Chapter 1o3 Restoration of Hue

Qin Kai returned to the artillery bureau, Xu Guofang came to him, sent a few letters, in this era, only Qi Shuxuan wrote to him, the two have been in correspondence for a long time, but the topic of conversation is very broad, xiao beauty is to buy a few exquisite xiao things, and will also describe them in the letter, and Qin Kai also read these jīmao garlic xiao things with relish, but his reply is a little simple and boring, but the xiao story that occasionally comes to mind can make the beauty smile.

Looking at the letter in his hand, the beautiful eyes and beautiful women in dresses seem to be right in front of him, they have been here for almost two years, and it is really not easy to meet a beautiful eyebrow in this era, not to mention that you have to look at the right eye.

"Gale Wind, what are you thinking?" While speaking, Sun Fu came out of the gate.

"Brother Sun, if you come, there must be something, a good thing?" Qin Kai laughed.

Sun Fu didn't answer his question, he leaned over and looked at the letter in his hand, and smiled slightly, "It turns out that he is really Gale's confidante, looking at the handwriting, but he is a celebrity!" ”

Qin Kai shook his head, "We're not familiar with ...... yet."

Sun Fu looked Qin Kai up and down, "Gale Wind, don't be funny, I don't know what kind of letter I wrote to you!" When I married my mother-in-law, I only met from afar! ”

Yes! Another victim of a feudal marriage, Qin Kai sighed secretly! But after thinking about it, I didn't see the consciousness of Sun Fu and the victim again...... Under the marriage of his own new era, a full set of suburban townen villas, high xìng can automatically low-altitude cars...... With a whole set of things, I, a high-paying special job in the Security Bureau, can't rely on salary to complete these harsh pre-marital property purchases.

Seeing Qin Kai's expression, Sun Fu was somewhat skeptical that this Qin Liefeng was a bit of an idiot, which made him think of Qin Kai but he couldn't count it anymore, he didn't have any elders, and no one really had a heart for him in this matter, and he had an idea in his heart!

Qin Kai came back to his senses and saw Sun Fu's eyes rolling 1uan and didn't know what to think, "Brother Sun, what is the matter with today!?" ”

"Ah...... That's the case, Lord Ding has already received the will from Lord Li Zhongtang, and your name of training Vietnamese protector ** has come down! ”

"Oh, this will be really fast," Qin Kai was also very surprised by this rare efficiency, after all, with this name, his actions in Vietnam were justified.

When he arrived at the Yamen, Ding Richang gave Qin Kai the documents of his subordinates and the will of Qin to train and protect the ** of the Qin's order to Vietnam, but Lao Ding also made an agreement with him for three chapters, after all, he went out in the name of the Nanyang Naval Division, and he poked the basket, and Lao Ding couldn't eat and walked around.

First, don't take the initiative to provoke trouble, if Lao Ding doesn't say this, Qin Kai won't do it, the French will let him have a good show in Vietnam, if the provocation is the first, we are not polite, after all, the weapons at hand are still very sufficient, and we have insufficient equipment to make up for it.

The second is that the shipyard affairs must not be left behind, and Lao Ding is still thinking about the ironclad ship that promised Beiyang.

Third, seeing that the situation is not good, you can't hold it hard, there are more than a dozen battalions of the Huai Army and the Dian Army on the side of Langshan and Lao Cai, and you don't need to lead this group of farmers to charge into battle.

This is Lao Ding's words of concern, Qin Kai is naturally full of words, before the trip to the British China submarine telegraph company to inquire clearly, they have telegraph offices in Haiphong and Saigon in Vietnam, Hue and other situations will also drive over, which makes Qin Kai cheap.

I went to find Zhang Siqi, the research progress of electromagnetic BO here is not bad, the receiving device and the conversion device are all the same, and the weak induction tentacle pen of the electromagnetic BO through the coil is used to successfully draw the strength of the electromagnetic BO, but this distance is only in the range of the house.

Qin Kai took out a Xiao booklet of "Fundamentals of Electromagnetic BO Communication", although it was only ten pages of content, so that Zhang Siqi, who still had some misunderstandings about the concept of electromagnetic BO, immediately found some inspiration.

In the next few days, the Mawei Ship Administration carried out a large-scale mobilization, and the Qin Supervisor wanted to go to Vietnam to train the new army, and a large number of laborers were needed to accompany him, as well as a large number of skilled workers.

In mid-December, Qin Kai's fleet finally left Mawei Harbor, what he did not expect was that just as he was thinking about using the news of crossing the seabed, he was soon sent to the telegraph office in Saigon by the British Telegraph Company.

The term of office of the ruling cabinet of the French Republic of Jouferi expired, and the new cabinet faced fierce challenges from various forces at the beginning of the formation of the cabinet, and has not been able to complete the formation of the cabinet. ,

At this time, the city of Hue had already been looted by a lonely dug three-foot in the ground, and the attack of the guerrillas outside the city made the French 6th team exhausted, and what was even worse was that behind the guerrilla war, a larger trap had already been opened.

In the early morning of three days ago, when the gate of Tianmen was bright, the 6th Naval Squadron stationed in the port had arrived in a continuous attack with cold guns, killing and wounding many sentries, and the commander Major Clark immediately ordered two teams of soldiers to attack and counterattack, and these two groups of soldiers chased out of the three miles, but they were besieged by Xue Dajun, who was ambushed there all night, and all the troops were wiped out within ten minutes.

By the time the French arrived with artillery to the rescue, the battle would have been over long ago! The 6th Sentai suffered heavy losses in the continuous ground war, and as long as it lost the reception of the battleship's artillery, it was completely at a disadvantage in the confrontation with the enemy, which made the lonely lieutenant general who had high expectations for the 6th Sentai very depressed.

Moreover, in the continuous battle of jiao, the enemy is becoming stronger and stronger after the baptism of blood and fire, and the quagmire of the ground war finally makes Guba decide to start evacuating this city without any oil and water.

It's the middle of the New Year, and the French navy's light cruiser Amirin, which patrols the coastal waters at night, is preparing to complete its last routine cruise before dawn after a night of idle cruise......

Captain Shalin sipped his coffee while observing the sea nearby, the sky was just bright, and the sun in the distance had not yet come out, but it had already reflected most of the sky brighter and brighter.

He rolled his eyes, and a ship seemed to appear in the distance, emerging from the morning light reflected on the sea level, and drove straight ahead! Orient...... There should be no ships over there, the end of that side is the Philippine island of the Spaniards, and the merchant ships and warships of the Chinese or the British come from the north......

"Sound the alarm! Command plus forward, go up and see what the ship is! Captain Sarin said.

As the distance between the two sides quickly closed, Captain Sarin had realized that he had made a mistake, the light cruiser Amirin was 14.5 knots high, but the ship on the other side was obviously faster, and the other party chose to follow the sunlight at this time, obviously planning to move.

When the distance between the two sides was shortened to three thousand meters, Captain Shalin could clearly see each other's appearance in the telescope, which made a chill arise from his heart, it turned out to be the Qing ironclad ship that retreated with the entire fleet in the South China Sea! This sudden change of events made his mouth open wide in surprise.

Then, at a distance of two kilometers, the four heavy guns of the opposite ship did not hesitate to move to a round of direct fire at close range! There was no doubt that all four shells hit directly, and the first one was blown up by a direct hit, while the other shells that hit the hull of the ship poured countless fragments directly on the cabin and deck, and nearly twenty crew members and soldiers were sent directly to God to report to the ......

Then Amirin tried to resist, but the opponent's side chord cannon immediately sprayed a series of cannonballs, hitting the running position on Amirin's deck, with a shock to the hull, the explosion on the lower deck finally made the still stubborn cruiser completely lose its vitality, slowly capsized to one side, and slowly sank to the bottom of the sea in the explosion of the boiler.

Qin Kai stood on the bridge and watched the perfect sneak attack battle commanded by Xu Shoushan quite playfully, and the close range of cannon hits was actually nothing, but on the all-advancing battleship, it still showed the high training level of the 5o1 ship.

After quickly capturing the prisoners, soon the battleship disappeared again to the east.

The disappearance of the cruiser Amirin immediately aroused the idea of solitary pull, although this Amirin is nothing more than a 13oo-ton Xiao type cruiser, but it is impossible for an accident to occur in the near sea area, could it be that the enemy has already appeared around?

Soon, the facts proved his conjecture, and the cruisers Kaisheng and Reconnaissance, which had been sent out to search, fled back from the port with the black smoke of Nongnong, but the other cruiser "Betaf", which had gone out to search together, did not return.

Soon the news spread to Guba, the Qing ironclad ship hunted two light cruisers outside the harbor, the battle situation was very tight, the other side sank their own warships in one fell swoop by approaching the attack, and the 15omm caliber guns on these Xiao type cruisers could not break the opponent's armor at all.

In fact, after the three cruisers were now 5O1 ships, they directly chose the strategy of turning around and running, and the result was that the oldest "Betaf" 12oo-ton cruiser fell to the end because of the slowest sailing, and their only weapon was the battleship's 13omm tail gun, and it was almost whimsical to want to sink an ironclad ship with this caliber of artillery.

Guba immediately ordered the two ironclad ships "Victory" and "Atarant" to cooperate with the four cruisers to garrison the waterway outside the port, and the other battleships completed the retreat preparations before dark, and in the evening, they retreated directly at night.

As the sky gradually darkened, the ironclad ship "Baya" was the first to sail away from Hue Harbor, and the other warships of the fleet followed, taking advantage of the darkness, to make comprehensive preparations and finally escape with victory.

At this time, the 5O1 ship was long away from the battlefield, and his purpose was no longer Hue.

Soon, Tianjin Wei sent the envoy to the Qing Dynasty, Bao Hai, and Li Zhongtang signed the "Li-Bao Convention", the content of which recognized the joint protection rights of China and France over Vietnam, demanded that Vietnam open up the cities along the Red River to trade, recognized the current de facto control of France, but demanded that France withdraw from Hue, the capital of Vietnam. Of course, this treaty will need to be agreed by both parties at the highest level before it can finally enter into force.