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On the evening of June 18, the battle stopped and the Xinhua Army did not attack Hue City overnight. As the capital of Vietnam, the defense of Hue City is quite good. The city wall of more than five meters is a fortress that is difficult for troops using cold weapons. However, for the Xinhua Army equipped with gunpowder weapons, this is not a problem. After the heavy artillery brigade comes ashore, it will use 90 105mm howitzers to attack violently. No matter how strong the wall of Hue City is, it will not be possible to block it. Furthermore, in addition to collapse the city wall, there are other ways, such as burying gunpowder at the city gate and blowing the city gate open. At that time, the Xinhua Army will be able to easily invade the city.

However, night battles have never been the strength of the Xinhua Army. In other words, the Xinhua Army equipped with rifles did not have much advantage in the night battles, but would suffer heavy casualties. This does not conform to the combat principles of the Xinhua Army. On the battlefield, the Xinhua Army has always strived to win the final victory with the smallest casualties! The Xinhua Army's firepower advantage cannot be exerted, and even if it wins, the casualties paid will definitely not be small. Therefore, the Xinhua Army has always avoided fighting night battles with the enemy!

On the plain four kilometers away from Hue City, the 1st Brigade of the Xinhua Army moved into defense and began to build a defensive position to avoid night attacks by the Vietnamese army. At this time, the 2nd Brigade also disembarked. After a brief rest, the 2nd Brigade also invested in defense. With two brigades and more than 12,000 troops to defend against the Vietnamese attack, this is not a problem. In order to enhance the firepower of the troops, so that they can launch an attack on Hue City tomorrow and command this

Major General Sun Hao of the second battle ordered the heavy artillery brigade to start disembarking. Unlike the infantry brigade, the heavy artillery brigade has more equipment, especially the 105mm howitzer weighs 1.2 tons. When the port lacks necessary machinery, it can only be disassembled and transported off the ship by manpower. Then assembled. It is time-consuming and labor-intensive! A heavy artillery brigade plus ammunition and other materials will take about one night! The other two infantry brigades will only be able to disembark until tomorrow!

Major General Sun Hao has placed the command center in the port! In today's battle, the Xinhua Army easily destroyed the Vietnamese Navy camp, and also severely damaged the Vietnamese army from Hue City, causing a heavy blow to the Vietnamese army. More importantly, through today's battle, the Xinhua Army also had a very clear understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Vietnamese army. And this is still the elite of Vietnamese! If even the elite Vietnamese are so vulnerable, then the Vietnamese local troops will probably be even more trash!

"Old Sun! Those Vietnamese monkeys have too poor combat power! I'm not afraid that they have 50,000 people in Hue! If they fight face to face, my 1st Brigade can defeat them all!" Zhang Wei, the commander of the 1st Brigade, said confidently.

"Old Zhang! You can't take all your 1st Brigade away, right? Even if you eat meat, you have to leave some soup for us, right?" Brigadier General Du Lide, the commander of the 2nd Brigade, said with some dissatisfaction. After Major General Sun Hao became the Minister of the Operations Department, he took over as the commander of the 2nd Brigade. Of course, he also wanted to lead the 2nd Brigade to establish more military achievements. This time, the 1st Brigade was disembarked first, and the Vietnamese were so careless again that they did not get any oil and water in the 2nd Brigade!

"General Sun, you are the old brigade commander of our 2nd Brigade! Tomorrow's first battle to attack Hue, we have to let our 2nd Brigade come!" Brigadier General Du Lide said to Major General Sun Hao.

"General Du, don't forget that our two brigades are still on the boat? You can't eat up all the fat!" The brigade commanders of the 9th Brigade and the 10th Brigade also shouted. They seemed to suffer a little and would not be able to get off the boat tomorrow. With the combat effectiveness of the Vietnamese army, maybe after they got off the boat, Hue City would have been captured by the Xinhua Army!

"Okay, don't fight! Although Vietnam performed poorly in today's battle, we cannot be blindly optimistic! How could Vietnam be defeated so easily if it becomes the most powerful country on the Indochina Peninsula? The next battle will probably not be so easy! Tonight, the 1st Brigade will defend itself to avoid being raided by the Vietnamese! Tomorrow morning, the 2nd Brigade, with the support of the heavy artillery brigade, launch a tentative attack on Hue! The day after tomorrow, after the 9th Brigade and the 10th Brigade entered the battle, we will launch a general attack on Hue!" Major General Sun Hao said. With 4 infantry brigades and one heavy artillery brigade, such a force is enough to defeat Vietnam! Although Hue's city defense is still quite solid, it is nothing in the face of the powerful firepower of the Xinhua Army.

"Old Sun, do the Vietnamese really have the courage to launch a night attack? I want to see if they have the courage!" Zhang Wei, the commander of the 1st Brigade, said disdainfully. The Vietnamese may be the most powerful country on the Indochina Peninsula. However, this is completely like there are no tigers in the mountains and monkeys dominate the king! The Vietnamese can only bully other small countries. Faced with a big country like Xinhua, they are completely unsatisfied!

"Old Zhang! Be careful! Attacking Vietnam is to prepare for attacking the Qing Dynasty! I don't want to capsize in the gutter!" Major General Sun Hao reminded!

"Yes!" Brigadier General Zhang Wei nodded. He was not unable to tell the difference. However, after today's battle, he did not take the Vietnamese army seriously anymore. Compared with the Xinhua Army, the Vietnamese army is not an opponent of the same level at all!

In fact, the Vietnamese army did not plan to launch a night battle. Today's battle shocked the Vietnamese army! Mingming Emperor Nguyen Phu Hsin never expected that the 10,000 elite soldiers sent were easily defeated by the Xinhua army, and there were only two or three thousand people who fled back to Hue. These deserters were all thrown away and were in a mess! It was impossible for people to believe that this was the most elite Beijing soldiers in Vietnam!

"Your Majesty, I am guilty, and I deserve to die!" Song Fuliang, who was in a mess, knelt in the hall and begged Emperor Mingzhi to forgive him. In this battle, he lost thousands of elite soldiers, which was a huge loss for Vietnam!

Mingming Emperor Ruan Phu Hsin's face was as gloomy as if water could drip out. Just before that, he was proud of himself for building a powerful empire! But now, the sudden invasion of the Xinhua Army seemed to have slapped him hard, awakening him from his dream and making him realize the reality! The gap between the Vietnamese army and the Xinhua Army is completely a world of difference!

"General Song! It's not your fault, the Xinhua Army is too powerful! You will introduce today's battle to us in detail!" Ruan Phuchen controlled the anger in his heart. He knew that Song Fuliang's character would definitely not have been defeated so miserably if the enemy was not too powerful!

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Song Fuliang said crying. This is equivalent to saving his life!

Next, Song Fuliang began to introduce today's battle to everyone in the hall. He introduced it very carefully and explained all the details! Among them, he particularly highlighted the fierce artillery fire of the Xinhua Army, as well as the range and rate of fire of the Xinhua Army's rifles! In terms of weapons, the gap between the Vietnamese army and the Xinhua Army was too big! It was so big that it was impossible to rely on manpower to reverse this gap!

After listening to Song Fuliang's introduction, everyone, including Mingming Emperor Ruan Phu Hsin, looked quite ugly. The Xinhua Army seemed to be even more powerful than those they looked like! It seemed very difficult for the Vietnamese army to defeat the Xinhua Army!

"Your Majesty! This time the Xinhua Army is coming in a fierce attack, we must be fully prepared!" said Vietnamese Minister Fan Wendian.

"Your Majesty! The Beijing soldiers around Hue have gathered in the city! There are more than 40,000 people, we are fully capable of defeating the Xinhua Army!" said another general Li Wende. Although, from Song Fuliang's introduction, the Xinhua Army is very powerful. However, Li Wende believes that it is entirely possible to defeat the Xinhua Army with 40,000 Beijing soldiers. After all, the Xinhua Army cannot be dispatched for a long expedition across the sea. In addition to the difficulty of logistics supply, the Vietnamese army has a great advantage!

"Your Majesty! I suggest that we can lie in the city and defend it. Then order the other two naval troops to attack the Xinhua Army's navy! As long as they can defeat their navy and lose their logistics supplies, no matter how powerful the Xinhua Army is, they will not be able to exert their combat effectiveness. At that time, we can wipe out them all!" Vietnamese minister Ruan Jinlin suggested.

However, everyone is not optimistic about Ruan Jinlin's suggestion. The New China Navy can even defeat the Spanish Expeditionary Fleet. Can the dozens of small boats of the Vietnamese Navy compete with the New China Navy? This is obviously unrealistic!

"Okay, I have made a decision! The Xinhua Army has strong field combat capabilities, so let us play to our strengths and avoid our weaknesses! From now on, the army will strictly guard against the Shunhua City! I will let the Xinhua Army run wild in the city of Hunhua! In addition, order the troops of various provinces to speed up the speed of entering Beijing to fight the king! I will fight to the death with the Xinhua Army in Hunhua City!" Mingming Emperor Nguyen Phu Hsin made up his mind. Although the weapons and equipment of the Xinhua Army were much more advanced than that of the Vietnamese army, Nguyen Phu Hsin believed that they had the advantage of local combat. As long as they could delay time, they could persevere until the subsequent reinforcements arrived. At that time, the Vietnamese army would be able to rely on the advantage of military strength to defeat the Xinhua Army.

And this is exactly what the Xinhua Army is willing to see. Vietnam's current territory is quite large. If the Vietnamese army is scattered everywhere, the Xinhua Army will gradually clear it out, which will waste a lot of time. The Vietnamese army actively gathered in Hue City, which gives the Xinhua Army a chance to annihilate the main force of the Vietnamese army! (To be continued...)
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