C3426 The handover of power was difficult! (1/2)

The old governor's eyes lit up with hope, only the army could back him up, the five thousand French troops from Saigon were already the last of the Annan army, and the enemy only numbered three thousand.

At that moment, the baron's heart was filled with evil thoughts. He even wanted to make these five thousand men eat the three thousand men in front of him!

Xiao Hexin understood his opponent's thoughts, and sighed: ”Save your strength! Napoleon III's elites all failed, you still want to put up a resistance? ”

”Your five thousand French soldiers only have forty-two cannons in total, and it's even the oldest bronze Napoleon cannon … ”You should have received the war report from Europe. Do you still need me to tell you what your cannon waste looked like in the Franco-Prussian War?”

”This time, I brought a total of 30 cannons. There aren't many …” But I'm sorry, it's all Krupp posthumous steel gun used in the Franco-Prussian War! ”

”You want to go all out? Do you want to go all out? I'm not even a battleship on the Mekong. Do you want to count the number of cannons on the battleship? ”

These words caused the Frenchman's face to turn pale, while the Old Baron's lips trembled as he said, ”You're lying! Why would the cannons that are just popular in Prussian be sold to you? ”

”How much do they have? How could I sell you thirty doors at once? ”

There was some truth to this suspicion, however, because in the late nineteenth century, artillery was a national strategic weapon, and many arms trades did not contain artillery.

The Europeans could sell rifles to other peoples, but of course, they had to be armed with those kinds of weapons for an entire era!

However, cannons were rarely sold, especially the newest cannon that had just received its baptism from the war!

Since the Europeans themselves were not enough, they could not give it to the Others first, and since they were conscious of the age of making weapons, they could not sell it.

The governor had been away from Europe for a long time. He had no idea about the Franco-Prussian war, and had no idea how cooperative the Chinese and Germans were.

In fact, after the battle ended, the Prussian Army had quickly 'eliminated' a batch of 70% of the new cannons, and sold them to Xiao Letian with a discount.

It wasn't just the ships of antiquities that followed the freighter back to Asia. There were also cannons hidden in the pile of antiques!

In Xiao Letian's eyes, this level of arms trade was actually not inferior to the future generation's strategic missile level of arms trade. In the eyes of the people of the twenty-first century, it was just a few cannons.

However, this Krupp steel gun, which was more than a decade ahead of other countries, became the key to the victory in the Franco-Prussian campaign. It was an epoch-making weapon that could completely turn the tide of the war.

A cannon eating a shell in its mouth would be upgraded to stuffing its butt with a shell. This was a revolutionary innovation!

Following Xiao Hexin's order, the newly formed troops quickly set up their artillery positions in the open area in front of the main entrance of the Norton Palace. One after another, murderous cannons aimed at the approaching French army.

The French had never expected such a ruckus. They had hastily mobilized their soldiers and left the barracks. They did not even have the time to activate their cannons. Some of the soldiers only carried three or four rounds of bullets.

This temporary transfer of troops was just to scare people. It was no different from a gang pulling heads!

However, Xiao Hexin had made sufficient preparations. Along with the cannons, boxes after boxes of cannonballs were brought ashore, and the crowbar was used to pry open the wood box in front of the Old Baron. Between the straw and sawdust, several cannonballs that flickered with a metallic light were loaded into the cannon.

”No …” No, no, no... ”This is a misunderstanding …” Even if Old Baron had never seen this weapon before, he could still feel its power just by looking at it.