The long-awaited war dragged on for five days without starting, and both the Revolutionary Army and the Beiyang Army were frantically accumulating strength, intending to solve the main force of East China at one time, while the East China Army was training intensively.

The Southwest Army in Guangxi has completed the reorganization of the army in Guangxi, and the Southwest Army is preparing to attack Hunan in the north. When the revolutionary army learned that the Southwest Army was going to attack Hunan, it ordered the Sichuan army to attack the Southwest Army in Sichuan, and Cai Ye also took this opportunity to stop going north and began to pay attention to Sichuan, so that he could not only confuse the revolutionary army but also go to Sichuan openly, because his next task was to occupy Sichuan.

On May 21, 1912, the Beiyang Army in Maozhou finally began to attack, 300,000 Beiyang Army kept attacking the position of the East China Army, a group fell and rushed up, under the intensive heavy machine gun fire of the East China Army, more and more Beiyang Army fell, in order to reduce casualties, the Beiyang Army began to shell, and the East China Army also shelled back, the two sides fought a stalemate, and the soldiers kept falling.

Soon the Beiyang Army realized that its army could not go on like this, so it temporarily retreated. In the first few days, the East China Army was protecting, and the Beiyang Army was attacking, but in just three days, the Beiyang Army lost 50,000 troops, and the East China Army was less than 10,000, which made the Beiyang Army very angry, and they had lost so much, and the East China Army was even less than their own losses, so they no longer scattered to attack the East China Army, and they gathered in several large directions and began to storm violently.

Because the Beiyang Army used a large number of people to attack a certain direction, the East China Army could not resist being broken in several places, but it was soon blocked by the East China Army that arrived, so the Beiyang Army has no good way to break through the defense line. Due to the large number of new soldiers, the losses of the East China Army began to increase, and they had already lost 30,000 people, while the Beiyang Army lost a total of more than 80,000 people.

After five days of fighting, the Beiyang Army still did not make any progress at all, and the losses were too strict, so they were ready to rectify and rest. But the East China Army was not having a good time, they were also tired from constantly scanning the enemy with machine guns, and those recruits finally adapted to the battlefield, but they were also tired enough to choke and began to rest.

Yuan Shikai in Beijing was very angry when he received the news of Maozhou, he lost more than 80,000 people, and East China only lost less than 30,000, this is a very big gap, and if he thinks like this, he will definitely lose, so he fiercely urged the Beiyang Army in Haozhou to attack, and at the same time ordered the Beiyang Army in Xuzhou to start attacking.

The Beiyang Army in Maozhou rested for a day and started a strong offensive again, this time the Beiyang Army actually had a lot of human bombs, so that the East China Army was caught off guard and was broken through a big gap, a large number of Beiyang Army poured in from the gap, and the East China Army was forced to engage in a fierce battle with the Beiyang Army, and the troops in rows and rows were shooting, hand-to-hand combat, and fighting bayonets. The East China Army suffered a lot because it was basically recruits, and soon began to be unable to support the Beiyang Army under the numerical advantage of the Beiyang Army and slowly retreated, and the East China Army in other places wanted to help but was dragged by the Beiyang Army, so the gap became bigger and bigger, and the East China Army began to have a large number of casualties.

At this time, the East China Army began to ask for help from the headquarters, and the headquarters decided to launch an attack on tanks and armored units to avoid a large number of casualties among soldiers, so tanks and armored troops began to advance into the battlefield and quickly rushed to the front line.

Just when the Beiyang Army excitedly thought that they had broken through the battle line, they suddenly heard a "boom" sound behind the East China Army, like thunder. When the Beiyang Army was confused, the East China Army counterattacked ferociously, because they knew that it was their tank unit coming.

In the carelessness, the Beiyang Army soldiers were killed a lot, and suddenly the voice was close, and the Beiyang Army soldiers behind saw a smoking iron frame rushing towards them, and there was a long steel pipe in front of the iron frame, and the bursts of black smoke came out from behind the iron frame. There are a lot of rectangular iron sheets next to these iron frames also coming at them, they don't know what this is, but a scene that they will never forget appeared, only to see those smoking big iron frames suddenly lifted a piece of iron sheet from above, there was a human head stretched out on it, and a machine gun also rose, and then I saw that the person holding the machine gun began to sweep "da~~~ dada~~~~~", and the Beiyang Army soldiers standing in front fell one after another, and the big iron pipe in front of him unexpectedly spewed out a cannonball, and the Beiyang Army in the distance was caught off guard, and dozens of people were blown to the ground.

A hundred and fifty tanks began to chase the Beiyang Army in a group of ten, and the Beiyang Army was chased by these big guys who didn't know what it was and fled frantically, but the machine guns on those tanks kept harvesting the lives of Beiyang soldiers, and even the East China Army was very shocked when they saw this scene, which was simply a massacre.

The Beiyang Army, which was running fast in front, soon found that some of them were not the kind of iron frames that could spray shells, but this one was more like the cars driven by those foreigners, but this one was very long and looked very sturdy, and they couldn't penetrate it with their guns, it was just a spark. Just when they were still curious, dozens of flames suddenly erupted from the iron box, and those bullets frantically penetrated their bodies, and soon the Beiyang Army near the iron box was killed, and then a door opened behind the iron box, and one after another East China soldiers quickly walked out from inside, and then hit the Beiyang Army who was stunned in the distance.

At this time, the battlefield saw a scene of more than a dozen tanks chasing hundreds of thousands of people running, when the tank arrived, where the Beiyang soldiers raised their guns and surrendered, batch after batch of Beiyang soldiers surrendered, and finally the gap of the Beiyang soldiers fled, surrendered, and died, the gap was successfully blocked, and then the tanks and armored units also began to help other East China Army, and soon the Beiyang Army began to retreat in a large area, and the tanks and armored units in East China also went back because of the lack of fuel and shells.

This battle caused the Beiyang Army to directly lose 120,000 people, while East China lost 50,000, so far the Beiyang Army only had less than 100,000 troops left, and East China had 120,000 troops left, and the number of the Beiyang Army was no longer an advantage.

Less than three hours after the retreat of the Beiyang Army, the East China Army began to encircle the Beiyang Army, and finally surrounded the Beiyang Army at night, so that the Battle of Maozhou began to come to an end.

The Beiyang Army, which got up early the next morning, was horrified to find that they were surrounded by the East China Army, at this time they had begun to despair, and suddenly those terrifying "boom" sounds came from afar, and the ground also shook, and the soldiers of the Beiyang Army were all miserable white, and the iron frame and iron box demons came again.

In the temporary command post of the Beiyang Army, Feng Guozhang also had a miserable white face, and the officers under him were the same, but in a few days, only 300,000 troops of 300,000 were left with only 100,000 troops who had lost their morale, Feng Guozhang felt that he was finished, he didn't know how he should face President Yuan, and now he was very depressed.

The officer below asked Feng Guozhang: "Military commander, what should we do now, the outside is surrounded by the East China Army, and there are those terrifying weapons." ”

Feng Guozhang said helplessly: "Alas, I don't know, no wonder the East China Army has always been tolerant of our previous attacks, and now I finally know that people are simply tempting us to concentrate on attacking, and then eliminate them together, I said that the East China Army will not be so weak here." ”

Another officer said, "Hurry up and ask the president to send reinforcements." ”

"I sent it when I retreated, but the stone sank into the sea, there may be no extra troops to help us, and the battle on the Xuzhou side must have begun, now we can only rely on ourselves."

Then Feng Guozhang began to organize people to break through, divided into three teams to break through, a team of 30,000 people, but the morale of the soldiers was too poor, Feng Guozhang had to say to the soldiers: "Now we have no reinforcements, we can only break through by ourselves, only by breaking through can we survive, everyone rush." ”

When the soldiers heard that there were no reinforcements, and only by breaking through the siege could they survive and ignited their desire to survive, and their morale soon soared under the leadership of Feng Guozhang. Feng Guozhang led a team of people to break through, they broke through the East China Army, but they were quickly suppressed, only a corpse remained, Feng Guozhang only returned to the command post with less than 20,000 Beiyang Army, and the other two roads were basically the same.

The encirclement of the East China Army was slowly shrinking, and soon the Beiyang Army found that the place where they could move was getting smaller and smaller, and they were all very alarmed.

At the command post, Feng Guozhang looked at the depressed subordinates below and was also very helpless, Feng Guozhang suddenly stood up and said: "You surrender, there is no way out now, only surrender can you live, I am responsible for all the responsibility." ”

"Military commander, it can't be like this, it's not our fault, it's just that the enemy is too strong."

"Since the enemy is too strong, then let's surrender, we can't let the soldiers make senseless sacrifices anymore, you guys go."

These officers soon went out, they found the East China Army to show that they surrendered, and soon the East China soldiers entered the camp of the Beiyang Army to collect weapons, when they were collecting weapons, suddenly a gunshot came from the command post, the East China soldiers rushed to the command post quickly, when they arrived, they only saw a few Beiyang officers holding a corpse and howling and crying. Soon the person in charge of the East China Army came, and when he saw Feng Guozhang's body, he knew that Feng Guozhang had committed suicide, and he saluted Feng Guozhang's body with a solemn expression, and the soldiers behind him also began to salute, because this is a person worthy of respect.

There was a piece of paper next to Feng Guozhang's corpse, which read: Yuan Gong, Huafu has failed your high expectations, this failure is all my fault, I hope that Gong can treat the families of all soldiers well, I will go.

After receiving the news of Feng Guozhang's suicide, Qin Yu only replied: Thick burial, and send his last words to Beijing according to his request.

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