There is only one road leading to the outside world from the ground on the Khe Son base, and Wu Yuanjia is equipped with a division of troops on this road, so that it is futile to ask for help from the ground, and the most terrible thing is that the weather conditions are not good in the past few days, so that the United States' greatest superior air force can not be brought into play, and the continuous rainy weather has helped the North Vietnamese army, and they have surrounded the US Marines in the Khe Son base, and at the same time they have arranged to cut off the strength of the American reinforcements. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Battle of Khe Son was seen as a decisive battle for whether the United States could extinguish North Vietnam, and both the White House and the American media believed that the decisive moment had come. Television news also reported all day long that General Vu Yuanjia might repeat the victory at Dien Bien Phu, so much so that the daily living conditions of the US troops at the Khe Son base occupied the top place in the news. William in the end? Whether General Westmoreland stabilized the situation by inflicting heavy losses on North Vietnam through this battle, or whether Vu Nguyen Gia repeated the great victory at Dien Bien Phu became a topic of discussion among the Americans.

Similarly, the military operations of the North Vietnamese also attracted the attention of the socialist camp, and the offensive posture of the North Vietnamese also spread throughout Moscow, Warsaw, Berlin and other cities. People can smell the smoke of gunpowder in the newspapers.

William? General Westmoreland would not admit defeat easily, and even if he was caught off guard, he felt that as long as the North Vietnamese army was severely damaged through this battle, the situation could be completely stabilized and the war could be won. The bombers taking off from the Philippines, Malaysia, and South Vietnam went back and forth day and night, and the bombs dropped almost melted down the mountains around the Khe Son base, and the US Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps aviation flew more than 10,000 sorties of F-4, F-105, B-52, A-1 attack planes, and A-7 fighters, dropping 80,000 tons of bombs.

While the world was watching how the Battle of Khe Son unfolded, the regular North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops quietly infiltrated Saigon, Hue, and most cities in South Vietnam. They were dressed as refugees, peasants, workers, and South Vietnamese soldiers on leave.

"All forces are in place, and in the early hours of tomorrow morning, all South Vietnamese targets will be attacked at the same time." Vu Nguyen Gia issued an order for a general attack on Vietnam a little later. The South Vietnamese National Liberation Front and North Vietnamese regular army units attacked almost every major town in South Vietnam, as well as most of the U.S. bases and airfields. In fact, earlier the North Vietnamese army had launched an offensive around Pleiku, Quang Nam, Da Le and other places, and after the offensive was launched, the offensive in almost all places caught the American and South Vietnamese troops off guard. Large areas of Saigon and Hue suddenly found themselves "liberated", and the regular North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops marched through the streets in a procession, brandishing weapons, and openly calling for everyone to rise up and join the revolution.

William? General Westmoreland only discovered at this time that a Xishan base was not the purpose of Wu Yuanjia, and after a short period of hectic confusion, he calmed down and began to order the American troops everywhere to hold on to the maximum possible annihilation of the infiltrated North Vietnamese troops with sufficient firepower. Westmoreland had this confidence, and the number of American troops in South Vietnam was as high as 500,000, which was even more than the entire number of troops invested by North Vietnam this time.

"Of course the U.S. military can crush this North Vietnamese offensive, there are so many of them. But this kind of almost entire territory attack has slapped the US government in the face, and they have been saying that North Vietnam is dying, and the US army is on the verge of victory. After reading the battle report, Serov didn't care about this issue, and in a few months, the two sides would not be able to win or lose. This is not a full-scale war in the Middle Ages, open a panoramic map and kill it all at once, even if it is a game, there is a morale gauge on it.

Sooner or later, Americans will know how unwise it is to get involved in this war, the Vietnam War not only caused the United States to have a fiscal deficit, but also damaged the international image of the United States, the socialist trend of thought in the sixties began to sweep again, and the United States helped the Soviet Union from the side is also inseparable, and then the United States had to be a man with its tail between its legs to recuperate the internal injuries caused by this war, until the Soviet Union was involved in the Afghan war, the United States ushered in the opportunity to counterattack.

After this war, the United States had to be a man with its tail between its legs for a period of time to replenish its national strength, which was already somewhat overdrawn, and at this time the United States felt for the first time that their national strength was not endless, and it would not be able to withstand any interference. This is different from the Korean War, when Europe and the Soviet Union were in the recovery stage, and now the other powers have long since shaken off the effects of World War II.

In Paris, France, in Charles de Gaulle's presidential palace, the tall but relatively thin de Gaulle silently looked out the window, knowing that his decision could make France stronger or put France in danger.

Since the end of World War II, France has had to face two countries, the United States and the Soviet Union, the United States is powerful, the Soviet Union is very close to France, and the French Communist Party in France has always been a constraint on all kinds of governments.

The United States wanted to continue to be the leader of Western Europe, and France's propensity for independence forced the United States to abandon France in the event of an eventual failure to win France's support, and to reduce France's negative impact on other allies and maintain the stability of the Atlantic Alliance.

Economic assistance and political conflict, especially over Algeria. The emergence of signs of détente between the United States and the Soviet Union, the economic integration of Europe, the deterioration of the US balance of payments, the outflow of gold, and the implementation of the independent policy after de Gaulle came to power all forced the United States to make corresponding adjustments in accordance with the changes in local interests and the situation in Europe.

Of course, the American government from all walks of life hated De Gaulle, but the importance of France, as well as the strength of the French Communist Party within France, had to make the United States turn a blind eye to De Gaulle in some places. Economic: The United States has strengthened its economic penetration, forced by the deterioration of its balance of payments, stopped economic aid to France, and focused on preventing France's dollar attack, nuclear: The United States refused to provide technical assistance to the development of France's nuclear weapons, only provided nuclear materials with conditions, and tried to bring France's nuclear forces under the control of the United States through the multilateral nuclear forces program, which was rejected by France, and finally failed, and France's independent nuclear forces were partially realized.

On the military front, the United States has adopted a conservative policy of avoiding conflict with France and minimizing the impact of France's actions on NATO's effectiveness and consistency. On the other hand, began to strengthen the unity of the alliance without France against the USSR.

It can be said that since de Gaulle came to power, he has found countless troubles with the United States, but the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe is eyeing the United States, and the United States cannot do anything to France, so there is a situation in which the United States can only deal passively with trouble every time it is made trouble by France.

The Soviet factor was also important, and De Gaulle could not have failed to see the existence of the French Communist Party. With the loosening of relations between the United States and the Soviet Union, the policies of Western European countries toward the Soviet Union have also been adjusted. After de Gaulle came to power, he pursued independent diplomacy, and Franco-Soviet relations improved markedly. In the international communist movement, since Khrushchev came to power, the communist parties of various countries have sought a socialist road that is different from the Soviet model and suited to their own characteristics. All this provided a relatively relaxed environment for the French Communist Party to get rid of the shackles of the Soviet model. The French Communist Party, which had the closest relationship with the CPSU among the communist parties in Western Europe, began to embark on a slow and cautious path of exploration.

In the Polish-Hungarian incident, although the French Communist Party received some ripples, the follow-up handling of the Soviet Union was also clean. And the turmoil was confined to two small Eastern European countries, and did not affect the Soviet Union. Therefore, the French Communist Party is still in power and has a strong appeal in French society. And the closeness of the French Communist Party and the Soviet Union, even further than that of the Italian Communist Party, was a headache for de Gaulle.

De Gaulle hated the dollar, and he was the first to discover the problem of the dollar, at least from the earliest in Western Europe, three years ago he saw the instability of the Breston Woods system, looking for an opportunity to exchange the dollar for a batch of gold, but at that time he was counterattacked by the dollar, so he did not take much advantage. Now that the Vietnam War was going on, and the United States' military spending was known to be rising, de Gaulle, who had been keeping an eye on the American economy, suddenly found that the Breston Woods system seemed to be crumbling. In the Vietnam War alone, the United States lost $800 billion in military spending.

In the year of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a French newspaper said that President Charles de Gaulle should always be prepared to show off the diplomatic trump card of holding a large number of dollars and put pressure on the United States by buying gold. The U.S. government takes this very seriously. Three years ago, France took out its dollar reserves to buy gold, but the United States suppressed the trend. And this time de Gaulle is going to find a group of big ones, contact some countries that have good relations with France, and put an end to the status of the dollar together.

At the time of the war between the United States and North Vietnam, de Gaulle felt that it was a good opportunity to make a move. Not long after, the presidents of the major French banks came to the presidential palace, and they didn't know what the president was looking for them, but they vaguely felt that it should be an important matter.

This time, de Gaulle and the presidents of the major French banks discussed late into the night, timing and allies, as well as capital reserves, the debt situation of the United States, and even the ongoing spring offensive to find a favorable time. The Breston Woods system has nothing to do with the issuance of dollars, otherwise the issuance of dollars would have far exceeded the amount of gold, mainly because of the debt problem of the United States, the debt of the United States and the printing of more dollars will have an impact on gold, holding dollars, US Treasury bonds and dollar bills, you can go to the Federal Reserve to receive gold. (To be continued.) )