Now that the defender commander showed his cards, Nigri no longer hesitated, and the French artillery would let him know what infantry combat was. "Let the front-line troops pay attention to the distance from the position, and let the artillery immediately suppress the opponent."

At Nigri's order, the artillery opened fire again. It has to be said that France's artillery is excellent enough to be worthy of being a country that has always attached importance to artillery construction.

Its artillery basically controlled the landing point of the shells within 50 meters of the long wall, and such accurate artillery bombardment caused a lot of losses to the first battalion of the left team behind the wall, and even Feng Xiangrong, who commanded them, also hung a color on his forehead.

"Resist, fight to the death."

The eldest son of the old general Feng had a hideous face, and his expression on his forehead was constantly bleeding, as if he was going to choose someone to eat. Since their own commanders are all hanging on and not retreating, what can the other soldiers say, they can only grit their teeth and insist.

However, it is unknown how long this breath can last.

Feng Xianghua, who was worried about his brother, couldn't help but speak. "Father, send reinforcements again."

"No, it's not time yet."

The second son's request was rejected by Feng Zicai, who thought it was not the right time. So when is the time right?

In Feng Zicai's view, the best time is when the first battalion of the left team is defeated, and when the French think that after the defenders of the checkpoint are defeated and retreated, it is the time when their minds are relaxed, and they will be slammed and killed. In order to get such a good time, he not only paralyzed the enemy with his human life, but even his own son had to take risks on the battlefield.

Since there were no reinforcements, the 1st Battalion of the Left Team, which was hanging on its breath, suffered too many casualties and was finally defeated after continuing to resist for half an hour.

Seeing the defeat of the enemy, the French officers and soldiers let out a heartfelt cheer, this battle can be described as too difficult, but in the end they still won.

As a qualified commander, Nigri certainly knew what to do when he saw the enemy retreating, and immediately gave the order. "The whole army goes out and pursues the enemy."

Following Nigri's order, the other French soldiers who had been waiting for a long time immediately joined the attack sequence, and even the Vietnamese servants, who were not in high morale, let out a roar and happily began to chase the fleeing enemy.

It's just that they don't have clairvoyance, and they can't see behind the wall. The defeated soldiers were stopped, and Feng Zicai, as the commander, led all the other Qing troops to press up. What's even worse is that on the east and west sides, the Maxim heavy machine gun was pushed up by Kosenz and others.

Cosenz witnessed the whole battle before, and he had to give a thumbs up to the strategy of this old general Feng, although many of the troops under his command were still using cold weapons that should have been eliminated a long time ago, but his excellent command made the French army unknowingly step into the trap.

When the French officers and soldiers of the brigade had already poured into the checkpoint, less than 200 meters in front of the checkpoint, some French soldiers even had their hands on the long wall.

At this time, suddenly the sound of artillery sounded, which seemed to be a signal, and countless figures poured out from behind the long wall, among which General Feng Lao drew his saber and rushed towards the French army first.

Seeing that Feng Zicai, who was the commander-in-chief, was the first soldier, and the other Qing officers and soldiers were not far behind.

However, they soon discovered that the Maxim electric cannons from both wings were more ruthless than their own bravery.

"Suddenly, suddenly, suddenly......"

The Maxim machine guns arranged on both wings showed for the first time their ability to harvest life. Patches of French lives were mercilessly harvested, and six Maxim machine guns were sprayed with ammunition at a rate of 500 rounds per minute.

At the same time, the artillery, which had been hidden for a long time, was even more at a rate of three rounds per minute. Shells were fired at French artillery positions. Although only eight newly arrived Italian guns were able to reach the French artillery positions, they still caused irreparable losses.

The artillery on the "bombardment" position was directly hit, and the French artillery on the side blew up into the sky.

"Boom, boom, boom" A shell hit the ammunition box, and the repeated explosions turned the surrounding area into a forbidden area for life.

The paralysis and carelessness and the lack of intelligence made the French artillery position only 3,500 meters away from the checkpoint, which happened to be within the range of the Italian 85mm gun.

"Retreat."

Nigri, who was standing in front of the position, reacted immediately after seeing his soldiers being ruthlessly harvested, but since he came, how could he retreat so much.

Not to mention the French troops who had already rushed to the front of the long wall, these people were doomed to be drowned by the Qing army, and they were either killed or captured. The large French army that rushed to the front of the pass was already two or three hundred meters away from the long wall, and if they wanted to retreat to a safe distance and step out of a bloody road without taking their lives, how could they escape.

And at this time, the action must be fast, faster than the teammates, so now the French officers and soldiers can no longer care about any military discipline, and it is polite to bump into their comrades, and some people even kick their comrades down directly, trying to use them to attract the attention of the Qing army behind them and buy time for their escape.

The various ugliness of the French army were exposed in front of the eyes of the Qing army, which made its morale even higher, and everyone knew that it had won, and it was a big victory, so they pursued it even harder.

However, as the commander-in-chief, Feng Zicai was not carried away by the victory, and he still led the army to follow behind the French army. Because the Italian commander of the Maxim Race Electric Cannon told him that at a distance of 600 meters, it was best for his army to keep a little distance from the French army, and as long as he heard the ceasefire of the Race Electric Cannon, then he could rush forward.

In fact, they didn't need to be so serious at all, because at this time the morale of the French army was on the verge of collapse, and the French army that escaped from the range of Maxim was less than 600 people. Along the way, there were fallen corpses of the French army, which was simply miserable.

These French soldiers, who were like frightened birds, did not stop for a moment when they saw the Qing army chasing behind them, and many of them had already run towards the road empty-handed.

In the face of such a situation, Feng Zicai left some officers and soldiers to clean up the battlefield and pick up some foreign falls, especially the artillery that was still intact on the French position, and none of them had to be pulled away.

As for the other officers and soldiers, they followed him to follow the defeated French army and attack Lang Son.

In this battle before Zhennan Pass, the Qing army invested more than 5,000 people in Feng Zicai's department, while the French army invested 3,000 people. In the end, the French army suffered a crushing defeat, with more than 2,300 dead and wounded, more than 300 captured (some were wounded and captured, mainly French officers and soldiers, as for the Vietnamese servants, all were captured uninjured), and only more than 500 people fled back to Lang Son with Nigri.

Most of these people were already empty-handed, and Nigri did not dare to stay at Lang Son at all, and after spending a night gathering his soldiers, he immediately withdrew from Lang Son with a defeated army in his early 1,000s and continued to flee towards Bac Ninh. A lot of the supplies in the city didn't have time to be collected, so they ran away.

It turned out that Nigri's ability to run away was still good, and the next day Feng Zicai led his troops to Lang Son to recover the city.

Later, Feng Zicai attacked from all sides, recovering Changqing, Haiyang, Taiyuan and other places one after another, and with Feng Zicai's victory in Zhennanguan, other Qing troops were ready to move. Moreover, the Vietnamese people also rioted one after another, and for a time, the Beiqi area fell into a situation of gunsmoke everywhere.

This caused the French commander Miller to be extremely troubled, and he had to make a strategic retrenchment, and a large number of newly captured cities were abandoned, which made the Vietnamese people's resistance even stronger.

For this reason, he sent a telegram to Paris, asking for reinforcements from home. In addition, after investigating the process of the fiasco at Zhennanguan, he even proposed to Paris that the Italians had too much involvement in this war with the Qing State, and if they could not block the black hand of Italy behind it, then it would be difficult for France to have a good result in this war.