The positions built by the French were very strong and a gift, and it was certainly not difficult for the people who built the Maginot Line to build a temporary defensive position, and they also dug a large number of trenches to resist the Germans during the Franco-Prussian War. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Therefore, it is really difficult to pass through their frontal position, but it is not so difficult to go around the mountains, because some of the Ming army are good at crossing mountains and mountains, Hakka soldiers, Guangxi soldiers, and Yunnan soldiers all have this kind of talent.

This is the new battle plan of the Ming Army, infiltrating the rear of the French army, sending a small group of soldiers who are good at crossing mountains and mountains, bypassing the French defense line from the Annam Mountains and entering the rear of the French army.

With their actions, there are also some soldiers of the Black Flag Army, soldiers of the Northern Vietnamese Squire Rebel Army, these people will become a bridge between the Ming army and the locals, and then in the rear of the French army, organize a rebel army, through guerrilla methods, so that the French have to continue to divide their troops.

The purpose of organizing the rebel army was, on the one hand, to disperse the French forces, and on the other hand, to sabotage the railway, and the French could build more than 100 kilometers of trenches in Hue to protect the railway, but they could not build more than 800 kilometers of trenches along the railway line to protect it all the way to Saigon.

Therefore, this is still a strategy around cutting off the railway line of the French army, and as for opening up base areas behind enemy lines, the officers at this time do not have this kind of awareness, and they cannot see the significance of opening up base areas, because it is really difficult to say what role occupying the mountains as the king can play on the front line.

These are just coordination, the real attack, and it has to be a frontal attack.

After stockpiling enough food and weapons and equipment, the Ming army continued to move south, increasing from 500,000 to 800,000 and then to 1 million, at which point it launched a more rapid offensive again. And it was a multi-point flowering, a concentrated breakthrough, and the French army was exhausted.

After ten days of fierce fighting, the Ming army finally cut off the French defense line from the interruption, not only breaking through their interception, but also cutting the French army into two sections, one east and one west. The Ming army then began to flank and detour, and the method of battle was very bold, intending to encircle the two French troops at the same time, one on the left and one on the right.

But before the encirclement of the Ming army could be closed, the French army took the initiative to retreat, the Eastern Route Army moved south along the railway line, and the Western Route Army moved south along the mountain range.

The Ming army boldly pursued, and for a time in Vietnam, a spectacle of three armies marching south at the same time was formed, as if three long dragons were competing.

The Eastern Route Army managed to escape to Da Nang and re-established its defensive positions with the help of the strong fortress here, but the Eastern Route Army was surrounded by the Ming army in the northeast of the Borovin Plateau.

The French army caught in the encirclement was not very numerous, only 30,000 people, while the Ming army that surrounded them was 150,000 people, they did not have any chance to break out of the encirclement, and when they fled, they lost too many weapons and equipment, and after the Ming army's heavy artillery reinforcements came up, they chose to surrender.

On the other hand, due to the abandonment of Hue by the French army, the Ming army successfully entered the official capital of Vietnam. The Vietnamese monarchs in Hanoi were extremely excited, and immediately announced that they would immediately move to the old capital, spread the word to Vietnam, and told the Vietnamese that Wang Shi had recovered the capital.

But the city of Hue had already been destroyed by the French, and even the Vietnamese imperial palace had been blasted, and it was clear that the French did not want to leave anything of value to the Ming army.

When the Vietnamese monarchs and ministers made the arduous trek back to Hue, they saw a ruin, and many of the old courtiers wept in front of the old royal palace. But they soon regained their fighting spirit, and immediately set about repairing the palace.

Jaishankar suggested to the Vietnamese monarchs and ministers that they should not restore the palace for the time being, and that the ruins of the palace should be preserved so that future generations would know about the sins of Fayi. He also gave an example that the Manchu Qing Dynasty has refused to restore the Old Summer Palace because of this reason. Leaving the ruins of the Old Summer Palace is to encourage the Manchu monarchs and ministers to lie down and taste their courage, and they will be ashamed before the snow.

Jaishankar's words made the Vietnamese dismiss the idea of repairing the palace, but the king could not live without a place to live, so they decided to build a new palace as soon as possible. As for the scale, they decided to be slightly smaller than the Daming Palace in Guangzhou, which is much smaller than the original Vietnamese palace.

Before the new palace was built, the Vietnamese monarchs and ministers decided to live in a grass house, and they also had to try their courage.

The Ming army entered another stage of rest, on the one hand, to relieve the fatigue of the battle, the wounded needed to be transported back to China for treatment, and the battle damage needed to be replenished.

At the same time of resting, the Ming Dynasty immediately began to clean up the ruins of Hue, and under the command of engineers from the country, organized the Vietnamese Minfu Gang to build barracks, as for the fortress blown up by the French, the Ming did not plan to restore it, and they would not give the French a chance to attack Hue again.

At the same time, the engineer asked the Vietnamese court to build a railway as soon as possible, believing that without smooth transportation, it would be difficult for the Ming army to continue its offensive to the south. Fighting to Hue is already a limit, many times in the battle ammunition is cut off, the further south in the future, the stronger the French army, the more French troops, the more adequate the supply, but the Ming army has fewer troops, the supply is more tight.

Da Ming's statement cannot be said to be completely unreasonable, but it is not right to say that it is completely in line with the facts. During the attack on Hue, Da Ming was always affected by the supply of weapons and ammunition, and the supplies transported by the Vietnamese wheelbarrows and pack horses could not keep up at all, but it would be an exaggeration to say that without the railway, the Ming army would not be able to move south.

Because since the French have built the railway to Hue, and the Ming army has fought to Hue from the north, the French can use the railway in Hue, and so can the Ming Dynasty.

However, under the joy of recovering the royal capital, the Vietnamese will feel that it makes sense for Da Ming to make any suggestion. Although there were also some officials who had no good impression of the railway, they were quickly rejected by the ministers who said that the railway was a means for the Yi people to invade Vietnam, and the said that the railway built by the French was a means for the French to invade Vietnam, and the railway built by the Ming Dynasty was a shortcut for the Ming to aid Vietnam.

So the Vietnamese court approved the proposal of the Ming to build a railway in Vietnam, and accepted the request of the Ming Dynasty, the built railway will be connected with the French railway, and after the Ming-Vietnamese coalition army completely drove the French out of Vietnam, these railways were handed over to the Ming to operate.

In this way, the Ming Dynasty's Suijing (Guangzhou) will be connected with Vietnam's Jingshi (Hue), which is convenient for the two countries to help each other, and if Vietnam has another Yidi invasion in the future, the Ming army will go south, and it will be able to reach the capital of Vietnam in one day.

Such a reason made the Vietnamese completely embarrassed to refuse, now their small country's cautious eyes have moved, seeing that the Jingshi has been recovered, the French have been driven back to Nanqi, the Ming army seems to be planning to continue fighting, using the strength of the Ming army to recover the land of Nanqi Of course, it is good, but what if the Ming army does not leave?

These days, the two countries have cooperated together to fight against Fayi, but there is no discord, but the behavior of the Ming army in Vietnam, the Vietnamese court is in the eyes, the Ming army not only did not commit any crimes in the autumn, not to mention the demeanor of a king, but also helped the people to work, buy things and buy them fairly, and even bought them at a high price.

If the Ming army has been doing this with nothing else, singing the high tune of the Spring and Autumn Righteousness, paying casualties and sacrifices to help the Vietnamese regain lost territory, then the Vietnamese are more worried, and now the Ming army wants the railway, but they can rest assured, as long as they are willing to ask for things, it seems that they are not planning to annex Vietnam.

Therefore, the Venerable said that this kind of fierce vision of the ministers did not hesitate to agree to the proposal of the Ming army to build a railway, in his opinion, this is to satisfy the appetite of the Ming Dynasty, feed the Ming Dynasty, so that they do not have other thoughts that should not be.

The Vietnamese don't know about their careful thinking, and they don't care very much, but the situation in France is what Daming cares more about, because the French have changed their prime ministers again.

A series of defeats, especially the loss of Hue, led to the collapse of the French Brisson cabinet, which was replaced by the veteran politician Charles de Fresiné, who formed the cabinet for the third time.

Fresine was an opportunist who saw the defeat on the battlefield and realized that the Ming were much more powerful militarily than previously thought. He did not think that the French soldiers were inferior to the Ming soldiers, but he admitted that no matter how much the French increased their troops, it was impossible to compete with the Ming army.

So he went to the British to mediate, intending to end the war, and the British were very happy to mediate at this time.

Because through this war, the British got everything they deserved, and during the fierce battle between the Ming and the French army, the British launched the third Anglo-Burmese war against Burma on the grounds of a judicial dispute caused by the Burmese government's fines to the local British company, which only left half of Burma, and directly annexed the whole of Burma.

Early last year, on January 1, Britain declared Burma a British territory and incorporated it into a province of India.

Since the Ming Dynasty was at war with France, neither of the two largest powers on the South China Peninsula could interfere with the British behavior, and the British annexation of Burma was very smooth, the only obstacle was the constant resistance of some Burmese who refused to submit, and it was only a matter of time before the British suppressed them.

And at the same time, in northern China, the last thing Britain wanted was happening. The Russian army actually took advantage of the Ming Law to start a war and moved south. All the way into Xinjiang made Britain, which had been fighting Russia for hegemony in Central Asia for decades, extremely uneasy, and once Russia gained a foothold in Central Asia, it would be a huge threat to India. If Russia had occupied the Xinjiang region of China, it would have crossed the Pamirs and entered the Indus Valley. At the same time, the occupation of Xinjiang will also stabilize the Central Asian region, if Russia goes further south, it will enter Afghanistan, every time the foreign conquest of India in history, except for the British this time, is from Afghanistan to the Hindu Kush Pass south.

If they only went south to Xinjiang, the British would not be in a hurry to mediate the war between the Ming army and France, the key is that the Russians had too much appetite, they not only attacked Xinjiang, but also marched south from Kyakhta, along the railway to Zhangjiakou, not necessarily the Manchu capital.

After Zuo Zongtang's death, the Manchu side plug was completely opened.