The First Warlord of the Republic of China

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The spn staff department immediately held a meeting overnight. Jiang Yu, Jiang Fangzhen, staff officers Tang Hanyuan, Zhou Zhengye, and several German staff officers all participated in the meeting. The atmosphere at the meeting was somewhat solemn.

Jiang Yu stood up, took a deep breath, and said with the introverted look in his eyes:

"Everyone, a revolution has broken out in Wuchang. At present, China is affected by the financial crisis caused by the collapse of stock speculation and the influence of the road protection movement. The merchant class in the south has been completely disappointed with the Qing court. The army in Nanchang is empty. As long as the Wuchang revolutionary army is connected At that time, the revolutionary groups will raise their arms to respond, and the revolutionary wave will inevitably spread to the southern provinces at an extremely fast speed. In the north, only the new Beiyang army can stand up to the Manchu Qing army, and if there is a real fight, the southern revolutionary army will not be the opponent. The Qing actually controlled the Beiyang Army, and Yuan Shikai, who was at home with free money, still firmly controlled the Beiyang Army through gifts of money. After the revolution broke out, Yuan Shikai will come back and use the Southern Revolutionary Party to blackmail the Qing court.”

"For Yuan Shikai, this is an action to seize power. If the seizure of power succeeds, his political career will be revived. If the seizure of power fails, then he will be completely defeated. Not only will his family lose his life, but the Yuan family will also be completely destroyed. So Yuan Shikai There is no way out. As the saying goes, once the revolutionary army is suppressed, Yuan Shikai will be eradicated by the Qing government. Therefore, in the future, there will be a confrontation between the north and the south. That is, the strength of the southern revolutionary army is not enough Shake the Beiyang Army. And the Beiyang Army will not go south to suppress the Southern Revolutionary Party.”

"What happened after Yuan Shikai threatened the Qing court?" Jiang Fangzhen asked. [

"Afterwards, there are only two choices. One is to support the constitutional monarchy. As long as the Manchu emperor is constituted, the power will be in the hands of Yuan Shikai. The other choice is to force the Manchu abdication, and Yuan Shikai will be the president of the new government. It is still in the hands of Yuan Shikai. Yuan Shikai will obviously be inclined to the first option at the beginning, but the southern revolutionary army will definitely demand that the Qing emperor abdicate and will establish a government in the south. At this time, Yuan Shikai still insists on the road of constitutional monarchy, so he must use Suppress the Southern Revolutionary Army by force. If the republic system is adopted, then Yuan Shikai can solve the problem in any way. And Yuan Shikai does not want to die for the Manchu Qing, so obviously the second option is easier, and Yuan Shikai can't afford it. Because he has no money."

Jiang Yu's analysis shocked them all. Jiang Yu continued to analyze: "Among the southern revolutionary parties, except for the few parties such as the Restoration Society that were not supported by the Japanese, the other revolutionary parties were all inspired by the Japanese. Yes, especially since 05, a large number of students have traveled to Japan to study. As of last year, the number of students studying in Japan has reached 2, which has exacerbated this problem. Although the grassroots members of these revolutionary parties are full of enthusiasm, but Their top leaders are national thieves who have defected to the Japanese. While holding the revolutionary banner, they are like crap sticks. Once China becomes stable, they will inevitably jump out and make trouble. Besides, they are not really revolutionaries. After the North-South peace talks, they will take the initiative to compromise with Yuan Shikai for the sake of immediate interests. And when they control part of the political power in the south, there will inevitably be phenomena of power struggle, corruption and corruption. Lose the popular support, so the revolutionary party has no climate."

"Teacher, what shall we do next?" Zhou Zhengye eagerly asked, his expression very excited, and Tang Hanyuan even asked directly: "Teacher, since Yuan Shikai doesn't have the financial resources to launch a large-scale war, why don't we just knock Yuan Shikai down?"

"Yes, we have money, and we are very rich. If there is a fight, even if the import of arms is cut off, our arsenal has already been built. It will not be a problem to defeat the Beiyang Army by then. But what about after defeating the Beiyang Army? Can our foundation swallow the whole of China?" Jiang Yu asked, knocking on the table.

Everyone was still a little puzzled, Jiang Yu continued:

"What we want to establish is a new social system. The times have changed, and the thinking of conquering the world is no longer the same as in ancient times. To establish a new social order, we must first have sufficient military strength, but our military strength is obviously very large. Nervous. Even if we spend money to conquer the world, what will happen after the territory is established? Do we have enough administrative staff? What can we do? We can only continue to use corrupt officials from the Manchu and Qing Dynasties. Are we going to open fire on them? At that time, we will fight in the front, and the revolutionaries will pick peaches in the back, and we will only make wedding dresses for others, and in order to wage war, our industrial development will be forced to stagnate, which is not worth the loss.”

"So what we have to do is follow the trend and find a balance between the north and the south. First grab a piece of his mother's land, let us gain a firm foothold first, and wait until we digest this land, and then expand outwards, At that time, we will swallow it one province after another. With our industrialization route, no warlord can stop us, and eventually the whole of China will be under our control."

"This is also our first step, but it is definitely not the last step. You look at the map. If we want to develop industry, the most important thing is to have coal and iron resources. Anhui happens to have coal and iron resources. Therefore, in this reform, we first We want to occupy the whole of Anhui. Looking at Jiangsu, we are determined to win northern Jiangsu, but southern Jiangsu is a place of right and wrong, because Nanjing will be the center of the entire southern revolutionary party, so we will not touch it for the time being. The area we want to occupy is also There is one Anhui, one northern Jiangsu. In addition, we have a battalion in Shanghai, we can make some money in Shanghai, but we don’t need to occupy it for a long time.”

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On October 10, at the Lingcheng-Huaiyin meeting, a group of people headed by Jiang Yu formulated a combat policy centered on 'grabbing territory' and 'fighting the autumn wind'.

On the same day, the "Huaiyin Combat Command Headquarters" was quickly established, and began to secretly dispatch troops and secretly issue combat plans.

On the night of October 10th, after three days of preparation, the troops arrived at the scheduled attack position and launched a formal attack at 13:11 pm.

The 01 brigade was scattered throughout the major cities in northern Jiangsu, and with the battalion as a unit, it launched an attack on Huaiyin, Suqian, Xuzhou, Lianyungang, Yancheng, Nantong, Taizhou, and Yangzhou through tunnels.

The 02 brigade was concentrated on the south bank of the Yangtze River in Anhui, and its combat missions were relatively easy. It launched attacks on Wuhu, Ma'anshan, Xuancheng, Chizhou, Tongling, and Anqing.

The Shanghai Independent Battalion launched an attack on Shanghai County.

That night, almost all the battles broke out at the same time. Except for southern Jiangsu, which was not under the attack of the revival army, the other major cities in the Huaihe River and Huaihe region were all full of gunfire.

In order to take Xuzhou, an important town in northern Jiangsu, Jiang Yu mobilized three battalions to attack Xuzhou.In order to take Anqing, Jiang Yu also mobilized three battalions of troops.

The revival army entered the city through tunnels. When the battle started, the Qing army was still asleep. They fought in a hurry. Hearing the gunshots everywhere, the soldiers of the Qing army panicked and were rushed into the city after a while. The revival army inside was beaten to pieces.

The revival army is equipped with a large number of submachine guns and light machine guns, which are very suitable for urban street fighting. At such a short distance, a single sweep of the shuttle can wipe out a large area. [

Moreover, the revival army is also equipped with a large number of heavy machine guns, while the new southern army does not have such weapons at all, so they cannot beat the Beiyang army with heavy machine guns.

After the Restoration Army occupied a street, they put a heavy machine gun there, and immediately blocked a street. No matter how the Qing army counterattacked, they could only leave layers of corpses.

In the street fighting, although the revival army faced an enemy several times their size, because many of the Qing troops were scattered and there were not many people who could organize them, coupled with their superiority in weapons, it could be said that they had the upper hand. Annihilated and captured by the revival army.

The revival army that entered the city attacked the barracks, and at the same time sent and occupied important places such as yamen and treasury. The maps drawn in advance played an important role.

Jiang Yu, who was in Huaiyin, personally led people into Huaiyin County, and pulled the county magistrate Zhang Binglong out from under the back yamen's bed. Zhang Binglong was full of horror, pointed at Jiang Yu angrily and shouted: "You, you, how dare you rebel? Aren't you afraid of being ransacked and exterminated?"

"The Qing court is exhausted, why should we be afraid?" Jiang Yu said with a smile on his face, ignoring Zhang Binglong, a small character, and waved his hand to have him taken down.

When the battle in Huaiyin was over, the telegrams from the headquarters came like snowflakes, and the troops responsible for attacking the counties sent back battle reports one after another.

According to the news sent back by various ministries, the most reported is that they found a lot of silver in the treasury.

At 1:30 in Ling Cheng, Shanghai sent back a telegram, and the telegraph operator quickly took the telegram and reported to Jiang Yu: "Master, the Shanghai Independent Battalion has captured the Jiangnan Manufacturing General Bureau, and found a large amount of silver inside, and the amount is being counted."

"Okay, immediately mobilize the ships, and immediately transfer the silver to Huaiyin. In addition, I will remove all the machinery and equipment that can be removed by the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, and leave the quota there." Jiang Yu decided to pay attention to it. The autumn wind was blowing in Shanghai, and an order was issued immediately.

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In Shanghai, after receiving the order from the Huaiyin headquarters, the Shanghai Strengthening Battalion launched an uprising, and launched an attack on the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau that night.

The Jiangnan General Manufacturing Bureau is the most important arsenal of the Qing court. This arsenal has the ability to imitate machine guns, and also has a lot of machinery and equipment, involving many industrial manufacturing projects.

For this reason, the Qing court deployed heavy soldiers in the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, and there were also two heavy machine guns.

Historically, because of the existence of those heavy machine guns, Chen Qimei and his group in the Offensive Manufacturing Bureau suffered heavy losses, and Chen Qimei himself was also captured.

However, this time, the Qing army of the Manufacturing Bureau faced the well-equipped Shanghai reinforcement battalion. They usually used the name of the business group as a cover, but their strength was far from comparable to that of the Shanghai business group.

As soon as the battle began, the heavy machine guns of the Qing court were hit by mortars, and the firepower of the Qing army was directly bombed. The Shanghai Strengthening Battalion only used one platoon of troops to carry out an assault, which completely disintegrated the manufacturing bureau. The will of the Qing army successfully occupied the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau.

Jiang Yu's actions in the Lianghuai area were prepared and premeditated.

The defenders of the Qing army were caught off guard. At 10:14 am on October 4, Xuzhou was declared conquered. At 4:30, Anqing declared victory.

Counties in northern Jiangsu and southern Anhui also successively conquered. After a night of fighting, the revival army achieved brilliant results.

Then the battalions began to get busy. First, they gathered the trophies and transported them to the headquarters in Huaiyin. Since it was the time of the autumn harvest, the governments of various places collected a large amount of taxes, and these taxes fell into the hands of the revival army.

At the same time, in addition to retaining some troops in each battalion to maintain law and order in the county, the other troops quickly concentrated.As for the county towns that were conquered, administrative personnel were immediately arranged to set up 'temporary county governments' in each county to carry out local administrative work. [

China has long been governed by a small centralization and a large society governance model. This model is centralization and local decentralization and autonomy. The advantage is that the cost is very low, but the disadvantage is that the ability to control the local government is seriously insufficient.

The local villages and towns don’t care whether the government is Manchu or whatever, they just fulfill their obligations. Therefore, after the Xingye Party’s administrative personnel arrived in the local area, with the cooperation of the army, they established a security team, which basically stabilized the local situation.

On October 10, after two days of mobilization, the 6 Brigade of the Northern Jiangsu Revival Army moved westward in an all-round way, attacking northern Anhui.The 01 Brigade of the Revival Army in Southern Anhui also gathered in Anqing one after another to attack northern Anhui.

At this time, the counties in northern Anhui did not even know that the revival army had already rebelled against the Qing Dynasty.The revival army was equipped with a large number of vehicles and was extremely mobile. Before the news reached northern Anhui, they were already approaching the city.

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