Roaring explosions reverberated on both sides of the Red River.

Whether it was twenty or thirty, in less than a minute, the rocket team led by Cao Huailiang shot out the new rockets in their hands.

The camp of the Forces nouvelles, where the French marines were stationed, was completely engulfed in blackening and fireworks, screaming and panic like the land ploughed by artillery fire. Especially the two fortifications they had set up at the edge of the camp, the walls of the earthen bags were as fragile as tissue paper in front of the Tirons. Two new rockets completely shredded two squads of French soldiers stationed in two fortifications.

And the four big axe-class iron-hulled gunboats that stopped a distance of one or twenty meters from the shore had at least sixteen or seventeen rockets that found them, or even more. Compared to the French soldiers on land, the four gunboats were the main greeting objects of the rocket team. And in order to maintain vigilance, the four gunboats may not have paid attention to the Vietnamese troops in Hanoi at all, and there was no strict light control at night. And the fire in the camp of the Forces nouvelles, with Francis. After the lessons learned from the city of Hue, Garnier's preparedness and vigilance against the night attack of the Vietnamese army became one of the most important issues for the French army. The burning fire in the camp of the Forces nouvelles was a means of doing so, but the four gunboats were so close to the camp that the silhouettes of the four gunboats and their respective positions could be seen from afar in the firelight.

The rocket team led by Cao Huailiang was launched from a distance of about 200 meters, and they began to play this at the beginning of the development and growth of the Qin army.

The four largest iron-hulled gunboats, which were also barely 200 tons, each had a minimum of three rockets, and the violent impact of the TNT was simply not something that a small gunboat like theirs could withstand.

The lightest tonnage of the four gunboats, the Carbine. It was blown up and sunk on the spot. The decks of the Masu and the Macimitar were bad, and two large holes were cracked in the center of the Javelin gunboats. The river is bubbling back, and the moment of sinking is not far off.

"Beautiful!" A mile away. Liu Xian clapped his hands excitedly. The Rockets did a good job, and the four gunboats were completely incapacitated. "The garrison brigade attacked-" In this battle, the price he has to pay will be the lowest grade he expected. Just because Team Rocket completed the mission perfectly.

"The adults are clever and calculated, the heavenly soldiers are mighty and strong, and it is as easy as turning a palm to level the clowns!"

The first to make a slap on the back was not Huang Yao, but the Governor of Hanoi, Duan Shou. He started, and Huang Yao and Liu Yongfu hurriedly participated. The three of them took their generals and officials with them, and for a while, Liu Xian was like a tide of sycophants and gushing.

Huo Guangcheng led the garrison brigade to rush down. Mercury pours down the ground, destroying withering and decaying.

Suffering heavy losses in the rocket attack and being distracted by the damage to four gunboats, the panicked French marines were sent to hell by the garrison brigade. The French soldiers, who were still alive, knelt on the ground one by one, their hands raised high. Then under the escort of the Black Flag Army, the old and new Vietnamese troops. Dejected, he became a prisoner.

Two hundred French marines captured one hundred and thirty men, and then rescued fifty more French sailors on the river, and captured the Turkish Scimitar, whose entire deck was almost completely destroyed. The steam engine of the Ma Su was lucky enough to spin before the Vietnamese army and the Black Flag army rowed small fishing boats to 'kill' out. After rescuing a considerable part of the sailors on the water, they fled eastward. The Javelin did not survive its sinking in the end, but because of where it was berthed. The water depth was less than three meters, and the entire gunboat was actually sunk.

The remains of a French soldier killed. All of them were gathered on land and water, and there were one hundred and fourteen corpses! This certainly won't be the real number jù. There were at least more than 200 sailors on the four French gunboats, and the damage was so miserable that only forty people were killed. But if you can't find the body, you can only give up!

Anyway, this one doesn't matter. With a stroke of the pen, whether it is Duan Shou, Huang Yao, and Liu Yongfu reporting to the Vietnamese court, or Liu Xian reporting to Beijing, they can all say 'two or three thousand defeated troops, more than 1,000 enemies killed, and two or three hundred captured'!

Anyway, the prisoners are there, the prisoners of war of the small two hundred, real evidence, it is really not an exaggeration to have such a war report.

Also seized on the battlefield were 100 French rifles, the 1866 Trisport rifles, and 40mm naval guns removed from two warships.

The landing of the French marines numbered 200 men, equipped with two 40mm naval guns and two three-inch, or 75mm breech guns, and it stands to reason that even if there were no 200 rifles, there should have been 150. But the fact is that the troops who cleaned up the battlefield found only a hundred and ten shots, and the rest of the rifles were turned into parts in the explosion. The 75mm breech gun was also destroyed in the explosion, and Liu Xian simply gave the capture to the Vietnamese army and the Black Flag army. As for how to distribute between Duan, Huang, and Liu, it is not his responsibility.

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The good news of the Battle of Hanoi spread throughout Vietnam at a flying speed. It was a shot in the arm for the Vietnamese army in a state of defeat and retreat. Emperor Side, who settled in Quang Tri Province, cried with joy after receiving the good news.

As for the French army, the French army, which received the news of the defeat in the Battle of Hanoi, was like a blow to the head. The morale, which had already begun to fall due to excessive losses, immediately dropped another step. More importantly, after the defeat of Hanoi, the French army was no longer able to launch an offensive in Beiqi.

Du Bailei had less than 300 marines left, and there was not a single ship that could freely enter and leave the Red River. The Masu had to be overhauled to be ready for use again. Under such circumstances, how dare Du Bailei put the marine soldiers at hand into the battlefield of attacking Hanoi again?

Hanoi could not be defeated, and the French army's strategy in Beiqi was impossible to talk about. Speaking of which, Du Bailei originally planned to seize Hanoi first, relying on the cooperation of four gunboats and land soldiers, to push Liu Xian's team north of the Red River and not let it go south.

Now it's impossible to do anything.

The battle under Hue was still ongoing, although the French had an absolute superiority in firepower. However, Wu Zhongping, with the assistance of Qin army instructors and sniper troops led by Hu Wenguang, always held the city of Hue tightly in his hands. The old and new Vietnamese troops suffered considerable losses in the defense of the city, but the more they fought, the more excited the fighting spirit of these Vietnamese soldiers became. Because they really saw the hope of withstanding the French attack.

Francis. Garnier's artillery group is powerful, but the caliber of the artillery is only three inches, and such a cannon cannot destroy the city defense of Hue, the capital of the Nguyen Dynasty. Moreover, although the French army was equipped with breech guns, their combat mode and tactics were still deeply imprinted with the military imprint of the breech gun era. The detachment of military ideology from the development of military equipment greatly weakened the combat effectiveness of the French army. Undoubtedly, the capture of Hue City by the French army became more difficult.

Now that the battle has been going on for so many days, the French army has occupied all the positions outside Hue City, and has blown more than one gap in the city wall with explosives and drugs. But they can't get in!

The new Vietnamese army did not place heavy troops on the walls at all, their forces were concentrated behind the walls. That is, to prevent artillery shells, use the city wall as a big shield, and also concentrate fire on the French army and blue ribbon soldiers who rushed through the gap.

The battle under Hue City was completely a stalemate!

Another French army, led by Major General Frost, chased Huang Jiyan all the way to the west, and made Huang Jiyan's plan to collect the defeated troops fall through several times. But he never caught Huang Jiyan, and did not eliminate the thousands of Vietnamese new troops that Huang Jiyan could still control in his hands.

The new Vietnamese army in the early 1,000s, excluding the French, is also a powerful force. At least after Frost led the French army to retreat, it was enough for Huang Jiyan to drive the sweeping blue ribbon soldiers. For the French army, this was a very threatening hidden danger. If it is not completely defeated, the Saigon Governor's Mansion will not be at ease. But to defeat him, you have to catch up with him. Huang Jiyan led the defeated soldiers to slip faster than rabbits, and Frost no longer had the confidence to defeat them completely. "He's a cunning mouse!" Frost complained in a letter to Du Bailei.

Therefore, now the powerful offensive of the French army has gradually faded. Unless reinforcements are sent from the mainland, the French will be able to see the end of the second invasion of Vietnam.

On the third day of the Battle of Hanoi, the Qin troops of the Hongji generation began to move south on a large scale. The mighty and swaying southward movement has no cover at all.

The strength of the Zhou army and Xiang Fa, the strength of the two integrated battalions minus part of the artillery and logistics, the remaining strength of more than 4,000 people, plus Liu Xianam's garrison brigade and military headquarters, after the southward Qin army gathered in Hanoi, the total strength reached a small 6,000.

Liu Xian left a reorganized brigade in Hanoi, with more than 5,000 remaining, and went south neatly. At the same time, Huang Yao began to gather his old troops, and after the Qin army moved south, he would also launch a counterattack on Haiphong with the cooperation of the Black Flag Army and the Hanoi defenders.

Du Bailei has returned to Da Nang, and he wants to send a message to France. The clipper would take his letter to Singapore, where the telegraph company would turn the letter into a message.

"Recent events and the failure in the battle in Hanoi have the shadow of the Chinese. Our losses were far greater than we had anticipated before the start of the war, and our progress was sluggish. We want to express our strong anger at Beijing, and the Chinese must apologize for their actions. Of course, this is waiting for the end of a battle - the Chinese army is moving south, between Hue and Da Nang, and in the near future, we will have a decisive battle with them.

I believe that France will win!

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Whether we like it or not, we must force Beijing to agree to revise their relations with the Vietnamese. We must strengthen our previous treaties with the Vietnamese and establish protectorate clauses. We must be steadfast and abandon the illusion that nothing can be gained through negotiations, and that the fruits can only be reaped by war. China and Vietnam, only to experience the consequences of the French beginning to enforce the punishment, will give in under pressure and threats. Our means of action will be implemented with the victory of the decisive battle of the First World War......" (To be continued...... R1292