Yang dropped the pistol and pulled out his waist knife with lightning speed.

At the moment when he raised his knife, the Zu Afu soldier roared and pounced, raised the rifle with the bayonet with both hands, and stabbed at Yang Zhuen, Yang Zhuen swung his knife and slashed horizontally, blocking the opponent's rifle to the side, but the opponent's strength was extremely great, although the bayonet was off, but it slammed into Yang Zhuen, knocking Yang Zhuen off the horse.

Yang Zhuen couldn't help but panic for a while, but he had been on the battlefield for a long time and was extremely adaptable, and the moment his body hit the ground, he rolled to the side twice in a row, and distanced himself from the Zu Afu soldier.

The Zu Afu soldier was about to pounce, but at this time, a shot came from nowhere, hitting the head of the Zu Afu soldier, Yang Zhuen saw a cloud of blood mist burst out of the head of this fierce man like a beast, and his body suddenly pounced in front of him, and the flying brain blood even splashed on his face.

Yang Zhuen subconsciously turned his head to look and saw that it was a personal soldier who was putting down his rifle and looking this way, and couldn't help but shout in his heart that he was lucky.

If it weren't for the fact that this pro-soldier fired a shot with a rifle at a critical moment, he would have to kill this Zuaf soldier, and he didn't know what kind of struggle he would have to go through.

Yang Zhuen didn't bother to look for the empty revolver, he put his waist knife back into the scabbard, picked up the war horse, remounted the horse, drew two loaded revolvers, shouted, and rushed forward again.

Yang Zhuen fired his bow left and right on his horse, and fired one after another, knocking out all the French soldiers who rushed towards him. The soldiers of the Black Flag Army of the brigade saw that the commander was so brave, and their morale was greatly boosted for a while, while the French army fought continuously. Debilitated. Met with a fierce onslaught from the superior Black Flag Army. It has already revealed its inadequacy.

But at this moment, a repaired French Haggais machine gun suddenly opened fire.

A barrage of shells swept over, and the Black Flag Army fell in one piece, while many of the Zuaf soldiers and Vietnamese mercenary soldiers who fought bravely against the Black Flag Army were hit by the shells and fell down screaming.

Yang Zhuen was taken aback, and before he could react, the war horse under his seat neighed and fell forward.

Yang Zhuen fell off the horse again. His legs were pressed by the horse's body, and he couldn't stand up urgently, and when two Vietnamese mercenaries saw this, they immediately rushed up and wanted to stab him with bayonets.

Yang Zhuen tried to calm his mind and was about to continue firing, but suddenly found that the revolver in his hand was shattered!

He looked at his hand in surprise, not only was the pistol missing. My three fingers are gone!

Yang Zhuen's surprise was not trivial, and at this time he felt as if a blood rain was falling in the sky. He turned his head to look and saw that the two Vietnamese mercenary soldiers just now were only half of their bodies left!

The sound of machine guns rang out again, and a stream of fire swept over, sweeping away the French and Black Flag soldiers who were fighting fiercely.

A machine gun shell exploded on Yang Zhuen's side, Yang Zhuen felt something burrow into his body, he didn't think much about it, but raised the revolver with his other hand, and pulled the trigger in the direction where the machine gun shell came from until the magazine was empty.

As he finished firing the last shot, he suddenly saw a red light flash in the direction where the machine gun shell was flying, and then a pillar of fire was raised, and in the firelight, he seemed to see the fragments of the machine gun that had killed countless people......

Two of his own soldiers grabbed his side, held him to his crumbling body, and called his name, but he could no longer hear anything.

The sudden death of the main general was a great blow to the morale of the Black Flag Army, and if it was during the day, it was likely to cause the whole army to collapse, but because it was dark now, Yang Zhuen's death was only known to a few people around him, and the other soldiers were all fighting with the French army, and they didn't notice the situation here, so that the rout and retreat did not occur.

The French army, which had lost its machine guns, was gradually unable to resist the attack of the Black Flag Army, and the heavy casualties made it difficult for the remaining French soldiers to hold their positions, but they still insisted on fighting without receiving the order to retreat.

After another fierce battle between the two sides for about half an hour, nearly half of the soldiers of the Black Flag Army were killed and wounded, and the French army was on the verge of collapse.

It turned out that Liu Renyi was worried that Yang Zhuen's troops were insufficient and it was difficult to defeat the French army, so he decisively ordered Huang Shouzhong to lead his troops and horses to support Yang Zhuen, although Huang Shouzhong still had fear of the French army in his heart, but after seeing the defeat of the French artillery fleet on the river, his confidence was restored, and he immediately gathered his troops and horses and rushed to the Fusha Fortress.

The arrival of Huang Shouzhong's Black Flag Army completely crushed the French army, and the commander of the French army, Major Runo, saw that the situation was overwhelmed and lost the support of the artillery fleet, so he had to order the French army to abandon their positions and withdraw from Fusha Village, "We held our positions for a day and a night, and experienced the hardest battle in human history, and no one did better than our heroic soldiers." The major wrote in his report. Eventually, under the command of Major Joureau, a total of 76 French white soldiers, 204 Zuaf soldiers and 53 Vietnamese mercenaries were able to break through before dawn.

The next day, Rear Admiral Bo Slip, who had been wounded in the head, arm, and leg, was shocked to learn of the loss of the Fusha fortress, and he was also discouraged by the loss of the artillery fleet, so he ordered the whole army to withdraw to Hanoi, and the commander of the land column, Colonel Beran, believed that although the French attack had failed, the Black Flag Army and the dry army had also suffered heavy losses, and that another attack should be launched with all his might, "If we give our enemies another blow as they did during the day on the 14th, I dare say that they will surely collapse." But by this time he was suffering from his wounds, and the death of Major Mosiyon had distraught him and made him completely lose faith in the prospect of battle, and instead of taking Colonel Beran's advice, he insisted on ordering the whole army to withdraw to Hanoi, so that another large-scale French attack on the Black Flag Army would be fruitless.

In the Battle of Shanxi, the French army suffered 229 killed, 352 wounded, 6 gunboats damaged, 1 transport ship and 1 motorboat sunk. Arguably the largest casualties and losses since the French launched the offensive.

And for the Black Flag Army. The Battle of Shanxi was also the largest casualty since the formation of the army. In the midst of a day and a night of fighting. The Black Flag Army suffered nearly 3,000 casualties, and the Gui Army suffered nearly 2,000 casualties.

The Battle of Shanxi ended tragically. made Liu Renyi see more clearly the gap between the strength of his Black Flag Army and the Cadre Army and the French army, so after the French army retreated, Lin Yuansheng suggested sending troops to pursue and recover Hanoi in one fell swoop, but Liu Renyi categorically refused.

Lin Yuansheng was unwilling, and drafted a war book in the name of Liu Renyi without authorization: "On the 15th, the battle was under the city, and the admiral looked at it according to the tower, and saw that the corpses of the soldiers were like a mountain, and the blood flowed and drifted. If you lose again this time, what is the face? Now Yigu let Er retreat. It is not the intention of a benevolent gentleman to take advantage of the first-line advantage, and to spare the lives of the ghosts. Although the war book was written with pride, he also knew that it was just a verbal fight to boost morale, and it was not of much use.

After the Battle of Shanxi, the French abandoned a large-scale offensive against the Black Flag Army and switched to holding on to Hanoi. The Black Flag Army also suffered heavy losses and was unable to attack the French army, so it chose to hold on to Shanxi.

The battlefield has become relatively calm, but the "war" outside the battlefield has begun.

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