Volume E Chapter 3 The Situation
After laughing, Sun Wen waved his hand again: "Comrades, although we have experienced failures again and again, we are still insisting on the revolution, which is the most valuable thing. We have no money, we don't have guns, and we don't have cannons, but we all have many comrades who are willing to die for the revolution. With so many comrades who can die for the revolution at any time, what are you afraid of failure? Our situation is much better than when I formed the Xingzhonghui when I was in Honolulu before 16. Comrades! Compared to the past, I am a hundred times more optimistic about the present!
Now the revolutionary trend has begun to flourish. Everyone knows that the end of the Qing Dynasty is coming. In order to prevent the revival from stealing the fruits of the revolution, and then establish the former Ming emperor, our actions in Guangzhou must be fully prepared, and we can only succeed and not fail. Only by occupying Guangzhou can we raise the flag to fight north. At that time, the parties in the Yangtze River will respond and go straight to Beijing, and drive the Manchus who have enslaved us for hundreds of years off the dragon throne, and abolish the imperial system that has been for more than two thousand years, so that everyone in China can enjoy freedom and democracy..."
Sun Wen's words became louder and louder, and the atmosphere in the venue became more and more popular. Only when his speech was at the end of his speech, Hu Hanmin and Wang Zhaoming had already taken the lead in shouting the slogan "Long Live China". Only when this cheerful slogan was finished, the meeting entered the normal procedure - discussing the specific details of the Guangzhou Uprising.
"I think Guo Renzhang, who is the patrol battalion, can contact you again. He is now the commander of the Guangzhou patrol battalion and has six battalions of troops under his command..." Huang Xing spoke first. He has been very familiar with Guangxi and Guangdong in recent years. Is he still want to do Guo Renzhang's job?
"I'm still looking for Guo Renzhang?" Hu Hanmin smiled slanderously, "Keqiang, you won't forget what happened in Guangxi. At that time, Guo Renzhang broke his trust several times. Why did he still win over such a character?"
"But now that we want to uprising in Guangzhou, we can only win over Guo Renzhang!" Huang Xing argued, "Although Guo Renzhang was untrustworthy, he did not kill many of our comrades. Instead, Li Zhun, he killed many of us. Although many soldiers in the Navy camp now tend to revolution, they cannot believe these words at all. They want nothing more than our money."
The affairs of Guangdong and Guangxi were originally left to Huang Xing and Hu Hanmin to take charge, but now the two have conflicts in strategy. Sun Wen was good at interfering: "Keqiang, Hanmin, this time we are not going to put our hope of success on Guo Renzhang, nor on the Navy Camp. This time we will send 500 electoral fronters. The patrol battalion and the Navy Camp are just in response. The best they can do revolution. If they don't have revolution, we will occupy the Governor's Office, and then send a telegram to the whole country to announce the success of the Guangdong Revolution."
When Sun Wenyi said five hundred candidates, Huang Xing said, "Yixian, the people from Qingshan School are also participating in the Guangzhou event this time?"
"Yes. Raising troops for a thousand days will be used for a moment." Sun Wen nodded, "Those one hundred and thirty-five people are the most elite backbone of our Tongmenghui. There are riots all over the country now. The revolutionary situation is very good. If you don't take this opportunity to occupy a province. I'm afraid of the future..."
Sun Wen has not said it all, but the meaning is very clear. The Fuxing Society and itself are not the same as themselves, and there is no cooperation in the Two Sessions. Now the Fuxing Society in the revolutionary party has strong troops, fighting against the Qing Dynasty for five times but not falling, and has also opened a new base in Yizhou. If this continues, when the sixth encirclement and suppression of the Qing Dynasty is defeated, I am afraid that most of the world will be theirs. Even though the revolution is successful, there will be no matter how the Tongmenghui will be, and the blood of the martyrs will be in vain.
"It is said that this time the Manchu and Qing dynasties will be transferred to the new army of 14 towns, and the 100,000 patrol battalions encircle the Yanzhou base, can they win this time?" While everyone was silent, Li Zhongshi thought of the general trend of the world, and couldn't help but deviate from the main theme of the parliament and asked such a question.
Among all the people, Huang Xing knew the best military. He said, "There is an arsenal in Yanzhou, and now he has occupied Huizhou and other places in southern Anhui. Food and ammunition are not a problem. The soldiers have been trained after years of actual combat. It is said that the elderly and children in Yanzhou will buried mines. Even if the Qing army had fourteen towns and still had 100,000 patrol battalions, it would be difficult to win. However, I judge that after this battle, the Revival Society would be severely damaged. The Northern Expedition should be a year or two."
Speaking of this, Huang Xing said tactfully: "Yixian, in fact, we still have to send some people to Huang Mingtang, Qinzhou. Even if we cannot develop to the scale of Yanzhou, at least we have a place to train troops."
The Tongmenghui has always had two different uprising disputes, including two lakes and Guangdong, Guangxi. Revolutionaries in Sichuan, Hunan, Hubei, and Zhejiang all hope to launch an uprising in the Yangtze River area. Sun Wen is a Guangdong native. He had secretly assisted France earlier, and later because of overseas Chinese, the place where the uprising was always chosen in Guangdong, Guangxi. Huang Xing is from Hunan, but he has always followed Sun Wen's horse leader and agreed to the uprising in Guangdong, Guangxi. However, the revival will emerge. They established a certain amount of armed separatism in remote mountainous areas, which is also considered to be the same.
Another revolutionary path emerged. The Tongmenghui was weak, and the overall environment in the past two years was not suitable and could not be imitated. But now it is different. There were rebellions of all sizes in more than 20 provinces across the country. Many of these rebellions have established bases. In order to encircle and suppress the Revival Society, new troops across the country have been drawn out by the Army Department. This is a good time to establish bases, so Huang Xing wanted to expand the bases of 100,000 mountains to prevent Guangzhou from failing again and having the capital to make a new rise.
"Keqiang, is it time to build a base now?" Hu Hanmin asked. He and Huang Xing were both civil and military, and they were all done together in Guangdong and Guangxi, and they were very familiar with military affairs. "Although the Qing Dynasty mobilized the national troops to encircle and suppress the revival meeting this time, I think there will be no difference from the previous few times. Yanzhou is said to have 50,000 regular troops, more than 100,000 militias, and so many troops, just like you said just now, they are going to win this time, that is the Northern Expedition."
"It won't be so fast!" Huang Xing shook his head and said, "After the war, cultivate soldiers, replenish ammunition, and purify various departments. After this matter, I am afraid that the Northern Expedition will not be until next winter. At that time, the northern rivers will freeze, which will be convenient for the march. In this way, we will have at least one and a half years left. If we have money and guns in the 100,000 mountains, plus the backbone of Qingshan School, it is not difficult to train a unit with a target of 2,000 people.
With these two thousand people, when the Revival Society heads north to fight with the Manchus under the city of Beijing, we can take the opportunity to recruit the Qing Dynasty patrol camps in Guangdong and Guangxi. Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Jiangxi, Fujian, Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan are all places that were ignored by the Revival Society. If nothing unexpected happens, we should be able to occupy Guangdong and Guangxi and Hunan. Even if other places cannot be occupied, they can unite them on our side. After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, if the Revival Society really establishes an imperial system, we can mobilize soldiers across the country to attack them."
Is it a desperate bet or to slowly develop from the base area from small to large? This is a question. Although the Revival Society is strong, it can take the path from small to large, while the Tongmenghui chose the path from small to large because of its weak strength. This may be due to conditions, but more because of the leader. Huang Xing did not have the face of Sao Sun Wen. He only said that developing the Qinzhou base area was a preparation for Guangzhou to make righteousness. Even this made Sun Wen feel unhappy. He believed that only he knew what revolution was, and that only he could save the country that was about to be destroyed, but suddenly this great task was taken away by others, which really made him very angry.
When Sun Wen was silent, Deng Zeru, the person in charge of Nanyang, said: "What Keqiang said may not be unreasonable. Now the world is considered the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. At that time, Yang Jingcheng was Sun Quan of the Eastern Wu, and the Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty was Cao Cao of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and we were Shu Han. Now the Eastern Wu is powerful and does not unite with our Shu Han. Then we will develop ourselves. Guangzhou is one, and Qinzhou is also necessary. Guangzhou has not taken over Qinzhou; Guangzhou will take over that, even we can occupy Guangdong and Guangxi. When Sun Quan and Cao Cao fight bloody battle, our Shu Han will occupy all the southern provinces, and we will have one of the world in the future."
Deng Zeru did not read books and only read the Three Kingdoms, and his words were light and he only portrayed the revolutionary prospects incredibly beautiful. Everyone was amused by what he said. Finally, Wang Zhaoming said: "Ze Gong said so well. We must launch Guangxi and Guangdong. Guangdong is Guangzhou to make righteousness, and Guangxi is Qinzhou's 100,000 mountains. After occupying Guangdong and Guangxi, we will occupy Hunan and Jiangxi from north to north. When the revival will turn back, the situation in the south will be a foregone conclusion."
Wang Zhaoming agreed, and most of them agreed with Li Zhongshi, Hu Hanmin and others. Seeing that everyone was reacting like this, Sun Wen had to say, "Then we will divide the troops into two groups, one in Guangzhou, and the other in one in a mountain of 100,000 yuan. However, after this, the money will be increased by more than 30,000 to 40,000 yuan. Ze Gong, this matter is still on your side."
Deng Zeru was originally an overseas Chinese. Since joining the Tongmenghui, he has been responsible for fundraising and was not vague when he heard this. "Don't worry, Yixian. The fundraising matter is covered by me. That is, the situation in Zhejiang must be well controlled. The Qing Dynasty and Revival will soon have a big battle. What will happen? We should send people to follow us in time. Will Revival win or lose? Or will they win first and then south, but south and then north? That is extremely important. The situation in the world in the future depends on the decision after the Revival will be in this battle and the victory or defeat of the Qing Dynasty and Revival will be victorious."
Deng Zeru was familiar with the Three Kingdoms and used the Three Kingdoms to understand the world's affairs. He suggested that Sun Wen pay attention to the situation in the world, which was deeply agreed by Sun Wen and the people of the Tongmenghui. In addition to the Tongmenghui's determination to pay close attention to the Sixth Encirclement and Suppression War, in Anyang, Henan, thousands of miles away, some people were also deliberately paying attention to the Yanzhou encirclement and Suppression War that was about to start.
Wang Shizhen pointed to the simple sand table in the house and introduced to Yuan Shikai: "At this time, the encirclement and suppression was extraordinary. The imperial court had used all the troops available. Now there are 7th, 9th, 12th and 16th towns in Yanzhou north; there are 8th and 11th towns in the west; there are 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 4th towns in the east; and to the south, the 25th and 26th towns in Guangdong and Guangxi plus the 5th and 14th towns, there are also four towns. In this way, there are 14 new army towns, and there are about 100,000 patrol battalions, plus 15,000 naval troops, with a total of 300,000 troops.
On the side of the Revival Society, during the last encirclement and suppression, I heard that there were about 80,000 guns in Yanzhou, and the militias that only play red tassel guns, bury landmines, and throw away ** will not exceed 150,000. As for artillery, there will be many wooden cannons, but these wooden cannons may not be useful for the new army's turtle formation. If you only count the number of mountain cannons and field cannons, the total number will not exceed 100. In general, if Lin Zhouxie (Lin Wenqian) does not respond well, then the entire army will be wiped out."
Seeing that Wang Shizhen was talking about the matter so seriously, Yuan Shikai laughed and said, "The court only has 300,000 people. If Lin Zhouxie was really so easy to deal with, he wouldn't have been in Yanzhou for so long. In the past, he won the more with less? I think..." Yuan Shikai stood up as he said, "It's still the court's loss in this battle. By the way, I'm pongqing. Didn't the revolutionary army use airships to supply? Why didn't anyone see where the airships were? If that thing is to be used, it's not expensive, we can buy a few to play with it."
The revival of the airship was reported by the Germans, but no one saw that thing. Wang Shizhen smiled and said, "How did you know that it wasn't a German bragging? Thinking about how to transport tens of thousands of kilograms of things, flying in the sky, and walking thousands of miles a day. Who believes it? Even Yinchang was afraid to buy it after seeing Germany's bid. The airship said it cost more than two million marks, eight hundred thousand taels of silver, and the money to buy the airship could build a town."
Wang Shizhen opposed Yuan Shikai to buy unrealistic and expensive things in terms of price and use. In fact, Yuan Shikai was just a novelty. 800,000 taels per ship, each can carry 30,000 kilograms of things. It is said that the Fuxing Society bought several ships. No wonder the Fuxing Society's ammunition will never be completed. It turned out that there were airships ships shipped.
When Wang Shizhen saw Yuan Shikai thinking about the airship, he said, "Gong Bao, I think the rebellion in various places has been quite strange recently. Look, there has been no such rebellion since ancient times. There are groups in the east and west. They will not wander around after rebellion. They occupy the mountains and set up camps for the king. Isn't this the same trick as Fuxing? Yang Jingcheng is going to deploy the whole country."
Seeing that Wang Shizhen suspected that the revival would be deployed across the country, Yuan Shikai stroked his head with one hand, touched and said, "Although there are rebellions everywhere, it may not be all revival. Look, wasn't the peasants in Henan who started the trouble themselves? The patrol team went over to rescue them and dispersed. I think it was Yang Jingzheng who saw that the imperial army was all under Yanzhou and had no choice but to do the worst. Only by agitation can the imperial court disperse the power of the court. Once the power disperses, the pressure on Yanzhou will be reduced. He still doesn't understand who the emperor is today."
As soon as Yuan Shikai talked about Guangxu, Wang Shizhen said, "Gong Bao, what should we do?"
"We?" Yuan Shikai then touched his head and smiled, "It's the best now. In addition to the first town, there are four towns in Beiyang. Now there are 2nd, 3rd, 4th, one in Machang, two in Shandong, and the sixth town. Now a small part of the Shandong Mixed Association is in Shandong, and a small part of the Zhili Mixed Association. The Zhili Mixed Association will be the 27th town next year. These soldiers stationed troops in Zhili, Shandong under the pretext of preventing the Yizhou rebellion. Only the fifth town cannot be transferred, and they can only be in Yanzhou. In this way, even if 300,000 people in Yanzhou are wiped out, we can still have four towns plus one association, with more than 50,000 people. This is our future capital."
"Is the fifth town just..." Although there are four towns and one association, Wang Shizhen was still unwilling to accept it and just wanted to grab all the five Beiyang towns back.
"The current commander of the fifth town is Cai E. Do you know who Cai E is?" Yuan Shikai asked and answered, "It's Liang Zhuoru. Liang Zhuoru is now a member of Guangxu. Zaitao in other towns can be transferred as long as he has money, but this fifth town is in the hands of Cai E and has been transferred to Yanzhou. There is no excuse for transfer. It's difficult!"
Yuan Shikai was only satisfied with the scattered towns and Yihui that could protect Beiyang. In fact, the more important reason was that he was almost out of money. In order to protect these towns of Beiyang soldiers, he spent a lot of money on Zaitao. In order to avenge the two bureaus of the mail ships he had taken away by him, Sheng Xuanhuai checked the accounts of the Railway Corporation as soon as he came to power. Liang Shiyi and others were punished so hard that they dared not do anything. The money on the railway has now completely belonged to the Ministry of Revenue. If he wanted to make money from it, he would probably not be able to make money from it.
Wang Shizhen didn't know that Yuan Shikai was difficult, but felt that it was very distressing to leave the fifth town in Yanzhou like this. Seeing such a situation in the Beiyang system again, he said: "Gong Bao, I don't understand the situation now. You said that if the court was defeated this time, will the Fuxing attack be the Northern Expedition? Once they attack the Northern Expedition, what should we do?"
"What else can you do? Take one step at a time." Yuan Shikai said, and thought of what Yang Shiqi told him at the end of last year. His plan to conspire with others was to use this to be defeated, imprison Guangxu in Beijing, and then make Pu Wei the emperor. Finally, before the Fuxing Association, the Fuxing Association would talk to him about peace and equipment and rule the river. This matter sounds good. Not to mention that Shanqi, who planned this matter, has been seized from the rights of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and the patrols could not command it. Just think that the matter was really done, will Fuxing agree? If the court was defeated this time, the Fuxing Association would be the strongest army in the country. At that time, the more than 50,000 people who were recuperating in Zhili, Shandong, and the defeated troops in Yanzhou, can withstand this powerful army in a hundred battles?
When Yuan Shikai thought of this, he felt his scalp itchy. His hand touching his head suddenly scratched it. After scratching, he said, "Pinqing, what are the strengths of this Fuxing Army? Why can't it be defeated? I remember that you didn't have a few staff members to analyze them specifically. What if you want to defeat them?"
The Revival Army has been the subject of research by various countries. Now it is not only Germans, but also British, French, and Japanese military officers from other countries have all visited the Yanzhou front line. After the military officer of the British Embassy went to the Yanzhou front line, he sighed to the newspaper that fortunately South Africa is not Yanzhou, and he believed that if the British army came to eliminate the rebels, it would take about 500,000 people and would suffer 100,000 casualties. After the British said that, the French did not sniff, while the Germans said arrogantly that if the German team suppressed the rebellion, 200,000 troops would be enough, and the casualties would not exceed 30,000. Since Germany said that, Japan would be embarrassed to express its opinions. However, in newspapers in Japan, some people have made predictions that if the Japanese army headed to Yanzhou, there would be only 150,000 people and 20,000 casualties would be able to wipe out the rebels.
Foreigners were simpler than the other, but Wang Shizhen, who had studied the Fuxing Army, did not see this. When asked Yuan Shikai, he said, "Gong Bao, let's not be confused by the foreigners. The army is fighting, one is firepower, and then the force, and finally whether the food, grass and ammunition can be used. Now the Fuxing Army is nestled in the valley and is fighting in the inside line. It completely takes advantage of the local people and the people. Without the geographical advantage, they cannot fight those ambush battles. We have also equipped the wooden cannon, which is just a range of hundreds of meters. It is not easy to use when putting it on the plain. Besides, if there is no ordinary people to inform them, can they take advantage of the situation and concentrate their forces to disperse our troops?" Wang Shizhen said, and he started to shout loudly.
"After all, mountain warfare can only be fought in familiar mountains. As soon as we entered, we became dizzy. They turned and became smoother and smoother, and the more they fought, the more they were able to use wooden cannons, mines, and hand-throwing ** are all useful in mountain warfare. Once they came out of the mountain, would that thing be better than the Krupp field cannons? At that time, a town had thirty-six field cannons, and all eighteen mountain cannons were lined up, and the shells were shot all at once. They would still die and would shrink into the trenches and eat soil. The 80,000 people in Yanzhou were more courageous and more nimble than ordinary new soldiers. If they really drove to Shandong, with their artillery fire, the five towns in Beiyang could suppress them."
Chapter completed!