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Feng Zicai

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Feng Zicai's troops, stationed on the Chinese right wing around the village of Bang Bo, played an important role in the battle, defeating an assault by the French 111th Line Battalion on a position known as 'the long trench'. Feng is said to have encouraged his troops with the words 'You should die
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During the Sino-French War (August 1884 to April 1885) Feng was placed in command of a chiefly Zhuang armed force in South China, composed mainly of local peasantry and some of Feng's retired imperial troops. On 23 February 1885 the misdeployment of Feng's troops too far from the battlefield was a
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of February 1885, and Chinese sources attest to the poor morale of the Chinese army at Bang Bo. Feng Zicai is known to have issued orders that any man who left his post would be executed on the spot, and several dozen Chinese soldiers who fled when the French approached the long trench were
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rather than bear to see a French army invading Chinese soil!' (寧死不忍見法軍侵入中國境內). He is also said to have personally led the Chinese counterattack against the 111th Battalion. The Chinese had been beaten with ease by the French during the
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The story of Feng Zicai and the victory of the Chinese troops was made into the 2017 film
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Feng's defiant words to his troops at Bang Bo are sculpted on a giant stone on
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and other groups threatening the Qing Empire in south China and northern
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major factor in the defeat of China's Kwangsi Army in the
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traditional Chinese
simplified Chinese
pinyin
Wade–Giles
Qing dynasty
Qinzhou
Guangxi
China
lieutenant colonel
regiment
Jiangsu
Taiping Rebellion
Yangtze River
lieutenant general
Nanning
Hmong
Vietnam
Battle of Bang Bo
Battle of Đồng Đăng
Battle of Bang Bo
Lang Son Campaign
Wuzhi Mountain
Hainan
Draft History of Qing
Zhang Guoliang
Hummel, Arthur W. Sr.
"Fêng Tzŭ-ts'ai" 
Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period
United States Government Printing Office

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