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Part 1, Chapter 29: Capture Pori Alive

The progress of Wan Shusheng's troops was subject to the strongest resistance. When approaching the Far East Army Command, a denser burst of gunfire sounded in front of him. After seeing the team stopped behind him, he rushed forward to see that sparks were splashing at the entrance of the Far East Army Commander's department, and dense bullets were shooting like rain.

It turned out that Poli also had a guard battalion with more than 200 people. Not only did he have a quick gun, but he was equipped with a revolver with more than 100 to 6 consecutive shots. The worst thing was that there were two Hachikas machine guns at the door of the command.

The guard battalion consists of elite troops from the African army and belongs to the elite troops of the French Far East. Two hundred people used buildings as barriers to open fire in a dense manner. More than 30 Qing troops fell to the ground on the spot, and the others were suppressed and could not raise their heads at all.

"Guan Bajin, take your people to seize the commanding heights on the left, and then use a quick gun to suppress the firepower of the French." Wan Shusheng was attacked by the soldiers and had a lot of combat experience. When he saw this situation, he immediately made a corresponding decision.

A whistleman quickly went up to the nearby roof, and shot the fence of the headquarters building, and the sound was quite loud and the effect was not obvious.

The sky gradually became bright. Shen Congyun heard the gunshots in the city still did not stop. He walked around in front of the bamboo building uneasy. Finally, he couldn't help but shout: "Li Xiaosan, it's dawn, I'm going to enter the city. See which waste has not been dealt with yet."

Li Xiaosan was a honest person. The order he received was to allow Shen Congyun to enter the city at dawn. Although this was not dark, it was also bright, so he agreed and led a whistle to escort Shen Congyun to the city of Hanoi.

Following the gunshot, Shen Congyun found the headquarters of the Far East Army. When he saw the scene, a thousand people asked two hundred French troops to suppress them and could not get close. He was so angry that he looked for Wan Shusheng everywhere.

Li Xiaosan stepped forward and inquired, and Wan Shusheng led a scepter to remove the cannons.

What kind of cannons need to be demolished by one? Shen Congyun was puzzled and hurriedly asked someone to lead the way to see the situation. As a result, halfway through the way, he saw Wan Shusheng and Yishou, driving four ox carts, pulling four pig iron cannons in front of the antiques, and walking back.

Hanoi is divided into two parts: inner city (urban area) and outer city (suburban area). The inner city is divided into three parts: purple city, imperial city and capital city. The place where the emperor, concubines and their descendants live is called purple city; surrounding purple city is the imperial city, which is the location of the office of court officials and officials; the neighborhoods, markets, and residential areas outside the imperial city are the capital city. There are several forts at the junction of imperial city and capital city. When the Qing army rushed in, they ran away without a single shot.

Now, Wanshusheng couldn't capture it for a long time, and he remembered the cannons on the fort.

"Well, this cannon is big enough, it can reach four or five thousand kilograms." Shen Congyun was estimating, suddenly remembering something wrong, and rushed towards Wan Shusheng angrily, cursing: "Wan Shusheng, you bastard, didn't you ask you to shoot along the way and quietly touch the headquarters?"

"Sir, I don't think so. I encountered a Vietnamese patrol on the way. The outpost troops fired when they were nervous." Wan Shusheng explained aggrievedly. Shen Congyun didn't care about being angry anymore, but just said angrily: "I ran away from Boli, I'll strip you of skin."

The ox cart pulled the cannon to the commander's department. Wan Shusheng sent another squad to the nearby roof. He shot a ping-pong fast. Seeing that the French army's firepower was a little slackened, he immediately pushed the four cannons equipped with fire.

The lead was a little, and four rumbling cannons were rumbling. The old cannon was equipped with solid bullets, and its power was not very good. However, Wan Shusheng was lucky. One shell hit a machine gun position directly, smashing the people on the position in a mess. The other three cannons did not hit anything, but hit the building and the wall, and they made two big holes in the wall and hit the roof, which made a piece of rubble fall down one after another.

The French army was in a panic and soon returned to normal, but its firepower was not as good as before.

Wan Shusheng hurriedly asked someone to continue firing more firecrackers. After firing more than forty shots in a row, the walls and buildings were smashed into pieces. The French soldiers could no longer hold back and began to run away.

Wan Trees were eager to make contributions and were the first to jump up and rush in.

The sporadic battle lasted ten minutes ago, and the headquarters took it down, killing more than 40 French troops, and all the rest surrendered, even if Poli was gone.

Chen Congyun captured several French prisoners and questioned them. It turned out that Poliye was escorted away by more than a dozen guards before dawn. The soldiers didn't know where they ran.

When Chen Congyun was so angry that he wanted to beat someone, Li Yaozu ran in with a smile and shouted to Chen Congyun from a distance: "Mr. Shen, brother, this time I sent it, I caught a big fish."

Chen Congyun was on the fire, and he couldn't find Wan Shusheng. Li Yaozu came to the door as a punching bag. He was about to make a fuss about Li Yaozu and the other three conspiring to put him under house arrest. When he looked up, he saw a whistle soldier escorting several French officers behind Li Yaozu. One of them was dressed very special, and his eyes lit up.

"Bori?" Chen Congyun asked. Li Yaozu was so excited that he couldn't speak. He nodded violently like a chicken pecking at rice.

It turned out that after Li Yaozu captured the palace, he felt that it was not satisfied. He arrested a few Vietnamese soldiers and asked if there were any French soldiers nearby?

The Vietnamese puppet troops told me that a gunboat was parked on the port of the Honghe River, with French soldiers on it. When Li Yaozu learned that he was excited, he ordered a battalion of officers and soldiers to guard the royal palace Zicheng, and personally led a battalion of officers and soldiers to fight over the river port.

It was also due to the luck of Li Yaozu, the bird man. The more than 20 French soldiers on the gunboat went ashore last night and went there together. There were only two sentries left on the gunboat, and they were shot into sieves by a series of gunboats.

Li Yaozu was depressed that there were too few French men and they were not satisfied with the killing. Poli also had several officers, escorted by more than a dozen soldiers, led by a Vietnamese translator, and fled to the river by the streets and alleys, intending to run away by the gunboat, but ended up hitting Li Yaozu's arms. What else can you be polite? A burst of gunfire, killing and injuring more than a dozen, and arresting five. Among the five people who were caught, there happened to be a Vietnamese translator. This kid understood Guangxi dialect, and caught him and pointed out that Poli was also.

This made Li Yaozu very happy and hurriedly escorted Poli. He took advantage of the dawn to head straight to the Far East Army Command. He planned to sell his favors to Wan Shusheng, but he heard that Chen Congyun had arrived. Thinking about it carefully, he was the initiator of the Chen Congyun incident, for fear that Chen Congyun would settle the score later, so Li Yaozu didn't care about Wan Shusheng's life and death, so he went straight to Chen Congyun to seek credit.

It was dawn and the sun had completely revealed its face. Cao Yi also reported that he was blocked and caught overnight. More than 40 French soldiers were brought back, and several roads leading to the West Mountain were blocked. According to Cao Yi's words, "Even a fly, you can't fly over and inform the First Brigade of the West Mountain."

Chen Congyun was quite familiar with this line. It seemed that in many old movies I watched before traveling through time, the sentries of the National Army liked to say this. Just as he was about to ridicule Cao Yi, he remembered that he was barely considered a "National Army" now, so he gave up.

Hanoi citizens heard the gunshots all night and were frightened all night. When they woke up early in the morning, they found that the Qing soldiers whipped around the streets were missing.

The Qing Dynasty had troops stationed in Hanoi for a long time, and the Vietnamese people were used to it. They should live and live as well. They just changed a new master.

Chen Congyun dared not be careless at all. There is also the first brigade of the French Far East Legion on the Western Front. With the cavalry of the North African Corps, there are seven or eight thousand people. If you kill them one by one, these 3,000 new recruits are really not enough to see.

Chen Congyun found the King of Vietnam, asked him to hand over the seal, issued an announcement for the people's peace, and then sent a sentry to escort Boli to Liangshan. Then, Chen Congyun ordered all troops to build fortifications quickly to prevent the French Far East Army's First Brigade from turning back. At the same time, he also sent a courier to inform Feng Zicai, sending reinforcements to avoid the big fish of the Far East Army's First Brigade.

After arranging all this, Chen Congyun planned to walk in the palace to see the degree of corruption of the Vietnamese king and the beauty of the Vietnamese princess.

As soon as I arrived in the yard, I heard Li Yaozu and the other three whispering there. Chen Congyun did not go up, but quietly waved to a sentry and asked, "What are they discussing?"

"Report to Lord Shen. Lord Li is complaining, saying that he wants to invite one hundred subordinates to play Vietnamese women, and is asking two adults to borrow money. Lord Wan said that he is lucky and his subordinates did not catch Poli. Otherwise, he would really let his subordinates play Vietnamese princess, Lord Shen must drive him back to Shanghai. Lord Cao said,..."

"Stop talking!" Chen Congyun waved his hand and looked at the three of them with a gloomy eyes. The three of them turned around and saw the murderous Chen Congyun, and immediately exclaimed together, making birds and beasts scattered.

"You three bastards, stop me and don't run away! They actually promised the soldiers to play Vietnamese women, falsely pass military orders, and ruin my reputation..."

Before Chen Congyun could finish scolding, the three of them had already run away and lost their shadows.

"Damn! I ran so fast, and I plan to take everyone to the Vietnam Palace to see if there are any girls I like, and bring them back to have fun."
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