Next to the Hongji Coal Mine in Vietnam is Hongji Port, which is about 2oo miles away from the Sino-Vietnamese border. It is still a border mountainous area, and the economy is not very good, and there are no large-scale merchants arriving here to trade. At this time, Hongji Port is finally a small fishing port.

On April 1, 1859, the silence near the port of Hongji was broken by the sound of cannons. The Vietnamese people in the port saw several small boats desperately fleeing towards Hongji Port, and behind these small boats were many large ships. Both in terms of number and tonnage, the big ships have the absolute upper hand, and if the big ships had not followed leisurely behind, but pursued them with all their might, these small ships would have been killed long ago.

The crew of people in the small boat finally approached the shore, and the crew jumped from the boat into the water half waist deep with weapons, and desperately fled to the shore. The draught of the big ship was relatively deep, and they did not dare to get too close to the coast, but only set up the ship's cannon and fired a few shots at the shore.

Those who had fled ashore immediately quickened, and finally ran into Inner 6 before the large fleet lowered the dinghy and chased after them, and disappeared without a trace in the mountains.

Not long after, the soldiers of the Liberation Army waving the red flag set up camp near Hongji Port. At sea, the large fleet anchored next to a small island near the port of Hongji. Medium-sized ships patrolled the perimeter of the fleet, blocking the passage from Hongji Port to the island.

At this time, the Nguyen Dynasty, which ruled Vietnam, started by force and unified the north and south by force, so the status of the warriors was high, and the governors of the towns in the country were filled by military attachés. The squadron suddenly came from the sea and set up camp near Hongji Port, to which Quang Ninh Town belonged, which frightened the Vietnamese general troops in Quang Ninh Town.

Twenty years ago, Zhang Guoliang, then nicknamed "Big Sheep", rebelled in Guangxi, China, and led his troops into Vietnam. The Vietnamese officers and troops fought against Truong Quoc Leong, and at the beginning they used elephant soldiers to attack, which took advantage of them slightly. When Zhang Guoliang used fire attack tactics to scare away the elephants in the Vietnamese army, the Vietnamese army was immediately defeated.

Now that the Liberation Army is rebelling, the Vietnamese also have some understanding. Because the Liberation Army also sent many merchants to trade with Vietnam, they bought rice, sold cane sugar and iron farming tools, but also became more and more conspicuous. Of course, the Vietnamese officials knew that the Liberation Army was a Chinese rebel, but they had no intention of intervening in the civil war, and at this time they were under tremendous pressure from France, so the Vietnamese side turned a blind eye and did not talk about the identity and origin of the Liberation Army businessmen at all.

Knowing that the squadron was stationed in Hongji Port, a poor place where birds reluctantly came here to, the general army of Quang Ninh sent an adjutant general with 500 people to ask what had happened.

The navy of the Liberation Army transported 1,000 soldiers and horses to camp in Hongji Harbor, and when they saw 500 people coming from afar, the troops immediately lined up to deal with them. However, the war between China and Vietnam was more than 50 years ago, and there was no real animosity between the two sides. Seeing the Liberation Army's posture of facing the battle, the Vietnamese officers immediately sent people to negotiate.

At this time, France had not yet ruled Vietnam, and the Vietnamese bombardment port was very close to the Chinese border, and the localization of Guangxi was basically able to carry out sufficient exchanges near the Hongji port. The Vietnamese side soon understood that the Liberation Army had come here in pursuit of pirates.

Officers on both sides of the flanks each brought five or six of their men to the meeting, and the guards of the deputy commander-in-chief of Quang Ninh town carried arquebuses and knives at their waists. And the fire cap gun on the side of the Liberation Army is all the same, and the waist is the left 1UN pistol. Looking at the old-fashioned arquebus, the eyes of the commander of the Liberation Army were full of contempt.

The deputy chief soldier of Quang Ninh Town, Vietnam, was quite polite, and he asked: "This Shangguan, there were no pirates here a few decades ago. We in Quang Ninh have spared no effort to fight piracy! ”

More than half a century ago, when the Tay Son Dynasty ruled northern Vietnam, they colluded with the South China pirates to wreak havoc in Guangdong and Fujian, and when the Qing army pursued them, the pirates fled to Vietnam to avoid the limelight. When the Ruan Dynasty was established, in order to show goodwill to the Manchus, they worked with the Manchus to exterminate the pirates of the South China Sea. By 181o, the pirates of the South China Sea, who were in an increasingly difficult situation, accepted the Manchu Qing's recruitment. Among them, the famous pirate Zhang Baozai defected to the Manchu court and changed his name to Zhang Bao, and his official fortune was prosperous. Daoguang died in the third year of his tenure as the deputy general of the Fujian Min'an Association, and the official reached the second rank, if it were not for Lin Zexu Shangjuan Emperor Xu Shangjuan's request to stop Zhang Baoyi's promotion, Zhang Baozai would have become the chief soldier.

Since 181o, although sea raids have been alive and well, professional pirates have never become a climate at all, and they are basically solo exercises. At this time, the Chinese rebel army of the Liberation Army entered Vietnam with great momentum on the grounds of pursuing pirates, and the deputy commander-in-chief of Quang Ninh Town, Vietnam, felt that it was simply inexplicable.

The officer of the Liberation Army obviously did not accept the Vietnamese explanation, and he said angrily: "Do you say that if there is no one, there will be no more? If not, who are those guys we're chasing all the way? ”

The deputy commander-in-chief of Quang Ninh Province of Vietnam said in his heart: How do I know who you are chasing, this is my bird business! Just looking at the tense appearance of the more than 1,000 troops of the Liberation Army, he was also afraid in his heart. Arching his hand, the deputy chief soldier said with a smile: "Even if there are really pirates, that's what I'm waiting for, you guys are calling like this, but it's not good!" ”

"You're still not convinced!" The officer of the Liberation Army asked with a smile.

Hearing this, the deputy chief soldier of Quang Ninh Town, Vietnam, said with a straight face: "What can you do if you are not convinced? ”

"Excellent! Then let you see what you can do if you are not convinced! The officer of the Liberation Army turned around and ordered, "Let them see how powerful!" ”

"Yes!" The communications staff officer replied immediately. Moments later, the artillery of the Liberation Army began shelling fifty meters to the left and right of the Vietnamese army.

Naturally, the Vietnamese also had artillery, but their artillery that fired solid shells was not even comparable to the artillery of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, let alone seen real firing shells. When the shell hits the ground, it explodes. Although the distance of 50 meters did not cause casualties to the Vietnamese army, it frightened the Vietnamese army into turning around and running.

The artillery of the Liberation Army immediately extended their firepower, and the shells continued to explode on both sides of the fleeing troops in Vietnam. made these Vietnamese officers and soldiers who ran like rabbits frightened, and only hated their father and mother for missing a few legs.

Before the personal soldiers of the Vietnamese deputy commander-in-chief could understand, the guards of the Liberation Army had already taken out the Zuo 1UN pistol from their arms and forced the deputy commander-in-chief and his guards.

Seeing that the guards of the deputy chief soldier of Guangning Town did not know the power of the Zuo 1UN pistol, a guard soldier of the Liberation Army fired three shots at the ground. Seeing that the handcuffs were able to be connected, the deputy chief and his guards were honest.

The officer of the Liberation Army smiled and said to the vice president of Quang Ninh Town, Vietnam: "Don't worry, we don't mean to hurt people." The cannons are not beckoning to your people. But look at the tree. ”

As he spoke, the commander of the Liberation Army pointed to a tree about ten meters high a mile away. "Let's let the artillery hit that tree, and you'll know if we really want to kill someone!"

Although he was forced by the enemy's surprise attack, the deputy commander-in-chief of Quang Ninh Town was not really convinced. When I saw the tree a mile away, I heard what the officer of the Guangfu Army meant, and it turned out that he wanted to break the tree with a cannonball. Even with the muzzle of the black hole in front of him, the vice president couldn't help but sneer. For Vietnamese soldiers, this is simply a fantasy.

The artillery of the Liberation Army quickly adjusted the gun position, and after a while, fired a shot at the tree, and the shell landed not too far from the tree. The deputy commander-in-chief of Quang Ninh Town watched the shells explode next to the trees, and the ridicule on his face subsided a lot.

After a while, I saw that the cannon that had just fired began to fire continuously. The shells exploded continuously beside the tree, and with each explosion, the tree shook a little, and the further back it went, the more it shook. Finally, with an explosion, the trunk of the tree tilted to one side and slowly fell.

Seeing such an accurate artillery bombardment, and the tremendous power of the shelling, there was no longer a smile on the face of the deputy chief soldier of Quang Ninh Town, Vietnam. Shock and horror widened his eyes.

"Set up a few targets!" The commander of the Liberation Army commanded. Soon, more than a dozen humanoid targets were erected at a distance of fifty meters, and a platoon of forty soldiers of the Liberation Army lined up. With the command to "open fire", the soldiers of the unit began to fire quickly at the target.

The Vietnamese army did not have as large a firearm as the Qing army, and they did have arquebuses in their troops, but the proportion of broadswords and spears was also quite high. Watching the troops of the Liberation Army firing fiercely at the target at an imaginable height, the face of the deputy commander-in-chief who could be regarded as knowing the goods was about to turn from white to green.

When the smoke of the shooting filled the air and began to affect the field of vision, the officers of the Liberation Army took the deputy general manager of Quang Ninh Town, Vietnam, and went to see the target. But I saw that at least seven or eight shots were shot at each target. Of these seven or eight shots, four or five of them were fatally wounded.

"This commander-in-chief, if we really fight you, how long do you think your men can hold out under the attack of our army?" The officer of the Guangfu Army said earnestly to the deputy chief soldier of Quang Ninh Town, who was full of panic.

The Liberation Army was stationed at Hongji Port for more than 10 days, during which the Liberation Army held several rounds of consultations with the general army of Quang Ninh Town. Regarding the "issue of piracy", the two sides presumably reached an agreement. Quang Ninh Town must not hinder the Liberation Army and Navy from suppressing bandits in this vicinity, but the Liberation Army cannot be stationed here for a long time.

Underneath this agreement, of course, there is a supplemental agreement. "Merchants of the Liberation Army can lease land near Hongji Port for a period of five years. Within five years, on the leased land, the merchants of the Liberation Army can dispose of it according to their own ideas. Quang Ninh Town may not be stopped for any reason. ”

After the agreement was signed, the 6th Army of the Liberation Army withdrew from the port. And the "Liberation Army businessmen" began to climb 6 with tools. Vietnam is too far away from Luoyang, China, so they don't recognize the tool commonly known as the "Luoyang shovel".

After nearly half a month and nearly 1,000 holes in the ground, hundreds of people finally carved out about two square kilometers of land. This land is also relatively barren in the local area, and with the intervention of the magistrate, the Guangfu Army also paid a high price of 6,000 taels of silver a year. Landlords and owners of small plots of land on these plots of land are also more satisfied.

In particular, after the Guangfu Army privately gave 5,000 taels of silver to the general soldiers of Quang Ninh Town, the contract for the lease was signed at a very high level. On June 15, 1859, a large number of large ships of the Liberation Army arrived at Hongji Port with a large amount of equipment, and more than 1,000 people brought the equipment ashore, and immediately began to work on the coal mine.

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