Chapter 123 122. Dai Kan died in battle in Sichuan

On May 1, 6, Dai Kan announced his appointment as the acting governor of Sichuan. At the same time, Zhang Chengli, the chief of staff of the Military Affairs Department of the Association, was appointed as the deputy chief, Jiang Fangzhen was the chief of staff, and Du Buyun was the chief of the military supply department.Dai was born in Zuoer, and he has been in the army for 6 years. He is also the governor of Sichuan, the military affairs officer, and the governor. He is 40 years old.However, he is well aware of the seriousness of the situation in Sichuan. Compared with the Sichuan Army and the Yunnan Army, the Guizhou Army is the weakest.

Luo Peijin went, and Dai Kan acted as the governor of Sichuan. For Sichuan, the goal of the Sichuan people to govern Sichuan was still not achieved, so they used the same means as against Luo to deal with Dai. On April 30, the Sichuan Provincial Council sent a telegram to accuse Dai Kan of "conspiring to gain profits in the name of neutrality".At this time, the Sichuan Provincial Assembly also advocated that Cen Chunxuan should succeed the Governor of Sichuan. On May 9th, the Dian army withdrew to Jianyang, the Sichuan army completely withdrew from the city, Dai Kan formally assumed the post of deputy military governor, the police in the city resumed their posts, and the Qian army cleared the military facilities in Chengdu, and the public's mood tended to be stable.

However, both Luo Peijin and Liu Cunhou did not follow the order to resign and go north. The Sichuan and Yunnan armies were still fighting intermittently in many areas outside the provincial capital. Liu Cunhou soon returned to Chengdu and set up an army headquarters outside the city. One set to deal with Dai Kan.As a result, the Sichuan and Guizhou armies broke out in war again, and the people of Chengdu once again suffered serious war disasters.The Sichuan and Guizhou armies opened fire at 3:00 on the night of July 5, when Zhang Xun was restoring the coup in Beijing, and Zhang Xun appointed Liu Cunhou as "Governor of Sichuan" in Zhang Xun's false edict. On July 3, Dai Kan held a military meeting in the Military Governor's Office in the Imperial City of Chengdu, and invited Liu Cunhou to attend to express his attitude towards the Beijing coup. At the same time, he sent troops to guard the telegraph office and check all post and telecommunications.Liu Cunhou sent representative Wu Shaoliang to attend the meeting and demanded that the Military Supervision Office remove the inspectors from the Telegraph Bureau first. Dai refused and proposed that the troops stationed in Sichuan should be moved to northern Sichuan. Wu Shaoliang, on behalf of Liu Cunhou, refused to accept it. On July 4, Liu Cunhou's Sichuan army moved from the defense area near Chengdu to the north gate of the provincial capital. The Sichuan and Guizhou troops opened fire the next night.

This is really wonderful. Two months ago, when the Sichuan and Yunnan armies were fighting, the Guizhou army stood by and stood by. Both Sichuan and Yunnan accused each other of being the "culprit"; now the Sichuan and Guizhou armies fired again, and the Guizhou army replaced the Yunnan army. Dai Kan said that Liu Cunhou's troops bombarded the Supervision Office first, while Liu said that it was the Qian army who first bombarded the Sichuan army outside the city.Dai Jian claimed that Liu had accepted Zhang Xun's false order, while Liu said that nothing happened, because Liu's telegram was withheld and not sent, thus making his position unknown to the provinces.

Zhou Daogang and Xiong Kewu, the commanders of the Sichuan Army, also adopted a neutral attitude in the Sichuan-Guizhou Army War, just like when the Sichuan-Yunnan Army War broke out. They issued a positive cloud on July 7: "On the 6th of this month, the Chongqing Electricity Bureau reported that at 3 o'clock in the morning on May Day, the two armies of Chengdu, Sichuan and Guizhou clashed. The fire in Jiangmen area was very fierce, and the gunfire continued. Liu Cunhou was willing to accept the false post and led troops to surround Chengdu. He swore to death that he would not submit to rebellion or treason, and prayed to send telegrams to all provinces. Last night (6th) at 11 o'clock, the sound of artillery suddenly sounded, and the North The door was full of fire, and shells were fired indiscriminately at the Governor and the Second Provincial Department. The rumble of the guns has not stopped until now. There are no pedestrians on the street....According to Dai Du's telegram, it refers to Liu Cunhou's adversary, but according to Jizhi (Liu Cunhou's number) telegram It is said that it supports the republic. It is proposed that Gang et al., and the three division commanders Gu, Zhao (Dian Army), and Zhong (Chuan Army) will lead the guards at their discretion, and go to Chengdu (Chengdu) to judge right and wrong, and seek a solution together; first in Zizhou Get together, and then move forward. If the accumulated fruit is attached to rebellion, you should unanimously punish it, otherwise it will be good, and the Northern Expedition will be prepared quickly. The order in central Sichuan will still be presided over by Dai and the governor. The two warlords stopped advancing immediately to avoid misunderstandings....The three division commanders Gu, Zhao, and Zhong successively received telegrams to express their agreement.

Zhou Daogang and Xiong Kewu, commanders of the Sichuan Army, issued a telegram to initiate armed mediation with Sichuan and Yunnan generals.Guizhou Governor Liu Xianshi, just like Tang Jiyao sent troops to aid Luo Peijin before, planned to send three echelon regiments to Sichuan to aid Dai, and at the same time sent telegrams one after another to denounce Liu Cunhou's rebellion. Luo Peijin of the Dian Army led his troops to retreat to southern Sichuan. Like Dai Kan before, he issued a green telegram requesting all troops to station in the original area and prevent them from moving, and he regarded himself as a transfer.Tang Jiyao warned Liu Cunhou to leave Sichuan and send troops to the Northern Expedition, otherwise Luo Peijin would enter Chengdu and make peace in Sichuan.Tang Jiyao really wanted to take advantage of the merger of Sichuan and Guizhou armies and take the opportunity to restore the situation where the Yunnan army controlled Sichuan.Therefore, a steady stream of arms from Yunnan was transported from Zhaotong to Xufu.

Beijing still wanted to send Wu Guangxin to lead troops into Sichuan to quell the chaos, so as to achieve the goal of the Beiyang faction to control Sichuan.The Progressive Party (Research Department) did everything possible to maintain Dai Kan while solving the military chaos in Chengdu. The provincial councils and congressmen of the two provinces of Sichuan and Guizhou also issued relative complaints and appeals based on local ideas. The war between the Sichuan and Guizhou armies lasted for 12 days from July 5 to 17. From July 6th, the Guizhou army was besieged in the imperial city, and the British and French consuls mediated, and Dai Kan was willing to lead his troops to withdraw from Chengdu. On the 13th, the Sichuan army opened the south gate to allow the Qian army to retreat. The Qian army suspected that there was an ambush. After plundering the food at the south gate, they still retreated to the imperial city and stood by for help. On the 17th, Dai Kan handed over the seals of the governor and the governor to the provincial council for safekeeping, and then broke out to the south gate.

Luo Peijin of the Yunnan Army agreed to participate in the mediation meeting called by Zhou Daogang and Xiong Kewu to be held in Zizhong, and declared that he would lead troops westward on July 13.Zhou Daogang presided over the mediation meeting on July 15th from Chongqing to Zizhong. Tang Jiyao sent a telegram on July 16, denouncing Liu Cunhou for committing rebellion, and said that if Liu Buyi led the Northern Expedition, he would personally lead the three armies and punish the people for crimes.Then organized the Yasukuni Army, with himself as the commander-in-chief, with Gu Pinzhen, Zhao Youxin, Yu Enyang, Huang Yucheng, Zhang Kairu, and Fang Shengtao as the commanders of the first to sixth armies, and Luo Peijin as the commander-in-chief of the first and second armies, and from the third to the sixth. The commander-in-chief of the Fourth Army, with Ye Quan as the commander-in-chief of the Fifth and Sixth Armies.The Yasukuni Army issued a telegram on July 20, announcing that it would first suppress the chaos in Sichuan, and then the Northern Expedition.

Liu Xianshi, the governor of Guizhou, had the same attitude as Tang Jiyao. He sent a Guizhou army led by Wang Wenhua into Sichuan to assist Dai Kan, but Dai Kan had already abandoned Chengdu on July 17 and broke out. His whereabouts are unknown. Dai Kan’s whereabouts were unknown and the Qian army failed. A series of news spread to Beijing. Liang Qichao, the leader of the research department, spoke at the state affairs conference very excitedly. Liu Jizhi's (Liu Cunhou's) treachery." But Duan Qirui took a noncommittal attitude. On July 24, Duan Qirui appointed Zhou Daogang, a "neutral man", to act as the military governor. On the 27th, Liang proposed to punish Liu Cunhou at the state affairs meeting, but Duan could not answer. Cao Rulin stood up and spoke, pretending that the truth of the Sichuan issue was unclear and it was difficult to make a decision, so he put Liang's proposal on hold.

Zhou Daogang arrived in Neijiang from Chongqing, but the Dian army was repulsed by Sichuan's second, third, and second divisions in Jiading, Qingshen, Renshou, and Ziyang. The Zizhong meeting could not be held, so Zhou Daogang turned back to Chongqing. Due to the expansion of the Sichuan War, Duan Qirui sent Wu Guangxin as Sichuan's investigation envoy on August 6 to lead the Northern Army into Sichuan for investigation, and ordered Hubei Governor Wang Zhanyuan to send troops to defend Yuezhou.On August 8, another order was issued to urge Luo Peijin and Liu Cunhou to enter Beijing quickly in accordance with the previous order, and all the troops under their command were handed over to Zhou Daogang to take command.At this time, the Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou armies realized that Duan's plan was to implement the Beiyang faction to rule Sichuan wholeheartedly.As a result, everyone felt the need to work together to resist the Northern Army. On August 6, Zhou Daogang and Xiong Kewu suggested continuing to mediate, and Luo Peijin first accepted it. On August 10, Zhou Daogang took office as the acting governor of Sichuan. Xiong Kewu set up artillery positions in Kuifu and Wanxian along the river, preparing to meet the Northern Army.

On August 10, Jiang Fangzhen, who returned to Beijing from Sichuan, reported to the cabinet and Congress that Dai Kan had died in battle.The research department was greatly stimulated.At this time, Qirui published the report of Liao Qian, head of Liu Cunhou's regiment: "On July 21, Dai Kan committed suicide at the Qinhuang Temple, a hundred miles away from Chengdu." The county is near the Qinhuang Temple, and suddenly encountered the defeated Sichuan army in the front, the two sides shot each other due to a misunderstanding, Dai Du was shot and died, and his coffin has been transported back to the provincial capital by the Sichuan army." In fact, Dai Kan was killed by the Sichuan army. At the same time, Xiong Qixun, the commander of the mixed brigade of the Qian army, Zhang Chengli, the chief of staff of the supervisory office, and Huang Daxian, the director of the finance department, were also shot to death by the chasing soldiers on the way to Jianyang. The entire army of 5,000 people was wiped out. When the state affairs meeting was held on August 10, Duan Qirui proposed to posthumously present Dai Kan as an army general and give 10,000 taels of silver for funerals.Liang Qichao, full of grief and indignation, insisted on severely punishing Liu Cunhou to avenge the dead.Duan said that responsibility can only be determined after investigation.Liang Qichao was very angry and left without waiting for the meeting to end. This is the first embarrassing treatment the research department has received since joining Duan's cabinet.Originally, after the coup against Zhang Xun, the research department was in Duan's cabinet, but Duan and the research department had less than a month's honeymoon. policy, and also proposed to convene the provisional Senate to openly participate in the signing of the traitorous loan treaty.When the Sichuan issue happened, which directly violated the interests of the research department, there was a conflict with Duan, and it was only then that Duan realized that Duan was merciless. The most popular period of the Department of Research on the political stage was also the period when it began to degenerate politically. They were originally reformists. Reduced to a bloc of insignificant politicians. The second mediation by the Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou armies also had no effect. In late October, the Second Division of the Sichuan Army was in Rongxian County, and the Third Division fought against the Yunnan Army in Zizhou and Neijiang. On October 14, Zhou Daogang removed the "neutral" camouflage, and sent a telegram to reprimand Gu Pinzhen of the Dian Army for attacking the 3rd Division of the Sichuan Army in Neijiang first.And Liu Cunhou repeatedly urged the Beijing government to order the crusade against Tang Jiyao. In this war in Sichuan, the Sichuan army had a favorable geographical position and used Sichuan people to oppose the Yunnan army, so it had the upper hand. Wu Guangxin, Duan Qirui's brother-in-law, was a timid general. He was ordered to enter Sichuan, but he stayed in Yichang for more than a month and dared not go forward.Duan transferred Xiong Kewu, who belonged to the Kuomintang, to the guard envoy of Chuanbian, and Zhong Tidao, commander of the Third Division of the Sichuan Army, to the guard envoy of Chongqing. Zhong Tidao was very close to Liu Cunhou.At the same time, Chen Shufan, the governor of Shaanxi, sent a telegram to send Guan Jinju, the guardian envoy of southern Shaanxi, to lead a mixed brigade into northern Sichuan to cope with the Northern Army entering Sichuan from Hubei. In mid-October, the two armies of Sichuan and Yunnan launched a tug-of-war in Beijiang, Weiyuan, and Rongxian. Tang Jiyao sent the backup troops Geng Enyang and Huang Yucheng to Yongning and Xuzhou. Duan intends to order a crusade against Tang Jiyao and instruct Liu Cunhou to drive the Yunnan army out of Sichuan.Feng Guozhang held the opposite opinion and believed that major events should be reduced to minor ones.Duan also suggested that Tang Jiyao be transferred to Beijing as chief of staff. If Tang refused to come north, he would order a crusade.Feng didn't think so either.Feng finally made such a concession, that is, he only attacked the Yunnan army and did not mention Tang Jiyao.Therefore, on October 17, the Beijing government ordered to condemn Huang Yucheng, the general of the Yunnan Army in Sichuan, and ordered him to quickly withdraw from Sichuan, and ordered Tang Jiyao to investigate and recover. On October 24, Wu Guangxin led Li Bingzhi's mixed brigade into Chongqing, and Xiong Kewu moved the Fifth Division of the Sichuan Army under his command to 50 miles outside of Chongqing.But I still stay in Chongqing.During this period, the Second and Third Divisions of the Sichuan Army recaptured Neijiang, Weiyuan, Rongxian, Ziliujing and Fushun.The Dian army retreated to Luxu. On October 30, the Beijing government issued an order to reprimand the generals of the Yunnan Army, Gu Pinzhen, Zhao Youxin, and Huang Yucheng, for gathering troops to attack the Sichuan Army in Luxian, Fushun, and Ziliujing, and all of them were dismissed and wanted. On November 12, Zhou Daogang was appointed as the Governor of Sichuan, and Liu Cunhou was appointed as the Sichuan Military Affairs Commission. Duan appointed Wu Guangxin as governor of Sichuan because Liu Cunhou sent a telegram to Beijing saying: "Sichuan is a thing for Sichuan people." On November 6th, Tang Jiyao moved from Kunming to Bijie, wanting to save the Dian army in person.However, from November 16th to 28th, the 2nd, 32nd and 32nd Divisions of the Sichuan Army continued to occupy Luxian, Naxi, Nanxi, and Xuzhou.Huang Yucheng was injured in battle and was forced to order a truce. On November 20, the Beijing government awarded Zhou Daogang the rank of general of the army, and promoted Yin Zhanglan of North Sichuan Province to be the governor of Sichuan. At this time, the situation in Hunan suddenly turned unfavorable to Duan, Duan's cabinet was on the verge of collapse, and the war in Sichuan was not one-sided, because the Yunnan Army was still a force with strong combat capabilities. On December 1, the Yunnan army suddenly sent out a surprise attack on Chongqing by detour, and appeared at Futuguan, 15 miles outside the west gate of Chongqing. At the same time, the Qian army stationed in Qijiang also drove to the opposite bank of Chongqing.Xiong Kewu's Sichuan army also drove back to Chongqing.So both Wu Guangxin and Zhou Daogang fled. On December 8, the Beijing government appointed Liu Cunhou as the governor of Sichuan.