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Chapter 495496: The Oriental War that Dragged Down France

Two more and one chapter with 10,000 words

The success of the Chinese Empire's tactic of driving out the Anglo-French forces under the pretense of the Soviet Union, and then delivering a thunderous blow to the Egyptian army with the Desert Storm military operation, wresting all control of the Suez Canal from Egypt and forcing Egypt to become a vassal state of the Chinese Empire, was hated and admired by the Western world. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info╔╗

Britain and France saw that the Chinese Empire had seized the Suez Canal, and only then did they know the real winner. As one of the most important economic and strategic passages in the world, Britain and France were unwilling to let the canal fall into the hands of the Chinese Empire, so they immediately sent a note to the Chinese Empire, requesting that the management of the Suez Canal be restored.

Britain and France spent a huge amount of money on the Suez Canal, especially Britain spent the most money, because the Chinese Empire and other countries launched the Eight-Nation Coalition War of Aggression against Britain, robbed the British Empire, and sold the Suez Canal to Britain at a high price after the war.

The Chinese Empire understood the demands of Britain and France, but the Chinese Empire believed that Britain and France's control of the Suez Canal was a matter of the Egyptian Kingdom Ismail's time, and that the Soviet Republic established by the emir had abolished the control of the Suez Canal by all countries, including Britain and France, and was owned by Egypt. Now that Egypt has become the Kingdom of Egypt under the rule of Afud I, and the new government has transferred the Suez Canal to the Chinese Empire, the control of the Suez Canal by Britain and France has become a historical issue, and the Soviet Union, which supported the Emir Soviet Republic, should be denounced to solve the problem.

Britain and France were quite speechless about this, and it was obvious that this was a conspiracy of the Chinese Empire, pretending that the Soviet Union would trap Britain and France. But the Chinese Empire is on the right side, Britain and France have no choice but to put pressure on the Kingdom of Egypt, but the Kingdom of Egypt knows that the current Britain and France are at the end of the crossbow, and there is no way to take Egypt, and the government of King Afude I of Egypt has reached a Sino-Egyptian security treaty with the Chinese Empire, and the Chinese Empire promised to provide Egypt with a military umbrella, because Egypt categorically rejected the British and French demands.

At this time, Britain and France still had tens of thousands of troops suffering in the Egyptian prisoner of war camps, and the two countries were financially unable to support the dispatch of large armies to conquer Egypt, coupled with the Chinese Empire's armed intervention in Egypt, once Britain and France used force against Egypt, they might face a military conflict with the Chinese Empire, and now the latter situation is a red line that Britain and France will never dare to touch.

However, the Chinese Empire did not want to make relations with Britain and France too stiff, so the Chinese Empire was also called considering the overall situation of Sino-British and Sino-French relations, and the Chinese Empire was willing to sell 30% of the canal shares to Britain and France at a price of 200 million dragon coins as a military reward for the Chinese Empire's military expenses in Egypt.

"It's naked blackmail!"

The British and French governments scolded the Chinese Empire for being shameless, especially the British Coalition Prime Minister Albert, which reminded him of the fact that the Chinese Empire launched the Eight-Nation Coalition War to invade Britain and seized the Suez Canal and then sold it to Britain for hundreds of millions.

The Chinese Empire put on a charity appearance, and Britain and France had nowhere to spill their anger, and they had to thank the Chinese Empire for its "generosity". But the biggest problem before them was that Britain and France could not afford to spend this huge amount of money. As a result, the two countries had no choice but to accept their fate and admit that they had suffered another dumb loss from the Chinese Empire.

Britain and France lost first to the Chinese Empire on the Turkish issue, and then to the Chinese Empire on the Suez Canal issue in Egypt, but this was not the end, it was only the beginning of the contest between the Eastern and Western powers.

In the game between Turkey and Egypt, the main victim is the United Kingdom, and France does not lose much. However, the Chinese Empire did not relax its attack on the Western powers, and continued to declare war on the Western powers under the guise of the Soviet Union.

At the same time that the emir was pushing for the socialist revolution in Egypt, the Soviet Union, with the tacit approval of the Chinese Empire, infiltrated the revolution into the Third World countries and colonies except for the territories and vassal states of the Chinese Empire. ╔╗

In order to restore the order of the Celestial Empire in Southeast Asia, the Chinese Empire has always been grudging against the Indochina occupied by France and the British Indochina occupied by the British.

However, the Chinese Empire allowed the secret export of military strength to French Indochina, British Indochina, and Dutch Indochina to assist the local armed forces in overthrowing the colonial rule of the Western powers.

However, after the Sino-Soviet cooperation began, the Chinese Empire suddenly found a gunman, allowing the Soviet Union and the Comintern to intervene in the liberation movement in Indochina to directly silence the mouths of the Western powers, avoid a head-on showdown between the Western powers and the Chinese Empire, and maintain the good international image of the Chinese Empire.

The ambitions of the Soviet Union were very strong, and although the Soviet Union was weak, the spiritual mobilization of the Comintern under its auspices was strong. With the acquiescence of the Chinese Empire, the Comintern intervened in the national liberation movement in French Indochina.

As a matter of fact, as early as the founding of Soviet Russia, when the Western powers entered the Russian civil war militarily, Lenin and other leaders of the CPSU decided on a plan to set fire to the backyard of the Western powers, the purpose of which was to contain the energy of the Western powers and reduce the military pressure on the Red Army of Soviet Russia.

As early as March 1918, Soviet Russia appointed a group of members of the Comintern to lead the revolutionary movement in the domestic and overseas colonies of the Great Powers, which also included the revolutionary infiltration of the Chinese Empire and its overseas territories and vassal states.

It was precisely because Soviet Russia fanned the flames in the backyards of various countries that the powerful propaganda of the socialist revolution had a strong market in the post-war countries, which became the main reason why the armies of the great powers successively withdrew from armed intervention in the Russian civil war, thus saving the Soviet Russian regime.

With the consolidation of the Soviet regime in Russia, the establishment of the Soviet Union made its ambitions for foreign expansion and subversion of the capitalist world also swelled. This was mainly due to the fact that the world war severely weakened the power of the Great Powers, especially in their overseas colonies, and gave the Soviet Union the opportunity to develop revolutionary forces. At the same time, in order to replenish the consumption of national strength after the war, the great powers stepped up the plundering of the colonies, which provoked a strong backlash in the colonies and became the best opportunity for the Soviet Union to lead the people of the colonies to rise up and fight.

The Soviet Union actively expanded outward in order to restore the glory of the Tsarist era, but the Far East and the Persian Gulf have been blocked by the Chinese Empire, and the Mediterranean Sea has always been regarded as dead by the Western powers, and the Soviet Union has no chance. When the Chinese Empire acquiesced in and supported the Soviet Union's actions in Indochina, the Soviet Union saw hope for another outlet to the sea. That was to overthrow the British and French colonies in Indochina so that they could gain a foothold in Southeast Asia.

In 1920, the Soviet Soviet Red Army in Vietnam had grown to 100,000 men, but the Soviet Union was unable to provide Vietnam with more weapons and equipment and funds due to an international blockade. But with the opening of Sino-Soviet trade, the Soviet Union finally got the tacit approval of the Chinese Empire and had access to supply weapons and funds to the Red Army in Vietnam.

By January 1923, the Red Army, with the support and help of the Comintern, had rapidly expanded to 120,000 regular troops and 220,000 guerrillas.

Subsequently, Ho Chi Minh, the young leader of the Vietnamese Red Army, established the Soviet Republic of Vietnam with the help of the Comintern. ╔╗ And the French army retreated partly to southern Vietnam, and partly to southern British Burma, preparing to make a comeback.

It was precisely because of the sudden change in the situation in Vietnam that the French government was anxious to extinguish the war in Indochina and compromised with the Chinese Empire on the question of Egypt. Because France needed more money to fight the Vietnam War, and it had to have the support of the Chinese Empire.

France abandoned the Suez Canal, and in return, the Chinese Empire instructed the vassal powers of the Philippines and Singapore to provide military bases for the French army. In order to prevent the flames of the Vietnamese Red Army from reaching the territory of the Chinese Empire, the Chinese Empire refused to provide France with a naval base under the jurisdiction of the Canton Military Region, declaring its neutrality in the Vietnam War.

France received a war loan of 500 million dragon coins from the Chinese Empire, and the Chinese Empire sold a considerable part of the dismantled weapons and equipment to the French army, but the French army had to allow the Chinese Empire to make this war profit because of the long distance, the cost of transporting weapons and equipment from the mainland was too high and the time was too late.

In order to gain time for relaxation and to consolidate and develop the revolutionary forces, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam earnestly made preparations for the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the building of the country, and cooperated with the Comintern in putting forward the policy of "seeking progress through peace." It took time for the French colonists to draw troops from their homeland to the Far East, and in order to gain time, deploy troops, and were willing to negotiate, both countries secretly submitted a request to the Chinese Empire for mediation.

In April 1923, in response to the request of the two countries, the Chinese Empire acted as an ambassador for international peace, proposed mediation negotiations between France and Vietnam, and in order to deepen the contradictions between France and the Soviet Union, the Chinese Empire invited the Soviet Union to observe the negotiations.

Neither France nor Vietnam had the sincerity to negotiate, so there was no progress in the negotiations between the two sides, but both sides were buying time to prepare, so both sides kept the talks from breaking down.

On 6 April, representatives of Vietnam and France signed the "Preliminary Agreement" in Quang Chau. The agreement stipulates that the French Government recognizes the Vietnamese Soviet Democratic Republic as a free country with its own government, parliament, army and finances, and is part of Indochina and the French Federation, and that the question of the merger of the three khats is to be decided by consultation with the people by vote; The Vietnamese government was prepared to give a friendly reception to the remnants of the French army in its territory; The parties agreed to immediately cease hostilities and conclude an agreement on the annex to the treaty. Provisions: 10 months after the signing of the agreement, the 15,000 French troops temporarily stationed in Vietnam will begin to be phased out within five years.

On May 9, Pham Van Dong led a Vietnamese delegation to Fontainebleau, a suburb of Paris, to negotiate with the French government on Vietnam's future status, Vietnam's diplomatic rights, the merger of the three provinces, and France's economic and cultural interests in Vietnam. On 8 September, the French Government announced that the meeting would not continue because of the wide divergence of opinions.

On September 14, Ho Chi Minh and the Minister of Overseas Territories of the French Government, Marius ? Mutai signed the Interim Agreement in Paris. The agreement stipulates that the Government of Vietnam recognizes the economic and cultural interests of France in Vietnam; France ceases its military operations in the south, respects the principles of democracy and freedom in Vietnam, and releases the people of the south who have been arrested for political problems and anti-war operations; The people of the South enjoy the rights of assembly, association, press, and residence. However, issues such as Vietnam's future status, Vietnam's diplomatic powers, and the merger of the three provinces have not been resolved. The French government insisted on re-establishing its colonial rule in Vietnam, thus agreeing only to Vietnam's "autonomy within the French Confederation"; Ho Chi Minh, on the other hand, insisted on the complete and reunification of Vietnam, and the greatest concession he could make was only to agree to "peace and reunification within the French Federation."

French President Alexander? Alexandremillerand believed that recognizing Vietnam as a Dominion would set a dangerous precedent for France's Dominions. For this reason, he brazenly tore up this agreement.

On the 18th, representatives of Vietnam and France simultaneously terminated the negotiations in Quang Chau, leaving aside the Chinese Empire and the Soviet Union, and unilaterally held negotiations in Da Lat, with the aim of stopping the ongoing hostilities and making recommendations on the future economic, cultural and political relations between Vietnam and France.

However, during the negotiations, the commander-in-chief of the French Expeditionary Force, De Chaluer, ordered the French troops to be stationed in the Haiphong-Mong Cai and Lang Son-Haining areas, and to attack the northwestern plateau in the north and the Western Plains plateau in the center, and the Vietnamese Red Army immediately returned fire. ╔╗

Using this as an excuse, De Shaluer ordered the French to occupy Haiphong and Lang Son, and sent several thousand French troops to land in Da Nang.

On December 16, all senior French officials in Vietnam met in Haiphong to plan a new colonial war. On December 17, the French army crossed the barrier on Mi Noodles Street in Hanoi's Anning District and attacked the defensive post of the Self-Defense Group in the Vietnamese capital, which immediately returned fire in self-defense. Using this as an excuse, De Sharlur ordered the French to attack the area of tranquility. On 18 December, French forces invaded the Vietnamese government's Ministry of Communications and Ministry of Finance. On the same day, the commander of the French army in the north, Maury, presented an ultimatum to the Vietnamese government, demanding the immediate disarmament of the self-defense regiments and the Red Army in the Vietnamese capital, and threatening to occupy the police station in the Vietnamese capital. The Vietnamese government rejected Molière's request. On 19 December, the French began shelling Hanoi, followed by a full-scale armed offensive against Vietnam.

On December 20, Ho Chi Minh issued a message to the people, solemnly declaring: "We would rather sacrifice everything than die or become slaves." He called on the people of the whole country to "rise up to defeat the French colonizers and save the motherland, regardless of gender, old or young, religion, party affiliation, or ethnicity, regardless of gender, old or young, religion, party affiliation, or ethnicity." The next day, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam issued the "Instructions on the All-People War of Resistance Against Law", pointing out that the War of Resistance against France was a "all-people, all-round, and long-term war of resistance".

At the outbreak of the Eastern War, France invested nearly 100,000 sea, land and air forces, using the military bases provided by the Chinese Empire and Britain as a springboard, and was well-equipped. The total strength of the Vietnamese guard was 115,000, and the local troops and militia guerrillas were 1 million. With the exception of a small number of armies whose weapons were fairly advanced, most of them were primitive, with only limited assistance from the Soviet Union. The Chinese Empire, on the other hand, is temporarily neutral, and it will first look at the comparison of the strength of the two sides before making a decision.

On the day of the outbreak of the Oriental War, Imperial Daily, the most authoritative newspaper in the Chinese Empire, published a commentator's article, saying: "The Vietnamese can only use sticks against the French planes, artillery, tanks and machine guns, and even ridicule the Vietnamese War of Resistance as grasshoppers kicking elephants, and the disparity in strength between the two sides is so great that they are not optimistic about Vietnam's victory." ”

At the same time, the Imperial Congress of China was also concerned about this issue. According to the strategic deployment of the Chinese Empire, the end result should be that the Chinese Empire regained its suzerainty over Vietnam, rather than either France or the Soviet Union controlling Vietnam. Now that the French army is strong, whether the Vietnamese Red Army can hold out has become a key question.

"Let's take a look at the situation first!"

In the Imperial Palace of the Forbidden City, when Wang Shizhen reported the situation to Wang Chenhao, Wang Chenhao was very calm about it. He believed that the strength of the Red Army and the strong combat effectiveness displayed by France, which had been severely devastated by the Great War, at this stage were only the appearance, because the French finances could not support the protracted war, and as long as the Vietnamese Red Army could drag on, the French army would definitely be defeated.

Wang Shizhen asked, "What does Your Majesty mean?" ”

Wang Chenhao smiled and said: "The battle of the Soviet Red Army has always been based on the law of spiritual victory, and the Red Army will definitely be beaten in the early stage, as long as it persists, the war will soon reach the stage of stalemate. However, France's financial resources were insufficient after the war, and it was impossible to consume it for a long time, so once the French army's plan for a quick victory failed, what awaited the French army would definitely be defeat. ”

Wang Shizhen agreed: "Your Majesty's words suddenly made Weichen's mouth open. If half of the cities of France were destroyed by war, how could they have the financial resources to fight? Coupled with the long distance, the French army will soon be unable to support it due to its huge consumption. ”

Wang Chenhao nodded and said, "The French army is doomed, so our eyes should be on the Vietnamese Red Army." When they are victorious, we must quickly pluck the fruits of their victories. ”

Wang Shizhen replied: "Your Majesty rest assured! Wechen was ready that a group of pro-Chinese Annam people had been broken into the Red Army of Vietnam, and the empire would support them in their seizure of power. ╔╗”

Wang Chenhao nodded with satisfaction: "Very good!" However, it is necessary to pay attention to concealment, and not to be detected by the Soviets too early, so as not to affect the overall situation. ”

Wang Shizhen hurriedly said: "The minister understands! ”

Wang Chenhao said: "This Vietnam War was fought, if we operate it properly, it is estimated that France, the Soviet Union and Vietnam can be dragged down." ”

Wang Shizhen asked tentatively: "Your Majesty means to play a balance on both sides like the strategy of the empire during the world war, and let them fight to the end?" ”

Wang Chenhao nodded and said, "Can you try it!" ”

Wang Shizhen thought about it, so he said: "Your Majesty, don't worry, just leave it to Weichen!" ”

In this way, under Wang Chenhao's instructions, the Chinese Empire sat on the mountain and watched the tiger fight, waiting for the time when both sides were defeated. At the same time, the Chinese Empire decided to secretly adopt means to maintain the long-term fighting between the two sides by providing military intelligence and weapons and equipment to both sides, in the hope of weakening the strategic objectives of the three countries at the same time.

Just as Wang Chenhao had predicted, the French army was financially constrained, so it could only hold its superior strength and adopt the strategic policy of "quick battle and quick victory" in an attempt to annihilate the main force of the Vietnamese army in one fell swoop. They launched a major offensive from large cities such as Hanoi and Haiphong to the surrounding cities and villages, occupied important lines of communication, and controlled the Red River Delta region. At the same time, the French troops who landed in Da Nang attacked Quang Tri and Hue on a large scale, cutting off the passage between the north and south of Vietnam, and completing the division of the south and the north, so that the Vietnamese troops deployed in the south and the north could not echo each other.

On December 23, the French army indiscriminately bombarded Haiphong, causing more than 20,000 civilian casualties. Under the arrogant offensive situation of the French army, the Vietnamese army adopted a strategic policy of active defense. They divided their ranks into two: one part fought positional defensive battles, and sniped the French attack head-on. The other part was transferred to the countryside and carried out guerrilla warfare, which depleted the living forces of the French army.

On the battlefield of Hanoi, the Vietnamese army fought a two-month "Acropolis barricade battle", killing, wounding, and disintegrating 19,000 French troops. After the French army attacked the northwestern mountainous areas and occupied Heping, Shanxi, and Yilu, they occupied Laojie along the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway, cutting off the connection between the northern mountainous areas and the plains. The French army of more than 20,000 people, 40 planes, more than 70 tanks, and the firepower of many warships coordinated to launch a major attack on the northern mountains. They divided their troops into two routes, forming a pincer shape, in an attempt to encircle in the north, annihilate the main force of the Vietnamese army, and occupy the central base area in the north. Carrying forward the spirit of "decisive battle and decisive victory", the Vietnamese army and people launched guerrilla warfare and movement warfare after luring the enemy into depth, divided and surrounded them, and all battlefields throughout the country also closely cooperated, smashed the French offensive on December 23, broke the battle encirclement composed of more than 7,000 French troops, recovered Taiyuan, Tuyen Quang and other places, and won the victory in the Northern Vietnam Campaign.

In Cao Binh, the plane of the French commander was shot down by a Vietnamese high-speed machine gun, and the deputy chief of the general staff of the French Expeditionary Force, Bette, and his staff were all killed.

France was defeated, and the commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force, Valluy, was removed from his post and replaced by Saran. The French High Commissioner to Indochina was also recalled. The victory in northern Vietnam declared the bankruptcy of France's strategic policy of "quick war and quick victory", marking the transition of Vietnam's War of Resistance against France from the stage of strategic defense to the stage of strategic stalemate.

During the one-year war of resistance against Japanese aggression in Vietnam, the French army suffered more than 20,000 casualties, equivalent to 1/6 of the total French strength in Indochina. The Vietnamese army grew from 115,000 to 155,000.

In February 1924, France sent Bletzo to replace Saran as commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force, and transferred 150,000 additional troops to Vietnam. In view of the fact that the French army could not win a quick victory, Brezzo changed the strategic policy of "subduing the more and nourishing the war with war" in order to maintain its long-term war of aggression. The Vietnamese army attacked the enemy in various forms of struggle and seized the initiative in the war. Blaizzo reduced his forces, abandoned Gaoping in the north and parts of the north, "appeased" the occupied areas in the south, "encroached" and "swept up" the liberated areas in the north, and carried out a "blockade" to focus on controlling the Red River Delta.

After the beginning of autumn, the policy of "encroaching" on the liberated areas in the north on a small scale was carried out, plundering manpower, financial resources, and material resources, and destroying the reserve forces of the Vietnamese army. At the same time, France also used pro-French figures in Vietnam, such as Bao Da, Vo Hong Thanh, and Nguyen Thiang San, to split the people and sabotage the War of Resistance.

France supported Bao Da to establish a "constitutional monarchy", gathered the remnants of feudalism, formed a puppet army, and fought against the Vietnamese army. Seeing that the French offensive was weakening and the Vietnamese army was growing, the Chinese Empire was worried that the French army would be defeated too quickly and the Vietnamese army would not be able to control it, so it loaned an additional 300 million dragon coins to France, and sent two Chinese imperial ships into Saigon to bring a large amount of weapons and equipment to the French army. Including the advanced M16 tank and W16 wheeled infantry tank, the French army's firepower was quickly strengthened, and it became a sharp weapon for the French army to massacre the Vietnamese Red Army and guerrillas.

In view of the change in the strategic policy of the French army and the collusion of domestic forces, the Vietnamese army was unable to fight a decisive battle with the French army head-on, so it had no choice but to use companies and platoons as units to penetrate into the heart of the enemy, develop an armed force system that combines the regular army, the local army, and the militia guerrillas, and organize mobile units to carry out mobile warfare. They cooperated with the military and civilians behind enemy lines to carry out counter-sweeping warfare, destroy the enemy, and re-establish Soviet power. In order to deal with the guerrilla warfare of the Vietnamese army, the French army dismantled the large corps and divided it into many small units to garrison various strongholds. As soon as the French forces were dispersed, they lost the ability to attack and gradually fell into a situation of being passively beaten, while the guerrilla warfare of the Vietnamese army developed more and more, and the armed forces grew stronger day by day. Subsequently, the Vietnamese army gradually concentrated, fighting at first in battalions, then in regiments, and then in divisions.

At the end of 1924, the Vietnamese army won victories in the battles of the Northeast, Northwest, Luo River, and Tao River, liberating a large area of the country. In January of the following year, the Vietnamese army infiltrated Bai Mai Airport in Hanoi in the dark of night and destroyed 22 enemy planes in one fell swoop, dealing a heavy blow to the French army. However, the military situation in which the enemy is strong and we are weak has not changed, and the situation in the central base areas in the north is still very difficult.

After the establishment of Vietnam, it was not recognized by any country, including the Soviet Union. As a result, the Vietnamese government was ridiculed by Western colonizers as a "shadow government".

In order to control Vietnam, the Chinese Empire stepped up the struggle for the leadership of the Vietnamese government and military, and a group of pro-Chinese people supported by the Chinese Empire gradually controlled the central power in Vietnam. In order to further help these people seize power, the Chinese Empire deliberately refused Ho Chi Minh and other pro-Soviet figures to visit China for help, forcing the Vietnamese Government to send Ruan Zhengwen and other pro-Chinese officials to visit China, while the Chinese Empire took the opportunity to put forward conditions, saying that only Ruan Zhengwen and others could get the trust and help of the Chinese Empire, so the Vietnamese Soviet Government had to use Nguyen Zhengwen and others to participate in the central decision-making, so that Ruan Zhengwen and other pro-Chinese factions quickly controlled the party, government, and military power in Vietnam, and accelerated the progress of squeezing out the pro-Soviet faction and promoting the pro-China faction.

Finally, at the beginning of 1925, the pro-Chinese faction such as Nguyen Chinh Van completely controlled the party, government, and military power of the Vietnamese government, and Ho Chi Minh and other pro-Soviet factions were successively removed from the central leadership, and the Soviet Union completely lost control of Vietnam.

In early February, Nguyen Chinh Van announced the reorganization of the Vietnamese party, government and army, the Democratic Party of Vietnam replaced the Soviet Workers' Party, established the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, reorganized the Red Army into the Vietnamese National Defense Forces, and announced the restoration of the capitalist system in Vietnam in exchange for recognition by the international community.

Subsequently, the imperial government of China was the first to recognize the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and formally establish diplomatic relations. Subsequently, various member states of the Great Chinese Federation and other countries that were the leaders of the Chinese Empire also established diplomatic relations with Vietnam, and from then on, Vietnam's War of Resistance against France obtained extremely favorable international conditions. This day was later designated as the "Diplomatic Victory Day" of the Vietnamese people. The negative effect of Nguyen Trung Van abolishing the Soviet regime and replacing Ho Chi Minh has also disappeared, and many political and military officers who were dissatisfied with Nguyen Trung Van seized power have also changed their attitudes, after all, compared with the Soviet Union and the Chinese Empire, Vietnam and the Chinese Empire are closer and more secure.

In March of the 25th year of Quang Hoa, Nguyen Truong Van made a secret visit to China to request assistance from the Chinese Empire on behalf of Vietnam.

In accordance with Wang Chenhao's edict, the cabinet of the Chinese Empire made a major decision to provide comprehensive aid to Vietnam. It was agreed that the Chinese Emperor would intervene in the Oriental War on the grounds that the Vietnam War would affect the borders of the Chinese Empire and threaten the security of the Chinese Empire's citizens.

On 17 March, the Chinese Empire demanded that the French troops retreat 100 kilometers from the Sino-Vietnamese border on the pretext that the French army had crossed the Sino-Vietnamese border into the territory of the Chinese Empire and shot and killed a citizen of the Chinese Empire. The French Expeditionary Force Command, fearing that the Vietnamese troops would flee into the territory of the Chinese Empire, immediately vetoed it, but said that the matter would be investigated immediately and thoroughly.

However, the Chinese Empire would not give the French a chance to investigate, and immediately declared that France had ignored the Chinese Empire, seriously hurting the feelings of the Chinese Empire people, and ordered the 17th Armored Division and the 22nd Mechanized Infantry Division of the Guangzhou Military Region to cross the Sino-Vietnamese border line and launch a border battle against the French army opposite.

The Guangzhou Military Region of the Chinese Empire dispatched three air wings to carry out a surprise bombardment of the French 17th Mountain Infantry Division on the border, and the French army was taken by surprise. Subsequently, the chariot troops of the Chinese Emperor quickly broke through the French positions with lightning speed, interspersed in depth.

When the headquarters of the French Expeditionary Force learned that the Chinese Emperor had suddenly sent troops to attack the French army, they did not know what to do for a while, and immediately reported to the French government. The French government immediately sent a telegram back, demanding that the French army not resist, immediately retreat, and those who violated the order were dealt with by military law.

When the French army received this order not to resist, they were immediately saddened, but they had to carry out the order. As a result, tens of thousands of French troops near the border line retreated without firing a single shot. The Chinese Emperor was like entering a no-man's land, and along the way took over countless weapons and equipment such as planes, tanks, and artillery abandoned by the French army, as well as supplies such as food and oil.

Seeing that the French army did not resist, the Chinese emperor took the initiative to retreat, and advanced 120 kilometers in one go before stopping the advance. The Imperial Chinese government had only one "non-existent citizen killed" as an excuse, which was simply not enough to declare war on France. France adopted a policy of non-resistance, and the Chinese Empire stopped its offensive after completing the task of clearing the enemy forces on the border.

The Border Battle ended with the Chinese Empire meeting no resistance, and the Chinese Empire was merely clearing the border with the French army in order to deliver supplies to the Vietnamese Wehrmacht, and it was not yet time to tear the French directly. France obviously knew that the Chinese Empire wanted to intervene from the beginning of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Vietnam, and from the overall strategic consideration, the French government did not want to turn against the Chinese Empire, so it could only tolerate it.

Negotiations ensued between the Chinese Empire and France, and the Chinese Empire demanded the establishment of a 100-kilometer military buffer zone on the Sino-Vietnamese border as a humanitarian reception for Vietnamese civilians, and the armies of the warring sides were not allowed to fight in the buffer zone. The Chinese Empire occupies the moral high ground, and although France is very aware of this, it is also quite helpless and has no choice but to agree.

In this way, the Chinese Empire ceased its military operations, established a military buffer zone, and had a base for providing assistance to the Vietnamese Defense Forces, so that it could continue to support the Vietnamese Defense Forces in their fight against the French army, so as to achieve the strategic goal of further controlling Vietnam and weakening and dragging down France.

At the same time, the Chinese Empire sent a military advisory group into Vietnam and began to assist the Vietnamese army in construction and operations for a long time. Prior to this, a large number of political advisory groups were also sent to Vietnam to assist the Vietnamese government in building a pro-China political structure, disseminating the political and world outlook of the Chinese Empire, and purging and suppressing pro-Soviet and pro-French factions.

It was with the strong support of the Chinese Empire that Vietnam's work in all aspects was gradually put on track, ensuring the smooth progress of the War of Resistance against France.

Britain, as an ally of France, was naturally concerned about the war in French Indochina. Soon after, a British advisory group was established in Saigon, which provided the French with a large amount of military assistance in an attempt to salvage the defeat.

With the assistance of Britain, France formulated the "Tasini Plan" that combined urgent "appeasement" with a fierce counteroffensive: concentrate its forces, first "appease" the occupied areas, and then attack the liberated areas, in order to regain the initiative in the war. The French army created a no-man's land around the occupied area with a width of 5 to 10 kilometers, while fortifying the Red River Delta with 3,300 bunkers as a defensive system. In addition, it also expanded the puppet army and consolidated the puppet regime in order to realize its policy of "subduing the more with the more and feeding the war with war."

However, as soon as the French army was concentrated, it would not be able to control the occupied areas, and if it attacked the liberated areas and occupied the land, its forces would be scattered, and it would be in a predicament where it would be impossible to resolve the contradictions of its war of aggression.

Beginning in the spring of '25, the Vietnamese army took advantage of the opportunity of the French army's concentration of forces to "appease" the occupied areas, and with the assistance of the Chinese Imperial Advisory Group, launched a series of local counteroffensive campaigns in the middle reaches, peace, and northwest, destroying more than 40,000 French troops and liberating a land with a population of 1.25 million. Among them, the peace campaign defeated the attack of 20 battalions mobilized by Tasini, and destroyed 22,000 enemies in the battle, which was the largest number of Vietnamese troops destroyed since the outbreak of the war.

The French were forced to abandon Na Chan, an important stronghold on the northwestern plateau of North Vietnam, and switch from offensive to defensive. At this point, France's all-out war plan was declared bankrupt, and the Vietnamese army firmly controlled the initiative in the war.

Subsequently, France transferred 12 battalions of reinforcements from the mainland and Africa, cobbled together 54 lightly armed battalions of the puppet army, attacked the liberated areas in the north with mobile troops, and used the puppet army to hold the occupied areas in the south and center, and the "Black Carp Campaign" broke out.

The French army attacked the area north of the Lujiang River on the left bank of the Red River in three ways, but was crushed by the Vietnamese army in less than 10 days, and more than 1,700 people were annihilated. In October of the same year, he launched the "Seagull Campaign" and attacked the liberated areas of Ninh Binh and Thanh Hoa, but in less than a month, the Vietnamese army annihilated 3 battalions and 16 companies, and ended in failure.

The Vietnamese army has won successive victories, and its equipment has been continuously upgraded, and the shadow of the support of the Chinese Empire behind it has become very obvious. France has been mired in the quagmire of the Vietnam War and cannot extricate itself, and the emaciated French finances have been unable to pay, and France, as the country with the highest anti-war voice, has continued to lose the war, which has caused the French government to be fiercely attacked by public opinion, and the war has seriously dragged down France's economic recovery to this extent.

"Can't fight anymore!"

At the end of 1925, French President Alexander had to admit defeat in the Vietnam War and was forced to resign. Pierre-Paul Henri Gaston Dumeg was inaugurated as the new president of France.

The first thing Pierre did after his inauguration as president was to visit China and ask the Chinese Empire to intercede, and France to demand an end to the Vietnam War.

At the same time, Vietnam was also dragged down by the Oriental War, and owed the Chinese Empire a total of 800 million dragon dollars in foreign debts, and it would not be able to pay off if it was a slave to the Chinese Empire for the rest of its life, so the Nguyen Trung Van government did not want to fight and was willing to negotiate peace with France.

Thus, under the mediation of the Chinese Empire, France and Vietnam began negotiations at the headquarters of the League of Nations in Shanghai, and the Chinese Empire, in the name of maintaining regional stability, formally demanded that the two countries withdraw troops and negotiate peace, and operate the League of Nations to solve the problem.

On January 5, the 26th year of Guanghua, the League of Nations meeting began to discuss the issue of restoring peace in Indochina, and the participating countries reached an agreement on the restoration of peace in Indochina and signed the "Indochina Peace Charter." The main contents were: a ceasefire throughout Indochina, the withdrawal of French troops from Indochina, and the establishment of a joint commission and an international commission as supervisory and supervisory bodies for the military armistice. According to the meaning of the Chinese Empire, French Indochina should not be a state, but should be divided into four countries: North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, and the participating countries should respect the sovereignty, unity, and territorial integrity of the four countries of Indochina and not interfere in their internal affairs. In order to appease the British colonies near Indochina, the Chinese Empire declared that South Vietnam, North Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia would not participate in any military alliance, and would not allow foreign countries to establish military bases on their territory, in order to dispel British concerns.

The signing of the Indochina Peace Statute marked the end of Vietnam's War of Resistance against France and the end of France's position in Indochina. The Vietnam War of Resistance against France, which lasted for four years, annihilated a total of 561,900 French troops, and France consumed 2.5 billion dragon coins in war expenses, of which 300 million dragon dollars were aided by the British. The 13th French Cabinet collapsed, the commanders-in-chief of the eight expeditionary forces were defeated, and the fledgling French economy collapsed again. At the same time, countless cities and villages in Vietnam were razed to the ground, and about 1.5 million people died.

The Chinese Empire was the biggest winner in this war, exporting various military and civilian materials totaling 1.2 billion dragon dollars to France and Vietnam, forcing France to owe 1.6 billion dragon dollars to the Chinese Empire and Vietnam to 800 million dragon dollars. Most importantly, the Chinese Empire succeeded in driving out the French and taking control of French Indochina. Moreover, French Indochina was divided into four countries by the Chinese Empire, so that they could not sit on each other's borders, which was in line with the national defense and security of the southeastern region of the Chinese Empire.

Subsequently, the Chinese Empire formally divided its borders with the four countries. In Vietnam, in particular, Wang Chenhao personally decreed that South Vietnam and North Vietnam only have land territorial baselines, and that the Xisha Islands, Dongsha Islands, and Nansha Islands belong to the territory of the Chinese Empire, and that it is stipulated in the form of law. The Chinese Empire drew a national border with them, thus settling the territorial issue once and for all, avoiding possible territorial disputes in the future.