Zaitao's eyes have been staring at Qu Tongfeng and their direction, because whether he can succeed here is the key to whether he can completely annihilate the Thirteenth Army. As long as the thirteenth army is completely wiped out, there will be a gap in one of Lao Maozi's defense lines, and at that time, the battle of Belle Ye will be easy to fight.

"Report, Commander-in-Chief Yang called, asking how the battle is going."

The staff officer took a telegram and handed it to Zaitao, but Zaitao didn't answer it at all after hearing it: "Call back, it's calling." ”

The staff officer was stunned for a moment, and Zaitao put down his binoculars: "That's it!" ”

"Yes!"

He had already seen from the telescope that Qu Tongfeng seemed to have rushed up, and he was really relieved. Zaitao wanted to tell Commander Yang that he had made a breakthrough and was confident in the battle ahead.

But Lord Belle is really mature now, and there are some bold words that he doesn't want to say. Yang Xiaolin made it clear to him and asked him to fight well. Zaitao also knew that it was not easy for a remnant of the Manchu Qing Dynasty to sit in this position today, and Commander Yang was taking care of him when he said that.

In the evening, as Qu Tongfeng occupied a hill more than 140 meters above sea level on the flank of the Russian 13th Army, the division of the 13th Army by the Chinese troops was successfully completed.

At this time, the 13th Army clearly felt that the catastrophe was about to befall them, and first tried to retreat, but was blocked by the 37th Army of the Beiyang Army. In desperation, he could only return to his original position to defend to the death, and at the same time ask the surrounding friendly troops to come to reinforcements quickly.

Stessel was obviously not willing to let Zaitao come up and pick a victory, so even if it was already night. The entire line of defense was attacked by Chinese troops, but Stersar brought in as many troops as he could to try to rescue the 13th Army.

The Russians can't stop if they don't stop downloading, and it's a fatal thing to be one step slower than others on the battlefield, let alone stop. The general attack, which was originally scheduled to be launched the next morning, began more than ten hours ahead of schedule.

This time the main attack was the 25th Army, the commander Sun Wu.

Sun Wu was a great contributor to the revolution at the beginning, if Sun Wen's achievements came down out of thin air, then this is not appropriate for Sun Wu. Sun Wu came back early and has been persisting in the struggle in the mainland. It is said that it is not rushing to the front line, but it can be regarded as an underground party.

Moreover, he was one of the few people in the revolutionary party who knew how to do military affairs. When the Wuchang Uprising was made, Li Yuanhong did not wait to see him. The army had to be handed over to Huang Xing, who didn't know how to fight at all. Huang Daxia couldn't fight, and he wanted to fight wherever he wanted, which not only caused a military defeat, but also made the revolutionary army unable to raise its head in front of the Volunteers and the Beiyang Army.

Although Wu Zhaolin fought two good battles. But everybody knows. Wu Zhaolin, a revolutionary, is a hypocrite. A true revolutionary like Sun Wu. I've been looking for a chance to show for a long time.

Sun Wu showed quite hard work, his army was originally a full army, and there were more people than the Russian Thirteenth Army. And he only needs to blindly attack, and the Russian Thirteenth Army will have to draw troops to cope with the pressure on both flanks. Counting the fact that the Chinese artillery has now controlled the scene, it really has the advantage.

Sun Wu didn't give the Russians any false play, he didn't launch a strong attack at the beginning, and used small troops to carry out harassing attacks on the Russian positions, which was to go up wave after wave, not only did he not give Lao Maozi time to rest, but he didn't even give them time to change defenses.

Ten minutes of an attack wave, and a few minutes of shelling in between, the Russians were still fighting at first, but after a few hours passed, it was no more, and as the consumption of physical strength and troops increased, the Russians gradually began to make all kinds of mistakes.

Sun Wu slowly made a breakthrough. First a number of small positions were lost, and then the outlying fortifications of the 13th Army were destroyed one by one.

At 10:20 a.m. on the 21st, the main positions of the Thirteenth Army were still in their hands on only two hills, and the Chinese side had concentrated more than 40,000 troops of the two armies preparing to launch a strong attack.

At this time, Lord Belle carried out his consistent policy and issued an ultimatum to the Thirteenth Army, demanding that they surrender unconditionally, otherwise they would not dare to guarantee that they would still have the opportunity to enjoy the treatment of prisoners of war.

This time, Zaitao was really not trying to scare the Russians, aiming at the two hills, not only the muzzles of 40,000 soldiers, but also more than 1,000 artillery pieces ready to fire at any time. Lord Belle gave Lao Maozi half an hour to think about it, and Lao Maozi bargained and asked for an hour. Zaitao did not agree, and the Chinese troops immediately launched a strong attack.

At 12:40, the Russian troops, trying to break through the Chinese blocking circle, were repulsed. The Thirteenth Army completely lost hope of being rescued. At the same time, a hole in their defensive line was torn open, and in a situation of complete desperation, without the consent of their commanders, the surrenders of the formations continued one after another.

In fact, the war was like this, the Russians were unwilling to surrender to the Chinese at the beginning of the war, they considered it an unacceptable shame. But as more and more Russian troops entered the Chinese POW camps, the humiliation was accepted.

The battle reached 1:30, and the last hill of the Russians was breached, and in such a situation, the commander of the 13th Army knew that there was no point in resisting except not being able to enjoy the treatment of prisoners of war, and immediately surrendered his pistol.

The thirty-nine hours of fighting ended in victory for the Chinese, with the Russians suffering more than 21,000 casualties and more than 6,700 prisoners. The Fourth Front Army also lost more than 17,000 men, and Zaitao was more acceptable to the proportion of casualties for Yifang, who took the initiative to attack.

It doesn't really matter how many people are killed or injured in a battle, what matters is whether you complete the task you want to accomplish. In this respect, China was also the victor, and after the annihilation of the 13th Army, Stessel's entire front was knocked open by a gap.

Of course, Lord Belle didn't stop like this. Taking advantage of the attack, the Fourth Front launched a full-line charge against Stersal's army, and the Russian troops were beaten and retreated.

On the 23rd, there was a dramatic change on the battlefield. The Mongolian puppet army unit responsible for assisting the defense of the Russian army on the right flank in the military deployment of Stessel could not hold on under the artillery fire, and they did not surrender, but turned around and ran away without even saying hello, which made a huge gap in the right flank of the Russians.

Without waiting for Stessel to make any remedial measures, the 27th Army of the Beiyang Army did not even ask Zaitao for instructions, and rushed in after discovering the opportunity! They were like a drill getting into the ranks of the Russians.

Stessel concentrated all his efforts on driving out this group of Chinese, but under the cover of artillery fire, the 27th Army not only held out in the middle of the Russian formation, but also expanded the range of their positions. Then Zaitao mobilized troops to reinforce here, and the gap of Lao Maozi was torn bigger and bigger, seeing that the entire army was about to be divided into two, Stessel finally gave the order to retreat in desperation.

This Russian was very bad, he ordered the whole army to retreat, in order to ensure that the Russian troops could escape smoothly, and also let a group of Mongolian troops defend Wuchuan County, and use Wuchuan to delay Zaitao's pursuit.

More than 20,000 Mongol cavalry were thrown by him under the muzzle of the fourth side, and Zaitao surrounded Wuchuan, first ordering those Mongols to immediately lay down their arms and surrender. However, the commander of the Mongol army was so loyal to the Russians that he refused the kindness of Belle, and the battle began.

There was not much suspense in such a battle, and the combat capability and morale of the remaining Mongol troops were close to collapse, and many soldiers no longer cared about Shangfeng's orders when the artillery fire passed, laid down their weapons and came out to surrender, and it didn't take much effort to break Wuchuan.

Qu Tongfeng's troops were the first to enter Wuchuan County, and they thought that there were still some street battles to be fought that were not too fierce, but they did not expect that those puppet soldiers would actually tie up all their commanders at this time and escort them to the front of the Chinese troops in order to survive.

Wuchuan was thus recovered, and this was the first county town recovered by Chinese troops since the beginning of the war!

The news reached Beijing and then to the rest of the world through newspapers and airwaves. Try to be late autumn now, but China is boiling again!

While the people of Beijing began to set off firecrackers to celebrate the victory, the British Prime Minister, Earl Bannerman, was still working with the stars on the other side.

Bannerman was reading the information that had just been sent from China, and Yang held a press conference to announce China's victory to the world in a high-profile manner, which was really not good news for the British Empire.

China really already has the ability to be independent, and it is somewhat unrealistic to dream of turning China into what it used to be. It seems that the British government should indeed find a new way to defend the interests of the British Empire in Asia.

Asia is really bad.

Almost at the same time as the Fourth Front attacked, another war was fought, and it was also challenging the British Empire's ability to control Asia.

On 4 November, the Japanese envoy arrived in Indonesia to make one last representation with the Dutch authorities, but to no avail.

On 7 November, the Japanese admiral Heihachiro Togo personally led the fleet southward, and the Dutch navy performed quite well at this time, although their warships were far inferior to the Japanese fleet in terms of number, tonnage, and firepower, but the commander of the fleet, in order to maintain the honor of an army, resolutely led the entire fleet to meet Togo Heihachiro.

On the 15th, the British side made a final mediation of the emergency situation between Japan and the Netherlands, and before a definite result could be reached, the Japanese navy and the Dutch fleet met in the Java Sea, and the battle began.

The Dutch said that the Japanese fired first, and the Japanese said that the Dutch opened it first, and there were no satellites in this era, so it was impossible to tell which of them was lying. But the mediation hosted by the British was thus declared broken. (To be continued......)