Back to the Republic of China as a commander

Gong Peng can be said to be the busiest person in Guangxi now. Before he was transferred to the station chief of Changde Station of the Military Intelligence Department, he was the station chief of Liuzhou Station.

It can be said that it took him three months to get a clear picture of the situation in Liuzhou.

But now that he has been transferred back, he has been promoted to the station master of Guangxi Station. According to the latest establishment table of the Military Intelligence Department, both Liuzhou Station and Nanning Station have become sub-stations.Then he, the stationmaster of this big website, will be busy. There are only so many spies. Not only Liu Guxiang's information, but also Lu Rongting's information in Nanning is to be investigated.However, the work of the spies working at the Nanning station was very unsatisfactory. It was not until Gong Peng transferred five Guangxi soldiers from the army to the military intelligence department that the situation improved.

Director He's latest request is to focus the work on Liuzhou and Nanning, and send pigeons to send messages immediately if there is any trouble (radio stations are not yet popular).

And He Jian himself brought a group of people from the headquarters of the Military Intelligence Department to Jingzhou with Wang Zhenyu's headquarters. Song Haomin had just been transferred to the headquarters as the head of the logistics support department, and his military rank remained unchanged as a colonel.

From the perspective of military deployment, Wang Zhenyu is indeed bound to win Liuzhou and other northern Guangxi regions.Not only the first division was transferred, but also the first mountain brigade and the second mountain brigade, which had just shined in the Changde battle, were transferred.

You must know that the second garrison division commanded by Liu Xing has been transferred to the Changde area to assist in local political reforms (with guns to assist?).At present, in the entire Xiangxi base camp, apart from the Security Corps, there is only Zhao Dongsheng's Guards Brigade.

However, Wang Zhenyu is not completely taking risks. He is sure that no matter how empty you are, as long as Cai E is still there, Liu Shixian from Guizhou will not dare to set foot in Xiangxi.Cai Dashuai has declared his neutrality. If Liu Shixian dares to break Cai Dashuai's chess game, it is estimated that the governor of Guizhou will be the end.

"Brother Delin, why do you think the commander-in-chief dared to let us go to Liuzhou now without any reason?" During the crusade against Changde, Bai Chongxi, who gained a lot of limelight by raiding Li County, had just met Wang Zhenyu with Li Zongren.But Wang Zhenyu only exchanged a few words, and asked the two to rush back to the passage immediately, and then lead the team to set off towards Liuzhou. Bai Chongxi was very puzzled by this.

Li Zongren shook his head: "The commander-in-chief has always acted unconstrained and unconstrained, so I don't know. What important information did our military intelligence department provide? Didn't you benefit once in Cili? And it's okay for us to fight Guangxi No, it’s been almost two years since I left home, and I don’t know if the family is okay?”

Speaking of family, Bai Chongxi, who has always shown his cold face, also showed gentle eyes, looking at the mountains in the distance, the other side of the mountains is home. . .

Just when Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi, two Guangxi natives, began to feel homesick, in Liuzhou, a bloody scene was being staged.

If historians are interested in selecting the top ten most tragic figures in China in 1913 or the second year of the Republic of China, No. 1 must belong to Liu Guxiang.As for Song Jiaoren and others, they all had to be in the back row, because if Liu Guxiang thought he was second, no one would dare to think he was number one.If it's miserable, who can compare with Liu Guxiang?

Liu Guxiang was born in 1873 in Maping, Guangxi (now Liujiang).He participated in the world-famous Huanghuagang Uprising in Guangzhou, launched an uprising in Liuzhou during the Revolution of 1913, and served as the chief of the Youjiang Military and Government Branch of Guangxi and the commander of the Fifth Army of the Army.Such a person who failed to show his face in the history textbook was described in this way when he compiled the local chronicles later: "After Yuan Shikai usurped the fruits of the revolution in 10, he attempted to become emperor. Discussing Yuan, sending telegrams to respond to the provinces, announcing the independence of Guangxi, because Shen Hongying betrayed, unfortunately, was arrested by Yuan Shikai's minion Lu Rongting. On October 14 of the same year, he died calmly at the east gate of Liuzhou."

Let's not talk about how Yuan Shikai's minion Lu Rongting cooperated with our founding father to carry out the law protection movement in the south. Let's talk about the last miracle of Liu Guxiang's life.

In the era of the Republic of China, it was common for generals leading troops to encounter mutiny. For example, in Baoding, Cao Kun ordered his subordinates to bombard the commander's mansion with cannons because of the deduction of military pay. Fortunately, he was not in the house at the time, but a concubine was killed. up.

However, Liu Guxiang encountered mutiny differently from these people. In just five days, he actually encountered two mutinies.

And the ending is worse than ever.

The first mutiny is a bit embarrassing to talk about. It was none other than Liu Guxiang's revolutionary comrade, the Kuomintang, who launched the mutiny.

Dissatisfied with Liu Guxiang's hesitation in asking for Yuan, comrades in the party claimed that they wanted to force Liu Guxiang to ask for Yuan, so they decisively launched a military remonstrance, which sounds a bit like the Xi'an Incident.

The materials in the KMT also clearly recorded this remonstrance activity: In the middle of the night of September 9 (what an auspicious day at this time), Liu Maliu, the captain of Liu Guxiang’s guard, launched a demonstration by firing guns from his troops, in order to coerce Liu Guxiang to decide to revolt .

Oh, it turned out that it was a demonstration by firing guns, which was relatively mild.But what about the consequences?According to the records of the Kuomintang, due to the haste of the incident, Liu Guxiang, without knowing it (nonsense, if he knew, he could still make you mess around!), panicked and escaped over the wall.But a strange thing happened. It was obviously a demonstration where guns were fired into the sky. Why were Liu Guxiang's secretary-general Liang Zuolin, Liu's wife Ma Dian, and Liu's daughter-in-law Yang Li all shot dead indiscriminately?Could it be that the three of them were already in the sky at that time.

As a result of the first mutiny, Liu Guxiang lost his wife and became a widower. Of course, his son also joined the team of widowers just like him.

This is still a start. Liu Guxiang asked his comrades in the party to show that he should have repented, and then fell into the benevolent arms of President Yuan Shikai. He has since become Lao Yuan's minion and a tool to suppress the revolution.

But no one else, Liu Guxiang was like a certain marshal later, even if his wife was killed by the organization, he would follow the organization to the end without hesitation.What is such a comrade but a staunch revolutionary?

Liu Guxiang rebelled against Yuan while healed his wounds, and then appointed Liu Zhenhuan as the commander-in-chief of the Yuan army in Guangxi, and dispatched troops to fight Lu Rongting who supported Yuan Shikai.

The second mutiny is completely a modern version of Farmer and Snake, because Shen Hongying who launched the second mutiny was cultivated by Liu Guxiang.Shen Hongying, courtesy name Guannan.Before being recruited as a green forest, she was named Shen Yaying.Originally from Jiaying Prefecture, Guangdong Province (now Meixian County), he was born in Enping, Guangdong Province. Due to the fighting between natives and guests, his ancestors moved to Luorong County, Guangxi Province, where they made a living as small traders.Shen Hongying was about 21 years old, joined the gang, and committed crimes and robberies in Liucheng, Luobu and Luocheng.Because of his strong body, cunning, and aggressive actions, he was promoted as the leader of the gang.All the brothers, uncles and nephews of bandits in Luorongshatang and other places who have the strength to join bandits.

After the Revolution of [-], Shen Hongying led the team to defect to Liu Guxiang, a revolutionary party member, and became the fifth army supervisor of the Guangxi Army.

Because Shen Hongying has good facial features, can speak eloquently, works diligently, is good at catering to Liu Guxiang's wishes, and both speak Hakka dialect with Liu Guxiang, therefore, Liu appreciates her and relies on her as a confidant.

At the beginning of 1912, Liu Guxiang went on a tour to the counties of Youjiang, and Shen Hongying led his troops to follow him.When recruiting bandits in various counties, all of them were assigned to Shen Hongying's department. Therefore, Shen's department had a relatively substantial force.

Early the next morning after the first mutiny, Shen Hongying went to the Gang Command, met Liu Zhenhuan first, and expressed that he would follow Liu Zhenhuan to oppose Yuan.Goodbye Liu Guxiang, knelt down to Liu Guxiang and said, "I was cultivated by the commander, and I can't protect the commander. I'm sorry for the commander."

At that time, Liu Guxiang was so moved that he almost didn't recognize his son.

Afterwards, Shen Hongying said to Liu Zhenhuan, "There are a lot of things to do in the gang, and it is not easy for the commander to recuperate while living here. My place is relatively quiet. Please come and live at my place."

Liu Guxiang trusted Shen Hongying very much, so she moved to Shen Hongying's place to recuperate.

But in fact, Shen Hongying had already defected to Lu Rongting.

On September 9, taking advantage of Liu Chengfu's opportunity to attack Lu Rongting with 14 troops, Shen Hongying launched a second mutiny in Liuzhou. This time Liu Guxiang, who was injured, even had no chance to climb over the wall.Seeing that the situation was not good, Liu Zhenhuan escaped from Liuzhou with dozens of people, avoiding pursuit everywhere.

In history, Liu Guxiang, who ended in tragedy, was handed over to Lu Rongting by Shen Hongying as a voter. Lu Rongting immediately decided to shoot his biggest opponent who dominated Guangxi.

Before the execution, the triumphant Lu Rongting asked Liu Guxiang with a smile what other last words he had. Liu Guxiang's last words were a little excited: "Shen Hongying was single-handedly picked up by me. If he kills me today, he will kill you in the future."

Lu Rongting only thought it was an angry word, and killed Liu Guxiang with a wave of his hand, and Shen Hongying became the new owner of Liuzhou.

However, due to the appearance of Wang Zhenyu, an irresponsible big butterfly, history began to shift here. . .

After Liu Zhenhuan escaped from Liuzhou, his first plan was to flee to Guangzhou, because that is still the sphere of influence controlled by Yuan Jun.But Shen Hongying obviously expected this, and set up many barriers on the way to Wuzhou.After all, he was born as a bandit, and the idea of ​​cutting grass to get rid of the roots is deeply rooted.

Liu Zhenhuan tried several times, but not only was he unable to get away, but more than a dozen brothers were damaged.Unhappy, I could only go in the direction of Hunan. Anyway, Tan Yankai, the governor of Hunan, announced his independence to seek Yuan.

But the whereabouts have been revealed, and Shen Hongying's subordinates Lan Ba ​​and Tao Er came after hearing the news with more than 80 officers and soldiers who were former bandits.

Today is already the third day, and almost every rest, the other party catches up.After a brief exchange of fire between the two sides, the distance widened again.In order to escape, Liu Zhenhuan had to imitate the gecko to play tail docking, so now there are only a few people who still follow him.

Hunger, fatigue, and fear came together after three days of accumulation. Liu Zhenhuan felt that he was going to die soon. Having grown up in a big family, he must not be able to outrun the bandits in the mountains like Lan Ba ​​and Tao Er.

Everyone finally found a place to drink some water and take a rest.A bullet hit the guard next to Liu Zhenhuan, and the guard fell into the trickling stream, the dark red blood staining the stream red.

Liu Zhenhuan looked back in horror, Lan Ba ​​was leading more than [-] people and pointing guns at several of them: "Liu Bangtong, you can really run, the brothers took several shortcuts to catch up with you, it's not easy. "

Liu Zhenhuan knew that the time of his death had come, so he sighed. There was no way to avenge the old Liu family. He quietly closed his eyes, waiting for the sound of the gunshot. . . . . .