As soon as the Chinese soldiers were about to shoot, Zhang Jiancheng shouted loudly: "Don't shoot!" ”

It turned out that Zhang Jiancheng looked at these people who ran out, each of them was carrying a box, the box looked heavy, and they were holding all kinds of instruments in their hands, which didn't look like ordinary Japanese soldiers.

The soldiers all put down their guns, and Zhang Jiancheng ordered loudly: "Go and get those guys back for me." ”

"Yes, Captain." A group of soldiers jumped out and surrounded the survey and exploration team, and the soldiers knew that the Japanese soldiers were stones in the pit - smelly and hard, so everyone did not dare to be careless, holding their guns flat, aiming their guns at the Japanese soldiers, and pulling the trigger as long as the Japanese soldiers moved slightly.

What the soldiers didn't expect was that when these Japanese soldiers saw them approaching, they actually put down what they were holding and raised their hands high.

Eh, the sun is coming out in the west, and the Japanese soldiers will even raise their hands to surrender, no need to ask, there must be fraud in this, don't be careless, the soldiers are more vigilant.

The soldiers approached the Japanese soldiers, and the Japanese soldiers just raised their hands high, without the slightest intention of resisting, and suddenly a Japanese soldier shouted in Chinese: "Don't kill us, we are not soldiers, we are civilians." ”

"Civilians?" The soldiers looked at the uniforms of the Japanese soldiers, and couldn't believe it, the person who spoke was a middle-aged man, and when he saw that the Chinese soldiers didn't believe it, he walked out of the crowd and said in Chinese: "We are an exploration team and a surveying team, not soldiers, please don't hurt us." ”

The soldiers didn't quite understand what "exploration" and "surveying and mapping" were, so they all took these people in front of Zhang Jiancheng, who still knew some scientific knowledge, and heard that these people were Japan's exploration and mapping teams.

When Lin Fei heard that he had captured the Japanese army's exploration team and surveying and mapping team, he was first angry, and then he was happy, and he was angry that the Japanese had now started the idea of Qing resources, and he was happy that these exploration teams and surveying and mapping teams had carried out preliminary exploration and mapping in Guangxi and Guangdong, especially the exploration team, which discovered fluorite mines around Guilin.

With the construction of hydropower stations in Laos, Lin Fei is preparing to build electrolytic aluminum factories in Laos and Vietnam.

Lin Fei immediately instructed Zhang Jiancheng to keep these exploration teams and surveying and mapping teams for his own use, but Lin Fei had a little concern, that is, these people are Japanese after all, and they have a feud with me in China, will they work for us honestly? It's hard to say, so Lin Fei decided to come up with some evil tricks to deal with these Japanese.

Lin Fei instructed Zhang Jiancheng to find opium from Guilin, give it to these Japanese, make them addicted, and if they work hard in the future, give them opium to smoke, if they don't work well, then cut off their opium, so that their life is worse than death.

This trick seems cruel, but since it is against the Japanese, it is nothing, so these Japanese are under the control of Lin Fei's opium, and honestly work for Huaxia, many of them can't stand the humiliation and commit suicide, and some die directly in Huaxia, in short, none of them returned to Japan.

Lin Fei drove the Japanese army away, and sent a negotiation signal to the Qing court, hoping to use the negotiation to take Guangxi from the legal level and take Yunnan directly, but what Lin Fei didn't expect was that the Qing court still had no intention of negotiating, Lin Fei saw that the Qing court didn't want to negotiate, and didn't want to interfere with the Qing court, so he immediately ordered the troops to attack Yunnan.

However, if he wanted to attack Yunnan, Lin Fei encountered a big difficulty, that is, the division was unknown.

When attacking Guangxi, Lin Fei used the shameless provocation of the Chinese army by the Qing army and asked the Qing court to give a reasonable explanation, but the Qing court did not give a reasonable explanation, and Lin Fei immediately waved his army to Guangxi.

But now, the Qing army in Yunnan has done nothing, and it will be unreasonable to attack Yunnan again, Lin Fei did not dare to put forward the slogan of "overthrowing the Qing court and liberating China" at this time, if this slogan is put forward, the world powers will inevitably join hands to intervene, and then China will face World War II.

Lin Fei thought for a while and smiled dumbly, what reason do I have to talk about with the Qing army, I will attack Yunnan strongly, and then say that this is to force the Qing court to give a reasonable explanation for the sneak attack on Zhennanguan.

I want to add to the crime, I want to beat you, but I can't find a reason to beat you? In this era of the jungle, justice and justice are nonsense, and only the strong have the dignity to live.

Although the border between Yunnan and Vietnam is full of high mountains and dense forests, it is a military dead place, but there is a place that is the main road between Vietnam and Yunnan, and this place is the estuary.

Hekou is a place name, is a Yao village, located on the border between the Qing State and Vietnam, on the edge of the village, is the famous Red River.

The Red River originated in the Qing Dynasty, flowed into Vietnam, the section of the river in the Qing Dynasty was called "Yuanjiang", the transportation capacity was abundant, it was an important passage for the Chinese Dynasty to enter Vietnam in history, in the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there were even Yunnan officials from the Red River into Vietnam (Vietnam at that time was called "Jiaozhi", which was part of the Han Dynasty), and then went from Vietnam to Luoyang, the capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Lin Fei could use the Red River to march his troops, and after arriving at the mouth of the river, the troops turned from waterways to dry roads and approached Kunming, the capital of Yunnan.

From the estuary to Kunming, there is a land connection, this road, is thousands of years of business travel out of the road, although many places are dangerous, but it is completely passable, in the era of Lin Fei, the French colonists even built the Yunnan-Vietnam railway on this route, the Yunnan-Vietnam railway has been opened to traffic for more than half a century, until later, because of political reasons to stop traffic.

On 12 August, after a period of preparation, Lin Fei ordered the 1st Brigade of the 1st Division to occupy the estuary.

The First Brigade of the First Division had a total of more than 3,500 people, and Lin Fei also specially sent a guide group composed of Yao people, and this guide group had a total of more than 500 people, all of whom were recruited by Lin Fei from Guangxi and Vietnam, and there were many ethnic groups in Guangxi and Vietnam, and it was not difficult to recruit a group of Yao people.

The first brigade set off from Hanoi by steamboat, went up the Red River, and went straight to the mouth of the river, the boats used by the first brigade were all left by the French, and the French had been running Vietnam for a long time, leaving a lot of ships in Hanoi, when the French were in Vietnam, they often sent caravans into Yunnan to trade.

On August 13, after a day's sailing, the flotilla entered the estuary.

The estuary was originally a small and prosperous village, but due to the wars between China and Vietnam, it seems to be quite withered, and the villages on the shore are quiet and peaceful.

The brigade commander of the first brigade was Qi Lei, the commander of the first company of Dagong, he was already the brigade commander at this time, and before he set off, Lin Fei had instructed him that after arriving at the estuary, he would first have a good relationship with the patriarch of the local Yao tribe.

There is a word "Yao" in the name "Yao Nationality", it seems that the Yao Nationality seems to be like Meiyu, delicate and weak, but in fact, the name "Yao Nationality" was changed after the Lin Fei era, and the Yao Nationality of this era is called "Qi Nationality", and the folk customs are simple and fierce, which is comparable to the tribe of Jade Frost.

The Yao people in the estuary of the river are not bought with cloth and salt, these Yao people are used to seeing good things, so Lin Fei prepared exquisite gifts for the patriarch, the gifts are ten handicrafts, which are all left by the French in the Saigon Museum, so Lin Fei took out these things and used them himself.

The patriarch of the Yao tribe at the mouth of the river gladly accepted the gift and agreed that Qi Lei's troops would be stationed at the mouth of the river, and that Qi Lei would buy food and other items at the mouth of the river.

Seeing that things were going well, Qi Lei was very happy, and ordered his troops to set up camp outside the Hekou village, and wait until the next morning, and then set off for Kunming by land.

But what Qi Lei didn't expect was that overnight, things changed dramatically.

Early the next morning, as soon as Qi Lei got up, some subordinates hurriedly came to report: "Brigade commander, it's not good, our ships are gone." ”

"Gone? How is this possible? "Qi Lei brought a total of more than 50 steamships this time, so many steamships, how can they say that they are gone, they are ships, how can the ship suddenly disappear!

Qi Lei hurriedly asked his subordinates to take him to the place where the boat was parked by the river, and there was indeed no steamship on the wide and swinging river, Qi Lei hurriedly said: "Since the boat is gone, what about our sentinels?" ”

"Report to the brigade commander, sentry, also gone."

"Why is the sentry gone, did you send someone to look for it?"

"I've sent someone out to look for it, but there is no result yet, I think the sentry is probably more than lucky."

Qi Lei's brows tightened, the sneak attacker seemed to be quite capable, first quietly killed the sentry, and then took away fifty steamboats, who is this sneak attacker?

Qi Lei said in a deep voice: "Inform all the commanders of the company and above to come to my camp for a meeting." ”

"Understood." A soldier ran out to convey the order, and at this moment, a platoon commander ran to Qi Lei's approach, first saluted, and then said, "Brigade commander, we have found the sentry." ”

"Is the Sentinel dead?"

"Report to the brigade commander, the sentry did die, and the body was thrown in the bushes in the distance, and it took us a lot of effort to find the body, but the body is strange."

"What's so strange?"

"Well, brigade commander, it's hard to say strange places, you can come with me to take a look."

"Let's go." Qi Lei said and followed his subordinates to the corpse of the sentry, the climate in this area is hot, it stands to reason that the corpse should have rotted a long time ago, but there is no smell of corpses nearby, obviously the sentinel has just died.

Approaching the corpse, the subordinate pointed his hand to the corpse's throat, "Brigade commander, look at the wound on his throat. ”