Almost 6 a.m.

Yue Kingdom gathered all 27 60mm field artillery pieces, and at the same time roared, pouring dense artillery fire into the French camp. In an instant, dozens of orange-red explosive fire balls burst out, tearing the tranquility of the morning.

The violent bombardment bombarded the sleeping North Vietnamese minions howled, and the camp collapsed, and the fires burst into chaos everywhere.

Countless black shadows jumped up in the darkness, crossed the edge of the confrontation between the two armies, and rushed towards the French camp like a tide, which was simply unstoppable.

The shelling came to an abrupt end in 10 minutes. At this time, the attacking Vietnamese army was only hundreds of meters away from the broken French camp. At that time, under the command of commanders at all levels, the scattered momentum of the impact was suppressed and formed a rough scattered attack formation and pressed forward.

In the dark sky, it was like dark clouds pressing down on the top.

At this time, many North Vietnamese minions had already escaped from the messy camps that were blown up, running around like headless flies. When they encountered the Vietnamese army that was slowly pressing up, they were immediately frightened.

"The first row...prepare, launch."

"The second row...prepare, launch."

Under the command of the commander, two rounds of gunfire sounded, knocking down the soldiers of the North Vietnamese minions who were fleeing everywhere to the ground, and large groups of blood emerged from their bodies, and they fell to the ground and died weakly.

The attacking Yue soldiers crossed the corpses all over the ground, and fired neatly rafted guns from time to time in the bright sky. The fire and heavy smoke filled the battlefield, making this bloody dawn even more cruel and bloody.

The Vietnamese army, with the second division and the third division, the Black Flag Army as the right wing and the first division as the left wing, plus the more than 6,000 green camp soldiers recruited, launched a full-line attack. In the first time, it captured the French army's front-line position, crushed more than 20,000 North Vietnamese minions, and fled everywhere crying and shouting for their parents.

The Vietnamese army then covered the killing, and the sound of gunfire sounded over the sky for more than twenty minutes. A piece of corpse was left along the way three kilometers south, and countless people were captured.

Half an hour later

The three attacking armies had gathered in the French Expeditionary Forces near the Nord River Camp, about 1.5 kilometers apart.

At this moment, the sun appeared at the end of the sky, and it was bright, illuminating the green valleys and streams. A faint smell of gunpowder came from the air, indicating that this was an uneasy morning.

At this time, the well-trained French foreign legion had already arranged a strict army, relying on the clear stream behind him to form a semi-circular defensive formation. The black holes of the twelve field guns faced the three Vietnamese army that were pressing up like a tide, and were ready to go without fear.

Faced with this situation, commanders of various troops in Vietnam ordered to restrain the troops, reorganize the troops on site, check weapons and ammunition, and prepare for a hard battle.

The 60mm field guns carried by mules and horses in the rear also followed and began to quickly assemble the artillery, preparing to continue to use artillery fire to blast the door of victory for the offensive troops and break into Hanoi.

On the hillside

The commander-in-chief of the battle, Lieutenant General Lieutenant General Fan Tongzhang, General Lieutenant General Li Ping of the Guangxi Admiral, Duan Qirui of Guangdong, and others took telescopes to observe the battlefield carefully. The military orders issued here were quickly conveyed, controlling the army to encircle the French army's Beixi camp.

In the wet and rainy hilly areas of North Vietnam, the two sides of the confrontation still used traditional wooden camps during the war. This defense was easily torn apart like paper during artillery bombardment.

The French army used traditional wooden camps because the groundwater level in North Vietnam is high, so digging trenches can easily turn into mud-soup ditches, and it feels bad to soak them in them.

Secondly, because of the pride of the French Expeditionary Force, they were unwilling to hide in the trench like groundhogs against the small Yue Kingdom. This was an unacceptable insult.

The late 19th century

The mainstream of world infantry tactics is still line-array volleys, the purpose is to pursue the pouring of sufficiently dense ammunition over a period of time, to give the enemy major damage and completely destroy the enemy's fighting will.

Generally speaking, two rounds of volleys of infantry in line arrays can defeat the enemy.

However, after experiencing the extremely cruel and bloody American Civil War and the Australian Civil War, the relevant countries have realized that the major casualties caused by line-array infantry are unacceptable and are trying to make changes.

The Australian Army is one of them, and it was the first to try the strait line tactics.

The so-called straggler line tactic means that infantry does not need to be arranged in neat rows when attacking, and distances between each other to carry out wave attacks can greatly reduce frontal gun casualties.

Now the new army of Vietnam is implementing the strait line tactics. After this battle, the military observation group will write a detailed combat report on the strait line tactics, use practical data to improve infantry tactics, and support the new infantry combat system.

In the French camp:

General Enzo looked at the Yue army approaching from three directions with a blue face. Under the bright light in the morning, the Yue army was in a tight array, stabbing like a forest, and surrounded Benxi camp with an absolute advantage.

According to rough estimates, the total strength of the opponent is about 35,000 to 40,000, which is five times that of the French Expeditionary Force Nord River Camp.

The Beixi Camp originally consisted of two camps, with more than 100 meters apart. One was the French Foreign Corps camp, which was the main camp of the Beixi Camp, with more than 6,900 soldiers stationed, and the other was the North Vietnamese vassal camp, with more than 5,000 soldiers stationed, and there were two companies of the French Foreign Corps.

After the Yue army came up, the Yue servants' camp exploded. Countless soldiers threw away their weapons and fled into the vast jungle, and they could not even see their shadows.

Two companies of the French foreign legion desperately stopped the deserters, and internal fire caused more than ten casualties, leaving only 1,400,500 people, and all the rest fled.

All of this General Enzo could only curse; "Damn Chinese."

The enemy army is approaching, but in fact he can't do anything, and it is impossible to implement battlefield discipline at this time.

The North Vietnamese minions, which had four or five hundred people, were actually a hot potato in their hands. No one knew when they would collapse in the battle, thus destroying the defensive camp of the French foreign legion.

Therefore, as an experienced senior French Army commander, he was preparing to push these North Vietnamese minions out to test the enemy's firepower and consume the opponent's bullets.

The real battle can only rely on the French Expeditionary Force. They must persist in the Nord River Camp for more than 4 hours before they can get reinforcements from Hanoi.

Because it is 14 kilometers from Hanoi to Beixi Daying, including the time to assemble troops, 4 hours is the fastest.

Faced with the heavy siege of Vietnam, General Enzo has begun to regret the dispersed French troops, putting himself in an extremely dangerous situation, giving the enemy a great opportunity to defeat them.

But it's too late to say anything now. The most important thing for the French army in Beixi Camp is to survive the next four hours of hard fighting. General Enzo is full of confidence in this.

In his opinion, the French Foreign Corps, as an invincible world-class army, has no doubt about its combat effectiveness.

"Mr. Colonel Buffon, let's start." General Enzo gave the order calmly.

"As for orders, Mr. General."

Colonel Buffon showed a grim smile on his lips. With a wave of his hand, the 1,450 North Vietnamese minions located in the French array were driven out. Most of them were holding cold weapons such as swords and guns, and a small half were holding muskets, and were forced to attack forward with fear on their faces.

Behind them were Rulin's rifle and heavy machine gun with black holes, and there was only one dead end to retreat.
Chapter completed!