Chapter 232: The Flames of War Continue
The pace of the People's Army surprised people at home and abroad, who originally thought that after integrating its forces, the People's Army would first plot against the whole country, but they did not expect that the People's Army would go straight to the great powers before the south was decided.
In the eyes of some, this is tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg, but in the eyes of others, it is the People's Army as a party that truly represents the interests of the nation. Countless aspiring young people came from all over the country to join the BJP.
On the one hand, Zhang Zhen's Third Army carried out reforms in the occupied provinces, and on the other hand, it sent a partial division to liberate Fujian Province and complete the liberation of the entire southern provinces.
On the one hand, Wang Yong commanded the First Army to go south, but on the other hand, he often used phantom shifts to come back, sitting in the center, maintaining the operation of materials from all sides, the deployment of personnel, and the revenue and expenditure of finances.
Not only did the Jiangxi Arsenal, which belonged to the central position, support the arms supply of the second, third, and fourth armies and the three armies, but also the Sichuan Arsenal was established, which was mainly responsible for the supply of arms to the southwest.
At this time, Wang Yong entered a busy work, he could only sleep for four hours a day at most, and many times he worked all night, but this kind of war-torn life did not make him feel tired, but felt a hundred times more energetic, history was changed in his hands, and that wonderful feeling was not something else that could be replaced.
On the side of the Fourth Army, Zhu Fei took a short rest, conquered Lang Son all the way, surrounded Hanoi, caught turtles in the urn of the French army in the city, and sent another partial division to go straight to Vientiane.
At this time, the whole of Indochina, except for the ruler French, the actual economy was controlled by the Chinese, and most of them welcomed the southward movement of the motherland's army, but some were also afraid of infringing on their vital interests, but in any case, there were only a few who were willing to give their lives to the French.
Therefore, the gap between the information that the KPA can obtain in Vietnam and the information it can obtain at home is not very large.
When Basil heard the sound of artillery, he thought not of resistance, but of fleeing, and he led his guards to find a breakthrough in the south of the city and ran directly to the south.
No one thought of the surprise attack of the People's Army, and at this time the angry resistance only achieved the end of the annihilation of the entire army.
At this time, the People's Army brazenly moved south, and the news of the occupation of Hanoi soon reached France.
At this time, the president of France was none other than the center-left Falière.
He said to his cronies with a pale face: "You said that you want to interfere in China's internal affairs, I will say that they will let them come by themselves in their own turmoil, we just need to watch from the sidelines, and never end up in person, now it's okay, they have hit our Indochina colony." What do you say?! β
Finance Minister Bernard said slowly: "More than ten years ago, the Qing Black Flag Army defeated our army in Indochina, we are too far away from Indochina, and China is very close to there, which is their traditional sphere of influence. I was not in favor of this war before. I think we should send a telegram as soon as possible to get the ambassador to China to make peace with the Dayong government, after all, they are now suffering from civil war and foreign interference at the same time, and the fewer enemies the better, we can abandon the northern part of Indochina, keep the most fertile Mekong Delta region, and win the favor of this nascent Far Eastern regime, why not? β
Army Commander Xia Fei slowly stood up, but the gloomy expression on his face was like the dark sky before the storm, he slowly glanced at the people present, stared at the Minister of Finance, and said: "France has failed again and again because of the existence of a capitulation faction like you, and has lost to Britain and Germany in the competition. This is a joint action of the four countries, and we must not retreat and be ridiculed by all sides. And what about the glory of our French soldiers? We will fight to the death to protect every inch of France, not retreat! β
The surrounding officials all shouted loudly: "We France are the arbiters of the world, and we will never be frightened by a few barbarians from the Far East, glory and glory, to the supreme France!" β
They sang the majestic "La Marseillaise" aloud.
Bernard looked at the side of time and space in front of him, and said sneeringly: "But how can our materials and personnel cross tens of thousands of kilometers to fight the Chinese?" β
"That's your problem!" Xia Fei glanced at Bernard haughtily and walked out the door.
Basil's stay in Dong Hai in central Vietnam did not wait for the sound of peace, but only a letter of paper ordering him to resist to the death, and a reinforcement that could not arrive until months later.
He closed his eyes in despair: "God, those big men in Paris will never know the difficulties of the present situation!" β
He put his hand on his forehead, and his eyes overflowed with pain.
A cool touch touched his forehead, and he looked up to see that it was his maid, Li Heqing.
She looked at herself with concern, wiping her sweaty face with a wet towel.
Basil stared at her face, grabbed her hand, and silently decided in his heart that I must do everything to protect what I have now.
Of course, his persistence was not without effect.
At first, most of the Vietnamese thought that the People's Army had come to liberate them and overthrow the French colonial rule, and many young people even took to the streets to welcome it.
However, the central government of Dayong soon issued an order, except for the Chinese and Indochinese loyal to the Dayong government, all other cities that resisted were killed, and men were killed.
Under the guidance of the French army, which city did not resist?
The massacre began, Hanoi, Vientiane, Vinh City......
One city after another turned into a sea of blood, as if under the rule of the ancient Mongols.
Many Vietnamese fled for their lives south, or to Thailand, in search of their former rulers, the French.
This brought a lot of people around Basil.
The pace of Zhu Fei's offensive was slowed down by the massacre of the assembly line.
Moreover, the internal affairs department of the Dayong government continued to mobilize poor people from some places in the mountainous areas of northern Guangdong, southern Jiangxi, and Guangxi to resettle the newly occupied Red River Delta.
Men were given forty acres, women twenty acres, and soldiers one hundred and sixty.
Moreover, the soldiers who fought could choose a Vietnamese or Lao woman of appropriate age to be their wife, and the single young man who came to emigrate could also be assigned one by the government.
At the beginning, this policy was enforced by the government, but in the end, there were more people and less land, and the peasants who could not even share an acre of land rushed to the front, and they were still facing the danger of cutting off their children and grandchildren.
And the peasants and soldiers who were assigned to the land and women were even more enthusiastic about fighting, and they swore to defend their land to the death.
Two decisive forces are about to meet in Donghai.