The landing of the French army lasted almost a week, and when the last French troops set foot on Khmer soil, one of the first brigades to land had already reached Phnom Penh, during which the Chinese fleet never expressed any intention to attack, but just watched as if the French landing had nothing to do with them, so that even Gervais wondered if Emperor Yang really wanted to fight this war.

Including European public opinion, it is also gradually turning to a peaceful solution, after all, Emperor Yang has been playing the role of a pacifist outside, especially the Beijing Convention that has just been signed, which has erased the negative impact caused to him by the war between the United States, and the just launched Snow White has also added a lot to him, and those European people find it hard to believe that a person who made such a beautiful movie would actually be a conspirator who caused chaos in the world.

Even in France, there are many people who have taken to the streets to demand that the government negotiate with China to resolve the Vietnam issue, but in fact, in the eyes of the common people, there is really no need to engage in such saber rattling for the sake of that distant colony. Then let them be independent.

Moreover, this kind of view is still very marketable in France, and the common people do not care about any national strategy, what they need is a peaceful and peaceful life, not the ambition to dominate the world, and whether to lose Asia or not is a very distant topic for them.

The French troops who landed in their cars, dragging their cannons, walked to Phnom Penh on the newly opened improvised road in Guò, and then boarded civilian ships from Khmer and Cochin at this river port, and sailed down the Mekong River to Saigon, where the heat and humidity made them miserable, and although there were no enemies along the way, a large number of soldiers were still dying in this remote jungle every day due to various diseases.

After arriving in Saigon, after a short rest, the army led by Gallerien then took the train north. Arrive in Da Nang first, and then wait here for a decision at home because they don't know what to do next.

Next in front of them is the city of Hue, this city even real and fake, plus a group of foreign volunteers, has gathered more than 30,000 Vietnamese troops, the French army can not cross the city, must take Hue, otherwise they still can't go north to rescue Du My.

But the problem is that Hue is protected by the Chinese Overseas Chinese Protectorate. If Hue is hit, it will be equivalent to declaring war on China, and Gallieni, who has already arrived in Da Nang, only then understands that the Chinese are waiting for him here!

Fighting Hue is tantamount to declaring war on China, and if you don't fight Hue, it won't work either, the only railway connecting the north and south of Vietnam is less than a kilometer outside the city, so you can imagine what the 30,000 Vietnamese troops will do next after they pass here. Although they are too frightened to leave the city now, if the main French army goes north, they will not hesitate to kill it at that time.

His Excellency, a helpless commander, finally had to send a telegram back to the country. The demand that war must be formally declared on China, otherwise he would not be able to continue northward, but unfortunately his request was rejected by the cabinet without hesitation, and at this time the French government was still fantasizing about a peaceful solution. How is it possible to take the initiative to declare war.

Gallieni's stubborn temper also came up, and he clearly told the officials and men in Paris that going north to Hue was tantamount to suicide. Once the Chinese army lands on the flank, it can easily cut the French army into two sections, and go north not to rescue Du Mei, but to send them a large piece of fat, don't always fantasize that China will not go to war, it has reached this point, how can it not be fought.

Of course, his kind words are destined to be useless, and the French Minister of War Frésine also clearly told him that France will not take the initiative to provoke a war, even if it does not do it before the second batch of reinforcements arrives, at this time the second batch of reinforcements has already reached the Suez Canal, if Dumei can still hold on, then you just wait!

Du Mei insisted on something, although he was fully prepared in Hanoi, but he couldn't stand the Vietnamese fighting more and more, now the Vietnamese army has increased from the initial 60,000 to 150,000, his total of more than 10,000 people have been consumed these days, and the remaining is less than 6,000, and the outer defense line is all lost, and now can only retreat to Hanoi and the north bank fortress two strongholds, the Vietnamese shells fall into the city hundreds of thousands of times a day, and the people in the city can only hide in the cellar to live, Moreover, the Vietnamese who remained in the city often wanted to start an uprising, and his defense line was already shaky under internal and external troubles.

Hold on and wait for reinforcements? It is estimated that when the second batch of reinforcements arrives in Hanoi, they can only come to collect the corpses, there are not only troops in this city, but also nearly 30,000 French expatriates who have fled from all over the country.

Domestic urging, the north of Du Mei is also urging, Gallerien helplessly left 10,000 French troops trapped in Hue, and then took the remaining 40,000 French troops to Hanoi, of course, they now have no trains, the railway to the north is basically impassable, fortunately, from here to the north is basically a coastal plain, and densely populated, convenient transportation, day and night in the case of both day, it is estimated that there will be ten days to reach Hanoi.

However, dense population also has the disadvantage of being densely populated, the number of Vietnamese guerrillas is also very dense, in these places in the north of Hue, some time ago in response to the king's call to resist the French are very strong, committed a lot of crimes against the French expatriate, and most of the Vietnamese soldiers besieging Hanoi are in this area, so when the French army went north from here to pack up their own soldiers, those common people were extremely unfriendly, and almost every day there were attacks on the French army.

What is Galliena's origin? He didn't come from the civilized society of France, this thing was the notorious conqueror of Madagascar, naturally he knew how to deal with the resistance, anyway, the Vietnamese had killed many French expatriates, and he naturally didn't care about any image, the huge French army ran towards Hanoi like a steamroller, and there was a bloody rain everywhere he passed.

"Let the monkeys know who their owners are." Standing in front of the burning ruins of the village, the general said triumphantly to the reporters accompanying the army.

However, the atrocities committed by the French army in Vietnam have completely angered the Chinese people, who already regard the Vietnamese as brothers, and even some university students in Beijing have taken to the streets to demand that the Congress declare war on France, and that the Vietnamese people can no longer sit idly by and watch the Vietnamese people struggle under the butcher's knife of the French.

With the passage of time, the wave of demands for a declaration of war on France also intensified, gradually spreading from Beijing to all parts of the country, and even as far away as Seoul, a large number of students ran to the streets to attack the weakness of the Congress, demanding an immediate declaration of war on France, and immediately sending troops to Vietnam to drive the barbaric French invaders from Vietnamese soil.

This time is also the first time the Chinese people have learned to attack the government, the first time they have learned to make their own voice to the government, and it is also the first time they have realized their power, of course, what they don't know is that this time the government is really wronged, Emperor Yang is pressing them not to declare war, they can't do anything, in fact, at this time, both the Chinese Congress and the cabinet, have already seen that France is afraid, France is afraid of China, they have been bullied to this point, and the French government still swallows its anger and contacts to negotiate a peaceful settlement of the Vietnam issueThis is the same as when China faced the great powers in the past.

If it weren't for Emperor Yang's constant nodding, the National Assembly would have already passed a proposal to declare war at this time.

Huang Huatan outside Hanoi already knew the news of the approaching French army, and also knew that the members of the Chinese Congress were hesitant, and even the Chinese brothers who fought side by side with him were indignantly cursing the members of the National Assembly for their corpses, of course, before China officially entered the war, the Vietnamese battlefield had to rely on themselves, so far, the Vietnamese army has been killed and wounded on the battlefield in Hanoi has exceeded 40,000, but the more they fight, the higher the morale, the more people are beaten, and countless Vietnamese people have poured in from all over the country to join this team, There are even those who have come from distant Cochin.

For the 40,000 French troops led by Gallieni, in fact, Huang Huatan really didn't pay attention to it, he had 150,000 troops in his hands, afraid of such a few people? And all of them are armed with the latest munitions, there are hundreds of cannons alone, and not all of them are bought by Chinese people with donations, a Chinese steel company found high-grade iron ore in Taiyuan, Vietnam, and a large part of it is the cost of buying the iron ore mining rights.

It can be said that the Vietnamese army is not bad in terms of equipment, and there will be no shortage of supplies backed by China, although the soldiers are poor, but they all have actual combat experience, and those French troops who do not have any actual combat experience are not inferior to them, and now Hanoi is just around the corner, in fact, the city has been almost flattened, even the city wall has been blown down for a while, the French army in the city is fighting less and less, and even some women have joined the battle, in this case, it is natural that it cannot fall short.

Therefore, after leaving 50,000 people to continue to attack Hanoi, Huang Huatan personally led an army of 100,000 to the south to meet the Gallieni, preparing to defeat this enemy army from afar in one fell swoop, and then go back to clean up the remnants of Du My, and at the same time, in order to cooperate with him, the Vietnamese army in Hue City also came out and tried to attack the French transportation line, but was beaten back by the French army left behind. (To be continued......)