() At this time, the division commander was standing in the control tower of the Asia heavy patrol, listening to several staff officers around him introducing the landing situation.
"Now the 1st and 2nd Battalions have begun to advance in depth without encountering any resistance, but this is a resort for the French. They have built many small villas, and several shooting incidents have occurred, all in the villas.
The French did it." A staff officer held a telegraph book and was reporting the news from the front to the division commander.
"How did they deal with it? Did we have any casualties?" Commander Hu picked up the telescope and looked towards the beach.
"Only one soldier was wounded in the arm, and the shooter was shot dead. However, many of their family members, including women and children, have been captured. These people are temporarily concentrated in a building closest to our landing point.
The villa will be guarded by the 3rd Battalion who will land later.
"Well, tell the troops in front that as long as they encounter resistance, don't hesitate. Just like in Mindanao, fight how you want." Commander Hu put down the telescope and gave orders to the staff.
"In addition, another engineer battalion will be arranged to land first. The construction of the dock must be accelerated. We will try to send heavy equipment up in the afternoon.
"Yes, I'll make arrangements right away." The two staff officers beside Hu Xiaoming recorded the division commander's orders, turned around, left the command tower, and went to the telegraph room to issue new orders to the troops on the shore.
"Xiao Hu, don't be so nervous. Didn't the people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs say that there are only more than 200 French troops in this area, and they are still stationed near Saigon. The rest are some tax collection posts and
Vietnamese police officers, if you can't even defeat them, why are you even landing?" Leaning in the corner of the control tower is the captain of the USS Asia heavy cruiser Guo Qiwei. This captain, who is almost 50 years old, is wearing a white uniform.
Holding a cigarette in his mouth, he looked out the window with his mouth tilted.
"Be careful. Our army is not like your navy. It is blocked by armor. If you can save one person from death, one person will die. It would be unjust if you let the police kill you." Hu Xiaoming raised the telescope again and looked at what was happening.
A temporary pier was built.
"You killed a lot of people in Mindanao. Your soldiers all smell like corpses. By the way, tell me, brother, how are the women there?" Captain Guo finally found a topic he liked.
He threw the cigarette butt on the ground and stamped it out, walked to Hu Xiaoming, put his head close to him, and whispered.
"Are you trying to make yourself uncomfortable? You know that there is an order from above not to spread this news, but you still ask? What else can a woman do? She has one head and two eyes, just like your wife." Hu Xiaoming did not intend to continue this.
topic, opened the door of the command room, stood outside the command room, and continued to observe with the telescope.
Taiwan's Ministry of War has always adopted a confidential attitude towards operations on Mindanao and strictly prohibited dissemination. Everyone on rotational leave troops returning to the country from the Philippines has been informed.
"Tch, if you don't say it, don't say it. When I was driving a torpedo boat, I also used a machine gun to shoot at Japanese people. I didn't even take prisoners of war. What a piece of shit." Captain Guo was humiliated and muttered angrily,
However, he also knew that this order was issued by the Ministry of National Defense, and several mid-level officers had already been taken away by the Ministry of Internal Affairs for talking nonsense while drunk.
On the afternoon of July 7, the temporary pier was finally built. The large steel pontoons were connected row by row, stretching hundreds of meters from the beach to the sea.
One of the two cargo ships is moored at the temporary dock. Several cranes on the ship are unloading armored vehicles, bulldozers, artillery and other heavy equipment loaded in the cabin onto the dock, while the other cargo ship is being used by two
The barge was pushed towards the dock, and a large number of engineers and soldiers were busy on the dock, driving the unloaded equipment onto the beach.
More than 10 hours after the Taiwanese landing troops landed on the beach of the Vung Tau Peninsula, the French commander in Saigon received inaccurate news. According to fishermen on the Saigon River, there were two fishermen near the mouth of the Saigon River.
The gunboat entered the river and sailed upstream of the Saigon River.
The French commander who received the report didn't think much about it, thinking that the French navy was conducting another exercise or something, and didn't even send anyone to verify it. In this way, Taiwan's landing force spent a whole day on the Vung Tau Peninsula.
Calm night.
The next day, just when the 102nd Regiment of the 101st Brigade and the 102nd Regiment of the 1st Taiwan Army Division drove armored vehicles along the Saigon River and began to advance towards Saigon, the French commander in Saigon City received an overnight attack from the Vung Tau Peninsula.
Several French businessmen who escaped reported that an Asian force had landed on the Vung Tau Peninsula. The number was estimated to be about 1,000 people, and there were several large warships on the sea.
After listening to the cries of his compatriots, the French commander thought about the report of the Vietnamese fishermen yesterday, and his head immediately got bigger. More than 1,000 soldiers, several large warships? This is definitely not a Vietnamese guerrilla, because they are not even worthy of guns.
Qi, and has not appeared in South Vietnam for many years;
It can't be the Chinese. Although China is currently undergoing a revolution, they don't have to go all the way to land in southern Vietnam. They can fight directly from the land in northern Vietnam.
So who is it? While pondering the identity of the enemy, the commander quickly sent telegrams to several nearby French military strongholds, asking them to quickly assemble and move closer to Saigon City.
At this time, the entire territory of Vietnam had been occupied by the French. They divided Vietnam into three regions. The southernmost one was called Nan Qi District, which governed 10 provinces, and its capital was Saigon City; the central one was called Annan District, which governed four provinces.
, the capital is Hue; the northern part is called Tonkin District, which governs 16 provinces, and the capital is Hanoi.
Since southern Vietnam was first occupied by the French, after so many years of rule, the locals have become relatively tame, and with the cooperation of the French Far East Fleet, there are only more than 2,000 French troops and more than 5,000 Vietnamese troops in the entire south, while Saigon has
There are usually only more than 500 French troops and more than 1,000 Vietnamese soldiers stationed in the city.
Although the commander's reaction was relatively quick and his response methods were accurate, compared with the Taiwanese army in armored vehicles and cars, the French colonial army was much worse. Except for the two French military stations that were relatively close,
If you can reach Saigon within 1 day, the remaining stations will take more than 2 days to reach Saigon.
But it didn't matter whether they came or not, because at noon on September 9, the French commander led nearly a thousand French troops and more than 2,000 Vietnamese troops to surrender to the Taiwanese army.
On the night of the 8th, the leading troops of the 101st and 102nd regiments had already arrived at the outskirts of Saigon. According to the plan, the officers and soldiers of these two companies did not stay, but bypassed the urban area of Saigon and followed the direction marked on the map.
It is inserted in the north and east of Saigon city, occupying 3 roads and 2 rivers from Saigon to the outside world.
When the 101st and 102nd regiments arrived at the outskirts of Saigon, they did not rush to launch an attack because it was not yet bright. Instead, they sent two more battalions of troops, using armored vehicles and cars as means of transportation, and carrying enough ammunition to support them.
Two leading companies.
When the sun rose from the east on September 9, people in the southern suburbs of Saigon suddenly discovered that a large number of soldiers in colorful clothes appeared on the highway. They followed square boxes one by one, along the highway and fields, slowly
Head towards Saigon city.
Judging from their attire and the things they were holding, they did not look like they were here to travel or do business, but like they were here to fight. Those old people with many years of experience in avoiding war immediately shouted and cursed in a low voice.
He warned his juniors not to go to the highway to watch the excitement, quickly packed up the valuables and food at home, and took the family with them to a place far away from the city.
Those young people stood in twos and threes in the paddy field and at the intersection, watching these strange people, wearing strange clothes, wearing strange hats, holding strange guns, walking behind the big iron box that made strange noises.
