At this time, the Qing army on the front line, including the fire-fighting troops commanded by Aoki Ryokazu, received Zhang Zhidong's order, and immediately asked the front-line commander to dispatch his fire-fighting troops to kill the plundering artillery chariot.

The front-line commander is Zhang Zhidong's confidant, of course he doesn't want to watch Aoki Liang and this Japanese show off, but he thought about it, the combat effectiveness of the Huaxia Army is extremely strong, and even if the invaded artillery chariot is stuck in the sand, it is extremely difficult to blow it up, so just let Aoki Lianghe go, it is more important to save his life than to make meritorious contributions.

So the front commander agreed with Aoki Yoshikazu to lead the firefighting force and blow up the plundering artillery chariot.

Aoki Ryokazu immediately led the troops out, this time Aoki Ryokazu pressed all the fifty fire-fighting teams up, the fifty fire-fighting teams were divided into two parts, twenty teams approached the predatory artillery chariots from the ground, and the remaining thirty teams went down to the trenches, and approached the predatory artillery chariots from the trenches, although the bottom of the trenches was covered with fine sand, but these fine sand was not enough for people to sink into.

The Qing soldiers behind the anti-tank trench fired at the rescue artillery vehicle, hoping to slow down the rescue process with bullets.

This trick of the Qing soldiers really worked, if you want to rescue the plundering artillery chariot trapped in the trench, you must hang it with a towing rope, and then pull it out, the process of hanging the towing rope needs to be completed by a person, and the bullets are whizzing towards the invading artillery chariot, and the rescuers dare not approach at all.

For the Huaxia army, it took about fifteen minutes to attach the tow line, during which time the rescuers were constantly exposed to the bullets of the Qing soldiers.

Seeing the countless firefighting units approaching the plundering artillery chariots, a difficult question was placed in front of the 2nd Panzer Division, whether to risk rescuing the predatory artillery chariots that had been trapped in the trenches.

Bai Chenggang, commander of the Second Armored Division, resolutely ordered to suppress the firefighting troops and Qing soldiers with heavy firepower to create conditions for rescue.

At the end of the order, the other fifty-nine invading artillery chariots all gathered and fired shells and machine-gun shells at the Qing positions on the opposite side.

The artillery shells focused on the Qing soldiers behind the trenches, and the machine gun shells focused on the invading artillery chariots that rushed over, so the fire extinguishing team in the trenches was even better, and the infantry hid behind the invading artillery chariots and threw grenades into the trenches.

When the infantry throws grenades, they don't need to aim at the trench to throw, but throw it directly to the ground, let the grenade roll on the ground for a while, the trench is very wide, roll to the edge of the trench and fall in, and then explode directly in the trench, and it is a volley explosion that does not land, shrapnel flies, leaving no dead ends, and the fire-fighting troops can't hide from lying down.

The grenade explosion also detonated the explosives on the firefighting troops, killing them one after another, and the firefighting units launched several charges, but the results were ineffective.

The commander of the Qing army in the distance saw this scene and was secretly happy, looked at Aoki Yoshikazu, and teased: "Mr. Aoki Yoshikazu, aren't you the most heroic Imperial Japanese Army, why don't you go up in person?" ”

One sentence made Aoki Lianghe's face so angry that he almost fainted, but he really wanted him to charge in person, but he didn't want to, he was still looking forward to one day being able to slash Lin Fei, how could he die here.

The two sides fought for two hours around the plundering artillery chariot that was stuck in the sand, and as a result, the firefighting force suffered all casualties, and the Qing soldiers also suffered many casualties, but they were still unable to destroy the plundering artillery chariot.

The Qing soldiers finally couldn't support it anymore, the turtle retracted into the trench, and the rescuers of the Huaxia Army jumped into the trench and hung the towing rope on the plundering artillery chariot, and the other plundering artillery chariot drove at full speed and pulled out the plundering artillery chariot that was stuck in the mud and sand.

After this setback, the 2nd Panzer Division stopped the offensive, and Bai Chenggang and the commanders began to discuss how to break the anti-tank trenches of the Qing army.

An officer said: "There is nothing to be afraid of the Qing army's anti-tank trenches, the most difficult place for him to deal with is the fine sand at the bottom of the trenches, as long as we find a way to harden the fine sand, we can rush through, if we want to harden the sand, I think of cement, why don't we mobilize cement, and then put cement into the Qing army trenches." ”

Bai Chenggang nodded slightly, "Although the method of mobilizing cement is feasible, it is a pity that the cement is too far, if we want to transfer cement, we need to ship it from Taiwan, and we can't transfer it for a while, we should think of some other ways." ”

"What's the solution?" Everyone looked at Bai Chenggang together.

"You know the Rapid Reaction Force, they're only a day's journey away from us right now, and this kind of unit has bridge-building vehicles, why don't we second-hand these bridge-building vehicles?"

"That's a good idea." Everyone praised one after another, and then reported to Wei Zelong, the commander of the Eastern Front, who immediately ordered the rapid reaction force to send the bridge-building vehicle over.

The width of the Qing army's trenches was only more than five meters, the length of a single bridge plate of the bridge erection vehicle was eight meters, the width was five meters, and the load-bearing capacity was 20 tons, which could fully support the invading artillery chariots.

A day passed, ten bridge-building vehicles joined up with the 2nd Panzer Division, and the bridge-building operation began immediately.

Under the cover of the artillery chariots of the invasion, the bridge erection vehicles approached the trenches and erected ten improvised bridges on the trenches, which stunned the Qing troops on the opposite side, and they could never have imagined that there was such a thing in this world that could build a bridge over the trenches.

The bridge erection time was about an hour, during this time, the Qing army launched three attacks, but they were all repelled by the strong fire of the plundering artillery chariots, and when the ten improvised bridges were erected, the bridge erection vehicles immediately withdrew from the battle, and the protagonist of the battlefield - the plundering artillery chariots, appeared.

Sixty plundering artillery chariots roared across the improvised bridge, and all the explosives bags of the Qing army were used up (all of them were used by the firefighting troops), and only a few grenades remained in the hands of the Qing soldiers.

The Qing soldiers threw the grenades, and the explosion surprised every Chinese soldier, and after the grenades landed, they only exploded in half, but did not explode a large number of debris.

It turned out that the Qing army did not have much explosives at this time, but Zhang Zhidong didn't care about this, and asked the arsenal to hand in a sufficient amount of grenades, and the arsenal had no choice but to reduce the charge of a single grenade to make up the number, so that many grenades would not explode at all after they landed, or they were only blown in half, without blowing up too many killing fragments.

The Qing soldiers did not have grenades, and at this time the elite troops began to rush out with guns, intending to use bayonets to deal with the plundering artillery chariots, but the result can be imagined, these people were either killed by the invading artillery chariots, or by the infantry who accompanied the invading artillery chariots.

The Qing army's defensive positions outside Wuchang City were broken through one after another, and the most elite Qing troops under Zhang Zhidong suffered casualties, and those Qing troops who were forcibly recruited were almost negligible in combat effectiveness, not to mention that they had long heard that everyone in Huaxia could eat well and everyone could wear warm, which made them full of expectations for Huaxia.

So the forcibly recruited Qing soldiers quickly raised their hands and surrendered, and after five hours of fighting, the Huaxia army had already entered the city of Wuchang.

The commander-in-chief of the Wuchang garrison was the Wuchang commander-in-chief, named Sun Zhenming, who saw that the Huaxia army was strong, did not dare to resist, and led his troops to revolt.

The reason why Sun Zhenming was able to revolt was entirely because Lin Fei surrendered Li Yuanhong at Shanhaiguan at the beginning, and regarded Li Yuanhong as a model of surrender, and frantically propagandized to make the soldiers' minds change.

At five o'clock in the evening of August 11, the Huaxia army fully occupied the city of Wuchang, and after entering the city, it disarmed the Qing soldiers defending the city.

After the capture of Wuchang City, the Huaxia Army decided to rest for three days to replenish ammunition and supplies, in a series of battles, the problem of the plundered artillery chariots was gradually exposed, first of all, the number of ammunition was too small, the main gun shells were only fifty rounds in total, and the two machine guns each had 1,000 bullets, the number of machine gun bullets was not bad, and the number of main gun shells was too small.

The second is the problem of fuel consumption, the fuel tank of the plundering artillery combat vehicle is about 800 liters, and the oil will be used up when driving more than 20 kilometers, the reason is that the Diesel II engine used in the invasion artillery combat vehicle was developed in a hurry, and the combustion efficiency is not high, and the exhaust gas of the plundering artillery combat vehicle often has a strong diesel smell, and a lot of diesel fuel is not burned out, and it is directly discharged.

Finally, there is the problem of track life, the life of 80 kilometers, so that the 2nd Panzer Division does not dare to carry out long-distance maneuvers at all, and the soldiers of the 2nd Panzer Division often joke about their predatory artillery chariots, saying that the predatory artillery chariots are a "kidney loss man", because it is too "fast", the main guns are quickly exhausted, and the fuel is quickly burned out, and because it is "short", the journey is only 80 kilometers.

Lin Fei immediately instructed the State Design Institute and the Ministry of Industry to immediately carry out the improvement of the plundered artillery and combat vehicles, and strive to double the travel and fuel consumption of the invaded artillery vehicles within half a year.

Three days later, the rested Huaxia army waved its division to attack Hanyang, and Zhang Zhidong realized that it was impossible to hold Hanyang when Wuchang was captured, so Zhang Zhidong ordered to send all the main equipment of the Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant and the Arsenal to Sichuan, so as to retain some industrial blood for the Qing court.

However, the attack of the Huaxia army was too fast, and the battle of Hanyang lasted only one day, and the Huaxia army broke through the city defense of Hanyang, Zhang Zhidong led his subordinates to withdraw in embarrassment, and none of the equipment in the Hanyang factory could be shipped out.