Since the Qing officers said this, the Qing soldiers pinned their hopes for victory on the mine array, and in the fear of the invading artillery chariots, a glimmer of hope was ignited.

The predatory artillery chariot equipped with a crushing minesweeper gradually approached the mine array, and at this time, the cannon sound of the Huaxia army had stopped, and the battlefield was quiet, only the deafening roar of the invading artillery chariot, like a knife, cut the eardrums of each Qing soldier.

After the predator was retrofitted with a crushing minesweeper, the Diesel II engine had to run at full power, otherwise it would not move, so that the sound would be louder, and the sound of "boom" echoed throughout the battlefield.

As soon as the Qing officers gave the order, the Qing soldiers fired at the invading artillery chariots, and the bullets flew towards the invading artillery chariots "whoosh".

The invading artillery chariot drove into the mine array, and the crushing minesweeper pressed firmly across the ground, transmitting the pressure to the ground, and traveled less than 20 meters in the minefield, when suddenly a loud "boom" came from the ground, and the crushing minesweeper pressed a mine.

Because the mine exploded in the earth, the sound of the explosion was much more muffled than that of an explosion in the air, and the vibration of the explosion on the ground was much greater than that of an explosion in the air, and many Qing soldiers in the trenches felt this vibration.

With sound and vibration, a large expanse of earth was lifted high, like a curtain of earth, directly covering the invading artillery chariots.

The Qing soldiers cheered in unison, but after cheering, they suddenly found that the predatory artillery chariot was still moving forward, and the explosion did not hurt it at all.

The artillery combat vehicle used for mine clearance was specially modified, and the interior of the vehicle was laid with flexible materials to weaken the shock wave, protect the occupants, and the mine explosion had no lethal effect on it.

The Qing army's position was suddenly silent, and the cheers could no longer be heard.

The Qing army officer's face was bloodless, "The snitch's thing is not afraid of mines, take a grenade, rush up, and blow that guy up for me." ”

The Qing army had already organized death squads, and they would use their flesh and blood to fight the plundering artillery chariots, and they put ten grenades in a bag, carrying the bags, and roaring and rushing towards the plundering artillery chariots.

The Huaxia army had long been prepared for this move of the Qing army, and at a position 50 meters behind the artillery battle body of the plundering artillery equipped with crushing minesweepers, it was followed by four armored trucks, and the infantry stood on the trucks to cover the invading artillery fighting vehicles.

The Qing death squads organized ten charges, all of which were repulsed, and during this time, four predatory artillery vehicles had carved a road forty meters wide in the minefield, which reached a hundred meters in front of the Qing trenches.

When the plundering artillery chariots arrived here, they did not dare to go any further, because if they went further, the distance would be too close, and the Qing army death squads were very likely to rush to the side of the plundering artillery chariots and inflict fatal injuries on the invading artillery chariots with a large number of grenades.

So when the four plundering artillery chariots arrived, they began to reverse and withdraw from the battlefield, while the other predatory artillery chariots and infantry prepared to attack.

Soon, four plundering artillery chariots equipped with crushing minesweepers withdrew from the battlefield, and the other twenty-six predatory artillery chariots and thousands of infantry rushed towards the Qing army's position like a tiger pounced.

The Qing army saw that the mine array had lost its effect, and for a while they had no will to fight, they threw down their guns and fled.

The first line of defense of the Qing army soon collapsed, and the Huaxia army, under the cover of the invaded artillery and chariots, advanced into the depth of the Qing army.

There were no mine arrays in the depth of the Qing army, because the Qing army did not have too many mines, and all of them were used in front of the trenches, and further behind, there were barbed wire, trenches and antlers.

Trenches and antlers could not stop the infantry, the infantry could jump out of the trench and climb out of the trench, as for the antlers, they were of no use to the infantry, the infantry just bypassed them, and the only thing that stood in front of the infantry was barbed wire.

Without the Plundering Artillery Chariot, the barbed wire would have barely lasted for a while, but now with the Marauding Artillery Chariot, the barbed wire has become a piece of cake.

The barbed wire was pierced on the ground with wooden stakes, and under the tremendous impact of the plundering artillery chariots, the wooden stakes were taken up directly from the soil and lay on the ground, and as soon as the barbed wire lay down, there was no longer a threat to the infantry.

Although the Qing army shot behind the barbed wire fence to stop the Huaxia army, it should not be forgotten that the artillery chariot of the invasion was not only a bear with rough skin and thick flesh, but also a bear with sharp teeth and claws, two parallel machine guns, a main gun, fired together, and brutally tortured the Qing army, the Qing army could not withstand it for a while, and the Qing army of the second and third lines of defense was defeated and retreated one after another.

The battle lasted for two hours, the Qing army withdrew from the Zongyang defense line in disarray, fled to Anqing, and at 6 o'clock in the morning of July 26, the Huaxia army fully occupied the county seat of Zongyang.

Wei Zelong ordered the troops to rest for eight hours, and at four o'clock in the afternoon, continue to attack Anqing.

The news of the loss of Zongyang was reported to Anqing, what everyone in the Huaxia Army did not expect was that Zhang Zhidong actually sat in Anqing in person, commanded the battle, and when Zhang Zhidong heard the news of the loss of Zongyang, he ordered his subordinates on the spot to immediately bring Zongyang back to me.

The Qing army hurriedly mobilized all the defenders of Anqing, gathered 50,000 troops, and counterattacked Zongyang.

Wei Zelong knew that the defenders of Anqing were not elite, poorly equipped, although there were rifles, but there were no grenades, at this time the Qing State could not produce grenades by itself, all grenades had to be purchased from foreign countries, and the coastal areas of the Qing Kingdom were controlled by the Huaxia Army, and the assistance of Britain, the United States and other countries could not come in, and only Russia could give Qing assistance.

Russia's industrial strength was the last among the Western powers, and there were not too many grenades to give to the Qing State, so the grenades of the Qing army were only available to the most elite troops on the front line, and they had been exhausted in the previous Battle of Zongyang.

Wei Zelong knew that the Qing army that came to counterattack did not have grenades, which meant that they could not pose a threat to the plundering artillery chariots at all, so he discussed with Bai Chenggang whether it was possible to let the invading artillery chariots adopt a rampage and directly disperse the Qing army.

Bai Chenggang agreed on the spot and replied with a smile: "Our plundering artillery chariots have fought like this in the face of Lao Maozi and the little devil, directly into the enemy's formation, rampage!" ”

Wei Zelong smiled and nodded, "But we still need to prepare the infantry, our plundering artillery chariot has already frightened the Qing soldiers, and when they see it on a rampage, many people will definitely surrender." ”

Wei Zelong and Bai Chenggang discussed properly, and Bai Chenggang personally led thirty invading artillery chariots to set off and rushed straight to the Qing army's formation.

The Qing army arrived from Anqing, and before they could start their attack formation, they were attacked by the plundering artillery chariots.

Thirty invading artillery chariots charged while firing artillery, the Qing army was directly blown up, miserable, and so on to the invasion of artillery chariots into the Qing army's formation, sacrificing the "crushing miracle", the Qing army was completely frightened, countless Qing troops raised their hands high, kneeling to surrender, the Qing army is not the Japanese army after all, not so tenacious.

Behind the artillery chariots of the invasion, followed by thirty trucks, these trucks carried soldiers, specializing in the disposal of prisoners of war, when they saw the surrender of the Qing army, they gathered them into custody, and only two hours passed, all 50,000 Qing soldiers surrendered, and the defense of Anqing was gone.

Zhang Zhidong gritted his teeth with hatred and beat his chest, but he had no choice but to retreat from Anqing, flee to Hanyang, and surrender the east gate of Hunan and Hubei to the Huaxia army.

With the assistance of the plundering artillery chariots, the Battle of Anqing ended in a complete victory for the Huaxia Army, in which the Huaxia Army annihilated more than 80,000 Qing troops, of which less than 5,000 were killed, and the rest were all prisoners.

After the end of the battle, Wei Zelong ordered the troops to stop and recuperate, replenish ammunition and personnel, the Huaxia Army also suffered certain losses in this battle, and the casualties were about 1,000 people, which must be replenished by the reserve force.

The most important thing to replenish ammunition is the Raiding Artillery Chariot Unit, which has exhausted all the shells and machine gun shells of the Plundering Artillery Chariot, and if it wants to participate in the war, it can only sacrifice the "Rolling Miracle".

On 29 July, Zhang Zhidong returned to Hanyang via Jiujiang, and after arriving in Hanyang, the first thing Zhang Zhidong did was to gather the technicians of the British, American, Japanese, and Russian countries of the Hanyang Arsenal and gather everyone together.

Zhang Zhidong said angrily: "We were attacked by the steel car of the Huaxia Army in Anqing, that thing is too powerful, we must come up with something to kill the steel car of the Huaxia Army." At this time, the official name of the plundered artillery chariot had not yet been announced to the outside world, so Zhang Zhidong had no choice but to call it "steel chariot".

The technicians of all countries shook their heads and were silent, and Zhang Zhidong was even more annoyed, "Gentlemen, you are all outstanding talents of all countries, can't we build the kind of steel car of the Huaxia Army?" ”

The technicians were all embarrassed, and one of the British technicians said: "After hearing about the steel car, our British Empire has been organizing people to develop it, but there is no news about the development situation." ”

"Even if your country imitates it, it won't help us, I still want to ask Russian friends, have you developed a steel car?"

The technicians from both countries shook their heads, "We don't know anything about steel cars, it's too difficult to get it out, if we can capture a steel car as a reference, it will be much easier." ”