Chapter 172: The Defense of the Old Army in the City

Huang Shilong actually didn't know what to do. Although there have been several revolutionary troubles in Guangdong Province, they are all in the surrounding areas. Today, the revolutionary party gathered more than 2,000 people to break into Guangzhou City for the first time in history. He had no experience at all. The reason why he ran to the Governor's Office was to ask for instructions on how to face the enemy next.

He looked at Yuan Shuxun's panic, but he was not panic. After more than ten years of military career, how could he get messed up all of a sudden? He pondered for a moment and quickly said: "Sir, the most urgent task is to mobilize the entire city's troops to encircle and suppress the revolutionary party. Although the revolutionary party is so powerful this time, more than 10,000 troops stationed in the city will surely be able to quell the rebellion smoothly."

Yuan Shuxun nodded repeatedly and said, "What Huang headquarters said is very true. It is just that the new army is not under the jurisdiction of our Governor's Office except for the fire battalion, patrol battalion and some defense forces in the city."

Huang Shilong said: "Governor General, don't worry. If such a situation occurs in the city, the General's Mansion will inevitably mobilize the new army to suppress the chaos. You can just send a telegram to notify the patrol battalion now. Of course, it is best to transfer the Guangdong Navy into the Nei Bay. With the artillery fire of the Navy, the Revolutionary Party has no way to escape."

Yuan Shuxun frowned and asked, "A mere two thousand people need to use a navy? Are you afraid of hurting your own people by chance?"

Huang Shilong laughed and explained, "The General of the United States is just in case. Of course, everything depends on the arrangement of the Governor. The General of the United States obeys the Governor's orders with all his strength."

Immediately, Yuan Shuxun sent a telegram to mobilize the patrol battalion to reinforce, and on the other hand, he recruited reinforcements from the surrounding areas of Guangzhou.

The situation in Guangzhou is getting more and more tense!

The nervousness was not only for the Governor's Office of Guangdong and Guangxi, but also for the Revolutionary Army. After entering the city, the situation of the Revolutionary Army changed subtly. In addition to the fact that Guan Renfu's team seemed organized and disciplined, there were looting behaviors in Li Fulin and Huang Mingtang's troops. Li Fulin was originally from Green Lin, and his subordinates were also a group of outlaws. Revolution was just a guide, but human nature was difficult to change. Although Huang Mingtang was a loyal person, for this uprising operation, he recruited a group of people regardless of good or bad, and unknowingly reduced the quality of the people in the headquarters.

These black sheep who were mixed into the civilian army were not optimistic about revolutionary actions at the beginning. They just followed everyone into the city to catch fish under the guise of uprising.

There was a robbery, and Li Fulin, Guan Renfu and Huang Mingtang had to stop it, otherwise the reputation of the revolution would be completely ruined. It was precisely because they had to deal with these black sheep that the progress of the attack was suddenly pulled down. Their original plan was to meet at 12:30, three people gathered at the intersection of Haopu and then attack the Governor's Mansion together.

However, when Guan Renfu's men arrived at the intersection, they did not see the other two teams and immediately became disorganized.

Guan Renfu thought that something had happened to Li Fulin and Huang Mingtang, so he had to take his people to the city again.

On the other hand, Huang Mingtang's people were all on the Dadong Road. He was going to pass through the Dongjiao Military Camp and took the opportunity to call on the Second Bing Xin Army to revolt together. However, he rushed in front and the team behind suddenly became a mess, so he turned back to reorganize the troops. When he found that the subordinates behind were having a dispute over the property they robbed, he was immediately furious and shot and killed two people on the spot.

This move finally shocked his subordinates, but it delayed more than twenty minutes.

Li Fulin's side was even more outrageous. He had the most subordinates, but at the beginning he did not organize according to the army, divided his subordinates into several teams, and then set up several team leaders to manage them. He was the only boss in this thousand people, and he would come to him to ask him for any problems.

Because of this, coupled with the arrogance of these people, his men are the one with the most disorganized and the most untidy formation. After entering the city, the troops were in chaos, and many people left the team privately and ran to private houses to rob.

Li Fulin had to take his confidants to pull back the lost people one by one. Because he was loyal to the world, he was not as decisive as Huang Mingtang. He had no intention of killing and warning these men who were caught except to order the robbery and scolding them.

Therefore, Li Fulin's troops, which were originally considered by the Tongmenghui to be the main force of the civilian army, became the most useless group of people.

The second bidding commander Mo Qingyu was still full of energy when he woke up this morning. He had contacted his confidants earlier and issued a secret notice in the army that he would lead his troops to revolt today. He even arranged a pistol team. Once the revolutionary party entered the city, he immediately asked the pistol team to capture Guo Renzhang from the cavalry battalion.

However, he was still a little vigilant deep in his heart, worried that the revolutionary party would have limited ability, so he decided to wait until the revolutionary party passed by his military camp before responding to the uprising. He didn't know that he heard gunshots and shouts in the direction of the Great East Gate from 12:20, and he waited until one point but had not seen the trace of the revolutionary army. His initial enthusiasm was a little bit gone.

It only takes twenty minutes to get from the Dadongmen to the East Suburbs Military Camp, and Dadong Road is a straight road. Unless the revolutionary party is mentally retarded and stupid, you can get here by walking straight along Dadong Road.

Mo Qingyu paced back and forth at the commander's office, all the officials around him were looking solemn, waiting for his orders.

Now there are two choices before him, either to continue to hold on. If the revolutionary party does not come, it means that there is something wrong with this revolutionary action. At worst, you can give up; or you don’t have to wait for the revolutionary party to arrive and lead your troops to revolt directly. No matter which choice it is, it is risky. He had explained the uprising matters earlier, but now he can’t say that he will give up? Even if someone gives up, he will be done if he sues him!

But if he rises up now, he feels unsure and the revolutionary party is gone, so why are he joining in the fun?

Gradually, he changed from hesitation to anger. He finally made up his mind to support the revolutionary party, but the revolutionary party let him go! How annoying!

While waiting, the General's Mansion first sent a telegram to urge the second bid to urge the new army to suppress the rebellion. Mo Qingyu pretended not to receive the telegram and did not reply or send troops. But not long after, the general's mansion's messenger came to issue an order in person. Mo Qingyu had no choice but to delay as much as possible.

Just when the general's mansion was impatient, Huang Mingtang's people finally appeared at the Eastern Suburbs military camp. The revolutionary party shouted everywhere in the military camp: "Revolution, revolution, Chinese men stand up, drive out the Tartars, and restore our China!"

"Brothers of the new army, the first bid has revolted, so I'll wait for you!"

"Don't be a slave to the country, nor a slave to the country!"

When the messenger heard these calls, his face suddenly changed and he stood up and was about to run away.

Mo Qingyu decisively shot and killed the messenger, raised his arms and shouted, "Comrades, the revolution is here!"

Afterwards, the second bid carried out actions according to the already arranged plan. The revolutionary soldiers had endured for a long time and finally broke out at a moment. The new soldiers first started the internal cleaning and arrested all the Manchu officers and stubborn people. Some Manchu officers rose up to resist and were shot to death.

The pistol team also rushed towards the cavalry battalion. Guo Renzhang had received a telegram from the General's Mansion earlier and was mobilizing the cavalry battalion to rush to the General's Mansion to stand by, but he had never expected that the second bid would rebel. The pistol team was mistakenly thought that it was sent by Mo Qingyu to convey the order, and it was unobstructed along the way and broke into the battalion office directly.

When Guo Renzhang reacted, it was too late. Several guards from the battalion office made a brief resistance, but were quickly killed by the pistol team. When the other guards who rushed into the battalion office rushed into the battalion, the pistol team had already threatened all the officers here, and the guards had to give up the resistance.

Mo Qingyu sent a staff officer to contact Huang Mingtang, and he himself rushed to the cavalry battalion to take charge of the overall situation.

The cavalry battalion had no leader, so it could only obey Mo Qingyu's orders. The entire battalion was combined with the second standard to respond to the revolutionary uprising.

The second rebel army began to set off one after another. A group of people attacked the Xinjiao Armory nearest to the eastern suburbs, intending to take the armory to provide supplies to the rebel army; the other party rushed to the Haopu Crossroad with Huang Mingtang's troops.

Mo Qingyu personally led two battalions of troops to the Haopu Crossroads, and met Guan Renfu's troops on the way.

The three men met and asked each other and they didn't see Li Fulin's troops. However, time was tight, so they could not find Li Fulin's troops anymore. Several leaders gathered together and discussed briefly, and finally decided that Mo Qingyu would lead the second main force to attack the Governor's Office. Guan Renfu and Huang Mingtang combined into one and headed straight to the Guangzhou General's Office.

As long as these two core organs of the Guangdong Provincial Government are captured, the government forces in Guangdong Province will collapse. As for other towns and counties, as long as a proclamation is continued, they will all surrender consciously.

When the vanguard of the Cavalry Battalion, one hundred light cavalry, had just arrived at Yuehua Road, they happened to encounter the defense line of the Fire Battalion Kui Battalion.

Originally, Kui Battalion didn't know that the new army had rebelled. The battalion officer Chen Shengkui thought it was a reinforcement of the new army and was about to come up to say hello. Unfortunately, the cavalry battalion was on the battlefield for the first time, and its psychological quality was not good, and it was the time when the revolution was in full swing, so he didn't calm down at that time.

The cavalry captain drew his pistol and fired a shot at the defense line of Kuiziba. Although he took the lead, the shot eventually missed and instantly revealed his identity.

Although Chen Shengkui panicked for a while, he soon realized that the new army had also rebelled and immediately ordered his subordinates to open fire to block the attack.

There were too few cavalrymen. After a few people were killed, they immediately turned around and fled. They were not attacking at first, but were only responsible for reconnaissing the movements of the enemy in the city. Now that they learned that there was an enemy situation here, they naturally rushed back to report.

Chen Shengkui did not chase after him. He knew that the new cavalry battalion had rebelled, which meant that the second yard had also rebelled. This small team of cavalry was here to inquire, and there must be a large number of troops behind him. Although Takui Battalion was an elite unit in the fire battalion, at best, there were only more than 300 people. It was only a blame for not filling up the troops in order to get empty space. When the second yard was pressed over, how could such a few people be able to defend it?
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