However, the Yuan army did not give Huaiqing the last chance to fight, because in the past few days, the two towns of Yuan army, and the two associations had all been deployed in place, forming a siege against the Deyou army of Huaiqing and Yonggui. And at night that day, various Yuan troops dispatched together to launch a night attack on the Deyou army.

Although he failed to attack Yuan Jun's position in the past few days, it did not awaken Huaiqing's dream of being a famous general, so he did not alert Huaiqing at all. The situation he faced had changed. Now Huaiqing was thinking about how to break through Yuan Jun's position and capture Fengcheng County, proving that his previous victory was genuine, and he was still qualified to be a famous general. He never thought that Yuan Jun would have such a big appetite and was preparing to eat all the Deyou Army in one bite, so he was not in place to defend the camp at all.

Originally, Tieliang and Liangbi had personally participated in the Qing court's new army training plan, so the rules of the Deyou court's army organization, training, marching, and camping were basically copied from the previous Qing court's new army rules. Theoretically, this set of rules has been very perfect, and compared with the military rules of other countries, it is not a bad idea. If you are watching, the training of the Deyou army can basically follow the rules of training. However, as the scale of the Deyou army expanded, the two of them naturally could not control it, and other generals led troops to train, which was inevitably somewhat discounted.

In fact, when training, Huai Qingda could also follow the rules of training, otherwise he would not be highly valued and promoted by Tie Liang. Moreover, when he first led his troops to fight in this war, Huai Qingda could also insist on implementing the rules of training. However, due to the victory of the previous few battles, Huai Qing also became arrogant and believed that the Yuan army was vulnerable and it was easy to capture Fengcheng County. Therefore, the defense of the camp was very simple. In Huai Qing's view, capturing Fengcheng County must be a success, and spending a lot of effort to build defensive fortifications. After all, once Fengcheng County is captured, the army will immediately continue to march to attack Nanchang. Then have these defensive fortifications been used as waste laborers! Let's forget it!

In addition to the fortifications of the camp, Huaiqing was also able to simply arrange the camp's defense arrangement, military force arrangement, night watch and patrol troops. At the same time, Huaiqing himself was much lazy, and patrolling the camp was a lot of time, which was to go through the motions, even if it was patrolling the camp at night, he simply stopped going. He also called it a good rest to enable the command of the battle during the day.

As the saying goes, the main general is so lazy, so the officers and soldiers below will naturally relax. Therefore, the number of patrols outside the camp during the day and night decreased, and the scope of patrols was greatly reduced. The soldiers who were watching were also reduced again and again. Even the soldiers who were watching simply slept on their posts without anyone caring about it.

Under such circumstances, when Yuan Jun, who was raiding the Deyou Army in Huaiqing, approached about 500 meters from the camp at night, the Deyou Army had no idea at all.

So when the Yuan army launched a raid, most of the soldiers of the Deyou army were still sleeping, including the chief general Huaiqing, so they had no resistance at all and were easily attacked by the Yuan army.

Although Huaiqing was immediately woken up by the guards after the Yuan army launched a raid. Although he also hurriedly got up to dress and mobilized the army to resist the Yuan army's attack, the camp of Deyou Army was in chaos at this time, because most of the soldiers of Deyou Army were just awakened from their sleep, and were still busy dressing and looking for guns. Many soldiers were in chaos and had no time to wear clothes and did not find the guns. As a result, they could only do nothing to do with their shirtless and bare hands, and escape in the camp like headless flies. Therefore, no one listened to Huaiqing's command.

In contrast, the defense of Yonggui Camp is much better than that of Huaiqing Camp. Although Yonggui has won many battles, it is more difficult to win. Therefore, although Yonggui is confident, he has not yet risen and is still vigilant. When he is stationed in the camp, he can basically follow the rules of training. Although he has given some discounts, he has finally all of them.

So although the Yuan army's night attack caught Yonggui's army off guard, fortunately, the Yonggui's camp was well arranged and defended at night, so after the Yuan army's raid, he was not panicked. Because he left enough troops to watch, Yonggui's army quickly organized resistance. Although the Yuan army captured two camps first, the situation quickly stabilized and defended other positions. In the night battle, Yuan's army could not exert its advantage in firepower, and as a result, it was unable to break through the defense line of Yonggui's camp for a while.

But just when the fierce battle between the two sides was in a stalemate, Huaiqing's camp was finally defeated by the attack of Yuan's army. Huaiqing and Yonggui's camp were only 5 or 6 kilometers apart, and this distance was basically equivalent to back-to-back. Although the two despise each other, they were friendly troops after all, so there was no need to defend between the camps. As a result, Yuan's army, who broke through Huaiqing's camp, entered from behind Yonggui's camp. Because Yonggui did not set up defenses in this direction, Yuan's army was able to easily enter Yonggui's camp. Under the front and back attacks of Yuan's army, Yonggui's troops were unable to resist, and finally let Yuan's army break through the defense line and collapse.

The battle continued until around 9:00 am the next morning. Yuan's army won a great victory. Huaiqing, the chief general of the Deyou Army's middle army, died in the chaos. Yonggui, the chief general of the Southern Army, was prepared and was defeated. With the protection of the army, he successfully escaped the battlefield and retreated back to Qingjiang County in one breath. He stopped the defeat. Then he immediately made an emergency to Changsha and informed the news of Fengcheng's great defeat.

Of course, although Yonggui didn't know that Huai Qing had died in the chaos at this time, it did not prevent him from placing all the responsibility of the war on Huai Qing. In the notification to Changsha, Yonggui said that Huai Qing's previous military achievements were just Yuan's plan to lure the enemy, not Huai Qing's achievements. Huai Qing was not sure about the authenticity, was eager to achieve success, did not listen to his advice, insisted on attacking Fengcheng County, and was negligent. As a result, he was attacked by Yuan's army and suffered a great defeat. Now he was not aware of his life and death. Although he fought to the death, Yuan's army had no power and had to retreat back to Qingjiang County and retreat temporarily.

After sending the report, Yonggui was not idle either. On the one hand, he captured the defeated troops in Long and counted the losses. On the other hand, he had to arrange defenses in Qingjiang County.

However, after counting, Yonggui couldn't help feeling a little shocked, because the Deyou Army had a total of more than 50,000 troops, but now there are only more than 20,000 people left, and more than half of the soldiers were injured and hung up. In addition, nearly half of the soldiers lost their weapons and were completely bare-handed. In fact, they had basically lost their combat effectiveness. Although more than half of the soldiers still fled with weapons, they were not equipped with ammunition, and some soldiers even had only one magazine. Therefore, the actual combat-capable soldiers actually had only 56,000 soldiers, while the heavy equipment such as artillery were not all.

Such strength is not enough to defend Qingjiang County, so Yonggui did not dare to stay in Qingjiang County for a long time. After a short rest of his career, he immediately gave up Qingjiang County and retreated to Fenyi County before temporarily stopping.

After Yuan’s army won, Yuan Shikai was also extremely happy. Although he had been training troops in small stations for 13 years, Yuan Shikai had trained more than 100,000 troops, holding military power, and using this to reach the peak of his career, Yuan Shikai had never really commanded the army to fight a battle. Although Yuan Shikai was not the kind of person with any feelings, he was still somewhat regretful. After all, Yuan Shikai started his business through the army and still had some military complex in his bones.

This war was a battle plan formulated by Yuan Shikai himself, and Yuan Shikai personally took charge of Nanchang to command. In the situation where the total force was obviously less than that of Deyou's army, he still won the victory of Fengcheng Victory. There were as many as 10,000 soldiers of the Deyou's army alone, and basically all the troops in the south and south of the Deyou's army were destroyed. Therefore, Yuan Shikai was naturally in a very happy mood. Naturally, there were also praises such as "the general was a magical plan, and he used his troops like a god" and "Sun Wu reborn, Wu Hou was reborn".

Of course, in the face of flattery, Yuan Shikai still knew how much he had. Moreover, the two armies of the middle and southern routes of the Deyou Army were only the first step in completing this combat plan, and it was not the final victory. Yuan's next goal was the Northern route of the Deyou Army, because only by annihilation of the Northern route of the Deyou Army could it be considered that the Deyou Army was completely destroyed, and it would be easy to advance to Changsha. This time, Yuan Shikai's plan goal was not only to defeat the Deyou Army's attack, but to seize Hunan Province after defeating the Deyou Army, expand his territorial power, and also let Britain and France see their own strength.

Britain, France and other countries gave up Yuan Shikai and instead supported Pu Wei, but Yuan Shikai had always been resentful. This time, Yuan Shikai also held his breath and wanted to hit Britain, France and other countries in the face.

However, Yuan Shikai's plan was also a bit risky this time. In order to annihilate the middle and southern two routes of Deyou Army, Yuan Shikai adopted the tactic of luring the enemy into depth. In the early stage of the war, he gave up a large number of areas. If he could not give a heavy blow to Deyou Army in the later counterattack, it would be very dangerous, because those abandoned places may not be taken back.
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