Nanguan town, which was once prosperous, was in ruins. Between the broken walls of collapsed houses, unburned beams and columns are smoking, and dead pigs and chickens, as well as the bodies of old people and women, can be seen everywhere. Feng Zicai looked at the tragic scene in front of him, his dark cheeks trembled with excitement and his chin cocked up with anger. He has lived for 70 years and has never seen such a shocking scene. At this moment, a wild dog staggered over. This wild dog has red eyes and a calf in its mouth. Feng Zicai was furious and pulled out his sword to save himself from the wild dog. Wild dogs are very clever. Hearing the wind coming, he shrank his neck and hid in the past, showing Bai Sensen's teeth and howling at Feng Zicai. Standing by, Chen Jia quickly grabbed a pike from a soldier. The pike was stabbed in his hand by a dog and passed by by by a wild dog.
Feng Zicai walked unhurriedly with a stance of "Ma bu" and made moves like lightning. He grabbed the stray dog's hind legs at once and threw it hard. The stray dog was thrown into the air and landed firmly on a big wooden post hundreds of meters away, and the wooden post was smashed to the ground. The wild dog twisted its limbs on the ground and vomited blood to death. Chen Jia cheered: Master Feng really has kung fu! ? Feng Zicai stroked his gray beard and said humorously? This wild dog goes first, and it's nigri's turn to be a mad dog next time! ? Several soldiers ran to see the dead dog. Suddenly, a soldier with good writing and ink exclaimed, Yo, there are words written by foreigners on this wooden post. Yes, the handwriting written by foreigners is as ugly as an earthworm looking for his second aunt. ? Chen Jia knows several foreign languages. When she looked over, it said:? Guangxi portal no longer exists! ? Chen Jia spat, raised his foot, stepped on the wooden post and cursed, Bah, foreign devil, your breath is so big when wild dogs bark! ? He ordered the soldiers: light a fire and burn the foreigners' nonsense! ? At this moment, Feng Zicun also came over. He waved his hand and said, don't burn it, keep it, and keep this wooden pillar as a lesson. ? Now that the old general has spoken, Chen Jia dare not say anything more, but she is still whispering: Don't just keep the lesson in mind, why let the wooden pillars written by foreigners show off here? This is not the prestige of foreign devils! ? Feng Zicun saw Chen Jia's mind and said with a smile. If foreign devils set up wooden pillars, shouldn't we also set up one and write a few words on it to enhance our Qing ambition? ? Chen Jia listened to the old general's words, so he ordered several soldiers to move a large piece of tree, peel off the bark and expose the white stubble. Feng Zicai asked touts to bring pen and ink, shrunk his sleeves, raised his pen, and wrote a line of big characters on the tree segment:? We will rebuild our portal with French heads! ? Thick ink soon penetrated into the stubble, black as iron.
Chen Jia high-fived: Good word, good word, broadsword horizontal, spear vertical. Foreign devils can't sleep at night when they see this word! ? The soldiers also repeatedly praised the good writing and wrote everyone's voice. The French devils are too wild. You have a family and a garden in France, so it's not good to live a serious life. It's just that there are not enough people to swallow elephants and show them off at the gate of our Qing family. If we don't suppress our arrogance, we really have to enter the customs and fight in Guangxi, and then fight in Zijincheng, Beijing. Now led by the old general, we will organize all kinds of military forces to enter Nanguan town, and the French devils will never dare to set foot in our country again.
The war was started entirely by the French.
1883 12. In order to establish a base area for aggression against China in Vietnam, the French invaders led 6,000 French troops to brazenly attack Shanxi and Beining, Vietnam, which were defended by the Qing army, and provoked the Sino-French war. The Qing government was corrupt and incompetent, and was forced to admit that France had the right to protect Vietnam. Then, the French attacked China. French Prime Minister Ruferri shouted haughtily. Conquer that huge Chinese empire? . 1884, the French fleet led by Guba attacked China from the sea for the first time. I lost Keelung, Taiwan Province, and the Fujian Navy moored at Mawei Military Port was completely annihilated. The victory of naval battle greatly stimulated the ambition of the French invaders. 1February 885, nigri led more than 10,000 French and Vietnamese puppet troops to raid the Qing army stationed in lang son and Zhennanguan. Pan, the governor of Guangxi in Qing Dynasty, fled without fighting, set fire to lang son and abandoned Nanguan Town. It was not until Longzhou, more than 70 kilometers away from Guanguan, lost all his wages, arms and children and shocked the whole province of Guangxi that he stopped.
It was in this case that Feng Zicai was ordered to lead the army to Nanguan Town. Along the way, Pan's routed troops were taken in and rectified, and several stragglers who robbed in disorder during the retreat were killed, and finally the panic-stricken escape phenomenon was stabilized.
Feng Zicai ordered his men to bury the body in the ruins, and took the generals such as Wang and Wang to observe the terrain in the pass carefully. The south gate of the town was destroyed, and it was too late to repair it. Feng Zicai made a decisive decision and decided to take Guanqian Pass, which is 5 kilometers away from Guannian, as the decisive battle battlefield. There are mountains on both sides here, and there is only one passage in the middle. The situation is dangerous, easy to defend but difficult to attack. After the battlefield was selected, Feng Zicai led the troops to build a long wall more than three miles long at the pass, across the east and west ridges, and dug a deep ditch outside the wall.
Several large pits were dug in the open space in front of the deep ditch, and tens of thousands of kilograms of gunpowder were buried in the pits. Then fill the pit with soil, plant turf and pretend to be a overgrown wasteland. Forts have also been built at the top of the east and west ridges to be condescending and bombarding the enemy.
After the deployment was proper, Feng Zicai felt a little tired and went back to camp to have a rest. His two sons quickly helped the old father sit down. One handed the towel, and the other brought the food already prepared to the table. These two sons, one in his twenties and the other in his thirties, have learned a good martial arts from their father, and they are Feng Zicai's right-hand men in the battle to kill the enemy. They are very popular with his father, so Feng Zicai always takes them with him. Feng Zicun sat down to eat and found a greasy roast chicken on the plate. He frowned and asked, where did you get the chicken? However, the surrounding villages that you got in the autumn wind in the village have just been looted by the defeated soldiers, and the people are uneasy. If your own troops harass the people again, wouldn't it be a sin! The eldest son quickly explained:? Chicken was sent by an old Vietnamese man, wrapped in banana leaves and hidden in a skirt. It escaped the French and walked for dozens of miles in the jungle, saying it was nourishing for veteran Feng Qing! ? Feng Zicai's face softened. However, he wanted to know whether the Vietnamese elderly risked their lives just to send a chicken. I'm afraid there is another reason. He asked his son: The old Vietnamese man left, and his son replied: No, he said he had something important to tell you face to face. ? Feng Zicai got angry when he heard this and scolded his son loudly. The guest has come, why not bring him to see my son as soon as possible and say without a clue: the old man is tired from walking, so I let him rest. Besides, after a hard day's work, it's time for you to stop for something to eat and some tea! Glared at Feng Zicai, the gray beard became warped up and said, now that the two armies are at war, should we stop? Come on, invite the old man in! ? An old man from Vietnam came in. His thin, black face, like a dried jujube, was covered with blood and was cut by thorns when crossing a mountain forest. When he saw Feng Zicun, he knelt down and said, Feng Ye, I have come to beg you to avenge us Vietnamese! ? The Vietnamese old man's name is Ryder. He can speak Chinese and is a farmer in Wen Yuan.
After the French army occupied Wenyuan City, they often went to the countryside to burn, kill and plunder. The French raped his daughter-in-law and drowned his son in the river. In their village alone, more than ten people were killed by French soldiers. The villagers heard that there was a brave old general Feng in Nanguan town. He wanted to build a wall and dig ditches to fight against the French, so he recommended Li De to see Feng Zicai. Feng Zicai helped Li De up, sat him down and said? Don't worry, old brother, as long as I am here, I must make the French pay this blood debt. Oh, what are the enemies doing in Yuan Wen? Say to Ryder: That's why I'm here. The French know your ability and dare not fight you. I have an old neighbor who works as a chef in a French military camp. He heard the French leader plotting to sneak up on Xiangfeng, bypass the city gate, seize Longzhou and surround you from the north. This matter is very important. The villagers were afraid that the Qing army would suffer, so they recommended me to inform them! ? Feng Zicai grabbed read's hand and said? Brother, you saved the lives of thousands of our soldiers. I really appreciate it． ? He asked his two sons to give a few pieces of silver to Li De, who waved his hand and refused. Feng Zicai said? It's not too much to give you two thousand silver as your contribution. These silverware are just a token of my appreciation. You have suffered a lot from the French, and this money can make up for it. Besides, you can't let the French trample you. You should get in touch with them and fight them. The French will undoubtedly lose if our two countries cooperate before and after. ? Read nodded and said yes. He took the money, saying that he would use it to buy weapons and pull a team to fight China people.
Feng Zicai sent Li De away without food. Immediately ordered the general Wei Gangjun to lead the troops into famine. No sooner had Wei Gangjun led the troops to settle down than a small group of French troops came to attack. Wei Gangjun led a frontal attack. When the French saw that the Qing army was ready, they retreated. Feng Zicai thought it was too passive to wait for the French attack. He will take the initiative to lure the enemy to a decisive battle.
2 1,1On the night of March 26th, 885, Feng Zicai led a fine soldier to attack the French outpost Wenyuan City. Once rushed into the street center of Yuan Wen and destroyed two of the three hilltop forts. When nigri woke up from a dream and organized forces to fight back, Feng Zicai and others had already disappeared without a trace.
Nigri set foot on Vietnamese soil from France, and has been swaggering and never suffered a loss. This time, Feng Zicai gave me a stuffy pus, which I really couldn't swallow. He decided to attack Feng Zicai immediately. At 8 o'clock on the morning of March 23, he was divided into three roads and went straight to Nanguan Town. In Nanguan Town, nigri took a special look at the wooden post he erected. Without looking at You Ke, I was so angry that I almost vomited blood. I saw a dead dog tied to a wooden post, many green ropes sucking rotten purulent blood, and thousands of white maggots arching around in the dog's body. The stench is disgusting. Near this wooden pillar stands a big tree segment with words written on it. He showed it to the lieutenant who knows Chinese, and the result was:? We will rebuild our portal with French heads! ? Nigri ordered the soldiers to burn all the tree segments and stakes, gnashing his teeth? Feng Zicai, I swear to cut off your head, take it back to France and send it to the museum. I want to tell the French that the fate of a crazy China is so tragic! ? Nigri arranged two armies to attack the East-West Ridge, and he led the main force to attack the Qianguan Long Wall.
At that time, a new weapon of French officers was called the fireworks, which had a long range and exploded like a flame when landing, with a large killing area. Three of the five forts temporarily built by the Qing army in Dongling were blown up. The Qing army guarding the fortress was blown to pieces. Chen Jia, commander of Dongling Fort, was also seriously injured and fell into a coma. The soldiers carried him to the remaining two batteries. The French army rushed up, occupied the hill, set off fireworks and blew up the long wall in front of the customs. Under the cover of artillery fire, nigri ordered thousands of soldiers to charge the long wall. When the French army set foot on the grassland in front of the deep ditch, they only listened? There was a loud bang and the world changed color. Gunpowder buried in several deep pits exploded, and 100 French soldiers flew into the sky. Nigri was so scared that he fell off his horse and became a dog eating shit. The French army retreated awkwardly.
Chen Jia was awakened by the earth-shattering sound. He found himself lying in the ammunition depot of the battery and asked the soldiers around him what had happened. The soldier told him that the French army rushed to the long wall and was killed by gunpowder buried in the grass. Chen Jia jumped up and said, open fire on the enemy. Wow! ? The soldier replied:? The terrain of our remaining two forts is not good, so we can't hit the enemy! ? At this time, the three fortresses robbed by the French army opened fire and the fireworks of the French army flew to the long wall. Chen Jia was in a hurry, grabbed the spear and roared, Hurry up and go back to the battery, or this long wall will be finished. Lord Feng is in danger! ? Chen Jia was injured and organized soldiers to rob the fort. The French army naturally refused to give up easily, and the two sides launched a seesaw battle.
Feng Zicai saw the tension in Dongling, so Su Yuanchun led his troops to bypass Dongling from the long wall to help Chen Jia get back the battery. Su Yuanchun hesitated and said, nigri is about to launch a second attack. When I leave, the guarding city will weaken and become more dangerous! ? Feng Zicai said? If we don't recapture Dongling Castle, the long wall will be more dangerous. Go ahead. Feng Zicai is here, with a long wall. Although I am old, my bones are still strong! ? Su Yuanchun tearfully bid farewell to the old general who reinforced Dongling.
After nigri's shock was slightly settled, he organized soldiers to charge the long wall. The Qing army guarding the city wall was weak due to the departure of Su Yuanchun's department, so it was difficult to suppress the French army with muskets for a while. Nigri was so proud that he shouted:? Take Feng Zicai alive, upgrade him, and send him back to Paris for three months! ? French soldiers miss their wives and children at home. When they heard that they could go back to Paris, their emotions soared and they jumped into the ditch to get close to the long wall.
Feng Zicai ordered the soldiers to throw wood and stones, but to no avail. Feng Zicai waved a broadsword and said to the soldiers with passion. Fargo must not be allowed to enter the customs, otherwise, we will be ashamed to meet the elders of Guangdong and Guangxi! ? There is a small French officer climbing on the wall brick. Feng Zicai took the musket and killed him with one shot, but more French soldiers climbed up. Feng Zicai saw that the situation was very critical and urgent, and he needed to make a decisive decision. He thought, instead of sticking to it, it is better to take the initiative to attack in order to meet the desperate situation. He let out a cry and rushed out of the fence with a spear in his hand. His two sons followed closely and rushed into the enemy's defense. When the Qing army saw the white-haired old general take the lead, they all took courage. Together, they opened the floodgates and rushed out in an avalanche, fighting hand-to-hand with the enemy. The French army didn't expect Feng Zicai to risk his life and rush out of the wall in this case, and was caught off guard. Foreign guns are good at long-range attacks and close hand-to-hand combat, and spears and broadswords are powerful. Most of the Qing army learned martial arts and tried their best to grasp, take, push, fuck and trip, and soon pressed the French army back. At this time, Dongling is also engaged in a fierce battle for batteries. Chen Jia led the soldiers to the fort occupied by the French army seven times, and all seven times they were beaten back. He was injured four times and his right arm was broken by a foreign gun. He was unconscious several times, and after waking up, he organized people to grab the battery. In the evening, Su Yuanchun's reinforcements arrived. Su Yuanchun organized death squads, waved broadswords and used trees as a cover to climb mountains. Nigri discovered the whereabouts of the Qing army through a telescope and was busy assembling artillery bombardment. He knew that if the Dongling fort was recaptured by the Qing army and the muzzle turned to bombard the French army, they would not be able to get close to the long wall.
Besides, Su Yuanchun had expected that the enemy would come to this skill, so he ordered the death squads to break many branches and put them on him. In this way, from a distance, the French army can't distinguish between people and trees. Moreover, the terrain on the mountain is complex and it is difficult for artillery to hit. They soon approached the fort on the top of the mountain. When Chen Jia saw that reinforcements had arrived, he organized forces to attack. The French artillery was caught between Scylla and Charybdis, which was hard to stop, so he abandoned the fort and fled down the mountain.
After Dongling Castle was recovered, Feng Zicai took the initiative. On 25th, Feng Zicai issued a general attack order. The Qing army rushed out from the hills and trenches. More than 0/000 Vietnamese joined the war under the leadership of Lyman De Sr. There are crowds with weapons all over the mountains, gongs and drums are everywhere, and the French army is besieged. Nigri left more than 1000 bodies and led the beaten army to Wenyuan City. Feng Zicai ordered the 56-point attack, and people couldn't understand armour along the way, so they couldn't get off the saddle. On 26th, Wenyuan City was laid, and on 29th, lang son was conquered. Nigri was also injured. He quickly threw all the cannons, the trench and the silver dollar into the water and ran towards the south.