General Feng Zicai, famous all over the world. The general can kill thieves, and the flag cloud changes color. Jiangnan's ten years of military achievements are high, and the yellow coat color reflects the flowers and flutters.
At the beginning of 1885, the French army invaded Andanguan, and then retreated to Mun Yuan (present-day Tongdeng, Vietnam) and Lang Shan due to insufficient troops and supply difficulties, waiting for the opportunity to repeat the crime. At the critical juncture, the Qing court appointed Feng Zicai to be appointed to assist in the military affairs outside Guangxi Guanwai and lead the anti-French battle on the front line of Zhennanguan. Feng Zicai was ordered to lead his unit (Cui Jun) to Zhennanguan immediately after he deeply understood the people's feelings, inspected the key areas of Guan pass, boldly used the local Zhuang youth Meng Da, appointed him as the leader of the death squad, and discussed the battle plan. At the same time, Feng Zicai also synthesized the opinions of the generals and the masses of various departments, and built a long wall of 7 feet high and 1 zhang wide with earth and stone between the East Ridge and the West Ridge of Guanqian Pass, which were more than 1,000 meters long, and a trench 4 feet deep and 1 zhang wide was dug in front of the long wall, and more than 300 plum blossom pits were dug in the open field in front of the trench. Later, the Kuomintang general Fang Xianjue was inspired by this to invent the Fang Xianjue trench and eliminate a large number of Japanese troops.
The Qing court ordered Feng Zicai to assist in handling military affairs outside guangxi's borders. Hearing that there were police officers in Langshan, they immediately rushed to Zhennanguan, and the French army had burned Zhennanguan and retreated. Longzhou was in danger, and Feng Zicai thought that the Pass in Front of The Pass crossed the east and west ridges and was very dangerous, so he ordered the construction of a long wall, led his troops to hold it, and sent Wang Xiaoqi's qin army to garrison the rear horn. The enemy claimed that one day to attack the pass, Feng Zi material to the enemy will inevitably arrive early, and decided to preemptively attack. Pan Dingxin, the governor of Guangxi, stopped him, and the others did not want to fight. Feng Zicai argued on the basis of reason and personally led the Qin army to attack Wenyuan. Approaching enemy fortresses at night, killing and capturing many enemies.
At this time, the French army attacked in three ways, and Feng Zicai said to the soldiers: "If the French army breaks into Guannei again, what will we see guangdong father and elder?" Be sure to fight to the death!'' Morale rose. The French attacked the long wall most intensely, followed by black soldiers, and then bandits, the sound of artillery shook the valley, and bullets piled up more than an inch thick in front of the position. The various units of the Qing army attacked fiercely together, and the enemy gradually retreated. A day later, the French army swarmed again, Feng Zicai took command in the center, behind Su Yuanchun's palace, Wang Xiaoqi was on the right, and Chen Jia and Jiang Zonghan were on the left. Feng Zicai commanded the generals to stand still and kill their heads when they encountered retreaters. He rushed out of the camp with a spear in his hand and led his two sons, Feng Xiangrong and Feng Xianghua, into battle. All the soldiers were inspired to charge the battle because Feng Zicai was seventy years old, and they also fought desperately. Scattered soldiers and expatriates from outside the Guanwai also came to help in the battle, killing dozens of French generals and chasing them twenty miles outside the Guanwai before returning. After two days, he conquered Wenyuan again, was rewarded, and then successively recaptured the city of Yucheng and Changqing, captured the beheading of three paintings and one of the five painting soldiers, and took advantage of the victory to pursue Lamu and recover all the encroached land.
The Vietnamese people had long been unable to bear the tyranny of the French army, and when they heard that the army led by Feng Zicai had arrived, they all came to greet them and competed for condolences. Feng Zicai summoned them to appease them and agreed on a plan to suppress The Northern Circle. The Vietnamese people rushed to establish a regiment, and under the banner of Feng Zicai's troops, they were willing to serve as guides for the Qing soldiers to transport grain. Bac Ninh, Hanoi, Haiyang, and Taiyuan competed to respond, and Feng Zicai also resolutely took on his own responsibility, leading the whole army to attack Lang Jia and attackIng Benin, when the edict of the armistice arrived, Feng Zicai angrily asked for war, was not approved, and had to return to China, on the day of leaving, the Vietnamese people cried in the middle of the road, and Feng Zicai also cried tears. Entering the customs to Longzhou, the soldiers and civilians knelt down to greet them, and the cries were earth-shattering, up to thirty miles. After Feng Zicai withdrew his troops from Vietnam and returned to China, he was ordered to supervise the defense of the QinLian (present-day Guangxi) area and handle the military affairs of Guangxi together. He was also given the title of Prince Ofs and Was given the title of Prince of the Crown Prince, and his post was changed to a third-class light car lieutenant.
When the Sino-French War broke out, Feng Zicai was nearly seventy years old, but this did not stop Feng Zicai's determination to deal a heavy blow to the enemy army, and he used a "great victory" to announce to the world that China was still very powerful, and also expressed his ambition of "being honest and not old". Liang Qichao's teacher Kang Zuyi once commented that Feng Zicai was the best general that China used to wash away the hatred and shame of the country, and Jiang Jinhui believed that Feng Zicai was a true patriot who always attached importance to the state's social welfare, and in the War of Resistance Against Foreign Aggression in his later years, Feng Zicai's spirit of not giving in to any land and guarding the country's great rivers and mountains with his old and weak body was the true color of a real national hero.