At 16 o'clock in the afternoon of February 27, 1881, Li Weiye personally issued a combat order, commanding the French army to launch an attack on Hanoi City, and at 17:20 in the evening, the French army defeated the Annam army defending the city, and then with the cooperation of the believers in the city, they took advantage of the situation to attack the city and seize control of Hanoi City.

When the news of Li Weiye's capture of Hanoi by force reached Saigon, the governor of Cochinchina, Lu Mei, was panicked and said, "Oh no! Oops!"

However, he quickly reacted, believing that Li Weiye's occupation of Hanoi had created a fait accompli, and that he could push the boat along with the current, so as to force the Annam government to recognize the fact that the French army occupied the northern region.

After thinking about the key points, Lu Mei immediately sent a telegram to the French government: "On February 27, the most important city of Hanoi in the northern region of Annam was conquered by our army, and Li Weiye is leading the army to maintain order in the city, and the protection of the French Republic of Annam government will be more thoroughly implemented." ”

Lu Mei fully recognized Li Weiye's military action, and decided to send 300 marines and 1,000 indigenous soldiers from southern Annam to support Li Weiye, taking advantage of the opportunity that the Annamite people had not yet had time to deploy troops to deal with the invasion of the French army

The northern provinces of Bac Ninh, Ha Xi, Hai Duong, Quang Ninh, Lang Son and other provinces were all occupied and annexed, and the advance colonial plan was reached.

The city of Hanoi was breached, and the news of the suicide and martyrdom of the governor of Hanoi, Huang Yao, spread rapidly, and Huang Zuoyan, who shouldered the heavy military responsibility in the northern part of Annam, was extremely indignant at Li Weiye's barbaric act of killing officials and seizing the city, and asked the government of Annam to ask for war: "Li Weiye used the humiliation of the two Frenchmen as an excuse to send ironclad ships and soldiers to gather outside the city of Hanoi, and the governor of Hanoi, Huang Yao, dutifully fulfilled his duties and resolutely refused the excessive demands of the French. and conspiracy to instruct the believers in the city to cooperate and destroy,

As a result, Governor Huang became independent and difficult to support, and finally repaid the country with death! ”

The French invaded the heart of the dynasty and everyone knows it, and the only way to do this is to gather 100,000 troops and defeat the Fayi in a battle with all their might, so that the independence of the sovereignty of the country and the stability of the people can be maintained!

The ministers received the emperor's grace, and shouldered the heavy responsibility of the people of the northern provinces, and were willing to command the 50,000 troops in the Beiban area to meet the Fayi, and they were ashamed. “…………

The Annam government had not yet reached a consensus on whether to mobilize the whole country to fight the French to the death, and in accordance with the request for assistance from the Governor of Hanoi, the headquarters of the Nanyang Army, which had just arrived under the jurisdiction of Hanoi Province, received the news that the city of Hanoi had been captured and that the Governor of Hanoi had been killed in battle.

"Governor May, the city of Hanoi is broken, and the reinforcements on the Annam side are afraid of the military threat from the French and dare not rush to Hanoi to join our army, do we want to change the battle plan originally formulated?"

Li Wencai, the new commander of the Nanyang Army, asked.

"How far are Lu Zhiping and Li Yasheng from our army?"

"Lu Zhiping's team has just entered Hanoi Province from Thai Nguyen Province, which is about 50 kilometers away from our army."

"Order them to speed up and join our army in Shangqing Fang by this evening, and until then, our army will temporarily stop outside Hanoi and wait and see how the French react."

"I understand." …………

"Your Excellency, Commander, the main force of the Chinese army has arrived outside the city."

"How many of them came?"

"More than 4,000 people, a little more than we expected last time."

"Do they have a call to attack?"

"No, they stopped at Shangqingfang, the troops are setting up camp in the local area, and they speculate that they should be waiting for other reinforcements."

"The reinforcements of the Annamite have all been repulsed by us, where will there be reinforcements to join them!"

"Your Excellency, Commander, I have applied to lead the Marines out of the city to meet them and drive them out of Hanoi Province!"

The commander of the Marine Corps, Koragadek, volunteered to ask for battle.

"It's time to send troops and teach the stupid Orientals a good lesson."

After the victory, Li Weiye was very interested, and said confidently, "The first time we faced the Chinese army in Quang Ninh Province, we didn't need elite marines, so I asked Major Wei Yi to lead 700 black soldiers and 500 indigenous soldiers of Annam, and teach the Chinese army a lesson!" ”

"Your Excellency Commander, rest assured, your post will let those backward oriental monkeys see the power of the French army!"

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At 2:17 p.m., Major Wei Yi led more than 800 black soldiers to Shangqingfang, and immediately sent an interpreter who knew Chinese to challenge the Nanyang Army.

"Governor May, the French are calling for battle."

Li Wencai stood in front of the camp gate, observing the situation on the other side.

"700 black indigenous soldiers, 500 Annam soldiers, the French can't help but underestimate the Nanyang Legion."

Mei Dongxing looked at the French troops lined up outside the camp, and said with a smile, "Does General Li have the confidence to give the French a long memory, so that they can also know that the troops of our Nanyang Army are not the general army of Annam, and even the savage army composed of some black natives cannot be defeated." ”

"Governor Mei is also a person who knows the soldiers, and after a little observation of the combat effectiveness of the black army and the natives of Annam, he knows that it is a false appearance, with the elite of my Nanyang Legion, if even their weak brigades cannot be defeated, and it is transmitted to the mainland, wouldn't it be a smile and generous?"

"Oh, how can General Li see that?"

"Governor May, please see." Li Wencai's right hand was raised slightly, pointing in the direction of the French, and explained, "The troops commanded by the French include the black and Annam indigenous armies, the two armies do not understand each other in language and have different customs, according to the correct battlefield layout, the French should have placed the Annam army in the first line, and the black indigenous army in the second line, but the French opposite us deployed both the Annam and the blacks in the first line, and did not reserve the second-line troops and reserve troops to support the formation.

If the first-line troops fail in the battle, without the support of the second-line troops and reserve troops, a small defeat will turn into a big rout. ”

"The French should have been arrogant in the Annam region and underestimated the Nanyang Army, so they hastily dealt with even the most basic battlefield military layout."

Mei Dongxing nodded, relaxed and said, "The French are arrogant, they can't shrink into Hanoi City to be turtles, but they take the initiative to send troops to call for battle, since the French have sent them to the door, we can't brush off their kindness."

General Lee, you are responsible for dealing with the French servant army outside the camp, and now you can order the soldiers of the Nanyang Legion to attack, and you will meet the black natives and the Annam army on the other side. ”

"Yes, I'll arrange it." …………

Half an hour later, Li Wencai personally led more than 1,500 Nanyang legion soldiers out of the camp, formed a straggler queue, and steadily advanced to the opposite side.

"Lieutenant Lakasha, lead your men to attack and kill the yellow-skinned monkey on the other side!"

Riding on a tall horse, Major Wei gave the battle order to a black cavalry officer.

"Yes, my major."

A black cavalry officer, dressed in a French blue republican uniform, wearing a white military cap and a black face, drew his saber and shouted in French full of African accents, "Brave Congolese warriors (French Congo), show your courage and kill every yellow-skinned monkey in front of you, kill their men, burn down their houses, rob their beautiful women, and make them in hell, forever afraid of the saber of the Congolese warriors!"

Warriors, forward! ”

After a straightforward and arrogant agitation, more than a hundred black cavalry crossed the array and accelerated to rush in the direction of the Nanyang army!

"Stop, line, infantry forward, machine gun company ready!"

Li Wencai rode his horse in the center of the troops, staring intently at the approaching black cavalry troops.

"Shoot the gun!"

"Bang bang bang bang......" A burst of white smoke came out, and more than 30 black cavalrymen who were charging in front of them fell in an instant.

Muskets were fired alternately, and the black cavalry and the horses under them were constantly shot and fell to the ground, and the small battlefield was filled with the painful wails of the black cavalry and the neighing of horses.

"Major, the cavalry company has already lost more than sixty men, and Lieutenant Lacasha has not yet stormed the array of the Chinese army."

"Stupid African natives!" Major Wei Yi cursed fiercely, and said angrily, "Order all troops to charge, follow behind the cavalry company, and crush the Chinese army on the opposite side!" ”

"Yes, Major!" …………

With the order given, the remaining black native soldiers and the army of Annam's servants all moved up and launched an all-out attack on the Nanyang Army along the route of the cavalry company when it charged.

"General, the French army has moved."

"Very good, order the cavalry troops to outflank on both flanks, the infantry to retreat, hand over the front line to the machine-gun unit, and the artillery company to calibrate its position and be ready to fire at any time!"

Li Wencai carefully observed the changes in the battlefield situation, and when he saw that most of the French black cavalry company had lost most of it, and only more than 40 black cavalrymen were left to charge to about 70 meters away from the forward front, he decisively issued a combat order: "Machine gun fire!" ”

"Da da da", the Gatling hand-cranked machine gun mounted on the carriage emitted a crisp sound of fire, and orange-yellow shells fell from the magazine and scattered all over the ground.

The tall war horses and strong black cavalry fell one by one in front of the rain of bullets composed of Gatling hand-cranked machine guns, like harvested wheat, and within two minutes, the remaining forty black cavalry all fell, and several because the horses were shot, they were thrown away by luck, and the black cavalry who fell to the ground were drowned by the Nanyang legionnaires who quickly attacked forward before they had time to rejoice. …………

At 16:07 p.m., the first battle between the armies of Han and France ended with the annihilation of the French servants.

On the side of the French colonial army, of the more than 60 white officers and soldiers, including the commander of the black legion, Major Wei Yi, 39 were captured and more than 20 were killed, while more than 700 of the 1,100-strong black indigenous army and the Annam army were captured and more than 400 were killed or killed.

In the afternoon, outside the small town of Shangqingfang, 2,000 local Chinese and Annam people, after hearing the news that the Nanyang Legion had annihilated more than 1,200 French troops, boldly went to the area where the two sides were engaged to assist the Nanyang Legion in breaking up the battlefield, and by the way, after completing the tasks of burying the dead soldiers and carrying the captured war materials, they received a part of the captured grain and horse meat from the logistics officers of the Nanyang Legion as payment.

Horse meat tastes sour, hard meat, and is not delicious, and the regular army of the Han State has a rich diet and looks down on horse meat, so the dead horses captured on the battlefield are generally handed over to the local Chinese and the Annan people who support the Nanyang Legion to eat.

After the French colonial forces penetrated deep into the northern part of Annam, because the customs and other important sources of financial revenue fell into the control of the French, the income of the central government of Annam fell sharply, in order to maintain a huge military force and ruling institutions, the Annam government chose to increase the exploitation of its own people, every household of Annamite people was under heavy pressure of taxation and servitude, and the slightest year of poor harvest was the end of the destruction of the family, and the excessive internal oppression led to the intensification of the peasant uprising in the northern part of Annam, and the lives of ordinary Annam people became more and more miserable. In order to survive in troubled times, a large number of families choose to marry their daughters to the Han mainland in South America every year, and then use the dowry paid by the Han side to maintain basic living needs.

The chaotic situation in the Annam region has exacerbated the suffering of the local people, but for the Han state, the deteriorating situation in the Annam region has brought much-needed women of working age to the Han mainland.

Since the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the imbalance between men and women has been a major constraint on the population and economic development of the Han State, and with tens of thousands of Annan women of appropriate age marrying into the country every year, the problem of gender imbalance has been greatly alleviated.

From the beginning of 1869 to the beginning of 1881, according to the statistics of the Immigration Department of the Ministry of Household Affairs of the government, in the past 12 years, Annam sent a total of about 510,000 working-age women to the mainland, of which in addition to some Chinese women stranded in Annam, the vast majority of them were local women in Annam.

Although the appearance of Annan women is a little darker, the overall image is not much different from that of the Chinese, and because of the hard-working and obedient characteristics of Annan women, many Chinese people who have just immigrated to Han have taken marrying an Annan woman as their first choice.

The large influx of Annam women has largely contributed to the growth of the local population, and the proportion of new babies born each year is from Chinese and Annam families, which is nearly second to the pure Chinese family combination and Chinese and white family combinations, and exceeds the family combinations of women and Chinese in North Korea, Dongying, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia and other regions.

It is based on this consideration that the Han region is rich in products and low food prices, Mei Dongxing does not mind buying the hearts of the people of Annam with some materials, so as to facilitate the continuation of the action of immigrating to the school-age women in Annam, but with the large-scale migration of more than ten years, the number of school-age women in Annam has also declined to a certain extent. If it weren't for the annual wars and disasters, which led to the loss of a large number of young and middle-aged men, the targeted migration of the Han Kingdom would not have been as smooth as it is now.

After inspecting the battlefield, Mei Dongxing and Li Wencai walked in the direction of the camp.

"Among the captives we have captured, there are four hundred and seven black people, what should we do with these people?"

Li Wencai asked casually.

"Where do these blacks come from?"

"More than seventy percent are from the French Congo, and a few officers who have served in the Congolese colonies have knowledge of the French Congolese black army, and there is no doubt that they are from the French Congo."

"The black army relied on the French as a backer, burning, killing and looting in the Annam area, and did all kinds of evil, and the people of Annam hated them to the core, and it is useless to leave such people, and tomorrow notify the Annan government and the people in the surrounding areas, and the Nanyang Legion will uphold justice on behalf of the people of Annam, and after the trial of these captured black people, all of them will be publicly executed, so as to pay tribute to the Annan and Chinese people who died tragically in their hands, and avenge them!"

"If you don't kill them, it's not enough for the people to be angry, it's time to let them know that this is not Africa, even if it's just the Annan region that has been influenced by Chinese civilization, it's not a place where they can do anything wrong, so many local people spend money to entrust people, and want to marry a daughter-in-law from Annan to go home, but they can't let them, African savages, wantonly spoil it."