"Emergency gathering!"
"Emergency gathering!"
All the soldiers quickly climbed out of bed.
These more than 10,000 soldiers have not had a good rest for a long time.
Even though he was so exhausted, he quickly dressed up and gathered.
They first sneaked into the vicinity of Hanoi quietly, and then ambushed Maxim and started a fierce battle.
Later, when we arrived in Hanoi, there was another fierce battle, and we were even attacked at night.
During the day, they launched another fierce attack on the city.
I finally made it to the evening and could take a rest.
This damn French guy is about to break out again.
At this moment, a Tenglong Army soldier entered the camp on horseback. This was a Tenglong Army scout.
"Report, deputy commander, our Tenth Army of the Tenglong Field Army is less than ten miles away from the station. Commander Jiang specially asked me to report to the deputy commander."
"Okay, our army is here."
"Tell Jiang Zhongwen that the French army has broken through from the west gate. I am leading people to pursue them. Let him follow behind and we will beat up the drowned dog."
"yes."
After Aliles saw the signal light, he knew that their whereabouts had been discovered by the Tamron Army.
He called Ruan Minyong, the Nguyen Dynasty's Minister of War, and asked Ruan Minyong to take more than 10,000 Ruan troops and some Nguyen army ministers to continue breaking out south.
He took Nguyen Phuc Shi and 10,000 French troops and Nguyen troops all the way east.
Ariles also took away Ruan Minyong's family members.
The troops heading south lit torches and retreated southward with great fanfare.
The troops heading west walked cautiously towards the river.
Ariles has already made preparations. A large ship has been prepared here. After they board the ship, they will go all the way east.
Then they boarded the warships of the Cochinchina Fleet from the port, and the fleet escorted them south.
Ruan Minyong and his 10,000 troops were quickly overtaken by Feng Zicai and others.
He knew the moment he was left behind by Aliles that he had become an outcast.
But he had no choice, his family was in Ariles' hands.
His monarch was also in the hands of the French, and he could only choose to accept his fate.
The Ruan soldiers who were left behind panicked when they saw the chasing troops in the distance.
The march was getting closer and closer.
Feng Zicai and the others were chasing faster and faster.
An hour later, Tenglong Army was already fighting with Ruan Army.
These ten thousand people were indeed the elite of Ruan's army, and they did not choose to run away like other troops.
They fought and retreated, Ruan Minyong still had a glimmer of hope in his heart.
If he can lead this army to get rid of the Tenglong Army, he can reunite with his family here.
In his mind, the monarch and his family come first, and his own life only comes second.
Jiang Zhongwen hurriedly hurriedly and slowly finally met up with Feng Zicai.
The pressure on Ruan Minyong and the Ruan Army increased greatly. They were chased and beaten by 10,000 Tenglong Army just now, and now they are chased and beaten by 30,000 Tenglong Army.
The house leaked but it rained all night, the boat broke and there was a strong wind.
This is not the worst. Another army appeared directly in front of them, numbering about 20,000 people.
It turned out that this was the Shi Zhengfan Department of the Ninth Army.
Ruan Minyong's troops were surrounded from front to back, with only a few hundred people left out of 10,000.
Suddenly a bolt of lightning flashed across the sky.
Then it rained heavily.
Ruan Minyong looked at the hundreds of people around him.
These are the elite troops he trained for Nguyen Phuc Thi.
A total of 50,000 people were trained, thinking that after France drove away the Tenglong Army, he could use this power to help Nguyen Phu Thic drive away the French.
Recreate the prosperity of the Nguyen Dynasty.
It's a pity that these 50,000 people were noticed by the French and were constantly sent out to consume them.
At this time, these people were the only ones left, and there were five thousand people around their monarch Nguyen Phuc Thiet.
This is a force composed of the most elite young men in the country who he gathered together the strength of the whole country and selected.
If these young men are destroyed, their domestic vitality will be severely damaged even if they drive away the Tenglong Army later.
At this time, there were only some old, weak, women, children and young children left in the country.
The Nguyen Dynasty only had eight to nine million people in total. Later, because of the resistance to the French invasion, casualties were very heavy, and many people were killed.
The population of the Nguyen Dynasty shrank to six to seven million people.
Later, due to the incompetence of the Nguyen Dynasty, civil strife broke out between the north and the south. Many people opposed the rule of the Nguyen Dynasty and began to contact the Qing Dynasty.
In the hope of re-establishing the regime and overthrowing Nguyen Phuc, France was also driven away.
In the past ten years or so, the population of the Nguyen Dynasty has dropped sharply again. Many old people have died, the birth rate of children has been low, young adults have died, and many women remain.
Later, the Tenglong Army fought against the Ruan Army again, killing hundreds of thousands of Ruan Army soldiers one after another.
As a result, the current population of the Nguyen Dynasty is only about three to four million people, mainly concentrated in the south.
Among these three to four million people, the elderly, women, and children account for the majority.
Ruan Minyong didn't want to see his soldiers continue to die like this meaninglessly.
Their number of soldiers would be reduced by dozens or hundreds every minute.
He ordered surrender and could wait no longer.
The white flag slowly rose.
Ruan Jun stopped attacking.
Feng Zicai also ordered to stop the attack.
Ruan Minyong said in Chinese: "Listen to the Tenglong Army on the opposite side, we are willing to surrender."
"Please don't hurt my brothers. I hope your army can send them home and reunite with their families in the future."
"I am Ruan Minyong, Minister of Army of the Nguyen Dynasty. I am here to appeal to your army."
"Brothers, I, Ruan Minyong, have been sorry for you. When I came here, I was doing everything I could to make it up to you."
"I'm leaving first. You must live well."
After saying that, Ruan Minyong pulled the trigger on himself.
When the Tenglong Army heard the gunfire, they thought the other side had repented, and they were about to continue pulling the trigger.
Stopped by Feng Zicai.
Feng Zicai looked at the opposite side, preparing to ask these people to come out and surrender one by one, and he would spare their lives.
The few hundred people left looked at their commander, and most of them picked up their weapons again and pulled the triggers on themselves.
Only some ministers of the Nguyen Dynasty thought that these people were too naive and it was better to die than live.
Why should I die if I can surrender now?
These people all raised their hands and walked out to surrender.
Feng Zicai did not embarrass them and asked people to take these people down.
"Shi Zhengfan, Jiang Zhongwen."
"Here, come."
"It's raining heavily. Please clean up the battlefield quickly and follow me back to the camp. These people will dig a big hole and bury them together."
"The last ones who died just dug a hole alone. I think it's quite pleasing to my eye."
"It's the deputy commander."
After the Tenglong Army cleaned up the battlefield and disposed of the corpses, the sky began to get brighter.
All soldiers entered Hanoi City.
When Jiang Zhongwen met Feng Zicai last night, he sent some people to capture the empty Hanoi.
A thousand people in Hanoi are no match for the Tenglong Army.
After they met in the city, they gave the army a good rest for a day.
Feng Zicai and others were finally able to close their eyes and rest for two hours.
Gan Hong then also came to Hanoi.
"Commander, it's all my fault for letting the French commander escape with Emperor Ruan. They actually took the sea route and deceived our army."
"Just run away. They only have parts of the south left."
"Next, the Ninth Army continued to besiege Heping City, and the Tenth Army captured small counties near Hanoi."
"The Eleventh Army will join Gan Biao's troops and capture all the remaining cities in the north."
"yes!"
