<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="33" > the story of Dongguan during the Xinhai Revolution (Part 11).</h1>
Review of the previous issue: Under the careful care of his uncle, the young orphan Li Zhangda became a staunch revolutionary. He always firmly followed Sun Yat-sen and successively participated in the Wuchang Uprising of the Xinhai Revolution and the Li Liejun Hukou Uprising, all of which ended in failure. He and Chen Jiongming, the governor of the Cantonese army, disagreed with each other and were scattered.
Read the link: https://m.toutiao.com/is/RLeMPGF/?= This Guancheng orphan was on the fence with Yuan Shikai, first in the defense of Wuchang, and then with the uprising of Li Liejun - today's headlines
In 1917, the Russian Revolution was victorious under lenin's leadership
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="28" >2, sent by Sun Yat-sen to the Soviet Union to learn from the experience</h1>
In 1919, Sun Yat-sen, Liao Zhongkai, and Zhu Zhixin organized the magazine "Construction" in Shanghai, and wrote a letter to Li Zhangda to protect the distribution work. After arriving in Shanghai, he met Sun Yat-sen and lived in Liao Zhongkai's house on Changbin Road for a year, assisting Sun Yat-sen, Zhu Zhixin, Liao Zhongkai and others in running the "Construction Magazine". During his time in Shanghai, in addition to his work, Li Zhangda also studied revolutionary theory with Zhu Zhixin. Learning English with Liao Zhongkai was very fruitful. They also developed a deep friendship with each other. After the victory of the October Revolution in Russia, Sun Yat-sen was inspired to think that Russia's experience could be used to guide the Chinese revolution, so he decided that Li Zhangda accompanied Zhu Zhixin to Soviet Russia.
However, times have changed. In June 1920, sun Yat-sen sent Zhu Zhixin back to Guangdong to do strategic work in order to fight against the pillar warlords in Panguang. In August, the Guangdong-Guangdong War broke out. In September, Zhu Zhixin was unfortunately shot and killed when he was mediating a clash between the garrison and the Dongguan Nationalist Army in Humen. Li and Zhu went to Soviet Russia to plan an abortion.
The founding of the Soviet Union made Moscow an example for many countries eager for national independence
Sun Yat-sen demanded that Li Zhangda be sure to arrive in Moscow, and on his behalf formally proposed to the Soviet government the conclusion of an agreement on military cooperation, requesting the Russian Red Army to march from Russian Turkestan into China's Xinjiang in the spring of the following year (i.e., 1921), to go deep into Gansu to meet and assist the revolutionaries in Sichuan, and to promote the armed uprising of revolutionaries throughout China.
With the financial support of Liao Zhongkai's trip to Russia, Li Zhangda went to Soviet Russia via Heilongjiang in September of that year, the same year
Arriving at Blagoveshchensk (i.e., Hylanda) at the end of October, but unable to continue due to the Chita War, Li Zhangda returned to Guangzhou through the Heavenly Law. In the spring of the following year, he finally went to Moscow and completed the practical journey of sun Yat-sen personally to investigate the Soviet revolution.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="29" > traveled with Sun Yat-sen to and from Guilin Shaoguan guangzhou</h1>
Sun Yat-sen's base camp in Guilin
At the beginning of 1921, Deng Hao, chief of staff of the Guangdong Army and commander of the 1st Division of the Guangdong Army, in order to improve the quality of the officers and men of the 1st Division, tried every means to recruit young and promising officers as the backbone. Li Zhangda, Ye Ting, Deng Yanda, Jiang Guangnai, chen Keyu, and others were recruited into the army, and Li Zhangda was appointed as the commander of the engineer battalion directly under the division.
Soon, Sun Yat-sen set up a base camp in Guilin to prepare to drive troops to Hunan for the Northern Expedition, and selected young officers from Deng's 1st Division of the Cantonese Army to form a guard regiment to serve as the base camp guards, and the engineering battalion was reorganized into the 2nd Battalion of the Guard Regiment. Li Zhangda was appointed lieutenant colonel and deputy of the guard regiment, and because the regimental commander Chen Keyu was also concurrently the chief of staff of the division headquarters, he could not leave Guangzhou, so the guard regiment was actually led by Li Zhangda and went to Guilin to undertake the task of defending. At that time, the public security situation in Guilin was very bad, and bandits were frequent. In addition to defending the base camp, the guard regiment also maintains social order, so it is deeply praised by the local people.
In 1922, Sun Yat-sen inspected the armament work of the Northern Expedition in Shaoguan
In March 1922, Deng was assassinated by Chen Jiongming's men in Guangzhou, Sun Yat-sen was so sad that he decided to change the route to Guanbei Expedition, supervise the division back to Guangdong, Li Zhangda led the National Guard Regiment to accompany him, and in May, Sun Yat-sen changed his base camp to Shaoguan.
During this period, Sun Yat-sen often traveled back and forth between Shaoguan and Guangzhou. Therefore, Sun Yat-sen decided to expand the guard regiment into two regiments, and Li Zhangda was appointed as the commander of the 2nd regiment of the guard regiment and the base camp of the guard regiment to join the army, and chiang kai-shek and Wu Tiecheng also joined the army. On May 10, Chen Ming showed signs of rebellion, and his subordinate General Ye Ju led the troops stationed in Gui to return east to Guangzhou without authorization, and set up a general headquarters at the ZhengXian Ancestral Hall under baiyun mountain to blackmail them for pay and find trouble.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="27" > cover Sun Yat-sen's turnaround</h1>
In early June, in order to calm the hearts and minds of the rear, Sun Yat-sen and his wife Soong Ching Ling were stationed in the Yuexiu Building on Guanyin Mountain in the Presidential Palace, and the guard regiment led by Li Zhangda was responsible for guarding the task. Late at night on June 15, Chen Jiongming gathered 50 battalions of 25,000 troops under Ye Ju, Hong Zhaolin, and Xiong Liu. In the early morning of June 16, Ye Ju and others shelled the presidential palace. Soong Ching Ling, who put the country first, repeatedly begged Mr. Sun to leave, Sun Yat-sen hesitated, Lin Zhimian and other things had reached the point of burning eyebrows, so he immediately made a decision, did not allow it to be said, and forcefully changed Sun Yat-sen to forcibly leave. After many twists and turns, Sun Yat-sen finally arrived safely in Huangpu and boarded the Yongfeng ship.
After the 616 rebellion, Sun Yat-sen and Soong Ching Ling arrived safely at the Yongfeng ship
Chen Keyu, commander of the Guard Regiment, and Li Zhangda, commander of the 2nd Regiment, commanded the Guard Regiment and guards to resolutely defend the Presidential Palace. Commander Li Zhangda repelled 10 of the rebels' charge in a row, killing the rebel corpses and bleeding into rivers. Until about five o'clock in the morning, because the enemy was outnumbered, Li Zhangda decided to retreat. At 6:00 a.m., Li Zhangda and other guards finally threw out of the presidential palace, rushed out of the siege, and arrived at Haizhu Island on the Long Causeway, where they boarded the Yongfeng ship at White Swan Pond by electric boat.
Li Zhangda accompanied his attendants and fought with the rebels for more than a month. June 18. Li Zhangda, in his capacity as a member of the army at the base camp, suggested to Sun Yat-sen that he send people to Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and other places to contact the officers and men who had been scattered during the incident, and "please receive 1,500 yuan" as a fee for recruiting the scattered officers and men. After receiving the money, he immediately sent the battalion commander to carry the money to Hong Kong and Guangzhou to carry out the work of appeasement.
After escaping from danger, Sun Yat-sen took a group photo with the soldiers of the Presidential Palace Guard Corps
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="21" > lurking in Guangzhou for covert work</h1>
In August, Sun Yat-sen heard that the Northern Expeditionary Army had lost its division and had no hope of waiting for help, so he decided to abandon the ship and leave Guangdong for Shanghai. Before sun Yat-sen left, he designated Li Zhangda to stay in Guangzhou and handle all the final matters. Li Zhangda and Ye Ting met on the second floor of a shop in Changxingheng, Guangzhou, to set up a "news agency" as a protection to carry out secret joint work.
In October, Sun Yat-sen established the headquarters of the East Road Thieves Army in Fuzhou, under the command of Huang Dawei, commander of the First Army, Xu Chongzhi, commander of the Second Army, Li Fulin, commander of the Third Army, and Xu Chongzhi, commander-in-chief.
In January 1923, after Chen Ming was expelled from Guangzhou, Sun Yat-sen returned to Guangzhou at the invitation of the generals of various armies to organize the base camp, and Li Zhangda also returned to Guangdong from Fujian with the East Road Thief Army, and was appointed by Sun Yat-sen as the commander of the Gendarmerie Headquarters of the Grand Marshal's Office.
Chen Jiongming's calligraphy works. His political advocacy was to emulate the U.S. model of inter-provincial autonomy.