Just after the Qing and France signed an agreement for no more than 24 hours, in the early morning of June 10, 1885, when the first ray of sunlight shone in Toulon, Vietnam (now Da Nang), a huge figure suddenly came with the sunlight.

The French soldiers discovered the abnormality here and began to exclaim, "Enemy attack, airship! Enemy attack, airship!"

Exclamation cannot change anything. The French and Vietnamese looked down from the air like a group of panicked ants. Someone tried to shoot at the airship, but now they were far away from their range. Not to mention that they could not hit, even if they were hit, they would not have much impact on the airship. On the contrary, the bullet fell back to the ground and would cause considerable damage to themselves.

Wang Qing is a bomb dropper. At this time, the airship no longer uses manpower to drop bombs, but instead uses machinery. Although the airdrop bombs are still less than 400 kilograms, the speed and stability of the bombs are far from being comparable to when four people are carrying them.

When the first bomb was dropped, not long after, a huge explosion sounded. The smoke and dust flew up and it was impossible to see if it hit the target. However, Wang Qing didn't care. Just drop the bomb within a range, it would be fine.

There were not many airships attacking this time, only two of them were mammoth airships.

On the sea outside the harbor, the Da Shang Nanyang Fleet had appeared, and the Taiping and Anshen had begun to show their power, with giant cannons bombarding the shore. The four ships of Tianshu, Tianxuan, Tianji and Tianquan did not launch an attack. They welcomed the arrival of the French with the frigates.

However, unexpectedly, the French fleet was not here. Later, they occupied Toulon and found out that in order to prevent the sneak attacks of the Da Shang Nanyang Fleet, the French had retreated all the fleet to Saigon south to Saigon.

Despite this, the French used the artillery to launch a counterattack. Since the lonely fleet was wiped out, the French have strengthened the construction of the artillery. Today, the results can be seen, and the artillery fire is very sharp. However, under the joint attack of sea and air, France is more of a surviving life.

Taiping and Anshan began to fire volleys after a round of test firing. Data was transmitted from the airship, and observers kept adjusting the data, and the shells had begun to fall around the turret.

Liu Buchan was also on the Anshen. Since a fight with Yan Fu, the two have been in a cold war. Feng Zicai's victory in Zhennan Pass and Lang Son made Liu Buchan stand up very slowly, but before he could be happy for a few days, his waist bent down again because of Cixi's ceasefire order.

Yan Fu, Sa Zhenbing and other naval officers from Da Shang's words were very unpleasant to mock the Qing court and the Empress Dowager Cixi. Liu Buchan and Fang Boqian were also connected with each other. They could only bear it when they heard it. When it was late at night, they would inevitably envy their two junior brothers. They were all in the army, so why was the gap so big!

Four hours later, the Toulon turret turned into a pile of rubble ruins. Then, under the cover of the frigate, six transport supply ships began to dock, and three thousand Marines began to land, and soon took down the city of Toulon, which had been blown into ruins, and then cleared out the French remnants.

The next day, three cargo ships carrying a large number of engineers and materials drove to Toulon Port, and a large number of Vietnamese were asked to participate in the construction. Although they were afraid of the French, they were even more afraid of these strangers who could control the flying ship.

Not long after, the news that the Northeast Autonomous Region attacked and occupied Toulon shocked the whole world.

When Cixi heard the news, she almost fainted from anger and pointed at the Northeast and cursed Wang Yi. When French Minister Badno met Tang Shaoyi from the Beijing Office in Beijing, she was more like a dog with her tail trampled on by someone and barked wildly.

"What exactly are you going to do in Northeast China? Your Qing Dynasty has signed a peace agreement with our country. Why do you still attack us?" Badno's face turned pale.

Tang Shaoyi smiled slightly and said in front of all the ministers: "What does the relationship between the imperial court and you? I remember that I have never signed any agreement with you in the northeast, and we have been in a state of war. Don't say we didn't give you a chance, your country could only pay 5 billion gold francs for Prussia, but we only wanted 500 million, but only one tenth!"

"you……"

"What? I want to threaten me again?" Tang Shaoyi smiled, but the other ministers present felt a chill on the back of their necks.

Li Hongzhang sent a telegram to Da Shang, of course his tone was very rude. Northeast China responded very strongly and directly posted a poem on "Shen Bao".

"I will see the twelve gold medals again now. Huanglong is about to drink hard, and the flower eyes suddenly grow."

Everyone knows that Northeast China is calling Li Hongzhang Qin Hui, and Cixi is Zhao Gou. Yang Qiuxing said it very clearly. We are too lazy to care whether you fight or not, but it is better not to point fingers in front of us.

This was the first time that Northeast China had turned against the Qing court. The important officials in the court did not expect that the Northeast would react so fiercely. Of course, there were all those who said privately, some applauded the Northeast, saying that they defended their families and the country, and the pillars of the country. Of course, some also scolded the Northeast, which was nothing more than looking at the king, seeking fame and reputation, etc.

But no one expected what happened next.

On the third day of the Northeast attack and occupying Toulon, North Korean governor Zhao Ningxia issued a request to the Northeast, demanding that the overall merge into the Northeast territory. Li Hongzhang sent someone to persuade him, but Zhao Ningxia ignored it.

The French are studying countermeasures. Vietnam is like a seahorse, but is now cut off by Da Shang. To the west of Qiongzhou, the entire Beibu Gulf region has become a forbidden area. As long as you dare to give supplies to the people of Beifa, Yan Fu doesn't care about that. No matter what country's ships are, they will be sunk. The naval strength of Da Shang here has completely surpassed all countries, including the British fleet in Hong Kong. If the Da Shang Air Force is included, the overall military strength of Da Shang in Nanyang will be several times higher.

Polyer looked at the map with his brows and his frown was completely cut off by the Da Shang, and the North and South had lost contact. His number one subordinate, Nigri, was seriously injured. Although he has been treated at present, the effect is obviously not good. Elminja, who replaced Nigri, has limited ability. If Nigri had not been seriously injured, there would be no better choice for the entire army. Polyer said that he would never let Elminja lead the First Brigade again.

“What should I do?”

On June 15, bad news came again. The Great Merchant Fleet went north to attack Hue. A thousand Marines landed. After destroying the French army and the minions who were defending the city, they returned to the ship and left again.

Porier knew that he could no longer hesitate, so he ordered all the troops to give up their garrison and gather in Hanoi with supplies. His goal was very clear, which was to concentrate his troops south and break through the defense of Toulon City.

However, the news of Porier gathering in Hanoi was soon spread to Ma Mengde, the commander-in-chief of the First Airship Brigade of the Great Merchants in Qiongzhou. He immediately ordered the Airship Brigade to attack in different waves and bombard Hanoi while the French gathered.

Porier was in trouble now. He never dreamed that the airship would even do such a thing. Only two or three hundred French soldiers were killed by the airship. The combat efficiency was not high, but the huge sense of oppression was really unbearable.

The momentum of Polyer's southward movement can be described as fleeing in panic and running around in scattered areas. The Vietnamese uprising troops, who were originally restless, are now even more happy. The opportunity to seize spoils like this is really rare. The only thing that Polyer is grateful to is that the Qing soldiers did not take this opportunity to force their attack and entered the border of Vietnam again, otherwise they would be doomed again.

However, he quickly rejected his somewhat optimistic idea. It was difficult to go south and would encounter obstacles from the Da Shang Marines along the way from time to time. These teams often had a small number of people, and basically ran away after fighting, either boarding a ship or leaving by airship. Sometimes they would attack the camp in the middle of the night, and it was not necessarily a real fight. Most of them were just knocking on the Brave Route, which made it difficult for the French soldiers to fall asleep. When they were really tired, the god of death would come.

From Hanoi to Qinghua, to Rongshi, Hejing, the number of French troops was greatly reduced. The team that was originally six or seven thousand was left, but now there were only more than 4,700 people left. Polyer knew that if this continued, there would be no need for Da Shang to attack, and his team would completely collapse before Toulon could be done.

A week after the city of Toulon was captured, reinforcements from southern France came over.

The captain of the Marine Corps in Toulon was Fu Dong, who was under three thousand men, and the enemy he faced reached a scale of five thousand. Heavy weapons include six 105mm howitzers and ten 75mm field cannons. The light weapons are Type 1 Carbine and Type 1 Sniper Rifles, as well as Type 1 General Rifles, and 60mm mortars.

Because the position had been established before, unlike the Qing soldiers of Feng Zicai on the Eastern Front, Fu Dong was not interested in building fortresses, and he was more accustomed to operating underground. The trenches were equipped with barbed wire mines and bunkers fortifications, let alone the 5,000 French troops, even if he came for another 5,000, he would have confidence to support him for a few days.

At this time, the French no longer cared about so many. In order to rescue the troops in Tonkin, the new French Prime Minister Henry Brisson had issued strict orders. No matter what the cost was, they must rescue the trapped soldiers from the north.

At first, Lieutenant Colonel Karenda, the commander of France, did not take the Marines of Da Shang seriously. The fleet of Da Shang may be very powerful and the airships may be very powerful, but as the world's number one army, the French did not believe that Da Shang's Marines could stop their progress, especially when they were seriously insufficient in the army.

The first to launch the attack was the Algerian Corps. These black men rushed up desperately. Not long after, they entered the front minefield. This was not a land mine made by the Qing army with bamboo tubes, but various anti-infantry mines, explosions, jumps, fragments, etc. specially made by the Da Shang Arsenal. Karenda looked behind and found that Da Shang's mines were almost playing with. His servants were in great trouble. It was okay to die. Those who were blown off their legs were the real tragedy.

The wailing sounded all over the world, and the proud French soldiers were also a little scared. Before they could shoot, the blacks retreated and said they would not attack.
Chapter completed!