1949 I am from the future

[317] Tragic Combat Power

Boss Chen said with some displeasure: "At the beginning when Comrade Ho Chi Minh came to Beijing to sing the lotus flower, we promised the Vietnam People's Army so much equipment. But now you see, what kind of army are they? They are not as good as our militia brigade. Sending a militia brigade, more than 1 people to use the equipment of the Japanese elite divisions, can't be beaten like this!"

Xiaoqiang comforted: "Probably this group of people are stupid in the mountains, and their revolutionary will is too weak. The people's army who are used to fighting cold guns and guerrilla warfare, if they are asked to fight regular attack and annihilation stations, their fighting will is probably not as good as A hard-working Vietnamese woman."

When Boss Chen was interrupted by Xiaoqiang, his anger disappeared, and he asked strangely: "Is there any place in this world where women are better than men?"

Xiaoqiang was afraid that Boss Chen would continue to be sullen, so he quickly changed the subject and said, "Many Vietnamese men marry three or four wives. Women work in the fields with their children on their backs, and men sleep late at home, smoking hookah, drinking fruit wine, generally Say no to physical labor. This is not the same as the main body of our militia is the working people. People who don’t work have little combat effectiveness. Now those lazy Vietnamese men are soldiers. It’s a bit difficult. Think about it, bullets flying above your head and grenades running in your crotch, everyone would be afraid, let alone those cowards who pee their pants lightly.”

Boss Chen said contemptuously: "If I see such soldiers, they will all be kicked into the women's brigade to serve as militiamen! Let them compete with women to see if they are ashamed!"

Xiaoqiang said: "I guess Comrade Hu Uncle is very anxious now, and he is about to ask our military advisory group to come in. With this kind of fighting power, if our military advisors are directly built on the company, I don't think we can solve the problem." But I still firmly do not recommend the military advisory group to be stationed, in case our good boy dies in the grass in Vietnam, it is really wronged.”

Boss Chen frowned and said, "Didn't we help them train a 308th division? How could they be beaten like this!"

Xiaoqiang guessed: "Before I came to Puhai, I heard from Boss Zhu that the 308th division had just left Yanshan, Guangxi. Considering the time, the 308th division hadn't arrived in Taiyuan yet...could it be..."

Boss Chen suddenly realized and slapped his thigh and said: "Probably because they are afraid of being robbed of the limelight, their militiamen want to take down Dongxi as a foreshadowing... Alas, with this combat power, they still have to grab merit. What's going on in your mind?"

Xiaoqiang said with a smile: "This is exactly the same as the situation in history, and it is finally not wrong."

Boss Chen asked strangely: "Xiaoqiang, what is a crooked building?"

"It's okay, I'm talking nonsense." Xiaoqiang hurriedly dragged the topic out.

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At this time, the Vietnamese People's Army is full of worries.

Previously, because they had obtained sufficient guns and ammunition, a group of local Vietnamese cadres chanted the slogan of "decisive battle and decisive victory" and announced with great ambition that before the 308th division returned, they would first take down Dongxi, where 270 troops were stationed.It turned out to be a lot of suffering. Under the support of French planes, more than 3000 people were killed and injured. After taking Dongxi, they were killed by French paratroopers. Dongxi.

Comrade Ho Chi Minh was very angry, and cursed at the central meeting held by the frontline command post in Guangyuan: "I said at the beginning that I would wait for the 308th Division to come back, wait for the 308th Division to come back! You just don't listen! This is good, take a look, fight What happened! Ten thousand militiamen went out, only half of them came back! Such a fiasco will only make the French colonists attack us more aggressively!"

The commander-in-chief of the Vietnam Armed Forces, Vu Nguyen Giap, is an old man who was born as a teacher. He always thinks he is a cultural person, so he is generally respected as Brother Wen.Brother Wen said sadly: "The French are too cunning. They let the migrant workers cut down all the trees near the Dongxi position! And their machine guns are arranged very well, and each machine gun can form a cross with other firepower points. , Our comrades couldn’t find any cover, and they rushed straight up! The corpses were piled up quickly! That situation was really miserable... Alas... Alas... Alas..."

Lu Ling, chief of the general staff, was almost crying, and said with a choked voice: "We used to fight guerrillas and use cold guns. How could we have fought such a tough attack! Comrades have no experience at all! Our first time fighting How did you know that this regular battle is so difficult. The five mortars of our militia did not hit the enemy's firepower point after six rounds. It may be because the mortar positions are too close. It hit our mortar position, and more than 75 soldiers in the mortar company were all killed."

Brother Wen added sadly: "In the end we adopted a frontal risky attack to attract machine gun fire. In addition, we had to organize a death squad. While the machine gun fire was scattered, we used explosives to destroy the enemy's machine gun bunker. After opening the breach, We finally rushed in regardless of the cost, and the French finally fled in embarrassment."

Having said that, Brother Wen is a little proud.Then, he gritted his teeth and said:

"However, only a few days after we occupied Dongxi, the French's light front-line support bomber arrived. The plane flew really low! The bombs were dropped really accurately! Our position was bombed so that even the rice was on fire! Then the French Foreign Legion came up and fired mortars at us crazily. Their mortars were so accurate that our machine gun positions were taken away one by one. Then the French paratroopers also parachuted. The army is attacking us inside and outside! Our position is completely in chaos! At this time, all our militia regiments have suffered serious losses, and a large number of cadres have died. It is really impossible to carry on, and finally retreated as a last resort. .”

Ho Chi Minh said very angrily: "This campaign is aggressive! I disagreed with it from the very beginning! Let me review it first! The biggest mistake I made was that I didn't resolutely stop you when I knew you were blindly optimistic."

Ho Chi Minh sighed and said firmly: "I now declare that in the future, in any such tough battles, the militiamen without formal training must no longer be the main force. We trained regular divisions to fight, and the militia will only be responsible for harassing the French army's logistical supply lines from now on."

Brother Wen nodded heavily and said: "I agree! I think we should expand the scale of training and send more troops to China to be trained as regular troops. Otherwise, if we continue to fight like this, we will simply fill the sea with the lives of the Vietnamese people."

Ho Chi Minh nodded and said: "After the 308th Division arrives in Guangyuan tomorrow, I will personally take a group of militia troops to China for training, and I will also ask the big brother of China to see if they can invite their military advisory group to come directly to our base area." , give lectures to our cadres and soldiers, and direct us to fight.”

Ho Chi Minh sighed again and said: "

Let me tell you the truth, the tactical command of our People's Army is really a mess. All the commanders were born in the guerrillas, at most, they had received some scattered training on guerrilla warfare from some American agents before, and none of them were officers trained by regular military schools!How can we fight like this!Even now it is so difficult to open up land transportation links with China!Not to mention going all the way south in the future, conquering the fortification defenses of the French one by one, and liberating the whole of Vietnam!This is simply fantasy! "

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At this time in Yanshan, Guangxi, General Chen Geng was also very upset these days.

As a senior commander of our army who has commanded 10,000+ troops in the southern and northern wars, General Chen Geng was really incomprehensible after receiving news of the tragic victory of the Vietnamese People's Army and the ensuing disastrous defeat. He studied it repeatedly on his map, but no matter how he looked at it, he still found it incredible.The old man sighed, and sat quietly in the headquarters. He couldn't remember the last time he was worried about an enemy army of hundreds of people.For our army, this kind of thing should be easily handled by battalion-level troops. In any case, it is impossible to ask him, a general who commands 10,000+ people in corps-level operations, to intervene.But now, such a thing is really wonderful.

General Chen Geng thought about it all night, and finally had to start writing a telegram: "The combat effectiveness of comrades in the Vietnamese People's Army is so low...it's unbelievable...it's puzzling...I think it's just that the commander's tactical literacy is low, only the level of bandits In addition, it may be due to the low revolutionary will of the troops, fear of war, and cowardice. In addition, there is no third possibility... It is recommended that the central government consider adopting the second set of aid to Vietnam... Our military advisory group may have to be forced to ask each other Send out a team of supervisors, all the way down to the company level...to carry out a thorough ideological elimination of right-leaning capitulationism..."

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The U.S. Consulate in Taiwan at this time.

Consul General Robert Strong packed his luggage in a hurry. According to Washington's instructions, he will go to Beijing to act as the US Consul General in China and act as an agent of the US Embassy in China.

Major General Tide, the military attache stationed in Taiwan, was also appointed as the first military attache stationed in China.

"Robert, I didn't expect that the Chinese would take the initiative to approach us. The establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States, hehe, this is a positive signal."

"Yes, Ted, I didn't expect that Washington did not send an ambassador-level diplomat to Beidu, but asked me to act as the consul general to act as an ambassador. This is not an easy job."

"Robert, I have to congratulate you in advance. This is a good step. After all, China is already a permanent member of the Security Council. They have great potential. It is entirely possible for you to become an ambassador-level diplomat in the future. In my opinion, it will take a year at most. "