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  Feng Qin and others saw a joyful expression on Chen Jingyun's face, and hastily asked: "Director, what's going on?"

  Chen Jingyun handed the telegram to them, and after Feng Qin and Lin Chengkun read it one after another, they also showed a happy face. Lin Chengkun said: "Huang Xing's telegram is really timely, the governor has just ordered the third division to march into Guangdong, and his request for the National Army to leave the province to support the revolution has arrived!"

  "Haha! Indeed, it's quite a coincidence!" Feng Qin also smiled and said: "However, this is just right. Originally, I was worried that the third division would be nameless, but now it's fine. Let's follow the example of Hunan and give the third division a title - 'Yuan Yue Jun' (Aid Guangdong Army)!"

  Lin Zhaomin also said on one side: "In that case, there's no need to worry about the Third Brigade and the Guangdong militia clashing!"

  Chen Jingyun said, "Wait a minute, Feng Qinn, you go and send another telegram to Yuan Fang, tell him about this, and then let him come under the pretext of assisting the Guangdong Provincial Revolution!" He paused for a moment before continuing, "Since Huang Xing has ordered us to dispatch troops, the main direction is likely still in Nanjing. At this critical juncture of the revolution, our National Army will not fall behind. Order Ma Cheng to lead the First Brigade to Wenzhou immediately and eliminate the surrounding Qing forces!"

  It must be said that Huang Xing's telegram completely dispelled Chen Jingyun's enthusiasm. Before launching the uprising, Chen Jingyun was thinking about how to succeed in the revolution, control Fuzhou, and control the army. After taking down Fuzhou, he turned his attention to the entire Fujian province. Now, twenty days have passed, and his vision is no longer limited to the Fujian province alone. He needs more troops to expand his territory and more taxes to expand his military!

  A few days ago, he just sent a small number of people to infiltrate Guangdong and Zhejiang, but now he has thoroughly dispatched a large army, still under the banner of assisting the revolutionary cause of brother provinces. No one can say that he is a warlord in nature, this move is for expanding his territory.

  Of course, he thought himself clever, but others were not foolish either, especially Hu Hanmin who was outside Guangzhou City contacting several groups of militia to prepare for the attack on Guangzhou City!

  Guangdong has always been the cradle of modern revolution, with many revolutionary party members within the province. Even after the failure of the Guangzhou Uprising and the capture and killing of a large number of revolutionary party members, the Tongmenghui still had considerable influence in Guangdong. However, on the eve of the Wuchang Uprising, all the new armies were dispatched to suppress bandits, making it impossible for the revolutionary party members to rely on the new army to launch an uprising in a short period of time. Nevertheless, there are still many militia forces within Guangdong Province!

  The term "people's army" generally referred to the anti-Qing military forces in southern provinces after the Xinhai Revolution, but it had a different meaning in Guangdong. Here, the people's army only referred to the anti-Qing forces outside of the revolutionary party leadership. So, what were these anti-Qing forces outside of the Tongmenghui? They were basically bandits, street thugs, and underworld figures. These people would have opposed the Qing dynasty even without the Wuchang Uprising, due to the Qing court's crackdowns. They had nothing to do with the revolutionary party originally. However, after the Wuchang Uprising, it was extremely difficult for the Tongmenghui to recover Guangdong, so they turned their attention to these social dregs. These bandits also wanted to take advantage of the revolutionaries' banner, so while harming the common people, they gathered under the revolutionary flag.

  Then, a large number of bandits and militia from Huizhou and other places rose up one after another, and slowly gathered under the city of Guangzhou! And among the Tongmenghui members who were in contact with the bandits and the Green Forest, the most important one was Hu Hanmin.

  But Hu Hanmin did not have actual power, he was just a liaison tool, and could not restrain the bandits. The bandits held up the revolutionary flag, but in reality they often disobeyed orders, harassed merchants and civilians, and committed atrocities such as dissecting corpses to extract hearts. In one case on Duobao Street, An Yong killed over 20 people and paraded their hearts through the streets... His younger brother Shi Jin-chun was only around 10 years old, but had a particularly cruel nature and killed the most people.

  Of course, these things are not worth mentioning for revolutionary parties with a heart of revolution. For the sake of revolution, countless martyrs have shed their heads and hot blood, and it is only natural that a few people were dug out of their hearts and lungs as they sacrificed their lives for the revolution!

  When Hu Hanmin was coordinating with the people's army to capture Guangzhou, he received a telegram from Chen Jingyun, which stated that Fujian, as a brother province, cared about the revolutionary cause and for the overall national revolution, had sent two armies to support the revolution, one going north to Zhejiang and preparing to go to Nanjing, while the other went south to Guangdong.

  After hearing the news, Hu Hanmin was overjoyed. Although he didn't know much about Chen Jingyun's name, he knew that Chen Jingyun had joined the Tongmenghui, and the revolution in Fujian was also organized by the Tongmenghui. In other words, he thought that Fujian belonged to the Tongmenghui's sphere of influence, and the troops sent were the Tongmenghui's army.

  "It's finally here!" For Hu Hanmin, who didn't have a direct subordinate army under him, the Fujian troops would be their reliance if they arrived and could also restrain those bandit armies.

  Chen Jingyun's telegram was not only received by Hu Hanmin, but also by Zhang Mingqi, the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi in Guangzhou. This man, who had suppressed several uprisings in Guangzhou, felt suffocated when he saw the telegram in his hand.

  If it is said that who in the Qing Dynasty understood the revolutionary party the most, Zhang Mingshi would definitely be among the top three! During his reign in Guangdong and Guangxi, it was a dark period for revolutionaries. In the face of uprisings launched by revolutionaries, he never surrendered or compromised, just one word: kill!

  In the past two years, the number of revolutionaries who died at his hands was not in the thousands but at least seven or eight hundred. However, the more he killed, the more he feared the revolutionaries! He knew very well that these people were like weeds, and no matter how many times they were burned, they would come back to life after a while and rise up again. But he was confident in his own abilities, and keeping Guangdong from falling into chaos was not a big problem.

  However, after the Wuchang Uprising, it quickly triggered uprisings across the country, and such large-scale uprisings were no longer under his control. Guangdong was also slowly falling into chaos. Even so, relying on the powerful means in his hands, he still controlled Guangzhou, making Guangdong the only province in the south that had not yet been restored.

  But as the national situation became more and more chaotic, the number of militia surrounding Guangzhou increased, and yesterday there were dozens of gentry and merchants in the city who jointly requested to see Zhang Mingqi, asking him to declare his allegiance to the revolution. These are all influential gentry and merchants, not those revolutionary party bandits who have killed tens or hundreds of people without a care. Zhang Mingqi had to use all his eloquence to persuade them to leave. But the next day he received a telegram from Chen Jingyun!

  "This Chen Jingyun, he's got nothing better to do, coming all the way to Guangdong for no reason!" Zhang Mingqi thought of scolding him, but at this point, he was too lazy to even bother. The situation had deteriorated to the point where it was beyond what one person could stop.

  But after killing so many revolutionaries in recent years, can they still have a way out for themselves once they're in power? No, I must leave this place!

  Half an hour after receiving Chen Jingyun's telegram, Zhang Mingqi had his family take their belongings to the concession in Shaji, while he himself held Chen Jingyun's telegram and gathered the gentry and merchants within the city.

  "To this day, Zhang Mengji dare not go against the trend of the world, so he decided: 'Guangdong is independent!' After saying this, Zhang Mengji felt empty in his heart, thinking that all his efforts to suppress bandits and revolutionaries over the years had been in vain. 'Alas, where will Guangdong go from here? You gentlemen decide for yourselves!'"

  After he finished speaking, he retreated to the back hall. The gentry and merchants below only reacted afterwards, and without looking back at others, they immediately organized a telegram to negotiate a ceasefire with the people's army outside the city, and also went to invite Hu Hanmin and other Tongmenghui members to prepare for the establishment of a military government. People came quickly, almost all arrived, then the gentry unanimously decided to elect Zhang Mingqi as the governor, but at this time, people just found out that Zhang Mingqi had already left the governor's mansion.

  It wasn't until the next day that they discovered Zhang Mingshi had escaped to the concession in Shamian, and as for the governor, he didn't have the guts to take the position, so he reluctantly nominated Hu Hanmin as the governor instead.

  When Chen Jingyun in Fuzhou learned of the news of Guangdong's recovery, he was shocked for half a day and couldn't come to his senses!

  What's going on here? I just decided to march into Guangdong, and Huang Xing also sent a pillow. I also issued a telegram and obtained the name of sending troops, but it hasn't been a day yet, and Guangdong has already been recovered?

  This made Chen Jingyun sullen for a full half hour, and he didn't even want to say a word, making Luo Li look at him with some concern.

  Finally, he gritted his teeth and even if Guangzhou was taken over by the revolutionaries, they would not be able to take over the eastern part of Guangdong in time. Since the third division had already sent troops, there was no reason for them to withdraw halfway. If they couldn't take down the whole of Guangdong, then Chaozhou would do! In any case, he wouldn't give up until he got something back.

  He steeled himself and gave the order: "Order Yuan Fang to advance according to plan, he must arrive in Chaozhou within three days!"

  Feng Qin asked with some concern: "What if we encounter troops from the Guangdong warlord government?"

  Chen Jingyun said, "If you can win them over, then win them over. If not, then fight. If you can't beat them, then retreat! What other way is there? Tell Yuan Fang to report back and handle it properly. If he can take down Chaozhou, I'll promote him to colonel!"

  After receiving Chen Jingyun's telegram, Yuan Fang was both afraid and happy. He was afraid that after going to Chaozhou, he would encounter the Guangdong army, if it was the Qing army, it would be fine to fight directly, but if it was an army that had already turned against the Qing, it would be difficult to deal with. If things went wrong, it could lead to a dispute between two provinces. But if it succeeded, it would mean a promotion to colonel!

  To know, among the three troops trained before, Ma Cheng and Li Jimin were both promoted to upper school, while he himself went south to Zhangzhou and Quanzhou when the enemy army surrendered actively, so they didn't fight much, no remarkable military achievements, naturally couldn't be promoted. Although he still led thousands of people with a middle school military rank as the third brigade commander, what people want is face, others Ma Cheng and Li Jimin were both promoted to upper school, while he was still wearing a middle school military rank isn't it embarrassing?

  Chen Jingyun has now promised himself a senior colonel's military rank, whether he can get it or not depends on his own efforts.

  With a grit of his teeth, Yuan Fang's heart turned ruthless and he immediately ordered the troops to speed up their advance. He also arranged for a vanguard regiment to make a swift breakthrough! They must hurry to Chaozhou as soon as possible.

  "Anyone who blocks my way will be killed by me!"

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