The battle starts at 2 o'clock in the afternoon and will end in the evening.

Several miles of riverbanks, hills, and fields were covered with a thick layer of blood and mud that could not be washed away on the river bank within a few hours.

The air was filled with a strong and suffocating smell of blood, and even birds, beasts, and wild dogs were kept away from it.

After an afternoon of killing, the battlefield, littered with corpses and rivers of blood, had become silent and solemn.

Only wild dogs and vultures were left, howling happily in the distance.

Most of the Beiyang troops who crossed the river were killed in battle, except for more than 200 people who surrendered. The tragic scene was enough to shock the heavens and make the gods cry.

The defensive battle of Liujiamiao finally ended with the Wuhan Revolutionary Army's victory.

In this battle, a total of more than 6,000 enemies were wiped out, including more than 4,000 from the Beiyang Army, including two heavy artillery battalions, and more than 2,000 miscellaneous soldiers, including an organized cavalry battalion and a brigade regiment. One of the brigade commanders and the brigade regiment were killed.

There are three officers and several battalion and company officers.

The victory at Liujiamiao greatly encouraged the morale of the Wuhan Revolutionary Army. At the same time, it further inspired the rise of anti-Qing forces across the country. The independent power supply of each provincial government one after another shook the Qing Dynasty and made the rulers panic all day long.

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On the same day that fierce fighting broke out at Sandao Bridge and Liujia Temple in Hankou, war broke out in Hanyang City across the river.

In addition to the offensive planned by Feng Guozhang of the First Route Army at Sandaoqiao and Liujiamiao in the northeastern suburbs of Hankou, his headquarters staff drafted a plan for him to open a second battlefield. He signed the battle plan and appointed the Beiyang Army's third

The commander of the four town divisions, that is, the town division commander Wang Yujia, was the commander-in-chief of Hanyang's former enemies and launched an attack on Caidian, the western suburb of Hanyang, in an attempt to capture Hanyang City.

After Wang Yujia received the order, he excitedly went straight from Xinyang to Xiaogan, Hubei Province, where he set up a former enemy headquarters. He then ordered an auxiliary brigade under his command to occupy Xingou Town, forcibly requisition civilian ships, and prepare to cross the Han River to attack Caidian, Hanyang.

The Han River, also known as the Han River, is an important tributary of the Yangtze River. The Hubei section is famous for its wide river bed and many beach crossings.

Coincidentally, ten British and American warships sailed into the Han River and bombarded the revolutionary army's Caidian, Sanyan Bridge, Wangjiawan positions, and Guishan Fort with their powerful naval guns for an hour, tilting nearly a thousand

Firing artillery shells can be said to be a desperate effort to express support for the Qing Dynasty's revolutionary army in encirclement and suppression.

Since the shelling of Sandao Bridge and Liujiamiao in Hankou took place first, the Hanyang garrison had already received the warning message from the headquarters. Therefore, Gu Zhunian, commander of the Hanyang garrison and commander of the Third Brigade of the Revolutionary Army, was prepared in advance.

Near noon that day, when the observation post discovered that a foreign ship was sailing into the Han River, the troops in the position had already withdrawn from the battlefield, making full use of the hilly terrain of Hanyang to hide the troops, military supplies and ammunition in Miliang Mountain, Guodi Mountain, and Fairy Mountain.

area.

The artillery unit was mainly built at the foot of Guishan in the north of the city, and the Guishan Fort was also temporarily evacuated.

According to the needs of the war situation, Chen Tianhua instructed Luo Erhu to lead the remaining reserve team of more than 2,000 troops to gradually reinforce Hanyang, and ordered the 5,000 troops of Sun Wu's brigade to guard Wuchang.

The Gu Zhunian Brigade was composed of a squadron of his special operations brigade, four infantry battalions of the Uprising Hubei New Army, the original Hanyang Arsenal garrison battalion, the Iron and Steel Company garrison battalion, and two heavy artillery battalions, one of which was composed of the arsenal heavy artillery battalion.

The workers and masters in the factory formed it spontaneously.

The total strength is about 4,000, of which a squadron of his special operations brigade has about 200, which is equivalent to a reinforced company. They are all cavalry and have very strong combat effectiveness.

Luo Erhu sent reinforcements of more than 2,000 men and horses, about four battalions, two of which were cavalry.

Therefore, the combat effectiveness of the Hanyang Revolutionary Army is very strong. Although the number is less than half, its combat effectiveness is as good as that of the Beiyang Army's elite Fourth Town Division. Moreover, the Revolutionary Army has one more cavalry and artillery than the Beiyang Army.

More than twice as much.

There is another key link. The Revolutionary Army's ammunition supply is very sufficient. The arsenal is in Hanyang, so they are not afraid of ammunition consumption. On the contrary, the Qing Army's ammunition supply line is long and relies on canal and train transportation from the Beiyang Ordnance Bureau in Texas. Once the war starts, there will be some

Can't let go, stretched too thin.

In the afternoon, after the foreign fleet was baptized by artillery fire, they completed the task within their capabilities, set sail and left the Han River, returned to the Hankou River, and rested in their own exclusive port.

After the naval gun coverage, Wang Yujia immediately ordered his Seventh Assistance Brigade, whose commander was named Chen Guangyuan, to lead the entire associate brigade's 5,000 infantrymen to form more than a dozen beach crossings on the river bank that was more than five kilometers long.

, forced to cross the Han River in batches and attack Caidian, Hanyang.

As soon as the enemy ship's gunfire stopped, Gu Zhunian immediately ordered the troops to enter the position and take their positions. The two artillery battalions began to seal off the various units and set up the coordinates of the bombardment area.

Gu Zhunian was very clever. He removed the artillery from Guishan Fort, but the artillery observation post was still there, and he could observe the Qing troops crossing the Han River from a high position.

When more than a hundred large and small ships of the Qing army, loaded with Qing soldiers, sailed to the middle of the Han River, they encountered artillery fire from the Guishan artillery position of the revolutionary army.

"Shhhhh..."

"Boom...boom..."

"..."

For a moment, the cannonballs shuttled through the air, flying towards the river with a sharp whistling sound and tail flames.

What is staged here is a true river beach attack and defense battle, which is quite exciting and fierce.

Countless cannonballs landed on the edge of the small boat, and the huge waves set off directly overturned the boat. The Qing soldiers struggled in the cold river water. Some fishing boats were hit by a cannonball, and the hull was immediately blown into two pieces.

Broken limbs and boat planks were flying in the air.

After finally landing on the empty beach, before the Qing soldiers could recover, they saw rows of revolutionary cavalry charging towards them, holding their gleaming sabers high.

"kill…"

The infantry of the Qing army, without any beachhead cover, encountered the charge of the cavalry, just like a kid seeing the king of hell, unable to resist.

"Run away quickly..."

"Help…"

"..."

This group of Beiyang soldiers never dreamed that when they stepped onto the bare beach, they would become living sacrifices under the sword and the prey of the cavalry encirclement and suppression.

Many Qing troops who were preparing to land on the beach were so frightened that they quickly returned to the boat and rowed back. They would rather accept the baptism of artillery fire, fall into the river and still have a chance of survival, and be chased by cavalry than be hacked to death by sabers.

, even if they were kicked to death by war horses, no one would be left alive.

In the evening, the first day of cross-river fighting ended temporarily with a disastrous defeat for the Qing army. The 4,000 Qing troops who crossed the river were either encountered by artillery fire or sabers. Only a thousand of them escaped back to the south bank of the Han River, resulting in a direct loss of nearly three-quarters of the troops.

Many Qing soldiers who fled back were disfigured and lost their combat effectiveness.

Chen Guangyuan was frightened. The Beiyang Army had never suffered such a disastrous defeat since its training at the small station.
Chapter completed!