1949 I am from the future

【394】Bayard Battle Group

After Ho Chi Minh left, General Chen immediately sent a telegram to the central government regarding the current form of struggle.

"...The enemy's attempt to reoccupy Dongxi is inevitable, and this gives us an opportunity for mobile warfare. Your opinion is correct. The enemy must reinforce it. If we can wipe out a large number of enemies in the battle for the border with the enemy It is very beneficial to have a living force. Food is not a problem, and it can be paid immediately with the loan of the Viet Minh... The question raised by Comrade Cao Xiaoqiang should be taken seriously... After the border war is completed, the central government will seriously discuss the Vietnamese side with Comrade Ho Chi Minh The details of the party and army... In order to strengthen assistance to Vietnamese comrades, the second batch of 374 military advisory groups to Vietnam has set off for the Taiyuan base in Vietnam..."

After receiving the call back from the "Chairman", the Viet Minh immediately settled down. Ho Chi Minh and Vo Nguyen Giap talked again. As for whether he was dissatisfied, General Chen didn't care so much.

Under Ho Chi Minh's insistence, even though the base area in the rear was swept away by the French army, the old nest was taken away, and the local party organization fled into the mountains, the Viet Minh army still waited steadily at the ambush point. , looking forward to the emergence of the French army.

In order to further mobilize the French army, General Chen ordered the Artillery Battalion of the 174th Regiment to carry out a feint to the south of Qixi, and used small artillery groups to carry out scattered shelling to harass the Qixi defenders.

The scattered and sparse bombardment caused the French army to think. When they found that the Viet Minh's attack power was so decadent, the French army couldn't sit still.

Colonel Leba, commander-in-chief of the Qixi garrison, analyzed that the Viet Minh armed forces were planning to contain the French army in Qixi, and their real offensive intention was to take down Gao Binh, which had already been besieged.He reported his analysis to General Revos in Hanoi.

On the 13th day, Colonel Leba was ordered to take action. In order to rescue more than 600 people from the two battalions of Colonel Sakdong who were besieged in Gaoping City, Colonel Leba ordered the original Qixi defenders to continue to stick to the Qixi lair , and led by the first paratrooper battalion, he personally led two Moroccan battalions supported from Liangshan as the main force, advancing towards Dongxi in an attempt to recapture Dongxi. [

General Revos gave Colonel Leba's attacking force a code name - "Battle Group Bayard". high hopes.

At the same time, Admiral Revos also asked Colonel Sakdon, who was besieged in Gaoping, to destroy the daily necessities and heavy weapons that he could not take away, and break out to the south with all his strength, and told Sakdon that when he broke through to Dongxi, he would welcome His will be Colonel Leba who recaptured Dongxi.

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"Didi...didi...didi..." In the Viet Minh headquarters, telegrams kept ringing.

Ho Chi Minh showed joy, stood beside General Chen, looked at the map and said, "Old Chen, you really expected it, the French still don't want to part with Dongxi! Their previous raids on the base area were just Wanting to divert the tiger away from the mountain, this time they finally couldn't wait any longer, and they all dispatched!"

General Chen nodded to Ho Chi Minh with a smile.

Over the past few days, comrades from the Chinese Advisory Group assigned to various units have been reporting to General Chen that various strange things have happened in the Viet Minh units.

Some people say strangely, if the base area is gone, how can we continue to fight in the future?

Some simply said that the reason why the Chinese comrades did not blow up Dongxi and then retreat was entirely because they hoped that Yuegong would retreat northward in an all-round way, hide in the mountains behind the No.

Some said why did China want them to attack Gaoping and Dongxi in the northwest instead of directly attacking the Red River Delta?This is to eliminate the Kuomintang army-turned bandits entrenched in the Northwest and consolidate China's borders.There is no point in conquering a poor place like the Northwest.It would be enjoyable to directly liberate the Red River Delta, and it would also cut off the connection between the French army's Vietnamese army and the southern army.

Some people even said that the comrades of the Chinese Military Advisory Group just hoped to turn the Viet Minh armed forces into China's watchdogs in the south, and they didn't care about the national liberation of Vietnam.

General Chen remembered the information written in the materials sent by Secretary Cao before entering Vietnam:

"In the Vietnamese army controlled by Vo Nguyen Giap, generally speaking, cadres are not promoted from soldiers who fought bravely, but are basically promoted from students. They are all the 'students' that 'Brother Wen' likes. These people have a lot of lip service. However, when fighting, they are timid and timid. They neither know tactics nor are brave, and they fight entirely by forcing the lives of the soldiers below to fight..."

General Chen was under pressure and full of anger during this period, and finally waited for the day when the French army entered the urn.

"Old Hu, I will leave the headquarters of the base to you. I will go to the frontline headquarters and direct the battle in person. I am not at all at ease with Vo Nguyen Giap's mouth of advocating certain victory and patting his chest to guarantee success. "[

Ho Chi Minh held General Chen's hand tightly, and said affectionately: "Old Chen, I don't know much about military affairs, so you can figure it out. Victory is up to you!"

After all, the two of them clasped their hands tightly, keeping everything in silence.

When the Bayard battle group led by Colonel Leba entered the 615 highland south of Dongxi, the battle started.

According to the combat plan, the Vietminh 209 and 174 regiments began to act in the dark, and surrounded Colonel Leba's paratrooper battalion and two Moroccan battalions in the early morning, totaling 2000 French troops.After the battle started until dawn, the French casualties of the Bayard battle group led by Colonel Lebas had reached more than 400 people.

In the Bayard battle group, in terms of combat effectiveness, the 500st Parachute Battalion of the Foreign Legion is the strongest. This force employs a large number of German veterans after World War II and has rich combat experience. 1600 people.In contrast, Morocco’s No. 11 Battalion and No.[-] Battalion, with a total strength of [-], except for the officers who are French whites, all the soldiers are black North African recruits who have just been recruited into the army. They were hurriedly pulled from Morocco by France.

After being surrounded by the Viet Minh army, the first to collapse was not the first paratrooper battalion, but the two Moroccan battalions behind. The black recruits with no combat experience were like cannon fodder. Lost a lot.

Colonel Lebas used a piece of bread to scoop out the last spoonful of rotten beef from the tin and stuffed it into his mouth.After eating, he finally figured it out, so he stood up and ordered in the hastily dug pit:

"We can't go on like this. The Vietnamese want to kill us slowly after encircling us. Let's quickly break out to the south and retreat to Shegu to reorganize our defense!"

Following Colonel Leba's order, the [-]st Parachute Battalion, which served as the vanguard in the Bayard battle group, turned to the rear, while the two Moroccan battalions withdrew their forces and fled backwards.

Seeing that the French army was preparing to break out, the Chinese artillery instructors knew that it was time to increase their firepower. The mortars they commanded continued to bloom on the French army's position. Shaking and dusty.

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