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In the early morning, before the mist on the sea had lifted, the soldiers on the British ironclad ship "Princess Jasmine" anchored in Mawei Harbor discovered some surprising circumstances, and all the ships of the Qing fleet moored in the distance had already raised their fires, obviously preparing to sail, and the commander of the battleship, Rear Admiral Orwell, immediately ordered the fire to be raised. The latest and fastest update of this book comes from du58.

The British Far East Fleet has long been concerned about the possible battle in Mawei Harbor, and the potential opponent, the French Navy, known as the world's second, will fight in the Qing Fleet, which is currently the first tonnage in the Far East.

On the wharf, martial law began early, and the idlers were forbidden to enter and leave the port, and the soldiers of the security regiment who were on duty in the port all widened their eyes, looking at the Nanyang Naval Division fleet that was flowing out of the military port.

"Sentry Commander, our sailors are going to sail, why does it look different today than in the past," a soldier asked the officer next to him.

"It's definitely different, I saw Lord Qin boarding the ship at the dock just now, didn't you see that the Huai Army's battleship has gone out, it seems that the French are going to be unlucky again, it's really too bold, dare to come to our horsetail to provoke" The officer pouted and patted his subordinates.

"Yes, these French people are too arrogant, I heard the news from my two brothers from North Vietnam, saying that they fought very fiercely with the French, and my two brothers have made second-class military exploits" This immediately attracted a lot of voices.

"Wow, second-class combat merits, this is amazing, this time the sailor who went out to fight has another chance to make great contributions, why don't our security regiments have a chance to go out......"

The sentry commander kicked the soldier's buttocks, "Niu Da, just your virtue, I just passed the cào practice last week, and I still count on meritorious service, I ...... it."

Qin Kai stood in the bridge of the 501 ship, looking at the security regiment responsible for guarding the shore, this was the capital he started back then, and now he is continuously sending qualified soldiers for himself, which is a good growth model.

For this decisive battle, he naturally had a plan, the only thing that made him a little worried was the opponent's three new armored cruisers, so far there is no very definite news, but this is not a big deal, he has enough confidence that he will kill the enemy in the decisive battle

"Gale gale, we expect to be able to reach Chiwei Island outside Keelung Harbor by 7 p.m., and the frogman troops will be in the early hours of the morning... To launch an attack on the port, we have made an appointment with Jian Zhonghao, the commander of Beiguan and the fierce Hunan army on the island, to launch an attack on the port with the explosion in the port as a signal, and we will enter the port for a decisive battle as soon as dawn."

"Did the outpost go out?"

"Well, Lu Zhiyuan set off in the middle of the night, he is fast, it's just right to do this"

Qin Kai nodded, Lu Han has always done things without leakage, which made him very relieved to rest on the ship, this is the first time he has looked for the French fleet for a decisive battle, this is more than a year, piecemeal, dismembering the French Far East Fleet to the current scale, only dare to do this. The book is updated in real time DU(5) 8.сΟm

Now he deeply feels that the industrial base he has been operating for more than three years is still too weak, don't look at the current steel mills have 4, three shipyards, of which the Jiangnan Bureau Shipyard acquired by Shanghai can only build merchant ships at present, and the Mawei Shipyard and Beihai Shipyard have realized the scale of warship manufacturing, but there are still some gaps in the current technology, which needs to be improved slowly.

It is necessary to expand the industrial scale as much as possible, and to make the expansion of the industrial scale profitable, but this qiē obviously needs a stable external trade environment, so this very second French fleet must be hurt and disabled.

Lu Han picked up the telescope and suddenly looked to the right, and sighed, "Gale, the British have followed a battleship, are they going to follow the same ass like they did in the fight against Little Japan?" ”

Briton...... Qin Kai thought of the most powerful naval empire in this era, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, he had worked hard for three years, even though he had the most potential horsetail shipbuilding in this era as the foundation, but the current strength was really not worth talking about in front of an industrial-scale terrifying empire.

Open Britain, Free Britain...... It seems that it is necessary to take a good look at this country, Qin Kai's mind moved, and he had a more thought, his light brain can provide theoretical science, but it is impossible to provide ready-made industry, it is obvious that there are many things to learn from the first-class industrial power. ,——

In the north of Vietnam, on the Songdong River, in the past ten days, the two sides have fought to the death around this river channel that is only 400 meters at the narrowest point.

The strength of the other party is vividly reflected in the Qingzi Army and the remnants of the Cantonese Army supporting the Sanyuan Bridge, and the gunboat formation that he sent out, which has always been invincible on the inland rivers of Vietnam, returned with a feather, and lost all the soldiers on the gunboat 3 ships with 3 soldiers, which is a big loss that has never been seen since the start of the war, which made him immediately focus his attention on the protection **.

But soon, he suffered a big loss in this army, the fourth brigade was intercepted by the other party on the river beach when crossing the Songdong River, this time the losses were even more heavy, casualties of thousands of people, this time, the protection ** is a hornet's nest, Lone personally led the team, stationed a large army on the other side of the Songdong River, ready to cross the river to annihilate the enemy army in the opposite fortifications.

The preferred way to cross the river is naturally to erect pontoon bridges, especially this river channel with a depth of only three or four meters and a width of no more than 500 meters, but this seemingly simple task has made the Fourth Brigade of Major General Bō slip, known as the sharp name of the French Expeditionary Force, like an abyss.

As soon as the French moved, the other side almost always came one after another, and the attempt to build a bridge on the side of Bailong Beach at the narrowest point almost filled in a battalion of Algerian black battalions, but as soon as the bridge was erected, the other side actually drove eight gunboats from the upstream and directly beat the seven battalions of the Fourth Brigade who were responsible for building the bridge.

At this time, there were only 5 French gunboats defending Hanoi, and they did not dare to fight, you must know that the last time in the engagement on the Red River, the opponent was also 5 to 5, but the result was that their own side lost 3 gunboats, sank 3 troop carriers by the way, and the opponent only had 2 minor injuries. The book is updated in real time DU(5) 8.сΟm

As a last resort, Guba once again requisitioned almost all the river gunboats from Hejing, and even the two old sailboats rowed to make up the number, so that the fleet of 12 ships was gathered, and then two artillery positions were built in Bailong Beach one by one, and then the pontoon bridge was erected.

This time, the opponent's gunboats did not come to smash the luàn, and because of the storage of the artillery position, the other side did not even go to the tidal flat to build a position, but put the position on a hill behind the tidal flat, and dug a large area of tunnel. Major General Bō was also frightened by the trick of protecting the eyes, and seeing that the other party did not disturb himself in building a pontoon bridge, he couldn't figure it out for a while, and he actually lost sleep that night

The next day, the French also gave up their orders and sent 2 battalions of Vietnamese natives and 1 battalion of Algerian black soldiers, but these people crowded the middle of the water, and when they lined up the bridge board on the wooden boats, they were harvested back and forth by the jiāo fork fire of the Makqin machine gun array set up in the tunnel on the hill, and that scene left a psychological shadow on the soldiers of the entire Fourth Brigade participating in the battle.

The counterattack of the artillery position on this side blew up the mound on the opposite side into a sea of smoke, but the opponent's Makqin machine gun was able to play this battle normally from beginning to end, and the casualties were thousands, but fortunately, most of the dead were Vietnamese indigenous soldiers, but if they wanted to drive the indigenous soldiers to erect a pontoon bridge, those originally quite obedient natives also resisted desperately.

After hearing the report, Gu Ba was also very surprised, the other party's equipment, tactics and consciousness were completely beyond his imagination, this can't be blamed on him, who let the officers there learn the things, they are all modern infantry tactics compiled by Qin Kai, which is a bunker technology aimed at fighting howitzers and high-explosive bombs.

After he personally went to the front line to observe the position on the opposite bank, an officer proposed a turtle method, that is, to build a pontoon bridge on the shore during the day, and then secretly put down the water at night while the other party could not see it......

Hearing this idea, Lone Baba smiled happily, and held hands with Major General Bō, who had been suppressed for too long, raised his middle finger, and pointed at the machine gun position opposite

This method is indeed very effective, the person responsible for the defense on the opposite side is the Qi side of Zhang Kui's second battalion, the other party's turtle tactics are really difficult to deal with, plus the moon is dim and dark these nights, and the fight is completely accurate, he immediately reported the intelligence, and after getting the order, he immediately destroyed the structure of the machine gun position, and then withdrew to the Luerzhuang defensive position. ,

After a sweet dream, Lieutenant General Gu Ba actually heard two excellent news, the 4th Brigade had finally broken through the Qing army's defense line on the Songdong River, and in addition, the 11th Brigade of the Expeditionary Force in charge of reinforcements had arrived in Hanoi, which made him feel very good

Another piece of news made him very angry, Rear Admiral Miller, who took over his command of the fleet, went against his original defensive strategy and raided the port of Keelung, Taiwan......

However, the first task now is to defeat the guards who are dragging themselves back, and he immediately ordered the 11th Brigade to be responsible for the defense of Hanoi, and at the same time monitor the Qing army at the Sanyuan Bridge, and personally commanded the 3rd Brigade and the 4th Brigade to focus on attacking the protection of the Songdong River, while the 7th Brigade led by Major General Purgen, with the support of three gunboats, went north along the Canghe River and entered Lang Son on the Sino-Vietnamese border, which would be the passage into China.

The 3rd and 4th Brigades led by the high-spirited Lieutenant General Gu Ba rushed across the Songdong River, defending the front positions with about 4,000 enemy men, and it was clear that the French had more than double the advantage.

It's just that...... The two French infantry battalions and one black Algerian battalion that had been assaulted by the forward assault were suddenly wiped out in front of the massive Luerzhuang fortifications, and the news reached the ears of the two men who were stationed in Guba and Bō Slip, and both of them were stunned for a long time, which was almost completely unthinkable.

You must know that the strength of three battalions, which is close to 1,200 people, and also carry infantry 68mm field guns and Haqikaisi machine guns, attack a village marked on the map, not to mention that it can be conquered, no matter what, it will not be completely annihilated.

After repeated confirmation, more than a dozen French soldiers who had crawled back from the pile of dead were sent to the headquarters, the highest rank was a second lieutenant, and the descriptions of a dozen people were summed up, and the situation was finally described, and it was the French Major Corola who commanded the attack, and they found a Qing army digging infantry trenches and many Vietnamese coolies on the outskirts of the village.

Naturally, they launched an attack, and the other side made some resistance, but under the efficient platoon attack of the French ** team, they were quickly beaten away, and they followed this group of Qing troops and Vietnamese coolies to the road outside the village, and broke into the opponent's position along the way, at this time they were hit by very alarming firepower.

Among those who survived, no one could estimate how much fire they had encountered, and they were almost dumbfounded, three battalions of troops were trapped in a clearing outside the storage area, and Major Corola organized two charges, trying to capture one or two points of fire and seek a direction of retreat, but the attacking soldiers, along with the soldiers on the position, were almost dead and wounded in less than twenty minutes.

"Does the Qing army have artillery?" Guba thought of the artillery position, and only a large number of artillery could cause such lethality

"Yes, there may be a few mén koshè cannons"

Obviously, such an artillery density is impossible for more than 1,000 people to be wiped out in 20 minutes.

According to the guide, this Luerzhuang is just a small village of 100 households, but now the Luerzhuang defensive position is 4 kilometers from east to west, and 3 kilometers from north to south

What the hell is this? It's a bit similar to the thing with the four corners of the fortress in the era of European knights, but what's the use of this thing, can it stand tall in front of field artillery? And the first team that died in front of the position was still crawling in the open space in front of them at this time, a large area of layers, and there were more than a thousand people

When Gu Ba saw his dead subordinates, he was naturally angry, and immediately ordered to build an artillery position in the forward position and give the other party an artillery lesson-

Guangxi, Taiping Mansion, here is only seventy or eighty miles away from the border, since a month ago, there have been routs from the front line, which makes the prefect Luo Wei busy and anxious, some time ago, when the original governor Xu Yanxu sat in the Taiping Mansion, he could still live in peace, and these routs were sent to the temporary barracks outside the city to take care of.

Unexpectedly, a few days ago, the imperial court issued an urgent report, Governor Xu seized his post to be investigated, which made him almost vomit blood, the governor in the Taiping Mansion these days, he was not careful, every morning report and evening hello, eating, drinking, and respecting everything are in place, I didn't expect this adult to be promoted quickly, and this one to take office is also fast, but his own money will be wasted. ,

The governor is down, there are no less things here, there are still seven or eight hundred defeated soldiers outside the city to be restrained every day, but now who still has this thought, there are rumors outside, the French may call when they come, even Luo Wei is shocked three times a day, he has already sent his wife and son to Nanning Mansion.

At this time, his left eyelid kept jumping, which made Luo Zhifu lose his interest in reading, and he stood up and held the teacup and pondered about the things on the front line......

At this time, there was a sound of hurried footsteps outside Mén, and several people were still whispering something, and soon someone pushed Mén into the house, but it was his confidant Master Chen, and the next few were the servants in the Yamén, but at this time they were sweating profusely.

"Master Chen, what's the matter, so flustered" Luo Wei obviously expressed some dissatisfaction with Master Chen's hurry.

"My lord, the barracks outside the city are gone, and the two generals appointed by the governor are about to be overwhelmed, and it is rumored that the French are going to come in," Master Chen said with a sweat on his head.

Luo Wei slapped the table and said angrily: "What are you talking about, who said Master Chen, you draft a notice, who dares to spread rumors to deal with the enemy."

"My lord, this rumor may not be true, but you have that idea for the thousands of stragglers outside the city, the king who took care of the barracks just now has spoken, and their admiral has also been deprived of his post this time, so they are all thinking about going back to Guilin."

"What's your idea?" Luo Wei saw that although Master Chen was running a little panting, he didn't look like anyone at this time, and he naturally understood a little in his heart.

"My lord, I have one in mind, you can see if it works, you probably forgot about Admiral Feng who fell out with Xu Yanxu......"

"Oh......" Luo Wei squinted his eyes and patted his right-hand man, and sure enough, he had a lot of ideas, "You immediately take your official handbook to see Lord Feng, and ask Lord Admiral to take charge of the military affairs in our mansion, right...... I'll go in person, hurry up and prepare the sedan car."

Luo Wei obviously thought that Xu Yanxu, who was against Admiral Feng, was unlucky, so this Admiral Feng had great hope

When the palanquin of Lord Luo Zhifu arrived at Feng's house in the west of the city, he found that several errand officers on horseback were waiting at the entrance of Feng's house, and Master Chen was busy looking for two errand officers, and sent a tael of silver to ask for wine money, but it was Guilin Mansion who rushed to deliver the news, saying that Lord Qin, the minister of the Qin mission who supervised the military affairs in northern Vietnam, used Admiral Feng to command the soldiers and horses of Taiping, Nanning, and Zhen'an.