In May 1911, Xia Jun closely monitored the national situation.

According to history, the road protection movement will break out in May. Hubei, Hunan and Guangdong provinces are in May and Sichuan are in June, and the road protection movement in Sichuan is the largest.

The background of the road protection movement was that the Bank of Four Kingdoms put pressure on the Qing court to build two railways, Sichuan-Hanzhou and Guangdong-Hanzhou.

On May 9, Xia Jun learned from a telegram sent by a spy sent to the capital that the Qing court, under the instigation of the postal minister Sheng Xuanhuai, announced the "state-owned railway" policy and nationalized the Sichuan-Han and Guangdong-Han railways that had been commercially operated.

Resistance indeed occurred later. On May 13, 1911, Hunan gentry, business and academic groups issued leaflets to criticize the Qing government's treason.

On the 14th, Changsha held a meeting of 10,000 people participating in by people from all walks of life, and decided to reject foreign debts and protect the right of road.

On the 16th, more than 10,000 railway workers in Changsha and Zhuzhou marched and demonstrated, proposing that businessmen strike, students strike, and people resist rent and taxes.

On the 18th, people from all walks of life in Hunan gathered in front of the governor's office to protest the "rail state-owned" policy of selling the country. In Hubei, after the Qing government announced the "rail state-owned" policy, people from all walks of life rose up to fight for the road.

The railway from Yichang to Wanxian had already started construction. The Qing government forced the order to stop the work. Road construction workers and merchants immediately gathered to fight against it. The Qing government mobilized troops to suppress it. Thousands of road construction workers swung hammers and swung sticks, and fought fiercely with the Qing army that came to suppress it, killing more than 20 Qing soldiers on the spot.

In Sichuan, after receiving the telegram, officials felt that announcing that they would cause chaos, so they concealed it.

Xia Jun immediately buried his head in training after receiving the message from spies from various provinces.

At this time, the Fujian First Division had entered the combat skills training stage. When practicing marksmanship, bullets were fired at will, and they were even trained to death every day. However, the military camp was equipped with special chefs, who supplemented the soldiers with big fish and meat every day, and the quality of food was greatly improved compared to eating canned food.

The reason I gave soldiers canned food before was because the chef had not collected the dishes and the food tasted worse than canned food.

"We must persist in this food. How can we get such a good food when we go home? Besides, our hard training is also for the restoration of the nation and for every compatriot to avoid being bullied." The instructor would say so many soldiers every day when eating.

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The second-year cadets of the Army Academy also enrolled at this time, and Xia Jun also separated the Army Academy from Jianzhou University and established the "East China Military Academy".

The military academy is divided into three academies: Army, Navy and Air Force.

Xia Jun also created a song "The Soul of the East China Military" as a school song, but actually copied the song "The Soul of the Whampoa Military" from later generations. The melody of the song "The Soul of the Whampoa Military" is indeed good and pleasant to listen to. It is probably created by the Kuomintang after he went into exile in Taiwan, so the lyrics are naturally changed.

Originally, Xia Jun wanted to copy the theme song "Chinese Military Soul" of the sword as a school song, but found that it was not very suitable. After all, this is a military academy, and "Whampoa Military Soul" is more suitable.

Later generations of military songs from mainland China and Taiwan have a big difference in style. The military songs from mainland China are more majestic in momentum, but the connotation is not enough and easy to listen to. Taiwan's military songs are softer in style, and there are not many fine works, but the song "Wampo Military Soul" is definitely a fine work.

If you have to copy, you will naturally have to copy it.

Every morning, the military academy's radio will play this school song.

"The nation's city is the vanguard of rejuvenation, the unity of civil and military affairs, the strong and unremitting body, and loyal to the country and the people. The new power and the unanimous goal are like hands and feet, one heart and one virtue, and everyone is a hero... Restoring the nation, uniting and striving to sacrifice... Let the spirit of East China grow in the blue sky..."

The lyrics were changed for a long time in Xia Jun. The second period was finally changed on the third day of the school year. After listening to this school song, the students all responded that they liked it very much.

Xia Jun's plagiarism this time is of great significance. The emergence of this school song can strengthen students' beliefs, which is equivalent to improving students' loyalty to him.

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At this time, the road protection movement had reached its beginning, and Xia Jun began to prepare for the Xinhai Revolution. In order to deal with emergencies, for example, the revolution suddenly broke out early, and the Fujian First Division had only trained its combat skills for a month and entered the tactical drill stage.

Xia Jun called everyone in the staff and decided to conduct a marching exercise. Xia Jun said to them: "This marching exercise is planned to travel from Jian'an to Yongding. The road situation is unknown. Depart immediately in two days. From the map, we are about 350 kilometers away from Yongding. We plan to arrive at our destination in 5 days. The General Staff immediately provides a specific departure plan."

"Only two days?" Chen Xuanyu asked with his mouth wide open.

"Wrong, strictly speaking, you only have one day, the task is very arduous, come on!" Xia Jun patted Chen Xuanyu's shoulder and smiled, as if it was nothing to do with him. Indeed, Xia Jun is now a hand-off manager, so he naturally uses the general staff to make decisions when fighting. He is enough.

Xia Jun said and walked out of the military conference room. Chen Xuanyu immediately said anxiously: "Hurry, hurry, hurry, take the map, Liu Wenhong, calculate how many cans you will bring this march and how to arrange the logistics."

"Yes, Chief of Staff."

A day later, Xia Jun walked into the military conference room. Chen Xuanyu, Liu Wenhong and other staff members all had dark circles on their eyes. Seeing Xia Jun coming in, Chen Xuanyu quickly got up and walked over with a document, saying to Xia Jun: "Chairman, this is our plan of marching."

Xia Jun took over the march plan and looked at it. Chen Xuanyu reported from the side: "For this march, the General Staff plans to send a reconnaissance company to explore the front, and at the same time send a engineering battalion and an infantry battalion as the vanguard. The second echelon is equipped with a transportation company, responsible for transporting the equipment required by the engineer..."

"Okay, follow this plan and start tomorrow." Xia Jun nodded and said.

"yes."

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On May 21, the military camp of the First Division of Fujian suddenly became noisy, and cars and tricycles drove out of the military camp. The soldiers of each battalion were either riding on cars or driving tricycles. The entire division drove towards Yongding in a mighty manner, forming a long and large convoy. The logistics battalion in the middle was the largest in the future, driving nearly 500 trucks, filled with ammunition, medicines, and cans.

Xia Jun was in charge of the central army, sitting in a command car, equipped with a high-power wireless intercom (a reduced version of the wireless telephone that has appeared), and commanded the troops to advance.

A reconnaissance company conducts reconnaissance at the forefront, mainly drawing the road ahead and surrounding terrain. Behind it is an engineer battalion and an infantry battalion.

The Engineer Battalion is responsible for opening roads and building bridges all the way, but the section from Jian'an to Zhangping is easier to walk on because this road has been built before. Although this road has not been covered with cement, the road has been widened.

It is still very fast to drive on such a road, because the First Division is equipped with a large number of trucks and three-wheeled motorcycles, and its maneuverability is very strong. It is just a matter of driving 200 kilometers a day, but it is just a 10-hour advance at a speed of 20km/hour.

In this marching exercise, the General Staff ordered the advancement speed to be 30km/hour in 5 days. In less than a day, the troops successfully arrived in the Zhangping area.

After arriving in Zhangping, the situation changed and the road conditions ahead were very bad. According to the report of the reconnaissance company, many sections of the road ahead were unable to pass through at all.

The engineering battalion soon entered the operation state. The engineering battalion undertakes some relatively technical constructions, while those that are not technical are handed over to the infantry, and each infantry has an engineering shovel on it.

The pace of advance immediately stopped, and the infantry drove a tricycle forward and rushed to the five construction sites in front of the large army for construction.

When the first construction section was opened to traffic, the large army immediately drove over and was soon blocked in the second construction section. The engineers and infantry were already working hard here.

At this moment, it suddenly rained.

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Chapter completed!