Because the situation took a sharp turn, Zhang Zhidong finally let Feng Zicai enter the Vietnam battlefield.

Feng Zicai's army is called Cuijun because Feng Zicai's name is Cuiting. The Cuijun led by Zicai has strict discipline. The troops marched and fought, and it is strictly prohibited to disturb the people. Violators must be punished with strict military laws. Before Cuijun march, they often send kitchen squads to the front location to cook porridge and cook, and wait for the army to come and fight to satisfy their hunger in time. Under normal circumstances, Feng Zicai does not allow soldiers to trade along the way to prevent disputes. When camping at night, Cuijun will set up tents and prohibit entering private houses, and will not harass the people along the way. If the officers and soldiers of Cuijun are going out, It is necessary to hold a warrant issued by an officer. Those who violate the order shall be executed. Feng Zicai also issued a strict four-heading order: "Those who block the road, those who rape women, those who steal cattle and pigs, and those who abduct and sell people." [bsp;    Although in Wang Yi's opinion, these are all things that the army should do, at that time, the Qing army was already beyond the ordinary and outsmarted elites. It was a bit difficult to make a group of soldiers who were hungry with guns and not kill and set fire to fill their stomachs.

Today, Chen Yazhi was asked to attend the opening ceremony of Shengjing No. 1 Middle School, and Han Xiujing and Kang Jiaren were also present. Wang Yi was talking to Chiang Jia, Kim Yoon-ah and Lin Tae-hee. Four North Korean girls were equally divided between Chen Yazhi and Tong Qianjia and they were maids. Of course, they also served Wang Yi's daily life together.

Chu Yuan walked in at this time and said, "Sir, the North Vietnam War Report."

Feng Zicai led the tenth battalion of the Guangdong Army, and the general Wang Xiaoqi led the Huai Army. The Guangdong Army had eight battalions, starting from Qinzhou and Wuzhou, and heading to Vietnam through Guangxi. Due to the tight end of Langshan, Feng Zicai went directly from Shangsizhou to Vietnam, and worked with Wang Debang's troops to guard the East Road. He led the two battalions to Longzhou to prepare for food, pay, and military supplies, and recruit new recruits. Wang Xiaoqi's troops mutinied in the middle of the journey, and nearly half of them were dispersed. When they arrived in Longzhou, there were less than 2,000 people. This person was considered strange.

At the end of January 1885, the French army's first and second brigade had more than 7,000 main forces, assembled in the bow of the boat, preparing to turn defense into offense and march towards the Guangxi border. Polyer was finally able to turn passive into initiative at this time. He threatened to advance in two ways: attack Gusong one way and attack the carriage one way. In fact, the entire army pointed to Gusong and attacked the middle way.

Pan Dingxin hoped to stop the French army from attacking and hit the Qing army in the middle, including the fifth battalion of Dong Lugao's troops, who was newly assigned to go forward to the highlands near Zhushan for defense.

On February 4, the French army concentrated artillery fire to bombard the Qing army camps in Zhushan and then launched a fierce attack. The defenders resisted stubbornly, but due to hasty moves, the fortifications were not strong, and many casualties were forced to retreat. The next day, the French army launched another attack, but the defenders were not supported and retreated to Gusong. On February 6, the French army attacked Gusong under the cover of artillery fire, and the Qing army was forced to retreat to the area of ​​Weipo 35 miles south of Langshan.

The Qing army was defeated in the middle and Lang Shan was in danger.

"The East and West Armed Forces are far apart. When they hear that they are transferred to aid, the orders are repeatedly changed in one day."

Pan Dingxin was completely panicked at this time, and he changed his orders every day. Sometimes he ordered Wang Debang, Yang Yuke and other troops to return to Langshan, sometimes he ordered him to stay in place, sometimes he ordered him to attack the French army's retreat at night, and finally he ordered him to fly to Langshan, but it was too late and it was useless.

On February 12, the French army captured Weipo. Pan Dingxin, who was completely scared, only remembered Li Hongzhang's tips in his heart - if he won, he would retreat if he lost. The problem is that Li Hongzhang was talking about the front line such as Lang Jia, the bow of the ship, and now he has arrived in Lang San, and he still cares about this. Isn't it a joke!

That night, Pan Dingxin fled Lang Son and entered the pass, and Su Yuanchun then led his troops to retreat into the pass. On February 13, the French army occupied Lang Son without fighting. At this point, the French army achieved the expected combat goal on the eastern front, and Poly also led the First Brigade to about 3,000 people away from Lang Son on February 17, so as to rush to the western front through Hanoi to rescue the French army surrounded by Xuan Guang.

After Lang San abandoned the guard, Feng Zicai resolutely took the initiative to defend the pass, and personally led a battalion from Longzhou to Zhennan Pass, and joined Wang Xiaoqi's troops to intercept the defeated soldiers, and urgently dispatched eight battalions of Feng's army to guard the east road to guard the Zhennan Pass. However, Pan Dingxin actually "telled that there was no need to guard the pass, and ordered the East Road to remain on the East Road." At this time, Lang San was gone, and what's the use of guarding the East Road, but Pan Dingxin was just like that.

On February 19, Yang Yuke's troops on the West Road retreated from Guanyin Bridge and Tunmei to Wenyuan. Yang Yuke used his main force to defend the high ground on both sides of Wenyuan and led a unit to station in Zhennan Pass. In other words, Pan Dingxin and Su Yuanchun both ran away, and now only Yang Yuke is left outside Zhennan Pass!

Yang Yuke, whose courtesy name is Yunjie, Bai people, is from Xiying Village, Cangdong Township, Lanpingyingpan District. His ancestral home is Hunan. His grandfather Yang Chunxiu started his business through mining and later became a farmer. After becoming a leader, Yang Yuke led a group training session and fought with Du Wenxiu, the Hui rebel who was the first to capture Dali, the admiral of Yunnan at that time. With Dali as the center, he successively captured 53 cities in western Yunnan. He was a strong Hui rebel. He was defeated by Du Wenxiu's army many times and even captured alive, and he was defeated several times. He was defeated and defeated all the battles and achieved today's achievements. However, because of his historical position in confronting the rebel army,... under the positioning of historical materialism in later generations, his status was not too high.

On February 23, Nigri commanded the Second Brigade of the French Army to attack Wenyuan. Yang Yuke personally went to the front line to command the battle, preventing the enemy from advancing. The defenders fought bloody battles and resisted step by step. However, at this critical moment, counterfeit and inferior products appeared again! Most of the artillery shells fired by the Qing army did not explode and failed to cause a large amount of damage to the enemy. In the afternoon, Yang Yuke was unfortunately killed by artillery while commanding and sacrificed his life for the country! The defenders immediately dispersed and retreated into the pass. The French army took advantage of the situation to invade Zhennan Pass, and the vanguard once invaded the nearly ten kilometers of shogunate near our country.

Due to insufficient troops and difficulties in supply, and being attacked by local masses from time to time, the French army blew up the walls of Zhennanguan and their nearby fortifications on February 25, and returned to Wenyuan and Lang Son. According to the order before Poly also left Lang Son, the French army laid a wooden sign on the ruins of Zhennanguan, saying, "Respect the treaty is safer than protecting the country with border gates, and Guangxi's portal no longer exists." However, the local military and civilians wrote in the same place: "We will use the heads of the French to rebuild our portal!" as an answer to the invaders.

After the battle report ended, Wang Yi shook his head, hung up the phone number to the Navy headquarters, and said, "I am Wang Yi, please answer Shang Yi."

Shang Yi's secretary was startled when he heard this and immediately said, "You wait."

"Captain, I am Shang Yi!"

"Is the sea trial completed in the Beiyang sister ship and the last cruiser in the Nanyang?"

"Just just completed, Liu Buchan is taking people to the ship for acceptance."

"Don't hand over the warship for the time being, let Sa Zhenbing take the ship to Taiwan to join the Yanfu fleet!"

"What does captain mean?" Shang Yi had a vague premonition.

"Full out the French Far East Fleet! Then send three thousand Marines to capture Hue."

"But the French army has more than 18,000 people in Vietnam. We may not be able to defend ourselves by this little person." Shang Yi was a little worried. After all, the French were once the world's number one army. Although they are gradually declining now, the lean camel is bigger than a horse. It's hard to say if they fight.

"They can't gather so many people at once... Forget it, there is no need to fight hard! This battle depends on the situation. If you can fight, you will be big. If you can't fight, you will retreat to the sea. Then you will land randomly in other parts of the Vietnamese coast, with the main purpose of eliminating the vital power of the Vietnamese French. At the same time, block the French ocean transportation route. We have the right to the sea, are we still afraid of them?"

Shang Yi thought this was better, so he said, "Captain, don't worry, and ensure that the task is completed!"

Liu Buchan has been arranged by Li Hongzhang in Lushun and is preparing to accept the new ship, but Sa Zhenbing called him at this time.

"Brother Zixiang, I'm sorry, the chairman called and said he couldn't hand over the ship for the time being."

"Why?" Liu Buchan was a little angry. The last time the Taiping was originally for Beiyang, but Wang Yi took it to Taiwan. "What's the reason for this time?"

"The war in North Vietnam has deteriorated, and the French have entered Guangxi!"

"What?" Liu Buchan was shocked. He had never expected the situation to collapse so much. "Didn't you just wiped out Gu Ba's fleet a few months ago?"

"So what? The adults in the capital thought that the French were made of paper, and they kept a good situation and insisted on sending troops in North Vietnam. What would the ending be like?"

Liu Buchan didn't say anything, and after a long time, he said, "So, do you want to put this new warship in Taiwan?"

"The order has not been released yet!" Sa Zhenbing would not say much about some things.

"Who leads the army?"

Sa Zhenbing smiled and said, "I!"

Liu Buchan thought that Sa Zhenbing was the right person. After all, this new ship was led by Sa Zhenbing to test the sea. In terms of familiarity with the ship, no one should be able to match it.

Although Li Hongzhang had some objections to Wang Yi's approach, he thought that this trip was to Vietnam to fight for the country. Of course, the more important thing was to rescue his subordinate Pan Dingxin. Otherwise, if the court would deal with Pan Dingxin, the life of the Huai Army would be difficult.

Compared with Pan Dingxin on the Eastern Front, the war between Cen Yuying on the Western Front was not going smoothly.

Before China and France officially declared war, the Qing court asked Cen Liuying to send troops. However, it was not until early October 1884 that he heard the news that the Da Shang Nanyang Fleet had eliminated the Guba Fleet, and he had no choice but to accept the order. The Black Flag Army originally stayed in Wenpan and Datan area had ten battalions, about 3,700 people, and five battalions, about 2,500 people, and advanced in different ways.

The Black Flag Army Huang Shouzhong and Wu Fengdian went to Lu'an from the mountain road and left the Guanshi Department after leaving the Guanshi Department; Liu Yongfu and Zhang Shirong led their troops to go straight along the Honghe River, and in the future, they seized the effect of attacks. Cen Yuying hoped to seize Guanshi and Xuanguang, and to occupy Xiahe, Qingbo, Lintao and other places with more than 6,000 main forces of the Yunnan Army gathered on the Yunnan border, and successively occupied Xiahe, Qingbo, Lintao and other places along the Honghe River. After they succeeded, they met with the Qing army on the Eastern Front and attacked Beining and Hanoi. In general, there was no big problem in strategy, and it was also an arrangement based on the logistics situation of our side.

Due to the limited military strength, in order to implement Commander Porier's combat policy of defending the west and attacking the east, the French withdrew the Guardian defenders on October 11 in order to shorten the defense line, defend Xinghua, Duanxiong and Xuanguang, and ensure the safety of the areas west of Hanoi. Cen Yuying, considering that the enemy of Guanshi's evacuation was voluntarily, pointed the Black Flag Army and the Zhang Shirong's troops of the Yunnan Army at Xuanguang.

Xuanguang City itself has stone walls, surrounded by mountains and water, which is called natural danger. A mountain stands tall in the city, and cannons can attack foreign troops. Five or six levels of bamboo planted outside the city, making it difficult to break into the army. To put it bluntly, it is a natural artillery tower! But even so, Xuanguang City is not unbreakable. The biggest problem is that the French army has a serious shortage of troops, and at most there were only more than 700 people in the city!

By mid-October, the Qing army on the Western Front arrived one after another. Because the French army was very strict in land and water defense, they camped at Langjia, Zhongmen and other places ten miles away from the city.

Soon, the Gui army on the eastern front had lost the armor and the bow of the ship. The Qing court ordered the Yunnan army to advance quickly to divide the enemy's power. Cen Yuying moved from Baosheng to Wenpan on October 20, and transferred the registered admiral Wu Yong'an, who was formerly stationed on the Yunnan border, Zou Fusheng's troops and more than 2,000 troops from the registered general Qin Xiugang to enter the Zhaguansi, Xiahe, Qingbo area, waiting for an opportunity to attack Xinghua and other places, threatening the enemy's retreat. At the same time, the Qing army of Xuanguang gradually advanced to the city and besieged the enemy from all sides.

In order to ensure Xuanguang and stabilize the defensive situation on the western front of Tokigi, the French army sent troops to reinforce each other from November 4 to 12, but most of them were repelled by the Qing army. Starting from November 12, the Qing army dug the Tsuji camps on both sides of the Qing River in Zuoyu Place, more than ten miles southeast of Xuanguang, and installed the ships intercepted before Shisai River in order to cut off the French army's waterway traffic. On November 18, the French army Duanxiong and Shanxi commander Domini personally led thousands of infantry, artillery, and engineers.

The rest of the people took five gunboats and more than ten civilian boats. Taking advantage of the heavy rains and the water in the Qing River rises, they reinforced Xuanguang. They were attacked by the Qing army ambushed on both sides of the Zuoyu Qing River and could not pass. The next day, the French army landed on the shore and attacked Zuoyu in two ways. The Qing army killed and injured more than 100 French troops, but because the fortifications were not yet formed, they were attacked by the enemy from both sides and were forced to withdraw from their positions. The French army immediately boarded the ship, sailed to Xuanguang, and strengthened the city defense force.

Xuan Guang was like a big nail, firmly nailed between the Qing army on the east and west lines.

Cen Yuying originally planned to pass Xuanguang, but simply stopped fighting. However, after a field investigation, he found that this was a completely dying idea. Because the Qing army's logistics supply capacity was so low that it had reached an outrageous level. If a strong city like Xuanguang was still left here, with the combat qualities of Qing soldiers and peasants, once the food channels were cut off, the consequences could be imagined.

Therefore, Cen Yuying later emphasized that he had to take Xuan Guang first, and the military alliances of Yunnan and Guangxi were one in order to make progress. Therefore, the Black Flag Army and a large number of Yunnan Army were forced to stand under the strong city for a long time, and could not advance eastward. He sat down and watched the French army concentrate its forces and focus on Lang Son.
Chapter completed!