On 10 August, under the command of Bai Chenggang, the Second Armored Division set off for Hanyang, where a crucial battle was about to begin.

From Jiujiang to Hanyang, it must pass through Wuchang on the way, Zhang Zhidong knew that the defense of Hanyang must defend Wuchang, so he ordered his elite to fortify in Wuchang.

In the Wuchang defense line, Zhang Zhidong gathered 200,000 Qing troops, of which the number of elite troops was about 100,000, and the remaining 100,000 were forcibly recruited by Zhang Zhidong from all over the country.

Behind the Wuchang defense line is the Hanyang defense line, and on the Hanyang defense line, Zhang Zhidong also gathered 200,000 troops, all of which were recruited later, and there was no elite.

Zhang Zhidong planned to conduct a decisive battle with the Huaxia army in Hanyang and Wuchang, and then destroy the Huaxia army in one fell swoop and completely turn the tide of the war.

Comparing the weapons and equipment of the Huaxia army and the Qing army, the Qing army used a large number of explosive bags, and Aoki Ryokazu and his Japanese conducted special training for the Qing soldiers.

The Qing army dug a large number of anti-tank trenches in the construction of fortifications, and the research of technicians from various countries on the plundering artillery chariots showed that the pressure of the invading artillery chariots on the ground was very large, as long as a large amount of fine sand was laid at the bottom of the anti-tank trenches, it was enough to trap the invading artillery chariots.

Wuchang and Hanyang were both on the Yangtze River, and sand was not a difficult thing to find, and Zhang Zhidong recruited a large number of Qing people to dig and transport river sand, so fine sand was soon laid at the bottom of all anti-tank trenches.

On the Huaxia Army's side, another 31 plundering artillery and combat vehicles entered service, and the number of plundering artillery and combat vehicles of the Second Armored Division reached 60 at this time, which basically satisfied the establishment of a regiment.

On 12 August, the 2nd Panzer Division took the lead in attacking Wuchang, and the 2nd Panzer Division soon encountered the woods on both sides of the road, which were three or four meters above the road, which was an excellent place to ambush the invading artillery chariots, and Aoki Yoshikazu was leading 500 "firefighting teams" to hide in the woods, waiting for an opportunity to wipe out the invading artillery chariots.

Aoki Ryokazu because of the hatred of his wife, hated the Huaxia army to the core, painstakingly trained the fire fighting team, each fire extinguishing team is composed of five people, four people are explosive hands, each carrying two explosive bags, each explosive bag is ten kilograms, full of black powder and oil, once it explodes on the plundering artillery chariot, it will produce violent combustion, and the fire oil can flow into the inside of the car, causing extremely serious damage.

There is also a person in the fire extinguishing team who is the commander, and this person carries a rifle, which can be regarded as the protection of the explosives hand.

At ten o'clock in the morning, the 2nd Panzer Division was about to enter the densely wooded road, Bai Cheng became nervous as soon as he saw this kind of terrain, the road was only 200 meters wide, if the enemy rushed out of the woods on both sides, as long as a 100-meter dash came, it was enough to rush to the side of the invading artillery chariots, causing casualties.

Bai Chenggang secretly sighed, our majesty is really prescient, fortunately we practiced the infantry coordination tactics, if there is no such tactics, our plundering artillery chariots will probably suffer heavy casualties here.

Although Bai Chenggang realized that there might be an enemy ambush in the woods, he did not send troops into the woods to search and fight, because the woods were relatively dense and the scouts did not know the terrain, and they would definitely be ambushed by the enemy if they entered, which was extremely dangerous to the scouts.

Bai Chenggang then ordered the troops to line up thirty plundering artillery chariots in two columns, and the infantry sat on top of the plundering artillery chariots.

The infantry was responsible for monitoring the woods on both sides of the road, and if the enemy rushed out, they would immediately shoot and intercept them, and if the enemy fired at the infantry in the woods, the infantry would immediately turn to the back of the predatory artillery chariots and use the predatory artillery chariots as shields to return fire at the enemy.

More than 500 meters behind the plundering artillery chariot unit, followed by the infantry in a truck, their task was to immediately go out and enter the woods to encircle and attack the Qing army once the invading artillery chariot unit was ambushed by the enemy.

At eleven o'clock in the morning, the 2nd Panzer Division completed all preparations, entered the road, and advanced six or seven hundred meters into the attack range of Ryoki and his subordinates.

The Qing army didn't have a bluebird machine, and they didn't even know what a radio was, so if Aoki Ryokazu wanted to command these Qing soldiers, he could only use signal flares.

Ryokzu Aoki ordered the herald to fire three red flares, which was the signal for the attack.

As soon as the order was given, an earth-shaking shout suddenly sounded all over the mountain, and I don't know how many Qing soldiers rushed out of the woods and rushed straight to the invading artillery chariots.

Each Qing soldier carried a bag of explosives weighing forty pounds, so the Qing soldiers ran relatively slowly, which was also a matter of no choice, the Qing soldiers did not want to carry so many explosives, but if they did not carry so many explosives, it would not be enough to blow up the artillery chariots of the invasion.

The Qing soldiers were soon discovered by the 2nd Armored Division, and the 2nd Armored Division immediately started the infantry to coordinate the tactics of infantry vehicles, and the infantry immediately jumped down from the invading artillery chariots, and used the invading artillery chariots as cover to shoot at the Qing soldiers.

At the same time, the commander will also lean out of the turret and use the machine guns on the plundering artillery chariot to fire at the Qing soldiers.

A group of Qing soldiers were hit by bullets, and in order to facilitate running, the Qing soldiers tied the explosive bags one after the other, tightly tied them to their chests and backs, so the bullets hit these explosive bags first.

Black powder is easy to burn and explode, so as soon as it is hit by a bullet, it will explode, and the explosives of the Qing soldiers were shot in the bag, and they exploded one after another, and the explosion ignited the fire oil, turning the Qing soldiers into human torches.

Because each Qing soldier carried 20 kilograms of explosives, the power of the explosion was amazing, and every person who exploded would kill the people around him, and the first wave of the Qing soldiers' charge soon ended in failure, and none of the more than 400 people who launched the charge were spared.

Aoki Ryokazu was quite happy to see that his men had suffered many casualties, because he saw that after the explosive packets carried by the Qing soldiers exploded and burned, they produced thick black smoke, which shrouded the battlefield and provided excellent cover for the next group of Qing soldiers to charge.

Aoki Ryokazu hurriedly ordered his subordinates to fire signal flares again to speed up the attack.

But what Aoki Ryokazu didn't expect was that outside the woods, there was a shouting of the Huaxia army, and when I looked at it again, I don't know how many Huaxia troops had rushed into the woods.

For the Qing soldiers, what is even more unfavorable is that the explosives they carry are too easy to explode, and the Huaxia army often hits a Qing soldier and kills a large area.

While the infantry was killing the Qing soldiers, the 2nd Panzer Division realized that the black smoke on the battlefield would provide cover for the Qing soldiers, so the plundering artillery chariots began to accelerate out of the woods.

Aoki Ryokazu saw that the artillery chariots that attacked and plundered could no longer succeed, so he had no choice but to give an order to stop the attack and withdraw from the woods.

Aoki Ryokazu's carefully formed fire-fighting troops, in the first battle, retreated in embarrassment under the coordinated tactics of infantry vehicles, and when they arrived at the rear, the number of people counted, and there were less than 50 of the 500 fire-fighting teams left.

Zhang Zhidong learned the news, and his first reaction was to be happy, and now he didn't have to watch the Japanese show off.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the second armored division drove out of the woods and crashed into the Qing army's defensive line, Bai Chenggang first sent scouts to make sure that there were no mines in front of the Qing army's trenches, and then ordered the troops, using the tactics of walking vehicles, to launch an attack.

The 2nd Panzer Division saw the anti-tank trenches dug by the Qing army, but they did not know that the trenches contained fine sand specially trapped in the plundering artillery vehicles, and they planned to let the plundering artillery tanks rush directly into the trenches and then rush out of the trenches.

A plundering artillery chariot rushed down the trench, but it could not get out of the trench, and the weight of the plundering artillery chariot, which weighed fifteen tons, was directly sunk in the fine sand, unable to move.

Only then did the Second Armored Division react, and the trenches of the Qing army at this time were different from before!

The rest of the plundered artillery chariots hurriedly retreated, and one of the plundered artillery chariots galloped over, ready to rescue the trapped marauding artillery chariots.

The Qing soldiers on the opposite side saw an invading artillery chariot trapped in the trench, and they were so excited that they were like being beaten with blood, and immediately reported the news to Zhang Zhidong.

Zhang Zhidong's eyes rolled, and he said "great" three times in a row, patted the table and said: "Order the front-line soldiers to blow up the plundering artillery chariot for me, and blow it up completely." ”

The reason why Zhang Zhidong issued such an order was not because of the great military value of destroying an invading artillery chariot, on the contrary, destroying an invading artillery chariot had no military value at all, and the greatest value of destroying an invading artillery chariot was political.

At this time, the artillery chariot of invasion was almost the undefeated god of war of the Huaxia army and the spiritual pillar of the Huaxia army.

At this time, the plundered artillery chariot was a nightmare of death for the Qing army, the Japanese army, and the Russian army, and the Russian Cossack cavalry, the first division of the Japanese army, and the elite troops of the Qing army were all brutally tortured and killed by the invading artillery chariots.

Although the Qing army had obtained an invading artillery chariot, but this plundering artillery chariot was obtained by means of "trapping and abduction", and no one had ever been able to kill an invading artillery chariot in a dignified manner, and if the Qing army was the first, it would undoubtedly bring great prestige to the Qing court.