The sea breeze was blowing, the tide was rising and falling, and the ferocious waves were hitting the black rocks on the shore. Each time, they completely submerged the top of the rocks, but the rocks stubbornly showed up again and again.
Hainan Army Headquarters.
"Call the Air Force Command! The Air Force is on standby at any time! Prepare to fight!" Li Weidong issued the order.
According to intelligence, the French army is about to mobilize more than 40 aircraft from the air force base in northern Vietnam to go north for support, and in Li Weidong's eyes, this force must be annihilated.
"Yes! General!"
At this time, a telegraph operator hurried into the command room. After seeing Li Weidong, he stood at attention and saluted: "Report! Navy fleet battle report!"
Without waiting for the telegraph operator to read, Li Weidong took the document directly, looked through it and said: "
The Navy sent a message to the Headquarters:
In the early morning of October 11th, our naval combined fleet encountered six enemy warships near the waters of the eastern Gunran Islands. After six hours of fierce and fierce battle, fortunately, we won the final victory.
Not a single piece of our fleet was intact, the flagship Nanhai was slightly damaged, Donghai and Bohai were seriously damaged, and Huanghai lost its combat capability.
This battle successfully annihilated the French Far East Fleet, captured the enemy battleship Dunkirk, the enemy battleship France was seriously damaged and sank, and sank the enemy battleship Provence, as well as two other enemy destroyers, not counting the prisoners."
"Okay, very good! Now the Army can move forward without any worries." Li Weidong said happily.
After reading the battle report, the big stone that Li Weidong had been hanging in his heart for a long time finally fell to the ground.
This was a decisive victory. Without the Far East Fleet, the French could allow the Hainan Army to attack the coast of Vietnam without worrying about being cut off.
And just as Li Weidong was overjoyed that he had completely destroyed the Far East Fleet, Paris, France, far away in Europe, was in a quarrel because of the North Vietnamese War in the Far East.
The North Vietnamese War that broke out in the Far East has been going on for half a month. The French army has already suffered huge casualties, but the situation has only gotten worse.
Victory is still far away, which makes it difficult for the French citizens who are waiting eagerly to understand. Huge military expenditures are invested every year, but the trained imperial troops are beaten by a warlord from a third-rate country and are unable to fight back.
At the National Assembly held in the Elysee Palace in Paris, the current French President Albert Lebrun introduced a bill on the troop surge plan for the North Vietnam War, but it was opposed by the vast majority of members.
Those congressmen and big capitalists who only cared about hot girls, money and power, expressed strong dissatisfaction with the French army's incompetence on the North Vietnam battlefield, and began to question the necessity of increasing troops in Vietnam.
You know, if this bill to increase troops in the North Vietnam battlefield is passed, then Congress will have to pay for the supplies for the expedition, and most of them will be funded by industrial and commercial capitalists like them.
Moreover, if the French army is still so vulnerable this time, retreating steadily and unable to win, then wouldn't all the funds they invested have been in vain?
If they invest less troops, they are worried that they will not be able to defeat the Hainan Army, so it would be better not to fight. But if they invest more troops, they will not get a single benefit. Therefore, they are not interested in the plan to increase troops.
What's more, for the French, French Vietnam is a colony that is "tasteless to eat and a pity to abandon." Although Vietnam is rich in mineral resources, most of those minerals are mined and difficult to transport, and the investment costs are high and expensive.
Excessive mining efforts are simply not worth the gain.
What capitalists like them value most is profit, unparalleled profit. This kind of loss-making business is absolutely unacceptable in their eyes.
In this way, under the doubts of the people, the French government in power fell into turmoil, and the protesting French people demonstrated in the streets.
Albert Loeb said that the president was busy appeasing the public sentiment, and secretly fueled the situation by domestic opposition parties, which made the proposal to increase troops in the Vietnam battlefield go by the wayside. Of course, Li Weidong, who was far away in Hongji, did not know all this.
There are two flowers in bloom, one on each side.
Bac Giang County in Vietnam is an important military fortress of the French army and the gateway south to Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. A French regular division is stationed here all year round. Recently, due to the Hainan Army's southward attack, the military location here has become even more prominent.
For several days, the French army has continuously mobilized troops here. Now the number of troops here has exceeded 30,000. The military strength cannot be underestimated.
The Hainan Army's vanguard unit, the Second Division, has arrived several days ago, and the officers and soldiers of the Army's First Division have also surrounded them from the north. The Hainan Army is currently in a confrontation with the French army in the city.
The sun is in the west, the headquarters of the Second Division of the Hainan Army.
"Master! The mood below is very high. Do you want us to attack?" Looking at Jiangbei County in the distance, a staff officer asked.
So far, the troops of the Second Division have arrived at Jiangbei City for three days. The division commander Wang Shanhu has never ordered an attack. The officers and soldiers listen to the commander's report every day about how the navy brothers are doing this. Looking at themselves idle here, they are worried.
It was extremely itchy to hold back.
Unable to fight, the soldiers could only spend their extra energy digging trenches. Over the next few days, they dug trenches all over the southern position like groundhogs.
The idea of soldiers is actually very simple, that is, to fight and meritorious service. If they don’t fight, where will they get the military exploits? Without military exploits, how can their families live a good life? There is a generous pension system that allows them to fight bravely without worrying about injuries.
No one cares about the remnant.
Standing in the field headquarters, across the battlefield observation port, Wang Shanhu used binoculars to observe the defensive positions in Jiangbei County on the opposite side.
After hearing this, Wang Shanhu put away his telescope, made two marks on the map on the table, and then said: "Now is not the time. Looking at the opponent's defense, the military commander on the other side is obviously not mediocre. A rash attack will cause too many casualties. With our current situation,
It is very difficult for some troops to capture Jiangbei County."
Just as he was talking, Wang Shanhu suddenly thought of something, and then asked: "By the way, where has the heavy artillery brigade directly under the military headquarters reached?"
"They have already passed Maoxi County and are expected to arrive tomorrow!" After hearing this, a staff officer immediately replied.
"Well, that's good!" Wang Shanhu said.
Soon, night gradually fell and darkness enveloped the earth. Some veterans leaned against the trenches and looked at the moonlight, enjoying what might be the last such silent night in this place.
Warning whistles sounded in the distance, and piles of bonfires were lit on the Hainan Army's army positions. Warning searchlights from high places scanned the forward positions to warn of enemy sneak attacks.