"Yes." Lin Yiqing smiled, "Similarly, they are not prepared for the French Empire. ”

"In that case, that's great." Gu Ba was relieved, but the expression on his face did not change in the slightest.

"It is precisely because we value our traditional friendship with the French Empire that we exercise the utmost restraint in the face of Lieutenant Colonel Dusenny's foolish actions. As a sign of our sincerity for peace, we will release the 92 Algerian soldiers in custody. Lin Yiqing said.

"Thank you very much." Mi Le said gratefully, and was secretly surprised in his heart, since Lin Yiqing's arrival, the combat effectiveness of the cadre army has improved so fast.

"I sincerely hope that such an unfortunate incident will not happen again in the future." Lin Yiqing said, "As a sign of peace and friendship, I also hope that your troops will withdraw from the Thuan An Fort first. ”

Hearing Lin Yiqing's request, Guba and Mi Le glanced at each other quickly, while Major General Lisby, who had been sitting beside them and had not spoken, looked uneasy.

"I think it's better for our armies to keep their posture unchanged until the treaty is formally signed." Guba said.

"Your Excellency, you must know that the attack on Hue City by your army is even more stupid and serious than that of Lieutenant Colonel Dusenny, of course, this is a military act initiated by Ho Luo Ji to deliberately deceive His Majesty the Emperor of the French Empire, and the responsibility is not entirely on the French Imperial army." Lin Yiqing said, "Now that Ho Lok Ho has been arrested and brought back to France for trial and punishment, if your army can withdraw from Thuan An Fort in time and return this fortress to the Vietnamese government, then I think the serious consequences caused by Ho Lo Ho can be compensated to a great extent." ”

listened to Lin Yiqing's suggestion. Guba hesitated. Didn't answer immediately.

Lin Yiqing glanced at the nervous Major General Lisby. He also said: "I personally believe that General Bo Hua and General Lisby, who are the military commanders of this incident, should not be the scapegoat for the crime committed by Ho Luo Ji. This can be attested to by the withdrawal of your army from the Thuan An fortress. ”

At this time, Gu Ba fully understood that Lin Yiqing wanted to take this opportunity to protect his old subordinate Lisby, and he couldn't help but be very moved, he turned his head to look at Lisby, and found that the corners of Lisby's eyes were a little moist.

"As you wish, Your Excellency." Guba replied. "The imperial army will withdraw from the Thuan An battery within seven days and return the Thuan An battery to the Vietnamese government."

The atmosphere of the negotiations became less tense, although the progress of the negotiations on this day was not much, but the news that the French troops were ready to withdraw from the Thuan An battery quickly spread throughout the streets and alleys of Hue City, and the Vietnamese people were jubilant, and the palace city also quickly got the news.

When the Vietnamese king Nguyen Phuc Thanh, who was painting with his own pen, heard the news of the withdrawal of the French troops from the Thuan An Fort, he just smiled, did not care, but continued to paint his beautiful pictures. It seems to be expected that the Venerable Chambers learned of the situation of the Concord King. smiled, and then immediately began to arrange for the Vietnamese army to receive the Thuan An Battery.

At this moment. Ordered to Vietnam to support Lin Yiqing's cadre army, they were trekking hard in the jungle.

Su Yuanchun, the new governor of Yunnan, couldn't help but sigh as he looked at the reckless jungle around him.

After a large number of southwestern Xinjiang ministers, such as Cen Yuying, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, Tang Jiong, the governor of Yunnan, and Xu Yanxu, the governor of Guangxi, were dismissed and questioned, Pan Dingxin, the general of the Huai army, was appointed as the governor of Guangxi and the prime minister of the southwest frontier. After learning that the rebellious army in Hanoi City was pacified by Lin Yiqing's subordinate Zhang Xun's 2,000 Gui Army, the imperial court was worried that the Hanoi Massacre incident would give the foreign powers a pretext for interference, and Lin Yiqing's troops were too thin to deal with, so he ordered Pan Dingxin to mobilize troops and horses into Vietnam, "with the power of strong envoys, to deter legal persons", Pan Dingxin did not dare to slack off, and recommended Su Yuanchun as the governor of Yunnan, leading the army into Vietnam to support Lin Yiqing.

Su Yuanchun was born in the Hunan Army, experienced on the battlefield, and was only 40 years old at the time, just when he was able to fight. And he is not very old, his merits are not small, and he can also serve the public. For Pan Dingxin's recommendation, Su Yuanchun was also grateful to Dade and reciprocated the favor, and the army he commanded was soon integrated into Pan Dingxin's command system, and Su Yuanchun implemented Pan Dingxin's orders to the letter.

But as soon as Su Yuanchun entered Vietnam, he was not happy at all.

The reason is very simple, the battlefield environment will not be "polite" to him compared to the armies of other factions because his army is a Hunan army. All the hardships that he had suffered before joining the Vietnamese cadre army were also destined to make Su Yuanchun suffer again.

As soon as the army left the country, Su Yuanchun's Hunan army was already suffering enough, and there was no way, Su Yuanchun had no choice but to write to Pan Dingxin to pour out the depressed bitterness in his heart.

"Eavesdropping on the Yunnan provincial capital to the border city, seven stations by taxi, the mountain road is rugged. Nine roads of the beach river, dozens of mountain chong bridges, many of them are decayed, and the summer rain is many, the mountains and rivers often rise, single horses, are difficult to travel, every transition, only have to be broken ferry, back and forth, lag very. On the 10th day of the first month of the month, the brave men of the front and left battalions of the Beijun army crossed the river at the place where they stopped horses in Yongfu County, and crossed to the center of the river, but they were sunk, lost several foreign guns and equipment, and drowned several brave men......"

"Jidian Province traveled to the 27th station of Xuanguang, the danger was abnormal, and Thomas carried military uniforms, and many people died. Visiting the traders, it is said that this road is deep and dense, and it is necessary to flee from the abyss, and because of the rebellious ravage, followed by the local customers fighting each other, so that the people and animals in the four townships are ruined, because the land is barren, thieves and thieves enter and exit in the meantime, and often block the way to intercept and rob. Our company has experienced this time and learned that in the future, salaries and uniforms cannot be relieved by land...... It is not as long as the water, and there are many turns. Check from Yongzhou to Guangxi, you have to cross the steep river, the water potential is uncertain, and the travel period cannot be deducted. From the western province to Wuzhou to Nanning and Longzhou, it is necessary to go upstream, without wind and rain, and can be reached in forty or fifty days; If there is a delay of several days for heavy and heavy items of munitions, Ewing will change ships three times before he can arrive in Longzhou. That is, as before, the division sent a commission to transport the arms by water, so far it will be two months, and the division has now arrived across the border, and has not yet seen the future of the munitions, which can be seen that there is no way to do it. Only the commissioner was sent to "listen along the way and urge to come." "It seems that the land and water are all difficult, and now the Beibei army is in a foreign land, long-distance transit, and everything is paid, and it is often worrying and anxious. I hope that our Xiantai will be sympathetic to the situation and provide a steady stream of help. There is no danger of being in the belly of Hogo. I am grateful for the immeasurable kindness."

There are many mountains. When the letter was delivered to Pan Ding's novice, it was already a month later. There is no way, who made the means of communication of the Great Qianguo backward? But what can Pan Dingxin do if he receives it? He simply had no way to change the backward logistical situation on the Vietnamese front in a short period of time.

Now Su Yuanchun really hopes that a railway will appear in front of him.

Among the old guys who opposed the construction of railways in Qianguo, his old Hunan boss Zuo Jigao was a "backbone" element who stood in the forefront of the opponents. In a letter to Prime Minister Yamen, he said: "Railways and electric wires were originally used by the Taixi merchants for the sake of profit, and the islands used them for marching, as if they had no other means to win, but in fact their livelihood was short. The blunt nature of military affairs does not care about this. Looking at the recent and many folds of the other business, the rise and fall of each country has each other, and there are railway wires and their return is different, and it can also be approximated. It was only after a few years that he turned his mind around and asked for a telegraph line, but he was helpless against the situation in the southwest.

The terrain of Beiqi was a nightmare for the troops of the Great Qian Empire who entered Vietnam! The mountains are steep, the vegetation is lush, and it is the kind of tropical vegetation that is so tenacious that it is perverted. Vietnam had no infrastructure, so the army had to take turns wielding machetes to carve a path through the dense jungle for the army to move forward. But. The vitality of tropical vegetation is so tenacious that it can be described as "crazy", and it is not long after a group of people have cut a path in a hurry. The new vegetation will cover up the traces of the previous cut. So, the latter group of poor fellows can only organize the strong unlucky ones to wave the machete again, and how can that kind of taste be described by the word "bitter"?

From the rear logistics base of Bai Ma Pass to Tuyen Quang in Vietnam, "the pass is rugged, more than a thousand miles, all of them are no man's land, the mountains are treacherous, the sun is not seen, the tiger leeches are vertical and horizontal, the people and horses are on the peak, the secluded and dangerous, and the hardships are abnormal." The place is secluded, and it is extremely difficult to run grain, and it is not far away to hundreds of miles, and there is no way to procure it. The transportation of grain, rice, and military equipment was extremely arduous and arduous. As for the loss along the way, it is not enough to talk about the cost. ”

For the cadres, there is something more painful than this. That's medicine!

The role of medicine in the war cannot be overstated (Miss Florence-Nightingale is great not only because she withstood the pressure with her tenacity and perseverance and saved the lives of the wounded British soldiers in the Crimea, but also because the modern field medical system established through her efforts minimized the mortality rate of the army, maintained the combat effectiveness of the army, and at the same time invisibly maintained the morale of the army). However, the army of the Great Qian Empire, which did not have a logistical medical support system, could simply be described as miserable in the northern region where the epidemic was prevalent.

"Dian Yong is not tolerant of smoke miasma, since the beginning of the summer, there have been more than 100 miasma generals, more than 1,000 brave soldiers, and the disease is not counted" (that is to say, the death of light disease accounts for about one-tenth of the total army).

Su Yuanchun couldn't understand how in such an environment, the guy named Zhang Xun under Huang Guilan could defeat the Black Flag Army, which was more familiar with the terrain of Vietnam than the cadre army.

At night, the moon rose, and the army came to a big stream, and Su Yuanchun ordered to stop advancing, camp on the spot, rest, and wait for dawn before setting off.

It was late at night, but Su Yuanchun couldn't sleep, and the light of the moonlight was very bright at this time, casting a spear-like shadow on the scattered tall trees. A grove of trees is just ahead. The fog was hazy and floating, like a distant dream.

Su Yuanchun couldn't sleep, so he simply got up, called out to the guards, and called the guide to go ahead to investigate.

The group walked into the forest, and the thick fog lingered in the valley, hovering around their knees. The faint pungent smell of greenery was emanating from all around, and the silence unconsciously affected the people walking through the forest, and one by one they were silent, walking through the strange vegetation and following the sound of the tinkling of running water. Rope-like vines tangle in the middle of the trees.

"Look at the water." One of the guides said in a low voice. When people looked through the reed leaves, the water was flickering with blue fluorescence, flickering and flickering, like some fragile porcelain fragments. In the moonlight, everything in the forest is as beautiful as a fairyland.

"It's so beautiful here, why didn't anyone tell us?" Su Yuanchun's eyes widened and he asked with an incredulous look, "Why did they forbid us to go this way?" He suddenly remembered the warning of the villagers on the way here.

"Would you like to take a sip of the water here?" One of the guides jokingly said, "It will make you forget all the troubles of the world - including the people you love and the way back." ”

Su Yuanchun didn't like this joke, but he didn't say anything more. Instead, he waved his hand. The order was given to move on.

People keep their bodies down. Walk quietly through the woods. The psychedelic moonlight and fog make them feel like they're in a distant legend. The first thing that greeted them was the clatter of a large animal that jumped over the bushes and ran away, and they did not see it clearly, but saw the beautiful tiger-striped fur gliding in the moonlight.

According to the locals, anything can happen in this forest. Birds with simulated human voices flew around in the darkness to their ears, wild dogs and wild boars, and ferocious wolves all scurried under the dense bushes. There were intricate black holes under the roots of the trees, which shimmered with lights, and the grass on the gentle hillside was topped with tiny red flowers, exuding a maddening atmosphere. They felt that they would soon be able to see the mythical beasts and ferocious monsters that spew flames; They thought they would see filthy earth spirits rolling around in the moss and mud puddles, sometimes exchanging salt and food with hunters they met with large gems dug up from the ground and ornate language, and more often they would crawl into the camp with their eyes slanted and bite the harness and boots; They will see the mountain spirits bathing in the rocky springs, with the pretty faces and soft waists of women, and the singing voices of the dead, and they are enthroned by the hollow trunks of oak trees. When the passing caravans heard their songs, they never wanted to return to the earthly world where they had worked all their lives; They will also see the rare Beast Kirin, which has its head bowed. Let its beautiful candlestick-like horns beat on the ground, and fall asleep in the deep caverns, and they exhale in their sleep, and these breaths rise to the ground, and they grow into cloud-shaped reishi—all of which are amazing not to appear before their eyes, but they will not regret it—and what they are about to encounter is enough to make them unforgettable for the rest of their lives.

The scenery slowly changed. The flow of the Great Creek gradually becomes intermittent, wide, and unbounded. The ground beneath their feet grew softer and softer, and they stepped on it as if they were stepping on a thick woollen carpet that had absorbed water. They came to the swamp. The low clumps of reeds were gone, replaced by dark green lichens and mosses, and mushrooms with small umbrellas of broken flowers. Now, at the edge of the stream, which is dozens of feet wide, tall trees with foliage cross over their heads, forming a long, dark green secret cave.

The fog in the swamp began to rise, and it seemed to be blue, first over their heels, then over their calves, thighs, and chests, and finally enveloping them all like a blue membrane.

The guides were uneasy, and although they had lived in the forest for generations, they had never felt so strongly that the forest was a living thing. The sound of dew dripping from the blades of grass, the faint breathing of the trees, the splashing of their footsteps in the blue water, became the sound of beautiful music, a part of this living swamp.

They felt the white light in the swamp brighter and flickering like a heartbeat.

"Is the sun coming out?" A young guard couldn't help but ask.

"I don't know." Someone replied in a trembling voice.

Su Yuanchun could feel the fear in their words, but he didn't reprimand them, because now he was also a little scared.

Because they couldn't see a trace of the sky in this green cavern, they could only feel the huge tomb slowly light up around it. They had been walking for a long time, unable to tell their way, and the blue glowing water beneath their feet was now their only link to the bright and noisy world outside. From a short distance there were some groans, and they saw the trees at the water's edge dancing slowly like people. It was a tree that the natives who had lived in the woods all their lives had never seen before. Come here, come here, kid. They seemed to be calling silently. Let's take a closer look. We've been waiting for thousands of years, don't make us wait any longer. Come here, come here, kid.

At this moment, Su Yuanchun was holding a horse pistol in one hand, and he felt as if he was holding a slender reed pole, which would break as soon as it was broken. Here, in this forest, it seems to be full of possibilities and intertwined with various forces. Walking in the woods, he felt incomparably small and incomparably weak.

The water in the swamp now pools together to form a shallow but large pool. They walked on the water in a hurry. The water glowed with a strong pale blue glow and ran down their calves. One of the guards kicked into a white rock, which rolled in the water and bubbled. Su Yuanchun found that the stone was a little strange, it had two fists the size of each other, and it took on a strange butterfly-shaped symmetrical shape in the water.

He immediately realized that it was a white bone, a vertebrae. When they raised their eyes, they immediately saw that all kinds of bones were scattered all over the ground buried under the waterhole. There are so many of them, they can only be the bones of animals and people. They lie as silent as fish underwater, like pawns on a chessboard that has just been defeated. The beautiful cyan lotus flowers are wrapped around the bones, and there are as many flowers as there are bones, and they float on the surface of the water with pale yellow stamens. (To be continued.) )

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