Chapter 784: Attack on Hanoi
She wore a white skirt with her head and shoulders wrapped in a black cloth, but from her eyes and the way she walked, Iwao Konno knew it was her.
Iwao Konno couldn't figure out how she had come here, but he put aside the doubts in his heart and stood up, stretching out his arms, just wanting to hug her into his arms. Three times in a row, she escaped from between his arms, smoky, illusory, ethereal, misty. Iwao Imino stretched out his hand for the fourth time, and she finally stood still, and Iwao Imano held her firmly to his chest, real and real. And he said unto her, I have trekked through mountains and rivers just to find you. I'll never let you go again. Never.
She looked at him and untied her headscarf, the look on her face that seemed to agree, even though she didn't say a word.
Iwao Konno is awakened by the early morning birdsong. In the dream, her figure still occupies his heart, unwilling to leave, and Iwao Konno is reluctant to let it disappear. The dew on the grass was heavy, the sun had risen to the top of the trees, and Iwao Konno got up and walked through the woods, and the camp was empty. The fire next to the caravan has long been extinguished. There was nothing to prove that the entertainers really existed, except for a large cloud of black ash and two parallel ruts on the ground that had been run over by the wheels of the caravan. Although Iwao Konno was saddened that he could not say goodbye to them, he walked along the road for the rest of the day, and his mood was much happier, all because of the clear dream he had been given in the night.
After walking for about an hour, Iwao Konno finally returned to the camp of the Black Flag Army.
As soon as he arrived at the camp, the sight that appeared in front of him told Iwao Konno that the news that the man had told him was completely true.
Not only were there too many faces in the camp, but there were also more things he had never seen before.
Western cannons.
Compared to the Vietnamese army, which only had spray canisters and earthen cannons plus broadswords and spears. The Black Flag Army was better equipped. Except for carrying guns and shotguns. There are also a large number of foreign guns, of course, due to the large number of sources, the Black Flag Army is equipped with a wide range of foreign guns, including British Schneider rifles, German Mauser rifles, French snuffbox rifles, Chasebo rifles and American Remington rifles. Among them, most of the Schneider rifles and snuffbox rifles converted from breech guns were purchased from outside through smuggling channels, and the most advanced of them was the French Chasebo rifle.
If the equipment of foreign guns is not small, what the Black Flag Army lacks the most is artillery.
Most of the cannons equipped by the Black Flag Army were old earthen iron cannons, and the more advanced ones were the breech cannons imported from the Qianguo country, such as the mountain splitting cannon and the 24-pounder pig iron blossom cannon and the 12-pounder rifle bronze cannon, which were considered advanced weapons among the Black Flag Army and the Vietnamese army, but in the eyes of Iwao Iwao, they were all outdated.
But today. He saw a different kind of cannon.
German Krupp cannon.
Iwao Konno, who once participated in the Southwest War, is no stranger to this weapon.
in the Southwestern War. Saigo Takamori's Satsuma Army was once equipped with a large number of such artillery (bought by Lin Yiqing), which caused great damage to the Japanese government army, and then the Japanese government also purchased a large number of this kind of artillery from Germany, which can be said to be in the limelight in this unprecedented civil war in Japanese history.
The Krupp cannon in front of Iwao Konno was the same as the one equipped by the Satsuma Army at that time, it was a light camp gun, with a caliber of 75 mm, and the barrel was made of the technology of tightening the barrel body, which obtained a very high barrel life, and the total weight of the whole artillery company plus ammunition was 800 kg, which was towed by three horses. The range is up to 5000 meters when fired with grenades and 2500 meters when incendiary. Compared with the relatively bulky 80 mm, 90 mm and 95 mm cannons of the French army, the biggest advantage of this Krupp light camp gun is its light weight, which can be said to have a considerable advantage in the dense jungle of Vietnam.
How could the Black Flag Army suddenly have such an advanced cannon?
And in this camp, Iwao Konno saw 4 gates at once.
There is only one answer, that is, these cannons were brought by the cadres who came to support the Black Flag Army!
Iwao Konno also noticed that the newly appeared soldiers with a large number of fresh faces, and the clothes they were wearing, although they were the uniforms of the Black Flag Army, were not worn, and were obviously newly sewn clothes.
He was already certain that a large number of cadres had joined the Black Flag Army, but just to confuse the French, the cadres and soldiers who entered Vietnam all changed into the uniforms of the Black Flag Army and participated in the war as Black Flag Army.
"Lao Jin (Iwao Kono's pseudonym Jin Yansong), you're back!" Seeing the ragged Iwao Konno, Yang Zhuen, the commander of the right battalion of the Black Flag Army, said happily, "How is it?" Have you found out? ”
"Got it covered." Iwao Konno nodded and patted his backpack, "Let's go, come with me to General Liu." ”
Yang Zhuen took Imno Iwao to the big tent of Liu Renyi, the leader of the Black Flag Army, and as soon as he entered, Konno Iwao noticed that in Liu Renyi's big tent, in addition to Huang Shouzhong, Wu Fengdian and other generals, there were three more unfamiliar generals.
Although these three people also seemed to be under Liu Renyi, their expressions were quite arrogant, and they did not look like the generals of the Black Flag Army.
Iwao Konno remembered the Krupp cannons he had seen outside, and immediately knew who they were.
They are the generals of the cadre army!
"Lao Jin, you're back!" Seeing Iwao Iwao come back, Liu Renyi looked very happy, and stepped forward and patted Iwao Iwao Konno affectionately on the shoulder, "You've worked hard all the way!" What do you think? Did you find anything? ”
Hearing Liu Renyi's words, the eyes of the three strangers suddenly focused on Iwao Konno, and the expressions on his faces became focused.
Iwao Konno deliberately did not answer, but opened his backpack and took out a map drawn on a white cloth from it and spread it out on the table.
"Zhang Guandao, Mo Guandao, Xu Guanjiao, you can also come and take a look." Liu Renyi beckoned to the three of them, and the three of them immediately got up and gathered around the table.
Liu Renyi first introduced the three of them to Iwao Konno, and then Iwao Konno learned that one of the three of them was named Zhang Yongqing, one was Mo Jinzhi, and the other was Xu Shihe.
Iwao Konno knew that they were battalion officers of the dry army. After greeting them. He pointed to the map he had made. A detailed explanation of the French army's deployment in Hanoi and the surrounding area will be explained.
When they heard that there were only more than 500 French troops and only 1,000 Vietnamese mercenaries, and that in order to build fortifications, the French, who were short of manpower, had forcibly recruited a large number of Vietnamese women to dig trenches for them, the faces of the three cadres showed disdain.
"I am outnumbered, and when its foothold is not stable, I will go all out to break it!" Zhang Yongqing said loudly.
"Zhang Guanband, although the number of French troops is small. However, the fortress was not only strong, but also equipped with flowering cannons, and there were gunboats in the river to drive it, although our army was numerous, but the guns were not as good as the French army. Liu Renyi, who had fought with the French many times, knew the strength of the French army, but Zhang Yongqing was the Yunnan army battalion officer sent by Cen Yuying to support him, and he was not good at refuting it directly, so he expressed his views euphemistically.
"Liu Junmen. It's true that your old battalion lacks artillery, and our brothers know it. So this time I specially brought you a batch of artillery, as well as 5 flowering cannons, in comparison, we are not much worse than the French, and according to the picture, the French artillery are distributed in various fortresses, now the French army has already known the defense situation, we only need to concentrate the artillery to break the French fortress one by one, we will not win this battle? Zhang Yongqing said, "As for the French gunboats,
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