Chapter 539: The Storm in the North of Vietnam
Jean Paul and Biel Chenault could not resist the pressure from the government, and shook hands harmoniously in front of the camera with smiles, but when the two turned around, the hands that were still clasped just now quickly separated, and the enthusiastic smile quickly smiled, turning into two incompatible lumps of ice.
The "reconciliation of the century" is nothing more than a cover for outsiders to see, mixed with contradictions between factions, political parties, and personal grievances.
It's just that Vietnam's interests are too great, and the two major factions in the French army want to take possession of them, so they have to let the two team up to form a team.
The two who know the inside story naturally understand the roles they shoulder, so their drama essence attributes are bursting, but when they turn around, they are full of interests.
"This is an order from the General Staff, and I have absolute command!"
The first words of Biel Chenault into the command were full of the meaning of swearing sovereignty, but Jean Paul smiled indifferently, he knew very well that France is now controlled by the North African system, and the group of "heroes" brought back from England by General de Gaulle have long been excluded from the core power because of their inherent defects.
Not to mention him, a veteran who was sent to Vietnam, even General de Gaulle had to be forced to go into the wilderness and live in seclusion in the mountains and forests after serving as president.
If it weren't for General de Gaulle's insistence on resistance in World War II and his great reputation, the power of this department would have collapsed long ago, and there was no way to let the military power of the main force of the French army be in the hands of the North African faction that had not been baptized by war.
Therefore, in the face of Pierre Cheno's strong oath, although Jean Paul was angry, as the only general in the De Gaulle family who held military power, he had to endure it, otherwise General de Gaulle, who was secretly seeking a comeback, was very likely to lose his influence on the army, which was an unbearable loss for him and even the entire faction.
Because of this, Jean Paul did not say anything, only nodded slightly gentlemanly, and walked up the stairs without turning his head.
Pierre Chenault looked at Jean Paul, who had disappeared from the corner of the stairs, and snorted with some dissatisfaction: "The gentlemen of Paris should really send useless people to nursing homes, instead of wasting taxpayers' food by taking up a position." ”
"I believe that in less than half a month, your words will become a realistic general!" As soon as Pierre Chenault's words fell, a tall and tall French lieutenant colonel standing beside him answered without hesitation.
Hearing this, the unhappiness on Bill Cheno's face finally receded, turned to look at the lieutenant colonel beside him, and asked, "The scenery here is finally much better than the desert, how is it?" Have faith? Lieutenant Colonel Henry! ”
Lieutenant Colonel Henry's handsome face like a knife and an axe bloomed with an extremely confident smile: "There are guerrillas on the left and right, I can beat them crying dad and shouting mother in Algeria, and I can still beat them here to regret living in this world!" ”
"Okay, then let the Vietnamese monkeys who dare to resist go to hell!" Pierre Chenault smashed Henry's chest with his fist, and his gray-black eyes were full of blood......
Pierre Chenault proved to be much more capable than Jean Paul, and on the third day of his tenure as chief of staff, he launched a military offensive codenamed "Charlemagne's Will".
Unlike the previous French attacks on the North Vietnamese guerrillas, Lieutenant Colonel Henry, who did not set the goal on capturing the city, but focused on the vital forces of the North Vietnamese guerrillas.
In the form of elite squads, the North Vietnamese guerrillas were raided, and once they caught the opponent like maggots on the tarsal bones, at the same time, several elite squads around the periphery were able to close together to form a rapid encirclement, and then the main force cruising on the periphery would attack strongly, and the encircled North Vietnamese guerrillas would be eaten by the thunderous sweeping force.
This tactic, which Lieutenant Colonel Henry called "Gathering Locks," was a great success in Algeria, destroying nine rebels in less than a year.
Henry also became famous in the French army, so much so that some unscrupulous French media compared him to those brilliant generals in World War II.
Henry didn't care about it on the surface, but he was very proud in his bones, and even had a feeling that he was born at an untimely time, if he had been born a few years earlier, maybe he would have become a legend like Montgomery, Eisenhower, and Zhukov.
But he was not discouraged, World War II was not fought, there were no other wars, anyway, the world is not at peace, can't he find a chance to prove himself?
Algeria is the starting point of his rise, and I believe that Vietnam is not the end of his journey.
In fact, in the face of Henry's new offensive tactics, the North Vietnamese guerrillas were very uncomfortable, and the command judgment was one after another, and the command also made frequent mistakes, so that more than a dozen guerrillas were eaten by the French army.
This is not counting, in the battle of sticking to their colleagues, the northern Vietnamese side, which was eager to change the status quo, was originally prepared to take the French army by surprise in an attempt to reverse the unfavorable situation, so it launched a fierce mobilization of seven guerrilla units, nearly 1,500 people, ready to eat several elite combat detachments of the French army.
As a result, instead of capturing the French detachment, the North Vietnamese side was surrounded by the main French army, and the result can be imagined, the 1,500-strong contingent only held out for two days before it collapsed.
After this defeat, there was a gap in the defense of the northern part of the country, and Henry keenly seized this opportunity and directly waved his army north, causing a terrifying storm.
In the face of the turmoil of the French army, the northern Vietnamese side was powerless to resist at all, so it could only urgently ask China for help, hoping to transfer the Vietnamese army, which was training in China, to resist the offensive of the French army.
After receiving the North Vietnamese distress call from the central government, the zero leader sitting in Guinan pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, and immediately raised his head to look at the huge North Vietnam situation map on the wall, and his knife-like brows couldn't help frowning.
In addition to knowing that the situation in northern Vietnam is grim, the other situations are also blackened, and the military leaders of northern Vietnam have come a few times, but there is no useful real material in his words except fear.
As for the North Vietnamese guerrillas at the grassroots level, they were even more unbearable, and they did not even have basic tactical literacy, let alone be expected to find out the basic information of the French army, such as the composition of the troops, the configuration of weapons, and so on.
So much so that now, the map situation of Chief Zero is still the situation three days ago, and in the face of such a situation, Rao is Chief Zero can fight well and has a sense of powerlessness.
"That's not how it was fought!"
After staring at the map with his hands behind his back for a few minutes, Chief Zero finally said such a sentence meaningfully, and immediately turned his head and ordered the communication staff officer in the command room: "Directly order Tang Jixian to go deep into the hinterland of North Vietnam and tell him that I want first-hand information!" ”