In the face of coalition forces equipped with black technology such as night vision devices, even the best organized night attacks will show their feet in advance. The night attack, on which the South Vietnamese Army had high hopes, failed just after it began, leaving more than 100 bodies in front of the coalition positions and having to withdraw to the main battalion.

Early the next morning, the South Vietnamese Army found that the Allied Army's position had advanced a little further, closer to its own battalion, which was not good news for the South Vietnamese Army, which was at a serious disadvantage in long-range firepower. The South Vietnamese army had no way to avoid it, and if it retreated further to the west, it would have to retreat into the mountains.

Now there is only one way left in front of the South Vietnamese army, and immediately abandon the qiē and organize a retreat to the south, so that at least there is hope that some of the living forces will be saved. If you continue to shrink in the camp and stiffen up, it will basically be a futile effort to give the opponent a head to brush up the record.

After two more rounds of artillery bombardment by the coalition forces, the South Vietnamese Army finally gave up its strategy of shrinking and began to withdraw its troops to the south. It's just that I didn't seize the opportunity to retreat in time yesterday, and now it's not so easy to move. When the army retreated, the most taboo thing was to be pursued by the opponent, and the current battle situation would not give the South Vietnamese army a chance to get rid of the opponent. The vanguard of the coalition forces was less than a mile away from the rear units of the South Vietnamese army, and the South Vietnamese army now had to pass through the range of some of the coalition artillery to withdraw, not only as a matter of casualties, but also as a result of the confusion it would bring to the retreating troops.

The South Vietnamese generals' fears soon arose, and several artillery pieces of the coalition army fired at the retreating South Vietnamese army, causing immediate chaos. Already apprehensive, South Vietnamese soldiers began to frantically rush south, hoping to escape before the route was blocked by coalition forces. Others chose to flee westward, fleeing directly into the mountains, and then trying to make a detour south, which was undoubtedly much safer than retreating south in the face of coalition fire. In this chaotic situation, the command system of the South Vietnamese Army soon became ineffective, and tens of thousands of troops and civilians were mixed together, completely losing their operational strength.

Seeing that the South Vietnamese Army had lost its ability to resist, the command asked the Allied Cong Army to continue to drive the South Vietnamese Army south to drive the South Vietnamese Army, which had fallen into chaos, while the Hai Han militia returned to the sea east to prepare to board the ship. The command did not intend to drive the South Vietnamese army away, especially the musket unit in the opposing camp, which kept the command in the throat, and no one could feel at ease if they did not try to eliminate this force. The plan of the command headquarters was to let the militia group go south directly by boat, intercept the retreating South Vietnamese army on the front line of the river, and the South Vietnamese army, which lacked surface strength, would inevitably delay because of the large number of people and few boats when it arrived at the river, and then there would be an opportunity to compress it on the bank of the river and slowly clean it up.

The land route from the camp of South Vietnam to the Truong River is about 40 miles, and although it will be nearly a quarter longer than the land route to enter the Trung River upstream by boat, the speed of travel is faster than that of the land route, and it is expected that it will be able to intercept the large force of the South Vietnamese Army in the upper reaches of the Truong River.

If the South Vietnamese Army had retreated in a normal and orderly manner, the command might not have dared to make such a bold arrangement. But now that the South Vietnamese Army has become a plate of scattered sand, and there is no cover of water forces and heavy weapons, the command naturally will not miss such a good opportunity to inflict heavy losses on the opponent. Moreover, with the trench of fighting for the river, it is also possible to rely on a small number of elite troops to block the retreat of the South Vietnamese army.

Of course, there is a deeper reason, that is, the command believes that the purpose of the training of this operation has not been fully achieved, and in the previous operations, the North Vietnamese Affiliated Army still bears most of the combat tasks, while the Hai Han militia only plays the role of pressing the formation most of the time. The only company that has completed more combat missions is only the special operations company led by Qian Tiandun, and even the artillery that was pinned on by the Military Police Department before the war did not really play a role until the past two days.

Qian Tiandun and his special operations company had already gone to the south to conduct field operations before, and they were familiar with the situation, so this task naturally meant to include them. As the commander, Yan Chujie also "abused his power for personal gain" a little, and decided to personally lead the team to participate in this interception operation. Ha Lu Gong and Mu Sha Bai remained here to command the Liaison Army in pursuit of the South Vietnamese army. As for Wang Tom and the others, they must not be idle, as soon as the large army boarded the ship, the "Feisu" had already anchored and was ready to leave.

If it weren't for the fact that the command had already prepared the interception plan as a backup plan a day or two in advance, it would not have been so easy to organize a large-scale mobile operation in such a hurry. In addition to the "Discovery" and "Speed", the command also mobilized five other armed merchant ships in good condition and equipped with artillery as vehicles to assist in the battle. These ships will carry a total of more than 600 fighters and crews to the south, and five more ships will follow as reserve and supply transport ships, guarding the vicinity of the mouth of the Zheng River in case South Vietnam sends reinforcements from the sea.

The North Vietnamese army can finally let go of the war today, Zheng Bai led his own army to rush into the camp of the South Vietnamese army, and blocked the last batch of unlucky ghosts who did not have time to withdraw in the camp. However, he did not forget the instructions of the command, and immediately after taking up the position, he asked the people and soldiers to start collecting the shells scattered everywhere in the camp, and most of the shells that did not appear deformed could be recycled and reused. Of course, even if it is badly deformed, the iron lump can be recast. The most important thing is that each of these shells has to be priced and calculated, and every one shot recovered will save the North Vietnamese regime, and this number cannot be ignored when hundreds or thousands of shells are calculated.

Moreover, there are still a large number of military supplies in the camp of the South Vietnamese army that have not had time to be taken away, which can also reduce some expenses for the North Vietnamese side. There is not much food and grass in these military supplies, which also verifies the role played by the command headquarters in the sabotage war. However, all kinds of weapons and armor are piled up, there are tens of thousands of bows and arrows alone, Zheng Bai also secretly shouted luck in his heart after seeing it, if it were not for the Haihan people, it would be difficult for North Vietnam to withstand the next offensive of the South Vietnamese army.

However, compared with the coalition forces commanded by the headquarters, after the North Vietnamese army on Zheng Bai's side was suppressed by the opponent for two full months, the ** desire for war was obviously stronger, leaving only a small number of soldiers and civilians to count and capture, and the large army continued to pursue the South Vietnamese army.

The interception fleet of the Haihan militia rushed to the mouth of the Zhengjiang River at 5 o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, but if it wanted to go to the upstream crossing point of the South Vietnamese army, it would take at least two hours to travel, and it could be said that it was a very risky thing to go upriver on this pitch-black river at night. For safety reasons, the fleet did not rush into the Zhengjiang River, but rested at the mouth of the sea for one night.

In the early morning of the next day, as soon as the sky was bright, the fleet set off for the upper reaches of the river, and when they arrived at the upper reaches of the Zhengjiang River, everyone was happy. Tens of thousands of South Vietnamese troops were blocked by the river, and only a dozen or so small boats and some improvised rafts were tasked with transporting the army across the river. There are still many South Vietnamese soldiers on the shore who are hurrying to cut wood to make rafts, and on the distant horizon to the north, you can already see the flags of the pursuing North Vietnamese troops through binoculars.

After the appearance of this flotilla on the river, it immediately caused another commotion in the South Vietnamese army. At first, some people thought it was a rescue fleet from the south, but it soon became clear that it didn't seem to be the case. South Vietnamese ships don't have such big regulations, and there won't be so many guns on the side of the ship, etc., artillery?

Soon the guns loaded on the ship began to attack indiscriminately, and the gunners did not even need to aim at any specific target, but simply blasted directly into the river bank to knock down a piece. And those small wooden boats that looked like sampans were completely small in front of Haihan's fleet, and the "Discovery" at the beginning ran over them without reason, crushing these small boats into pieces with their hulls.

On the banks of the river, there were not without South Vietnamese insight, and immediately some officers began to organize a counterattack. Of course, in the absence of heavy weapons, their only means of counterattack was bows and arrows, which immediately provoked an even more ferocious attack from the militias.

With a whistle, a long line of gun barrels stretched out from the side of the ship, and immediately knocked down the South Vietnamese soldiers on the shore. The Haihan militia, who had not been released for many days, finally had a chance to fight, and a dense rain of bullets kept pouring down from the sides of several large ships to the shore. Although the undulations of the boats could have some negative impact on the accuracy of the shots, the density of the South Vietnamese troops on the banks of the river was so great that there was no way to avoid it, and even if the bullets deviated from their original targets, there was still a great chance of hitting others.

As the targets on this stretch of river dwindle, the boats moved slowly and continued to kill in a different place. So much so that later, as the ships moved, the South Vietnamese troops on the shore also began to move, and wherever the ships went, there would be no man's land on the shore at least a few tens of meters deep. Moreover, the number of shells carried on the ship is relatively limited, and it is impossible to attack the tens of thousands of people on the shore by throwing bowling balls indefinitely.

But the effect of the attack was undoubted, and in order to avoid the killing gods floating on the river, the large force of the South Vietnamese army began to march westward along the Zheng River, apparently hoping to enter the valley of the Heng Son mountain range, and then find another narrow and shallow place to cross the river. Although Haihan's fleet has an absolute advantage in equipment, it does not dare to advance too much because it is not familiar with the water conditions upstream. After consulting with the command, the fleet repeatedly struck near the most densely populated bank of the South Vietnamese Army, and the entire river bank and river were littered with corpses dropped by the South Vietnamese Army, and the casualties were far more tragic than in the previous encounters on the battlefield in the north.

The casualties on the Haihan side were much smaller in comparison, except for a few wounded at first when the South Vietnamese troops on the river bank counterattacked with bows and arrows, and then the battle situation was one-sided, and the people on the shore avoided the ships when they saw them coming, and there was no counterattack at all to threaten these ships.

In the evening of the same day, the North Vietnamese army, which had been pursued all the way from the mountain defense line, finally arrived at the Zhengjiang River. According to the approximate statistics provided by the North Vietnamese Army, in this one-day battle royale, the South Vietnamese Army annihilated at least 20,000 troops, of which more than 14,000 were captured, and the rest were mostly killed or wounded, or uncertain, such as being torn to pieces by artillery shells, or falling into the Zhengjiang River and being swept away by the river.

As for the part of the South Vietnamese army that fled to the upper reaches of the Zhengjiang River, it does not mean that they have escaped. The whole journey from the upper reaches of the Zhengjiang River to the south over the primeval forests of the Heng Son Mountains was at least nearly 100 miles, which was not easy for the South Vietnamese army, which lacked food and clothing and had fallen into a low morale. In the process of escaping, it is unknown how many wounded soldiers will be abandoned halfway, and the outcome that awaits them may not be as good as being captured by the North Vietnamese.

A considerable number of the officers who were still unsatisfied with the crossing clamored to "fight the river and liberate Hue Province", but Yan Chujie was still relatively sober and was not affected by the enthusiasm of others, so he stopped this unrealistic idea in time. The main purpose of the Hai Han militia to fight here this time was to repel the offensive of the South Vietnamese army, and from the current point of view, this strategic goal has been relatively satisfactorily accomplished, and the extermination of the Nguyen regime in South Vietnam is not the immediate goal of the Executive Committee, and it is not a combat plan that can be achieved by a few radicals shouting slogans to attack Hue Province hundreds of miles away.

In order to win this battle, the crossing group can be said to have invested most of its resources to prepare for the war, and the entire group's preparation materials for several months have been consumed in a few battles here, which is not enough to continue the battle. If it weren't for the fact that the South Vietnamese Army chose to retreat due to the inferiority of weapons, it is estimated that the combat materials of the Hai Han militia would have lasted another five or six days. At that time, even if the troops do not retreat, they can only hang up the exemption card and wait for the base camp to send ammunition supplies.

And such combat attrition is difficult for the crossing group to bear for a long time. Although the North Vietnamese side did promise to bear all the expenses, it was an afterthought, and it was at least a month or two after the war that the settlement was settled. Moreover, the North Vietnamese were not able to provide a lot of combat materials needed by the Hai Han militia. It can fight small battles, but it can't support big battles, and because the troops are too small, they can't bear too large battle losses at all, this is the current situation of the Haihan militia group.

The North Vietnamese army is now also powerless for the southern expedition, first, the consumption of materials and personnel has not been replenished in time, and the rash southward advance will only drag itself down. Second, because the damned musket troops of South Vietnam finally escaped from the encirclement, Zheng Bai did not have the courage to send his troops to the enemy's guns to die again.

According to the prisoner's confession, the musket unit had crossed the Zhengjiang River the evening of the previous day, and by this time it was probably in the vicinity of Donghai. Hearing the news, Qian Tiandun was so angry that he slapped the table, regretting that he didn't have the courage to rush into Zhengjiang the day before, maybe there would be a chance to intercept it at that time.

But Yan Chujie was quite open to this result: "Although we have not exterminated this army, our combat purpose has been achieved. Moreover, the survival of the South Vietnamese musket team is not necessarily a bad thing......"

Seeing Qian Tiandun looking up at him, Yan Chujie then analyzed him: "South Vietnam has a musket team, so North Vietnam's dependence on us must continue, at least for a period of time, our arms exports can still have good results." ”

"If South Vietnam rests and then fights north, will we come over to put out the fire again? Although this is a lucrative business, it is impossible for us to participate in the civil war in Annam for a long time, Mr. Yan, you say yes?" Qian Tiandun still had some doubts.

"South Vietnam shouldn't be moving so fast. If you are the commander of South Vietnam, after being beaten so badly, knowing that the opponent's weapons and equipment are several grades better than your own, do you still dare to harden your opponent on the frontal battlefield?" Yan Chujie said with a smile: "As long as the brain is not burned out, the South Vietnamese army will not take the initiative to attack again in the short term." You're nervous, but in fact the enemy on the other side of the river is more nervous than you. ”

"That's right!" Qian Tiandun was thinking about how to use the victory to expand the results of the battle, ignoring the environment in which the South Vietnamese Army was located, and was reminded by Yan Chujie that he came back to his senses and found that the weaker side should have been more worried in this situation.

"Our task now is to clean up the battlefield and put the finishing touches on the aftermath. Yan Chujie looked around at the officers present and said in a deep voice: "Especially the calculation of military merits during the operation, as well as casualty statistics, commanders at all levels must carefully make records, and after they go back, the executive committee and the military police department will have corresponding rewards and pensions." Although this battle has been fought, these bloody and desperate soldiers under our command must also be rewarded accordingly!"

In the nearly 10 days of fighting, the number of casualties of the Haihan militia was the lowest among the three parties involved in the battle. According to the current statistics, the number of Haihan killed in the battle was 19, 11 were seriously wounded, and more than 70 were lightly wounded, of which two were non-combatants such as civilians and sailors. Thankfully, during the battle, no officers were killed, and only two platoon commanders were slightly injured in the battle, but fortunately there were no major problems. Most of the people killed in the battle were tragically killed in the battle for the hilltop on both sides of the coalition position, which also exposed the shortcomings of the militia soldiers in mountain warfare.

Although Qian Tiandun's field company undertook the most combat missions, its casualty rate was quite low, with only two dead and seven wounded, fully demonstrating the results of the special training. As for the meritorious service awards of the special operations company in the future, and even the expansion of the establishment and the replacement of better equipment, it will not be able to run properly