In order to encircle and annihilate Li Yuanhong's troops, the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army dispatched the 104th Division, which was completely fully manned. The establishment of the 104th Division is a "traditional" 44 system. In this infantry division, which was later used as a model, Chen Ke unexpectedly canceled the establishment of brigades, and one division had four infantry regiments directly under its jurisdiction, as well as an artillery regiment. Each infantry regiment has four infantry battalions, and one infantry battalion has four infantry companies, and so on, with each company having four platoons and each platoon having four squads. The total number of officers and men of the 104th Division is as high as 21,000, which is four times that of Li Yuanhong's subordinates.

Yesterday the day and night with the Hubei New Army was the 2041 regiment, a regiment of the 104 division. All their officers and men have been firearmed, each armed with a rifle. The total number of the first regiment was as high as 4,000 people, which was comparable to the number of Li Yuanhong's troops. Yesterday only the 1st Battalion of a regiment took part in the battle. The reason why the entire regiment was dispatched to fight was that the Central Military Commission did not know how strong the offensive spirit of Li Yuanhong's troops was. If, according to the tactics of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, an attack was to be launched immediately after encountering the enemy, the other three battalions of the 1st Regiment would have been ready for battle in the rear of the harassing troops.

Li Yuanhong couldn't shrink back, and this kind of response made Yang Guigui, the head of the regiment, feel inexplicable. If a regiment adopts such a passive tactic of being beaten after encountering the enemy, Yang Guigui, the regiment commander, will be removed from his post immediately.

The first regiment fought smoothly, and Yang Guigui felt that Li Yuanhong could be completely solved by relying only on his own regiment and cooperating with the artillery regiment and reconnaissance brigade directly under the division. However, the task of solving Li Yuanhong in the plan was undertaken by the Second Regiment, and Yang Guigui's request to fight in front of Chen Ke was rejected.

At that time, Xiong Mingyang, the political commissar and head of the Second Regiment, was also there, Xiong Mingyang patted Yang Guigui on the shoulder, and said proudly: "Brother, oh, Commander Yang, you can't let all the good things be taken up by your group." ”

The final charge used the 2042nd Regiment, which was the 2nd Regiment of the 104th Division. The 2nd regiment was originally under the leadership of Chai Qingguo, and after Chai Qingguo went north, Xiong Mingyang, the political commissar of the regiment, temporarily served as the head of the regiment. The troops of the two battalions of the 2nd Regiment were firearmed, equipped with captured "Hanyang-made", and the other two battalions each had a company that was firearmed, and the other units were all armed with spears and pikes. At the forefront were the two battalions of firearms.

Although the most of the troops' daily training is column attack, but today's situation is special, the enemy has adopted the pattern of hollow phalanx, and if the column attack encounters the formation of the Hubei New Army, the revolutionary army's counter-fire will be slightly weaker, so Xiong Mingyang simply asked the deputy regiment commander to attack from the north with the first battalion, and he himself led the second battalion to attack from the south.

By the time they arrived at the starting position along the communication trenches, the shooting of the divisional artillery regiment was reaching its climax, and the front line of the new army had been completely blown up and collapsed amid the sound of "bang bang" firing. Xiong Mingyang was not able to observe the battle yesterday, but he heard that the new army only knew how to be beaten passively, and the regiment fought very easily. Looking at the results with his own eyes, Xiong Mingyang was really frightened. Don't talk about the new army, even if he himself led the second regiment to be beaten so passively, Xiong Mingyang didn't believe that he could be stronger than the new army.

"Fighting a war can only be won by attacking, and being beaten passively is a dead end." Xiong Mingyang couldn't help but think of Chen Ke's words in the military academy course. But after a while, these useless thoughts were left behind by Xiong Mingyang. Now is not the time for reflection, the new army is already in complete disarray, and how to win this final battle is the key. How to fight, Xiong Mingyang didn't think about it.

In the training on weekdays, the opponents were all comrades-in-arms of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, and everyone was taught by Chen Ke, and the tactics were basically the same. What is interspersed with encirclement, feint and main attack. If the troops of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army really reached such a point of exhaustion, there was no need to think about it anymore, the troops had already been divided into two groups, and the first wave of tentative troops had already rushed over with bayonets, and as long as the enemy did not have machine guns to suppress the formation, the first wave had just begun to engage the enemy in hand-to-hand combat, and the main forces would divide into two ways and advance in parallel and begin to charge with their lives.

Xiong Mingyang was the first time to see so many enemies huddled together, that is, when he was in Anqing, no matter what the reason, the defenders also relied on the houses of Anqing City to be defended layer by layer, and in that Anqing street battle, the defenders relied on machine guns and sandbags and other fortifications to cause a lot of trouble to the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army. However, it was obvious that the Hubei New Army did not pay attention to digging fortifications in the field, and as a result, it was completely exposed to the guns of the revolutionary army like a lamb.

After thinking for a moment, Xiong Mingyang ordered: "As soon as the artillery stops, the troops shouted the slogan of kneeling and not killing, and rushed straight to the center of the enemy. ”

The commander of the second battalion, Ren Kuroshima, asked: "Regiment commander, how is this center determined?" "Kuroshima has never seen anything like this, and God knows what's in the center of the enemy.

Xiong Mingyang thought for a moment, and then said: "With the enemy's artillery position as the center, we must take down their artillery." ”

"Yes!" Hitoshi Kuroshima replied.

After the order was transmitted, Xiong Mingyang ordered the trumpet to be blown. Hitoshi Kuroshima ordered the first company to start charging, and he himself entered the reserve position with the second company. I saw that the soldiers of the first company jumped out one after another, shouting: "Kneel on the ground and don't kill!" The slogan rushed towards the Hubei New Army.

When Chen Ke went to college, the style of the old era was still continued in the university curriculum. That is, the whole country continues the pattern of preparing for a full-scale world war. In this model, although the possibility of China falling into a world war of mutual destruction is very small, so this school organization model has been very relaxed, but the curriculum and organizational form are still based on this model, "after the communication is lost, each unit can quickly fight on its own." "So Chen Ke and these undergraduates have to take military courses, as well as a full set of physical training courses. And this organizational model is undoubtedly fully in line with the world that Chen Ke faces. Chen Ke taught all his military and kinematics knowledge to the troops.

If you want to run fast, you have to use your thighs hard. If the martial artists of this era achieved this kind of physical training education through the transmission of master and apprentice, the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army promoted "military science" through a larger-scale scientific training and information gathering and improvement model. Under the long-term training, the soldiers have long turned the force mode into a habit of their own, and more than 200 people in a company jumped out of the trench more than half a person high, and their movements were all the same light and powerful. The soldiers were almost like a 100-meter sprint, and they crossed a distance of more than 70 meters in more than ten seconds to kill in front of the Hubei New Army.

The soldiers were all enthusiastic after the charge, and the fighters who rushed ahead were all veterans, and they knew that there was no room for mercy at all until the enemy knelt down and surrendered his guns, "Kneel and don't kill!" As soon as this slogan was shouted, the fighters opened fire.

The accuracy of shooting at close range was greater, and it was the first time that the Hubei New Army had been so close to the People's Party in a dark blue uniform, and the concept of "this is the enemy" had not even been formed in their confused brains. As soon as I was confused, a new melee battle began fiercely.

By this time, the distance between the two sides was only a dozen meters, and the formation was so dense that the fighters of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army knew that they could not keep their hands, and everyone was shooting in the direction of the vital point. The Forces nouvelles were killed and wounded nearly 100 in an instant, and some of them were already frightened and stupid, so they stood there and were killed. Some subconsciously began to return fire, although the New Army who dared to return fire was killed in the blink of an eye, or stabbed to death with bayonets by the soldiers of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army who had been empty of bullets. But the return fire still inflicted casualties on the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army.

The Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army was not intimidated by the casualties, and all the fighters not only did not retreat, but accelerated the pace of their attack, and on the one hand, they quickly approached the new army in Hubei while firing their guns, and killed and wounded fiercely with bayonets. If the new army still had a little courage when firing at each other, after the hand-to-hand combat with bayonets began, the new army, like the Qing army in the old era, would have completely collapsed in the blink of an eye. Even though they had guns in their hands and bullets in their guns, they watched as the soldiers of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army drew bloody bayonets from the bodies of the soldiers of the New Army, and then pounced on them. The soldiers of the Hubei New Army let out almost inhuman screams, turned around and ran.

When Kuroshima was in Japan, he had heard about how vulnerable the Qing army was in the Sino-Japanese War, and he had an extremely opposed attitude towards the Japanese government after the Restoration, so Kuroshima didn't believe much of this. Today's performance of the Hubei New Army made Kuroshima Ren find out that these rumors were actually true, and he was really taken aback in his heart. However, Kuro-dorin did not have time to think deeply, he was now participating in the battle as a member of the People's Party, and the Manchu army was the enemy of the People's Party, and it was a good thing that the enemy was vulnerable. Originally, I was going to see where the direction of the second company's charge should be, but since the Qing army was so vulnerable, there was no need to think about it so much.

"Second battalion, echelon charge." After Kuroshima Ren shouted the order, he personally rushed forward with the second company. After the three companies and four connected to the order, the two companies that rushed ahead were killed by the Hubei New Army. This column easily broke through the "crowd" of the Hubei New Army, which was completely unorganized, defeated all the enemies in front of it who dared to resist and could resist, and cut deep into the hollow phalanx of the New Army.

In the north, a battalion led by the deputy regiment commander also entered the camp of the Hubei New Army, and the slogan of "kneel and do not kill" resounded throughout the battlefield. The new army is like a lamb under the spring thunder, fleeing to the east where there is no enemy, and if it cannot escape, it simply falls to its knees and surrenders.

Xiong Mingyang didn't expect that the Hubei New Army would go from chaos to collapse so quickly, and he didn't dare to wait any longer, and ordered an all-out attack to be issued. The red flare rose into the air in a bright trajectory, and then the Charger remembered in the east. The 3rd and 4th Battalions were led by rifle-armed companies, while the other units fought with spears against the fleeing Hubei New Army. These soldiers charged against the light, and the new army running to the east was already red and swollen, and they couldn't see anything clearly because of the sun, where could they withstand such a fierce charge. The New Army was completely surrounded by the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army from the north, south, and east, with the Nanqi River to the west, and the desperate New Army soldiers either surrendered or threw away all the burdens they could throw and fled to the Nanqi River.

By the time the new army had completely collapsed, Li Yuanhong had already escaped into a boat. Although the BJP set up underwater obstacles to prevent the movement of naval warships, boats with a draft of no more than 1.5 meters were still able to navigate the river. Under the continuous offensive of the People's Party, Li Yuanhong was unable to organize the Hubei New Army to escape by water. And Li Yuanhong refused to abandon his cannon and escaped. Seeing that the Hubei New Army could no longer withstand it, Li Yuanhong took this personal soldier to the river without saying a word. This accompanied the new army to the north to attack Hefei, and there were steam speedboats in the ships. Li Yuanhong boarded a steam speedboat and began to flee for his life. The officers of the command headquarters had also fled to the river with Li Yuanhong, grabbed the boat and left.

The flotilla had been in fear all night since last night, but fortunately there were no People's Party troops on the other side of the river, and the flotilla was not attacked, so it was still under the orders of the Emperor Li Yuanhong, and the flotilla barely stopped at the river. Now that Lord Li Yuanhong is taking the lead in escaping, where is the fleet still willing to stay, the ships that have been prepared long ago are all anchored, or full steam power, or all the demeanor, or rowing with all their might. It was easy to sail down the river, and it was not long before all the boats had left the shore and fled south.

The new recruits, who tried to get on the boats and escaped, ran to the river, only to find that the fleet had already run away. It's summer, and most of the soldiers of the Forces nouvelles swim a little, and they jump into the Nanqi River and start swimming towards the boats. A few of the more water-based ones barely caught up with the last few boats. Most of the new armies failed to catch up.

Chief of Staff Pu Guanshui watched all this in the telescope, holding the telescope for an hour in a row is quite a test for the body, even if he doesn't feel it mentally, he will not be able to stand it physically. When he lowered the binoculars, his palms trembled uncontrollably.

"This battle is over?" Pu Guanshui asked in a deeply skeptical tone.

"The battle against the infantry of the Hubei New Army is over. The battle of the Hubei Navy is not over yet. Chen Ke said calmly.

Pu Guanshui didn't expect that Chen Ke's thoughts had already jumped from the large-scale battle in front of him to a farther place, and for a while he felt that his thoughts couldn't keep up with Chen Ke's rhythm at all. Pu Guanshui tried to imagine a water battle dozens of miles away, but his excited nerves forced him to raise his binoculars again to look at the battlefield in front of him. The Hubei New Army has completely collapsed and collapsed. Those who did not surrender were put on the ground with bullets, bayonets, or spears, and the entire battlefield had become a Shura field. All those who crisscrossed the battlefield were excited fighters of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army.

"Chairman Chen, the Hubei New Army shouldn't be so weak." Pu Guanshui couldn't help but say something extremely inappropriate. But this is Pu Guanshui's true words, he knows that the training of the Beiyang New Army, even if the Hubei New Army is not as good as Beiyang, but looking at it now, it is the Anhui New Army that can support it better.

Chen Ke originally wanted to be small, but the corners of his mouth only stiffened at an angle, and he couldn't laugh at all. Chen Ke simply gritted his teeth slightly and said: "If the Hubei New Army attacked us, it really shouldn't have ended so dismally. But the Hubei New Army didn't know why they were fighting, so the first thing these soldiers thought about was to get benefits. They fought for themselves, and behind the soldiers of the New Army stood just a group of Manchu officials who oppressed the people, and of course they would have failed. ”

Pu Guanshui looked at Chen Ke in surprise, he didn't expect Chen Ke to explain the battle from a political point of view. Pu Guanshui has never been interested in political issues. He believes that a professional soldier should stay away from the complexities of politics.

Chen Ke knew Pu Guanshui's thoughts, and he hoped that Pu Guanshui would understand the essence of the people's war, which was fought for the interests of the people. If this point is not understood, Pu Guanshui's operational command will encounter insurmountable obstacles in the future.

"Looking at the water, if a person only thinks about himself, then doing things is completely driven by interests. If you want to win a war, you naturally have the laws of war. Without a scientific attitude, it is doomed. Chen Ke said.

Pu Guanshui could feel that Chen Ke was admonishing him, but the established military concept in his heart couldn't help but resist, although he didn't deliberately want to confront Chen Ke, Pu Guanshui still asked: "Chairman Chen, then if we enter Hubei to fight, will these soldiers of the new army have a reason to fight?" ”

"If we go to Hubei to fight in order to protect the interests of the Anhui people, then the Hubei New Army may fight to the death for the interests of the Hubei people. Therefore, our people's revolution is not for the creation of new oppressors, but for the liberation of the people of the whole of China. In the future, our foreign wars will not be aimed at making China above the world, and will enslave the people of the world for thousands of generations. It is to liberate the whole world and let the people of the whole world be free. This is the essence of the people's revolution. ”

Listening to Chen Ke's words, Pu Guanshui was speechless. He could understand the idea of liberating the whole of China, but he could not accept Chen Ke's idea of liberating the whole world. If possible, Pu Guanshui also hopes to be able to fight in Europe, but he is not to be a "liberator", but to be an "avenger". He wants the European powers to pay for their bullying of China, and as for the European people, Pu Guanshui thinks they are in league with the great powers.

Chen Ke saw that Pu Guanshui did not accept his own concept, and he also felt very helpless. Because Chen Ke also had the same idea as Pu Guanshui, hoping to make the entire white-skinned world bleed, so that Chen Ke could wash away the strong sense of shame he felt when reading history. But Chen Ke doesn't think so now, if a system is itself designed to create oppressors, then it is destined to oppress its own people. Chen Ke himself hated two kinds of people, racists and blacks, as he said in the joke. Chen Ke also believes that China cannot introduce blacks, but Chen Ke is also firmly convinced that China's future cannot follow the old path of empire. The socialist system itself is a science, and there is no room for discrimination in a scientific attitude.

Although I wanted to continue to persuade Pu Guanshui, the words became something else, "Let the medical team quickly take in the injured and treat them as soon as possible." ”

Li Yuanhong stood on the speedboat, his mind was in chaos. The turbulence of the ship and the sound of the steam engine working at full strength did not make Li Yuanhong feel the slightest, he had completely lost himself, and all kinds of thoughts were tangled together in his mind. He lost the battle, Zhang Biao was in charge, and Lord Zhang Zhidong and even the people in the court would definitely not spare him. This thought has been floating in Li Yuanhong's mind, but it can't make Li Yuanhong have the slightest fear.

This tragic battle completely occupied Li Yuanhong's brain, and he could even clearly remember the command and the deployment of various troops when he first engaged in the battle. And then there was the battle that lasted all day. This is the war, Li Yuanhong, as a soldier, he participated in the war, he commanded the war, and then he was defeated.

The People's Party's merciless methods of war completely destroyed Li Yuanhong's understanding of war. Let the consciousness of this co-commander of the Hubei New Army as a soldier be infinitely strengthened and completely shattered. Li Yuanhong's spirit collapsed.