What the Qing army did was to surrender, surrender en masse, everyone threw down their weapons, fell to their knees, raised their hands in the air, and shouted surrender.

The Huaxia army ordered to surrender their guns and not kill them, so all the Qing troops obediently became prisoners of the Huaxia army, and surrendered together with the commander of the commanding troops, whose surname was Li and his name was Li Muzhen, who was a distant relative of Li Hongzhang.

Zhang Jiancheng was very shocked when he saw so many Qing troops surrendering, and randomly asked a few Qing soldiers, only to know that these Qing soldiers were forcibly recruited by Li Hongzhang from Nanjing, and they had no fighting spirit at all, and they didn't want to fight, but they were forced into a disadvantage by the Huaxia army, so they could only surrender.

Zhang Jiancheng inquired about the reason for the surrender of the Qing army, and had a plan in mind, ordering the Qing soldiers to take off their military uniforms and put them on the soldiers of the rapid reaction force, and then march to Nanjing.

When there were still three kilometers away from Nanjing City, Zhang Jiancheng ordered all his subordinates to get off the car, walk close to Nanjing City, and come to the vicinity of the city gate.

The commander of the Qing army came to the city gate and shouted loudly: "Hurry up and open the door, it's us." ”

The Qing soldiers on the city tower heard the commander's voice and asked in surprise: "Commander Li, why are you, why did you come back so soon?" ”

"Don't mention it, we met the Snitch halfway and were defeated, hurry up and open the city gate and let us in."

The Qing soldiers on the city tower did not feel cheating, opened the city gate, Zhang Jiancheng saw the city gate wide open, and immediately commanded the troops to kill into the city, and the Qing soldiers in the city were in chaos.

Zhang Jiancheng had already kept the location of Li Hongzhang's command post in mind, and as soon as he entered the city, he directly killed Li Hongzhang's command post, Li Hongzhang quickly got the news, and he was so frightened that he was full of cold sweat, "Does the Huaxia army have long wings, why did it come so quickly?" ”

At this moment, he suddenly heard a loud gunfire outside, and one of his subordinates ran into Li Hongzhang's house and said in an exclamation: "Lord Zhongtang, the big thing is not good, the snitch has been killed outside." ”

"There's such a thing, quick, stop the snitch for me."

"My lord, I can't stop it, the Snitch's attack is too fierce!"

"Then hurry up and let Xie Baozhang and Liu Kun send troops back to help!"

"Lord Zhongtang, it's too late, now hurry up to Yanziji, and when you get to Yanziji, you will personally lead the elite soldiers to recapture Nanjing City."

"Well, that's all there is to it." Li Hongzhang hurriedly escaped from the city of Nanjing and went to Yanziji, where the rapid reaction force frantically attacked and occupied all the places of the Qing court, including ammunition depots, grain warehouses, and the yamen of the governor of Liangjiang.

Li Hongzhang came to Yanziji, Xie Baozhang hurriedly came out to greet him, Li Hongzhang didn't talk nonsense, and directly asked Xie Baozhang to send elite troops back to Nanjing City, Xie Baozhang did not dare to slack off, hurriedly agreed, and was about to send troops, but at this moment, he suddenly saw three red signal flares rising on the river in the distance, and then only heard the sound of "boom boom" from a distance, like a muffled thunder.

At the same time, only the explosion sound of "boom", "boom" and "boom" was heard from the Yanziji position, and a ball of fire rose from the position, and a Qing soldier on a fast horse galloped in front of Li Hongzhang and Xie Baozhang, turned over and dismounted, "Report to the two adults, the snitch is coming to attack." ”

Xie Baozhang and his subordinates are bloodless, and now Nanjing City has been conquered by the Huaxia army, and at this time, the Huaxia army is attacking Yanziji from the front, how can this be good.

Everyone focused their eyes on Li Hongzhang's face, and Li Hongzhang hurriedly said: "Don't panic, everyone, there are iron cables on the river in front of Yanziji as a barrier, and there are sharp wooden stakes at the bottom of the river, and the Huaxia army will definitely not be able to attack it." ”

Everyone's hearts were relaxed a little, and Li Hongzhang continued: "The Yanziji defenders don't have to go back to Nanjing City, send someone to Zhongshan to deliver a letter, and let Liu Kunyi quickly send troops to aid Nanjing City." ”

Li Hongzhang gave two orders in a row, felt a little calmer, and said to Xie Baozhang: "Go with me to watch the enemy's formation." Xie Baozhang took Li Hongzhang to a high slope, which is the commanding height of the entire battlefield, overlooking the battle situation, only to see the vast river, I don't know how many ships are approaching Yanziji, and there are constantly fires shooting out from those ships and falling on the Qing army's position.

Suddenly, several fire dragons rose on the river, and those fire dragons lay across the river, like fiery red ribbons, Li Hongzhang frowned, pointed to those fire dragons and asked, "What is that?" ”

Everyone was puzzled, but Xie Baozhang's face changed in shock, and he said in a trembling voice: "That's our Hengjiang boat, Huaxia Army, set them on fire." ”

At the beginning, Wei Zelong planned to send frogman special forces to scuttle these cross-river boats, but soon found that the amount of work required to scuttle these ships was too great, so he came up with a new method, that is, to use the newly equipped incendiary bombs of the Huaxia Army to set these ships on fire.

Tonight, the frogman commandos carried a large number of incendiary bombs, approached the Hengjiang boat, and then threw the incendiary bombs into the Hengjiang boat, the incendiary bombs exploded and caught fire, and all the Hengjiang boats caught fire, and the fire on the river was skyrocketing.

To Li Hongzhang and Xie Baozhang's surprise, these long fiery red bands lay across the Yangtze River, and they actually indicated the target for the airships, and eight airships took off from Zhenjiang to look for these fiery red long bands, and dropped aerial bombs on the south side of the long belts, and the Qing army's position was full of smoke and dazzling fire for a while.

In the fierce artillery fire, Li Hongzhang realized that something was wrong, that is, although the Huaxia Army was fighting lively, no one landed, that is to say, only naval ships were firing shells, what was the intention of the Huaxia Army?

Li Hongzhang thought for a while, and then understood that the Huaxia Army was distracting us, so that we had no time to return to Nanjing City, hum, snitch, you can't imagine that I sent Zhongshan defenders back to help Nanjing.

In fact, Li Hongzhang was completely clever on his own, and the reason why the Huaxia Army did not launch a landing operation was entirely because there was no time for the landing operation, Wei Zelong ordered the troops to wait until dawn to launch a landing operation, so as not to cause accidental damage to the army by naval artillery.

The time soon came to dawn, Li Hongzhang sent someone to ask Liu Kunyi if Nanjing City had been defeated, and who promised to report to the messenger: "Lord Zhongtang, Liu Kun and his family did not return to the division to reinforce Nanjing City." ”

"Ridiculous, how dare this Liu Kunyi disobey the old man's orders?"

"Lord Qiyu Zhongtang, Zhongshan has also been attacked by the Huaxia Army, and Liu Kun and his family dare not send troops out."

Li Hongzhang's face turned pale with surprise when he heard this, "Why was Zhongshan attacked by the Huaxia Army?" ”

"Lord Qiyu Zhongtang, the Huaxia army has used a large cannonball, which is extremely powerful, and as soon as the cannon bombards it, a fortress is blown away."

It turned out that the troops attacking Zhongshan used HP-3 105mm howitzers, and the shells were extremely powerful, and as for blowing up a fortress with one cannon, it was entirely because the fortresses built by Liu Kun were extremely simple, although there were American military experts to guide them, but those so-called American military experts were just American hooligans, pretending to be military experts in the Qing Dynasty, cheating some money to spend, and the corrupt and incompetent Liu Kun knew nothing about these things, and took their words as a guideline.

The number of troops attacking Zhongshan was extremely small, and Wei Zelong's strategy was like this, the purpose of attacking Zhongshan's troops was not to annihilate the enemy and capture Zhongshan, but to attract and contain Zhongshan's forces, so that the defenders of Zhongshan were unable to support Yanziji and Nanjing City.

Li Hongzhang had no choice but to order Liu Kun to defend Zhongshan to the death, but the city of Nanjing was lost, and the food and ammunition in the city could not be transported to the front line, which made Li Hongzhang anxious.

The house leak happened to rain overnight, and at dawn, the Huaxia Army launched a general attack, and the four divisions totaled more than 60,000 troops, landing on a width of three kilometers near Yanziji, and the landing force put in more than 50 armored attack vehicles, and under the cover of the armored attack vehicles, the Hua Xia Army easily broke through the defense line of the Qing army.

Liu Kunyi in Nanjing City did not stop, they also sent troops to attack from the rear of Yanziji, Yanziji was in danger for a while, Xie Baozhang saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly persuaded Li Hongzhang: "Lord Zhongtang, the enemy army is strong, it seems that Yanziji can't hold it, it's better for you to retreat quickly." ”

Li Hongzhang looked at the situation in front of him, he could only retreat helplessly, Xie Baozhang saw Li Hongzhang leading his subordinates to withdraw, and ordered his subordinates to stop resisting and surrender to the Huaxia army.

It turned out that Xie Baozhang was not so loyal to the Qing court, he saw that the Qing court was extremely corrupt, and he had long been extremely disappointed in the Qing court, and he had long wanted to surrender to Huaxia, but he felt sorry for Li Hongzhang's kindness, so he could only resist stubbornly for a while, which was regarded as repaying Li Hongzhang's kindness, and then surrendered to the Huaxia army.

The Huaxia army then occupied Yanziji, began to encircle Zhongshan, Nanjing Mountain, Yanziji and Zhongshan, three important places are each other's horns, any one collapses, will endanger the other two, at this time Nanjing City was controlled by the Huaxia Army, Yanziji guard Xie Baozhang surrendered, Zhongshan is already a lonely mountain, Liu Kun realized that Zhongshan has no defensive value, led the troops to withdraw from Zhongshan, all the way to the south, into Hunan.

On May 7, the Battle of Nanjing officially ended, this battle ended with a great victory of the Chinese Empire, the battle was divided into three parts, the Battle of Nanjing City, the Battle of Yanziji and the Battle of Zhongshan, three battlefields, a total of more than 10,000 Qing troops were annihilated, more than 100,000 people were captured, and the rest of the Qing soldiers all fled.

Nanjing City was captured by Huaxia, and the entire southeast region was all under Lin Fei's control, although Suzhou, Hangzhou, Wuxi and other important cities were still under the control of the Qing court, but these cities were already isolated cities, and it was a matter of time before Lin Fei attacked them.

The fall of Nanking further stimulated the Western powers, Japan and Russia, Germany and Britain all wanted to make peace and jointly deal with China, and Russia was the first to act.