From the beginning of the first round of shelling, the Qing army garrison in Nanxi Town began to be in chaos.

At this moment, the commander of the Qing army, General Yang Zhenhong, heard the huge explosion nearby, hurriedly climbed to the roof to check the situation, and happened to see a shell falling into a barracks, which instantly blew up the barracks, and the air wave of the explosion flew off the roof, mixed with the stumps of the Qing army that had been shattered.

A mouthful of blood spurted out of his mouth, he couldn't hold it back, he couldn't hold it back, from the morning two waves of heavy losses attack, the men and horses of a battalion in the middle defected, and at this moment he was bombarded by heavy artillery to the station, a series of heavy blows forced out the breath he had been holding, but it was no longer gas, but blood.

Yang Zhenhong muttered with despair on his face: "It's over, it's completely over, why?" Why do they still have heavy artillery? You have heavy artillery, why didn't you use it earlier? Why play me so much? It must be a foreigner, only a foreigner has a powerful heavy artillery, and the foreigner has invaded. ”

Subsequently, the angry Yang Zhenhong fainted and fell off the roof.

At this moment, the camp of the Qing army in Nanxi was constantly under shelling, and a single shell took the lives of more than 10 people. The huge explosion completely collapsed the already low morale of the Qing army, everyone was running and fleeing, and many unlucky ones were killed, shocked to death by the flying air waves, and stoned to death by the collapsed houses.

Yang Zhenhong, who had fainted, was also surrounded by the guards and fled, without the command of the main general, most of the people were spinning around like headless flies, and a few standards and pipe bands were only fleeing quickly with a few subordinates in the direction they came, and no one cared about the others.

In just ten minutes, the small town of Nanxi has been changed beyond recognition.

The sound of artillery stopped, and Huang Zhongyuan and Xu Guichuan also rushed into Nanxi Town with their men, quickly cleaning up the Qing army that had broken and scattered in Nanxi, and then pursued the fleeing Qing army.

In this battle, with Huang Zhongting's order to bombard Nanxi, the victory of the Hekou Revolutionary Rebel Army was doomed.

At this time, at the artillery position on the top of Nanxi Mountain, Huang Zhongting rubbed his ears and opened his mouth a little depressed, although the shelling stopped, he felt that there was still some buzzing in his head, and said secretly in his heart: "Damn, I will never go to the artillery position to watch the artillery in the future, my head is about to explode." ”

And Cai Yi, Tang Jiyao, Xu Guichuan and others also witnessed the whole process of the shelling of these Krupp mountain guns, and they all sighed in their hearts that they were worthy of being the well-known Krupp mountain guns.

After a while, Huang Zhongting slowly eased up, didn't care about the follow-up, and rushed to Hekou County with Cai Yi and others.

The third battalion, under the leadership of Liao Zhongyi, "escorted" the 500 Qing troops who had revolted to the estuary.

In the evening, the commander of the 1st battalion, Huang Zhongyuan, returned to the estuary.

At the General Staff Headquarters of the Hekou Revolutionary Rebel Army, except for Xu Guichuan, the commander of the second battalion, all the other battalion-level officers had already gathered together, including Cai Yi, Tang Jiyao, Chen Guosheng and others who had come from the uprising.

At this moment, Huang Zhongyuan is reporting on the situation of the first battle of Nanxi, after the end of the shelling, the first battalion and the second battalion jointly pursued the fleeing Qing army for more than ten miles, and now the battle has basically ended, the first and second battalions retreated to Nanxi Town, and the commander of the second battalion, Xu Guichuan, sat in Nanxi to deal with the finishing matters.

Huang Zhongyuan couldn't suppress his excited little mood, and said with some trembling: "In this battle, our army won a great victory, a total of more than 2,000 enemies were annihilated, more than 1,000 people were captured, and the remaining Qing army fled to Wenshan Prefecture, capturing nearly 3,000 rifles, 4 light machine guns, 9 rifled guns made by the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, and a large amount of food and ammunition and other materials. ”

Huang Zhongting didn't feel much because he had won a battle, and asked in a deep voice: "What are the losses of our army?" ”

"The first battalion of our department suffered 12 casualties, 7 seriously wounded, 29 lightly wounded, 7 killed in the second battalion, no serious injuries, and 18 minor wounds. But our heavy weapons and ammunition are consumed a lot. Huang Zhongyuan immediately replied.

Huang Zhongting felt that the casualties were still a bit big, and said in a deep voice: "The General Staff Department will do a good job of statistics, give more compensation to the families of the dead, and mobilize the wounded soldiers to mobilize the whole city Langzhong Doctor to do their best to treat them." ”

Huang Zhongting knew that it was even more terrible to be injured on the battlefield at this time, and at this time there was no penicillin drug that could effectively prevent wound infection.

There is no way for Huang Zhongting to change the lack of medicine, and even the armies of the Western powers lack such medicine.

Huang Zhongting didn't think about it anymore, and then said in a deep voice, let's discuss, summarize the experience and shortcomings, and put the staff on the record.

The officers present began to discuss enthusiastically, after all, they had all experienced the battle firsthand, and they all had their own opinions on being able to achieve a big victory.

Finally, the results are summarized.

The first and most important point in this battle was the crushing of heavy weapons, and the newly reequipped revolutionary rebel army, equipped with brand-new Western-style light and heavy machine guns and advanced Krupp mountain artillery, caused great casualties to the Qing army's attack.

Second, the revolutionary rebel army did not march for a long time and relied on defensive positions built in advance, while the Qing army marched non-stop day and night, and immediately launched an attack without much rest when it arrived at Nanxi, and the soldiers' physical strength was excessively exhausted.

Third, the erroneous decision of the command, the commander of the Qing army, General Yang Zhenhong, was too arrogant and did not investigate the main situation of the frontal revolutionary rebel army, so he rashly launched an attack, and after the attack was frustrated, he did not attack from other directions, and the head iron still launched another frontal attack, resulting in another setback, and finally ended up in a crushing defeat in less than a day.

Frontal setbacks on the battlefield can be attacked from the flank or from other directions, defense can only be passively defended, and offense can be flexible and diverse.

Yang Zhenhong's attack on the estuary can bypass the position of the first battalion on the front and attack over the mountain from the left, or cross the river from the right side, bypass the front, and approach the estuary directly, but the result may still be a failure, after all, there is only one battalion in the frontal defense, the second battalion defends the mountain on the left, and the third battalion is in the rear as a reserve, but it will also cause some trouble and more losses to the rebel army.

Of course, there are also certain deficiencies, the revolutionary rebel army is not strong enough, most of them are recruits, they have not experienced the war, when the Qing army attacked, many recruits were frightened, some were scared to cry, some were urinated, and there was no combat effectiveness.

However, Huang Zhongting didn't care much, he was almost urinated when he fired the artillery, he still had some understanding of these, and these recruits would slowly become veterans in the future, the problem was not very big, and he emphasized that the recruit battalion would strengthen training in this area in the future.

The meeting continued.

What Huang Zhongting did not expect was that the news of the defeat of the Qing army reached the Yunnan Governor's Mansion early the next morning, and also reached the Qing court in Beijing in a very short time, and in just a few days, the whole country knew that the Hekou Revolutionary Rebel Army had defeated the Yunnan-Guizhou New Army.

For a time, the whole country shook, and undercurrents surged everywhere.