Li Liejun
He was a great hero of the Xinhai Revolution
The Xinhai Revolution of 1911 has forever left the name and deeds of General Li Liejun in China's modern history. Feng Yuxiang commented that he "took great risks, made great difficulties, decided great doubts, set great plans, went to the soup and went to the fire, and never gave up."
Li Liejun (1882-1946) was a native of Luoxi Pingyuan Village, Wuning County, Jiujiang, Jiangxi. Li Liejun fought in three places during the Xinhai Revolution and made great achievements. In the ensuing campaigns of the Second Revolution, the Protector of the Country, the Protector of the Law, and the Northern Expedition, Li Liejun has always firmly defended the ideal of democracy and republicanism. For the foundation of the country's development, he vigorously supported the cause of education; in order to save the nation from peril, he sent his five sons to the anti-Japanese battlefield.
Li Liejun learned martial arts from elementary school, then went to Japan to study army artillery, participated in the League in Japan, and returned to China in 1908.
After the victory of the Wuchang Uprising, Jiujiang also responded to the Wuchang Uprising on October 23, 1911, at the instigation of The League members Lin Sen, Jiang Qun and others, and established the Jiujiang Military and Political Branch, and elected Ma Yubao, the fifty-three standard commanders, as the governor of the Jiujiang Military and Political Branch. Jiang Qun, chief of the general staff of the military and political branches, heard that Li Liejun had come, and he was indignant to give up his post to him.
At this time, Nanchang had not yet been restored, and The Governor of Jiangxi, Feng Ruyan, was loyal to the Qing Dynasty and instructed Ma Xianting to pretend to surrender and secretly investigate the activities of the Governor of Jiujiang. One day, Ma Xianting infiltrated the office of the chief of the general staff, secretly read the documents, was found by Li Liejun and handed over to the Military Justice Department for trial. Because of the discovery of secret letters and other evidence of crimes, the Metropolitan Governor's Office immediately sentenced Ma Xianting to death, eliminating a major hidden danger.
Li Liejun immediately deployed to occupy the Yangtze River fortress Jinjipo Fort and Madang Fort, transferred the commander of the fort, Xu Gongdu, and cut off the Yangtze River defense line, blocking the Eleven Warships and two torpedo boats of the Qing Navy from Wuhan to Shanghai. After knowing that the stakes were at stake, the Qing navy immediately declared an uprising. Afterwards, Li Liejun was promoted to commander-in-chief of the Navy and Army, and the revolutionary forces in Jiujiang were greatly encouraged.
In November 1911, at the request of Hu Wantai of the Anhui Revolutionary Party and others, Li Liejun sent the regimental commander Huang Huanzhang to Anhui to lead two battalions of troops to Anhui to support the restoration of Anqing. All walks of life held a grand welcome meeting and promoted Li Liejun to be the governor of Anhui.
Soon after Li Liejun became the governor of Anhui, Feng Guozhang sent heavy troops to attack Wuchang, and Li Yuanhong sent an urgent telegram five times a day to ask Li Liejun for help. Li Liejun immediately ordered the navy and army to assemble, and handed over the Great Seal of anhui to Hu Wantai, and he himself led the ship west to Wuchang, and quickly deployed the navy and army to control the military stronghold of Wuchang. Li Yuanhong appointed Li Liejun as the commander-in-chief of the five-provincial coalition army, so that Feng Guozhang did not dare to cross the Yangtze River, and Wuchang was able to turn the crisis into safety.
During Li Liejun's aid to Wuchang, Nanchang was restored. After Li Liejun led his troops back to Nanchang to take up his post, the Jiangxi Provincial Council immediately began to rectify the government and economy, and spent a huge amount of money to send officials to send students to study in Europe, the United States, and Japan. Among them were Chen Yinke, a famous literary and historical figure in the future, Hu Xianhua, a botanist, and Xu Baohuan, a journalist... And to make jiangxi power completely in the hands of the revolutionaries. At the same time, he also eliminated the bandit plague, stabilized Jiangxi, and became the base camp of the revolution.
After Li Liejun's death, his coffin was first buried in wuning Zhenxi reading desk, then moved to FeifengShan on the outskirts of the city, and finally in 1980, he was buried with his wife in Yuning Park. The tomb has been listed as a key cultural relics protection unit in Jiangxi Province.
Source: Hearing Jiangxi Series
Editor: Hu Daijiang Review: Zhu Feng
Final Judges: Liu Sha, Luo Zhijun
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