[317] Tragic combat effectiveness

Mr. Chen said a little unhappily: "When Comrade Ho Chi Minh came to the northern capital to sing the lotus flower, we promised to give the Vietnamese People's Army so much equipment. But now you see, what kind of troops are they, they are not as good as our militia brigade, even if they send a militia brigade, more than 10,000 people to use these equipment of the Japanese elite division, they can't fight like this bear! ”

Xiao Qiang comforted: "Probably these people are stupid in the mountains, the revolutionary will is too weak, the People's Army is used to cold guns, accustomed to guerrilla warfare, want him to fight a regular attack station, it is estimated that the fighting will is not as good as the hard-working Vietnamese woman." ”

Mr. Chen was interrupted by Xiaoqiang, and his anger disappeared, and he asked strangely: "Is there a place in this world where women are stronger than men?" ”

Xiaoqiang was afraid that Mr. Chen would continue to sulk, so he quickly changed the topic and said: "There are many Vietnamese men who marry three or four wives, women work in the fields with children on their backs, and men sleep lazily at home, smoke hookahs, drink fruit wine, and generally don't do any physical work." This is not quite the same as the fact that the main body of our militia is the working people. Those who do not work have little fighting power. Now those lazy Vietnamese men are not to mention being soldiers, but it is a bit difficult for them to attack fortifications. You think, flying bullets on the top of the head, running grenades in the crotch of your pants, everyone will be afraid, not to mention those cowards, wetting pants are light. ”

Mr. Chen said disdainfully: "If such soldiers let me see them, they will all be kicked to the women's brigade to be militiamen!" Let them compare themselves with the women and see if they are ashamed! ”

Xiao Qiang said: "I estimate that Comrade Uncle Hu is anxious now, and he is about to ask our military advisory group to be stationed." With this bird-like combat effectiveness, I don't think we can solve the problem if we don't build our army's advisers directly into the company. But I still firmly do not recommend that the military advisers be stationed, in case our good boy dies in the grass of Vietnam, it is really very wronged. ”

Mr. Chen frowned and said, "Didn't we help them train a 308 division?" How to fight like this bear! ”

Xiaoqiang guessed: "Before I came to Puhai, I heard from Mr. Zhu that the 308th Division had just left Yanshan, Guangxi...... Could it be ......?"

Mr. Chen suddenly slapped his thigh and said, "Probably because they are afraid of being robbed of the limelight, their militia wants to take Dongxi in advance as a foreshadowing...... Alas, with this combat effectiveness, it is necessary to grab the merits, and the more the commander's brain, what do you think. ”

Xiao Qiang smiled: "This is the same as the situation in history, and it is finally not crooked." ”

Mr. Chen asked strangely: "Xiaoqiang, what is a crooked building?" ”

"It's okay, it's okay, I'm talking nonsense." Xiaoqiang hurriedly pulled the topic out.

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At this time, the Vietnamese People's Army was full of gloom.

Previously, because they had obtained sufficient guns and ammunition, a group of local cadres in Vietnam shouted the slogan of 'decisive battle and decisive victory', and announced with great ambition that they would take down Dong Xi, which had a garrison of 270 troops, before the 308th Division returned. As a result, under the support and attack of French aircraft, more than 3,000 people were killed and wounded to take Dongxi, and then they were killed by French paratroopers, and more than 4,000 people were killed and wounded who lost their armor, completely lost the battle, and lost Dongxi again.

Comrade Ho Chi Minh was very angry and scolded at a meeting of the Central Committee held at the front command post in Quang Yuan: "I said at the beginning that I would wait for the 308th Division to come back, wait for the 308th Division to come back!" You don't listen! Now, let's see, what it's like! 10,000 militiamen went out and only half came back! Such a fiasco will only make the French colonists attack us even more aggressively! ”

Brother Wen, the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of Vietnam, that is, Wu Yuanjia, was born as a teacher, and he has always felt that he is a cultural person, so he is generally called Brother Wen. Brother Wen said sadly: "The French are too cunning, they asked the migrant workers to cut down all the trees near the Dongxi position!" Moreover, their machine gun positions are very well arranged, each machine gun can form a cross with other fire points, and our comrades can't find any cover, so they rush straight up! The corpses were stacked up quickly! That's a terrible situation...... Alas...... Alas...... Alas......"

Lu Ling, chief of the General Staff, was also almost crying, and said in a choked voice: "In the past, we all fought guerrillas and released cold guns, where have we fought such a fortification!" Comrades have no experience at all! It was the first time we fought a tough battle, and we didn't know that this regular battle was so difficult to fight. Five mortars of our militia fired six rounds without hitting the enemy's point of fire, probably because the mortar positions were too close, and the French 75mm mountain guns hit our mortar positions in the first round, and all the more than thirty fighters of the mortar company were killed. ”

Wen Ge added sadly: "Zuihou we used a frontal attack to attract machine gun fire, and we had to organize a death squad to take advantage of the dispersion of machine gun fire to take out the enemy's machine gun bunker with explosives packs. After opening the breach, we finally rushed in desperately, and the French finally fled in disarray. ”

Speaking of this, Brother Wen was a little proud. Then, he gritted his teeth and said:

"But only a few days after we occupied Dongxi, the French light front-line support bombers came, and they flew so low! The bomb was thrown accurately! Our positions were blown up to the point that even the rice was on fire! Then the French Foreign Legion came up and fired furiously at us, and their mortars were so good that our machine gun positions were taken away one by one. Then the French paratroopers also parachuted in, cooperating with the French troops on the periphery to attack us inside and outside! Our positions are in complete disarray! At this time, all our militia regiments had already suffered very serious losses, and a large number of cadres had died, and they really couldn't carry it anymore, so they had to retreat. ”

Ho Chi Minh was very angry and said: "This battle is adventurous!" I disagreed from the beginning! I'll review it first! The biggest mistake I made was not resolutely stopping you when I knew you were blindly optimistic. ”

Ho Chi Minh sighed and said firmly: "I now declare that in the future, in any such a tough battle, the militia without formal training will no longer be the main force, and in the future, we will firmly implement the idea of regular warfare, rely on the regular divisions and regiments that the Chinese big brother has helped us train to fight, and the militia will only be responsible for attacking the logistics supply lines of the French army in the future." ”

Brother Wen nodded heavily and said, "I agree!" I think we should expand the scale of training and send more troops to China to train as regular troops, otherwise if we continue to fight like this, we will simply fill the sea with the lives of the Vietnamese people. ”

Ho Chi Minh nodded and said, "When the 308th Division arrives in Guangyuan tomorrow, I will personally take a group of militia units to China for training, and I will also ask the Chinese big brother to see if we can invite their military advisory group to come directly to our base area, give lectures to our cadres and soldiers, and directly command us to fight." ”

Ho Chi Minh sighed again and said: "

Let me tell you the truth, the tactical command of our KPA units is really a mess, all the commanders are born guerrillas, at most they have received scattered training in guerrilla warfare by some American agents before, and none of them are officers trained by regular military academies! How can we fight like this! Even now it is so difficult to open up land transportation links with China! Not to mention going all the way south in the future, conquering the fortifications of the French one by one, and liberating the whole of Vietnam! It's just a pipe dream! ”

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At this time in Yanshan, Guangxi, General Chen Geng has also been upset for the past few days.

As a senior commander of our army who commanded more than 100,000 troops in the southern and northern wars, General Chen Geng was really incomprehensible after receiving the news of the Vietnamese People's Army's disastrous victory and the news of the ensuing fiasco. The old man sighed and sat quietly in the headquarters, he couldn't remember the last time he was worried about the enemy army of a few hundred people, which year was the old Huang Li. As far as our army is concerned, this kind of thing should have been handled easily by a battalion and company-level unit, but under any circumstances, it would not have been possible to ask him to ask a corps-level commander of more than 100,000 people to intervene. But now, such a thing is really strange.

Senior General Tran Geng thought about it all night, and finally had to start writing a telegram: "The combat effectiveness of the comrades of the Vietnamese People's Army is very low...... Unbelievable...... Studied but cannot comprehend...... It is only because the commanders have a low tactical literacy, and they only have the level of bandits, and the other may be that the troops have low revolutionary will, and they are afraid of war and cowardly. In addition, there is no third possibility...... It is suggested that the central government consider adopting the second set of guidelines for aiding Vietnam...... Our military advisory group may have to be forced to send a team of overseers to them, all the way down to the company level...... Ideologically, we should thoroughly purge right-leaning capitulationism......"

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The U.S. Consulate in Taiwan at this time.

Consul General Robert Strong hurriedly packed his luggage, and according to Washington's instructions, he will go to the Northern Capital, as the U.S. Consul General in China, acting as the U.S. Embassy in China.

Major General Ted Tede, the military attache stationed in Taiwan, was also appointed and became the first military attache in China.

"Robert, I really didn't expect that the Chinese actually took the initiative to approach us, and China and the United States established diplomatic relations, hehe, this is a positive signal."

"Yes, Ted, I didn't expect that Washington didn't send an ambassadorial-level diplomat to the Northern Capital, but asked me to act as ambassador general in my capacity as consul general. It's not an easy job. ”

"Robert, I have to congratulate you in advance, this is a very good step, after all, China is already a permanent member of the Security Council, they have great potential, you may become an ambassadorial diplomat in the future, I think, at most a year."