In Yulin City, Wang Zhichun was holding an emergency military meeting to deploy the task of completely annihilating the Hainan troops in Luchuan and Bobai.

Today, the defenders and reinforcements in Wang Zhichun Yulin City totaled about 30,000 people, and the food, grass and ammunition were extremely sufficient.

The Hainan army south of Yulin City, after the previous few days of fighting, excluding the dead and wounded and scattered soldiers, is now less than 20,000 people, and the ammunition is almost running out, the soldiers have not eaten for nearly a day, and the soldiers are sleepy and lacking horses.

At this moment, Wang Zhichun has asked Cen Chunxuan, the governor of Liangguang, who is still in Guangdong, to send reinforcements to exterminate the Hainan army and the peasant rebel army in southern Guangxi, and the Qing army dispatched by Guangdong is rapidly moving closer to Yulin.

According to Chen Zhong's deployment, if at noon, the battle of Guigang has not yet begun, Qi Gang will lead his troops to move to the area of Hengxian.

Qi Gang anxiously waited for information from Hengxian, but it was already eleven o'clock, and the command of the Hainan army had not received any news about Hengxian's troops.

Qi Gang and the other three army commanders decided to prepare to assemble Lu Chuan's army in Bobai County, break through from the northwest of Yulin, and move in the direction of Hengxian after breaking out.

At 11:30, the Qing army in Yulin City began to divide the east and west routes to encircle the army in Hainan.

Qi Gang and the three army commanders agreed that the 10th Army of Lingzhan, which was relatively well-equipped, would break through in the direction of Hengxian in the northwest, and after the 8th Army was broken, it would block the Qing army from Beiliu and Rongxian, and the 1st Army and the 19th Army would attack Yulin City from the front, so as to contain the Qing army on the east and west, win time for the 10th Army, open the gap in the northwest, and complete the task of transferring troops to the area of Hengxian.

The battles in three directions started at the same time, and the army of Hainan had to fight the trapped beasts. These Hainan soldiers have been forced to a dead end, and they clearly know: if you retreat, there is only a dead end, and if you fight to the death, there may be a glimmer of life! Therefore, every soldier was like a chicken blood, and began the most ferocious fight.

The First and Nineteenth Armies first began to attack Yulin City from the front. In Yulin City, Wang Zhichun was dispatching troops, and seeing that the pressure on the south gate was extremely great, he dispatched a part of the army from the southwest to relieve the pressure on Yulin City.

The Yulin city wall was designed to be extremely strong, with four heavy machine guns at the battlements of the wall. The Xuyang First Division of Qigang's First Army took the lead, and the dense bullets on the Yulin city wall made them sacrifice a lot of soldiers in the first round of charge.

The division commander Xu Yang asked the third regiment to stop the attack, and he said to Qi Hai, the commander of the third regiment: "Commander Qi, the enemy's firepower is so strong, you can't fight hard, you give me something to do, don't give Lao Tzu this little capital is all wasted!" ”

"Yes!" Qi Hai pondered for a moment and said, "Demolition class!" ”

A small soldier immediately ran over and made a non-standard military salute: "Report to the regiment commander!" The demolition class Liu Ergou has arrived, please instruct! ”

"See?" Qi Hai pointed to the top of the south gate of Yulin City and said, "There are four firepower points distributed there, you blew them up for me!" ”

Liu Ergou turned around and looked over, and then said, "Guarantee to complete the task!" ”

"Three machine gun platoons, concentrate firepower, cover Liu Ergou and them!" Qi Hai ordered.

The machine-gun platoon of the third company had only two light machine guns and one heavy machine gun available for the attack due to a shortage of ammunition. In an instant, the three machine guns fired at the southern gate of Yulin City like a storm.

The walls of Yulin City are about sixteen or seventeen meters high, so how they can get this explosive to these four firing points is a problem.

So, Liu Ergou and Wang Laifu and Li Dacheng from their class came up with a solution, which was to tie six bamboo poles together in bundles, put the explosives on the head of the bamboo poles, and then tie the top with a long rope, fix the bottom of the bamboo poles on the ground, one person put explosives, and two people pulled the rope, so that the explosives were bounced to the top of the city wall by the elasticity of the bamboo poles.

Liu Ergou's plan was approved by Qi Hai. So, the three of them took the tied bamboo poles and two boxes of explosives, and crawled forward to a relatively moderate position from the fire point of the city wall.

Wang Laifu and Li Dacheng buried the bottom of the bamboo pole deep in the soil, tied the rope at the top of the bamboo pole, Liu Ergou put the prepared bomb on the top of the bamboo pole, Wang Laifu and they pulled the bamboo pole hard, almost to the limit, and then suddenly let go, a bundle of explosives fell on the top of the city wall and exploded.

Unfortunately, the explosives landed in a slightly biased position, although they blew a gap in the city wall. However, the four firing points were not hit.

This time, they were discovered by the Qing army at the top of the city wall, so the four fire points of the Qing army swept towards them together.

At this time, Qi Hai ordered all the firepower to hit the firepower point of the city wall to cover Liu Ergou and them, and for a while, the bullets were like raindrops and formed a red line of fire outside Yulin City.

Taking advantage of this stall, Liu Ergou and the others put a second bundle of bombs and ejected it vigorously, and this bundle of heavy bombs happened to fall on the third or fourth firepower point of the city wall, and in an instant, the two firepower points on the Yulin city wall were dumb.

However, after a short pause, the other two firing points began to shoot frantically at Liu Ergou and them, and a series of bullets hit Liu Ergou's legs and abdomen.

Liu Ergou, enduring the severe pain, put two bundles of explosives on the bamboo pole, and called loudly: "Laifu and Dacheng are on target!" Don't disgrace our brother! Beat! ”

There was a loud bang, and the two crazy firepower on the city wall were dumbfounded, and when Qi Hai saw this, he shouted: Good job! The soldiers were then ordered to start charging with the whole regiment.

When the soldiers passed by Liu Ergou and them, the three of them stood there like sculptures holding the trembling bamboo pole in their hands, their bodies stained red with blood.

Qi Hai looked at Liu Ergou who was standing there, still looking ahead, pointing to the top of the city wall.

Qi Hai roared: "Brothers! Avenge Liu Ergou and them! Rush up and kill them!! ”

"Kill! - "The soldiers of the whole regiment have already killed red eyes, one by one like trapped beasts who have been forced to a dead end, and they roared angrily and rushed towards Yulin City!

At this moment, the Eighth Army, which was in charge of the east, was also fiercely attacked by Guangdong reinforcements from the Rong County area!

Yang Tiancheng of the Eighth Army was also a battle-hardened veteran, they built a solid defensive line in advance, seized favorable terrain, and relied on these two points to repel the Qing army's attacks again and again.

However, due to the lack of ammunition and the fact that the Qing army outnumbered them several times, in the end, the defense line retreated again and again.

The same was true of the 10th Army of Ling Zhan, which broke through to the northwest, because the terrain they were walking was a wide plain, and after dozens of attacks, they were finally forced to retreat to the area around Bobai County.

The 1st and 19th armies besieging the city also ran out of ammunition and food, and in the end, all four armies retreated to an open area outside Yulin City.

Qi Gang looked at the army that had lost most of it and said, "Brothers! We're here today to make the last fight, do we have any regrets? ”

"No regrets!" The soldiers let out a roar like a trapped beast.

"Good! We, brothers in Hainan, have no bad seeds, and we will never succumb to this gang of bastards in the Qing court, pick up the big sword, and make another charge with me! ”