Every 50 meters between the two armored assault vehicles, 20 armored assault vehicles faced a frontal width of 500 meters, this grenade down, on the position of Duan Qirui's troops opened a 500-meter-long gap, the Huaxia Army seized this opportunity, launched a whole army charge, from the gap into the position of Duan Qirui's troops.

If it was a close number of short soldiers, Duan Qirui's troops would have no chance, their individual combat effectiveness could not catch up with the Huaxia Army, and under the fierce offensive of the Huaxia Army, they had to retreat backwards.

The terrain of Hengshui is very distinctive, in addition to the slow post, there are a lot of low-lying land, most of these low-lying places are ancient river channels, most of them are behind the slow post, Duan Qirui's troops retreated, they entered the low-lying land, at this time, the Chinese artillery began to exert their might, and fired shells at Duan Qirui's troops, Duan Qirui's troops were killed by ferocious fire nearly a third, and the others retreated in a hurry.

Duan Qirui did not dare to retreat to the north, because the Huaxia army was about to attack to the north, so Duan Qirui could only retreat to the west, Duan Qirui sent Yuan Shikai the news that Hengshui was lost, and after heavy casualties, he retreated far west, and the Huaxia army then waved its division north and attacked Shijiazhuang, intending to annihilate the main force of Yuan Shikai's army.

Yuan Shikai was taken aback when he heard the news that the Huaxia army was going north, and if the Huaxia army was allowed to successfully go north, he would inevitably encircle his troops in Shijiazhuang.

Although Yuan Shikai was unwilling to admit defeat, he had no choice but to order the troops to retreat, and the Mongolian cavalry involved in the battle, Yuan Shikai also ordered them to temporarily withdraw to Mongolia and wait for the order to act.

When retreating, Yuan Shikai suddenly thought that the combat effectiveness of the Huaxia army was very difficult, the marching speed far exceeded that of his own troops, and there was also a thing called a car, the marching speed was faster, if he was pursued by the Huaxia army, his troops would probably be wiped out.

Yuan Shikai had a plan in his mind, and ordered his two commanders, each to lead a Qing army of more than 1,000 people, one to retreat westward, from the Taihang Mountain Road into Shanxi, all the way to the southeast, into Anhui and Jiangsu, both of which were suspicious soldiers, in order to prevent the Huaxia army from knowing the true direction of Yuan Shikai's retreat.

As for Yuan Shikai, he personally led the main force of the Qing army of 150,000 men to withdraw from Shijiazhuang to Xingtai, Yuan Shikai planned to withdraw to Xingtai first, then to Handan, then to Anyang, and finally to Kaifeng, Henan, and began to hold the Yellow River defense line.

Yuan Shikai thought that he had set up two suspicious soldiers, and the Huaxia army would never be able to see his true retreat route, but what he didn't expect was that the Huaxia army dispatched the Monkey King airship and flew in the sky to find the main force of Yuan Shikai's troops.

In front of the Monkey King's airship, the retreat route of Yuan Shikai's troops was unobstructed, and the news was immediately reported to Li Ming's desk, Li Mingming saw that Yuan Shikai's troops were retreating in the direction of Xingtai, and immediately realized that Yuan Shikai's troops were going to retreat all the way to the south, and finally retreat to Kaifeng, and then rely on Kaifeng to stick to the Yellow River defense line.

Li Ming reported Yuan Shikai's actions to Lin Fei, and Lin Fei immediately instructed Li Ming to completely annihilate Yuan Shikai's subordinates, and it was best to capture or kill Yuan Shikai himself.

In order to completely annihilate Yuan Shikai's troops, Lin Fei ordered Li Mingming to lead the Tianjin Dispatch Army to pursue southward on the one hand, and on the other hand, ordered Zhang Zhenhai's 9th Division to outflank Yuan Shikai's troops and strive to encircle and annihilate Yuan Shikai's troops.

The outflanking location of the 9th Division made Lin Fei really think about it, and after careful consideration, Lin Fei decided to set the location of the enemy annihilation in Handan.

At this time, Yuan Shikai's headquarters was in the Shijiazhuang area, one hundred and fifty kilometers away from Handan, according to the marching speed of Yuan Shikai's troops, it was about 30 kilometers a day, and the marching speed of the Huaxia Army, if it was fast, could walk 50 kilometers a day, the Huaxia Army was in Hengshui at this time, one hundred and sixty kilometers away from Handan, that is to say, the 9th Division would arrive in Handan three days earlier than Yuan Shikai's troops, and three days was enough time to dig trenches and arrange blocking positions.

Lin Fei immediately ordered the 9th Division to forcibly march to Handan to build a blocking position.

The Tianjin Dispatch Army and the 9th Division then began their respective operations, and on March 13, the Tianjin Dispatch Army caught up with Yuan Shikai's rearguard troops, and the two sides immediately engaged in a fierce battle, in the fierce battle, Yuan Shikai's rearguard troops used the village for defense, and the Huaxia Army and the Qing Army fought for the small village, and the two sides fought for two days and two nights, and the Tianjin Dispatch Army completely annihilated Yuan Shikai's rearguard troops.

On March 17, Yuan Shikai's troops arrived in Handan and met with the 9th Division, and the Battle of Handan in the Central Plains Campaign officially began, and the Central Plains Campaign was a series of battles, including the Battle of Shijiazhuang and the Battle of Hengshui.

Yuan Shikai didn't expect that the Huaxia Army would deploy a blocking force in Handan, he thought that his little tricks had deceived Lin Fei, how did he know that in the case of Lin Fei owning an airship, his little tricks were nothing at all.

There is only one way in front of Yuan Shikai, that is, to forcibly break through the Handan defense line, if you don't break through the Handan defense line, but detour from somewhere else, it will take a long time, and it will make the Tianjin army send troops to catch up with them, and it will be even more difficult to fight at that time.

Yuan Shikai sent people to reconnoiter the location of the Tianjin Dispatch Army, and found that the Tianjin Dispatch Army was still a day's journey away from them, so Yuan Shikai issued a death order, and in one day, the Chinese army must be overcome.

As soon as the Qing army approached the position, HP-1 mortars and HP-2 howitzers bombarded together, and the Qing army suffered heavy casualties.

When the Qing army launched the attack, it was evening, and it was dark just after a while of the battle, and the Qing army did not dare to rest, so they could only take advantage of the night to attack.

Before launching the general attack, the Qing army had a sumptuous dinner, Yuan Shikai ordered, take out all the grain and eat it, Yuan Shikai also asked people to go to the surrounding villages to get vegetables and meat, the villagers' chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep were bought or robbed by the Qing soldiers, and even the dogs used by the villagers to watch the homes were not spared.

If this battle breaks through the position of the Huaxia Army, then there is still hope of survival, if it cannot be broken, it will be completely annihilated by the Huaxia Army.

The Qing army camp was filled with the aroma of boiled meat, but everyone was heavy-faced, without the joy of eating meat, at this moment, suddenly there was a deafening "boom" sound from the north, this sound Yuan Shikai's troops were too familiar, that is, the sound of the Huaxia army car.

The Huaxia army actually caught up with the Qing army by a day ahead of schedule.

The entire Qing army camp was in chaos, and in the chaos, the automobile special attack team of the Tianjin Dispatch Army arrived, and Li Ming sent 30 transport trucks and 10 armored trucks, which did not carry personnel, all of them were equipped with light and heavy machine guns and a large amount of ammunition, and the combat method was also very unique, giving full play to the speed and firepower, and after encountering the Qing army, they only fired at a distance and never rushed to a close place to fight.

The machine guns on the trucks kept ringing out, and the Qing soldiers fell down in groups, and the armored trucks fought even more fiercely, relying on their rough skin and thick meat, they directly killed the camp of the Qing army, and used their bodies to hit the Qing soldiers, and many Qing soldiers were directly knocked down and crushed......

In addition to killing, the automobile special attack team also used psychological tactics to make the Qing soldiers throw down their weapons and surrender to the Huaxia army on the opposite side.

The automobile special attack team stirred up the Qing army into a big mess, and at this time, the soldiers of the Huaxia Army who came in transport trucks also arrived, and they immediately launched an attack on Yuan Shikai's troops, and Handan's 9th Division also came out of the trenches and launched a front and rear attack on Yuan Shikai's troops.

Yuan Shikai's troops were surrounded on both sides, and they could not form an army, Yuan Shikai saw that the defeat was decided, so he could only gather his most trusted troops, flee to the west, bypass Handan, and withdraw to the south of the Yellow River, Yuan Shikai was worried that the Huaxia army would take advantage of the situation to go south to seize Kaifeng, so he did not dare to return to Kaifeng, but went west to Luoyang.

Yuan Shikai's troops, having lost their command, became a herd of lambs to the slaughter, and the Qing army surrendered one after another, and the battle lasted all night until the next morning.

The Battle of Handan killed more than 5,000 Qing troops and captured 120,000 Qing troops, most of the captured Qing troops were Qing garrisons in Henan and Shandong, and they could be regarded as regular troops of the Qing State.

On March 18, the Central Plains Campaign officially ended, this battle was divided into three battles, the Shijiazhuang Campaign, the Hengshui Campaign and the Handan Campaign, through this battle, the Huaxia Army basically annihilated the main force of the Qing Central Plains Theater, and forced Yuan Shikai, the commander of the Qing Central Plains Theater, to retreat to Luoyang on the south bank of the Yellow River.

The most dazzling part of this battle is the use of "Malaysian trucks", armored trucks and armored attack vehicles have played a huge role in their respective battlefields, which has also made countries around the world realize the huge potential of cars in the war, since then, countries have incorporated cars into the army, the United States, which has the most developed automobile industry, and even formulated a five-year plan to equip every company of the army with trucks.

This battle also made Lin Fei realize that the use of advanced weapons could greatly speed up the course of the war, so Lin Fei decided to put all the new weapons under research into the Qing battlefield.

After the victory of the Central Plains Campaign, Lin Fei did not let the troops continue to march, but let the troops stay, consolidate the Chinese regime, carry out land reform and change the clothing movement.

At this time, the land contradiction in the Qing State was very acute, the big landlords controlled the vast majority of the cultivated land in the countryside, and the Huaxia Army overthrew the landlords and distributed the land to the people, which made the people very supportive of the Chinese Empire, and many Qing people actively joined the army.