(A few words of small talk: Yesterday, I raised my arms and received 42 red tickets, and the prodigal son thanked me here.) The prodigal son doesn't know who you are, the so-called Internet world, meet in the water, and it is enough to have two or three confidants in life.

This book will be written for a long time, my manuscript has already hit Japan, the manuscript in my head has already gone to Turkey, and I don't know if I can finish it in the Year of the Monkey, but if you have your support, this is not a problem.

Some people criticize how to fight endlessly, but I think victory is only precious after hard fighting. If the enemy is strong enough, the results will be sweeter. But the prodigal son reports here, in 10 chapters, the war is almost at the juncture of Zuihou, this Sunday.

Again, xiexie. ）

After Yuan Shikai's inquiry, it turned out that this Vietnamese soldier was originally a hunter in this area, and he knew a secret passage, leading from Xiaoqingshan to Daqingshan, and this secret passage was extremely hidden, which he discovered by chance, and he was sure that only he knew it. If Yuan Shikai got the treasure, he immediately sent someone to send him to Zhennan Pass, and this secret passage may come in handy for a counteroffensive in the future.

On the other side, Frey, who received the report from the front, was both angry and helpless, and he paced around the headquarters very depressed, while thinking indignantly: "How can there be such a powerful mine array, and there is actually some kind of mine that can jump, this kind of thing does not even have the great French Republic, how can those ignorant and backward yellow-skinned monkeys have?" How can there be? This is not scientific! It's not logical! Almighty Lord, are you testing me? Damn Millet, knowing all this, must be secretly snickering. Hateful Chinese monkey, Mi Le didn't use mines when he was the commander, and as soon as I became the commander, there were mines everywhere, isn't it really fair! My cocktail party! ＂

At the same time that Frey was grieving and complaining, a dark hole was opened in a secluded corner on the thick-walled position, and then a group of men and horses rushed out, under the cover of night, along a secret "zhi" shaped path in the minefield, quietly touching the French camp in the woods, the whole team was black from head to toe in black clothes, black pants and black shoes, and even their faces were wrapped in black cloth.

This was a surprise attack team sent by Ding Huai at the suggestion of Yuan Shikai: two companies led by Wei Gang, more than 300 people. Yuan Shikai thought that in the daytime battle, the French army would be demoralized if the French army let the mines blow up enough, so he simply gave him a robbery at night, which made the situation worse. Ding Huai thought so.

Wei Gang is a native of Hubei, and he has been plagued by disasters in the past year, and he has been fighting bravely since Bac Ninh, and was captured alive by the French, and he was humiliated, and he was once tied to the stable, sleeping in the horse dung heap, Zuihou was finally exchanged back, he hated the French in his heart, and tonight was a good opportunity to get angry.

Soon the raiders approached the woods, and two French sentries could be seen faintly in front of them, each leaning against a tree, cigarette in their mouth, and spitting out the fog listlessly.

The daytime battle made the French soldiers all downcast, they were not afraid of casualties, but the act of forcing the Vietnamese mercenaries to die during the day greatly stabbed the sense of honor of the French soldiers, they generally believed that this was a treacherous act, they were originally indoctrinated to "conquer the barbaric and backward peoples", but found themselves more barbaric than those "barbarian peoples", which made many French soldiers doubt the legitimacy of the war.

At the same time, it was believed that the commander who made such a decision "must be insane", "escaped from the madhouse", and even worse, "a group of madmen were sent to command us in the country", which made them feel that the prospects for war were bleak.

The two French sentries were chatting with their heads down, unaware that several dark shadows were slowly approaching behind them. The French army believed that the two sides were separated by mine arrays, and it was impossible for the Chinese army to come to attack, so they were defenseless, and even the sentries were absent-minded on duty. Of course, if it had been Pourier's troops, the situation might have been very different.

Only the sound of the wind in the placket of the clothes was heard, and two cold hands, one left and one right, stretched out from the dark shadows, and covered the mouths of the two sentinels with a slap, and before they could react, two bright short knives were placed on their necks. Then several people swarmed up, put them down, tied them, gagged them, and then pulled them to the back and let a French-speaking Vietnamese soldier act as an interpreter and interrogate them on the spot.

At first, the two men were stubborn, but the interrogating officer immediately took off their pants and rested their shiny blades on several of them, and the two of them immediately poured beans into bamboo tubes, and made all moves.

According to the confessions of these two "tongues", the headquarters of the French army was in the middle of an infantry regiment, and it was extremely difficult to sneak attack, and the warehouse of military materials, although not far away, was separated by an open space and without the cover of woods, and it would soon be discovered.

On the contrary, an artillery position on the right was an ideal target, although it was far away, but it was covered by woods, and it was relatively easy to approach. And that direction is also close to another minefield, so you don't have to go back the same way.

Having made up their minds, the troops turned around in the darkness and stalked into the distance.

Half an hour later, after successfully solving a few sentinels, he finally walked to the edge of the woods, and the open space in front of him was the artillery position of the French army.

Wei Gang ordered the troops to pass quietly and try not to shoot before touching in. As soon as he finished giving the order, he heard a "bang" of gunfire nearby, followed by a "crackling" and a loud gunshot. Wei Gang shouted angrily: "What's the matter? Who the hell is shooting? ＂

A soldier came to report: "There is a patrol post ahead, there is an exchange of fire with us. ＂

Wei Gang thought to himself that since he was discovered, he would rush hard!

He raised his Colt revolver and shouted: "The first one to rush in will be promoted to one level and rewarded with a hundred taels!" Immediately, hundreds of black shadows rushed out of the woods and towards the center of the clearing, and suddenly the gunfire rang out.

In the middle of this clearing is the most important of the several artillery positions of the French army, where most of the heavy artillery is located. Because it was far away from the front of Zhennan Pass, and they also thought that there was a minefield to block it, the Chinese could not get out, so they neglected to take precautions. Only one company was put in. Most of them had just woken up from their dreams, and in the confusion they didn't even have time to put on their clothes, so they came out to resist with their guns, and after a shot, they found that the ammunition pack could not be found, and in a hurry, they had to scatter and flee.

Soon, Wei Gang led his men into the artillery position, and he ordered one company to hold the way from which he came, and the remaining one to be responsible for blasting. There would be some shells behind each cannon of the French army, and Wei Gang asked to unscrew the base of these shells, take out the cartridge inside, unscrew the sealing cap and the tight plug cover, and pour all the explosives into the cannon chamber, ready to bloom in the center.

The work was in full swing, there was a crackling sound outside, and his men reported that the reinforcements of the French army brigade were coming, and Wei Gang said dry! , he wanted to blow up all the dozens of guns, it seemed that it was too late. He immediately ordered to pour as much gunpowder as possible into the largest heavy artillery, because this kind of cannon has a long range, and often directly crosses the thick wall to bombard Zhennanguan, which is very hateful, and as for the rest of the artillery, it can be blown up as much as possible.

In the blink of an eye, the soldiers came again to report that the outside could not resist and that the enemy was about to rush in. Wei Gang ordered the explosives to be detonated, and at the same time the whole group retreated.

After a series of violent explosions, the French army rushed into the position, by this time the Chinese army had already slipped into the woods on the other side of the clearing, and Beran watched a large number of cannon barrels being blown apart or deformed, and immediately ordered the pursuit in anger, must block this group of cunning Chinese.

At dawn, the pursuers came back to report that the Chinese had slipped into the minefield near Xiling, and after the French were killed by mines, they did not dare to pursue them any longer.

Belan sighed: "Presumably, there must be a passage left in these minefields, no wonder they suddenly came out to attack us." Not to mention how depressed he was in his heart, last night's attack by the Chinese did not cause many casualties, but the artillery was blown up a lot, and the large and small artillery lost a total of nearly twenty pieces, especially the 120mm heavy cannon was destroyed seven, this loss is really immeasurable, and it has a great impact on the siege.

According to the military thinking of the French army, if there is less artillery, the suppression of the enemy will be smaller, and the casualties of the corresponding troops will increase, so the loss of artillery can also be regarded as the consumption of troops. Frey felt that this Belan was too incompetent, and wanted to remove him in a fit of anger, but after thinking about it, at least he was still very obedient, and such a bad move as driving the Vietnamese to Lei, if he replaced Nigri or Porier and others, he would definitely not do it.

In desperation, he ordered a part of the artillery to be transferred from the 57th Division under his command to Beran.

Thinking about it, he felt that the 1st Brigade stationed on the flank Xuanguang should not need any artillery, so he sent a telegram to Porier, asking him to send all the heavy artillery.

Over the next two days, the French had to revert to the old ways, cutting down large quantities of bamboo, opening joints, and making blasters. Because those jumping mines are obviously remotely controlled with a fuse, and they can't be removed, and it's useless to find them, so they can only be detonated.

The intense work continued until July 7, when the efforts of tens of thousands of people paid off, and more than 1,200 home-made blasting canisters were ready. Frey ordered that the attack be launched tomorrow morning, and that thick wall must be taken!

Just when he was full of ambition, a bad news came, the French newspaper published a report that he had driven the mercenaries to the mines, and the whole country was in an uproar!

Frey wondered, hell, it's only been a few days, why did the news come out?