Huang Shouzhong and Yang Zhuen did not know that Huang Guilan, who was the chief general of the Gui Army in Bac Ninh, although she was born in the army, she had been a partial general for a long time, and she was only promoted to the governor of Guangxi by virtue of her seniority and nepotism, and she did not have much military talent. When he followed Li Shaoquan to conquer the Chao Shengping Heavenly Army and the Silk Army, he had already seen the power of foreign guns and knew how to use them. Later, he followed Zhang Shusheng and fought in Shandong, Jiangsu, Guizhou, Guangxi and other places for more than ten years, and the opportunity to contact foreign guns and foreign artillery became less and less. Because Huang Guilan broke away from Li Shaoquan's subordinates too early, he did not know the process of the Huai Army's later abandonment of breech guns in favor of breech guns, and the process of abandoning the backward Schneider rifles in breech guns and switching to Heremington rifles and Mauser rifles. In addition, Huang Guilan did not know how to use foreign artillery, and because there was no direct contact with the French army, he also sent a letter to the rear to inform the rear that "the flowering foreign artillery solved by Beiyang, if the husband can't pass it on, please postpone it for the time being", and do not transport the new artillery to Vietnam!

"Let's take this thousand shots first! The 100,000 pills were also taken away," Huang Guilan said generously, "There are also two foreign cannons and 500 shells, all of which are also given to you!" ”

Huang Shouzhong and Yang Zhuen noticed that the foreign cannon that Huang Guilan gave them this time seemed to be in the style of a French cannon, but it had the words "Shipmaster's Manufacturing", and they were very puzzled, but they also accepted it all.

The two of them did not know that these two guns were French 40-mm mountain guns copied by the shipmaster's guns, which were originally aided by the Fujian side to the Guangxi garrison, but "most of the generals of the Gui army did not know how to use foreign arms" and "purchased new guns." Nothing to discuss". Therefore, it has been idle. This time, the two of them asked for support for the Black Flag Army, and Huang Guilan, who regarded these two cannons as waste, was naturally happy to pretend to be generous and gave them all of them.

When leaving the garrison of Huang Guilan's army, Huang Shouzhong noticed that although the soldiers of the Gui army in two battalions were not neatly dressed and their guns were uneven, their mental outlook was different from that of the soldiers of other battalions.

"Dare to ask these two battalions. Who is the pipe tape? Huang Shouzhong guessed that the battalion officers of these two battalions might be Lin Yuansheng, so he casually asked the general who led the way.

"That's the left and right battalions of Wuwei, and the pipe band is named Zhang Xun." The general rolled his eyes and replied simply.

Hearing Zhang Xun's unfamiliar and not surprising name, Huang Shouzhong didn't say anything more, but secretly wrote down the name in his heart.

He didn't think at this time that he would have any kind of intersection with this person named Zhang Xun in the future.

Huang Shouzhong and Yang Shuen can be said to have returned with a full load this time, and after getting these many new guns and two cannons, Liu Renyi is also very happy. However, he had no intention of launching a counteroffensive on this occasion, and instead sent a small force to harass the French troops in Hanoi.

Due to the defeat of the Black Flag Army twice. After an initial period of astonishment and anger, the French government began to calm down and examine the misconduct of its policy in Vietnam, hoping to learn from the two failures.

As a result of the French review, the colonial institutions in Nanqi lacked experience in handling the affairs of Beiqi, so that they were passive in the areas they were not familiar with, and therefore they were repeatedly plotted. In order to change this passive situation, Paris decided to sharpen its guns and create a new command structure capable of conducting military operations in North Vietnam, while the governor of the colony of Cochinchina was marginalized to play the role of "nanny" for providing logistical support for military operations.

The new institution was set up directly in Hanoi, close to the front line, as the country where Montesquieu was born, and the French, who regarded dictatorship as their enemy, initially had to play a "separation of powers", dividing the new institution into three separate departments: civil, military, and navy, and this peculiar division was called the "three-headed politics" of Beiqi, which was commonly known as the "troika". It is not difficult to see that the Parisians, who started by overthrowing the tyranny of the dictatorship, have always spared no effort to prevent the monopoly of power, but the future effect of this separation of powers is something that the current French do not think.

On May 27, 9083, the French parliament unanimously passed a resolution: "France will avenge its glorious warriors, apparently referring to An Ye and Li Weiye." After that, the "three-headed politics" system officially entered the preparatory stage.

The civil appointees in the "triumvirate" were given to Ho Lo Ho, who had previously held the post of consul in Bangkok, the capital of Siam, and had a wealth of ability to handle overseas colonial affairs. What's more, he and died under the Black Flag

Captain An Ye has a deep friendship with the army, once participated in Captain An Ye's invasion of Hanoi in 9073, and witnessed An Ye fall in front of the Black Flag Army, this gentleman has an unforgettable hatred for the Black Flag Army and Liu Renyi. However, French Prime Minister Jouferi clearly intended to whet the appetite of this gentleman, and his appointment was not done in one step. First, on 27 May, he instructed the Imperial Foreign Office to send him a special telegram through the Singapore Consulate, informing Ho to quickly pack up his bunk in Bangkok, and that a new appointment awaited him, possibly in Saigon. Just as Ho was scratching his head at what position he was going to be transferred to, on June 7, 9083, eleven days after receiving the special telegram from Singapore, a letter of appointment signed by Jouferi himself came down, and the letter of appointment was written in black and white as the French Governor in Tokyo (Hanoi).

The name of the director is not too conspicuous, but the scope of his authority is actually very large, including not only the civil affairs of the French army in the Tokyo area, but even a certain degree of jurisdiction over the French expeditionary force in Beiqi. Mr. Ho was very proud of the appointment - although some "pacifists" in Paris (such as Jouferi) still hoped that he would solve the problem of the Black Flag Army by peaceful means (such as heavy money buys), but this was destined to be wishful thinking in the hanging gardens - out of reach. Therefore, He Luoji, who regards the Black Flag Army as his enemy, is eager to show his skills on this new stage.

On June 8, the day after Ho received his appointment, the commander of the occupation forces in the colony of Cochinchina, who had just arrived in Hanoi by mail ship and had taken over power from Rear Admiral May, commander of the Hanoi garrison, was appointed by the government to become the commander-in-chief of the newly formed Tokyo Expeditionary Force, commanding all the French naval forces in the Tokyo area at that time. And at the same time to cooperate with this appointment. General Wave Slip cannot be allowed to become a "Commander of the Light Pole". The French government did everything in its power to send reinforcements from mainland China to Vietnam, ship after ship. Three battalions of 1,800 French white troops were dispatched from mainland France, and four companies of 500 Zuaf troops were requisitioned from colonial Algeria, and these 2,300 men arrived in Vietnam, together with 1,500 army and a company of naval landing teams already stationed in Cochinchina. In addition, the forces that General Bo Slip was able to control included the naval forces, the Tokyo detachment with twelve gunboats, which was split from the Nam Ki detachment, and was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Molepoyo, whose mission was to use the dense river network in Vietnam to cooperate with the army. The home port is located in Haiphong, an important port in Beiqi. The remaining four gunboats of the original Nanqi detachment were organized into the Nanqi detachment, which was still under the command of the governor of Jiaochinchina and was used to guard the rivers of the colony of Jiaochinchina.

At the age of 50, he graduated from the Saint-Cyr Military Academy in his early years and received systematic training in the modern army curriculum. Immediately after graduation, he went to Senegal to participate in the suppression of the local anti-French riots in full swing, and then participated in the Franco-Prussian War, was promoted to lieutenant colonel for his meritorious service in the Battle of Chalon, and was later sent to serve in the colony of Cochinchina, until 9073 when he was transferred to the overseas province of Guyana, because of his outstanding performance, he was promoted to colonel in 9075, and became the commander of the Guyana Military Region, the supreme military governor of Guyana Province. Perhaps it was faraway Guyana that there was nothing to fight and no credit to be gained. So Colonel Wave Squatted for seven years at the rank of colonel, and it was not until 9082 that he was promoted to major general. But this major general was not obtained for nothing, and in 9083, he was sent back to Vietnam, where the war clouds were becoming more and more dense, and became the commander of the garrison in the colony of Cochinchina, but before his ass was hot, he was immediately transferred to his current position as commander of the Tokyo Expeditionary Force.

On the surface, He Luozhen and Bo Hua are both literate and martial, each performing their own duties, and they seem to be harmonious, but in fact they are far from being the case. After receiving the letter of appointment from Jouferi, he began to chew on the words, and when he saw that he had the right to govern the French Tokyo Expeditionary Force, he took it for granted that he was the most important of the "three-headed politics", and the other "two ends" had to revolve around his star like a planet. Therefore, since the first day of taking office, he has put on a full posture, with the posture of the leader of the French army in Beiqi, meddling everywhere, and civil affairs are his "own land", and naturally no one else is allowed to interfere; And militarily, he relied on the ambiguous jurisdiction on the appointment letter, and He Luowei also had to press Bo Slip everywhere, but the problem was that General Bo Slip was by no means a fuel-efficient lamp.

As the highest military commander of the "Tokyo Expeditionary Force" in Beiqi at that time, Major General Bo Slip also had a long period of overseas service experience, and the long-term experience of the colonial garrison commander and the highest military commander also made Mr. Wave Slip develop the "bad problem" of Lao Tzu No. 1 in addition to the governor, and his ruthlessness towards the Senegalese rebels also fully demonstrated General Wave Slip's brave and ruthless character. He was the commander-in-chief of the dignified Tokyo Expeditionary Force, and the letter of appointment stated that he had the right to control all the army and navy in the Tokyo area, which made him take it for granted that he could cover the sky with one hand on the land of "Tokyo," at least militarily. For He Luozhen, a powerless civilian official, General Bohua looked down on him from the bottom of his heart, especially when he learned that He Luozhen also had the right to govern the army, and he was full of vigilance against He Luojiao, who seemed to be polite and polite, and he never wanted to let the special commissioner He Luozhen interfere in military affairs. Of course, He Luozhen is no better than Bo Slip, in his eyes, the image of Bo Slip is no different from the image of a martial artist in the hearts of Chinese literati, they are all vulgar martial artists. "Weak, loose, and unsound" is the director's most mean evaluation of General Bohua.

Contradictions are contradictions, but the big problem at hand is that Hanoi is constantly threatened by the Black Flag Army.

It turned out that after the second Hanoi offensive and defensive battle, the Black Flag Army did not withdraw, but set up artillery outside Hanoi to bombard the French Concession in Hanoi at intervals -- the gunners of the Dian Army played an important role in the last battle, although the Dian Army was disabled, but the gunners were unharmed, and were borrowed by Liu Renyi to teach the gunners of the Black Flag Army, Liu Renyi hoped to achieve the purpose of effectively using the captured French artillery and the new foreign artillery obtained from the official army. Now he is tantamount to letting the gunners of the Black Flag Army practice with the French.

Face the shells that fall into the city from time to time. Although there is nothing to say about it (new gunners will need to grind in with their guns for a while). The actual damage caused was very limited, but the panic in Hanoi reached its peak, and rumors that the Black Flag army outside the city numbered more than 10,000 people spread like a plague in Hanoi. The officers of the French Concession voted in panic to clear the wall and set fire to all the houses within a 200-meter radius of the lease to clear the way for shooting. But unexpectedly, none of them knew what the wind direction was, and when they set the fire, they caught up with the headwind, and the flames blew towards Hanoi City, and for a time Hanoi City was on fire. The wooden and thatched buildings of the city became the best accelerant for the flames, and the city of Hanoi was so devastated that almost the entire city was burned to the ground, leaving only the concession and the castle from being killed. In response to this foolish move, General Bo Slip unceremoniously quipped: "The enemy (the Black Flag Army) repeatedly strafed and shelled the castle and the concession to no avail, and their decision (the French officers in Hanoi) was much more effective in destroying the city."

In order to stabilize the panicked mood of the people in Hanoi, and more importantly, to establish his own prestige, General Bo Hua resolutely reorganized the French army in Hanoi and took strong measures:

Given that the original walls of Hanoi have long been demolished. So Po Slip ordered thousands of Vietnamese coolies (mainly women) to be forcibly conscripted to build a wall in Hanoi to enclose most of the city; At the same time, the first reinforcements were stationed in the central area. enhance the sense of security of the inhabitants in order to restore their trust in the French army; In addition, a fortified bridgehead was built on the other side of the Red River outside the city to guard against attacks and artillery bombardment by the Black Flag Army.

As soon as he took office, he clearly felt the hostility that prevailed among the local Vietnamese, and no one was willing to take up official positions in the colonial authorities. As a result, Pora decided to declare a state of war on the three French-occupied cities of Hanoi, Nam Dinh and Hai Phong, and imposed military control, and several French officers were appointed administrative officers to manage the police and spies, restore daily trade, and ensure the supply of the army. "That way, I can fight undeclared at any time and in the open, as needed." Wave Slip said.

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