Not to mention how Deng Kai and Chen Wuzhong escaped with great difficulty in the Nanqi realm. Two days before the news of Wu Zhongping's defeat reached Hue, the news had been sent to Luo Shuya in Guangzhou.

"God, it's incredible!" Maeterlinck sighed exaggeratedly, picked up the wine glass, and clinked the glass vigorously with Luo Shuya, and the crystal transparent goblet made a crisp sound. "Congratulations, my friend. You have won a war! Although France lost the war in the end, he lost it all without a foundation.

"This is to praise Governor Du Bailei, and His Excellency Warren of the Philippines. If it weren't for them, I would have been nailed to the history of shame in France! ”

Luo Shuya's tone was emotional, thinking back to the past few days since the negotiations began, he had really had a hard time. Thankfully, this hard work has paid off enough. The tone of his voice instantly turned excited, "Now, the one who should be troubled and have a headache is Count Li, and those two Vietnamese and monkeys!" ”

The tide of the battle changed abruptly, and although France had not yet defeated the Qin army, it had indeed turned the tide. This gave Luo Shuya at the negotiating table the strongest support!

"Looks like I'm going to meet Mr. Aliko." Maeterlinck took a sip of wine and said with a smile: "Mr. Minister of the British Empire, it is enough to make Earl Lee less poking and proximal......

At noon on the same day, Luo Shuya entertained France's good friend Maeterlinck and the Spanish consul in Guangzhou, Mr. Martinez, with a sumptuous banquet.

In the afternoon of the same day, Maeterlinck made an appointment to meet with Aliko, and at the same time Luo Shuya made an appointment with the American Minister Williams. The situation instantly became passive on the Chinese and Vietnamese sides.

"Li Zhongtang, how is it? Can you think about my earlier mentions? Ali Guo's heart at the moment couldn't tell whether he was happy or unhappy. He really didn't expect that the Spanish governor in the Philippines would be so bold and directly send Spanish soldiers to intervene in the Vietnam War, which was completely unexpected. Even Ali could be sure that the attention of sending troops was completely determined by the Philippine Governor Warren, because the Spanish mainland was in a mess at the moment, and he had no heart or attention to take care of the far east.

Things went beyond expectations, which gave Ali a sense of losing control of the situation, which undoubtedly did not make Ali Guo happy. However, because of this 'misunderstanding', Alikook's 'vision' was made possible, which made him unhappy. So Ali Guo's inner feeling at the moment is very complicated.

But Li Hongzhang's answer disappointed him. "Since France continues to fight, let's talk about it after we have a complete victory!"

Li Hongzhang has not studied international law and does not know how to negotiate and should not be tight, and Li Hongzhang is now thinking about it with his toes -- starting negotiations at this moment will be very disadvantageous to both China and Vietnam.

So why is he talking about it now?

The French army defeated Wu Zhongping, not Liu Xian. Li Hongzhang believed in the combat effectiveness of the Qin army. He believed that as long as the Qin army moved south, even if it could not take Saigon, it would be able to push the battle line to the Saigon River.

Li Hongzhang directly adopted delaying tactics in the negotiations that began two days later, and the Vietnamese envoy Nguyen Phuc Thanh suddenly fell ill the night after the talks, and then the deputy envoy Nguyen Van Thuong was also infected and bedridden.

Trilateral negotiations, without Vietnam's participation, what kind of trilateral is that? Li Hongzhang cleanly refused, and Luo Shuya proposed a meeting between China and France.

……

On the northern border of Jiading Province, Wuqian is a small county town with no name. Liu Xian's garrison finally joined up with Wu Zhongping's remnants of the defeated army.

Liu Xian also knew only then why Wu Zhongping's troops could no longer stand on their feet after the defeat, and retreated all the way to the north. The reason was that Wu Zhongping was hit so hard that he fell completely ill and was unable to command the troops at all. And in the entire team of his department, except for Wu Zhongping himself, no one else has the prestige to reorganize the team and fight again.

Wu Zhongping's son Wu Xuanjia is also a strong general, and he personally led the assault on the night attack of the Battle of Hue City. But the prestige of that battle was completely fished up by his Lao Tzu, Wu Xuanjia could only master Wu Zhongping's guards, and he didn't even have enough prestige for the new army, let alone those old troops.

Therefore, when Liu Xian joined this army, what he saw was a group of remnants of defeated soldiers whose morale was extremely low.

"My lord, the French pursuers have been hanging behind them, and there are not many of them, less than a brigade of troops. But the Vietnamese army, the army has no fighting spirit, no fighting spirit, and they don't resist at all...... "Hu Wenguang, who was chased by the French army for hundreds of miles all the way, had endless anger in his stomach. There was annoyance at the French army's 'discontentment', and there was also anger at the Vietnamese army's incompetence.

"Cousin! Someone cleaned up the tail behind the head......"

Where is the strength of less than a brigade, and the pursuers behind him are only two or three hundred people. Liu Xian immediately dismounted, saw Wu Zhongping in a coma, and replied to the Vietnamese doctor who was following the carriage, although Wu Zhongping was injured, but his life was worry-free, as long as he recuperated for some time, recovery would not be a problem.

"Military Gate!" Wu Xuanjia knelt at Liu Xian's feet, his bloodshot eyes open, "The last general is willing to follow the heavenly soldiers around, for a pawn, to avenge my Dayue Jian'er, and to clear my father's shame." ”

"I am willing to follow the heavenly soldiers and be a pawn in the battle!"

"Avenge Da Yue Jian'er, and be ashamed of Wu Shuai's grace!"

The Vietnamese are not ruthless, and those who can run hundreds of miles with the defeated army to Wuqian can be said to be the backbone of the Nguyen Dynasty's army. Because the will is a little unfirm, the desertion has already been made in the middle of the road.

What they lack is only a backbone, and what they lack is only the ascension of a person with deep prestige. Now the appearance of Liu Xian has made up for this defect.

His prestige is much higher than that of Wu Zhongping. These people are convinced of Liu Xian!

Just as Napoleon's appearance in front of the French army will immediately make the French army's combat effectiveness and will to fight skyrocket; Liu Xian's status in the Vietnamese military and civilians is almost comparable to Napoleon's status in the hearts of the French army.

Waiting for Wu Xuanjia to kneel and plead, in an instant, with Wu Zhong's lying carriage as the center, all the Vietnamese soldiers that Liu Xian could see knelt on the ground. These people speak in Chinese and local languages, and Liu Xian does not understand Vietnamese vernacular, but looking at the bloodshot and excited expressions on their faces, these people can be put to use.

The sound of gunfire was heard in the south, and the reorganization of the Vietnamese army here was proceeding in an orderly manner. The wounded, wounded and sick, regardless of the new army and the old army, all went out to stand on Liu Xian's left hand position, and together with Wu Zhongping, they would continue to the north and enter the county town of Wuqian to rest.

The sniper unit and the remaining members of the Knives are in a constant position, and they will also serve as a protective force to escort the sick and wounded team north.

In Liu Xian's right-hand position, more than 800 new soldiers and 1,700 soldiers of the old army were neatly arranged. Thirty people lined up, two large and one small.

In the middle of Liu Xian, the battle column was about 20 middle and high-level generals in the army. Among them, there are exactly ten people in the new army, and there are four people Liu Xian knows, and the remaining six are all familiar. It happens that the reorganized new army department has 8 hundred-member departments, one for each person, and the remaining two are the highest-ranking officers themselves, serving as the chief and deputy commanders of the new army. And with the old army, Liu Xian didn't care, let them arrange it themselves. It is also a hundred people, a thousand people, a large part.

The gunshots rang out in the south for more than half an hour, and Huo Guangcheng returned to Liu Xian with more than 130 prisoners.

"Spaniards?"

After interrogating the captives, Liu Xian suddenly understood that it was no wonder that Wu Zhongping was defeated so badly, and it was Spain in the Philippines who intervened. This time, Wu Zhongping was not unjustly defeated!

"Shameless barbarian, there is no good thing-" Wu Xuanjia scolded, so hated that he wanted to draw his sword and kill all the captives. How much resentment was mixed in that voice, Liu Xian couldn't tell. I can only sigh! For the Eastern countries of this era, there is too much hatred for those who are strong national, lordic, and righteous, and for the European colonizers who have crossed the ocean.

When the time came to August, Liu Xian calculated that his baby wife was about to give birth, but he couldn't leave Vietnam now. The battle line has been pushed back to Bian He City, and Li Hongzhang's letters have received three times in half a month, urging him to burn the war to Saigon. And Du Bailei also seemed to have received some instructions, and strengthened the troops of Saigon to Bianhe City, as if she wanted to resolutely block Liu Xian's counterattack.

And what about this side and? Located on the left bank of the Dong Nai River, the river is 300 to 500 meters wide and 10 meters deep, and the main ironclad warships of the French Navy can sail here at high tide, not to mention the two or three thousand tons of second- and third-class cruisers of the Far Eastern Fleet.

Although it is very unwise to put the remaining main warships of the Far Eastern Navy into the small ditch of the Tongnai River. But as long as the French army set up a beachhead on the right bank of the Dong Nai River, it was enough to make the "short-legged" rocket team useless.

Du Bailei would not be so unwise and unsure that he would throw the entire fleet in. The destruction of the four big axe-class iron-hulled gunboats had already made him feel distressed to death.

In addition to the seven naval warships, there are also many small steamships in the Dong Nai River. After all, France has been operating in the Nanqi region for more than ten years, and Du Bailei still has a large number of small sea ships, small steamers and small tonnage steamships in his hands. After these modern ships were equipped with small cannons, they were garrisoned by ten or eight rifles, not to mention rockets, which was enough to make Liu Xian look at the river and sigh.

If Liu Xian does not cross the Tongnai River, he will not be able to threaten Bianhe. And to cross the Tong Nai River, it was necessary to first remove the threat of the French army on the river, that is, to take the beachhead. The only choice Liu Xian can choose is to fight at night!

Because night was the only way to weaken the superior artillery power of the French army.

Otherwise, Liu Xian would have to use the lives of his soldiers to fight for the reserves of artillery shells of French warships. R1152