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"Rush! Brothers, we will only have a way to survive if we cross the River of Joux, otherwise we will have only a dead end! An officer of the Mongol cavalry shouted loudly at his cavalry. In front of them, a large number of Mongol cavalry were already rushing towards the positions of the 3rd Army of the Imperial Army north of the Joux River. However, almost all of these Mongol cavalrymen lost their lives under the heavy artillery fire and dense bullets of the Imperial Army. Their corpses were poured into the river with the corpses of their horses, and blood flowed from their bodies, staining the waters of the river red. Because the flood season is now past the flood season, the flow of the Joux River is not large, so it cannot wash away the carcasses of those people and horses. Gradually, the river was intercepted, and the water in the upper reaches became deeper and deeper, and the water in the lower reaches became less and less.

Without the interference of the river, the cavalry of the Qing army would naturally cross the river much faster. However, when an Imperial Army shell blew up the dam of human and horse corpses, the rushing river rushed down and swept the Qing cavalry and horses far away.

The Ru River is not wide, but now it seems to have become an impassable moat for the Qing cavalry, and no matter how many troops the Qing army invests, it will not be able to cross the Ru River. And, the longer they were held back, the greater the threat posed to them by the main forces of the Chinese Empire. The Imperial Army, which came from the west and south, had 5 armies, and both equipment and morale were far from being comparable to the Qing army. Continuously, the Qing army was chased by the imperial army and then annihilated. Although Seng Lingqin also ordered the cavalry units of the Qing army to launch a counterattack. But in the face of the powerful firepower of the Imperial Army, most of these Qing cavalry were killed before they could rush to them. Naturally, the rest of the people did not have the courage to continue fighting. The current situation has become very indestructible to the Qing army, the main force of the Qing army led by Seng Lingqin. Doom is already at hand.

At 8 p.m. on October 28, Monk Greenqin and British adviser Major General Jerrison came to the front line of the Joux River to personally supervise the Qing army's attack on the 3rd Army of the Imperial Army on the north bank of the Ru River. Because how to survive before the main force of the Imperial Army arrived was directly related to the survival of the remaining 100,000 Qing troops. Therefore, Seng Lingqin attaches great importance to this. It's just that even if he arrives, it doesn't seem to have any beneficial effect on the battle situation.

"How's it going?" Lieutenant General Shanlu, who was in charge of commanding the battle, came in and asked.

"Lord Wang. The line of defense of those rebels is too strong. Coupled with the obstruction of the River Joux, it will be difficult for us to rush through! The water of the River Joux is not deep, but it is in the middle of the river. Still more than five feet, the speed of the war horse was very slow when crossing the river, and this gave those rebels a chance. A lot of us. They were all killed by the rebels while crossing the river. The water of the entire Joux River. It's all turned red. Lieutenant General Shanlu said with red eyes. After all, these Mongolian cavalrymen who died were all their clansmen, and now they were killed on a large scale by the Chinese Imperial Army, which made them very unhappy. Whether it is the Mongols or the banner people, the number is very small, and now there are so many deaths, for their entire ethnic group. It's a huge hit. Even if they were able to successfully break through the Imperial Army's defensive line north of the Joux River, it is estimated that the losses would be very large.

"Damn! Shanlu. Whatever you do, you have to break through the lines of the rebels. Now the main army of the rebels is getting closer and closer, and if we don't hurry, we will all be surrounded by the rebels here. When the time comes, we won't be able to survive! Monk Grinqin said.

"Yes, my lord! I'm going to prepare. Lieutenant General Shanlu said. He could feel from the tone of the monk Grinqin's voice how critical the current shape was. If they can't escape in time, they will be really miserable.

After Lieutenant General Shanlu left, he once again organized a large number of Mongol cavalry and launched an attack on the north of the Joux River. However, their attacks were still futile. How is it like becoming the mouth of a monster that devours the lives of the Mongolian cavalry, no matter how many troops are invested, all of them disappear into it. Not even many Mongol cavalry were able to rush to the north bank of the Joux River.

"Boom! Rumble! Dada! Dada! "The artillery and heavy machine guns of the Imperial Army kept roaring, firing shells and bullets at the Qing cavalry, harvesting their lives. These bannermen and Mongols, who used to be powerful on the Han Chinese and could bully the Han at will, are now atoning for their sins, and they are atoning for them with their lives.

"Your Excellency, what shall we do now? The rebels' defensive line to the north of the Joux River is too strong, their firepower is strong, and with the blocking of the Ruux River, it will be difficult for us to break through their defensive line. Monk Lingqin said with some anxiety. At the beginning of the battle, he originally thought that he could easily defeat the Imperial Chinese Army, but as the situation of the battle gradually developed in an unfavorable direction, he gradually changed. Obviously, the Imperial Chinese Army had been prepared for a long time, and this time the Qing army's initiative to attack happened to fall into their full set.

"Your Excellency, the current situation is indeed very unfavorable to the Qing army. Even if you can break through the defense line of the Ru River and retreat to the central part of Henan. However, the Qing army's losses in this war were already too great. The entire battle situation in Henan will have a huge change for the Qing army. The Chinese army will have the upper hand, and if no miracle happens, the Qing army will probably suffer a crushing defeat in Henan. Maj. Gen. Jalison said. Although his words were not finished, Monk Lingqin could also understand what he meant. The Henan battlefield has become the main battlefield of the decisive battle in the Central Plains, and if the Qing army loses on the Henan battlefield, it will be directly related to the success or failure of the Qing army's entire war. If the Qing army still loses in the decisive battle of the Central Plains, then the Qing army has almost no chance of winning this war. And what that means, everybody knows very well. If the Qing army could not win on the battlefield, then the destruction of the Manchus by the Chinese Empire was a foregone conclusion.

"Damn, how can this be? Why is it like this? Monk Lingqin said with some annoyance. He really couldn't understand why it had become the way it was in the blink of an eye. In just a few years, the Manchu Qing dynasty, which ruled all of China, had fallen to such a point. Although the Manchu Qing Dynasty was the world of the Manchus, with their nepotism with the Manchus, the Mongols were also able to live a very nourishing life. Especially these nobles, they are even more powerful. And now, everything has changed. After the Manchu Dynasty was destroyed by the Chinese Empire, all the banner people would definitely not have such a good life again, and maybe those Han people would still oppress them, just as they had been oppressing the Han people for two hundred years. When the time comes, the hard days of the banner people will come.

"Your Excellency, the 3rd Infantry Corps and the 6th Infantry Corps are now on their way. If they can launch an attack on the Chinese army on the north bank of the Joux River in time, maybe we still have a chance. At that time, our main forces will still be able to withdraw to Xuchang. Although we suffered heavy losses in this battle, our main force is still there. Relying on some fortified cities, we may be able to continue to deal with the Chinese army, waiting for the further development of the war situation before making a decision. Maj. Gen. Jalison said.

Monk Greenqin's eyes lit up, that's right, even at this time, the Qing army was not without a chance. Now he still has more than 100,000 men in his hands, and two infantry armies are coming. In addition, there is an infantry corps in Luoyang, and there are also some second-line troops in Kaifeng. The total strength of the Qing army in Henan was still almost 300,000. Still more than the Imperial Chinese Army. Of course, from the point of view of combat effectiveness, the Qing army has lagged far behind. But even so, the Qing army inevitably had no chance of turning defeat into victory.

However, what was now in front of Seng Lingqin was to break through the defensive line of the 3rd Army of the Imperial Army on the Joux. If their more than 100,000 people were annihilated by the Imperial Army, then the Qing Army would have no hope at all. After all, the Qing army had invested a total of 5 cavalry corps in Henan, and now all these cavalry units are here. If these cavalry were lost, the Qing army would have almost no cavalry in Henan. With less than 200,000 infantry, how could they confront the ferocious Imperial Chinese Army?

For this reason, Seng Lingqin had to repeatedly put pressure on Lieutenant General Shanlu and other cavalry generals, asking them to break through the Ru River at any cost and open a passage for the evacuation of the whole army. The longer the time dragged on, the more unfavorable it was for the Qing army. On the one hand, the Qing army had to attack the 3rd Army of the Imperial Army, which was defending the Ru River, and on the other hand, it had to block the 1st, 19th, 5th, 2nd, and 20th armies of the pursuing Imperial Army.

The Qing troops that served as the blocking of the Imperial Army were the 13th Infantry Corps and the 14th Infantry Corps of the Qing Army, which suffered heavy losses at Runing. Among them, the 13th Infantry Army has only more than 10,000 people left. The 14th Infantry Corps was much better, with more than 40,000 men in the whole army. However, they were still no match for the Imperial Army, and they were almost on the verge of collapse.

The continuous failures also made the generals of the Qing army have other ideas. After all, they followed the Manchus for the sake of glory and wealth. Now the war is obviously very unfavorable to the Manchus, and if they follow the Qing army, they will have to throw away their old lives. In addition, the commanders of the 13th Infantry Corps and the 14th Infantry Corps of the Qing Army were all Han Chinese, so at this time they were naturally unwilling to continue to work for the Manchus, but to prepare for their own back.

On the night of October 28, Lieutenant General Zheng Gaoxiang, commander of the 13th Infantry Corps of the Qing Army, secretly sent an envoy to contact the Imperial Army, wanting to betray the Manchus! (To be continued......)