Volume 5 The Central South Storm Chapter 54 The Crazy Civil War
On March 211, a military coup d'état broke out in Laos, and by March 311, the civil war between the north and south of Vietnam lasted a total of 0 days...... Starting
For anyone, 1 can only be regarded as a moment in life. For any nation, 1c days are not even enough to write a "page of history". However, because of this, the future of one country in Southeast Asia will be greatly changed, and the history of hundreds of ethnic groups will be rewritten, and the fate of one country will be reversed.
By the time the civil war broke out in Vietnam, the Philippines allied itself with the United States, and Malaysia negotiated a settlement with the Republic, ASEAN had already split up, and different countries in Southeast Asia had embarked on different development trajectories. Decades later, we can only look back on history to understand how significant what happened in these 1c days.
In May 20199, the North Vietnamese regime led by Nguyen Luong Ngoc was officially proclaimed.
The new North Vietnamese regime abolished the president, the prime minister of the government as the head of government, the chairman of the National Assembly as the head of the legislature, the Central People's Court as the highest judicial unit, and the "Council of the Supreme Armed Forces of Vietnam", composed of the prime minister, the chairman of the parliament, the ministers of major departments, representatives of parliamentary parties and other state leaders, is the highest military leadership body in Vietnam, and has various military command organs under its jurisdiction, including the General Staff.
One of the first things the North Vietnamese regime did after its establishment was to conclude the Treaty of Friendship and Mutual Assistance with the Republic.
In August 20199, the two sides signed a treaty in which the Republic pledged to provide national security and economic assistance to Vietnam, and to withdraw all combat forces stationed in Vietnam by the end of 2020 in a step-by-step and planned manner.
At the end of December 20199, the Republican Combat Forces officially handed over the defense of Quang Binh Province to the North Vietnamese government forces.
By this time, the Republic had provided North Vietnam with enough weapons and equipment to arm 30 infantry divisions and 5 armored divisions, and sold advanced weapons and equipment, including 60 fighters and 24 speedboats, to North Vietnam through the "Medium and Heavy Company", thus rebuilding the navy and air force for North Vietnam.
In accordance with the commitments, the Republic will provide the necessary training and training for the North Vietnamese government forces.
The South Vietnamese dictatorship in Vo Thanh Minh received full support from the United States.
Before the end of May. The United States provided South Vietnam with 1C infantry divisions and equipment. By 1c month. The United States "gifted" enough weapons and equipment to the South Vietnamese regime to arm 30 infantry divisions!
Take advantage of U.S. military assistance. Wu Sanming launched three large-scale offensive campaigns before December 20199.
The fighting was basically fought on the territory of Quang Binh province. Unfortunately yes. The South Vietnamese army faced the North Vietnamese Defense Force, which had just been formed. Rather, the Army of the Republic.
All three battles ended in a crushing defeat for the South Vietnamese army. According to incomplete statistics. The South Vietnamese army lost at least 200,000 troops.
Although according to the meaning of Zhao Rundong. After entering the Vietnam battlefield, the republican ** team captured Quang Tri Province. It is bounded by the Thuan An River. There was no advance to the south. But the frenzied attack of the South Vietnamese army moths to the flames discouraged the Vo Thanh Minh dictatorship. By the end of 29 local time. The South Vietnamese army's geographical rules were already inferior to those of the North Vietnamese army.
The anti-dictatorship movement in South Vietnam was also on the rise at this time.
In 20119 alone, there were more than 2c0 armed uprisings in South Vietnam, the largest of which was when the rebels captured Phan Lang-Tha Cham, the capital of Ninh Thuan province, killed the commander of the garrison and executed government officials serving Vo Thanh Minh. Although all uprisings were brutally suppressed, with millions of insurgents (most of them innocent civilians in fact) slaughtered, and the uprisings were at a low point, the results of the repression only made the uprisings more violent.
In the 20th year, the North Vietnamese army crossed the Thuan An River and advanced southward.
The uprising, which had once disappeared, broke out again, like a spark that burned throughout the land of South Vietnam. According to the data released by the North Vietnamese government, in the first half of 2020, a total of 2,100 anti-dictatorship uprisings broke out in South Vietnam, and more than 5.5 million soldiers and civilians participated in the uprisings, dealing a heavy blow to the Vo Thanh Minh dictatorship.
The Wu Sanming dictatorship was in a difficult situation both internally and externally.
In order to suppress the uprising, more than 60% of the South Vietnamese army was placed behind the battle lines. Vu Thanh Minh even encouraged the South Vietnamese army to encircle and suppress the rebels in the form of a "head bounty". As you can imagine, the repression turned into massacres, and for the sake of rewards, South Vietnamese soldiers began to massacre innocent civilians.
Even according to the records of the South Vietnamese government, in the first half of 2020, the "bounty" spent by the South Vietnamese government was 2 trillion VND (about 10 million US dollars), and at 500,000 VND (about 25 US dollars) per head, a total of 10,000 "rebels" were slaughtered, 95% of whom were innocent civilians.
If you want it to perish, you must first make it mad.
Vu Thanh Minh personally destroyed the last hope of the South Vietnamese regime.
Brutal repression and wanton massacres could only bring the Wu Sanming dictatorship to its knees.
In July 2020, the South Vietnamese army stationed in Quang Nam province (at that time, Thua Tien Hue province in the north had been captured by the North Vietnamese army, and the port was surrounded by the North Vietnamese army) revolted en masse and announced that they would accept the reorganization of the North Vietnamese government. Although Vo Thanh Minh immediately mobilized all the troops in the vicinity to suppress it, it was too late, and the North Vietnamese army entered Quang Nam Province first, not only protecting the rebel forces, but also defeating the South Vietnamese army that rushed in.
From then on, the South Vietnamese army's "uprising on the spot" became commonplace.
If before that, Wu Sanming was still trying to save
right, then after that, Wu Sanming completely changed the capital + Vietnamese wealth for private purposes.
The tide is over, and the dictatorship has become more and more rampant.
At the end of July 20, Wu Sanming promulgated the "Anti-National Secession Law", which authorized the local government and the military to execute any civilian who committed acts of defection, betrayal and ** on the spot.
Repression at this point completely turned into violent plunder.
According to the North Vietnamese government's post-war statistics, at least 12 million civilians were killed in South Vietnam in the following three months, and the dictatorship looted more than $100 million in personal and state property. After the completion of reunification, in the relevant documents released by the Vietnamese government, only the Vu Sam Minh family took away more than 25c~ more than 25 tons of gold from Vietnam!
Perhaps, the word "crazy" is not enough to describe what the Wu Sanming dictatorship did in the last three months.
Some relevant data may be more indicative of the problem. After reunification, the Vietnamese government set up more than 210 orphanage orphans in the southern region, calling on families in the northern region to adopt orphans in the southern region, and the government alone counted more than 10,000 war orphans!
On November 2, 2020, North Vietnamese troops stormed Ho Chi Minh City.
In the following year, the Vietnamese government mobilized a total of 750,000 troops to carry out post-war clean-up work. More than 3.5 million bodies of those killed were buried and burned by government forces alone, and thousands of villages in South Vietnam have been wiped off the map. Before completing the refugee resettlement process, the Vietnamese government had settled a total of 21 million refugees, most of whom had lost their homes and loved ones, and fled to big cities or mountainous areas in the midst of the turmoil.
According to the most conservative estimates, more than 19 million civilians died in the war in South Vietnam, accounting for about 235% of the total population of South Vietnam and the total population of Vietnam. The direct economic loss was 12,000 yuan, and the indirect loss was more than 5 trillion yuan.
Before fleeing, Vu Thanh Minh did not forget to go crazy at the end and blew up almost all the high-rise buildings in Ho Chi Minh City.
At that time, the U.S. military dispatched two aircraft carrier battle groups to meet the fleeing South Vietnamese personnel at the mouth of the Gong River. Within 24 hours, more than 250 officers and senior generals were picked up by the U.S. military alone.
Wu Sanming's fate was very tragic, and he only survived for 2 years after arriving in the United States.
In 2022, due to financial constraints, Wu Sanming committed suicide by swallowing a gun in his apartment in California.
It is very surprising that in the eyes of the outside world, as the dictator of Vietnam, Vu Sanming is the last thing he lacks is money. In fact, after Wu Sanming arrived in the United States, what he lacked most was money, because his eldest son Wu Yujie did not disperse his assets and deposit them in banks in Western countries according to his instructions, but listened to the CIA's words and used them to make venture capital, and lost all his money. When Wu Sanming arrived in the United States, not only did he not have a penny left, but he also owed hundreds of millions of dollars to venture capital banks!
Wu Yujie's fate was not much better.
In 2035, after 15 years of living in the United States, Wu Yujie's body was found in a dump on the outskirts of San Francisco. Later, the American forensic doctor did an autopsy and found that Wu Yujie did not even have a little food residue in his stomach. Obviously, this once prosperous Vietnamese prince was starved to death.
On the last day of 2020, the republic, in accordance with the agreement, withdrew the last combat units from Vietnam.
On the first day of 20211, the Vietnamese government signed an agreement with the government of the Republic to lease Cam Ranh Bay Naval Base and Cam Ranh Air Base to the Republic for a period of 99 years.
Prior to this, the USS Bush aircraft carrier battle group of the US Seventh Fleet had already been stationed at Subic Naval Base in the Philippines.
This scene reminds many people of the scene during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, when the Soviet Pacific Fleet stationed in Cam Ranh Bay and the US Pacific Fleet stationed at Subic Naval Base were eyeing each other and fighting each other.
Although the Republic has never admitted to a Cold War with the United States, the situation is clear.
Across the South China Sea, two of the world's most powerful countries have embarked on the path of military confrontation.
Of course, that's all later.
In May 20199, the Republic began a systematic withdrawal of troops from the northern regions of Vietnam. The first to withdraw were the Airborne 162nd and Airborne 163rd Brigades. By August 20199, with the exception of the 543rd Infantry Brigade and the 2111th Armored Brigade, which remained in Vietnam, the other main combat units had withdrawn from Vietnam.
The withdrawal of the republic's troops is the best explanation of the republic's foreign policy.
The Vietnamese Civil War had nothing to do with the Republic, and the Republic was not obliged to help the North Vietnamese regime in its civil war, except for providing assistance to the North Vietnamese regime in accordance with the Treaty of Friendship and Mutual Assistance.
This is precisely the biggest difference between the foreign policy of the Republic and the foreign policy of the United States.
It can be said that Zhao Rundong's ability to grasp the balance is very outstanding. Under the circumstances, if the Republic were to be involved in the civil war in Vietnam, the consequences would be unimaginable.
By September 20119, the Republic's military operations in the Indochina Peninsula and the South China Sea were largely over.
At this time, everyone could have imagined that Zhao Rundong's eagerness to withdraw his troops was closely related to the upcoming National Day of the Republic.
A military victory can add luster to the republic, let the soldiers who have been on the bloody battlefield go home, and it can better reflect the attitude of the republic towards the soldiers! (To be continued)
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