Chapter 424: The Eight Banners Sent to Death (2)
The Hubei army forcibly let the Eight Banners Army attack the Huaxia Army, in fact, it was to send the Eight Banners Army to death.
The two Hubei armies carried out a day's onslaught on the outskirts of the capital, but they could not advance an inch, although the successive Hubei troops continued to arrive and spread out on the flanks of the capital, but there was no breakthrough in front of the positions of the Huaxia army.
In this case, there were generals in the Hubei army who started the idea of the Eight Banners Army, and Nicholas originally despised the Eight Banners Army, but it was only because the Tsar Crown Prince asked the Eight Banners to accompany the Hubei Army to march that he agreed to follow the Eight Banners, but now seeing that the Eight Banners had no effect at all, but instead recruited a bunch of people who were not like farmers and hooligans everywhere, and immediately agreed to force the Eight Banners to attack the positions of the Huaxia Army.
However, the current Eight Banners Army is not the Eight Banners of two hundred years ago, and the courage of the ancestors on the battlefield has long been exhausted in the past two hundred years.
In particular, in the rain of bullets and bullets of modern weapons that led the world in the Huaxia Army, the Eighth Banner Army did not dare to launch a charge.
The generals of the Hubei army had already prepared for this, and arranged thousands of cavalry to force nearly 20,000 banners to charge the Huaxia army's position, which played a role at this time.
"Ulla!" The Cossack cavalry of the Hubei army drew their sabers and let out a shout that shook the ground and shook the mountains, which frightened the more than 20,000 Eight Banner troops into trembling, and no one dared to turn their heads to look at it, and was forced to walk towards the position of the Huaxia Army.
"What's going on? Why are there so many pigtailed soldiers here? "A peculiar situation on the enemy's side was immediately discovered on the positions of the Huaxia Army.
It turned out that the soldiers of the Huaxia Army, who had been living under the rule of the Qing court, saw what was going on at a glance: "Isn't that the costume of the Qing soldiers?" Why did you get mixed up with the Hubei army? ”
"Qing soldiers, it must be the remnants of the Eight Banners who are mixed with the Hubei army!"
"Hmph, the Qing army actually mixed with the invader Hu army, that's looking for death!"
"Leave them alone, whoever comes to attack our position anyway will take their lives!"
"Fight, destroy them!"
In the rain of bullets of the Huaxia Army, the Qing army of the Eight Banners, which was not even fully equipped, fell in pieces like cutting wheat.
However, the Hubei army had been waiting behind the Eight Banners Army for a long time, and as soon as they saw that someone in the Eight Banners Army had fled, they immediately opened heavy fire with their cavalry guns and beat the fleeing Eight Banners Army back.
Under the blow of the Hubei army, the Qing army of the Eight Banners had no choice but to turn back and charge at the position of the Huaxia army.
The Huaxia Army's position is not many, but the weapons and ammunition are very sufficient, and the Eight Banners Qing soldiers who only have firearms, bows and arrows, spears and broadswords in their hands are still dreaming of their ancestors' "invincible cavalry shooting", and the training is not good, where is the opponent of the Huaxia Army with weapons leading the world?
In less than two hours of fighting, the Qing army of the Eight Banners and its temporary recruits of more than 20,000 people were all wiped out in front of the position by the Huaxia army.
Shanqi and Tie Liang were about to split, and finally their eyes were bleeding, and they knelt on the ground and kowtowed desperately to the overseeing generals of the Hubei army, but the generals of the Hubei army who were present were unmoved, and let the Eight Banners Army consume the ammunition of the Huaxia Army, and finally the whole army was destroyed.
"This is the Eight Banners, the army that was known as the number one army in the world two hundred years ago, and now it is not even as good as a bunch of tofu?" Seeing that the guns of the Huaxia army were no longer ringing, the general of the Hubei army left a sentence through the translator and turned to leave.
Shanqi and Tie Liang no longer shouted at this time, they were like a pile of soft mud slumped on the ground, motionless.
The last hope of the Qing court for the restoration of the country has been dashed!
The Qing Army of the Eight Banners, which had been galloping across the East Asian continent for more than 200 years, turned the last page with the saddest scene.
When the Empress Dowager Cixi, who was far away in Moscow, heard the news of the loss of the last Eight Banners Army, she immediately fell to the ground, and after being helped up, she was still immersed in the pain of losing her country, and she could not say a word for more than ten consecutive days.
The affairs of the old and young remnants of the Eight Banners, but the Huaxia Army and the Hubei Army who fought fiercely in the capital did not care about the destruction of the last Eight Banners, and even the battle report of the Huaxia Army only mentioned it lightly: "It was found that more than 20,000 people of the Eight Banners Army were forced to charge by the Hubei army, and all of them were wiped out!" ”
After Hu Zhen received this telegram, he glanced at it, and threw the telegram document on the table, waiting for the attendant to clean it up and organize it into a file for preservation.
In the future, it will be decades later that some scholars who study history will occasionally dig out of this pile of old papers, study it, and write one or two so-called historical research articles that no one reads, "A Battle of the Final Fall of the Eight Banners".
And what Hu Zhen is concerned about now is how to eliminate the hundreds of thousands of Hubei troops who rushed to the bottom of the capital.
“…… The Northern Theater reported that all the troops had given up flanking and harassing the Hubei army, and the Hubei army's advance to the capital had greatly accelerated, but the infantry of the Hubei army had already entered the Zhangjiakou area and were using artillery to bombard cities and towns in various places, especially Zhangjiakou had become the key place for the Hubei army to attack, and Zhangjiakou had only one company of troops with more than 5,000 strong men...... "The staff officers of the General Staff Headquarters were reporting to Hu Zhen on the battle situation in various places.
"There is only one company of troops!" Hu Zhen gasped, closed his eyes in pain, and said for a while: "Tell our defenders, in the case of insufficient strength, if they can defend it, if they can't defend it, take advantage of the convenience of the night and familiar terrain to break through quickly......
"Lieutenant Colonel Xie Tianan, the commander of our army in Zhangjiakou, said that he is confident that he will hold out for another two days!"
"Two days! Will the meteorological conditions in the immediate area allow the airship to take off tomorrow? "Hu Zhen wanted to use the airship to transport supplies and reinforcements to Zhangjiakou.
"According to the forecast of the meteorological department, tomorrow afternoon is suitable for airships and planes to take off for operation. General Cui Jinfeng of the Northern Theater has already reported a plan, and this evening, he will order two regiments of more than 5,000 troops, led by local people who are familiar with the terrain, to secretly enter Zhangjiakou. ”
"Ah, I almost forgot, this Cui Jinfeng was the first to work in the special combat team, but can such a huge team of 5,000 people sneak into Zhangjiakou?"
"The battle plan of the Northern Theater has been sent to the troops, and the troops of the two regiments have already entered the predetermined positions, and I am afraid it will be too late to temporarily change the order!"
Hu Zhen was worried that the weather on the next day would make it impossible for the airship to take off, so he nodded and said, "Then I won't interfere, just let them try!" ”
There was a sound of footsteps outside the door, and a loud "report" sound sounded.
Hu Zhen looked up and suddenly became a little happy: "Okay, your armored tank unit has finally arrived in the capital!" ”
It turned out that this was Su Wenzhen, chief of the General Staff, who came to Hu Zhen's door with Major General He Pingxiong, the commander of the First Tank Division of the Huaxia Army, and was saluting Hu Zhen. (To be continued.) )