Weishenme report will come out so quickly? Of course, this has to "thank" Ding Yuntong.

On July 4, the two Vietnamese soldiers, who had lost half their lives, were sent to Zhennan Guanli, along with a letter from Yuan Shikai, in which he explained the importance of the two captives, who could be used as witnesses to expose the atrocities of the French army, so as to gain a favorable public opinion environment for our country and at the same time to demoralize the French army.

Feng Zicai thought so, and immediately found a few people, took pictures of the two Vietnamese, made a record, and sent all the relevant information to Beijing urgently.

Ding Yuntong received these materials on the same day, and he was very happy, this was a good opportunity to humiliate the French. Yan Liangxun, the editor-in-chief of the was immediately recruited, and is now very proficient in this kind of propaganda work.

Ding Yuntong believes that the is an important tool for brainwashing the people. To consolidate one's dictatorial power, the first is violence, and the army must be mastered; The second is propaganda, endless brainwashing, controlling thoughts, and promoting a cult of personality; The third is to establish its own interest groups and so on, of course, these are still early, and they can be done slowly after the fight against France in the future.

He ordered Yan Liangxun to organize people to write the manuscript by hand overnight, and the original layout should be greatly revised, and the atrocities of the French army should be reported on the front page and the whole page, and Ding Yuntong also asked for more details to be added. At the same time, the information was sent to Li Fengbao, the ambassador to Germany, although the Chinese ambassador to France had already returned to China after the war, this did not prevent Li Fengbao from asking acquaintances to pass on the materials to the major newspapers and periodicals, and I believe that there would always be newspapers of interest.

On July 5, the published a large report with the headline of four thrilling words: No bones remained.

The subtitle reads: Let's see how the French treat their allies.

The report added fuel to the detailed description, how the French forced the mercenaries to send him to death, Yan Liangxun and others simply "took advantage of his illness to kill him", and moved a large number of novel penmanship and plots over, making all kinds of details more tragic and unsightly, and the death toll increased several times, exaggerating and exaggerating the confessions of the two survivors, such as how the French officer stabbed while hahadaxiao; How to kill people and kill people, cut the throats of those Vietnamese who were wounded but did not die, and crawled back from the battlefield, etc., is simply a complete collection of human atrocities.

But the most terrifying thing is that the two survivors described in detail what they knew about the French troops, officers, soldiers, Vietnamese comrades, and all sorts of details, so real that it was impossible to question them. For example, they were familiar with the name and rank of a French instructor, and the fact that the officer had drunk and boasted that he had a mistress, and that her husband was the largest wine wholesaler in the Bordeaux area, but that he was always "tired" in bed, and so on.

This issue of the combines serious news reports with entertaining gossip so perfectly, the effect is naturally extremely haode, righteous and awe-inspiring, and it is also reminiscent of people, and it has been talked about by the majority of journalists a long time later, so that people like Ding Yuntong, who came from the 21st century and were deeply influenced by roadside tabloids and old military doctors, also admired him.

Feeling that the time was ripe, Ding Yuntong consulted Zuo Zongtang, Peng Yulin and others for their opinions, and then he sent a secret telegram to the west of Vietnam, which was only five words

"Climbing new heights".

After receiving the secret telegram, the military operation on the Western Front began secretly and resolutely. Under the cover of the tropical rainforest, tens of thousands of troops quickly set off and set off in the southeast direction, aiming directly at Xuanguang City! It can be expected that in a few days the situation on the Western Front will change dramatically.

On the same day, the entire set of press materials was sent to the major French newspapers. But strangely enough, for such sensational news, to

Whether it is the , the or the , the and including the pages of July 6 do not mention a word.

Li Fengbao thought to herself: These newspapers may think that reporting this incident is not conducive to the French war, so they consciously kept silent. It can be seen that whether it is human rights or justice, it is also necessary to divide time and object, and perhaps in the eyes of the French, it is not worth interfering with the actions of the French army for a few hapless Vietnamese.

Zuihou Li Fengbao found a tabloid that was about to go out of business, and of the Monitor. It was an old newspaper founded during the Bourbon Restoration, stubbornly adhering to royalist ideology and hostile to what is now the Third Republic. In the early morning of July 7, the full page, and the sales increased dramatically, and tens of thousands of copies were printed on the same day. Seeing this, other newspapers feared that if they continued to remain silent, they would be accused by readers of covering up for the government, so they had to follow up and reprint it immediately. For a time, public opinion was in an uproar, and they all rebuked the French army for losing the face of the republic.

When Gambida saw such a report, he immediately sent a telegram to Frey, criticizing him for his reckless behavior, and at the same time demanding a quick capture of Zhennan Pass and a victory to turn public opinion around.

Frey, who received the telegram, was very depressed, he was going to frame and slander those Vietnamese mercenaries for preparing to mutiny, but he did not expect the situation to develop so quickly, and there were survivors to testify, and it was difficult to refute it.

At this time, he was bent on capturing Zhennan Pass, as long as he won the battle, he could say anything, and history would not condemn the victors.

In view of the fact that the Fifth Brigade was killed and injured by landmines, Frey, despite Nigri's opposition, insisted on transferring an infantry battalion and two artillery squadrons, totaling nearly 800 men, from Daqingshan to supplement the establishment of the Fifth Brigade. As for the 2nd Brigade on the hill, there were only 2,500 men left, especially the artillery unit with only one squadron left, but Frey thought that this was enough to defend Daqingshan.

On 8 July, the French army was assembled, and Beran commanded the 5th Brigade to attack in front. The 57th Division was divided into two groups: Major General Mosiylon's 147th Brigade and Robert Nivel's 341st Rifle Regiment, under Frey's personal command, as a reserve for Beran's forces. The rest of the 57th Division, commanded by Major General Erminga, remained stationed in Tongdeng.

The Chinese army here was also paying attention to the enemy's movements, and Feng Zicai thought that a large-scale French attack was about to begin, so he sent Yang Yuke to lead a brigade to reinforce the thick wall through the dark passage.

Since some of the heavy artillery was blown up by the Chinese, the French army no longer attacked and harassed the Zhennan Guancheng, but concentrated their fire on the thick wall. Under the cover of artillery fire, the advance of the French army began demining.

The sappers worked in pairs, carrying blasting canisters to the predetermined area, lighting the fuse and throwing it forward, and the two immediately threw themselves into the ground, curled up in a ball with their heads in their hands. On the other side, the Chinese positions were filled with gunsmoke and rows of bullets to prevent the French from clearing mines.

The French sappers showed great courage, the "puff puff" green smoke around them, still running forward, from time to time someone was shot and fell, the most unfortunate thing was that the bullet hit the blast canister, pierced the bamboo and directly detonated the explosives, blowing up the two French sappers to pieces.

By noon, the French had carved out an open space six or seven hundred meters wide, which was much wider than the original passage. Seventy or eighty thunderbolts were detonated, some of which were detonated, and some of which were preemptively detonated by the Chinese. The French also suffered nearly 100 casualties, many of whom were killed or wounded by iron beads.

Behran saw that the time had come and ordered a strong attack. The French army adopted a different tactic from the past, and instead of running over long distances, they launched short assaults.

The two regiments ran one in front of the other, after running for a while in front, and then lay down on the ground and shot to cover, while the regiment behind began to run forward, ran for a while and then lay down and shot, and in this way the two regiments continued to cover each other's advances, gradually approaching the position.

As soon as the French artillery fire stopped, Ding Huai immediately ordered all the reserves to come out of the tunnel, plus 2,000 Vietnamese soldiers, at this time there were more than 7,000 people on the thick wall, and there were reinforcements from Yang Yuke's brigade in the tunnel.

Seeing that the army had crossed the minefield, the defenders were racing against time to prepare for battle, not only loading their bullets and loading their bayonets, but also placing the weapons they had prepared in advance, such as short spears, axes, and knives, at their feet.

Many soldiers reported that in some narrow places such as trenches or city walls, the spear stabbing was too long and could not be used, so Yuan Shikai suggested that the soldiers should choose suitable cold weapons by themselves as auxiliaries, so that some officers and soldiers could maximize their martial arts foundation.

Soon, after paying countless casualties, the French rushed to a distance of more than 100 meters and opened fire with the defenders. A large number of machine guns of the Haqi Kaisi strafed the thick-walled position like a storm, hitting the entire position like a rain of bullets. At the same time, some soldiers carried sandbags on their backs and ran to the trench, and from time to time some of them were wounded and wounded, but immediately some people ran over and picked up the sandbags and continued to run.

Under the cover of powerful firepower, several passages were finally filled in the trenches, and with a wave of Lieutenant Colonel Castelno's saber, hundreds of French soldiers shouted, rushed violently, and jumped onto the thick wall by stepping on the passages!