At the end of November, Tang Jingsong led two battalions of Guangdong troops to Shanxi with storm. He arrived with him, including the Yunnan Governor Tang Jiong and the third battalion of the Yunnan Army led by Tang Jiong.

"What? The military gate actually wants to abandon Shanxi?"

As soon as he met Liu Yongfu, Tang Jingsong heard the news he didn't want to get the most and was shocked.

Liu Yongfu looked at Tang Jingsong, who came to send guns and money, and said embarrassedly: "Yes, because the Vietnamese government has signed the "Hui Treaty" with France. Now Vietnam has stopped aiding us. Our army is fighting alone here, and it is really difficult to resist the French army. He has no choice but to give up Shanxi and retreat to Xinghua."

When Courbet began to increase troops to Hanoi, Liu Yongfu, who was closely following the movements of the French army in Hanoi, immediately knew the news.

Without He Luoxian and Bohua, Courbet took over the power after the commander-in-chief of the Vietnam-French Army. Considering the successive defeats of Bohua and Li Weiye before, the morale of the French army in Hanoi was sluggish. In addition to sending small reconnaissance troops to the west and north, Courbet did not carry out any real combat operations, but focused on rectifying the internally.

At the same time, the French mainland also did its best to help this great hero who achieved unprecedented victory in Shun'an Fortress - the parliament once again passed huge additional war appropriations. Under the operation of the state machinery, ships of reinforcements and supplies set sail from the ports along the coast of France and North African colonies to Vietnam. For a time, the ports of Vietnam's coastal pacification, Da Nang and other ports were filled with French soldiers of all colors and a large amount of supplies.

There are more and more French troops in Hanoi, and the pressure on the Black Flag Army is getting greater and greater. Huaide has been given up because of the previous flood, and then Danfeng is constantly harassed by Courbet's soldiers because he is too close to Hanoi, so he has to be given up by Liu Yongfu. Now the front line position in the Black Flag Army is Shanxi City.

Liu Yongfu had an in-depth communication with his son who was training recruits in the old streets.

Liu Shaoqing believed that "Shanxi is close to the Red River. If the French army wants to occupy Shanxi, they can rely on powerful water forces to attack. Faced with the French army's superior forces and firepower, the Black Flag Army could never defend it, but only increased casualties. It would be better to retreat to Xinghua and Xuanguang, but instead rely on the local hills and jungle dominant terrain to deal with the French army. On the one hand, they can preserve their strength, and at the same time they can also wait for an opportunity to eat away the enemy."

Liu Yongfu also agreed with his son's idea, so he handed over some of his troops to his son to take them back. However, Liu Yongfu himself was reluctant to leave Shanxi, which he had been working hard for many years, and wanted to stay and see the opportunity - what if the French army did not attack Shanxi, but instead attacked Beining. Of course, if the French army really attacked in large quantities, Liu Yongfu would naturally abandon Shanxi and run away immediately.

Liu Yongfu's idea was immediately opposed by Yunnan Governor Tang Jiong and Tang Jingsong. The two Tang masters chattered and repeatedly urged Liu Yongfu: "Preserving Shanxi is the gateway... If Shanxi does not defend, Baosheng's gateway will be withdrawn, and there will be no food and salary...the situation will be dead."

Tang Jiong also took advantage of the situation and said in a somewhat threatening tone: "Vietnam has all been returned to that tribe. If you do not make a big move and take advantage of this time to seize Shanxi, and call on the provinces of Tonki to be the fundamental place to stand. If Shanxi does not defend and retreat to Xinghua and protect the victory, the subordinates and generals will be disintegrated and the generals will be gone. If the generals of the country are gone, there will be no need for the tribe to use troops. But if the King of Yue issues an edict or threatens China to pursue the matter, you will regret it too much... For your plan today, you will advance but not retreat, make achievements, be rich and noble, be a king and a domineering, and this will be a blow."

The reason why Tang Jiong and Tang Jingsong tried their best to oppose Liu Yongfu's idea of ​​retreating to Baosheng and urged him to lead the Black Flag Army to defend Shanxi was entirely because he hoped that the Black Flag Army would stay across the border to deal with the French army to achieve the effect of "drive away wolves and fight against tigers".

For Liu Yongfu, on the one hand, he also had a glimmer of luck, and more importantly, if he gave up Shanxi, then there would be no chance to get the 100,000 taels of white silver that Tang Jingsong brought.

In the end, Liu Yongfu gritted his teeth and agreed not to leave. But at the same time, he made an old request that all the troops must be commanded by him.

As long as Liu Yongfu was willing to defend Shanxi, other conditions would be easy to negotiate. Tang Jiong and Tang Jingsong immediately agreed to hand over their troops.

At this time, the Qing army in Shanxi had a total of seven battalions, including two Guangdong military camps brought by Tang Jingsongcai, more than 700 people, Zhang Yongqing, Mo Jinzhi, Xu Shihe, and the third battalions brought by Tang Jiong, and more than 1,100 people, and one and a half battalions of the Gui army - one battalions of Li Yingzhang and half battalions of Jia Wengui, more than 400 people.

As for the Yunnan Army and the Huai Army, who had fought several battles with the Black Flag Army, they were all not in Shanxi because they returned to the rear to replenish their troops.

Subsequently, Liu Yongfu, accompanied by Tang Jingsong and Tang Jiong, inspected the three new battalions, which was considered to be the official handover of military power.

When Liu Yongfu saw the 2,300 officers and soldiers in front of him, he had only four words to describe his feelings, that is, "I want to cry but no tears."

Liu Yongfu already knew what the quality of the Yunnan Army was. The two battalions sent by Cen Yuying could not fight tough battles at all. If they hadn't had the skill of crafting artillery at least, Liu Yongfu would have wanted to send them back to Yunnan to waste food. Even after two months of training, the Yunnan Army of these two battalions were not a little weaker than the Black Flag Army. And the three battalions of Yunnan Army brought by Tang Jiong were not as good as those of Ding Huai and Li Yingzhen.

My son could see this thoroughly. The key to the Qing army was that it lacked the ruthlessness.

Liu Shaoqing once commented on his father about the Qing army in Tokichi, "The Qing army seems to be powerful, but in fact it lacks equipment and neglects training, and is completely serving in the army for the sake of money. To put it bluntly, it is just a waste of time. If such a group training, the local brave men, let them stay in their hometowns, they may play some role. After all, they are their relatives and families behind them, but it is not enough to expect them to stay away from their hometowns and work hard for Vietnam, which has nothing to do."

After watching the Yunnan Army, I was even more unbearable when I looked at the Guangdong Army.

This army can be called the "double gun army", because almost everyone in the army is equipped with double guns - a foreign gun and a cigarette gun. Not to mention fighting, even if you stand here now, people will yawn.

The only thing better is the four hundred Gui Army, Li Yingzhang and Jia Wengui, who had encountered the French army in Fushou County before. Although some people were lost, they were considered to have seen the world. In addition, they came first and were somewhat connected with the Black Flag Army, and their equipment and morale were much better than the new Yunnan Army and Guangdong Army.

After reviewing his so-called reinforcements, Liu Yongfu regretted not agreeing to stay with the two "Tang Monks". But now Liu Yongfu, who has become a tiger, has no way out and can only bite the bullet and go on.

The Qing army was almost unreliable, and Liu Yongfu could only rely on his own Black Flag Army!

As early as after the second Zhiqiao victory, Liu Shaoqing had already taken Yang Jianen's Zuoying back to Baosheng. On the one hand, he guarded his old nest, and on the other hand, he trained new recruits. Moreover, in such a dangerous situation in the war, Liu Yongfu was reluctant to let his son go to the front line in person.

Later, Pang Zhenyun's Wulie Camp suffered heavy losses and returned to Baosheng alone to rest and replenish.

After the father and son decided to give up Shanxi, Liu Yongfu arranged two more battalions to guard Xuanguang and Xinghua. No matter what the final result was, the retreat must be kept. This is the experience of Liu Yongfu's survival in the battle for so many years.

Therefore, at this time, there were only Huang Baozhu and Deng Yulin battalions of Huang Shouzhong's troops, Han Zaixun's personal soldiers' right camp, Liu Wenqian's personal soldiers' back camp, Li Tang battalions who were withdrawn from Danfeng and the newly formed seven-star fourth battalions of Liu Rongmei. The total force was more than 3,000.

Tang Jingsong was really a man of work. Although the military power was handed over, he did not act as a hand-off manager at all, but helped Liu Yongfu train the Qing army and set up defense lines.

The Black Flag Army, which was originally good at guerrilla warfare, began to build large-scale construction and set up position defense.

There were shouts of training everywhere, including the horns of recruits and the roar of instructors. In the distance, a group of recruits were carrying logs and running around the village; near, there were a group of recruits lying on the playground on the left, which were the recruits lying on the ground and training their upper limbs; lying in front of them, they were doing lying ups; more recruits were training queues.

After the Second Zhiqiao Victory, Liu Yongfu was appointed as the Admiral of the Three Xuan by the Vietnamese court. At the same time, the Qing court also strongly supported it, and the Black Flag Army's conscription work was carried out very smoothly. In addition to the more than 2,000 new recruits on the front line, more than 4,000 people are now staying in Baosheng to continue training.

There are more than 4,000 young men, and the amount of activity is large. The food consumed every day is thousands of kilograms. In addition to meat and vegetables, the consumption of at least 5,000 taels of silver per month is required.

However, Liu Shaoqing is not worried about the consumption of food and silver now.

As early as ten years ago, Liu Yongfu was already the Deputy Admiral of the Three Xuanshu. After years of development and infiltration, coupled with the reputation of the Black Flag Army in the past two years, they not only controlled Xuan Guang, Xinghua and Shanxi, but also Laizhou, Anpei, Hejiang and Dien Bien Prefecture, which were adjacent to the Old Street, were under the actual control of the Black Flag Army.

Although these northwestern provinces in Vietnam are barren, it is easy to support more than 100,000 people. In addition, with the tax revenue of the Honghe River and the support of the Qing court, the Black Flag Army is now living better than ten years ago.

What? Did you say that the Kingdom of Vietnam abolished its support for the Black Flag Army after surrendering? That's right, the Vietnamese government canceled the supply to the Black Flag Army, but if you don't give it, it doesn't mean I won't get it myself?

I’m not afraid of French Ocean Horse, but I’m still afraid of you, a little Vietnamese black monkey?

Liu Shaoqing is worried about the training of the remaining 4,000 people.

The main reason is that most of these soldiers come from local Vietnam and Laos. Many people have different languages ​​and are difficult to communicate, so it is naturally even more difficult to train.

Liu Yagong is a member of the Laolong tribe. His original name was Mengchai Saiyagong. Because he was fortunate to be elected as the Black Flag Army, he changed his name to Liu Yagong. The commander of the Black Flag Army was surnamed Liu, so many new recruits changed their original surname to the "Liu" to show their loyalty.

Liu Yagong's original village was in the deep mountains and forests, and his family was so poor that he had clothes. When he came to join the Black Flag Army, he was surrounded by banana leaves. Not only him, but many local Vietnamese people in Laos were like him. The family had a meal but no meal, and their lives were completely unsecured.

Being able to join the Black Flag Army as a soldier is almost their best way out. For nothing else, after joining the Black Flag Army, not only can they have no worries about food and clothing, but they are selected as the official soldier and can also get one stone of grain and three kilograms of meat at home every month!

This is enough to support a family of five in the northwest Vietnam!

Before, the Black Flag Army was concerned about the Vietnamese government and the Qing court, so they did not dare to recruit soldiers and could only control their troops to about four or five thousand. Most of these locals wanted to join the Black Flag Army but had no choice. Now with the support of the Qing court and the tacit approval of Vietnam, the Black Flag Army finally began to expand its troops on a large scale, and these talents had an extra way to survive.

So recruits like Liu Yagong tried their best to train because this was their best way out. Moreover, the whole family pointed at them to support them. If they were screened out because of failed training, the whole family might starve to death.

Liu Yagong also has an unknown dream, that is, to kill the enemy and make meritorious service.

The instructor said that in the future, as long as he cut down ten foreigners' heads on the battlefield, he would get a reward of 100 taels of silver. There is no idea how much is 100 taels of silver, Liu Yagong, because he had never seen silver. But if he could cut down ten foreigners' heads, he could own a piece of land in Baosheng, and then he would be able to take his grandmother, mother and two younger brothers and sisters over to live.

Liu Yagong didn't know what the people who lived in the Celestial Empire looked like, but he felt that being able to live in Protective would be like being in heaven.

So he has to train hard!

Liu Shaoqing was carefully observing the status of these new recruits. Because of language issues, he considered that he might need to form soldiers from the old Dragon Clan, Jing Clan and other ethnic groups separately in the future, so he wanted to find some smart, sincere and harder recruits in advance to focus on training.

But this is not easy, because thousands of people are working hard to train, and it will not take a long time to find a top player. Fortunately, he has time.
Chapter completed!