Gu Ba led 1,500 French troops to land from Keelung, and Song Xiaofei saw the French army's muskets and artillery from a distance through the binoculars, and knew that this was a well-trained army of tigers and wolves. He knew very well in his heart that the French army must fight a protracted war, and it was necessary to lure the French army ashore and keep the French army away from the naval artillery support on the ironclad warship.

Song Xiaofei inspected the terrain of Keelung in detail and decided to choose two places to fight the French army, one is the Lion Ball Ridge not far from Keelung Port, and the other is the coal mine in Keelung.

Song Xiaofei sent Cao Zhizhong and Zhang Gaoyuan to lead 800 Huai troops to defend Shiqiuling. After the landing, Guba first ordered a group of flintlock pikemen to fire intensively, and then sent a team of Gallic grenadiers to drop bombs, and the smoke on the Lion Ball Ridge suddenly billowed thickly, and the hill was blown flat for several meters, and then, Guba ordered the French riflemen to form a skirmish line and storm the hill.

Cao Zhizhong and Zhang Gaoyuan immediately organized a firepower counterattack and fought bloodily, they fought fiercely for four hours, killing more than 300 lone French soldiers and more than 100 casualties themselves.

Seeing that it was difficult to attack head-on, Guba ordered the French army to attack from the mountains on both sides in a roundabout way, and the Huai army was attacked on three sides.

Zhang Gaoyuan led people to retreat to the mountain pass, fought tenaciously, the battle was in a stalemate, and both sides had casualties, but the situation gradually became unfavorable to the Huai army. Cao Zhizhong sent Chen Yu to the coal mine, knelt down and cried Song Xiaofei to send reinforcements, Song Xiaofei shook his head and refused, untied one of his black Mauser guns, and gave it to Chen Yu: "You go and ask the brothers of Lion Ball Ridge, even if you fight to the last person, fight to the last bullet, you have to hold on for another hour!" When the time comes, I will use the lonely head to pay tribute to the heroic souls of my brothers! ”

Chen Yu wiped away his tears, took the Mauser gun, and returned to the battlefield without looking back, Song Xiaofei looked at his distant back, his eyes were moist, he also knew that Cao Zhizhong and his Huaijun brothers fought fiercely in Lion Ball Ridge, but he had no extra soldiers to send. Originally, there were still 600 Huai troops, and Song Xiaofei had sent them to sneak attack the French fleet at night, and the heavy artillery of the Huai army was also handed over to them.

When the "bang, bang" gunfire rang out in the Keelung coal yard, the blood-colored sunset stained half of the sea and sky. Song Xiaofei took 600 Huai troops, smeared his face black with coal ash, and waited for work on the coal mountain. The lonely army was approaching, Song Xiaofei's eyes were also burned red by the fire next to him, he commanded the Huai army to start a Jedi counterattack, first an artillery battle, and then a gun battle, and then Song Xiaofei also ordered the condescending Huai army to throw a piece of coal with fire at the attacking French army, many French military uniforms were ignited, burned to the point of crying wolf, dancing and untying the copper buttons on the military uniform, the fire spread by the wind, many French soldiers were burned alive, burning the entire Keelung sky.

That night, the battle for the coal mine was quite fierce. The French army occupied the coal yard three times, Song Xiaofei commanded the Huai army to recapture it three times, and the French army on the warship continued to send support. In the end, Song Xiaofei had to sit next to a pile of corpses of French soldiers and gasp, feeling the cruelty of war.

The battle in the coal mine lasted all night, and both sides suffered heavy casualties, with more than 600 lone troops and more than 200 Huai troops killed by Song Xiaofei, but because Song Xiaofei attracted and contained the main force of the French army, disguised as fishermen to sneak attack the 600 Huai troops of the French fleet, with more than 10 casualties, he blew up and sank four French ironclad warships and two torpedo boats, and the French army suffered more than 200 casualties.

Lonely Ba heard that the warships in the rear were secretly attacked, and hurriedly brought the French army back to help, Song Xiaofei took advantage of the victory to pursue, Cao Zhizhong and Zhang Gaoyuan retreated to the Huai army in the deep mountains and old forests, and also took the opportunity to come out to counterattack, and Song Xiaofei together with the French army in front and back. In the end, the lone French army lost more than 1,000 men, and fled in disarray with only three ironclad warships and less than 500 French troops.

At the same time, French Navy Captain Lisby led three warships to fight Liu Mingchuan in Tamsui Port, he didn't know that he was looking for death.

After receiving an urgent report from Li Tongen, the former enemy battalion officer in Tamsui, the enemy ship was coming, Liu Mingchuan personally rode to the beach to take a look, the red was rising, the golden light was dazzling, and the white fog was rising on the sea, and he couldn't see his five fingers, he was overjoyed, and looked up to the sky and shouted: "God really help me Liu Liumazi!" ”

Liu Mingchuan immediately ordered the Huai army's artillery team to assemble, taking advantage of the favorable opportunity when the French [***] ships could not aim at coastal targets under the dazzling sunlight, and the Qing army's batteries were shrouded in morning fog, immediately opened fire and preemptively launched an artillery attack on the three French [***] ships.

Lisby was in a big mess, ordered the French [***] ship to fight back with full firepower, the two sides fought fiercely for three hours, the French heavy artillery was too powerful, especially the Haqikes rapid-fire gun manufactured by the French Haqikai company, firing sixty rounds per minute, Tamsui Port was immediately set off by the rumbling shells set off huge waves, the Qing army's clothes on the fort were soaked, and the firepower was gradually suppressed, Liu Mingchuan finally decided to let the French land first, and then clean them up.

After Lisby's victory in the artillery battle, he went ashore with 600 French soldiers, Liu Mingchuan pretended to flee, and Lisby commanded the howling Gallic soldiers, pursued quickly, and in the blink of an eye, he got into a dense jungle. Even in broad daylight, surrounded by trees and darkness, Lisby was a little frightened and told the French to stop the pursuit. At this time, the local militia Tu Yong rushed out of the grass lying in ambush around him, and the whizzing arrows, gunshots, and shouts of killing broke Richby's fear, and he quickly turned his horse's head and ran wildly to the warship shouting "God" all the way.

But it was too late, Liu Mingchuan had already drawn his sword and commanded the Huai army to shoot back, and the tall bodies of the French soldiers became moving targets, with heavy casualties. Liu Mingchuan led the Huai army to bravely pursue the fleeing French army, slashing and killing more than 300 French invaders, and Lisby himself was cut off his left arm by Liu Mingchuan, and the Qing army achieved a "great victory in Tamsui" that shocked China and foreign countries.

Gu Ba, who had commanded many wars of aggression in the French colonies of North Africa and Central Asia, did not expect to suffer a big defeat in Taiwan and lose to the Chinese, he took the remnants of the defeated army such as Lisby, finally lowered his proud head, took the remaining five warships, and fled back to the southeast coast in embarrassment, he wanted to try his luck on the coast of Zhejiang, and the fleet sailed north into Zhenhai Port, but unfortunately, he went to the wrong place again.

Zhenhai is located at the mouth of the Yongjiang River, in the northeast of today's Ningbo, Zhejiang, and is the hometown of the talented Jin Yong. At that time, Zhenhai was the gateway to eastern Zhejiang, the throat of Ningbo Mansion, and there was a heavy fort. Liu Bingzhang, the governor of Zhejiang, is another Confucian general under Li Hongzhang who is both civil and military. Before Gu Ba went to Taiwan, he actively supervised the troops to prepare for war, blocked the mouth of the Yongjiang River, began to build a long wall, nailed piles, and waited for the arrival of the French!

After arriving at Zhenhai, the lone fleet made several attempts to land, but the attack was bravely repelled by the Chinese people, and suffered heavy casualties.

The two sides entered a protracted war, in order to isolate the French army, Liu Bingzhang ordered the local people not to provide supplies to the French army, eggs, tea and everything were not allowed to be sold to the French, starve them to death, and those who violated the order were beheaded! The ban was positively responded to by the local residents, and the French army lost its provisions, and the more the soldiers went back, the lower the morale of the soldiers became, and finally collapsed.

The Qing court took the opportunity to send Shen Baozhen's Nanyang naval division to support Liu Bingzhang, and in the end, the lonely ship "Bachar", in the artillery battle with the warships of the Qing army, the bow mast was hit by artillery fire, and the horizontal wood fell, which happened to fall on the head of the commander of the bridge of the lone ba, he could not dodge, was crushed into serious injuries, and soon, the famous general of the French navy died in Penghu Bay, Taiwan, and died in a foreign land.

The French Navy was completely defeated in Taiwan, and at the same time by land and engaged in a desperate battle with the Chinese [***] team. French Prime Minister Fijury appointed Pori as the commander of the French army, frantically increased the number of troops to 16,000 in Vietnam, and even sent the most powerful Afrika Korps in the French army, they were cold-blooded butchers one by one, and the 3,000 legions suppressed the uprising of 100,000 people in Algeria. It's a pity that their luck is not good, and the opponent they met is the veteran Feng Zicai, who was born as the leader of the Heaven and Earth Society.