Before the new palace was built, the Vietnamese monarch and his subjects decided to live in a thatched cottage, and they also had to eat and drink.
The army has entered a rest stage again. On the one hand, it relieves the fatigue of a battle. The wounded need to be transported back to China to treat the war damage and need to be replenished.
Rest and clean up the ruins of Hue immediately. In China, engineers commanded and organized Vietnamese civilian workers to help the army build barracks. Since the French bombed the fortress, they are not going to recover. They will not give the French army a chance to attack Hue again.
At the same time, engineers proposed to the Vietnamese court to build a railway as soon as possible, asking them to recognize that if there is no smooth traffic, it will be difficult for the army to continue to attack south. It is already an extreme battle in Hue. After the ammunition is cut off many times, the French army will become stronger and stronger. The more French troops are given, the more sufficient they can be, but the fewer troops are supplied and the more nervous they are.
It’s unreasonable to say that it’s impossible to finish, but it’s not true to finish. It’s also wrong to attack Hue. In the process, it’s really affected by the supply of weapons and ammunition. It’s exaggerated to say that it’s impossible to go south without the railway army.
Because now that the French have built the railway to Hue and the army has fought in Hue from the north, the French can benefit from the Hue Railway.
However, the Vietnamese will find it reasonable to make any suggestions when they are happy to recover the king’s capital. Although some officials who have never had a good impression on the railway have raised objections, they were quickly rejected by the minister, saying that the opponents said that the railway was a means for foreigners to invade Vietnam, and that the French repairing the railway was a means for French invaders to invade Vietnam, and overhauling the railway was a shortcut for big aid teachers to Vietnam.
So the Vietnamese court approved the proposal of building a railway in Vietnam and accepted the big request. The railway will be connected with the French railway. After the Vietnamese Coalition forces completely drove the French out of Vietnam, these railways were handed over to Dalai for operation.
In this way, Dasuijing (Guangzhou) will be connected with Vietnam’s Jingshi (Hue) to facilitate mutual help between the two countries. If there is another invasion of large armies by Yidi in Vietnam in the future, it will reach Vietnam’s capital one day later.
This reason made the Vietnamese feel embarrassed to refuse. Now their small country has moved carefully. Seeing that they have recovered the capital, the French have been driven back to the south. It seems that they are going to continue to fight for the army. It is of course good to be able to recover the south. But what if the army doesn’t leave?
These days, the two countries joined forces to fight against the French, but there was no disagreement. However, the army was in Vietnam, and the Vietnamese court was watching. The army not only made a big mistake in autumn, but also helped the people to work and buy things. Fair trading was very expensive to buy. Officials secretly played the army to buy people’s hearts, and Ruan Fu had to guard against it.
If the army has been singing in this way, paying high-profile casualties and sacrifices to help the Vietnamese recover their lost land, then the Vietnamese will be more worried that the army wants the railway now, but they will rest assured that they will want something. It seems that it is not intended to annex Vietnam
Zun Shi said that this kind of eye was diabolical, and I agreed to build a railway without hesitation. In his view, this was to satisfy the appetite and feed them so that they would not give birth to other things that they should not have thought.
The Vietnamese are too careful to know or care, but the situation in France is more worrying because the French have changed their prime minister again.
Successive defeats, especially the loss of Hue, led to the downfall of the French brisson Pavilion, which was succeeded by Charles de Fresi, a veteran politician, for the third time.
Fresi is an opportunist. When he saw the defeat on the battlefield, he also realized that the great military strength was much stronger than in the past. He denied that the French soldiers were inferior to the French soldiers, but he admitted that it was impossible to compete with the French army in terms of how to increase its troops.
So he was smart enough to ask the British to mediate and wanted to end the war, and Britain was very willing to mediate at this time.
Because the British got everything they deserved through this war, only half of Myanmar was left in Britain during the fierce battle with the French army. The Burmese government fined the local British company and caused judicial disputes. The third British-Burmese war was launched against Myanmar and the whole of Myanmar was directly annexed.
On January 1, last year, Britain announced that the British territory of Myanmar would be incorporated into a province of India.
As Great Britain is at war with France, the two largest forces in the South China Peninsula both intervened in Britain’s trip, and Britain’s annexation of Myanmar was very smooth. The only obstacle was that some Burmese refused to submit to it constantly resisted, but it was only a matter of time before Britain suppressed them.
At the same time, in northern China, the last thing Britain wants is for Russian troops to take advantage of the French war and March all the way south into Xinjiang, so that they have been competing with Russia for hegemony in Central Asia for decades. Britain is extremely uneasy. Once Russia takes a foothold in Central Asia, it is a great threat to India. If Russia occupies China Xinjiang, it will enter the Indus Valley and occupy Xinjiang at the same time, which will stabilize Central Asia. If Russia goes further south, it will enter Afghanistan. Every time it takes India from Afghanistan, except Britain.
If only the British in southern Xinjiang are in no hurry to mediate the war between the army and France, the key point is that the Russians have too much appetite. They not only attacked Xinjiang, but also marched along the railway from Qiatun South to Zhangjiakou, which may not be full of Qing capital.
After Zuo Zongtang’s death, the Manchu frontier fortress was completely holed up.
Section seven hundred and fifty Russian troops into the fortress
In the face of Britain’s mediation problem, it was discussed with Vietnam first, and the result was undoubtedly agreed. At this time, Vietnam was obedient and told them that if they could negotiate, they could wait for the horse.
At the same time, they exchanged attitudes with the Vietnamese, who said that they hoped to recover Nanqi, but it was not necessary for Nanqi to be ceded to France if the French would stop harassing Vietnam.
Of course, the attitude of the Vietnamese is not very consistent. Pan Tingfeng strongly urged the joint army to take this great opportunity to completely drive the French out of Vietnam and recover the old land of Nanqi.
However, Zunshi said that he insisted that if Nanqi was to be recovered, the French would not rest, and if France continued to send more troops, the war would stop and continue.
As in historical times, ministers’ arguments are often not as simple as they seem. Pan Tingfeng is a hawk and enjoys a reputation of incorruptibility in the era of Emperor Sidi, who allowed him to criticize other courtiers and even the emperor. It is obviously impossible for such people to continue to stand in court when they were in power like Nguy?n V?n T??ng after the death of Emperor Sidi. They were almost thrown into prison by Nguy?n V?n T??ng and Zun Shi, and finally dismissed from office and returned home.
No one expected that Pan Tingfeng could get up again by Yong Ying. With the battle going on, he helped the Vietnamese court to continuously recruit various rebel forces (some of which were destroyed by the imperial court). The rebel forces have already accounted for the vast majority in the Vietnamese army. At this time, in addition to Zun Shi and Huang Gao Qi, the other four people, including Pan Tingfeng, accompanied the emperor to flee from Hue to the north. They naturally formed a group and threatened Zun Shi.
If Vietnam can recover Nanqi, the power of these people will be even greater. The recovery of Nanqi is a great achievement for Vietnam. It is to recapture the achievements of their hundreds of years of expansion to the south, but it is not good for Zun Shi. It is not worthwhile for Zun Shi to argue with France and Yi. It is not a pity to persuade the emperor to negotiate with the Lord and give up.
Ruanfu is still a child at this time, although he also wants to seize Nanqi very much. In this case, he suspects that a generation of emperors will be crowned with a magnificent posthumous title after their death, but he is really afraid to fight against your honor and say that the evil power has been poisoned in his previous emperors. He knows too well that these ministers are terrible.
Although Ruan Fu believed that Pan Tingfeng was such a loyal minister, he was surrounded by people who said that even the guards were loyal to him, which made him agree to come if he dared to resist.
After the negotiation, when they found that the military attitude was very firm and urged France to withdraw from Vietnam and return the land to Vietnam, the Vietnamese monarch and his subjects were very surprised. Isn’t it a big suggestion for them to talk about peace talks? This said that they didn’t want to fight, but they refused to give up an inch of land and it was still Vietnamese land. If it was true and true, the old fox would not believe it if it was killed by public or private.
But they dare not say a word of no, and they can go all the way with the war car.
The French want peace talks, but they don’t want to fight, but they won’t give up eating fat in their bellies. They have occupied and operated for more than ten years, and it is impossible for them to give up.
As a result, the talks soon collapsed and it was announced that the French would continue to go south until they were completely driven out of Vietnam.
The French said that France is not afraid of intimidation and does not accept blackmail.
The breakdown of the talks did the French a big favor. Their parliament passed a bill to continue sending 300,000 troops from China. Radicals in the parliament clamored to send the ungrateful China people back to their hometown so that they would know how to respect whites.
So the war resumed.
The French reinforcements don’t know where they are yet, but the army has arrived in Da Nang City. At this time, Vietnam has once again entered the rainy season, but at this time, the army seems to have no plans to rest and build fortifications on the periphery of Da Nang as if to surround Da Nang.
Because of Hue’s defeat, the French couldn’t protect the railway. The Da Nang railway line was cut off by the army at the first time, but Da Nang is not an isolated city. It is a port, and it is not an isolated city as long as the French navy is here.
Soon, the military guns rang, and the sound of thunderstorm in Vietnam shook Da Nang.
The university is eager to break through Da Nang because the situation in the north is really tense.
The Russians have been plotting for a long time. They supported France’s expansion in Vietnam and expressed their support for defending their own interests. They were not kind from the beginning. They were just waiting for France to stop the Russian southern forces from fighting together and then going south in a big way. At this time, Britain was unable to speak for itself. In the end, they were sure to get what they wanted
What do Russians want? Xinjiang is a place to go. At this time, there was a fight in Xinjiang. Agubo died, and no one said that he was poisoned. Some said that he was beaten by soldiers after drinking and killed by soldiers. Others said that he was assassinated.
After Agubo’s death, his son and several ministries fought for power together. If Russia does not seize such a great opportunity, it will be too sorry for the czar’s ambition.
Fifty thousand Russian troops occupied Ili more than ten years ago and quickly captured Dihua and swept the whole northern Xinjiang in one month.
On the other hand, 20,000 Russian troops arrived outside Zhangjiakou all the way from Qiatun South without any resistance.
The reason why Russia started from Qiatunnan with great fanfare was that a train accident happened not long ago. The Russians concluded that it was a prairie gang. Before that, their train had been attacked many times, and they had negotiated with Manchu for many times, hoping to send troops to protect the railway. However, Manchu refused to allow Li Hongzhang to send thousands of Huai troops to Cullen, but after finishing the law, they kept the railway more than 1,000 kilometers safe.
Through this accident, Russia immediately sent troops to sweep all the way south and killed thousands of nearby herders until Zhangjiakou.
Then Russian soldiers built barracks here and said they would stay here to protect the railway safety.