Chapter 108 French Far East Fleet

Helicopters are exposed in advance. It's not a good thing, but it's the opposite.

Yamamoto Fifty-six had already decided on the exact date for launching a landing war against Vietnam by land and water, but because Yashiro Yukichi suddenly called and reported that he had discovered a new type of fighter in the academy army, which could hover in the air to provide fire support to ground troops, equivalent to a tank fighting vehicle with flight ability, he hesitated to postpone the attack date.

"We can't fight a battle that we don't know with certainty, and we have to figure out the exact parameters of this new fighter before launching an attack," he told Soma Masafumi, intending to wait for Koizumi Toshiichiro to arrive before making a decision.

This is more than half a month.

During this period, because of the return of the French Far East Fleet to the Far East, the situation in the Indochina Federation suddenly became strange. The commander of the French Far Eastern Fleet in the Far East Navy, Jean? Degu returned to the North Atlantic in March last year, originally to support the homeland to resist the German invasion, but with the defeat and surrender of France to establish the Vichy government, Degu in order to avoid intervening in the dispute that threatened the government and Free France, and at the same time worried about being hunted by German naval submarines, self-righteous entered the Caribbean Sea, and then retreated there for more than half a year.

The Far East Fleet suddenly lost news, and Martin, the commander-in-chief of the French forces in the Federation of Indochina, lost news after returning home, which gave Ombos and Roland the opportunity to emerge. The Cadet Army entered the Indochina Federation and began to "brutally suppress" the French plantation owners, and the news reached Degurd through the British and Japanese media. Under the instigation of the British, Degu was determined to save his own people from fire and water, so he led a fleet through the South Atlantic into the Indian Ocean. After the French Far East Fleet docked at the British wharf in the Bay of Bengal, Degu first went to Puducherry in French India, where he met with Wavell, the commander-in-chief of the Indian army in India, and landed at King Tung in Burma on a plane provided by the British, and then rushed to Hanoi under the escort of a regiment of British troops, preparing to persuade Ambose and other army generals to tear up the agreement reached with the Cadet Corps and cooperate seamlessly with the British Army to expel the Cadet Corps to resist the Japanese army, so as to protect the rights and interests of the French Indochina Federation.

Regardless of seniority, after Martin, Degu was the first man in the French army of the Indochina Federation. Wavell was also in a hurry to go to the hospital, and when the strength of the Far East Navy was already weak, he hoped to use the French Far East Fleet to regain the capital to compete with the Japanese and Western Expeditionary Fleets, which would encourage him to move Degu to the east, hoping that he could regain control of the Indochina Federation with his prestige and bloodlessness, and then reshape the Anglo-French military alliance.

When planning the "Singapore Retreat", Wavell underestimated the strength of the Cadet Army, and as a result, he was defeated and lost. China, Japan and Britain wrestled with each other, and Britain became the most unlucky one. This time, he had made all the preparations in advance. Realizing that the Cadet Army might have taken full control of the French army in the Indochina Federation after suppressing the French plantation owners, he sent his most elite "Gomand" to Burma with Degu, and the British army in Jingdong and a regiment waiting here in Burma disguised themselves as Degu's escort and followed him into the Indochina Federation.

The English translation of "Gomand" means commando, which is another name for the special forces of the British army. Tracing back to its origins, "Gomand" first came from the British army's name for the small Boer forces that were good at conducting surprise attacks in the Boer War. The British army did not create the "Gomander" for a long time, and under Wavell's command, there were only two platoon-sized "Gomand". And in order to help Degu regain control of the Indochina Federation, he spent a lot of money and sent a platoon at one time.

The British carried out this series of arrangements in secret, and for the sake of secrecy, they did not even let Degu Zhidao have "Gomande" involved in the operation.

Wavell underestimated the ability of the intelligence department of the Cadet Corps, and he thought that he was unaware of this matter, but as everyone knows, more than 1,000 "French troops" escorted more than a dozen French people into Mong Sin, the northernmost city in Laos, and were detected by the intelligence officers of the Cadet Corps. And they have just arrived in Sangnu, and Ouyang Yun's opinions on how to deal with this matter have already reached Huang Haifu's desk.

So, when Degu was still fifty kilometers away from Hanoi with more than a thousand "French troops", a scene that shocked him extremely appeared. Fighter planes flew in from the east, circled low above their heads for a few times, formed formations, and then "escorted" them along the way, until the receiving army of Angbos joined them, and then Shi Shiran left.

And that's not all, there are still ten miles from the city of Hanoi, and a huge mechanized army rumbled over from them, tanks, armored vehicles, off-road vehicles, self-propelled guns, military trucks, ...... And when this troop drove over, the French army that greeted them actually ordered to drive the car to the side of the road and let the other side pass first.

Looking at the chariots that passed by and the imposing young soldiers wearing pen-pistol cockades on the military cards, Degu could no longer hold back and asked a brigade commander, the supreme commander of the French army, who came to greet them: "Are they the Chinese cadet army?" ”

The brigade commander did not hide the envy in his heart and said, "Yes. General, what do you think? Isn't it tough! ”

Degu gently exhaled a breath of turbid breath held in his chest and said, "When did the Chinese army have such advanced equipment?" ”

The brigade commander thought seriously for a moment and replied: "I can't answer this question, but according to their own words, it should have been two years ago. ”

"Two years ago?" Degu and the British's commander, a major general with a hidden rank, looked at each other with a look of shock in their eyes.

"The report is wrong, didn't it always say that the Chinese seriously lack advanced equipment, and until now they do not have their own car factories? But as far as I can see, their chariots are even comparable to the Germans," said Degudao, frowning, and seriously lacking confidence in whether he could accomplish anything in this trip.

The British were always obsessed with the failure of the "Singapore Retreat", and Wavell always wanted to win back a city, which made a major general and staff officer disguise himself as a colonel and lead a regiment to escort Degu into the Indochina Federation as a colonel, and he was willing to use "Gormande". And they would never have imagined that the reason why they would encounter such a high-level courtesy was because Ouyang Yun was eyeing the French Far East Fleet.

The Far Eastern Fleet of the French, although almost nothing compared to the Japanese-Western Expeditionary Fleet, had two battleships in it. The battleship, a sharp weapon in World War I, seems to have lost its former glory and prestige, but if it is used in ocean-going landing warfare, it is still the best fire support platform. Why did Ouyang Yun spend so much effort? In the final analysis, it was to attack the Japanese mainland. For the sake of profit, he would never build another battleship, but this did not prevent him from wanting to take the battleships of other countries as his own. Looking at the intelligence services of various countries, the fox pupil is still young, so until the French Far East Fleet itself appeared, it has not been able to detect relevant information. Now, since Degu himself sent it to the door, if the student army doesn't laugh, he is too sorry for Guo Muyi's "brutal" reputation earned by sacrificing her image.

Shocking one after another, there is still a lot of entry into Hanoi City.

In the temporary garrison camp prepared by Ombos for Degu and his party, Degu and the others saw a group of French officers and soldiers actually training under the guidance of the cadets, and those Gallic roosters who were usually so arrogant that they wanted to put a cockscomb on their heads actually scolded those cadets with the rank of captain, and they were able to scold and fight back with fists and feet, and they were completely dumbfounded, until the saliva from their wide open mouths wet their clothes.

(Old Poison: Six Watches)