His Majesty Napoleon III's favorite daughter came to the newly developed colony, Kashgar. Major General Duras didn't think much about it at the moment, the only thing he was glad about was that a year ago he had a mysterious need to build a new large villa, and even dug a swimming pool and built a horse farm, and now it finally came in handy, I hope His Royal Highness Prince Athena will like it.

Kashi. When Rear Admiral Duras was preparing to meet His Royal Highness Prince Athena with gifts, Lin Haijiang's ship had already arrived off the coast of Huiwan Harbor, and he was forced to sink several Annam fishing boats for the sake of secrecy.

Lin Haijiang looked at the busy staff officers, he had never looked at Annan's panoramic sand table carefully, and his strategies were all formulated on the globe.

Before this, Lin Haijiang had always thought that Nam Ki was the name of an ancient city in Annam, but now it is found that the Nam Ki is actually all the regions of southern Vietnam in the later generations, including Bien Hoa, Gia Dinh, Dinh Huang, Vinh Long, Chao Tuk and Ha Tien six provinces, in 1834, when the Emperor Ming Ming of the Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam divided Vietnam into three ki, the provinces north of Ninh Binh province in the north are collectively called Beiqi, the provinces between the south of Beiqi are called Zhongqi, and the provinces south of Zhongqi are called Nanqi.

Lin Haijiang quietly wiped his sweat, and was very glad that he didn't have this foreign appearance, otherwise it would be difficult for the staff officers below who didn't know whether to remind the head of state to correct it.

Lin Haijiang has read the information, this so-called Hui Bay is the largest port city in northern Vietnam in history, Hanoi's export port, located at the northeast end of the Red River Delta, the lower reaches of the Jingtai River are close to the Beibu Gulf, originally a small fishing village, built as a seaport in 1874 in history, Haiphong got its name from this.

But at present, Haiphong, which is called Huiwan, has not yet been developed and built on a large scale, and the French have only used the natural deep-water port here to build a few supply docks, and compared to the whole of Annam, especially the six provinces of Nanqi near Yunnan, China, the six provinces of Nanqi are still very primitive, and there is basically no handicraft industry in various places, and they all rely on men and women to weave and fish.

It is difficult for Lin Haijiang to imagine what the people of Annam have become poor. In Lin Haijiang's eyes, Yunnan's relatively poor and backward China is already backward among backwards, and Yunnan is relatively good compared with Anbei and Nanqi, and the multi-handicraft Beiqi is far stronger than Nanqi, Lin Haijiang remembers that he learned texts when he was in school, the Vietnamese people are rich in natural resources, the Mekong Delta and other places are rich in high-quality rice, and the people live a rich life, it seems that everything is so beautiful in the textbooks? It is clear that he has been misled again.

What Lin Haijiang is most worried about is that he has laid down Nanqi, and what he has inherited is a lot of messes, what will Nanqi be like when he is poor? Lin Haijiang was a little apprehensive.

However, Lin Haijiang is very strange that since Nanqi is so poor, why didn't the people of Annam starve to death? The purpose of Lin Haijiang's trip is to completely break the national boundaries on the Indochina Peninsula, and then treat the entire Indochina Peninsula as a whole for the integration and replanning and distribution of resources.

According to the previous information, the poor warships of the French were all in the port of Huiwan, and the French did not build fortresses and coastal defense batteries in the port, but only built a few field artillery positions symbolically, and it seems that the French, who have always given up their lives, do not believe that there are still people in this ignorant and backward East who dare to touch the tiger's whiskers of the Second French Empire.

At 3:30 a.m. on December 17, 1860, 169 officers and men of Xu Wenshu's 1st Marine Brigade Advance Reconnaissance Company boarded rubber boats, and they were to row on the sea for nearly an hour, and then quietly landed ashore to solve the French field artillery positions and provide corrections for naval artillery firing.

Because according to the previous intelligence, the French have several field artillery positions built in the position of observation of the dead end, the French field artillery for the battleship at all, there is no threat at all, but the naval artillery can not be sure to wipe out 100% of all the French artillery group, once the large forces and materials begin to land, at this time if the French artillery bombardment, then the loss will be unacceptable and even unwilling to see Lin Haijiang.

Commando Captain Cheng Zhigang was the first to slide along the rope to the assault boat, as the all-round individual champion of the ten road brigade reconnaissance assault companies and the company commander of the first reconnaissance company, Cheng Zhigang was full of confidence at the moment, because on the day of the fleet's departure, he won a third-class sterling silver inlaid with sapphire Jingwu Medal, as the first officer in the empire to receive this medal and the north recorded in the military history archives, Cheng Zhigang can be said to be extremely proud, because since the announcement of the medal rank, name, and awarding details, Although each unit has reported a number of individual and collective honorary titles, there is no doubt that all of them have been brushed down by the emperor's [***] Ministry of Government.

Cheng Zhigang can be said to be extremely lucky, when he won the first place in the martial arts competition, Lin Haijiang, the head of the empire, was present, and promised on the spot that he would be awarded the Jingwu Medal every year in the competition, if the Ministry of Military Affairs is likely to award him the five-level bronze non-inlaid Jingwu Medal, but the company he led also won the championship and could have the honorary title of "Black Devil" for one year, so Lin Haijiang announced on the spot that he would be awarded the third-class Jingwu Medal.

Cheng Zhigang commanded eighteen fast rows, under the tacit understanding and uniform action of the soldiers, like a sharp sword inserted in the direction of the beach, the Marine Corps armed reconnaissance assault company is a unique to each marine brigade directly under the brigade headquarters, generally 189 people, except for non-combatants, all combatants are 169 people, the whole company is equipped with 26 Dai Type 1 light machine guns, 120 Imperial Type 2 rifles, each soldier is equipped with a Mauser pistol, 60 rounds of ammunition, The company was accompanied by four 60-millimeter mortars and two general-purpose machine guns, and it can be said that compared with the armies of various countries in the world of this era, such a company could completely block an enemy more than 30 times more than them if it took advantage of the favorable terrain.

In order to equip the Marine Corps, Lin Haijiang can be said to have invested absolutely a large amount of money, because the Marines are responsible for the battle of opening up their territory to the outside world, and they have to face extremely complex and even unpredictable situations, so Lin Haijiang also directly armed them all to the teeth.

In the noise of the waves crashing on the shore, Cheng Zhigang was the first to board the beachhead, the four soldiers raised and rowed to the beach, the first batch of soldiers who disembarked began to continue to alternately cover and retreat, in order to expand the scope of control, to give effective cover to the comrades who landed on the beach behind him, Cheng Zhigang identified the general direction, with the mountain peak before the landing as the main marker, the whole company quickly dispersed in squads, and quietly touched the French field artillery position located in the nameless col and on the hillside in the intelligence.

For their own soldier Cheng Zhigang is completely relieved, there is no foolproof statement for them, because once there is a mistake in the deep behind the enemy, then what awaits them is likely to be the destruction of the team, and it is undoubtedly extremely humiliating to be captured in the army and navy of the Chinese Empire.

The Marine Corps and the Army Corps are cultivated under this atmosphere, and the armed reconnaissance assault company is the elite of the Marine Corps, and the only thing Cheng Zhigang yearns for is the armed gendarmerie special forces, it is said that the very mysterious unit is the sharpest blade of the empire, but Cheng Zhigang has not approved him to participate in the selection several times when he asks for the brigade, after all, no one is willing to let go of good soldiers.

Interspersed all the way, Cheng Zhigang could see several French corpses from time to time, and he could even roughly guess that it was the hand of the rabbit cub, in front of the corpse of a French sentry whose throat was cut off with blood and was still in reaction to the convulsions, Cheng Zhigang frowned dissatisfiedly, the entire head of the French soldier was almost cut off, and only Sergeant Major Renyi was used to being so ruthless.

Cheng Zhigang doesn't know if there is a surname Ren among the hundred family names, but although his sergeant major looks very amiable, his surname is Ren Mingyi, benevolence, benevolence, benevolence! But in the combat state, it is like a beast out of control, every time it has to make a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood willing to give up, what makes Cheng Zhigang the most creepy is that Renyi likes to collect some special souvenirs of the enemies he killed!

For example, fingers, ears, gold teeth, etc., there are all kinds of things, Renyi is a very good sergeant major, otherwise Cheng Zhigang will not tolerate his quirks, every time he loses Renyi's collection, but for a long time, as long as there is a war, Renyi can still get his spoils.

When Cheng Zhigang entered the col, the battle inside was basically over, and the sixth squad was delayed because they encountered the dead group of French swimming posts interspersedly, and when they entered the col, it can be said that they did not catch any hair.

After observing the field artillery positions of the French army, Cheng Zhigang found that the number of artillery here was far from the number of French soldiers killed in the tents, and the artillery was enough for a battalion, but more than ten tents only solved two officers and forty-two soldiers?

Where did the rest of the French go? Cheng Zhigang is a little confused? Could it be that the French had other artillery positions? But the intelligence says that there is only about one battalion of field artillery? Cheng Zhigang hesitated, he knew that intelligence could only be used as a reference and support in many cases, but it could not be regarded as confirmed data to guide deployment operations.

So Cheng Zhigang immediately ordered the troops to search 500 meters outward, and the rest of the field artillery positions were idle, just an outline, and were not seriously built.

"What?" The three words of ironclad ship stimulated Cheng Zhigang's nerves, because the intelligence showed that the French did not have a so-called ironclad ship in Annam, Cheng Zhigang paid attention to the trace of fish white in the sky, because when he observed before, it happened to be the darkest section before dawn, Cheng Zhigang thought that there could only be two results, one was that the intelligence changed, and the other was that his soldiers were wrong.

When Cheng Zhigang personally confirmed, there were almost no other sentries on the dock and on the warship, and there were only a few sentinels swimming aimlessly in the town, Cheng Zhigang determined that the big guy who was blocked by the mountain and was moored at the dock was a giant beast of the same level as the Zhenyuan ship! It's just that this behemoth belongs to the French.

Cheng Zhigang calculated the time he was away from the dock, it would take at least fifteen minutes, and fifteen minutes after the day would be bright, Cheng Zhigang didn't dare to imagine the battle of capturing a battleship, and the previous capture of the field artillery position was nothing compared to it.

Cheng Zhigang almost did not hesitate, and directly ordered the seven combat squads that followed him to all be lightly armed, and the target was to raid the enemy warship, bring more grenades, and discard water bottles, backpacks, and everything else that could be discarded.

Cheng Zhigang and his soldiers ran without saying a word, and Cheng Zhigang led one hundred and nine officers and soldiers to the dock to rush away, at this time they all knew very well that time and speed were equal to life, Cheng Zhigang was almost running with all his strength, and even ran until his legs were gone, as if he was taking off, he didn't feel tired, he didn't feel panting!

Cheng Zhigang just stepped on the dock at the moment, several French soldiers hiding behind the dock goods smoking were walking out shoulder to shoulder, when the French soldiers found a large group of black-like soldiers appeared on the dock, as if they did not want to die towards the Marina, they realized that this was a real enemy attack, the French who were used to comfortable words reacted a few full beats, and more than a dozen flying knives instantly knocked several French soldiers down on the dock.

But it was very unfortunate that the body of a French soldier fell into the water with a pop, and Cheng Zhigang suddenly gasped, and a sleepy-eyed French armed sailor climbed on the side of the ship to look around, and suddenly found the officers and soldiers of the armed reconnaissance assault company who were boarding the ship.

One of the two French armed sailors rang the battle alarm, and the other shot was aimed at the first Marine to board the ship, and the bullet from the Rips 12mm breech hexarifled rifle burst a poignant blood flower on the Marine's chest.

Cheng Zhigang threw a grenade onto the deck and shouted at the same time: "Block all hatches with all your strength and board the ship!" Grab the ship! ”

There was a bang, and the French soldier who fired the gun tumbled from the side of the ship into the sea in the light of the explosion, and there was still a small flame burning behind the corpse.

However, the French Navy's position post is not as lax as the army, and soon gunfire rang out from the top of the main gun position, the secondary gun position, the bridge, etc., and the French sailors on the ship were also in chaos, Cheng Zhigang waved his hand, and two light machine gunners attacked in parallel on the spiral ladder of the boarding ship, but soon the two were shot and planted down the spiral ladder, and fell into the sea together with their machine guns, and the sub-shooter who followed behind was originally prepared to build a machine gun to continue shooting after the sacrifice of the main shooter, and the machine gun was planted into the sea together with the shooter to catch the sub-shooter off guard, I had to pull out my Mauser pistol and shoot desperately, and soon they were all shot and fell to the ground.

Cheng Zhigang didn't expect that the spiral staircase for boarding the ship would become an obstacle to a breakthrough? Not far from the direction of the dock barracks, the sound of general-purpose machine gun knock and dong dong fire sounded, apparently the French troops in the barracks discovered the anomaly in the direction of the dock.

Cheng Zhigang knew that if he could not quickly break through the boarding spiral, his armed reconnaissance assault company would most likely face the result of the annihilation of the entire army, Cheng Zhigang yelled at Ren Yi: "You go!" Open the breakthrough! ”

Ren Yi didn't say a word and took a Mauser pistol from the soldiers on the side, started shooting frequently left and right, rushed down the spiral ladder and suddenly fell down, several soldiers behind him threw out a row of grenades, in the flash of the explosion, Ren Yi rushed to the front deck, killed six or seven French soldiers in a row, stabilized the battle on the front deck, and then the troops swarmed in, guarding the hatches, throwing grenades or machine gun fire inside.

The French sailors who were preparing to rush out were beaten to the cross-section, and a large number of corpses almost blocked the route of the attack, and the French sailors quickly retreated and waited for reinforcements.

After Cheng Zhigang boarded the ship, he looked at Ren Yi with a shrapnel wound that almost became a bloody man, if it wasn't for Ren Yi's timely breakthrough, I am afraid that he and his armed reconnaissance assault company would be able to get the first place in the empire, that is, the first armed reconnaissance assault company of the Imperial Marine Corps that was completely wiped out.

Ren Yi was still laughing heartlessly, and when he saw the company commander coming, Ren Yi looked at the wounds all over his body and said indifferently: "Don't say it, the forty-eight defensive grenades we made are really powerful, and the shrapnel hit the hull and bounced off the hull to collapse Lao Tzu like this." ”

Cheng Zhigang said with concern: "If it hurts, just scream out!" Nothing to be ashamed of! ”

Ren Yi pursed his lips and said: ", Lao Tzu is not a girl, this little injury Lao Tzu does not frown, let you see what it means to be a hero!" ”

Cheng Zhigang looked at a medical soldier who was about to give Renyi morphine and said: "Morphine will affect the reflex ability of the nerves, don't use it for the sergeant major, this little pain is not a matter for him, you just take the shrapnel!" ”

Yes? The medical soldier looked at the company commander Cheng Zhigang dumbfounded, and then looked at the sergeant major Ren Yi, as soon as Ren Yi heard that morphine was not needed, he immediately scolded Cheng Zhigang, who was carrying a gun to participate in the battle: "The surname Cheng, you are ruthless!" Waiting for you to get shot in the ass! ”

Cheng Zhigang ordered the signal corps to launch signal flares to the fleet, and then went straight to the bridge, and the medical soldier looked at Ren Yi with morphine and said, "Sergeant Major, is this morphine still useful?" ”

Ren Yi hesitated for a moment and said, "Does it really affect the reaction speed of the nerves?" ”

The medical soldier nodded seriously, and Ren Yi said impatiently: "Lao Tzu is a master, pull out shrapnel directly!" ”

After dealing with a few pieces of shrapnel, Ren Yi couldn't help but scream a few times, and the sweaty medical soldier said nervously: "Sergeant Major, I forgot to tell you, that morphine needs to be injected for a long time to have side effects and physiological dependence, and it doesn't matter how many times the ordinary medical dose is!" ”

"Huh?" Ren Yi looked at the medical soldiers in Mu Ne dumbfounded, and held back for a long time before he could hold back a sentence: I'll fuck your uncle!

Maybe war is gambling, a contest of life and death, Cheng Zhigang is undoubtedly very lucky, the last sentry before dawn has been handed over, if he attacks ten minutes in advance, he will face double the number of sentinels, and the French battleships are not all sailors, the first reaction and the hussar officers who frequently fired with pistols on the deck were an unexpected surprise, this surprise almost caused Cheng Zhigang's plan to be frustrated.

(To be continued)