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On the evening of June 18, the fighting stopped, and the Xinhua army did not attack Hue City overnight. As the capital of Vietnam, Hue City has a decent defense. The walls of more than five meters are difficult to conquer for troops using cold weapons. But for the Xinhua Army, which is armed with gunpowder weapons, this is not a problem. After the heavy artillery brigade came ashore, it was heavily shelled with 90 105-mm howitzers, and no matter how strong the walls of Hue City were, they could not try to block it. In addition, in addition to destroying the city walls, there are other methods, such as planting gunpowder in the city gates to blow them open. At that time, the Xinhua army will be able to easily attack the city.

It's just that night fighting has never been the strong point of the Xinhua Army. In other words, the Xinhua Army, which is equipped with rifles, will not have much advantage in the face of enemy troops equipped with cold weapons in night battles, but will pay heavy casualties. This does not conform to the combat essentials of the Xinhua Army. On the battlefield, the Xinhua Army has always strived to win the most victorious victory with the smallest casualties! In the night battle, the firepower advantage of the Xinhua army could not be brought into play, and even if it won, the casualties paid would definitely not be small. Therefore, the Xinhua Army has always avoided fighting night battles with the enemy!

On the plain four kilometers from Hue City. The 1st Brigade of the Xinhua Army moved to the defense and began to build defensive positions to avoid night attacks by the Vietnamese army. This time. The 2nd Brigade also disembarked. After a short break, the 2nd Brigade was also put on the defensive. With two brigades and more than 12,000 troops, it was not a problem to defend against the Vietnamese attack. In order to increase the firepower of the troops so that they could launch an attack on Hue City tomorrow, Major General Sun Hao, who commanded the operation, ordered. The heavy artillery brigade began to disembark. Unlike infantry brigades, heavy artillery brigades are more equipped, especially 105-mm howitzers. Weighing 1.2 tons, it could only be disassembled and transported off the ship by hand when the port lacked the necessary machinery. And then put it back together. Time-consuming and labor-intensive! A heavy artillery brigade with ammunition and other supplies will take almost a night! The other two infantry brigades will only be able to start disembarking until tomorrow!

Major General Sun Hao has already put the headquarters on the port! In today's battle, the Xinhua army easily destroyed the Vietnamese naval battalion, and at the same time inflicted heavy losses on the Vietnamese army from Hue City, dealing a heavy blow to the Vietnamese army. More importantly, through today's battle, the combat effectiveness of the Xinhua Army against the Vietnamese army. There is also a very clear understanding. And this is still known as the elite Beijing soldiers of Vietnam! If even the elite of the Vietnamese is so vulnerable. Then, the local troops of Vietnam, I'm afraid, are even more rubbish!

"Old Sun! Those Vietnamese monkeys, the combat effectiveness is too inferior! Not afraid that they have 50,000 people in Hue! If we had faced each other in the field, my 1st Brigade would have been able to defeat them all! Zhang Wei, commander of the 1st Brigade, said confidently.

"Lao Zhang! You can't do it all in the 1st Brigade, can you? Even if you eat meat, you have to leave us some soup, right? Brigadier General Dulittle, commander of the 2nd Brigade, said with some dissatisfaction. After Major General Sun Hao became the head of the Operations Department, he took over as the commander of the 2nd Brigade, and of course he also wanted to lead the 2nd Brigade to build up more combat exploits. This time, the 1st Brigade disembarked first, and as a result, the Vietnamese were so indifferent that their 2nd Brigade did not catch any oil and water!

"General Sun, you are the old brigade commander of our 2nd Brigade! Tomorrow's first battle of the attack on Hue will have to be our 2nd Brigade! Brigadier General Doolittle said to Major General Sun Hao.

"General Du, don't forget that our two brigades are still on board? You can't eat all the fat! The commanders of the 9th and 10th brigades also shouted. It seems that they are going to suffer a little bit and will not be able to disembark until tomorrow. With the combat effectiveness of the Vietnamese army, it is impossible to wait for them to disembark, Hue City has already been captured by the Xinhua army!

"Alright, everyone stop fighting! Although Vietnam performed poorly in today's battle, we must not be blindly optimistic! How could Vietnam be so easily defeated to become the most powerful country on the Indochina Peninsula? The next battle, I'm afraid, won't be so easy! Tonight, the 1st Brigade made a good defense to avoid a surprise attack by the Vietnamese! Tomorrow morning, the 2nd Brigade, supported by the Heavy Artillery Brigade, will launch a tentative assault on Hue! The day after tomorrow, after the 9th and 10th brigades were put into battle, we launched a general attack on Hue! Major General Sun Hao said. With 4 infantry brigades and a heavy artillery brigade, such a force is enough to defeat Vietnam! Although Hue's city defense was quite strong, it was nothing in the face of the powerful firepower of the Xinhua army.

"Lao Sun, do the Vietnamese really have the courage to launch a night attack? I'd like to see if they have the guts! Zhang Wei, commander of the 1st Brigade, said disdainfully. The Vietnamese are perhaps the number one power on the Indochina Peninsula. However, this is completely like no tiger in the mountains, and the monkey is the overlord! The Vietnamese can only bully other small countries. In the face of a big country like Xinhua, they are completely inadequate!

"Lao Zhang! Be careful! The attack on Vietnam was to prepare for the attack on the Manchus! I don't want to capsize in the gutter! Major General Sun Hao admonished!

"Yes!" Brigadier General Zhang Wei nodded, he was not indistinguishable from the heavy. It's just that after today's battle, he really didn't pay attention to the Vietnamese army anymore. Compared with the Xinhua Army, the Vietnamese Army is not a hierarchical opponent at all!

In fact, the Vietnamese army did not have a plan to launch a night battle, and today's battle shocked the Vietnamese army! Emperor Nguyen Phuc Hui never thought that the 10,000 elites sent would be defeated by the Xinhua army so easily, and there were only two or three thousand people who fled back to Hue. It is impossible to believe that this is the most elite Beijing soldier in Vietnam!

"Your Majesty, the minister is guilty, and the minister deserves death!" Song Fuliang, who was embarrassed, knelt on the main hall and begged for the forgiveness of Emperor Nguyen Phuc Huan. In this battle, he lost thousands of elite soldiers, which was a huge loss for Vietnam!

Emperor Ming Emperor Ruan Phuc Hui's face was gloomy as if he could drip water, and just before that, he was still proud that he was able to build a powerful empire! But now, the sudden invasion of the Xinhua Army was like a slap in the face, which woke him up from his dream and made him recognize the reality! The gap between the Vietnamese army and the Xinhua army is completely worlds apart!

"General Song! It's not your fault, it's the Xinhua Army that is too strong! You will give us a detailed introduction to today's battle! Nguyen Phuc Thanh controlled the anger in his heart. He knew that Song Fuliang was a person, if it weren't for the enemy being too strong, he would definitely not have been defeated so badly!

"Your Majesty!" Song Fuliang cried bitterly and said, this is equivalent to him picking up a life!

Next, Song Fuliang began to introduce today's battle to everyone in the main hall. He introduced it very carefully and told all the details! Among them, he especially highlighted the fierceness of the artillery fire of the Xinhua Army, as well as the range and rate of fire of the rifles of the Xinhua Army! In terms of weapons, the gap between the Vietnamese army and the Xinhua army is really too big! It's so big that it simply can't be relied on to reverse this gap!

After listening to Song Fuliang's introduction, everyone, including Emperor Ruan Fuxian, had a rather ugly face. The Xinhua Army seems to be even more powerful than their counterparts! It seems that it is very difficult for the Vietnamese army to defeat the Xinhua army!

"Your Majesty! The Xinhua Army is coming with great momentum this time, and we must be completely prepared! Vietnamese Minister Pham Van Dian said.

"Your Majesty! The Beijing soldiers around Hue have all gathered in the city! With more than 40,000 people, we are fully capable of defeating the Xinhua Army! Another general, Li Wende, said. Although, from Song Fuliang's introduction, the Xinhua Army is very powerful. However, Li Wende believed that it was entirely possible to defeat the Xinhua army by relying on 40,000 Beijing soldiers. After all, the Xinhua Army could not have sent too many troops on an expedition across the sea. Coupled with the difficulties of logistical supply, the Vietnamese army has a great advantage!

"Your Majesty! The minister suggested that we could defend the city. Then order the other two naval divisions to attack the navy of the Xinhua Army! As long as they can defeat their navy, after losing logistical supplies, no matter how strong the Xinhua Army is, its combat effectiveness will not be able to be brought into play. When the time comes, we can wipe them all out! Vietnamese Minister Nguyen Tan Lam proposed.

It's just that everyone is not optimistic about Ruan Jinlin's suggestion. The Xinhua Navy can even defeat the Spanish Expeditionary Fleet, but with the dozens of small ships of the Vietnamese Navy Division, can it compete with the Xinhua Navy? This is obviously unrealistic!

"Alright, I've made up my mind! The field combat capability of the Xinhua Army is very strong, then, we will make use of our strengths and avoid our weaknesses! From now on, the army will defend Hue City to the death! I want to let the Xinhua army break its head in Hue City! In addition, order the provincial armies to speed up the entry into the king of Jingqin! I want to fight to the death with the Xinhua army in Hue City! Emperor Nguyen Phuc Hyun made up his mind. Although the weapons and equipment of the Xinhua Army were much more advanced than those of the Vietnamese army, Nguyen Phuc Yen believed that they had the advantage of fighting on their own soil, and as long as they could drag on for time, they would be able to hold out until the follow-up reinforcements arrived. At that time, the Vietnamese army will be able to rely on the superiority of troops to defeat the Xinhua army.

And this is exactly what the Xinhua Army wants to see. Vietnam's current territory is not small, and if the Vietnamese army is scattered in various places, the Xinhua army will also be gradually wiped out, which will require a lot of wasted time. The Vietnamese army took the initiative to gather in Hue City, which gave the Xinhua army a chance to annihilate the main force of the Vietnamese army! (To be continued......)