After Goxinga got drunk, he did not stay in the camp for the night, and was directly carried by the attendants into the airship and flew away. But what he promised did not fly away, more than 4,000 rifles, more than 300 light and heavy guns, and more than 90 artillery pieces of various calibers were all delivered to Feng Zicai's hands one after another.

Feng Zicai's army has comprehensively updated its equipment, and the other generals are all very greedy, but these equipment were given to Feng Zicai by Guo Xing'a, and everyone was embarrassed to ask for a share of the profits. Of course, there are special cases, such as He Huan. He Huan has always been respectless and faceless, and the Manchurian-style equipment he worked so hard to get is obviously not as advanced as Feng Zicai's, and he has never heard of things like throwing a single barrel or a light gun. His heavy artillery was brought back by Li Hongzhang, which was better than Feng Zicai's batch, but the small and medium-caliber artillery was inferior in terms of range, accuracy, and rate of fire.

"Old Junmen, the juniors don't dare to make up nonsense in front of you, there is no big difficulty for the younger Jun's Lejun, but I hope you can allocate some small and medium-caliber artillery, throw a single barrel, and light guns to my Lejun, the juniors are grateful!" He Huan's routine is very simple - insistent.

"It is not easy for Le Shuai, the Le Army has made many meritorious contributions in the previous battles, and it will also be the main force of our army in the future. Le Shuai opened his mouth today, how can the old man refute your face, 50 guns are lightly shot, 70 single-barrel guns are thrown, and 5 mountain cannons and field cannons are each, you can see it! "Feng Zicai is very tired, He Huan usually protects his equipment like a vicious dog, and today he was the first to jump out to share his equipment, which is really annoying. However, He Huan is also the commander of the first army, and his Lejun has indeed helped a lot, so even if Feng Zicai and the Xianghuai system are not on good terms, he has also sold He Huan a face.

"The old military men are generous and helpful, how dare the younger generation be picky, thank you!" He Huan also accepted it when he saw it.

Seeing that He Huan had benefited, the other generals also wanted to ask for some, but they really couldn't open their mouths when it came to asking for food. Everyone surrounded and envied for a while, but they couldn't open their mouths, so they could only disperse in a huff, but there were many people who buried He Huan behind them. Don't look at He Huan was the most capable general of the Qing army before he was buried, but everyone didn't look down on him, he was born as a bandit, he was a monk halfway, and he could only be regarded as a supernumerary member of the Huai Army, so naturally no one looked down on him. This time, he begged for equipment, which became a typical crime of his shamelessness and loss of identity, and everyone was happy to scold behind his back.

As soon as Feng Zicai's side was settled, the situation changed, and the French army, which had retreated back to Langshan, launched an offensive again. The two armies had been holding each other for a long time, but it was not that the French army felt that they could not defeat the Qing army, they were waiting for the situation to change at the request of the government. Now that the war between Manchu and Britain was inevitable, and Manchuria was going to intervene in the war between Qing and France, the French army in Vietnam had nothing to wait and see. The commander of the French army, Lieutenant General Miller, had been in the French colonies for a long time, and he was very contemptuous of the indigenous armed forces everywhere. Therefore, he has a very optimistic estimate of the current war.

Miller believed that the Qing army's combat effectiveness was negligible, and that the only threat that could pose a certain threat was the guerrilla warfare of the Le army, and that his real enemy was only the Manchurian army that had just arrived. Moreover, Miller did not attach great importance to the Manchurian Army, in his eyes the Manchurian Army was just a new army without tradition, even if the equipment level was similar to that of the French Army, its organization and willpower were far inferior to the French Army, which had fine traditions and glorious achievements. It was based on this viewpoint that Miller decided to take advantage of the unstable foothold of the Manchurian army to attack the Chinese army first, and invade Guangxi in one fell swoop. In this way, the battle line could be pushed to the territory of China, and the French army could take advantage of the time when the Manchurian Army transferred a large number of troops to the south to set up a permanent defensive line on the Sino-Vietnamese border to provide support for the subsequent major war.

Miller's idea was very good, and the various deployments of the French army after entering Guangxi were also very reasonable, but his judgment of the enemy in front of him was seriously unreliable. Without sending people to investigate, with no experience in fighting, Miller relied entirely on his own imagination to make a judgment on the Chinese army near Zhennan Pass, and the result was naturally very miserable. However, the result was not borne by Miller himself, and the unlucky Nigri became the executor of Miller's plan.

Major General Nigri, who was chosen by Miller, is also a warrior, and he is the most effective general in the French army at the moment. During the Franco-Prussian War, Nigri served in the Rhine Army under Marshal Bazin. After Bazin's surrender at Metz, many of his subordinate officers laid down their arms, but Nigri fled back to France, defending the rest of the country with the remnants of the French army. Although he didn't play a big role, his courage and patriotism are still very commendable.

In this war, Nigri's performance was also remarkable. He led three columns of troops to participate in the Battle of Caipu and defeated the right flank of the Qing army's Guangxi soldiers. At that time, Nigri injured his left foot and fell off his horse; His troops mistakenly believed that he had been killed, but still fought valiantly and repelled the Qing army. In the following year, he was ordered by Lieutenant General Pori Ye to lead his troops to attack Lang Shan and cut off the retreat of the Qing army in the Beili area. The broken wooden sign that makes people hate the roots of their teeth is the masterpiece of this benevolent brother.

Nigri had won many great victories against the Qing army, but he felt that it was extremely difficult for him to give orders in front of him. When the Qing army and the French army clashed near the Guanyin Bridge in Beili, Lieutenant General Miller sent Lieutenant Colonel Du Ran to attack the Qing army, and Nigri also went with the army. He had seen the guerrilla warfare of the Le army with his own eyes, and the French army's excessively long supply lines would never be able to withstand the tossing method of the Le army. Moreover, Nigri, who had a lot of contact with the British side, did not believe that the Manchurian Army, which was known as the world's first, would be as easy to deal with as Miller imagined. However, the order had to be carried out, and Negri could only take all his family and all the reinforcements sent to him by Miller, and gather 12,000 men to kill Zhennanguan, which he had to give up before.

Feng Zicai had personally climbed mountains and waded through rivers to survey the terrain, and had already decided to build a defensive position in the area in front of the pass by relying on the favorable terrain in the area of the pass in front of the pass in light of the current enemy situation and the terrain conditions around Zhennan Pass. The pass in front of the pass is about four kilometers in the south of the town, it is the key point of the south pass of the town to the interior, the east and west mountains are facing each other, there is a basin valley that is more than two kilometers long and more than one kilometer wide in the middle, the terrain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack. Such a natural and dangerous place is exactly what soldiers can't ask for.

During the confrontation between the two armies, Feng Zicai personally supervised his soldiers to build a long wall of earth and stone with soil and stone that was three miles long, seven feet high, and four feet wide, spanning between the east and west mountains, digging a trench four feet deep outside the wall, and building a number of fortresses in the east and west mountains, forming a complete mountain defense position system. The Qing army on the Guangxi front had more than 90 battalions and more than 40,000 people, stationed on the line from Zhennanguan to Longzhou. Pan Dingxin, the governor of Guangxi, was afraid of the enemy, and his men and horses were far away from the front line, so he could not count on them at all. Feng Zicai could only personally lead the ninth battalion of the Cui Army to hold the long wall and the dangerous mountains on both sides, serving as the first echelon and serving as the frontal defense of the main position in front of the pass. The eighth battalion of the general soldier Wang Xiaoqi's department was the second echelon. The Hunan army commanded the 10th battalion of Wang Debang's department in the southeast of the oil pass outside Tunguan to ensure the safety of the left flank and threaten the enemy's rear route. Feng Zicai also used the fifth battalion of the Cui Army to detain the wave to ensure the safety of the right flank. The eighteenth battalion of Su Yuanchun, the governor of Guangxi, and the shogunate of five miles behind the front pass of Tunguan was the rear team. In addition, the 12th battalion of the Le Army is maneuvering. The total front-line strength is about 60 battalions and more than 30,000 people.

This deployment has reasonably assigned all units of the Qing army, but the newly arrived 31st Division of the Manchurian Army has not yet been arranged. The 31st Division had more than 22,000 men, which was already close to the total strength of the Qing army on the front line, and there was indeed no suitable place to place them. It stands to reason that good steel is used on the blade, and the 31st Division is well-equipped and well-trained, and should be on the battlefield with the most pressure, but Feng Zicai is not prepared to do so. Guo Xing'a was affectionate and righteous, and handed over his troops to Feng Zicai, Feng Zicai is also a decent person, and he must return this army to Guo Xing'a intact. Therefore, in Feng Zicai's plan, the 31st Division is to support the big guys, and they actually don't want them to fight any tough battles.

"Master Zheng, what do you think of your department's deployment?" Feng Zicai studied the map that Zheng Yong lent him for a long time, and he didn't know where to put the 31st Division, so he could only let Zheng Yong pick a place by himself.

"The general has already had an edict, and he will obey the orders of the old army in the end!" Zheng Yong gave up his choice, thinking that he really didn't know why he was defending. With a large number of men, advanced equipment and sufficient ammunition, if they attacked from the south, the French army would not be able to hold Lang Son at all. But Feng Zicai was concentrating on studying defensive counterattacks, so he couldn't say anything more.

If Guo Xing'a knew Zheng Yong's thoughts, he would definitely laugh three times, he was really wise. In the global battle situation planning of the Manchurian Army, Southeast Asia must be won, but the significance of Southeast Asia, especially Vietnam, is not particularly large, so the number of troops that can be allocated to Vietnam is very limited, strictly speaking, there is only one 31st division. Although there would be other forces attacking the Anglo-French forces in Southeast Asia from other directions and using this as a springboard to attack India, the task of occupying Vietnam could only be accomplished by the 31st Division. With the strength of the 31st Division, as long as there are no major mistakes, it will definitely be able to defeat the French army, but if you want to occupy Vietnam, the strength of the 31st Division will definitely be insufficient, and you must rely on the cooperation of the Qing army. Therefore, Zheng Yong needs to run in with Feng Zicai, and needs to learn to accommodate the Qing army, so that the Qing army can assist him in completing the task of occupying Vietnam.

"Please garrison the mountains on both sides of the pass! Defend the safety of both flanks of the main position, support the frontal battlefield with firepower at any time, and prepare to pursue the French rout! Feng Zicai thought twice and gave Zheng Yong a task that was not salty or light.

"Okay, everything is up to the old military gate!" Zheng Yong couldn't laugh or cry, more than 20,000 of his people went up the mountain, and the mountain was almost full!