Chapter 291 Chen Hongying's End

Everyone in the division headquarters was in a bad mood, and the move of the Chen Hongying caravan was really infuriating. But the urgent question is, will the Liuzhou side still respond to the uprising in accordance with the original promise? The General Staff and the Governor have placed all the hope of completely turning the situation around the war in Liuzhou. Everyone is also very clear that in this situation, the strategic significance of launching a mutiny in Liuzhou is of great importance.

"Give me an explanation? I want to see what explanation Liu Zhenhuan and the others can give me!" Wu Shaoting said angrily.

"Governor," He Fuguang said at this time, "You might as well use the caravan to force the Liuzhou Revolutionary Army to revive as soon as possible. Liu Zhenhuan and Liu Guxiang can send troops to attack Guilin in the name of attacking the murderer. If they can take Guilin, we can secretly sponsor it to establish another military government in Guilin, and Guilin and Nanning are fighting. Guangxi is divided into two and the situation of encirclement of the three provinces will be defeated without any attack."

Of course, Wu Shaoting knew that there was an opportunity to take advantage of this matter. Chen Hongying created such a tragedy that both men and gods were angry. If Liu Zhenhuan and Liu Guxiang were ignored, they were afraid that their reputation would be infamous for thousands of years. He calmed down his emotions and thought for a moment, he said: "Notify the Ministry of Information to report the murder of the 'Da Shengkui' caravan. After the press release came out, send a letter to Shanghai to let Mr. Sun know about this. I want to let the whole of China know about this matter, but I want to see how Liu Zhenhuan and the others refuse!"

The next day, the first page of major newspapers in Guangdong Province published news about the Liuzhou tragedy. The Governor's Office specially issued a nationwide telegram, strongly condemning Chen Hongying's betrayal and cruel behavior.

The only survivor of the "Dashengkui" caravan returned to Guangzhou from Hezhou under the escort of Li Jishen. The survivors were supported by the Information Department of the Governor's Office and held a press conference in Guangzhou City, telling their personal stories about the day. Chen Hongying came to greet him under the order of Liu Zhenhuan, forcibly detained the caravan in Luzhai County. That night, he sent troops to the post station, first rushed into the post station and snatched the goods, and then set fire to the post station. Anyone who escaped from the sea of ​​fire was shot and killed.

The description was vivid and full of tears. The reporters of major newspapers recorded in detail, and there were even many foreign news writers present. A conspiracy of *** tragedy was highly exposed. Similar cases were originally common in Chinese history. It was precisely because of a force behind the scenes that the "Liuzhou Massacre" became a hot topic for a while, and also a "real tragedy" in which listeners burst into tears and smelled sad.

At noon, the Yunfu Division Headquarters finally received a telegram from Xilin County.

Yang Ximin was very sensitive to the news of the "Liuzhou Massacre". After receiving a telegram from the Guangzhou Governor's Office at 10 o'clock in the morning, he immediately realized that this was a bitter plan that Wu Shaoting deliberately took advantage of the issue. He knew that Liu Zhenhuan and Liu Guxiang would soon be under pressure and would inevitably send troops to attack Chen Hongying. The situation in Guangxi was about to break out. He also missed what Wang Changling said, and took advantage of the chaos in Guangxi to expand more territory and power.

Therefore, he sent a telegram, informing Wu Shaoting openly that he was also deeply indignant of the "Liuzhou Massacre". At the same time, he was willing to support Mr. Sun's anti-Yuan Revolution and led his troops to attack Guilin.

Of course, sending a telegram is just to express one's personal position first. As for when to start a military campaign, it depends on when the situation will be beneficial to you.

Yang Ximin sent a telegram to respond to the Yuan Revolution before Liu Zhenhuan and Liu Guxiang, which made Liuzhou feel more pressured than the "Liuzhou Massacre". Since Chen Hongying led his troops to defect, Liu Zhenhuan and Liu Guxiang have been very distressed. The money and arms have caused this despicable villain to rob him. They didn't get anything, and they had to bear the blame for Chen Hongying. Now Yang Ximin of the Yunnan Army has snatched the limelight of responding to the revolution again, which is simply a loss of fame and fortune.

Fortunately, Liu Zhenhuan was quite open-minded, and his revolutionary soldiers were excited. He followed Yang Ximin that night and issued a telegram to the uprising, deciding to attack Guilin.

These two powers gave the Nanning military government a blow, and the situation in Guangxi suddenly changed from undercurrents to surging winds.

Chen Hongying was also panicked in Guilin. The key reason why he wanted to kill someone to silence the silence was that Lu Rongting and the Beiyang government did not give him a definite answer, so he still had to rely on the revolutionary army. In order to cover up the fact that the arms and materials were stolen, Liu Zhenhuan and Liu Guxiang knew about it, he took extreme measures. At first, Liu Zhenhuan and Liu Guxiang did not suspect him, but just thought that the Guangdong fund had not been delivered. Unexpectedly, the work was not good, and a living person ran away, and the whole thing was immediately exposed.

He was originally looking forward to joining forces with Lu Rongting to cooperate internally and externally to annihilate the forces of the Tongmenghui in one fell swoop. Because this incident was exposed, his current strength was no match for Liu Zhenhuan and Liu Guxiang at all, so he could only escape to Guilin in shame.

Lu Rongting knew that this matter could not be blamed entirely on Chen Hongying, and he also wanted to win over Chen Hongying, the foreign aid. Especially now that Yang Ximin and Liu Zhenhuan have rebelled with telegrams, he needs to do everything possible to win over all small warlords from the province to stand on his side. So in the past two days, he actively contacted Chen Hongying and appointed Chen Hongying as the deputy commander of the Guilin Left-behind Office, instructing him to actively expand his troops and deal with the attacks of Liu Zhenhuan and Yang Ximin.

Zhang Mingqi, the governor of the Guilin left-behind office, has always been in Nanning. Lu Rongting specially asked Zhang Mingqi to go to Guilin to take charge. Since the former Qing emperor abdicated, Zhang Mingqi's real power has gradually been eroded by all forces until it was completely undermined by Lu Rongting and was unwilling to accept it. This time, Lu Rongting urged him to go to Guilin to take charge, which has to be said to be a great opportunity for decentralization, so he decisively agreed.

But no one expected that some of the situations in China in early September made Lu Rongting and Zhang Mingqi feel extremely regretful. On the day he received the press release from Wu Shaoting, Sun Yat-sen immediately issued a telegram in anger and scolded Chen Hongying, Song Jiaoren, Liao Zhongkai and others, followed Sun Yat-sen's telegram, calling on party members from all walks of life to jointly condemn the culprit of the "Liuzhou Massacre".

The influence of *** has a certain status both at home and abroad, not to mention that the "Liuzhou Massacre" has no direct connection with the Guangxi and Guangdong War, and the Yuan Revolution was a humanitarian tragedy. After Sun Yat-sen's criticism and ***'s collective condemnation, this incident was once upgraded to the level of the first tragedy in the founding of the Republic of China.

Soon the report reached *** again. Yuan Shikai was eager to divert the focus of Song Jiaoren's assassination case, and immediately took the opportunity to take the call and ordered the Guangxi military government to arrest Chen Hongying in the name of the central government and severely punish him in accordance with the law.

Although arresting Chen Hongying would more or less offend Lu Rongting, it might also affect Guangxi's strategic layout to restrain Guangdong. However, Chen Hongying is a small character after all. Moreover, the Guangxi-Guangdong War has been fierce for a month, and the Beiyang Army has achieved the desired effect, so there is no need to give Lu Rongting face again.

On September 4, the *** government issued an arrest warrant. On September 5, Zhang Mingqi had just arrived in Guilin. Seeing that something was wrong in Guangxi, he had not stayed in Guilin for two hours and continued to go north without stopping and left Guangxi without saying goodbye.

Zhang Mingqi's departure from Guangxi gave Lu Rongting a signal that Guangxi would soon be unable to cover it. The Guangdong-Guangxi War in the east was still dragging down, and Liu Zhenhuan, Liu Guxiang, and Yang Ximin were ready to go. Two months ago, the Lu Gui army, who was the strongest in the southwest, was facing a crisis of disintegration today.

Lu Rongting had no choice but to announce that he would accept the arrest order of the central government, remove all positions of Chen Hongying, and order all troops in Guangxi to attack Guilin and arrest Chen Hongying.

Chen Hongying never expected that an extremely ordinary murderous robbery, after Wu Shaoting, Sun Yat-sen and Yuan Shikai's three parties, turned into a "tragedy" with public outrage and a serious crime. If this is true, all the activities that the bandits and robbers have done in the past should be dealt with as they are today.
Chapter completed!