Chapter 85 Eighty-four, Guangxi response

The situation of discussing Yuan, if Guangxi is independent, it will be united with Yunnan and Guizhou, and the momentum is completely different. Therefore, Lu Rongting's attitude in Guangxi is very important to the success or failure of protecting the country. Lu Rongting was promoted by Cen Chunxuan, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi in the Qing Dynasty. Cen Chunxuan had always been against Yuan, and he had persuaded Lu to participate in the Yuan Daye.Guangdong, Guangxi, like Yun and Gui, were areas where the Beiyang Army had not yet reached. General Long Jiguang of Guangdong severely oppressed the Kuomintang, so Yuan liked Long very much and listed Long as one of the new Yuan Party. When Yuan appointed the generals of the provinces, according to The governors of the former Qing Dynasty were stationed, and the provinces were given different treatment. Long was appointed General Zhenwu, while for Long's relative, Lu Rongting, who was also the governor of Guangxi in the lesser Qing Dynasty, was only named General Ningwu.Of course, Lu felt a sense of favoritism.Yuan found out that Lu had the heart to leave him, so he was promoted to the title of General of Yaowu. After Lu was made a general, Long Jiguang was made a first-class duke. Then just a Marquis.

Yuan's knighthood was originally intended to win over the warlords of various provinces. Unexpectedly, due to the high and low titles, although some warlords were satisfied, some warlords were also lost. When Lu was made a marquis, his subordinates were not allowed to congratulate him.In addition, Yuan sent Wang Zutong as a patrol envoy in Guangxi, who would handle military affairs in Guangxi.This also made Lu more alienated from Yuan, so when Wang took office in Guangxi in September 4, Lu's attitude was neither to refuse nor to accept, and he asked Yuan for leave to show his resistance.At the same time, he recalled his son Lu Yuxun who stayed in Beijing.Lu Yuxun was originally a military attache in the Presidential Palace in Beijing. He asked for leave to go back to Guangxi to visit his father's illness. When he arrived in Hankou, he died suddenly for no apparent reason. Some people said that Yuan poisoned him. The look of condolences, sent staff to take care of the funeral.The onlookers were clear, secretly laughing that these two people can act.

Lu was neither satisfied with Yuan nor disapproved of the imperial system, but he did not dare to act rashly. He paid great attention to the attitudes of the two generals Duan and Feng of the Beiyang Department.Duan Qirui pretended to be sick in Beijing, Yuan and Duan's disharmony had become an open fact, and Feng Guozhang's refusal to go to Beijing were all facts that irritated Lu.Feng once had a representative, Pan Bo, visit Guangxi. Lu learned from Pan that the rift between Yuan and Feng was widening, which made him more courageous to oppose Yuan. He sent five representatives to Nanjing and Shanghai for activities. I admire him very much, so among the tasks assigned by his representative, the most important one is to welcome Liang Qichao to Guangxi.

After Liang Qichao and Cai E separated in Tianjin, they also sneaked to Shanghai from Tianjin on December 18, one day before Cai E arrived in Yunnan. After the Yunnan uprising, Liang stayed in Shanghai to use his pen to advocate against Yuan and advocate against Yuan.In late January of 1950, he wrote a letter of more than 3,000 characters to General Lu Rongting of Guangxi.On February 19th, Chen Zuyu suddenly came to see Liang on behalf of Lu, saying that he had been invited by Lu to go to Guizhou, and that once Liang arrived in Guizhou, Lu would act righteously. On the 22nd, Tang Shaohui came to urge Liang to enter Guangxi with the title of Lu Ming.Liang Nai went to Hong Kong on March 4th by the Japanese ferry Yokohama Maru, and on the 12th by Miaoyi Shanmaru from Hong Kong to Haiphong, and then entered Guangxi from Zhennanguan. Liang arrived in Nanning on March 26, but Lu Rongting had declared independence on March 15.

When Yuan sent troops to Yunnan, he originally planned to use the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway to transport troops to attack Yunnan, but later he gave up because the French minister refused to use the false route. Therefore, Yuan Ji hoped to send the Beiyang Army to attack eastern Yunnan via Guangxi.When Lu Rongting heard the news, he mobilized the Guangxi gentry groups to publicly reject the Beiyang Army's hypocrisy.Yuan voted rats to be wary and didn't dare to go too far with Lu, so instead he persuaded Lu to send troops to attack Yunnan, but Lu refused on the grounds that Guangxi's army was short of money and equipment.Yuan then sent Lu Rongting's in-laws, Long Jiguang's elder brother Long Jinguang to lead an army to attack Yunnan via Guangxi. Yuan believed that the Long brothers were all from Yunnan and they were chieftains in southern Yunnan.Long Jinguang's son, Long Yunqian, was Lu Rongting's son-in-law. Lu Rongting would not object to sending Long Jinguang to Guangxi.Sure enough, Lu couldn't refuse this decision, so he had to call Long Jinguang to bring more ordnance and fewer soldiers. With the ordnance, he would not worry about the difficulty of recruiting soldiers along the way.It just so happened that Long Jiguang didn't have enough troops in Guangdong at this time, so he couldn't send more troops to his brother, so Long Jinguang had to bring 4,000 Cantonese troops to organize an expeditionary force.In mid-January of the fifth year of the Republic of China, Long Jinguang led his army to Nanning and recruited another 4,000 soldiers in Guangxi Province, a total of 8,000 troops. On January 30, Long traveled from Nanning to Wuming to visit Lu Rongting, who was pretending to be sick. When the two in-laws met, one was very enthusiastic and the other was very cold.Lu said that he was very negative and was not interested in anything. On February 8, Yuan announced that Long Jinguang was the general of Linwu and the investigation envoy of Yunnan. Li Wenfu, the head of the Long faction, attacked Poai from Baise, and sent his son Long Yunqian to his hometown Mengzi to organize an underground army.

When Long Jinguang was marching towards Yunnan, Yuan Dian asked Lu Rongting to send troops to assist Long Jinguang in attacking Yunnan.Seeing that Lu's attitude had improved, Yuan asked Lu to send troops to attack Guizhou. Lu did not refuse. He only asked Yuan to distribute 5,000 rifles and a military salary of 1 million as a condition for starting. On March 7, Yuan appointed Lu Rongting as the Xuanfu envoy of Guizhou, and sent Chen Bingkun, the commander of the First Division of the Guangxi Army, to take care of Guangxi's military affairs.The appointment was actually said to be at Lu's own request.At the same time as this order, Yuan You secretly ordered Long Jinguang to monitor Lu nearby.Yuan was afraid that Lu would not accept the Xuanfu envoy of Guizhou, so he did not know that Lu would take the post by telegram, but he sent Yuan another telegram, asking for 1 million yuan in military pay.

Before Lu Rongting set off in Nanning, he held a military meeting. At the meeting, Chen Bingkun, the first division commander, spoke fiercely. The new ruler (referring to Yuan) is unfaithful, betraying the old master (referring to Cen Chunxuan) is unrighteous, forgetting to kill his son is not kind, how can a person be disloyal, unrighteous and unkind!" On March 11, Lu Rongting led his troops from Nanning to Liuzhou. On the 13th, he led the generals of the Guangxi Army to call Yuan to resign, and limited the call to reply within 24 hours. Quandian said: "Former President Yuan Gonghui Jian: Painful from the forced monarchy, people's grievances boiled, Yunnan and Guizhou blamed words, and conflicts started. Troubled wars, winter and spring. The fate of the country is in danger, and the end is unknown. It is up to me to push the origin of the disaster from afar. Over the past few years, we have harmed the people, ruined our government, and planted grievances among the people. In the past few months, we have promoted murderous intentions, and we have plotted to steal the country and make people laugh and insult all nations. Check Article 46 of the "Convention Law". Responsibilities of the people, failure of government and violation of the constitution, all eyes are on the horizon, who will be relieved of the responsibility for the life of the elite? Yun and Gui have helped righteousness to prosper, and there is no turning back. My father is still obsessed with it. How can we make money? Rong Tingfeng When I worked in Yanjiang, security was urgent. Qichao traveled all over the country, and his eyes were full of surprises. Because of the battle of Xinhai, the former Qing Dynasty had a three-hundred-year tradition, and he couldn't bear to let the people suffer, and abdicated the throne. Today, my father Just for the sake of selfishness, he spared no effort to kill hundreds of millions of people, in order to destroy the country. To win the dynasty, can you be ashamed? In the end, nothing will be achieved, and you will only see the killing and laughing. You are called a wise man. Rong Ting and others feel that they have worked together for several years, and they cannot bear the fact that my father will end up harming the country. I would like to advise you to resign today to thank the world. Then Gongzhi can confess, and the national crisis can be solved immediately. The situation is safe and dangerous, and there is no room for it. I beg for a reply within 24 hours, so that the decision can be made, and I am waiting for orders in great pain! Lu Rongting, Liang Qichao, Chen Bingkun, Tan Haoming, Mo Rongxin, Ma Ji, Wang Zutong."

On the 15th, Lu's camp in Liuzhou was renamed the governor of Guangxi, and the commander-in-chief of the Guangdong-Guangxi National Defense Army. He appointed Liang Qichao as the general staff, and officially declared independence by telegram.At this time, Liang Qichao was still on his way across Guizhou.When Liang Qichao was on the road, his father died of illness in Hong Kong. His relatives and friends did not disclose the news, so he was kept in the dark.It was a thrilling journey for him to sneak through Zhennanguan. By the time he arrived in Nanning, Guangxi had been independent for 11 days.

The Guangxi Uprising and the announcement of joining the National Defense Army was an important key in the war against Yuan, because in this way Guangxi was connected with Yunnan and Guizhou, which showed that the National Defense Movement was not launched by one province and one person, but that a single spark can start a prairie fire. The most wonderful thing is that the three provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangxi all have a formula. Before independence, they first cheated Yuan with money, and after they achieved their goal, they used Yuan's money to overthrow Yuan.Yuan Yisheng used deception to rule the world, and when he was defeated, he was teased by those who opposed him like this. It was really a retribution.

Before the independence of Guangxi, Long Jinguang had already occupied Poai on March 9, and Long Yunqian, the son of Long, also launched a second dispatch of local teams in southern Yunnan to attack Gejiu, Mengzi, and Lin'an.This offensive coincided with the setback of the National Defense Army in Sichuan. Long Jinguang himself moved his headquarters to Baise, and his forward Li Wenfu, head of the regiment, has entered the vicinity of Tufu Prefecture.It seems that Yuan's surprise army is quite effective in strategic raids, but at this moment, Lu Yuguang and Gui Jun, who were sent by Lu Rongting to support Long Jinguang, suddenly launched a military coup. He quickly disarmed all the dragon troops and detained Long Jinguang and his son Long Yungan.Long Yunqian is Lu Rongting's son-in-law, and Lu Yuguang is his uncle. He never dreamed that his close relatives would be born again.He asked to meet with Lu Yuguang. The brother-in-law said that close relatives are private, but Yuan Huguo is public, and he cannot abolish the public because of private.This made the father and son of the Long family very embarrassed, so Long Yunqian sent a telegram to his wife and mother-in-law, and asked his wife to beg her mother, Mrs. Tan, to ask the mother-in-law to persuade the father-in-law to let his father and son go. way of life.Soon, Nanning got a reply, which said: Although the political opinions and positions of each other are different, relatives are still relatives, and they will definitely not wrong their in-laws and son-in-law.However, I would like to ask my in-laws and son-in-law to send a telegram to Long Jiguang in Guangzhou, asking Long Jiguang to respond to independence and participate in the movement to protect the country.Long Jinguang and his son were prisoners of their in-laws at this time, so they dared not comply with their demands, so they signed the telegram that had been drawn up, urging his brother to become independent in Guangzhou.The three-way military operation launched by Long Yunqian in southern Yunnan was also extinguished by Liu Zuwu, the second division of Tang Jiyao stationed in Mengzi.

Long Jinguang and his son were captured alive, and Long Yunqian's surprise soldiers were wiped out in southern Yunnan. All these bad news had not yet reached Beijing, and what Emperor Yuan in Beijing heard was a series of good news in the first half.Therefore, on March 12, Yuan ordered the appointment of Long Jinguang as the supervisor of Yunnan military affairs and Yunnan patrol envoy.Pity this "General of Yunnan" is already a prisoner, and there is no chance for him to accept a new life. At this time, he is under the podium of the independent conference in Baise, trembling and reciting the Guangxi Province that his in-laws sent to him. The province is independently electrified. After Guangxi became independent, Wang Zutong, the Guangxi patrol envoy sent by Yuan, asked Lu Rongting to allow him to leave the country. Lu immediately agreed, and also donated 20,000 yuan to Cheng Yi, and sent troops to escort him out of the country.Lu Rongting also gave preferential treatment to his in-laws. He brought Long Jinguang and his son from Baise to Nanning, and asked them to live comfortably in the mansion, but they were not allowed to move around casually.For Long Jinguang's subordinates, Lu Du allowed them to choose freely, whether to leave or stay. The most important task after Guangxi's independence is to promote the independence of Guangdong. Guangdong and Guangxi are closely related. If Guangdong and Guangxi run counter to each other, it will be detrimental to Guangxi. Therefore, Lu Rongting and others tried their best to fight for Guangdong. , Liang Qichao and Liang Qichao jointly called Long Jiguang and Patrol Envoy Zhang Mingjun in Guangdong, and the telegram said: "Guangdong Longshang General and Zhang Xun's envoys learned from each other: Yuan Shikai, the former president, conspired against him, and God and man were indignant together. Since the first uprising in Yunnan and Guizhou, and the achievements in Hunan and Shu, the trend of public opinion is clearly visible. The governor and the general staff of the army , jointly signed a telegram to persuade Yuan to abdicate in order to thank the world, but there was no answer. Now, at the request of the army and the people, he went out to fight against the thieves. Guangdong and Guangxi are neighbors, with the same lips and teeth. Great luck. The military plane is urgent, and I beg for a reply within twelve hours. Lu Rongting, commander-in-chief of the Guangdong and Guangxi National Defense Army, and Liang Qichao, chief of staff." Guangdong did not reply, so Lu et al. used the name of the Guangdong-Guangdong National Defense Army to appeal to the Guangdong army and civilians. The article said: "The commander-in-chief and chief staff officer of the Guangdong-Guangzhou National Defense Army made a public announcement: Yuan Shikai, the former president, conspired to rebel. The oppression is clearly visible. The commander-in-chief and the general staff couldn't bear to join forces and make people miserable, so they called Yuan to persuade him to abdicate in order to thank the world. Not yet, but at the request of the army and civilians in Guangxi Province, they went out to appeal. Guangdong General Long Jinguang and Xunzhang Zhang Mingqi have long been colleagues with the commander-in-chief. , with the same hatred, repeated e-commerce and common righteousness, unexpectedly ignorant of conscience, willing to rebel. The commander-in-chief and the general staff had to temporarily move the division to the north, and first served the battle of the east. Now they have commanded a powerful force, Encircle the provincial capital. If Jiguang and Mingqi can repent and surrender, they should renew the road. If they are still obsessed with obsession and refuse their orders, they will be wiped out at the head of the canal. My fathers and children in Guangdong are well aware of the current situation, and they are loyal and loyal. Forgive the painstaking efforts of hanging and felling, and the vitality of supporting and helping the economy. Let everyone be safe and happy, don't make a fuss, and wait for the army to quickly calm down the clown. All the officials in Guangdong, big and small, look forward to serving their duties as usual, and do not abandon them. All the generals and soldiers of Guangdong Served in the Republic of China, and the salary has been supported for a long time. When the survival of the country is at stake, it is the day when our soldiers will do their best. They will distinguish the right from the wrong, and choose carefully from the wrong. The troops stationed outside the province have the purpose of safeguarding local law and order. Responsibility, do not leave the flooded land without authorization, causing troubles. The troops inside and outside the city should arouse the conscience, rebel and obey, and do not resist the enemy's righteous brigade and poison the creatures. But they can come back with armor, and they will help the United States The city of Ontario is to secure Guangdong, and to save Guangdong is to save China. The Commander-in-Chief and the Chief of Staff want to defend the country, but it is their duty to fight against each other. The army is extremely poor, and the place is corrupt. Therefore, temporarily stationed at the key points of the festival, spread the call to apply for the police, call out the toast, and send good words. This call!" Since most of Long Jiguang's subordinates were Yunnan soldiers, Lu Rongting and Liang Qichao jointly appealed to the Yunnan soldiers in Guangdong, saying: "I would like to inform the generals and soldiers of Yunnan in Guangdong that you are not serving the duties of the Republic of China and receiving the salary of the Republic of China? The origin of the army is in Yunnan, and it is not the first to advocate the National Defense Army. The voice of righteousness is shaking the world? Today, the Yunnan Army has settled in Sichuan in the west and in the east in the east. Determining Hunan, making meritorious service for the country, and going to Kejie. Both Chinese and foreigners are full of praise, saying that the Yunnan people are really good men. Thousands of Yunnan soldiers in Duyue were used by Long Jiguang alone to bet on the lives of the kings Change your own titles. You don’t know the situation and are willing to serve you. Chinese and foreign people all call you hateful, but the commander-in-chief and general staff call you pitiful. You entered Guangdong the year before last not to help Yuan Shikai, but to help Yuan Shikai. The central government of the Republic of China also. Why are the monarchs alone? Even the Gui army is solidly helping them. Now Yuan Shikai betrayed the Republic of China and proclaimed himself emperor. There is no salary, and the death is only a few months away. What is the relationship between the princes and the Yuan family? What kindness and virtue is the Yuan family to the princes? Even now, I am still fighting to die in my dream. Who has no death? Death is rebellion Ghost, why did you come here? The army led by the commander-in-chief and the general staff has already overwhelmed the whole of Guangdong. Once there is a confrontation, the chances of victory will be clear. Therefore, those who do not storm the provincial capital for the time being, on the one hand, take care of the place and do not want to be corrupted. They are all good men, and they can contribute greatly to the country in the future. I can't bear to kill and kill each other. For this reason, I earnestly declare that I will surrender my arms and surrender immediately, and wait for dispatch. The current status will still be preserved, and the fame of the future will not be possible. Limited amount. If you are obsessed with obsession, and always follow the rebellion, the law of the country, the commander-in-chief and the general staff cannot forgive you for you. This call!"