Chen Zhong looked at the battle situation between the two sides on the map and fell into deep thought, how to control the complex battle situation in front of him? The situation of Chen Zhong's army has fallen into an extremely difficult situation.

If, before Su Yuanchun's troops arrived in Yulin, they could not take Yulin City, then Chen Zhong and they would be surrounded by Qing troops several times their own, and now their army supplies could no longer be supplied, and they would not be able to break through in a short time, and the situation in front of them had almost entered a dead end.

"Little Wangye, see if we withdraw from the war, so that we can still have a glimmer of life." Yan Xia asked Chen Zhong tentatively.

Chen Zhong did not answer Yan Xia immediately, but looked in the direction of Beibu Gulf on the map.

At present, Yang Tianlong's Eighth Army in the Beibu Gulf is the only new force that can be maneuvered.

According to Chen Zhong's original idea, this Eighth Army was mobilized as a reserve army, one is to monitor the movements of Su Yuanchun's troops here, in case Su Yuanchun sends troops to support Yulin, the Eighth Army can not only directly smash Su Yuanchun's lair, cut off his back road, but also play a role in encircling Wei and saving Zhao.

The second is that the Eighth Army was used as the last to defeat Yulin, and cooperated with the Tenth Army to force Su Yuanchun to submit.

Third, in the event that the French troops stationed in Vietnam were to send troops, the Eighth Army could also meet the attack and annihilate the French army on the spot.

In the face of the current war situation, how to use the Eighth Army will likely determine the direction of the entire war situation.

The French army entered the country at the invitation of the Qing court and Wang Zhichun to quell the peasant uprising together. However, the French army has always had a holiday with Su Yuanchun, and this time they wanted to take the opportunity to destroy Su Yuanchun in order to avenge the battle of Zhennanguan that year.

In this landing in Guangxi, the French ** team had about 3,000 people, and more than 17,000 Vietnamese were requisitioned, forming an army of more than 20,000 people, and they were well-equipped, which was not comparable to the Qing army.

If the French army can destroy Su Yuanchun's troops at this time, so that the Eighth Army can directly respond to Chen Zhong's army and invest in the battle of Yulin, Yulin will lose the reinforcements in the west, and the reinforcements in the east of Yulin have been in a stalemate with Qi Gang's two divisions for nearly a day, and the losses on both sides are very serious.

Therefore, the best choice at present is to destroy Su Yuanchun's troops with the French army, and this game of dead chess will be alive.

Chen Zhong pondered in front of the map, and suddenly raised his head and asked Yan Xia, "Is this French army the same unit that participated in the bloody bath of the Old Summer Palace back then?" ”

"According to the Eighth Army, it's that unit." Yan Xia looked at Chen Zhongdao.

Chen Zhong lingered in front of the map for a while, and then, decisively, ordered Yang Tianlong of the Eighth Army to quickly pull out, hit the rear of the French army, and ordered the Tenth Army to meet the French army, forming an offensive of front and rear flanking.

Yan Xia was surprised by Chen Zhong's decision, and hurriedly said, "Little Wangye, do you want to think about it again." If this is the case, our army in Yulin City will be in an extremely difficult situation, and it is very likely that it will not be able to get out. ”

Chen Zhong did not answer Yan Xia's words, but ordered Lan Hu to say: "Lan Hu, General Ben ordered you to go out with the Tenth Army to attack this French army, I will make this army disappear forever on the earth!" ”

Lan Hu was a little excited, even if Chen Zhong didn't order him to go, he would also ask to join the battle with the Tenth Army. Because, in the Sino-French War that year, Blue Tiger's parents were killed by the French army, so the entry of the French army this time was a good opportunity to avenge the revenge of the year.

Chen Zhong's idea was not a spur-of-the-moment idea, because if Su Yuanchun's back route was cut off as originally planned, the Tenth Army and the Eighth Army would attack Su Yuanchun before and after, and both sides would be defeated.

Such an ending is in the hands of the French army and Wang Zhichun, and Wang Zhichun also wants to use the French army to destroy this political enemy Su Yuanchun. In this way, Wang Zhichun's troops and the French army could eat the remnants of Chen Zhong together.

Moreover, the peasant rebel army stationed in Nanning was in a wait-and-see state. They hate these foreigners to the core, and they still admire Su Yuanchun very much.

Therefore, if Chen Zhong attacks the French army, he can not only win the assistance of the peasant rebel army garrisons in Nanning and Liuzhou, but also may win over Su Yuanchun's troops, so that it is possible to take the overall situation by fighting a little.

Su Yuanchun never expected that Chen Zhong's army would put his own safety at risk, but instead avoided his team and attacked the French army directly. Because, when he found that there was still a force of Chen Zhong behind him, he knew that it was entirely possible for Chen Zhong's army to copy his lair, attack him back and forth, and destroy him. However, the other side did not.

When he learned from a captive Vietnamese that they had received a request from Wang Zhichun to destroy Su Yuanchun and Chen Zhong when they were both defeated.

When Su Yuanchun heard this, he stopped moving forward, and scolded Wang Zhichun angrily: "This Wang Zhichun is a special traitor, so Lao Tzu won't save you!" ”

Therefore, Su Yuanchun neither advanced nor retreated, stationed the battalion halfway, and watched the movement of the entire battle situation.

After Chen Zhong's command got the report from the front, Yan Xia was surprised by the little prince's divine calculation, Su Yuanchun was really as the little prince said, and was no longer ready to fight against Chen Zhong's army.

What Wang Zhichun and the French army did not expect was that Chen Zhong's army actually ignored Su Yuanchun's army, but turned around to meet the French army that was preparing to attack Su Yuanchun. Yang Tianlong's Eighth Army and Ling Zhan's Tenth Army fought fiercely outside Qinzhou, and the battle was extremely fierce, with extremely heavy losses on both sides.

At this moment, the rebel army stationed in Nanning, seeing Chen Zhong's army attacking the French devils in a suicidal manner, they were extremely impressed, and the defenders of Nanning and the army of Liuzhou had a move to advance to Yulin.

Seeing that Chen Zhong's army was fierce in the afterlife and suffered heavy losses in this battle, the French army wanted to withdraw from China by sea, but the two armies they faced put on a posture that they had to destroy it, and the offensive became more and more ferocious.

While the two sides were anxious, a naval fleet appeared in the Beibu Gulf, with nearly 10 cruisers, supply ships, and frigates lying across the sea.

Immediately afterwards, the French army was subjected to heavy artillery bombardment from the warship, and for a while, the flames soared into the sky, flesh and blood flew everywhere, and the screams continued again and again.

In the Beibu Gulf at night, the sound of artillery rumbled, and it exploded for an hour, like lightning and thunder, and half of the sky was red.

The next day, the world's major newspapers published the news that a French army unit stationed in northern Vietnam had mysteriously disappeared, and it was speculated that it might have been abducted by aliens. Years later, the war became a historical mystery.

Besides, in the case of Yulin City, the 19th Army, where Chen Zhong was located, carried out several powerful attacks on Yulin City with the only ammunition, and the troops were reduced by more than half. Qi Gang's First Army finally ran out of ammunition and food, and launched hand-to-hand combat with the two reinforcements of Guangdong and Wuzhou, withstanding the enemy's attacks again and again.

It was only after dark on the straight that the two reinforcements stopped their attack, but both sides suffered extremely heavy casualties. The original strength of the First Army was nearly 10,000 people, but now it is less than 2,000 people.

The rebel army in Liuzhou, Nanning, is still waiting and watching, and they have great internal differences, and they have no intention of sending troops to help for a long time.

Chen Zhong Qigang and they no longer have anything to eat, drink, weapons and ammunition, and everyone knows that it is unlikely that they will survive, and death seems to be getting closer and closer to them.

Chen Zhong looked at the gold watch in his arms, the hour hand was ticking, and the night was as silent as death.