France-Vietnam War: Only these four people survived the whole stronghold of more than 300 people.

From 65438 to 0953, Luang Prabang was in danger, and the French side once again sent people to persuade the old king Sisawang Feng to leave this trouble spot. Unexpectedly, he was surprisingly "car-scrapping" and rejected the French request again. In this case, the French army headquarters in Hanoi was really at its wit's end, so it had to give the defenders an order to do their duty. Speaking of it, it is also a kind of "eternal law". Although the Vietnamese army was in Enemy at the Gates, it had already been consumed by divisions and soldiers. The supply line is too long, the logistics can't keep up, and the troops are short of food, so they have to be delayed for several days (the Vietnamese army's offensive has to be suspended again and again because of logistics problems, which left a deep impression on the French army, and this impression will eventually pit the French army in Dien Bien Fu). This gave the French a rare time to continue to dispatch troops and materials to reinforce Luang Prabang. In the past few days when the Vietnamese army stopped, the French army airlifted to Luang Prabang desperately built fortifications, laid mines and erected barbed wire, which quickly strengthened the defense forces there. At the end of April, although the Vietnamese army surrounded Luang Prabang and Char Camp and controlled most of the upper Liaoning, in the face of the group stronghold where the French army had begun to take shape, the lessons learned there a few months ago made the Vietnamese army afraid to start, and the two sides began to confront each other. However, the campaign objectives of the Vietnamese army have basically been achieved.

Back here in Mongkwa stronghold, this small stronghold was teetering on April 27th, which has passed 14 days since it was first attacked by the Vietnamese army. In order to cheer up this small unit that is still struggling in the depth of the Vietnamese army, the Supreme Command of the French Army in Hanoi specially sent planes to airdrop medals and medals awarded to the defenders to the Mongkwa stronghold. Captain Teullier, the commander of the defender, won the Legion of Honor and awarded some of his subordinates the Croix de guerre in recognition of their courage, contribution and fearless spirit of self-sacrifice. Captain Troullier, under the cover of night, swam quietly across the Nanpa River with the guards, climbed up the steep leather highland, and then came to the messy Alpha highland that had been forced to shell, giving the medal to the defenders. Later that night, he went back to the mousetrap. This is the last time he saw his whole army.

At this point, the Vietnamese army, the front command was very impatient with the long-term attack on the Mengkua stronghold. The Vietnamese army urgently needs to capture Mengkua as soon as possible, so as to get through the important waterways in South China and further attack central Laos. Before the fate of Mongkwa stronghold was finally determined, the Vietnamese army announced the victory of the Battle of Shangliao on May 3 1953. This campaign * * * wiped out three enemy battalions and 1 1 company (equivalent to 1/5 of the total strength of French and puppet troops stationed in Laos), and took control of parts of Sannu Province, Chuanqi Province and phongsaly province (equivalent to 1/5 of the national area of Laos). More than 300,000 people were liberated and Laos expanded. And Batliao's troops also took the opportunity to develop.

On the way back to the North, Mei Jiasheng said that the victory of the Northwest Campaign and the Battle of Shangliao fully realized the expectations of China's military advisory group, and now the Vietnamese army has completely controlled the initiative of the war. He was convinced that it was only a matter of time before the French army failed in zhina. (Once, the victory of the Northwest Campaign led by Wu Yuanjia laid a solid foundation for the Vietnamese army to finally win in zhina. This is the view of the China Military Advisory Group and the General Staff. )

The defenders of the Mongkwa stronghold are still holding on at this time. However, this battle has nothing to do with the overall situation. The French army suffered a crushing defeat in the upper Liao Dynasty, and could barely hold Luang Prabang. The boastful defenders are now mainly fighting for their own survival. For them, it is the most difficult time from 2/kloc-0 every night to 9: 00 the next morning. In the rainy season, there are sometimes dense fog in the valley, which will reduce the visibility to almost zero, so that the plane can't be dispatched, and the Vietnamese army's attack will often take the opportunity to expand. But so far, the French have not run out of luck. It turns out that the villagers in Mengkua village have long since run away, leaving an empty village. Captain Teullier ordered his soldiers to patrol the village and nearby every day. When the weather is fine, we even go to the nearby jungle to have a look. I hope to find the camouflage position of the Vietnamese army and then call for air support to attack the Vietnamese army. Even at night, sometimes he wants his men to ambush in the village. On the one hand, the people and troops always remain vigilant and fighting, on the other hand, they hope to find signs of a large-scale attack by the Vietnamese army as soon as possible.

As time goes by, Meng Kua seems to have been forgotten by the Vietnamese army. In a blink of an eye, it was already mid-May, and the French army, which strengthened its defense day after day, found that the Vietnamese army suddenly and unexpectedly began to retreat from central Laos! Both aerial reconnaissance and ground patrol found that the Vietnamese army was beginning to March towards the Vietnam-Laos border. On may 13, the French army reoccupied Kawaguchi, where the Vietnamese army had evacuated. /kloc-In May of 0/7, the French army had advanced to a place about 80 kilometers away from Meng, and the defenders of Meng Kuo seemed to see a glimmer of hope.

Although the dawn seems to be in front of the French, we still have to keep a good position now. That night, a patrol left the stronghold called "mousetrap" as usual and was sent to patrol the empty village again. The fog of the day was particularly thick, which made the night more gloomy and completely opaque.

At 2200 hours, several dogs abandoned by nearby villagers suddenly barked. This sound sounds dull in the dense fog, but it is familiar to the dog owner-obviously someone accidentally stepped on the dog's tail, which caused the dog to bark. The French and puppet troops immediately stepped up their alert. At 2300 hours, the patrol found a number of dark shadows coming in the direction of the stronghold on the main street of Mengkua village. The patrol immediately returned to the stronghold carefully, and informed Captain Troullier, who immediately gave the order to prepare for the war, and the defenders of the other two hills also received the radio alarm.

1953 at 0: 30 a.m. on May 18, the first row of mortar shells hit the head of the garrison at Mongkwa stronghold. Vietnamese army 120 heavy mortars and 57 recoilless guns violently shelled the defensive positions. The incendiary bombs used by the Vietnamese army soon made some wooden fortifications of the defenders start to burn, and the green flame emitted by the white phosphorus incendiary bombs lit up the strongholds of the French army and the puppet troops at night, like a nose hell. The underground headquarters of the stronghold is already crowded with screaming wounded, and there is no doctor to deal with those wounded in Mongkwa stronghold. Captain Teller can't take care of the wounded now. He ordered Sergeant Rene Novak, the radio correspondent of the stronghold, "Call air support immediately! Tell them to send "fireflies" at once, preferably fighter-bombers Now we urgently need air support! "

At this time, mortar shells exploded on the French position from time to time on the gentle slope Alpha Highland south of the Mongkwa stronghold (the garrison had 1 reinforced platoon, and the commander was 1 French master sergeant), as if to tear this small highland to pieces. Pi Highland was commanded by Captain Gracy, and the defenders there were not shelled by the Vietnamese army for the time being, which enabled Captain Gracy to order 1 mortars in the highlands and provide fire support for Mongkwa stronghold and Alpha Highland.

1: 10, the bunker in the west corner of Mongkwa stronghold began to collapse due to repeated hits by Vietnamese artillery shells, and large pieces of masonry and concrete rolled off the steep dam and fell into the Nampa River. With the collapse of the western corner, the end of the Mongkwa stronghold is coming. 1: 30, Sergeant Novak received a reply from Hanoi to their request for emergency air support: "The visibility of all airports in the delta region is extremely low, and the plane cannot take off. Supported aircraft will take off after visibility improves. " The news came as a bolt from the blue and shattered the last hope of the French.

At 2: 30, there was a low cry from the Vietnamese position. As the distance shortened, the sound began to get louder and louder-that was the cry and killing of Vietnamese commandos attacking! A large number of dark shadows soon appeared outside the wall of the stronghold, and the Vietnamese army shouted "Forward!" Start raiding the fortress. With the help of a French officer and sergeant in the rear, the Lao soldiers used intensive machine gun fire and rifle fire to retreat the two attacks of the Vietnamese army. However, with the help of dense fog and the cover of darkness, the Vietnamese army successfully infiltrated from the north of the stronghold! That part of the Vietnamese army slowly approached the north wall of the stronghold along the gravel dam in Nanhan, and then broke into the stronghold in one fell swoop. Now the stronghold is under attack on both sides, and the Lao puppet troops have repelled four more attacks under the command of the French army. However, the dominant Vietnamese army still completely controlled most of the strongholds, forcing the defenders to enter bunkers and different buildings. Followed by brutal hand-to-hand combat, the Vietnamese army began to clear the defenders one by one, one after another. At 3: 50 am, the remaining defenders of the Monkwa stronghold were forced to the outer wall of the stronghold near the Nanpajiang side. After fierce and short hand-to-hand combat, the defenders were swallowed up by the surging Vietnamese crowd. In the previous 1.5 hours, the last bunker in the Alpha Highland was directly hit by heavy mortars of the Vietnamese army, and the defenders died or surrendered, and the Vietnamese army subsequently occupied the Alpha Highland.

At this time, only Captain Gracy and two platoon defenders were left. Because of the dangerous terrain, the Vietnamese army didn't focus on attacking them before, which made them look like sitting in a theater and watching the bunker in Alpha Highland being blown to pieces by the Vietnamese army's surprisingly accurate 120 heavy mortar at night. In order to save ammunition, machine gun shooters had to use short shots or even single shots to suppress the Vietnamese attack. When the gunshots, explosions and shouts of murder at the other two points suddenly fell silent, the defenders of Pigaodi knew it was their turn.

Under the command of Captain Gracy, the Lao soldiers were just ordinary light infantry without the training of elite troops, but at this last moment, they really fought very hard. On the steep hillside of Pihighland, they stayed until dawn. When the first French reconnaissance plane came to inspect the situation, the pilot was surprised to find that although the French tricolor flag and the flag of the Lao army, the main stronghold of Mongkwa, were already lying on the ruins, the fighting continued! The heavy mortars of the Vietnamese army are still shelling the Pi highland, and the explosion point is the big brown smoke cloud. However, as long as the Vietnamese artillery fire stops, solitary mortars on the hills will fire, and smoke will be blown out in the battle formation of the Vietnamese army. Soon, two slow C47 transport planes flew over the stronghold, ready to perform daily air-drop replenishment tasks. But they circled the battlefield several times, and then they flew away-the Pihighland was too small to be dropped. By noon 12, Pi Gaodi finally collapsed under the onslaught of the Vietnamese army.

After receiving the order from the superior, the Mongkua defenders persisted for 36 days and were finally defeated. Their heroic deeds were widely reported and hyped by western media, including British newspapers and American Time, which introduced this little battle to varying degrees. The French want to attract public attention in order to make their fiasco in Shanghai less "ugly". Even the High Command of the French Expeditionary Force issued the bulletin 14, announcing that "Mongkwa was attacked by overwhelming forces of the Vietnamese army and fell. The defenders have successfully repelled many attacks by the Vietnamese army before. " The whitewashing of this failure and the flattery of the survivors make France's actions in the Indo-Japanese War more speculative in the future. In the end, the sacrifice of those brave people has lost its meaning.

Four days after the fall of Monkwa, Sergeant Novak, the radio correspondent of Monkwa stronghold, and two other Lao soldiers fled to Fengshali, the last important stronghold of the French army in northern Laos. Sergeant Novak is only 25 years old, but he is 50 years old. He walked in the dense jungle for four days and four nights, and finally got rid of the chasing Vietnamese army. He almost completely lost consciousness and could only keep walking. Even when he reached the stronghold in the sand, he kept walking towards the center of the stronghold until someone stopped him. He looks like an evil ghost. Two days later, another sergeant, Pierre Blondeau, also fled to Fengshali. In this way, only these four people survived in the whole cottage (3 10-3 15 people).

(1954 65438+ 10, Mengku was once again occupied by the Lao puppet troops. However, the 3 16 division of the Vietnamese army will come back soon. The Vietnamese army acted so quickly that even the commander of the Lao puppet army was killed before he could get to the stronghold from his home in the village. The French foreign legion made great efforts to rescue the defenders. Mongkwa eventually became the main point of the Vietnamese army's important supply line connecting Dean Bianfu. )

With the rout of the front, Paris finally lost confidence in Sharon. The new French order recalled him to Paris, and then sent him to Algeria, where the situation was still relatively calm. Here, I'd like to introduce Sharon with some pen and ink. Her life is bumpy and legendary, and the final ending is heartbreaking. From 65438 to 0924, then 25-year-old Captain Sharon went to zhina and was stationed in Laos, where he learned a fluent Lao language. After the outbreak of World War II, Sharon returned to Europe to participate in the war. He has been fighting under General tassigny. At the end of the war, he was promoted to 14 division commander. 1946 From the beginning of 1946 to the beginning of 1947, he came to zhina again and became the commander of the French Expeditionary Force in northern Vietnam. During this period, he commanded troops to defeat the grass-roots armed forces in Meng Yue, and running all the way fled into the virgin forest in northern Vietnam. During this period, he also visited China many times to get in touch with the then * * * * about Vietnamese affairs. Seeing that Vietnam was dying in the mountains and forests, the French high-level officials sent him back to Europe. /kloc-at the end of 0/950, the war in zhina, India collapsed, and General tassigny was ordered to save the seemingly unmanageable situation, so he chose Sharon as his deputy and went to zhina, India. Having worked in Southeast Asia for many times, Sharon is quite familiar with the culture and customs of Southeast Asia, and is a rare "Indian zhina expert" among French senior generals. General tassigny also owes his victory to his assistance.

1957 65438+1October 16, Sharon, then commander of the 10 military region and the highest commander of the French colonial army in Algeria, was assassinated locally. The assassin tried to assassinate him with a rocket launcher. Fortunately, his entourage Michel Houet reminded him to be careful a few minutes before the incident, and he escaped. This assassination killed 1 French major. The assassins are some local French residents. These people assassinated Sharon only to let the "more energetic" General René Kony take his place.

As the Algerian war plunged France into a quagmire again, the Fourth Republic of France was overwhelmed and unable to cope with this collapse. In order to save the situation, on May 1958 and 13, Sharon led the French troops stationed in Algeria to participate in the "raid". This mutiny-like action aims at demanding that General Charles de Gaulle regain the supreme power of France. At this time, his relationship with Charles de Gaulle reached its highest point, but the relationship between the two sides quickly turned sharply. After Charles de Gaulle came to power, he established the Fifth Republic of France and appointed Sharon as the chief procurator of the army, thus depriving him of his military power and letting him leave the army and return to France. Soon after, he was ordered by Charles de Gaulle to retire early. Dissatisfied with this, Sharon left Spain, where he met Ramon Serrano Su? Er (who was once the interior minister under Franco's rule, was cruel and closely related to many Nazi leaders, including Himmler). Under his influence, Sharon's thought has undergone great changes and began to move closer to the extreme right. Sharon arrived in Algeria secretly with a group of people on April 2 196 1, trying to use his prestige in the army to launch a mutiny, but the mutiny failed. After this failure, Sharon turned to organize the French far-right secret military organization OSA (underground army), and he also became the leader of the underground army, devoted himself to subverting the fifth French country and assassinating President Charles de Gaulle, and overthrew the Evian agreement that led to Algeria's independence. After the conspiracy was exposed, Sharon was sentenced to death in absentia by the French military court for treason and deprived of his military status and all honors. 1962 In April, he was captured by French agents in Algiers and immediately taken back to France. However, his death sentence was eventually changed to life imprisonment, and he was released from prison in July 1968. 1982165438+1October, according to a new law, Sharon was reinstated in the army and regained some limited honors. 1July 3, 984, the old soldier passed away silently.

General Raoul Sharon is a rigorous French soldier. He devoted his life to the French colonial cause. In the surging wave of national independence movement and national liberation war after World War II, he stubbornly tried to preserve the last vestiges of French colonies. His loyalty and persistence in the colonial cause eventually destroyed himself. In him, we can see the epitome of the post-war generation of French soldiers, who bled desperately to defend the colony, but finally found that the goal they fought for was a mirage. This is their tragedy.

Back in Chinaa, India, 1953 The heavy rain in the rainy season stopped both sides, and both sides are further accumulating strength and waiting for the dry season in the second half of the year to decide. On the French side, after the resignation of General Sharon, René Meyer, then French Prime Minister, took a fancy to General Henry Nabal, who was originally engaged in intelligence work, and decided to appoint him as the fourth commander-in-chief of the French army in Zina, India since 1950. 1953 On May 2 1, General Nabal arrived in Saigon and officially took over the post of Commander-in-Chief of the French Expeditionary Force. With his appointment, the most * * * Indian zhina War is coming!