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On the 11th and 12th of December Cheung Fat-fui was defeated withheavy losses, tried and failed to organize a counter-attack and was obliged to draw off his men as best he could. His main body, now reduced to little more than 5,000 men, was over-taken by northern troops, while it was endeavouring to re-crosS the forth River at P1a Kong Hau and again heavily in men arms and equipment.
7.
Following the defeat of Cheung Fat-fui,
the Kwangsi Commanders abandoned the attack and
hurriedly withdrew towards their own province. On
lost
the 15th of December the army of General Chan Tsai-t'ong followed in pursuit. It is now claimed that the
suppression of the revolt and the reconquest of Kwangsi will only be a matter of weeks.
Cheung Fat-fui
8. There can be no doubt that the Cantonese
forces have achieved a very considerable success.
The reasons are not far to seek. In the first place,
in the vital matter of ammunition the attackers can
hardly have been adequately supplied. is said to have disposed of at most 700 rounds per man,
and the Kwangsi troops are unlikely to have been better
provided. When this supply was exhausted, there was
no source from which it could be replenished. Canton,
on the other hand, seems to have been well supplied
from Nanking as well as from the local arsenal.
important was the fact that, while Canton had the
services of some twenty aeroplanes the attackers
possessed
Equally
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