Li Hongzhang's uprightness is a kind of thick and black psychological quality in the officialdom, but his pretense on the battlefield and his pretentiousness on the 233rd have become a fatal failure, delaying precious time and completely losing the possibility of him escaping.

Taking advantage of the blurred morning light, if the Huai army desperately assaults, maybe it is not impossible to escape somewhere, anyway, there is always some hope,

Li Hongzhang decided to hold on for a while to see that his foreign artillery troops could defeat the enemy, and at the same time, he had to show his calm and unhurried general bearing, otherwise, he would flee in danger and lose his prestige, and it would really be difficult to lead troops in the future.

You can't completely deny Li Hongzhang, right?

"Hit, play well wow1."

In the circle surrounded on all sides, all kinds of personnel in Huaxia Tian**, including the migrant workers and ordinary people who were temporarily requisitioned, were all elated, and they were the happiest to see the Huai army unlucky, because, the common people don't care about your Tianwang Lao Tzu's chicken feathers, just look at who is the leader to know what is good,

Whoever wants to say that the class contradictions in Chinese history at that time were not sharp, then he is a god, who wants to say that the Hunan army and the Huai army are really for the so-called Chinese cultural traditions, for universal values, they will become monsters, anyway, don't expect Li Hongzhang to work hard for the people, not to mention anything else, at the time of Li Hongzhang's death, his family property was worth more than 44 million taels of silver, and he was criticized by the people of the time.

The surrounding Huaxia army has long been ready for everything, run away, ha, you want to be beautiful,

Dig a lot of ravines, build long walls and high platforms on the shore, cast them with cold water, or freeze hard, you want to run, you come to test it,

The artillery of the Huai army was quickly impacted by the retreating soldiers, and lost the possibility of continuing the battle, and the unforgiving battle line of the Chinese army quickly pushed forward and covered all those foreign cannons.

Seeing that the impregnable wall of the Huaxia army was about to advance to the front, Li Hongzhang had to order a retreat: "Tell all the armies, the enemy is vicious, and our army temporarily avoids its edge and turns southward. ”

If you score a goal in the south, just run away, it's a high-sounding thing,

As soon as the military order was obtained, many Huai officers and soldiers fled desperately.

To what extent does he not care about himself, no matter what kind of three, seven, twenty-one, he runs when he sees a place,

Around, there are interception ravines, swords and guns of the Huaxia army everywhere, so the Huai army fled a few times, and found that there was no way out.

"Kill, kill." Li Hongzhang was in a hurry, dare to fight with you,

Under the command of Li Hongzhang, the remnants of the Huai officers and soldiers quickly fled to the south, escaped for a while, and saw that they were about to reach the interception line.

Li Hongzhang is right, because, the south is intercepting the cavalry of the Twist Army, can you escape the cavalry, so, insert into the other defense lines dominated by the infantry of the Huaxia Army,

Li Hongzhang behaved very resolutely, very calmly, as if he had nothing to do, but his inner world was overwhelmed, and it was definitely not an ordinary situation, he understood that in this battle, his Huai army was completely finished, and there was not even a single hair left.

Before, he still suspected the defeat of Kaifeng, the defeat of Yongcheng, and suspected that a large number of his troops, the fierce generals were defeated by the enemy, but now it seems that it is not at all, those people may really be as reported by the defeated soldiers, dead and dead,

Thinking of those living and loving generals, Cheng Xueqi, Wu Changqing, Pan Dingxin, Liang Hongsheng, Ye Zhichao, Wei Rugui, Liu Mingchuan, Zhang Shushan, etc., his heart is dripping blood, so many generals have made the Huai Army so mighty, and it has the potential to catch up with and surpass the Hunan Army, and then it will come to the top, but now,

Governor Li, who was almost in tears, ruthlessly controlled his emotions, stretched out his hand to the short knife on his waist, wanted to grab it, wanted to take it out, wanted to wave it fiercely on the battlefield, and completed a painful farewell.

After hesitating for a while, he gave up,

What does it feel like to have a knife across your neck, who knows, is it very painful, is it after cutting your throat, the blood is blocked in the throat and trachea, and it is very ugly to cough,

Thinking too much about the possibilities made him lose the courage to commit suicide immediately,]

In fact, his nature is a scholar, a gentleman, a cowardly person, although in the treatment of the people and the Taiping Army, sometimes there can be murderous means, after all, he and his master Zeng Guofan is different, the latter, is a real hooligan, kills people without blinking, but on the other hand, he flaunts the elegant civilization, to the world to use the school, to the Chinese civilization orthodoxy, when the word is in danger, there are still the seeds of the reader, dare to dive, can commit suicide, but he can't, disdainful, feel that it is too stupid,

"Gotta break out." Li Hongzhang, who was unwilling to commit suicide, pinned his hopes on his subordinates,

The Huai army decisively rushed towards the Huaxia army behind the ravine,

The Huaxia army was in full array, first waiting for the opportunity, and as soon as they saw that the Huai army had entered the ravine, they immediately threw grenades, canned explosive bags, etc. into the ravine, and as a result, the Huai officers and soldiers were killed and wounded heavily.

A large number of flying thunder cannons have been equipped in various divisions and regiments, this simple and powerful weapon has become the killer weapon of the Huaxia army, the Huai army is rushing fiercely, and it was bombarded by the messy explosives, and it was immediately killed and wounded, and had to retreat.

The Huai army was surrounded, and there was no way but to flee to find a new breakthrough point, so in another place, there was another fierce battle.

"Rush, rush, whoever rushes out of the bloody road, this governor will reward the ocean with three thousand." Li Hongzhang was annoyed,

"Quick, on the other side, our army is responding." The foreigner Bidege also shouted loudly, cheering for the defeated soldiers of the Huai army,

The officers and soldiers of Huai are not brave, anyway, when they are dying, who does not work hard to struggle,

The question is, the more courageous they are, the more powerful they charge, and the faster they die.

The officers and soldiers of the Huaxia Army softened their hearts: "Hey, can you surrender, don't rush, if you rush again, you will die." ”

Of course, the Huaxia army also repeatedly urged the defeated soldiers of the Huai army, hoping that they could recognize the situation and surrender, but unfortunately, these guys are known as victorious generals, and now they are suddenly defeated, annoyed and angry, and they are already crazy,

The battle continued, and when the Huai army retreated, the artillery units that were attacking immediately increased their speed and pressed behind the enemy.

The encirclement shrank very small, and the besieged Huai army was constantly killed and injured by the surrounding bombardment, and the size of the crowd became smaller and smaller.

"Huaijun brothers, don't be deceived by Li Hongzhang anymore, don't be a lackey for the corrupt Manchu regime, wake up, most of you are also poor people, you are ordinary people, why bother to work for the Manchu government, it's not worth it, as long as you surrender, we Huaxia Tian ** will ensure the safety of your lives and property, and absolutely give preferential treatment to prisoners."

"Surrender, don't make indifferent sacrifices."

"Your family is still waiting for you to come back."

The repeated propaganda caused the remaining thousands of Huai officers and soldiers to suddenly lose their fighting spirit, and after being in a dilemma for a while, the Huai army, which had continued to increase in casualties, finally surrendered.

After a short battle, the Huai Army, which was huge in modern Chinese history and had almost become the regular main force of the national border guards, was so tragically and shamefully overthrown, and the commander, leader, and founder of the Huai Army, Mr. Li Hongzhang, had fainted on the ground and continued to stand upright, but it was upright.