Chapter 533: Annam Province

After the advent of the tank weapon, the rhythm of the battlefield is getting faster and faster, the soldiers do not have to rely on two legs to measure the land, and the victory or defeat of the war depends more and more on the speed of the speed, who can seize the opportunity, can win the war, this is the reason why the blitzkrieg is infinitely powerful.

After nearly 20 years of training, China's armored forces have become a sharp sword, with unparalleled power, and once launched, it will show a situation of overwhelming mountains.

Although the French were also equipped with a large number of tanks, they still followed the tactics of the First World War, mixing tanks and infantry, in fact, they were acting as a shield for the infantry, and they did not appreciate the essence of tank warfare at all, and in the face of China's overwhelming attack, the French were completely at a loss.

The Chinese army easily cut France into small pieces one after another, and the infantry in the rear calmly surrounded the French army one by one, of course, the smart French did not choose to die in battle, but became prisoners in large numbers, which is also the most unacceptable thing for Chinese soldiers.

The Chinese pay attention to the fact that it is better to be broken than broken, and being captured on the battlefield is a lifelong shame, while Westerners are completely different, they can surrender when there is no hope of victory, and they will not become a stain in the slightest, and they will be treated as heroes when they return in the future.

For example, during the American Civil War, the military commanders of the South, Robert and Lee, were also elected presidents of the United States after the end of the Civil War.

These French surrendered justifiably, and at the same time demanded that China provide them with prisoner of war treatment and ensure that they were treated with good food and drink.

The Chinese took a very simple measure, which was to hand over all these prisoners to the Vietnamese army and let them take care of them, and the French had been evil in Vietnam for many years. Just a few days ago, the French were burning, killing and looting in Vietnam. I have formed a life-and-death enmity with the Vietnamese, and now I have fallen into the hands of the Vietnamese, will it end well?

If it weren't for the ban on the Chinese side, the Vietnamese would have been able to cut all the French alive, and even now there would be no good end, and a large number of roads, railways, and bridges in the rear of Vietnam were destroyed by the war. They were in dire need of recovery, so these tall French soldiers were used as coolies.

You need to work for more than ten hours a day, and you can only eat a little nest head, and if you don't complete the prescribed amount, you will be beaten, and this amount is completely determined by the mood of the manager, in fact, I don't like you. I'm going to beat you, the leather whip is an appetizer, the chili water, and the tiger chair is not nothing.

China is in no mood to care about these Vietnamese torture the French, and China's task is to bring the whole of Vietnam under its control as soon as possible.

The French had already ordered a retreat, and the Chinese army, of course, would not let them retreat calmly, and the air and naval aviation frantically threw bombs at them. In the midst of continuous battles. France's combat aircraft are already badly depleted and simply not enough to maintain air supremacy. The loss of air cover made the withdrawal even more difficult.

In fact, it had become a rout, the artillery, ammunition, and supplies were all abandoned on the roads, and with the massive consumption of fuel, the vehicles could not move, and they were soon abandoned, and the French general, who had personally experienced the rout, recalled with great dismay that this rout was a more terrible defeat than the First World War, and it was unique in the history of France.

Napoleon's descendants actually lost to those yellow-skinned monkeys, it was simply the biggest shame for France, of course, he soon changed his tune, this is just one of the biggest shames, or a rehearsal, the country that really made France lose face is still the old rival Germans, compared to the loss of the country in a month, the loss of Vietnam in a month is just an appetizer.

The Chinese army was still preparing a major operation at this time, that is, landing in Da Nang, an important port in the south-central part of Vietnam, just on the 16th parallel of north latitude, is an important transportation node connecting the north and the south, after the war between Vietnam and France, it also became a logistics base for the French, hoarding a large number of supplies, but after losing the right to control the sea, Da Nang's situation became embarrassing.

Now it is also an important rear for the former French army to retreat backwards, the Chinese army has already experienced the Ryukyu landing, and the Taiwan landing, has accumulated a lot of experience, and China has also formally formed the Marine Corps, these marines are drawn from the elite of various armies.

And the training is also the most rigorous, the Marine Corps is different from other branches of the military, this is a completely for the expansion of the army, the later United States Marine Corps is also the vanguard of foreign military operations, from the first day of birth, the mission of this force is to declare the power of heaven and foreign land.

In order to ensure the success of the combat operation, China has gathered all five large aircraft carriers together, and more than 400 naval aircraft have participated in the battle, as well as more than 200 landing ships of various types.

The importance of Da Nang is also clear to the French, there are still more than 50,000 troops in front of them that need to be withdrawn from here, before that, absolute control of Da Nang must be guaranteed, once it is lost, it means that all the French troops on the front line will fall into the hands of China, and tens of thousands of French soldiers have been captured, which is absolutely the greatest shame in the history of France, and the French military absolutely does not want to see this scene.

To this end, they concentrated only 40 combat planes in Da Nang, and also built a large number of anti-landing fortifications temporarily, but the time was short, and before the French could get ready, Chinese carrier-based aircraft were overwhelmingly killed.

The French planes barely responded to the battle, but they were quickly shot down, and the airfield was also under the priority of China, and in the face of overwhelming superiority, France's preparations turned into futile, and after seizing control of the sky, the marines carried various types of ships and quickly rushed to the beach.

The landing ship finally succeeded in landing in Da Nang under heavy firepower, and then a large number of follow-up troops rushed up, and the Chinese warships also began shelling the shore at this time.

The heavy artillery of a warship and the artillery of the army are not the same concept at all, and the super power of the naval guns has a fatal destructive power for the fortifications on the shore, and after a shell falls, a range of hundreds of meters will be wiped out. Weapons will turn into scattered parts. People are directly gasified, and even specially reinforced reinforced concrete fortifications cannot bear it.

Crater after crater appeared on the harbor, soft sand scattered between heaven and earth, and most of the fortifications prepared by the French on the beachhead were cleared, clearing the way for the Chinese army to land on a large scale, and soon a large number of Chinese troops frantically poured onto the shore.

Tanks, armored vehicles. Heavy artillery and other weapons were also brought up, and the landing force began to advance rapidly into the city, and the French only now knew how inadequately prepared they were, but everything was irreparable, and the Chinese army successfully occupied Da Nang, and the French army's retreat had been cut off.

In fact, the French troops pulled down from the front line were less than half a day's journey from here. However, time is the iron law of the battlefield, and they lost their chances, and they lost everything, and the Marines quickly captured the port city, and the defenders of the city were all taken prisoner, except for a few who were killed.

The capture of Da Nang did not mean victory, and it was likely to face a two-sided attack from the French army, which the Chinese would have to hold onto. And wait until the main Chinese forces come over. Wipe out the French completely.

Soon the Marines were able to turn Da Nang into a fortress using the fortifications left behind by the French, with a focus on railways and roads.

The impact of the loss of Da Nang on the French army was simply fatal. The French army in the north and south was cut off, tens of thousands of French troops were about to become Chinese prisoners, and what was even worse was that France did not know what to do at this time.

The resistance of the French is much lower than China imagined, as long as they are at a disadvantage, they will tend to surrender, which has almost become the practice of the French, and it is the French Foreign Legion that has a little combat effectiveness, especially those blacks who are still relatively tenacious in their will to fight.

However, they are more conservative than the tactics of the French army, it can be said that these foreign legions are just tools built by the French, and now the masters are useless, what can the tools be! All who dared to resist were wiped out, and the rest were honestly taken prisoner.

The loss of Da Nang completely collapsed the French army on the northern front, and more than 50,000 French prisoners were added to the Chinese prisoner of war camps.

Not only the Chinese army, but also the local forces in Vietnam have begun to abandon the French, and they have secretly communicated with China, and there is no doubt that the French colonial rule has reached its final moment, and the Chinese army has passed through Da Nang, and the forward has been like a bamboo.

Even Pan Wenhua, who commanded the campaign, said that this was not a war, but a military parade, and that the French army, except for a certain amount of combat effectiveness in the initial stage, was completely defeated, and the army was full of fleeing, surrendering if it could not escape, and the Chinese were tired of capturing prisoners.

The vanguard of the army finally approached Saigon, and the aircraft carrier formation also appeared in the open sea, forming an unprecedented strong pressure, the Chinese soldiers were approaching the city, Saigon was in danger, and even if France was unwilling to admit it, they also knew that their army could not resist China at all, in fact, France, the world's largest army power, had been slapped by China.

The slap was so loud and so hard that some courageous officers in the French military even wanted to fight to the death with China, but the government was worried about the families of the many soldiers at this time, and hundreds of thousands of French troops were trapped in Vietnam, which meant that hundreds of thousands of families were in danger of breaking up at any time.

People have taken to the streets to protest, demanding that the French government rescue their children as soon as possible, in their eyes any national affairs are illusory, only the most important thing is to let their relatives return safely, even if they lose the three Indochinese countries.

There is a lot of emotion in France, China is indeed in the chest, Qiao Yu is already working on the future of Vietnam, which will be restored to its original name and become Annam Province, Cambodia and Laos will also be merged to form Central South Province, and after China occupies these three countries, Siam will border China, China's expansion opportunity is coming again, and the whole of Southeast Asia will be incorporated into China sooner or later. (To be continued.) )