Halfway through the journey, the gunfire in the distance had gradually thinned out, and when the time was calculated, it was only a little more than two hours before and after. Listening to the movement www.biquge.info Cui Zhengwu's horse team either ran or lost. Of course, Zhang Xingzhi at this time must not have known that Cui Zhengwu, who was proud and ambitious in his command headquarters two days ago, had disappeared in the artillery fire.

Under Zhang Xingzhi's order, the Qing army brigade stopped, looking at the station of the horse team with the flames and the neighing of war horses in the distance, Zhang Xingzhi's heart was bleeding.

"It's all over! Ordered to go down, the whole army immediately retreated to the battalion, and then retreated in the direction of Qianyang! Zhang Xingzhi was also a simple person, and immediately ordered a retreat. Seeing that the revolutionary army had artillery to help, Cui Zhengwu's horse team had been defeated and retreated, and if he didn't leave, he really couldn't go.

At this point, the outcome of this battle has already been decided. In the face of the fierce offensive of the revolutionary army, the Qing army on the opposite side was already frightened. Although the infantry of the Qing army had not yet exchanged fire with this new revolutionary army, the rout of the horse team was imminent, not to mention the rumbling cannon heard earlier.

As the first battle of the Southwest Revolutionary Army into Shaanxi, it can be imagined how much pressure Zhao Fuxiang was bearing. The lion fights the rabbit with all his strength, this time, Zhao Fuxiang has the idea of being cautious, but he has used all the strength to eat. It's just that after the battle began, he found that he was a little too cautious, so he made a big mistake, which was the wrong assessment of the combat effectiveness of both sides before. It is not that he underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Qing army in person, but that he looked too high at the other side and underestimated himself.

After the attacking company rushed into the enemy camp, the resistance of the Qing army was not stubborn at all, and with the sound of semi-automatic rifle "clicking" and mortar shells exploding, the Qing army was completely chaotic and could not organize effective resistance at all. After a battle, its own casualties were only a few dozen, but thousands of Qing troops were captured and thousands of horses were captured. On the other hand, the Qing army, except for a few who scattered and fled, the rest were either captured or killed on the spot.

It stands to reason that although his troops can barely be regarded as veterans after a period of fighting against bandits in Sichuan, they have not gone through a real battle after all, right? If you want to say that you can really see blood, whether you can withstand it, it's really hard to say whether he, the head of the regiment, can do it. On the other hand, the Shaanxi-Gansu Green Battalion is well-equipped and well-trained, and has had a reputation for being fierce since ancient times, which can be seen from the rout of the Shaanxi Revolutionary Army all the way. But now that he was defeated so easily in front of him, Zhao Fuxiang had a taste of punching cotton. It seems that it is difficult to live up to the fame.

Zhao Fuxiang was counting the results of the battle, but he saw that the commander of the third battalion rushed back with the sniper unit, and when he asked, he realized that Zhang Xingzhi had already turned back after half the way, and there was nothing to do with the third battalion in this battle. The third battalion commander nagged in front of Zhao Fuxiang because he didn't fight a single battle, and watched the other brother troops win the battle one by one and look elated, and the third battalion commander felt more and more uncomfortable in his heart.

The victory came so easily, and Zhao Fuxiang's courage was also fat, and he had long left his previous caution behind. At that moment, the commander of the third battalion, who was chattering, set off again with the sniper unit, and went to deploy along the route of Zhang Xingzhi's withdrawal, and by the way, he also brought the regimental artillery battalion. After all, the troops have just won the battle and are in a time of relaxation, what if Zhang Xingzhi leads the Qing army infantry to counterattack, and the three battalions can't resist it? No one expected that the third battalion commander would make a great name this time.

Although Zhang Xingzhi decided to lead the army to retreat to Qianyang, the arrangement should be the same, and he has been in the army for many years, but he is not the kind of wine bag and rice bag that can be compared. After arranging three lines of defense, he hurriedly sent away the finances he had looted in Shaanxi on a wagon, but on the other hand, he was also guarding against the attack of the revolutionary party.

Zhao Fuxiang was busy counting the results of the battle and summarizing the battle, and Zhang Xingzhi was busy carrying the finances and organizing the retreat. However, the commander of the third battalion, who rushed to the garrison of the Qing army's infantry to deploy defense, had a different mind.

This third battalion commander is none other than Lu Tao, a once loyal member of the League, and now a staunch member of the Communist Party. After graduating from Jiangwutang, he has been serving in the New Army, and later after the reorganization and expansion of the unit, because of the lack of grassroots officers, he was able to serve as a battalion commander in the Fourth Division.

Walking on the road, Lu Tao's heart was extremely complicated. For Xiao Mubai, in view of his suppression of the Hekou Uprising, Lu Tao was extremely disgusted with him at first. He stayed in the lecture hall to study in order to learn military knowledge and propagate the revolution, waiting for the opportunity to organize an anti-Qing uprising. But after a long period of contact, it is difficult to associate his personality with a lackey of the Qing court. At that moment, Lu Tao's mood was undoubtedly excited, but what he didn't expect was that the leader of this large-scale uprising was the thief he hated at the beginning.

Compared with the chaotic situation of the Wuchang uprising, the uprising in the whole of Yunnan appeared to be much more orderly, and production and life had been restored the next day after the uprising. Obviously, Xiao Mubai has been planning for a long time. This fact made Xiao Mubai's image instantly reversed in Lu Tao's heart. Later, after witnessing the independence of all provinces in China and the ugly faces of the members of the League in various places vying for power and profit, and looking at the scene of the southwestern provinces resuming production and carrying out large-scale economic construction under the leadership of the Communist Progressive Party, Lu Tao withdrew from the League and joined the Communist Party in great disappointment.

Holding a telescope and looking at the chaotic scene of the people shouting horses and neighing in the Qing army camp not far away, Lu Tao was anxious for a while, seeing that the Qing army was about to run away, could he not be in a hurry? After careful observation, Lu Tao found that maybe he could try to fight. Although the Qing army arranged several lines of defense, the defense was not very tight, and the soldiers were dejected and listless, and the officials were already thinking about running away, and they were not happy to work here.

After reporting to the regiment commander Zhao Fuxiang on the shortwave radio, Lu Tao discussed with the commander of the artillery battalion who came with him. This battalion commander is also a bold lord, as soon as Lu Tao explained his intentions, this one patted his chest and agreed.

By this time, it was already dawn. In this way, with the fire support of the commander of the artillery battalion, Lu Tao spread out his three companies in a zigzag shape, and he only took the troops directly under the battalion and pressed all the way to the Qing army's defense line. Sure enough, as Lu Tao expected, the Qing soldiers had no will to fight, and the three battalions only made a surprise attack to connect the Qing army's two defense lines, but when attacking the third line of defense, it stopped because of the opponent's timely reinforcements, after all, the guy in the opponent's hand was not a burning stick.

Lu Tao looked a little unsatisfied with this attack, but Zhang Xingzhi on the opposite side was almost gone. It stands to reason that the defensive side should take advantage, but after an hour, two of the three lines of defense in his hand were lost in a row, and the three battalions arranged in the three lines of defense were also completely disabled. In other words, he has a total of eight battalion head infantry in his hands. This gang of sub-revolutionaries not only shoots extremely accurately, but also has extremely strange tactical movements, gathering together in twos and threes, as if the guns in their hands never stop firing, and the kind of cannonballs that cannot be seen but hit accurately.

Seeing that the revolutionary party had suspended its offensive, his scalp was numb, and his heart was already cold, Zhang Xingzhi immediately decided to retreat, saying that he would retreat no matter what, and that he could not stay here any longer, otherwise he would really have to explain here.

Zhang Xingzhi, who had palpitations, ordered a retreat and began to run away with his soldiers. But this retreat is much more difficult than the attack, and if one is not good, the retreat will immediately turn into a rout. Zhang Xingzhi is like this at the moment, he ran away first, and when the soldiers under him saw it, they learned from him.

At this time, Lu Tao also looked at this scene dumbfounded, looked at each other with the battalion commander of the artillery battalion, and ordered in unison: "Chase!" ”

If you want to talk about this armed cross-country, the Southwest Revolutionary Army is obviously more experienced than the Qing Army, and when you usually train, you don't come five kilometers that day! In this pursuit, Zhang Xingzhi was greatly injured, and after fleeing back to Qianyang, there were only two battalions with 2,000 people, and the rest were either scattered or captured.

On the side of the revolutionary party, Zhao Fuxiang, the regiment commander who received Lu Tao's summons and led reinforcements in a panic, finally caught up with the burden of containing prisoners.