Chapter 113 The Bac Ninh Mansion of the Pit Daddy

Pan Dingxin was angry at that time, and sent his own soldiers to the city tower to scold, but he didn't expect that hundreds of spears immediately stretched out on the city to these personal soldiers, and these people were immediately frightened, and some people shouted loudly in the local dialect on the city tower......

After asking the guide, the new governor of Guangxi figured out that he had been treated as a bandit upstairs in the city of Daqing! Angry, but he couldn't find a reason to attack, so he had to send a thousand general manager to take his own documents and seal letters to the city downstairs to call mén according to the rules, and put down a hanging basket on the city tower in the middle of the city to let the thousand always hang the documents and seal letters.

After half an hour, as soon as the city opened, two Vietnamese-looking people ran out, telling Mr. Sù Qian in broken Chinese, that the prefect had an order, saying that only officers were allowed to enter the city to rest, and the other soldiers were brave enough to stay outside the city!

What kind of person is this Pan Dingxin, the old man of the Huai Army, the only two veterans of the ten battalions now, although he was quite angry in his heart, but he did not attack, nodded and agreed, and entered the city with dozens of personal soldiers and more than a hundred officers.

When entering the city, the sky was already dark, and the officers of the Dingzi battalion received an order to carefully check the Vietnamese army in Bac Ninh City, but under a closer look, the officers of these Dingzi battalions were also secretly frightened, the soldiers on both sides were densely packed, and it seemed that there were quite a few people, and the battle was still well-trained, but they were dressed very old-fashioned, which was different from the soldiers and horses of other state capitals that passed by before.

The officials in the city took these vigorous Qing ** officials to a vacant mansion in the west of the city to settle down, and an officer had already asked the officer, what is the name of the officer guarding the city here? Is it the Vietnamese army?

I didn't expect this official to ask three questions, but he just said that this army has not been here for a long time, and it is said that it is the Black Flag Army from Fu'an in the west, and it is even more unclear to say the name of this officer.

These situations were quickly summarized to Pan Dingxin, and the Huai army boss was immediately angry, it turned out to be the remnants of the Heaven and Earth Society, pondered for a while, and immediately secretly ordered, and the next day when the army entered the city, immediately surrounded the camp of these black flag troops, and just exterminated, as the first credit to the imperial court.

After the order was issued, the officers didn't take it seriously, they had 6,000 people, the garrison on the opposite side was only a few hundred, and it would not be over tomorrow when they entered the city, and the more than 100 people who entered the city were also officers, but they didn't bring the scout camp in, and they even sent out to listen to the Black Flag Army camp.

Pan Dingxin asked people to go to the restaurant to call a table of wine and food, and asked people to find a few Vietnamese xiǎo girls to accompany them to drink and have fun, and they were very happy. And the sub-officers under him saw that the chief officer was busy, so they went to find something to do, and went directly to the nearby huā building to drink huā wine.

In the middle of the night, Pan Dingxin was still holding a Vietnamese xiǎo Niang in his arms, and suddenly he was awakened by the sound of explosions in the distance, and his years of military career were not wasted, he jumped up violently and asked the captain of the pro-soldier outside Mén loudly: "Erzai, what's going on outside!" Still making noise in the middle of the night? ”

"My lord, it seems to be the movement on the other side of the city! Could it be that the gang of húnxiǎozi outside is unhappy to be stationed outside the city and make a fuss! I'll send someone to check it out right away! ”

The pro-soldier was also confused at this moment, and hurriedly sent someone out, and after a long while, the xiǎo soldier who was investigating the news ran back with a sad face and said, "My lord...... My lord...... Something has happened, our camp outside the city has been attacked! There are fires everywhere right now! ”

Pan Dingxin had already woken up with that little bit of alcohol, it must have been done by this gang of Black Flag Army, and he was still thinking about dealing with these remnants of the Heaven and Earth Society, so he forgot to beware of them, and he hurriedly dressed and went straight to Beicheng Mén with his own soldiers, climbed up to the city tower, and saw that the camp set up by his subordinates outside was full of fire, and the soldiers were coaxing everywhere, and many of them ran to the bottom of the city tower to nest, shouting for the opening of the city.

This will make the black flag army defending the city disappear alone, Pan Dingxin has already noticed that something is wrong, and asked his own soldiers to go down and open the city, light the torches, and collect the Luàn army in these four places.

Unexpectedly, the city tower was lit by fire, and it attracted a few cannonballs, hitting the wall of the city's entrance, and suddenly the soldiers who lit the torches hurriedly extinguished the fire, and in an instant, the city's entrance fell into darkness again, and the city's soldiers outside the city lost their direction, and began to flee in all directions.

Pan Dingxin was an old soldier in the end, and immediately ordered his own soldiers to raise torches in the city, and the Luàn soldiers in the distance saw that there was light here, so they naturally slowly gathered like this, and then slowly gathered the soldiers into the city one by one at the entrance of the city, and sent his own soldiers to ride out on horseback to shout, this army is not a matter of bombing the camp, and when he was busy until dawn, he sent a few of his lieutenants out to count the soldiers and horses, which made him almost vomit blood in anger. ,

In one night, 6,000 soldiers and horses were scattered, and in the morning there were less than 4,000 soldiers and horses...... This sudden blow made the morale of the Dingzi army drop to the freezing point all of a sudden.

He angrily led people to rush into the Beining Mansion Yamén, and the prefect also ran out in fear, after all, the army of the suzerainty was attacked by someone in his own jurisdiction, and he also had important responsibilities in the local area, but this responsibility naturally could not be taken up, and immediately pushed these crimes to the Black Flag Army stationed in the city in front, and the grain and grass of the Dingzi battalion, the Beining prefect also promised to do his best to help raise money.

Pan Dingxin wanted to extort a sum of money, but the prefect here is not a vegetarian, and he insisted that if he wanted to compensate the Qing army, he needed to report to the Vietnamese king of Hue, which was not a good thing......

After he viciously issued a gag order, he squatted in Bac Ninh and waited for the Vietnamese to help raise food and grass, and by the way, he also collected luàn soldiers around, and after these thousands of luàn soldiers rushed into the surroundings of Quang Ninh, they quickly made a black miasma here, and they wanted to eat and drink, so they naturally had to solve it on the spot, so there were more groups of evil eaters in each village!

And in Guiwu County, east of Bac Ninh Province, the army has been hurrying to the Mei River in the east, looking at their clothes are very strange, not so much like an army, but more like a team of farmers, but from the speed of the march, the appearance of the team, people with a little analytical ability can tell that this is a trained army, not a farmer, and the leader in front is the commander of the third post of the first battalion of the first battalion, Chen Gang.

Several captains next to him surrounded Chen Gang and laughed, these are the officers of the Chinese battalion of Qingyisè, Chen Gang received the order five days ago to go to Bac Ninh Mansion to block an army going south, when the scout heard that the army was from Lao Cai from the Qing ** team, he still had a trace of doubt in his heart, this time the blocking order was directly issued by the instructor......

However, as a professional officer, he still did not hesitate to continue to implement the plan, anyway, this time they were not stationed in the name of protecting **, but in the name of the Black Flag Army, among them, he was very sure that the instructor had a deep meaning, and only needed to strictly implement it.

The whole plan has long been calculated to death by the other party, and these Huai troops are really loose in military discipline! From the initial transfer of officers to the artillery attack in the middle of the night, the 10mén mortar mobilized this time exerted great power, and did not even carry out a frontal impact, in the fifth round of urgency, he had already keenly noticed the signs of the other side bombing the camp, those troops panicked from all over the camp over the wooden camp, and then escaped into the night,

The ensuing ground offensive was a completely one-sided battle, the first two Xiǎo teams, only paid a small number of casualties and broke into the barracks, igniting the other side's baggage camp, the raging fire quickly prompted the other side to collapse, and then, seeing the other party's actions at the entrance of the city, after several rounds of artillery bombardment and counting the manpower, they retreated safely!

And the key to easily defeating the enemy army today is the first step to transfer the opposing officer, when Qin Kai made this battle plan, he also fully considered the actual situation of the Dingzi army, although this Pan Dingxin is a big man in the Huai army, but the ability to lead the troops is very poor, and the current Huai army, military discipline is loose, officers do not think about training, and the soldiers only have a full stomach!

In another time and space, this boss of the Dingzi Army is a well-known escape king, who is defeated in every battle, and it is a collapse of hundreds of miles, compared to Ye Zhichao, another escape master of the Huai Army, this is not much different from Pan Dingxin. I didn't meet with the French, and when I heard the news of the collapse of the Black Flag Army, I was defeated directly from Hanoi to Zhennan Pass, and after the French marched, they fled directly into the interior of Guangxi.

Chen Gang withdrew to the vicinity of the Zhiling Fortress, immediately changed into the military uniform of the protector, and immediately sent people to Haiphong to send the agreed report to Fuzhou, and at the same time sent someone to secretly send the situation to Xue Chao in Hue.

A few days later, the Vietnamese envoy came to visit the Nanyang Minister Liu Kun with a letter of state in the name of the Vietnamese king Nguyen Phuc Minh and a sī letter, in which he thanked the Nanyang minister for his care of Vietnam, and sent the Nanyang naval division to inspect Vietnam and repel the French invasion, but at the same time, the Vietnamese envoy cried about the recent looting of villages and towns by the Qing army in the Bac Ninh area, and presented the Bac Ninh prefect and local officials and other evidence. ,

Liu Kunyi didn't particularly care about the affairs of this vassal country, but this involved the country's face, and he naturally didn't want the French to be so arrogant, so he was quite tough in dealing with it. However, he has also been busy recently, but he has not been busy with the national war, but with a letter sent by Zuo Dashuai, talking about the war in Vietnam with the French, and violently criticizing the wait-and-see posture of Lord Li Zhongtang, as well as the agreement between Li Zhongtang and the French Minister Baohai.

Now the strength of the Hunan military system has declined, and Li Zhongtang, who was originally quite related to the Hunan army, has wantonly suppressed the Hunan army, and the army that belongs to the old commander Zeng Guo has been successively merged into the Huai army and has become the top ten battalions of the main force of the Huai army.

The problems brought by the Vietnamese envoy today made him a little embarrassed, after all, the troops stationed in Vietnam were all orders directly issued by the Military Aircraft Department, and he was also a veteran who had led the army for more than ten years...... Just comfort this Vietnamese with a few words!

The Vietnamese envoy also presented a piece of information, saying that it was the latest from Bac Ninh, and opened the sī letter, which made him very happy, it turned out that the Luàn army in Bac Ninh turned out to be the Dingzi battalion, which was very harmful to the people of the vassal state, ruined the reputation of our Qing Dynasty, and bombed the camp in the middle of the night, and lost all the baggage, and only because of the encounter with the Xiǎo bandits......

The bandits in Vietnam are also fierce, the Dingzi battalion is also a strong force of the Huai Army, this time out of Vietnam, but this Pan Dingxin he knows, the whole incompetent generation, the new talents in the Huai Army in the past two years, like Nie Shicheng and his ilk, have already been on the throne, but this time they sent the Dingzi Army with declining combat power into Vietnam, and it can also be seen that Li Zhongtang seeks stability and peace. However, now I want to thank this Pan Dingxin for sending such a big handle...... Liu Kunyi smiled.

After Qin Kai pocketed the second batch of returning American children in Shanghai, he set off for Tianjin on a certain day, and Shanghai gave Li Dong full authority to take care of them, and he must receive all the American children who returned to China one after another.

The next day, all the schoolchildren took a carriage to the military port under the leadership of Lu Shu to visit the 501 ironclad ship, in the face of this behemoth, anyone will feel the insignificance of human beings, the 254mm cannon muzzle is enough for people to drill into it, and the 220 kg cannonball is even more amazing to these schoolchildren who have never seen such a powerful weapon.

Zhan Tianyou heard that some of the steel armor on the ship came from the self-developed Mawei Steelworks, so he was naturally very interested, but out of secrecy, he didn't know exactly what the steel armor was, but looking at this shocking warship, even if it was any facility, it would require a very high industrial standard to complete, which made everyone full of excitement, which was a real proof, what Qin Bu's political envoy said was really true......

The 21 students who are still in Xiǎo school and secondary school will go directly to the primary and senior schools, and in time, they will soon become usable talents. As for Zhan Tianyou, Tang Shaoyi, and Chen Jinhua, the 11 students who had studied in college, Qin Kai personally wrote to Xu Guofang, asking him to arrange suitable positions one by one to teach, so that they could integrate into the system of Mawei Shipbuilding as much as possible!

Although only Zhan Tianyou completed all of his studies in this group of schoolchildren, and the other 10 had their studies interrupted due to this sudden recall, Qin Kai believed that they would soon show their due advantages and play a huge catalytic role in the Mawei Shipyard, a quasi-modern industrial field.

Stepping on the land of Tianjin Wei again, Qin Kai was quite emotional, every time he came before, Ding Richang was in front, this time it was finally his turn to play, it seemed that everything was under control, and he also had a feeling of strategizing, but this was indeed very stressful.

After checking into the inn in a low-key manner, I wanted to think about my future actions, but I didn't expect that night, Zhou Fu found Mén, which made Qin Kai a little depressed, it was really not easy for Tianjin Wei to hide from Li Zhongtang's eyes and ears, and he was busy welcoming the first staff under the seat of the Zhongtang Lord.

As soon as they met, Zhou Fu had already said with a smile: "Lord Qin, why did you come to Tianjin Wei quietly, I don't know, although the old man is old and slow, so he has to come to greet him anyway!" ”,

"Lord Zhou, how dare you! I'm also here to visit Lord Zhongtang, and the bumps along the way are a little uncomfortable, so I want to take a day off to recuperate my feet! Please sit down, please take a seat! Qin Kai let the old man take the left hand throne, "Lord Zhou, I think you have something to find me!" ”

Zhou Fu looked at Qin Kai carefully, and suddenly asked, "Lord Qin, weren't you ordered to go to Vietnam to recruit the Black Flag Army, why did you suddenly come to Tianjin again!" ”

This old fox, I don't know what to ask from me, Qin Kai secretly raised his vigilance, "The matter of Vietnam, I have already arranged for someone to deal with it, and when this recruitment is safe, it also needs to be contacted in advance, the Black Flag Army is in the mountains west of North Vietnam, and Jiāo Tong is very inconvenient, so there is no result yet!" ”

Seeing Qin Kai's relaxed expression and smooth tone, Zhou Fu didn't notice anything unusual, so he sighed, "Lord Qin, do you know that Lord Zhongtang actually values you a lot, and the market praises you in front of us, and you understand industry and commerce, and you are a rare talent......

"Lord Zhongtang praised it falsely!" Qin Kai laughed, "I know what kind of military strategy, Xiǎo wins two battles is just a matter of three military lives and better luck, not to talk about the strategy of the art of war!" ”

"Lord Qin is humble! I'm here to visit you today, and Lord Nakado really has something to ask you! Zhou Fu put away his smiling expression and suddenly asked very solemnly.

"Nakado-sama has something to ask me?" Qin Kai's expression was surprised, but he understood in his heart that the next question was the key today, he had already received the news of Bac Ninh Mansion in northern Vietnam, and the results of the talks between the Vietnamese envoy in Guangzhou and the Nanyang Minister Liu Kunyi had also been understood, but the Hunan military department and the Qingliu faction had not heard any movement so far, so he walked slowly all the way, and wanted to make a slight adjustment when he arrived in Tianjin! Looks like something is still happening......

"Lord Zhongtang wants to ask, if you use the protector ** you recruited to help defend Shanxi, Hanoi and other places, is it sure! Adults want to know the exact information, can they keep it! Zhou Fu asked with a stern expression.

Your sister, what is the problem, Qin Kai secretly raised his middle finger, the French controlled the Hejing Pass, and along the river is the plain area of Yuebei Hanoi and Shanxi, of course, there are still some rivers and xiǎo hills, but this river will only make the French, who have many boats, more organic power!

The strength on hand, all counted, is only 2,200 people in the east of Zhou Rui in the first battalion of the Zhiling Fortress, 900 people in the Xue Chao Department of the third battalion of Hue, 1,200 people in the second battalion of Zhang Kui troops stationed in Hejun and Fangcheng, and 450 new troops of the security regiment stationed in Mawei, as well as more than 2,300 servant troops, but they can't be counted at all! The only one who can really be put into the front line to confront the French is Zhou Ruidong's troops!

Excluding the troops defending the fortress and the coal and iron base at Shishan Pass, it is already up to the sky to dispatch 2,000 men, and 2,000 against the possible 30,000 French army...... Unless you have your brains amused, you will think that this is a winnable battle!