No one thought that the fall of Yiyang Sanguan would be so rapid, and without even the slightest rumor, the defenders of Yiyang Sanguan chose to surrender. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Manchu side was in a state of not knowing anything until two days later, when the Northern Army rushed to Wuhan along the Jinghan Railway, and only then did they get the news in hindsight.

As soon as the news of the fall of the three passes of Yiyang broke, the small Manchu regime in Changsha, Hunan Province, immediately fell into a panic, and at present only three towns in Hubei were deployed in the vicinity of Wuhan.

The three towns were also ready to support the front line through the Jinghan Railway at any time, but they did not expect to be pressed to the doorstep by the Northern Army before they went to the front line, and they were caught off guard.

The lagging intelligence system made it impossible for the Manchus to grasp the situation in the war, and even such important information as the fall of Yiyang Sanguan was only known after the Northern Army used the Jinghan Railway to reach Wuhan.

No one knows how long the three towns deployed in Wuhan can withstand alone, in case the northern army drives straight down from Hubei into Hunan.

As the current Manchu capital is located in the vicinity of Changsha, except for a necessary guard, the entire Hunan region does not have any troops.

Most of the troops were gathered in Jiangsu and Shandong, and Wang Bin's northern army was entangled in Shandong, and now they were about to be beaten to the door, and the Manchu court hurriedly issued the will of King Qin, so that all the troops returned the same way to defend the capital.

"Brother Zhou, I'm afraid that this time I really have no way out."

Outside Yizhou City, Duan Fang said to Zhou Fu with some loss in the barracks.

After seeing Duanfang's somewhat lost look, Zhou Fu also spoke.

"Brother Duan doesn't have to be like this, the current situation is so dangerous for us, but this crisis is also an opportunity."

"Opportunity?" As soon as Duan Fang heard this, he suddenly seemed a little confused, how could it be an opportunity?

After seeing Duanfang's appearance, Zhou Fu immediately began to tell the story.

"Brother Duan, although the situation is not very good for us, all of this is mainly due to Wang Bin's various defeats against us, but in the rear of Liangguang, Yunnan, Guizhou, Fujian and other places, we can still immediately organize and train the local old army into a new army in four or five towns.

When the time comes, our number on the Hubei battlefield will not be as small as Wang Bin's rebellious ministers, and we will not be able to win back a game. ”

Until now, Zhou Fu is still extremely stubborn that the current situation on his side is because of the military strength and the problem of being caught off guard by Wang Bin.

I never thought about whether there was something on my side that caused my side to inexplicably lose the military strength of six towns at present.

And Wang Bin's side suffered more than 10,000 casualties after the losses were full, and after Zhou Fu's words were finished, there was still some truth in such a delicate product.

Immediately, the whole person regained a lot of confidence, and began to give orders to retreat, so that the army in Shandong began to abandon the city of Yizhou and chose to retreat to Jiangsu.

The Northern Army bypassed the main battlefield in Shandong and launched an attack directly from the direction of Xinyang in Henan, forcing the center of gravity of the war to shift to Hubei.

Duan Fang had to admit that Wang Bin's hand was indeed good, and when everyone thought that Wang Bin would let the Northern Army gather troops in Shandong, Wang Bin hit him backhanded.

opened up a new battlefield in Hubei, so that he had to abandon Shandong, retreat to defend Jiangsu on the whole front, and send half of the army back to Hunan to prepare for a decisive battle with the northern army.

At this point in the war, the whole situation seemed to be alive, and there was no need to fight indifferently with the Manchu army in Shandong.

Now that the general trend has been grasped on our side, the rhythm of the war has long since shifted from the small Shandong to the crucial place of Hubei.

Taking Hubei means that Wang Bin can pose a threat to Changsha, the capital of the Manchu ******, at any time, and the Manchu ****** will inevitably transfer troops from all over the country to conduct a decisive battle in Hubei, and if he wins, Wang Bin's army will be dealt a major blow, and it will not be able to recover in a few years.

Of course, judging from the current situation, this possibility is still relatively small, and it is more likely that Wang Bin's army wiped out the main force of the Manchu Qing in one fell swoop in Wuhan, Hubei.

The Manchus either chose to move south to Guangzhou and resist for a while, or they simply chose to surrender, and what the Manchu court would choose to do depends on what the ministers in the court would do.

With the orders of the Manchu court, the armies began to assemble in the direction of Hubei, and after the Manchu army began to assemble in the direction of Hubei, Wang Bin also put all the troops under his control into the Hubei battlefield, except for the military forces that needed to defend the place.

This war was the last decisive battle of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and Wang Bin was defeated in this move, and Wang Bin also personally participated in this command operation, always paying attention to the battle situation on the front line.

In mid-January, a rare heavy snowfall fell in Hubei, and the cold weather and the urgent need for time for both sides to continue to increase troops made the battle situation in Wuhan calm down for a while.

At the same time, the reinforcement of troops is also a steady stream of materials to the front line, compared to the soldiers on Wang Bin's side is much better, because the Jinghan railway line has been controlled by Wang Bin.

The transportation of materials is much easier, cotton clothes and other cold materials are not lacking on the front line, on the other hand, although the Manchu Qing side distributed cotton clothes, but there are still a considerable number of soldiers still only have a thin little cotton jacket on their bodies, and more money is deducted by the officials above.

In terms of keeping out the cold, a large amount of firewood was added to the barracks, which made these soldiers feel a little warm, and the quilts were not completely distributed, so that the combat effectiveness of these Qing troops was not very strong.

It wasn't until Duanfang and others personally supervised the battle that these conditions changed, and after Duanfang thoroughly investigated several officers, the Manchu soldiers began to distribute cotton clothes, quilts and other things, and the people patrolling at night also had an extra bowl of ginger soup, but it was too late.

These actions of the Duan side had just begun, and when the morale of his soldiers had improved, Wang Bin also braved the cold to come to the front line and launched an attack when the Manchu army had not fully recovered.

At the beginning of February, a mighty war was launched under the orders of Wang Bin, and the sound of artillery constantly sounded in the sky of Wuhan.

It was no joke that thousands of artillery pieces were fired together, not to mention that among these guns were eighteen 155-mm guns, the largest caliber in the Northern Army.

The continuous attacks of the artillery and the repeated charges of the infantry soon caused the Manchu army to fall below, and the continuous attack of thousands of artillery pieces alone caused the casualties of these Qing troops to continue to increase.

As Wang Bin expected, under the strong firepower of his own side, the casualties of the Qing army continued to increase, and the soldiers began to secretly escape.

For this reason, Duan Fang had to send some soldiers to maintain order, prevent these soldiers from escaping, and at the same time issue a series of orders.

For example, those who run away will affect their families, and their salaries will be increased accordingly, and after these orders are issued, although the number of escapes is decreasing, it still happens from time to time, and there is no good way to deal with it.

On the position, in addition to the continuous defense and reinforcement of the trenches, the end side did not have any very effective measures, and the continuous attack of artillery caused a lot of damage to the Qing army, but also made the end side a little helpless.

Even though their own side also has artillery, the number is far less than the number of artillery on the other side, and there is no way to change the situation of the battle except passive defense.

The northern side, seeing that the southern army had nothing to do, quickly changed its tactics to a daily routine artillery attack and several infantry charges.

Demoralize the Manchu soldiers with artillery, and then attack the Manchu army, so that the Manchu army can only defend the position through numerical superiority.

With well-trained infantry and mortars, grenades, light and heavy machine guns, the offensive of the Northern Army became more and more fierce, and the Southern Army could only keep defending.

But there was an end to this kind of defense, and after the Manchu soldiers lost their morale after repeated blows, a large number of casualties would cause these Manchu troops to collapse without a fight. (To be continued.) )