Hue, Vietnam, the royal palace of the Nguyen Dynasty.

Looking at the French envoy standing in His Highness, with an arrogant face, Emperor Side trembled all over, and he couldn't suppress his anger after decades of being a king.

Vietnam became a protectorate of the French Third Republic, and the sovereignty of Zhongqi remained formally vested in the King of Vietnam, but the administrative and military powers were exercised by the French. The French army was to maintain law and order in the area ruled by the Nguyen Dynasty, and Vietnam recognized the French as having an indisputable right to control Cochinchina......

It's too much of a deception! Yangyi deceives people too much!

'I, Dayue, am a vassal state of the Great Qin Empire, and the whole country will be burned, and I will never bow down to you and other foreigners! ‘

Foreigners say that China is acting hegemonically, that Vietnam respects China as its suzerain, that it has no national independence and freedom, and that even the choice of the king must obey China's will. But what is the independence and freedom of the nation? Hundreds of years ago, Vietnam and China were one and the same!

Will China interfere in the internal affairs of the Nguyen Dynasty if it has nothing to do? Even the new Qin was completely active in Beiqi, and the Nguyen Dynasty authorities still had a considerable amount of sovereignty and control over Beiqi. He did not interfere in the internal affairs of Central and Nam Ky, and even in Vietnam.

Emperor Side has obtained a lot of military power from Wu Zhongping in the past two years, Wu Zhongping bowed his head and obeyed orders, and Xin Qin did not say a word about it. This is to support one's own rule with actions, which is much more credible than a mouth cannon on the mouth.

And what about foreigners? The French are like devouring Vietnam in one bite, and only use their own family as a puppet + puppet!

Even if Emperor Side is an idiot, he can tell which thick leg is more advantageous! China, the suzerain, is much stronger than the foreigners.

Nguyen Phuc Anh Zhen, the Duke of Swwe Quoc was officially canonized as the crown prince last year. The five hundred pro-troops on the prince's mansion, Qing Yishui'er's repeating pistol + revolver, and four breech-loading steel cannons. It was all a gift from Liu Xian, and he didn't ask for a penny. I didn't put anyone in it. Because Ruan Fuying Zhen has long shared weal and woe with Xin Qin, he is a grasshopper on a rope. 'Knock him out for Bengong-'

He's a fucking bully. Eat dry and touch clean. I was not prepared to leave the Ruan family at all. In Ruan Phuc Yingzhen's eyes, this is the enmity of the heavens!

Vietnam now has 30,000 new troops and 5,000 forbidden troops, and Liu Zhuo's troops have returned to Beiqi a month ago, and now the soldiers remain at the junction of Beiqi and Zhongqi. If the French wanted to land from Da Nang and the army directly attacked the capital of Hue, at most ten days, tens of thousands of Qin troops could rush to Hue City with all their equipment.

Nguyen Phuc Nguyen did not think that Vietnam had more than 10,000 new troops deployed in Hue, plus 5,000 Janissaries. There are still more than 20,000 old troops, which will not be able to withstand the ten-day attack of the French.

Today's Vietnam is not the Vietnam of the Franco-Vietnamese First War 20 years ago.

Vietnam has telegraph lines with Liangguangtong. What happened in Hue was reported to the Qin Wangfu in Guangzhou on the same day.

"The French are menacing!"

They had the confidence that behind them stood a powerful fleet and a powerful army of 20,000 French soldiers. Combined with the French garrison in Ha Tien and the colonial troops [Blue Ribbon], the number of land forces at the disposal of the French exceeded 30,000.

That's a huge amount. When the Anglo-French forces invaded Beijing, the total number of troops was not so large.

Ta Kung Pao had been following this for several months, with a special issue on the French army's departure after the New Year, and then as the French fleet drew closer. Five versions of the review have been waited for one after another. The meaning of the French here is very clear and in place.

"Liu Zhuo can handle it, we don't need to care. Let the troops act as originally planned, and take Hunan for me. ”

Liu Xian gathered the naval fleet and the sea of Guangzhou, and he was really worried that the French would 'go straight to the Yellow Dragon'. However, his confidence in the combat strength of his army made him feel that the army with two integrated brigades was vacant in Liangguang. It's a pity.

Liu Xian finally decided to follow the original plan and put two integrated brigades into Hunan!

As soon as the military order came out in King Qin's mansion, the two integrated brigades that had been prepared in advance immediately set off. First, from Quanzhou, Guangxi, to Yongzhou, southern Hunan. First, from Shaozhou, Guangdong, to Chenzhou, southeast of Hunan.

Zeng Guoquan had been in Hunan for a while at this time. The appeal of the Zeng family's signboard in Hunan is really not comparable to Wang Wenshao. The gentry of the land of Huxiang are strong. More of them were the old Hunan Army, which responded one after another. In the blink of an eye, Zeng Guoquan held a regimental training arm of 30,000 or 40,000 people in his hands. And there is no shortage of money and food. Even the purchase of weapons from Hankou and Shanghai has solved a considerable part of the problem.

It's just that Zeng Guoquan knows that these 30,000 or 40,000 people are inferior to the Huai army and the Chu army, and fighting a tough battle with the Qin army is asking for a dead end.

If the Xiang army wants to win in this game, it can only exchange time with the disk. If the French make a move in Vietnam, the Qin army in Vietnam will not be able to cope with it, and Liu Xian will send troops to reinforcements. Looking at the territory of the Qin army, all parts of the country are coastal, Yunnan-Guizhou and Jiangxi are at war, and the former has withdrawn from the more than 10,000 main forces of Liu Zhuo's army, so if you want to send troops to reinforce Vietnam, you can only transfer the Hunan battlefield.

Or, the more territory the Qin army occupies, the more troops are stationed in each division, and the more dispersed the forces become. It was also an opportunity for a decisive battle. Not now anyway!

The two Qin armies attacked the city and plundered the territory in southern Hunan, and the speed of the march was as fast as the area of the territory occupied, and they did not encounter real resistance at all. In just ten days, Yongzhou, Chenzhou, and Guiyang were all taken by the Qin army. Now the Qin army has pointed directly at Hengyang.

Zeng Guoquan's tricks, Liu Xian saw it clearly. 'If the land is lost, the land is lost; If you save people and lose land, you will gain all people. The sixteen words summarized by the great grandfather of the Red Dynasty, Liu Xian remembered it clearly.

When the Qin army began to attack Hengyang, a large number of independent brigades and independent battalions, which were composed of soldiers selected from the Qing army who surrendered anyway, marched into southern Hunan in waves. In addition, Liu Xian also instructed the Military Intelligence Department to spread rumors in Beijing, Changsha, Wuhan, Shanghai, and other places, spreading rumors that Zeng Guoquan had 'plotted against him' and had lost the land of southern Hunan in vain, and that Zeng Guoquan had long been in contact with Liu Xian......

Rumors are an invisible murder knife. Zeng Guoquan is not Mao Taizu, he can speak his word, and he is surrounded by a group of real talents who help the world and Anbang. That Wang Wenshao of Changsha, Weng Tongjue of Wuchang and others, if they don't be pig teammates, even if Zeng Guoquan and his eldest brother give him blessings.

However, it will take time for these to ferment. Sitting in Hengyang is Ma Rulong, the governor of Hunan, and Zeng Guoquan's cousin, Peng Yutang, who provoked Liu Xian back then.

Since being ambushed by the Twist Army and almost killed, Peng Yucheng has been recuperating at home for more than a year. It's a pity that when he recovered and planned to go out of the mountain again to seek a term as a political envoy and governor, the Zeng family's big tree, Zeng Guofan, fell.

Peng Yucheng is the same as Zeng Guoquan, giving up the idea of becoming an official again and staying in Xiangyin's hometown. Even Zeng Guoquan went out of the mountain to serve as the governor of Shanxi, and Peng Yucheng showed no signs of coming out again. Until Zeng Guoquan returned to Hunan and re-erected the banner of the Zeng family, Peng Yucheng naturally shouted for Zeng Guoquan.

"Yunfeng, why worry? No matter how powerful the guns of the Qin army were, I only hid behind the high wall, in the deep trench. But when the enemy approached, they surged out and fought hand-to-hand. Although it may not be possible to win, if Qin Yi wants to win Hengyang, I will also knock out Liu Xian's front teeth! Let the world see the bloody nature of Huxiang athletes! ”

Peng Yucheng said to Ma Rulong. As for Ma Rulong, after tasting the product, what Peng Yucheng said also makes some sense. But he really can't afford this 'blood debt'.

Peng Yucheng is a member of the Zeng family, he just fought with Liu Xian for a while, and when the situation changes greatly in the future, as long as he is willing to surrender, the Qin army will definitely be happy to accept it. It may be difficult for a high-ranking official, but there is absolutely no problem in living the second half of his life peacefully. He sat on wax like a dragon.

As a native of Jianshui [Yunnan], Ma Rulong's hometown is now the territory of Xinqin, he is also an HH, but also from the H army, although he never kills indiscriminately when he rebels, and he also plays the sign of 'only wanting revenge, not daring to rebel', and was finally absorbed by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but Liu Xianping on the way to Xinjiang, what is the attitude towards the rebellious Huihui, but the world knows.

Ma Rulong is the son of a generation of eunuchs, and his uncle Ma Jimei is the chief soldier of Jiujiang Town, Jiangxi. Ma Rulong was burly when he was young, good at martial arts, and he was the first in the township test martial arts itch and was awarded to Wusheng. He also sincerely maintained a kind of reverence for the Manchu Dynasty, but this awe was by no means equivalent to his dead heart for the Manchu Dynasty. It was more of a kind of fear of the small people to the imperial court, and the obedience of the small landlords to the centralized power. If the Eight Banners Dragon Flag at the head of Beijing City is replaced with a red blood red flag, Ma Rulong will be the same fear and obedience.

In a word, what he is afraid of is the chair on the Taihe Palace, who cares who is sitting on the chair!

In the thirteenth year of Tongzhi, Ma Rulong went to Beijing to see His Majesty, and was ordered to transfer the governor of Hunan, on the birthday of the Empress Dowager Cixi, and ordered to go to Cining Palace to listen to the play for three days, and gave Muslim food, and jade Ruyi, clothing, incense burners and other things, summoned four times before and after, and reinstated Prince Gong to personally examine the scars and write it into the imperial review.

This was the only few times Ma Rulong had contact with the top level of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

"The surname Peng is standing and talking without back pain. He has Yu Meng of the Zeng family behind him, no matter how ruthless he is with the new Qin, the Qin army looks at the face of the Zeng family, as long as he is willing to surrender, he will not kill him. We are different, we don't have any friendship with Qin Jun, it's still huihui. If it is recorded by the Qin army, the people in the hometown will suffer. ”

In a team like Ma Rulong, there are a large number of officers who disapprove of the Qing court. These people never talk about loyalty, they only see who is strong and hard-fisted. At most, there are some moral bottom line constraints in my heart.

The Huihui uprising in Yunnan is not once or twice, but the Huihui in Yunnan is a little different from the northwest. The Huihui in Yunnan was not aimed at the local Han people, but at the Manchu Qing government. Especially Ma Rulong.

"But if the Qin army doesn't come to contact us, we will take the initiative to surrender to the Qin army, doesn't it seem too lowly?"

"Qin Jun doesn't pay attention to us. If you casually give a few captains and give me a battalion commander, you will send us away, it will be too much of a loss, isn't it? ......" (To be continued......) R1292