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"Yuan Shikai is the confidant of the current national revolution!" Li Xiping was full of energy, turned around, pulled out a map from the shelf, and carefully unfolded it. This is a detailed map of Shaanxi. He said with his finger, "Yuan Shikai's ambition, colluding with foreigners, negotiating peace in the south, and suppressing bandits in the north is really a good means. Yuan Shikai was a traitor in the world. At the beginning, he beat and pulled Li Yuanhong before he opened the prelude to peace. And the marshal knows the sinister thoughts of foreigners better than we do. Looking at the current deployment of the Beiyang Army, Duan Qirui's stationed in Xinyang also blocked our way to the Northern Expedition.

"Uh-huh!" Li wanted to say, "That's right. But I'm not easy to mess with... The purpose of foreigners is actually very simple. They are willing to allow a republic under the leadership of Yuan Shikai to exist, because they can bargain with him and recognize the status quo in exchange for political recognition and foreign borrowing; such an arrangement will not harm the independent Tibet, Xinjiang and Outer Mongolia of the great powers, nor will it hurt the special places of Russia and Japan in Manchuria. It will not be detrimental to the control plan of the banking groups of the great powers in China's finances.

"Of course! Therefore, Yuan Shikai must not be the president. Li Xiping said, "The marshal just said that using Lin Tiechang as the general to enter Shaanxi, the time, place and people are all right. It won't take much time for Shaanxi. But after the incident in Shaanxi, where did the general use troops? Is it out of the east or the northwest?

Li thought for a moment and said, "I will go to Shanghai. If we can destroy the peace between the north and the south, encourage the Jiangsu and Zhejiang joint army to attack the north, and then the Beijing-Tianjin Alliance is in the center to respond and unite with Yan Xishan, we will go out of the customs, and Yuan Shikai is not a problem!"

"The general is wise!" Li Xiping was excited and admired.

Zeng Gao hurriedly praised, "Today, we have been thinking about it for a long time, and the general said it in one bite!"

In fact, Li Xiang also thought deeply for several years, starting from the year of crossing. He has known the seriousness of the situation after 1911 in history books for a long time, but the complex historical secrets are not clear.

After being stunned for a long time, Li Xiangfang said, "But with the support of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang allied forces, without the advocacy of the alliance meeting, the Northern Expedition will not succeed. The key still depends on the result of my trip to Shanghai. Whether the soldiers leave Guanzhong or go through the northwest, it's all in one fell swoop.

Since the publicity of the Great Victory in Hubei has swept across the world, the sound of the northern expedition in the southern provinces has been very high.

Li Xiang, who is far away in Hubei, has seen through Yuan Shikai's ambition to steal the country, and vigorously called on the official newspaper People's Daily that "only the whole nation implements the national revolution is our way out", "We must arm ourselves to support Shanxi and support Shaanxi!" "We must carry out the revolution to the end!" Li Xiang, Li Yuanhong, Zeng Gao, Li Xiping, Lin Tiechang, Zhou Wu and other generals of the Hubei Revolutionary Army issued a telegram to the whole country asking for the Northern Expedition. Lixiang, Li Yuanhong and others called the Nanjing government and asked us to "impose the purpose of the national revolution and implement the national general mobilization". All the soldiers of the Hubei revolutionary army are willing to go to the front line of the revolution, kill the enemy bravely, and carry out the revolution to the end.

At this time, the governor of Hubei was still Li Yuanhong in name.

Li Xiang is also ready to go to Shanghai as a representative of Hubei to contact the Alliance to discuss issues related to the Hubei Revolutionary Army going to Shaanxi as a combat mission. He is willing to go deep into the enemy's rear guerrillas and cooperate with the frontal battlefield. "To cooperate with friendly forces who are good at defense, we can successfully complete the mission given by the country. . " Joint Northern Expedition to complete the great cause of revolution.

Under the call of Li Xiang, provincial leaders, provincial councils, social groups, and overseas Chinese, no matter what they are considering, have also called to oppose the peace and demand for the Northern Expedition. People all over the country and overseas Chinese have risen one after another to organize various national revolutionary rescue groups and organizations, field service groups, donate money to produce and comfort the injured. Many radical revolutionary generals asked to kill the enemy and asked to swing the bandits, forming an irresistible torrent of revolution.

In addition, while Yuan Shikai sent representatives to the south to negotiate peace, he sent heavy troops to launch a fierce attack on the two provinces of Shanxi and Shaanxi, which had declared their independence, in an effort to put the north completely under his control. Yuan Shikai ordered Zhao Tiao, the commander-in-chief of the Yi army, to lead his troops to capture Tongguan, the gateway of Shaanxi Province, and the revolutionary army Zhang Jian and Liu Zhenhua's troops retreated to Huazhou. The next day, Cao Kui and Lu Yongxiang, the deputy commander of Beiyang Third Town, led his troops to capture the gateway of Shanxi. This naturally aroused great indignation among the members of the League.

In this way, under the endless progress of the Beiyang Army and the overwhelming momentum of carrying out the revolution at home and abroad, the League finally followed the historical trend, resolutely abandoned the policy of compromise, and decided to take up the sword of the national revolution and fight back against Yuan Shikai's wolf ambition.

Chen Qimei once proposed to the southern Guangfu provinces to organize the Northern Expedition Alliance in the name of the Shanghai Military Governor. Then, more than a thousand people in Shanghai held the founding meeting of the Northern Expedition Federation in Zhangyuan.

Chen Qimei stood on the temporary podium. Shanghai's winter was cold and wet, but Zhang Yuan's thousand-person venue was extremely warm. When talking about the upcoming Northern Expedition, they have uncontrollable excitement and boiling blood.

Chen Qimei waved several times before the scene calmed down.

"Although the revolutionary army is not very strong, it cannot but adhere to the ideals and beliefs of the revolutionaries and bear the historical responsibilities left to us by our ancestors."

A true Chinese, although his apparent dignity has been wiped out by the plague, famine, aggression and cruelty; although the ancient culture is suffocated by brand-new revolutionary theories, there has always been an excessive sense of national superiority hidden in the traditional habits of most Chinese people. This sense of superiority is inherited, and nothing can be removed from it.

It's just two short sentences, and the scene is completely quiet.

Some people may think of the recent editorial "looking at the victory of Hubei" published by Dahan Daily. There is such a description:

"After the resumption of the Nanjing Campaign, there has been no major events on all fronts in the past three months. The dullness of this war situation, on the enemy's side, as usual, is sorting out and supplementing to prepare for the next offensive; on our side, we are also observing the enemy's movements and targeting the enemy's attempts to engage in new deployments. In the middle of this crack, the sound of Hubei Victory came. Since the 20th of last month, our army has launched a large-scale campaign in Hubei. Wushengguan, Dawu and Xiaochang launched a counterattack at the same time, and the railway was destroyed everywhere. At the same time, Qianjialing reported victory. He has won a lot and recovered important strongholds, especially the Kefu of Wushengguan. It is reported that the Jinghan Railway has been completely destroyed by our army, and all railway sections have been blown up. The spokesman of the enemy army once admitted the large scale of our army's departure this time, and admitted the huge damage of the Beijing-Han Railway, and had no choice but to announce the withdrawal of the occupation of Hankou. This offensive is being launched, and it has been fierce and has reaped good results; while the three armies have lives, everyone is brave, the offensive is fierce, and the results of the battle will still be expanded. The victorious side of Hubei is at the beginning, and it is of great significance in the overall situation.

The editorial of "Learn the Glorious Model of Hubei Victory" of the Mainland News is written as follows:

"We believe that the victory in Hubei is of serious political significance. The day when our army in Hubei attacked was the time when the harmony between the north and the south was high and the future of the revolution was blocked. Our army responded with a victorious attack that the enemy's fire burned the two cities of Xiaogan and Hankou, and opposed the weak act of seeking peace in order to hate the compatriots in distress. The enemy continues to throw the appearance of peace to me. The main goal is to create an air of false peace in my rear, shake people's hearts, and discourage morale, so as to achieve a political attack and strike our national revolutionary will. Hubei's victory shattered the conspiracy of the enemy, strengthened the revolutionary will of the whole country, and made the general wavering and compromises unable to succeed.

There are countless comment articles published in the People's Daily run by Li Xiang Xinhua News Agency.

In the eyes of the bigwigs of the alliance who are looking forward to peace, these articles are simply mocking them.

Now that I think about it, so many people here also feel red-faced.

Chen Qimei declared tragically: "The Shanghai military government has established a consistent position and policy on the organization of the Northern Expedition. We know that the situation after the national war can only be sacrificed to the end, and there is no reason to avoid it. If the end of the war begins, there will be no difference between the north and the south, and there will be no difference between the old and the young. No matter who is responsible for the revolution.

The decision of the Northern Expedition has been made, but Chen Qimei does not feel relaxed and excited at all. After all, the Beiyang army he faced was very strong. The army was a strong army praised by foreigners. It was claimed that it could compete with its eastern neighboring Japan, which was enough to make it at the forefront of the world at that time. In the face of such an opponent, Chen Qimei is inevitably afraid.

Moreover, the opposition to the Northern Expedition in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is also very strong, and they are all powerful people who control local finances. But Li Madman raised this trend, like an irresistible torrent of revolution. Their alliance will not lead the revolution without the Northern Expedition. They have no choice, so they can only do so, even if it looks like it.

The alliance has also reached an agreement within the League that the Northern Expedition can be used as a means to promote peace, which may achieve the purpose of forcing Yuan Shikai to speed up anyway.

Yao Yuping, the commander of the Guangdong Northern Expeditionary Army, is the most enthusiastic. He generously said, "The Civil War is inevitable, and the Northern Expedition cannot be delayed. Our army is willing to be the vanguard of the Northern Expedition. The war dead are glorious, and those who steal live are humiliated. The honor and disgrace are light to one person, and those who are important to the nation. The country is so difficult that soldiers should be shroud in horse leather and repay the country with death.

But Yao Yuping is only the commander of 3,000 Cantonese troops after all, and the alliance also has other plans.

Chen Qimei said: "Today's conference is to elect the president and vice president and commander of the Northern Expedition Federation, and then call the whole country to unify the military system after the representatives of the Northern Expedition Army in all provinces arrive. After that, the specific strategy of the Northern Expedition will be discussed.

"Discuss again, discuss again!" Yao Yuping couldn't help it anymore: "At this time, we should make a determined plan for the Northern Expedition. If Chen Du feels that the current situation is inconvenient, please go back to your governor's office to calm people's hearts. Yao is also responsible for the Northern Expedition. Someone decided to die, and I didn't dare to push it!"

As soon as Yao Yuping's words fell to the ground, Zhang Yuan immediately exploded.

"Yao Yuping, with your three thousand begling-like Cantonese army, you dare to say this!"

"After crossing the Yangtze River, the cold will freeze you to death!"

"Bah! A bunch of cowards!"

It was so noisy that I almost got into a fight.

In the end of the Zhang Yuan meeting, only elected Cheng Dequan as the president, Zhang Jiashi as the vice president, and Zhu Yun as the commander. Yao Yuping got nothing. The Northern Expedition Federation called the provincial governors to inform them of the establishment of the association, and requested to telegram the divisions of the provinces to unify the military system.

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