Chapter 273: The war in North Vietnam is finally over

The thousand waves smashed down by this piece immediately triggered a chain reaction, with Qin Kai's big shield in front, which immediately attracted a lot of twists and turns to follow the trend, of course, all the pieces wisely avoided directly evaluating the compromise policy of the imperial court, but mainly analyzed the possible success of the war against France.

And after Shi Duo received this excerpt, he also had a black line on his face, this Governor of Qin is really a big mouth, if this is handed over, I am afraid that the Queen Mother will be angry directly, and the imperial court has ordered a truce, and what are you still tossing about the strategy of Yuebei...... I also have to fight to Saigon, Vietnam...... Is this Governor of Qin stunned by Dajie?

He didn't dare to hand this fold into the palace lightly, and was busy recruiting the ministers of the military aircraft to discuss, and Xu Gengshen of the military department was originally dissatisfied with the accommodation of the French, and he also bluntly said earlier that he wanted to be tough on France, but after the palace made a resolution, he also died down, but this heart has always been entangled in this matter.

He didn't have a deep relationship with Qin Kai, and he had met twice, but today he saw that this Governor of Qin was quite stylish in this matter, he was an old fritter in the officialdom, so he naturally understood that this fold was definitely a big cannon battle, and after pondering for a while, he first expressed his position, and the "Ten Strategies for Pingyue" presented by the Governor of Qin was very appropriate, and could be used as a good means to make the French give in...... He is clearly not involved, but he does not fight either.

Sun Yuwen of the Ministry of Industry and Qin Kai did not have a deep relationship, but he had a very good relationship with Qin Kai's silver, but he had always been the eyeliner of Li Zhongtang of the Huai Department, and he had benefits at both ends, so he was naturally impartial, and proposed to temporarily press the excerpt of the Governor of Qin, and wait for the results of the mediation of the five countries to be discussed...... Whole nonsense.

After seeing Qin Kai's excerpt, Scholar Zuo smiled and said nothing, Shi Duo saw that this big guy seemed to see something, so he opened his mouth to ask, "Lord Zuo, what do you think?" I'm worried that after this fold goes up, the Queen Mother will be angry! ”

Zuo Zongtang smiled and patted the fold, "Lord Wang, you are too worried about this, I didn't say it a long time ago, Governor Qin is also bent on making peace as soon as possible, but he just doesn't want to let the French get cheap, now above our court, this official of the Manchu Dynasty, is really the only Governor Qin who can come to this cannon battle......"

"If the Queen Mother is angry, what should I do?" Shi Duo was surprised by what Zuo Zongtang said, this Qin Kai is really a stunned young man who is not afraid of death, if the Queen Mother is guilty, this great merit will be gone...... Merit, thinking of these two words, he suddenly understood something, wasn't he still thinking about it before, this Qin Liefeng's merit is too great, is this the idea of fighting?

He looked at Zuo Zongtang, who smiled at him without saying a word, obviously thinking so too!

In the afternoon of the same day, there was good news in northern Vietnam, this time, it was finally not Qin Kai's side, it was Cen Yuying, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, who conquered the important town of Lintao in northern Vietnam, and the 20,000 army had surrounded Xuanguang, and the overall suppression of the Qing army in northern Vietnam had been completed! However, the funny thing is that the orders in the court went down one after another, but they immediately made a truce, held their positions, and were not allowed to attack!

Hanoi Province has been under siege for the fifteenth day, and although Hanoi Province has hoarded a large amount of food, enough for a defeated brigade to hold out for more than a year, another outstanding problem is that ammunition is very scarce, especially in artillery shells.

Five days ago, the French flotilla responsible for transporting the South Wharf to Hanoi was dealt a fatal blow in the waters of the Red River, 15 miles north of Shanxi City, and the flotilla consisting of 12 gunboats and 10 ordinary cargo ships sailed directly into the minefield laid by the Chinese, and was surrounded and annihilated by the Qing gunboats that arrived later.

This blow was absolutely fatal, the French had completely changed hands in the past to cross the northern waterways, but Guba had received important news from the officers who had fled desperately, and the French envoy was negotiating a peace treaty with the Qing state, and it was estimated that the Qing army would soon withdraw its troops...... However, this news is more like a fantasy, and even Lone Pull doesn't believe it, in this case, the other party will withdraw its troops?

Outside the city of Hanoi, the army from all over the city has gathered under the city and has carried out a continuous attack on the city of Hanoi for more than ten days, but the city wall of Hanoi is very strong, and it is difficult for field artillery to break through the city wall.

However, the role of the French's 68mm field guns in positional warfare is far inferior to the mortars of the guard, and even the generals of the Qingzi Army, the Cuizi Army, and the Huai Army who coordinated the attack can see that they are obviously very depressed about the fact that the guard is so well-equipped. ,

However, even so, in the face of the fortified city, in addition to killing many Frenchmen, this mortar was also powerless, which made the soldiers and horses participating in the siege quite helpless.

As the commander-in-chief of the siege of Hanoi, Zhou Ruidong did not organize the siege after the siege, and when the other Qing troops joined the siege, he had already received a secret telegram from Qin Kai, and the official order of the imperial court on the truce was estimated to be delivered in 10 days, and the longest would not exceed 15 days.

In this case, under the noses of the French, a fortress was built, although very simple, but a large amount of cement was used for construction, in just a few days, it has been formed, but what puzzles the French is that the fortress is at least 3,000 meters away from the south gate, which has exceeded the range of field artillery, and I can't figure out what the Chinese want to do!

On the dock of the Zhiling Fortress, ten 10-inch shore defense guns were carefully hoisted onto the steamship by large hoisting equipment, these big guys weighing 18 tons in addition to the gun carriage are definitely the giants of artillery, and they should not be stored in the inland field battles at all, for no other reason, because of this weight, it is basically impossible for him to be moved around.

However, this qiē has become possible in the face of the achievements of Mawei Industry, although it takes huge resources and manpower to carry a heavy artillery, but Zhou Ruidong firmly believes that under the muzzle of this size, the dilemma faced by Hanoi will be solved, and the enemy has no second choice but to tremble.

Just when Guba was making all kinds of speculations about this fortress, on April 2, the fortress, which had been covered by curtains, finally showed its hideous appearance, and the 10 10-inch coastal defense guns that had been installed were all hidden in the black hole after installing the gun carriages.

And early this morning, an official letter demanding that Guba surrender immediately was sent to Hanoi, which Guba naturally refused, but the consequence was a catastrophe that he could not bear.

The shelling began within half an hour after he refused to surrender, and in the black muzzle of the fortress, the rate of fire was not fast, but the shelling could change the heavens and the earth, and a company of French troops was originally stationed on the south gate tower, where the thick wall was 1 meter, but after the first shell of the day hit the tower, the lieutenant company commander found that his soldiers were completely evaporated by more than half in the explosion of this shell.

More than 200 kilograms of flowering bombs set off a barrage of steel on the city tower, and every time it exploded, it could create a large hole with a diameter of several meters. Before the situation could be clarified, during the first round of shelling, the entire tower of the south gate of the south gate was blown down, and all the companies stationed there were buried in the rubble.

The power of this heavy artillery for shore defense, as a former naval commander, Vice Admiral Gu Ba immediately understood that as long as the opponent had enough shells, the city could be completely wiped out under the bombardment of heavy artillery, but at this time, the expeditionary force had no way to retreat......

As a last resort, of course, at night, Lone Ba ordered a desperate night attack to attack this improvised fortress on the periphery, but Zhou Ruidong had already set up a net here, and the dense firepower of dozens of Makqin machine guns and more than 2,000 guards made the French army who tried to approach in tame.

What was even more unfortunate was that Lieutenant General Lone Ba, who commanded the attack, was wounded by a mortar shell flying from nowhere during the battle that day, which made the French expeditionary force even worse.

In the heavy artillery bombardment of the next day, the southern city wall was blasted open in many places with a width of 50 meters, and soon, the entire southern city wall was like being bombarded by the next shelling to get a gap everywhere, and the extension of the artillery fired, the buildings and fortifications in the city were as fragile as eggshells under this amazing shell, and the barrage composed of mortars staged the barrage bombardment of Xu Jin, which completely collapsed the defending French army.

From the night of April 3, the French army had fallen into a situation of great rout, and there were constantly groups of soldiers coming out of the city to want the Qing army to surrender, and by the time the general offensive was launched on April 7, there were almost no French troops in the entire Hanoi city to resist in formation, and by the evening of the 7th, the large-scale battle of the French in northern Vietnam had been declared a complete defeat.

The Lieutenant General Guba led the troops to the north and fled into the jungle, in this regard, Zhou Ruidong had no interest in accumulating pursuit, the instructor's order instructed to seize the city in northern Vietnam, those French soldiers who had been completely frightened were already insignificant targets, and when the army arrived in Shanxi by land and water, the forward troops had already taken this important town in the past, and the French here had already fled. ,

And three days later, the order of the imperial court to make a truce and prepare for the withdrawal of the army finally arrived, and the generals who received the order, Wu Changqing, Feng Zicai, Su Yuanchun and other generals were very depressed, they had fought in northern Vietnam for so long, killed and wounded tens of thousands of soldiers, and they actually got such a result, and they asked Qin Kai, the current supreme military governor in northern Vietnam, to continue to march into the army!

Guilin Mansion, after Qin Kai completed the gold mine trading in Zhaoping County, he had already returned to Guilin Mansion, looking at the following generals' invitations to war, he smiled and said to Zhao Liewen: "Mr. Zhao, you see, everyone can see that this withdrawal of troops is definitely a big stinky move, why are so many big people in the court still happy to do it?" ”

Zhao Lie smiled, "How can the big guy in the court not know...... Just pretending not to know, your fold just gave them a step, and also gave the French a slap in the face, I just wonder, why are the truce telegrams one after another, and the disposition of your fold has not come down until now? Could it be a difficult birth! ”

On the same day, Wang Lin, the imperial historian, played a game, impeaching the minister of Nanyang, the governor of Liangguang Qin Kai lightly started the war, swallowed up the seized gold and silver and other five charges, the excerpt immediately triggered the biggest war of words in the court, Qingliu withdrew from the discussion of the Sino-French peace discussion, and the Yushitai fight, Wang Lin There were several people who jumped out, impeaching Qin Kai for being from a bad background, and did not enter the scholar and rank, how could he serve as a feudal official, and said that Qin Kai interfered in the cotton cloth business and made a profit.

This qiē is like a farce, and even the party Qin Kai is a little dizzying, this officialdom is really humorous!

When the news of the loss of Hanoi came, he found the French minister Delrigu that night, and bluntly said that if the peace treaty could not be signed tomorrow, the mediation of the five countries would be terminated, and the main war faction in the court of the Qing Dynasty would have the upper hand, and at that time, there would be a Marquis Zeng to preside over the negotiations, and the content of the treaty was estimated to be unrecognizable.

After receiving this warning, the French also understood that there could be no more good, but in the afternoon of the same day, an abrupt news came from Europe, that the cabinet of Joffelli had collapsed because of a no-confidence in Parliament, and the two Frenchmen hurried to Hurd and demanded that a peace treaty be signed immediately.

As a result, the signing of the "Sino-French New Covenant" under strange circumstances was hastily completed, and Hurd immediately called the British minister in Paris to consult with the newly appointed Bailishuang cabinet, and in the face of the news of the complete defeat of France in northern Vietnam, the Bailishuang cabinet also felt that this was the only opportunity to clean up the mess, and immediately agreed to the treaty.

According to the provisions of the Sino-French New Treaty, both the Qing and the French troops were to withdraw their troops from northern Vietnam within 60 days, and the treaty euphemistically recognized the Qing suzerainty over Vietnam, but this power was lower than the treaty signed between France and Vietnam.

In addition, a number of treaty ports agreed that these were of interest to the members of the five conciliators, and that according to the Sino-British Treaty of Tientsin and the Sino-American Treaty of Tientsin, these powers would also enjoy the same treatment as the French robbers.

On the same day, the content of the treaty was covered by the "Fujian New Daily", and Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Hubei, and Zhang Peilun, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, immediately wrote articles in the newspaper criticizing Li Zhongtang's behavior, and Zuo Zongtang's bullish sentence "Ten French generals are not as good as one Li Zhongtang!" The assertion was also openly reported, and for a time, there was a lot of noise between the government and the opposition.

As for Qin Kai's attack on the north of Vietnam, after repeated instructions from the Military Aircraft Department, there was finally a result of the disposal...... RO@。