After the loss of the southern fort of Xuanguang City, the French army retreated into the city and trapped the lonely city, while the battalions of the Qing army approached the city root and stationed. The Qing army lacked heavy artillery, so it could only continue to use the tactics of digging tunnels to blow up the city wall and continuously attack the city, but the French artillery was sharp and powerful, and the Qing army was repulsed several times. The two armies were deadlocked in Xuanguang, no one could help anyone, the Qing army could not attack, and the French army could not fight, so they could only ask for help from the rear in both directions.

The Qing army had a large number of troops in the rear, but they also had no weapons to attack the fortifications, and the only one who could help was the Le army. He Huan has a dream rival - Guoxing'a, so He Huan imitates Guoxing'a everywhere, and even imitates the Manchurian Army in terms of weapons. After the Manchu relations eased, He Huan even relied on Li Hongzhang's relationship and got twelve 150-mm heavy guns from Manchuria. These heavy artillery pieces were no more than 32 times 15 times the Manchurian army's own use, and there was still no artillery re-entry machine, but their firepower was also extraordinary, and the range and power all exceeded those of the French army's equipment. If He Huan's Le army can rush over with these treasures, Xuanguang's French army will be finished.

It's a pity that He Huan is a step slower after all, in order to relieve the siege of Xuanguang, the new commander-in-chief of the French Expeditionary Force, Pori, also personally led the first brigade of the expeditionary force to the west of the river to help. Although more than 1,000 people were killed by the Black Flag Army in Zuoyu on the way, the rest still entered Xuanguang City before He Huan. Immediately afterwards, more than 5,000 French troops came to the aid and launched another onslaught on Zuoyu. The strength of the French army in Xuanguang increased greatly, and Cen Yuying was also a little bottomless about He Huan's heavy artillery, thinking that the siege was hopeless, so he ordered all the armies to withdraw from the siege. The Qing army's strategic goal of encircling the French army on the eastern and western fronts and gathering and annihilating the French army in northern Lebanon in one fell swoop failed to be realized, and the initiative in the war was once again returned to the hands of the French army.

In the first month of the 10th year of the Chinese government, France once again increased its troops in Vietnam, and the total strength of the French army in Vietnam reached more than 50,000. The French army, under the command of Commander Po Riye, concentrated about 10,000 troops in two brigades and regiments to launch an attack on the Qing army in Lang Son. Pan Dingxin, the governor of Guangxi who sat in Langshan, was as embarrassed as he was, and the Qing army was divided into factions, and it was impossible to unify the command when it was scattered in various places. When Cen Yuying attacked on two fronts, he had already disrupted the original deployment of the Qing army, and now that the French army came to attack, it was directly under the nose of Pan Dingxin, a veteran of the Hunan army, and he could not resist at all. After thinking about it again and again, Pan Dingxin, the governor of Guangxi, made a very embarrassing decision, in order to preserve his strength, he chose to retreat without a fight.

Governor Pan retreated without a fight, which was to preserve the viable strength of the Qing army and preserve the strength for the subsequent attack, but when he retreated, he obviously forgot some important things. After the French army occupied Lang Son without a fight, they slaughtered Wen Yuan non-stop, and then Yang Yuke, who was stationed in Wen Yuan, was unlucky. This famous general, who had defeated the French army several times, did not know that Pan Dingxin, the commander of the Western Route Army behind him, had been turned upside down, and the three battalions of the Guangwu Army from Guangdong were besieged by more than 10,000 French troops for a while.

Yang Yuke is also a famous general, Guangdong is a place of economic and trade development, and the equipment of the Guangwu Army is no worse than He Huan's Le Army. So even though he was under siege, Yang Yuke still calmly faced the battle, giving full play to his expertise in ambush, and setting one trap after another in the encirclement. The French army besieging Yang Yuke was ambushed three times in a row, losing more than 2,000 soldiers, and the formation was in chaos. Yang Yuke also knew that his 3,000 lone army would not be able to do anything, so he took advantage of the gap in the encirclement of the French army, rushed out, and withdrew into Zhennan Pass with Pan Dingxin.

Pan Dingxin, who retreated without a fight, lost the town, and almost killed Yang Yuke, is also faceless. He honestly sent a telegram to the imperial court, confessed his sins, and asked for his sins very sincerely. Hunan and Huai were originally one, Li Hongzhang naturally wanted to speak for Pan Dingxin, and there was indeed no suitable general on the Western Front, so the imperial court forgave Pan Dingxin, and hoped that he would be ashamed and brave, and be able to make meritorious contributions to the front line.

"Yunjie, Zhennanguan still has to rely on you, I can't help what happened the day before yesterday!" Pan Dingxin knew that the next target of the French army must be Zhennan Pass, but the troops under his command were scattered, and only Yang Yuke could be counted on at present. Fortunately, Pan Dingxin also served as a political envoy in Yunnan, and he and Yang Yuke are also old acquaintances.

"Why did Zhongcheng say this, how could it be Zhongcheng's fault that the day before yesterday was unfavorable, and Yuke had nothing else to say for serving the country!" Yang Yuke is a loyal and patriotic person, he is unhappy to be alone behind enemy lines, but he is not ambiguous in serving the country.

After Pan Dingxin and Yang Yuke communicated a relationship, they began to deploy the defense of Zhennanguan. Yang Yuke, the strongest combat force at present, guards the south pass of the town, and Pan Dingxin himself is stationed in Haicun as a backup. Haicun is the key pass of Longzhou, backed by the big river, and if there is a flash in Zhennanguan, Haicun is the last hope.

"Tear down all the pontoon bridges, and the ships will sail to the east case, this is the place where I and the monarchs will be loyal to the country!" Pan Dingxin came to a ruined boat, cut off his back road, and put on a desperate posture. Lang Son has already withdrawn once, and this time he cannot withdraw again, and if he withdraws again, he will not ask for self-removal, but can only cut himself.

On the 23rd of January, as soon as Pan Dingxin's side was arranged, the heavy troops of the French army came up, and they took Zhennan Pass in one day, and Yang Yuke was martyred. Yang Yuke is a fierce general of the Yunnan army, several times defeated the French army, the Guangwu army is also the elite of the Guangdong army, even if they can't hold Zhennan Pass, they will never fall in one day, their failure is because they were sold by their own people. As soon as the French army approached the city, the people opened the gate of Zhennan Pass, and caused chaos in the pass, causing the French army to swarm in, and the defense line of the Guangwu army completely collapsed.

"I have fought for the rest of my life, and now I have to die!" The fierce Yang Yuke refused to retreat, led his own soldiers to kill outside the pass, and was killed by a cannonball in the chaos of the army.

The Catholic people near Zhennanguan were bewitched by the priests, disrespected their ancestors, and turned their hearts to the French army, which Yang Yuke had known for a long time. In order to prevent the parishioners from making trouble, Yang Yuke specially sent people to watch them, but Yang Yuke never expected that it was not the Catholic people who opened the door, but the Halal and noble people. The Catholic people are oriented towards the French, but the Muslims are not on either side, and the reason why they helped the French is because they want to seek revenge on Yang Yuke. Because thirteen years ago, Yang Yuke forced a man named Du Wenxiu to death.

Du Wenxiu was born in a Muslim merchant family, he has received a good education since he was a child, and even passed the Qing Dynasty Xiucai, but his profession is very special, and from the perspective of the Qing Dynasty, he is a thief. In the sixth year of Xianfeng, Du Wenxiu rose up in Menghua, captured Dali, established political power, and was promoted to the "Generalissimo of the President's Soldiers and Horses". The Dali regime took the Hui generals as the core, formed the backbone of the uprising with the religious elite, and took the religion as the ideological banner to unite the masses. Among the civil officials, there are official titles of religious leaders who maintain the Halal religion, the capital leader, the deputy capital leader, and the capital leader. Du Wenxiu himself is deeply versed in the Muslim scriptures, and often advises the public to "abide by the doctrine and be able to act according to the Bible". Vigorously subsidize and develop scripture education, and "set up a palindromic school in the Shuaifu, often read in person, and write questions to make each student compose".

However, the Dali regime has always been entrenched in Yunnan, and even in the era when the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was completely victorious and the Qing army was extremely scarce, they failed to fight Yunnan because their official language was Arabic. Hong Xiuquan wanted to engage in the kingdom of heaven on earth, and got an old foreigner to be his father, and he didn't have the courage to let all Chinese change to Latin, but Du Wenxiu made Arabic into Chinese. This was Du Wenxiu's own great dream, but it limited the development of the Dali regime, after all, apart from the Catholics, too few Chinese knew Arabic.

In the sixth year of Tongzhi, Du Wenxiu organized more than 200,000 people to besiege Kunming, preparing to carry out a campaign to popularize the Arabic language throughout Yunnan. It's a pity that he didn't choose it well, at this time the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had already stopped cooking, and the main forces of the Qing army had already worked hard. The main forces of the Hunan army, the Huai army, and the Chu army, Du Sultan had never encountered it at all, and he was beaten back to Dali by just the dispatch of the Dian army. However, the willfulness of the Hui army was still very strong, and the Dian army attacked Dali step by step, and they resisted step by step, and actually held out until the eleventh year of Tongzhi, which was longer than the Agu Bai in the northwest.

In April of the eleventh year of Tongzhi, Sultan Du Wenxiu couldn't hold on, and the Dian army had already attacked the city of Dali, and then Sultan Du made an unbelievable move. Sultan Du Wenxiu sent an envoy Liu Daoheng as an envoy to present four boxes of Yunnan marble blocks to the Queen of England in the name of Bansai Sultan, indicating that the tribute was the land ruled by Du Wenxiu and his willingness to submit to the British, and asked the British colonial authorities in India for help, hoping that the British army could enter Yunnan to pull him. However, at that time, Britain was making an unpleasant quarrel with North Manchuria for the sake of Japan, and did not want to rashly enter Chinese territory and trigger a head-on confrontation with North Manchuria. Moreover, the UK thought that Du Wenxiu had stopped cooking immediately, and there was no use value at all, so they didn't pay attention to Du Wenxiu at all. However, the stones sent by Du Wenxiu were thought good by the British, and they were sent back to the London Museum directly.

By the end of the eleventh year of Tongzhi, Dali City was completely exhausted, and there were almost no casualties when he returned home. Du Wenxiu was afraid that the Qing army would kill all the relatives of the Hui army when they entered the city, so after taking poison, he went to the Qing camp alone to ask for surrender, and the chief general of the Qing army at that time was Yang Yuke, the governor of Yunnan at that time. Yang Yuke originally wanted to send Du Wenxiu to Jingshi, but Du Wenxiu died of poison that night, so he had to give up. Yang Yuke did not whip the corpse, he handed over Du Wenxiu's body to the Hui people's relatives and let them be buried in Xiadui Village, a suburb of Dali.

Sultan Du Wenxiu was angry, and the Qing army did not launch a further retaliatory cleanup against the Hui people, but the Hui people in the southwest hated Yang Yuke, the executioner of the Qing court. Yang Yuke is in a high position, and the parishioners do not have the ability to hack him with a brick, so they can only keep this hatred firmly in their hearts, and make a Dead Man's Day to pay tribute to Du Wenxiu.

Yang Yuke went to Zhennanguan to resist the law, and the enemy naturally followed, and then Yang Yuke was tragic. Yang Yuke's tragic martyrdom is unlucky enough, but Pan Dingxin, who is stationed in Haicun, is even more unlucky than him, as soon as Zhennan Pass is lost, the French army will invade China, and Pan Dingxin will not forgive this crime if he loses the nine clans!