Chapter 299 Supporting Guilin Military Government

On September 25, Liu Zhenhuan and Liu Guxiang's troops first captured Guilin. At this time, Yang Ximin's battalion was still on his way to Guilin. However, on the 22nd, Yang Ximin had occupied two counties north of Baise. Chen Hongying and Liu Zhenhuan and Liu Guxiang fought for two days. Although the situation was not too bad, the rumors in Guilin City kept him panic all day long, so he simply threw down his troops, brought in a cash payment, and fled to Guizhou at night.

After Liu Zhenhuan and Liu Guxiang occupied Guilin, they recruited Chen Hongying's troops, and their troops expanded to ten battalions at once, and they immediately became the second largest military force in Guangxi.

Early in the morning of the 26th, Liu Zhenhuan and Liu Guxiang established the headquarters of the Anti-Yuan Army in Guilin's left-behind office. However, at noon that day, they received a secret telegram from the Guangdong Military Government, which was changed to the Guilin Military Government in the afternoon. Liu Guxiang was the secretary-general of the Guilin Military Government, and Liu Zhenhuan was the commander-in-chief of the anti-Yuan Army, and sent a telegram to the whole province to respond to the Second Revolution.

Yang Ximin also sent a telegram to support the Guilin Military Government on the same day. Liu Guxiang appointed Yang Xiwei's Guardian Envoy to recognize Yang Ximin's status in western Guangxi.

The establishment of the Guilin Military Government caused an uproar in Guangxi Province. Lu Rongting sent consecutive telegrams to condemn Liu Guxiang and Liu Zhenhuan for their illegal behavior, saying that the two Lius intend to *** Guangxi.

Liu Guxiang counterattacked Lu Rongting in Guilin and denounced Lu Rongting against the revolution and the people, and was a lackey of the Beiyang government.

When the people of Guangxi faced the situation of one province and two governments, they did not know which aspect they should stand. However, the old officials and gentry and the landlord class agreed that the Nanning military government was a local regime recognized by the central government, while the Guilin military government was just a temporary regime for a revolutionary uprising and was not enough to trust and support. Only a few bourgeois and Tongmenghui forces truly supported the Guilin military government. Almost all the governments of neighboring provinces and provinces maintained a neutral attitude, and only Guangdong and Hengyang, Hunan expressed their support.

After occupying Guilin, Liu Guxiang and Liu Zhenhuan's forces only controlled Liuzhou and Guilin. Although they had telegrams to respond to the Second Revolution, there was no military action afterwards. Liu Zhenhuan's anti-Yuan army neither went north to attack the Beiyang army nor went south to deal with Lu Rongting, but just entrenched in Guilin and Liuzhou like self-protection.

After the Guangdong-Guangxi War, the Nanning Military Government preserved the forces of the two armies, but the fiscal and logistics consumption was too serious and it was impossible to send troops to Guilin to attack Liu Zhenhuan and Liu Guxiang in a short period of time. Guilin and Nanning thus formed a confrontation. Lu Rongting had no other way except to curse every day. He could tolerate this. The attacks of the Guangdong-Guangxi War had survived. What else could he not tolerate at the moment?

Although the stalemate in Guangxi was divided into two, although there was a gap with Wu Shaoting's predestined, it finally solved the hidden dangers of Lu Rongting. Now the Gui army could only focus on Liuzhou, Guilin and Yang Ximin's troops, and no longer had any extra thoughts to covet Guangdong. The situation of the three provinces siege was immediately broken.

On the one hand, Wu Shaoting actively maintained alliance relations with the Guilin Military Government, and on the other hand, he drew and transferred the Second Regiment, Sixth Regiment and Artillery Regiment from the Western Front one by one. After the Guangdong-Guangxi War, the First Division almost changed its blood. Although it lost a group of experienced veterans, it also greatly improved the actual combat command capabilities of officers at all levels.

The strategy of the revolutionary Guangdong Army shifted from the Western Front to the Northern Front, increasing the prevention of the Beiyang Army in Hunan.

At the end of September, after several lobbying, Wu Shaoting finally reached a cooperation agreement with the Guilin Military Government. Guangdong United Bank provided a loan of 3.5 million to the Guilin Military Government. The loan method was to issue government bonds by Guilin Military Government, and Guangdong United Bank purchased the bonds in full. As a condition for purchasing bonds, government bonds must be printed and issued by Guangxi United Bank, and mortgaged them with the Liugui Railway Development Rights and the Liuzhou Lijiang Canal Transportation Tax.

In addition, the Guangdong Arsenal provided Guilin military government with arms loans worth one million quotas, including guns, cannons, bullets, grenades and other new and old weapons. The loan was mortgaged with the development rights of the Liuguang Railway, and the contract requires the employment of Guangdong special commissioner as the policy consultant of Guilin military government.

Liu Guxiang and Liu Zhenhuan had to agree to these conditions, because Lu Rongting moved the Guangxi Arsenal from Guilin to Nanning two years ago, and the supply of all arms of the Guilin military government could only be maintained by purchasing from outside. It is impossible to buy arms from Nanning, and the only one in the nearest is Guangdong.

Wu Shaoting is determined to become the backstage member of the Guilin military government. The existence of the Guilin military government can completely solve Guangxi's deterrence against Guangdong, and can also affect the layout of the entire four southwestern provinces. Liu Zhenhuan and Liu Guxiang have no economic foundation, and relying solely on ten battalions of troops may not last long. Their cooperation with Wu Shaoting is the only way to ensure the operation of the Guilin military government.

However, this cooperation is not fair, because Wu Shaoting will not do a loss-making business. The consumption of supporting a government is huge, and the economic self-sufficiency in Guangdong Province is just right, so naturally it cannot maintain another puppet regime. That's why Wu Shaoting asked for the development rights of two sections of railways.

Guangdong United Bank cannot swallow up 3.5 million loans and 1 million arms loans. The so-called Liuzhou Cao Transportation Tax is a drop in the bucket. The bank can only get the railway development rights and then sell them to the civil and commercial enterprises in Guangdong and Guangxi, thereby obtaining a batch of cash and lending them to the Guilin military government. In fact, Guangdong United Bank only acts as an intermediary and makes a bonus of added value.

To hire a special commissioner from Guangdong as a policy consultant, Wu Shaoting hopes to help the Guilin military government establish a complete system of justice to ensure that the Guilin military government's lifespan is long enough; in the bad direction, this is the means by which Wu Shaoting interferes and controls the civil affairs of the Guilin military government.

In a blink of an eye, October is coming, and the scorching heat gradually passes, but the residual heat in summer has not completely dissipated.

Wu Shaoting spent half a month to form the Second Teaching Regiment of the Second Teaching Regiment under the No. 3 Division of the Revolutionary Guangdong Army and temporarily under the division headquarters. In this way, the Third Teaching Regiment was almost the same as the First Division, and there were only one artillery regiment.

The Second Teaching Regiment had just arrived in Shaoguan to meet with the Third Division, and the Guangzhou Governor's Office received three news on the same day.

One good news, two bad news. The good news is that Wang Changling and Zhu Zhixin arrived in Chongqing and successfully persuaded the nine-member regiment of Sichuan Army represented by Xiong Kewu to raise an army to fight against Yuan. The bad news is that Hunan and Jiangxi are in a hurry. Cao Kun was silent for two months, and finally, under the pressure of the *** government personally ordered, he began to attack Hengyang. Li Liejue and Lin Hu retreated step by step in Jiangxi. On October 2, he lost Nanchang and retreated to Yichun and Yingtan respectively.

The main reason why Xiong Kewu raised an army to fight against Yuan was not because of Wang Changling and Zhu Zhixin's who said that long ago, Sun Yat-sen and Chen Qimei were still active in Shanghai, and before the Guangdong-Guangxi War officially began, the Sichuan Army had already been in full swing. The Sichuan Army soldiers were deeply influenced by revolutionary ideas, and after the merger of the regimes in Chengdu and Chongqing in Shu, the Sichuan Army's Northern Expedition became stronger. During the Gengxu Revolution, the Sichuan Army had already sent troops to Hubei, but unfortunately, the North and South had not long been peace talks, so the Northern Expedition Army had to return to Sichuan again.

Wang Changling and Zhu Zhixin arrived in Chongqing mainly to bring about the result of the Guangdong-Guangxi War and the news of Yang Ximin and Liu Zhenhuan's rebellion. This news was like a catalyst that forced Xiong Kewu, who was originally hesitant, to choose to raise an army to fight against Yuan. Xiong Kewu had close activities with Huang Xing and Sun Yat-sen in his early years, so he had to support the Second Revolution in both camp and morality. However, he knew in his heart that the difficulties of fighting Yuan are now, and once he announced that he would respond to the revolution, it would be a path of no return.
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