Since the defender commander showed his trump card, Nigri no longer hesitated. France's artillery would let him know what infantry artillery combat is. "Let the front line troops pay attention to the distance from the position, and let the artillery suppress the opponent immediately."

With the order of Nigri, the artillery fired again. It has to be said that the French artillery was excellent enough and deserved to be a country that has always attached importance to artillery construction.

The artillery basically controlled the landing point of the shells within a long wall for fifty meters. Such precise artillery bombardment caused a considerable loss to the first battalion of the left team behind the wall. Even Feng Xiangrong, who commanded them, hung a lottery on his forehead.

"Hold on, fight to the death without retreating."

The eldest son of the old general Feng had a ferocious expression, and when he cooperated with his forehead, his expression was constantly bleeding, he seemed to be trying to choose someone to eat. Since his commander was not backing down, what else could other soldiers say, so he could only grit his teeth and persevere.

However, it is unknown how long this ritual can last.

Feng Xianghua, who was worried about his brother, couldn't help but say to him, "Father, send reinforcements again."

"No, it's not time yet."

Feng Zicai rejected his second son's request. He thought it was not the time yet. So when will the time be ripe?

In Feng Zicai's opinion, the best time is when the first battalion of the left team is defeated and retreated. When the French think that the defenders at the level retreat, it is the time when their minds are relaxed. Give him a sudden move, which is the most deadly. In order to get such a good opportunity, he not only uses his life to paralyze the enemy, but even his own son must bear the risks on the battlefield.

Since there were no reinforcements, the first battalion of the left team, which was full of resilience, was defeated after continuing to resist for half an hour.

Seeing the enemy retreat, the French officers and soldiers cheered sincerely. The battle was too difficult, but they won.

As a qualified commander, when Negri saw the enemy retreat, of course he knew what to do and immediately issued an order. "The whole army attacked and pursued the enemy."

With the order of Nigri, other French soldiers who had been waiting for a long time immediately joined the attack sequence. Even the Vietnamese minions, who had low morale, roared and happily began to chase and kill the fleeing enemies.

But they had no perspective and could not see the situation behind the wall. The retreating soldiers were stopped, and Feng Zicai, as the commander, even brought all the other Qing troops to press up. What's even more terrible is that on the east and west sides, Maxim's heavy machine gun was pushed up by Kosenz and others.

Kosenz witnessed the previous battle throughout. He had to give a thumbs up for the plot of the Old General Feng. Although many of the troops he commanded were still using cold weapons that should have been eliminated long ago, his outstanding command made the French army unknowingly step into the trap.

When the brigade of French soldiers had already rushed to the front of the checkpoint less than two hundred meters, some French soldiers even had their hands on the long wall.

At this time, the sound of cannons suddenly sounded, as if it was a signal. Countless figures surged out from behind the long wall, among which the Old General Feng even drew his sword and rushed towards the French army the first.

Seeing Feng Zicai as the commander-in-chief, other Qing soldiers were even more unwilling to fall behind.

But soon they discovered that compared to their bravery, the Maxisai electric cannons from both wings were even more ruthless.

"Split, sprinkle, sprinkle..."

The Maxim machine guns arranged on both wings showed their ability to harvest their lives for the first time. The lives of the French army were ruthlessly harvested by them. Six Maxim machine guns splashed ammunition at the French officers and soldiers at a speed of 500 rounds per minute.

At the same time, the artillery that had been hidden for a long time was fired at the French artillery positions at a speed of three rounds per minute. Although only eight newly arrived Italian fast artillery can hit the French artillery positions, it still caused irreparable huge losses.

"Boom" an artillery on the position was directly hit, and the French artillery on the side blew into the sky.

"Boom, boom, boom" A shell hit the ammunition box, and the explosions made the surrounding area a forbidden area for life.

The carelessness and lack of intelligence made the French artillery position only 3,500 meters away from the level, which happened to be within the range of the Italian 85mm artillery. The artillery attack made the French artillery position unable to respond at all, which also made the Maxim machine gun more unscrupulously exert its maximum power.

“Retreat quickly.”

Negri, who was standing in front of the position, realized immediately after seeing his soldiers being ruthlessly harvested, but since he was here, there was no such thing as retreating.

Let’s not talk about the French army that had already rushed to the front of the long wall. These people were destined to be submerged by the Qing army, either killed or captured. The French army that rushed to the front of the pass was already two or three hundred meters away from the long wall. If you want to retreat to a safe distance and step a bloody road without taking human lives, how can you escape from heaven?

Moreover, the movements must be fast at this time, faster than teammates, so now the French military officers and soldiers no longer care about military discipline, and they are still polite to knock them away. Some even kicked them down directly, trying to use them to attract the attention of the Qing army behind them and win time for themselves to escape.

All the ugly things of the French army were exposed to the Qing army, which made its morale even more high. Everyone knew that they had won, and it was a big victory, so they pursued more forcefully.

However, Feng Zicai, as the commander, was not overwhelmed by victory, and he still led his army behind the French army. Because the Italian leader of the Maxisai electric gun kept telling him that at a distance of 600 meters, his army would be better off with the French army. As long as he heard the ceasefire of the electric gun, he could rush forward.

In fact, they didn't have to be so serious, because at this time the morale of the French army was on the verge of collapse, and less than 600 French troops escaped from Maxim's range. The bodies of the French army fell along the way, which was terrible.

These French troops, like frightened birds, did not stop for a moment when they saw the Qing army chasing behind them. Many of them were already running towards the way they came empty-handed.

Faced with such a situation, Feng Zicai left some officers and soldiers to clean the battlefield and pick up some foreign lands, especially the intact cannons on the French positions, which had to be pulled away without leaving any of them.

As for the other officers and soldiers, they followed him and followed the defeated French troops and attacked Lang Son.

In the battle before Zhennan Pass, the Qing army invested more than 5,000 Feng Zicai's troops, while the French army invested 3,000 people. In the end, the French army suffered a crushing defeat, with more than 2,300 casualties and more than 300 captured (some were injured and captured, mainly French officers and soldiers. As for Vietnamese servants, they were all captured without injuries), only more than 500 people followed Negri and fled back to Lang Son.

Most of these people were empty-handed, and Negri did not dare to stay in Lang San. After spending one night to collect the soldiers, he immediately withdrew from Lang San with a defeated soldier of more than a thousand times and continued to flee to Beining. Many of the supplies in the city were not in time to take them away, and ran away in shame.

Facts proved that Nigri had a good time running away. The next day, Feng Zicai led his troops to Lang Son and recaptured the city.

Then Feng Zicai attacked from all sides and successively recovered Changqing, Haiyang, Taiyuan and other places. With Feng Zicai's victory in Zhennan Pass, other Qing troops were ready to move. Moreover, the Vietnamese people also rioted one after another. For a time, the Tokio area was in a mess.

This gave French commander Miller an unusual headache. He had to carry out strategic contraction for this. A large number of newly occupied cities were abandoned, which made the Vietnamese people more resilient.

For this reason, he specially sent a newspaper to Paris, requesting domestic reinforcements to support. In addition, after investigating the crushing defeat in Zhennan Pass, he even suggested to Paris that the Italians intervened too much in this war with the Qing Dynasty. If the Italians could not block the Italian mafia behind it, it would be difficult for France to have a good result in this war.
Chapter completed!