The next day, the Paris Pravda newspaper immediately covered with top-secret information about the French prisoners of war, and in the previous battles with the Qing navy, nearly 1,300 French officers and soldiers were arrested by the Qing state, and these people were declared missing by the French government, instead of taking the initiative to rescue these heroes who shed blood and tears for the French Republic......

These are things that the military and the cabinet have avoided talking about, and more importantly, the photographs that appear, one of which shows a dense crowd of captured French soldiers, and the pictures of captured soldiers holding high anti-war banners, are undoubtedly a big footnote to the so-called great victory of the Jouferi cabinet

As soon as the news came out, the whole country was in an uproar, and for a time many neutral newspapers also began to pay attention to this issue, reporting relevant news at large length, and these news, more or less from some secret channels, a photo, a page of text can make a newspaper's sales and popularity greatly increased, for a time the French newspaper industry flocked to it. The latest and fastest update of this book comes from du58.

Parliamentarian Créng Méng, who was worthy of being the leader of the Jī faction, immediately thought of the bereavement of the wounded and fallen soldiers when he discovered the inconsistency of the current cabinet on the issue of prisoners.

Since the start of the war in 1881, more than 5,000 French soldiers have been killed or missing in the Annam region of Jiāo Toe China, and more than twice the number of soldiers of the expeditionary force who have been wounded, disabled or sick.

He immediately sent people to investigate and collect evidence of dozens of wounded soldiers who had retreated, and the information collected in it, with a little embellishment, he was sure enough to absolutely amaze the French people living in the country...... Bō Pangong, beckoning to him

After the Paris Pravda newspaper published these series of "Investigations into the War of Annam" written by the Jījin faction, there was a growing demand in France for the cessation of useless wars and the use of war funds to deal with the domestic economic crisis.

At the meeting of the current cabinet of France, the warmonger Jouferi obviously saw the increasingly fierce domestic situation, and naturally understood that there was a huge crisis in it, such a crisis could no longer be resolved by political skills, and the best way was naturally to divert public attention, and he immediately sent a telegram in the name of the cabinet to Lu Mei, the governor of Jiāo Toe China, and what he urgently needed was the result of the war and a treaty of substance—

Guangxi Taiping Mansion, gathered in the Qin Mission, the commander of the Northern Vietnam military Qin Kai under the command of the Qing army has reached 13,000 people, including 3,000 Guangdong troops, 10,000 Gui troops, for these rout of the task of training naturally fell on Feng Zicai, this is not at all difficult to lead the army for more than 30 years of veterans.

What's more, now that he is in power, Qin Kai, the minister of the Qincha, has sent an official document, and the affairs of the eastern front of the northern part of Vietnam are all held by him, which is a great trust. The latest and fastest update of this book comes from du58.

It's just that what makes Feng Zicai very depressed is the matter of military salaries and ordnance, he sent his nephew to find Su Yuan chūn, the Huai army who had just come from Liuzhou to help, and the two of them had some jiāo feelings, plus now Feng Zicai is a legitimate chief official, Feng Zhaojin spent a lot of effort to get 1,000 knives and guns and 300 old máo guns from where.

It's not that Su Yuan chūn is stingy, he was born in the Hunan army, and he was also a strong general in the army when he fought the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and he has always been an official in Guangxi, so when Li Zhongtang abolished the Hunan army, he didn't give it to him, he was the origin of the Hunan army, the people of the Huai army, and when Pan Ding entered North Vietnam a few days ago, he wanted to take him, but at that time, Sun Yuan chūn had no equipment, so he was waiting for supplies, so he didn't make the trip.

He is an army with a marginal system of the Huai Army, and the strength of the supply is also very bad, more than 4,000 people, only 1,000 firearms of all kinds were given, of which there were only 300 Lin Mingdeng needle guns in the rear, he was a treasure to equip the pro-military camp, Feng Zicai came to ask for something, he gritted his teeth and moved out 300 old máose, which was already a terrible face.

Lao Feng saw that these 300 old guns were all old goods from ten years ago, which is better than nothing, fortunately, the speed of the breech is a little slower, this power is not bad, and sending someone to Su Yuan chūn to send 2000 taels of silver is considered a thank you gift, and now follow this Qin to do things, and the power and silver in this hand are much more convenient. ,

Later in the evening, his nephew Feng Zhaojin came to report that Dongxi and An Lu in northern Vietnam were attacked, and the Gui army stationed in the garrison was defeated again, which made Feng Zicai very annoyed

However, now that the 7,000 new army has been completed, the 500 "cui" character army at their core has been dispersed, and 2,000 jīng rui have been carefully selected from the rout, in addition, more than 1,000 people have been selected from the defeated township warriors in northern Vietnam.

He calculated that as long as there were more than ten days of training, although it was not a strong army, these soldiers were originally soldiers, and the way to rule was to combine grace and power, so after forming an army, he immediately rewarded 3 taels of silver for the "Cui" word battalion, 2 taels of silver for the "Qin" word battalion, and only 200 taels of silver for each person in the baggage camp.

This is a big stab at these veterans, some soldiers of the baggage battalion even took the initiative to ask to participate in the selection of the "cui" word battalion, the appearance of the army has changed greatly, plus these days Lao Feng has come to the school every day to personally train the new army, it is finally a small effect, and when the master of the Qin Cha comes, it can be regarded as a merit that can be obtained.

When I was thinking about whether to train some soldiers from the front-line rout, the soldiers came to report that the prefect Luo Wei had arrived, and when the prefect Luo was welcomed, he waited for a bad news.

Luo Wei can be regarded as dedicated to purchasing grain this time, but there is no merchant in the four prefectures of Taiping, Zhen'an, Nanning, and Si'en who have the ability to purchase this large amount of grain, and the reason for this is that it involves the previous governor Xu Yanxu, who has the name of knowing the military in the air, and his so-called knowing the soldier is just sufficient food, so the grain and grass that can be purchased in the four prefectures are all purchased. The latest and fastest update of this book comes from du58.

This made Feng Zicai also quite a headache, and the food in the camp was enough to support six or seven days, and he also pulled down his son and asked Luo Wei to raise some more food anyway, but this time Luo Zhifu was also a little weak, he had already sold Lao Feng's big face before, and raised a batch of grain from the grain merchants in Taiping Mansion, and this time he had to take this road again, obviously he couldn't

Thinking of this, he resolutely dismissed Feng Zicai's practice of arresting his strong men, and only said that he would try his best to raise it, but let Lao Feng not have too much hope, and also gave an idea, if not, he would dismiss those guerrillas......

For the prefect's bad idea, Feng Zicai's face was black, but fortunately, at this time, his son Feng Xianghua rushed in, "Father, father, dozens of trucks came outside, and the officer brought a warrant from Lord Qincha Qin."

It has been more than half a month since Feng Zicai received the appointment, and finally waited for the people sent by Qin Kai to come out with someone to greet him, Luo Wei saw that this was an opportunity to contact this great fresh and sharp governor, and naturally he was not far behind, to the surprise of the two of them, it was a young man who was in his early twenties and looked like a jīng worker.

"Guangzhou garrison Lu rate to meet Governor Feng", naturally came to Lu rate who came by order, escorting the first batch of ordnance along the way, so he didn't go fast, fortunately, along the way, the water and land routes, all arranged by Wu Jingui and He Xing, but they also rushed to Taiping Mansion without danger.

Qin Kai, the feudal official and minister of the Qin Mission, only sent such a five-rank garrison officer, which surprised Feng Zicai, and hurriedly welcomed Lu Shu into the house, and introduced Luo Zhifu by the way, this five-rank military attache was not arrogant or humble, and greeted the fourth-rank prefect politely, as if he was completely unaware of his identity as a fifth-grade martial artist.

After reading Qin Kai's official document, it only said that Lu Shu was here to assist in the formation of the army, and also roughly guessed the intention of this person to come to Guangxi, it seems that this is the eyeliner sent by Lord Qincha...... Then be careful to offer

Feng Zicai pondered for a moment, and then asked, "Lu Shoubei, I don't know when Governor Qin will come to Taiping Mansion?" The overall situation of the North of Vietnam must be taken care of by adults."

"Admiral Feng, the teacher has already supervised 14 warships in the South Seas and the North Seas to go to sea, looking for an opportunity to fight a decisive battle with the French fleet, I think there will be good news coming, the war in the Taiping Mansion, the governor asked me to bring a message to the adults, please make your own decisions, this food, ordnance does not need to be the heart of the adults, the teacher is properly arranged",

As soon as these words came out, Feng Zicai was also surprised, this Qin governor can really be stubborn and stubborn, charging ahead, no wonder after the new defeat of the imperial court, he dared to give this war in northern Vietnam to this young governor, and although Luo Wei Luo Governor is a scholar, but when he heard such a high-spirited thing, he actually had a little yearning.

"Lu Garrison, the defense of the Taiping Mansions, the old man is naturally in charge, and now he has trained 14 battalions of new troops and 8 battalions of auxiliary soldiers, but there is a shortage of ordnance and grain, and I ask the governor to allocate it as soon as possible."

"Admiral Feng, the first batch of ordnance 2,000 Lin Mington needle guns, Manlixia rifles, 400,000 rounds of bullets, I have been escorted, these days there are still a large number of grain, grass, ordnance through the Yujiang River, Zuojiang waterway over, the governor said, how many people, how many guns, the Admiral can send someone to receive this is the list" Lu rate sent a list of military resources.

Hearing that there were 2,000 advanced rear-loading rifles in the first batch, Feng Zicai had already been thundered, and after seeing the list, he was even more ecstatic, there were all kinds of them, from grain, guns, bullets, military uniforms, and even artillery, when he was secretly surprised by the generosity of this Qin governor, he couldn't help but secretly speculate about the strength of this Qin governor.

After getting the ordnance and salary, it was naturally time to get down to business, and sure enough, Feng Zicai immediately got another secret plan brought by Lu Shu, the huge plan greatly surprised Lao Feng, which involved not only the Qing army on the Eastern Front, but it was not the scope of his disposal-

Saigon, Vietnam, since the departure of the French Far East Fleet, the alert of the two batteries in the port has been raised to the highest level, in view of the last night attack, 6 torpedo boats and 4 shallow water gunboats have been deployed to patrol the harbor channel day and night, and of the 6 ironclads damaged last time, except for the Duwell ironclad which was blown in two and completely irreparable, the other 5 battleships were salvaged one by one, and one was urgently repaired.

And since the Governor of Jiāo Zhichina, Lu Mei, had received the telegram from Paris, he called the naval officer Flo, who put the order from the cabinet on the table, and pointed to the telegram, "Colonel Flo, if you are to be entrusted with this task, what specific plan do you have?" ”

Colonel Fu Luo has served as a military attache in the Qing embassy for a long time since the era of the suppression of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but he is not at all the kind of soldier who is powerful and simple-minded.

Fu Luo carefully studied the telegram, thought for a moment, and then said: "Your Excellency the Governor, the news from our embassy that although the Qing army has been defeated on the front line of Hanoi and Bac Ninh in North Vietnam, they have already appointed a new commander, who is the commander of the Nanyang Naval Division, which we have always been difficult to defeat - Qin Kai, the governor of Guangdong, so ...... I don't think it's a good opportunity to negotiate at the moment."

"Colonel, why? Didn't we gain an advantage in battle, and we did our best to turn that advantage into actual control, which is very necessary for the republic."

"Your Excellency the Governor, we lack a person to negotiate, this Qin Kai, the minister of the Qing State, except for the cannon pipe, it seems that he will not have a second way of talking."

Hearing this, Lu Mei smiled slightly, "Colonel, I have already solved this problem for you, the minister in the Qing Dynasty, Tuligu, has already contacted Zhang Shusheng, the minister of Beiyang, and the government of the Qing State has just gone through a round of power struggle, so they are very interested in the specific content of the treaty to end the military operations in northern Vietnam."

Colonel Flo sighed, and he immediately calculated the feasibility of this task, and it was clear that after the victories in North Vietnam, Hanoi, and Bac Ninh, it was a very challenging task, and he immediately took over the contents of the treaty and studied it carefully......

Suddenly, a dull sound of cannon came from the harbor in the distance, which surprised both the Governor Lu Mei and Colonel Folo, and soon, an officer came to report that outside the port of Saigon, a large Qing fleet had suddenly appeared, and now it was increasing the artillery battery with the harbor to carry out jiāo fire, and it was obvious that the other side intended to break into the harbor.

Qing fleet...... This news is obviously an explosive issue, but Rear Admiral Miller led the fleet to seek a decisive battle with the Qing fleet, and now Miller has not returned, but the Qing fleet suddenly appeared outside the port, this is undoubtedly a bad omen What is Rear Admiral Miller's fleet doing

Qin Kai was very happy to observe the battle between the fleet and the French battery on the 501 ship at this time, this was the first time the fleet participated in this mode of operation, attacking a port with garrison forces, of course, he had a similar experience when attacking Japan before, but the imbecility of the Japanese battery made that battle lose too much to study. ,

At this moment, the fleet sailed past the front of the battery at one time, and the ship's guns fired a neat shè shot, and shells continued to fall from the fort on the hill in the distance, and the entire battery was submerged in the thick smoke produced by the shè strike.

The French on the battery also desperately launched a counterattack, the French battery was strengthened after the last attack on Saigon, and the counterattack at this time did cause a lot of trouble, but the biggest flaw of the French artillery was also in the shè Cheng, after opening the distance, the hit rate of the artillery on the battery was greatly reduced.

The assault on the Saigon fort lasted for half a day, and the French sent several teams to reinforce the fort, but it eventually collapsed under heavy fire from the Nanyang Naval Division, which was slightly damaged by a battleship.

On the channel of the port, six torpedo boats and several small gunboats launched a non-hesitating attack with the support of shore guns, and this time, the 601 ship, which had not had the opportunity to play in the whole operation, took the lead, and the small-caliber speed guns on the battleship completely lost the opportunity to fire torpedoes with their incomparable speed and power.

As for some other French merchant ships and gunboats, the Red River that passed through Saigon early and ran into the upper reaches of the river, but Qin Kai didn't come to Saigon this time for these kittens and fish, so he naturally didn't pay attention to it.

At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the fleet finally broke through all the defenses of the French and broke into the port of Saigon again, which was undoubtedly the biggest cup for the French, and several ironclad ships that had just been salvaged in the port became target ships again, this time with a blow of destruction, and the hull and the entire superstructure were carefully combed.

The 601 ship had a rare opportunity to send a few black-headed torpedoes at close range, and the 500-meter torpedo in this era was really a rare opportunity to play, and this time it finally reflected its value.

The whole attack lasted less than half an hour, and there were no more targets in the harbor that were worth attacking, before the fleet turned around and left.