Only more than 800 people fled from the Second Route Army of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the rest were either swept away or drowned by the raging river, or were captured by the Han army, and Zhang Shusheng, the commander of the Second Route Army, committed suicide. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The Han army harvested thousands of prisoners, seven tattered ships, and more than 100 foreigners.

At 10:20 a.m. on August 10th, Chen Haojie led a regiment of the Third Brigade and a regiment of the Fourth Brigade and the artillery battalion directly under the Fourth Brigade to meet the Manchu Fourth Route Army led by Bian Baodi, the governor of Huguang, and the fierce battle lasted for nearly half an hour, the Manchu Fourth Route Army was defeated, nearly 8,000 people were killed, thousands were seriously wounded, and more than 6,000 people were captured by the Han army.

At 2 p.m. on August 10, the First Brigade of the Han Army led by Zhao Gang met the vanguard of the First Route Army of the Manchu Qing Dynasty under the personal command of Zuo Zongtang.

The vanguard of more than 200 cavalry did not recklessly attack the position of the Han army like the vanguard of the Third Route Army, but after observing the situation of the Han army around, dozens of them returned with the intelligence of the Han army, and the remaining cavalry continued to keep an eye on it.

Half an hour later, the 10,000 horses of the Qing army's front army were only five miles away from the Han army's position, and the Qing army's front army slowed down its march, and all branches of the army approached the Han army's position in an untidy queue.

Four miles.

Three miles.

Erli.

The front army of the Qing army stopped and confronted the Han army, the distance of one thousand meters is relatively far, but many of the artillery guns equipped by the Qing army themselves have a range of more than one thousand meters, and I don't know if the "short-haired thief" has such artillery, so the front army of the Qing army did not go too far forward, but stopped at a distance of one thousand meters from the Han army's position, although this distance is within the range of the Han army's artillery fire, but the Han army itself will not expose its firepower in advance at will.

The front army of the Qing army consisted of 10,000 green battalion soldiers, no formed cavalry, and no artillery, only more than 2,000 muskets of various old models.

"Order the Hongzi battalion to storm the enemy position." Du Pingrang, the former commander of the Qing army, ordered.

"Yes, sir."

"Brothers, the short-haired thief is in front, kill Lao Tzu fiercely, kill a short-haired thief and reward ten taels of silver, if you kill the commander of the short-haired thief, Lao Tzu's position can be given to you to sit." After getting the order, the commander of the Hongzi battalion, Hong Xian, loudly encouraged his subordinates, this was an opportunity to get credit for himself, in Hong Shi's view, the "short-haired thief" hiding in the trench on the opposite side was vulnerable, and his own Hongzi battalion thousands of people could scatter the "short-haired thief" with a single charge.

"Haha." Hearing the commander's words, many of the soldiers of the Hongzi battalion laughed, which shows that the order of most of the green battalion soldiers in the Manchu Qing Dynasty is really too poor.

"The short-haired thief is in front, brothers rush me." Hong Yan brandished a big knife and was the first to rush forward.

"Rush." Thousands of people in the Hongzi battalion also rushed forward with broadswords or spears.

Far away from the position of the Han army, the thousands of people of the Hongzi battalion first trotted forward, as they got closer and closer to the position of the Han army, the speed slowly accelerated, and the commander of the Hongzi battalion, Hong Shi, slowly fell from the front of the team to the back of the team, Hong Shi was not stupid, and did not dare to rush to the front to find death before knowing the specific situation of the "short-haired thief".

"Rush."

"Kill."

There were only 300 meters left from the Han army's position, and the thousands of people in the Hongzi battalion rushed with all their might.

On the Han position, the two companies of Han soldiers facing the Hongzi battalion held their rifles steadily, aiming at the enemy who was waiting to sprint in front of them.

"Repeat, heavy machine guns and mortars are not allowed to fire, only rifles, okay, give me a hard shot." The commanders of two companies repeated the order to their men, and the next moment, seeing the enemy approaching, fired with rifles in their hands.

Syllable! Syllable! Syllable!

More than 230 rifles opened fire at the same time, and more than 100 people fell in an instant, and the Hongzi battalion, which had already entered the sprint state, did not have time to stop, and continued to rush towards the Han position.

"Not good, the enemy is under too much fire, brothers quickly ... (Withdrawn)" Before Hong Xian's words were finished, he was shot and killed by a sharpshooter of the Han army, and the sharpshooter of the Han army was looking for the enemy's leader and commander to fight.

Although Hong Shi's words were not finished, the officers and men of the Hongzi battalion knew that the "short-haired thief" on the opposite side was a hard bone, and the Hongzi battalion could not gnaw on it, and so many colleagues died, so the remaining officers and soldiers quickly turned around and fled.

However, three more waves of bullets struck, and the officers and men of the Hongzi battalion fell by several hundred, leaving only more than 300 people to continue to flee to their own positions.

The Han soldier did not fire again after emptying the five rounds in his rifle magazine, allowing the remaining enemies to run back, and slowly filling his rifle with five rounds.

Du Ping, the former commander of the Qing army, asked the officers and men of the Hongzi Battalion who had fled from the front to get a small amount of information about the "short-haired thief": the firepower was very fierce, but the firearms fired at a relatively close distance and did not last long.

After understanding this, Du Pingrang directly ordered: "Come on, pull out these deserters who escaped without permission and cut them down for me." ”

"Yes, sir." Du Pingrang's personal soldiers obeyed the order.

"Spare your life, sir."

"The adult bypasses the villain once, and the villain never dares again."

No matter how the officers and soldiers who ran back from the Hongzi battalion begged, they were all pulled out and cut down one by one, and this scene also made the hearts of most of the officers and soldiers of the Qing army's front army tighten.

"In any case, you can't retreat without getting an order to retreat."

Subsequently, Du Pingrang sent a team of several hundred people several times, each time they were divided into several teams from different positions to attack the Han army's position together, although they lost thousands of people, but Du Pingrang also roughly understood the strength of the "short-haired thief" in front, so he ordered the remaining people of the Qing army's front army to retreat back and camp six miles, waiting to join the Qing army's large army, and at the same time sent people to quickly report the information obtained from the loss of thousands of cannon fodder to Zuo Zongtang Zuo Shuai.

That's right, in the eyes of the Qing generals, those ordinary green battalion soldiers are cannon fodder, and their role is only to detect the enemy's firepower or use it to attract the enemy's firepower or use it to consume the enemy's troops, and the most important thing is those elite troops.

After Zuo Zongtang got Du Pingrang's information, he touched his beard and thought deeply.

"This short-haired thief is not ordinary, he actually dares to take the initiative to fight against my Manchu army, the strength must be very strong, now it seems to be really good, in a short period of time to kill so many officers and soldiers, but also equipped with a large number of muskets, it seems that only with artillery bombardment, and then let the musket team press up better, but I don't know if the short-haired thieves are equipped with cannons, since they are equipped with a large number of muskets, then there must be cannons, this should be noted."

Zuo Zongtang is worthy of being a veteran who has fought for many years, and he guessed a small part of the strength of the Han army with just a little intelligence.

"Order the army to advance quickly, and join the front army before dark." Zuo Zongtang ordered.

"Yes, Zuo Shuai."