Chapter 5 The Surrender of the French Army

The winter rain went from north to south, and when the winter rain on the side of the front line formed a thick block of ice, the logistics department of the South French Army began to prepare a large amount of grain and grass to go north.

According to the inspection of the French spies, the Qing army has also been shrinking in the barracks and city walls.

In one day, the French spies carried out a large number of path inspections in order to protect the hard-won grain and grass.

But the Black Flag Army led by Zhang Xiaofan and another general inevitably slowly approached the road.

It is said that it is a cement road, but in fact there is only one section.

In addition, a long stretch, about 50 miles, is a dirt road.

The logistics are not far from the French position, and with the news, the Qing court only dispatched 3,000 people seven days ago, and these 3,000 people must have gone back after collecting medicine the day before yesterday. Because seven days ago, a large number of Qing troops went up the mountain to collect medicine, which was discovered by French spies, and 3,000 people went out of the customs in simple clothes, and they definitely couldn't stay for seven days.

Not to mention, ambush right under your nose.

Bigu Shendan is a prefecture-level elixir, and the exchange cannot use martial arts points, one requires ten merit points, and after taking it, it can provide ten days of energy and consume Zhang Xiaofan's more than 30,000 merit points.

If this time, the French army can't be annihilated, Zhang Xiaofan can only use his fists to help.

However, Zhang Xiaofan did not believe that after the French army starved for seven days, they still had physical strength to fight.

Not only did Zhang Xiaofan not believe it, but Liu Yongfu didn't believe it either, so after his subordinates reported that it was freezing on the roadside, he prepared a large number of grass and hemp shoes, and then led the 5,000 army out of the customs to respond to Zhang Xiaofan's sneak attack plan.

After that, an army of 10,000 was arranged.

When the Qing court went out, the French spies once thought that it was to collect firewood, and when they saw the Qing army going straight to the French barracks, they found the Qing court target.

The French army immediately transferred eighty percent of the troops in all the barracks to the north for defense, and the guns that could still be used were also transferred to the north camp.

As for the south, it is about to receive grain and grass to enter the customs, and if you calculate the time, it will arrive in about half an hour.

Marching on the ice, the French army was tired even if they used a large number of servants.

The French army itself was not good at fighting in cold places.

Therefore, on both sides of the mountain road, when a large number of Qing troops suddenly rushed out, these French soldiers were still a little in a hurry.

The Qing army's offensive line was a skirmisher line, and the French army could only shoot piecemeal.

After Zhang Xiaofan handed over the command to the adjutant general, he jumped directly into the French army's food protection team, greeting with wide opening and closing, killing flesh and blood, but it was more able to hit the French army's fighting consciousness.

When the French commander found that he could no longer maintain the position, he immediately retreated to the French camp with his men.

The guards of the French barracks, seeing that the Qing soldiers were shooting with bows and arrows, did not even have siege tools, and did not hurry to receive their own army into the barracks.

"The general is mighty!"

"The general is mighty!"

"The general is mighty!"

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Zhang Xiaofan cut off the head of the last French soldier, this time there were no surrenderers, only more than 3,000 Annan servant troops saved their lives, these people hid as soon as possible, but there were no casualties.

After counting the corpses, it was already a rare victory to break more than 300 enemy troops in a battle, and only seven of his 3,000 people were injured, and none of them died.

No wonder the 3,000 Black Flag Army shouted mighty, and they really deserved it.

However, Zhang Xiaofan thought that this was completely incomparable with his previous record in suppressing the Japanese, so after gathering the army, he took the lead again and attacked the French military camp as soon as possible.

This time, there was no need for a straggler, because Zhang Xiaofan followed the last French army to the city wall for the first time.

Because the Qing army was still assembling, the French army thought that Zhang Xiaofan was a stunned young man and ran to the wrong team.

After all the French troops entered the barracks, the captain of the French guard, the captain, pointed at Zhang Xiaofan, who was looking around, and shouted, and all the guns around him were aimed at.

"Just fifty people, you want to kill me?"

The captain saw that Zhang Xiaofan's body was clean and not stained with any flesh and blood, and some French soldiers thought that this Qing soldier might be a coward, and if he surrendered, he would let him be a slave.

"Dead," Zhang Xiaofan took out hundreds of steel balls and shot them in all directions, although the strength was scattered, but the French army without armor was obviously unable to resist.

The French captain received Zhang Xiaofan's greetings for the first time, without the commander, Zhang Xiaofan was like a tiger entering the flock, and it was only three minutes before and after, and the French army at the door had been swept away.

Zhang Xiaofan had even jumped onto the city wall and began to shoot the French soldiers on the city wall.

As soon as the martial arts master engaged in close combat, he was almost invincible.

Zhang Xiaofan, who is like a killing god, in the eyes of the French army, incarnated as the devil Satan, wielding the scythe of death everywhere.

Finally people began to surrender, or flee.

The mood of defeat was contagious, and when all the French commanders who tried to turn the tide died, the southern walls of the French barracks were finally left undefended.

None of the 3,000 soldiers of the Qing army died, and they received the guns left behind by the French army.

In fact, there were only eight fixed batteries, and more than a thousand muskets.

The muskets of the French army were not as good as the swords, so they simply cleared a road, and some sharpshooters brought a few more guns to fight a surprise.

But with Zhang Xiaofan in front, the Qing army's musket team had no sense of existence.

The French army camp was only a mile in radius, and when the French commander learned that his grain and grass had been robbed, he was about to collapse.

The French soldiers believed that what the Qing army could not take would stay, but the French commander believed that the Qing army would not be stingy with some fire oil on the materials that could not be taken.

When the guards of the South Gate retreated, it was announced that the South Gate had fallen.

The French commander Li Weiye finally collapsed completely, and successively dropped half of his army, 5,000 French troops and 3,000 servant troops, and went south to prepare to repel the Qing army that attacked secretly.

Three thousand Qing troops, this number should not be wrong.

What Li Weiye is thinking about now is that he will lose less and when he has repelled the attack of the Qing army, he will order the navy to carry out retaliatory attacks on Guangzhou, Fujian, and other places, and seriously protest against this sneak attack by the Qing army.

If the Qing court did not compensate for the losses caused by this sneak attack to the French army, it would not retreat.

The French army created a bit of chaos, which was not suitable for cold weapons to sprint, and it was very convenient for muskets to conduct street fighting.

Therefore, Zhang Xiaofan was also a little confused at the first time, after all, it was the first time he had conducted a gunfight under his command.

In "Ip Man", he commanded the famous tunnel warfare, sparrow warfare, mine array, etc. But that's all defense, huh?

Think about the Japanese army's response mode, which is air raids.

One plane after another, as if they didn't want money, threw bombs downward, causing a lot of damage to the defense at that time.

And now he is also a little hurried in the face of the French army's street fighting counterattack.

"General, what should I do?" Another general, Cheng Dafu, walked over with a big grin and asked.

Zhang Xiaofan could only choose to retreat and guard the south gate.

Haha smiled, Zhang Xiaofan encouraged everyone's bravery, diluting the blow that the soldiers had just received.

The soldiers had just been attacked, and seventeen of them were killed at once by the French muskets, and more than 100 people were wounded, and the originally vigorous morale suddenly declined a lot.

Hurry to treat the injury and prevent it from deteriorating.

"Hey, General, it would be nice if you could invent some invulnerable elixirs." Cheng Dafu really dared to say it, but the look of shaking his head made the surrounding soldiers laugh.

There was a group of laughter, which finally eased the tension of the three thousand soldiers.

Zhang Xiaofan saw that his morale was available, his brain also turned slightly, and after thinking about it a little, he suddenly slapped it a few times.

What is the scariest thing about street fighting?

See-saw!

At present, he has soldiers, food, and muskets in his hands, but what about the French army opposite?

There were more than 10,000 troops waiting for them, and there were muskets that could not be fired.

In contrast, it is the commander of the French army who should be anxious, why is he in a hurry?

After figuring it out, Zhang Xiaofan arranged the defense, ordered the soldiers to cut the wires of the French army, and after the mobile artillery bombarded the French army headquarters for more than ten consecutive cannons, he waited for the French army to surrender.

As for accepting the surrender, Zhang Xiaofan decided to tell Liu Yongfu that he would return with light work and not be afraid of the enemy finding out.

When the gunfighting on both sides stopped, Liu Yongfu and his 15,000-strong army were stationed three miles north of the French barracks, and quickly dug a trench to prevent the French from storming the camp.

After Zhang Xiaofan returned, he also commanded 3,000 soldiers to conduct a large number of street combat training.

The defensive momentum was reversed, and the psychological defense of the French commander-in-chief Li Weiye not only collapsed, but also went crazy.

After a frantic attack and three consecutive charges, the French army suffered more than 3,000 casualties, and finally understood that they had been caught in the urn of the Chinese army.

At the end of dinner, Li Weiye was about to shoot himself, but was stopped by his adjutant.

What are you kidding, you committed suicide, I don't die, do you carry the black pot for you?

Surrender!

It must be surrendered, and it is you, the commander-in-chief, who surrender.

Only when the commander-in-chief surrenders, will his adjutant be forgotten in the corner, and there will be a chance to get up that day.

European armies did not care about surrender, believing that as long as they showed good faith, they could redeem them or negotiate their return to their home countries.

The commander Li Weiye did not really want to commit suicide, but was stopped by an adjutant, and because of the courage he showed, he had to surrender to the Qing court for the lives of 10,000 French soldiers.

Before the next morning, the French charged back and forth five times, not one of which was strong.

After dawn broke, dozens of officers of the French army saw that the Qing army was still commanding the line in an orderly manner, made up for the loopholes, and finally admitted defeat and decided to surrender to the Qing army.

On the issue of surrender, the French army was again divided.

Some people thought that they had to surrender to the south, because the Qing army in the south had broken through their camp, and according to the rules of surrender to the victor, they should surrender to the Qing army in the south.

And several high-ranking generals believed that they were about to surrender, and the surrender table would be handed over to the supreme commander of the Qing army.

The Qing army that came from the south was obviously not a high-ranking general.

And Liu Yongfu in the north is the commander of the Qing army, and as a general of the French army, it doesn't matter if he loses the battle, it is too embarrassing to surrender to a small general.

The French generals chattered for a long time, because they were hungry, and finally decided that whoever had food should surrender to first.

Zhang Xiaofan received his first foreign devil's surrender.