In his personal name, Luo Bingzhang wrote a document advising the officers and regiments in Sichuan to temporarily reconcile with Dahan Tian ** and not become enemies, which was widely copied and distributed by Luo Yang, and delivered to the existing Qing army garrisons in Sichuan, and all Qing army regular troops were concentrated in Nanchong, Neijiang, Chongqing and other important towns within ten days, and then further concentrated, led by Luo Bingzhang, and Dahan Tian ** to go north to quell the rebellion. Call on all parts of Sichuan, especially the local regiments in northern Sichuan, to collect, either to collect weapons and surrender to the Han Dynasty, or to concentrate the elite, join the regular army, and go north together. At the same time, there was also an urging form and a letter of guarantee in the name of Luo Yang, the archon of the Great Han Dynasty.

Luo Yang was quite disappointed, because the effect was not very obvious, for a few days, the news from the contact zone was refused, almost all the Qing Dynasty garrisons, did not believe that this was true, despite Luo Bingzhang's autograph and the seal of the governor of Sichuan.

Luo Bingzhang was also very embarrassed, so he could only apologize to Luo Yang.

Not only that, some of the soldiers of the Han Heavenly Kingdom who sent the proclamation were also arrested and slaughtered by the Qing army, and the heads of several soldiers were hung on the city gates of some county seats.

"Is it tolerable or not?" Luo Yang was furious, and every soldier of the Han Heavenly Kingdom was also indignant.

Luo Yang gave up his illusion of peacefully resolving the remaining military problems in Sichuan, and was determined to sweep away the remnants of the Qing army by force, and chose Deyang City for the first battle.

Deyang, in the northeast of Chengdu, a large town, out of Chengdu through Guanghan not far from more than 100 miles is the Qing army stationed here is the main force of the Sichuan political envoy Liu Rong, because he was defeated in Chengdu, fled here, Liu Rong quickly gathered the nearby regimental training arm, the formation of a new army, so that its troops soon reached more than 13,000 people.

The three envoys sent by the Great Han Heavenly Kingdom were all arrested and killed by Liu Rong, and the third envoy, after being tortured by Liu Rong in a cruel way, skinned and cramped, hung up with the remains to intimidate the local people.

Luo Yang stationed his troops separately and led 10,000 pro-troops to the north and approached Deyang.

As soon as I arrived in Guanghan County, I received a military report from the front, "King Rui, the Qing Demon is violent, counterattacking our army, and the forward has suffered a setback." ”

The forward was a reconnaissance unit, about 800 people, half of the cavalry.

"How many casualties?"

"More than half,"

Luo Bingzhang and the others who followed him suddenly showed pride and secret joy, they nominally wanted to help Luo Yang and advise their subordinates, but in fact, they also wanted to see Luo Yang's bad luck.

Luo Yang took them with him, and he was not afraid, and he also wanted them to see their combat power with their own eyes and deter these people.

"It's okay, retire the striker."

Leaving 2,000 as the material relay for Guanghan City, Luoyang continued to go north with only 8,000 men, and encountered the Qing army thirty miles south of Deyang City.

It was a melee, the cavalry of the Qing army took the lead in launching an attack on the Han army, and the impact of more than 400 elite cavalry was not a joke.

Most of the Luoyang army was composed of the new army, so in the face of the sudden attack of the Qing army, they panicked, and many troops were panicked and at a loss, and some of the new army battalion companies even turned around and fled.

Seeing that the situation was critical, Luo Yang immediately led the guard regiment of his cronies to launch a counterattack against the enemy's cavalry.

There were more than 200 cavalry in the guard regiment, and immediately blocked the storm of the Qing army with an iron wall, and then, the infantry threw grenades at the Qing army, and in the violent explosion, the Qing cavalry were blown off their horses one after another, and many Qing troops immediately hung up, or rolled on the ground and twisted Yangge!

The cavalry contact, the power of the infantry, and the cooperation of the foreign spearmen of the Luoyang army quickly crushed the reckless offensive of the Qing army's forward cavalry, and twenty minutes later, this brave Qing cavalry that rushed into the Han Dynasty was all annihilated. None escaped.

A small battle exposed the urgent need to strengthen the quality of the recruits of the Han Dynasty, but it also proved that the tenacious combat power of the Han army, Luo Bingzhang and Hu Zhonghe, the two bigwigs of the Qing army who followed the Chinese army, were first surprised, then depressed, bowing their heads and being silent.

Luo Yang was not angry or surprised, quickly reorganized the troops, instructed the officers of the various departments, determined a plan to prevent the enemy's rapid troops from attacking, and then, the whole team went north and came to the city of Deyang.

The Qing army's simple attack plan only caused chaos in the early days of the Han army, with more than 100 casualties, but the destruction of an elite cavalry battalion was a crushing defeat for the Qing army.

The Qing army was stationed in a long trench outside the city, and bombarded the Han army with a dense collection of foreign guns and a few iron cast cannons. The striker's contact battle began quickly.

Luo Yang personally rushed to the front line, observed the lineup with binoculars, and ordered all units to set up a solid position to guard against possible attacks from the left and right of the Qing army, and gradually moved forward.

In order to fight this battle well, Luo Yang was not unprepared, in his troops, there was an artillery battalion, carrying enough foreign cannons, as well as flying thunder cannons.

Luo Yang asked all the troops, with tacit understanding, to attack Deyang at the lowest cost, and strive to quickly take the city and destroy or expel the Qing army.

Listening to Luo Yang's command order, Luo Bingzhang and Hu Zhonghe both thought it was arrogant, they thought that a Deyang city was a government city, the city was strong, the number of troops was tens of thousands, and Luo Yang's newly formed army was only 8,000 people, once it was counterattacked, it was possible for the whole army to be annihilated, what speed and victory could be talked about?

Luo Yang mobilized foreign artillery, pushed it to the front, personally went out, adjusted the angle of fire, and bombarded the Qing army.

The bombardment of the Qing army was quite dense and quite blind, and the formation of the Great Han Tian** was a straggler, and it was difficult to be severely killed.

Faced with the straggler situation, Luo Bingzhang secretly laughed at himself, thinking that Luo Yang was purely foolish, and the previous victory was also the luck of the blind cat encountering a dead mouse. However, Hu Zhonghe suffered a big loss, and he only watched and did not dare to speak indiscriminately.

The sporadic foreign artillery bombardment caused one shell after another to slowly but resolutely rise into the air, and with an outrageous roar, it fell on the heads of the Qing troops, concentrating the clusters of Qing troops and blowing them up.

Not only that, the artillery of the Han army trained by Luo Yang also had the most vicious trick, which was to attack the officers of the Qing army. Officers have flags on the command, which is the most visible sign.

After more than ten minutes of fighting, that is, a quarter of an hour, the Qing army's indiscriminate bombardment and gunfire caused more than 100 casualties among the Han army, and their own positions were full of corpses.

The artillery of the Han army, both in quantity and quality, as well as in combat quality, was higher than that of the Qing army, and the Qing army was quickly suppressed.

Focusing on the long-range foreign artillery, the infantry and flying thunder artillery of the Han army were also fully pressed, especially the kind of flying thunder artillery, which was simple to calculate, just such a big iron bucket, overturned and pushed forward, when pushing, it could also be used as a defensive tool. Once pushed into position, explosive packs, fire ropes, and primers were placed to smash the Qing army.

In fact, the collapse of the Qing army's outer troops began after these flying thunder cannons were erected. Eight flying thunder cannons, each bombarded two rounds, and there were few living people in the first long trench of the Qing army.

The huge explosion directly shook many Qing soldiers to death.

The Qing army, which was able to live, could no longer endure the horror of the new weapons, discarded the weapons, scattered two big rabbit legs, turned around and ran.

The defensive positions of the Qing army, which were very deep, collapsed violently, and the Qing troops in the second or third trenches, after suffering certain casualties, also scattered.

The troops of the Han Celestial Army swept through the trenches of the Qing army and approached the city.