A few miles outside the Hanyang Wharf, in the dark, dozens of cargo ships carried nearly 5,000 soldiers and nearly 100 large and small artillery guns and quietly docked towards the Hanyang Wharf!

Li Han stood on the head of a cargo ship worth thousands of tons, wearing a military coat, raised his telescope, and looked towards Hanyang Port without blinking.

"Sir, news came from the foreigners that the ship they sent had returned. The dock is still under the occupation of the civilian army, but there are less than a hundred soldiers. Since Hanyang is about to fall, most of the ships that were docked at the dock have left the port and sailed to Wuchang. Let's land!"

There were also several generals wearing new military uniforms of the Hubei Revolutionary Army standing beside Li Han. One of them was not someone else, but his intelligence officer Li Donglai. Chen Tianxiang was left in Yingcheng by him. Considering that the situation in the three towns of Wuchang was complicated, he was imperative to fight for control of Hubei this time, so he brought intelligence officer Li Donglai together before leaving. At that time, there would definitely be some things that were not suitable for him to do it himself!

"Where are the top leaders of the civilian army?"

He took back his telescope, because the wind blew on the river, so the splashes on the lenses were blurred by the fear of hitting the hull!

Li Donglai frowned slightly, "The subordinates have already lined up to take the fast ship to go ashore to inquire. However, according to the civilian guards on the dock, Wuchang has basically no expectations for defending Hanyang. Therefore, the organization of the civilian army with combat effectiveness has basically completed the evacuation. The remaining part is just a few remaining arrangements of the organization in the past few days of war. It is estimated that there are less than 5,000 civilian troops left in Hanyang. However, the Qing army has not yet attacked Hanyang City, and is besieging the last line of defense of the civilian army near Zhonglie in the west of the city!"

"very good!"

He felt relieved. After all, he had prepared for so long, and in fact he had already made up his mind for Hanyang. Even if he had paid 5,000 people, he would still have to protect Hanyang Iron Factory and Hanyang Arsenal!

After negotiations with Germany, Austro-Hungary, he discovered that it would be impossible to build an arsenal and an iron plant to reach the scale of the Hanyang arsenal and an iron plant without three or four years plus tens of millions of silver investment! Therefore, instead of considering the busy ordering machinery with foreign countries, selecting a factory site, etc., and spending several years to rebuild its heavy industrial foundation, it would be better to be closer and control the Hanyang arsenal and an iron plant before the fall of Hanyang!

Therefore, the minimum goal of this operation is to control the Hanyang Arsenal and the Iron Factory!

"Order the order, the tenth mark is the pioneer, prepare to log in!"

"yes!"

A staff officer behind him saluted and immediately went down to issue an order!

A quarter of an hour later, several black-sailed ships began to land on the shore with the first batch of soldiers. After the Tenth Pioneer Battalion showed the military orders engraved with the Great Governor's Seal and Jingchu Guardian Seal, the civilian soldiers guarding the wharf were excitedly giving up their garrison. After learning that the civilian military belt that was originally responsible for supervising the wharf had already left Hanyang by boat, Li Han immediately ordered the tenth Balance to disrupt the organization of more than 100 civilian soldiers at the wharf and reorganized them into the various battalions of the tenth Balance! Then, after leaving a team of people to guard the wharf, he quickly rushed towards Hanyang City!

About half an hour later, the ninth yard was also completed. After confirming that there was a reorganized civilian army near the front line of the Martyrs' Temple, Li Han immediately ordered the Ninth yard to rush to support the army. There was also an artillery battalion with him, with a total of 36 small 60mm cannons and four heavy artillery with a caliber. During this trip, he also recruited nearly 1,700 civilians from Hubei to help transport supplies for the army, so the army's advancement was very fast!

In addition, he also sent a soldier to Guishan immediately, holding his military orders, and taking over the Guishan cannon camp's position!

"Quick~~~Hurry, be sure to occupy Hanyang City before the Qing army enters the city!"

"Before, just run quickly!"

In order to enter Hanyang City faster, the tenth yard in front almost gave up all the baggage and bulky artillery, carrying only a dozen machine guns! Their mission is different from the ninth yard. The ninth yard was to rush to the Martyrs' Temple to support the civilian army, but they were busy taking over the defense of Hanyang City to prevent the civilian army from falling on the front line of the Martyrs' Temple from defending them, so as not to be completely safe!

The tenth standard seized Hanyang City very smoothly and almost no obstacles were received. However, when Li Han and others behind saw the city defense situation in Hanyang City, they were stunned. They also understood why Huang Xing and others did not rely on Hanyang City to resist the Qing army's persistence and were waiting for reinforcements to arrive!

This Hanyang City was first built in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and was originally a mountain city of Lushan. In the fourth year of Wude in the Tang Dynasty, Hanyang City was expanded on the basis of Lushan City. The city was 3.54 kilometers around the city. There are eight gates: Yingchun in the east, Shazhou in the south, Xiaogan in the west, Hanguang in the north, Chaotian in the south, Hannan in the south, Hannan in the south, Qinghe in the north, and Xiagong in the north.

This city "surrounds the river in the southeast and controls Yuehu in the north", which embraces part of Fengqi Mountain and Guishan. During the Northern Song Dynasty, Hanyang City was destroyed by floods. In the early years of Jiading in the Southern Song Dynasty, Huang Gan, the Hanyang Army, repeatedly requested the restoration plan to retreat from Dabie Mountain to Fengqi Mountain in the north. In the tenth year of Xianchun, the city wall was built according to the Huang Gan plan. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the prefect Cheng Rui rebuilt and restored the foundation of the Southern Song Dynasty, "surrounds the river in the southeast and crosses Fengqi in the northwest". The city wall was 2.5 kilometers around the city wall, which was a single-wall and Wuli City. There are 4 city gates: Chaozong in the east and the south is the Chaozong in the south.

In the south, Fengshan is Fengshan in the west, and Chaoyuan is Chaoyuan in the north, who will build each city gate? Soon, Chaoyuan is blocked. During the Jiajing period, the city of Li was built. Hanyang City was affected by war, wind, rain, and floods in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and was repeatedly destroyed and built. By the 32nd year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (1906), the prefect strictly prevented the prefectures, and the magistrate Lin Ruizhi rebuilt the city wall and the east building. However, due to years of disrepair and insufficient city defense funds, the so-called city defense in Hanyang City only had a few low-high city walls, using blue and gray soil bricks, mostly soil. The Qing army bombarded half of the city wall and collapsed, and it was impossible to resist.

Some people say why they did not retreat to the city to fight the streets with the Qing army. In fact, some people have proposed this proposal, but it was quickly rejected by Huang Xing. Compared with the civilian army, whether it was the Beiyang army or the rest of the Qing army, the enemy was extremely cruel. When the Hankou City was generally lost, Huang Xing proposed to seize the streets and defend it. As a result, the Qing army moved cannons and bombarded the streets where the civilian army might have hidden, causing countless murders! Not only that, in the subsequent Hankou war, in order to avoid a large number of casualties and injuries in the streets, Feng Guozhang ordered the Qing army to set fire to advance, almost burning half of the Hankou City, which shows that the Qing army was vicious and cruel!

After the Hankou Battle, many Wuchang had excuses to hold people accountable for this matter. The Chinese people did not have any other abilities, and they were definitely the best in the world. They were either saints’ remarks or benevolence and righteousness since ancient times, which really made Huang Xing feel that he was bound before the war. As a result, he gave up using the low city defense of Hanyang City to fight another cruel street battle with the Qing army!

However, Huang Xing obviously miscalculated the situation, but he did not guess that after several days of high-intensity war, the loss of the Qing army was still above the civilian army, especially the Qing army in Hankou. Since he took the Beijing-Han Railway, the supplies that had originally traveled south to the Qing army had already been in Anhui. Now, even Anhui has been liberated. Even if the British secretly helped transport some by sea, the far water could not be solved in the near fire. In addition, the artillery battles in the past few days, the Qing army almost exhausted the inventory of artillery shells in just a few days. It is a pity that if Huang Xing could make up his mind to choose to hold on for a few more days, he would be able to obtain the stagnant situation with the Qing army in Hanyang!

For his father Zhisuke, who likes modern history, Li Han’s modern history is not very good, but he knows many comments from later generations during the Revolution of 1911. For example, in the Battle of Hanyang, the president of the First Army, Duan Qirui, once mentioned in his letter to his old friend that if the civil army holds for another day on the 27th, the casualties of the Qing army, which is no less than that of the civil army, has to choose to temporarily shrink the defense line and stop the attack. He said this because the Qing army attacked for several days, the army was exhausted and suffered heavy losses, and there were many complaints in the army below; secondly, the supplies stored at the Yukou Station were already very small, and weapons and ammunition were consumed even more. The civil army still had supplies for Chu Wangtai and Hanyang Arsenal, but the Qing army fought one shot less and one shot less. By the 27th, the loss of each Qing army had reached a critical point!

It is precisely because of reading this history that although the situation in the Republic of China has changed to the sky, it is also because he sent about 5,000 people from the Jingshan civil army, the Liang brothers of the Hanchuan, and the Yichang civil army, which were originally in central Hubei and in western Hubei, to the three towns. After the supply from Wuchang, although these three forces were not as stressed as the Xin army, they also shared some pressure on the battlefield for the civil army, causing greater consumption of Qing army personnel and ammunition. At the same time, although the Qing army in Huangzhou and other places were mobilized to Hanyang and Hankou, the more elite Beiyang army towns were blocked from the north. As one fell or another, although the Qing army still captured the Hanyang civil army defense line as it had been staged in history, it consumed more power.

Therefore, after dealing with foreigners, he learned that his iron plant and arsenal would be difficult to build and put into use in a short period of time, Li Han began to interfere in the Hanyang war. Now the tenth standard has almost controlled the Hanyang City, which is safe and has been defended. In addition, he has also sent troops to take over the Hanyang Iron Plant and arsenal. Although the news has not been sent back, Hanyang City has not yet been lost, and I think it should not be difficult!

Sure enough, shortly after Li Han and others entered the city with the supplies and artillery camps behind him, the news came that the Tenth Mark had taken over his military order and took over the iron plant and the arsenal, which made him feel relieved.

Soon, he ordered the disbanding of the defense team formed by the workers in the arsenal and ordered the workers to resume work and continue to produce bullets and shells. After ordering the artillery battalion to set up a cannon on the city wall and prepare to bombard the Qing army in the Martyrs' Temple!

Not long after, good news came from the Guishan Cannon Camp's position. The messenger had already lifted the Guishan Cannon Camp's defenders, but he also encountered some minor trouble. That was, when he took over the Guishan Cannon Camp, he was rejected by the defenders. They said that they must see the military order from Wuchang, otherwise they would not be handed over to the garrison of the Guishan Cannon Camp.

Li Han did not care about this. He sent someone to immediately raise some shells from the arsenal and sent people to the Guishan position. After he sent more than a hundred people to stay in Guishan to build a defense line. After learning that the former Hanyang branch military government and others had fled to Wuchang with the ship, he immediately ordered the remaining members of the branch military government to post a notice with his seal in the city and all parts of the city.

In the announcement, he praised that if the Qing army captured Hanyang City, it might be like Hankou, and the civilian soldiers who had hidden among the people would plunder and plunder, kill and set fire. If he did not want his wife, son and son to be poisoned by the Qing army, nor would he want his happy family to be destroyed by the enemy. He must work with the military government to defend Hanyang City to death and repel the Qing army outside the city.

He said that the commander of Jingchu was called by the Governor of the Great, and he led his army from Hubei to support him. At the latest, dozens of soldiers will arrive after tomorrow. As long as he stays for this night, countless reinforcements will come to support him tomorrow!

In addition, he also ordered the Hanyang branch military government to post a notice that the military government only recruited some civilians to carry weapons and ammunition to help build city defense. Once the construction is completed, the person who is called can go home.

With the help of the Qing army, they really scared many people by taking a handful in Hankou. Therefore, in just over half an hour, the military government recruited more than a thousand strong civilians to run around the city to carry stones and materials, and build fortifications!

Faced with the Qing army's most likely unclear situation of their reinforcements, Li Han sent people to various places to post notices to order the collapsed civilian army to gather in the city, and ordered the built artillery battalion to mobilize the muzzles to aim at the most silence outside the city. At the same time, he sent people to the Martyrs' Temple to contact the civilian army that was still standing. Then, he ordered the Ninth Ballot and the Persistence Civil Army to provide target coordinates for the artillery battalion to facilitate artillery bombardment.

"Nearly missing bullets! Adjust the azimuth angle xxx, high and low angle xxx!... Prepare, let it go!"

"boom!"

After a while of delay, after Li Han and others landed for an hour and a half, the artillery battalion of the Central Hubei Revolutionary Army, which had long been unbearable, finally began to roar. One round of artillery shells shot towards the west of the city, gathering the martyrs' temple position that had been attacked by the Qing army. One encounter caused great losses to the Qing army and had to suspend the attack!

"What's going on? Where did the shelling come from?"

His eyes were red in the darkness, and he was intoxicated by the fact that a Qing army steward who was about to enter Hanyang City was about to be the first to enter Hanyang City. The sudden shells that just came soon caused him to lose more than half of his subordinates in a short period of time. How could he not be angry?

There are many other situations like him. After joining the Martyrs' Shrine, dozens of small cannons brought by the Ninth Count also roared. Although they did not have the power of the heavy artillery behind them, most of the shells brought by Li Han were mainly flowering bullets. The power caused by the Qing army was not much worse than the deterrent power of the shell flying behind him! In addition, the machine guns carried by the Ninth Count, although they only brought a few to facilitate quick marches, they concentrated on building a line of defense, and in just over ten minutes, they destroyed the two Qing army camps that were impacting the front, which showed the power of this modern large-scale industrial killing weapon!

The ninth bidding was named Duan Jinbiao, and he was also one of the first soldiers to escape from Wuchang with Li Han. At that time, he was just an ordinary soldier, but he made contributions when attacking Yingcheng and won a medal. Later, he was dropped into the general regiment to train the new army. After the Qing army headed south in Xiangyang, he was transferred to the newly formed Ninth bidding as the leader. Later, after the Xindi, the former Ninth bidding agent, was found to have been privately accepted bribes from the rich merchants in Xindi, and he took over the Ninth bidding.

On the 27th night, dark clouds were lingering in the sky, and the moon was not visible, so the environment on the ground became more and more dull.

At this time, Duan Jinbiao was crawling in a fox pit that had just been excavated and not yet completed, observing the fire from the Qing army in the distance to confirm how many enemies there were. After a while, he put down his telescope and said to an adjutant beside him: "There seems to be an elite Qing army camp opposite us, which may be the Beiyang New Army. This is not true. They still have a few machine guns. Send orders to let the artillery battalion concentrate firepower for me and rush the direction of the woods not far from the river beach in front, and strive to completely destroy its machine guns! Also, let the civilian army beside us cooperate with us, what's wrong with them? Two groups of Qing army came from them just now, and the brothers almost suffered a loss if they didn't pay attention!"

"Yes, mark this and then convey it!"

The adjutant quickly recorded the order on his notebook and hurriedly ran to pass the order, but he straightened his waist and had not yet run out of the foxgate. He staggered and pounced forward. At the same time, a "da da...da da..." machine gun fire sound came from a distance.

"Hurry, save the person quickly!" Duan Jinbiao's eyes turned red with anger. There were definitely enemy machine gun soldiers in the woods. However, the enemy was too cunning and hid in a place where their rifles were not accurate, blocking them from going to join the civilian army to defend. Judging from the sound of point shooting, the machine gunner is a good player. If he can knock people down at such a long distance, he must have used heavy bullets. Moreover, he probably had discovered that he had stayed in this place.

He quickly lowered his body and changed to a low ground. He was so angry that he cursed!

"Ba!Ba!"

Scattered rifle shooting sounded at the ninth position, trying to suppress the firepower of the Qing army's machine gun, but the distance was too far and the accuracy was too poor. In addition, the machine gun was equipped with steel plates, so it was difficult for ordinary bullets to penetrate it. This was the experience of the Russo-Japanese War and was obviously learned by the Beiyang Army.

The ninth position soon fell silent again, and there were insufficient bullets and could not fire with the Qing army for a long time. The precious bullets could only be used in counter-shocks.

"The chest was penetrated and he was killed on the spot."

One of his subordinates snatched the fallen adjutant back, but it was a corpse. Duan Jinbiao quickly learned the news, but the adjutant was half a fellow villager with him, so he was so angry that his eyes were red!

Unfortunately, if the Revolutionary Army did not have enough financial resources to equip long-range field communication equipment, this kind of loss could have been avoided. Suppressed the anger in his heart, he raised his hand and pointed at the Qing army's position, saying, "After the artillery comes up, concentrate the artillery fire, give me a rapid fire first! Blast that side!"

"I'll go and pass the order." Another adjutant immediately stood up and left the foxgate. With the sound of machine gun shooting, he crawled high and rolled and crawled towards the artillery position in the rear.

Not long after, the artillery battalion, which was rushing with the Ninth Biao, quickly divided a small team and moved the position to him with a few small cannons. Duan Jinbiao, who knew that the general's heart was the most precious artillery battalion, did not forget to divide the two squads of soldiers and followed the artillery near the artillery on guard!

With the commander's order, the sound of cannons rumbling and raindrops flew over and landed near the machine gun position. The soil suddenly flew and thick smoke rolled. The machine gun was dumb for a moment, but soon after, another machine gun sound roared and continued to pour rain of bullets into the frontier positions of the Revolutionary Army.

"Da da...da da..."

The Qing army machine gun raised its muzzle and used machine guns to shoot the Revolutionary Army artillery positions with heavy bullets, but the distance was too far, and the bullets could not be shot at all, so they could only land on the temporary positions of the ninth yard like venting anger.

The artillery continued to project firepower on the Qing army's positions, which eventually made the machine gun silence, but no one knew whether it had been eliminated. After all, it was a well-trained Beiyang Army, and it was definitely not comparable to those platoon soldiers in the patrol battalion.

"Boom! Boom!"

He didn't need to instruct the artillery to turn the gun mouth and roar wildly towards the woods by the river beach.

"Boom! Boom!"
Chapter completed!