Chapter 610: The Chaos of Annam
That's basically the case in Algeria, anyway, with the support of North African oil and Ming and Britain, the rest depends on how Leclerc plays.
In addition to Yang Feng and the British, in fact, de Gaulle is also supporting his old subordinate, he did quit Algeria, but it doesn't mean that he won't do it. Bella, anyway, doesn't have to use the French army to fight, and he doesn't have to pay a penny, it's nothing more than selling Leclerc everything they need. For example, food, medicine and even some weapons and ammunition were given away for free, and the Britons were in cahoots with the Britons at the United Nations, blocking all resolutions that were unfavorable to Leclerc, and sending the French fleet to scare all the guys who wanted to move forward with the Mingying fleet under the banner of evacuation.
The strength of these three partnerships is daunting enough in the Mediterranean.
In short, it was up to Leclerc and the Blackfeet to fight the Algerians.
And it's not just the Blackfeet, the moderates Muslin are starting to join their ranks. In the process of receiving other places, Bella took a very simple and bloody liquidation of those compatriots who had cooperated with Gaul, and tens of thousands of people were killed in a short period of time, and the remaining people had no choice but to defend themselves with the Blackfeet.
In general, Leclerc's strength is not weak, and at least a quarter of Algeria's population is now mixed with him, because the early arrangement is good, and North African oil from the Hassimus Ode oil field, the Hassirumel oil and gas field, to the oil pipelines that stretch for hundreds of kilometers, and then to the major oil and gas export ports are under their control.
Moreover, there is patrol protection along the North African Oil Guard, coupled with the suppression of four aircraft carriers by Ming, Britain and France at sea. Bella has not dared to attack the pipeline for the time being.
Of course, it doesn't matter if he attacks, it's nothing more than a production cut, not to mention a production cut, even if the oil fields in Algeria are completely shut down, it's not a big deal.
North African oil does not only have oil fields in Algeria, Libyan oil fields are bigger than here, last year North African oil produced a full 60 million tons of crude oil in Libya, 15 years ago the Libyan king was too poor to work, now there are several private planes alone, and this year the production has increased to 1.5 million barrels per day.
If Algeria stops production, it will definitely cause a sharp increase in international oil prices......
Well, that's not bad news for North African oil shareholders, right?
What's more, these guys still have a bunch of oil fields around the world, and now the price of oil is ridiculously low, and it is good to create a crisis to raise the price of oil.
This is the war of the predators, they have nothing to lose, they still push glasses at banquets in the major financial capitals, and they may even cooperate in other places.
But their chess pieces paid with blood and lives.
The central city of Annam, Pallaiku.
This is an important air base of the U.S. military, and there is also a brigade of the Ninth Division stationed here, and their main task is to provide rapid support for the nearby Annan Army and the Japanese Army, so the vast majority of the Helicopters on the Polaigu Airport are mainly UH1, and there are also a lot of Chinooks, and even a group of birds purchased from Daming.
On a battlefield like Annam, helicopters are the most important means of transport, and it can be said that almost all the actions of the US military rely on helicopters, and the servant armies of Annam, South Goryeo, and Minwa are responsible for clearing out the guerrillas, and once a large-scale battle occurs, the US troops in charge of supporting it will quickly enter the battlefield by helicopter. Now this set has become the standard tactics of the US military, because of the particularity of this war, there is basically no real large-scale corps operation, and it is all sporadic and ubiquitous guerrilla skirmishes, so the US military has played such a set of things in Annan.
At this time, at the Polaigu airport, the military band was playing hard, and even some children with flowers in their hands were standing in a line, and in front of them was the new US ambassador to Annan, Lodge, accompanied by a group of humble Annan officials and coalition generals, visiting this important military base with great interest. His Excellency the Ambassador, who was bent down and received a bouquet of flowers from a little girl with a loving smile on his face under the flashing lights of reporters, did not know that just three kilometers away, in a small village, more than a hundred black holes were aimed at the airport.
107 rocket artillery.
Major Mai Minh, commander of the 320th Regiment of the North Vietnamese Army, looked at the watch in his hand, and then resolutely waved his hand and shouted: "Fire!" ”
Twelve 107-millimeter rocket launchers suddenly erupted dazzling flames more than ten meters long, and twelve rockets roared across the sky, followed by a second batch of rockets behind them, then a third batch, and then a fourth batch......
A series of fires rushed to the Bolaigu Airport with the roar of death.
Holding the flowers, Rocky didn't know all this, the Republican vice presidential candidate who partnered with Nixon in the last election, and the grandson of Senator Lodge Sr., Roosevelt's friend Sr., although he had participated in World War II, but after all, he had not experienced this kind of thing for almost 20 years, when an officer not far away suddenly shouted "attack, lie down", he looked up and was stunned for a moment.
A bright flame slammed into him, and the next moment......
The next moment he disappeared into the flames of the explosion, and a few days later, under the sad eyes of a large number of American dignitaries, including Kennedy, people could only bury half of his thigh, and it was not very certain whether it was his thigh, after all, there were many such thighs at the scene.
The re-exertion of the artifact of guerrilla warfare has caused heavy losses to the Mi people, because it was just about to welcome His Excellency the Ambassador, a large number of US military officers gathered at the airport, and at least one battalion of soldiers were maintaining order, and there were also many local Mi nationals, all in all, more than 100 shells were smashed down in the first round of shelling, and more than half of them were worth the money. In an instant, the airport was full of flesh and blood, especially those planes that were hit by shells, which doubled its lethality, and the shattered aluminum alloy fragments were like death sickles harvesting lives, and the suddenly hit Mi people fell in a pool of blood.
And in the distance, Major Mei Wenming shouted with a hint of fanatical excitement: "Reload quickly!" ”
The North Vietnamese soldiers waiting next to the rocket launchers with shells in their arms quickly reloaded, and in a short time the rockets were spewing flames again.
"Fight back!"
At the same time, the American commander on the airfield, who had just gotten up from his hiding place, shouted without bothering to wipe the blood off his face.
Fortunately, the U.S. troops here have been tested by war for a long time, and after the initial chaos passed, they quickly came to their senses one by one, especially those anti-aircraft gunners of the air defense, who flattened the 40 and 20 anti-aircraft guns as quickly as possible, and then aimed at the direction of the North Vietnamese military and instantly sprayed dense shells. Although it was impossible to really aim in a hurry, the insane rate of fire of these things made up for this shortcoming, and hundreds of small-caliber shells per minute smashed into the middle of the Vietnamese army, which was also full of flesh and blood.
"Retreat!"
Mei Wenming, who insisted on finishing the fourth round of shells, did not care about enjoying the joy of victory, and then gave the order to retreat under the artillery fire, and after casually stuffing the barrel with grenades, he and his soldiers evacuated the small village as quickly as possible and then drilled into the dense forest.
Behind them, a large number of angry American soldiers had already boarded the car, and under the M60 tanks on the road, with M113 armored vehicles full of soldiers, Willis military vehicles and even warrior military vehicles purchased from Daming, they killed the target as quickly as possible. The same surviving helicopters also took off with soldiers, and there were even armed models with machine guns and rocket launchers, although Cheyenne was still under development, but because of the needs of the war, many UH1 were still modified, similar to the original Pixiu of the Ming army, and a flat pole was added to the rear cabin to hang weapons.
The American troops on the ground and in the sky quickly reached their destination, but by this time the subordinates led by Major Mei Wenming had already retreated, leaving only a pile of blown up rocket artillery and dozens of dead bodies and hundreds of wounded.
After dealing with the wounded's death-defying resistance, the U.S. forces quickly occupied the position, unceremoniously shooting all the wounded Vietnamese soldiers and punishing the villagers who helped them, while beginning to follow the fleeing Vietnamese in pursuit. Soon the helicopters in the sky spotted their whereabouts, and then Huey, who hung the rockets, aimed and fired below, while the soldiers standing at the hatch also held their machine guns and fired wildly at the ground.
The Vietnamese army below quickly dispersed, retreating westward under the cover of dense forests, not far from the Lao border, although it was the territory of the Ming army, but hundreds of kilometers of the vast jungle, the Liao army and the small number of Ming troops could not control it at all, and some places could be temporarily hidden, but the US helicopters wanted to cross the border but would be exposed to the Ming army's air defense radar.
Of course, the U.S. military also understood their intentions, and immediately after that, a large number of transport helicopters flew over their heads and set up blocking positions on the road to Laos.
By the time Mai Minh arrived with more than 1,000 remnants of the North Vietnamese army, his front had become a strong line of defense for the American troops, and at the same time, a large number of chasing American troops were also encircling him, and it was clear that they had no way to escape.
These bastards, I'm going to hang them all in the air!
Major General Thomas, the commander of the American army in Polaku, said viciously, at this time Ambassador Lodge's half of the thigh had been found, and when he thought of the anger of Washington, especially the Lodge family, he couldn't help but feel sad for his gloomy future, and the culprit of all this was those North Vietnamese troops, and the angry Major General Thomas wanted to use their blood to commemorate his dead future.
He did not know that at this time, after receiving a telegram from Mai Minh, another North Vietnamese division and more than a dozen Viet Minh guerrillas operating nearby were also encircling the high ground occupied by the US troops. (To be continued.) )