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Chapter 1474 A bet

At 8:55 p.m., the night was like water, and everything was silent. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Hekou County, on the northwest border between China and Annam.

With the French Annan government's brazen closure of the Sino-Angolan border trade port on the other side of the border in the middle of last month, the demolition of two kilometers of railway tracks along the border, and the erection of a large number of roadblocks on roads and bridges, the city of Laokai (now Lao Cai) across the county seat of Hekou quickly transformed from a bustling town into a heavily fortified border area.

Although he was not too worried that the squadron that was fighting the Japanese army would dare to cross the border to attack him, under the supervision of the Governor's Palace in Saigon and the French Army Headquarters in the colony, the garrison Annam army still built many civil fortifications and used the tunnel system that the French army had renovated for many years on the high mountains on the other side of the Red River to carry out layers of defense.

On the 25th, the French Command of the French Colony of Annam decisively transferred troops from the Sino-Annan border to Hue to quell the rebellion, and Lao Kai stationed only two Annam light infantry divisions, totaling 12,000 men. The entire long border between Angola and China, including the sections of Guangxi, Yunnan, and Laos, shared the remaining 38,000 people, which shows the sparseness of the defense line.

In response to this situation, Xia Jian and Gu Changfeng immediately made a-for-tat response, brought together the two separate front armies, and made full use of the flat terrain of the Red River valley along the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway and Highway to make a large-depth breakthrough and reach Hanoi in one go.

At the same time, two of the three mountain divisions of the Southern Yunnan Military Region were dispatched to wipe out the remnants of the Annan Army on both flanks in depth, and then the sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth divisions of the armed police force, which had been stationed on the Sino-Anjian border a few days ago, cooperated with the three leading divisions of the General Political Department to eliminate the remnants of the French Army and the remnants of the Annan Army, as well as bandits and bullies, so as to establish effective rule over the liberated areas.

In order to remove the factional imprint of the army and eliminate the resistance of the people of Annam, all units fighting in Annan will be renamed the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and the occupied areas will be called liberated areas.

The corps belongs to the divisional level, and is divided into four levels: corps, detachment, brigade, and squadron, which is the same as the armed police force, the corps is the division level, the detachment is the regiment level, the brigade is the battalion level, and the squadron is the company level.

The main tasks of the corps are to militarily take over the French colonial regime with the assistance of the armed police force, publicize and mobilize the people of Annam, maintain social order, stabilize the people's minds, resume production, unite all parties in Annam, raise food, support the front line, and collect the weapons and equipment of the French and Annam troops and the guns and ammunition they have hidden.

Once the local military government was established, after the handover of the first army, it marched forward again, continuing to repeat the work of taking over the political power and assisting in the formation of a new political power.

From the mouth of the river to Hanoi, more than 250 kilometers, along the way are two-way four-lane concrete roads of high standard, which is a great change brought about by the bilateral trade between French Annam and southern Yunnan, but now it has greatly facilitated the speed of the troops' advance to Hanoi. The battle will begin at 9 p.m., with the aim of tearing through the Laokai border defense line built by the Annam Army in the early hours of the morning, and then rushing all the way to take Hanoi, which is empty of troops, by 12 p.m. tomorrow.

After the troops were stationed in Hanoi, they took a short rest and waited for the fuel and ammunition to be replenished. The Fourth Army and the Fifth Army, a total of six motorized infantry divisions, plus units directly under the group army, moved north to divide and encircle the French army and the Annan Army stationed on the border between Annam and Guangxi. At the same time, the Guards Army and the Sixth Army directly under the Front Army quickly captured the surrounding cities, focusing on the capture of Haiphong Port, and the Second Artillery Corps would also cooperate in the siege operations.

After taking Haiphong, the Second Artillery Corps was stationed at the mouth of the Red River and the port of Haiphong to build fortresses to ensure the absolute security of the Red River Delta.

The fully replenished Gu Changfeng Front Army will launch an operation the morning after tomorrow, attack Thanh Hoa and Vinh City to the south along Highway No. 1, defeat the French army besieging Hue, join up with the Hue rebel army, first stabilize the war between Hue and Da Nang, and then launch an attack to the south after the liberated areas are digested and consolidated.

In the tunnel bunker on Binglang Mountain behind Hekou County, the headquarters formed by the convergence of the two front armies was brightly lit.

The commanders and staff officers of the various departments were busy with their work, but only the two generals stood leisurely in front of the lookout of the bunker, chatting quietly while gazing at the pitch-black French positions across the Red River.

Xia Jian said with some concern: "People who don't know Cheng Guang have not started to act...... I really sweat for them, with more than 5,000 people against 15,000 French troops, the slightest carelessness may surprise the grass and snakes, and turn from a sneak attack to a strong attack. Due to the tight schedule, the naval officers and men did not carry heavy firepower, while the French army had naval guns to assist in the battle, and it was a scene of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood......

"If the war develops in this direction, tomorrow I am responsible for the coastal defense offensive will also become extremely difficult, I heard that the quadruple main guns of two of the battleships, the caliber is 330 mm, the length of the main gun barrel is 50.44 times the diameter, the maximum range of 41 kilometers, one cannon down, within hundreds of square meters except for minced meat, the 150mm cannon of the Second Artillery Corps cannot be compared......

Gu Changfeng was looking at his watch, there were still three minutes before the general attack would begin, and then the opposite side of the mountain would be covered by countless artillery fire, and the journey that he had been looking forward to for many years of expanding his territory and achieving immortal fame would officially kick off.

Holding back his excitement, Gu Changfeng turned his head and comforted softly: "Don't worry, Lao Xia, this operation, not only the navy participated, but all the forces of the Hongxing Society in Haiphong, plus the intelligence department that Old Man Ou had been operating for many years, how could the defenseless French Navy withstand it?" Since the Japanese were able to succeed in Sumatra and Borneo, there is no reason why we should lose to the little Japan who stole from us, right? You just wait for tomorrow to take over Haiphong Port...... Haha, if we can really eat one of the French fleets in one go this time, our navy will immediately change guns, at least in the coastal area of Annam, we can be allowed to be arrogant! ”

Xia Jian grinned, and was about to answer, when he saw two combat staff officers standing behind him, and the entire combat center suddenly became silent, and his heart sank, knowing that all departments were ready, he waited for himself and Gu Changfeng to give an order.

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Now let's talk about Haiphong Port.

On the 19th, a total of 300 members of the Green Fox Brigade of the Special Service Regiment directly under the Navy Command, disguised as seamen, boarded the ocean-going fleet of the Nanhua Group from Qinzhou Port in Guangxi, and arrived at Haiphong Port on the morning of 20 July.

Originally, there was no permanent fleet in Haiphong Port, but on the night of the 25th, a huge fleet composed of 25 warships and 10 transport ships sailed into the port, and the fleet actually included a number of huge ships.

The Navy Command immediately turned to the Fourth Department, the General Staff and the Ministry of National Security, which had no record of this, but the Ministry of National Security found the answer from the routine report of the French intelligence team:

The French Navy's newly-built battlecruiser "Strasbourg" was laid with a keel in November 34, launched in December last year, and completed its final assembly, service, and test in September this year. At the same time, the large cruiser "Sukuv", the super destroyer "Volta" of the "Mogador" class and three conventional destroyers of 1,500 tons were also inspected.

In order to better test the performance of the new ships, to make up for the shortcomings in time, and to show force to the colonies in Africa and Asia, Admiral Darlain of the French Navy organized this voyage across the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans, with the port of Haiphong as its last stop.

In addition to six new ships, the fleet joined the Mediterranean Fleet with the battle cruiser "Dunkirk" as the lead ship, which included the dreadnought "Ocean", "La. The Galisonière-class light cruiser "Glorious", the "Fantasy"-class super destroyers "Triumph", "Terrible" and "Reckless", three 1,500-ton fleet submarines and nine supply and maintenance ships.

The fleet departed the port of Toulon on 2 October, making its first stop in Tunisia, the second in Algeria, and then through Morocco, French West Africa, French Equatorial Africa, Madagascar, French Somalia, several French cities in the South Asian subcontinent, and finally Da Nang in French Annam.

On Christmas Eve, there was a large-scale uprising throughout the territory of French Annam, and the fleet first helped the defenders of Da Nang, defeated the attack of the Hue rebels, and then joined the troop transports from Cam Ranh Bay to the north of Haifang Port for the last leg of the cruise.

Having lost the deterrence of the Mediterranean Fleet, the Italian fleet has recently been frequently haunting the southern seaports of France, harassing the normal navigation and operations of French merchant ships and fishing vessels.

The commander of the fleet, Vice Admiral Kinsor, has decided to let the lads relax and rest for the next few days, and return to the Mediterranean Sea directly through the Suez Canal after the New Year.

Of course, much of the above information is not clear to the national security intelligence department, but the fat that suddenly fell from the sky made a large group of people up and down the Navy Command red-eyed.

As a result of the conspiracy of a group of people from the Navy Headquarters, 4,000 officers and men were transferred from the three Marine Corps of the Navy that night, and 1,000 officers and men with a certain amount of experience in the operation of large ships were transferred from the Poyang Lake Fleet and the Xingzi Naval Base to concentrate on the old Nanchang Airport.

To this end, the Air Force Command sent 20 AN-6 large transport planes and 100 Mosquito transport planes to participate in the transportation of naval officers and men.

At 3 p.m. on 26 July, 1,700 heavily armed officers and men disembarked at the Qinzhou Military Airport, and after assembling, they rushed to the wharf without stopping, and then boarded the smuggling fleet of the Hong Xingshe and landed on the coast south of Haiphong with landing craft at midnight.

As of last night, 5,000 naval officers and men had been sent to Da Loc and Tu Son counties, south of Haiphong City. Dozens of fishing villages here have long been controlled by Hung Xingshe, and the French army has always set their sights on the direction of Hue, so they did not expect that anyone would dare to make small moves under the nose of the powerful naval formation.

The task of the naval officers tonight is to eliminate 15,000 French naval soldiers without bloodshed with the cooperation of the Hung Xing Society and the intelligence agency of the Ou Shi Group (judging from the data, in 1937 there were 984 ground service personnel at the French naval base in Haiphong Port, plus one regiment of garrisons), seize the ships of the French Navy docked in the port intact, and occupy the port of Haiphong.

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Gu Changfeng and Xia Jian stared at their watches tightly, the hour hand pointed to nine, and the minute hand and the second hand pointed to twelve o'clock together, almost at the same time:

"Let's get started!"