Chapter 153: Reason
"Impossible, how dare cowardly Chinese pigs treat our great French Republic fighters like this, I am going to kill this group of Chinese pigs. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info”
In a bush opposite the Han outpost, a Frenchman with a telescope in his hand. Seeing such a tragic scene, the soldier shouted and wanted to rush out, but the two companions next to him grabbed him desperately.
"Captain Isaac, don't be impulsive, even if we all rush out, it's useless." One of the French. The soldier said to Isaac.
Hearing this, Captain Isaac calmed down a little, smashed his fist on the ground, and said hatefully: "I promised their parents to bring them back safely, but I didn't expect these good boys to lie in a foreign land, and I must avenge them." ”
With that, Captain Isaac wiped away his tears and turned to leave, and his two companions hurried to follow.
A platoon of Han troops eliminated a group of 100 French soldiers who crossed the border and captured five people, and the Han platoon commander did not immediately escort the prisoners back to the regimental headquarters, but waited for reinforcements to arrive.
In such a situation, it is impossible for the regimental headquarters not to send reinforcements.
A moment later, the battalion commander of the battalion to which the platoon belonged personally led a company of Han troops to this Han outpost.
After the battalion commander understood the current situation clearly, he immediately sent a platoon of soldiers to escort the five prisoners to the regimental headquarters, where there were people who could speak French and could interrogate the prisoners, and the battalion commander led the remaining Han troops to garrison this post to prevent more French soldiers from attacking here.
Soon, five captives were sent to the regimental headquarters for interrogation.
Under various interrogation methods, the undetermined captives confessed what they knew, including their names, units, family members, and other information, and when asked why they did not listen to the advice to cross the border, their answer was: The higher authorities ordered us to provoke the Chinese stationed on the opposite side, and the superiors assured that the Chinese on the opposite side would not dare to fight them.
However, there were only five of the hundred or so men left at the time of departure, and the assurances of the French soldiers' superiors were of no avail, and the five French soldiers who had been captured were so sorry that they wished to remove the jaw of the damned superior (Isaac) and beat him again.
Now these five French soldiers only hope that they will not be killed immediately by the Chinese and wait for rescue.
The captive's confession and the incident were sorted out, uploaded step by step, and finally sent to Sun Ran, the commander of the Xuanwu Legion.
Sun Ran carefully looked through the information, closed his eyes and pondered: Provocation against our army? The French in Vietnam must have known that Yunnan had been captured by the Han army, and had not made any moves before, but now they have come to test the Han army, and they don't know what the French will do next, but our army killed more than 100 French soldiers and captured five people, maybe the French will use this as an excuse to attack Yunnan.
Thinking of this, Sun Ran ordered all the outposts of the Han army at the front to strengthen their vigilance, if they encountered an enemy attack, they would repel if they could, and retreat if they couldn't hold it, and they must destroy the heavy weapons that they could not take away before retreating, and the other parts of the Fourth Division should approach the border area and be ready for battle at any time.
As the commander of the Xuanwu Legion, Sun Ran has considerable autonomy, but this small matter that is likely to cause a war between the two countries, Sun Ran still needs to report to his superiors, and Sun Ran's superior is Cheng Ying, Minister of Military Affairs.
Now that the telegraph and telephone lines have not yet reached this side, Sun Ran can only report the situation to the headquarters in Siqiyuanhe City through the flying pigeon.
Five hours later, the information was sent to Cheng Ying, who took a brief look and called Yan Xueyi to report the situation.
Yan Xueyi listened to Cheng Ying's story, and after thinking for more than ten seconds, he said: "Order the Xuanwu Legion, if necessary, to allow the initiative to attack." ”
"Yes!"
On the other side, Captain Isaac returned to the French garrison, and Captain Isaac reported the tragic fate of his company to his superiors, and at the same time implored his superiors to avenge the death of the French boys and rescue the five captured men.
Isaac's superior is only a regiment commander, and he has no right to arbitrarily mobilize troops to wage war, even if Isaac is sent on a mission, it is also arranged by his superiors, and the regiment commander, Lieutenant Colonel Olivier, personally expressed support for waging war and taking revenge on the Chinese, but this matter is not something that he, the regiment commander, can decide, and needs to report to his superiors.
Subsequently, this small incident on the Sino-Vietnamese border was quickly conveyed to the initiator of the incident, Lieutenant General Kirsi, commander-in-chief of the French Indochina Federal Garrison, in front of Lieutenant General Kirsi, who was angry, slapped the table and wanted to smash it.
Lieutenant General Kirsi couldn't believe that a stupid Chinese pig would dare to kill France. Military, unforgivable.
Back in time, when the four major armies of the Han army stepped out of Siqi and marched into the whole country, the Han army wiped out most of the Qing army's strength with unrivaled momentum and quickly captured a large area of land, after which the news spread rapidly.
There is only one Yunnan province between Siqi and Vietnam, and the Xuanwu Legion, one of the four major legions of the Han army, is targeting Yunan, and in a short period of time, Yunan has been captured most of it.
You must know that the French who colonized Vietnam have been staring at this place in Yunnan, if it wasn't for the British to stop it, the French would have marched into Yunnan, although they gave up marching into Yunnan, but the French have been watching the situation in Yunnan, and the French spies hiding in Yunan quickly transmitted the information back to Vietnam.
However, the French spies had no telephones, no telegrams, and no flying pigeons, and by the time they passed the information to Lieutenant General Kirsi, the Xuanwu Army had already captured Yunnan, and the fourth division of the main force of the Xuanwu Army had been deployed in the border area of Yunnan.
Faced with this situation, Lieutenant General Kirsi did not act rashly, and spread the news to the country, asking the French government to ask the British to see what should be done.
The British had discussed with France before, and once the Manchus could not exterminate the "short-haired thieves", it was very likely that several countries would need to send troops to help the Manchus encircle and suppress the "short-haired thieves".
Neither the Western powers nor the Western powers such as Britain nor France would want to see the emergence of a great eastern power with strong industrial capacity, which is not in their interest and must be nip in the bud.
At this time, the British also learned about the situation in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, although the "short-haired thieves" had broken through the blockade line of the Qing army, but the Manchus were so big, the British would not believe that the "short-haired thieves" would occupy the whole country so quickly.
So the British Parliament began to discuss whether to send troops and what price the Manchus should pay to send troops, and it took several days to discuss these two things, and then the French also came to the door and asked about it.
According to various intelligence analysis, the British arrogantly believed that the British Imperial Army was stronger, but the "short-haired thief" would also bring a lot of damage to the British Imperial Army, which was not in the interests of the British Empire, so the British wanted to pull more countries together to send troops to the Manchu Qing Dynasty to help the Manchus encircle and suppress the "short-haired thieves".