When the Nguyen Dynasty was at a loss, Young Master Liang received a battle report from the special combat team, so he led the team to Hue City.

An army approached Intraga, and the Vietnamese army immediately discovered that the garrison of Intra was of course much more vigilant than the local army. The Vietnamese court, which received the report, immediately understood that this must be an army sent by the British, and since the other party had already come to the door, Emperor Duc had no way to retreat, so he could only send a negotiation team to negotiate.

On Liang Jiajun's side, Tieqiao San, deputy commander of the first battalion, led several American instructors to negotiate. But Young Master Liang always felt a little unsteady, and the troops were still too small! After all, Vietnam has a large population and many cities, and each city has a small army, which adds up to a considerable number, and there are large cities like Hanoi in the north.

Now the 1st and 2nd battalions are so far apart that they cannot support each other. The second battalion also sent the second company to transport supplies to guard the prisoners, so the strength of the second battalion left in Hongji City was thin, but there were not many people on their side. Young Master Liang fell into deep contemplation.

Young Master Liang, who had been thinking about it for a long time, found that he had fallen into a misunderstanding, since Hongji City had been taken and the loot had been received, why did he stay there? The decision on the next negotiations is not on the side of Quang Ninh officials. The staff officers did not notice this when they made the plan in advance, after all, they had not experienced actual combat and did not realize the danger of the battlefield, and if the Vietnamese concentrated their forces in the north to counterattack Hongji City, then the second battalion would be in danger. Tens of thousands of troops attacked the second battalion, which was less than 1,000 men, and the number exceeded too much, and no matter how good the quality was, it could not make up for it. What's more, the second battalion is also a recruit!

Grand Master Liang, who had already made up his mind in his heart, immediately called Li Zishan and gave an order: "The special combat team will take two engineer companies to set off immediately, one engineer company will go directly back to the Hainan base to replace the soldiers of the second battalion and the second company to take care of the prisoners, and the other will go to Hongji City with you to help transport materials and take care of the prisoners. Your special forces infiltrate Hanoi City to observe the movements of the Hanoi troops, and if they show signs of moving in this direction, they will come and report immediately, and there is no need to take any other action. ”

"Understood, regimental commander", Li Zishan took the order and left. After making the arrangement, Grand Master Liang finally settled down, and Shi Shiran walked to the negotiation site to see the reaction of the Vietnamese.

There are a few people in this group of Vietnamese who are not honest, and after they come, they look around, look left and right, and soon they find that something is wrong, this army is composed of soldiers from the Great Qing Kingdom (because Young Master Liang has not ordered the soldiers to cut off their braids), and there are only a very small number of foreigners.

Now that the negotiations have begun, the few foreigners involved in the negotiations have not expressed their opinions as if they were ornaments, and the matter of negotiating with them is completely dominated by the Chinese in front of them, and these Vietnamese people are becoming more and more suspicious, whether the British are against them?

After a perfunctory period of pretending to be in the spirit of investigating the truth and truth, the Vietnamese negotiators said that they needed to ask Emperor De for advice, so they took their leave, and when they left, some of them even pretended to take the wrong path, preparing to investigate the situation of the enemy army in depth.

Young Master Liang knew that these people were already suspicious, but it was difficult to judge what the Vietnamese imperial court would do now.

Liang Jiajun is relatively passive now, and can only sit and wait for the other party to play cards.

However, Young Master Liang is not too worried now, if the Vietnamese send troops to attack immediately, with the advantage of fortifications and weapons, there should be no problem in defense. If the other party does not move for the time being, just use this time to wait for the second battalion to come and meet.

If the Vietnamese court was determined to use force, it would certainly mobilize the forces of Hanoi, a large northern city, so that they could form the advantage of attacking from the front and rear. Therefore, Young Master Liang sent a special combat team to Hanoi, and if there was really a situation of being flanked in front and back, it was better to make contingency preparations in advance.

At this time, the Vietnamese court was really ready to move. The information brought back by the negotiators made the Vietnamese court suspicious, and called the messenger of Hongji City to ask about the situation of the siege troops, which was actually a characteristic of the Qing people, and the number of the other party was not large, only more than 1,000 people in total.

Now there are only one or two thousand enemy troops outside Hue City, and these two teams of men and horses are far away, and they can't support each other, and the ministers in the court have changed the appearance of the end a few days ago, and they are all ready to move, and even the Emperor De who is sitting on the dragon chair is also moved, after all, the other party only has this little bit of men and horses, which is much less than the last time the French fought over, and the French army that lost last time was really all French, this time the other party claimed to be British, but the army was all Qing people, which was completely different from last time!

Moreover, the other party offered to compensate for the loss of two million taels of silver, which made Emperor De, who loved money like his life, painful. The last four million that were paid to the French were raised with great difficulty, and for this purpose the tax was raised, and the opium tax was introduced, and there are already complaints below. As for the coal mine, he didn't care about it at all.

So Emperor Side, who was sitting on the dragon chair, opened the golden mouth: "You Aiqing are loyal to the country, and I am very relieved, now that the origin of these enemy troops is unknown, do you Aiqing have a good plan to deal with it?" ”

Wu Hong, the leader of the main battle faction in Vietnam and the general of the military department, stepped forward and replied: "Returning to Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the coastal defense can be mobilized, and the troops of Lang Son and Lang Son can contain and attack Hongji City, so that the enemy army in the north cannot reinforce the enemy army in the south; In addition, mobilize the army of Hanoi City to the south, gather the troops of several cities in the north, and jointly attack the enemy army outside. ”

The other ministers nodded their heads and praised the plan of the military department, and the scholar Ruan Zhifang agreed: "The general's plan is very clever, so that the enemy army cannot take care of the end of the army, concentrate our superior forces, and flank the enemy forces outside the city before and after, as long as our army ignores the losses and attacks desperately, it will definitely be able to level the enemy army outside the city, and once the main force of the enemy army is broken here, the enemy army in the north will not be a problem."

Seeing that the ministers all agreed with Wu Hong's plan, Emperor Duc also thought about it, and found that it was indeed a clever plan, which was also the best way that Vietnam could use.

In order to paralyze the enemy forces outside the city, the Vietnamese court sent a second group of negotiators, pretending to continue the negotiations, and complained bitterly about the compensation demanded by Liang Jiajun, proposing that only 500,000 taels of silver could be compensated, and that it would only be paid in three installments.

In order to show their friendship, the Vietnamese court also sent a few fat pigs, dozens of chickens and ducks, hundreds of bags of rice, and a batch of vegetables and fruits.

In fact, the Vietnamese did not do anything with this food, and they wanted to delay the time now so that they could send troops to the future.

The two forces have their own thoughts, and they are all mobilizing their forces, ready to fight hard!