The battle in which the rebels attacked the Royal Palace in Hue was extremely tragic, and it would not be an exaggeration to describe it as bloody. This time, the rebels who thought they could control Emperor Bao Dai as easily as last time hit a hard nail.
No matter how hard we try, we can't break through this solid line of defense in front of us.
Wu Wentai, the commander responsible for the task of attacking the palace, was very depressed. It was clear from his investigation that the opponent only had one battalion with less than 500 people. The troops he led were ten times that of the enemy. Why couldn't the battle line advance further?
Wu Wentai did not know that the opponent he faced this time was composed of soldiers of the Anjia Army, an army that could rival the Japanese army with the strongest individual soldiers in this era.
Among the city's security forces, there are also special operations members of the Air Force's "Blue Fox" brigade. If nothing else, their superb marksmanship is enough to make people fearful. Many of the rebel leaders who led the raids are mostly
It was a bullet between the eyebrows, killing him with one blow, and its impact on the morale of the rebels was immeasurable. The rebels were so panicked that they fled, leaving their backs to the soldiers of the Anjia Army, who were quickly swept to the ground by machine gun bullets.
For these rebels who had not received professional training and did not have heavy firepower, the defense of the Royal Palace in Hue could be described as an iron wall.
In the past two days, with the completion of the construction of the temporary airport on the top of Dong Nguy Mountain, four kilometers west of Hue City, not only all 350 soldiers of the "Blue Fox" brigade were in place, but also all light and heavy weapons were available, especially the air force Major General Ouyang Jian personally led
The 1st Airborne Division, which was upgraded from the Air Service Regiment, has quietly airlifted 4,000 officers and soldiers to Dong Nguy. They had been lurking in the stretching jungle to the west of Hue City.
An Jiajun was fully psychologically prepared for the possible rebellion of many politically unstable or even hostile allies. In fact, An Yi's New Year's Day message was not without purpose. It was meant to alert some people. But since
Some people are obsessed with it, and they just use this excuse to sort out all kinds of cancers and thorns, so that when they take charge of Annan's power in the future, they will not be so prickly, and they will not let the cancers fester and harm the whole body.
The gunfire of the general-purpose machine gun has not been interrupted since it was fired. During this period, the times of changing barrels happened to coincide with each other. The gunshots were fired immediately after the interruption. The more than 6,000 rebels who participated in the attack on the palace were facing Gao Gao.
The city walls and the terrifying machine gun fire were helpless.
The palace is a target that the rebels must capture. If Emperor Bao Dai, who is the symbol of Annan, is not in control, no matter how many political opponents are killed, it will not be considered a success. Therefore, Wu Wentai, who has been commanding the army, has red eyes and clenches his teeth.
With his teeth set, he sent out death squads in batches, planning to fill up the moat even with piles of corpses, and then the following people would step on the corpses of their companions and capture the palace.
In fact, according to the current situation, if you are a rational commander, you should choose to retreat immediately. After all, launching a charge against a solid fortress when your own firepower is not dominant is almost the same as flying a moth into a flame. Back then, Japan
The people suffered enough when they attacked the fortress built by the Russians in Port Arthur. The casualties were more than ten times that of the Russians. This has become a must-have case in all major military academies.
However, reality forced the rebel leader to continue the almost useless attack in order to win the slim hope.
Then, a cruel scene appeared.
Wave after wave of rebels, holding long ladders, launched an assault on the imperial city. However, nearly a hundred light and heavy machine guns hiding in the shooting bunkers continued to spit out tongues of fire. The officers and soldiers of the garrison had already begun to attack.
The tension became relaxed. Since the rebels lacked the artillery to attack the enemy, they did not need to dodge or adjust the shooting angle. They only needed to simply repeat the action of pulling the trigger.
The terrain in front of the Royal Palace in Hue is extremely open, with no houses blocking it, and a moat that is five meters deep and eight meters wide. It is like a natural chasm. It can be said that as many as come, many will die. In just over half an hour, Vo Van Thai's troops have
More than 3,000 people died, and the remaining 3,000 people were cowering away. Even if the leaders of various political parties picked up whips and beat them hard, it would have no effect.
"What the hell, why do they have so many machine guns?" Vo Van Tai asked loudly to Ruan Xiang San who arrived with reinforcements.
Ruan Xiangsan also understood the seriousness of the battle situation in front of him, and his face turned pale: "I don't know, the city defense troops and security forces are very strictly controlled, and our people can't infiltrate, but in the past two days, those city defense troops have changed into strange colors and styles.
I guess the military uniforms were supported by the Chinese!"
Wu Wentai saw the defenders in front and fired a few more flares into the sky. He shook his head and asked, "Have you captured Hu Xuelan, Ruan Haichen and the others?"
Ruan Xiangsan said with a wry smile: "We were deceived... They are very cunning. They have been living outside the city. I saw them entering the mansion on weekdays. It turned out that they were just eating and having meetings. After ten o'clock in the evening, they would
Leave... We also thought about destroying the command system of the city defense army as soon as possible, but we miscalculated again!"
Wu Wentai was furious: "How does the intelligence team you are responsible for work? You don't know anything, so what do you know... You're a fool, you dragged me into your thief even though you knew it was a trap.
Ship, saying that the French will repay us for our righteous deeds. It’s good now, the benefits have not been reaped, the danger is coming soon, and you will really kill me this time!”
"I don't want to! Hue City is so big, haven't you noticed anything unusual about them? Look at the machine gun firepower. It can't be transported into the city in a day or two. They must have been wary of us and have been avoiding us.
We did it!" Ruan Xiangsan said angrily, feeling agitated in his heart.
He also knew that the current situation was extremely urgent. There were guns and cannons in the city of Hue, and countless houses were on fire. There was such a huge commotion that it was impossible for people outside the city not to know about it. I believe it won’t be long before the north and south.
The main force of the rebel army that intercepts the French on both wings will come back. If the palace has not been captured by then, everyone will be finished together.
At this time, a rebel leader came to report urgently that Pan Pei Chu, the prime minister of the interim government, had been shot to death. Vo Van Thai and Ruan Xiangsan were even more heartbroken when they heard that, knowing that with Pan Pei Chu's death, all parties involved in the rebellion would be allowed to fight again.
There was no possibility of reconciliation with the interim government, so I couldn't help but want to quit.
"What should we do? According to the current situation, it is difficult to attack the imperial city. Should we retreat to the west, north, or south?" Ruan Xiangsan grabbed Wu Wentai's hand and asked in a low voice.
Wu Wentai turned around and looked around, and saw the leaders of several political parties in the surrounding area who had suffered heavy losses, looking at him with resentful eyes. He knew that this time he could easily capture the imperial city and kidnap Emperor Bao to meet the French.
He did not appear, which caused a large-scale consumption of the power of the major political parties. If he retreated, he said that he would not necessarily be blackmailed. He felt frightened, deliberately pretending to be righteous, and said loudly:
"If you don't succeed, you will succeed. Even if there is only one soldier left, we must capture the palace today. Otherwise, if the Chinese are in power in the future, how can we have a foothold? I didn't say it, we can only fight today, Ruan
Brother, wait for your men to rush forward and set an example for the brothers."
Vo Van Thai's words immediately awakened many political party leaders who wanted to seek justice from him. Now everyone has become passengers on a broken ship that is constantly leaking water. If they cannot work together to maintain the situation, then what awaits everyone will be
A more tragic ending.
Mr. Ruan looked at the surrounding situation and immediately understood what Wu Wentai was thinking. In desperation, he had to divide the more than a thousand people he brought into ten assault groups, picked up the ladder again, and rushed towards the moat in front of the imperial city.
go.
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Outside Hue City, a mighty army was approaching the west gate.
From the moment gunfire rang out in Hue City, the officers and soldiers of the First Airborne Division quickly gathered and, under the guidance of ten six-wheeled armored tanks, marched five kilometers to Hue City to put down the rebellion.
The First Airborne Division quickly joined the city defense troops and broke into the west gate. Along the way, the autumn wind swept away fallen leaves and swept towards the imperial city.
The rebels who were looting everywhere were suddenly attacked by the well-equipped Anjia Army airborne troops. They had no power to fight back. Almost all of them were knocked to the ground as soon as they encountered them. Some rebel soldiers wanted to survive by surrendering.
, this time it was a miscalculation. Since the general staff issued an order to "eliminate all evil", the soldiers showed no mercy and killed without mercy. Wherever they went, even if they raised their hands to beg for mercy, they would be shot to death immediately. No one would be left alive.
Leave.
Vo Van Thai and Ruan Xiangsan, who were directing the battle, heard that opponents with superior firepower were being attacked from all directions in the city. Knowing that the situation was over, they wanted to run away.
At this time, there were only more than a thousand rebels who attacked the Royal Palace in Hue, and nearly six thousand people lost their lives in futile charges. Many party leaders who were bewitched by Vo Van Thai and others to rebel heard that
After reporting that the counter-insurgency troops were ruthless and took no prisoners this time, frustration and despair quickly spread.
Many party leaders who were full of anger and had no way to vent their anger were furious when they saw that Vo Van Thai and Nguyen Xiong Sam, who had taken the initiative to stir up trouble, wanted to run away.
Thus, the melee within the rebels began.
This battle was extremely cruel. When the airborne troops and city defense troops arrived in front of the palace, only 32 people were still alive, including leaders of major political parties such as Vo Van Thai and Ruan Xiangsan. They became the must-kill targets to capture the thief first.
Ouyang Jian died in a wave of conflicts, leaving only small soldiers. Ouyang Jian strictly followed the orders of his superiors and ordered that all the surviving people be killed without leaving any one behind.
At four o'clock in the morning, the Hue rebellion was successfully suppressed.
The forty-two political parties and 13,836 party members who participated in the rebellion were all wiped out, and Annan's national liberation forces and revolutionary groups were wiped out. Among all political parties, only the Anjia Army persisted.
The three political parties and organizations that cooperated, namely the Vietnam Kuomintang, the Independence Alliance, and the Liberation Alliance, remained motionless. (Note: Xu Ziliang’s party is the Annan branch of the Chinese Kuomintang, referred to as the Annan Kuomintang, but it is not an independent political party.)
The frightened Emperor Bao Dad immediately convened an emergency meeting of the provisional government after learning that the Anjiajun airborne troops had entered the city and the rebels had been basically eliminated.
During the meeting, Emperor Bao Dai learned that Pan Pei Chu was brutally killed by the rebels. About tens of thousands of Hue citizens died from burning, killing and looting by the rebels. He was furious. As the head of the provisional government, he ordered all those who participated in the rebellion to be killed.
Political parties and organizations are publicly banned for crimes against the country, the nation, independence, and liberation. All members of these political parties must declare their separation from the political parties as soon as possible, otherwise they will be shot on the spot if found out.
Emperor Bao Dai also issued an edict stipulating that if Annan wants to establish a new political party in the future, it must register with the government, obtain legal qualifications, and swear to the government not to engage in activities that split the country and nation before it can exercise legitimate political rights. Otherwise, it will be investigated and punished.
If someone is found to be illegally forming a party or association, they can be publicly shot without a court verdict.
These decisions made by Emperor Bao Dad in a rage were spread throughout the world in the form of electricity. After that, the government led by An Yi inherited almost all the provisions of Emperor Bao Dad's edict and named it "Political Parties and Political Parties".
The Law on Opposing National and Ethnic Secession created a theoretical basis for Anjiajun to resolutely crack down on ethnic separatist forces.
In the following days, Syrian government broadcasts and newspapers and magazines in southwest China and central and northern Annam deeply mourned the pioneer of the national liberation movement in Annan, Pan Pei Chu, and revealed that the political parties involved in the Hue rebellion colluded with the French, intending to bring national liberation and independence.
The ignition of the fire and the crime of strangled in the cradle fully confirmed An Yi's prediction in his New Year's Day message that the French colonists were deliberately wreaking havoc.
As journalists promptly took photos of the scene to collect evidence, the rebels robbed and massacred the people of Hue City without restraint. The obvious bullet marks left after the Hue Imperial City was shot by bullets, and the scene of Phan Pei Chu being randomly shot through the chest and dying innocently emerged vividly.
In the news photos, Ngo Dinh Diem confirmed Vo Van Thai and others before the incident.
People once became angry when they deliberately tried to win over people and when things failed to work out, they said that these so-called revolutionaries dedicated to the people were actually just careerists who ignored the interests of thousands of people for their own selfish desires. They called on the people not to be deceived by them.
Resolutely cooperate with the People's Liberation Army to jointly build a prosperous and powerful new country.
After this riot, the reputation of many political parties and organizations has plummeted. People participating in various political parties in the liberated areas of Tokyo have announced their disassociation from them and drawn a clear line. The Military Control Commission and the Garrison Command have also posted stern announcements requiring all persons with political backgrounds to
Those who are involved must give a clear account to the Military Control Commission, otherwise the People's Liberation Army, invited by the provisional government, will definitely adopt ruthless dictatorial measures against them.
Intimidated by this, a large number of people came forward to surrender to the Military Control Commission. Fortunately, the soldiers from the Military Control Commission simply registered and told everyone with a smile not to have any psychological baggage. These files and records will be kept strictly confidential unless in the future.
Those who participate in activities that split the regime and the nation will be punished for both crimes. Otherwise, they will not be pursued.
So just like that, the brief turmoil in the liberated areas quickly subsided. As a result, the national independence forces and revolutionary groups in Annan were almost wiped out, clearing the final obstacle for the Anjia army to take over Annan.