The First Warlord of the Republic of China

Chapter 68: The Second River Downward War broke out

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On April 4, the situation in the whole country was very tense.

The top and bottom of the Kuomintang questioned Jiang Yu one after another. Chen Qimei saw that the silence was unsuccessful, and Ying Guixin and the assassins who participated in the silence were all arrested.

For this reason, Sun Dapao first instructed Chen Jiongming to provoke a civil war in Guangdong.

On this day, Chen Jiongming sent a telegram to the whole country, Guangdong declared its independence, and counted more than ten crimes in Jiangyu and Chongqing, and announced the uprising against Jiang.

This civil war, which was called the "Second Falling River War" or "Battle of Gui Chou" by later generations of historians, officially broke out. From the beginning of the outbreak, it was doomed to be another war that the Kuomintang was about to lose. [

It is recorded in the textbooks of later generations: "The second war against the Yangtze River was a war launched by the internal terrorism of the Kuomintang with the support of Japanese imperialism in an attempt to plunge China into chaos. In the end, Jiang Yu, the general of Dingguo, launched a lightning-like offensive. In the same month, the National Defense Forces and the Beiyang Army held the Central Plains Parade in Henan."

On April 4, Tan Yankai of Hunan Province declared Hunan's independence and raised troops against the river.

On April 4th, Li Liejun, the governor of Jiangxi, also declared Jiangxi's independence and raised troops to overthrow the river.On the same day, Fujian Xu Chongzhi and Sun Daoren announced the independence of Fujian.

On April 4, Sichuan Xiong Kewu declared the independence of Sichuan.

The whole country was shocked for a while, and Chinese people at home and abroad were in an uproar.

Down the river?

What a joke! ~

Anyone with a bit of a brain knows that since Jiang Yu defeated Russia in Outer Mongolia in the year of Renzi, he has established a very high prestige in the hearts of the people across the country.

The Kuomintang, which insists on going its own way, will inevitably be rejected by the people.

However, the Kuomintang thought that Japan was behind it, and Yuan Shikai had assembled a large number of troops in Henan, so everything was ready to fall.

Only Yuan Shikai's Dongfeng was officially launched.

After the Kuomintang launched the second war against the river, all provinces in the country immediately sent telegrams to the whole country, denouncing the Kuomintang for its disregard of the overall situation and its ulterior motives.

On April 4, two divisions and a mixed brigade controlled by the Kuomintang in Jiangxi attacked Jiujiang under the command of Li Liejun.

The Jiujiang Armed Police Force mobilized the people to defend Jiujiang, and fought fiercely with the Kuomintang rebels. Li Liejun's attack on Jiujiang was frustrated, and the two divisions had nothing to do with Jiujiang City.

The tenacity of Jiujiang City bought time to wait for reinforcements. On the same day, the Second Division of the East China National Defense Forces crossed the Yangtze River under the leadership of Li Shoujing, and launched an attack on the Kuomintang rebels on April 4.

The siege of Jiujiang came to an end.

On the same day, Yang Hongfei led the First Division of the East China National Defense Forces to attack Nanjing.

The East China National Defense Army wiped out the Kuomintang rebels outside Jiujiang City with such momentum, and the First Division broke through the Nanjing city defense in only two hours.

The first division invaded Nanjing, and the citizens of Nanjing responded bravely. [

Seeing that the situation was over, the rebels of the three divisions in Nanjing surrendered immediately.

On this day, the flag of the National Defense Army was planted in this land of golden powder in the Six Dynasties. The First Division of the National Defense Army entered Nanjing City with strict discipline. After entering Nanjing City, it committed no crime to the people, and quickly stabilized the order in Nanjing City, which was enthusiastically received by the people of Nanjing. support.

The next day there was a report in the newspapers that the National Defense Forces invaded Nanjing, and the discipline was strict and they did not commit any crimes. It was praised by intellectuals in all provinces of the country.

On April 4, Zhejiang electrified the whole country to declare war on the Kuomintang. The Fifth Division of the East China National Defense Force formed by the Zhejiang Army attacked Xianxia Pass under the instruction of the United Party.

On that day, the Fifth Division conquered Xianxia Pass, opening the door to Fujian.The fifth division headed straight in, broke into northern Fujian, and then went all the way south to Fuzhou along the Minjiang River.

In Hunan, Tan Yan was completely tragic.

On April 4th, after power was turned on and the river was turned over, Tan Yanzheng, who was dissatisfied with the control of local administration by the Lianghuai Administration, wanted to launch an attack on the counties in order to destroy the local administrative system established by the Lianghuai Administration after reaching out to Hunan. However, the counties in Hunan Armed police forces quickly united.

And set up a temporary combat command, and in the next half month, with less than one division of armed police and those militias, the county towns were defended like iron barrels.

And Li Yuanhong from Hubei also announced that he would support the river, and two divisions were transferred from Hubei to attack Hunan.

The Hubei Army is not what it used to be at this time. Since participating in the war against Russia, two divisions in Hubei have obtained advanced light equipment.

It's just that the firearms are too advanced and consume a lot of guns, which makes Li Yuanhong very heartbroken. Don't guns cost money?All right!Although the medicines provided by the East China Group were used in this dispatch of troops, at least they should be used sparingly!

Equipment is the courage of soldiers, and the Hubei army participated in the war against Russia. At this time, it is a mighty low-intensity civil war, chasing Tan Yan's two Hunan divisions all the way.

Compared with the East China National Defense Army, the Hubei Hubei Army moved more quickly. The East China National Defense Army was organized as a Class A division with too much heavy equipment.

The Hunan rebels didn't even need the East China National Defense Forces, and the Hubei Army helped them out.

However, Xiong Kewu was left alone in Sichuan, but Jiang Yu hadn't stretched his hand into Sichuan, and Xiong Kewu couldn't make any noise for a while.

In the Huai'an Military Headquarters Building, Jiang Yu is personally commanding various ministries to suppress the Kuomintang rebels.

Inside the general headquarters, telegrams from all over the place kept coming, and at the same time, the headquarters also continued to send out telegrams. Jiang Yu was sitting at the desk, tapping his fingers on the table, and seemed to be in a good mood.

"Commander, Hunan is in suspense, and the Zhejiang army has also invaded Fujian. Fujian is just around the corner, and only Guangdong and Sichuan are left. In addition, Yuan Shikai invited the commander to Henan to participate in the parade and have a face-to-face meeting." Tang Hanmin told Jiang Yu said.

"Sichuan Xiong Kewu, that little bastard, doesn't care about him for the time being, and there won't be any disturbances. Guangdong, however, asked the Second Division to leave its heavy equipment in Jiujiang and rush south to attack Guangdong. Jiangxi will be taken over by the First Division." Jiang Yu is very fond of Guangdong territory. It is important, after all, it is the most economically developed province in the future, with huge economic development potential.Although it is related to the policies and situations of future generations, it will be worse in this era, but at least it will not be too bad.

If it was late, the Guangxi warlords supported by Yuan Shikai might have taken away the Guangdong territory.

"As for the Central Plains Parade, send a telegram to Yuan Shikai. I will go to Henan in five days." Jiang Yu nodded and said, "Also, send a telegram to Tao Chengzhang and Cheng Dequan for a meeting in Suzhou in two days."

"Yes."[

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Two days later, Jiang Yu arrived in Suzhou.

Jiang Yu met with Cheng Dequan and Tao Chengzhang at his ancestral home in Suzhou. Under Jiang Yu's guidance, Tao Chengzhang and Cheng Dequan laughed away their grievances.

The past disappeared like clouds and smoke. Cheng Dequan suppressed Qiu Jin's uprising in the late Qing Dynasty, so the relationship between the Restoration Society and Tao Chengzhang has not been very good.

On the contrary, Tao Chengzhang was accompanied by two women in German women's military uniforms who had been full of resentment towards Cheng Dequan and looked unhappy.

These two women are in their early twenties and the other is eighteen or nineteen years old. They are very beautiful, and they are full of heroism in military uniforms, with a heroic temperament.

Jiang Yu's eyes couldn't help being attracted, and after looking at the two women a few more times, he guessed that they should be the sisters Yi Shi, the heroes of the Republic of China women's high school.

The teacher of the Yi sisters was Qiu Jin, and in their eyes, Cheng Dequan was obviously the executioner of the Qing Dynasty.

Because the appearance of Jiang Yu changed Tao Chengzhang's fate of being assassinated by Chen Qimei, which led to the reunification of the Restoration Society, but the Yi sisters did not follow the Kuomintang to revolutionize as they did in history.

The two sisters wanted to take Cheng Dequan's skin, but Cheng Dequan turned to the revolution after the Revolution of [-], so the two sisters did not dare to do it, but naturally there was a lot of resentment in their hearts.

"This time I came to Suzhou, mainly because I want to invite Mr. Cheng to be the governor of Hunan, and Mr. Huanqing to be the governor of Jiangxi."

Since the establishment of the Lianghuai Administration, Cheng Dequan has been suspended for a long time.

This time, Jiang Yu invited him to be the governor of Hunan, which was obviously beyond Cheng Dequan's expectations. Jiang Yu's appointment of him as the governor of Hunan this time obviously meant to formally pull him into the East China faction.

Cheng Dequan couldn't help being overjoyed, which meant that his career as an official had been revived again, and he was still a big official in the frontier, so he immediately agreed.

Tao Chengzhang was a little hesitant, and asked Jiang Yu: "Ziheng (Jiang Yu's name), the governor needs to be appointed by the central government, and now Yuan Shikai..."

"Mr. Huanqing, don't worry. President Yuan has invited me to go north to Henan to hold the Central Plains Parade. The president is on our side in this break with the Kuomintang, and the president has acquiesced in the actual jurisdiction of Jiangxi and Hunan. .” Jiang Yu said to Tao Chengzhang.

Tao Chengzhang didn't know that Jiang Yu was acting with Yuan Shikai for Japan and Sun Dapao, so he was shocked and said: "Ziheng can't act hastily, if there is a fraud, then everything will be over?"

"It's okay, Yuan Shikai wouldn't have the guts to even think about gathering the 16 troops of the Northwest National Defense Force in Henan," Jiang Yu said, shaking his head.

Cheng Dequan was also very surprised when he heard it. The Central Plains Congress?Isn't it the confrontation between the two major military blocs?Thinking of this, although Cheng Dequan was surprised, he still said to Jiang Yu: "It is always in case, Ziheng, you should bring more guards!"

"That's right, we really have to guard against it. How about this! Why don't you let Ruizhi and Weijun go north to Henan with you? Although they are women, they are women who don't give way to men." Tao Chengzhang looked at the Yi Shi sisters beside him at this time, and said to them He asked, "Are you willing to go north with General Dingguo?"

"Central Plains Parade? Good! My sister and I just went to see it." Yi Weijun was a little eager to try, and his sister Yi Ruizhi nodded. The two sisters have experienced battles, and they are very impressed by this Central Plains Parade interest.

Tao Chengzhang turned his head to look at Jiang Yu again, Jiang Yu immediately smiled and said: "Okay! You two sisters want to go and see, then I will take you there!"

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