The tactical purpose of restraining the French army has been achieved, and the French army can no longer make any moves to interfere with the construction of large and small companies. Lu Yongzhi and others stay in caves every day to collect money for roads, train and train the team, and occasionally receive information from Ruan Qi and go out to rob the road.

Ruan Qi has been doing well in Tongdeng in the past few months.

He was originally from the village below Tongdeng Town. He had many playmates when he was a child. In addition, he met people in the town later, and had more than a dozen people who followed him to have dinner with him.

After a long time, Ruan Qi felt a little tight on his hands. So he thought of what Mr. Lu said that day.

He asked his subordinates to promise a high price and rented the house that could lead to the military warehouse. After digging for more than ten days, he really let him dig it under the warehouse.

So, on the one hand, he asked someone to continue digging forward, trying to steal some guns and ammunition, and armed his brothers. On the other hand, he occasionally stole bags of flour, stole some canned food and other food to open foreign meat.

At the beginning, the French did not pay attention. They still had skills in stealing things, such as stealing flour, and they took them from the inside. The piles were well piled on the outside, but in fact they had been hollowed out inside.

After stealing several times, he became more courageous. When he crawled out of the hole, his feet were not cleaned and left traces. Then he was caught by the French soldiers waiting for the rabbit to be caught.

These two people were scared by the French and told their accomplices to all their accomplices. Except for hearing the sound of the wind, seven or eight people, including Ruan Qi, were arrested in the military camp.

At first, he thought it was a public security case of ordinary gangs. When he was about to transfer it to the police station to be locked up, a French soldier in charge of escorting him immediately recognized Ruan Qilai.

This French soldier was captured. During his detention in Dongzhai, Ruan Qi had guarded him and beaten a gun stock because he was disobedient.

So they were taken back for retrial, and the retrial was a big problem. Ruan Qi first revealed that this was an intelligence point set up by Lu Yongzhi, which was specially collected by the French military intelligence. Then, he explained Lu Yongzhi's original identity, which was the camp affairs senator under the Governor's Office. Three instructors in the team were all from Wuming, a subordinate of Jian's Yingguan.

In the end, even they dressed up as bandits to harass the French army to ensure the fortifications of Liancheng, big and small, were told.

Ruan Qi once worked as the deputy captain of a small team, so he naturally knew these inside stories.

The final conclusion is that the mastermind behind all the scenes is Su Yuanchun, the governor of Guangxi and the supervisor of Guangxi border defense military affairs.

When the two men sent to be friends saw Ruan Qi being arrested, they hurried into the mountain to report, and Lu Yongzhi immediately deduced the matter.

When the French Consul General threw a thick stack of interrogation records in front of Su Yuanchun, Su Yuanchun made up his mind while reading: he would never admit his account!

"Nothing, nonsense! If it were my command, how could a soldier, know about such a confidential matter? He must have been talking nonsense to save his life."

The two had arguing for a while, and the Consul General said fiercely:

"I want to call the French Embassy in Beijing and ask our ambassador to negotiate with your government, accusing you of robbing and damaging the peace agreement between China and France. You can only reply within three days. Otherwise, the French army will immediately place troops in the south gate, and you will bear all the consequences caused by this."

Su Yuanchun was also panicked and immediately recalled Lu Yongzhi to the Governor's Office to discuss countermeasures with everyone.

"Mr. Su, I did send him to the undercover agents near Tongdeng French barracks to collect intelligence. He forgot his duty and was exposed to being arrested. This is my failure to supervise the people, so I ask for punishment."

Su Yuanchun waved his hand, "I'll talk about this later. Two urgent matters are: one is that the French Consul General threatens to mobilize heavy troops to approach Zhennan Pass, and the other is that they want to directly protest to the court's diplomatic relations."

"Sir, please see the military deployment of the army. Four hundred French troops were conquered by our Wei Qiang troops in the direction of Matian Nong; five hundred French troops in the Jinjidong area were confronting my Lin Junshen troops; along the way from Tongdeng to Jinjidong, the French army set up five stations, with about 100 people in each station, and only five hundred people were left in the Tongdeng military camp; more than a thousand French troops in the Langsan area confronted the remnants of our Black Flag Army. There were more than a thousand scattered troops in the rest of the rest of the places. This is the entire French army's strength in northern Vietnam."

"The French are now only more than 4,000 in northern Vietnam?"

Guan Wuming was very surprised.

"Yes, the French army originally had a total of more than 20,000 people. After the signing of the Sino-French New Testament, more than 10,000 people were transferred to other colonies. Therefore, the French consuls were bluffing, and the French army had extremely weak combat power. As long as they attacked, they would surrender immediately. This is why we often arrest twenty or thirty prisoners."

"Sir, we can fight back firmly against the threats of the French consul. You can ask Guan Biaotong to lead his two battalions to stay in Zhennanguan and wait for the battle. Lin Junsheng's troops and I will attack in full swing, first destroy the 500 French troops of Shaun's troops in Jinjidong and give the French a little color."

During this period, Guan Wuming used both suppression and servitude, and expanded the troops of another camp. According to Lu Yongzhi's approach, it is now called Jian's character front camp and Jian's character back camp, and the Jian's character still corresponds to the outside world.

"What do you mean, we can ignore the threats of the French when we build Liancheng now?"

"Yes, sir. The French have no capital to threaten us. Even as long as we train a new army in a town, we can drive the French out of Vietnam and restore the status of the imperial court as the sovereign state."

"What do you say about the Consul General's negotiations with the court?"

"You may as well agree to him and send troops to suppress the bandits immediately and restore peace to the Sino-Vietnam border. We can stop attacking the French army within three months."

Su Yuanchun nodded in contemplation: "There is only this way at the moment. You have worked hard for a while and have not been home for almost a year. Go back to see your old mother. Then, come to the Governor's Office to work. The border is fine during this period."

"Sir, please allow me to go back to the base again. I have to find the French to get Ruan Qi back."

Lu Yongzhi went home.

Su Yuanchun looked at everyone in the room and asked, "How credible do you think Lu Yongzhi's statement is?"

Mr. Xu, the top aide of the Governor's Office, answered first: "Su Shuai, my subordinates felt that this person was very ambitious and talented. He got two attacks on the French and thought that the French were vulnerable. He just wanted to deliberately provoke a war with the French, but he was nothing more than to fight for his own personal merit."

"I don't think so. When Lin Junsho's troops went out, there were only more than 60 guns, and now there were eight or nine hundred people, and most of them were equipped by the French. Could it be that these were given to him by the French?"

Guan Wuming supported Lu Yongzhi.

"This person can not only make good decisions, but also have a strong overall view and can also talk about the key points when analyzing problems. I think the two countermeasures he mentioned are advisable."

The person who spoke was the prefect Ni Dahong. Now every time he saw him, he would find that he had made a huge change. This person was unfathomable.

"I will consider how to answer the French consul."

Su Yuanchun's hand was pounding on the table.
Chapter completed!