() The dozen square formations of the French army were like waves of wheat blown down by strong winds, starting to fall from one direction to the other. However, unlike the waves of wheat, the waves of wheat would stand up once the wind passed, and the rain of bullets
Once it passes, people will never be able to stand up again, not only
Unable to stand up, many people were shattered, especially the soldiers in the back row. They were hit by bullets that penetrated the bodies of the people in front, and then hit by direct bullets. In the few seconds they fell,
It can withstand a few to a dozen rounds of large-caliber bullets.
Not only the soldiers in formation were swept away, but the dozens of horse-riding magistrates next to them were not much better. Although their horse heads helped them block the bullets, due to the large target, they were shot instead.
Heavy machine guns take care of more.
The French artillerymen who were parked a few hundred meters behind the phalanx and were assembling artillery still had some survivors. They were also within the range of the heavy machine guns, but they had artillery and dug emplacements as bunkers, although the casualties were also high.
It was huge, but it was not completely wiped out.
"Stop shooting... beep... beep..." The overly bloody scene seriously stimulated the spirits of these soldiers. Many shooters with little experience until the shooting
Only when they finished loading the bullets on the bandoliers did they release the trigger. The anxious company and platoon commanders blew their whistles and yelled, but in the deafening "thud" sound, their shouts could only go through 1 meter at most.
, even the people in my car couldn't hear clearly.
Finally, all the heavy machine guns stopped firing because they were out of ammunition. Just when the loaders pulled off the empty ammunition belts and installed new ones, the order to stop firing was finally successfully conveyed to every shooter.
In their hands and ears. But 1,000 meters away from them, the original dozen or so phalanxes had disappeared. What replaced these phalanxes were pieces of corpses. Judging from the positions of these corpses, they still basically maintained the general shape of the phalanxes.
This is not to say that the soldiers of these French, Cambodian and old coalition forces are well-trained and will not panic in the face of danger, but because the rain of bullets is too dense and the strikes come too fast, the people in front have already been shot, and the people behind have not yet been shot.
He ran away in a hurry and was hit by a bullet.
The armored vehicle battle line stopped for a long time. No one among the drivers or commanders dared to move forward. The infantrymen behind the vehicle also came to the front of the vehicle. Since they stood behind the vehicle, their positions were relatively low and they could not see the armored vehicle.
The people on the bus were far away, so they were not very clear about the situation ahead, and they were still asking the soldiers in the car.
After a short stay, commanders at all levels quickly adjusted their emotions, and then comforted their soldiers with their actions and words. The battle line finally continued to move forward with the movement of armored vehicles.
When passing which phalanxes, the armored vehicles consciously chose the open space between the phalanxes and advanced one after another. Although most of these soldiers had killed guerrillas in Mindanao, this scene of thousands of people queuing up to be shot was still shocking.
They are a little disgusting and uncomfortable.
After passing through the phalanx of French corpses, some armored vehicles began to accelerate to chase the fleeing French logistics team in the distance, while the remaining armored vehicles and most of the soldiers began to dig holes to prepare to bury the corpses of these French troops.
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This encounter north of Saigon directly massacred nearly 10,000 French, Cambodian, and Laotian soldiers, and captured more than 1,000 Cambodian logistics troops. It was fatal to the French, who already had insufficient troops in Indochina.
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After annihilating the French coalition forces that came to attack, the 101st and 102nd Regiments only took a short rest. On the morning of the third day, they set off from the temporary station and penetrated into Cambodia along several roads on the north side of Saigon leading to Cambodia.
Since most of the French troops and local Cambodian soldiers stationed in Cambodia were deployed to participate in the previous attack on Saigon, the mechanized troops of the 101st and 102nd Regiments did not encounter large-scale resistance. In addition, the French in Cambodia
Taxes were extremely high, which made the local people extremely poor. Naturally, they had no consciousness of working for these French masters.
On the contrary, they did not have much resistance to these Asian troops who did not disturb the residents and people too much. After a brief contact and some gifts of items, the local tribal leaders often sent people from their own tribes to help the Taiwanese army.
Lead the way and inform the Taiwanese army.
Following the dirt road built by the French, the 101st Regiment and the 102nd Regiment were divided into two directions, like a snake's tongue. The left road went northwest and pounced directly on Phnom Penh City; the right road went directly north, advancing while attacking, and penetrated deep in two days.
It covered more than 150 kilometers in Cambodia and occupied 11 towns along the way.
After occupying Hue, Hoi An, Da Nang and other places, the Second Brigade led by Commander Hu Xiaoming had no choice but to blockade the front line of Hue due to insufficient troops, and sent a small number of mechanized patrols to search southward along the highway.
, and did not have enough troops to attack north again.
However, this does not affect the plan formulated by the Ministry of National Defense to fully occupy Vietnam. In addition to the second wave of support troops that landed in Saigon, one brigade of the First Division, the remaining two brigades of the Second Division all followed.
With the landing fleet, they headed north at full speed, passed Da Nang, and went straight to the port in northern Vietnam, Haiphong.
Haiphong Port is located on the Red River Delta in northern Vietnam, 100 kilometers away from Hanoi City and only 80 kilometers away from the China-Vietnam border. After being occupied by France in 1888, it was gradually built into a trade and military port city, and it was also the largest industrial city in northern Vietnam.
Because it is located on an alluvial plain, the terrain of Haiphong is flat. There is a railway directly connecting Hebei and Kunming. The transportation is very convenient, and the waterway in the port is very wide, and cargo ships of more than 10,000 tons can dock directly at the dock.
Having tasted the sweetness of landing in Hoi An, this time the General Staff directly selected this important port in northern Vietnam based on the experience of frontline operations and information from the intelligence department.
Although the French are likely to blockade the port and send heavy troops to protect it, since the French Far East Fleet has basically been cleaned up, the landing force has no worries. As for the French port forts and army artillery, they are not the Taiwan Navy's heavy cruisers at all.
200 mm caliber heavy artillery opponent.
Compared with building a temporary dock on an undefended beachhead, capturing Haiphong Port can greatly speed up the speed and cost of the army's landing. Moreover, the smooth traffic from Haiphong to Hanoi is very conducive to the advancement of Taiwan's mechanized troops.
On January 22nd, three continental-class heavy cruisers and four destroyers, led by dozens of submarines, torpedo boats and troop carriers, appeared outside the channel of Haiphong Port. The Taiwanese navy did not rush to bombard the port, but first
More than a dozen torpedo boats were dispatched to carry out mine clearance work in the sea area where they were about to travel.
As the saying goes, you never go wrong with caution. The torpedo tubes have been removed from these specially modified torpedo boats and replaced with an underwater sonar system. These torpedo boats quickly used the sonar system to discover several suspicious targets and
Start getting closer to these targets for final identification and elimination.
With loud explosions, dozens of anchor mines deployed by the French Navy were eliminated one by one. These torpedo boats set up buoys on both sides of the safe channel for observation by warships behind them.
During the demining operation, the shore guns in the port also tried to fire to disrupt the work of the torpedo boats. However, as long as these shore guns fired, they would be discovered by the observation posts on the cruiser, and then they would be bombarded by the cruiser's heavy artillery.
After losing two concealed forts, the shore guns in Haiphong Port no longer fired at will, and several old warships in Haiphong Port did not dare to sail out of the port. They could only watch as their mines were eliminated and the channel was blocked.
It was cleaned bit by bit.
Although Haiphong Port is the most important port in northern Vietnam and the gateway to Hanoi City, due to geographical reasons, there are no easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack mountains where heavy shore artillery can be deployed. In addition, France does not have strong maritime enemies in the Far East.
, so the caliber of the coastal defense guns here is not very large, and their range is far inferior to the 200 mm caliber naval guns on the continental-class heavy cruisers.
