My Italian

Now that the defending commander had shown his cards, Nigri no longer hesitated, and the French artillery would let him know what infantry warfare was. "Let the front-line troops pay attention to the distance from the position, and let the artillery immediately suppress the opponent."

Following Nigri's order, the artillery fired again. It has to be said that the French artillery is good enough, and it deserves to be a country that has always attached great importance to the construction of artillery.

The artillerymen basically controlled the drop point of the shells within 50 meters of the long wall. Such precise artillery bombardment caused a lot of losses to the 1st Battalion of the Left Team behind the wall, and even Feng Xiangrong, who commanded them, had a color on his forehead.

"Hold on, you won't retreat."

The eldest son of this old General Feng, his face was hideous, and in line with the blood on his forehead, he seemed to want to choose someone to devour. Since his own commander is not backing down, what else can the other soldiers say, they can only insist on gritted teeth.

However, it is unknown how long this mood can last.

Feng Xianghua, who was worried about his brother, couldn't help but said to him. "Father, send reinforcements."

"No, it's not time yet."

The second son's request was rejected by Feng Zicai. He thought it was not yet time. So when is the time right?

In Feng Zicai's opinion, the best time is when the first battalion of the left team has retreated. When the French believe that the defenders of the checkpoint have retreated, it is the time when their minds are relaxed, and giving them a sudden blow is the most deadly. In order to obtain such a good opportunity, he not only paralyzed the enemy with human life, but even his own son had to take the risk of the battlefield.

Since there were no reinforcements, the 1st Battalion of the Left Team, which was hanging by breath, continued to resist for half an hour, but the casualties were too great and finally defeated.

Seeing the enemy's defeat, the French officers and soldiers cheered heartily. The battle was too difficult, but in the end they still won.

As a qualified commander, Nigri, of course, knew what to do after seeing the enemy retreat, and immediately issued an order. "The whole army goes out and chases the enemy."

Following Nigri's order, the other French soldiers who had been waiting for a long time immediately joined the attack sequence. Even the Vietnamese servants, who were not very morale, roared and happily began to chase and kill the fleeing enemy.

It's just that they don't have see-through eyes, so they can't see what's behind the wall. The retreating soldiers were stopped, and Feng Zicai, the commander, brought all the other Qing troops down. To make matters worse, on the east and west sides, the Maxim heavy machine guns were pushed up by Cosenz and others.

Cosenz witnessed the entire previous battle, and he had to give a thumbs up to this old general Feng's strategy. Although many of the troops under his command were still using cold weapons that should have been eliminated long ago, his excellent command , so that the French army unknowingly stepped into the trap.

When the brigade of French officers and soldiers had already rushed to the front of the checkpoint less than 200 meters away, some French soldiers even had their hands on the long wall.

At this moment, the sound of gunfire suddenly sounded, which seemed to be a signal, and countless figures poured out from behind the long wall. Among them, General Feng drew his saber and rushed towards the French army first.

Seeing Feng Zicai as the commander-in-chief taking the lead, the other Qing officers and soldiers were even more unwilling to lag behind.

However, they soon discovered that, compared with their own bravery, the Max Qinsai electric cannons from the two wings were more ruthless.

"Sudden, sudden, sudden..."

For the first time, the Maxim machine guns arranged on both wings showed their ability to harvest life. The life of the French army was mercilessly harvested by him. Six Maxim machine guns poured ammunition on the French officers and soldiers at a speed of 500 rounds per minute.

At the same time, the artillery, which had been hidden for a long time, was firing at a rate of three shots per minute. Cannonballs were fired at French artillery positions. Although only eight new Italian rapids were able to hit the French artillery positions, they still caused huge irreparable losses.

"Boom" the artillery on a position was directly hit, and together with the French artillery on the side, it blew up into the sky.

"Boom, boom, boom" A shell hit the ammunition box, and the repeated explosions made the surrounding area a forbidden area for life.

Numbness and lack of intelligence, the French artillery position was no more than 3,500 meters away from the checkpoint, which happened to be within the range of the Italian 85mm artillery. A shelling made the French artillery position unable to respond at all. Let the Maxim machine gun be more unscrupulous enough to exert its maximum power.

"Quick retreat."

Nigri, who was standing in front of the position, immediately reacted after seeing his soldiers being mercilessly harvested, but since he came, how could he have to retreat.

Not to mention the French troops who had already rushed to the front of the long wall. These people were destined to be overwhelmed by the Qing army, either killed or captured. The French army that rushed to the front of the pass was already two or three hundred meters away from the long wall. They wanted to retreat to a safe distance, and how could they escape without taking their lives and stepping out of a **** path.

And at this time, the action must be fast, faster than the teammates, so now the French officers and soldiers can no longer care about military discipline, and it is still polite to bump into their comrades. Pay attention and buy yourself time to escape.

All kinds of ugliness of the French army were exposed before the eyes of the Qing army, which made their morale even higher. Everyone knew that they had won, and it was still a big victory, so they pursued harder.

However, Feng Zicai, the commander-in-chief, was not carried away by the victory, and he still led the army to follow behind the French army. Because the Italian commander of Max Qin Sai Electric Cannon kept telling him that at a distance of 600 meters, his army had better keep a little distance from the French army. As long as he heard the ceasefire of Sai Electric Cannon, he could rush up.

In fact, they didn't need to be so serious at all, because the morale of the French army was on the verge of collapse at this time, and fewer than 600 French troops escaped from the range of Maxim. Along the way are the fallen corpses of the French army, which is simply appalling.

These frightened French troops did not stop for a moment when they saw the Qing troops chasing behind them, and many of them ran towards the way they came empty-handed.

In the face of such a situation, Feng Zicai left some officers and soldiers to clean the battlefield and pick up some ocean droplets, especially the cannons that were still in good condition on the French positions, and none of them had to be taken away.

As for the other officers and soldiers, they followed him and followed the defeated French army to attack Lang Son.

In the battle before Zhennan Pass, the Qing army invested more than 5,000 people in Feng Zicai's army, and the French army invested 3,000 people. In the end, the French army suffered a crushing defeat, with more than 2,300 casualties and more than 300 prisoners (the wounded and captured, mainly French officers and soldiers, as for the Vietnamese servants who were all captured without injury), only more than 500 people. Follow Nigri to escape back to Lang Son.

Most of these people were empty-handed, and Nigri did not dare to stay in Lang Son. After spending a night gathering the soldiers, he immediately withdrew from Lang Son and continued to flee to Bac Ninh with a thousand defeated soldiers. Many of the materials in the city were not collected in time, so they ran away.

Facts have proved that Nigri's running skills are still good, and Feng Zicai led his troops to Lang Son the next day to recover the city.

Afterwards, Feng Zicai attacked from all sides, regaining Changqing, Haiyang, Taiyuan and other places one after another. With Feng Zicai's victory at Zhennanguan, other Qing troops were eager to move. Moreover, the Vietnamese people also rioted one after another. For a time, the Beiqi area fell into a mess of gunpowder.

This gave French commander Miller an unusual headache. For this reason, he could only contract strategically. A large number of cities that had just been occupied were abandoned in this way, which made the resistance of the Vietnamese people even more vigorous.

For this reason, he specially sent a message to Paris, requesting that reinforcements be dispatched to the country. In addition, he also investigated the process of Zhennanguan's fiasco, and even pointed out to Paris that the Italians had interfered too much in this war with Qing. Hard to get a good result.

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