[398] The resolution of the Asian offering

Admiral Revos stood quietly in the Hanoi headquarters of the French army, he just didn't understand when these mud-legged people in Vietnam learned to fight such big and tough battles, and their appetite for shooting was simply terrifying, and it was not at all the guerrilla combat style of the past.

"The Vietnamese commander has changed, it should be the Soviets or the Chinese in command, and the Vietnamese will definitely not be able to fight such an atmospheric battle." Revos was silent for a while, and this sentence popped out of his mouth with an expressionless face. The just-concluded Battle of Route 4 was like a vacuum pump that sucked out all the courage of this Indochinese emperor.

Major General Luke, the chief of staff, frowned when he heard this, and took a sip of more than half of the Naga whiskey in the mug in front of him, knowing that the fiasco in the Battle of Route 4 would inevitably lead to Admiral Revos's departure. And what about yourself? Will you continue to stay in Indochina? Or will it be recalled to Paris? What the future holds for a soldier is completely up to him after defeat.

Major General Luke's hands were twisted together, revealing his inner tangle and helplessness. He said with a bitter face: "Yes, Your Excellency, it must be the Russians and the Chinese who are behind the scenes.

After this battle, the entire Route 4 defense line has been completely lost. In this battle, we lost more than 4,500 elite troops, all French troops combined with more than 6,000 people, plus the Baoda puppet army, the total loss was more than 8,500 people. In a word, our blood in North Vietnam is dry.

The Vietnamese are ruthless, and this is not lost to us, I heard that they have not spared a puppet army, and they have already purged Gao Ping, shooting all pro-French elements and those who have held official positions. ”

Admiral Revos stood in front of the map wall more than five meters high, closed his eyes and was silent for a moment, then opened his eyes and asked, "Have our intelligence officers reported?" How many captives did the Vietnamese say they had? ”

Major General Luke shook his head and said: "They haven't announced it yet, but judging from past experience, it shouldn't be many, the conditions of the prisoner of war camps in Vietnam are very poor, and there is no medicine for malaria, and these prisoners will soon die." ”

Admiral Revos closed his eyes again and sighed, "The five battalions that entered the Vietnam supply base area have returned, right?" You send them to the Red River Delta to strengthen their defenses, and although the Route 4 defense line is about to be completely lost, as long as the Red River grain-producing areas are controlled, there is still hope for the Fourth Republic in Indochina. Hold on until the new commander-in-chief arrives. ”

Hearing Revos's words as if they were his last words, Major General Luke felt a sense of sorrow, and he took a sip of the cloudy coffee mixed with alcohol in his cup, and said, "Yes, Your Excellency, I will do so." ”

Admiral Revos walked slowly in front of the map, pointed to the entire northwest area of Vietnam on the map, and said sadly: "Without these elite troops, with our current strength, we can no longer hold here, so we order all the garrisons to retreat, withdraw to the coastal city of Thanh An in Quang Ninh Province, and rebuild the defensive circle with the Red River Delta as the core." ”

On July 25, the French sweeping forces were completely withdrawn from Taiyuan Province, and the threat to the old base area of the Central Committee of the Indochinese Supply Party was completely lifted.

On the same day, the French army withdrew from Qixi, was ambushed, and lost more than 200 Baoda puppet troops.

On 27 July, the French withdrew from Nazen and Tongdeng, where they were ambushed along the way.

On July 30, the French army, which had fled all the way, withdrew from Liangshan and Mong Cai and was ambushed.

On August 13, the French army, panicked like a lost dog, withdrew from Lao Cai and Sapa, the important border towns of China and Vietnam.

The defense system of the French army on the northern border of Vietnam, which had been painstakingly operated for three years, completely collapsed!

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The new commander of the French Indochinese Expeditionary Force, General Tasini, arrived in Hanoi to replace General Revos, who had been recalled to Paris.

Tasini, known as "France's greatest soldier since Napoleon", will be tasked with reviving the morale of the French Indochinese Expeditionary Force and defending the colonies of the Fourth Republic of the Far East Indochina Peninsula at this time of turmoil.

Can he do it?

At this moment, in the Vietnamese base area deep in the mountains of Thai Nguyen Province, Ho Chi Minh almost fainted with joy when he looked at the battle report and the list of captures.

"An unprecedented victory! Unprecedented! ”

"The original combat Jihua hoped to annihilate 5 battalions of the enemy and capture Gaoping. As a result, 9 battalions of the enemy were annihilated, and the entire No. 4 Highway defense line was taken from Gaoping, Dongxi, Qixi, Naccen, Tongdeng, Liangshan, Mong Cai, Lao Cai, and Sapa to 9 strongholds! ”

"Directly conquer 5 cities, 13 towns and counties in northern Vietnam! 750 kilometers of Sino-Vietnamese border! 350,000 new people in the base area! ”

"A total of 13 105mm howitzers, 125 mortars, 480 military vehicles of various types, 3 armored vehicles, 240 medium machine guns, 1200 light machine guns, 1200 submachine guns and more than 8500 rifles were captured from the battlefield and the positions on Highway 4 from which the enemy withdrew, more than 10,000 rounds of various artillery shells (including 75mm, 105mm and 155mm), more than 600,000 liters of fuel, as well as a large amount of food and military uniforms."

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Ho Chi Minh's hand trembling as he wrote the telegram, and after he finished typing the draft, he took up his pen and wrote down a letter of thanks to Chairman M, Stalin, and the Central Committee of the French Supply-and-Production Party.

In the letter, he wrote: "...... In short, I consider this victory to be a victory of the MZD line of revolutionary internationalism, and instead of saying "xiexie you" polite words, I say: 'In the future, our Vietnamese comrades will work harder for a greater victory.' To successfully repay the deep expectations and great help of the brothers of China and Suzhou. ’”

General Tran took the captured French champagne sent by Ho Chi Minh and placed it on the table of the headquarters. Unfolding Ho Chi Minh's letter, it is a poem: "Champagne and wine luminous glass, if you want to drink the pip, urge immediately, drunk and lie on the field, the enemy soldier will let one person back." ”

General Chen shook his head with a wry smile at this unrecognizable Liangzhou poem that had been changed by the crooked Ho Chi Minh, and muttered to himself:

"Alas, if you can make me worry, I can just drink plain water every day."

The morale of the Vietnamese troops has never been so high. Two months ago, the little monkeys, who were dying in the mountains and struggling, tasted the dividends of war for the first time. And it's so huge, so fantastic.

This was a dream that was out of reach before. The little monkeys were infinitely immersed in the joy of victory, and in an instant, the comrades of the Chinese military advisory group, in their eyes, became mythical heroes.

In the base area, the headquarters of the Vietnamese army held a celebration banquet, and the captured French cans and champagne were piled up on the table, and the commanders of the Vietnamese army at all levels sang and danced, and they could not close their mouths and sit with joy.

Nguyen Ngoc Hung, commander of the 308th Division, ran to the stage and sang the Yunnan lanterns he had learned during his training in China.

Li Wengao, commander of the 165th Regiment of the 308th Division, ran to Wang Yanquan, the Chinese military adviser of the 308th Division, and asked, "Instructor Wang, how many instructors like Comrade Chen are there in China?" ”

Wang Yanquan scratched the scar on the back of his head that was a little itchy because of drinking, and said modestly: "I can't say for sure, there are always more than ten or twenty." ”

Li Wengao suddenly admired the five bodies and said eagerly: "I heard that the Chinese advisory group is going to be replaced, and General Chen is going back?" So who will lead us to a new victory? ”

Wang Yanquan said: "The new instructors and political committee help you, don't worry. ”

Li Wengao: "Political commissar? ”

Wang Yanquan said: "Yes, political commissar, an army that does not pay attention to politics can only be a bandit army, no matter how well it fights, it is only a bandit, and it will not help the Shijie supply-side movement." ”

Li Wengao nodded: "Well, Comrade Wang, you're right!" ”

Ho Chi Minh came to General Chen with a teapot of wine, and said happily: "Old Chen, this is a groundbreaking victory, you should drink more." ”

General Chen smiled elegantly and said sincerely: "In fact, the fight is not good enough, after Leba and Sark were completely annihilated, the 174th Regiment and the 209th Regiment were already encircling and annihilating the legion, so I transferred the 308th Division to encircle and annihilate the defenders of Qixi, but the 308th Division was too excited, and the troops were scattered all over the mountains and couldn't get it back, as a result, you see, the defenders of Qixi, the Baoda puppet army of less than 1,000 slipped away like this, and only killed more than 300 of them. ”

Ho Chi Minh, who had finally experienced a big scene, fully agreed with General Chen's words at this moment, and said repeatedly: "It's a pity, it's a pity, it's inexperienced."

Lao Chen, tell me more about what we should do next. It is what you told me when you first came to Vietnam, for example: commending the army, encouraging the people, repairing roads, preparing to move the capital, training cadres, preparing the army, the direction of the second war, and what campaigns to carry out. I'm going to write it all down and do it. ”

General Chen said with a smile: "What do you say at the celebration banquet, I will write to you later." ”

"Hmm."

The next day, General Tran handed over to Ho Chi Minh City the "Opinions on Work After the Victory of the Campaign" and the latest telegram from Chairman M.

The chairman's message was simple and concise: "The Vietnamese army is extremely relieved by its great victory. In order to solve the serious political problems and military malaise that arose in the campaign of the Indochinese Supply Party Branch and its armed Liliang, and in order to strive for a greater victory, the Central Committee of the Asian Supply and Production Party decided that the Indochinese Supply Party Branch should immediately start the work of reorganizing the party and the army, and that the party should be carried out together with the reorganization of the army, and that the Vietnamese army must be built into a unit that is both politically and militarily qualified. ”

Ho Chi Minh read General Chen's "Opinions on Work After the Victory of the Campaign" three times, and then carefully folded it and stuffed it into his shirt pocket on his chest. Holding the chairman's message, Ho Chi Minh read it again and again, picked it up and put it down, put it down and picked it up, and was shocked and felt a headache.

After the great victory in the Battle of Highway No. 4, Ho Chi Minh admired the command ability of the Chinese military advisory group, and he imagined that if the 100,000 militia under his command could reach this level, the process of liberating the whole of Vietnam would undoubtedly be accelerated. Even if only 50,000 troops can reach the level of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, it is very remarkable.

But Ho Chi Minh was very wary of the whole party, and he wanted to ask the chairman who was far away in the northern capital, whether this was considered interference in internal affairs? But what the chairman said clearly, this is a resolution of the Asian Supply and Transportation Center, can he disagree?

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