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Once upon a time, the author was entrusted by Jianghan University to be responsible for the main author of "The Hundred Biographies of the First Righteousness of Xinhai" (Yang Weidong and Tu Wenwen, Pei Gaocai and Deng Zhengbing, China Social Science Publishing House), presided over by yang Weidong and Tu Literature, and attended by famous historians Feng Tianyu, Pi Mingxiu, Yan Changhong, Xiao Zhizhi, Luo Fuhui, and others, and selected a hundred Xinhai revolutionary volunteers. Today's sharing is the humble work "Ji Yulin: Recruiting envoys from the revolutionary army that has conquered dozens of cities with a battalion of troops" published by the 10th edition of the "Spring and Autumn Weekly" of the "People's Political Consultative Conference Daily" on October 28, 2021, which was forwarded by the People's Daily on the same day.
One of the biographies of Wuchang Shouyi written by Pei Gaocai
Ji Yulin (1881-1918) was born in Shayang County, Hubei Province, with few great ambitions, embarked on the road of revolutionary salvation under the influence of progressive ideas, and participated in the founding of the Rizhihui. After the Wuchang Uprising, Ji Yulin led the revolutionary army in a bloody battle with the Qing army, and then under the orders of the Governor's Office of the Ejun Army, he "marched north" and used a battalion of troops to conquer 32 towns, effectively restraining the Qing army to the south, and making important contributions to eliminating the remnants of the Qing Dynasty that were stubbornly resisting.
In his early years, he threw his pen from Rong and was determined to oppose the Qing
In 1902, Ji Yulin felt the change of Gengzi, resolutely gave up the scientific expedition, invited a group of friends to throw pens from Rong, and came to Wuchang City Hubei New Army as a soldier. Because of his willingness to endure hardships, high understanding, and good popularity, he was soon promoted to the position of sentry commander of the forward battalion, and was later sent to the Ben Academy for further study. During his time at the military academy, he organized autonomous associations among the cadets and secretly propagated anti-Qing revolutionary ideas. After graduation, Ji Yulin was assigned as the inspector of the 3rd Battalion of the 31st Standard of the 16th Association of the Hubei New Army.
Li Yuanhong Metropolitan Governor in the Lens of the French - 1912, Chen Yong Treasured
During his tenure, Ji Yulin, Liu Jing'an, Zhang Nanxian, and others established an anti-Qing secret group, the Science Tuition Institute, in Wuchang. In March 1906, Liu Jing'an, Ji Yulin and other party members reorganized the Nichiks into a secret revolutionary group. Liu Jing'an was elected as the director general, and Ji Yulin and Zhang Nan were the main members, and nearly a thousand officers and men of the New Army and academics were mobilized to attend the Japanese briefing. In January 1907, Ji Yulin was arrested and imprisoned for plotting in response to the Pingliu Li Uprising, and was later released on bail by Li Yuanhong and others to continue anti-Qing work in Sichuan, Hebei, Liaoning, Heilongjiang and other places.
He commanded the defense of the three towns of Wuhan and was ordered to recruit Jingmen
After the success of the Wuchang Uprising in 1911, Ji Yulin returned to Wuchang. He participated in the Wuchang Revolutionary Military Government, was appointed as the commander of the standard commander (regimental commander), and commanded thousands of new recruits to participate in the defense of Hankou. Ji Yulin took the lead and led his troops to repel the Qing army's attack three times. During the battle on the front line, Ji Yulin was unfortunately hit by a stray bullet, and after more than ten days of treatment, the wound was healed, so he was reappointed as a first-class military adviser to the military government.
When the Battle of Yangxia was launched, the Wuchang revolutionary military government, in order to consolidate the rear and flank the southern aid to the Qing army, decided to open up Anxiang (Anlu, Xiangyang) and Jingyi (Jingmen, Yichang) and take advantage of the situation to retake Anlu, Xiangyang, Yunyang and Jingmen Prefecture. Therefore, Ji Yulin was specially appointed to solicit envoys for An Xiang Yunjing, and at the same time, Zhang Nanxian and other revolutionary volunteers were appointed as advisers to solicit envoys, and led the troops to go out on the expedition.
When the envoys were formed, the Governor of the Ejun Dynasty handed over to Ji Yulin the wooden bronze-inlaid new official seals of the governors of the three prefectures of An Xiang and Jingjing and the counties under his jurisdiction, and asked him to appoint new officials after Kefu Prefecture and County along the way. Originally, Ji Yulin was ready to lead a regiment and an artillery company to set off and pay 100,000 yuan. However, at that time, the war in various places was tight, and the military government allocated only one battalion of soldiers and horses to Ji Yulin.
On November 20, Ji Yulin led his troops to march out on the Northern Expedition of the Han River, and arrived in Xiantao Town, the county seat of Qiuyang County, on the 24th. The next day, Ji Yulin formulated a plan for the people and a strategy for the reorganization of the military, and announced eight policies: First, the gentry of An Shi and the people; second, to gather the army and surrender their firearms; third, to prohibit the people from secretly hiding arms; fourth, to recruit surrender and not to kill manchus indiscriminately; fifth, to suppress bandits; sixth, to prohibit the dispatch of military salaries; seventh, to strictly take impersonations and rumors; and eighth, to use both official and civilian tickets. At the same time, the work of appeasing local independent forces and other scattered soldiers and rectifying local public order was carried out. In order to develop the revolutionary forces, Ji Yulin accepted Zhang Nanxian's suggestion, contacted various nationalist forces, and successively incorporated local rebel troops such as Li Yadong, Liang Zhonghan, and Liu Ying. Ji Yulin had to use the armed forces of these three sides as its basic team, and with the merger of other scattered armed forces, the troops quickly developed to 8 battalions.
Shouyi Founder Cai Jimin brought back Cai Guantian to treasure the Wuchang Shouyi Army Flag: The original of the Nine Corners and Eighteen Stars Flag (now in hubei provincial museum)
In order to counteract the revolutionary army on the Wuchang side, Ji Yulin decided to first restore Xiangyang, then capture Xinye and Nanyang, and directly attack Luoyang and Zhengzhou to curb the Qing army's southern aid. In order to raise the salaries of the recruited soldiers, Ji Yulin sent people back to Jingmen to raise donations from the rich households of Yin merchants with the feeling of hometown friendship. The merchants of Jingmen generously donated money and were willing to donate huge sums of money.
After the restoration of Shayang Town, Ji Yulin will summon envoys to enter the town immediately. At this time, bandits in the Jingmen and Qianjiang areas swarmed in chaos, and the people were deeply affected. After Ji Yulin learned of the situation, every time he went to a place, he sent troops to clear and suppress, and successively suppressed many bandits, and the people's hearts were very happy.
During his stay in Shayang, Ji Yulin was deeply saddened to learn that the Official Causeway of the Han River had been broken year after year and that people's lives and property had been repeatedly flooded. So he called a meeting of people from all walks of life, decided to rebuild the official embankment of the Shayang Han River, assigned special personnel to set up a bureau, collected donations and raised funds from the business circles of Shayang and Shashi, and renovated the Shayang causeway in the form of work-for-charity, and the height of the embankment was more than 3 meters above the water surface, which not only ended the flooding in the surrounding 5 counties, but also benefited the farmland in the 5 counties. In order to commemorate Ji Gongdezheng, the people of the five counties specially built the Ji Gong Ancestral Hall on the Shayang Ya Dam Embankment, and later renamed the Shayang Causeway, which is nearly 15 kilometers long, "Jigong Causeway".
Bing Feng pointed out that he quickly pacified three provinces and one state
While consolidating the Shayang base area, Ji Yulin separately repaired books to the Qing generals stationed in Anlu, which prompted Zhang Chucai and others to correct themselves. Just as he was about to continue to use troops, he suddenly received a call from the Yichang revolutionaries for help. Originally, after the Yichang revolutionaries had restored Yichang, Shashi, Danyang, and Jingmen Prefectures, they were desperately resisted by the Qing army during the siege of Jingzhou City. Ji Yulin immediately decided to attack Jingzhou from the west, and sent Gao Zhonghe to lead the vanguard north to attack Zhongxiang, Yicheng, and Xiangfan.
On December 14, Ji Yulin and his troops quickly arrived at Shashi, forced jingzhou city, and sent people to persuade the Qing army to surrender. The Qing defenders saw that the large army was approaching the city, so they surrendered the city. Ji Yulin led his troops into Jingzhou City, collected the guns of the Qing army, sent out an anmin, and appointed Li Yadong as the prefect of Jingzhou.
Subsequently, Ji Yulin ordered the whole army to move north to Zhongxiang and Xiangyang. On January 6, 1912, as soon as Ji Yulin and his troops arrived at the outskirts of Zhongxiang City, the anlu Prefecture, received a report that Zhang Chucai, the defender of Anlu Province, had bought off the Rebellion of the All Ming Han Dynasty and colluded with Zhang Guoquan, a Qing general stationed in Xiangyang, to prepare to attack the recruiting army.
Li LianFang Wencun - Shuying
Ji Yulin was not in danger, and sent Li Lianfang and Cao Jintong to negotiate with Zhang Chucai, and xiao Yiyi. Zhang Chucai pretended to socialize and greeted Kaicheng, but secretly ordered the Quan Ming Han to rob and collect the salaries of the recruited troops, in an attempt to create chaos and take advantage of the opportunity to cause trouble. Ji Yulin had already made preparations, and immediately sent Hu Yuzhen to the enemy camp and captured Quan Ming Han. Zhang Chucai fled in a panic, and his men surrendered one after another.
On January 8, the Military Government of Wuchang expanded the original Hubei New Army's 8 associations into 8 towns. Ji Yulin's solicitation army was organized into the eighth town of the civil army, and Ji Yulin was under the control of the eighth town. During this period, Ji Yulin led officers and soldiers to gather at the Han Temple to celebrate the founding ceremony of the Republic of China. At the meeting, Ji Yulin issued a speech encouraging the officers and men of the People's Army to "work together with one heart, sweep away the youyan in the north, take the restoration of the motherland as the only purpose, and do not care about life and death."
The three roads marched north and advanced into the Central Plains
Before and after the quelling of the Anlu rebellion, the Qing general Zhang Guoquan stationed in Xiangyang saw that the general situation was gone, so he expelled the Qing court officials and declared "independence". Ji Yulin immediately sent people to negotiate, hoping that Zhang Guoquan would return to the Military Government of Wuchang. After two days of rapid marching, Ji Yulin arrived in Xiangyang, Zhang Guoquan announced anyway, out of the city for a hundred miles to meet each other, Ji Yulin led his troops into the urban area, Xiangyang was restored.
Tomb of General Ji Yulin
At that time, although Suizhou and Zaoyang had been restored, bandits were rampant, and the people could not bear it, so they asked Ji Yulin for help. Ji Yulin appointed Liang Zhonghan as the governor of the prefecture. On the occasion of the Northern Expedition of the Division, he instructed his subordinates to assassinate Li Xiuang and recruit his people. At the same time, Ji Yulin also sent a number of clearance teams, and quickly eliminated the bandit Chen Liushan and others.
After the restoration of Xiangyang, the three prefectures of Anxiang and Jingjing and the counties under them were successively pacified. Ji Yulin was preparing to continue his northern expedition when he suddenly received news from the people accusing Li Xiu'ang, who was stationed in Fancheng, of conniving at his subordinates to oppress the people and plotting against the people. Ji Yulin immediately sent an ambush to assassinate Li Xiu'ang and recruited his people, and the army's morale was greatly encouraged.
On January 28, Ji Yulin led his troops north to attack Henan, first issuing a language style notice calling on all parts of Nanyang to correct the situation in time, and respectively, sending telegrams to the revolutionary armies in Yichang, Chongqing, Chengdu, and Shaanxi to "cut through the contact, so as to meet the Central Plains and directly attack the Yellow Dragon." Ji Yulin organized all his soldiers and horses into three columns: the center one road, from the new shop along the Bai River straight to Xinye; the left wing one road, from the old river mouth directly attack Dengzhou, occupying the southern part of Henan Province; the right wing all the way, around Zaoyang to attack Tang County, to meet Xinye; at the same time agreed that the three-way army would meet the division in Nanyang. The three-way army was like a bamboo, Tang County and Dengzhou fell without a fight, and Xinye was also conquered after a fierce battle.
Pei Gaocai: With a battalion of troops, the revolutionary army of Lianke Ten Cities recruited Ji Yulin on October 28, 2021, the 10th edition of the Spring and Autumn Weekly of the People's Political Consultative Conference Daily
Just when Ji Yulin commanded the three-way army to advance into the Central Plains and won a steady victory, it coincided with the conclusion of the peace between the north and the south, and the Qing Emperor announced his abdication. After receiving Li Yuanhong's order, Ji Yulin immediately led his army back to Xiangyang, arranged various official duties, and set off on March 10 and arrived in Shayang by water on the 17th. According to statistics, the northern expedition led by Ji Yulin lasted 125 days, traveled more than 180 kilometers, conquered 32 provinces, counties, cities, and towns, recruited and expanded the strength of 11,376 troops, and 824 sailors, which was a feat in military history. Soon, Ji Yulin received a telegram from Li Yuanhong to station the armed forces of the eighth town in various places along the Han River, and on the 25th, Ji Yulin returned to Wuchang with only a few entourage and went to the governor's mansion to resume his life, which was highly praised and generously comforted by the military government.