Every war is like a huge gamble! And I always firmly believe that I am the final winner!————Li Weidong
The climate in the south has always been changeable. The originally rainy weather has turned sunny and the temperature has gradually begun to rise.
In northern Vietnam, the Hainan Army's offensive pace is still advancing rapidly.
In addition, the 12,000 men of the Third Division newly mobilized from the mainland to fight in Vietnam and the 6,000 men of the Guards Brigade directly under the headquarters have also been deployed on the North Vietnamese battlefield.
Including logistics personnel, it can be said that Li Weidong invested a total of 50,000 troops this time, which is also the largest material pressure that Hainan Island can currently bear.
However, Li Weidong, who had gone out in force, left only two newly formed fourth divisions and a newly formed fifth division to guard the mainland of Hainan. It can be seen that Li Weidong's idea is to only allow success and not failure!
Haiphong Port, Vietnam.
Although three days have passed since the Hainan Army air raid on Haiphong Port, and the collapsed buildings and warship wreckage have been cleared, the entire Haiphong Port still feels desolate.
Henri Jacques was walking on the streets of Haiphong City, looking at the hurried and sad-looking pedestrians on both sides. The faces of those glorious French people no longer had the smiles they had in the past.
And the reason for all this is that it was caused by the defeat of their navy. Even if there are various reasons to excuse it, they cannot change the fact that their navy suffered heavy losses.
Because of the laxity of our own guarding forces, the Hainan Army Air Force discovered it only after flying over the harbor, but by then it was already too late. The swords of more than a hundred Hainan Air Force had already slashed down on the French Navy.
The warships and merchant ships parked in the port, the French navy barracks and army anti-aircraft gun positions, and even some important military construction units were all destroyed by the Hainan Air Force.
According to the statistics after the fact, the conclusion reached made the current Governor of Vietnam, Fris, almost vomited three liters of blood.
Because the ammunition depot was hit by a bullet and exploded, almost all the French soldiers participating in the battle at the anti-aircraft artillery position were wiped out, and there were very few survivors.
The most serious losses were caused by the French Far East Fleet in the port. Some of the old warships were sunk and crippled in the first wave of attacks.
As the main attack targets of the Hainan Army, the three battleships, the flagship France, Provence, and Dunkirk, with their outstanding defensive capabilities, withstood the Hainan Army's bombing.
The rest of the French navy warships were not so lucky. Most of them sank. Even the remaining warships were in urgent need of repair. They could not be repaired in the short term. Only two heavy cruisers were left in combat status.
The French Far East Fleet, which once terrorized Southeast Asia, now has less than half of its original strength. This has also seriously affected France's rule over Vietnam.
The brilliant performance of the Hainan Air Force's air raid was also a bright spot for all politicians.
In today's world, the mainstream of naval development is still stuck in the era of advocating big guns and giant ships. As an emerging service, the air force is still in the exploratory stage of its combat methods.
Not all countries are capable of building naval battleships. Especially some countries with weak navies are in urgent need of a combat method that can restrain their navies.
Besides, even if those powerful countries have the ability to build them, even the United Kingdom, which has the strongest navy in the world, did not have more than a hundred super battleships at its peak.
Nowadays, with the emergence of this kind of relatively cheap large-scale fighter aircraft to conduct air strikes on the navy, even if the battle loss is three to one, it is still very worthwhile.
Subsequently, the plan and layout of this "Air Raid on Haiphong Port Campaign" was regarded as a case by military strategists and put on the table for study and discussion.
However, the final result of their discussion left the military strategists disappointed because they discovered that the "Air Raid on Haiphong Port Campaign" could not be replicated.
This glorious battle victory had a lot of accidental elements. For example, if the Vietnamese radar had discovered the Hainan Army Air Force in advance, the Hainan Army aircraft might have fallen into the tiger's mouth.
Furthermore, this method is only suitable for surprise and offshore operations. With the current technological strength, no country in the world has an aircraft carrier that can support such a large-scale air force takeoff.
There are so many aircraft, and the only way is to form an aircraft carrier group. However, do you think the other party is blind? How can you not know that such a large-scale aircraft carrier group is arriving at your doorstep?
As the commander of the fleet, Henri Jacques was very aware of the importance of the French Far East Fleet to France's interests in Southeast Asia.
He is not the fat-headed and money-minded Fury. After spending six years in Southeast Asia, he is very aware of the current forces in Southeast Asia.
The former colonial powers, Spain and the Netherlands, have faded away. The emerging Americans now have no interest in Indochina, and the British only have Indochina in their eyes.
At this time, the Indochina Peninsula is like a treasure land, a treasure land that has not attracted attention yet. With the strength of the French Far East Fleet, it is absolutely possible to ensure that this treasure land in the Indochina Peninsula is included in France's pocket.
This was Jacques's greatest ideal, but it all came to nothing when the swarms of planes attacked him like locusts.
When he learned with his own ears that the Hainan Army was responsible for the air attack on Haiphong Port, an uncontrollable anger surged in his heart. He could not accept that the young Eastern boy with whom he had talked and laughed and was a confidant of each other would
He shattered his ideals with his own hands.
But then when he received an order from the country, he was completely disheartened. The order clearly stated: Suspension for investigation!
The fat-minded Governor Frese confuses right and wrong and places the blame on his head in advance. And the big bosses in France who only know how to waffle also need a scapegoat to explain to the people, and he became the miserable one.
Sacrifice!
Today, the new Far East Fleet Commander Nelson has taken over the command of the fleet from Henri Jacques, so Jacques has time to wander around this desolate city.
Two days later, the high-spirited fleet commander Nelson and Governor Freese decided to send out naval forces to cut off the supply lines of the Hainan Army with powerful naval battleships. At that time, troops would be mobilized from the south to annihilate the Hainan Army, which was running out of ammunition and food.
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Immediately, the new fleet commander-in-chief Nelson immediately ordered the three main battleships and the two surviving destroyers to be integrated together and headed straight for the waters of the Beibu Gulf, hoping to cut off the supply lines of the Hainan Army.
But as the saying goes: ideals are plump, but reality is skinny! If he could think of dispatching the navy to cut off the Hainan Army's supply lines, wouldn't Li Weidong's staff think of it?
[End of this chapter]
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