Chapter 203 202. The Yunnan-Guangxi Army Expelled Chen Jiongming

After Fuzhou was recovered by Xu Shuzheng, Xu Chongzhi, and Wang Yongquan, the Feng Department persuaded Sun Yat-sen to give up the plan to restore Guangdong, and ordered Xu Chongzhi from Fujian to join forces with the Guangxi and Yunnan troops to explore Wuhan in Hunan and Jiangxi, and the Feng army went straight to Beijing, but Sun Yat-sen He believed that it was necessary to have his own base first, so he ordered the various armies entering Fujian to be reorganized into the "Eastern Road Thieves Army", with Xu Chongzhi as the commander-in-chief, Huang Dawei as the commander of the first army, Xu Jian as the commander of the second army, and Li Fulin as the commander-in-chief. The commander of the third army, Jiang Zhongzheng, was the chief of staff of the headquarters, and assisted in the reorganization of the rebel army. Each army organized four brigades, and the three armies had a total of 12 brigades.

At this time, Deng Zeru, Gu Yingfen, Lin Zhimian, Lin Shuwei, Li Wenfan, etc., who were stationed in Hong Kong by Sun Yat-sen, planned to set up the office in Hong Kong. Hu Hanmin was appointed as the director of the office. There were three departments under it, and Gu Yingfen was the first. Lin Zhimian is the second subject, and Deng Zeru is the third subject. On October 26, 2011, Sun Yat-sen officially appointed Zou Lu as the special commissioner in Hong Kong and Deng Zeru as the financial manager. He asked them to work together and mediate other people's opinions in order to achieve the goal of destroying Chen as soon as possible.With regard to the procedures for disbursement of funds, Deng Zeru is responsible for depositing all the funds in the bank, and Deng Zeru and Zou Lu must sign jointly when disbursing the funds.

But Zou Lu was still in Beijing, and Sun Yat-sen called Zou Laihu. Zou arrived in Shanghai to meet Sun Yat-sen and said that after going to Hong Kong, he would spend one month to raise funds, one month to make other arrangements, and two months to complete the negotiating work in Hong Kong. On the 31st Zou Lu and Li Wenfan arrived in Hong Kong and invited Deng Zeru, Lin Zhimian, Lin Shuwei, Hu Yisheng, Fan Qiwu and Xiao Guanying to a meeting.Generals Yang Ximin, Liu Zhenhuan, Jiang Guangliang and Liu Yushan of the Yunnan-Guangxi Army all sent representatives to Hong Kong to negotiate. On October 23, Sun Yat-sen wrote to Zhang Kairu, Commander-in-Chief of the Yunnan Army in Guangxi, saying:

"I hereby specially send Brother Zou Haibin (Zou Lu) back to Hong Kong to assist with all parties. Haibin and the Democratic Party have made many attempts to attack Guangdong, and they all have strength, and they are well aware of the feelings of the Guangdong and Guangxi Army, so they communicate everything in Hong Kong and take care of them properly. , that is to say, begging for time and contacting is the most important thing." On November 8, Sun Zai sent a letter to Guangxi Dian army generals Zhang Kairu and Yang Ximin to seize the opportunity and make a quick map of Guangdong.

There are two Yunnan armies with different systems in Guangxi. One is led by Zhang Kairu. It is the remnant of Gu Pinzhen. It has withdrawn from Yunnan, but its strength is complete. Due to personnel relations, although Zhang Kairu has the name of commander-in-chief, he cannot command this army. , the real power is in the hands of Yang Ximin.Famous generals include Fan Shisheng, Yang Ruxuan, Yang Chisheng, and Jiang Guangliang.As for the other Zhu Peide's troops, it was the Dian army that had been in Guangdong and Guangxi for a long time. It followed Sun in the Northern Expedition, and then retreated to Guangxi because of Chen Jiongming's rebellion.

Yang Ximin once sent his representative Huang Shi to Hong Kong to contact Deng Zeru, asking for help with military pay. On November 8, Deng handed over to Huang Shi 43,000 Hong Kong dollars and 10,000 yuan in provincial bank notes as the funds for the Yang Ministry to launch a campaign against Chen. When Zou Lu was in Hong Kong, he and Li Liejun, Gu Yingfen, Wu Tiecheng, Xie Liangmu, Tan Qixiu, Liao Xiangyun, and Wei Bangping arranged separately to discuss matters against Chen. Zou Lu sent a letter to Chen Jiongming, urging Chen to wake up in time and withdraw from Dongjiang, otherwise he would become a military minister. See.

Of course, Chen Jiongming was always worried about Sun Yat-sen's return to Guangdong for crusade.He focused his attention on Fujian, because Xu Chongzhi was in Fujian to organize his army and was ready to return to Guangdong at any time. Chen Jiongming also returned to Guangdong from Fujian in the past. He was afraid that Xu and others would follow his old path, so on October 6 Hong Zhaolin was sent as the commander-in-chief of the Fujian-Guangdong Army to guard the border of Fujian. Chen Jiongming concentrated on the Guangdong-Fujian border, but ignored his back.Behind him is Guangxi. Guangxi's Yunnan and Guangxi troops united, and under the planning and guidance of Sun Yat-sen, they marched eastward from Wuzhou.

Chen Jiongming also had arrangements in Guangxi, where he used the Gui army general Lin Hu.Lin Hu himself was short of troops, so he went to Hunan to borrow troops from Zhao Hengti.He said that Hunan must lay down its troops according to the provincial constitution, but it is not easy to lay off troops. It is better to change some Hunan troops into the banner of Guangxi army and let Lin bring them back to Guangxi. In the future, Guangxi can follow the example of Hunan in formulating a provincial constitution.But Zhao Hengti was not persuaded by him, so Lin Hu had no choice but to go to Guangdong to meet Chen Jiongming. Chen happened to use him to deal with the Yunnan-Guangxi Army in Guangxi, so in addition to assigning a Cantonese army to his command, he also ordered the Cantonese army stationed in Wuzhou Both the Fourth Division (Guan Guoxiong's former division) and the Gui Army's First Division (division commander Liu Zhenhuan) were under the command of Lin Hu.

Liu Zhenhuan had long had the ambition of being the commander-in-chief of Guangxi. Chen Jiongming's handing over the military power of Guangxi to Lin Hu was like throwing a basin of cold water on Liu. Therefore, he went to Guangzhou under the pretext of contacting the arms issue, and then secretly went to Hong Kong to meet with Zou Lu. Sun Yat-sen also had contact with Cen Chunxuan in Shanghai, and through the relationship between Cen and Mo Rongxin, Shen Hongying was also drawn over.Shen is an opportunistic soldier. On the one hand, he kept in touch with Sun Yat-sen, but on the other hand, he kept in touch with Wu Peifu.In addition, Liu Daqing, one of the leaders of the Guangxi Autonomous Army, was also recruited.

The Cantonese troops stationed in Wuzhou and Zhaoqing, such as Chen Jitang, Mo Xiong and others, have also agreed with Zou Lu that once the Yunnan-Guangxi army goes eastward, they will pretend to resist and retreat after fighting. , That is to say, together they raised their righteousness to discuss Chen Jiongming and went straight to Guangzhou. Sun Yat-sen then secretly appointed Yang Ximin as the commander-in-chief of the Yunnan Army, Liu Zhenhuan as the commander-in-chief of the Guangxi Army, and Xu Chongzhi's commander-in-chief of the East Road Army to form the three main forces for Chen Jiongming.

At the same time, Sun Yat-sen sent Sun Ke to Hong Kong to assist Deng Zeru in raising funds, and additionally sent Lu Shidi and Deng Taizhong to Hong Kong and Yang Zhen who was originally in Hong Kong to be in charge of contacting the Yunnan Army. All the forces to challenge Chen have been organized and are waiting to be launched. The Dian army has decided to attack Guangzhou, but on the surface it is silent.What Chen Jiongming hoped was that the Yunnan army could return to Yunnan. The Yunnan army threatened to leave Tengxian and Mengjiang immediately, turn from Xunzhou to Liuhe, and return to Yunnan via Liuzhou.Chen Jiongming just hoped that they would do this to get rid of their inner troubles, so he sent someone to send a batch of salary weapons to express his intention to see them off. On December 6, Yang Ximin held a military meeting with Fan Shisheng, Zhang Kairu, Zhu Peide, Liu Zhenhuan, Shen Hongying and other generals in Baima Temple, and decided to discuss Chen. It was launched on December 10. The battle plan was: (1) Shen Hongying's army used two brigades to attack the Fudong area; (2) All the Dian troops were in charge of attacking Wuzhou directly from the north bank of the Dahe River; (3) Liu Zhenhuan's troops drove the enemies of Teng County from the south bank of the river to Guangzhou. After the White Horse Military Council decided on the battle plan, the armies took action.Liu Zhenhuan's troops occupied Tengxian County on the 9th. On the 10th, they liaised with the Yunnan Army and announced that they would hunt down the thieves. On the 12th, Liu Zhenhuan and Fan Shisheng personally led the Guangxi and Yunnan armies to Wuzhou. The Cantonese army in Wuzhou surrendered without a fight as originally agreed, and some retreated falsely.Lu Chunrong, the commander of the Fourth Division of the Cantonese Army, first responded to the bandits, and Liu Zhenhuan appointed him as the commander of the Fourth Division of the Cantonese Army. At this time, both the Yunnan Army and the Guangxi Army drove straight forward. The Liu Yushan Department of the Gui Army was under the command of Yang Ximin, so Yang was promoted as the commander-in-chief of the Yunnan-Guangxi Allied Army. Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces. At the same time, the East Road Behavior Army in Fujian also launched an attack. On the 19th, the East Road Behavior Army joined forces with Wang Yongquan's and Zang Zhiping's troops to conquer Quanzhou.Adapted from Lu Qingru's downfall as a brigade.Zhang Yi was appointed as the commander of the 13th Brigade of the East Road Thieves Army. After Chen Jiongming received an alert from Wuzhou in Guangzhou, he appointed Ye Ju as the commander-in-chief of the Xijiang front enemy, and led the first and third divisions to Fengchuan and Jiangkou for reinforcements.Unexpectedly, on January 2, 2012, internal changes occurred in the first division of Chenbu, and the third division retreated without a fight. The bandit army successively occupied Fengchuan, Deqing, Yuecheng and other counties.Chen Jiongming saw that the morale of his troops was low, so he spread rumors that "Guangdong will be destroyed when foreign troops enter the country" in order to encourage the Guangdong army to strengthen its unity and resist foreign troops. Chen Jiongming hoped that Zhao Hengti of Hunan would send troops to Beijiang, and Tang Jiyao of Yunnan would send troops to West Guangxi to rescue the crisis in Guangdong, but neither Zhao nor Tang agreed.Chen also withdrew the "Aid Fujian Army" to save himself, but it was too late. At the beginning of January 2012, the Yunnan and Guangxi army attacked Zhaoqing, and the Guangdong army responded internally. On the 8th, the leader of the bandit army drove into Zhaoqing, and on the 10th, they conquered Sanshui and advanced to Guangzhou.Chen Jiongming convened an emergency military meeting in Guangzhou, and decided that if Hekou did not guard, he would abandon Guangzhou and retreat to Huizhou. From the 13th to the 15th, Sanshui and other localities responded to the rebel army and called Chen. Liang Hongkai, the commander of the first division of the Guangdong Army, and Chen Zhangfu, the commander of the third division, sent telegrams to support Wei Bangping to preside over the Guangdong Bureau. He went down to the field and left Huizhou in a hurry on the 16th. On January 16, 2012, the day Chen Jiongming left Guangzhou, Wei Bangping arrived in Guangzhou from Hong Kong. On this day, the Yunnan-Guangxi Army invaded Guangzhou and sent a telegram to invite Sun Yat-sen to return to Guangdong and resume his presidency.The important towns of Beijiang and Nanlu were successively recovered by the bandit army, Huang Mingtang recovered Qin Lian, Chen Jiyu and Wang Mingyake recovered Qiongya.Xu Chongzhi and Li Fulin, the bandits on the East Road, returned to Chaomei. On January 17, Hu Hanmin arrived in Hong Kong from Shanghai and stayed at Du Yingkun's house.Zou Lu went to Guangzhou to set up a commissioner's office in the governor's office. On the 20th, Sun Yat-sen joined Deng Zeru from the Shanghai Electricity Commission as the governor of Guangdong, Wu Xuehuang as the envoy of salt transportation, and Yang Xiyan as the director of the Finance Department.In addition, Hu Hanmin, Li Liejun, Xu Chongzhi, Wei Bangping, and Zou Lu were sent to act as the president with full authority.Deng Zeru was an overseas Chinese who followed Sun Yat-sen in the revolution for 20 years. He has insight into governance and business affairs. He deserved the most credit for planning to expel Chen Jiongming this time, so he was paid by the governor of Guangdong Province.Deng Zeru thought that he was not capable enough and his prestige was not enough, so he resigned from the governor and asked Hu Hanmin to be a member of the committee. Sincerely, Sun Yat-sen appointed Xu Chongzhi as the commander of the Guangdong Army and Hu Hanmin as the governor of Guangdong. On the 21st, Hu Hanmin and Li Liejun arrived in Guangzhou from Hong Kong. On the 25th, Hu Hanmin became the governor of Guangdong. Sun Yat-sen actively organized the Kuomintang headquarters in Shanghai. On the 21st, he formally appointed the ministers of the Kuomintang headquarters, Peng Sumin, Minister of General Affairs, Chen Shuren, Minister of Party Affairs, Lin Sumin, Minister of Finance, Ye Chulan, Minister of Propaganda, and Zhang Qiubai, Minister of Communication. On the 23rd, Juzheng, Sun Hongyi, Yang Shukan, Hang Xinzhai, Qin Zhen, Zhang Jingjiang, Yu Youren, Lu Zhiyi, Zhou Zhenlin, Liao Zhongkai, Tian Tong, Dai Chuanxian, Chen Duxiu, Zhang Ji, Liu Jixue, Xie Chi, Wang Yongbin, Zhan Dabei, Huang Fusheng, and Zhu Zhihong were counselors. Chen Jiongming's failure lay in his underestimation of the Yunnan Army's offensive capabilities, and at the same time all his attention was biased towards Xu Chongzhi's troops on the Guangdong-Fujian border.However, the Dian army's livelihood in Guangxi is difficult, and there is no way out. Everyone believes that all difficulties can be solved by capturing Guangzhou. In 2011, Tang Jiyao sent Zhang Ruixuan (a native of Shandong, member of Congress, one of Wu Jinglian's Four King Kongs, and later participated in the Extraordinary Congress, followed Lin Sen to Kunming, was appreciated by Tang Jiyao, and stayed as the Director of Yunnan Judiciary) as a representative to lead his entourage Dou Zi to Guangdong , In early January 2012, I saw Chen Jiongming at his headquarters. Chen was quite confident at the time. He told Zhang and Dou that he would have no problem defending Guangdong. He showed Zhang and Dou the positions of the troops, and claimed that he had more than 130 battalions. Xu Chongzhi's army was few and far between, and it was nothing to worry about.As for the Dian Army, which only has about 30 battalions, it is not an opponent. At the same time, it has recently sent people to send 20,000 sets of military uniforms, and 20,000 oceans to the Dian Army in Guangxi, which means that the Dian Army will not come to attack. Chen Jiongming thought that the Dian army had 20,000 people. In fact, the actual number of the Dian army was less than 15,000. However, the Dian army had a strong offensive force and had no way of retreating. Therefore, they marched forward bravely, without retreating, and entered Guangzhou in one fell swoop. Chen Jiongming rebelled on June 16, 2011, and was expelled by the Yunnan Army in January 2012. He stole Guangzhou, but it took only seven months. It was really an accident that the battle to expel Chen achieved a rapid victory. From mid-January to the end of January, the generals of the Yunnan-Guangxi Army arrived in Guangzhou one after another.Generals Hong Zhaolin and Weng Shiliang of the Cantonese army stationed in Chaomei expressed their willingness to obey Sun Yat-sen.Sun Fudian asked them to commit crimes and make meritorious service, and sent Li Liejun to Shantou to accept the adaptation. He also appointed Hong Zhaolin as the director of the Chaomei Appeasement Division, and Yin Ji, Li Yunfu, Weng Shiliang, and Lai Shihuang as the commanders of the first to fourth divisions of the Guangdong Army directly under the central government. At that time, Guangzhou was ruled by the Dian-Guangxi Army, and all employment, administration, and taxation were controlled by them. Most of the government agencies and public places were occupied by the army as barracks.Shen Hongying originally had only five or six thousand troops, but due to recruiting surrendered soldiers along the way, he suddenly expanded into five armies, which were distributed in Guangzhou, Zhaoqing and Beijiang. In addition, there were also his remaining troops in Pingdong and Guilin in Guangxi.Shen Hongying tabooed others from calling him Guijun, and claimed to be originally from Guangdong. Li Yibiao, the commander of the First Army under him, was from Cantonese, so he was called the commander of the First Army of Guangdong.Shen's selfishness right now was to be the second Chen Jiongming. The people of Guangdong were once ravaged by the warlords of the Guangxi clique, and they had a bad impression of the Guangxi army, and they didn't like the Dian army either.Guangdong soldiers have always been localistic and exclusive. After the Yunnan-Guangxi Army expelled Chen Jiongming this time, they actually regarded themselves as the new rulers, and the people of Guangzhou looked at him sideways.At the same time, Chen Jiongming spread all kinds of rumors early on, saying that "Guangdong province will perish when the guest army enters the country."Now the actions of the Dian-Guangxi Army have proved what Chen Jiongming said, so the soldiers in Guangdong have the slogan of "saving the province". On January 18, the first and third divisions of the Cantonese Army were transferred back to the provincial capital from Jiangmen, and a Haizhu meeting was convened, at which Wei Bangping was publicly elected as the commander-in-chief of the Guangdong Allied Forces Against Thieves. On the 19th, Wei Bangping announced his inauguration. This was an action by the Cantonese army to unite with the outsiders and fight against the guest army. As a result, the Guangdong army was stationed in Henan, and the Yunnan-Guangxi army was stationed in Hebei, forming a stalemate with the river as the boundary.Someone reported this situation to Sun Yat-sen in Shanghai. In response to this situation, Sun planned to transfer the Dian-Guangxi army out of Guangzhou in the first step, and then help the Dian-Guangxi army return to Yunnan, the Guangxi army back to Guangxi, and the Hunan army back to Hunan.The Hunan Army refers to Chen Jiongming's old troops under the command of Hong Zhaolin and Yin Ji who were stationed in Xijiang. Although they carried the banner of the Guangdong Army, the generals from Hunan had a division commander and nine commanders, and most of the soldiers in the two troops were from Hunan. The unity and strong exclusivity of the Cantonese army aroused serious resentment from the Yunnan-Guangxi army. On January 22, Li Yisong of Shen Hongying's department blatantly sent troops to attack Guanyin Mountain and confiscated the firearms of Tan Qixiu, the commander of the first Cantonese army commanded by Zou Lu.Of course, this action aroused the public anger of the entire Cantonese army, and the mutual hostility between the main and guest armies became even more serious. Shen Hongying has the ambition to supervise Guangdong, and it is rumored that Beijing also intends to announce that Shen is the governor of Guangdong. Therefore, as soon as Shen's troops entered Guangzhou, they seized the government office, seized tax revenue, and plotted against the law.At the same time, he incited the Yunnan Army, claiming that Wei Bangping would unite with the Guangdong Army and that the Yunnan-Guangxi Army would soon be disbanded. Therefore, the Yunnan-Guangxi Army must unite to deal with the Guangdong Army and lure Wei Bangping into capture. When the Dian army first arrived in Guangzhou, everything was unfamiliar, so it fell into Shen Hongying's plan. Shen Hongying lobbied Yang Ximin, but Yang was persuaded. So, in the names of Yang Ximin and Liu Zhenhuan, he invited the generals of various armies in Guangzhou to hold a military meeting on January 26 at the brigade headquarters of Yang Ruxuan of the Jiangfang Command to discuss local aftermath and distribution of defense issues. .The participants included Governor Hu Hanmin, Special Commissioner Zou Lu, Garrison Commander Wei Bangping, Coast Defense Commander Chen Ce, etc.Li Liejun took the initiative and only sent representatives to participate. On the one hand, he deployed defenses in Jiang Fangtu as a precaution.Yang Ximin said he sent Chief of Staff Xia Sheng to attend.Shen Hongying and his generals Li Yibiao, Liu Daqing, Huang Hongyou, Chen Tiantai, etc. all carried guns and guards, and set up sentries around the Jiangfang headquarters.During the meeting, Liu Zhenhuan served as the chairman.Li Yibiao questioned Wei Bangping: "Chen Jiongming has left, why was the general headquarters of the Guangdong Army set up to hunt down thieves? Is it because the Yunnan-Guangxi Army is the thief?" Wei Bangping explained that it was not, but he could not satisfy the generals of the Yunnan-Guangxi Army.At this time, Wei Bangping wanted to change the topic, suggesting that all the armies should stop opening up the gambling ban, and vacate the occupied government buildings and commercial houses.So Li Yibiao said angrily: "We only collect gambling donations to maintain the army's food." Then he scolded Wei Bangping for being a capricious and unpredictable villain. As for the qualification to speak, just after Li finished speaking, Shen Hongying took out the gun, put it on the conference table, and said loudly: "If anyone disagrees with my opinion in today's meeting, I will ask him to try this guy." Then Mai Shengguang He and Liu Daqing jumped up to capture Wei Bangping, and shook his hands from behind. Chen Tiantai and Shen's guards immediately fired guns to demonstrate, and attacked Hu Hanmin, Liu Zhenhuan, and Zou Lu fiercely, and the order was in chaos for a while.Hu Hanmin jumped down the stairs in the chaos, two of Hu's guards were killed by stray bullets, Zou Lu took refuge in the bedroom of Brigadier Yang Ruxuan, who was dodging bullets on the ground, Liu Zhenhuan escaped into the back seat, and Chen Ce was injured by jumping off the building. Only then did the general of the Dian army realize that he had been fooled by Shen Hongying. It turned out that Shen wanted to kill Hu, Zou, Liu, Chen and others, not Wei Bangping as he said at the beginning, so Yang Ximin ordered Yang Ruxuan and Xia Sheng to protect him. He personally sent Hu, Zou and others out of danger, while Wei Bangping stayed in Yang Ximin's army. Shen Hongying failed to succeed in one plan, and tried another.He predicted that Hu would return to his residence in Dashatou that night, so he secretly ordered the troops stationed in the old official bureau to prepare machine guns for interception. At 8:00 p.m., a car from the side guard came from Dongdi, and Shen's department immediately opened fire and bombarded him. But he killed the wrong person. It turned out that Liu Daqing, the army commander of the Shen Ministry, and Huang Hongyou, the chief of staff, were killed by mistake. Hu Hanmin was behind the car, and after hearing the police, he drove back to Shamian and lodged in the Japanese consulate. Due to Jiang Fang's change, Guangzhou fell into riots, and Hu Hanmin and others were unable to exercise power, so they took Lushan Maru to Hong Kong on January 27, accompanied by Deng Zeru, Zou Lu, and Lin Zhimian.Shen Hongying sent Gu Riguang, the commander of his second army, to concurrently serve as the director of the Guangzhou Public Security Bureau, while Li Yibiao sent troops to confiscate police firearms. Yang Ximin and Shen Hongying jointly announced the charges against Wei Bangping, accusing Wei of colluding with Chen Jiongming and asking Wei's Third Division to disarm and disband as a condition for his release.The third division handed over the guns to the Dian army, but Wei was still not released.