On September 2, 1870, Yu Sedang was defeated by the Prussian army. The emperor of the Second French Empire, Louis Bonaparte, who was disgusted by Bismarck's change of telegram, was a piece of shit compared to his uncle's bravery. His greatest ability was to rape maids and seduce neighbor's ladies, and deceive the French peasants who had fantasies about his uncle Napoleon. After the defeat, Napoleon, the third, and together with a marshal general, a train officer, and more than 100,000 French soldiers, all became prisoners of the Prussians! This did not include the 25,000 unlucky guys who died or were injured directly on the battlefield.

On September 19, the Prussian army advanced to Paris and occupied its big cities. The great and luxurious hall of the Palace of Versailles became the ceremony hall for King William of Prussia to crown the Second German Empire on January 18, 1871. This is a great humiliation for any country. No matter how the Qing Dynasty was done, no emperor of the great powers ran to the Hall of Supreme Harmony to ascend the throne... Of course, it may be too far away.

Then the alliance under the city was signed, and the French-Prussian War ended. Napoleon defeated the Prussian army in Jena, Aoestett, and was able to clean up the shame. Not only did the French army lose a lot of damage, but he also lost the title of Europe's first army power. This is not the most deadly! Bismarck's war reparations of 5 billion gold francs (this thing is gold) were tantamount to bleeding on the French. Speaking of which, Bismarck himself regretted it later. He was originally in a business and shouted for a price, but the other party agreed without even thinking about it. It was obvious that the price was lower. If you want to blame, you blame yourself for not seeing the world, coming from a remote countryside, and never seeing the luxury of France.

The French political situation, which restored the Republic, was still unstable for more than a year.

First, the Paris Commune established after the workers' revolution on March 18, 1871, followed by Thiers, who was in Versailles, who was captured and returned to fight with the workers' National Self-Defense Forces in the entire city of Paris. Since the final resistance of the Father Lachez Cemetery was suppressed, Paris has become a river, and Mr. Thiers' seat has not been long. When the proletarian revolution was suppressed, what made the republicans most embarrassing was that most ordinary French people and the National Assembly still tended to be monarchy. The republicans became a minority.

The "Royals" won a great victory in the parliamentary elections held on February 8, 1871, and won 420 of the 645 parliamentary seats in one fell swoop! Mr. Thier, who had been bored to resign on May 24, 1871, was forced to resign after the parliament passed a case of distrust in the government he led.

The two factions fought for power until 1875, when the Republicans finally regained control of the parliament before they stopped. France, which was greatly damaged by these incidents, naturally had no extra power to take care of overseas affairs.

After 1880, France suffered a great humiliation and began to work hard. Driven by the fanatical national chauvinism, it accumulated strength for France's glory. France, eager to revenge, quickly expanded its army, consolidated its military and made Germany feel uncomfortable. So a new round of diplomatic offensive by the Iron-blooded Prime Minister began: alliance with Russia, build Britain, and join forces to make the French roosters with full strength without a chance to get angry. It is conceivable that the fire of the legal person is even more depressing than revenge and nowhere to scatter? The whole France, from the prime minister to the civilians, is like a ball of dry firewood. With just a slight spark, a raging fire will burn.

But in Annan, Comrade Liu Yongfu gave the French such an excuse, and he killed Colonel Li Willie of France.

Who is Liu Yongfu? A Qing rebel who was almost called the God of War.

Liu Yongfu, a native of Shangsi Village, Bobai County, Guangzhou, was from a poor family since childhood. His hometown was affected by disasters when he was young and fled to Qinzhou with his parents. At the age of 20, Liu Yongfu, who was so hungry that he could not survive, decided to rise up and bring a group of poor brothers and younger brothers to participate in the Tiandihui Uprising.

By the way, this guy was a chameleon in his early years, and he didn't even remarry even if he had money-loving bitches!

In 1857, he joined Zheng San, the subordinate of Wu Lingyun, the leader of the Guangxi Tiandi Association. In 1860, he joined Wu San. Later, he joined Wang Shilin. In 1865, he joined Huang Sihong. In 1866, he joined Wu Yazhong. In 1868, he joined the Vietnamese government and his former peasant army comrade Huang Chongying in the attack. In the same year, the Vietnamese government prepared to expel Liu Yongfu's troops and invited Feng Zicai to suppress the attack. In 1870, Liu Yongfu, who was extremely panicked, expressed his willingness to kill Huang Chongying to protect himself. In 1875, the Qing army, who cooperated with the Vietnamese army and Xu Yanxu, completely wiped out Huang Chongying and promoted San Xuan to the deputy admiral, and was not a real delegation.

From 1875 to 1877, he had been relying on Baosheng, where he drew money and developed military strength.

In 1878, the Qing army general Li Yangcai rebelled, and Liu Yongfu led his troops to clear the enemy. He was actually appointed as Deputy Admiral Sanxuan. Later, he returned to his hometown as a Yue official and covered all the military expenses he had accumulated in his hands on his parents' grave.

The weakness of the Vietnamese Ruan court gave Tianci a respite from the remnants of Liu Yongfu, who was already dying at the time. The remaining troops of the Tiandihui rebels quickly gained a foothold in the Vietnam-China border area. The Vietnam-China border area was not as good as those of gangs. If there were no help from the Qing Dynasty's heavenly soldiers, the courage to encircle and suppress was completely gone. So... Comrade Liu's troops were able to develop and grow again in this power vacuum area, and successively accommodate refugees, bandits, wanted criminals, deserters from the Qing Dynasty, as well as the remnants of the Tiandihui and Taiping Army who were disbanded by the regular army of the Qing Dynasty.

This average-looking, short and thin Liu Yongfu organized these scattered soldiers and joined forces with local farmers to mobilize the masses, becoming a brave practitioner of people's war theory.

He trained about 2,000 troops, with a maximum force of no more than 3,000 troops. The initial organization was divided into three battalions, namely the Front Camp, the Left Camp and the Right Camp, and was led by Huang Shouzhong, Wu Fengdian and Yang Zhuen, respectively. These three were all brave people. With Liu Yongfu's military intelligence... Relatively speaking, the Black Flag Army, the three generals' courage and righteousness, quickly became an important separatist force in northern Vietnam! An army with strict organization and a combination of agriculture and warfare, was trained better than bandits. Because it adopted a black battle flag with seven stars, it was called the Black Flag Army by the world and later generations!

Originally, Liu Guangrong's warlords lived a good life, but unfortunately, the world did not meet their wishes. The two French people came uninvited, which made Liu Yongfu very angry. One was named An Ye and the other was named Li Weili.

French Navy Captain An Ye did not come to Vietnam at that time to carry out any military missions, but was commissioned by the French colonial authorities to lead an exploration team to survey the Mekong River. The purpose was to confirm whether the Mekong River is suitable for commercial navigation. Behind it was driven by the huge interests of colonists and arms dealers. The French wanted to use Vietnam to knock on the gate of the southwestern border of the Qing Dynasty for a long time. The result was that the Mekong River was proved to be unsuitable for commercial activities! However, by chance, he found the more suitable Red River, and its upstream extended to the boundary of Yunnan Province, the Qing Dynasty.

Is there any more exciting news for the French colonial authorities?

No!

So without delay, Captain An Ye brought twenty-six European adventurers and 125 mercenaries, and took two inland gunboats, four steamboats, one steamer, and one Chinese sailboat. He rushed all the way into Tokyo Bay in the Red River Delta. He arrived in the suburbs of Hanoi on November 5, and on the morning of November 20, with more than 150 people in his hands, he spent two hours breaking through the important city of Hanoi, the defense of thousands of Vietnamese regular troops!

King Yue was panicked and later thought of Liu Yongfu.

Old Liu was ordered to take advantage of the fact that most of the French army were on vacation and led people to attack the military camp. An Ye had only twenty soldiers and one hundred puppet troops in his hands, and actually took the initiative to attack. Unexpectedly, Liu Yongfu was in the mood and ambushed the arrogant French invaders on the paper bridge. An Ye died in the chaos, but more than twenty French troops actually ran back to Hanoi City surrounded by thousands of people. It can be seen that the combat power of the Black Flag Army was far less fierce than the rumored ones.

Fortunately, France was tortured by Prussia at that time, so it was fine.

However, Li Weili, who came back in 1880, was not a second team player like An Ye, and became a colonel.

On April 25, 1882, Li Weili led two companies of Marines, plus one hundred and fifteen army soldiers, three gunboats, two mountain cannons, and fifteen Annan snipers attacked Hanoi again! He quickly defeated the resistance of the Hanoi Vietnamese defenders with as many as 7,000 people. In the same period, defeating the opponent seven times facing An Ye, in addition to once again proving the incompetence of the Vietnamese court, Colonel Li Weili's ability to fight. Moreover, he played a skill that was far better than An Ye, and "returned" the city to the Vietnamese government a week after conquering Hanoi!

At this time, the Qing Dynasty finally began to pay attention to this armed force, which was in Vietnam but was composed of Chinese people.

On the eighth day of the third lunar month in 1883, Tang Jingsong, as a "liaison officer" sent by the Celestial Empire, joined the Black Flag Army and became Liu Yongfu's temporary guest military advisor and gave him advice.

It can be said that this was the first step for the Black Flag Army to become a regular army from the bandits, and what made Liu Yongfu happy was that Tang Jingsong gave him a certain answer that could restore the nationality of the Qing Dynasty.

"The Celestial Empire is generous. All my descendants of China can resist foreign aggression and defend the border of the country, and are good people of the Qing Dynasty."

When Tang Jingsong said this, he didn't expect that Liu Yongfu, who was very sensible in his daily life, took it seriously. It seemed that he was homesick and had his hometown.

On April 25, 1883, after Liu Yongfu was blessed by Tang Jingsong to his patriotism, he felt that he had the Qing Dynasty as his backer, so he no longer took the Vietnamese court seriously. He brought two thousand elite troops to Hanoi City.

Li Weili did not make An Ye's mistake again, hid in the city and did not come out, and waited for help. At that time, Liu Yongfu was still very dangerous. The French army began to gather in southern Vietnam. If Lao Liu could not fight quickly, it would not be Li Weili who died at that time, but himself.

On May 9, Liu Yongfu wrote a letter to Li Willie, full of enthusiasm and excitement, but he was not fooled.

However, on May 15, the Black Flag Army besieged a fort defended by thirty French troops. Unexpectedly, after fighting for a night, not only did he not win, but he suffered heavy losses. But he did not expect that this time, he did not show weakness on purpose, but he achieved unexpected surprises. Li Weili felt that the Black Flag Army was just like this... in fact, it was indeed true. Li Weili began to take the initiative to attack Liu Yongfu's position. The six encirclements were directly penetrated by five. Liu Yongfu probably felt that he had no hope at that time, but at this critical moment, he did not expect that Comrade Li Weili learned from Changshan Zhao Zilong and planned to come to Changbanpo in Hanoi for seven in and seven out, and rode alone and rushed out.

Isn't this fun?

Not to mention Zhao Yun, even the five generals of Shu Kingdom came. In this era of shooting guns, they were just trying to die!

Liu Yongfu himself was shocked. Is there anyone else in this world who is even more stupid and second-class than this? He quickly let someone fire a gun and knocked Li Willie down, but he was not dead. As a result, in order to seize the credit, the others directly aimed at all the guns at the miserable French colonel without giving instructions.

But at this moment, a French captain named Yaguan showed fearless spirit and forced himself to block Li Willie with his body. So... the first round of muskets of the Black Flag Army hit this person. (At the same time, I have seen many people blocking bullets for their comrades in domestic movies and TV series, but I have never seen real people and real stories.)

Faced with such a touching scene, Liu Yongfu, who was standing on the opposite side, would certainly not be moved at all. The only feeling was that he would hold his breath. Why did he take such a lot of effort to kill a Li Willie? So he took the lead in firing the second round of black guns, and finally no one was blocking the bullets for Li Willie, so... he died.

But now is different from the past. After Li Willie's death was passed back to France, it immediately aroused strong dissatisfaction among the French people. The hatred that had been accumulated for a long time with Germany, coupled with the anger caused by the sneak attack by the Da Shang in Nagasaki, today I finally found a catharsis.
Chapter completed!