Rebirth of South America as King

Chapter 360: Regain Hanoi City

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After the Nanyang Army completely wiped out the French colonial army, they set out to send Annans and Chinese intelligence officers to sneak into French-held positions to investigate the French army's defense intelligence.

On March 24, using the information obtained from more than 300 intelligence officers, the Nanyang Army drew up a French army deployment map marked with roads, obstacles, and fortifications.

"The city walls of Hanoi are divided into two layers, the inner city is a four-square city-state surrounded by brick walls up to 5 meters in height and 300 meters in length and width.

Bamboo piles, which protrude about 2 meters wide and can block enemies from reaching the city. The upper part of the wall is about 10 meters wide, with four turrets and garrison bunkers erected on it.

There is a brick bridge across the moat in the middle of the city, and it leads to the center of the semicircular arrow tower. At the entrance of the bridge is a bamboo gate and a wooden gate.

The gate passes through the semicircular arrow tower and the city gate, and the city gate east gate has been closed with bricks. There is a moat around the city around 20 meters wide and 3 meters deep (among which 1 meter is filled with mud water). There is an 8-meter-wide soil road between the moat and the city. Made of stone.

Inside the castle, there is a tower of 18 meters high

Standing in it, you can overlook the distant scenery from the top of the tower. For the commanding heights of Hanoi City. "

Everything was ready, the troops of the Nanyang Regiment were assembled, and Liang Xing, the head of the Nanyang Regiment Intelligence Department, introduced the defense situation of Hanoi City to everyone.

Liang Xing held a pointer in his hand and pointed at the unrolled topographic map and continued "

The city hall is surrounded by city halls, which are composed of four rows of brick houses or firewood clay houses, which are located on both sides of the road leading to the four gates of the outer city.

The four gates of the outer city are all made of large bricks and stones, the east and west gates have been closed with mud, and the north and south gates can be opened. There is a fortification communication between the city gates, which is composed of a 4-5 m high earth wall. The wall is dug with gun holes or hoe. It is covered with wooden blocks or wood platoons. Covered when the gun was firing.

A ditch with a width of 5 meters is opened around the female wall.

The river is full of people from nearby small rivers. There is a layer of luzhai made of dry mozzarella on the trench. There is also a 3 ~ 4 meter wide **** between the trench and the female wall.

It is densely covered with a layer of green bamboo that is 8 to 10 meters in height, completely covering the entire city and preventing outsiders from seeing it. This layer of bamboo fence constitutes an insurmountable obstacle under the dense fire.

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Hanoi City is a military town built by the Annans in the Beiban area. Since the French captured the city easily, in addition to using the existing fortifications left by the Annans to defend, they also sealed the West Gate, North Gate, and East Gate. Exits in all directions left only the south gate exit of the city more than 400 meters south of the river, and a small iron armored ship and four gunboats were placed to assist the defense.

To the south of the city is the key area of ​​French defense in Hanoi. In addition to deploying warships to attack our army in the middle of the river, the French are also constructing turrets along the banks of the river to threaten the passage of our naval gunboat formations from the water. "

"How many troops did the French deploy in the south of the city?"

"According to the news from our intelligence personnel in the city, the defensive commander in the south direction is the French Major Major Wei, who has more than 240 Marines and 500 black soldiers deployed by Li Weiye. Annan, who was forcibly recruited to build fortifications along the river, can use up to 1,300 soldiers to defend the south of the city. "

"How about the French defense forces in other directions?"

Tang Jingsong asked.

"By analyzing the results of the multiple fire reconnaissances, we can roughly infer the situation of the Hanoi defenders. From the front direction of Hanoi to Beining, the French army has a tight defense and a strong force, but the side defense is weak.

Therefore, I recommend attacking Hanoi City from the front and assemble the main forces to attack the fortifications in the direction from Hanoi to Bac Ning. Although this attack may bring a certain degree of casualties to our army, the effect is the most obvious and can be achieved in the shortest time. Destroy the main French troops in the Kitsaka area. "

"Mr. Liang's suggestion is good. You have no other ideas, although you have put it forward."

Mei Dongxing stood up and asked.

"My lord, I have an immature idea, I don't know if it should be said or not?"

"The position of Brother Tang's staff officer has been recognized locally. Naturally, it is better to plan more for the combat operations of the Nanyang Army. Although there is something to be said, there are deficiencies. After discussion, we can add it."

"Then Tang said it straight."

Tang Jingsong arched his hands toward the crowd and said, "Take the boat, and when entering the territory of Annan from the Red River, I found that the confluence of the Tiande River and Liutou River was turbulent and the water volume was huge, and the confluence of the two rivers was less than twenty miles from the city of Hanoi. If the water was intercepted and stored at the confluence of the two rivers in advance, then during the battle, the embankment would be discharged and the turbulence would impact the warships and fortifications deployed by the French army in the river. Later, our army would send gunboats to take advantage of the increase in water volume. Downstream, attacking French warships and turrets, and covering the main force to attack from the south gate, there will be a greater chance of success. "

"The Tiande River has a gentle current. Although it cannot be flooded with water after it has been part of the Liutou River, it is not difficult to temporarily disrupt the French defense along the river."

Mei Dongxing found the intersection of the two rivers marked on the topographic map. After looking at it for a while, he quickly made a decision to adopt the offensive plan proposed by Tang Jingsong, then made some improvements based on the plan proposed by Tang Jingsong, and formulated the final offensive. deploy:

Li Wencai led 2500 regular members of the Nanyang Regiment, starting from Shangqingfang, crossing the left bank of Liutoujiang River,

Tian Dejiang moved forward and crossed the river to Zhicuntang to meet with the second offensive led by Chen Xingui.

On the other hand, Chen Xingui led more than 1,000 soldiers ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~, bypassing the blocked West Gate in Hanoi, landing along the waterway to the junction of Liutou River and Tiande River, capturing the town bridge and Tushan highlands, attacking France from the side The army's fortifications in Tiandejiang for Li Wencai's ministry to pass there.

Once the reunification of the two troops was achieved on the left bank of the Tiande River, the two reunited units continued to advance, attacking the French second line of defense, mainly by bombarding the dam extending from Zhongshan to Rabe with naval gunfire and from Beining. To the bridge to the dam. After defeating the garrison, he swept into the South Gate and occupied Hanoi City.

At 10:00 a.m. on March 27, the current of the Liude River skyrocketed. Four gunboats with a displacement of 500 tons and three gunboats with a displacement of more than 300 tons followed the soaring river and attacked the French army.

At 11:00 a.m., the Nanyang Army artillery formation destroyed four small riverside fortresses and successfully broke through six miles from the south gate of Hanoi city.

At 12 noon, the French warship on the river lost the attack of the Nanyang Regiment gunboat, a small iron armored ship was captured, two gunboats were sunk, one gunboat fled, and two gunboats were captured.

The entire French warship formation was overwhelmed, and the coastal fortifications were destroyed. Subsequently, at 3 pm, Li Wencai's and Chen Xingui's forces defeated the French defenders who were stubborn and resisted. They successfully broke through the defense of the South Gate and entered Hanoi City.

At 5:07 in the evening, most of the city of Hanoi was occupied. Li Weiye, commander of the French army, saw that the reinforcements were cut off and broke out of hope. Under the promise of the Nanyang Army Corps to persuade the surrender representatives not to abuse the prisoners and ensure the safety of the captured French army, they ordered all French troops And the black indigenous and Annan army that they belonged to stopped resistance.

As a result, the Nanyang Army achieved a great victory in killing 189 French troops, injuring 110, and capturing more than 400 captive white soldiers at a low price of more than 300 casualties. (Black indigenous and Annan minions are generally not included in the military record.)

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