At that time, the Afrika Korps, the most combat-ready in the French Army, was a professional military butcher. They are generally in a row of ten people, a column of ten people, and every hundred people form a square and neat square formation. Unlike the rest of the French Army, they wore clean white tuxedos and white top hats, and when attacking, they were commanded by an officer with a knife, and the soldiers raised their Charville muskets and marched to the beat of the drums of war and opened fire.

At the beginning, this army of 3,000 people was invincible in Vietnam, Keshanxi, Xia Bac Ninh, Trap Valley Song, Polang Mountain, the Qing army had never seen this kind of foreign devil, Pan Dingxin, the chief general of the Huai Army who was the governor of Guangxi at the time, with more than 9,000 people in the Dingzi Battalion and the Longzi Battalion, was chased and killed by the French Afrika Korps like a rabbit, fled back to Guangxi from Vietnam, and rushed all the way into the country for more than 90 miles.

Under the leadership of the Afrika Korps, the French army drove straight into the town of Nanguan for more than ten miles, but did not encounter the resistance of the Qing army, the southern gate of China was opened, the whole country was shocked, and the squires and landlords in Guangzhou were so frightened that they quickly sold their property and prepared to flee.

At this time, a Cantonese man who was over the age of sixteen stood up bravely, he was Feng Zicai! Pan Dingxin fled without a fight, Li Hongzhang was furious, dismissed Pan Dingxin on the spot, and let Feng Zicai, who was over the age of sixties, take up the post of deputy military affairs in Guangxi, and put his disciples into the customs to lead the overall situation.

Old man Feng, whose name is Nangan, is a Hakka family in Guangdong, and his life experience meets the "model" of all inspirational heroes: his parents died early, he lived on the streets since he was a child, worked as a carpenter, sold cattle, practiced martial arts, and became a streamer. Gangster, when he was young, he was also the leader of the Heaven and Earth Society, and was later recruited by Li Hongzhang, who was extremely brave, and chased Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing all the way to Tianjing. Zeng Guofan didn't trust Feng Zicai very much, and asked Li Hongzhang to restrain him many times, but Li Hongzhang politely refused. This is also where Li Hongzhang is smarter than Zeng Guofan, Lao Zeng has strict requirements for the morality of generals, but Li Hongzhang, seeking practicality in troubled times, employing people is very violent, as long as you have the ability, no matter what background, whether it is a hooligan or a jinshi, he dares to use it, and there is no doubt about it, so Feng Zicai and Liu Mingchuan are so reckless, and they also have the opportunity to leave their names in history, which is really rare in the late Qing Dynasty, which attaches great importance to the fame of the imperial examination and the family, so Li Hongzhang's Huaijun Group is big and full of talents.

To get back to the point, Zhennan Pass, which is now called Friendship Pass, is a two-storey gatehouse, an important pass from Guangxi to Vietnam, when Zhu Yuanzhang was the emperor, Zhennan Pass is the "Southern Xinjiang Fortress", the Guancheng is backed by Jinji Mountain, the nearby mountains are stacked and green, the forest is deep and deep, the terrain is dangerous, the Qing army also builds a number of forts on the steep wall of Jinji Mountain. After the French army occupied Zhennan Pass, the reinforcements did not arrive, and they did not dare to go deeper, so they withdrew to Vietnam. But before leaving, he fired artillery to blow up the gate and the nearby fort, and planted a wooden sign in front of the ruins in front of the gate, writing in Chinese characters: "The gateway to Guangxi no longer exists" to humiliate the Chinese.

As the saying goes, "the veteran will go out of the horse, one top two", after the old man Feng took the eighteenth battalion of the two Guangzi soldiers out of the mountain, the generals of the front line pushed him as the commander-in-chief in front of the enemy, and the Hunan army, the Huai army, the Gui army and the Guangdong army all listened to his command and led the troops to Zhennan Pass, with a total strength of about 40,000 people. Against the 16,000 French troops in Vietnam, there was a numerical advantage. It's a pity that it was not the era of cold weapons at that time, the weapons of the Qing army were too poor, and the guns were mainly old-fashioned smoothbore guns, and the artillery was much larger and stayed at the level of "red-coated cannons", so Feng Zicai was still under great pressure in the face of more than 10,000 well-equipped French troops.

However, Feng Zicai also knows that he has a huge advantage, that is: the recruited 18th battalion has a total of 15,000 soldiers, and their enthusiasm for protecting the family and defending the country is high, especially the Cantonese people, who had the most dealings with foreign devils back then. Therefore, the old man Feng deployed ten miles in front of the Zhennan Pass, and dug a long wall across the east and west mountains at the pass of Jinji Mountain, the wall was seven feet high, three miles long, and one zhang wide at the bottom, and a trench two or three meters long was dug outside the wall, and a complete defensive position was built, and he was ready to fight hard with the French.

The three thousand Afrika Korps of the French army saw that the old man Feng was also dazzled, and his beard was white, this young man was not at home to hug his grandson well, but he came to the battlefield with a big knife, and there was no one in the Qing Dynasty, so he killed the trench in front of Zhennan Pass with great momentum.

Feng Zicai has been fighting all his life, and he knew that this group of French was not simple, so he hurriedly ordered the soldiers in the trench to shoot. But these Afrika Korps are like zombies in white uniforms, expressionless, falling down in a row and filling in later. Chinese look at foreign devils, they all look the same, as if they have not changed. Moreover, Feng Zicai's soldiers, after all, are mostly farmers who have just put down their hoes, and they tremble as if they were okay with the Afrika Korps. As soon as the French counterattacked, the fire was fierce, and the impermeable bullet net was about to break Feng Zicai's defense line.

Seeing that the soldiers were about to be defeated, Feng Zicai took the two sons behind him and bravely jumped out of the trench, brandishing a long knife to fight the French Afrika Korps hand-to-hand, shouting while killing the enemy: "Kill!" When the law re-enters the customs, what is the face of the Cantonese people? How do you make a living? ”

Feng Zicai said this very clearly, behind Zhennan Pass is Liangguang, the soldiers have no way to retreat, behind them is the hometown, there are thousands of fathers and villagers and brothers and sisters, their eyes are staring at the soldiers, we must not let the foreign devils harm the fathers and villagers, otherwise what face will go back to see the fathers and elders of Liangguang? So more than 10,000 soldiers were all enthusiastic, and they rushed out with Feng Zicai, fighting the French with real knives and guns.

Hand-to-hand combat is the bloodiest of wars, basically a life for a life. However, what the Chinese are best at is the tactics of the sea of people, and the children of the two Guang soldiers held the mentality of "killing one is enough, killing two to earn one", fighting with the well-trained French Afrika Korps, and the bravery was commendable, and many French soldiers were strangled to death by them. If no one calls for a stop, these more than 10,000 Chinese hot-blooded men are estimated to have to fight to the end with France's Afrika Korps.

However, after two hours of fighting, one man refused to do it, and he was the commander of the French army, Pory. Seeing that his well-trained elite corps was knocked down and strangled to death by Feng Zicai's group of pigtailed soldiers one by one, he couldn't afford to kill this person. Seeing the heavy casualties of the French [***] regiment, he was anxious, and hurriedly asked the trumpeter to blow the horn to collect the troops and withdraw in the direction of Vietnam.

Feng Zicai saw that the French had fled, and hurriedly pursued the victory. At this time, the Yixin Army and the Zhennan Army of Su Yunchun, the Governor of Guangxi, also attacked at the same time, attacking the fleeing French army from the flank. Feng Zicai and Su Yunchun led the army to pursue the French army to the paddy field of Youkou Village behind Zhennan Pass, at this time, a team of French troops suddenly rushed out of the village, with muskets and heavy artillery, Feng Zicai shouted: "It's not good, I fell for the lure of foreign devils!" ”

But at this time, the brigade behind him had already arrived, and as soon as he retreated, he became a live target for the French artillery, Feng Zicai immediately made a decision and ordered the troops to continue to rush forward to kill.

"Boom, boom, boom", at this time, the French heavy artillery suddenly opened fire, but it blew itself up, blowing up dozens of French troops who opened the cannon into the sky. As soon as the gong sounded, a team of men and horses appeared behind the French army, which was the Dingbian army of Wang Debang, the general of the Hunan army. However, the pair was not arranged in advance, and it was a pure coincidence that they came to Yau Pass Village!

Wang Debang's Dingbian Army originally guarded Qiongshan in Vietnam, but after being defeated by the French army, they had been hiding in the mountains and forests near Yau Pass Village. Wang Debang is a battle-hardened general, once given the name of Ruiyong Baturu by the imperial court, he immediately led people to sneak into the village, the explosives piled up in the French open space to detonate, this explosion caught fire, caused a chain reaction, the French army arranged the heavy artillery to blow up, the power of the chain explosion is amazing, the French commander Pori who was riding on a tall horse, was hit by the air wave generated by the explosion and fell off the horse, fell into a blue nose and swollen face, and limped away with the help of his subordinates.

Of course, Feng Zicai will not miss this good opportunity to chase and kill the French army, with more than 10,000 soldiers in pursuit, the French army is holding their heads, Feng Zicai chased and killed the French army all the way, and entered Vietnam for more than 20 miles, the French army was killed by 36 generals, more than 2,000 French soldiers were killed, and suffered the biggest defeat since the Battle of Sedang.

Su Yunchun led the Qing army to recapture Zhennanguan, this Mengshan man pulled up the wooden sign of the previous French book "The gateway of Guangxi no longer exists", when the firewood was burned, and replaced it with a piece of "We rebuilt the Chinese portal with the head of the French", as an answer to the invaders of various countries: This is our Chinese land, which [***] team dares to attack, leave the head!!;