Chapter 19 War under the watchful eyes of the great powers

"Zijian, do you still remember that in the 31st year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu, when you returned from Japan, we held the Dengzhou Association and made an appointment at the meeting. When you returned to Japan, you left me three books?" "Why don't you remember? I introduced you to the Tongmenghui that year...Those three books are..."Revolutionary Army", and "The Soul of the Yellow Emperor" edited by Zhang Xingyan...there is another one that is, is..." ""Thirty-Three Years of Falling Flowers Dream"!" "Yes! Hahaha..."

"In the 33rd year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu, you came back to China again and came to visit me at Ganshiqiao Academy. It happened that Qingrui, the minister of the school, came to study in Lucha, and Zaichang and Lianjia, the predecessors of the school, accompanied him. You looked at the three students in the hall. People, furious, asked me in a low voice if I dare to splatter five steps of blood and kill this alien species! Remember?" "Remember, remember...you were so frightened that you blocked my mouth with your hands and scolded me Meng Lang, but I called you back 'fear of difficulties and peace', only thinking about mothers and children..."

"That's right, you had a six-wheeled pistol in your pocket at the time, and you were about to shoot. Zijian, killing three Manchu school officials won't help the big deal, but if you do, I'm afraid you and I won't be able to wait until today..." "Han Chen! Tell me, what will happen today?" "You understand in your heart that you came to Dengzhou to visit me for this great event...Zijian, today is October 11th of the Xinhai Year, and there are rumors all over the country. Twenty provinces in the country are no longer owned by the Manchu Qing. At present, it’s a pity that Shandong’s independence has not been reached for two days, so I announced the abolition of independence…”

"Sun Baoqi is the son and daughter of Yuan Shikai and Yikuang, how can he be really independent? This is also expected." "But Shandong is fine, Zhili dare not move, and the small court in the northern capital can sit back and relax! Zijian, you are the leader of the Shandong League, and Mr. Sun Yat-sen has high hopes for you. We should do our best and give Yuan thief a blow!" "Well said! Han Chen, I have been abroad for a long time, and the situation in the province is not as familiar as you. Tell me, how should we start?" "You and I are both from Dengzhou. Of course, we know that this place has been an important town since the Ming Dynasty. Qi Jiguang built the Shuicheng Fort all the way to the water at the bottom of Danya Mountain, and it was called the 'Great Wall on the Sea'. Yuan Chonghuan ran Liaodong and guarded Dengzhou with Mao Wenlong. The momentum of the horns. In the Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese invaders took Weihai, and they also attacked Dengzhou with the navy first. So we first took Dengzhou from the water, and then attacked Huangxian and Laizhou. Your family is from Huangxian, so of course you know the wealthy gentry in Huangxian There are many rich houses and shops, and military expenses can be raised from there. By then, Jiaodong will be united with Liaodong! I heard that Mr. Sun Yat-sen has appointed Lan Tianwei as the governor outside the customs. The city is covered with water, and we call on the athletes outside the pass to go straight to the capital! Zijian, if you agree with my plan, we can start immediately. The blood of a man is about to be shed at this time!"

"Han Chen, Han Chen, sure enough, there are millions of armored soldiers in his chest... I read you right, let's go, tonight we are going to draw up a strategy for taking Dengzhou!" On December 1, 1911, Xu Jingxin (named Zijian), the leader of the Shandong Tongmenghui, met with Sun Danlin (named Hanchen), a scholar of the same discipline and a teacher of Yantai Dongmu Public School, and Liu, the owner of the pharmacy who joined the Tongmenghui on the same day. Zhong Cheng and the three of them drank Liaoyang Baijiu and planned a plan to attack Dengzhou. Zijian, tell me, what happened in Yantai?

Things about Shandong have to start from Jinan. In all fairness, it is wrong to say that the revolutions in the provinces were "quiet" in Shandong.The problem in Shandong is that Governor Sun Baoqi has no intention of being independent, and the Advisory Council is very unpopular. The game between various local forces lacks checks and balances, and it is easy to lose control.Just look at the "Shandong Provincial Federation of All walks of life", which replaced the Consultative Council, actually named Xia Puzhai, the former magistrate of Jinghai County who was invited to return to his hometown on November 2, after traveling abroad for many years, as the chairman. This shows that the local forces in the meeting are How to resist.

As early as November 5, Xu Jingxin, on behalf of the Tongmenghui, put forward seven articles of the "Shandong Independence Outline" at a symposium from all walks of life. All have the obligation to avenge", "The Manchus will stop paying all taxes", and for the military and police regiments who do not listen to the dispatches of the Federation of all walks of life, they "has the same hatred with the Manchu thieves", although it has stated that "For foreign tourists, gentry and businessmen, they are all responsible. The obligation to protect", but stated that Shandong's land property "will not be recognized" no matter what country it is mortgaged to or what loan it is borrowed from.The old forces in Shandong have a deep foundation, and foreign interests such as Germany, Britain, and Japan are overlapping. If this independence outline is made public, it will immediately cause an uproar.

After repeated revisions by the so-called "peace faction", the "Eight Demands" handed over to Sun Baoqi to act on behalf of the imperial court, although the clauses that were too confrontational have been erased, they still appear to be very intense——Revolutionary appeals in northern provinces in the year of 1911 They are often more radical than the southern provinces, for a variety of reasons, such as deeper oppression and exploitation, more power spillover, and the most important point is that the gentry and business class are not strong enough to restrain the opposing parties (officials, revolutionary parties). It often becomes an object that both parties can subdue with violence.

The eight requirements are: 1. The government shall not borrow foreign debts to pay for the army in order to kill our compatriots. 2. The government must immediately announce a strike letter, and no matter what conditions the Southern Army requests, it has to agree. 3. The new troops currently stationed in Shandong shall not be dispatched out of the country. 4. At present, under the payment and saving items of Shandong, the joint settlement is suspended, and it will be reserved for the use of the province's military training and famine relief. 5. The constitution must state that China is a federal government.

6. The foreign official system and local taxes are all determined by the province itself, and the government must not interfere. 7. The constitution of the Consultative Council is the constitution of this province, which can be amended freely. 8. The province has the freedom to train troops to defend the territory. The meeting also stated that if the Qing government did not reply within three days, Shandong would declare independence. Seeing these eight requirements, Sun Baoqi shook his head.If the Qing government actually agreed to the eight demands, then the restrictions it would face would be much more severe than Shandong’s direct independence: the government would not only lose Shandong’s legislative power, financial power, and military power, but also have to use the constitution to determine the legitimacy of Shandong’s autonomy. The southern army must also be allowed to make demands, and foreign debts must not be borrowed.To put it bluntly, this is more stringent than the previous treaties of the great powers that made the Qing Dynasty lose its power and humiliate the country.The Shandong people turned themselves into hostages to blackmail the court.

After persuasion by representatives of gentry and businessmen, Sun Baoqi agreed to substitute this clause. Sure enough, the court had a reply within three days.Obviously, the Qing court was not willing to lose Shandong at this time, and its reply was very mild: first, the foreign debt has been submitted to the Zizheng Yuan for a referendum, and there is no such thing as the land of Shandong as a payment (this is the case of Shandong people. A piece of heart disease), will never be used as military pay.The second article, the imperial court has announced a strike, and the conditions proposed by the southern army in the future will be solicited for opinions from all provinces. If the opinions are the same, they can be approved.Articles 3 and 8 are approved, and there have been telegrams to stop dispatching.Articles 5, 6, and 7 should first be stipulated in the constitution, and when the constitution is discussed in the future, it will "collect the opinions of all provinces for a joint decision." It should be said that the imperial court has made a lot of concessions to Shandong, and everyone who can agree has agreed. The official system, legislative power, and taxation power involved in Articles 5, 6, and 7, if there is a constitutional government in the future, they should naturally be confirmed by the constitution. It is an autocratic government, and if it agrees to these three items, it is tantamount to agreeing to the independence of Shandong.There is no other way to make no reply and leave it to the future. However, the Shandong People's Congress, whose revolutionary enthusiasm had already been ignited, was dissatisfied, thinking that the Qing government was irresponsibly prevaricating and perfunctory.Sun Baoqi also saw it: If you don't stand alone, you can't pass this test.Moreover, the Fifth Town's new army has also tended to be independent. At this juncture, everyone has to obey the barrel of the gun.Although he verbally told the representatives of the federation that "only by dying in the line of duty, even if he survives, he cannot lead everyone to independence", privately he urgently telegraphed the cabinet: "As a last resort, we plan to form a provisional government immediately. All employment, military deployment, and financial management will be temporarily managed by the province. Make decisions on your own, no longer abide by ministerial regulations and agreements, in order to preserve the order of the territory and prevent war, once the overall situation is settled and the central government is completely intact, it will be abolished immediately.” Sun Baoqi quickly fulfilled his promise.Shandong declared its independence on November 12, and on November 24 it announced the "cancellation of independence", a total of twelve days.Such rapid ups and downs, considering the reason, the internal strife of the new army in the fifth town should be the first.The anti-independence faction in the army gradually gained the upper hand. The background of this incident was that Yuan Shikai came out on November 16 to organize a cabinet. With a single order, all the pro-Yuan factions in the fifth town were promoted, and the power structure changed suddenly—don’t forget Yuan Shikai was the governor of Shandong before becoming Gengzi, and he cultivated forces all over Shandong. Shandong is too close to Beijing, and most of the gentry and merchants in Lu Province are following the lead of the big bosses in Beijing (this is also an important reason why Xia Puzhai was elected as the chairman of the union). After Shandong became independent, the Shandong fellows in Beijing were "very shocked and resentful" He was not qualified to be independent at all, and he sent a telegram to oppose it, and asked the Qing court to send heavy troops quickly to put an end to the chaos.The reaction of fellow villagers in Beijing had a big impact on the hearts of the people in Shandong. After the establishment of the "Shandong All Maintenance Association" that opposed independence, the federation held an overnight meeting to discuss countermeasures, but opinions were greatly divided.The revolutionaries advocated joining the military government of the Republic of China and organizing armed riots on the spot according to the announcement at the time of independence, but the former members of the Consultative Bureau advocated going north to meet Yuan Shikai and asking the former governor to speak to the court to quell the chaos in Shandong.Opinions diverged from each other, so the federation disintegrated and each went his own way. Jinan has canceled its independence, but Yantai is still independent. The main scope of activities of the revolutionaries is in Jiaodong, which is divided into two parts: one is Dengzhou, Huangxian, Wendeng, Rongcheng, Weihai and other coastal areas centered on Yantai; the other is Qingzhou, Gaomi, Jimo, centered on Zhucheng , Jiaoxian and other areas along the Jiaoji line. The revolution along the Jiaoji line was checked by Germany, which was the strongest in Shandong.In the late Qing Dynasty, it was more convenient for the Revolutionary Party to operate in the German-occupied free port of Qingdao, but once it entered the stage of power struggle, the attitude of the Germans immediately became clear.The Aurora Public School in Qingdao is the central stronghold of the Tongmenghui. The Qing government has been unable to destroy it, but it was forcibly closed by the German governor of Jiaoao on December 14. On January 28, 1912, Jimo was captured by the Revolutionary Party and declared independence. The German authorities in Qingdao immediately sent a cavalry team of more than 130 people to Jimo, claiming that according to the treaty, the troops stationed within a hundred miles outside the concession should not exceed 510 fast guns. Nor can this covenant be violated. The lawsuit went all the way to the Nanjing Provisional Government.Sun Yat-sen called back, requesting that the Jimo militia "temporarily withdraw as agreed, and handle it after the headquarters and Germany agree."However, the German authorities were clearly neutral, but secretly informed Zhang Guangjian, the new governor of Shandong, to ask the Qing court to send troops to recover the lost land.When Yuan Shikai sent the Beiyang Army into Shandong, the Jiaoji Railway controlled by Germany was completely open to them.Under the onslaught of the Qing soldiers, Jimo and Zhucheng were gained but lost again. Wu Xun, the county magistrate of Zhucheng, did not even leave the city, hiding in the Catholic Church of the German priest Gu Side.For fear of causing diplomatic incidents, the militia knew that the church was hiding officials, but there was nothing they could do. The Germans' maintenance of the Qing government was rewarded. After the Qing government abdicated, the Qingdao Concession became the first choice for the elderly to escape.Prince Gong Puwei, Minister of Military Aircraft Na Tong, Minister of Posts and Communications Sheng Xuanhuai, Governor of the Three Eastern Provinces Zhao Erxun, Governor of Zhili Chen Kuilong, Governor of Liangjiang Zhou Fu, Governor of Yunnan and Guizhou Li Jingxi, apart from the absence of an emperor, the Qingdao Concession can almost establish a government in exile. In contrast, Yantai started the incident earlier (a day earlier than Shandong declared independence), and that was the moment when Yuan Shikai could not hide it and the whole north was in a state of turmoil.Among the people who participated in the Yantai Uprising, in addition to a few revolutionaries from other places, there were guards, the brother-in-law of the coastal defense battalion, the secretary of the British Consulate, the editor-in-chief of "Bohai Daily", the principal of Shangzhi School, and several members of Swire Shipping. staff.When they reported the news of independence to Shanghai, they called themselves "Eighteen Heroes", and it was these eighteen people who captured the coastal city of Yantai. It is pitiful to say that the ammunition of the Eighteen Heroes consists of only one Thirteen Taibao Gun (a revolver carbine produced by the American Raymington Company, which can hold thirteen rounds in total, hence the name) and five pistols.What about other people?There are those with pistols and those with bombs. Anyway, everyone has a handkerchief, and a broom wrapped in a handkerchief is a pistol. Bombs are easier. What does Yantai produce?Big Apple!Wrap them in handkerchiefs, one in each hand. They rushed to the Haiphong battalion, and the Haiphong battalion had an internal response (that is, the brother-in-law who was in charge) to set fire to it.As soon as they saw the fire, the heroes lit 20,000 firecrackers in the kerosene barrels, and shouted "the revolutionary army is coming" while carrying them, only to hear crackling and smoke, and the guards ran away in fright.Revolutionary heroes captured Yantai Daqing Bank and found a pile of banknotes and cash in the vault, so they shouted everywhere, "all the soldiers and police will be paid for one month", and now no one resisted.Xu Shiguang from Yantai Daotai, Xu Shichang's younger brother, escaped into the mansion of Anwen, an Englishman from the Customs and Taxation Department. Yantai fell so easily, Anwen was very annoyed.In a letter dated November 22 to the Attorney-General Anglian, he said: "It is now known that the revolutionary coup d'état here was carried out entirely by eighteen local adventurers taking advantage of the opportunity and the excitement and fear of the people. They Not members of the Revolutionary Party, not Death Squads, they didn't take orders from anyone, and the leaders of the Revolutionary Party didn't know them. They were all incompetent rubbish." Anwen's information came from Wang Chuanjiong, the new commander-in-chief of the Yantai Provisional Military Government.Wang Chuanjiong was originally the captain of the warship Wufeng. Some people said that he came from Tianjin for reinforcements at the call of Daotai Xu Shiguang. Wang claimed that he just brought the warship to Yantai for the winter.I didn't expect Yantai, just in time for the Independence Congress.None of the 18 heroes had leadership skills, but Wang Chuanjiong was found to be a man of talent, and he could also give speeches in both Chinese and English (he had received five years of training in the British Navy), and they unanimously supported him as a leader. Wang Chuanjiong complained to Anwen that the eighteen heroes kept asking him for status and salary, which made him often feel threatened and embarrassed.The revolutionaries were also dissatisfied with Wang Chuanjiong, saying that he excluded meritorious ministers, and secretly communicated with Sun Baoqi. If independence is declared, the white flag will be replaced."They called Shanghai, hoping that Xu Jingxin, who was there, would return to Yantai to preside over the revolution. After Xu Jingxin returned to Yantai, he found that the situation in Jiaodong had become very critical.After Shandong canceled its independence, the Nanjing side attached great importance to Yantai, which was still independent, because "the only corner of Yantai in the whole province is still in the hands of our people's army."Sun Yat-sen and Chen Qimei first sent Liu Jiyan to lead 3,000 troops to form the vanguard of the Northern Expedition to Yantai, and then transferred troops from Fujian to continue reinforcements.Lan Tianwei, commander of the Northeast Army Second Mixed Association, was appointed as the governor outside the customs, and led three warships Haichen, Hairong, and Nanchen from Shanghai to Yantai.The southern government obviously wanted to protect the only enclave of the revolutionary party in the north, and it used all available forces for this purpose. Of course, Yuan Shikai couldn't tolerate the existence of this thorn in his flesh. He sent Zhang Shuyuan to prepare the way for Jiaodong soldiers, led a brigade of Beiyang troops to Laizhou, and sent Ye Changsheng as the envoy of Deng, Lai, and Qingfu.The North and the South are here to display their chariots and horses, and the battle is imminent. It is no exaggeration to say that Yantai is attracting the attention of world powers at this time.Before and after Yantai's independence, Britain, Japan, the United States, and Russia all sailed warships to the sea of ​​Yantai.British warships delivered ammunition for the Qing army, and both Russia and the United States made requests for "landing" to the Qing government.The attitude of the great powers is very clear: their interests cannot be violated.And to protect their interests in Shandong, a Qing government that has proven to be quite obedient is better than a new regime full of unknowns. The biggest negotiation incident during this period was that after the civilian army drove away Yue Baoshu, the magistrate of Wendeng County, on January 18, they sent people to Weihaiwei to arrest inspector Zhao Dingyu, possibly to press him for some secrets.Zhao Dingyu and the governor of Weihaiwei had a good relationship on weekdays. As soon as the governor heard that Zhao had been arrested, he rushed into Weihai City with a police officer and a small team of policemen and rescued Zhao Dingyu. Afterwards, the governor of Weihaiwei "reported the ins and outs of this incident to the Colonial Department in a lengthy letter. This report naturally shocked London. It is unimaginable that a British official leading an armed escort into Chinese territory would bring What kind of result will come", but the governor was not punished, but was praised for his quick response. London was only concerned that the safety of the people of the British Empire was threatened. The commended governor will be the future "Emperor Master", the imperial bestowed head-pin Ding Johnston.His biographer commented: "Johnston is obviously not aware that he has provoked an international incident so easily, but even if he had realized this problem, it would not necessarily change his actions." ("Looking Back at Johnston") ") The two sides confronted each other, and all countries watched.A corner of the East China Sea is densely covered with battle clouds.As Sun Danlin analyzed, if the civilian army wants to gain a firm foothold and enter Shandong, it must open up connections with the sea, maintain smooth communication with the south, and at the same time raise funds and recruit troops on the spot.Therefore, Terengganu must be captured and kept! On the afternoon of January 13, 1912, Liu Zhongcheng, the shopkeeper of Hua Tishi Pharmacy, received a secret telegram from Sun Danlin from Dalian, which only had five words: "Han, the whole family is here, Sun". "Han" is the date of the rhyme, referring to "fifteen days", the uprising death squad will arrive on January 15, 1912; The reporter's surname is Sun, which is the third in the order of hundreds of surnames, indicating that the arrival time is Yin time, that is, from three to four in the morning. The troops brought by Sun Danlin included dead soldiers recruited in the Northeast, and there was also a troop called "Guangdong Northern Expedition Crusaders", whose members were all young students.There were even quite a few Japanese in the team, such as the reporter of "Shifu Daily", Keizo Kuraya, as well as Hashimoto, Peking University, Ishii, Awata, etc. Most of them were Xu Jingxin's friends when he was in Japan. Sun Danlin chartered the Japanese merchant ship "Nagata Maru" and claimed to sail directly to Yantai.Cangani Keizo is a member of the Japanese Black Dragon Association. He came forward to bribe the Dalian military police, the police and the captain of Nagata Maru, so that the weapons and ammunition can be transported on board the ship smoothly.Halfway through the boat, Sun Danlin pulled out his pistol and forced the captain to divert to Dengzhou. Sure enough, according to Sun Danlin's plan, at 4 o'clock in the morning on the 15th, the five-person death squad ventured to land and raided Shuicheng.Wang Buqing, the commander of the water battalion, was still asleep and had been captured.Immediately after Liu Zhongcheng opened the north gate of Dengzhou, a large army of militiamen entered the city, and four-character notices were posted all over the streets, and Dengzhou was restored. According to the plan, the attack on Huang County was to follow. Lian Chengji, the new governor, personally led the team, and Xu Jingxin also went with him.Just after leaving Dengzhou, the outpost came to report: the magistrate of Huang County heard that Dengzhou had fallen, and had abandoned the city and fled.Lian Chengji laughed loudly: "It's easy for me to attack the Qing soldiers with the Northeast athletes, you just listen to the good news." He is a big businessman in Yingkou and a giant in the green forests in the Northeast. He is the governor of Shandong. Qiu Pizhen, a big businessman in Ye County, advised him: "There is a standard commander Yuzhen in the Qing army. He was a classmate with me in the Japanese Non-commissioned Officer Academy. He is good at artillery and has always been relied on by Liang Bi. Our civilian army only has more than 700 guns. Please do not underestimate the enemy. !" Qiu Pizhen and Song Jiaoren became good friends in Japan, and they even participated in the death squads in this act of destroying their families.But Lian Chengji didn't accept his words at all. A new government was established in Huang County, and Lian Chengji immediately ordered the militia to march westward.As Qiu Pizhen expected, Beima, thirty miles west of the city, ran into Yuzhen head-on!What was even more unexpected was that Yuzhen was not leading a standard (battalion) of troops, but a whole mixed association (brigade)!There are cannons and machine guns, while the militia has only rifles, pistols and homemade bombs.Lian Chengji and Xu Jingxin had no choice but to rush back to Huangxian County. Lian Chengji sent an urgent telegram to Nanjing Army Chief Huang Xing for help, and Nanjing telegraphed Liu Jiyan, commander of the Shanghai Army stationed in Yantai, to lead 2,000 troops to help. On January 24, the Shanghai army arrived, and on the 25th, the two armies of Shanghai and Lu joined forces to attack the Qing army in Beima, and the siege of Huangxian was relieved. What followed was a series of discords within the Revolutionary Army.First, when fighting in Beima, the Shanghai Army captured two passers-by, suspected to be enemy spies, and sent them to the Dudu Mansion for custody.Lian Chengji was the first to speak loudly, and was suddenly defeated. He was extremely depressed. When he heard that the "enemy detectives" had not been tried, he shot the two passers-by and announced it to the public.When the Shanghai army returned to the city and heard about this, Liu Jiyan was furious, saying that such indiscriminate killing was simply an intention to destroy the reputation of the Shanghai army in the Northern Expedition. Many of Lian Chengji's "northeast athletes" are green forest heroes or wandering children from Dalian. The military discipline is indeed far inferior to the formally trained Shanghai Army, but Liu Jiyan also made some excuses.Just because when the siege of Huang County was first lifted, the whole city was grateful, and Lian Chengji once said that he would give up the governor of Shandong to Liu Jiyan.Later, this matter was not mentioned.Liu Jiyan felt that Lian Chengji turned his back on what he said, so he couldn't help but harbor resentment. The quarrel between the two became more and more tense, and Liu Jiyan simply asked the Shanghai Army to withdraw to Dengzhou.The Qing army attacked Huang County again, and Lian Chengji and Xu Jingxin quarreled again on the issue of defending the city.The Qing army boarded the city at night, and Huang County fell. In this battle, Canggu's Hashimoto died at the north gate of Huang County.Another Japanese who died for China's revolution (remember Tanimura who was bombed to death in Tianjin Uprising?). Before the city of Huang County was demolished, Wang Shuhe, the Deputy Cheng Zhengzheng, wrote an urgent telegram to inform the whole country, which can be called a work of weeping blood.The telegram stated that since Jiang Day (January 21), Huang County has been "in a state of war every day."Lian Chengji said that the troops had just arrived from Dalian and had few soldiers and weapons, so they raised funds in the city twice.The money was handed over to someone specially assigned to buy firearms in Dalian. Unexpectedly, for more than a month, "the guns never arrived, but the people never came."This is one of the reasons why the city broke down. Liu Jiyan led the army to help, and the elders of Huang County were very grateful, and the supplies were ready.I thought that they were both revolutionary soldiers, and they should share the same hatred, but unexpectedly, Liu Lian and Liu Lian had a big disagreement, and Liu Jun was actually in this group. "As the commander of the three armies, wait for the group of children to throw away their idleness, throw the whole city's creatures, and see the idleness of the two!" Wang Shuhe has written so far, what is his grief and indignation? There is a third hateful thing.Lan Tianwei led three warships to Yantai, and the Dengzhou military government called for support.The fleet replied that a reward fee of 30,000 yuan was needed.The Haichen ship had already arrived at Longkou Bay, but the fleet did not land because the reward fee could not be collected for a while.Xu Jingxin once went out to sea in a sampan, hoping to explain why, because the wind was strong and he couldn't get close to the warship. He wrote a letter and wanted to shoot it aboard, but was blown into the sea by the wind.After six or seven days, the money was fully raised, the weather was calm, and the Haichen ship had quietly sailed back to Yantai. Later, Zhang Jingzhai, an officer guarding Huang County, met Zhang Mingyuan, Lan Tianwei's staff officer, and asked him why the Haichen ship was so small.Zhang Mingyuan said: "The blue governor is as timid as a mouse, and Haichen is parked in Longkou. Could it be possible that Ye Changsheng, a Qing soldier in Laizhou, can be robbed!" He sighed again: "Lan Dudu is like this! We have already met Luanzhou, as long as the land If it is launched again, the navy will rush to help immediately, but when Luanzhou is launched, Lan Pian is too late, and many comrades have been sacrificed!" Lan Tianwei, Wu Luzhen, and Zhang Shaozeng are also known as the "Three Heroes of Non-commissioned Officers", and they have the least achievements, which is consistent with his personality. Not unrelated. At the end of Wang Shuhe's telegram, it said that Huang County had been besieged for three days. , His greed and sudden ladder, also like my doctor Cui Zi, what a pity!" When going to another country, he said "Cui Zi, the doctor of Judah".What Wang Shuhe meant: What kind of revolutionary party, greedy for money and self-willed, isn't it just like the officials of the Manchu Qing Dynasty! On February 11, after 22 days of siege, Huang County finally fell completely.Lian Chengji and Xu Jingxin couldn't wait for help, so they were forced to retreat.The red-eyed Qing army began to loot the city, and its last guardian, Wang Shuhe, was tied to a pine tree outside the gate of Weizi in the west of the city. day. Everyone knows that on the second day, Xuantong issued an abdication edict, and the Qing Empire came to an end.The Shanghai army in Yantai advanced again to Huangxian County. The Qing army abandoned the city and fled. Before leaving, they executed all the 28 captured militia officers and soldiers.A few days later, Yuan Shikai was elected as the interim president, and Zhou Ziqi, the new governor of Shandong, was sent.The military government of Yantai was abolished.The powers that were watching also dispersed. When the Qing army entered the city, Wang Shuhe took refuge in the garden of Ding's family in "Xiyuelai", and was seen by a young man of Ding's family.Wang Shuhe gave him a piece of ocean and told him to keep quiet.In the evening, when the boy came home, his father found Dayang on his body. He pressed him to find out the truth, but he didn't dare to hide it, so he reported it to the owner.The Ding family didn't dare to hide it, and reported it to the Qing army. After the reunification of the North and the South, some revolutionaries came forward and ordered the Ding family to contribute a sum of money as a pension for Wang Shuhe.The Wang family didn't want the money, so they donated it to Caiyuanbo School and built a small building.This small building was still there until the 1950s.