Tesla naturally had doubts about this invitation from the East, but since the other party could provide him with the opportunity to enter the coveted Berlin University's real room, the strength behind him was naturally not to be underestimated, and the key factor that finally made him choose to come to the East was the electromagnetic wave theory provided to him by Wang Li.

As a persistent scientist, he has a fanatical interest in every scientific theory, but this unheard of theory is explained by a simple description and physical phenomena, according to his judgment, there is indeed a great truth, if this theory is proudly confirmed, then the idea of wireless transmission of information is no longer a castle in the air!

In December 1882, after Wang Li telegraphed Qin Kai, he personally accompanied Tesla to board the Mawei shipping fleet in Hamburg, accompanied by a group of skilled workers and engineers recruited from Germany.

But in terms of salary, he has a base, like the situation that those teachers in the early days of the Mawei shipyard received a salary of more than 100 times that of ordinary workers, and the current situation of the Mawei industry is completely unnecessary, after all, the industrial enlightenment stage has basically been completed, and now Tongguò technical school, higher education and other systems are providing a large number of qualified skilled workers for the factory.

And what he needs more is a senior technician and engineer with technical advantages, so these two people, after joining the horsetail industrial system, can get twice the salary in Germany, which is already a very attractive price, James and Joseph The two agents did a very good job in this matter, and this batch of nearly 60 engineers and senior technicians set off with them.

In the blink of an eye, it was approaching the Spring Festival of 1883, which was the third Spring Festival that Qin Kai had spent in this era.

Qin Kai was in the house at this time with He Xing, Xu Guofang, Sun Fu, Chen Bingkun, Lu Han, the core personnel of the vote to discuss the New Year's arrangements, today is a little different from previous years, now he is no longer only in charge of the Mawei shipbuilding, but the governor of the party, but now the land of Guangdong can now let Qin Kai control the coastal defense of Leizhou and Lianzhou, which is somewhat inconsistent with the name of his governor.

However, this is indeed very much in line with his assumption, after all, this era should be spread out like later generations to carry out large-scale construction, not to mention the huge initial investment, but also easy to cause waste and corruption, in fact, Qin Kai has already planned, even if the land and population of the superintendent side are completely enough to provide the initial industrial development.

These few days are his free time, Lu Han has rushed back to Guangzhou Port, but Xu Shoushan doesn't know where to hang around at this time, Qin Kai has been shooting out several telegrams a day to urge this guy to come back, when is it, still wandering outside!

He Xing has always looked like Yang Bailao recently, anyway, he has a sad face, although Qin Kai opened the Nanyang Bank and earned money and interest, but the money is directly at Qin Kai's disposal, he just looks at the number, the silver spent is still run by him, with the second 3,800-ton cruiser in the Mawei Shipyard and the first 5,000-ton ironclad ship in the Beihai Shipyard began to lay keels, the finances that had just eased up seemed tight again.

Completely different from Ho Xing Biao Xiàn is Lu Yijin of Nanyang Bank, with the help of the signboard of the governor and governor, the silver dollar of Nanyang Bank quickly occupied the market within a few months, and it is more exquisite than Yingyang and Liyang, and it is a coins issued by banks with official backgrounds, which is naturally more recognized.

The second benefit of issuing coins was the rapid expansion of influence, but Qin Kai did not particularly care about this, and now banks have begun to issue money loans to those small merchants who support them, but Chinese merchants in this era are not very willing to live by borrowing.

After opening a small parts factory, Ji Fan, a businessman from Wuzhou, only took out a loan of 20,000 taels of silver after careful calculation, and after two months of operation, he scraped together and repaid the money, which made Lu Yijin specially find him, and spent a lot of money to tell him about the loan to develop the industry.

Qin Kai is actually not very interested in these details, but he is still very satisfied with the bank run by Lu Yijin, and now just the silver He Xing has on hand plus the bank treasury of Nanyang Bank, the silver available is more than 40 million taels, which is definitely an astonishing number in this era, but he can't do anything now, because trouble is coming to the door! ,

Just because of a piece of news from Beijing City, after Chen Baochen, a member of the Qingliu Party who is now in Beijing City, confirmed that the military aircraft yamen and the palace have received a lot of impeachment of Qin Kai, and the reasons for this impeachment are even more bizarre, some of them are guilty of bullying the king, and even more, Qin Kai does not have a wife now...... This made Qin Kai inexplicable when he saw it.

Therefore, taking advantage of the Chinese New Year, Qin Kai is ready to go to Beijing with Sun Fujin, from a capital official to a second-class governor, how can this court not circle some Olympic aid? Moreover, he also understands that this war in northern Vietnam may be a storm of officialdom, and he may not be afraid of anything because he has military power, but he does not want to see anything that may affect his development plan.

This matter was quickly decided, and the next day Qin Kai hurriedly boarded the latest big ship of Mawei Shipping and set off, before leaving, he had a secret discussion with Lu Han for a long time, and after Qin Kai left, Lu Han also hurriedly set sail with the fleet.

There was nothing wrong all the way, and when Qin Kai's ship arrived in Tianjin, an urgent telegram chased here, and something big happened in the north!

Qin Kai was furious when he saw the telegram, it was almost the New Year, and he was determined to let us have a bad New Year! The time of the telegram was December 26, and today is December 27, and the message on the telegram is already 3 days ago on the 24th.

The situation in Hanoi, which had been in a stalemate, was broken in the early morning of December 24, and the French, in addition to the 4th Brigade of Bo Slip, which continued to exchange fire with Ngo Changqing's troops in Hanoi, personally led the 3rd Brigade and the 7th Brigade to cross the river from Long Beach in the upper reaches of the Red River around December 22, and then the whole army moved in for a day.

And stationed in the upstream nearby Guangxi Daoist Zhao Wo with 2,000 soldiers and horses for the nearby French crossing the river did not know about the French, knowing that the town of Shangmen they were stationed was attacked by the French forward, this Zhao Daoist panicked and got up from the belly of the Vietnamese women, and his team of personal soldiers took the old man in his 40s, but could not ride a horse and fled all the way down in a sedan chair.

Originally, the Qing army was stationed here for nearly three months, and the nearby indigenous labor was all requisitioned, and the fortifications were overhauled in Shangmen Town, but they were also built in a good way, and Colonel Voro, who was in charge of the command of the French army, did not dare to risk the lives of the soldiers after seeing the fortifications, and set up two 68mm field guns, and then launched an attack.

As a result, the infantry who lined up to charge easily advanced directly into the fortifications, which surprised Volo, who also participated in the battle in Hanoi, where the Qing army's firepower was not good, but relying on the fortifications, the French infantry suffered a lot of losses! When the soldiers in the vanguard brought back the news that the Qing army had been dispersed, Volo realized that he had overestimated the enemy.

The French pursued the Qing army led by the sedan chair for a whole day, but the hot weather in Vietnam obviously helped the old man Zhao, although the French pursued with all their might, but in December in northern Vietnam, it suddenly rained heavily, and the two armies were obviously disrupted by the heavy rain, and the Qing army, which had long been out of pace, obviously made a lot of money.

The French pursued all the way, in addition to capturing a lot of prisoners who fell behind, but did not get the opportunity to expand the results of the battle, and when Lone climbed to the outside of Bac Ninh on the muddy road that had rained heavily for a day, the famous French general was obviously very depressed, the heavy rain made the infantry advance speed down a lot, and more importantly, the field artillery battalion was still crawling slowly dozens of miles away at this time!

Seeing that it was getting dark, Gu Ba ordered to build fortifications and camp along a small river outside Bac Ninh, preparing to launch a strong attack on Bac Ninh the next day, which was bound to be won......

Unexpectedly, in the middle of the night, someone came from outside the barracks to ask to see Guba, which made the French a little confused, and called the person in, it turned out to be the Vietnamese governor of Bac Ninh Province, Zhang Deng Tan, who sent someone to beg for surrender! This made Gu Ba almost smile crookedly, and immediately hand-written an order to grant Zhang Dengtan the governor of northern Vietnam.

At this time, Zhao Wo, who had just been defeated in the city, was still arguing with Huang Guilan, the commander of the Gui army who was originally stationed in the city, to shirk the responsibility of setting up the formation, but the news that the two fools were waiting for was that the Vietnamese opened the city gate in the middle of the night, and now the two of them had no contradiction at all, and they completely became brothers and sisters, and escaped from the north gate overnight!

The Qing army stationed in Bac Ninh, together with the defeated soldiers and horses, totaled seven or eight thousand, and fell apart overnight, and after entering the city, he found that he had picked up Bao Luo and hoarded guns, bullets, and food to support the Hanoi front in Bac Ninh, but was sent to the French by a stupid admiral and a foolish Taoist. ,

The first to get the news was not Wu Changqing, the commander of the Eastern Front, but Liang Gang, the commander of the first battalion guarding the ** near the Honghe Fort, heard the news, and really scared Liang Gang, this grain and grass, baggage, munitions, and guns are constantly transported from behind, if the rear of Bac Ninh is occupied by the French, although he is not the commander, he also understands what this means.

On the one hand, he sent someone to send the news to Zhou Ruidong urgently, and at the same time let the defeated troops cross the river to report to Wu Changqing, and Yuan Shikai, who was stationed in the fort on the other side of the pontoon bridge, intercepted the defeated troops, he was very decisive, and immediately supervised all the defeated troops, forbidding anyone to leak the news, and then rushed to the governor's mansion to report to Wu Changqing.

Wu Changqing was very satisfied with Yuan Shikai's handling, you must know that once these routs entered Hanoi City, according to his estimates, in less than half an hour, in addition to the Qingzi army, several other soldiers and horses must have begun to roll up and prepare to go on the road, but as soon as the two discussed, this roll of cover really had to be prepared.

However, the situation in Bac Ninh is unknown, and the rout army also escaped overnight, and I don't know how many French ** teams came, Wu Changqing immediately asked Yuan Shikai to transfer 6 battalions of the Qing Zi Army, and ordered the Cantonese Army to send troops to Bac Ninh with it, not seeking to defeat the enemy, but it was necessary to ease the French offensive.

And Hanoi's food and ammunition are enough for a while, but this back road is intercepted, there is absolutely no reason to be undefeated, if Yuan Shikai can open up the retreat, it is also the way to survive in death, but he also knows that there is very little hope in this, in addition, there is only a retreat to the east, but there is a vast sea over there......

After Yuan Shikai crossed the river with his soldiers and horses, he took a fancy to the fortifications built on the periphery of the fort at the first moment, although it was only a fortification built on a small hillside, but it crisscrossed to form a number of defensive lines, and each trench showed an arc, and the real trench group looked like fish scales.

If he relied on the fort and this field position to defend, he would also be much more confident, but at this time to counterattack Bac Ninh, to be honest, Yuan Shikai is really not sure at all, but he also understands that this is the line of life and death, if Bac Ninh's retreat is gone, then if the Qingzi Army wants to return to China from Xuanhua or Haiphong, it will have to take off its skin if it does not die.

Not to mention that there are still French troops stationed in the direction of Xuanhua, just the jungle to the north of Xuanhua can make more than half of the soldiers unable to walk, and the coastal defense side has always been the key point for the French to land, and now although the French Navy has not heard the news, but let them take the sea route, without the escort of the sailors, it is a matter of fate, if it is not a last resort, absolutely do not try...... What's more, this sea ship doesn't know how to solve it yet!

Thinking of this, Yuan Shikai immediately urged the battalions to set off immediately, and at noon, the armies of the two sides met at Nguyen Jiaji, thirty miles south of Bac Ninh.

However, the flank of the Cantonese army was not only outdated, but also in Shanxi City, Wang Ze's soldiers and horses who had suffered defeat, as a result, as soon as the French field artillery came up, just half an hour later, the right flank was declared broken, fortunately, Yuan Shikai in the middle of the road resisted with all his might, and at ten o'clock in the evening, the 6,000 soldiers and horses who attacked lost three percent, and retreated to the fort near the Red River.

The French finally took the initiative in the war situation in North Vietnam and cut off the logistics line of the Qing army in Hanoi, which undoubtedly marked a decisive change in the war......

After Yuan Shikai retreated from defeat, Wu Changqing knew that the French army at the back of the stage also had a strong military strength of about 8,000 people, which made him very annoyed, and now it became very difficult to even send a letter back, but in this matter, Yuan Shikai gave him a direction, that the guard ** is not occupying coastal defense, I heard that there is a Dutch telegraph office over there!

In the early morning of the 25th, the battle situation changed dramatically again, and Gu Ba soon discovered the power of the fort built on the river bank, but it was inconvenient to move and turn, and launched an attack on the fort from the flank, while the Cantonese army and the Qingzi army, which had just been defeated, had no intention of defending at all, but just spent on the pontoon bridge waiting for night to retreat across the Red River.

In the evening of the same day, the attack of the French was severely attacked in front of the fish-scale position constructed by the third battalion of the first battalion, and the Wu Ting Maxim machine gun of the third battalion played a very big role, and the crossfire built up made the whole attacking French dizzy, and the two sides fired artillery at each other, fighting from the afternoon to the evening. ,

Just when Liang Gang was pondering whether to retreat, the actions of the Qingzi Army and the Yue Army made a decision for him, and he must withdraw with the army, otherwise he will become a lone army, but the inland gunboats that protect ** played a great role at the critical moment, and they were urgently evacuated to the defensive position of Luerzhuang at night.

Wu Changqing was convening his cronies for urgent consultation at this time, and now the question he was talking about was how to retreat, it was completely unnecessary to defend such a dead city, so he decided to evacuate overnight, he didn't plan to let the French chase after him and bite his buttocks, at this moment, the righteousness and the nation are not as important as preserving these veterans of themselves.

However, the only feasible way to retreat now seems to be to retreat to the east coast, but Wu Changqing does not have detailed information about the north, only knows that the east is all the sea, and it is said that the place where the north meets the Qing Kingdom is all vast mountains, and the only slightly possible way to retreat is indeed a completely undefended sea.

Thinking of the sea, Wu Changqing suddenly thought of something in his head, and immediately sent someone to carry his general to send a letter to the escort camp in Luerzhuang to hand it over to Zhou Ruidong, the Huai army currently maintains a delicate friendship with the Nanyang system, especially in the last Ryukyu Island War, the two sides can be regarded as sincere unity and achieved results, this time, in the face of such an embarrassment, he also understands that he must mobilize a qiē resource, of course, including the strength of the Nanyang Naval Division.

After Zhou Ruidong got the news, he immediately contacted Qin Kai, and at this time, when Qin Kai got this messy situation in northern Vietnam, it had been three full days since he left Wu Changqing's department to prepare to evacuate Hanoi! Three days...... It is completely possible to change a qiē!

Qin Kai also understood that now was a great opportunity, so he immediately got off the ship and went to visit Zhang Shusheng, the governor of Zhili.

Zhang Shusheng also got the news that the Bac Ninh rout fled to the rear at this time, and the news that Wu Changqing was surrounded in Hanoi, because there was no way to shoot and send telegrams, so he didn't know the situation at all, but Zhang Shusheng was a character who had worked hard in the sea of swords, mountains and fires, and this back road was intercepted, and the baggage could not be transported.

At this time, he was summoning Zhou Fu, Sheng Xuanhuai and other Huai army cadres to discuss secretly, and even planned to send a fleet to the east coast of Vietnam to pick up the Qingzi army, but without the escort of the sailors, Sheng Xuanhuai did not have the courage to run like this.

At this moment, he suddenly heard that Qin Kai suddenly came to visit, and Zhang Shusheng unexpectedly felt a little expectant.