Yuan Shikai's new army was really strong in combat, and the first time he launched a charge, he directly entered the defense line of the 1500th Division!

The reason why Yuan Shikai's new army was able to break into the defense line of the 1500th Division was entirely because of their strong military qualities.

Yuan Shikai's new army used the same tactics as other Qing troops when attacking, first approaching the trench on foot, and when there was the last 100 meters left, they launched a full-speed sprint, and finally jumped into the trench to engage in hand-to-hand combat with Yuan Shikai's new army.

In this process, Yuan Shikai's new army and the Qing army of Shandong and Zhili were judged to have a high level of combat effectiveness, although the other Qing troops were also equipped with Mauser rifles like Yuan Shikai's new army, but they did not shoot at all in motion, and when approaching the trenches of the Huaxia army, they all walked towards the trenches like wood.

And Yuan Shikai's new army, everyone can shoot in action, and their marksmanship is not bad, and the bullets can hit the soldiers of the Huaxia Army every three or five times.

When they were close to the last 100 meters of the trench, Yuan Shikai's new army could rush into the trench in almost fourteen seconds, while the other Qing troops, most of the time was between sixteen and seventeen seconds, not to mention that there was only a difference of two or three seconds, but on the battlefield, these two or three seconds could decide whether someone had entered the trench.

Yuan Shikai's new army also has death squads, they hold short knives in their hands, run quickly, and after entering the trenches, they will start hand-to-hand combat with the Huaxia army, the 1500th division is a reserve division after all, and there is still a gap between the combat effectiveness and the main division, in hand-to-hand combat, it is not the opponent of Yuan Shikai's new army at all, and the first line of defense was broken within 20 minutes.

The new army opened victoriously, and the other Qing troops behind them followed and killed them, and together they attacked the positions behind the Huaxia army, and the second and third lines of defense of the Huaxia army fell into crisis for a while.

At this critical moment, the militia went into battle.

After conquering Guangxi and Yunnan, Lin Fei instructed the local government to form a large number of militia teams, which could fight on the battlefield on the one hand, and serve as migrant workers on the other.

After the liberation of Guangxi and Yunnan of the Qing Dynasty, the Chinese Empire carried out land reform, distributed land to the people, and won the support of a large number of people, so that the people enthusiastically joined the militia, at this time the militia team supported behind the 1500th Division, there were more than 30,000 people, although these people were not strong in combat, but after all, there were many people, and Yuan Shikai's new army wanted to break through the second line of defense, and it was necessary to pay great casualties.

With the support of the militia, Yuan Shikai's new army did not capture the second line of defense, so they retreated to the first line of defense, in the attack just now, Yuan Shikai's new army also suffered a lot of casualties, more than 1,000 people were killed, so they also needed time to catch their breath, and the battlefield returned to calm for a while.

After the battlefield fell silent, the rapid reaction force arrived in the county seat of Zhaoqing, where they used horse-drawn mobile artillery to blow open the gates of the county and slaughter into the city.

The Qing army in the city did not expect that the Huaxia army would directly attack Zhaoqing, panicked for a while, and did not defend at all, the Huaxia army divided into five routes, attacking the Qing army's ammunition warehouse, grain warehouse, command post and other key institutions, before that, the Huaxia agents had already reconnoitred the deployment of the Qing army in Zhaoqing County, and now the rapid reaction force is according to the map.

The rapid reaction force was equipped with the latest type of grenade, which is also known as "incendiary grenade" because it is equipped with a certain amount of aluminum powder that can generate high temperatures after the explosion and ignite the bombed object.

The soldiers of the rapid reaction force rode fast horses and smashed into the ammunition depot and grain depot like the wind, and threw incendiary grenades into them, and the flames in these warehouses suddenly flew up.

The rapid reaction force saw that the flames had risen and immediately withdrew from the city.

The people in the city helped the old and the young, and left the city in embarrassment, and the Qing soldiers were reluctant to flee and stayed to fight the fire, but the fire in the city was too big, how could the Qing soldiers save it.

The Qing soldiers saw that they themselves would be engulfed in flames if they did not leave the city, so they hurriedly rushed out of the county seat, allowing the fire to burn in the city, and the guns and explosives in the ammunition depot exploded under the scorching flames, raising fireballs dozens of meters high and lighting up the entire sky.

The fire was so big that even Yuan Shikai on the front line saw it, and Yuan Shikai hurriedly asked: "Why did the fire start in the direction of Zhaoqing City, what is going on?" ”

The Qing army's means of communication were backward, from Zhaoqing to the front line, there was no telephone at all, so Yuan Shikai could only send a fast horse back to reconnoiter the situation, the horse had just run halfway, and met the Qing soldiers who came to Zhaoqing City for help, and the horse hurriedly inquired about the situation, and when the Qing soldiers came out for help, the rapid reaction force had not yet set a fire in the city, so the Qing soldiers only said "The Huaxia army is coming, please send troops back to help Yuan quickly." ”

Tanma hurriedly came back and reported to Yuan Shikai: "My lord, the big thing is not good, a large number of Huaxia troops have attacked Zhaoqing City, please return to help quickly." ”

Yuan Shikai was shocked, a large amount of food and ammunition were stored in Zhaoqing City, if Zhaoqing City was broken by the Huaxia Army, the Qing army would fall into a desperate situation of running out of ammunition and food.

Yuan Shikai hurriedly asked, "How many people are in the Huaxia Army?" ”

"There are tens of thousands!" In fact, there were only more than 1,000 people from the rapid reaction force who attacked Zhaoqing, and the reason why the Qing soldiers said tens of thousands was just that they were worried that Yuan Shikai would not send troops back to help.

Yuan Shikai's face changed drastically, no wonder the position in front of him was so easy to fight, it turned out that Lin Fei had transferred all the troops to fight Zhaoqing, tens of thousands of people, it seems that I have to transfer all my new troops back, otherwise I can't stop it at all, Yuan Shikai hurriedly ordered the new army to stop the offensive and withdraw to Zhaoqing.

As soon as Yuan Shikai's new army moved like this, Jiang Yuanlong saw it, and he immediately ordered his troops to attack and cover the Qing army, and Yuan Shikai then ordered the Qing army in Shandong and Zhili to take up the cover task.

However, the Qing army in Shandong and Zhili didn't want to stop the Huaxia army at all, what they thought was that your new army was arrogant on weekdays, and now it has escaped, so let's block reinforcements for you, be cannon fodder, and there is no door.

The Qing army in Shandong and the Qing army in Zhili only made some symbolic resistance, and fled with their tails between their legs, and many people also surrendered to the Huaxia army, and the Huaxia army directly caught up with Yuan Shikai's new army.

Yuan Shikai was angry that the Qing army in Shandong and the Qing army in Zhili were not angry, and at the same time divided the troops to resist the Huaxia army, but there was no blocking position on the official road, Yuan Shikai's new army fought extremely difficult, the new army's blocking position had just been established, and the Huaxia army outflanked it in a roundabout, and the new army suffered from the enemy.

What is even more ruthless about the Huaxia Army is that it does not entangle with the new army that is responsible for blocking the attack, and directly bypasses them to attack Yuan Shikai's large army, Yuan Shikai has no choice but to divide his forces again to resist the Huaxia army.

In this way, Yuan Shikai paid almost half of the price, which blocked the Huaxia army and returned to Zhaoqing City.

Yuan Shikai roared angrily: "What's the matter? ”

A Qing soldier said: "The snitch set a fire and burned Zhaoqing City to the ground. ”

Yuan Shikai lost half of his henchmen and the new army to return to Zhaoqing, but what returned to the aid was a burned Jiaocheng, and there was no longer a single bullet or grain in the city.

Yuan Shikai really couldn't stand such stimulation, his eyes were dark, he fell directly from the horse, unconscious, and hurried to rescue him, which rescued Yuan Shikai, although Yuan Shikai woke up, but his body couldn't move, he couldn't speak, and he didn't know what kind of serious illness he had.

The logistics base of the Qing army was destroyed, the commander was seriously ill, how could this battle be fought, Yuan Shikai's new army retreated to Deqing County overnight, and then stopped the position.

As soon as the new army entered the city, they asked a famous doctor to treat Yuan Shikai, and it happened that there was a famous doctor in Deqing County, surnamed Ma, because he made a good needle, known as Ma Qianzhen, this Ma Qianzhen gave Yuan Shikai acupuncture diagnosis and treatment, tossed all night, and finally made Yuan Shikai feel a lot better.

The first thing Yuan Shikai did when he got better was to put the blame for the failure of this battle on the commanders of the Qing army in Shandong and the Qing army in Zhili, in fact, they were not wronged in taking the blame, if it wasn't for their troops failing to stop the Huaxia army, Yuan Shikai would not have lost half of the new army.

Yuan Shikai killed the two commanders on the spot and reported the matter to the Qing court, and five days later, the Guangxu Emperor issued an edict to end the attack in the direction of Guangxi.

Since then, the Qing army's carefully organized Guangxi counteroffensive was declared over, this battle, the most commendable is the airship battle between China and Japan, as for the ground battle between China and the Qing army, except for Yuan Shikai was deceived by Zhang Craftsman, using the monkey as a rocket for the ages, lackluster.

In this battle, more than 10,000 Qing troops were killed, more than 50,000 surrendered, and the others fled in front of the battle, and their whereabouts are unknown.

The news of Yuan Shikai's fiasco shocked the government and the opposition, and the Qing country was in mourning, only Zhang Zhidong was overjoyed, his Hunan New Army was preparing to counterattack Yunnan, and he was worried that Yuan Shikai would steal his limelight, and now that Yuan Shikai was defeated, Zhang Zhidong had nothing to worry about.

Zhang Zhidong also heard about the airship of the Huaxia Army, but he did not think about the airship, he heard from the French adviser that he threw cannonballs from the airship, but he couldn't throw them accurately.

At this time, Zhang Zhidong and the French advisers did not know that Lin Fei had produced the first batch of aerial bombs and was about to be equipped with the airship brigade.

In fact, the development of aerial bombs is not so difficult, optimize the design of the shape, install the tail fin, it is almost the same, as for the fuse and warhead, you can use ready-made equipment on the grenade.

However, Lin Fei is limited by the overall industrial level, and the accuracy of the aerial bomb is still not too high, and the radius of the circular error of the 800-meter bomb is about 200 meters, that is to say, the aerial bomb will fall in the circle with the aiming point as the center and the radius of 200 meters, this error is still very large, but compared with the hand-thrown grenade, it has been a considerable improvement.