Chapter 822: Spring on the Battlefield

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If the sky is falling apart, then in Zhang Xun's opinion, it is now.

Huge clouds of black smoke rose from the positions of the rebel army, and the sky was darkened, and countless shattered limbs and rubble and clods of earth were thrown from the sky, forming a huge tree-like dust pillar in the sky.

The Tree of Death.

It was under such a blow that the rebellious army in Hanoi completely collapsed.

Regarding the massacre that occurred after the capture of Hanoi City, Zhang Xun was actually somewhat expected.

After being in the army for a long time, he also knew that the more combat-effective the troops, the worse the military discipline. On weekdays, it often disturbed the people, and this time the attack on Hanoi City, the Dian Gui Army and the Black Flag Army paid heavy casualties, and it was almost inevitable to launch a bloody revenge after capturing the city.

When he learned that Lin Yuansheng led his army to capture Hanoi, Zhang Xun's troops were halfway to Hanoi (dragged down by the two 100mm cannons), and just when he hesitated to move forward, he received a direct order from Qu Feipeng from Lin Yiqing to attack Hanoi's Dian Gui Army and Black Flag Army to "suppress the rebel army and save Vietnam".

After receiving Lin Yiqing's order, Zhang Xun was taken aback, and then his immediate boss Huang Guilan also sent an order, asking him to attack Hanoi, "quell the rebellion, save the people", and sent him reinforcements, and also sent a large number of guns and ammunition. Soon Zhang Xun received a report from the scouts, saying that the Dian Gui army and the Black Flag army were "taking their own rewards" in Hanoi and plundering the whole city, which was resisted by the Vietnamese people. At this time, Zhang Xun deeply admired Lin Yiqing's foresight.

However, the total number of reinforcements sent by his own "Jingwu Battalion" and Huang Guilan was only more than 2,000. What was going to attack was a rebellious army of more than 30,000 people. Even though the instructors sent by Lin Yiqing have trained them now, their combat effectiveness has increased greatly. The difference in numbers was too great, and Zhang Xun and some officers and soldiers were unavoidably suspicious, and it was not until after the start of the war that he discovered that the battle could be fought like this.

Now that the commanding heights of Hanoi City have been taken and the surrounding enemy positions have been plowed flat, the next step is to mount heavy artillery on the high ground and bombard the whole city.

Not much. Thanks to the efforts of the officers and men of the Jing Wu Battalion, 12 heavy guns, including the two 100-mm cannons, were moved to the high ground, and then the bombardment of the city of Hanoi began. Originally, Zhang Xun thought that the rebel army would launch a counterattack with the advantage of numbers, but what he didn't expect was that the rebel army began to surrender to him in batches.

The first to surrender was more than 2,000 people from the remnants of the Black Flag Army Huang Shouzhong and Wu Fengdian, followed by more than 500 people from the remnants of the Yuan Army of Lin Yuansheng's Department and more than 800 soldiers from Ding Huaiyun Guimiao.

After the destruction of Hanoi, it suffered heavy casualties due to previous battles. The soldiers of the Yunnan Gui Army and the Black Flag Army entered the city and went on a hunt for the French, but to their disappointment. The French had already withdrawn before the city was broken, so they vented their anger on the Vietnamese parishioners who could not escape, "the people of the left (the parishioners) were all killed", after killing all the Vietnamese parishioners, because Lin Yuansheng, who presided over the battle, could not get the reward for a while, and could not fulfill the promise before the war, as a result, the soldiers of the Gui army began to loot the whole city under the instigation of the adjutant general Dang Minxuan, "taking the reward for themselves", after the Gui army started, the Dian army and the Black Flag army also followed suit, and their robbery aroused the resistance of the Vietnamese people. The result turned into a massacre.

Because Lin Yuansheng, Ding Huai, Chen Chaogang, Chen Degui and other Gui generals were injured in the siege of the city, unable to restrain the army, and Dang Minxuan was Zhao Wo's most trusted general, after the massacre began, Lin Yuansheng and others could not stop it at all, and the generals of the Black Flag Army Huang Shouzhong and Wu Fengdian saw that most of their soldiers also followed the Gui army to rob and kill people, so they escorted Lin Yuansheng and others to take refuge outside the city for a while. After fearing the military might of Zhang Xun's troops, he surrendered collectively after discussion, preferring to be a ghost under the knife rather than a ghost under the cannon, "I'd rather obey the law than be bombed" (after surrendering, there may be a glimmer of life in obedience to disposal, and the latter law of death is too scary).

Knowing that the massacre of the city was actually led by Dang Minxuan, the general of the Gui Army, and not the Black Flag Army, Zhang Xun could be said to be surprised.

He is no stranger to Dang Minxuan.

Dang Minxuan is the deputy general of the Gui Army, the most trusted person of Zhao Wo, and the person with the worst reputation in the Gui Army. He led the army on the Guangxi border for a long time, and once accompanied Zhao Wo out of the customs into Vietnam to encircle and suppress mountain bandits. In the fifth year of Guangxu, because of the defeat into victory in the process of chasing Li Yangcai, he was impeached and removed from office by Feng Zicai. But he took the path of Ni Wenwei, the governor of Guangxi, Ni Wenwei played the imperial court, "begging to send the dismissed deputy general Dang Minxuan to stay in the camp", and obtained the permission of the imperial court, and then was valued by the new Guangxi governor Xu Yanxu, and trusted by Xu Yanxu's confidant Zhao Wo.

Such a person who is trusted by the generals has a very bad reputation in the army, and Huang Guilan once said to Zhang Xun: "Dang Min Xuan is slippery in the army, and Zhao Woyong is stubborn, so he is coerced by him and does not follow the dispatch." He was treacherous and bullying, Dang Minxuan drew up plans in the middle, and he was cunning and cunning. "Remind Zhang Xun to be careful of this person.

And Zhang Xun never thought that Dang Minxuan would be the culprit of the Hanoi massacre!

When Zhang Xun led the army to quell the rebellion, it was also Dang Minxuan who instigated the generals of the Yunnan Gui Army and the Black Flag Army to destroy Zhang Xun's subordinates and put the blame on Zhang Xun's head!

Zhang Xun asked Huang Shouzhong and other Black Flag Army generals about the whereabouts of Liu Renyi, the commander of the Black Flag Army, but Huang Shouzhong and others seemed to have something unspeakable, and avoided talking about Liu Renyi's performance in the city massacre, only saying that Liu Renyi "disappeared when the city was broken" and did not know where to go.

After learning the details, Zhang Xun took Huang Shouzhong, Lin Yuansheng, Ding Huai and others into custody and sent them to Huang Guilan in Bac Ninh, while he himself led his army to continue to sweep up the remnants of the rebellious army in Hanoi City, led by Dang Minxuan and other rebel generals who refused to surrender, and made reports to Lin Yiqing and Huang Guilan respectively.

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