Tuyen Quang has never been attacked by the French, so the garrison army of Tuyen Quang Province of Vietnam is 1,000 people, and on July 18, the news that the French hit Yen Bai and Phu Tho City in Tuyen Quang City went wild, but the Vietnamese officers and officials here did not think so.

After all, those two places are hundreds of miles away from Xuanguang, and the French have also played these two places in the past, and the most advanced is to Duanfeng Mountain in front of Fushou City, because the road is rugged and finally turns to the flat direction of Yuechi, Shanxi, and Yong'an, and I think this time it will be the same result.

Unexpectedly, in the early morning of the 20th, the south gate was suddenly attacked violently, and the Vietnamese soldiers in the city completely lost organized resistance almost within 20 minutes, except for the initial counterattack with a few shots with bird guns, and the officials and soldiers in the city swarmed out of the north gate and fled to the mountains behind.

The person in charge of launching this attack was Colonel Bi Shuo of the 7th Brigade of the French Expeditionary Force, and the only people involved in the attack were only two battalions of the French Expeditionary Force, one Algerian black battalion, and two Vietnamese indigenous battalions......

In this city, which had never been conquered, Colonel Bishuo obtained a huge amount of wealth as he wished, and the gold and silver accumulated over the years in the granaries and silver coffers of the government alone made these French robbers excited for several days without closing their eyes, and the French did not have the habit of killing the rich and merchants in the city.

In this war, except for an indigenous soldier who accidentally fell into the moat and drowned after the siege, the French were almost unharmed, so after the occupation of Xuanguang, in addition to confiscating all the property of the local government, the local rich people only need to pay 10% of the value of the family property in gold and silver, they can obtain the safety of their lives and the guarantee of the safety of their property by the French occupation army, and in just a few days, they have amassed a huge amount of wealth

In the face of such wealth, Colonel Bishuo was also a little surprised, just silver, these French robbers looted 1.3 million taels, as well as other valuables and all kinds of goods, after thinking twice, he still decided to send Major Paul to lead 200 French troops, 300 indigenous soldiers to escort this batch of goods back to Fu Shou City first, and then transfer the finances to Saigon through the Guò Red River.

Three days later, the defeated Vietnamese army and civilian officials finally crossed the mountains and fled to Pingluo County on the other side of the mountain......

The news was immediately sent to the camp of Cen Yuying, the commander of the western front of Vietnam in the nearby Qing Dynasty, the 54-year-old governor of Yunnan and Guizhou also had a place among the capable officials in the late Qing Dynasty, he was a side branch of the Tusi family, some of the family had no special background, and at the age of 16 he was the first in the township test, the county test, and the government test, and it was a good story for a while.

At the age of 20, his father died, he had to give up his studies, go home to manage his own Tusi family property, at the age of 22, Hong Shenguan Tianshen possessed the body and began to engage in the Jintian Uprising, in just a few months the world was in chaos, the first show talent in the three tests also had the courage to donate family funds, in his own township to start a group training, by virtue of reading a few books on the art of war, the group training actually won five battles in the county.

After that, in Yunnan and Guangxi, he trained the township bravery, fought everywhere, and fought more than 17 years, as a Xiucai, all the way from the county Cheng, the governor of Yiliang County, the governor of Lunan Prefecture, and the prefect of Chengjiang, acting as the political envoy of Yunnan, and has always been in the high position of the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, one of the eight governors of the Qing Dynasty.

At this time, he heard the news of the loss of Xuan Quang, which immediately attracted his attention, you know, although this Xuan Quang is a big city, but from South Vietnam all the way rugged, in the past, the French never took this offensive line, but I did not expect that the war in Vietnam stopped for more than a year, and the war began to ignite from such a corner

He immediately came to the map to check it, the loss of Xuanguang will not have a serious impact on the entire battle situation, but the fall of this big city, so that Taiyuan and other places across a mountain are also threatened by the French army Of course, if the French send a small force across the mountains, a large number of Qing troops stationed here are naturally not afraid of them, not to mention that the Dian army he personally led is the elite of his personal training, although he knows that the French firearms are powerful, but the Dian army he trained is also equipped with a large number of firearms.

Soon, the army of the western front of the Qing army received the order, and the forward was commanded by Tang Jiong, the political envoy of Yunnan, 5,000 Yunnan troops, and immediately drove straight to the front line of Fu'an and Yong'an, holding the French army occupying Xuanguang, leaving 2,000 Yunnan troops in Taiyuan Mansion led by the general Tang Ming to defend the northern city of Vietnam, and Cen Yuying personally led 12,000 people to follow Tang Jiong's soldiers and horses. ,

Lying down at night and listening to the wind and rain, the iron horse glacier fell into a dream...... It was night, it was drizzling in Guangzhou, and Qin Kai, who was pondering the situation of the Vietnam War in the governor's yamen, suddenly remembered these two lines of Lu Fangweng's poems......

Orders were sent to Mawei, Haiphong, Hue, and Fangcheng one by one, and the military and political system of the Nanyang system, which had been silently preparing, was quickly mobilized, and even the cities in northern Vietnam that protected and controlled the city quickly entered a state of military control, and the Freemasonry Society was already an open organization here, and they began to recruit people for the army.

At the same time, those Vietnamese indigenous and ethnic minority youths who had participated in the militia training were reorganized into a Vietnamese servant army for short-term intensive training, and some soldiers of the second-line troops were transferred to more than a dozen county towns to carry out intensive training for new recruits

Jian'an County, 30 miles away from Haiphong, after last year's war, the population suddenly decreased by 20%, only more than 70,000 points, after the protection ** came, immediately promoted officials to manage, and at the same time canceled half of the local taxes, but only less than a year, this county obviously cannot have major changes.

Today, the cadres of the patrol and arrest bureau took the roster and began to call people from house to house, and all the local young people who had participated in the militia training were called to the square in the east of the county seat.

The reason is very simple, there are also big families in Jian'an County, without exception, they were found by the local patrol bureau to find evidence of collusion with the French, and finally made a broken family, these wealthy families originally had an official background, but now the background of the protection ** is far more hard than the background of the official family, but for the people who actively cooperate, the protection of the ** is still very thorough, the trade-off between thunder means and lollipops, smart people will make the right choice.

Soon nearly 2,000 young people gathered in the square, and the cadres of the patrol bureau and the petty officers of the militia maintained order, and the young men were led into a temporary tent set up on the side in groups, and the officers gave them a lecture, and all the people had three ways out.

One is to participate in the Vietnamese escort, after a month of intensive training, they will go to the battlefield, join the servant army to get the best treatment, once they join the army, he and his family will immediately apply to join the nationality of the Celestial Empire, the end of the war, the end of the service period, by the Nanyang Minister Yamen to arrange a job, if unfortunately killed, there is a pension, and this treatment is inherited by the family.

The second and third options are similar, you can choose to participate in labor in the county town and accompany the people, but these two kinds of labor are rotated, and they are fed, but they are not paid, but they can be exempted from taxes in the future, which sounds pretty good compared to the previous free servitude.

Soon Jian'an County's Minfu team and servant army were formed, of which there were more than 500 servant troops, and more than 1,500 people, and the Minfu team was escorted by the local Freemasons along the way, and began to send food and other materials to the Zhiling Fortress in a steady stream.

The treatment of the servant army is obviously much better, each of them received a full amount of 5 taels of silver for the promotion fee, which made many people red-eyed for a long time, and a little later there were 200 servant soldiers, all of whom were transferred from the people's team, and under the leadership of several officers, they rushed to the training camp outside Zhiling County overnight.

In just a few days, Zhou Ruidong saw more than 8,000 servant troops from more than a dozen county towns in the training camp, and many people hurried to come every day, and he had already arranged their training, and the logistics battalion Fang Jin dispatched a large number of soldiers to serve as training officers in the servant army, and several chief officers were capable soldiers from the 123rd battalion, and immediately began the pre-war training.

Yong'an City, a mountain city close to Tang Daling in the north of Vietnam, only has a low city wall, the city defense of the whole city is very weak, but it is completely different from the weak city defense of the city is a barracks outside the city close to the road, this barracks of wood and mud structure, the barracks wall is completely composed of thick soil and logs, the thickness is more than one meter, even if the army artillery wants to blast open the wall of the barracks, it is almost impossible.

This is the camp of Liu Yongfu's Ministry of the Five Associations, Liu Yongfu is convening his generals at this time, and the order arrived early in the morning, it was Zhou Ruidong, the commander-in-chief of the protection of the north of Vietnam, Yong'an, a mountain city nested in the hilly area, is obviously not a strategic point, but this time the defense has played an unexpected role. ,

If the French attack Shanxi and Hanoi, Yong'an will be an insignificant pawn in the corner of the battlefield, because once the French capture Shanxi, they will be able to attack Hanoi City from both sides by land or along the Red River, and the more fatal problem is that Wu Changqing, the commander of the Eastern Front of the Qing Army, has no restraint measures at all on the French concession in Hanoi

For this strange situation, it is unthinkable in the history of war in any country, the French in the French Concession openly walked around the Hanoi Yamen, and the Vietnamese indigenous officials even blatantly associated with these French, it is obvious that these natives are doing the work of the wall, but Wu Dong, the general of the Huai Army who guarded the city of Hanoi, actually let it go...... This is all because the Military Aircraft Department has long issued a secret order that "no active attack" is allowed

And this time the French suddenly adjusted the direction of the attack and attacked directly in the direction of Xuan Quang, and there was already news that Xuan Quang had basically confirmed that it had been lost, and so far, there was no credible news about the number of troops, generals, and combat power invested by the French, and the city of Vinh An on the other side of Shanxi had unexpectedly become the first line to prevent the French from continuing to penetrate into northern Vietnam.

This qiē is obviously also out of Qin Kai's expectations, originally in history, the French did also capture Xuanguang, but that was after the capture of Hanoi, Shanxi before the war, because of his appearance, changed the situation of the French on the Red River, the two forts built on the river bay of Shanxi City played a very good deterrent role, especially the last war against the French small gunboats revealed combat power, so that the French chose a more secure and concealed strategic direction.

And Qin Kai originally felt that he had made a strategic move, and transferred the Black Flag Military Department of Liu Yongfu of the Fifth Association from the forward position of Shanxi to Yong'an, and now it seems that he still has not escaped the fate of being cannon fodder, but fortunately, he, the "strategic master" who looks at Shi Bubing, does not have the habit of strategizing, and the military strategy in northern Guangdong is under the command of Zhou Ruidong.

Seeing the current position of the Five Associations, Zhou Ruidong's first thought was to order the Black Flag Army to set off towards the Lujiang River to block the French on the other side from crossing the river easily.

After nearly a year of reloading, the Black Flag Army has completed the configuration of all rifles, of which the equipment of AK02 rear-loading rifles has also reached 20%, and the Makqin machine gun has also been configured to the battalion-level units of the army, a battalion is equipped with three machine gun groups, three Makqin MAG1882 improved machine guns, of course, the improvement only refers to the addition of rubber wheels, which can be easily dragged around by using animal power.

Soon, the Black Flag Army camp outside Yong'an City left only a battalion of reserves and military advisor Hou Xian here to arrange the supply of baggage and ammunition, Liu Yongfu personally led Yang Zhusi, Huang Shouzhong, Wu Fengdian to lead 2,300 troops to Lujiang Wharf 50 miles away, this time the vanguard was Yang Zhusi of the left battalion, he marched lightly with 500 people, while the other troops escorted heavy weapons while walking.

50 miles of road, according to the requirements of the protection training, that is, a rapid march distance during the day, and although the five associations joined the protection a little later, but in military training, Liu Yongfu witnessed the strength of Zhou Ruidong's battalion, so he grasped it very tightly, especially this endurance training, which is the top priority, and the soldiers are fast and fast, which he understands very well.

There is only one official road from Yong'an to Lujiang Wharf, but most of them are mountainous terrain, the road climbs over small hills, up and down, and the soldiers of the left battalion each carry 250 rounds of bullets, two days of dry rations, and a total weight of more than 20 kilograms of rifles.

After advancing rapidly for more than two hours, it is estimated that he has walked 20 miles, Yang Zhusi carried his Type 80 submachine gun on his back, stood on the side of the road and looked at the soldiers under him, although they were still some old faces, but compared to the embarrassment of the Black Flag Army a year ago, the faces of the soldiers were now full of confidence.

The soldiers who have gone to other Qing troops to wander around, without exception, are full of confidence in the strength of their own army, you know, the most elite Qingzi army is now only equipped with British-made Martini rifles, like AK02 This kind of rifle can't be seen at all, and more importantly, after joining the escort, they know why they are fighting and who they are fighting for

The families of these soldiers have left the remote and desolate mountainous areas of Vietnam under the arrangement of the Minister of Nanyang, Lord Qin, and now they all have serious jobs, there are old and young in the family, and they are all properly arranged, they have houses, incomes, and enough to eat, and the children can still go to school, that kind of good life, but these peasant-born men never dreamed of things in the past.

Seeing that the soldiers were a little tired, the officers had already begun to shout the tune of Guangxi's unique Lamu horn, "The road is wide...... Through the Quartet...... Protect**...... Report to the state ......"

The soldiers who had been rushing all the way had just felt a little tired, and they were all lifted up by this familiar tune, shouting in their mouths, and speeding up

Walking at the front of the team, there are two short-legged Guangxi horses in the battalion, which are used to drive the team's marching speed, but they are naturally not packers, they are all used to carry ammunition, how much combat power an army has, this ammunition is a crucial factor, even President Yang Zhusi is also rushing with the team

Before evening, the reconnaissance soldiers at the outpost suddenly came with the news that there was a situation at the Lujiang ferry, and the reconnaissance team of the outpost observed outside the ferry for a while, and originally did not find any accidents, but when they were about to enter, they suddenly heard the movement of suspected gunshots, because they were too far away to see the situation inside the small village of the ferry, so they sent someone to deliver the letter first.

This news was obviously very unexpected, Yang Zhusi immediately conveyed the order, the team abandoned the main road, quickly advanced through the field to rest in the woods behind a small mound, he led a team of personal soldiers through the field, and followed the scout to feel the small dirt hill outside the ferry.

At this time, only one soldier in charge of liaison was left here, and the others had already gone down to find a suitable observation position, and these scouts under Yang Zhusi were all good at one in a hundred, not only did they know kung fu, but also had high requirements for marksmanship, and they were all equipped with AK02 rifles.

Soon the leader of the reconnaissance team, Gao Tian, came back with the team members in the disguise made of tree branches, and he brought accurate news, and another team crossed the ferry an hour ago, with an estimated number of dozens of people, and set up a guard post on the periphery of the village, and is now collecting boatmen in the village, but no traces of a large number of troops were found on the other side of the river, so they estimated that this should be a small detachment that has been outposting, and it is estimated that it is ...... to search for boats from the river crossing.

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