Chapter 20: The Battle of Jinmen
On March 19th, the 9 regiments of the new army launched a fierce attack on the Qing army in Changsha with the support of light and heavy machine guns, rocket launchers, mortars, heavy artillery, ** new weapons, the Qing army could not stop the attack of new weapons at all, the Qing army suffered heavy casualties, and the rout was defeated, three hours later, the Changsha Governor's Palace, the military department yamen, prison, infantry command yamen, has been given control to the new army, Zeng Guofan committed suicide, a large number of Qing troops were defeated and surrendered, 21 Nanjing, Suzhou, Xuzhou Qing army was defeated and surrendered, Anhui Li Hongzhang laid down his arms, adapted, On the 22nd, the newly reorganized Fifth Army, the Sixth Army launched an attack on Jinmen in Tangshan, Cangzhou, Langfang, and Nanyuan's Fourth Army, forming a joint encirclement, and on the evening of the 22nd, the three armies of the New Army completed the encirclement near Yangcun, Jixian, and other villages and towns outside Jinmen, and at five o'clock in the morning the New Army launched a fierce attack on the peripheral positions of the Jinmen coalition forces from four directions, and Li Ming transferred 500 92 infantry guns, 300 heavy field artillery, 2,000 light mortars, and 20,000 rocket launchers in order to give the coalition forces some color this time. 200 Marco heavy machine guns, 300 light machine guns, 200,000 rifles with bayonets, 200,000 short guns, bullets, ** 1 million rounds, clothing, food, several trucks, Li Ming made such a big determination to prepare for a big battle, after the troops divided the weapons, after the reorganization was completed, the heavy artillery under Li Ming opened fire, the position of the coalition army was quickly destroyed, the new army began to advance, the artillery of the coalition army, light and heavy machine guns also fired, after the new army soldiers fell a group of people, the new army's artillery opened fire to adjust the ruler, open artillery, and the position shook for a while, The position artillery of the coalition army, gone, three hours after the fierce battle, after the new army killed and wounded 300 people, the three positions of the coalition army were lost, the fierce battle was extremely tragic, the commander of the coalition army, Wadsey looked at the map in the command room, on the morning of the 23rd, the new army broke through Yangliuqing, Yangcun, Jixian peripheral positions, around 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the new army attacked near the port, and the other road to the north of Jinmen, Jinmen West also found the new army, Wadsey ordered the Dongyang devils to organize death squads, and the Russian army also organized death squads, 100,000 devils stationed in Jinmen, more than 20,000 killed in battle, Dongyang devils and Russian devils 15,000 people held bayonets, holding muskets to the new army position to launch a breakthrough attack, instantly by the Fourth Army's heavy artillery, attack, more than 10,000 people did not have one, all the hours were killed, the new army broke through the port and approached the Dagu battery, fierce battle for an hour under the new army's artillery, light and heavy machine guns, rocket launchers, ** under the repeated attack of the fort lost, the British and French defenders were killed, the artillery was blown up, the coalition retreated to the city of Jinmen, the new army pursued, and at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, all the peripheral positions of the coalition army were lost, The coalition army in the city died everywhere, an hour later the new army launched the last wave of attacks, the large and small buildings in the city were all destroyed, the coalition army without heavy weapons was no different from losing the arm, the shelling was over, the coalition command headquarters several people came out, Wadsey led everyone to surrender, the coalition army finally left a dozen people, the soldiers were basically killed, Commander Wadsey handed over his saber to Li Ming, one by one disarmed and surrendered, the coalition army was left less than 200 people in the end, and more than 100 wounded soldiers, pressed back to the prison for the new army, Li Ming sent people to clean up the corpses in the city, clean up the battlefield, start from the new construction of this city, start garrisoning.
The Fourth Army was stationed in Yangliuqing, Jixian, and Yangcun, and the warships of various countries fled when they saw that the situation was not good, and they had already arrived in Shanghai at this time.
。。。 Li Ming knew that at this time there was no time to take care of the military affairs in Shanghai and Guangzhou, and the Russian army in Fushun was making a lot of noise outside the pass, so he ordered the Fifth Army to drive to Rehe, Shanhaiguan, and Goubangzi to garrison the defense line to prevent the Russian army from breaking through Shanhaiguan and entering the pass.
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