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Ruan Fuying was a little frightened, the old man counted the silver on weekdays, and then played happy games with the concubine, but now that he is older, the game time is obviously less, but if the French come, the other party is estimated to be not as good as this Lord Qin, and the last Saigon Treaty squeezed out 5 million francs and the land of the six provinces from himself at once, that flesh hurts!

"Lord Qin, you have a way! Then hurry up and listen to it, if we keep the security of our country, we will definitely pay you a lot! ”

Qin Kai showed a kind smile, "First, Your Majesty asks for a letter of repair, I personally forward it to the imperial court, and implore the imperial court to send troops to Vietnam to help hold Hanoi, and in addition, accumulate 100,000 troops on the border of Yunnan and Guangxi for assistance, then Vietnam will have no worries!" ”

"Second, His Majesty can repair a letter to Liu Kun, the minister of Nanyang, asking the Nanyang Navy Division to send troops to Vietnam to help defend the coastline, so there is no worry at sea!" Qin Kai said with a smile, secretly proud in his heart, it is inevitable that this Frenchman will beat you, let's just play soy sauce, and get some benefits by the way.

"So very good, very good," the old Prime Minister Vu was the first to express his opinion, and in this matter, in fact, Vietnam has no choice at all, in the case of life and death, of course, it still has to rely on the suzerainty of these hundreds of years.

After listening to Qin Kai's opinion, Huang Zuoyan on the side couldn't help but be puzzled, this Shangguo Qincha did seem to be thinking about Vietnam, this is indeed a foolproof strategy, and it was even more convincing for Lord Qincha to bring back the national letter, so he watched coldly from the sidelines, and also followed the crowd.

Ruan Fuying was smart for a while at this time, "Lord Qin, can the foreign guns and cannons agreed on last time be allocated to our country as soon as possible, and we can also share the same hatred with the army of the Kingdom and defend against the offensive of the French!" ”

Qin Kai smiled slightly, "Your Majesty, there is no problem at all, I will do my best to allocate the firearms, but this fee, you have to pay me as much as possible, what we allocated to you is the Mauser rifle of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, what do you think?" 50 taels each, how much is needed, just negotiate with Mawei Shipping! ”

Seeing that this Lord Qincha seemed to be really here to put out the fire today, and agreed to everything on his side, Ruan Phuc Dinh hurriedly ordered the old prime minister to prepare a letter of state, and now it is actually a little early to ask for help, but Qin Kai kindly reminded the old prime minister that the six provinces of South Vietnam and the four provinces of Laos used to be the territory of Vietnam, and this was not all occupied by the French! When the Gallic chickens occupy Hue City, then there is no need to ask for help!

Soon a letter of state and a letter to the minister of Nanyang were completed in a sprinkling manner, under the prompting of Qin Kai, both of which indicted the crimes of France, including the invasion of the vassal state, and the oppression of the Chinese merchants of the vassal state were infinitely magnified, and naturally the French still ignored the decent bastards of the Qing Dynasty and used Vietnam as an excuse to provoke the dignity of the Qing State everywhere.

After getting the credentials, Qin Kai took anchor and returned to the sea on the same day, and in the evening of the next day, the 501 ship had come to the vicinity of Ha Hui County, which is close to the border of Vietnam and Qinzhou, there is no port, and it is close to the coastline, there is a long chain of islands shielding the long coastline, of course, there is a passage between the islands, but as a cautious captain, for this sea area that is all islands, Lu Han will never allow the warship to come up, this is an absolutely dangerous area where the reef is easy to grow!

The ironclad ship slowly drove around the outer islands, and Xu Shoushan took a pen and made serious marks on the chart.

"Supervisor, there are mountains behind this place, the north is through Qinzhou Fangcheng, the south is in the mountains, and there is a chain of islands outside the coastline in front of it, which is really a natural danger!" Lu Han looked at the topographic map of the river juniper drawn by Qin Kai.

"This will be a secret research base for us, cousin Geng, this sea area will be your world in the future!" Qin Kai pointed to the two small islands in front of the map, "This small island is called Cai Huan Island, build a turret group on the island, and then build a battery on the land on the opposite bank, then the entire bay is under control!" ”

"I don't know how deep the water is! This area is full of islands, I'm afraid it's a reef! Lu Han pointed to the large bay surrounded by a chain of islands and a coastline.

Qin Kai beckoned, "Zhang Kui, after you go ashore, the first thing you will do is to take over the civil affairs, military and politics of these two counties, and the officials of Vietnam...... You check carefully, if it is a bad record, you might as well use it to boost people's hearts, if there are some capable, willing to belong, you can also stay, but you have to follow our rules! ”,

"Instructor, if you don't say this, I will handle it, don't worry," Zhang Kui's mouth smashed, smashed, full of mouth!

"Also, this bay, you send someone to check it in detail, if it can be used as a military port, I don't need to go to Qinzhou Fangcheng next door to dock the ship!"

"Yes!" Zhang Kui naturally understands the importance of this task, this is a clear expansion of territory! As for why the instructor is here, he has also thought about it carefully, this place is close to Qinzhou, so it is convenient to advance and retreat, and it is also convenient to recruit people from Qinzhou! But what he didn't know was that there was a natural deep-water port in Qinzhou, which was close at hand-Fangchenggang!

Zhang Kui got on the boat and rowed towards the coast in high spirits, Qin Kai found that there was no shadow of the accompanying party around him, and the more than 30 people who accompanied Zhang Kui were all selected good guys in the student soldiers and security regiments, relatively speaking, the task of his trip was also quite arduous, Xue Chao and Zhou Ruidong had the assistance of the caravan of Mawei Shipping, so it was obviously a lot more convenient.

Seeing the majestic body of the 501 ironclad ship in the distance slowly turning, Zhang Kui stood at the bow of the boat and shouted loudly, "One, two, three...... Shake...... One two three...... Shake!

He was not born in a peasant family, which is also one of the reasons why he and Zhou Ruidong will get together, his family is also a big local family, but his father is only a side branch of the family, for a family like him, it can be expected to come and go in the future, that is, to become a member of the lower level of the family, to take care of the affairs of the family, so he resolutely chose to go to Dumawei instead of entering a private school.

I didn't expect to meet such a strange person as the instructor after three years of Mawei Shipbuilding, from the first class, he realized the peculiarity of this instructor, he is a person with an independent personality, and Qin Kai's new ideas undoubtedly gave him the broadest world, standing at the bow of the ship, he looked at the coastline that was getting closer and closer, he smiled slightly, he was the first person to set foot on this land, but he had already foreseen that this land between the two countries would burst out with earth-shattering energy!

"The whole team!" Zhang Kui shouted loudly, he talks and laughs on weekdays, these soldiers are very clear, when it comes to training and training, Zhang Kui is the most faceless, no matter who it is, if there is a mistake, it will be punished!

Soon, the team of thirty people was neatly arranged in three columns, and the several boxes of ammunition transported with the ship were neatly put aside, and the first row was all student soldiers from the academy, which was the elite of the elite around Qin Kai. The core of Mawei Shipmaster understands that the most powerful thing about this Lord Qin is not his skills, but his erudition, and as the first batch of Qin Kai's students, talents are all over various disciplines, and what is even more amazing is that these students have also been trained to become very qualified soldiers.

The second and third platoons are mostly young farmers from the Mawei Security Corps, and after more than half a year of training and cultural remedial, these farmers who could only farm have grown into literate, knowledgeable and brave soldiers, and most of them also participated in the last ambush at Majiazhuang outside Hue.

Zhang Kui looked at the table of the thirty soldiers with great satisfaction, he looked at it, pointed to a sturdy square-faced soldier in the first row and said: "He Xiaojun, you are the captain of the first team, the second team, Qi Fang, you are the captain, the third team, Ma Desheng, you are the captain, you are the captain, you will assign the deputy and the team leader, and the ammunition supply team will be allocated to each of the three teams!" Let's take a 5-minute break here and let's go! Squad Leader come to me! ”

A map was spread out on the dry rocks, Zhang Kui pointed to the map, took out the compass and tinkered with it for a while, "Later, we will be divided into three teams, 50 meters apart before and after, this generation is a border area, the superintendent said, there may be ethnic minorities...... This word sounds very strange, ethnic minorities haunt! ”

"If it's not my race, it's wiped out directly!" Ma Desheng patted the Mauser 98 on the back and smiled proudly.

"Laugh at you ghost, Ma Desheng, you know that ......you will be destroyed" Zhang Kui does not have the habit of Qin Kai beating his head, but he loves flying legs, and in the blink of an eye, Ma Desheng escaped ten meters away, and then cautiously ran back again! Instructor Zhang, let's take it, you can do what you say! ”

"The superintendent said, if you meet the local natives and see the box, it is the gifts prepared by the superintendent, all of which are small hardware and other things, so you don't need to conflict with them!" Zhang Kui pointed to the map, "There are hundreds of miles of roads in the north and south of Hehui and Xian'an counties, so we have to quickly take over this side, and the pass above and Fangcheng County, and when the situation here is stable, we will also take it!" After having the pass, there are still a lot of things to be done by the superintendent! Got it! ”,

"Got it", "Yes"!

"The three teams take turns to open the way, let's go!"

The team left the beach in a formation connected to the front and back, and slowly walked to the south, but obviously the expected problem did not happen at all, Zhang Kui walked in the middle of the team and looked back and forth, which was more than ten miles low, not to mention people, even a grass hut has never been seen, he took a piece of paper to record the direction of the march, this is the technique taught by Instructor Qin, through the drawing, you can roughly estimate the direction, to ensure that the direction of travel is consistent with the map.

Seeing that it was getting late, Zhang Kui gave the order to station, looked at the surrounding terrain, and chose the back of a hillside, "One group is on guard, and two groups and three groups are arranged!" ”

The team leaders immediately arranged the preparations for camping, and Qi Fang took out the sapper shovel from behind and led his team to the right side of the slope, and after visually measuring the distance, he began to dig several rows of obstruction ditches. As the first batch of elite soldiers who set off with the ironclad ship, Qin Kai helped them arm to the teeth, and this sapper shovel is also a copy of the two-fold fully wrought iron and carbon steel shovel of the People's Liberation Army in later generations.

In just 20 minutes, a camp according to the requirements of infantry drills was completed, but the current food is still monotonous, and this marching meal is also pondered by the security regiment when it is training, that is, it is necessary to bring enough amounts, and it is not easy to break, obviously such a combination is not easy to find in this era.

This time, the ship carried flour and salted meat jerky, and after setting up the marching pot, a large pot of salted meat batter was boiled, and it was not unpleasant to eat. It's a rare delicacy for the occasional camper, but if you eat it three times a day, you'll lose your appetite.

After two days of boating and more than 20 miles of running down, the soldiers hurriedly scooped up a salted meat batter full of iron lunch boxes, and ate them with a sigh, according to the regulations, first the second squad that was the first to eat was sentry, and soon, the soldiers of the first group and the third group each found their own individual pit or wooden bunker to rest!

Qi Fang because of his outstanding performance in the security regiment, now he seems to be the top figure in the security regiment, this time he was appointed as the squad leader without accident, Zhang Kui's evaluation of him is stable, very stable, once in the actual combat exercises carried out by the security regiment, as the Qi team of the red side for defense, after accepting the task of blocking the battle, he took two groups of soldiers to resist the attack of three times the opponent.

Now the security regiment has basically been reequipped with a rear-loading rifle named AK02 (imitation Mauser 98), and in the defensive battle, he fully exploited the advantages of the tunnels, digging a large number of obstacle ditches in the front of the defensive position, and the defensive tunnels were also dug into a criss-crossing pattern.

The blue team in charge of the attack launched an attack with three times the strength of the force, and as a result, suffered heavy losses on the way to attack, and after entering the tunnel in close combat, the defense team of the Qi side took advantage of their familiarity with their own tunnels to concentrate their forces to attack everywhere, but successfully defeated the blue team with a slight advantage in numbers in the tunnel, which really caused a sensation.

Although he didn't encounter any situation along the way, Qi Fang still arranged secret posts in four directions according to the requirements of the stationed sentinels, and he took three people to patrol as mobile sentinels.

The scope of the mobile patrol post is in front of the dark post, which is also clearly written in the training requirements of the Mawei Security Regiment, of course, this kind of night patrol is distinguished according to the size of the team, if there is only a small team of several people, there is no need to carry out mobile patrol patrols.

After turning around three times, Qi Fang took out a pack of horsetail self-produced Chinese brand cigarettes, and several of his subordinates saw it and smiled and came up to light one, because it was a patrol gap, they shrank their positions, leaned under a big tree behind, and several people smoked one to refresh themselves.

"Captain, this cigarette is really a good thing, why doesn't the superintendent let it be sold openly, I heard that they are all shipped to Guangzhou to be sold to Western merchants!" A soldier asked in a low voice.

"What do you know, can there be a problem with the things decided by the superintendent!"

"What kind of characters are Instructor Zhang and Instructor Zhou, they all throw themselves to the five bodies that the superintendent admires."

Qi Fang smiled, "What kind of life did our family live before, I only ate one porridge a day, and when I go home for the New Year this year, I can help my father and mother build a tiled house!" There are thousands of people in this ponytail, but they all got rich by supervising, just because of this ability, it is easy to supervise and be a prime minister! ”,

After Qi Fang finished speaking, he looked up at the sky, this is the first quarter moon, the light is very dim, and the scenery in the distance is not very clear, it is better to inspect it a few more times, he squatted down and prepared to extinguish the cigarette butt in his hand, and suddenly heard a whooshing sound above his head, and a bow and arrow were inserted into the trunk of the tree behind the position where he was standing just now!

The four of them didn't communicate at all, they all lay on the ground as if they were reflexively, and the four of them looked in the direction pointed by the arrow, and the end seemed to be a dense forest, stretching to the foot of the mountain in the distance! There was no sound in the woods at this time!

Qi Fang pointed to the left and right, signaling the three of them to be ready to shoot side by side with him, the situation on the opposite side was unknown, and he had to immediately warn, and the four rifles were aimed at the direction of the arrow shaft, "Bang bang bang!" ”

At this time, the other two groups of soldiers had already woken up, and they were all in formation, softly passing the password, and the bullets were loaded and ready to shoot.

Several figures in front of them were moving rapidly, and at the same time their hands were raised high and making a few gestures, and groups of one and three immediately dispersed, outflanking the grove in front of them from both wings. A shot fired by the sentry on the other side of the darkness also seemed to have spotted the situation, and a bullet was fired into the woods with a "bang".

Zhang Kui did not give the order for an assault, but quickly gave the order for a salvo, so in an instant, the night was full of gunshots, and frightened wild birds continued to fly out of the woods. The night covered up a qiē that could follow clues and trails, and by the time the three teams outflanked the woods after a few rounds of shooting, there was no one inside.

Zhang Kui immediately contracted the patrol circle, away from the woods, and doubled the dark posts on the two wings, and after the team retreated, they continued to take turns to rest, and after Qi Fang reported the attack, the two came to the big tree, and the bow and arrow were still stuck in it. Zhang Kui also pulled out this primitive weapon with a strange look, this was just an ordinary wooden pole and arrow, and he couldn't see any clues from it.

Maybe the instructor is here, and from this bow and arrow, you might be able to deduce who the enemy in the dark is! Zhang Kui thought depressedly that if Qin Kai knew Zhang Kui's thoughts, he would inevitably secretly snicker, it turned out that his image was so tall and wise! He secretly wondered, who is it? Obviously, this man is most likely following his own team, rather than meeting him by chance in the middle of the night.

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