At dawn, the main force of the French army drove along the land route for a day and a night, and finally arrived in Hanoi. Looking at the exhausted soldiers, Lemobojo knew that time was urgent and ordered to send all the brandy in the entire army to the soldiers, and everyone would eat and drink well and prepare to attack immediately.

Hunting a carriage and pulling cannons, Feng Zicai's greatest pain was that he found that the Vietnamese bird road was so bad. Three thousand people pulled thirty cannons and ammunition and walked for three days, and it was still thirty miles away from Hanoi.

Feng Zicai led the main force and walked slowly, but after two rains on the road, the road was so muddy that he couldn't walk fast, especially the artillery could not walk fast, and the artillery carts were stuck in the mud pit at all. He had to combine manpower with livestock and pull out again and again.

Feng Zicai really wanted to throw these cannons away, but it was a loss to face the French army without cannons. Therefore, no matter how hard or difficult it is, he had to drag the cannons to Hanoi.

"Wang Xiaoqi!" Feng Zicai stood by the roadside and greeted Wang Xiaoqi who was commanding soldiers to pull cannons.

"Feng Shuai, what's wrong?"

"This will not work. I am still worried that Hanoi will not be able to withstand it. The French have a brigade, with all the cannons and fleets. You should quickly lead our troops and move forward lightly, and work with Shen Zigui and others to defend Hanoi. I calculated that with your troops, the Hanoi defenders can have nearly 10,000 people. It is not a problem to defend until my main force arrives."

"Okay! That's it!" Wang Xiaoqi immediately agreed, quickly anxious the troops of the headquarters, left the brigade and accelerated forward.

In Hanoi, when the fog was over, the French army on the opposite side had already started to set up artillery positions and set up teams. What made Lemoboyo strongly regret was that the Red River channel was blocked very tightly, and the ships could not get close to the Qing army's positions at all. The work of clearing the channel was still going on, but unfortunately the effect was very little. Seeing that the naval gun was not expected to be launched on the river to provide artillery fire support, Lemoboyo had no choice but to order the naval guns to dismantle and move them to the shore, and the fleet was used as the army.

Around ten o'clock in the morning, the fog was almost dissipated. Shen Congyun stood in the frontier command post, holding a telescope and looking at the busy figure of the French army opposite, and turned back regretfully to Wan Shusheng and said, "Grandma, you're at a loss if you don't have a cannon."

"Sir, we have cannons, look, that's not?" Wan Shusheng pointed at more than a dozen old iron cannons with a smile. Shen Congyun raised his foot and wanted to kick him: "You think this thing can hit the French army opposite?"

"Absolutely?" Wan Shusheng measured the distance for a while and smiled, "How about a few shots to try?"

"Fight, take the dead horse as a living horse." Shen Congyun was helpless. Seeing the French army's arrogant look at the attack of the cannon, he nodded.

"Black fire, fire."

"Sist!" The lead lit up, and the twelve old antiques made a loud sound of cannons, which shocked the cannon positions.

Shen Congyun looked carefully with the telescope in his head. This thing could even cost about a thousand meters. There were actually a few solid bullets on the edge of the gathering French army. After landing, he rolled forward for more than ten meters and actually knocked down several French soldiers.

The French army immediately responded to this shelling. A intensive fire fire carried out retaliatory fire. More than a dozen old guns were affected. In less than ten minutes, half of them were lost and dozens of people were injured.

Chen Congyun felt very regretful and slapped himself hard and said, "Damn, don't pretend to understand if you don't understand in the future." It turned out that Chen Congyun reacted and exposed the cannon for a while. This is a typical layman's blind command.

The French army's preparations were finally completed. At 10:30, the whistling shells fell on the Qing army's positions. Wan Shusheng and others had already ordered the soldiers to dig rows of trenches according to Chen Congyun's request. The soldiers hid in the trenches and waited for the French army's attack.

Chen Congyun wanted to stay on the position, but he led Wan Shusheng and four soldiers to pull the position away.

After twenty minutes of artillery fire preparation, looking at the Qing army's positions that were beaten into a sea of ​​fire, Le Moboyue finally extricated his anger and ordered the troops to launch the first round of charge.

French soldiers soon learned about the "shamelessness" of the Chinese army. On the way forward, not only were the pits dug long ago, but sharpened bamboos were inserted into the pit. After dozens of unlucky soldiers fell in, they let out screams, and then looked at the Qing army in the telescope, emerged from the ground and hid in the trenches and kept firing. The French army's superior firepower was difficult to effectively exert. After losing more than 100 corpses, the French army's first round of attack was considered a failure.

Lemobojo was almost depressed and died. The battle was too difficult to understand. His opponent had no knightly demeanor at all.

Chen Congyun was even more depressed. The French were preparing for artillery fire. These recruits who had never seen each other were blown up under the dense artillery fire. They had long forgotten the previous officer's orders and ran around hundreds of people. The result was obvious that before the French charges began, the thousand people on the front line had lost more than 300.

Chen Congyun called Li Yaozu and three chief officials, and cursed: "You are all pigs, how can you train soldiers? Didn't you repeatedly emphasize that when the enemy was bombarded, I would just lie in the trenches and not move? Why did your subordinates get messy when they fired?"

The most depressing thing is Wan Shusheng, and the 1,000 people on this line are his subordinates.

"Sir, I tell them every day, but these bastards exploded when they heard the cannons." Wan Shusheng explained aggrievedly. Chen Congyun also knew that these recruits must have problems and could not see them normally. If they went to the battlefield, they would definitely have problems.

"Okay, don't blame yourself. After a few battles, the new recruits will become veterans." After that, Chen Congyun turned around and hurried to the second-tier position. It seemed that the situation was very bad, so Yang Ruishan and the others had to prepare for the position in advance.

The second round of the French attack began. Looking at the ragged men walking in the front, Wan Shusheng was stunned. After the civilians continued to fall into the trap, Wan Shusheng hurriedly ordered the shooting.

After one round of shooting, the civilians fled in scattered and lay smartly on the ground without moving. At this time, the French artillery fire began. After half an hour of rumbling, the artillery fire began to extend. This time, the real French soldiers came up, and there was basically no trap left.

Tata Tower! The dozens of dense bullets of Hachikas machine guns (the predecessor of the machine gun) could not even lift the heads of the soldiers on the position. Seeing that the army had advanced 200 meters in front of the formation, Wan Shusheng stood up in an anxious manner, picked up the rifle and shouted: "Brothers, you must turn it up, turn it over and open fire!"

At this moment, the soldiers on the position emerged one after another, shooting to the death, and immediately suppressed the French advancement. While the French soldiers fell, more fired and fought back, and the casualties on the position jumped up. Seeing that the situation was not good, Wan Shusheng hurriedly asked Cao Yi to bring 500 people from the second echelon to reinforce, with 500 more people. The firepower on the position gradually suppressed the momentum of the French army, and the French army was repelled again.

After counting the results of the battle, there were only one remaining old cannon that was bombed. There were more than 900 soldiers on the position. In other words, after the French attacks, more than 600 people were lost, and more than 100 of them were killed directly. The number of casualties was too shocking.

Before Wan Shusheng could finish his sadness, Lemoboyue ordered the attack again. This time the artillery fire became more intense. The officers and soldiers on the attacking positions were all lying in the trenches and did not dare to move. After the artillery fire extended, thousands of French troops rushed forward howling under the suppression of the firepower of Hazikas's machine guns.

At this time, Wan Shusheng had no way out, so he asked Cao Yi to call the third echelon to come up, and led the soldiers on the position to shoot and suppress the French army. Fortunately, these soldiers were also red-eyed, and only a few soldiers ran back and asked Wan Shusheng to shoot a few, which barely suppressed the formation.

During the shooting process, the advantage of the French military's Shashp-style central firing needle and rear-mounted rifle was revealed. This rifle with a firing rate of seven per minute was exposed, and the soldiers mainly recruits on the position were breathless, and casualties rose sharply.

Fortunately, Cao Yi led the third echelon to reinforce. After a fierce shooting, the French retreated.

After three charges, more than 400 French soldiers were killed or killed, and more than half of them were killed or killed by Wan Shusheng and Cao Yi's troops. If the trenches were ignored, there would probably be few people on the positions that could stand.

In just two and a half hours, nearly a thousand casualties were killed or killed. When Shen Congyun heard the news, he was almost stunned. Among them, three hundred people were killed.

It seems that an army is not simply a matter of pulling up a group of people, firing a gun, and learning to fire a gun. If the training cannot keep up, it is fatal to an army.
Chapter completed!