqing. When he had been waiting for the long-term confrontation between the revolutionary army, many soldiers couldn't help but burst into tears. He glanced at the less than two-thirds of the number of people when he came. The soldiers under Du Kui and abandoned armor were covered in muddy and dusty faces, and their hearts were covered in dust and dusty spirits.

Along the way, they were attacked hundreds of times by the haunted troops sent by the rebels, with countless casualties. The most annoying thing is that the Qing army often bit a small rebel striking squad, but the next moment, they suddenly found themselves being led into the encirclement of the main force of the rebels. When the reconnaissance forces fought fiercely with the rebels, they suffered heavy losses and got rid of the encirclement with the support of most of the Qing army. When the hot pot head came to cause trouble for the rebels, the main force of the rebels had already disappeared!

This made the Qing army officers and soldiers suffer, but they were not familiar with the terrain and had to be beaten again and again, and the morale of the officers and soldiers was almost gone in such a tug-of-war. When they tried their best to hit Anqing City with blood and tears, they were more than twice as long as they planned!

At this time, another bad news came from Wuhu. Wuhu County was attacked by armed merchant ships of the revolutionary rebels. The revolutionary party in Wuhu area rioted. The patrol battalions in various parts of Anhui gathered here were busy extinguishing the local rebellion. They really couldn't take action to join forces with the ninth town to pacify the Anqing Revolutionary Rebellion!

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On November 20, 1908, the Revolutionary Army defeated the Qing army from Taihu Lake outside Anqing City. In this battle, nearly 10,000 people fled to the ninth town of Miancheng Town, with only more than 2,000 troops and horses, and most of the rest were annihilated, more than 3,000 prisoners were captured, and countless weapons and ammunition were seized!

For a moment, the world was shocked again, and revolutionary patriots from all over the country were excited and used various channels to come to Anqing to join the revolutionary army, vowing to overthrow the cruel rule of the Qing Dynasty in one fell swoop and give the Chinese people a bright world!

Anqing has almost become a revolutionary holy land in the country. Every day, a large number of revolutionary patriots joined. The power of the revolutionary army expanded rapidly. With the power of defeating the Qing army, it captured all counties and cities around Anqing in one fell swoop. The troops pointed directly at the Wuhu County where Anhui Governor Zhu Jiabao was located, forcing the Qing army to retreat to the city and dared not go out.

With the cooperation of local revolutionary forces, the Anqing Revolutionary Army captured the nearby Tongling and Xuancheng in one fell swoop, and the tentacles extended to the southwest reached the foot of Huangshan, one of the wonders in the world. If Wang Jin had not tried his best to dissuade him, the leader of the Revolutionary Army, who had been burned by victory, would even want to take over Jiujiang, an important Jiangxi town along the river!

Even so, the Revolutionary Army firmly grasped a large area of ​​essence in southern Anhui, and its strength and power were greatly expanded and developed. Not only did the military expand to more than 40,000 in less than a week, but various armed forces dependent on the Revolutionary Army were active at the junction of the Revolutionary Army and the Qing army, and existed as spies of the Revolutionary Army and buffer forces that slugged the Qing army. With the large number of seized arms and materials from the Battle outside Anqing City, it would be no problem to arm all these peripheral revolutionary forces, which gave Zhu Jiabao, who was hiding in Wuhu, a headache.

It was also considered this guy's luck. There were officials in the Beijing court who disliked Beiyang and wanted to take the opportunity to apply for his book. Not to mention that he would be punished and at least he would be dismissed from his position. At such a critical moment of handing over power, Yuan Shikai was not going to have a stalemate with other forces in Zhongsouli, and the final result must be tragic. Unexpectedly, before the Beijing boss had attacked, things suddenly turned around.

Duan Fang, the Governor of Liangjiang, sent to participate in the Miancheng Ninth Town to quell the rebellion in the autumn of Taihu Lake, but unexpectedly ended up being defeated and was extremely embarrassed. But who was Duan Fang? A rare elite among the royal nobles was specially placed in the high position of the Governor of Liangjiang by the Qing court to shock the south. How could it be defeated with just one setback?

There is a shield like Duan Fang to shelter the wind and rain in front of him. It is not easy for the old fried dough stick in the court to make a fuss about this matter, otherwise wouldn’t it be a satin face? Of course, it is not easy for Zhu Jiabao to escape the disaster, and he also has to deal with small movements and drag backwards from the court all the time, which is simply miserable.

The current form is very unfavorable to the Qing court. The revolutionary army is so powerful that it has mastered a large area of ​​land in Huainan. The Qing army has severely insufficient troops nearby. The eighth town of Hubei New Army must be wary of the rebellion of the revolutionary party in Hubei. The ninth town of Jiangsu New Army shows signs of collusion with the revolutionary party. It is currently under the strict surveillance of other Qing troops in Jiangsu. It would be good not to make trouble. If you want to send them to Anqing to wipe out the rebellion, it is not a situation where meat buns beat dogs and dogs will go but never return? There are quite a few officers and soldiers in the patrol battalions in Anhui, but they are okay in fighting defensive battles. Is it possible to rely on them to solve the revolutionary rebels in Anqing City?

The Anqing Patrol Battalion is only available, Xu Lizhen can fight tough battles, but the question is, who dares to use it? The revolutionary party cannot send a military force for a while. After several telegram exchanges between Zhu Jiabao and Duan Fang, they slowed down their movements after clarifying this point, and planned to slowly accumulate enough strength to drag the revolutionary army, which was gradually becoming more powerful.

With a big strategic policy, Zhu Jiabao left his confidant generals to guard Wuhu, the front line of the rebels in the revolutionary party, and he brought a large number of civil and military officials gathered from all over the country to sit in Hefei, an important city of Anhui, and ordered the Qing army in various places to strictly guard against the main contact channels between the revolutionary party rebels and the outside world, and cut off the channels for the rebels' foreign aid and material replenishment channels.

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"What are you doing? I am a soldier of the Revolutionary Army. I have made great contributions to attacking Anqing and defeating the Qing army. You can't do this. I want to see the commander, I want to see the commander..." A sturdy man with disheveled clothes and a fat face was staggered and pushed forward. His face was so scared that he was gray, but he was reluctant to forgive him.

‘Pa’, a young soldier wearing a straight new army uniform with a red military armband slapped impatiently, making the man in a messy dress dizzy and starred. Then he pointed at the guy with five red fingerprints on his face and cursed: “Your second uncle’s revolutionary hero, are revolutionary heroes used to harm the people? Be honest with me, I have seen a lot of scum like you. What kind of military discipline is the revolutionary army? Do you know nothing about the 'revolutionary heroes' like you? There is no need to find such clumsy..."

"Okay, okay, don't let people see the joke. Let's go back to the Ministry of Military Police to report!" At this time, an old military policeman next to him hurriedly interrupted the young military police and pushed the captured "revolutionary heroes" who were caught and left quickly.
Chapter completed!