Just when the news of Ma Jizeng's suicide reached Changsha, Tang Xingming was already in a state of chaos. When the First Division of the Hunan Army in Hengyang City issued a telegram to announce his support for the protection of the country and opposed the imperial system, Tang Xingming felt that his eyes were black.

The situation was completely out of control. Tang Xingming was surprised to find that he had no force to use except his military commander and the police from the Changsha Police Station. He felt that danger was coming.

The military forces that can be mobilized in Hunan are not completely lacking. One is Guo Renzhang's mining police force, and the other is Zeng Jiwu's army in Yuezhou. The two armies together have more than 20,000 people, and they may be able to defend Changsha for themselves and wait for Beijing's reinforcements to move south.

Tang Xingming's idea was good and his movements were very fast, but the results were often unexpected.

Guo Renzhang's character is really not very good. When Sun Wen and his team planned an uprising in Fangchenggang, Guo Renzhang agreed to participate in the uprising at the last minute. As a result, Guo Renzhang issued an order to suppress the revolution without hesitation. This time, he was ordered to lead the army to aid Changsha, which inspired Guo Renzhang's ambitions lurking in Guo Renzhang's heart.

On January 24, just as the 801st Regiment of the 8th Division, which was commanded by Liu Xing himself, approached Xiangtan, Guo Renzhang made an unexpected move.

The old boy actually mobilized three battalions of his subordinates to implement martial law on the entire city of Changsha. If Zeng Jiwu had not entered the city early, Guo Renzhang's army would have entered the Governor's Mansion at that time.

In fact, the title of Governor's Office is outdated. Tang Xiangming's current position is General Jingwu of Hunan and the appeasement envoy of the whole province (the official name of Lao Yuan is designed, it is very time traveling).

Tang Xingming, who served as a pacifier and a general, was not actually a close confidant of Old Yuan, and had always been suppressed by Yuan Shikai, so what he did was not smooth, but despite this, during his term, the people of Changsha lived a very peaceful life, and it might be a bit exaggerated to not pick up the road and not close their doors at night. However, if they were to select a national civilized city at that time, Changsha was really no less than me.

But now that Guo Renzhang is making such a fuss, Changsha has become a battlefield before the youth army has arrived, and Changsha citizens have fled one after another, and the situation is completely out of control.

However, soon under the mediation of the Japanese consul in Changsha (what is the Japanese?), and Guo Renzhang and Zeng Jiwu's troops were all embroidered pillows, which were not useful. So although the guns and cannons were shocking, the soldiers at the bottom were actually the opponents of the enemy, and no one was able to make the leader feel the most willing to do his best.

Fortunately, the Japanese consul felt that he was very capable and spent 1 million to calm the war. If he had taken to the streets to see what the so-called war looked like, he would probably be so angry that he cursed: "Baga, the Chinese people's conscience is very bad."

Moreover, his self-confidence behavior also caused trouble for himself. After the Youth Army entered Changsha City, it took the pretext that Changsha was not a diplomatic and consular area, and the Japanese consulate supported the enemy of the National Guardian Army to directly close the Japanese consulate in Changsha. The Japanese in Changsha City were forcibly driven away. The Japanese government's reaction was also unexpected. They just protested to the Beiyang government. First, the Japanese were determined to subvert Yuan Shikai's rule and mess up China; second, the interests of Changsha were really insignificant compared to the interests of Japan in the entire China; third, Japan did not plan to carry out military operations in South China, so naturally there was no interest in playing the old trick of using the topic.

But a year later, the Japanese regretted missing this opportunity, and this is still a story.

At this moment, Hunan's pacifier and General Jingwu, the governor of Hunan, felt the chill of the doomsday. Just a month ago, he was the most powerful man in Hunan and still firmly controlled the situation in the province. However, in less than a month, in the jokes of later generations, it was a turtle that raped the snail. When the police asked about the snail, the snail's answer was that everything happened too quickly at that time.

Tang Xiangming felt that he was really tired. He felt that it was meaningless to wait for reinforcements from Beijing again. He finally decided to send a telegram to the whole country, declare Hunan's independence, and serve as the governor of Hunan, hoping to ease the youth army's attack on Changsha and buy some time for himself.

After seeing Tang Xingming's announcement of independence, Wang Zhenyu immediately smiled and said to the officials around him: "It seems that Tang Xingming still cares about the position of this supervisor. Then we are embarrassed to force each other. It's very simple. Surround me with Changsha and don't attack. The army in the city will not accept the adaptation for a day, so we will not withdraw the circumference," he said.

This move is indeed too poisonous. If anyone is surrounded by so many black cannons in the city, and the friendly forces are enemies who have fought not long ago, their psychological endurance is overdrawn.

Wang Zhixiang, the then governor of Guangxi Province, also wrote a letter to his brother-in-law Liu Renjun, and persuaded Guo Renzhang to open the city to surrender. On February 1, Guo Renzhang led his troops to surrender. The Eighth Division of the Youth Army entered Changsha City. Before that, the Fourth Division had already entered the empty city of Yuezhou. Not only did he trap the lonely city, he also lost his old nest. Zeng Jiwu faced such a situation, naturally he was in a dilemma. On February 2, the Youth Army entered Changsha City. The next day in Sha, Zeng Jiwu, who had no chance to defend the city, could only order his troops to accept the reorganization of the Youth Army under Yang Yongtai's persuasion. It is false to say that it is not embarrassing to overthrow the war. Zeng Jiwu was discouraged and decided to retire. However, he was persuaded by his former classmate Liu Xing and finally agreed to join the Youth Army. His troops and Guorenzhang tribe merged into the 10th Division of the Youth Army. Zeng Jiwu was appointed as the division commander, and Liu Zhenhuan was transferred to the chief of staff and the commander of the 111th Regiment of the Ministry.

However, for the governor Tang Xingming, the Youth Army unexpectedly did not touch him, but the command of the governor could no longer be issued to the governor's office.

With the entry of the young army into Changsha as a symbol, the war on the Hunan battlefield of the entire National Protection War officially ended. The 60,000 troops of the Beiyang forces led by Yuan Shikai collapsed and the situation across the country changed.

On the New Year of the fifth year of the Republic of China, Yuan Shikai heard the news of the fall of Hunan. At this time, a large group of his concubines were still cursing at the dinner table for whom the concubines were. At this moment, he was suffering from uremia and Yuan Shikai said angrily: "What's the matter with this family? This family is about to be over, what else can I argue with?"

The day after the war in Hunan ended, the war in Guangdong was successfully concluded. Guangdong's governor Long Jiguang was not as lucky as in history to flee to Hainan Island, but was forced to step down and flee to Hong Kong.

On January 23, the Third Army of the Youth Army and its affiliated Kuomintang Party Working Team, the Security Detachment entered Guangdong for the third day, Long Jiguang finally made up his mind to block the Youth Army in Zhaoqing area, otherwise he would not feel that he had much chance of winning. You should know that compared with the Youth Army, the opposition forces in Guangzhou were the most troublesome existences, so Long Jiguang almost all the main forces in his personal commander and wanted to defeat the Youth Army in Zhaoqing.

Unfortunately, Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi did not seem to have the intention to fight him. For seven or eight days, neither of them launched an attack on the Zhaoqing defense line carefully constructed by Long Jiguang. The youth army was busy seizing the territory of western Guangdong. Li Zongren even led a unit of the Seventh Division to cooperate with the newly formed Ninth Division of the Youth Army to capture Shaoguan.

After a long time, Long Jiguang was sad. He only left three battalions in Guangzhou, led by his two elder brothers. However, the forces of these three battalions could not withstand the surging rebellion. In these seven or eight days, at least 330 attacks broke out in Guangzhou. Although Long Yuguang and others tried their best to suppress and killed thousands of revolutionaries, and dealt a heavy blow to the revolutionary party, the unstable nest directly affected the morale of the army on the front line. You must know that the officers' families are all in Guangzhou, so the calls for returning to Guangzhou gradually became stronger, and Long Jiguang had to pay attention to this.

In this era, the standard for testing the strength of an army is not attack, but retreat. At present, the entire Chinese army, including the Youth Army, can only be qualified in attack, and the issue of retreat can only be described as nonsense.

On February 1, Hunan was lost and Fujian was taken down by Xu Chongzhi. Long Jiguang suddenly realized that he was already surrounded by the National Guardian Army. The officers at the bottom threatened that if they did not withdraw to Guangzhou, the whole group would cause a mutiny. In this situation of internal and external difficulties, Long Jiguang made a decision to regret his life and launched a retreat operation in front of the Third Army of the Youth Army.

Relying on the spy lurking in Long Jiguang's army, Li Zongren even knew the detailed deployment of the Ji army's retreat earlier than the regiment commander under Long Jiguang.

In the early morning of February 2, the battle started. Just when Long Jiguang was planning to run away in the dark, the largest artillery fire strike since the Youth Army was formed began.

It is not unreasonable to say that a person drinks cold water and stuffs his teeth into the gaps. At least for Long Jiguang, at this moment, he stuffed his teeth into the gaps.

Retreat was originally a very challenging thing, and retreating at night increased the difficulty, but it was nothing, and it could still be overcome by gritting your teeth.

But if you are bombarded violently at this time, it will not be fun.

The casualties and injuries that can be caused by artillery bombardment are always limited, but the huge roar of mountain cannons causes unlimited psychological pressure on soldiers.

What does such a strong shelling mean? The enemy will attack on a large scale.

So what are you waiting for? At this moment, Long Jiguang's army was in chaos, everyone lost their organization, and everyone ran towards Guangzhou like headless flies.

Except for the guards around him, Long Jiguang could no longer command any unit, and could no longer find any other subordinates except his son. The chaos caused by the night continued until dawn.

Bai Chongxi fought the most beautiful battle in his army, and defeated nearly 30,000 enemy troops in one fell swoop with less than 100 casualties.

When Long Jiguang fled back to Guangzhou with the guards, there were less than 2,000 people who could gather, and it was impossible to escape Qiongya. It is said that the young army had already boarded a small wooden boat and had already boarded the island. Long Jiguang lamented that the only thing he could do was to deposit the wealth he had plundered for three years in Guangdong to the British HSBC Bank, and then the family boarded the ship and went to the north of Guangdong to apologize to President Yuan.
Chapter completed!