At the beginning of the Battle of Phnom Penh, the Far East Army launched an active offensive. According to Li Ningyu's pre-war instructions, the various units could not be unified in attack time.
However, we must completely mobilize France's mobile reserves in the Phnom Penh area and launch guerrilla and semi-guerrilla warfare. We must also actively avoid the French army's sharp edges and must not use inferior forces to entangle France.
One day, all three armies in the Far East launched multiple attacks at the same time.
The position defense in the Far East mainly relied on heavy machine guns and artillery, which withstood the French colonial army's attack. The two sides fought fiercely for a whole day. In the end, the main defense position in the Far East was forced to retreat ten miles due to the numerical disadvantage.
However, on the first day of the battle, the Far East successfully annihilated 210,000 French troops with only three legions, while the Far East suffered only tens of thousands of casualties.
It can be said that in the first day of the Phnom Penh battle, the Far East achieved a huge victory. After receiving such information, countries around the world could not help but exclaim: "The Far East Army is really a tiger and wolf army, or an incompetent army."
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As a result, Britain's original plan to help France increase its troops in South Asia wavered at the time. However, it was the rise of Edward VII that finally made Britain completely turn to the Far East. At the end of 1900, Queen Victoria's condition began to worsen, and Crown Prince Edward VII returned to London.
While beginning to accept power, a new cabinet was organized and established.
Queen Victoria is the longest reigning monarch in British history. For 64 years, she was the only British monarch to be called the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Queen of India. In 64 years, she was also the British monarch.
The most powerful period was the so-called period of the empire on which the sun never sets.
During her reign, liberal capitalism reached its peak and began to transition to monopoly capitalism. Britain's economy and culture were unprecedentedly prosperous, and the constitutional monarchy system was fully developed, giving Britain unprecedented overall prosperity.
But one year old, she was already 82 years old in 1900, and Queen Victoria's vitality began to approach its final days, but she also understood what kind of person her son Edward VII was. In order to prevent Britain from falling into recession,
Queen Victoria made a surprising decision before her death, that is, she asked Edward VII to establish a good relationship with Li Ningyu.
In front of Queen Victoria's bed, Edward VII was very puzzled. However, he had a good relationship with Li Ningyu, so he did not refuse Queen Victoria's order. Then Edward VII, who slowly began to take over the political power, used his own name to
Li Ningyu was invited to London. At that time, Li Ningyu was busy with the war in Northeast China and South Asia, so he used these two things as an excuse to refuse.
But then Li Ningyu received another telegram from King Edward VII. The content was very simple, that is, Britain would not interfere in South Asia and Northeastern affairs, and it promised Li Ningyu alone that the British troops in India and Myanmar would never
Send troops to help France and hope that Li Ningyu will go to London as soon as possible.
After receiving the message from Edward VII, Li Ningyu didn't react for a while. Then he remembered that Queen Victoria seemed not to survive 1901, so he angrily agreed to Edward VII's invitation, but Li Ningyu added
One request is that the British troops stationed in Burma can provide logistical support for the Northern Army in the Far East fighting in South Asia.
Li Ningyu's message was quickly passed to Edward VII. At that time, he could not make the decision. In the end, he had to ask Queen Victoria for instructions. However, Queen Victoria, who was already seriously ill, did not understand Li Ningyu's meaning and just followed Queen Victoria.
A nod from the French leader completely changed the situation in South Asia, because when the French learned that their allies were actually helping the Far East to improve their logistics supplies, they immediately clamored to the British and said that if the British continued to help the Far East, they would declare war on the British.
Edward VII had just begun to take over the power, and one of the natural things he had to do was to scare the monkeys. However, he did not expect that the French would jump out at this time. As the emperor of India, he immediately ordered Burma and India to dispatch five armies.
Sent troops to South Asia and declared war on France.
However, these changes only happened one after another after the Battle of Phnom Penh. On the first day of the Battle of Phnom Penh, France was defeated and its frontal attack was blocked. However, Robert, the commander-in-chief of the French colonial army, ordered to send out troops that night.
Part of the 11th Army of the Colonial Army, with about 18,000 troops, detoured back to the left flank of the Far East position. The plan was to launch an attack the next day, but they were discovered by the Far East. In the end, they were fired upon by the Far East Army and killed about 10,000 more people.
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Throughout the next day, the three Far East legions stepped up their all-out attack on the right wing of the French colonial army. In the next few days, France conducted a total of sixteen attacks, but they were all defeated by the tenacious counterattacks of the Far East legions.
After returning, France directly assembled 6 armies on the left wing in an attempt to completely annihilate the Far East Army, which was constantly making detours, in one go.
However, each time due to different command reasons, they were attacked by unexpected and victorious troops from the Far East. The French left-wing group's 200,000 men were almost exhausted in a few days of battles, and the Far East also began to make a series of important attacks on the French-occupied right wing.
Tactical actions, including controlling the small highlands on both sides of the southeast. In this situation of advancing, fighting, retreating and defending, Li Ningyu decided that it was time for the Far East Army to launch a comprehensive counterattack.
It was to break through the French colonial army's defense line in Phnom Penh, and that was the center corps commanded by Robert himself. To this end, the Far East transferred 21 infantry regiments, 50,000 men and 354 artillery pieces from Taiwan to support the Phnom Penh battle. As a result, this time
The night raid completely changed the Phnom Penh battle area. The asymmetry in the forces between France and the Far East also changed the Far East's offensive battle into a defensive battle.
Because in the all-out counterattack in the Far East, the French army suffered a huge defeat in the battle. In particular, the French commander Robert was killed by a shell that hit the command room, which made his commander take over and voluntarily gave up the counterattack plan.
Most of the troops invested in the Battle of Phnom Penh were transferred to other areas, and suffered heavy losses during the march, especially the French 44th Army, which faced off against the newly formed 1st Army of the Far East. The powerful artillery of the Far East was in the confrontation, and the French troops were beaten everywhere.
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Subsequently, the new commander of the French colonial army decided to make a full withdrawal of the French army from the Phnom Penh area and gather in the Rowan and Angkor areas. However, the 600,000 French troops originally assembled in the Phnom Penh area now had less than 250,000 people.
In other words, 350,000 people were lost in the Battle of Phnom Penh, and by the end of the Battle of Phnom Penh, there were more than 50,000 casualties in the Far East. At this point, the Battle of Phnom Penh ended with France's defeat.
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