Watching the tide-like Huai soldiers rushing to the position of the Qin army, Li Hanzhang smiled. But soon his brow furrowed heavily. In the face of the thin barbed wire, the progress of the Huai soldiers was very slow. Putting down the binoculars, Li Hanzhang turned to the generals of the Huai Army who were watching the battle beside him. Originally, Li Hanzhang didn't believe that just a few thin barbed wire fences could stop the pace of the Huai army's charge, but what happened now made him palpate.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

There was finally movement on the Qin army's side. Li Hanzhang swallowed the words that had already reached his mouth, and hurriedly grabbed the binoculars and looked at the position. But I saw that the Qin army did not know from the cannon sound on the position, and the shell landed extremely accurately to the place where the artillery of the Huai army fired.

No wonder the artillery preparations before the attack were so short, it turned out that they were all for the Qin army.

At this time, the few pillboxes on the Qin army's position also began to spit out long tongues of fire from their firing mouths. The shooting was not aimed at the entire front of the Huai army at all, but at the few breaches on the barbed wire, and a large number of Huai soldiers were crowded in those breaches.

The fire snake sweep of the heavy machine gun pointed out that it was a slaughter of red fruits!

The firing ports of these pillboxes were less than 100 meters away from the crowd of Huai soldiers, which was almost equivalent to firing with the muzzles of the guns against the chests of Huai soldiers. The bullet penetrates the body with a huge kinetic energy, cuts the blood vessels, and shatters the bones, but it is still full of energy. After passing through the body of the soldier in front consistently, he got into the body of the Huai Army soldier behind him and continued the journey of destroying the human body.

Although I couldn't see the blood splashes, I couldn't see how high the bullets could easily lift the hardest skull of the human body, and how high Bai Huahua's brain flew away. I couldn't even hear the dying screams of the Huai officers and soldiers. But Li Hanzhang, who was watching the battle from behind, could see the Huai soldiers being cut down by bullets like wheat. Just a moment after Qin Jun's heavy machine gun began to roar, many small black dots suddenly appeared on the ground. It was the soldiers of the Qin army hiding in the trenches who joined the firing ranks.

The firing of rifles and machine guns did not last long, and the artillery of the Qin army also began to shoot!

Li Hanzhang has already looked stupid. The soldiers of the Huai Army, who had been attacking like a tidal wave not long ago, had become the targets of murder in the blink of an eye, and those barbed wire fences that were uncomfortable to look at now finally showed their ferocity like demons. Under the attack of intertwined firepower, half of the 'brave men' of the three or four hundred Huai army died, and the rest fled in all directions.

The massacre lasted less than ten minutes.

Li Hanzhang's mind was in chaos, and during the massacre just now, he couldn't even see any footage of the Qin soldiers killed and injured from the telescope.

Facts have proved that Zhou Shengchuan, Wei Rugui, and Ye Zhichao lost more than 2,000 people in three hours, which is by no means an absurd joke. Li Hanzhang's whole person was about to petrify. His reason wants to admit this fact. But his sensibility could not accept what happened anyway.

As if he wanted to save Li Hanzhang from his stiffness, and then throw him into a deeper abyss. Li Hanzhang's supervising standard Zhongjun hurried over and shouted in a terrible voice: "Gazetteer! The Qin army crossed the river from Baishazhou and has now landed! ”

Since Li Hanzhang piled all the main forces in his hands to Jitou Mountain, and Liu Xian did not cross the river from Baishazhou, it was simply sorry for Li Hanzhang's earnest cooperation.

He ordered the battalion at Jitou Mountain to hold back the main force of the Huai Army, and the strength of a brigade of the garrison regiment, together with one gunboat and two gunboats, easily routed the Qing defenders on the opposite side of the Yangtze River in Baishazhou, the second largest Jiangxin Island in the Wuhan section of the Yangtze River. Then the troops quickly landed. By the time the news reached Li Hanzhang's ears, the entire five brigades had already arrived on the south bank of the river with all their equipment.

Without the obstruction of the Yangtze River, the Qin army's attack on the land route was extremely smooth.

Li Hanzhang ordered Zhou Shengchuan to lead his troops to resist the Qin army in the part of Tutou Mountain, and he led Wei Rugui and Ye Zhichao back to Wuchang City as soon as possible. When they arrived at the ground, they were more than half an hour later than the Qin troops who had come from the west.

If it weren't for the artillery of the Qin army, maybe by the time Li Hanzhang came back, half of Wuchang City would have already changed color.

But even so. Li Hanzhang had no hope in his heart for Wuchang to stick to it.

The Qin army, which has an absolute advantage in firepower, cannot be stopped by an old Wuchang city wall. As for the idea of fighting in the streets. Li Hanzhang hasn't lived enough, but he is unwilling to put his life on the line in Wuchang.

Since Zhang Zhaodong ran to Jiangxi. After Liu Bingzhang ran to Anhui, Zuo Zongtang ran to Zhejiang, Liu Kun ran to Anhui, and Mu Teng'a ran to Anhui, no one in the Manchu Dynasty would hold the old rule of 'it is the responsibility to defend the land, and ask for the loss of the land'.

Run, run, get used to it!

Li Hanzhang will fight a good battle in Wuchang City. But as long as he sees that the situation is not good, or that 'defeat is irreversible', he will firmly pick his son and leave.

Time slowly passed through the afternoon, and after the evening, before the dawn of the fifteenth, the gunfire in Wuchang City stopped.

The Qin army completely occupied the last of the three towns of Wuhan and completely took the important place of the thoroughfare of the nine provinces.

Li Hanzhang fled in the wilderness.

Just after the wee hours of the morning, he knew that something was wrong. The Qin army in the dark was like a divine help, every time they attacked the joints, loopholes, and weaknesses of the Qing army, Wei Rugui's troops had been completely eliminated, Zhou Shengchuan and Ye Zhichao were divided and surrounded, and Li Hanzhang fled south with his own superintendent.

Wuchang City, which has the reputation of 'Three Taiwan, Eight Wells, Nine Lakes and Thirteen Mountains', thousands of Qing troops are the fish and meat on the board, and they are slaughtered by the Qin army. Li Hanzhang even doubted whether the Qin army had collected his strength during the day, otherwise why would he be so explosive at night!

The attacking troops, which seem to be chaotic, are actually the knives of the 'Ku Ding Niu', which can easily divide thousands of Qing troops into different 'pieces of meat'.

Li Hanzhang was shocked by Qin Jun's appearance.

"Chase, chase me—"

Huo Guangcheng personally led the cavalry brigade under the garrison regiment to pursue rapidly to the south. Although the Qin army fought this battle of Wuhan, although it was caused by the current situation, with the garrison regiment as the main force participating in the battle, it was obvious that Liu Xian gave him the opportunity to make meritorious contributions.

Huo Guangcheng still has the rank of major general, the commander of the Qin Army Headquarters has already hung the rank of general, and the commanders of all departments, determined by the position of the commander of the integrated division, are all with the rank of lieutenant general. Huo Guangcheng also had to seize the opportunity, receive awards for meritorious service, and naturally step up to the rank of lieutenant general.

Therefore, in Huo Guangcheng's view, the total annihilation of the main force of the Wuhan Huai Army, the capture of the governor of Huguang, Li Hongzhang's eldest brother Li Hanzhang, is his further ladder.

Now that the 'main force of the Huai Army in Wuhan has been completely annihilated', it is not beautiful to run Li Hanzhang to the death.

Not to mention that Li Hanzhang is Li Hongzhang's eldest brother, it is said that he is the governor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in Huguang, and the significance of capturing Li Hanzhang alive is not small.

Li Hanzhang's supervising army was originally a frightened bird, and it was beaten by a single attack by the Qin cavalry. However, Li Hanzhang's pro-guard horse team still maintained a stable structure and morale.

These people are Li Hanzhang's henchmen, and they have been feeding Li Hanzhang with silver and favors for many years.

Therefore, when the Supervising Biao Land Team was completely dispersed, the horse team still supported Li Hanzhang and continued to move south.

Huo Guangcheng ignored the ruptured Inspector Marines and led the cavalry brigade to continue the pursuit. Both sides fled and chased each other, until the sky was bright, and the horsepower could not bear it, so the horse speed was slowly lowered. At this time, Li Hanzhang also realized that a fight was inevitable.

If you don't defeat the pursuers behind you, you won't be able to escape the pursuit of the pursuers!

Li Hanzhang looked at the dirt slope opposite, and a Qin cavalry held up the military flag high and stabbed towards the ground. When the cavalry let go of his hand, the red flag was already deeply rooted in the ground, and a gust of wind blew, and the red flag hunted and unfurled.

"Order the troops, attack—"

Li Hanzhang only had the idea of fighting left in his heart. The cavalry of the Qin army behind him was not more numerous than his own. Li Hanzhang didn't believe that the heroes carefully selected by his brothers from hundreds of thousands of Huaishang disciples would be as brittle as the infantry in the hands of the Qin cavalry!

The standard-bearers of the Huai army waved the cyan banner vigorously, and hundreds of Huai cavalry urged their mounts to rush towards the north.

It was only a little late, and the cavalry of the Qin army also drove their horses from the dirt slope and rushed down from both sides of the military flag. The cavalrymen in the front row fired several shots with cavalry or pistols, and the troops at the front of both sides were shot and fell from their horses. But the cavalry behind showed no sign of stopping, and the sound of falling horses and screams was instantly drowned out by the rumbling roar of thousands of horses and thousands of horses' hooves hitting the ground.

Whether it was the Huai army or the Qin army, the saber was drawn from the scabbard. The officers were followed by the standard-bearers, the flags blaring fiercely in the wind, and the tips of the sabers were invariably pointed in the direction of the enemy.

The two torrents collided in an instant.

At the forefront of the Huai cavalry was a thousand generals, and Su Jin's top shone in the sun. He stretched his arm back, then swept forward with force, and the trajectory of the blade went straight to the left front of the enemy's chest, and as soon as he slashed, the sharp blade of the snow would cut an absolutely fatal gap in the enemy's chest.

And the cavalry of the Qin army on the opposite side was almost in the same posture, which was the standard tactics of cavalry combat. Everyone eats rice on the knife edge, and their eyes are very sharp. Huai Junqian was surprised to see that his blade was the first to slash into the opponent's chest, but the blade did not cut into it at all, and there was an extremely hard layer blocking the blade.

Just a moment later, Mr. Qian felt that his gaze began to rise and flipped strangely, and in the middle of the whirlwind, Mr. Qian saw a headless body sitting on horseback and galloping away. Then, Mr. Qian's eyes closed, and the world turned black. His head fell to the ground.

The two cavalry fought to the death, and the initial charge was as unstoppable as a mountain torrent rushing out of a river and out of a canyon. Relying on the steel forging cuirasses in the uniforms, the Qin cavalry ignored most of the Huai cavalry's attacks, and the soldiers brandished sharp sabers made in batches with forging presses in the arsenal and oxidized to cut the Huai cavalry within the attack range like straw. And when the momentum of the Huai cavalry stopped, the Qin cavalry, who took out a revolver in the other hand, started a real massacre. (To be continued......) R1292