Yongcheng, one of the most ordinary county seats, went down in history because of the decisive battle between the Huaxia Army and the Huai Army.

In fact, some people call it the battle of the two Huai, because the vanguard of the Huaxia army is Qiu Yuancai, the king of Huai, and his opponent is the Huai army.

This battle, after five days and dozens of battles, ended with the complete defeat of the Huai army, but at first, the imposing Li Hongzhang would never have thought that he would lose anyway.

In his troops, there are the original Hunan troops, there are his own troops, there are various original Taiping Tian ** troops, and there are foreign spearmen with the assistance of Western devils, in terms of firepower and bravery, they are not inferior to the Hunan army, so he is qualified to believe in himself, can defeat the enemy, and create immortal feats,

For the sake of post-war propaganda, Li Hongzhang also invited the well-known Western figure Bidge to participate in the campaign, hoping to use his mouth and pen to expand his prestige among Western countries, and he had already decided that only by seizing the Westerners and winning their favor could he establish his own military power and enhance his prestige and status.

This is a politically sensitive person, born to be an official.

It's a pity that Qiu Yuancai's troops, if they want to retreat, can only retreat for twenty miles, and after that, they will never retreat again.

It's not that they are unwilling to retreat, but they are blocked by the Huai army's troops.

Wu Changqing's army and Pan Ding's new army, a total of three battalions of troops, interspersed with Qiu Yuan's back and firmly established a defensive line, although there were only 2,000 people, but because of the previous interception, they dug a long trench and built a solid long wall, completely cutting off the retreat of Qiu Yuancai's army.

After a hard battle, Qiu Yuancai's army has lost more than half, more than 8,000 people, and only more than 3,500 remained, so under the threat of the pursuing soldiers behind, they did not dare to storm the enemy's long wall, so they could only be stationed on the spot, build fortifications, and build a village to protect themselves.

Of course, compared with Qiu Yuancai's troops, the casualties of the Huai army are definitely not small, Cheng Xueqi's troops, known as the strongest Huai army, in the battle, he also pressed all the battalions of his Kaizi battalion, so the pain of casualties made him unbearable,

Two thousand seven hundred elites, almost the trump card troops in the entire Huai Army, were defeated, and the rest, Ding Ruchang's troops also lost 700 people, Wei Rugui's troops, lost more than 600 people, and Liu Yulin, the former general of the Taiping Army, also had more than 400 casualties, and the total number of casualties of the Huai Army was more than 4,500 people, which was comparable to the Huaxia Army.

This is a hard-fought contest, after the battle, everyone has palpitations, knowing the enemy's strength, even Cheng Xueqi, he didn't dare to hold it anymore, and began to seriously study the tactical characteristics of the Huaxia Army, and began to respect the enemy.

More than 3,500 capable soldiers and more than 600 wounded soldiers, in order to avoid the enemy's foreign artillery bombardment, Qiu Yuancai ordered to dig a large gully in the barracks, so that most people could hide in it.

"King Huai, when are we going to be the head like this?"

"That's right, why hasn't King Rui come for reinforcements yet."

This is anxious, and some people have already thought crookedly: "King Huai, did you offend King Rui, he wants to use the hands of these demons in the Huai army to get rid of us." ”

"you grandma, what nonsense." Qiu Yuancai scolded with a smile, and repeatedly told everyone about Luo Yang's explanation before leaving: "Don't worry, our troops are not always eating Qing demons, there are a lot of Qing demons, and there are a lot of artillery, we really can't eat them, but we have to consume them and fish them all out, we are fishing, haha, King Rui said, wait for the Qing Demon Huai soldiers to be destroyed and Li Hongzhang arrested, no matter what, we are the first heroes." ”

"Ah, this, is this possible, we defeated it."

"That's right, we've been picked up by others for this ......"

"Don't worry, King Rui, I still believe it, he said, how much we will fight, and we will double the replenishment after the war, I heard it, if we die 5,000 people, King Rui will make up for us 10,000 people, this business, do you think it's cost-effective."

Thinking that Luo Yang's good character and friendship with the Han ** fight against the siege of the Hui army, Qiu Yuancai still believed in him, and all the officers and soldiers no longer wanted to be crooked, but bravely resisted the enemy after a simple explanation.

Nearly 40,000 Huai troops surrounded Qiu Yuancai's troops to the death, determined to annihilate them in the fastest possible time.

At this time, Li Hongzhang personally commanded the troops and was rushing to Yongcheng.

Luoyang's troops are also moving forward, their right flank, Lan Dashun's troops, about 9,000 people, an infantry division, equipped with a large number of flying thunder guns, etc., the firepower is quite powerful, but unfortunately, the shells of foreign artillery are insufficient, and they cannot form a direct threat to the enemy,

The troops of Wu Changqing of the Huai Army confronted the Lan Dashun Army directly, the Blue Army wanted to break through, the Wu Army blocked it, and the two armies had a fierce confrontation.

At the same time, Dong Fuxiang's division also attacked on the left flank, attacking Pan Dingxin's troops of the Huai army, and the two armies fought fiercely, killing and wounding each other.

Generally speaking, the so-called fierce is superficial, the artillery bombardment is very lively, and there are not many opportunities for real short-handed encounters, so the Huai army stabilized the position and continued the encirclement.

Cheng Xueqi sat in the center, commanded the troops, and gave a death order to completely annihilate Qiu Yuancai within a few hours, so Ding Ruchang's department, Liu Yulin's department, etc., began to be fully pressed, and the battle was unprecedentedly fierce.

When the time came to evening, Qiu Yuancai's army resisted desperately, protected his army's barracks, and also protected his own life.

In this battle, in the face of adversity, the Daegu Yuancai Army won a complete victory.

The Huai army attacked, the infantry swarmed in, so it became a natural good target for the Qiu army, the Qiu officers and soldiers were also very cunning, first showed weakness and did not move, and waited for the enemy to rush forward, close at hand, before they began to throw grenades, and then, the more than a dozen flying thunder guns also began to bombard, a bag of explosives can kill and injure the power of the enemy's 100 people, and instantly the attacking Ding Ruchang troops, suffered heavy casualties, and were defeated.

In fact, the Huaxia army suffered a loss in the artillery bombardment, because although they captured a large number of foreign artillery, they did not have a large number of enough foreign artillery shells, so they could only be passive when they ran out of shells, and the range of the flying thunder artillery was too close, so Qiu Yuancai's army could only pretend to shrink and lure the enemy to attack.

In just one attack, Ding Ruchang's army lost a thousand people, and his vitality was greatly damaged.

Cheng Xueqi knows that Qiu Yuancai's army is a very important chess piece, if it is eaten immediately, the morale of the three-way Huai army will be high, and it will converge into one place, while the Huaxia army will lose its vanguard and will inevitably suffer a big setback.

Cheng Xueqi is a fierce general, and he is also a handsome talent with great responsibilities, he sees it very clearly, he has experienced a hundred battles, he clearly knows the goal, so, seeing Ding Ruchang's army retreating, he immediately ordered, other troops, take turns to attack, Wei Rugui's troops, Liu Yulin's troops, Liu Shiqi's troops, attack wave after wave,

In fact, Cheng Xueqi was also very angry and unlucky, and their shells were also exhausted, so they could only use that kind of small-pound caliber cannon to bombard the enemy.